Summoning Total War

Chapter 68 Cretan Long Archers (Part 2)

The average height of male urban residents in Athens is about 1.65 meters, while the height of soldiers can be 1.7 meters or more. Women's bodies are smaller, ranging from about 1.5 to 1.65 meters, and some women with good nutrition are even much taller than men.

The idea that ancient people were physically weak is simply nonsense.

Perhaps the overall height and quality are not at the level of modern people, but the middle and upper classes in the East and the West are not shorter than modern people. In ancient China, there were many people who were 7 feet and 8 feet tall. One foot is 23 centimeters, and eight feet is 1.84 centimeters. Among the weapons unearthed during the Han and Tang Dynasties, there are many weapons that are one meter or even more than one meter long. Those who deliberately belittle the ancients, do they think that a person with a height of 1.45 meters can use such a long weapon?

In China, the real reason for the physical decline of the Han people was the Qing Dynasty, which was the period of the Hundred Years War and the Opium War. It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that nutritional levels gradually caught up, and the Han people's physique began to soar. Often within one generation, physical changes can be seen between parents and children.

As for the claim that modern people are much smarter than ancient people, it is even more nonsense.

The wisdom of modern people comes from the accumulation of time, stands on the bodies of countless giants, and is the product of the explosion of scientific and technological knowledge. You, a scholar, cannot compare your IQ with the illiterate peasants of ancient times!

If you are really capable, compare yourself with the ancient scholars and see who is more scheming and who will die!

To put it simply, the upper limit of human wisdom has not changed much since the emergence of civilization. The key lies only in the development of civilization and the popularization of knowledge.

Everyone who is involved in history knows this.

The most brilliant period of human true civilization is not modern times, let alone the so-called Han, Tang and Renaissance periods.

The truly most glorious era of human civilization was the period from 800 BC to 150 BC!

That was the time when ancient Greek civilization influenced the Western European world, and when hundreds of schools of thought contended in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in Middle-earth!

It was that era that laid the foundation of human civilization.

Anyone who wants to believe that they evolved from monkeys, just don’t get involved with me...

Time continued to move forward for a week.

A heavy rain hit the southern plains. The rain lasted for three days, and the water level of the Nidolia River rose by a full twenty centimeters. Fortunately, the river was very wide and no disaster occurred.

During this period, the construction progress of the territory had to be suspended, and the training of the soldiers was temporarily put aside, so that they could leisurely work hard to create humans at home.

The training and establishment of the cavalry unit is almost completed, while the Cretan longbowmen were completed the day before yesterday and were included in the statistics of the "Total War" auxiliary system.

Military recruitment interface:

Weapon: Cretan Longbowman

Number of recruitment rounds: (0)

Soldier size (80), experience (1).

Ranged attack (16), melee attack (5), charge bonus (3), weapon type (longbow).

Total defense (6), armor (4), defense skills (2), shield (0).

Vitality(1).

Morale (8).

Recruitment cost (750), maintenance cost (210).

Abilities: Super long range, good endurance, fast movement, fire attack, tunnel digging, good morale.

Explanation: These Cretans, skilled in shooting, gradually adapted to their new weapon, the powerful Centaur longbow. The Cretans have been trained as excellent archers since childhood. No one is more suitable to use this weapon than them, and the centaur longbow can only truly exert its power in their hands! The powerful arrows they shoot can easily penetrate the enemy's body!

Cretan longbowmen were equipped with leather armor and short swords, and their melee capabilities were still low. So please protect these longbowmen.

The reorganized Cretan longbowmen have an extra long-range attribute.

This property comes from the fact that longbows have a much higher range than ordinary bows and arrows. They can shoot farther and more powerful arrows than ordinary bows and arrows!

The season has entered summer, and with the hot weather and heavy rains, most of the jackals have begun to shrink into the forest.

These creatures become inert during hot summer days and prefer to stay in shady areas.

