Others may not be as sensitive as Di Qing, but the role of the longbow is obvious, this is simply a weapon that takes into account both attack and explosion, once suddenly, such a weapon bursts out of combat effectiveness, not to mention the Iron Harrier, even if it is an elite infantry party formation, it will suffer a big loss.

Of course, no one among the generals present asked why the forbidden army was able to go so close.

Although it is not explicitly stated in the battle report, one thing is undoubted, that is, the target of the Iron Harrier is the makeshift camp set up by the horse team.

Because the strategy of the suspicious soldiers was very good, the horse team won more than a day in this battlefield, and used this day to strengthen the city defense, which was not expected by the iron harriers, forcing them to take the initiative to attack, with the ability of Xixia, they did not expect that there were still people ambushed beside them.

In fact, some of these generals underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Western Xia, and the Western Xia was able to beat the Northern Song Dynasty so badly, if they were all such stupid, it would be impossible.

However, in the first battle of Xingqing Mansion, Yuan Hao left with his most trusted generals, and half of the remaining ones who could fight had a lower status and were already in the war, or in the previous battle of Helan Mountain, they were completely lost, and the remaining half were Western Xia nobles.

No matter how big Yuan Hao's heart is, it is impossible for them to continue to lead the troops to the battle, which leads a problem, the highest level of leading 30,000 iron harriers is just an iron harrier officer who used to be a thousand-commander.

In any army, a low-level officer, even if he is talented, cannot command the legion to fight, take the Song army as an example, Di Qing like this, in the very beginning, directly give him 20,000 people, let him take him to the battlefield, and if he doesn't give time to adapt, he will also be blind.

The generals present were all very outstanding officers in the Northern Song Dynasty, and they were very discerning, and after watching the whole performance, they began to ask some questions in depth, such as how long they could hold on to this level of shooting.

This is actually a problem that everyone is concerned about, in their opinion, such a high-intensity shooting, even if it is a salvo, the consumption should be relatively large, a key problem for archers, that is, the problem of continuity, if the archers can continue to attack, the number of archers must be increased on a large scale.

Often, most of the archers, after thirty or forty rounds of attacks, have no strength, which is really unreliable for a long-term war.

I thought that this was already the limit of the longbow's performance, because they had performed so much, although it looked very neat and did not appear to be prostration, but in fact, no one knew how much it was consumed, maybe it was just the same.

However, the answer from the Privy Council surprised everyone, because the final result was that these longbowmen were able to hold out for 18 rounds.

"It can't be!" One of the generals even lost his voice.

18 rounds, 60 breaths 15, 18 rounds, you can shoot 270 arrows, which is also terrifying, almost 5 times more than ordinary archers, which is almost impossible for archers.

Looking at this range, it is stronger than the average archer, and this penetration is the same, and under the premise of these combined, it can shoot 270 arrows, which is simply incredible.

"Perhaps, it's these carefully selected people!" A general said with a little doubt, but this explanation can't be explained, although there are people with extraordinary talents, but in a short period of time, in a burst of time, shoot 5 times as many arrows as ordinary archers, or even 10 times as many arrows, which is also terrible, which cannot be described as talented.

The Privy Council officer went on to explain: "Why not, this is the good thing about the longbow, because he is light! ”

"Very light?" Several generals were a little puzzled, and even one, taking the longbow from the longbowman's hand, pulled it away with great force, but it was really as light as the Privy Council said.

Such a light bow produces such a terrible effect, and the archers in the army, basically, choose their bows with medium strength, for example, those who can shoot 2 stone can take 1 stone bow, and those who can shoot 3 stone can take 1.5 stone.

It's not that no one has thought that if you can open a 3-stone bow, go and get a half-stone bow, in that way, you will definitely be able to exert durability, but even the power is gone, what do you want durability for.

But the longbow is different, according to his estimate, this scary-looking longbow, the bow power is at most a little more than one stone, these strong men, obviously different from ordinary people, may not be able to open a strong bow of more than 5 stones, at least at least around 4 stones, no wonder it is so easy.

Let go of the archers with a five-stone strong bow and go to open a bow of about 1 stone, on the battlefield, it is not without such use, but in any forbidden army, there are not enough such archers, and the effect is not outstanding.

But what's even more strange is that under such a bow power, there is such power, which is terrifying.

A general was about to ask, but the Privy Council official seemed to know what he wanted to ask, and immediately stopped him, saying: "Don't ask me, I don't know, I don't know the specific reason, maybe it is because of his characteristics, the Privy Council has also done tests, as long as the length of the bow is expanded, the bow power will become smaller and smaller, and the power will be greater!" ”

In the Northern Song Dynasty, theoretical science could not explain why the larger the bow arm, the smaller the power of the arrow to shoot the same distance and power, but it did not delay him to use it.

The generals are just curious to ask more, similar to their big bosses, like Di Qing, who can read military books, it is already very good, if you want to study these theories, it is impossible.

They are generals, and they know that this weapon is very useful, so they can just use it, and they can completely ignore so many others.

Knowing the approximate combat effectiveness of this longbow, the rest is easy to say a lot, the iron harriers of Western Xia, their armor, although it is good, but it is only good in Western Xia, compared with the infantry armor of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is really not an ordinary difference.

Even the foot armor can be pierced, the armor of the iron harrier is really like paper paste, and the most important thing is staying power, not to mention 18 rounds, 5 rounds is terrible enough, 5 rounds is 75 arrows, 30,000 longbowmen, and the drowned iron harrier was drowned.

