In the end, the two or three thousand people were selected, and Liu Xian asked them to shoot arrows on the archery range.

After such a high-intensity cross-country run, don't give them much time to rest, just let them shoot arrows.

This time, the way to let them shoot arrows was to no longer care about their criteria, Liu Xian only asked them to shoot the most bows and arrows in the shortest time, and the bows and arrows they shot required them to shoot within a range in front of them.

Also, all of them did not shoot directly, but by projectile. Let the arrows they shoot go as far as they can, and fall within a fixed range in the distance.

Liu Xian was planning to make his bow and arrow reach the farthest range of damage.

In this ancient era, there were no light and heavy machine guns like those of the world, and there were no large-scale weapons like the six-barreled Gallint. Therefore, Liu Xian wants to build such an archer, so that this archer will become a battlefield strangulation machine and a battlefield life harvester on the battlefield in the future. Shoot a volley of arrows with a dense stream of arrows and cover them with a rain of arrows that deal devastating damage to enemies in an area in front of you. It achieves the same lethal effect as the light and heavy machine guns used in later generations to shoot at the crowd.

The soldiers were a little puzzled by Liu Xian's request, but the military discipline of the military order had begun to take root in their hearts, and everyone took turns to shoot arrows according to Liu Xian's request.

Each of their soldiers carried a bow and arrow of three quivers, each of which was about thirty arrows, and three quivers were no more than a hundred arrows on the left.

Theoretically, if they follow Liu Xian's request, they only need to shoot all their bows and arrows in the shortest possible time. They won't be asked to prepare deliberately.

This may sound easy, but in fact, among the more than 3,000 people, it is basically impossible to really shoot a hundred arrows in one breath in the shortest time. There are so many people, and in the end, there are really few people who can shoot hundreds of arrows.

In the Han Dynasty, the standard bow and arrow in the army is generally a stone bow, and the range of the usual shooting is basically calculated according to the standard bow and arrow of the Han military.

One stone, which means to use the power of one stone to pull the bowstring.

In fact, under normal circumstances, there must be a stone bow, and the effective killing range will be 150 to 200 paces.

During the Han Dynasty, one stone was about 50 to 60 catties in later generations.

It can be imagined from this that every time a soldier shoots an arrow, he does not easily pull the bowstring, but pulls it hard.

They continued to release arrows, and it was really good to be able to shoot ten bows and arrows in one go.

When ten arrows are fired, the average soldier's arm will be tired, and the speed of shooting will slow down. By the time they've finished shooting a quiver's bow, they'll feel like they're having a hard time lifting their arms, let alone shooting arrows.

According to this method, Liu Xian finally selected 2,000 people from them, and these 2,000 people can basically shoot the arrows in a quiver easily, and the arrows shot can basically fall within the specified area.

At this point, Liu Xian selected two thousand archers.

After selecting the personnel, Liu Xian distributed 2,000 bows to the 2,000 people. They were officially reorganized into archery battalions.

Liufu caravan escort army bow and arrow battalion.

According to ten people for one tithe, fifty people for a small team, one hundred people for a tun, five hundred people for a song (can also be called a brigade, one tun for a squadron), and a thousand people for a battalion. Two thousand men for an army.

In this way, Liu Xian actually had two battalions of archers.

Liu Xian gathered the two thousand men into a long phalanx and asked them to fire a salvo at the place in front that was divided into several areas.

Two thousand men first fired a salvo at one area, and then, at the behest of orders, fired a salvo at the other.

This was just an experiment for Liu Xian, but the result made Liu Xian, Huang Zhong's father and son, and other generals feel a little surprised.

At this time, it was found that according to this method, the bows and arrows shot by the archers on their own side could basically reach the farthest effective killing of the bows and arrows they held, and even, although there was no criterion at all, such a killing power did not seem to be weaker than the killing power of direct shooting.

Because before this salvo test, Liu Xian asked people to get some straw figures, and then put on those scrapped clothes and armor for these straw men.

The final result is that those straw men within the established range are basically all hit by arrows, and many of them are hit by several arrows in the body, and what is gratifying is that those armor, as long as they are thrown into the air and then fall from the bow and arrow head-on, those armor are basically pierced.

It is conceivable that if he faced those Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army at the beginning, Liu Xian would have this 2,000-strong archer. At the beginning, Naluo City led a thousand men and horses to kill Liulin Village, and Liu Xian could use these two thousand archers to shoot them all and crucify them to the ground before they could kill their own army formation.

Such is the power of a salvo of bows and arrows.

Of course, there are some discrepancies here. That is, the bow and arrows thrown out in this way are too messy, and when they are shot, they seem a little chaotic, within a certain area, there are some places where hundreds of arrows may fall, but there are some places within the scope of the area, there are only a few arrows sparsely pulled, and even a place will be vacated without arrows falling in this small area.

However, these are not problems, these archers are not trained and have no experience in this way of fighting.

Also, Liu Xian believes that such a way of shooting a salvo of bows and arrows must also master a rhythm, and all archers, according to a certain rhythm, must shoot bows and arrows at the same time, and then listen to the order, and shoot arrows one after another.

And, after they've finished firing a salvo at an area, they can adjust the range of directions they want their bow to cover in the process. Left or right, or an extension of fire.

These are the future training directions of archers.

In addition, Liu Xian's cavalry, which had increased to 500 cavalry, would also train with archers. Not only do they have to practice riding, they have to practice fighting skills on horseback, but they also have to practice archery well. Because in Liu Xian's plan, his cavalry must be proficient in cavalry and archery. There is a cavalry that is proficient in mounted archery, so that it is possible to perform kite-flying tactics against the enemy. Now it's five hundred horses, but in the future there will be more horses, and it will be a thousand, thousands, and tens of thousands. If Liu Xian could have tens of thousands of cavalry proficient in cavalry and archery, then even if he faced a cavalry army several times his northern alien race, he would dare to fight them.

