The two armies led by Tai Lieutenant Li Rong and Xiao Duhou had already entered the field separately, each standing on both sides of the big school field, facing each other from a distance.

Simulated military exercises, of course, it is impossible to shoot opponents directly at each other.

Therefore, they also prepared two simple wooden dolls, wooden horses, and wooden carriages of the same number, and dressed them in armor and leather armor, completely imitating the armies on both sides.

In other words, the lethality of the bows and swords of the two armies, and the amount of damage caused by the attack on the puppet, is counted as their effective killing of the enemy.

On the viewing platform.

Cai and the great eunuch stood next to Emperor Xiang Yanran and loudly announced the rules of the exercise.

"Xiao Duhou fights against Tai Lieutenant Li Rong."

"The rules of the battlefield are as follows:"

"A 1 in 10 casualty rate triggers a rout. After the rout, if you regroup, you can fight again. ”

"Famous generals, can bring momentum and morale bonuses, and the death rate reaches 2 out of 10 before triggering the rout. After the rout, assemble and fight again. It's a small defeat! Lord Li Rong is my Great Chu God of War, and he is in line with the famous general. ”

"Famous troops, each brings a morale bonus, and the death rate reaches 30% before triggering the rout. It's a big defeat. Li Jiabing is a famous army of our Great Chu Dynasty, and it is in line with the famous army. ”

"More than half of the casualties triggered the entire army to flee and judged complete defeat."

"Lord Xiao Du, do you have any objections?"

Cai and the great eunuch asked Chu Tianxiu, "If you need arbitration, you can raise it at any time!"

Chu Tianxiu nodded, agreeing with these rules.

"Son-in-law, this battle is extremely unfavorable to you. That's it, Ben Father-in-law, let you strike first for three rounds! Give you a chance to put your new tactics to work!"

Li Rong rode on the tall horse and said with a faint smile.

"Uncle, just let the horse come! Guaranteed not to fight back. ”

"Opportunities are limited, but cherish them! After three rounds, we'll fight back!"

The children of the Li family army immediately laughed.

The Danyang army on the opposite side was silent.

They were originally a group of miners, and they only trained for two months according to the training method of Xiao Duhou, and almost never went to the battlefield.

If you want to talk about faith or something, it's completely none.

The only thing they could do was to listen to the command of the Marquis from the young man. Let them do whatever they want, and don't think about anything else.

If you say you are going forward, you will turn around when you say you will turn around, if you say you will stop, if you say you will shoot, if you say you will shoot, if you say you will fight with a bayonet...... Orders are forbidden.

Winning or losing things like that, it's not something they need to think about.

"Thank you, father-in-law, if I had been allowed to strike first, this exercise would have been meaningless. Let's fight according to the normal encounter! It's like two strange armies meeting and suddenly going to war!"

Chu Tianxiu waved his hand.

Tai Lieutenant Li Rong nodded lightly.

Since Xiao Duhou doesn't need him to give in, then you don't have to be polite.

Fight as normal encounters.

"Mock military exercises begin!"

Cai and the great eunuch raised their voices.

There was a solemnity on the field of the military colonel.

At noon, under the scorching sun, the two armies were separated by two hundred paces, and looked at each other in silence.

Both of them were quite strangers to each other and had never fought each other.

Tai Lieutenant Li Rong squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the hundred-man chariot army of Xiao Duhou.

Judging from his battle-hardened eyes, this time the army was extremely silent, without the slightest restlessness and restlessness, and stood very neatly, and it was an army of good seedlings.

Xiao Duhou dared to challenge himself, of course, not for nothing.

Gunpowder!

This is a very powerful weapon that Xiao Duhou has developed before.

The Taiwei Mansion is also developing new gunpowder weapons, and the only product now is a gunpowder bag.

A medicine bag weighing several pounds, which contained some iron thorns.