After thinking for a while, Di Qing asked the Privy Council official next to him, "At that time, was the forbidden army carried by Chief Han also the current equipment?" ”

Di Qing pointed out very obviously, when the forbidden army led by Han Qi attacked the Iron Harrier, they also used this armor-piercing arrow, if it was really as the battle report said, under the premise of more than 30,000 longbowmen, how could there be so many results, even if it was dozens of rounds of shooting, one person guaranteed more than 70, 2.1 million armor-piercing arrows, not to mention 30,000 people, 100,000 people, were also killed, how could there be so many prisoners.

Di Qing's question immediately attracted everyone's attention, according to what they knew, among the 40,000 forbidden troops, there were 30,000 longbowmen, even if they couldn't reach this level, in 10 rounds of shooting, at least 7.5 million arrows could be shot, and they were all armor-piercing arrows with penetrating effect on the foot armor, not to mention 30,000 iron harriers, 100,000 would be no problem, all of them would be killed.

Of course, under the explanation of the Privy Council officials, he also understood that even such armor-piercing arrows were not many in the entire Northern Song Dynasty army, and armor-piercing arrows required the strength of archers to be a bit high.

This is also where these generals were puzzled before, if 30,000 people are like this, let alone 30,000 heavy cavalry, no matter how much, it will not work.

It turns out that the basic equipment of the longbow is only half a stone, and the length is very short, about 1.8 meters, which is basically used by the vast majority of forbidden soldiers.

However, because the arrows of the armor-piercing bow are relatively heavy, the longbow is at least 1.9 meters long, and the hardness is also required, at least 1 stone.

Although it is said that the original archers can open the bow, but the longbow also has requirements for the rate of fire, for the range, and for the speed, among the entire department of forbidden troops, there are relatively few archers similar to the armor-piercing bow, more than 3,000 people, and it is these people who make the Western Xia frightened, and the large-scale killing of the iron harriers finally let them escape, when the 5,000 heavy cavalry rushed into the block, the entire battlefield was finally over.

Di Qing and the others understood the terrible role of the longbow, especially in the display of the armor-piercing bow, and also mentioned that the possibility of ordinary soldiers using the longbow was because the longbow was relatively light.

Generally, the longbow can get a triple bonus, that is to say, the original half-stone person can also drive a longbow equivalent to a 1.5 stone bow, which is convenient for the entire forbidden army.

In the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army, an important criterion is actually a bow that can open a stone, it stands to reason that these people can become archers, but in fact, in the Northern Song Dynasty army, the number of archers is relatively small, because you must be proficient in a stone bow to become an archer, or belong to the weaker archers.

Strength is a key point in the selection of archers, different strength, the level of archers is different, in short, the more powerful the archer, the greater the power, when choosing, talent is only one aspect, strength is the focus of the assessment.

Archers are a kind of proficiency industry, and those with high proficiency can play better, but the strength cannot be achieved, some people are born with strong strength, and some people, no matter how they practice, in the end, there is only so much strength, which is a very critical issue.

Now, it has greatly promoted the production of archers, although archers have such and such problems, but as long as he is given enough space, archers are the most powerful existence in the entire army.

The longbow is even more on this basis, and it goes to the next level, that is, the range is longer.

The range represents the range that the archer can provide, the longer the range, the stronger the reaction time, similar to the range of the archer, from the limit to the close, almost 3 times longer than the short bow, and the rate of fire is 5 times.

In other words, when the cavalry charges against the longbow, the damage it has to bear must be increased by at least 15 times, not to mention the increase in attack power, which alone is very terrifying.

In the field, 1000 archers, encountered 500 cavalry, the cavalry is almost sure to win, at most 10% of the loss, but when this number increases to the present, even if 750 cavalry against the 1000 cavalry charge, there is almost a great possibility that these cavalry are all shot by archers, which is very terrible.

In particular, the presence of armor-piercing arrows, under the horror of armor-piercing arrows, it is almost impossible to dodge, which means that the archers have independent combat capabilities.

And the protection, it is also relatively easy, the strongest in the Northern Song Dynasty is the infantry armor, the infantry armor can be attacked with the cavalry at a short distance and in a small range, but the passive defense, once the cavalry leaves, it is easy to be broken by each one. ，

But with archers, as long as the infantry armor and the archers are combined into a stable camp, as long as the infantry armor can hold on for a little time, how many cavalry can support it in the face of the terrifying attack power of the longbow.

Di Qing has thoroughly understood that the terrible thing about the longbow is that this is a complete reform of the military facilities of the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as there are long arrows, as long as there are enough and well-trained archers, the situation on the battlefield will be completely changed.

At the same time, he is more concerned about price, and price is very important for any universal supply of products.

Such a one, it can be said that the bow and arrow that bursts the short bow will not be very cheap if it is thought that the entire Northwest War may be supported by the entire Privy Council, and now, it should not be easy for them to obtain it in advance.

One of the keys to this is the price, how expensive is the price of this longbow?

The strange expressions of many officials in the Privy Council made Di Qing a little strange, this was not a normal expression.

This also made other generals nervous, the separation of military and government in the Northern Song Dynasty, many things in the military, and some things in the government, these are two aspects.

However, they also have an understanding of the equipment in the army, and if a piece of equipment is too expensive, it is not easy to equip it.

For example, Bu Renjia, everyone knows that he is a good thing, even if he is as rich as the Northern Song Dynasty, in the end, it is only about half equipped, if all are equipped, the combat effectiveness of the entire Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army will definitely climb a huge grade on the original basis, but no, that is because it is too expensive.

Everyone gathered around, the expressions of the Privy Council officials were a little strange, some seemed like they couldn't say, but no, finally, when the officials of the Privy Council finally said the result, everyone was taken aback, lower than all their psychological preparations, and it was much lower, the supply price given by the Privy Council, a simple bow, was only 150 Wen.