Yue Xiang didn't know how he walked out of the door, but what lingered in his heart was Xiao Wan's desolate and sad face, just now he seemed to feel that she was dozens of years older, it was an indescribable sadness. He felt very distressed and stuffy, as if something had accumulated and he couldn't play.

He even regretted it a little, why did he choose to say this at this time. What if she is the White Lotus Sect, after all, she is her own wife, what's wrong with loving and loving? Maybe she just wants to live a life with herself, and she doesn't want to get involved in the grievances of the rivers and lakes anymore. I just picked up this scar now, this ...... His heart was really very uncomfortable.

But he thinks that this may be the price of the mission, and that he may be destined to go through this.

Now that we have taken this step, we can only go to the end. At the same time, in view of the awkward atmosphere between the two, he decided to let her be alone for a while, and everyone thought calmly to ease the suffocating atmosphere. At the same time, he himself has some sense of evasion.

Anyway, no matter what he says and how he explains it now, Xiao Wan's heart will definitely have a pimple, and if she doesn't explain herself, it will have the opposite effect. Xiao Wan's character seems to be quite inferior to the fact that she was once a White Lotus Sect, this is like a certain stain on her life, she is trying her best to hide it and is suddenly exposed by others, and at the same time it is exposed by the person she cares about very much, which will naturally produce a very negative emotion.

Moreover, Yue Xiang himself also made some mistakes in judgment, he didn't expect Xiao Wan to react like this. He even felt a little mean, as if what he was doing was calculating his wife, at least he felt that he felt like this to Xiaowan. He was a little unable to face her.

But he believes that it doesn't matter as long as this matter is clearly explained, anyway, sooner or later, there will be this step, and the long pain is better than the short pain. When both sides have calmed down and talked calmly, he believes that he can make things clear, but now is definitely not a good time.

I came to the training ground in a hurry, and I saw that everyone was alive and well. Although in his eyes, it is still far from meeting the standard of training, but at least the appearance of the posture is there. There weren't many people coming today, only two or three, and the rest probably decided not to be embarrassed before they got their own appearance, and moved the training site to their own house, so today's playground looks a lot empty.

Today's subject is not a drill line, but a mounted archery, typical field tactics. There is no shortage of horses in eastern Liaodong, there are dozens of horses tied to the edge of the playground, and there are hundreds of horses in Yue Xiang's own stable. In the center of the playground stood a row of targets, about a hundred paces away, and the same number of people stood there, armed with bows and arrows, standing next to the school, explaining and demonstrating.

Most of Yue Xiang's family members are from the rivers and lakes, and they all practice Jianghu kung fu. Long punches and short fights, high and high, swords and short weapons are their strengths. Even if there are long-range weapons, most of them are light hidden weapons such as money darts, willow leaf darts, flying locust stones, flower stake crossbows, sleeve arrows, etc., which can be used in the fighting of rivers and lakes. But on the battlefield, in the face of soldiers in armor and helmets and heavy protection, unless they have practiced to a very high level, they will not play much role, and well-trained soldiers will not give them such a chance.

So Yue Xiang wants them to practice bows and arrows, anyway, he doesn't know if it's right or not, and now everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and no one has any experience. Yue Xiang had the intention to let them practice firearms, after all, in history, the Ming army had never won a battle against the Eight Banners Army with bows and arrows, but the firearms of officers and soldiers would naturally not be transferred, and his more than 30 gunpowder and lead were limited.

And he doesn't know what the life of this primitive musket is, don't fight a dozen times and finally practice it, and the gun is scrapped, so in the end the effect is the same as not practicing.

So after thinking about it, he felt that it was better to practice bows and arrows first for the time being. After all, the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and then it looks like a regular army first, and then there is no use in worrying about it now. Moreover, although firearms are now available, the role of bows and arrows is irreplaceable.

He forgot which book he had read before, and he said that there was a certain battle in this era, saying that someone had counted after the war, and that two percent of all the dead died in hand-to-hand combat, only one percent died under firearms, and as high as seventy percent died under the bow and arrow, and said that this was a common phenomenon in this era, so the bow and arrow were the most lethal weapons in this era.

Yue Xiang didn't know if the article was true, but he knew that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally stipulated that among the 100 households of the Ming army, there were ten firearms players, twenty sword players, thirty archers, and forty spearmen. There are three times as many archers as firearms, which shows how much emphasis is placed on bows and arrows.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a battle-hardened horse god king, although the level of firearms in that era is not very developed, but the enemy's tactics are still the same, riding and shooting field charges, but the Mongols have replaced them with Jurchens. So the bow and arrow should still be useful.

The army does not pay attention to the rules of the rivers and lakes in combat, that is, it fights who first. Bows and spears best embody the truth that an inch is long and an inch is strong, but bows and arrows are not so easy to practice.

Where is the best place to hold the bow when drawing the bow; Where and how to clamp your fingers between the shaft of the arrow when you take the arrow; how to hook the bowstring without cutting the fingers with a wrench on the thumb; how the three fingers work together to place the arrow on the bow; the range represented by the angle and depth at which the bowstring is drawn; How to Launch......

