The youth battalion not long ago absorbed a group of new recruits, eliminated some more, and kept it at about 200 people, of which 100 dared to fight hand-to-hand. I have to say that under the leadership of Liu Chengdong, Yuezhai has done very good united front work.

Gongzhong is located in the middle of Mingyue Village, which is not conducive to defense and was decisively abandoned. On the courtyard wall of the Mengxue and Jianghu camps, there are about 100 soldiers, disabled veterans and young people.

In the face of the attack of the official army and the allied army of Zhao Xianzi, the left-behind soldiers, disabled veterans and young men had to maintain physical hand-to-hand combat, so the newly formed youth battalion had to assume the role of archers.

In general, archers need several years of training before they can start to see results. The accelerated training that Li Xiang has put forward is about to usher in a real combat test.

Xiong Chengwu, Yang Jianchuan and Liu Decheng, each led more than 20 people to line up in the Mengxue compound. Qin Zhong led a team of people and was sent to the artisan camp when the gate was lost. Liu Xiaoci and other girls studying medicine were in the classroom at this time, helping several barefoot doctors in the cottage to treat the wounded and sick.

Hearing the order to prepare, Liu Decheng stuck a bundle of arrows on his back into the soil in front of him, and then pulled the bowstring a few times. A bundle of arrows is a unit, tentatively 25 arrows.

Liu Decheng is a distant relative of Liu Zhaizhu, who is diligent and studious, and meticulous in his work, so he has attracted Li Xiang's attention.

Liu Decheng looked at the straight bow in his hand that was yellow and clear, and was a head taller than himself, and admired his master to the extreme. In the Xunyang Mountains, there have always been trees and old bamboos, but it was not until Xiaofuzi arrived in Mingyue Village that this kind of cheap and mass-produced bow appeared.

There are still some problems with the current straight bow, such as the decline in tensile force and the like, but this is not hidden for Mingyuezhai, which regards bows and arrows as a luxury. Bows and arrows, armor and battle formations have always been important criteria for distinguishing elite soldiers from miscellaneous soldiers in the era of cold weapons.

When the shooting order was given, several heralds shouted loudly, and Liu Decheng picked up a diamond-shaped barbed arrow.

Three-edged heavy arrows and long cone armor-piercing arrows cannot be produced in large quantities at present, and are only available to the best archers in the village soldiers, and the youth battalion currently only has this very cheap, easy to manufacture, and balanced performance.

Liu Decheng put the arrow on the position reserved for the bow body, and then the three fingers in the middle of his right hand passed through the bowstring, and the thumb fixed the tail end of the arrow.

The arrow has a small opening at the tail, and there are upper and lower markings to avoid scraping the feathers, embedded in the red dot area on the bowstring. Looking at the crossbowmen on the side of the official army, taking a deep breath, Liu Decheng pulled the straight bow full.

The straight bow made a "squeak" sound, and Liu Decheng's left hand holding the straight bow touched the "arrow point" in front of the arrow, and immediately let go of his right hand. Don't look at whether you hit or not, and immediately move on to the next arrow.

The commander of the attacking officer army, the bearded general name is Pan Ze, and he is Huang Liren's distant grandson-in-law. In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Zhang Tianlei and Huang Liren took the risk and privately mobilized 500 Xiang troops.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, every move of the army on the battlefield was subject to the control of civilian officials and the court. If it weren't for the endorsement of Huang Liren and Cai Jing, and the huge interests to attract, Pan Ze, who prides himself on being smart, would not have done such a head-killing thing.

Pan Ze was startled at first when he heard the sound of bows and arrows firing a volley in the courtyard wall. Then it was found that although there were many arrows, only a few crossbowmen and knife players were injured, and only Yang Yingdong and Liu Decheng shot through the necks of the two crossbowmen and killed them with one blow.

Seeing this scene, Guan Jun and Zhao Scarzi relaxed and ridiculed and ridiculed. The morale of the soldiers on the side of the village soldiers, seeing the ground, was affected somewhat.

"Haha! It's the first time I've seen a bow and arrow play like this, and I really think anyone can play a salvo? ”

"It looks like the strength is not small, but the accuracy is too poor......"

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After only two rounds of shooting, Li Xiang ordered to stop, and then brought Xiong Chengwu and the other four in. "Aside from being nervous, what do you think is the reason for not being able to shoot accurately?"

Li Xiang didn't consider letting the soldiers and young men participate in the shooting, and they had to engage in more tragic hand-to-hand combat. Yang Yingdong has always emphasized the importance of physical distribution, and Li Xiang deeply agrees.

