Even if Liu Zheng wanted to expand the cavalry, he couldn't expand it, after all, due to the number of war horses, he could gradually build a team of more than 700 people at most.

The shooter, on the other hand, doesn't need much, just a bow and a dozen arrows.

As long as there are enough people, the shooter can be said to be able to easily increase the number.

But Liu Zheng's gradual shooter squad is not the same as the shooter classes that were transferred from Zhao Hong before.

Those so-called archers can't really be called archers, at best they are some miscellaneous soldiers, holding bows and arrows, shooting indiscriminately.

The number of arrows that can really hit the enemy is extremely rare, and that kind of shooting depends on luck, and if you are lucky, you can hit some, and if you are unlucky, you are wasting arrows.

At the beginning, Sun Zhong had 30,000 men under his command and had tens of thousands of bows, and he shot over in a burst, but he actually shot hundreds of people.

It can be seen that the hit rate is really low.

is far inferior to a marksman like Huang Zhong, almost every shot.

If Liu Zheng can train a squad of 1,000 people, this team's archery skills, not to mention the same 100 shots and 100 hits as Huang Zhong, as long as they can shoot four or five or 1,000 people out of ten, they can also shoot and kill four or five thousand enemy targets on the battlefield.

Moreover, it can greatly damage the enemy's self-confidence by shooting the enemy's powerful troops.

"Brother Huang Zhong, this matter will be handed over to you."

Liu Zheng briefly described his thoughts to Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong joined Liu Zheng's command at this time, and he was worried that he had nothing to do, and now Liu Zheng did not let him go to the battlefield to fight, but instead acted as a coach to teach the Yellow Turban Army archery.

This is also an excellent result for Huang Zhong.

So Huang Zhong didn't refuse, and quickly agreed.

"Okay, if my archery skills are helpful to Qu Shuai, I will definitely do my best to teach a group of good archers to come out."

"Well, with Hansheng's words, I'm relieved."

Liu Zheng nodded when he saw Huang Zhong and quickly agreed.

As soon as Huang Zhong finished speaking, he remembered something, turned his head and spoke again at Liu Zheng.

"If Qu Shuai wants to form an elite team of shooters, it is not enough to have enough skilled manpower."

Liu Zheng didn't know much about this, but when he heard Huang Zhong mention it, he was slightly interested, and immediately asked Huang Zhong a rhetorical question.

"Brother Huang Zhong, what else do you need to prepare?"

"Naturally, some good bows and arrows, including bows and arrows, are indispensable, and to cultivate the relationship between the shooter and the bow, the more familiar the bow and arrow, the greater the chance of accurate shooting, you need to prepare some good bows and arrows, so that the shooter can practice diligently, in order to improve the shooting accuracy of the shooter."

Huang Zhong's explanation made Liu Zheng suddenly realize, and he instantly understood that if there were some skilled archers, if there were no good enough bows and arrows, it would be difficult for a Qiao woman to cook without rice. Good skills and good bows and arrows can be used to shoot more accurately.

After understanding, Liu Zheng immediately made a promise to Huang Zhong.

"At this point, Brother Huang Zhong, don't worry, since I asked you to train people, you must also be thinking about the problem of arrows, some of the people who were rescued from the officers and soldiers before, including a blacksmith master, I will order him to build a batch of iron tire bows in a short time, and then match them with some iron arrows."

Regarding what Huang Zhong said, in fact, Liu Zheng had considered it before, and it was precisely because when he led people to rescue Zhang Zhongjing, among the few ordinary people who were rescued from the remnants of more than 100 officers and soldiers, one of them was the blacksmith master of Runan City before.

The blacksmith master had built a lot of weapons for Bocai before, so he was arrested by the Guan army on the charge of collaborating with the enemy and rebelling, and now Liu Zheng rescued him and became Liu Zheng's person.

Liu Zheng is also thinking about letting him build a batch of bows and arrows. At the same time, the appearance of this blacksmith gave Liu Zheng some new ideas, and the stirrups that he wanted to build for the cavalry before finally had the manpower to handle it.

In the following time, the entire city of Runan was in full swing training, including Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao training cavalry, and Huang Zhong selected 1,000 people to start training archery, although Liu Zheng did not have many bows and arrows at present.

Most of them were snatched from the officers and soldiers before, but let everyone take turns to practice shooting, and these numbers are still enough.

Liu Zheng himself was not idle, collecting discarded iron tools in Runan City, and began to work with blacksmiths to create new bows and arrows.

As for how to make bows and arrows, Liu Zheng, a modern person, could not give much advice to blacksmiths, but Huang Zhong knew a lot about this aspect, and when he was researching, he put forward a lot of pertinent suggestions, so that the blacksmith master improved the existing bows and arrows.

It only took two or three days to create the first improved iron-tired bow.

After Huang Zhong got the bow and arrow, he tested it, and it was indeed much better than the bow and arrow he had taken from the official army before.

It's a pity that this kind of iron tire bow needs to be repeatedly tempered with red-hot pig iron, quenched several times, and the toughness of the pig iron can meet the appropriate requirements, which is quite complicated to make.

Naturally, the yield is very low, and a blacksmith who works constantly throughout the day can at most make a dozen of these bows.

And that's just the bow and not the arrows, if you create another batch of arrows, the yield will be even lower for a day, and you won't be able to craft a few decent bows and arrows.

In order to increase the output, Liu Zheng had no choice but to learn the modern production process, divided the entire iron tire bow production process into several different processes, and then selected some of the more than 30,000 people under his command who had a little research on iron striking and had great strength to join the process of making iron tire bows.

These people called by Liu Zheng, they don't need to know the whole production process, Liu Zheng only needs them to be familiar with the link they need to understand, which is enough.

And the blacksmith only needs to be responsible for the whole process.

Just like in a modern workshop, to make a product, all parts of the product are made first, and then after completion, they are assembled collectively by one person, and the blacksmith master is equivalent to the workshop director.

Responsible for the overall situation.

In this way, the workload of the master blacksmith is greatly reduced, and the output is also increased. Dozens of people continue to build day and night, and at the end of the day, they can also build hundreds of iron tire bows.

Although there are hundreds of iron tire bows a day, this number is still far from meeting Liu Zheng's requirements. But just give him some more time, it's barely enough.

But what made him even more excited was that in the past few days, the blacksmith master had created a pair of stirrups that he had been waiting for for a long time according to the schematic diagram drawn by Liu Zheng.