The archer pondered for a moment and then replied cautiously: "Returning to the Holy Lord, a person with ordinary qualifications, if his strength is not too wasted on weekdays, and he practices diligently, he can open four or five bucket bows in about three months. If you choose one out of ten, your strength and stature are more prominent, and you can use a hunting bow of about four or five buckets after about ten days of diligent practice to master the essentials. As for shooting accuracy, everyone has different qualifications, for the mediocre. Do not seek fast, but accurate, arrows and arrows can understand the results, and carefully adjust, guide properly, less than two or three hundred arrows, more than seven or eight hundred arrows of practical training, when can be achieved... Oh, and everyone doesn't have the same understanding, so ... Therefore, there is no guarantee that it will be so. It's just that a lot of effort has not been used in bows and arrows over the years, and the handles in hand have been abandoned. Now the qualified level is actually just the general experience when I was young when I learned martial arts, 100 steps to shoot a 25-foot human target, 20 steps to shoot the bull's-eye size of the target, with not more than eight buckets of hard bows, three arrows at least two is not too difficult to do... ”

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan had some confidence in his heart, and asked the archer for a more convincing basis: "What if the requirements are higher?" It must be said that there should be a one-foot target 100 steps away and a head target 50 steps away. . . ”

The archer replied a little nervously, "This... After the 25-foot target in 100 steps, the target is 3-in-1, and it is like going one step further than a hundred-foot goal, which often becomes more and more difficult. Because the former is just familiar with the characteristics of the bow and arrow, the latter is familiar with and perceive his own body, and it may be difficult for the master who practiced martial arts to shoot a target about a foot away with a bow and arrow, and two out of three arrows... At this time, the archer accidentally saw Xiao Xuan and seemed to be a little disappointed, so he continued: "Although it is difficult to shoot a fixed target, if it is the kind of movable target carried by people and horses tested on the school field before, it may not be so difficult to improve the level compared to beginners... ”

Xiao Xuan didn't say much, and said directly: "Then you can try it yourself!" It's okay to get familiar with it for a while. The tenth arrow has just started to use the hourglass to count the results, and you don't need to have too much pressure."

In this way, according to Xiao Xuan's arrangement, after initially getting familiar with the four or five hunting bows that are more convenient, this archer opened the bow and released the arrows according to the standards of the previous test, and the hit rate went up at once, at least ten times more than that of the previous teenager, and the hit rate per unit time was at least several times that of ordinary soldiers using ordinary fire door guns and even small Franc machines.

After this whole morning of testing, Xiao Xuan's heart has become much more confident. Although he is not yet completely sure, Xiao Xuan believes that as long as he does not treat these people under his command as ordinary soldiers, and does not hesitate to spend training at any cost, or at the cost of dozens of taels of silver per person every year, at least in terms of accurate shooting, it will definitely exceed the effectiveness of using firearms, so he seems to be confident and said to the teenagers: "The projectiles and gunpowder of the fire gun are determined by the craftsmen, and more not by training. The effectiveness of the bow and arrow is determined by your training. Before, it was only the first time you touched the bow, and you are still far from getting started, and there is actually a lot of room for improvement through training in the future, but no matter how you train a firearm, its improved effectiveness is also limited. For some heavily protected targets at medium and long distances, or even vehicle formations like us, bows and arrows may always be not very useful because of one or another problem, which is where there is no substitute for guns. However, when the opponent approaches, to better deter and suppress the opponent, the ordinary fire door gun cannot play the role of a bow and arrow. As for carrying guns and decent turtledove guns, at least one-third of the decent firearms in the entire Northern Zhili are concentrated in this Imperial Horse Prison. Most of the rest are in the hands of the various military formations on the Liaodong front, and I can't afford to arm everyone with these decent firearms, because it is said that the manufacture of such firearms is also very difficult... ”

Not all of the teenagers who have been tested on the school field are completely convinced of these words, after all, no one is sure that they will reach the level of that middle-aged archer just by training in the future, but Xiao Xuan's next words made many people feel a trace of excitement and excitement: "More importantly: you hundreds of people are not ordinary soldiers, even if you are not the officers of the new battalion in the future, you will be an important backbone such as captain and non-commissioned officer." You'll need to lead by example to contain your enemies, but one of the more important tasks is to oversee the battles of your soldiers, so you'll have to learn the skills of overseeing the battle, not just the bow and arrow, but also the most basic white arts. Let the soldiers who are likely to be shaken by the pressure on the battle formation understand: You have to be more terrible than the enemy, so that the whole battle formation can have a little more security in the face of a strong enemy... After many days of discipline training, these words still made hundreds of teenagers cheer with excitement.

"Well, through this morning's rather substantial test, you have a more mature understanding of firearms and fortification. I didn't have a lot of exercise this morning, so don't be completely idle during your lunch break after lunch. Let's use our brains and think about how we should prepare for the first live confrontation drill tomorrow! After the team discusses the results, they can report back to each city, the first five are an hour later, and I will report here, and the last five will come to report here after an hour and a half... ”

In this way, after fully mobilizing the enthusiasm and thinking of the teenagers, in just one lunch break, the teenagers of each team really put forward a lot of formation tactics and plans, but they can be roughly classified into three categories: one is to pay more attention to guns and firearms shotguns, especially gunners. Archers require low close-range shots, and it should be said that the proportion of this category is relatively large. There is also a group of archers who have to shoot together with firearms to cover the enemy, both at long and near range, as long as they are within effective coverage. There is also a category that is even rarer, believing that the car formation is not easy to die too much, and there should be room for stragglers to attack, so as to attack instead of defend, etc. Among the three categories, the proportion of individual firearms and guns is also different.

It seems that these proposals seem to be quite reasonable, which makes Xiao Xuan a little confused for a while, but after weighing it for a while, Xiao Xuan still feels that he should not be like his past self for the time being, and it is better to be a famous general and a god in a cross-plane historical novel, and the correct understanding should be a conclusion drawn in practice.