Why don't you engage in troops with China's own characteristics?

The Battle Warrior is one of the most distinctive types of troops in China.

There are many famous arms in history, but there are not many special weapons used, and they are generally multi-arms cooperation, and the strength is a whole army, not a single army.

Lu Wu recalled that the more distinctive simple infantry was probably the Euphorbia and the Great Swordsman.

The only flash of Euphorbia was in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the "Battle of the Boundary Bridge" where Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan clashed.

The more important thing is that Yuan Shao's halberd warrior wears heavy armor, and not only holds a halberd, but also carries a large individual crossbow.

After one flash, the Euphorbia swan song is sung.

In addition, when it comes to the use of euphorbia, it is actually the earliest use of the Chu State in the Warring States Period, but there are no famous war examples.

The representative of the Great Swordsman is the Iron Eagle Ruishi of the Qin State during the Warring States Period.

They are a group of soldiers in heavy armor and wielding giant broadswords, and their tactics are to line up in neat formations, slowly advancing forward, and slashing their heavy swords again and again when they encounter the enemy.

If you want to have a more intuitive impression, the Iron Eagle Ruishi is similar to the tactics of the Mo sword soldiers in the Tang Dynasty.

The difference is that the Iron Eagle Sharp is able to launch a group charge, and its individual combat ability is not weak.

The Mo Dao Soldier is more dependent on the formation type, and if it is not in formation, the power of the Mo Dao Formation will also decline rapidly.

Lü Wu also knew about some other strong armies.

If the infantry is the mainstay, the trap camp, the Beifu army, the Beiwei army, and the Qi family army are all representative.

Again, it's a whole legion that's strong, not a single class.

To put it simply, it is a multi-class cooperation, and there are many types of weapons used.

There are more strong armies in the cavalry, and it is the Xuanjia Army that has a brand effect, but it is difficult to rank them to distinguish the strength and weakness between them.

Of course, Lü Wu wants to develop cavalry!

At present, it is still the era of rampant chariots, and waiting to be eliminated is already after Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Wu Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty.

It's not that Lu Wu can't get a saddle and stirrup, and a horseshoe.

These things are not really technical, and can be made without the use of metal, just leather and wood.

The problem he faced was the lack of a suitable horse.

It's all horses, but there are a lot of types.

Today's horses, the horses of the Central Plains are small and short.

Horses with an average horseback height of 1 to 1 meter 3 are not the reason for restricting them from being cavalry war horses.

It is not only too short in height for Central Plains horses, but also generally lack explosive power and do not have too good endurance.

How can such horses form cavalry!

Although the Mongolian horse is short, it at least has the advantage of endurance, and it does not need to be too delicate to raise.

In fact, before the introduction of better quality war horses, there really was no cavalry in the real sense of the word.

The Hu people only used horses to travel, and they would dismount and fight on foot when the battle started, which was not a combat method of cavalry group charge.

Before finding a suitable horse breed, engaging in cavalry group charging is a kind of nonsense at all.

It would be very appropriate to use horses as a substitute for transportation.

Lu Wu remembers what program he was on or which forum he had watched some concepts.

In the confrontation between the Hu people and Zhuxia in the past two thousand years, there were very few examples of cavalry charging into battle.

More often than not, the advantage of cavalry is short-range mobility and not the ability to charge through.

The advantage of cavalry and infantry in the battle is reflected in the fact that they can fight if they want to, and if they don't want to fight, they can run flexibly and maneuverably.

Lu Wu himself went to the battlefield.

Even if the chariot hits the dense infantry phalanx, it will be forced to stop if it hits it for a distance, let alone the cavalry.

And time moved back further, and there were not many cases of cavalry attacking the dense phalanx of infantry as a last resort.

The point is that the advantage of cavalry is short-range mobility.

To think that cavalry should be used to storm dense infantry phalanxes would only be laymen.

Those who know a little bit more.

The better the quality of the horses, the more troublesome they were to take care of, resulting in the cavalry not being faster than the mere infantry in terms of long journeys.

If he really wanted to form a cavalry legion, Lü Wu would either start selecting high-quality war horses to breed, or send a team to travel long distances to the extreme west in search of horse breeds.

Either way, forming a cavalry corps is not feasible for the old Lu family in the short term.

Therefore, Lü Wu realistically set his sights on the reform of the infantry.

Next, there are new weapons on the scene.

The box was lifted, and several crossbows came into their field of vision.

The crossbow that came out, it didn't look complicated.

A bow, indistinguishable from a bow, becomes a curved shape, and it is attached to a crossbow arm, which has a groove for the arrows and parts of the crossbow machine.

The crossbow machine of this crossbow is also uncomplicated, made of bronze, with only two pins, hooks and hanging knives, and no lookout for aiming.

To put it bluntly, it is a device that "bites" the bowstring and can also provide return force and tension.

Because the winch did not form a miniaturized relationship, the crossbow naturally did not have such a part.

Its crossbow bow is very tough, and it is difficult to use the strength of the arm to complete the step of opening the bow, and can only be carried out with the feet.

