Therefore, China's combat does not rely on the mode of rushing through the salvo of archers, but with other modes, the loss is not small if you really want to rush over, although the equipment of the Han army is already good, and the armor rate is quite high, but this style of play is really used when it comes to the decisive battle. This time it was obviously a feint, and there was no need to bear such losses to charge.

Therefore, Xue Shuai had a foresight and directly pulled the archers over to shoot.

In this way, the Han army undoubtedly has a lot of advantages.

Compared with knives, guns, clubs and the like, bows and crossbows have always been more strictly controlled.

Although from another aspect, in the era of cold weapons, the weapons owned by the government were not very technical and easy to be obtained by the people, so the actual effect of the control of weapons was not ideal.

Take the Qin Dynasty as an example, as Jia Yi said in "On the Passage of Qin": "Collect the soldiers of the world, gather the Xianyang, sell the Fengdi, cast the twelve golden people, and weaken the people of the world." In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before Qin, the countries competed for power, and the government's restrictions on the people's possession of weapons were very relaxed. ”

A down-and-out person, armed with a long sword, wandering the world, was the norm at that time. The Qin Dynasty strengthened the control of civilian weapons, but Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and other soldiers were still able to cut wood as soldiers in Daze Township, unveil poles as banners, and overthrow the Qin Dynasty.

In fact, due to the vast territory of China's dynasties and the inconvenience of transportation and communications, the government's control over the entire society was often inadequate. Most of the time, the laws on arms control are greatly compromised, and the government can at best enforce such prohibitions in the towns. In martial arts novels, most of the heroes walking on the thoroughfare with big knives are not credible. However, outside the cities effectively controlled by the empire, the people still had considerable freedom to bear arms, and at least the government could not timely and effectively restrict the possession or even casting of weapons by the people.

Then again, the basic manufacturing technology is naturally spread everywhere, and it can even be said that some advanced technologies are also in the hands of those folk craftsmen. However, if you want to manufacture on a large scale, it is not something that a private workshop can do.

Ancient archery equipment. Originated in the primitive society, the beginning of the branch crossbow bent with a rope tension, later generations in the production technology has developed, the selection of materials, ingredients, production procedures have strict regulations. The original bow-making material is a single material, made of bamboo and wood, and later developed into composite materials, which are generally composed of animal horns, tendons, bamboo wood, silk, lacquer, glue, etc. There are many types of bows, such as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the King Bow, the Arc Bow, the Clamp Bow, the Geng Bow, the Tang Bow and the Big Bow. The king's bow, the arc bow is used for defending the city and chariot battles; Clip bows and waste bows are used for hunting and flying birds. The Han Dynasty was divided into tiger bows, carved bows, horn end bows, road bows, and Xinjiang bows. The Tang Dynasty was divided into four types: longbow, horn bow, slight bow and lattice bow, longbow infantry, horned arch cavalry, and slightly bow and lattice bow Imperial Guard.

Relatively speaking. Bao Hong had often heard people talk about the lance before, and it was claimed that non-rich families couldn't afford to play it, so Zhang Laosan's ability to play with the Zhangba spear proved that their family still had some background.

Although the standard bow and arrow is not like a horse lance, which takes more than ten years to tann, the impact of the quality of the technology will be greater.

The gap in range and accuracy is definitely a very fatal problem for the army.

In terms of range, it naturally depends on the strength and toughness of the bow itself. In terms of accuracy, it is not only the bow that depends on the bow, but also the requirements for the arrow.

There are many kinds of arrows, about 90 centimeters long, the head is of course iron, the shaft of the arrow is relatively thick, and it must be straight in order to fly smoothly. Arrows made of lighter materials such as aspen, poplar, elderberry, birch, willow, etc., have a long range; It is called a heavy arrow made of heavy materials such as ash wood and horn wood, although it has a shorter range due to its larger weight, but it has stronger penetration at close range, which is better than armor-piercing bullets. The feathers are glued to the tail of the arrow 7-9 inches, not only with glue, but also tied firmly so that they do not fall off during a fast flight.

It can be said that if the art of bow-making can still be made with some reliable things, then there is not much way to do the arrow.

First of all, the metal and smelting of arrows is a threshold that is difficult to cross. This gap affects the lethality of the arrows.

However, no matter how lethal you are, if you can't hit accurately, it's a floating cloud.

In order to hit the target more accurately, it is necessary to grasp the direction of the arrow in flight, so people install feathers on the tail of the arrow shaft to make the shape of the arrow tend to be perfect.

The speed and accuracy of the arrow's flight are closely related to the tail feathers. There are too many arrow feathers and the flight speed is slow; Too little, poor stability. In order to make it have proper proportions, the length of the floating and sinking part of the arrow is contained in the "Examination Record", so as to find the proportion of the tail feathers. The arrow feather is the top of the eagle feather, the horned eagle feather is the second, and the owl feather is second. The arrows containing goose and goose feathers are easy to slant when the wind blows, and the quality is even worse.

This problem is even more difficult for the private sector to solve.

Especially now, when technology is still developing rapidly. When I talked about armor earlier, I said that all kinds of armor are in the stage of rapid development, and the improvement of defense power will naturally lead to a breakthrough in attack power.

In order to increase the lethality of arrows, Geng Gong invented the "poison arrow" in the Later Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu attacked Fancheng, and was blocked by Cao Ren's 500 crossbowmen's arrows, and a crossbow arrow in his right arm, the arrow was poisonous, and the poison had penetrated into the bone, and his right arm was bruised and swollen, and he could not move, so he asked Hua Lun to heal. The miracle doctor Hua Lun said: "This is a crossbow arrow wound, which has the medicine of aconite, which penetrates into the bone, if it is not treated early, this arm is useless." "Aconitum is a medicinal plant, the Chinese herbal name is "aconite", its stems, leaves, and roots are poisonous. At that time, the bows and crossbows and arrows used by ethnic minorities were mostly highly poisonous, and those who were hit by the arrows had rotten skin and flesh, and they died of rotten internal organs. It can be seen that the disability and lethality rate of poisoned arrows is very high.

With the advent of the Golden Armor, arrows were required to be more penetrating. The Jin Dynasty mostly used steel arrowheads. Arrows in the Tang Dynasty were divided into four types: bamboo arrows, wooden arrows, soldier arrows, and crossbow arrows, the first two were used for hunting, and the latter two were used for battle. The arrows used in battle are made of steel and have a long blade that pierces through hard armor. In addition to poisoned arrows, there are also rockets with arsonist attached to the shaft of the arrow, which are widely used in warfare.

Then the question comes back, these developments are promoted in the case of war, and in the case of the people, unless there is a different mind, otherwise, the people are only used to deal with things such as hunting and wandering, how can they encounter anything that ordinary arrows can't do?

Looking back at the battle situation, the suppression of Xue Rengui, Hu Luguang, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, etc., who had treasures in hand, coupled with the advantages of the Han soldiers' own equipment, the Yellow Turban Army could only rely on cover to escape, and there was no power to fight back at all. (To be continued.) )