Chapter 693: The Evil Beast Comes Out of the Cage (16) The Flint Spear
The above is all about the history of slave hunting, so how should slave hunting be caught now?
In the fantasies of gentlemen and ladies whose hands do not touch the spring water, and the troubadour's troubadours, which should be called now, slave hunters are all brave men with some comrades who are similar to themselves, and lead slave hunters to search for barbarian tribes in the wilderness, and then after a hard war, they thwart the resistance of the tribes and plunder them into slavery.
Today's slave hunters are just a new description of adventurers in ancient times, who have obtained treasures after hard battles and returned to their hometowns in exchange for the cheers of the villagers, but now adventurers have become slave hunters, and treasures have become slaves, but they are still basically the same - but as I said, this is just a fantasy that only the gentlemen and ladies who stay in the country leisurely and are bored.
Zhong Ming went to capture slaves in person, whenever he walked in the university town, from time to time he heard the description of the slave hunter is these dream-like nonsense, the words are the hope of the slave hunters, and he thinks that it is the rose-colored Mr. Mao, at this time, Zhong Ming can't wait to go up and carry the collar of this group of imps, and then slap a few times.
The wilderness is so big, a team of heavily armed slave hunters wants to find the barbarian tribe in the vast wilderness, isn't it to find the old man of the wilderness? It is a vast and sparsely populated slave hunting province, not a native that has been developed for thousands of years!
And even if you are lucky and find a barbarian tribe out of breath, you can really go directly to fight it? You must know that although the barbarian tribe can't defeat the country, it's not even enough to defeat the slave hunting team, right? Don't forget that a slave hunting team is only a dozen people in small groups, dozens of people in the big ones, and the barbarian tribe is at least 50 or more.
Okay, even if the barbarian tribe Feira is overwhelmed and sparsely populated, even if you are lucky enough to win this tribe, then what can you get? If the barbarians are rich, they will not be called barbarians, and the barbarian tribes that you defeat, the sturdy men are estimated to be either killed in battle or flee, and they can be captured by you who are in ruin after the war, and they are basically old, weak, sick and disabled.
So after a bloody battle, you finally have a slave harvest, but how much can you sell for the old, weak, sick and disabled? How many men do you lose in the course of the battle? And the wear and tear of the trek, and the cost of transporting the spoils back to the town, can you afford all this?
Therefore, according to the fantasy of the gentlemen and ladies in the city, who do not touch the spring water with their hands, they will go bankrupt and lose their money.
So what is the real way to catch slaves?
The top slave hunters are the people of Taugocha, they are not involved in the actual slave hunting process at all, they just hire other slave hunting teams to help them hunt slaves, this is the top boss, there is no need to go to the wilderness to adventure, there are countless harvests in the rich land, which is also the goal of all slave hunters.
The next level of slave hunters are the slave hunting companies, or slave companies, that dot the province and are invested in by people like Taugocha, who will first contact the barbarian tribes, let the barbarian tribes attack their barbarian villagers, and then sell their compatriots as captives to various slave hunting brigades.
The slave company will not give the Dima currency to the barbarians, and the barbarians do not need the currency of civilized countries, so the exchange provided by the slave company to the barbarians is food, cloth and other daily necessities, in addition to iron knives, Lingmen guns and other weapons, and finally to provide slave catchers as mercenaries for the barbarians.
Yes, this is how most of the lowest slave hunters make a living, they use slave companies as intermediaries, become barbarian mercenaries, fight barbarians for the barbarians, and get some of the commission afterwards, as well as the booty they capture.
After all, in the vast wilderness, the people who know best where there are barbarian tribes in this wilderness are always another barbarian tribe, and they are the targets of slave hunters' cooperation. Due to the prosperity of the slave hunting industry, there has even been a farce in history in which two slave catchers fought each other to hire their own tribes.
Of course, it is not that there are some aspiring low-level slave catchers who will bypass the slave company and go it alone, but most of the bones are gone, and a small number of slave catchers who have come out of the crowd will set up new slave companies, and use their deeds to inspire later batches of slave catchers.
In the face of the swarming slave hunting team, the barbarians are not without vigilance, but it is not the disposition of civilized countries to die and not to die poorly. In addition, survival of the fittest, other barbarian mercenary slave hunting teams attack you, and if you don't trade with slave companies, then won't you be left behind?
Of course, it is not without some knowledgeable barbarian tribes in history to unite and try to attack and eliminate the slave capture company, and in this regard, the Taugocha group will take the lead in uniting the slave hunting company, and let all the slave hunting teams unite to eliminate these barbarians first.
However, after more than 200 years of trade, there are new problems in the slave hunting industry, that is, due to the invasion of the slave hunting team, the barbarians have become more and more unified, and the various barbarian kingdoms have become more and more powerful, and the barbarians have obtained a large number of weapons from Siber, although they do not know how to make them, but they can't cover the large number of transactions and the long time!
As the fat merchant said, there must be new methods in the new era, so Zhong Ming was invited to come and try new methods, that is, new weapons.
Zhong Ming picked up the "new weapon" that was promoted by the fat merchant, and weighed it in his hand, don't underestimate this weight, in the long march in the wilderness, the slightest difference in weight will be infinitely magnified due to the passage of time and the increase in the length of the journey.
Seeing Zhong Ming's sophisticated weighing weapon to judge its weight, the fat merchant couldn't help but nod, which proved that Zhong Ming was an experienced slave hunter and a worthy investment.
"It's not too heavy, it's suitable as a weapon for slave hunters," After a moment, Zhong Ming put the weapon back on the stage, and then asked the fat merchant, "What is this thing called, what is the difference between it and the spirit rope gun, or the advantages?"
