Chapter 176 Vine Armor Soldier
Two days after Zhou Xu arrived at the grassland camp, the transport team's ox carts arrived here smoothly, carrying a batch of newly forged swords and rattan armor.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu called Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce over, pointed at the soldiers' new equipment, and talked to them about training.
"This is the latest rattan armor made by the Equipment Department. It is enough to resist the attack of our tribe's bronze weapons."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he personally took out a set of rattan armor and demonstrated how to put it on.
In order to better fix the vine armor on their bodies and prevent it from getting loose during fierce battles, a little skill is still required when wearing each component.
As a time traveler, Zhou Xu himself could figure it out without thinking, but the primitive people might not be able to figure it out. It wouldn't take much time anyway, so he might as well teach them from beginning to end.
In fact, even for him, it was the first time for him to wear this full set of rattan armor.
Before he traveled through time, he liked to wear loose clothes because they were comfortable. After traveling through time, he wrapped himself in animal skins and did not feel restricted.
But now, wearing this vine armor made him feel tense.
It's impossible to describe how comfortable this thing is to wear.
In fact, considering the issues of lightness and physical mobility, he adopted a multi-component light armor design, which itself has greatly increased flexibility, but the set of rattan armor on his body still inevitably makes him feel restrained.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Even if they want to improve it, they have to wait for the next batch. What they can do now is to adapt to this vine armor.
After putting on the rattan armor, he took out the sword that had been adjusted and improved according to his requirements.
Under the sunlight, the bronze sword emitted an icy light. Zhou Xu, who had used the previous version, could clearly see that a large section of the blade was broken off compared to before.
It's more like a dagger than a sword.
In this way, the risk of the sword breaking can be reduced to the greatest extent.
Of course, even so, the length of this short knife is longer than the common stone axe. This is also what Zhou Xu meant. It allows them to ensure the advantage of attack distance in close combat.
Zhou Xu swung his sword twice, and the sword made a whirring sound.
During this period, as a person who is extremely interested in weapons, Zhou Chongshan undoubtedly had his eyes on the sword as soon as he drew it out.
When Zhou Xu saw it, he handed the knife over directly.
"Here."
In response, Zhou Chongshan did not refuse and directly took the sword.
Compared to the crescent halberd, the use of this sword is much simpler and clearer. According to his talent, he has a general idea of how to use this weapon just by looking at the style of the sword.
The Crescent Halberd's moves already include many chopping techniques, which can be applied to the sword with just a few adjustments.
While Zhou Chongshan was thinking about this, Zhou Xu had already taken out a one-handed round shield from the equipment sent to him.
"Take this too."
As he spoke, he casually threw it to Zhou Chongshan.
Zhou Chongshan reacted quickly, raised his hand to take it, then looked down at the one-handed round shield with a slightly dazed expression.
"This one-handed round shield is to be used in conjunction with the sword."
Zhou Chongshan knew about shields. After all, he had rushed through the shield formation set up by the door panel shields earlier. Later, their tribe also used the door panel shields in battle for some tactical coordination.
The reason why he was in a trance now was that the moment this one-handed round shield appeared, he realized that he had previously thought of this set of equipment as being too simple.
A sword alone is indeed a simple weapon, but once it is combined with a one-handed round shield, forming a combination of one hand for attack and the other hand for defense, the means of combat suddenly become richer.
If this sword and shield were used well, the combat power that could be displayed would probably be far beyond his expectations! At this moment, his hands had already begun to gesture involuntarily, and it was obvious that he had been inspired and entered the state, and he began to concentrate on studying the offensive and defensive moves of this sword and shield.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu didn't argue with him. After all, he had already said what he wanted to say to Zhou Chongshan.
Pulling Li Ce along, the two of them went to another place to chat.
"Li Ce, you've seen that the change in weapons has brought about a big change. The original crescent halberd had a longer attack range and more diverse attack modes, but now it has been replaced with a sword and shield. Although the attack range has become shorter, there is an additional round shield for parrying and defense. The emphasis is on an integrated offense and defense, so some tactical formations must also be adjusted accordingly."
"Please rest assured, Chief. I know what I am doing. It is..."
Li Ce undoubtedly understood what their leader meant, but there was still one question he didn't understand.
"So, will the soldiers' weapons be changed from crescent halberds to swords and shields in the future?"
“Not really.”
Faced with this question, Zhou Xu simply shook his head.
"I hope these soldiers can use a variety of weapons so that they can use different weapons for different situations. If necessary, I may even need them to be fully armed and carry multiple weapons for combat."
At this moment, Zhou Xu's words made Li Ce's eyes sparkle with excitement.
According to their leader's description, if soldiers like these could be trained, how strong would they be? !
Just thinking about it made Li Ce very excited, but after the excitement, he quickly calmed down.
"Chief, it's probably difficult to train soldiers like this. The time in a day is limited. Right now, the soldiers are already exhausted just from tactical training, endurance training, horsemanship training, archery training, and crescent halberd weapon training..."
After calming down, the meaning of Li Ce's words became very clear, that is, the soldiers might not be able to withstand such training.
"Then strengthen their physical training and improve their physical fitness until they can handle it."
“…”
"Of course, in contrast, the soldiers' meals have been increased from two meals a day to three meals a day, and eggs and meat are provided for every meal."
“…”
This was something Li Ce never imagined in his dreams.
Did he hear it wrong? Three meals a day? And every meal includes eggs and meat? This is simply a luxury! Looking at the dazed Li Ce, Zhou Xu smiled.
After all, he knew that in order to carry out high-intensity training, nutrition must keep up, and the acquisition of protein is particularly important.
Now that their tribe’s chicken farm has grown to a certain scale, there is no problem in supplying eggs and chicken to the soldiers every day.
But even so, it is not certain that all soldiers can hold on.
Therefore, he also made other arrangements for this situation.
"After this, I plan to divide the soldiers into two teams. One is an elite team, which is composed of rattan armor soldiers equipped with a full set of rattan armor. I want every soldier in this team to be able to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and be proficient in using multiple weapons. The other is an ordinary team. The soldiers in the ordinary team only need to specialize in one weapon."
"In future training, if the rattan armor soldiers cannot keep up with the training and fail to meet the standards, they will be demoted to ordinary troops. Among ordinary troops, those who perform well can also be promoted to rattan armor soldiers."
“…”
(End of this chapter)
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