Chapter 209: A New Type of Army (Part II)

"Well, you go down. Salin and Geyi finished their request. Drove the skinny pirate out.

After pondering for a moment in front of the alchemy table, Salin began to redraw the alchemy drawings. Now there are no immigrants in the city, and he has no more than ten blacksmiths on hand, but fortunately, the expeditionary force in the East China Sea has sent him a lot of weapons, otherwise he can only wait for Rex to return, so that it is possible to make all the soldiers wear decent armor.

Neris sent the equipment salvaged from the wreck to the temple, and all the magicians were busy. These armor weapons have been soaked in seawater, and if they are not treated, they will soon corrode and rust.

The armor of the East China Sea is somewhat similar to that of Yunliu, both of which are leaf-type armor and need to be worn with a leather rope. In this way, the maintenance cost of the armor will be reduced a lot, and the usual maintenance will not need to be carried out by too professional people. The soldiers themselves could disassemble the armor and wash it.

However, the armor of those generals in the East China Sea is worse, and the armor of most officers is bells and whistles, and there are many unnecessary decorations. In terms of material, it is not much better than the armor of soldiers. It is estimated that there are so many countries in the East China Sea, and there are not too many mineral deposits. Unlike the Myers Continent, there are more than a hundred huge iron mines.

Among the armor that Neris fished back, there was a lot of copper. It is estimated that copper is produced in the East China Sea. Copper is more expensive than iron, but when used to make armor, it is not as strong as iron. And the copper is heavier, which is also a pressure on the soldiers.

Many of the armor parts are made of non-metal, and many are simply polished from the shells of shellfish in the sea. Saleen slashed it with a normal steel knife, splitting the blades and the leather armor at the back.

The defensive power of this kind of armor is very low! Salin was a little depressed, he didn't expect that with so much equipment he had obtained, there would be hundreds of sets of suitable equipment when he picked them out. Most of the armor was okay for peasant soldiers, and if the elite troops were equipped, it would be a joke.

Salin had no choice but to gather all the magicians and start refining the armor of his own design. These trophies are not useless, at least the style of these armors is much better than that designed by Salin, and they are more suitable for maintenance.

The carapace of the red krill is shattered, mixed with magic potions, and then added with gum and refined into various armor parts with a magic array. After the shells of these demonic beasts were refined, they became even stronger. Salin re-enacted the experiment of chopping with a steel knife, and with the same strength as a high-ranking swordsman, he did not cut the armor leaf open.

The quality of the inner leather armor in the trophies was quite good, and with the outer armor leaf re-refined by Sarin, the defense power suddenly increased by a hundred times. Of course, this armor is almost defenseless against heavy weapons. If the tomahawk is chopped up, because the armor leaves are strung together with leather ropes, there is no overall cushioning ability. Soldiers are bound to be seriously wounded.

However, it is impossible for Salin to refine high-grade magic armor for all soldiers, this most basic biological armor is close to pure steel armor in terms of defensive power, and can easily bless magic, which is already a great invention.

This is the original intention of Saleen to create this kind of armor, Rex has a sufficient number of low-level mages, but when mages bless soldiers with magic, they are most afraid of the metal armor on the soldiers. Most metals do not have elemental affinities, and a lot of magic wants to be blessed on soldiers, which is a huge test for the mage's magic string consumption.

It's not that you can't bless magic if you wear metal armor, the problem is that if a soldier wears a full set of steel armor, and Saleen gives this soldier ice armor, the ice armor will freeze the soldier's steel armor, and the soldier will not be able to move a single step.

This kind of armor designed by Saleen is different, the shell of the monster itself has an elemental affinity, and even low-level mages can easily bless the soldiers wearing this armor with magic. Saleen has now captured the Magic Chariot, and the Mage will save a lot of magic strings by unleashing magic on the chariot.

The armor designed by Saleen requires a large number of Warcraft shells, and if it were someone else, even if he had this idea. It's also hard to achieve. Saleen had hunted a large number of Rank 4 Demonic Beast Red Krill in the Frozen Sea, and now it had finally come in handy. The general magic armor is carved out of the magic pattern of the metal armor and filled with expensive magic materials, so that it has a certain elemental affinity, and the cost is very expensive. The cost of Salin's armor is not cheap, but it is too easy to repair.

After making a look, Saleen left the armor to the mages and began to redesign the weapon himself.

With the loot as a reference, Salin now had a lot of ideas, and he first designed the most important primary weapon for the barbarians, the axe. The axe halberd is popular in various countries and is the favorite weapon of Hercules, with sharp spines on the front, and then a relatively long axe blade, which generally weighs more than sixty catties.

Such a heavy weapon, unless the enemy wears a fully enclosed heavy Kai from ancient times, which can disperse the striking power. Otherwise, if you are struck, even if the armor is not cracked, the person will have broken bones and tendons. If the heavy cavalry is armed with an axe, there is almost nothing that the armor cannot be split, and the long thorns on the front can also pierce the thickest part of the armor.