Once the explosive pack explodes, it instantly covers a ...... Within a range of about ten steps, the piece of armor was gone, and he was bound to be seriously injured.

Beyond ten steps, this is much less powerful.

Thirty paces away, it's basically powerless.

The infantry threw gunpowder packs with their arms, that is, more than ten paces away, and no further was possible!

Therefore, one of the biggest weaknesses of this powder pack is that the attack distance is too close, and it is difficult to project it into a distance.

Unless, using an instrument such as a trebuchet .......

But these machines were too cumbersome to keep up with the speed of the infantry, let alone the cavalry, and had long since been obsolete.

Trebuchets, hitting people can't hit at all.

Only when attacking a city will this type of siege equipment be improvised to attack immovable city targets.

The range of the light cavalry bow and arrow is 100 paces away, and it has an absolute advantage in long-range attacks.

It was almost impossible for the little dusk to rely on a powder pack to threaten the light cavalry hundreds of paces away. It can only be used for defense, self-defense at close range.

The speed of the infantry, it was simply impossible to catch up with the cavalry, throwing gunpowder packs at close range.

Li Rong thought for a moment and ordered: "A hundred steps away, a round of arrows, a salvo!" Harassed by arrows from a hundred paces away, they pull the enemy formation and force it to move. ”

"Yes!"

All the children of the Li family rushed up one after another, quickly approaching the Danyang army a hundred steps away.

As soon as Xiao Duhou waved his flag, the Danyang army immediately set up a formation.

Ten chariots were used as horses to form a defensive formation. The soldiers were armed with "steel cylinders", which were guarded behind the chariots.

It was impossible for the cavalry to charge directly head-on and break through the chariot formations of the infantry.

Li Jiajun immediately drew a bow and shot an arrow.

Flutter~!

Hundreds of armor-piercing arrows burst out and shot at the puppeteer as an imaginary enemy.

A loud clanging sound followed.

Cai and the big eunuch hurriedly took ten little eunuchs and ran over to watch the wounds of the puppets, wooden chariots and wooden horses.

Count the battle damage.

But he was shocked to find that these armor-piercing arrows were shot at hundreds of puppets wearing steel armor, and almost all of them had no penetrating effect.

There were hundreds of arrows, all of which were blocked by steel armor. Very few, hit in the gap of the steel armor, hurt the arm.

Naturally, Xiao Duhou, the commander of the Danyang Army who was hiding in the chariot, was protected by a thick layer of steel plates on the four walls of the carriage, and he was even more safe and sound, and it was impossible to have the slightest damage.

Cai and the great eunuch were extremely surprised, couldn't help shaking their heads, and said in a loud voice: "The battle damage was judged, the Li Jiajun fired a volley, but failed to shoot through the battle armor, and the Danyang army was slightly injured and not killed!" The attack has little effect. “

"This, how is this possible?!"

In the stands.

The emperor was stunned.

All the generals, teachers and students of the military academy were taken aback and looked at each other in shock.

The Li family's military is armor-piercing arrows, which are enough to pierce leather armor and slightly inferior iron armor.

If there was no armor, this volley, at least twenty or thirty people were seriously wounded, and the enemy was hit head-on, and immediately the whole army collapsed, fled, and was relentlessly pursued.

Why is the armor of this Danyang soldier so strong?!

There were only two minor injuries?

There were even generals who suspected that Xiao Duhou had bought the eunuch to cheat, and went to the colonel field to check in person, but he was shocked to see that there was not an armor-piercing arrow that pierced through the steel armor.

Li Rong frowned deeply.

Arrow attacks are ineffective!

Could it be that the intention of the little dusk marquis is to force him to fight in close combat?

With light cavalry, shock infantry chariots ?!

And then the infantry chariot threw gunpowder packs to wound the light cavalry?

……

Chu Tianxiu expected this result.

The kinetic energy of the bow and arrow is actually very low, only 200 joules.

