After the cooperative's restructuring was over, Jack stayed alone to report to Ziggy on the training of armed farmers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"My lord, I think that the current training of these militia is not enough, not enough to form combat effectiveness, the peasants here are generally not enough to eat and are very thin, and now they have been training for more than ten days, and the arm strength of an archer is only enough to shoot three arrows, and they can't shoot accurately, such a large arrow target can't shoot accurately. Jack's own hands drew a large circle, almost as wide as the door panel.

"Can't shoot like this?" The target of the same width of the door panel can not be shot, this problem is actually very big, in fact, think about it and understand, to pull the hard bow and aim at the same time, this small period of maintenance time is very consuming arm strength, there is not enough arm strength even if the hard bow is opened, but it is not possible to maintain that short aiming time, imagine that it is easy for a person to lift a bucket of water, but if you want to hold a bucket of water with both hands all the time, then few people can hold on.

This problem forced Zigger's original plan to be shelved.

It turned out that Ziggy's plan was to build an army of archers in imitation of the great English archers.

You must know that the British archers used to be a famous class, the big bows they used had a long range and great power, and they took a great advantage in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, so that the French knights who generally only wore ordinary armor at that time suffered a lot, and half of France was captured by the British, of course, there were also French traitors and French pig teammates to help.

The English archers, also called longbowmen, were simply armed with a large single bow, which was said to be enough to shoot through a ten-centimeter-thick oak shield, and had always been advantageous against unarmored or thinly armored cavalry and infantry, and it was not until Joan of Arc appeared and changed the cavalry to heavy armor that the situation was reversed.

Those steppe orcs never wear armor, whether it is a minotaur slave soldier or a wolf cavalry, they all show their muscles on their upper bodies to show their bravery, and the big archer troops can cause a lot of damage to the steppe orcs at a long distance.

This is very enough for Grizzly Village, which only needs to defend the city at the moment.

But Ziggy ignored a problem, that is, the British archers were not trained, but were manufactured in batches by the national system.

At that time, the whole of England implemented national archery, and the aristocracy often held archery competitions, and even prepared rich rewards for archery competitions, so that the archers who were encouraged and motivated made the quality of British archers very high.

However, there is a prerequisite for this, which is that it needs to be implemented on a large scale across the country over a long period of time.

But what Ziggy lacked was the time for this kind of large-scale rollout.

"My lord, it's better to use this way, let's use the crossbow instead, the crossbow is easy to operate and powerful, but it is more expensive. Jack was a timely suggestion, as he was a professional archer himself, and in his opinion, it took a long time to train a regular class of archers, and it was much easier to train with something like a crossbow.

The cross bow is a crossbow, or a cross crossbow, as a half of the military fan Ziggy is very clear about the power of the crossbow, the crossbow has many advantages over the bow, such as the long range, the penetration is greater than the bow and arrow, the most important thing is that it is easy to operate, easy to aim, unlike the bow and arrow, to pull the bow to aim, so the archer has high requirements for arm strength and training.

A peasant can go to the battlefield with a crossbow after training for more than ten days, and can easily shoot through a pair of heavy armor at a distance of about 20 meters and kill a heavy armor knight.

But the disadvantages of the crossbow are also obvious, the production process of the crossbow is more cumbersome than the bow and arrow, and the crossbow is basically more expensive than the ordinary hard bow;

Judging from the current situation in Grizzly Village, it is more appropriate to equip the armed farmers in the village with crossbows.

As for the question of money, that's good to say, one word, buy!

Ziggy still attaches great importance to his own safety, with enough crossbows, except for Daddy Chuck, who is too old to walk, and those children who have not grown up can not be used, it can be said that all the people in Grizzly Village are soldiers, and when the time comes, every villager will have a crossbow machine, and the defense ability can go up more than two steps.

Imagine that when the steppe orcs arrived under the walls of Grizzly Village, they suddenly shot more than two hundred arrows from the towers from the city walls, and even the strongest orcs would be shot into hedgehogs.

However, if you want to buy a crossbow, there must not be enough crossbows for sale in the weapon shops in the town, and the estimated quality is not good, so you have to go to the Beitmund Fortress to buy it, Silver Dome City is a military town, and it is also a big city, and there are definitely more weapon shops in the fortress than Tucker Town, and there will also be some large weapon shops that sell more advanced weapons and armor, such as broadswords, crossbows, and even armor.

The plan to buy crossbows to arm the whole village was thus decided.

Ziggy's preliminary decision is to order two hundred single crossbows in the weapon shop in Silver Top City, this kind of crossbow is very suitable for defense, and the crossbow arrows shot out are large enough and have a long range;

The crossbow is like a pistol, and in a mid-to-close combat a crossbow arrow must be pierced as long as it hits, and the hoplites are no exception, unless the opponent is holding a shield more than ten centimeters thick.

This process of changing clothes will definitely take a while, and no matter how big the weapon shop is with two hundred single crossbows, it will not be able to be completed in one go, and Ziggy plans to change the clothes of the forty armed farmers he is training now, and take them to the nearby mountains to hunt monsters and see blood, so that those armed farmers know that when they have weapons in their hands, they are no longer unarmed peasants, but soldiers who want to kill people.

