There are two main stages in the development of bows and crossbows, originally the world of Qin crossbows and Han crossbows, as the protection effect of iron armor is getting better and better, this kind of bow and crossbow has gradually changed from the protagonist of the battlefield to an auxiliary, and the results of the war are becoming less and less.

The development of armor has made the killing of bows and crossbows more and more tricky, so that there are many elites wearing heavy armor, who have been hit by dozens of arrows on their bodies, and can also fiercely hold broadswords and spears to kill people......

When the timeline came to the Tang Dynasty, the armor's restraint on the bow and crossbow reached its peak!

The wealthy Tang Empire, large-scale installation of Mingguang armor that consumes huge resources to create, this armor can not even shoot through the armor-piercing arrows of the nomads, the Tang Dynasty is using this elite of all Mingguang armor, the number of nomadic troops far more than their own defeat again and again, out of a huge empire!

Later, with the decline of the Tang Dynasty and the financial overdraft, Mingguang armor became the armor of a few generals, and it was no longer able to popularize it to soldiers in large quantities, so that the nomads successfully counterattacked!

To put it bluntly, it's still a matter of money......

However, the power of the bow and crossbow has a second spring in the Mongolian nation, thanks to the popularity of the recurve compound bow!

The Mongolian bow is actually very different from the previous riding bows, with stronger tension and greater pull, which can be paired with heavier powerful armor-piercing arrows!

The Mongolian bow shoots special armor-piercing arrows that can shoot through even the best full-body plate armor in the European Middle Ages!

It can be said that the armor-piercing ability of the English longbow is on par, and the compound bow requires less arm strength from the archer!

The more advanced Mongolian compound bow once again broke the protective power of the armor with the power of mounted archery, and since then, the nomads have successfully completed the overtaking of the cultivated peoples, and the Mongols have also built an empire that shocked the world with the Mongolian bow!

The full-body plate armor that Europe was proud of in the Middle Ages became a big joke in front of the Mongolian bow!

It can be said that in this period, there is no absolute sense of strength and weakness between armor and crossbows, although the Mongolian bow can break the defense, but it must be close to the face, better iron armor due to the high price, can not offset the advantages brought by the cheap Mongolian bow, naturally no one will go to a large number of columns!

After the Mongol Empire, the unilateral pursuit of armor protection began to deflect, the eastern rulers found that the money used to make thicker and better armor could raise a more cost-effective majority of soldiers, naturally, cheap soldiers replaced expensive armor, in the Ming era, armor became a symbol of the status of generals, the soldiers below generally only wore ordinary leather armor, only a few elites were qualified to wear iron armor!

The reason why the Manchu iron cavalry was equipped with heavy armor was only because of their small number......

During the European Renaissance, the development of plate armor was also due to the large number of countries on the European continent and the scarcity of the army, so that the armor could be equipped, and it was not until the rise of firearms that this law was broken!

In the world where Lei Zihao is located, the bow and crossbow have long been developed to the extreme, and the compound bow is not used much in the human main world, and it is basically liked by nomads, because the human main world has a crossbow machine that is easier to train!

It's just that due to the existence of a large number of knights with superior personal force, the role of the crossbow array is far less than that of the history of cold weapons on the earth, so the crossbow machine is not too much, and the crossbow machine is not much, naturally, the popularity of armor is loosened!

In any case, the amount of stamina consumed to kill an enemy in iron armor and an enemy in leather armor in melee combat is completely unequal!

Therefore, even if the armor could no longer perfectly prevent the penetration of arrows, it endured until the mass popularization of muskets, and an ordinary peasant could kill a warrior in expensive iron armor with a single shot with a crude firearm, and the armor began to be completely withdrawn!

However, in this world, I don't know if it is because of the existence of the knight class with superior personal force, the technology of cold weapons has long reached the top, but the development of firearms is about zero......

This point has always made Lei Zihao feel puzzled, but it also makes him feel a little lucky, the all-out war system has always been a development trend of cold weapons, if the world's natives come to a group of armies equipped with firearms, Lei Zihao is afraid that he will be beaten......

Lei Zihao Hulala summoned 6,000 regular troops and ten ballistas, naturally not because he was idle and wanted to play any military parade, but the threat from the Roman Peninsula had been transmitted to the Golden Dragon Peninsula through a small number of merchants in the Golden Dragon Kingdom who were doing business with human nobles!

In March 502 of the Dark Calendar, Lei Zihao received the second crusade against the Seris organized by the Church, including the Inquisition!

This time it's bigger, it's bigger, it's bigger, and the church is really strong!

Rumor has it that even the Holy Knights are involved!

The Church of the Lord of Radiance is not the kind of brain-dead villain who accompanies the protagonist to upgrade a little bit with fueling tactics, after realizing that Lei Zihao's power cannot be underestimated, the church would rather spend more time, entangle some more troops, gather the most forces, and carry out thunderous sanctions on Lei Zihao's Golden Dragon Kingdom!

The church that has failed once will use the most powerful force to crush the Golden Dragon Kingdom at one time, and this time, the church will be more prepared!

Obviously, the Church does not plan to carry out a third or even fourth expedition to the tiny Golden Dragon Peninsula, and this time, if you don't win, you will lose!

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And received the next large-span main quest: raise the main city level to level 5!

Reward: After reaching level 5, the population of the main city of the Golden Dragon will be filled to 100,000 by the homeless people!

Now there are only more than 20,000 people in Jinlong City, that is to say, this task will provide Lei Zihao with nearly 80,000 system population!

According to the law of the development of the system, the 100,000 population of the main city can provide at least more than 100,000 gold coins in taxes every year!

In other words, as long as Lei Zihao is upgraded to the level 5 main city, he basically doesn't have to rely on robbery to make up for financial expenses!

It's a pity that the conditions for upgrading the fifth-level main city are very harsh, and it actually requires Lei Zihao to take down a territory with a population of one million......

With the completion of the 4-level commercial street, the 4-level urban dock, the 4-level melting pot, the 4-level university, the 4-level elevated drinking water canal, and the 4-level park, Lei Zihao's patience has finally come to an end, and it has been a full three months since he got the news from the church!

It's June 502 in the dark calendar, and the church army hasn't even started yet!

How many soldiers does that guy plan to bulldoze himself?

Lei Zihao finally couldn't sit still!