Chapter 19: Weapon Crafting

Menes returned to the room and opened the "Book of Undertakers" to read carefully, the whole book is not a martial arts cheats such as "Sunflower Treasure Book", it is more like a biography of the undertaker, which records the legendary stories of those famous undertakers in the more than 3,000 years of history of the Kemert Kingdom.

These stories will contain some thoughts, ideas and adventures about the training of the undertaker.

For example, the story of the greatest undertaker, Amis, vs. Apophis in the Misty Swamp.

Amis is a powerful undertaker warrior, at the age of twelve he manifested the god of the undertaker, at the age of eighteen he was already able to harness the power of Setterlightning, sweeping the entire desert of death until he reached the Misty Swamp to seek to lift the seal and change his fate, but even then he failed to enter the island of Mith, and finally continued his fate to die in the swamp at the age of twenty-six.

There are also many stories about the mourners in this book, none of which have a good ending, and it is very lucky to live to be in their thirties, and a short life is the fate of the mourners, probably because there are too many killings!

Menes did not escape the fate of the mourners, appearing as a godhead at the age of fourteen and dying early at the age of eighteen.

But Menes was resurrected, and it was the soul that was resurrected as the king of the mummies, so in a sense, Menes had lifted the fate of the mourners.

Most of the mourners in the entire kingdom are serving in the Nine Gods Legion, and they have been with the Legion in the frontier all year round, hunting undead beasts and protecting the Kemert Kingdom, so the Nine Gods Legion has always been a powerful force beyond the control of the government, but the number is not much, and the entire legion is currently less than 3,000 people, and there are 102 mourners recorded in the list.

The commander of the Legion of the Nine, Djose, was a demigod with the dual godhead of a mage and a mourner, but there are few records of him in the books, as he had not yet died young.

There is not much record in the book on the training methods of the undertakers, most of the undertakers are also trained in traditional ways, physical fitness, speed, skills, etc., most of them grow up gradually in actual battles, and there are very few people who can really control the Setthunderbolt.

The general combat ability of the undertaker who has undergone strict training can reach more than twice that of a normal person, and the powerful undertaker can reach four to five times the combat ability of an ordinary soldier, which mainly refers to the strength, and a qualified undertaker in terms of strength alone is basically about the same as the No. 9 mummy of Menes.

This already shocked Menes, Mummy 9 is a guy who can lift 500 kilograms of stones, so how much power does the super undertaker have?

Menes decided to start training as a soldier and trained with the army every day.

As for the ability of Menes Mummy's transformation, the way to use it is even more evil, this is like a kind of meditation cultivation method, through meditation with a spell that is repeated over and over to complete the transformation, the better the training, the faster the transformation, the stronger the power of the mummy, and Menes has not succeeded at all now.

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Menes handed over all the bronze and iron collected in her home to the family's craftsman's workshop, and she didn't want others to know that she was making weapons on a large scale, and she advertised that Menes had sold all the bronzes in her family for money.

Anyway, Menes was a loser in the past, and it was normal to do this kind of thing.

Bronze and iron were not very numerous, so Menes did not make swords, but used them all to make spear tips and arrowheads, which saved materials, and swords were not very useful in team battles, and were mainly used by high-ranking officers.

In addition to making spear tips and arrowheads in large quantities, Menes also purchased a large number of cowhide to make armor, and there was no need to think about metal armor, what chain mail, sheet metal armor did not need to think, local craftsmen did not know how to make it, and there was not so much metal.

Menes made leather armor with goggles and a brass helmet, which was already a luxury, and Menes did not make armor exactly in the Kemertian tradition, but the new armor was modeled after the Romans, leather armor, knee pads, elbow pads, shin armor, and leather skirt armor, and finally a batch of leather sandals.

Menes were astonished by the thick feet of the Kemertes, who almost never wore shoes, were not afraid of pain when the ground was full of stones, and had thick calluses on their feet.

Leather shoes are only worn by nobles, and ordinary women only wear a pair of straw sandals, and only wear shoes when traveling long distances or walking in special areas.

But Menes' army must wear shoes, long training and marching without shoes will not work, the army wants combat effectiveness, just by shouting slogans and endless ultra-long training, it is unscientific, powerful weapons and equipment can bring real combat effectiveness.

The chariot units were also to be reorganized, although Menes did not have chariot units at all, and only Menes and Nacht had chariots in the entire unit, and the others were infantry.

Menes directly jumped over the chariot units of the Kemert Kingdom for cavalry.

Kemmert's chariot is generally pulled by two horses, equipped with a driver, a soldier, this kind of light chariot is very imposing when launching a group charge on the battlefield, but the chariot has particularly high requirements for the terrain, if the battlefield is rugged, it is basically abandoned, and mobility and flexibility are greatly reduced.

Another problem is that the chariot is too expensive, the average army simply cannot afford to equip it, a most ordinary chariot costs 50 kittes of silver, not including horses and personnel, 50 kilts is a soldier's salary for two years, and at the same time, the daily maintenance of the chariot and war damage are also a waste of money.

Cavalry had proven to be superior to chariots in another world, so Menes also arranged for men to make saddles, stirrups, horseshoes, and bows.

The Kemertian army consisted mainly of spearmen, archers, and chariots, of which charioteers were nobles, and spearmen and archers were the main force on a daily basis.

The Kemert soldiers used infantry bows and arrows, the bow body is relatively large, and the range is acceptable, but it is not suitable for immediate use because it is too large, and the pull requirements of the bow are average.

Menes planned to produce a recurve composite bow, which was smaller in size, but because of the addition of horns and tendons to the back of the bow, the bow was still very powerful, and it was perfect for cavalry.

At the same time, Menes also has to produce a batch of bows and crossbows, the Kemert Kingdom does not have bows and crossbows, this is a brand new weapon, the bow and crossbow are complex to make, the cost is expensive, and the rate of fire is relatively slow, but the advantage is that the lethality is high and the training cost is low.

A qualified archer first requires strength, otherwise the strong bow can't be pulled, or there is no strength after barely pulling a few times, and secondly, the archer aims at a high degree of difficulty, and it takes a long time to train to be able to kill the enemy well.

The opening strength of the bow and crossbow is also high, but you can use the foot to step on the back of the bow and pull the string with both hands to wind, the rate of fire is slower, but the requirements for human strength are smaller, and secondly, the aiming system of the bow and crossbow has a cross calibration, and the accuracy of flat shooting is higher.

If war breaks out, ordinary peasants are conscripted, and simple training can quickly enter the battlefield, forming an effective attack and shortening the training cycle of soldiers.

These weapons, Menes drew the drawings and handed them to Daidia, who guided the craftsmen to make them, Daidia was a little genius, and within a few days of hard work, he memorized the multiplication formula table, and could cope with the basic four mixed operations and simple drawing making, Menes picked up the treasure, so Menes used a new term "scholarship" to pay Daidia two kiits of silver coins every month.

Didia's father, Winover, never dreamed that he would earn money by studying with others, and that there would be two silver coins for food and shelter, which was really a gift from the gods!