The number of people is useless in some cases, and when the large army is pierced by a small number of elite cavalry of the enemy, and then a large number of flank cavalry is divided and interspersed, the number of people can only be used as a burden. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But if there are a large number of elite longbowmen in this army, what will be the concept, the light cavalry on the flanks will not dare to come up at all, and a small number of elite cavalry will also be suppressed by the longbowmen.

200 steps away, you can still go deep into the soil, even if the soil has been recultivated, the soft land, for most of the armor under the heavy armor, has a huge penetrating effect, has not been tested, the effect on the foot armor.

But the longbow soldiers are the army of the Great Song Dynasty, and they don't need to penetrate the infantry armor, they only need to penetrate the armor of the Liao Kingdom and Western Xia, and they don't even need to penetrate the armor of the heavily armored knights, they can penetrate the horse armor, and that's it.

Liao and Western Xia, in the smelting of steel, compared with the Great Song Dynasty, there is a huge gap, conservative estimates, the same thickness of armor, they are at least less than half of the Great Song Dynasty, plus the cost of iron smelting is very high, both countries have maintained a certain number of heavy cavalry, Liao is the Iron Forest Army, Western Xia is the Iron Harrier, but they pay more attention to the protection of people.

Human armor, basically, can ignore the battlefield, most of the bows and arrows, Sun Ji estimated, 200 steps away, even if it is a longbow, it is not very good, but the horse armor is almost only one-third of the cavalry armor, against the ordinary short bow, it is enough, more than 3 stone hard bow, within 50 steps, you can shoot through the vest, which is also experienced on the battlefield.

Experienced elite infantrymen, when dealing with the Iron Harrier, never shoot him in the face, or the part of the body, are always aimed at the horse, the target of the horse is large, and the thickness of the horse's armor is small.

Even if this longbow can't shoot through the vest, the rain of arrows formed by a massive number of bows and arrows still has a huge lethal effect, whether it is the Iron Harrier or the Tielin Army, in Western Xia and Liao, they all belong to a very small part, and the heavily armored knights are not all armored, especially the horses, the horses' legs, there is no armor, some joints, and the vest is relatively weak.

Changing to a short bow, it is difficult to hit these weak links, the longbow is different, when a group of well-trained warriors, within 30 breaths, complete 7 shots, it is still such an angle, such a force design, the formation of a dense rain of arrows, it is possible to shoot anywhere.

As for the personnel, Sun Ji has never been worried, there are few well-trained archers, not less trained, in fact, the training of half-stone bows is a common project in the forbidden army, the forbidden army understands the characteristics of some bows and arrows, and is ready to dodge, in addition, it is also to let the forbidden army have a certain degree of long-range ability when it encounters an attack in the early stage.

In such large-scale training, some elite archers were really born, who had not been thought of before, but these archers are not normal archers, their strength is at most 1.5 stones, and they can't even use a hard bow of more than 1 stone, or in other words, when using a bow of more than 1 stone, they have the strength of two or three arrows at most.

The archers with two or three arrows, even if the hit rate is 100%, he does not have the ability to become an elite archer, and if he changes to a half-stone soft bow, the power is too small, but the appearance of the longbow, not to mention the many differences that Zhao Xin said, just let this part of the elite archers be reborn, it is enough to make the forbidden army at least 10,000 more archers, which is a huge increase in the strength of the forbidden army.

And that's just elite shooting, and those who can shoot the bow, those who can shoot with strength and angle, may occupy half of the forbidden army, so the number of people is not a problem at all.

In the phalanx, a large number of people, 500 people, 1,000 people, or even 10,000 people, with this kind of bow together, in 60 breaths, even if 7 arrows are shot, it is a terrible number, representing 60 breaths, the distance of the infantry charge and run 200 steps, 1000 people can shoot 10,000 arrows, and they are all such heavy arrows, with a huge armor-piercing effect.

