The archery skills of the brothers in Liangshan were not very good, so Shi Jin had to work hard to train the bow battalion by himself.

After all, when he learned eighteen martial arts with Wang Jin, Shi Jin also studied archery seriously.

Yang didn't dare to say that he could hit the bull's-eye at sixty or seventy meters.

You must know that the current range of the Olympic Games is 70 meters, even if the top archery masters who train archery all day long and are selected from a country are not 10 rings of arrows, but more than 9 rings.

On this day, Shi Jin went down the mountain to the military camp to practice the cavalry battalion and the bow and arrow battalion.

There were thirty-five cavalry battalions before, but now there are 231 war horses, and Shi Jin has replaced 34 horses with green salt to Hu Taigong and Li Ying. A total of 300 horses were gathered, and the cavalry battalion was expanded to 300 men.

The original cavalry battalion soldiers were all promoted to squad leaders, platoon commanders, and company commanders, and the old led the new, so that Shi Jin didn't have to worry about it.

Shi Jin mainly focused on the bow and arrow camp.

Bows and arrows use the force of rebound to shoot arrows out. Generally speaking, the greater the pulling force, the greater the range.

In order to have an effective lethality range of more than 100 meters, you must have a bow and arrow of more than one stone.

However, in ancient times, it took more than a year to make a good bow with a pulling force of more than 1 stone.

In places like the army, where a large number of bows and arrows are needed, except for a few generals who may have a good bow of more than 1 stone, ordinary soldiers use simple bows and arrows, and the effective lethality of flat shooting is also sixty or seventy meters. After this distance, even if you hit someone, it basically doesn't have much lethality.

If it is projectile, the effective lethality can reach about 100 meters.

This time, 7 good bows of 2 stone and 22 good bows of 1 stone were seized from Zhujiazhuang.

There are 341 ordinary bows and arrows, plus the old bows and arrows in Liangshan, which can form an archery battalion of 500 people.

To become an archer, the first thing is that he must have good eyesight and must not have night blindness.

Because the enemy is likely to attack at night, the archers will need to counterattack.

You can't even see the enemy, shoot a fart!

In addition to good eyesight, whether it is an ordinary bow or a good bow, the archer must also have good arm strength, chest muscles and back muscles, otherwise the arm will have no strength if the bow is pulled several times in a row.

Practicing bow and arrow starts with practicing arm strength.

Shi Jin stood in front of the soldiers of the newly formed bow battalion and shouted loudly,

"Among the many soldiers of the Liangshan Army, only you and the cavalry have a monthly salary of 5 taels of silver, the sailors have 4 taels, and the spearmen and sword soldiers only have 3 taels. Do you know why? ”

"Because you are archers, know that you are the best and the best. Whether it's offensive or defensive, you all have great lethality! ”

"For every arrow you shoot, you have the potential to kill an enemy."

"For every enemy you kill, your comrades, your companions may die one less."

"You take more money than others, and you have to come back naturally more than others. Got it? ”

When the archers heard that their monthly salary was 5 taels, the highest in the whole army, they immediately shouted in unison with excitement and joy. "Yes, sir!"

"It's good, now everybody takes turns doing 15 pull-ups and doing three sets. 100 push-ups. Lift a 40-pound stone lock 50 times. Whoever dares to be lazy, Lao Tzu will make him regret it for the rest of his life. Fast! Fast! Fast! ”

Shi Jin walked beside the archers with a bamboo whip and supervised their training.

Seeing that guy couldn't hold on, or slackened. Shi Jin would run over and yell at them.

"Are you kidding me? You can't hold on to how many things you've done. Nima's, hurry up and give Lao Tzu to continue, continue. Got it? ”

I saw that there was a guy who couldn't hold on, was lazy while doing push-ups, his butt was concave, and his body didn't drop much before he lifted up.

Shi Jin walked over and shouted with a whip on his ass, "Lift your ass and let Lao Tzu's body fall close to the ground." In recognition of your clever deeds, reward you now for 100 more exercises. If you can't do it, you don't have to eat tonight. ”

Shi Jin raised his head and shouted, "And that bastard wants to continue to be lazy, Lao Tzu doesn't mind rewarding him a few more times." If you don't want to increase the punishment, give Lao Tzu a serious job! ”

……

In the morning, Shi Jin asked the archer to face the target with his left shoulder, hold the bow in his left hand, and spread his feet shoulder-width apart, the weight of his body fell evenly on his feet, and his body leaned forward slightly.

Then exert force with his right hand, pull the bow away, hold it, and then hold it motionless for half an hour.

Even if his arm was sore and his fingers were numb, Shi Jin didn't allow anyone to put it down, otherwise the bamboo whip in Shi Jin's hand would immediately throw it over and make a mark, only hurt.

Finally, sweating on his back, he insisted on seeing that a stick of incense was about to burn out, and the archers thought they could finally take a break.

A group of spearmen walked past the archers, and when they saw the archers' stiff and painful appearance, they all laughed and laughed.

"Look at the way those idiots look, it's really funny."

"Yes, look if their red faces look like monkeys' butts!"

"When you say that, it seems to be true!"

"Hahaha......"

Hearing the humiliation of the pikemen, some archers immediately scolded, "Fuck you, I'll kill you!" ”

"Where did the yellow-haired boy come from, when Lao Tzu was killing, you didn't know where to play in the mud. Dare to laugh at your grandfather! ”

……

Hearing the archers' counterattack, the pikemen seemed to be annoyed, and suddenly stabbed their spears at the archers.

The archers, especially those in the front row, were immediately frightened when they saw this, and hurriedly retreated. "Get out of the way, these bastards are crazy!"

As the archers in the front row retreated, the archers in the back rows immediately retreated.

For a while, the formation of the entire archery battalion was completely deformed.

Shi Jin shouted angrily when he saw it, "Who approved that you can move, who ordered you to move!" ”

Several archers hurriedly explained: "Sir, it was their pikemen who threatened us with their spears first, and we just wanted to dodge. ”

Shi Jin squirted at a few of their archers, "Do you know what a military order is like a mountain and what an order is forbidden?" Say, "Have I given you an order that you may move?" ”

"There is no sir!" The archers bowed their heads and replied reluctantly.

Shi Jin shouted, "Then what are you waiting for, everyone will give Lao Tzu a penalty of 5 kilometers." Keep practicing after you've finished running! ”

The archers heard that they were running around the training ground under the leadership of the company commander.

This time, Shi Jin ran with them, shouting as he ran, "You all remember for me, let you do whatever you want, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you have to rush Lao Tzu when you give an order, understand?" ”

"Yes, sir!"

This time the answer was a little sparse, and it could be seen that there were still many archers who were not convinced.

Shi Jin thought in his heart that he should find more opportunities to train them.

Those pikemen were specially recruited by Shi Jin in order to hone the discipline of the archers.

Modern bullets have a fast rate of fire and great power, and ordinary people can't dodge them at all, and they can kill the enemy with a single shot.

But the arrows are different, if the distance is a little farther, the enemy has good eyesight, and the skill is fast, let alone dodge, you can directly grab the arrow.

Therefore, only a saturation strike can make the enemy have nowhere to escape and effectively kill.

This requires the archers to concentrate and fire according to the herald's orders even when facing enemy attacks, in order to exert the strongest and most effective lethality.

It's like the gun platoon party in modern Europe.

This requires an extraordinary amount of courage and discipline on the part of the archers, who must stand firm and not dodge, even if the enemy is already in front of them.