Holding the trident short spear, Zhou Chongshan casually tested a few movements, and several ideas quickly took shape in his mind.
"Perhaps it could be used together with a medium-sized shield."
In the past, the standard setup for Great Zhou's sword-and-shield soldiers had always been a small round shield in one hand paired with a war saber, while Great Shield Soldiers directly used enormous shields as large as doors. By comparison, medium-sized shields that were neither large nor small were basically never used.
Of the three shield sizes, the medium shield was caught in the middle. It could not match the small round shield in flexibility and lightness, nor could it match the door-sized great shield in defensive power.
But viewed from another angle, it could also be understood as having greater defensive power than a small round shield while being more flexible and lighter than a door-sized great shield.
Products that were neither here nor there sometimes turned out to be more well-rounded.
The reason sword-and-shield soldiers had previously been equipped with small round shields was that soldiers used war sabers on the battlefield mainly with broad, sweeping motions. A larger shield would, to some extent, interfere with the saber's swings.
But the trident short spear, which focused mainly on thrusting, clearly had no such problem. Its attack trajectory was extremely narrow, so it did not need that much room to swing.
With that in mind, upgrading the small round shield to a medium-sized shield to improve defensive power was undoubtedly a good choice.
Almost as soon as he came up with the idea, Zhou Chongshan picked up a medium-sized shield from the nearby weapon rack and began testing it together with the trident short spear in his hand.
Seeing this, Xie Liancheng also became somewhat interested.
"I'll spar