So, it's actually a crossbow.

Lü Wu personally conducted the test firing.

The result?

No matter what ranged weapon he plays, he won't have any accuracy anyway.

The bolts were fired very far, measuring a range of more than 300 paces (about 450 meters).

A normal bow has a maximum range of about 70 paces (about 105 meters), but it is not very powerful if it exceeds 20 paces (about 30 meters).

The maximum range of a strong bow ......, that is, a bow with more than three stones, is about 110 steps (about 165 meters) to 130 steps (about 195 meters), and the power decreases after 50 steps (about 75 meters).

Lu Wu's own archery skills are not very good.

He asked Ling to put on the arrow again and shoot it test.

During the experiment, the crossbow shot directly through eight layers of armor within twenty steps (about 30 meters), and the penetration began to decrease as the distance increased.

"Lord, you can still wear armor in a hundred steps!" Song Bin was stunned, felt incredulous, and asked very excitedly: "Can my 'soldier' be equipped with this 'soldier' on a large scale?" ”

Lu Wu thought about it!

This kind of crossbow, with the current level of technology, even if a reasonable division of labor is carried out, it still takes eight days to complete a crossbow.

And this is the joint effort of three craftsmen.

The old Lu family has always lacked craftsmen, and it is impossible to transfer all the craftsmen to make crossbow machines and not do other things.

Lu Wudong buckled the buckle and buckled the west, and at most 30 craftsmen could be mobilized to specialize in manufacturing crossbow machines.

In this way, thirty craftsmen could only produce thirty crossbows in eighty days, and it took a long time to form a sufficient number.

Of course, with the accumulation of experience, the process will be improved, and the production cycle will definitely be reduced.

Lu Wu felt that if the long-range troops were not formed, they could only be used to play hooligans.

For example, it is used in decapitation tactics.

If you form a number, why should it be hundreds or thousands?

Based on a thousand, thirty crossbows can be made in eighty days, and three hundred crossbows in eight hundred days.

Considering the skill of craftsmen and the improvement of craftsmanship, it took 2,000 days to build a thousand crossbow machines.

Or, Lü Wu mobilized more craftsmen to join in the production of crossbows.

Otherwise, if the old Lu family wants to develop crossbowmen, it will take at least two years to form a scale.

And one more point!

It was the Han clan that contracted the long-range troops of the Jin Kingdom.

The Han archers were not only the most powerful ranged troops in the Jin Kingdom, but also famous in the current Chinese cultural circle.

They didn't have crossbows, they were all professionally trained archers.

The old Lu family developed crossbowmen, all of which were long-range troops, but their functions were not duplicated.

After all, the range of the Han archers is like that, and the old Lu family can contract ultra-long-range special projects.

It's just that it's all the same to play remotely.

The old Lu family first engaged in heavy infantry and then long-range troops, covering the "professional" scope of the Wei and Han clans?

It's embarrassing!

The views of Wei's and Han's need to be taken into account.

Once the Han clan and the Wei clan felt that the old Lu family was challenging their status, Lu Wu would never be able to explain it clearly with his mouth.

Unless Lu Wu is willing to be mediocre, he will inevitably end his honeymoon period with the Han family and the Wei family and enter the confrontation stage.

Now, Lu Wu actually has no choice.

Because it is impossible to stock up on enough crossbows in a short period of time, ranged soldiers are a matter for later.

Lü Wu made a "Jingluo" imitation, and the first thing to do was to train the samurai to meet the requirements.

It's not nonsense for him to do this.

Huaxia has had an excellent tradition of phalanx since ancient times, and whether or not it can play the formation of the brigade will not be difficult for the Central Plains people at all.

To put it thoroughly, there is no collective will and a traditional national teamwork, so it is okay to play individual bravery, and what kind of teamwork to play.

Didn't the opponents of the Romans know why the Roman legions were so strong?

Why don't they imitate it?

It is because of their national habits that there is no sense of teamwork, and what they play is romance.

A negative example is the Germanic infantry that fought the Romans in Gaul.

Under the suppression of the multiple firepower of the Roman army, they had to put on a tortoiseshell formation.

As a result, these samurai, who were usually known for their brave charges, also lost most of their battlefield mobility and completely became pitiful creatures who were passively beaten.

The Roman soldiers even jumped to the top of the tortoiseshell array of the Germanic people and plunged their short swords into it from the gaps.

As for the East Asian region, where the Central Plains army was located, there was a lack of culture of extensive use of shields from classical times.

One such phenomenon was the round shield, which was very common in other places, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that it was adopted by some cavalry units.

Although the long shield of the infantry has a long history, the various strange shapes also determine that it is not the regular equipment used by most soldiers in the army.

The shield bearers of the second army are often only in the front rows of the whole army, and are responsible for covering the many lightly armed colleagues behind them.

Among them were not only ordinary light infantry with bows and crossbows, but also many heavy infantry with various pole-handled weapons.

The two sides worked closely together, resulting in a battlefield symbiosis in which two soldiers were interdependent.

Lu Wu pondered that he still needed to think more......