Although Lei Zihao, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, feels that the explanation of the total war system is a bit far-fetched, but it seems to be right in theory, of course, figuring out the price difference is just Lei Zihao to satisfy his curiosity, for him, whether it is a heavy cavalry of 10,000 gold coins or an archer cavalry of 5,000 gold coins, it is not something he can play......

"It seems that now I should burst out some cheap and practical troops first, and it is the king to increase the number first!"

Lei Zihao decisively aimed at the Praetorian Guard, who seemed to have a good morale value, and was loyal, brave and cheap!

Judging from the data, this Praetorian Guard is enough to be called a heavy armored force, and even if its defense is not as gorgeous as the heavy golden shield soldiers, it is much stronger than most of the noble standing troops of the human main world!

Through the information obtained from the Crusader prisoners of war, Lei Zihao has already learned about the armament situation of the human main world!

Due to the perennial aristocratic civil war, even a small bag of pepper can make two nobles beat their brains out of dog brains......

Therefore, there is no shortage of soldiers and mercenaries with combat experience in the human overworld!

In fact, most of the lower-level soldiers who have killed people, in order to get rid of the endless oppression of the noble lords, will choose to join the mercenary team with a relatively high degree of freedom and will not be exploited too harshly!

The Mercenary Alliance is also one of the few loose organizations in the human main world that is not controlled by the Church and is independently supported by lower-level human warriors!

The reason why the Mercenary Alliance can thrive in the human main world is that they will provide the noble lords with frequent wars with an assessment of the credibility and combat effectiveness of each mercenary, so that those noble lords who are not smart will not be abducted by the black-hearted, greedy mercenary scum who are afraid of death!

The Mercenary Alliance will record the past employment of each mercenary legion, and credit statistics, so that mercenaries, an industry with low trust, can prosper, and those with high reputation can get higher commissions and a steady stream of customers, while mercenaries with low reputation can no longer gain a foothold in the mercenary world!

The practice of the mercenary alliance has undoubtedly greatly reduced the sense of honor and the desert escape rate of mercenaries such organizations, and also made those noble lords feel more at ease to use!

Even many majestic mercenary organizations, due to their great reputation, have developed into a military organization that should not be underestimated, with hundreds or thousands of small branch corps!

Of course, the concept of hierarchy of this kind of mercenary organization is very vague, after all, what comes to be a mercenary is to pursue that freedom and leisure, and it is impossible to use the strict hierarchy of the nobility to restrain it, and the independence of each small mercenary group is still very large!

In addition to the close cooperation between each other in wartime, the various small mercenary groups belonging to the same mercenary organization rarely have a basis for cooperation with each other!

There is only one thing that can make them cooperate, and that is the golden cutie!

The main currency of the Human Overworld issued by the Radiant Lord behind the scenes, with the Church Gold Coin of the Angel Warrior Empress!

Many vulgar mercenaries refer to this Church Gold as the 'concubine' of the Lord of Radiance......

Angels are warriors under the command of the Lord of Radiance, and the angel female warriors are either showing long legs or showing their breasts, and the angel armor and Freya's armor are scored in terms of exposure, which is comparable!

Of course, this is just an artistic portrait, for the sake of beauty, if you go to the battlefield, it is safer to have more sets of iron armor and steel helmets......

Lei Zihao's Praetorian Guard equipment, strictly speaking, has exceeded the equipment that most mercenaries can withstand!

The Praetorian Guard's standing heavy chain mail can only be equipped by the core guards of the noble lords and the Church Inquisition!

Of course, the exception is the few elites of the Foot Knights......

Using the Praetorian Guard as the main force of the standing army, even in the eyes of the king of the human main world, is quite extravagant!

Maintaining a standing army of heavy armor is a considerable financial burden, and with that money, it is not as good as temporarily recruiting a large number of mercenaries in wartime, anyway, in the mercenary alliance, there are mercenaries who are willing to work hard to make money!

Mercenaries bring their own armor and weapons, and the mercenaries only need to pay money and food during wartime!

"Nearly 10,000 gold coins, let's buy 5 thousand-man Praetorian Guards first! The Heavy Golden Shield Army is a bit expensive, and now there are elites with similar equipment such as the Scarlet Crusaders and the Spartan Praetorian Guard, so there is no need to buy the Heavy Golden Shield Army, and after buying the remaining gold coins of the Praetorian Guard, you can pull out a thousand-man archer, and some ballistas or other projection machinery! ”

After Lei Zihao made a silent calculation in his heart, he consumed a meal on the operating platform, ten ballistas equivalent to the peak of the Roman Empire, that is, torsion catapults, plus a large number of supporting ignition fuel and other ammunition, opened a 4-level projectile range, although these are mechanical, but after purchase, the system together with the operator to concretize it!

The ammunition thrown by the ballista is equivalent to a fire canister, and the catapult can be easily moved with the army, lighting the fire pot on the battlefield, throwing it into the enemy formation, and exploding after touching a hard object, which will cause great panic and burns to the surrounding enemy soldiers!

As long as it doesn't rain in the sky, the fire pot projected by this ballista is still very useful, and a few rounds of throwing before the charge can pose a great threat to the enemy's formation, causing confusion and gaps in the opponent's tight formation, and facilitating your own charge!

The fire oil filled in it cannot be extinguished with water when it is splashed on the enemy soldiers, and it can only be reduced by rolling on the ground with mud and rolling on the ground.

5 Janissaries of a thousand people and an archers of a thousand people also came out later, the reason why Lei Zihao only recruited an archer of a thousand people is mainly because the enemy army he is about to face is likely to have a large proportion of armor rate, to be honest, the damage of ordinary infantry bows to the ironclad army is really unsatisfactory, and the range of the cross archers is hard, the real pedal crossbow class has not yet appeared, Lei Zihao can only use the archers to make do......

The reason why the crossbowmen of the Qin State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were so awesome was mainly because the equipment rate of the strong iron armor of that era was too low, and even many armors with good protection performance were not invented, so that the crossbowmen of the Qin State were completely killed!

In the later cold weapon battlefield, the protection of iron armor became more and more powerful, and the role of the bow and crossbow was greatly weakened......

Especially during the Tang Dynasty, the Mingguang armor brought the armor's restraint on the bow and arrow to the extreme, and the nomads' proud riding and archery almost lost its effect under the protection of the Mingguang armor!