Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

Lu Chen casually set the short bow aside and walked to the other side of the back garden.

Here, there is a long table with several different types of darts on it, each with more than a dozen pieces.

They were all obtained by Lu Chen from his subordinates yesterday.

On three trees about ten, fifteen, and twenty meters away from the long table, more than ten copper coins were hung with thin ropes.

Although the shortbow has an effective killing range of up to fifty meters, and with the enhancement of one's own mental power, its accuracy is comparable to that of a modern compound bow, it still has significant shortcomings.

It's a huge thing, over a meter long, so Lu Chen can't possibly carry it with him all the time.

Even if you carry it, you might not be able to use your bow and arrow effectively in close combat.

In this way, the advantages of darts become apparent.

In fact, with his mental abilities, he is best suited to use hidden weapons.

Within a three-meter range, Lu Chen could even make the dart change direction in mid-air, achieving precise guidance!

Of course, with people around, adjustments can only be made at most.

Even beyond three meters, it can maintain a stable flight trajectory by relying on the foundation laid within three meters.

Using darts was not difficult for Lu Chen at all. He had been hesitant to use them recklessly before because he was worried that an expert would be able to spot the problem at a glance.

The real gain yesterday was actually from carefully observing the techniques, force exertion, range, and power of my men's dart throwing.

You don't need to really master how to generate force when throwing darts; just learn the basic moves and make them look decent!

As for the darts on the table, they were for testing which type of dart would have the most stable trajectory and the best accuracy after flying out of the range of his mental influence.

Half an hour later.

Lu Chen walked to the farthest tree and picked up a dart that was roughly cone-shaped.

After testing it himself, Lu Chen found that almost all the darts were still quite accurate at around ten meters, with a hit rate of up to 80% on the coins.

However, as the distance increases, the deviation in flight trajectory becomes more and more severe. At a distance of fifteen meters, the hit rate is reduced to about half.

At 20 meters, most of the darts missed. Lu Chen had thrown nearly 30 darts, but only two hit the copper coin.

Moreover, both of them are darts that are nearly conical in shape.

In other words, this type of dart, when driven by telekinesis, maintains a straight flight trajectory of about three meters, and its ability to maintain a stable trajectory after leaving the range of telekinesis is the best.

Lu Chen examined the dart in his hand carefully; its shape was somewhat similar to a pointed bullet from later generations!

Is it because it flies the most smoothly that it is most aerodynamic?

If that's the case, wouldn't the flight trajectory be straighter if it were made to spin like a rifled bullet?

Lu Chen picked up the six cone-shaped darts that he had previously shot at the target twenty meters away, returned to the long table, and shot them again at the copper coin twenty meters away.

This time, as soon as the dart left his hand, Lu Chen used his telekinesis to make it spin clockwise, maintaining this spin until it flew more than three meters away.

Sure enough, four out of the six darts hit the copper coin twenty meters away, a hit rate that was two-thirds higher than before.

It should be noted that copper coins are very small at a distance of twenty meters. The two darts that missed were simply because Lu Chen's aim was not accurate enough, rather than because the trajectory of the darts was not straight enough.

Lu Chen picked up all the cone-shaped darts again and test-fired them at copper coins at 15-meter and 10-meter distances.

Sure enough, it could hit copper coins at a distance of ten meters with 100% accuracy, and the hit rate at a distance of fifteen meters was as high as 90%.

The few in my hand are only roughly conical in shape, not particularly standard, yet they already achieve this level of accuracy.

If it were made into a standard conical shape, the precision could be further improved.

Very good, it seems necessary to find skilled craftsmen to make a large batch of these darts.

These darts are very small, only seven or eight centimeters long. You can carry a dozen or twenty of them with you by simply having a wide belt of about ten centimeters with a hidden compartment made by yourself.

It's sufficient to handle any sudden battles.

As for melee combat, there's not as much room for using telekinesis as with bows and arrows or throwing knives.

Yesterday at the martial arts arena, Lu Chen also used his telekinesis to carefully examine his subordinates who were competing in swordsmanship and fist fighting.

For Lu Chen, it wasn't difficult to mimic the movements of these people in a haphazard way.

With the aid of telekinesis, one can even wield a knife with one hand and unleash the full power of a two-handed slash.

Similarly, a punch can deliver twice the force.

You can also use telekinesis to make the swords easier to control in your hands.

At the moment when the swords clash, one can use telekinesis to slightly twist the blade, causing the opponent's weapon to slide away, or to make one's own blade precisely cut into the opponent's weakness.

Lu Chen also sensed that the wrists of the two people competing in swordsmanship were under great pressure when their weapons clashed violently.

Using his telekinesis, he can create a buffer at the hilt of the knife, making his wrist more stable and able to withstand continuous high-intensity combat.

However, in real close-quarters combat, these are merely icing on the cake. If a prerequisite cannot be met, these alone will not be of much use.

After watching dozens of matches of his subordinates, Lu Chen realized that if he were to fight them one-on-one, he would not be able to defeat any of them, even if he only used his mental power to enhance his strength and assist in controlling his swords.

What truly made these sons of Jinyiwei military officers superior to him was their rapid reaction speed and muscle memory honed through years of martial arts training.

This is something that Lu Chen cannot simulate using his telekinetic powers.

Even with the aid of telekinesis, if one's strength is greater than the opponent's and one's control over swords is more agile, one still cannot win if one's physical reaction speed is slower than the opponent's.

After the competition ended yesterday, Lu Chen thought about it all night and finally gave up on the trick.

The fundamental skills of these martial arts cannot be acquired through shortcuts; they can only be obtained through genuine training.

Fortunately, my mental powers allow me to clearly perceive the details of my own and others' muscle exertion, making it easy to perform very standard training movements.

Training with this method will definitely be twice as effective.

Of course, one should still have self-awareness. Given one's current skill level, it's best not to engage in close combat with an opponent if real danger arises.

If you encounter an enemy at a distance and have a bow and arrows, then let your opponent experience what it means to have an unerring aim.

If you don't have a bow and arrow, or if the distance is too close or the space is too small to use them effectively, then it's time to use darts.

If they run out of darts and still can't end the battle, their men will probably be wiped out.

At this point, it must have been a life-or-death crisis!

When life and death are at stake, thinking about hiding your strength is just playing with your own life!

Naturally, we'll use all our cards to our advantage, and only after we've weathered the immediate crisis will we consider how to handle the aftermath!