Dahan first prince

Chapter 410 God Arm Bow!
The performance is over.

The whole process is also very simple;
——The rectangular school field, with the Tiger Benjia Sword standing on the east side, and the Habayashi Bow and Crossbow standing on the west side, separated by the "enemy" stake position;
After the martial arts performance started, the Habayashi bow and crossbow fired six rounds of rapid fire at the tiger benjia knife through the "enemy army" in the middle, but was resisted by the tiger benjia knife.

After the volley, the tiger benjiadao advanced steadily, piercing the 'enemy' wooden stake position, and then continued to chase the Habayashi crossbow;

Then, the two troops of Huben and Habayashi, one 'alternately cover retreat' and the other 'steadily advance to cover and kill', withdrew from the school field from the west.

The entire process of performing martial arts is not even worth a stick of incense.

But it took less than a stick of incense to make the courtiers and officials present, just like the wooden piles that were killed just now, they just froze in place;

The sky above the huge school field has also fallen into a long silence since then...
"The range of the God Arm Crossbow has not changed yet?"

A statement of a slight inquiry sounded so loud outside the almost absolutely quiet school grounds, causing everyone present to turn their heads;
In front of the emperor Liu Ying, Shaofu Yang Chengyan was crying and explaining something to Liu Ying.

"Of course..."

"Honor Your Majesty's orders, the military supervisor of Shaofu has been producing this god arm crossbow for several years, but its range is only more than two hundred paces;"

"And if the distance is more than two hundred steps, you will lose half of your strength..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, everyone present froze in place;
After a while, almost everyone cast their horrified eyes on Yang Chengyan's bitter face, and Liu Ying's obviously slightly dissatisfied back...

—Two hundred steps!

This is a crossbow, not a bow!

In today's Han Dynasty, the longbows of ordinary people's homes can be regarded as qualified if they can shoot at a hundred paces;

Even the equipment in the army, and even the good bows collected in Gonghou Yuanxun's home, most of them have a range of 150 steps.

If anyone has a bow with a range of more than [-] paces, that’s not to say, it will definitely cause public opinion to be shocked, and then the military generals of Gonghou will come to the door one by one. !
This is true for a bow that is famous for its range, let alone a crossbow that is known for its speed of fire and penetrating power, but its range is worrying.

Let’s just say that in today’s Han Dynasty, crossbows are roughly divided into several categories from one stone to ten stones;
One stone light crossbow, said to be a crossbow, but as long as it is not equipped with three-edged arrow clusters, it basically has no lethality. Most of them are used by Gonghou Yuanxun's family to train children's nephews;
The two crossbows are similar, although they are slightly stronger, but it is difficult to cause damage beyond fifty paces, so they are used in military training in local counties and counties every winter.

Starting from the three-stone crossbow, the crossbow machine began to enter the category of "controlled weapons", and it is a standing crossbow machine widely equipped by the Han army today.

And this kind of conventional crossbow machine with a strength of eighty catties, which was widely equipped by the Han Dynasty: the three-stone crossbow, has an effective killing range of only a hundred steps.

Further up, it is no longer what ordinary people, or even ordinary soldiers, can own and manage.

——In the army, those who can hold four stone crossbows can already be regarded as the backbone and powerful soldiers!
With six stone crossbows in his arms, he is a warrior in the absolute sense!

As for the rhubarb crossbow with a strength of ten stones, not to mention the arm stretch, even the foot stretch, as long as it can be pulled open and the arrow is loaded, it is a first-class fierce general!
Attention, not warriors, warriors!
——A person who can pull the rhubarb crossbow, as long as his military ability is not too bad, can already meet the requirement of "ruling a school lieutenant with two thousand soldiers and horses"!
But even the most powerful ten-stone rhubarb crossbow among the crossbows owned by the Han Dynasty today has a range of only about three hundred steps...
"This god arm crossbow..."

"Six Stones?"

"Or eight stones?"

Listening behind him, the courtiers and officials guessed the pulling force of the god arm crossbow, but Liu Ying frowned quietly, and sighed full of sorrow.

In history, the 'divine arm crossbow', a sharp weapon used by infantry against cavalry, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty;

According to Liu Ying's memory, the effective range of this kind of god arm crossbow should be between 240 steps and [-] steps.

Only these 240 steps, that is, the ultra-long-distance range of nearly one mile, can ensure that the phalanx of crossbowmen equipped with divine arm crossbows can cause large-scale damage and shock to the enemy before the cavalry rushes to the face.