The most rudimentary powder gun was also as high as 800 joules, which was more than four times the size of a bow and arrow.

Danyang soldiers are wearing the world's highest-quality steel armor, which is several times more powerful than the iron armor of the Chef Imperial Forest Army, and it is strange that they can be shot through by bows and arrows from a hundred paces away.

The high-quality steel armor on their bodies is enough to withstand most bows and arrows.

This is also the reason why Chu Tianxiu did not hesitate to give up bows and arrows and develop gunpowder firearms.

When steel is cheap enough, a few taels of silver are enough for a soldier to have a simple set of plate armor to resist the damage of a bow and arrow.

The lethal effect of the bow and arrow is only great when dealing with those soldiers who have no armor. Dealing with plate armor soldiers, it becomes very small.

Even the powder guns may not be able to penetrate the steel armor on their bodies.

Forced to pick up a volley from the Li Jiajun on the opposite side, and the Danyang soldiers were almost unscathed.

Chu Tian smiled at the corner of his mouth, and immediately shouted: "All aim!" Fire!"

The Danyang soldiers had already filled the gunpowder and were all aiming at it.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang~!"

A series of dense explosions, flames, and smoke ignited.

On the opposite side of the hundred Danyang soldiers, a hundred paces away, hundreds of puppets and wooden horses were blown up in pieces, just like harvesting rice, and a large number of people in the front row fell.

"What's that?"

"Here, the Danyang soldiers are using new long-range firearms?"

In the stands, everyone was surprised.

Only then did they discover that the steel pipes held by the 100 Danyang soldiers were not ornaments, but terrifying weapons to kill.

Cai and the big eunuch were startled, and hurriedly took more than a dozen little eunuchs and some generals to inspect the puppet's body.

You must know that the Li family soldiers are a light cavalry.

In order to pursue high mobility and reduce the burden on the horses, they wore light leather armor instead of steel plates, and only a few places such as hearts and helmets used steel to save their lives.

This led to the armor of the light cavalry of the Li family's army, and the defensive power was much lower than that of the Danyang army.

Moreover, without the balance of stirrups, they could not have put on heavy armor and could not become heavy cavalry.

Li Jiajun is now a hundred paces away from the Danyang Army, and the distance is within the firing range.

The little eunuchs dug out the steel projectiles from the puppets.

The projectiles, piercing through the leather armor, were still tumbling inside the wood.

The corners of Cai He's mouth were stunned, and he trembled: "More than seven people are seriously injured and need urgent treatment." More than a dozen people were slightly injured, affecting the battle. More than ten horses were damaged!"

Li Jiajun is the most elite light cavalry in Great Chu.

With equal strength, they dare to challenge any opponent.

However, only to meet the Danyang army, the casualties exceeded one or two percent!

The normal army, under such a blow to the head and face, I am afraid that it would have been stunned a long time ago, and fled directly.

Li Jiajun is a famous army, so it will not break and flee.

But this is only one round of attacks left before the Li family's army is completely defeated...... Hit them one more round and it will collapse.

……

It was not only the emperor, the eunuchs, the generals, the teachers and students of the martial arts academy who were shocked.

The most confused were the children of the Li family on the school ground, they were almost stunned, and they were at a loss as they stranded their horses one by one.

The strange gunpowder steel cylinder in the hands of my uncle's Danyang soldiers can actually shoot steel eggs with gunpowder, and the power is surprisingly strong.

At the same range, it is four or five times more powerful than a bow and arrow. Hitting them, the light cavalry who did not have enough protection, was even more painful.

If this encounter was true, their wave of charge, before they got close to the Danyang soldiers, had already lost as much as one or two percent of their troops.

I'm afraid that by the time they reach the Danyang soldiers, if the Danyang soldiers can shoot one more round, they may have already killed half of them.

Directly judged defeated.

This, this military exercise has just begun, and they didn't give my uncle and Danyang soldiers a little color, and they were defeated?!