HEAVENLY GEM - THE DARK TIGER DRAGON GOD

Chapter 7 Strange Black Pearls (3)

"What's?

Are you playing with me? "

The squad leader suddenly stood up furiously.

His 1.9m frame towered above Zhou Weiqing, giving off an intimidating aura as he grabbed Zhou Weiqing's handcuffs and brought his angry face closer.

"Uhhh .. No, what I mean is that I need more time to think about what branch I should enter.." Zhou Weiqing said quickly with a bitter smile on his face.

As the saying went, a wise man knew better than to fight when the odds were high on him, Zhou Weiqing obviously did not want to be beaten.

Actually, if he were to reveal his background, it was likely that they would all kneel before him right now.

However, even though Zhou Weiqing's character was cunning and cunning, but he had always been very obedient to his father's instructions.

From a young age, his father always drilled that a real man would work and live on his own merits, and not just depend on his family background.

Therefore, even though Zhou Weiqing had one of the highest ranked noble backgrounds in the empire, he had never used it to utilize anyone, unlike Princess Difuya.

In fact, even if Zhou Weiqing were to completely disavow to propose, the squad leader could do nothing.

It was a pity that he was young and inexperienced and afraid to agree without knowing it.

After hearing Zhou Weiqing's reply, the squad leader sat back down with a satisfied smile, lowering his head to look at him before saying: "Alright, be it, quickly decide and then fill out this form and you can take your exam.

Let me tell you brat, you are very lucky because this is the first recruitment so we are still a bit negligent in our testing.

If not, do you think joining the army is easy? "

Zhou Weiqing asked with a sullen expression: "Officer Bro, uhm, can I ask, on the battlefield which branch of the unit can stand behind and won't have much contact with the enemy?"

Zhou Weiqing had his own thoughts, however every boy dreamed of becoming a hero when they were young.

He didn't want to just join the logistics or become a cook, if he had to be a soldier he'd better be a proper person.

Otherwise, if his father heard of it, he would most likely be beaten to death!

He himself did not want to waste his face.

But then as a soldier who had to enter the battlefield, Zhou Weiqing still wanted to find a relatively safer role, after all in his mind, safety was always number one.

To him, the fear of death was a natural human state, and he was not so heroic that he could stare death in his face.

The eyes of the squad leader sparkled with a sly look, and said quickly: "It was easy, of course it was an archer.

Archers were generally placed on the back line, although they had to shoot from the front, but when the two sides clashed, they would retreat backwards to fight.

Unless the entire army was annihilated, otherwise the archers would normally not have direct contact with the enemy.

After hearing that, Zhou Weiqing was very pleased and immediately said, "Good, this is good!

"Of course, why don't I think of the most famous unit of our Heavenly Bow Kingdom."

"Officer Bro, I want to be an archer! "

Archers were usually placed behind other melee combat units for protection, at least so far he knew.

The squad leader saw that his devious plan had worked, and laughed happily before standing up and taking the questioner: "Name, age?"

"I was called Zhou .." Zhou Weiqing almost gave his real name before arresting himself in time.

"I am called Little Fatty Zhou.

16 years. "

Although Zhou Weiqing was only 13 years old, but he was born into a noble family and was the only son, therefore he had knowledge of the worldly ways, at least a little more than an ordinary child.

Since he had already decided to join the army, in order to hide the facts from his father, he decided to give a pseudonym for himself, which he did, it was her son's nickname that had not been used for more than 10 years.

There was no way his father could find him from there.

You are not fat at all! "

The squad leader muttered to himself while writing down the details.

He did not hesitate for a second that Zhou Weiqing was younger than 16.

Immediately, the registration was completed, and he handed the form to Zhou Weiqing and pointed to one corner of the area and said: "OK, go over there to take the exam for the archers.

As long as you pass the examination, you will become our official imperial warrior. "

"Thank you, Officer Bro."

Zhou Weiqing happily picked up the form.

In his mind, this was the best possible outcome, joining an actual combat unit that would not harm him too much.

Perfect.

Rushing to the test area, there were about 4-5 soldiers there who were wearing black and gray uniforms, with thin leather armor, special wrist protection, and a special type of armor, the heads were decorated with large hats to cover the sun, with long bows on their backs, and arrows hung on each side.

This was a normal fixture for archers, and looked rather valiant.

Currently, no one was taking the test, but several archers stood up with attention.

Zhou Weiqing knew how hard his father was basically, and if he was so fierce towards his own son, of course his troops would have to have strict discipline as well.

Thus, even though the Heavenly Bow Empire was quite small, with an army strength of several tens of thousands, it was quite small, but they were all extremely elite and were more than capable of defending against an enemy of equal or higher numbers.

Zhou Weiqing knew that his father had never lost a battle, and was very famous in the surrounding countries.

"Hi friends, I'm here to take the exam."

Zhou Weiqing handed his form to one of the archers, who looked at him and said, "Sister, congratulations, welcome to join us, a unit with one of the best prospects in the army.

"Here, take this to try pulling it. "

The archer released his bow and handed it to Zhou Weiqing.

Zhou Weiqing took the long bow and examined it closely.

It is made of high quality Star Wood, with a length of about 1.8m and a width of 0.9m.

The front of the arc frame is circular, while the back is straight.

The middle handle is about 4 cm wide, getting thinner at the end of the muscle wrapped.

This kind of long bow had been developed over the centuries, during the years of war, from various ancient mixed materials in the Boundless Lands to crossbows less than 1.2m long, which were not very large, it has a maximum range of less than 200m and an effective distance of less than 100m, and much lower penetrating power.

As time passed, the arc gradually developed into a larger one, especially with the discovery of high-end materials such as Star Wood, which allowed the use of long bows to become more widespread.

The long bows common to these Heavenly Arc Kingdom archers were extremely deadly, even the most ordinary bows had a maximum range of less than 400m, an effective distance of less than 250m, the most ordinary bows had a maximum range of less than 400m, almost twice as much as the old bow.

Their rate of fire is as high as 10-12 arrows per minute which is also better than automatic arrows.

In the hands of a skilled archer, his accuracy was much higher.

Since the longbow was lighter due to the material, it was also easier to use despite the increased distance and damage, suitable for small battles and direct clashes, and thus its appearance meant that the bow of the arrow had been considered obsolete.

It could be said that the great bow was the king of the battlefield for long-range weapons.

The rate of large bow fire can cause an artillery barrage-like effect, when their own infantry attack, the archers in the rear line can shoot upwards in high arcs to hit the enemy.

This is also a weakness of light cavalry where the mounts are not armored.

Shot at maximum distance, the sharp arrow could even pierce through light armor.

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