The fat merchant put on a smile and introduced: "At present, we call it the flint gun, because the activation of this gun is generated by the blow of the flintlock mechanism, if you ask the difference between the spirit rope gun and the spirit gun in the past, after weighing, your Excellency who came out of the wilderness should have noticed it, right?"
But Zhong Ming was fearless, and after the fat merchant said in this tone, Zhong Ming could be sure of how he felt when he weighed the flint gun: "You won't tell me that this thing's psionic bullet is stuffed through the butt, right?"
The psionic bullets of the flint gun are placed on the side of the weapon table, and Zhong Ming, who is an old psionic gun, can see at a glance that these psionic bullets cannot be stuffed into the muzzle, but there is an opening behind the flint gun, which is estimated to be the area where the bullets are placed, and there is no gun stabbing on the weapon table, which further confirms Zhong Ming's hunch.
The Lingmen Gun has no bullets, and its function is to make the spiritual resonance level of the civilian army reach a level that only the nobles in the feudal era can have through the spiritual weapon of the gun.
The Spirit Rope Gun has a spirit bullet, so that the army equipped with the Spirit Rope Gun can have the level of spiritual power resonance at the same time as the feudal era aristocratic level, and bypass the enemy's exhaustion magic by firing bullets, causing great casualties to the enemy army, and the "Battle of Barsena" is the famous battle of the Spirit Rope Gun.
The psionic bullets of the spirit rope gun are loaded from the muzzle, so after shooting on the battlefield, the soldier needs to stand the spirit rope gun vertically on the ground, and half-crouch down to stuff the spirit bullet into it, ready for the next round of shooting.
However, the power of the psionic bullet cannot be underestimated, and each time it is fired, it will cause a certain amount of wear and tear to the chamber of the spiritual rope gun, so usually after the spiritual rope gun is used several times, the chamber of the gun will become extremely rough, even if it is vertically on the ground, it is difficult for the psionic bullet to fall into the chamber of the launcher, and at this time, it is necessary to use the gun to poke the psionic bullet into the chamber.
"That's right, butt, it's stuffed in from the buttocks, think about it, you don't need to stab the bullets with a gun in the future, you don't need to half-squat on the ground, and stuff the bullets directly from the buttocks, how many steps can be saved?" the fat merchant introduced enthusiastically.
"Can I try to load bullets?" After getting the permission of the fat merchant, Zhong Ming began to follow the instructions of the waiter on the side of the plate to deliver bullets to this flint gun, the steps are indeed a lot less than the spirit rope gun, and the time is shorter, which makes Zhong Ming happy in his heart, in the slave hunting, the bullet is fired in a shorter time, which means life.
Seeing Zhong Ming's face, the fat merchant knew that Zhong Ming was already tempted, so he continued to introduce the advantages of the spirit rope gun while the iron was hot: "Unlike the spirit rope gun used for fighting on the battlefield, the spirit lance is specially designed to take into account the characteristics of you who have to fight against the evil and vulgar barbarians, so this special has been strengthened. ”
"The first is the spiritual resonance, the flint gun still maintains the function of the previous spiritual resonance enhancement of the spiritual resonance, but the range and attack are sacrificed in exchange for defensive strengthening. ”
In the past, Spirit Gate Guns and Spirit Rope Guns were used in military combat, so the connection range of these Spirit Guns Spirit Resonance is quite wide, so as to connect the various armies on the battlefield as much as possible. In addition, some models of psionic guns have more or less strengthened the function of spiritual bombardment, and they are also quite popular with some generals.
However, according to the fat merchant, the spirit lance has weakened these two functions, in exchange for the strengthening of the spiritual resonance defense function, which is gratifying, after all, many purple carrot-level powerhouses in the barbarian clan have domains, and it is also a good deal to rely on the spirit gun to strengthen the defense, and most of the people in a slave hunting team are not much, and the reduction range is also a reasonable adjustment.
And Zhong Ming knew that the next thing was the highlight, that is, what was the offensive function of the flint gun, and the fat merchant then introduced this:
"We all know that in the past, the troops equipped with spirit rope guns used spirit bullets as a means of attack, but the effective range of spirit bullets was not high, so there is also a saying in the army that letting spirit rope gun troops shoot at targets a hundred meters away is the same result as letting them shoot the sun. ”
"The effective range is so pitiful, not to mention the effective killing range, so if the spirit rope gun unit wants to kill effectively, it must put the enemy into a distance of thirty or even twenty steps, so the war method of the spirit rope gun unit is also jokingly called queuing and shooting. ”
"However, the Flint Gun is different, his effective killing range is twice that of the Spirit Rope Gun!" the fat merchant raised two fingers, which made Zhong Ming's eyes straighten directly, "And you think, you don't need to squat down and grab vertically to load bullets, then you can lie on the ground and block the barbarians, which is also a deterrent for the barbarians! Not to mention retaining the function of the original bullet resonance." ”
The benefits have been said so much, then there must be flaws, otherwise why not find someone else but yourself, so Zhong Ming asked cautiously: "Sounds good, but I want to know what the disadvantages of the flint gun are?"
The fat merchant had expected to answer this embarrassing question, so he rubbed his fingers and smiled: "Well, the lowest explosion rate of the flint gun is 10%. ”
Zhong Ming turned around and left.
Whether it is a spirit gate gun or a spirit rope gun, they all have a common function, that is, to enhance the success rate of spiritual resonance, and to do this, it must not be blown up, so the explosion rate of these two types of guns is less than 1%...... Well, not counting the Lingmen guns made by Orettia Tufa.
And your flint gun has a 10 percent explosion rate? What a gamble! No wonder so many advantages have been added, and this function has been canceled.
If you are willing to use flint guns to promote our company, we are willing to invest in you, set up your own slave company for you, and supply flint guns cheaply!"
Zhong Ming stopped.
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