Autumn and winter are the most aggressive times for gnolls, especially in winter, when these creatures frequently attack human territory.

Murphy's territory has won a rare respite. At least until the weather cools down completely from summer to autumn, he doesn't have to worry about these jackals coming out to cause trouble. Not only have the gnolls in Murphy's territory become more peaceful, but the Kazat gnoll tribe, which has been in a state of lag with the human city-states, has also gradually shrunk its defense line as the weather gets hotter, giving up part of its territory that was in opposition to humans, and turned to And keep inside.

The human city-states seized this opportunity to train their troops on a large scale, preparing to harvest the winter wheat after autumn and compete with the Kazat Gnoll Tribe for a showdown!

At present, the main crops of human city-states are wheat and a high-yielding crop similar to corn.

There are two seasons in a year. Winter wheat is planted around October. After the seeds emerge, the weather turns cold and the wheat goes dormant over the winter. When spring comes, the wheat turns green and grows rapidly, and is harvested around June. The yield of winter wheat is much higher than that of spring wheat, and after the harvest in June, human city-states will plant a crop that is similar to corn and is produced by the elves. This crop has good yields and contains sugar, and is usually planted in rotation with potatoes.

Although the main development direction of the territory is fishing, farming is the key to the growth of the human population.

Income from fishing can bring meat, but the main production direction is still farmland. Because the spring wheat has been missed, Murphy's newly reclaimed land is mainly used to grow potatoes and elf-bred corn.

Murphy couldn't have been stupid enough to leave the reclaimed land there for six months.

Even after trade began, Murphy sent agriculturalists to the rear of the southern plains to learn what crops were grown by humans in this world. After some understanding, Murphy found that except for an extra corn-like crop cultivated by the elves, the others were basically consistent with Western crops. In order to ensure a harvest in autumn and winter, Murphy immediately ordered half of the three thousand acres of newly reclaimed fertile land to be planted with corn and half with potatoes.

At present, the territory's food is mainly purchased from human city-states, and the food Murphy in the treasury has not yet been used as a reserve resource.

Herein lies the advantage of an emerging territory.

Everything in the territory is dominated by Murphy. It can be said that more than 80% of the resources in the territory are under Murphy's personal control. At least before the military nobles were rewarded, all the land reclaimed in the territory belonged to Murphy, and half of the grain revenue had to be handed over to the national treasury.

The farming method in the territory is now developing towards collective farming, that is, all urban residents share farming tools, work together, and then distribute food according to population.

This method of cooperation is still feasible in the short term when the population is not large, because Murphy personally has great influence in the town! However, once the territory is upgraded to a city, it is still necessary to allocate farmland to citizens. Soldiers received land for their military merits, and with the gradual emergence of a military meritorious aristocratic system, the strata within the territory would also gradually be improved.

Murphy's current budget is divided into three classes, nobles, citizens and paupers. Slaves were not included in the statistics.

The aristocratic system consists of generals and officials at all levels, who are all talented people. Citizens are professionals in various industries and soldiers. They are all people with special skills. The poor are the more mediocre citizens. They only own a small amount of land and have no say in the territory.

Everyone is equal, unless Murphy is out of his mind.

Otherwise, I will never do it!

Ability determines social status, and talented people naturally stand above others.

In fact, to put it simply, after the territory develops into a city, Murphy will plan out first-class and second-class citizens to stimulate the motivation of urban residents and let them strive to obtain a higher status.

In terms of emphasis, because this world is in a relatively primitive world with frequent wars, Murphy will focus on the military merit system.

In other words, Murphy will deliberately raise the social status of soldiers. For example, as long as one member of a family joins the army, the entire family will become a citizen class, own a certain amount of land, and pay less taxes than the poor class. Murphy deeply understands that in this turbulent world, the military is the foundation for ensuring everything!

These are just his current rough plans and will change according to specific circumstances.

The only constant.

That is, he will always maintain his dictatorship!