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A jet-black crossbow bolt shot straight at Ding Kui's door.

The crossbow arrows are extremely fast, almost as fast as the arrows fired by the generals, and because the arrows are as thick as the arrows, the tail wings are very short, and the sound caused by piercing the air is very small.

If it weren't for Ding Kui watching the crossbow arrow shoot, his spiritual power would not have had time to catch this arrow, but despite this, he didn't dare to be a little lazy, and the moon slashed out horizontally, slashed the arrow diagonally, and swung the crossbow arrow with his sword.

The sound of "ding" was extremely harsh, and the moon died visibly paused in the air.

"What a strong force!" Ding Kui actually wanted to say kinetic energy in his heart, but he was afraid that others would not understand, "Ordinary Douqi armor may not be able to prevent it." ”

The old man carried a pitch-black crossbow with a string about a meter long, a short ruler for aiming on the crossbow frame, and special grooves for auxiliary equipment.

General Shi had already picked up the crossbow arrow that had been chopped off, touched the dent on the arrow with his finger, and said: "The attack power of this arrow is close to my arrow, and the queen bee's tail thorn is so hard, the famous sword actually didn't cut it." ”

The crossbow arrow was made from the queen bee's tail stinger found in the bee hive of the beast-eating bee, and Ding Kui only cut half of the arrow with a single sword.

The old money head ran back from a hundred meters away, and the three of them did a test in the wasteland outside the Yongsheng base.

"This strong crossbow is made by me with the best materials I can buy, the bow body is made of the ribs of a fifth-level demonic beast wrapped with golden moth silk, the bowstring is made of a mixture of a variety of demonic beast tendons, and the crossbow arrow is made of queen bee stingers, I can use the upper sleeve to open the string and load the arrows smoothly, otherwise even Xiaohai will have to work hard to pull it apart. "The old man handed over the crossbow to Ding Kui.

"If there is a better material, can we make a more powerful crossbow?" Ding Kui tried to pull the bowstring.

It took him at least eighty percent of his strength to pull the bowstring on the trigger, you must know that his strength is not lost to the samurai, excluding his own soldiers, he is the most powerful person in the first brigade, and the big black Ba Xi is also slightly inferior to him.

"Theoretically, it is possible, the effective killing distance of this strong crossbow is about four hundred meters, but it can only shoot through ordinary leather armor at a distance of three hundred meters, and the stronger crossbow has a greater killing distance. The old man hesitated, but replied.

"Stronger means more advanced materials are needed, you mean there is no need?" Ding Kui keenly noticed the old man's face.

"Yes, there is no point in spending so much money just to kill ordinary officers and soldiers. ”

The old money man is worried about this, and uses the materials of the sixth level to kill people below the fifth level, no matter how this transaction is counted, it is a loss, and the financial resources of the Ding family cannot afford such a money-burning behavior.

"It's impossible to produce such a powerful crossbow in large quantities," Ding Kui nodded in understanding, "A few are enough for the troops in charge of raids." ”

"Judging from the recent tests, a single crossbow is much more powerful than a company's crossbow, assuming that the lethality is the key to fighting the regular army, as long as the fourth-level attack power is guaranteed at a distance of 100 meters, then a thousand crossbowmen can repel a division if they resist the city. "Xue Chong has been recording the test results.

"Yes, the crossbow has a deterrent effect against ordinary people, but it is much worse against the regular army in strong armor, and it is better for the crossbow troops to use a single crossbow. Ding Kui thought about this issue carefully.

They have already shown in their tests that both the double crossbow and the multi-crossbow have the flaw of insufficient power, and the flaw of the single crossbow is that it is a little slower, but only high-level archers can guarantee the attack power when shooting high.

In war, archers most of the time have to fire volleys, which invisibly reduces their shooting, and the defects of the single crossbow actually have little impact, as long as they maintain effective killing, they are a weapon of war.

"That's it, the crossbow is not designed to improve the shot, so solve this problem in training. Mass-produced crossbows should ensure that they have a level 4 attack power within 200 meters, and drive mages and archers below level 4 out of this distance, so that the crossbowmen's defensive equipment can greatly reduce the requirements. ”

Ding Kui was determined to create a crossbowman army, and all the standard equipment was in his vision.

"If you pick a samurai to form a crossbow unit, then they can wear heavy armor, or even fine armor, in short, we can overwhelm the enemy's ranged troops. Xue Chong felt excited when he thought about it.

An army of crossbowmen in fine armor against a leather-clad archers can be imagined with your toes who will win. At this time, the shooting is fast, there are more arrows shot, and it is useless at all, and the final competition is who can shoot and kill people.

"Well, you have to do your best to collect the Golden Moth Silk. Grandpa Qian, allocate more money to hoard the golden moth silk, the bowstring material should be produced in the swamp, we can encourage the adventure group to hunt and gather, so that it can cost less money. ”

Ding Kui's heart is dripping blood, just planning to create a troop is now a money-burning matter, personnel recruitment is still a trivial matter, equipment and wear and tear materials are the bulk of the money. A hundred and ten troops are easy to say, but the cost of thousands is terrifying.

