The original plan was that Xiao Xuan planned to use one afternoon, at most one afternoon and one evening, to lead the teenagers into the main topic. It's just that when it is found that many people have problems with numeracy, they can only turn the original sand table deduction class into a kindergarten teacher class. In the case that most people do not know more than 100 words at most, they first learn to know the units of ruler, zhang and meter. Then, like a kindergarten aunt, explain what is ten, what is hundred, what is thousand, and the general concept. However, when it comes to this kind of teaching, the sand table becomes a great tool. In addition, the ability of young people to perceive things is much stronger than that of young children, although the energy-consuming literacy class or pinyin class still needs to be considered in the long run, but the teaching in the big tent for several hours has allowed hundreds of teenagers to have a general understanding of the simulated sand table and the distance and even the concept of weight unit and time unit.

The next morning, after less than an hour of queue training, Xiao Xuan once again asked the teenagers to come to the sand table tent, which also made the junior officers and soldiers somewhat unexpected.

"You know why we didn't have a queue and gun formation today and let you come here in the morning? In fact, it is needless to say that it is necessary to brainstorm and explore future training methods that can really gain recognition. Let's recall now, what is everyone's deepest feeling about the battle near the noon gate before? In addition to artillery and explosives, what weapons and classes have played the greatest role--- raise your hand to answer... ”

Since the previous battle has not passed too far away, many people still remember it vividly. And unlike the modern battlefield with huge mental pressure, many people still have a clear memory of the whole battle.

In the beginning, neither the explosion nor the artillery could break through the palace walls, and the opponents often returned fire with arrows, and many more people threw stones from inside the palace walls. Most of the throwable stones are easy to dodge, but the occasional bow and arrow don't seem to be so easy to dodge due to their speed and small frontal cross-section. Firearms and artillery also had a number of problems when firing at the beginning: they could not suppress opponents hiding behind the palace walls. In retrospect, especially when the bodies of prisoners and opponents were collected for decapitation, in addition to the casualties caused by the blasting attack. Most of the remaining dozen or so enemy casualties came from bows and arrows, and they were clearly bows and arrows fired by the cavalry archers of the elite of the Imperial Horse Warden.

"If our army relies on chariot formations on the battlefield in the future, how should we prevent the enemy cavalry from spreading and projecting along the flanks like our army's imperial horse and archers before it? Especially when the enemy army also has a lot of infantry or vehicle barrels carrying heavy shields in front of the enemy. You know: The Jiannu outside the gate is not as shabby as the people we dealt with before... ”

The multi-day training at this time still had some effect, at least at this time, the teenagers thought of some of the consequences of not following the rules and the identity of the emperor, and basically came according to the requirements, and many of them stretched out their right hands.

"You can threaten the other party's rangers with a normal firecracker, right?"

"Yes, you can use a decent artillery to deal with the opponent's approaching car. Could it be that the enemy's position is as strong as the palace wall near the noon gate? ”

"The other party used bows and arrows, and our army also fought back with bows and arrows? I've heard that a bow on a horse is not as far as a foot bow and can shoot accurately."

"You can also use artillery to fire shotguns to attack enemy horses...

When many people expressed their opinions, Xiao Xuan did not rely on his own assumptions to refute them, but ordered the officers and non-commissioned officers of the battalion who had a slightly higher level of Chinese proficiency as temporary cultural instructors to record these opinions.

"Okay, if these methods you said are feasible and useful, there will be an opportunity to practice target shooting in the afternoon, and I will arrange it myself. But put that aside for now. In fact, you can also divide into two groups and think about what kind of troops to use: firearms, artillery, bows and arrows, or long or short melee soldiers to form a formation to engage the opponent. Tomorrow, we will also conduct some actual combat simulation confrontations according to the methods you have summarized. Whichever group wins the top five and bottom five will have the opportunity to get at least one day off... "The tension and pressure of the past few days have made even one day off a little exciting for the young officers and soldiers.

Then Xiao Xuan continued: "In the previous battle outside the noon gate, the quality of the armor on your body far exceeded the training level of the opponent's archers, but when we faced a strong enemy outside the gate who could open a stone bow, I am afraid we were not so lucky. Of course, even this has to be tested to understand. Our army must develop a habit: most things can not only be taken for granted on the sand table and drawings, but also go through the school field test that simulates the actual situation as much as possible, do you understand? ”

"Got it!" When they heard that this kind of confrontation "game" was going to be organized for the first time, the young officers and soldiers who were still young at heart couldn't help but get a little excited.

Near noon, a strange middle-aged man on the school field pulled out a bow that didn't look small. At this time, there were very few elite soldiers in the entire Ming Dynasty who could open the one-stone bow required by Qi Jiguang in the "Record of Military Training", and almost most of them were concentrated among the private bodyguards or military generals of the big households. There was no one in the entire Imperial Horse Prison who could open a bow worth one hundred and twenty pounds. Although it is not like the legendary modern Chinese bow and arrow world, there are only two or three hundred people who can shoot a 150-pound one-stone battle bow, but it is not easy to find.

Of course, the emperor is an emperor after all, especially an emperor like himself who has just established his position by force, this kind of thing that does not involve the interests of too many people, and finally found an archer who can shoot a strong bow with a stone when he was prepared in advance, and also found a lot of war arrows suitable for a stone war bow.

At a distance of about ten paces, the heavy arrows of plum needles shot from a strong bow of about one stone not only pierced the front of the armor that had been distributed to the teenagers before, but even left obvious marks on the wooden stakes covered by the armor. This also shocked Xiao Xuan a little. At least in my own understanding, a war bow that is just one stone should not have such power, even if it is not a high-grade plate armor, it is obvious, I am afraid that the high-grade armor selected by these imperial horse supervisors does not have the ability to resist a strong bow of one stone head-on.

At a distance of about 100 paces, after seven or eight arrows in succession, the plum needle war arrows shot from a strong bow still penetrated the armor that had been used before, but it seemed that the damage was a little smaller, and there were no big traces on the stakes supporting the armor.

In order to make the officers and soldiers aware of the consequences of encountering real war bows and arrows on the battlefield, every young officer and soldier also saw clearly under the request.