"I think the reason why the arrows are flying everywhere is mainly because my hands are shaking and I can't aim accurately." Xiong Chengwu told the truth, but it didn't work.

It was Yang Jianchuan's analysis that made Li Xiang's eyes light up, "Many brothers usually train well, but now they shoot like this, one is because they have not been on the battlefield, which causes their hands to tremble and lose their heads." The most important thing is that except for Xiong Chengwu and me, the brothers in the other youth battalions have never killed anyone, so it's okay for them to aim at the target, but it's okay to aim at people..."Qin Zhong said.

Li Xiang's heart lit up, and he felt that he was one step closer to his "batch straight archer production plan". According to Yang Jianchuan's suggestion, Li Xiang quickly replaced the target of straight bow training with a humanoid target, and also painted human facial features.

Li Xiang also strengthened confrontation training, often arranging animal stumps and blood in the training ground, lighting fires, and creating a tense atmosphere.

In order to further dispel the timidity of the recruits, Li Xiang stipulated that the slaughter of animals in Mingyue Village must be done by recruits in the youth camp who have not seen blood. Indicators were set for it, in short, to make the recruits see more blood.

handed over the guarding of the courtyard wall to Yang Yingdong, and Li Xiang directly commanded the straight-bow phalanx. "I saw the things next to the crossbowmen of the officers and soldiers, they were all things from everyone's house. These robbers not only rob us of our things, but also want to kill us all! ”

"All of them, shoot at those belongings, and it is better to destroy them than to leave them to these robbers." Since you don't dare to kill people subconsciously, it's always okay not to shoot people, right? Li Xiang calculated so.

The shortcoming of a straight bow could not be aimed for a long time, and this shortcoming put new demands on the tactics of the commander. Li Xiang and several leaders of the youth battalion have been thinking about new tactics, but without actual combat support, they are in the air after all.

Then again, it's also unrealistic to have a bunch of recruits shoot at people, and archers shoot mostly from coverage.

The straight bow has new requirements for formation, tactics and training, and is in some ways a new weapon. The only reasonable tactic is to use the formation to shoot probabilistic shots at enemies in a specific area with a dense rain of arrows. Of course, these are all later words, and it took three years for the straight bow tactics to gradually mature.

Liu Decheng returned to his team nervously and conveyed the new aiming method, and obviously heard the relieved voices of many teenagers.

The blood of the Chinese people has been castrated from generation to generation, and there is not much left. For the vast majority of teenagers who have never seen blood, aiming and shooting at people is beyond the scope of their subconscious acceptance.

But when they heard that they were just shooting at the property next to the officers and soldiers, these teenagers were excited and furious. Just a few days after eating meat, you came to rob, this is Mingyue Village, we are robbers!

"Arrows!" Hearing Li Xiang's order, Liu Decheng and other young people picked up a diamond-shaped barb arrow of standardized production, put it on the reserved position on the straight bow, and pulled the bowstring with his right hand.

The straight bow does not require accurate shooting, and instead of using the difficult Mongolian archery method, it uses three fingers to exert power, so the youth camp members wear leather gloves on their right hands.

"Ready!" Li Xiang's order came again, and at this time, the accurate shooting of the crossbow had suppressed Mengxue's archers, and the bearded commander, Huang Liren's distant grandson-in-law, Pan Ze, was already preparing to storm the wall.

Liu Decheng adjusted the angle of the straight bow according to the requirements of his usual training and roughly aimed. Then take a deep breath, close your eyes, and suppress the tension in your heart.

All the straight archers are in the same motion, and they are waiting for the final order.

"Shoot!" When the order was given, all the youth battalion members suddenly opened their eyes and pulled their straight bows to the fullest.

The battle was fierce, with the sound of crossbow arrows and shouts of killing, and it was very noisy. But so many people pulled the bowstring together, and there was still the sound of "creaking" bows, and the heavy breathing of the youth.

When the thumb of the left hand touches the "firing point" below the arrow, immediately release the right hand. This time, only three members of the team released empty arrows, and the three of them re-mounted the arrows with red faces.

Arrows up to 90 centimeters long twist and swing under the thrust, and the feathers make a brushing sound. With the sound of the bowstring flicking cotton, dozens of arrows flew towards the crossbowmen and the sword players in charge of the guards......

After firing three arrows in succession, Li Xiang ordered the shooting to be suspended and the results of the battle were observed.