Take crossbow arrows as an example, just now the test will split a queen bee sting, a queen bee sting on the market is no less than 50 gold coins, a high-level strong crossbow training cost is scared to death; low-level crossbow arrows are cheap, but a thousand people training at a time to consume 100,000 crossbow arrows, 10 copper plates is 1 million copper plates, equivalent to 100 gold coins, a year is tens of thousands of gold coins.

This is an expense in training, and eating and drinking Lazar have not yet been counted.

After finishing the test, Xue Chong looked for Ding Kui alone and said, "What size of crossbowmen do you plan to build? Recently, I have selected more than 100 warriors from among the newly recruited and drawn from the old men. ”

"You should know that the more ranged troops there are, the better, I want more than enough. Now is the preparation stage, you only need to exercise your strength and eyesight, there will not be too much cost for the time being, and you can prepare more people to brush off those who are not qualified.

In my projections, at least a thousand men, a thousand well-trained crossbowmen, a brigade can defeat the elite soldiers of the cavalry brigade, and placed in the Yongsheng base can withstand thousands of troops. Ding Kui handed over the bottom.

Xue Chong looked left and right, lowered his voice and said, "I have a suggestion." ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"The people who are already capable of fighting are not small, and it is difficult to determine their loyalty, but the ordinary people we have cultivated are completely different. ”

"Oh, what are you talking about?" Ding Kui thought of something.

"It's the flesh and blood of the Demon Beast!" After speaking, Xue Chong stared at Ding Kui.

"Yes, crossbowmen don't need high martial arts, as long as they can rival the samurai in terms of strength. Well, I have a body refining technique, which is specially designed to improve the strength of my arms, and with the flesh and blood of the third and fourth level demonic beasts, I can train a large number of trainee crossbowmen in a short period of time. Ding Kui remembered "A Thousand Tempers".

"As long as healthy adult men and women can become crossbowmen, as long as we are willing to invest. ”

Xue Chong's words opened Ding Kui's thoughts.

"This idea is good, it will be more feasible after I become the city lord, and the problem of military resources can be completely solved. ”

Ding Kui combined his own advantages such as demonic beast flesh and blood, alchemy, crossbows, and lords to produce a predictably strong force - crossbowmen.

When he went back, he summoned Liu Yu and Fei Ze, and the three of them secretly studied how to configure the optimal plan.

"This unit can't be made public, will my investment be in vain?" Ding Kui struggled with this.

"It is the core interest of each family to have a strong armed force, and although the royal family does not allow it on the surface, it cannot prevent everyone from doing it secretly. As long as you don't pull out the banner of rebellion, the king will only turn a blind eye when he knows it, and the armed force of several thousand people is within the tolerance of the royal family. ”

Liu Yu disagreed, thinking that crossbowmen could be used when they should be used.

"Juyang City is surrounded by enemies on three sides, raising an elite army can come in handy sooner or later, and it is too late to invest when you want to use it, didn't you say 'raise troops for a thousand days and use soldiers for a while', this is very reasonable. Fei Ze also thinks that Ding Kui thinks too much.

"You can't guarantee that you will always control the first brigade, at least one brigade must compete with it, otherwise the Ding family will lose ground in the military in the future, and the border army of Juyang City will be a big trouble. Liu Yu thought farther.

"Alright then, you guys study how much Demonic Beast flesh and blood is needed for an ordinary person to have a fourth-level strength, and how to make the most of the resources in our hands. ”

Ding Kui didn't want to waste the demonic beasts hunted by Ao Yu and Ao Yan, the two dragons were really condescending to be hunters, and they wanted to think of a better way to obtain the living demonic beasts.

Before he could figure out a way to hunt live demonic beasts, Huan Qiao came to the door because of the demonic beasts.

"Ding Kui, I heard that your own soldiers and sister have been hunting a lot of demonic beasts recently, haven't they?" Huan Qiao's face was not good.

"It seems like there's such a thing. Ding Kui was confused.

It stands to reason that Huan Qiao is his friend, and he hasn't offended the Magic Guild recently, how could Huan Qiao give him a look?

"This is not possible! Everything has a degree, you will break the balance in the north of the swamp, at least there will be a vacuum of demonic beasts near the Giant Sheep City, in case the high-level demonic beasts lack food and come to attack humans, is this pot your back or mine?"

In this way, Ding Kui understands that the monster can't be killed too hard.

He understands the need for a balanced ecosystem.

The vast majority of high-level demonic beasts feed on medium- and low-level demonic beasts, and each high-level demonic beast has a fixed foraging area, and there are enough medium- and low-level demonic beasts growing naturally in this area, and they will not be eaten by high-level demonic beasts.

It's not a big problem for humans to occasionally hunt a few magical beasts, but it's not good to kill like those two giant dragons, the dragons don't grow an inch of grass, and they have to take them back to humans to eat after eating, and the number of low-level magical beasts is declining sharply.

"High-level demonic beasts come to eat people, aren't they afraid of death?" Ding Kui had a hard mouth, protecting Ao Yu and Ao Yan.

"Nonsense, what are you afraid of if you force them into a hurry, you and I are equivalent to intermediate demonic beasts in their eyes, and you can fill your stomach if you eat us. Send people from above, they will also find helpers, and the wisdom of high-level demonic beasts is not low. Huan Qiao was even more angry when he saw Ding Kui's rebuttal.