After receiving Freya's report, Lei Zihao once again felt his lack of money, you know, temple buildings are the most expensive of all buildings!

"Let's recruit the army first, as long as there is an army, you can loot the Pylos, robbery is the king of sustainable development......"

Lei Zihao quickly returned to the 2nd floor of the city hall, in the study room used as an office, it was said that the study was actually very large, and even a large double bed was placed......

Lei Zihao even planned to renovate a side room on the second floor, adding some chains or something......

However, under Li Qingmei's strong protest, Lei Zihao temporarily dismissed that idea, after all, Lei Zihao promised her not to play some radical actions in order to let Li Qingmei take the initiative to serve him obediently......

In any case, Lei Zihao is also a dignified seven-foot man, and he is still a little embarrassed when he turns his head and turns his face when he takes the initiative to agree......

Well, Lei Zihao won't admit it, because Li Qingmei served him too comfortably and couldn't bear to break his oath......

[Class: Phalanx pikemen.]

Equipment: Iron Spire Helmet, Lightweight Chain Mail, Standard Battle Skirt, Super Long Gun of about 6 meters, Small Round Shield on the Arm, Melee Dagger. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Soldier size: Standard 1,000 troops.

Specialty: Formation defense and offense

Combat Effectiveness Assessment: Frontal attacks on gentle terrain can exert the most effective lethality, and other terrain will greatly weaken the attack power of the super long spear phalanx!

Morale: Seven stars

Recruitment cost (1,000 gold coins), maintenance cost (food and clothing degree).

Outstanding ability: Can form a tight ultra-long spear phalanx.

Notes: On gentle terrain, these phalanx pikemen are an absolute nightmare for the enemy, but their limitations are also huge, the flanks and rear formations are very fragile, and need to be closely guarded by other troops, and the defense of the super pike phalanx against arrows is not strong, only the iron armor and iron helmets on the phalanx pikemen can provide limited protection, and they have little effect in the face of direct fire from arrows at close range!

This is a unit that excels at frontal advancement and defense against frontal melee attacks, and if you don't want to use them as cannon fodder, don't expose the phalanx pikemen to arrows and flanks to enemy forces alone!

That way, you'll enjoy a unique massacre, your own side being slaughtered! 】

Lei Zihao opened the level 3 troop recruitment interface, the first one is the phalanx pikemen produced in the city barracks, judging from the images and data, the phalanx pikemen are no different from the Macedonian super pikemen in the history of the earth!

The Macedonian spear formation is famous not for how each soldier kills the other, but for the fact that the spear formation, which is closely formed in front and back with dozens or even hundreds of people, like an unbreakable hedgehog, makes it impossible for the troops in front to start.

Think about it, even if you have the ability to use your brute force to pull away a spear that is piercing, then in fact, the spear that is stabbing at you is actually a dozen staggered front and back, and one shot is pulled away, which does not matter at all. The Macedonian spear formation relies on such close cooperation between the front and back, and the strict training that allows it to quickly change its formation from side to side.

But its weakness is its slow march, reliance on high-quality training and flat terrain. The decline of the Macedonian pikes is also due to the fact that it is too dependent on elements such as training and terrain. So that it was crushed in many battles without formation.

"The limitations of this kind of phalanx pikemen are too great, just temporarily recruit a team of 1,000 people as the main force of flat combat."

Then, Lei Zihao looked at the data of the next class, he did not recruit immediately, but wrote it down in his heart first, and after all the troops had seen it, he would make full use of the more than 5,000 gold coins!

[Class: Shield spear heavy infantry.]

Equipment: Iron spire helmet, heavy chain mail, standard battle skirt, more than 3 meters of ordinary spear, rectangular skin shield, 50~75 cm long double-edged sword, sharp sword head, suitable for piercing.

Soldier size: Standard 1,000 troops.

Specialty: Formation defense and offense

Combat effectiveness assessment: A conventional soldier like a jack of all trades, which can be attacked and defended, has no obvious advantages or obvious disadvantages. The dependence on the opposing array is large!

Morale: Seven stars

Recruitment cost (1,000 gold coins), maintenance cost (food and clothing degree).

Outstanding ability: Can form a tight shield spear phalanx.

Notes: Although these soldiers are the strongest in combat when they form a formation, the shield spear heavy infantry with double-edged short swords scattered also has a good melee heads-up ability, the well-trained shield and spear heavy infantry can raise a large square shield to form a 'turtle shell' when the arrow rain falls, and the shield array erected when defending can also effectively resist the impact of the enemy.

However, in the gentle terrain, they are inferior to the pikemen in attack and defense, but they can adapt to almost any battlefield, and if you are rich enough, you can also equip each of them with an extra javelin, throwing javelins when attacking can effectively increase the impact of shield spear heavy infantry! 】

"Tsk~ This is the main force of the army I need most at this moment, it can fight better than cannon fodder, and it can be applied to various battlefields! However, they seem to be no different from the Roman legionnaires on Earth......"

The reason why Lei Zihao thinks that the shield spear heavy infantry is similar to the Roman legion infantry is naturally not that his ancestor Huaxia nation does not have this type of army, in fact, as long as it is a cold weapon empire that has developed to a certain extent, the shield spear infantry is basically the standard main force, this kind of mediocre and effective army has been popular for a long time in the history of the earth!

As for the heavy chain mail on the shield spear hoplite, it looks a bit like chain mail, but it's actually two different armors!

The main advantages of Heavy Chainmail are:

1。 The technical content of the conjoined production is not high.

2。 The iron chain is a DNA double helix structure that is interlocking (cowhide, figuratively speaking) - high density, strong resistance to slashing, splitting and other blade strikes

3。 It is easier to maintain than chain mail that tends to fall off

4。 Strong coverage, large defense range - flexible.

5。 Strong concealment and good sound attenuation - because it is not a scale armor (a kind of chain mail) that is interlocking with iron pieces, its own metallic luster is much weaker; The sound of scales hitting each other is the loudest in armor when the scale is moving, while the sound is very low when the chainmail is moving.

Of course, the disadvantages are obvious:

1。 Expensive, although the production process is not high, but it is very troublesome - the labor cost is large.

2。 Weak resistance to stabbing and bowing, and lower resistance to bows and arrows than chain mail!

To sum up, heavy chain mail has an advantage over chain mail in close combat, but the cost is higher, but for Lei Zihao, who manifests it out of thin air, the cost can be ignored!

The two major arms provided in the city barracks are very practical, and it is absolutely no problem to be the main force of the army in the future, I wonder what surprises the shooting range will bring?