From 240 steps to [-] steps, it seems that there is only a gap of [-] steps, but in fact, for the Huns cavalry on the battlefield, the distance of [-] steps is likely to be the distance between life and death.

——Why did the ten-stone crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow cause such a great shock to the Huns?

Why on the battlefield, as long as a Hun is shot by a rhubarb crossbow, no nobles can be seen in the vanguard of the Huns?

It is because the rhubarb crossbow has a range of [-] steps, which is more than one mile, so that the Huns will not have the slightest idea of ​​"fighting in the face"!

For cavalry, three hundred paces is not a long distance, galloping on horseback, but it is only a short distance away;
But if you are facing the risk of local crossbows, especially big yellow crossbows, breaking through the distance of [-] steps is as difficult as reaching the blue sky...
Perhaps it is not straightforward enough to say so;
Give another example.

——At the end of the Warring States period, compared with the six kingdoms of the Kanto, how strong is Ying Qin, who dominates the Guanzhong?

Some people might say that it was Ming Tianzhai, Qin's twentieth-level military meritorious honor, who turned every Qin person into a crazy war machine;

Some people will also say that the strength of Qin lies in the unity of all people, and in the institutional advantages of "rewards for meritorious deeds and punishment for demerit".

But as long as someone has a little understanding of the military, it is difficult to ignore one point: the improvement of military spirit and system to combat effectiveness is based on the superiority of weapons and equipment.

If there is no advantage in weapons and equipment, no matter how high the morale of the army is, no matter how "Tiger and Wolf Qin" is, as long as there is a little setback on the battlefield, especially a setback due to inferior equipment, the army will inevitably be in chaos.

Just like the aristocratic cavalry in Europe in later generations, they did charge forward with high morale;

But after Maxim sprayed out the flames of hell, no matter how brave the cavalry, they could only obediently jump off their horses and pick up a kar-98k Mauser rifle.

Compared with the six kingdoms of Kanto, what are the equipment advantages of "Tiger and Wolf Qin"?

The answer is the peak bronze smelting technique supported by Qin Shaofu, and the crossbow machine manufacturing technology that surpassed the Bronze Age.

It is precisely by virtue of the higher range and greater power of the Qin crossbow that the Great Qin warriors can never stop rushing towards the enemy's formation, and finally win the great reputation of "Tiger and Wolf Qin".

At that time, compared with the range of the three-stone crossbow equipped by the countries in the Kanto region of "up and down a hundred steps", the excellent crossbow made by Qin Shaofu was only [-] steps longer.

But it was the advantage of the range of twenty steps that killed all the kingdoms of the Kanto region. Wei Wuzu and Zhao Huqi all became the leaders of the Qin people to ask for credit and reward.

Why is that?
——Because of the range advantage, it will be infinitely magnified in the melee!
Holding a crossbow machine with a range of 120 steps, you can continuously cause damage to places in an absolutely safe position!
And if the enemy wants to cause harm to you, they can only move the crossbow formation with a range of one hundred steps forward, thus taking greater risks.

Even so, after the local bow and crossbow troops moved the array forward, putting themselves in a more dangerous shooting position, they still couldn't kill the crossbowmen with a range of 120 steps.

——If the enemy leans forward, you can also retreat!
The enemy advances and retreats, the enemy still cannot hit you, you can still hit the enemy, but the enemy's formation moves forward, which will give the infantry in front of you an opportunity to rush into the enemy's crossbow phalanx.

Once the opponent's crossbow troops gave up shooting and fell into hand-to-hand combat with infantry, the battle would fall into a one-sided massacre.

And this is how infantry fights infantry.

As for today's Han Dynasty, if it is against the Huns, it will be a typical confrontation between infantry groups and light cavalry groups.

According to the fighting habits shown by the Huns in the past, the progress of the war is probably as follows;
——Seeing the appearance of the cavalry of the Huns, the infantry of the Han army quickly retreated into formation;

Then the Xiongnu cavalry began to instigate their war horses, slowly galloping towards the Han army formation scatteredly, and then turned their horses' heads just at the position where the Han army's bow and crossbow had the maximum range. The array bounced off two or three shots, then sped away.

This process will last for a long time.

For the loitering shots of the Huns, the infantry of the Han army had almost no means of counterattack, and could only avoid the shots of the Huns as much as possible;

As for counterattacking with bows and crossbows, the hit rate will drop to approximately zero due to the high mobility of the Huns cavalry.