There are a lot of attention to this, beginners usually can't shoot the first arrow, can shoot out but can't hit the target in the back, can hit the target but can't hit the moving target, hit the moving target but can't maintain the speed, as well as anti-interference, rapid-fire method, a qualified archer at a time to draw out four arrows and shoot all the moving targets to be considered a real teacher.

However, to train to this level, it is difficult to do it in three and five years, and only the elite Ji Zhen soldiers trained by Qi Jiguang had this ability before.

However, in the twenty-third year of Wanli, Qi Jiguang's descendants of the old Jisanxie South Battalion were transferred back to China from the Korean battlefield after winning the battle, because the reward promised by the imperial court was delayed, and the soldiers were hungry and cheered.

At that time, in order to curry favor with the above, Wang Bao, the governor of the department at that time, and Wang Bao, the chief soldier of Jizhen, designed to lure the Nanying soldiers who participated in the "noise" to go to the martial arts field, but the southern soldiers were surrounded, hundreds of people were killed, and the rebellion was reported to be suppressed. The rest were all expelled from the barracks and forcibly repatriated to their hometowns in the south.

This is the famous Jizhen Nanying Mutiny in history, when Qi Jiguang was beaten into Zhang Juzheng's faction, he has long since died, and as a result, these Qi family army fighting backbones left Jizhen again, since then the Jizhen soldiers and the Great Synchronous Army, Liaodong cavalry side by side, known as the era of the three heroes of the northern border towns are over. The combat effectiveness of the Jizhen soldiers quickly degenerated, and now they are no longer as brave as they used to be, and the fall of this red flag has affected the entire northern army, and no army has ever been able to display such a bow and arrow stunt.

Yue Xiang felt that it was too slow to go on like this, so he started to think of something else. If the bow is too slow, it is better to practice crossbows, but when I found Zhang Yuncheng and said it, I learned that there were only sixty crossbows in the entire Qinghe City, all of which were equipped with special crossbowmen, and there were no extra crossbows for him to use.

Why are there so few crossbow arrows? Since ancient times, crossbow arrows have been a sharp weapon against skilled nomadic cavalry! Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms in that year; The Western Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north; Kong Ming's Northern Expedition; the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty fought against the Northern Captives; Relying on advanced crossbow arrows. The examples of past dynasties have long proved this, but Yue Xiang found that the proportion of crossbowmen among the officers and soldiers was very small.

Why is this, as a result, when I asked Zhang Yuncheng, I knew that since I had firearms, this crossbow arrow has gradually become unpopular in the army. Now whether it is the Mongolian soldiers or the Eight Banners Army, the armor is very sophisticated, what iron wire circle armor, iron mesh chain mail, copper buckle cotton iron armor, etc., the protection is excellent, in order to effectively kill and injure the enemy, it is not possible to rely on those light crossbows that are shoddy and glamorous in appearance to fool the common people, and it is necessary to use more than two stone divine arm crossbows or crossbows to be effective.

But to open such a hard crossbow must have a strong arm strength, now the soldiers in the Ming Army's northern army military quality is inferior, there are too few people with this strength, ordinary soldiers use the strength of milk to open three or four times the arm is sore. However, the use of firecrackers does not require the use of these powers, both are almost simple to train, and although the firecrackers are not as accurate as crossbow arrows, their range and power are greater than them. There is also a thunderbolt smoke sound and light effect, which can give your own courage to cheer up.

Moreover, most of the cavalry in the north are accustomed to using bows and three-eyed guns in combat, and the battle pays attention to field charges, and it is very inconvenient to wind crossbow arrows on horses, so crossbow arrows are less equipped in the north. Only a small number of infantry were armed with crossbow bolts as skirmishers, and in the end it was a matter of local habitual differences. The south is dominated by infantry and naval divisions, and the war pays attention to advancing step by step, and crossbow arrows are useful, so they are more equipped. Among the Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, I heard that there were crossbow battalions that were formed, and I heard that they used poisoned arrows, which were very sharp.

Yue Xiang shook his head secretly when he learned of this situation, the people of the Qin and Han dynasties were martial arts, and the country was willing to spend money on organized large-scale training, so it was naturally not surprising that so many elite soldiers could be trained. Now the Ming Dynasty emphasizes literature and light military force, and the top does not pay attention to it, and the bottom is naturally lax, and only now is the matter that comes to the end to sharpen the gun.

In that case, let's talk about it...... If it doesn't work, ten shotguns will be allocated for training, and if it is really broken, there is no way, and the rest will be used in actual combat. Yue Xiang thought about it, but saw the little school practicing over there stretching his bow and arrows, swishing four arrows in a row, hitting the target together, which immediately caused a cheer.

Yue Xiang was stunned, he didn't expect that there was such an outstanding archer in Qinghe City, this person seemed to be one of the instructors transferred by Zou Chuxian, and he had only invited them to dinner once.

