Wei Zheng pondered for a while and said to Lingyun: "General, I think there is such a powerful weapon, which should be used more... We should make every effort to produce this kind of longbow, select a large number of suitable longbow masters, and build an elite longbow force."

Ling Yun knew that he had the idea that he made a longbow, so he naturally saw that the production cost of longbows was low, and it was easy to make, and it was also powerful. Especially in Huaihuang Town, there were people, but they lacked swords and armor, especially a powerful Turkic enemy who could be attacked at any time. Ling Yun was worried all day long. Even if he took turns to train troops with bandits and horses every day, he was still sharpening his guns in the face of battle. The most important thing is that most Turkic people were cavalry. Even if Ling Yun had two thousand cavalry units, it was too difficult to train an elite force that could compete with the Turkic wolf cavalry for a while. Not to mention using the stairs to cavalry, using the stairs to cavalry, first of all, the most elite and brave infantry must be needed, and these infantry must have strong armor. None of them is indispensable, and the infantry of Huaihuang Army is not elite and does not have strong armor. How can they fight against others head-on?

The Changbow Force is a long-range unit, which can greatly make up for the shortcomings of the Huaihuang New Army's initial success and lack of experience and courage to fight head-on.

Moreover, bows and arrows are originally the natural nemesis of cavalry.

When Ling Yun immediately announced on the school ground that he would recruit longbowmen from the entire army, the soldiers and horses inside and outside Huaihuang City were rushing to register. Of course, they were not just because they saw the longbow shooting of the longbows. The biggest reason was that Ling Yun announced that all the longbow soldiers selected into the archer camp could eat a meal of meat every day, and there were 3,000 additional salary per month. This condition was enough to be attractive. After the reorganization of the Huaihuang New Army, in addition to the military merit rewards during the war, each person would give two liters of grain a day and three liters of grain a day during the war. In addition, the personal army in the tent paid five liters of wages a month. Four liters of soldiers in the outer camp, three liters of soldiers in the outer camp, and two liters of soldiers in the garrison and garrison troops. Now, as long as you can enter the Longbow camp, not only will the three liters of salary per month be paid according to the three liters of salary of soldiers in the outer camp, but also 3 liters of salary per month, which is equivalent to double the salary. Moreover, you can eat a meal of meat every day. This alone is enough to attract people.

However, you can't be selected into the Longbow Camp by registering. There are three conditions for selecting Longbow Masters.

First. He is at least five feet or eight in height. Second, he can at least draw a stone bow. Third, he will continue to shoot thirty arrows inside a pillar of incense. There is no off-target outside thirty steps.

There are three rules. Many Huaihuang soldiers who are excited to eat meat every day are stunned. They retreat in a difficult situation and do not go forward and are in vain and embarrassing. Of course, many people are full of confidence, thinking that they have the ability to eat meat and get the salary, and step forward. For them, the officers responsible for considering are always there, and they measure their height first, then test their strength, and finally shoot arrows. Anyway, the conditions are clearly placed there, and they cannot come at all.

However, this time the registration was basically all the people from the outer town soldiers. Ling Yun's personal army had many archers, all of which were qualified. However, Ling Yun had already notified them and did not allow them to register. This time, the long archers were only recruited from the outer camp soldiers and the outer town soldiers. This was also to maintain the strength of the soldiers in the tent and work hard to build a new elite soldier.

Although the longbow is sharp, it is not much stronger than an ordinary bow. The one who is really strong is the longbow master.

Without elite longbowmen, no matter how cheap and simple longbows are made, it is useless. Moreover, the most advantageous part of longbows is to shoot densely backwards, which has the strongest impact. Therefore, Ling Yun planned to form a longbow camp for training first, and then put it together to use it in a concentrated manner.

Eight thousand soldiers from outside, three thousand soldiers from outside, a total of 11,000 troops. After several days of selection, Ling Yun finally selected one thousand long bowmen from them. Originally, Ling Yun wanted to pick more, but very few qualified ones were finally qualified. In the end, he had to recruit 1,000 people first, form five regiments of long bowmen, and form one battalion. However, although there were only a thousand qualified long bowmen, Ling Yun would not let go of the high performance of the long bow. He asked the newly built Changbow Shop to tailor two long bowmen for the Long Bow Battalion, and also made long bows for all other infantrymen, requiring them to have one. In addition to the 20,000 cavalry and this thousand long bowmen, the remaining 20,000 people must have a long bow.

This requirement of the Changbow House means there is no pressure. After all, one person can make a longbow in one hour, and each person can make at least five to six bows a day. Moreover, the longbow is made without any technical content, and even the soldiers can make it themselves. The trouble is the arrow!

The cost of making arrows is simple, but the cost of supporting arrows is not simple at all.

Iron arrows, wooden poles, feathers, and assembly are almost all handmade. Not only does a carpenter or a blacksmith, but also a large number of handmade craftsmen are needed.