At present, these armed forces in Grizzly Bear Village have not seen blood, which is Ziggy's biggest heart disease.

Qi Jiguang famously said in his own military book "The New Book of Ji Xiao": What is a qualified soldier? A qualified soldier is one who has a gun in his hand and a saliva in his mouth.

The meaning of this sentence is that when a qualified soldier goes to battle, he can hold the spear in his hand tightly, and the saliva in his mouth will not dry up due to nervousness.

It's hard to get to this level without actually killing someone, and Ziggy didn't want to defend the city and find that the soldiers he had trained for a long time would drop their weapons and flee when they saw the enemy.

However, the trip to buy a crossbow had to be delayed, because someone in the village was going to get married soon.

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Since then, Leonard has been paid four hundred silver coins for the second time, and now his net worth may not be anything in Grizzly Village, but compared to the villagers in the surrounding villages, he is definitely a well-known rich man.

Several villages in this vicinity have suffered from the raiding of the steppe orcs, everyone is so poor that the tinkling of the poor, the sky-high dowry of ninety silver coins is smashed, and the girl's family in the raccoon village next door immediately fainted, and Leonard immediately agreed to Leonard's marriage proposal.

This girl is a famous beautiful girl in Raccoon Village, how many people want to marry her, if it weren't for her parents who have the intention of marrying this beautiful girl to the nobles, and have no chance to contact the nobles, maybe Leonard can't even touch the hair of other girls.

can't marry a nobleman, it's not bad to marry a nobleman's henchman, when Leonard proposed marriage, he blew his relationship with Ziggy as close as he could, and made the two old men and old ladies dizzy.

Who is Ziggy? Ziggy is the eldest son of the duke, and as long as the duke dies, Ziggy will inherit the duke's title! Can he, the henchman of the duke's eldest son, not be developed? Coupled with the brilliant silver coins, if he does not agree, there will be ghosts.

The whole village of Grizzly Bear Village is related to each other, and the wedding of Renard naturally has to be attended by the whole village.

Renard is also a rich lord who must be known, this time the wedding alone cost as much as more than two hundred silver coins, what carriages, wedding dresses, brand new furniture and utensils, everything is available, especially carriages and wedding dresses, which are things that the nobles only have money to buy when they get married, and the girls in the raccoon village who are not married are envious.

When the bridesmaids of the bridesmaid group arrived at Grizzly Village, they were all star-eyed, when did the village that was most harassed by the orcs of the steppe build such a tall city wall? And the tall arrow tower? If you marry here, then you don't have to worry about it anymore?

The wedding in Grizzly Village is actually very simple, the wedding is presided over by Grandma Andreina of the monastery, first ask the groom, groom, would you like to marry the bride, the bride said yes, and then ask the bride, bride, would you like to marry the groom, the bride said yes, and then exchanged a straw ring with each other.

These peasants in the north were so poor that they did not have rings for marriage, so the bride and groom would weave a wreath for each other to wear on their heads, even if the ceremony was completed, because it was winter, Lerard's wedding could only weave straw rings.

This made Renard angry, and Leonard, who had drunk a lot of alcohol on the wedding day, shouted to buy a gold ring for the bride to wear.

Of course, Leonard also has to show off in front of his old rivals, and he has a lot of drunken things in front of the villager Burleigh, such as the wife I married is younger and more beautiful than your wife, and your wife must regret not marrying me now, and so on.

Burleigh took his son out, and although he didn't speak, the meaning was obvious: My son is so old, and you have just gotten married!

The two of them just squeezed each other......

Of course, the wedding is also indispensable to grab the bride's bouquet, according to the human tradition of the Holy Odin Empire, those unmarried girls who grab the bridal bouquet will become the next lucky girl to get married.

Before entering the cave room, Leonard's wife turned her back to all the unmarried girls who came to the wedding banquet, and threw the bouquet in her hand backwards.

The bride and groom are in the cave room, and the rest of the program is the tradition of the Holy Odin continent - the blind date dance.

The process of the blind date dance is very interesting, the unmarried men and women attending the wedding stand in a row, and the unmarried men all stand still and are not allowed to move, and the unmarried girls come forward to invite the unmarried men to dance.

Why didn't the boy move?

There are a lot of fame here, one of them is to take care of the girl's face, if the boy invites him to dance, then there is always a girl who is not invited to dance, the girl is always a little thinner, the girl who is not invited to dance is likely to hurt her self-esteem, the boy is different, how can you become a man without experiencing a little wind and rain!

In addition, if the girl takes the initiative to invite the dance, the chances of two people looking at each other and then getting married are relatively large, which is probably the law summed up by the older generation of northerners, or how to say that the wisdom of the working people is infinite?

In the north, the living environment is harsh, the average life expectancy of people is too short, and marrying early is a great help to population growth.

So the blind date dance was danced, and the bold and enthusiastic northern girls pulled the shy and shy boys out of the queue, around the bonfire, around the roast whole sheep, and danced a cheerful blind date dance.