Chapter 41: Bows and Arrows
The environmental sanitation of the town must be carried out, and the barbarians did not pay attention to personal hygiene in the past, and later they were forced by Su Lun to tidy up personal hygiene.
The barbarians originally had medium and long hair, and some even wore braids, but these guys were too lazy to take care of their hair, so their hair was often dirty, and there were even a lot of lice in it, and the smell on their bodies was also choking.
Suren asked the goblin slaves to dig a big pit, then sprinkled lime in it, and led the water of the Red Sand River into the big pit, and then threw all the barbarians into it with his own hands, so that they could not come out without soaking in it for half an hour.
After several successive coercive measures, Su Lun finally taught these barbarians to pay attention to hygiene, and many barbarians were too lazy to take care of their hair and were afraid of being taught a lesson by Su Lun, so they finally shaved all their hair directly...
As a result, in addition to the women, eight out of ten male barbarians in the camp are bald. All the barbarian warriors were bald, and now his barbarian guards, all of them were bald and muscular, and they looked very oppressive.
When hunting, the barbarian hunters also inadvertently caught a few wild horses, and Suren also tried to train the wild horses, but these wild horses are wild and difficult to train, and Suren They do not have qualified horse trainers, and some mercenaries can ride horses, but how to train horses are half-hanging.
Suren didn't want to give up the cavalry, and there was no suitable candidate, so he had to build a stable for these wild horses to live in, and maybe by the next year, there would be a few more foals in the stable.
Thanks to the Archer Talisman, Suren can train archers, and a shooting range in the barracks has been established, and for now, the territory also needs a group of archers to increase its ranged lethality.
In addition to the human factor, the weapon factor also accounts for a large proportion, it is not easy to make a good bow and arrow, from the selection of materials to the production process is very cumbersome, and there are many materials, such as the bow tire of the bow and arrow, you need to choose the best wood.
Even the craftsmanship needs to be adapted to the seasons. Analyze the wood in winter, boil horns in spring, treat tendons in summer, and then combine dry, horn and tendon with glue, lacquer and silk in autumn, and finally fix the bow body in the coldest season of winter, so it takes at least two years to get a good bow and arrow.
Suren couldn't wait that long, so he was going to make some bows and arrows to make do with them, and then wait a while to see if he had a chance to trade some centaur longbows from the centaur tribes in the wilderness.
Because of the short time, the bows and arrows made by the blacksmith are smaller in terms of range and power. However, it can be used as a training exercise. The selection of archers was selected from among the mercenaries, although these mercenaries were of average strength, but they had used some of the various weapons, and Su Lun assigned them a shooting range in the camp for them to practice.
There is a lot of red sand in the course of the Hongsha River, which is why Suren named the river, these sediments are very fine, and they are very useful for laying training grounds, and the barbarians are energetic guys, and they often wrestle when they have no tasks.
After the construction of the barracks was completed, these barbarians were happy, and they liked to go to the school field to fight when they were idle, and now the school field was about to become a gladiatorial arena, because the territory lacked entertainment facilities, and the barbarian gladiatorial fighting was very popular in the camp, and Suren let them go.
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Most of the trees in the Northland Heath are pine, which is not the best wood for bows and arrows. The most common type of bow and arrow used in the Florentine Kingdom was oak or teak, which was the standard equipment of the kingdom's army because the bow body was tough and not easy to deform, and the range was also long.
Of course, although the Florentine Kingdom bow and arrow are good, but compared with the centaur and half-elf races, it is still a little worse, the effective range of the Florentine standard longbow is only about 100 meters, some excellent archers can hit the target at a distance of 120 meters, and the effective range of the centaur bow and arrow reaches 150 meters, or even 200 meters, and the same is true for the half-elves.
This is not only because of their skill in making bows and arrows, but also because of the material of the bows and arrows. The centaur longbow is made of purple wood, combined with their unique bow-making skills, and as for the kind of bow and arrow used by the half-elves, it seems to be a special plant that they have cultivated.
Expensive and only grows in the depths of the Northlands, the wood is tough, elastic and malleable, and the Florentine kingdom obtains a small amount of it each year, most of which are traded with centaur tribes.
It would not be easy for Suren to obtain this wood, unless he also traveled through the wasteland and went further north to find it. With the help of wizards, humans successfully transplanted and survived a batch of yew trees, but after transplanting to the human realm, the quality of the purple shirt trees in the wood of the adult tree declined greatly.
Compared to the centaur, the purple shirt wood is a third softer, and it is not even as soft as oak or teak. It costs more than teak oak, but the quality is not much different from theirs, and as a result, the purple shirt is quickly forgotten in a corner.
Suren wanted to develop archers, and it was necessary to find a suitable wood, as for oak and teak, which preferred warmer climates, his territory was too northern, and both oak and teak would freeze to death during the long winters in the northland.
Of course, if Su Lun is rich enough, he can also buy it directly from the system mall, since the establishment of the blacksmith shop, the system mall has sold all kinds of weapons, but the price of weapons here is too expensive, a barbarian two-handed axe costs one hundred and fifty gold nar.
He had the blacksmith shop build one himself, and the cost was only twenty kinnars. A short bow costs forty kinnars, and a longbow costs one hundred kinnars. Su Lun is now poor and can't make up a hundred gold narls, it can be said that he is now the poorest lord in the entire Florentine Kingdom, and Su Lun naturally can't afford such a price.
Although there are many things in the territory, he is still very pleased to see the territory changing day by day. Just this afternoon, Jean and Johnson returned to the territory with more than 500 slaves and twenty carts of grain. The return of the caravan made the population of Suren's territory increase several times in an instant.
Sufficient population is the basis for the development of a territory, and now the number of humans in Suren's territory has reached more than 700 people, although the population is still small, as long as it survives this difficult period, the territory will develop rapidly.