Chapter 102
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Chapter 102: New Equipment and New Unit!
After much persuasion, Luo Ji finally convinced Liu Shu.
At this moment, the other warriors in the tribe were either on missions or patrolling the perimeter.
Calling them back would waste a lot of time, and there was no need for that.
As for letting ordinary tribal members test it, that would truly be easy to get injured and would not even properly test the effectiveness of the round leather shield.
Looking at Liu Shu, who was holding a stone spear, his legs trembling as if he was about to be executed, Luo Ji directly rolled his eyes.
“Alright, stand firm with both feet, lower your center of gravity in your waist, and stab with more force, otherwise how can we test the effect?”
At this moment, Liu Shu was almost in tears.
“Chief, really, I mean really, please let someone else do it! Or I can hold the shield, and you can stab!”
“Talk less. With your meager skills, what effect could you test by holding the shield? Attack boldly, don’t forget, I, your Chief, at least have a wolf bone mask!”
Hearing this, Liu Shu’s expression froze.
Although they had developed to this point where their Chief no longer needed to personally lead charges in general battles.
In the early days, when their tribe first wandered here, their Chief was also one of the warriors who had killed hungry wolves and was qualified to wear a wolf bone mask.
Theoretically, with his meager skills, their Chief should be able to beat him into a state of living hell with one hand.
However, regardless of the considerations, Liu Shu, with his strong will to survive, still expressed.
“Let’s change to someone else after all!!”
And was mercilessly rejected by Luo Ji.
Liu Shu, forced into action, eventually bit the bullet and thrust his spear towards Luo Ji’s position, causing a flurry of exclamations from the Armament Department members.
It was not because Liu Shu’s thrust was powerful, instead everyone exclaimed that Liu Shu actually had the guts to strike!
In contrast, Luo Ji was much more composed.
Because, as mentioned before, with Liu Shu’s meager skills, even if Luo Ji were bare-handed, Liu Shu would not be able to pose much of a threat to him.
Clearly seeing the position of the stone spear’s thrust, before it could reach him, Luo Ji stepped forward, raised the round leather shield in his hand, and actually actively met the attack.
Then, there was a dull thud.
Feeling the impact transmitted through the round leather shield, although he could have blocked it head-on, to test the shield’s design, Luo Ji still shifted his stance, then immediately followed up with a shield counter-attack!
Luo Ji’s sudden move caught Liu Shu off guard.
At that moment, he only felt a sharp pain in the tiger’s mouth of his hands gripping the stone spear.
By the time he came to his senses, the stone spear in his hand had already been sent flying by Luo Ji’s shield counter.
Stunned, Liu Shu stared at his still trembling hands, completely unaware of what had just happened in that instant.
And the surrounding onlookers were also utterly shocked by their Chief’s strength at that moment.
However, Luo Ji did not care about that.
After directly deflecting Liu Shu’s spear with a shield counter, he quickly checked the shield’s surface.
Facing the stone spear’s attack, the shield’s surface was almost completely intact!
The layer of leather wrapped around the surface had definitely played an important role.
“Hahahaha…”
Thinking of this, Luo Ji patted the shield’s surface and could not help but laugh aloud.
He was extremely satisfied with its defensive capability.
“Liu Shu, from now on, the Armament Department will fully focus on making this round leather shield.”
“On the premise of ensuring quality, first make ten round leather shields.”
Luo Ji’s order to make round leather shields came suddenly, but fortunately, the structure of the round leather shield was not complex.
Even as a temporary order, as long as there were sufficient crafting materials, Liu Shu and the others could handle it completely.
Of course, this entire process was not entirely smooth sailing.
The main trouble lay in the reform of the tribal military units.
Currently, Luo Ji’s units were broadly categorized into four types, stone axemen, stone spearmen, archers, and slingers.
The emergence of the round leather shield clearly impacted these temporarily fixed four unit types, with stone spearmen being the most affected.
Anyone who has played strategy war games generally knows that in most strategy war games, spearmen or pikemen are used to counter cavalry, which is known as unit counter.
When the enemy cavalry charges up with unstoppable momentum, spearmen can form an intercepting formation and, by utilizing the cavalry’s own momentum, inflict devastating damage on them.
But now, the problem was that in ancient times, there was no cavalry yet.
Therefore, under the influence of this era and natural environment, the initial appearance of stone spearmen was not for countering cavalry, but simply to increase attack range.
However, the advantage of the stone spearmen’s attack range gradually diminished with the successive appearance of slingers and archers.
And their status in this era became increasingly awkward.
And now, the round leather shield invented by Luo Ji dealt a fatal blow to the stone spearmen.
The reason was simple, it could not be equipped, or rather, it was awkward to use.
A round leather shield in one hand, and a stone spear in the other?
Imagining it seemed quite harmonious, but using it was truly incredibly awkward.
Luo Ji even personally tried it.
The inherent length advantage of the stone spear, when needing to hold a shield with one hand, instead became the biggest hindrance, making it impossible to use well.
If one forced themselves to use it, to learn to make single-handed thrusts with a stone spear, the damage dealt would undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
Thus, while stone spears might still be quite useful in the hunting team, in the current tribal army, stone spearmen were already facing the fate of being phased out.
After seriously pondering this matter in his mind, Luo Ji immediately slammed the table and decided, except for Luo Yong and Liu Zheng, all melee warriors in the tribe would be equipped with leather armor, round leather shields, and one-handed stone axes, transitioning into shield-axe soldiers!
Two to three days later, a fully armed squad of shield axemen stood neatly, their formation looking mighty and imposing.
For this ancient era, a brand new unit was officially born at this moment.
At the same time, Luo Ji, having consecutively gained two military points, acted decisively.
This time, he finally upgraded the ‘Equipment Crafting’ project that he had neglected several times.
After all, he could clearly feel that as development continued, his tribe’s demand for equipment crafting efficiency would become increasingly high!
At the same time, with the birth of the shield-axemen, the counterattack against the Barbarian Bear Tribe should also begin.
Thinking of this, a cold glint flashed in Luo Ji’s eyes.
“Counting the time, there’s less than half a month left until the truce token’s effect ends.”
“It seems necessary to leave a deep impression on those barbarians of the Barbarian Bear Tribe!”
