"The kingdom's official military goods?... Lord God! You want me to resell military supplies?!"
"Hush! God bless you! Keep your voice down, where is reselling? Since it has been sent to your camp, doesn't it belong to you? You give me your things, and I give you our things. This is called that What, oh, cooperation! Legion cooperation!... We all know that according to the rules of the legion, each battalion will have 20 to 30% of weapons in reserve. These losses are originally normal..."
"The spare weapons...well...the equipment we just received does have 40% spare..."
"Okay! 40%? Tsk tsk, the new army in the royal capital is so lavish! When we formed the army, there were not so many... There are five brigades in a thousand-man battalion, and 40% is spare, that is extra The two brigades...can help us a lot!"
The red-haired leader Mikui counted on his fingers with a sincere smile on his face. He patted the other party's shoulder vigorously and said kindly but with a hint of threat.
"Brother! You are going to fight in the Chapala Lake area in the west. We are in a hurry to replace the weapons. We also want to strengthen the thousands of flag troops who follow the 'Monkey' chief and go to the west to fight. They are recruited tribal soldiers. , you have to prepare your own weapons, they are always a bit inferior, far from as good as those made by the craftsmen of the royal capital. If you exchange the weapons for us, we, the flag team, will all respect you. Even if someone really knows, as long as Let’s not talk about these bastards, just the normal one... Oh, help! Help the friendly forces!"
"They are all fighting for the great chief of Death. Who can use the equipment? Our Guakili tribe has shed a lot of blood for the kingdom. There is no one who carries a gun and goes into battle... We all know that fighting is... Anything can happen, you have to have helpers! That Prince of Feathers has a lot of troops, and now he has a big bow, so he is very good at archery! When the time comes, with the help of the strong men like us in the flag team, then It’s easy for you to make meritorious deeds and grab good things!…”
The sun sets in the west, and to the west are the rolling hills and the distant Leman River. The village of the tribal flag team is hidden in the shadow of the mountains, extending along the rivers in the mountains.
At this moment, Woodpecker Epei stood on the top of the hills and could clearly see the fields, mountains and Lake Quetseo under the setting sun. He looked at the smoke from cooking in the distance. The smoke in the wilderness was thinner, thicker and whiter. It was a Mintun village where fires were made for cooking. The fuel used was corn stalks after the autumn harvest, so it was white smoke. The smoke in the mountains is deeper, finer and darker. Because the flag team villages in the mountains use wood branches for cooking, the smoke is much thicker, but the amount is small. After all, firewood is hard to come by.
This subtle difference in cooking smoke is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish, but in the eyes of senior warriors who have experienced battles, it is very obvious. They can usually tell the approximate size of the enemy from the amount of smoke. In the mountains, forests and valleys of Hekou County, it can be seen from the amount of smoke that there are indeed many tribes settled there, even tens of thousands!
"The Guakili tribe alone has more than a dozen banner teams and tens of thousands of people, all of whom have settled in this area and are related to each other... But now this group of red-haired elites of one to two hundred people are all used to seeing each other. The veterans of the battle... I am afraid that my archer battalion cannot defeat them!... What's more... these sacred sacrificial vessels... I really want them!
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Thinking of this, Woodpecker Aipei looked around the circle, looking at those simple yet nervous smiles and vaguely threatening movements... He gritted his teeth and whispered.
"Witness the Lord God! What do you want specifically? I can... come out evenly and help... help the friendly forces!..."
"Praise the Lord God! Good! Brother! Good brother!..."
The red-haired leader Mikui rubbed his hands excitedly. He looked around again. Cooking was being done in the inn, and the Tlaxcala archers gathered obediently in the inn, waiting for dinner to be ready. No one dared to come over and watch the discussions of the leaders. Their longbows had their bowstrings removed and were stored in teams of twenty, and all their paper armor was taken off.
There were about two hundred red-haired hunters, all well-equipped, vaguely surrounding the archers from all sides. This kind of vigilance has become accustomed to the tribal archers walking along the way. However, what they don't know is that the red-haired hunters here really dare to take action.
"Witness the Lord God! You are the archer camp of the tribe. This is why we decided to stop you after discussing it!"
The red-haired leader Mikui scratched his hair and smiled honestly.
"Your things are just right for the archery men of the flag team to use! And these things are not like bronze armor, big crossbows, or even hardwood big bows. They are not eye-catching at all... Oh! Everything else doesn't matter. The main ones are bows, arrows and spears! In addition, we also need extra leather armor. Especially the kind that is painted, not the kind of paper armor that can only be used for half a year and will not work in the rainy season..."