The reason why hundreds of cavalrymen and archers were trained together was because of the average archers, they had to learn to ride horses. If there are more warhorses in the future, then they will be a mobile and nimble long-range kill machine. At that time, the entire Jizhou Plain north of the Yellow River will be attacked wherever they want.

Archers are the most effective, and the best and strongest killing class in ancient times. Therefore, Liu Xian attaches special importance to it and regards it as the top priority of his army.

But in addition to the archers, there are also the remaining military horses, and they are equally important.

After all, in a war, it can't all be archers. In this case, it would be too one-dimensional, and it would still be extremely dangerous.

If the enemy has a calculating situation and sends out cavalry to carry out a surprise attack on his archers, then it may lead to the annihilation of the whole army.

Liu Xian must not be able to bear and accept such a result.

Therefore, Liu Xian built other classes around archers. It is envisaged that in every future war to be fought, it is necessary to find out how to make the archers how to strike at the enemy. And in the process of archers marching and seeking opportunities to destroy the enemy, they must be closely protected. Other branches of the army must protect the safety of the archers, so that the archers can play their due role on the battlefield, and the decisive role in determining the outcome of a war.

In addition, a war cannot be solved entirely by archers, and the most critical hand-to-hand combat will definitely occur.

At this time, Liu Xian felt that there must also be a strong melee force.

And often, when in close combat, there will be too many accidents, and at this time, they have stricter requirements for their main battle melee troops.

At this time, how to use swords, shields, spearmen, and other types of troops is extremely important.

How can you imagine how you will deal with the enemy's large number of cavalry, and your own side is unable to use the archers to suppress their cavalry? How do you win such a war?

In the face of cavalry charging and killing, and they are all infantry, what will happen?

Liu Xian believed that it must be necessary to restrain their charge first, so that their cavalry would lose the power of the impact.

In the face of such a situation, there are actually many ways to restrain the cavalry from charging and killing. Of course, these methods also have to be used depending on the time, environment, and so on.

If you know that the enemy cavalry is coming, you won't talk about preparing in advance.

Imagine encountering the enemy's cavalry, and your infantry encountered a large number of enemy cavalry in the field, and the strength was not below you. This is the worst of the worst cases.

What will happen to you?

One of the things that can be done in time to block the cavalry from charging and killing is that their own army has that kind of long spear in reserve, and uses the spear forest formation to block the enemy's cavalry from charging and killing. Strictly speaking, the kind of spear that is at least one or two zhang long is actually the best weapon to restrain the cavalry from charging and killing. But the premise is that such spears must be prepared, and the number should not be small.

In addition, pulling up the tripstring and so on, can also have a certain effect.

But Liu Xian believes that the best way is to use that kind of tribulus terrestris.

That's right, this kind of little thing has long existed in this Han Dynasty. It's just that this kind of thing may not have been used in large quantities.

This kind of thistle terrestris is just a small object, it is just a kind of very ingenious iron quadrangular nail that is thrown on the ground and will have a sharp spike upward.

This kind of thing has been used in the Warring States period.

Liu Xian believed that this kind of thistle terrestris was the best thing that could restrain the charge of the enemy's cavalry. Even in the encounter with the cavalry, you can still have time to lay down the light things of the thistle terrestris array.

But don't underestimate this kind of small thing, a small tribulus terrestris is not too easy to make, this is not a problem with the production process, but a problem with the materials.

One thistle terrestris is equivalent to four outward nails, each about three or four inches long. The whole thing is made of iron. The iron used to make an iron thistle is equivalent to the arrow that can make several bows and arrows, and even a small dagger.

If you want to use thistles to set up a large array to block the charging attack of enemy horses, how much will it take?

Tens of thousands are not much.

This, Liu Xian estimated that he would have to wait until he found an iron ore before he could make a large number of these small objects. Now, don't think about it for now.

However, Liu Xian thinks that he still has time, and perhaps, he can find some iron ore mines that are easier to mine.

It's a pity that all the Ningjin Plains in Yangshi County have inexhaustible salt mines and even oil underground, but unfortunately there are no iron mines. If you want to find iron ore, you must go to the Taihang Mountain. But now, tens of millions of Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army are in the Taihang Mountains, and it is not easy for Liu Xian to mine iron ore.

Liu Xian couldn't help but think of Quyang at this time, in Quyang, there are not only iron mines but also coal mines. Unfortunately, it is also closer to Montenegro, and these minerals are not in the city, so it is not easy to mine.

Liu Xian thought about it and felt that it was necessary to see if there was iron ore in those areas that were relatively easy to mine, find a way to control it, and then mine iron ore.

Liu Xian felt that this matter should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

In any case, the thousands of men and horses below now have to train day and night, and they must train strong elite soldiers in a short period of time.

After all, this land of Jizhou is an eventful place, and it is absolutely impossible for Liu Xian to develop with peace of mind until the time comes to raise troops to defeat Dong Zhuo.

The Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro suffered a big loss from their own side, and they don't know when they will kill again.

In addition, if the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro is an enemy on the surface, then secretly, I don't know how many enemies will want to deal with themselves.

Liu Xian was most worried about the imperial court, worried that he would not be able to wait for [Shuquge quge.xyz] to raise troops, and the imperial court would force him to raise troops in advance.

Liu Xian's worries are not unreasonable, and Liu Xian's own character is also a reason, because he will not put his fate in the hands of others. What if the imperial court used the trick of summoning Ma nobles into Beijing and summoned Liu Xian into the capital? If Liu Xian doesn't go? If you don't go, it's a rebellion, and if you go, it's tantamount to putting your fate in the hands of someone else.