"Are you kidding me?" The soldier captain stood up abruptly. This guy is over 1.9 meters tall and has a very strong body. When he stood up, he immediately grabbed Zhou Weiqing's front with a fierce look. His face was already in front of his eyes.
"Uh..., what I mean is, I have to think about what kind of unit to choose." Zhou Weiqing immediately said with a smile on his face. As the saying goes, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, so he doesn't want to be beaten up. In fact, if he is willing to reveal his identity, I'm afraid this place will fall to its knees. However, although Zhou Weiqing is a bit insidious and cunning, there is one good thing. He absolutely obeys his father's words. Relying on your parents is not a real hero. Therefore, although Zhou Weiqing is young and aristocratic, he will never bully others like Princess Difuya.
In fact, if Zhou Weiqing really regretted not being a soldier, then the squad leader would have nothing to do with him. Who told him to be so young, so frightened, he couldn't say anything about not being a soldier.
The team leader sat back satisfied after hearing Zhou Weiqing's answer, tilted his head and looked at him, and said, "Hurry up and choose, then fill out the form and test, let me tell you, boy, you are lucky, today is the first time." One day to recruit soldiers, the test is relatively loose, otherwise, do you think it is so easy to join the army and get paid?"
Zhou Weiqing said with a bitter face: "Brother officer, um, I want to ask, if you go to the battlefield, what kind of troops will stand at the back and be the least likely to directly contact the enemy?"
He has his own ideas. Every boy has a dream of being a hero when he is a teenager. He really doesn't want to be in charge of logistics and supplies like a fire leader. Now that he is a soldier, he must be decent. Otherwise, if Dad knew that he was just a cook, wouldn't he be beaten to death by him? He couldn't afford to lose this man himself. But the main combat unit must go to the battlefield. Of course Zhou Weiqing hopes to find a relatively safe unit. Safety is the first thing. This guy has always believed that it is human nature to be afraid of death. It is normal, but he does not have the concept of seeing death as home. .
There was a cunning light in the team leader's eyes, and Shi Shiran said: "That's easy, of course it's the archers. Archers usually stand in the back row, and even if they need to go to the front to discharge arrows, they will fight on both sides. The arms retreat to the rear before the collision. Unless our army is completely defeated, otherwise, generally speaking, archers will never come into direct contact with the enemy."
After hearing his words, Zhou Weiqing was immediately overjoyed, "Okay, this is good, that's right! Why didn't I expect that the most outstanding unit of our Tiangong Empire, brother officer, I will become an archer." Archers generally stood in the back row, And he will be protected by soldiers, which he still knows.
Seeing that he had succeeded in his trick, the team leader smiled, then sat up straight, picked up a pen and said, "Name, age."
"My name is Zhou..." Zhou Weiqing almost gave his name directly, but fortunately he accepted it quickly, and immediately changed his words: "My name is Zhou Xiaopang. I am sixteen years old." He lived in an aristocratic family since he was a child, and he was also a family member. The only son, although he is only thirteen years old, he knows the ways of the world much earlier than ordinary teenagers. Since he decided to serve as a soldier, he obviously cannot be discovered by his father, so he temporarily named himself. Fat's name was still his childhood nickname, and it hadn't been ten years, so he was naturally not afraid of his father coming to the army to check it out.
"Zhou Xiaopang? You're not fat either!" the officer muttered while taking notes. He had no doubts about Zhou Weiqing's sixteen-year-old age.
Soon after the registration was completed, he handed the form to Zhou Weiqing, pointed to a corner of the surrounding field and said, "Go, the archer test is over there, as long as you pass the test, you will be an imperial soldier."
"Thank you, Brother Officer." Zhou Weiqing took the form, thinking happily in his heart, this time is really good, and being a soldier again can be an archer who is not too dangerous. This is simply too perfect.
Excitedly, they came to the test site with the form. There were only four or five soldiers, wearing simple black-gray military uniforms, light leather armor on the upper body, special finger guards on their hands, and a ring around their heads. A blackout hood with a large brim, a longbow on his back, and a pot of feathered arrows under his left and right armpits. This is the standard ordinary archer standard equipment. It's also somewhat heroic. At this time, although there was no one here to test, the archers stood up straight. Zhou Weiqing was very aware of his father's strict character, and he was so fierce with his son, let alone governing the army. Therefore, although the Tiangong Empire is small and the total number of troops is only tens of thousands, it is quite elite. In the confrontation of the same number of troops, Zhou Weiqing's father, Marshal Zhou, has never tasted defeat, and he is well-known among the surrounding forces.
"Bosses, I'm here to test." Zhou Weiqing handed over the form, a soldier took the form, glanced at him, and said, "Little brother, you have a lot of ideas, congratulations for choosing us so promising Here, give it a try." While speaking, the soldier who took the form took off the longbow from his back and handed it to Zhou Weiqing.
Zhou Weiqing took the longbow and couldn't help lowering his head to examine it carefully. I saw that the bow body of the long bow was made of high-quality star wood, the length was as high as 1.8 meters, and the length of the arrow was 0.9 meters. The front of the bow frame is arc-shaped, and the back is flat. The middle handle of the bow body is about four centimeters wide, tapering towards both ends, and the ends are inlaid with corner materials.
This kind of longbow has been developed through countless years of war. The length of mixed material bows and crossbows in the vast continent is generally less than 1.2 meters, and the attack distance is no more than 200 yards (one yard is equivalent to 0.9 meters) ), the effective range is only one hundred yards, and the penetration is far from enough. With the passage of time, bows and crossbows gradually developed into large-scale, especially after the discovery of high-quality wood such as star wood, which is tough and light in weight, longbows began to be widely used. The longbows used by the archers of the Tiangong Empire were extremely powerful. The longest range of ordinary longbows was four hundred yards, and the effective range was two hundred and fifty yards, twice that of crossbows. Its rate of fire is as high as ten to twelve arrows per minute, which is unmatched by crossbows. In the hands of skilled soldiers, the longbow has a much higher hit rate than the crossbow. Because the longbow is lighter, easier to master, and has great power, it is suitable for skirmish shooting and square team salvo. These advantages eventually led to the elimination of the crossbow. It can be said that the longbow is the most effective and versatile individual weapon on the battlefield.
The high rate of fire of the longbow can achieve the effect of "barrage". When the soldiers of one's own side charge forward, the longbowmen behind can still release high-parabolic arrows to attack the upper part of the enemy. The weakness of war horses is the attack from above. Most of the war horses have no armor, so once they are injured, they will become difficult to control. And even at the limit distance of 300 meters, the cone arrow can still penetrate ordinary mail.