In order to make the best use of the material, Xiao Xuan began to let the firearms who had already been prepared shoot at different distances.

The power of firearms was obviously much better than bows and arrows in the eyes of the teenagers, especially when shooting at a significantly higher specification than the charge under the initial pursuit of absolute safety according to Xiao Xuan's request.

Perhaps because most of these firearms or three-eyed guns had been used in the previous battles near the noon gate, it was only a total of more than twenty rounds of fire, and one firearm exploded. Fortunately, Xiao Xuan had taken precautions to fire with a wooden frame, so there were no casualties, but many teenagers still greatly changed their views on firearms as a safety weapon.

The teenagers found that even at a distance of about four or five steps, only one-third of the solid lead bullets fired by those fire door guns broke the selected iron-clad cotton armor, and even if it was about ten steps, it was difficult to cause much impact and harm.

Of course, Xiao Xuan knew very well in his heart that it was not that there was something wrong with the power of a weapon like the Fire Gate Gun, but that even if this kind of firearm was selected under the craftsman system of the Ming Dynasty, it was far from reaching the level of armor that threatened even if the performance was not very good. As for the fear of individual firearms that these teenagers might bring about because of this, Xiao Xuan was not too worried. Xiao Xuan also had a lot of thought about this issue: his more than 500 teenagers were almost not too far from the boundary limit of his management. If he, a mediocre general, could only manage more than a thousand people at most like a grade director, even if these people were not exactly officers of the new battalion, night vision would be used as the core backbone of the family. Let these people be firearms hands, it is not as good as the reasonable use of the family members: to supervise the combat team to ensure the combat order of more people, which obviously requires more cold weapon combat ability than completely firearm combat ability. Firearms only give these people the bare minimum of combat capability when necessary.

In addition to the power test, Xiao Xuan also conducted actual combat aiming and shooting training using an hourglass for a limited time. It is to let the person who is quite good at equestrianism wear armor and cover the main head with a shield, and then drag a kite-like "head target" behind him four or five feet away. After that, soldiers are randomly selected to shoot at such moving targets with bows and arrows or firearms that are not very powerful.

In the end, after several rounds of testing and adjustment, the result was that the firearm still had a higher hit rate. Within three steps, even a beginner can achieve one-fifth of the hit rate with a firearm such as a single weapon for such a moving head target, but the hit rate of a beginner with a bow and arrow is less than one-tenth. The reason is also very simple, in the face of high-speed moving targets, even if Xiao Xuan told everyone to pay attention to the advance amount before, he always did not grasp this advance amount when he released the bow. It is roughly estimated that when a cavalry with a speed of seven or eight paces per second moves sideways, the target often moves a distance of one meter in a tenth of a second. The advantage of the bow and arrow will only be reflected when hitting an infantry target mop or a slow target with a distance of more than five paces.

Although the accuracy of shooting cannot be compared with the actual shooting rate of individual firearms, when Xiao Xuan tests the cumulative hit rate per unit time according to time, even if he is selected as a beginner who can just do not drop an arrow, the number of hits per unit time still exceeds that of a firearm.

Of course, things changed a little when firing with a turtledove or a larger decent arquebus, especially when using such a musket to fire buckshots. Hitting a "weak target" such as a head target or a hand target ensures an advantage in the face of the bow and arrow at various distances.

After this series of tests, at least three pieces of armor have been beaten. Xiao Xuan didn't care, and selected a few pieces of armor that were of top quality in the Ming army at this time to test. This time the test was how to be most effective against targets not only armoured, but also heavily shielded at medium and long distances.

In order to enlighten the young officers and soldiers in military affairs, Xiao Xuan took the initiative to ask everyone this question: "You say: A heavy protection target with a shield fifty paces away can't be shot through with a strong bow with a stone, not even a turtledove, what is the best way to kill such a target?" ”

After the previous half-day and night-long enlightenment, the teenagers at this time do not seem to be completely unenlightened laymen.

"With the general's cannon... I can't stop it with any shield."

"The number of general cannons is too small, and it's too wasteful, huh? How about firing a large shotgun with a second general cannon? ”

"It seems that these Franc machines in the team have not been tested, I don't know how effective it is...

People raised their hands and spoke enthusiastically. Xiao Xuan still didn't give a standard answer directly at this time, after all, he didn't know very well about this issue. In this way, the sound of guns on the school field once again rang out one after another, all kinds of guns, all kinds of shotguns, all kinds of charge standards, and different levels of protection at different distances.

More than 200 fires were fired in a period of nearly an hour and a half, and 10 sets of fine card holders were completely used, and finally the young officers and men had a relatively full understanding of the effectiveness of these selected firearms.

"Holy Lord, it seems that the effectiveness of firearms is indeed superior to that of bows and arrows. At least there's a way to deal with whatever the goal ... ”

"Yes, although the bow and arrow can also deal with targets within a certain range, the hit rate is too low, and several times the rate of fire can't make up for the difference between more than ten times or even twenty times the effective hit, it's still ... Still is... ”

"It's still three or five times the difference in effectiveness...

This result was actually not unexpected by Xiao Xuan. After all, even if the level of these selected firearms is not high, if they do not even have the effectiveness of beginner archers, they will not have played an important role in the army since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Xiao Xuan didn't intend to say it with his mouth, but directly asked the archery master who had been looking for him to conduct a new round of tests, in addition to threatening the target of heavy shield armor from a distance, the number of hits per unit time of shooting against the "weak target" alone can only be compared to when a major general or a second general's cannon fires a shotgun.

Xiao Xuan therefore bluntly asked in a loud voice: "Tell me, like your level of archery." If a person with average qualifications has sufficient bows and arrows and sufficient practice conditions, how long will it take to reach this level? Oh, I'm referring to the archery at the level of the five-bucket hunting bow... ”