Chapter 137: The Cause of the Slow Development of Armor

After the test of the arrow, Fei Qian understood that this should be the most real data embodiment of the Han Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Fei Qian said to Huang Zhong: "Han Sheng knows how many steps the archers in the army can shoot?" ”

Ordinary archers are certainly not as sharp as Comrade Lao Huang, but a large number of them is still a headache.

"The archer in the army needs to be hit by ten arrows, and one hundred steps need to be nine, and all of them are called good at shooting outside of a hundred steps." Huang Zhong is still relatively clear about this matter.

Fei Qian asked Huang Zhong again: "If I shoot, I don't know if it's okay?" Fei Qian asked this question mainly to know if it would be difficult for ordinary people to become archers, after all, archers are an important part of the army, and it is necessary to know a little about it.

What's more, Fei Qian also wanted to know if he was suitable for learning bow and arrow shooting, and it would be good if he could learn a one-and-a-half-trick from Huang Zhong.

Of course, generally speaking, it is not wrong to shoot an arrow with a bow casually, but to shoot as accurately as Huang Zhong, this, hehe, without some practice and know-how, it is estimated that you can't do it......

Huang Zhong Huang Hansheng looked at Fei Qian and said: "If Ziyuan wants to learn it, it is not difficult to salute, but in the army...... With all due respect, I am afraid that it is not enough. ”

One of the main factors for the literati of the Han Dynasty to learn archery was that among the six arts of the gentleman, there was archery.

Shooting is also a large-scale social gathering, through a certain process and rituals, emphasizing morality and self-righteousness, harmony of etiquette and music, shooting is a fixed target, so Huang Zhong said that if Fei Qian learns, it is estimated that it is not too difficult to participate in this kind of shooting activity, but if it is put in the army, it is the target of the activity, so the natural difficulty is not the same......

No wonder the Cai family trained a hundred archers for themselves, and when the Huang family said to Huang Chengyan, they would also feel that they were in love, the root cause should be here, if ordinary people take bows and arrows to practice by themselves, what will be the effect if they don't practice hard for three or four months?

What's more, if the bow and arrow are not practiced properly, it is easy to hurt your wrists and fingers.

Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong in front of him, although he knew in his heart that this was a super cow, but it was not easy to talk about it when they met for the first time, so he said to Huang Chengyan: "Lord Yue, this time Hansheng tried the arrow, and he was very lucky. The cost of making arrows should not be counted on the son-in-law. ”

Huang Chengyan laughed and said, "This should be the case!" ”

Huang Zhong repeatedly excused himself, saying that some trivial things were not enough to worry about, and refused to accept such an arrangement, insisting that he still had to pay for it himself.

Fei Qian said: "There are 100 new archers every day, if Han Sheng has time, he will take the time to give a pointer or two, and a little cost of making arrows is not enough for teachers." ”

In this way, Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng accepted it, and Fang took the prepared arrows and said goodbye to Huang Chengyan and Fei Qian.

Fei Qian looked at Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng who were far away, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart......

Seeing that Huang Chengyan on the side was still smiling, Fei Qian stepped forward to thank Fang Cai's father-in-law for his cooperation, if he hadn't opened his mouth as the head of the Huang family, Huang Hansheng might not have given himself this face.

Huang Chengyan waved his hand and said, "The family doesn't have to say some polite words, the virtuous son-in-law just let Huang Hansheng try the arrow, but do you see what is famous?" ”

Fei Qian actually had some awareness when he looked at Huang Chengyan's three volumes of armor, and now after watching the lethality demonstration of Huang Hansheng's bow and arrow, he felt more and more that the current protective measures of this soldier in the Han Dynasty were obviously unable to catch up with the means of attack.

Normally, under normal circumstances, what kind of attack means will produce what kind of protective measures, and in terms of the situation, even if Huang Hansheng's strength is discounted, from a range of 150 steps to within 100 steps of an ordinary archer, like an organized archer in the army, it will cause terrible damage to units with no armor or even thin armor.

Fei dived to take off the fish scale armor tied to the trunk of the tree, took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that it was not only different from the armor in style, but also in the material, and he couldn't help but have some thoughts in his heart, but he felt that this idea was too cruel......

Is it that there are too many people in the Central Plains, and it doesn't matter how many people die, or do the superiors not treat ordinary soldiers as human beings at all? Or both?

Look at the fish scale armor, it is basically distributed to general-level characters, and the protection is really good, but ordinary soldiers don't have such good treatment, even Zhang Zhao, who sent Fei to Xiangyang, seems to be wearing a piece of armor, not to mention that some miscellaneous soldiers don't even have leather armor......

Fei Qian told Huang Chengyan about his guess, hoping to get a negative answer from him, but Huang Chengyan pondered for a while, but nodded silently and did not speak.

Who would give cannon fodder a top-of-the-line outfit?

The only role of cannon fodder is to consume the opponent's armament, and these ordinary soldiers are actually a little bit stronger than cannon fodder, so it is already a good equipment to have a simple leather armor, or even better with a large vest style.

Alas......

What's more, Zajia has a very big advantage, that is, it is very recyclable, and it is all pieces of iron anyway. After the battle, pick up the dead from the dead, return the bad iron pieces to the furnace, replace them with new ones, and immediately take them to the next cannon fodder to use, which is simple, convenient and efficient......

Besides, the current superiors are eager to cast all the iron into spearheads to kill, and there is still excess molten iron to make armor......

This was the most fundamental obstacle to the slow progress of armor until the end of the Han Dynasty......

However, Fei Qian knew that this concept was flawed, and that the army composed of protective forces had a fatal shortcoming, that is, the survival rate of soldiers was low.

The low survival rate of soldiers leads to a small proportion of veterans in the entire army, which means that all kinds of values will be low, the most obvious is the lack of tenacity.

A battle formation composed of purely veterans can endure up to 300% or even 50% of the battle damage and still not collapse, while a team composed of ordinary recruits can withstand 20% of the battle damage without panicking, it can already be called a strong army.

And the cooperation of veterans is better, under the same equipment conditions, an ordinary veteran can probably beat down two or three recruits, but if it is a veteran of 10,000, it is likely to beat five or even ten times the recruits to cry dad and mother......

Because the battle area is so large, as soon as the front line collapses, it is easy to cause panic among the rear line troops, and at that time the recruits will only want to escape one step ahead of others, and once the panic spreads, if one is not well controlled, the whole line will collapse.

Therefore, for the sake of his own life, the armor must be improved no matter what, even in the helmet, oh, the Han Dynasty should be called a dou, and an iron mask is also good, at least in this way, the risk factor of one-eyed like Xiahoudun is reduced a lot......

After all, from south to north, from east to west, this war, basically there are small fights every day, big fights, ghosts know if that arrow will fly over without a long eye......