Now William's Dülenburg infantry totaled 4,800 men, and in addition to them, there were also a large number of reserves that were one level higher than the militia, and with only a month or two of training, they could be used as real Dülenburg operations.

The same is true for archers, the training of archers is not simple, if you want to skillfully operate a bow and arrow, and become a qualified Denlenburg archer, it takes at least two to three years of rigorous training.

Now, William's archers are not as scarce as they were at the beginning, William popularized archery training among the common people, and those teenagers who were talented in archery would be recruited into the archery club as a reserve for archers.

The 3,000 Denlenburg archers were no longer the scarce troops they had been.

Moreover, in addition to the Denlenburg archers, there was another long-range unit under William, that is, the crossbowmen that William had always had in mind.

Ever since William brought back the Brotherhood spy Ariel, Ariel has been hired by William to help William train the Assassins, and like Tuth, various underground operations are carried out in and out of the territory.

With the help of powerful assassins, the spies of the Dark Daggers were able to infiltrate the kingdom almost everywhere and establish a fairly tight intelligence network.

It was the arrival of Ariel that brought the crossbow technology to William, and at that time, Ariel's crossbow gave William's craftsmen a lot of help, and William had always thought that they would not make crossbows, but as skilled craftsmen, they quickly imitated the crossbow after seeing the real thing.

And after a series of improvements, and at the suggestion of William, several gears were added to make the crossbow more easy to wind.

Although the crossbow used by Ariel before was powerful, it was very difficult to reload, after all, all the power of that power was provided by the taut crossbow arm.

If the crossbow arm is too strong and exceeds the limits of what a human can achieve, then it loses its usefulness, but within the scope of what a human can reasonably use, the more powerful the crossbow arm is, the better.

This time, with the gear winding, there is no need to worry about whether the human power can be wound or not.

Anyone who knows a little about physics knows that with the help of gears, lifting heavy objects is very simple, and the same principle is how to wind it this way.

In this way, the quality of the crossbow arm has become better, and compared to the crossbow used by Ariel, the crossbow arm is longer and the kinetic energy that can be generated is stronger.

The crossbow arm is also made of four tough composite materials, and the production process is also quite difficult, and it takes more than a year to make a crossbow.

Of course, this is the best crossbow for the crossbowmen of Delenburg, and the crossbows equipped for the militia do not need to be so cumbersome, and it only takes about four months to make one.

William now had about 1,500 crossbowmen under his command, and the effective range of the crossbow was more than 400 meters, more than twice that of the recurve composite bow.

Not only that, but the armor-piercing ability of the crossbow is also second to none, and in many cases, when the recurve compound bow cannot destroy the armor of the enemy's knights or heavy infantry, the powerful crossbow becomes the best long-range weapon for armor-piercing.

The pulley crossbows used by the crossbowmen of Denlenburg were able to penetrate the armor of the knights at a distance of about 100 meters, and even the armor worn by the Knights of the Iron Cross could penetrate at a distance of about 30 meters.

William sat in his study and dealt with all kinds of things in his territory, and his cooperation with the kingdom of Astra and the Duchy of Larnia had recently been affected by some things.

The more than 400,000 silver coins that could be obtained every year through that trade route will definitely be a lot more obscene this year, all because of the impatience of the barbarians in the northern part of the Astra Kingdom.

Eight years have passed in William's study, and almost nothing has changed, and everything is furnished the same as it was eight years ago.

The only difference is that the owner here, William, the owner here, has changed from a beautiful boy to an uncle in his thirties.

Eight years have passed, and William is thirty-three years old this year, and there are some faint wrinkles on his originally smooth face and the corners of his eyes.

His chin and lips also had a golden beard, which looked very neat and majestic under William's deliberate trimming.

He is over thirty years old, and he is no longer the beautiful boy he was back then, and even his eldest son Charlemagne is sixteen years old this year.

Looking at the report on the document, William couldn't help frowning slightly, and after reading the information above, he keenly felt a hint of something unusual.

"What's going on, Father?"

A crisp and young voice sounded in the study, and Charlemagne, William's favorite and highly-anticipated eldest son, walked in from outside, looking at William with a sad face, he couldn't help but taste, and wanted to help his dearest and beloved father share the burden.

"It's you, let's take a look at this report first!"

William looked up and saw that the person who came in was Charlemagne, and couldn't help but smile with relief and said, as his eldest son and the child born to Wella, if according to the Celestial Empire, he is his eldest son, and he should inherit everything from him.

Therefore, William has always attached great importance to his cultivation and everything that nobles need, William taught him as much as possible, and the insights brought by William's previous life were basically taught to Charlemagne by William, as well as those conspiracies, William also gave him a lot of explanations, in addition, it was the construction of the territory and diplomatic processing.

And Charlemagne's child has always been very satisfactory to William, since he was a child, he has a kind of perseverance and drive, he basically understands everything that William gave him, at least for now, he is in the eyes of William, and William owns, there are more than forty nobles who can fight for him.

Charlemagne and William are very similar when they were young, and no one else has seen William cross over at the beginning, but Norwen and Hulimu know that Charlemagne and William at the beginning are almost identical in figure and face except for their temperament.

This surprised Norwin and Urimu, and often used it to motivate Charlemagne, saying that he must learn from William Yunyun.

After carefully browsing the report in his hand, Charlemagne's brows were the same as William's, and he frowned, and said to William: "Father, I think a local or larger war may break out!" The friction between the kingdom of Astra and the Norweed barbarians in the north, this can't be just a friction! ”