A war that seems normal, but it has happened with unimaginable results, how can it not change in between, but the changes are a little slight.

Fortunately, in these records of the Privy Council, all aspects are written in great detail, Di Qingxin can only see those things summarized by the Privy Council, and he made a request to get the most basic battle reports in the northwest.

Di Qing's request made the Privy Council a little embarrassed, and after asking for instructions, the Privy Council finally opened up a little, mainly some things except for some of Han Qi's Privy Council performances.

After Di Qing saw these reports, he knew why the people in the Privy Council were so embarrassed, even if the process of the war was not long, but there were many things involved, Han Qi was a big man, and he didn't have many twists and turns, but the following battle reports, including some scattered things, can be said to be piled up.

Di Qing himself is only going to take the most important generals, but if he takes these things, there is no problem, on the contrary, he will understand a lot of things from these things, just look at them carefully.

Di Qing didn't care about others, but after he looked at it carefully for a long time, he really saw something from this.

Sure enough, as he expected, among the battle reports produced by the Privy Council, among the things that were passed off, very important things were missing.

As a keen commander and a genius military strategist, he keenly grasped a very important point, that is, the longbow.

In the war, it only talked about the comparison of the data of the two sides, but there was no detailed army layout, and the doubts of the generals before were like this, these generals were measured according to the ordinary forbidden army equipment.

Under such a measurement, of course, it is impossible for 40,000 people to completely annihilate the opponent on the premise of 30,000 heavy cavalry.

But after looking at the application of the longbow and the proportions, he faintly felt that the longbow was probably the most important place in it.

At this time, after arguing for a morning, even after persuasion, the focus of all the people was still on the battle situation of the heavy cavalry, even if there were practical examples, for example, prisoners, equipment, and personnel, which had proved impossible to fake, they were still a little incredulous, how to do it, this is what they were most puzzled about.

Di Qing had a brief exchange with a few people, and asked to see what kind of weapon the longbow was, his combat effectiveness, and how he used it throughout the war.

Di Qing's request has also been recognized by other generals, these can be called by the Privy Council, but they are all in actual combat, step by step to the generals, they may have some limitations, but they have a vision.

Di Qing took out some very important things from these reports, and then named the role of the longbow in the entire Northwest War, and at this moment, these generals noticed this problem, and after knowing this problem, they also wanted to know the role of this longbow in the entire Northwest War.

They jointly proposed to the Privy Council to see what this longbow was and how powerful it was.

The 12 generals, who were still studying the entire Northwest War situation, raised not very difficult questions, and soon, the reply came down, and a drill was arranged in the afternoon, so that they could see the effect of the longbow for themselves.

All the generals attached great importance to such a longbow, what kind of weapon was he, and even in the entire Northwest War, it was almost a longbow, which destroyed the morale of the Iron Harrier and finally won the battlefield.

The longbow in the Privy Council has changed from the lack of attention when Han Qi implemented it at the beginning, to now, it is thoroughly emphasized, even if these generals do not make this request, the Privy Council will arrange some drills for them, so that they can evaluate the role of this longbow on the entire battlefield, and what kind of proportion it should achieve.

Han Qi has already used practical actions to show the terrifying power of the longbow, under the premise that the strength is greatly improved compared to the current bow and arrow, the low price of the longbow, the characteristics of easy access and mass production, all of which have completely exploded the ordinary longbow.

However, the entire Privy Council, or the entire Northern Song Dynasty military, hundreds of thousands of bows, these have to be removed, and the waste is too great.

This is a difficulty, which has plagued the Privy Council before, and when they have already seen the benefits of the longbow, they are still hesitating, and now, the longbow has shown its effect in actual combat, and it is imperative to dismantle it, and the only pity is the cost invested.

What Jia Chaochang didn't expect was that next, Zhao Xin, who entered Beijing, found a place for him to clean up, that is, to sell it, which itself is also a common method in the arms industry; if there is a better one, the equipment that can be updated can be replaced, and the old equipment can be replaced completely, and enough funds can be exchanged for new equipment production and research, and so on, and so on, and has always held the initiative.

The whole discussion of the war had problems at the very beginning, and these generals doubted the correctness of the entire tactics, so they could not concentrate on studying the entire tactics, which Jia Chaochang did not want to see, and after knowing the reason, Jia Chaochang smiled.

This problem, at the beginning, when I received the war report from the northwest, I also inquired at that time, but the real tens of thousands of iron harrier prisoners, as well as weapons and war horses, these things cannot be faked, if you want to cheat, you need to put the war horses, weapons, armor, and personnel all in place, this difficulty is no less than war cheating, and even directly capture or surrender so many iron harriers,

Because of the importance of it, the Privy Council also formed a longbow unit, which was selected from the whole army, and in the past, it was selected according to the accuracy of shooting, but now, it has a more distinctive longbow characteristic, strong strength, tall body, and can afford to hold a longer bow.