Anything, once this number is close to 10,000, it is an extremely huge, even helpless number, 10,000 people, mighty, tens of thousands of bows and arrows, can be called arrow rain, generally only large-scale offense and defense will appear, tens of thousands of archers and thousands of arrows at the scene, so far, 8 years of military career, Sun Ji has only seen 17 times, all in Longxi, and the battle with Xixia to see.

In order to concentrate tens of thousands of archers, Longxi not only mobilized a large number of elites in the forbidden army, but also large-scale local sign archers, even some foreign races are no exception, Danmu was actually recruited under such a premise, and there are many similar, many of which are spies sent in by Western Xia or Liao, and even caused serious consequences.

At that time, as the strongest archer on the battlefield, King Sun Yan, who was terrified of Western Xia, served in Longxi for 4 years, and Sun Ji had almost more than 5,000 heads in his hands, including iron harriers, ordinary low-level officers, and even 5 first-class senior officers, as well as a large number of lieutenant generals, generals and other middle and low-level officers.

Sun Ji once became the commander of the archery unit, he participated in the Longxi War at that time, and the years he served in the years were the first two battles of the three wars of the founding of the Western Xia.

After the longbow is added, even if the team of 3,000 people can complete the salvo of 10,000 arrows, this improvement is huge, the longbow archery, because the speed is very fast, the consumption is a little larger, but when the fixed defense is fixed, it is incomprehensible, especially in the face of the same 10,000 arrows, its range has become an overwhelming advantage, any class, including cavalry, to pass through his line of defense, need to pay a painful price, this point, when defending the city, has been strengthened to the extreme.

An archer, what does it need, needs accurate eyesight, the feeling cultivated through rigorous training, within 100 steps, accurately hit a very small target, which requires rigorous training, a successful archer, it takes 3 years to train, to really achieve a hundred steps through Yang, you also need talent, no talent, at most is skilled and accurate.

This greatly restricts the emergence of archers, in the army, archers are the best of the best, even if they have talent, no strength is not enough, they need to be tall, muscular, and train for a long time before they can finally be formed. Basically, you have to open more than 2 stones, and then 1 stone bow is smaller, at most it can play a harassing role, and it can't really play a role on the battlefield.

But now, if the longbow is equipped, the starting line of the archers will become half a stone, in any case, the strength is the higher up, the smaller the number of people, among the forbidden army, 1 stone bow, can also find tens of thousands of people, 2 stone, may be reduced to a few thousand, more than 4 stone, there are only more than 1,000 people, with the increase in the strength of the bow, but the number of people is getting smaller and smaller, to more than 5 stone, basically, are in the tens of digits.

More than 8 stone strong marksman, the entire forbidden army, including the shift, one hand can be found, even more than 10 stone, there are only 3 people at present, and now, there are still two left, because Danmu has died.

Half a stone and a stone, don't look at the difference between only one quilt, stuck in this grade line, the number is huge, that is, through the forbidden army selection, except for a small number of unique roles, not good at strength, can be, this, there must be more talent than the previous selection, no talent and no problem, this bow has never been known for accuracy, what it needs is density.

Sun Ji and Qu Yang's astonishment made Miao Yuan very confused, is it just an ordinary bow, not much different from the one used by the hunters, why are Sun Ji and Qu Yang so shocked, it is really a dirt bun, isn't this simply produced by a few craftsmen, is it worth being so surprised.

Zhao Xin didn't care about Sun Ji, who was still in shock, but walked towards Miao Yuan and instructed him to go all out to make a longbow in the next week, of course, he would also pay according to the price of 200 wen per bow, which Miao Yuan of course readily agreed.

He estimated that the cost would not exceed 50 Wen, 4 times the profit, plus the labor cost, which was much higher than ordinary furniture tools.

Their simple exchange also shocked Sun Ji, Qu Yang, they looked at each other, they thought they had seen all the advantages of the longbow, but they didn't expect that they still ignored the most important one, the price, the price of the longbow is too cheap.