Some people may feel that the bow and crossbow can be farther with a projectile, but this involves the problem of wind resistance, the farther the projectile distance, the weaker the lethality, more than 100 meters away, the lethality of the bow and crossbow is basically only left to the extent of hehe......

After all, ancient bows and crossbows are far inferior to those made in modern society, and even bows and arrows made by modern technology may not have a long effective range!

Even the English longbow, which shined in modern times, had an effective range of not an exaggerated distance of 2 or 3 hundred meters!

It is true that the English longbow can indeed shoot more than 300 meters, and even farther can be reached, but that hit rate is really known only to God, and it is difficult to break through the armor!

It can be said that shooting at a distance of 2 or 3 hundred meters, the English longbow can only cause little damage to unarmored targets, if you wear iron armor, the lethality is not satisfactory, if it is equipped with steel armor, the English longbow at a distance of 100 meters can be said to have no effect at all!

Moreover, even if it is close to tens of meters, in the face of steel plates, the English longbow will look extra weak!

This is the only bow and arrow that can compete with modern flintlock pistols, and in the end, it withdrew from the stage of history under the hordes of steel armor!

Again, this was a simple comparison of range and lethality, and other formation benefits and training advantages allowed the muskets to throw the English longbow eight streets away......

How long does it take to train a good English longbowman, and how long does it take to train a musketeer?

At the same time, I'm afraid that the musketeers have all been trained, and the longbowmen have just learned to shoot......

And the advantage of musketeers who can fight in close combat with bayonets and shoot with bayonets is a 'skill' that English longbowmen can't match. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the saying goes, the Musketeer is known as the best at shooting in close combat and the most capable at stabbing in the ranged class, which is the biggest reason why the Musketeer has completely replaced the cold weapon class!

To sum up, Zhao Dutian didn't have much expectations for the crossbowmen, but just recruited more than 300 people in order to fill the gap in the dead of the long swordsman.

In any case, the crossbowman has a longer range than the foot archer, and the morale is much stronger, which is enough to deal with unarmored Indian warriors!

Rumors of the Battle of the Halchi Doma Lair gradually spread in California, and even the Spanish colonists heard of the heavy losses of the Halchi Domas and the Han tribe that stepped on their strong rise, because the Halchi Doma Gold Mine was occupied by Zhao Dutian......

I don't know why, after the completion of the first novice task, the second task was not released for a long time, and Zhao Dutian had to continue to suppress and attack the Harchi Domas according to his own intentions, and the Halchi Domas naturally would not be reconciled to their defeat, and organized several attacks against the Han tribe.

Unfortunately, under the combined blows of crossbowmen and swordsmen, they could not take advantage of it at all, but instead threw down the corpses of hundreds of elite Harchidorma warriors......

During this period, the two brave swordsmen also went out to 'perform', and a pair of 3 beat the Halchi Doma warriors to the point that they had no temper at all......

The 'martial arts' of these brave swordsmen don't have to be said, if they weren't in the age of firearms, they could definitely be used as a core class!

In this tug-of-war, the power of the Harchi Domas is getting smaller and smaller, on the contrary, the Han tribe gradually took over the original Halchi Doma sphere of influence, and it is not uncommon for the small Indian tribes who have seen the wind and rudder to come over and kneel and lick, eh, I mean the Han tribe that has taken refuge in Zhao Dutian!

The refuge here does not refer to direct integration, but just an Indian submission, they can pay tribute to the Han tribe on a regular basis, and the tribal elders and patriarchs who take refuge will perform subordinate etiquette in front of Zhao Dutian, and at the necessary moment, they can pull up the tribal warriors to follow Zhao Dutian's Dahan tribe to the expedition!

Of course, the expedition is not in vain, Zhao Dutian has to be responsible for logistics, grain and grass, etc., those small tribes are not Zhao Dutian's long swordsmen, and they work for him for free......

Moreover, those small tribes who went out on the expedition must also make a reasonable distribution of the spoils, otherwise, the work will not be effective, and the Indians will not play badly!

Zhao Dutian, who is deeply involved in the way of dictatorship, is naturally not very satisfied with this kind of Indian-style surrender, but his strength is not too strong after all, and he completely relies on the fame of the victories against the Harchi Domas......

Zhao Dutian naturally does not have the strength to forcibly annex those small Indian tribes one by one, as long as he makes such a move, those Indian tribes that originally took refuge will definitely quickly become the hardcore enemies of the Han tribe!

In line with the greatest expansion of the influence of the Han tribe, Zhao Dutian put on the image of a generous tribal chief, and very much welcomed those Indian tribes who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light into the spacious embrace of the Han tribe......

With the surrender of a large number of Indian tribes in central California, that is, the original sphere of influence of the Halchi Domas, the Halchi Domas are becoming more and more sad, beating the water dogs, even if there is no such phrase in the Indian language, but there are definitely a lot of words with general meanings!

Eventually, the new chieftain of the Halchi Domas (the old chieftain was chopped into minced meat by the brave swordsman in the battle with Zhao Dutian...... Take the initiative to beg for peace with Zhao Dutian, and if you don't surrender, you will be wiped out!

The territory of the Halchi Domas is very vast, and their previous practices are also very domineering, with enemies in the south, the Yuma in the east, the Han tribe in the east, and the coastal area of California in the west, which is a Spanish colony, and they have really become white slaves in the past!

In the north, there are murderous Indian tribes, very xenophobic, the Harchi Domas must have had a hard time in the past, weighing the pros and cons, the new chief of the Halchi Domas thinks it is better to take refuge in the Han tribe, at least everyone is of the same race and the same origin 'Indians', isn't it?

Moreover, the Han tribe has only recently clashed with the Harchi Domas, and the two sides are not feuding, and the Halchi Domas who have been knocked off their backbones no longer have any hegemonic intentions, they are just reluctant to leave their place of existence and want to keep the fire of their own race......

Of course, the Halchi Domians also asked Zhao Dutian with a try-and-see attitude, at this time there were only a few hundred adult males left in the Halchi Domas, and the rest were orphans and widows......

I heard that there seem to be very few women in the Dahan tribe?

Well, that's good news......

After Zhao Dutian met the envoy of the Harchi Domas, he thought for a moment and agreed to their refuge, of course, he was not thinking about solving the problem of the singleness of the people below, because he proposed a condition that made the Halchi Domas uncomfortable!