"This brother is good at archery, which adult is on an errand?" Yue Xiang stepped forward and asked with his fists clenched.

The little colonel hurriedly returned the salute and said, "If you go back to the adult, the little Chen Wumin is the personal entourage of Zou Shuai." After the order of the town marshal, he came to listen to the adult's subordinates. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be a warrior under Zou Junmen, no wonder the archery is so good. Didn't Brother Chen have been soldiers in Jizhen before? "Yue Xiang really didn't expect that there were people here whose archery skills were so outstanding, and he couldn't help but love talents. I thought that this guy was Zou Chuxian's personal soldier, so I had to think of a way to dig him up.

"The adult has good eyesight, and the little one was indeed stationed in Jizhen in the past, but it was only later transferred to Liaodong." Chen Wumin didn't say much, obviously knowing the tragedy that year. Seeing that he is less than forty years old, the persecuted southern soldiers who were persecuted back then are not his predecessors, who worked hard for the country but ended up like that, and no one can be happy if he is replaced.

"Oops! It turned out to be really Qi Shaobao's old department, disrespectful and disrespectful. The one I admired the most in Xia Pingsheng was Qi Shaobao, but it was a pity that he was born decades later and didn't have the opportunity to see him. Qi Shaobao is my Ming military god, but unfortunately he died too early. If Qi Shaobao is still here, how can the Jianzhou Jurchen be reasonable......" Yue Xiang grabbed his hand as if he was very excited, as if he had seen a relative.

Soldiers in this kind of army with a glorious history and tradition have a higher sense of honor and centripetal force than ordinary soldiers, and most of them especially worship the leaders of their own troops.

Although Qi Jiguang was splashed with dirty water and deliberately smeared in the political struggle, he seems to have been forgotten in the past few decades. But these soldiers still remember this famous general who led them to victory and glory again and again, what they needed was a sense of recognition, and Yue Xiang gave him what he wanted, so he easily won his favor.

Of course, Yue Xiang said that there are seven points in his words to really admire Qi Jiguang, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, except for the founding generals and the generals of the Yongle Dynasty, there are really not many famous generals in the future. And this Qi Jiguang is definitely the most dazzling one among the few generals. First in the south and then in the north, worthy of the name of the southern conquest and northern war. There is nothing he will not do in cavalry and chariot warfare, water warfare, standard decathlon, and his strategic thinking is completely based on practical combat as the starting point, without involving any superficial articles, and not talking about vain words.

There are many famous generals in China in the past 5,000 years, but too few can do this.

"I don't know who else in Qinghe City is Brother Chen's compatriots back then, but they can also attract acquaintance." Yue Xiang finally found an elite soldier with real talent, and it seems that Zou Chuxian is quite good with himself. In this case, take advantage of digging a few more now, and the soldiers trained by Qi Jiguang will definitely not be far behind. It's better to have him as an instructor than those mediocre soldiers.

When Chen Wumin came back, he brought over a tall and thin man, this person was full of pockmarks, very eye-catching, and he was a team leader looking at the color of his clothes.

After Chen Wumin's introduction, it turned out that this person was also a soldier of Jizhen back then, and Bi Qi, who served with him. Because of the numbness of the face, he is called Bi Mazi, but the original name is gradually forgotten.

"The little one who has heard the name of the second master of Yue for a long time, who doesn't know the hero of the tiger fight, is honored to see it today." Bi Mazi's appearance is neither humble nor arrogant, calm and sophisticated, and quite generous. He bowed his hand and said: "Today's arrows, why don't you ask Second Master Yue to show your skills, and also open our eyes, I don't know what to do?" ”

Yue Xiang could hear it as soon as he heard it, this kind of person belongs to the kind of person who is difficult to make friends easily. Unless your ability can be seen by him, no matter how much you stammer, he will not ignore you. It's just that he came up so straightforwardly was beyond Yue Xiang's expectations, Yue Xiang smiled slightly: "Just because of this intention, I heard that the archers in Jizhen are good at shooting, and my brother must be a master of this way." A certain family is not talented, and this is ugly. ”

As he spoke, he asked people to greet Ma Sandao, and after a while, his bow came. Bi Mazi and Chen Wumin were shocked when they looked at each other, and Yue Xiang made the bow a big strong bow with a copper back and iron tires. Bi Mazi looked at the young junior in front of him in surprise, and suddenly said, "Second master, can you let me take a look at this bow." ”

"It's such a hard bow, I'm afraid this bow only has the strength of three stones." Bi Mazi used all his strength to pull the bow away.

"Sure enough, it's an expert......" Yue Xiang said a word and stopped talking, the tip of his tongue was on his teeth, his two arms were called force, and he took the arrow with extremely skillful movements, staring at the target eighty steps away, the front hand was the main set, the back hand was strengthened, the three-stone strong bow was pulled like a full moon, and the thumb was loosened, and everyone only felt a sharp flash in the air, and the wooden target was cracked by this arrow with a click, and was split in half......