This is the basic characteristic of the longbow, perhaps, in this era, there is no basic physical principle, let alone know the relationship between the bow arm and the bow body, etc., but if you don't understand the basic theory, you can know that the longer the bow, the more powerful.

For longbows that use elm as the body of the bow, longer bows are not easy to obtain, and larger trees must be obtained, but the length of about 2 meters is not impossible to obtain, and even relatively easy.

This part of the longbowmen, their height, are about 1.9 meters, tall, strong, the longbow in hand, is also very long, almost about 2.4 meters, compared to the general longbow, at least one-third longer, bow arms or something, but also more thick.

Such a longbow can no longer be used on the battlefield, it should be too thick, especially in terms of weight, it is very inconvenient to move, but it is no problem to put it on the performance.

Since it is a demonstration of the Privy Council, of course, the more powerful the better, this length is at least one-third longer than the average longbow, the power is powerful, and the team of 500 people, all of them use armor-piercing arrows.

Even Han Qi could obtain all kinds of longbow armor-piercing arrows, and the Privy Council was even more so, and after knowing the whole situation of the Northwest War, he began to make preparations in this regard.

After several hours of preparation, a drill was conducted in one of the camps of the forbidden army outside the city.

After being informed before, they were still up and down in their hearts, but in the afternoon, when they went directly, they relaxed, and a few of them were discussing with each other, asking what this longbow was.

In the prepared camp, they saw a group of big men, 500 longbow teams, each of them is tall, outstanding strength, to achieve this requirement, only the Northern Song Dynasty can achieve, you know, the entire Central Plains Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms compete for hegemony, but in fact, the Three Kingdoms are very unbalanced, the Western Xia is less than 4 million, the Liao State is less than 10 million, but the Northern Song Dynasty is more than 120 million people.

It can be said that the combined population of Western Xia and Liao was less than one-tenth of the population of the Northern Song Dynasty, and if the Northern Song Dynasty had a little strength and applied these manpower advantages to the entire war, defeat would be almost impossible.

In this era, the Northern Song Dynasty had no way to apply these to the war, and the huge population became a drag, and in the early period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the 800,000 forbidden army was still under the premise of enough equipment and manpower.

Now, the emergence of Zhao Xin, creatively introduced such an epoch-making weapon as the longbow into the Northern Song Dynasty, and the productive forces of the Northern Song Dynasty have a place to vent, and it can be said unceremoniously that as long as there are enough logistical supplies, let alone the Liao State, even if it is the Jin State, or even the future Mongolia, don't want to break through the gate of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The longbow is also a very terrifying place, as the most attacking class, it can even compete head-on with the main class of the era, such as heavy cavalry.

Compared with the heavy, not easy to replenish, and the huge cost of the infantry armor, the 200 Wen longbow can be arranged on a large scale, and the attack power is powerful.

In the defense of the city, and even in the field, it can exert excellent results, range power, these together, will make any besieger feel a nightmare, there is no doubt about this.

But for these generals, this is a completely new thing, and it can be said unceremoniously that they feel that these archers, who are too tall in stature, also look quite strong.

It's not that tall people are not easy to become archers, the key is that tall people are not flexible enough and clumsy, and they can't play their due role in the ever-changing battlefield situation.

What is shown, basically, is fixed, 500 archers, and for attacks on targets 250 paces away, of course, they use armor-piercing arrows. Otherwise, it was impossible to prove his penetrating power, and on the target, at least 50 sets of step armor were also selected, with thick wooden stakes, and then put on the step armor as a target.

This test, 2 months ago, was tested in the Privy Council, Jia Chaochang really realized the horror of the epoch-making weapon of the longbow, so he formed such an experimental unit, and now, this unit, after at least 2 months of rigorous training, has basically become proficient, and the effect is even more amazing.

When Han Qi was training the team, he did not have a record of the Privy Council's secret training, and the Privy Council also had it, and under such a premise, the Privy Council knew that the longbow had both range and rate of fire.

At the same time, the form of a bow and arrow inserted in the ground is also used, which is more suitable than a quiver on the back or at the waist, which can ensure that the longbowman remains stable under the premise of high rate of fire.

Twenty or thirty long arrows were placed in the right places, and these longbowmen were already familiar with the position of these long arrows, and then shot them in a certain order, these are things that have been repeated at least countless times.