Considering that the barbarians did not like weapons that were too long, Saleen shortened the axe, lengthened the blade to maintain weight, and designed a small crescent on the other side of the blade. It's like a misshapen aspect axe, but it's more armor-piercing than an aspect axe.

Salin designed weapons this way for his intentions, on the battlefield, the role of ordinary soldiers is not small, and the strength of barbarians is strong. It is not a problem to besiege a high-level swordsman with such a weapon. The sword master's sword qi couldn't resist such a heavy weapon at all. Because the battlefield is not a private fight, it is possible to be attacked from all sides, and the skill of the swordsman is relatively weak. As long as there are more than three barbarians besieging it, the end of the sword master is tragic.

When Salin was a low-level mage, he carefully calculated that only about twenty soldiers were needed to kill him under the right circumstances. The so-called suitable environment refers to the environment where the magician cannot take advantage of the terrain. As soon as the horses were flat, the soldiers swarmed up, and the low-level mages couldn't stop it.

If Salin didn't have that mysterious gourd, which could frequently use the magic of water cutting, he would not be able to face the siege of more than two dozen high-level swordsmen now. What's more, Saleen can already fly, and no matter how powerful a flying mage is, he can't fight too many enemies.

Saleen himself could fly, but his mages couldn't. Therefore, Salin does not let his mage fight the enemy directly, but lets the mage bless the soldier with magic and improve the soldier's combat effectiveness, which is the role of the mage on the battlefield.

In fact, until now, Salin didn't know what the combat effectiveness of the armies of various countries on the continent was, he saw the swordsman battalion in Rex's hand, and thought that it was what all armies should look like, and later saw Qin Yin's army in the west town of Holy Rock City, which deepened this impression. But actually. How many soldiers of the army will have the strength of a swordsman?

Salin himself went to test the strength of the armor, his ** strength reached the level of a senior swordsman, and he held a sharp steel knife, slashing the armor along a vertical angle, and the stone platform was padded under the armor.

It was because of this misunderstanding that Saleen inadvertently built up a terrible army. This kind of army is not unheard of in the history of the continent, and every soldier is equipped with sophisticated weapons. But that was at least thousands of years ago, before the collapse of the Fourth Dynasty, the Royal Swordsman Battalion was such a standard configuration, and every soldier wore low-level magic armor.

Mages play a decisive role on the battlefield, but soldiers are indispensable if they want to defeat their enemies. Saleen had to arm every soldier to the teeth, and in his army, even if it was an auxiliary, he had to be able to withstand high-intensity combat. That's what he thinks, it's unrealistic, but Saleen is doing it little by little.

In the past few months, Saleen has taken over the army in the hands of the two nobles who have taken refuge in him through some means, and the combat effectiveness of these nobles' private soldiers is okay, that is, Saleen cannot be incorporated into his own team for the time being, but let them train alone. In contrast, the pirates were bent on following Sareen, causing Sareen to change his mind about pirates.

Who doesn't want to get ahead? The pirates are not stupid, they have discovered that there is a huge opportunity here in Saleen, and these people are also training desperately. Saleen didn't know, but the pirates knew that no one else would invest more in them than Saleen. Nowadays, almost every pirate has two alchemical weapons, and their daily diet is mainly meat, and all kinds of fish and shrimp are carefully processed and added with expensive spices. These spices are generally used by nobles, and Rex left a lot of them for Salin, who didn't know how to cherish them, so they were used by the pirates.

The four Warcraft swordsmen have reached the level of a junior sword master, and these four people have good strength, and they have been teaching the pirates the art of fighting. The pirates now have a double-edged scimitar in their hands, and the blades of the inner arc are all sharp serrations, such weapons can only be kept sharp after alchemy, otherwise they will be destroyed after a few uses.

The most important thing Salin did was to provide his soldiers with sharp arrows.

All soldiers had to practice archery, and other armies didn't. Rather, there are separate archers. Saleen is different here, because in the beginning, Saleen was mainly defensive, and the bow and arrow became extremely important. As long as you hold the walls, shoot down with a bow and arrow, and take advantage of the terrain, Saleen can hold the city with a shortage of men.

At the same time, Salin also has the advantage that all Caucasian and barbarians are good at archery, or have a talent for archery. Now that Saleen has a large number of crossbows inside the shipwreck, he can equip each soldier with a crossbow box.

More than a dozen magicians, under the leadership of Salin, were able to create more than twenty sets of low-level magic armor every day, and these armors did not store any magic in themselves, but could easily be blessed with magic on them. A month had passed in the blink of an eye, it was already March, and the weather had not warmed up, but Saleen had to send someone to pick up Rex.

The team received from the two nobles temporarily took over the usual patrol duties and was responsible for monitoring outside the city. Five hundred men were assembled and stood in the square in front of the temple, waiting for Salin's orders.