www.biquge.info In Lei Zihao's military concept, this kind of elite is naturally as much as possible, but it is not realistic, as for the conventional army used as consumables, it must be about the same, otherwise, the soldiers who are too garbage will collapse faster, which will affect the overall morale of the army!

Elites like Wei Wushu and Spartan warriors are best used as a decisive reserve, but unfortunately, the 'reserves' that add up to only two in total are too shabby, but fortunately, today's Lei Zihao does not need to face the mainstream power of this world......

Hey, I seem to have overlooked a key issue!

Lei Zihao suddenly moved his gaze back to Wei Wushu's profile, staring at the monthly maintenance cost of 20 gold coins written on it!

Oh my God, that's twice as much as the Spartan Warrior's maintenance cost!!

Sure enough, this piece of equipment was not given for free!

Although Lei Zihao used up the inventory of gold coins in Longhan Town, it would not reach the point where he could not even afford the army's salary and servant salaries, and the servants who served Lei Zihao plus the administrative staff of Longhan Town (that is, Lei Zihao's entourage) only needed to pay less than one gold coin a month, after all, like Xu Tangran and Wang Er, Lei Zihao did not need to pay wages, and they were already grateful to be able to get such a high position of power!

However, the army is indeed the big one, but fortunately, the army that Longhan Town needs to bear now is only in the early three hundred......

But more than two of them need to pay extra military salaries!

Longhan Town will have a little flow of commercial tax into Lei Zihao's pocket every month, unlike the fixed collection of poll tax and agricultural tax, the collection of commercial tax is irregular, one day to add a commercial stall, will collect an extra money, Lei Zihao in the inventory of gold coins, has already calculated, these extra meager commercial taxes, can fully meet the salary of the army and servants under his command!

This is also the reason why Lei Zihao doesn't want to recruit scum troops in the barracks, compared to the troops drawn from the Temple of War, those troops are not worth Lei Zihao's extra effort, even if they don't want military salaries, the cost of eating is also very large!

The soldier is very good at eating!

This Wei Wushu is good, it is the military salary of 20 gold coins that was added all of a sudden, which is more than the monthly military salary and servant salary paid by Lei Zihao plus the cost of food, which is really a bit hurtful......

"Hey, it seems that I'm going to cut back on the enjoyment of luxuries and servants, no wonder some nobles don't like to fight, just maintaining an elite amount of money is enough to raise the living level of the nobles by several levels!"

Lei Zihao calculated in his heart, and felt that he would save a province, and then ask from Xu Tangran, plus a little commercial tax in Megara City, he could barely support Wei Wushu's maintenance expenses!

However, it would be nerve-wracking to expand the elite again, and it seems that the agenda for robbery should be put up!

Lei Zihao looked in the direction of the city-state of Pyros, and felt that those Pyros people who couldn't even afford to use iron tools were simply the 'fortune boys' arranged by the system!

As for those Pylos captives, they will be escorted to Longhan Town one after another in the next few days, and a free labor force will be sent out in Longhan Town, which is fully built and upgraded!

Lei Zihao glanced at the killing experience in the personal information, but he only broke through the 4000 mark, so he didn't care anymore, maybe after the attack of the jackals was extinguished, he could kill some kobold captives and bring the killing experience to 10,000!

All the resources obtained by the war have been carefully counted by Lei Zihao, and slaves are the top priority, and the captured slaves not only have to pay free labor for Longhan Town, but also contribute their lives to Lei Zihao at the necessary moment to gather 10,000 killing experience to meet the exchange of qi and blood essence!

Of course, the order of Lei Zihao's killing is still biased, the first one to be stabbed must be the alien kobold, and after the alien race is killed, it will be the turn of the human Pilos captive, as for the excuse for killing, hehe, the lord kills these foreign prisoners of war without identity, it is too convenient to make excuses!

In the eyes of Lei Zihao, who puts interests first, as long as he is not his own person, he is a 'resource' that can be used!

Naturally, there is the encouragement of the all-out war system, and without the immortal hope of exchanging the killing experience provided by the system into qi and blood essence, Lei Zihao will not kill prisoners of war for no reason!

After extracting the elite of Wei Wushu, the first thing Lei Zihao did was naturally to test their combat effectiveness, and the most convenient test and the most necessary test was naturally the twelve-stone crossbow!

In the test personally monitored by Lei Zihao, the approximate range of the crossbow has been recorded, and the crossbow equipped by Wei Wushu's elite can even shoot up to 500 meters away, naturally, this data has no effect on the battlefield, and the crossbow arrows that fly so far can even be caught by ordinary people with their hands, you can imagine how weak the strength and speed are......

What is really useful is that the effective killing distance against lightly armored or unarmored targets is 180 meters to 300 meters!

However, these data are all the projectile principles used, due to the different crossbow machine and bow structure, long-distance projectile is rarely used, because it is impossible to grasp the approximate direction of the landing point, it is likely that hundreds of crossbow arrows will be shot out, and in the end only a dozen crossbow arrows will fall on the enemy's line......

To put it simply, the crossbow can theoretically kill a target at 300 meters, provided that it can be shot in the case of a projectile......

Obviously, the probability of this shot is not even one percent!

Therefore, unless you are really a tyrant who doesn't care about the loss of the crossbow, and there are thousands of crossbows that can be squandered, you should not throw them at long-range targets......

The crossbow is still intuitive to rely on direct fire to cause lethality!

If you shoot directly, the effective range of the crossbow is only about 150 meters, and the target must be light or no armor to cause effective damage!

During the test, Lei Zihao discovered many fatal flaws in the legendary majestic crossbow!

If the arrow shoots directly, the trajectory is simply not too 6!

It's not that there is a problem with aiming, but after aiming, as long as the breeze blows a little, the arrow can be shot to a miserable point......

Of course, as long as the wind is not too strong, if you use a large number of crossbow salvos, you can slightly make up for the lack of accuracy, otherwise, you can only shoot closer to 50 meters......

Well, if it is within 50 meters, the crossbow can still guarantee a hit rate, and only within 50 meters can it be possible to use an armor-piercing arrow to penetrate the enemy's ordinary chain mail!

As for the heavier ironclad Lei Zihao, there is no need to test it......

It's no wonder that arquebuses can replace the position of crossbows, and the actual combat ability of this thing is not as powerful as it seems!