As soon as Wu Yingying saw the four of them coming together, he knew that there was something to discuss, so he asked with a smile: "What can I say and listen, the brothers are fighting for their lives on the battlefield, and everything we can think of is as thoughtful as possible." Guessing in his heart, it was not that the bow and crossbow battalion felt that the melee martial arts were too weak, and asked to add sword and shield hands as protection, so that each battalion needed at least 100 sword and shield men to form melee ability, but it was contrary to the policy of each battalion in Lanzhou to seek specialization.

Jin Zhi arched his hand and said: "That day, the party cavalry broke into the car formation through the fog, and the brothers of all battalions of our army fought to the death with their flesh and blood," Speaking of this, all the captains were gloomy, and the time when the cavalry broke into the car formation was a memory that the captains of all battalions who were present felt extremely heartbroken. Countless brothers who are like brothers and sisters are separated forever in this short period of time.

Jin Ji paused, and then said: "My bow and crossbow battalion sergeant does not hesitate to die, but the armor on his body is thin, and the blade in his hand is weak, and it is simply too much to fight with that cavalry." Therefore, these days, the brothers are calculating, please command the envoy to distribute the rattan paper armor used by the Jinfan battalion in Jiangnan for the bow and crossbow battalion, and in addition, the horizontal sword is not able to fight with the enemy cavalry, please ask the commander to allow the bow and crossbow battalion soldiers to choose their own protective blades. ”

Wu Yingying saw that the four of them had obviously discussed it in advance, and asked hesitantly: "Crossbowmen have to carry bows and arrows, and it takes a lot of energy to launch arrows, do you have the physical strength to wear armor?"

The four lieutenants nodded one after another, and Lu Zhongjie said: "Even the Jincheng battalion of the new army can march with iron armor, how can my bow and crossbow battalion not be, besides, the rattan paper armor used by the Jinfan battalion in Jiangnan is only more than ten catties, and the crossbowmen do not need to wear armor all over their bodies, protecting the upper body, not only to prevent arrows, but also to prevent the enemy from swinging a knife to attack." ”

After the Jinfan Battalion and the Ya Military Battalion, which specialize in spears, arrived in Lanzhou, they have all switched to iron armor, just to bear the blow of gravity to the armor and hurt the viscera, the iron armor still has a rattan armor lining, and the full armor weighs between 30 and 40 catties. The Bashan Battalion, the Lingbo Battalion, the Condor Battalion, and the Goose Shooting Battalion mostly wore light paper armor and multi-layered linen military robes, which could resist arrows with weak penetrating power, but could not resist swords and spears in close combat.

Seeing that Wu Yingying was still considering the contradiction between increasing the weight of the armor and maintaining the physical strength of the crossbowmen, Zheng Bingyu, the captain of the Condor Battalion, said: "Although the weight of the rattan paper armor is slightly heavier than the original paper armor, if the endurance of the training sergeants is strengthened, it should not affect the combat power of the bow and crossbow battalion. "The Condor Battalion under his command was in the inner layer of the chariot formation in the last Mobei War, and did not come into contact with the enemy's cavalry, but the weakness of the outer crossbowmen under the slaughter of the cavalry made a deep impression on him. At the end of the day, Sergeant Lanzhou did not hesitate to die, but he had to die a worthwhile death, and if he was slaughtered by the enemy and had no power to resist, the sacrifice would be too great.

Wu Yingying finally nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then the crossbowmen will be issued with two dang armor, with shoulder pads and a short shawl, with a weight limit of less than fifteen catties, and placed on the baggage cart when marching. The shape of the armor he said is quite like the armor on the crossbowmen of the Qin Dynasty army, like the bulletproof vests of later generations, and the front and back armor pieces are specially designed to protect the chest and abdomen. There are also shoulder pads and a short shawl to protect the shoulders and upper arms. Archers are not allowed to wear full body armor like heavy infantry, and it is difficult to move if the leg armor is heavy, and it is difficult to shoot the bow if the arms are heavy.

The captains of the four bow and crossbow battalions all nodded yes, although this kind of armor is not as good as the perverted armor of the heavy infantry battalion head wrapped in steel, at least it has the ability to fight hard in the face of white blades.

Wu Yingying said with a smile: "The sergeants of the bow and crossbow battalion dislike the horizontal knife and it is difficult to hurt the cavalry, so what kind of protective blades do they plan to choose?" Because the formation of the bow and crossbow battalion is all set up for firing arrows, so entering the stage of white-knuckle warfare is basically a battle for themselves, so there is no need to unify the short soldiers, and the long and short soldiers configured at the head of the heavy infantry battalion have a corresponding strict formation, so they can't freely choose the talisman blade, or there are individual sergeants with perverted physical strength, and they bring an extra weapon to prepare for the chaotic battle when the formation is scattered. However, when the battle reached this point, most of the combat power of the heavy infantry battalion that had lost its formation was lost.

Jin Ji smiled: "It's nothing, the brothers mainly think that the horizontal knife is fluttering, and they want to change to something more handy." Listening to him say it one by one, Wu Yingying was simply dumbfounded. Some require an arm-long hammer, which can smash the head of the war horse into a pit and kill him instantly. Some require a heavy short-handled battle axe, the kind that can open a large hole in the horse's chest with an axe. There are also those with a hemp knife that is about half the length of the Mo knife, and the kind that can cut off the horse's hooves with one knife. Some asked for a short-handled mace, full of spiked barbs, and a blow swept through the belly of a horse was the kind worn by rotten intestines, and smashing on a helmet was at least a concussion. There are also axes and spears and halberds, and they seem to be very interested in changing to elite heavy infantry. The weight of all these weapons is not less than 15 pounds, and they are all essential weapons for home travel to kill people and set fires. It seems that the crossbowmen have practiced firing their bows for many years, and all of them are indeed amazingly powerful, and they have a deep hatred for the cavalry, I wonder if the people of the hussar battalion will be furious when they see that the four bow and crossbow battalions have so many insidious and vicious resentments against the cavalry, and go to the door to beat them. But all of these talismans were short-handled, and the crossbowmen knew that what they were facing could only be a scuffle.

In the face of these various requirements, Wu Yingying couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that the sergeants of the bow and crossbow battalion are very enthusiastic about white-knuckle combat," seeing that the captains of each battalion nodded solemnly, Wu Yingying couldn't help but tell with some worry: "There is a specialization in the art industry, as the saying goes, interlacing is like a mountain, and it is not easy to train crossbowmen. ”

Zheng Bing and the others immediately agreed, and Lu Zhongjie said with a smile: "Their own lives are very precious, and the brothers are just taking precautions in case an enemy army rushes in front of them again and gives them a little surprise." Jin Ji said in a deep voice: "Whoever wants to take the life of my brother in the Lanzhou Bow and Crossbow Battalion, he will have a few more lives in exchange." The tone of the yin test made Wu Yingying shudder.

Wu Yingying nodded, frowned, and said: "There are so many types of these optional weapons, and the distribution is too complicated, it is better to do this, the crossbowmen of each bow and crossbow battalion will be given 10 yuan, and they will go to the blacksmith shop opened by the craftsman camp to customize it, and it belongs to the sergeant's own personal weapons, just register it in the battalion." "In this era, an ordinary knife is only three times of money, and ten times of money should be enough for the sergeant of the bow and crossbow battalion to customize the talisman blade he likes, and there may be a sergeant who attaches great importance to the talisman blade, and is willing to paste a sum of money to build a better weapon, Wu Yingying expects that the blacksmith shop of the craftsman camp will make a small fortune because of this.