The consumption of arrows is extremely large. According to the fact that each archer carries two pots of arrows, the 1,000 archer battalion must be equipped with 60,000 arrows. The entire army still has 20,000 people to equip longbows. Even if one person is equipped with thirty arrows, it will still require 600,000 arrows. This is not considered a battle reserve, and this is indeed a big problem. Although Dahuaihuang cannot create so many arrows for a while, the United Arsenal Shop can help solve it. Making arrows is not as troublesome as making bows. It is just cumbersome process, but there is no technicality. As long as there is a need, Wang Bo said that they can solve this problem in the mainland, and all they need to worry about is how to transport the arrows out of the gate.

"Well, let's make these three types of arrows for the time being, five cents of flying arrows, one twelve long arrows, two twelve long arrows, two twelve armor-breaking arrows, each long archer is equipped with two pots of arrows, and ordinary infantry is equipped with one pot of arrows. Each pot of arrows is 20 five cents of flying arrows, one twelve long arrows, and five heavy armor-breaking arrows, all of which are in this proportion." Ling Yun pulled Wang Bodang and explained that with good bows and elite archers, of course, there must be sufficient arrows. If the arrows are all equipped according to Ling Yun's requirements, then millions of arrows are required. This is naturally impossible to complete for a while, but the arrows are half-consumables,

Even though the order is placed, the more you have, the more you need. Huaihuang’s own archery shop has too low production capacity, so he still has to rely on the United Armory Floor to solve this problem. This also made Ling Yun sigh that the war is indeed fighting for comprehensive national strength. A five-cent heavy flying arrow is worth 30 cents, a one-two-two long arrow worth 50 cents, and a one-two-two heavy arrow worth 30 cents, and a 300 cents-old heavy arrow is worth almost all of a normal horizontal sword. This high price prevents Ling Yun from crossing out half of the amount of heavy arrows that he originally planned to have ten in a pot.

The archers shoot out all the money, which seems to be only a few dozen or tens of cents, but the number of times they are shot out is not very long. A pot of arrows is forty, twenty flying arrows is six hundred, fifteen long arrows are seven hundred, and fifteen heavy arrows are seven hundred, and five heavy arrows are two thousand, eight hundred and fifteen arrows are two thousand, eight hundred and fifteen arrows are two thousand, eight hundred and fifteen arrows, and one pot of arrows is two thousand, eight hundred and fifteen, and two thousand and seven hundred coins can weigh more than ten kilograms. This arrow is much more expensive than itself.

Just giving the Changbow Camp people two pots of arrows and one pot of arrows each would cost 60,000 yuan. If you reserve some, you would have to pay more than 100,000 yuan.

Ling Yun suddenly had a headache. He had just barely found a problem of food to solve the problem, but in a blink of an eye he encountered the trouble of shortage of money again.

"Bodang, the Changbow Camp is newly established, and there is still a lack of a chief general. I plan to invite you to serve as the chief general of the Changbow Camp. I wonder if you are willing to accept it?" Ling Yun looked at Wang Bodang.

Wang Bodang, as the young leader of a green forest villa in Henan, his family is also a small force in the local area, especially many green forests in Henan are different from those outside the pass. Most of them have dual identities. On the surface, they are powerful people and have a good reputation in the local area. They have built bridges and roads and have close contacts with local governments. On the other hand, they secretly have an illegitimate armed force and do some underworld transactions. For example, the Wang family has a large private armed force and is also the owner of the largest underground bow and archery workshop in Henan. Wang Bodang has been practicing literature and martial arts since he was a child. Especially when he shoots archery with one hand, he is just a child. Let such a professional serve as the leader of this newly-edited long bow camp, which is the only one who can do his best.

"Sanlang can see it, but he dares not obey orders." Wang Bodang was surprised and happy about Ling Yun's appointment, and did not hesitate at all, so he agreed directly. He was originally a magic archer, and was full of excitement about being able to command a longbow camp.

After handing over the newly selected thousand long bowmen to Wang Bodang, Ling Yun selected a group of young officers from his own tent. As for how to train troops, Ling Yun only made some suggestions. For details, Wang Bodang and others had to explore it themselves.

A few days later, Ling Yun led his 1,000 cavalry to leave Huaihuang City and began to inspect the thirteen branches.

At this time, the inspection of the branch office was to inspect the relocation and defense work of each branch office, and the second was to investigate the terrain on the lower dam to prepare for future battles. Ling Yun left Huaihuang City, and the first goal was to go straight to the Salt Lake Branch.

The original Salt Lake branch was renamed the Salt Lake Castle at this time, and more than a dozen nearby mountain villages were retreated to the place. The Salt Lake branch was originally the territory of Tuoba Hengdao. Tuoba Hengdao's base camp was closer to Huaihuang. The Salt Lake was just a branch. The Salt Lake, also known as Baihai, is the largest salt lake in the Bashang area. Because of its salt production, Tuoba Hengdao sent people to manage the place. Later, it gradually flourished and there was a small village. Later, the defense walls were continuously added, making this place a castle. Last time, the village was established, the branch castle in this direction was originally planned to be set by Baimabei Lake, but later Lingyun considered the important value of the Salt Lake, so the Salt Lake Village was upgraded to one of the Thirteen Branch Castles. All nearby people were withdrawn and sent people to start renovating and expanding the castle and strengthening the city defense.
Chapter completed!