Just huddled together like this, silently enduring the throwing of the Huns cavalry;
The comrades around him fell down one by one, the will to fight was exhausted little by little, and the highly concentrated spirit also began to be exhausted;
At this time, the Huns will start the next battle plan: a feint charge.

The so-called feint charge means that the Huns pretended to be charging, mobilized their horses, and galloped towards the Han army array!

When the infantrymen of the Han army stretched their bowstrings tensely, clenched their teeth, and made all preparations for battle, the Huns would turn their horses' heads halfway and draw a large arc on the battlefield, just like the previous bow shooters. The cavalry is average and retreats again.

This kind of "feint attack charge" is repeated three or five times, and the spirits of the soldiers of the Han army will reach the brink of collapse.

At this time, the Huns will stop attacking and let out cavalry to harass, throw and even curse around the Han army;
And the Huns will start eating.

They just sat proudly on the horse, laughed and bit the jerky in their hands, shared and drank the kumiss in the kraft water bag, and laughed contemptuously in the direction of the Han army formation from time to time.

On the other hand, the Han army has been in a state of high concentration of mental power for several hours. The soldiers are exhausted, and they have nothing to do with the Huns.

——The Huns were born on horseback and grew up on horseback. In wartime, they even ate and drank on horseback!

As long as the infantry phalanx of the Han army dared to move, it would inevitably be the beginning of collapse.

You chase, he runs; you have two legs, he has four legs, you can't catch up at all!
You run, he chases; you have two legs, he has four legs, there is no way to escape...

And once it is moved, it is very difficult for the square formation that was originally tightly stitched not to have loopholes;

In this way, the infantry phalanx of the Han army, which is clearly equipped with sophisticated weapons and ordnance, will be trapped in place like lambs to be slaughtered, tortured by the Huns and the wolves hunted by this group.

Unless reinforcements arrive, or there is a city not far away, this Han army infantry can only wait for death in despair.

The final battle will be the swan song of the soldiers of the Han army, and it will also be the stunt for the Huns to dominate the grassland.

——Dismount and fight!
When the Han army completely collapsed, the morale and fighting spirit were completely lost, the array began to become loose, the bowstring was no longer easy to pull apart, and the swords and halberds in their hands were also a little unstable, the Huns would launch a real war. charge.

The real charge of the Huns often means the end of the war.

Riding their horses into the phalanx, the Huns would no longer ride their horses through them, but would voluntarily jump off their horses, and choose to fight hand-to-hand with great confidence!

Use various blunt instruments in your hands to smash, hit with your fists or even bite with your teeth!

The Huns who entered the state of hand-to-hand combat are like a pack of wolves...
The final outcome must be the complete defeat of the Han infantry.

Because the Huns will not invest all their troops in hand-to-hand combat;

——After nearly half of the army launched a charge and completely dispersed the Han army array, the remaining Huns would wander around the battlefield, launching point kills with bows and arrows in their hands...
Whenever Liu Ying opened the Shiqu Pavilion and recorded the detailed battle between the Han army and the Huns, she would always feel itchy with hatred, wishing she could rub nuclear weapons on the spot!

It is obvious that our side has higher combat effectiveness, higher combat literacy, better weapons and equipment, and more stable logistical supplies;

But it was because of the restraint of arms that the infantry groups of the Han army were unable to exert their strength at all when they encountered the Huns!

It's like throwing a punch with all your strength, but it hits the cotton, and you can't exert any force at all...
At this time, the importance of range is reflected.

——At the beginning of the battle, when the Huns start projecting from the outside, if the Han army has a greater range advantage, it can be guaranteed that the Huns' tactics of "projecting from the outside" will not have any effect!

Because of the range advantage, the Huns would not dare to enter the range of the Han army; and if the Huns did not enter the range, it meant that the Han army array would not enter the range of the Huns' rangers.

If the first tactic fails, the Huns will be shaken, and the soldiers of the Han army will no longer be disturbed by this disgusting tactic;
As for the 'feint charge', before a greater range advantage, the effect will be greatly reduced.

——I just hold the crossbow and bow like this, do you dare to rush over?

If you dare to rush, I dare to shoot!

After a few rounds of feint and charge, the Huns, who had already suffered certain casualties, would inevitably give up the second tactic.

Without these first two tactics, what else could the Huns do?
Just like a poisonous snake, how can it hunt without the fangs that it depends on for a living?

Only melee!

Speaking of hand-to-hand combat...

"Hey!"

"—My Huben Mo Daowei was born for hand-to-hand combat..."

(End of this chapter)