This is the camp of the forbidden army, not a real field, nor a war, arranged by the Privy Council, nor an actual war, but a simple fixed target, regardless of the relationship between progression and position, of course, it is the most suitable for performance, under strict training, they are in the entire forbidden army, carefully selected people, their rate of fire has basically reached the basic speed of 15 rounds, compared to ordinary archers, the rate of fire has increased by at least 4 times.

The same is true for the range, a hundred steps through Yang is already the standard of a marksman, and the range of an average shooter is between 100 and 120 steps, which is fully doubled.

Di Qing's gaze was not on these archers, but on the target, far away, could it be that this longbow has a long range.

But looking at these strong men, their stature and strength, they should be like this, but those bows, some strange, why are they so huge, which is somewhat inconvenient in the army, and the places where they can be used are somewhat limited.

Although there are doubts of one kind or another, but this is just watching the performance, perhaps this is the result of deliberately strengthening some aspects and not taking into account other aspects.

Soon, under the orders of the officers of the Privy Council, everyone gathered together and began the final preparations, and the 12 generals also held their breath and began to wait for the exercise to begin.

With an order, the expressions of the entire longbow team were obviously different, as if with a certain spirit of concentration, and then began to draw their bows and arrows, and when the first wave of long arrows was fired, they never stopped, and the whole arrow really formed a rain.

What's even more terrifying is that under the shroud of countless long arrows, in just 60 breaths, a total of 7,500 arrows were shot, 60 breaths, even on the battlefield, it is a very short time.

In such a short period of time, a team of 500 archers shot seven or eight thousand arrows, which is a terrible number, and in Di Qing's opinion, the result of the longbow also has a lot to do with this speed.

Because of the distance, he didn't see the effect of this arrow, but he couldn't see it clearly, and from a distance, the arrows on those people's bodies still surprised them, but they took it for granted that this was the effect, just like these warriors and longbows, which were specially shown for drills.

If this is the case, there are some questions, the combat effectiveness shown by this longbow is completely different from the actual battle, and under such a premise, there is no reference value.

The whole drill only lasted for a short time, and according to the rate of fire of 60 breaths and 15 arrows, basically everyone shot about 50 arrows and stopped.

Moving and still, like a storm, everyone watching was very excited, but in the end, the attack power of the bow and arrow must also be realistic on the target.

Under the guidance of the Privy Council, when they came to the target, they found something that surprised them, these targets were equipped with real foot armor.

These generals are all long-term soldiers, they know very well the difference between real foot armor and furnishings, it can be said unceremoniously, this is the armor that can give soldiers all-round protection, this thing, on the battlefield, not to mention bows and arrows, other heavy weapons can also resist.

This is the most powerful protective weapon in the Northern Song Dynasty, in the loss of horses, without the Jingsai army, but in the war with the Liao State and the Western Xia, the protective weapon that does not fall behind, but under this armor-piercing arrow, it is like paper paste.

The giant longbow, the longbow of more than 2.4 meters, if they say it according to the stone, it should be about 1.8 stones, but when converted to the strength of the bow arm, under the premise that half a stone is equivalent to two stones, this is at least about 7 stones, plus the bow arm, it is almost a hard bow of 8-9 stones, and his range should be about 350 steps.

At a range of 250 steps, the role he can play is far more terrible than the performance, under the terrible speed, and perfectly exerts the effect of the armor-piercing bow, the sharpness and penetration of the armor-piercing bow, itself, is the faster the speed, the better the effect, under such a terrible speed, the step armor is of course unstoppable, not only unstoppable, but piercing.

The piercing represents the penetration of two layers of armor at once, this is not the final penetration, the complete step armor is penetrated, and there is a wooden stake in the middle, this protective ability is a little terrifying.

The wood, or the wood within the foot armor, was pierced by the longbow 200 steps away, and the huge gap proved that this piercing ability was terrible, and even the wooden stake inside was not broken, but easily penetrated, if it was a person inside, it was not unexpected.

A long arrow of more than 2 meters, a long arrow that is quite thick, as long as it is not shot at the position of the limbs, anywhere above the main trunk of the body, as long as it is shot, basically, it is impossible to survive.

The Northern Song Dynasty's Buren armor is the most powerful in the entire Three Kingdoms, compared to the Liao State, compared to the Western Xia, it is much stronger, and even the Buren armor can be pierced, and the so-called heavy armor of those iron harriers is not even a paper paste on this.

Di Qing suddenly understood a little, why the longbow could play a huge role in the Northwest War, even if this thing has a little attack power on the battlefield, it is also a very terrible attack power, under such an attack power, no matter how terrible the battle record, it is normal.