"Witness the Lord God! The bamboo longbows from the royal capital's craftsman camp are blessed by the priest's divine power, but they are very useful! But the ones we made ourselves are not as strong and easy to break. We have also looked at them carefully. In addition to good craftsmanship and good bamboo materials, it looks like it was made by a big craftsman. It was also coated with a layer of something, oily... like resin or paint, and it feels a bit like wax. I guess it was mixed paint. Before I’ve never seen it before!…”
"The other good thing is the hardwood long copper arrows from the craftsman camp! We all call them 'murder arrows'! It is very laborious to make such good arrows. You have to process the old hard wood, carefully cut it neatly, and have a Good arrow quills... must be made by specialized craftsmen and tools. It is convenient to make them in large quantities. It is too laborious to make a single one... When we fought in the east, in order to save money and not encounter hard-fought warriors, we generally did not It's such a waste to use such big arrows, and you don't have to shoot so hard... They are all made of bone arrows made of reed poles or cork poles, just half-open the bow!..."
"As for the final bronze spear, I still value the wooden pole! The ones produced by the craftsman camp are usually made of the best oak, walnut, and rosewood. The wood is much stronger and more durable, and it should have been soaked in oil. Tribal archers fight in battles. , if it comes time to use a spear, it will mean life and death at once, but you must not break it!... As for the spearheads of the bronze spears, we have actually accumulated quite a few. After a battle, this thing is the most... Now There are various villages in the river mouth, and each village can make dozens of bronze spears. But the wood is not good. After stabbing someone with force, it will get stuck in the bones and break easily..."
"God bless you! You are right! The weapons and equipment produced by the craftsmen camp in the royal capital are indeed the best!..."
Hearing the story of this senior veteran, the woodpecker Apei also agreed. In fact, he has been in the royal capital and is a military noble from the Holy City. His younger brother is still in the craftsman camp and knows much more than the red-haired leader in front of him.
Everything in the kingdom is to serve the war, and as the craftsman camp that produces weapons and equipment, it is naturally one of the most important institutions in the kingdom. It is affiliated to the Kingdom's Divine Inspiration Institute and is nominally under the direct management of His Majesty Shulot. In fact, it is controlled by Talaya, the director of Divine Inspiration. It can prioritize all resources and use the best technology and materials to produce the best products. Be armed!
In the past few years, the craftsman camp has expanded into a behemoth with one to two thousand formal craftsmen, thousands of apprentices, and tens of thousands of civilian laborers! It can produce bronze cloth armor, bronze artillery, and various large quantities of crossbows, arrows, axes, spears, and leather cotton armor to supply and maintain the eight legions of the kingdom! It can be said that half of the citizens of Qincongcan Capital directly or indirectly serve the craftsman camp. And in the large smelting fields around the royal capital, the black smoke rising day and night is also the embodiment of the true power of the Divine Enlightenment series!
"The kingdom is based on farming and war, and armaments are the blood of war. The royal capital has a large camp of craftsmen, so the rewards are extremely heavy and the punishments are extremely harsh! The status of craftsmen is second only to the warriors, and even far behind the merchants and merchants. Above the peasants. The armament craftsmen in the craftsman camp are directly subordinate to the kingdom, so they are one level higher!"
"The levels of craftsmen in the kingdom are divided into four levels: apprentice, ordinary, senior, and master. Each level is divided into upper and lower levels. The backbone of senior craftsmen are equivalent to the senior warriors of the kingdom. As for the rare master craftsmen, They are equivalent to military nobles! They will even be absorbed by divine enlightenment and become a glorious divine enlightened priest..."
Thinking of this, Woodpecker Aipeck licked his lips, with anticipation on his face. Although he was a military noble, he did not let his youngest brother join the army and fight his way out on the battlefield...but sent him to the craftsman camp, and now he is a second-level ordinary craftsman. He never expects the other party to become a master craftsman. As long as he survives for another ten years, makes no mistakes, and successfully becomes a senior craftsman... that will be enough to support the family and live a good life!
"Of course, the Institute of Divine Enlightenment attaches great importance to creation and new technologies, and always awards heavy rewards! ... If you can receive the blessing of the gods and invent or improve some technology... then the time for promotion will be greatly shortened! Just like a year or two ago, The ordinary craftsman who researched the paint for bows and arrows suddenly became a master craftsman! I heard that on behalf of His Highness, Director Talaya, he was personally rewarded with a house and fields, and was allowed to set up a separate company specializing in the research and manufacture of paints. The craftsman group is able to recruit apprentices... even my younger brother is jealous..."
"I heard from my younger brother at the beginning of the year that this kind of paint can not only strengthen crossbows, but also strengthen leather armor, making it several percent tougher! As for the specific formula and process, although it is top secret, it should include resin, paint, Wax, some mysterious hot and cold treatment...and the most special thing, rubber!...In conjunction, rubber forests have been planted around the capital..."
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"And the name of this paint was also named by the distinguished director of Talaya himself, called Olmec paint!... This is the name of the ancestors of the glue people, and it is also a true glory!... Under the attention of the ancestors of all ministries, we The descendants who are destined to unify all tribes in the world and reshape the Jiao people!..."
