Spring is blooming, and the earth is recovering. Spring in western Liaoning is later than in the Central Plains, but it will come eventually. In March, it was still cold, but for the White Wolf Riders who had just come out of the harsh winter in Saibei, it was nothing at all, and they were training hot.

Under the leadership of Ma Han, Tai Shici, Tian Yu, Tang Nu, Wu Chai and others, with 400 white wolf horsemen as the backbone, the old and the new were used to train 1,500 recruits (when attacking Wencheng, 100 people were lost, and the total strength was less than 2,000). Ma Han, Tang Nu, and Wu Chai are all very mature cavalry training officers, mainly responsible for cavalry training, while Tai Shici and Tian Yu have a lot of experience in the basic training of cavalry and infantry of the Han Dynasty and are responsible for infantry training.

After a winter, although I have to spend most of my time in cat winter, and I don't have much time to train, it is quite effective, at least it looks like an army.

These 400 most elite white wolf horsemen were the first Han slaves to follow the horsemen, and there were also a small number of Hu people, but no matter Han or Hu, they all had absolute worship and loyalty to the horses. Among them, nearly half of them were mid- and low-ranking officers of the White Wolf Battalion, leading the training of cavalry and infantry recruits recruited from Liaodong, and at the same time passing on this worship and loyalty to the entire unit.

At the foot of the White Wolf Mountain, 200 selected white wolf horsemen were trying to fire a new weapon, a new type of pulley bow.

Meng Yuan and Ma Jun, together with more than 20 craftsmen, spent almost four months, spent a lot of energy, scrapped countless waste products, and finally came up with more than 200 combinations of eccentric wheels, all of which are bronze products (not easy to rust), handmade, as if they were exquisite handicrafts. Ma Han also knew that this was too slow. But the efficiency of craftsmanship in this era is like this, he is just a small city guard. There are not enough financial, material and human resources to change and improve.

The difficulty of the pulley bow is this eccentric wheel, and there is no problem with other bowstrings. With the eccentric wheel. It can save three to four percent of effort, that is, if you can only open two stone bows before, you can now open three stones. The first batch of 200 pulley bows were all three-stone bows, so strong archers had to be selected to use them.

The Xianbei people and Karasuma people usually refer to the archers who use one stone and five buckets or two stones to ride the bow, which is equivalent to 90 to 120 catties of bow power. Since most of the Hu people made their own bows, their ability was limited. Most of the people who are qualified to use strong bows made by professional archers are tooth tent guards, and the bow power used by tooth tent guards is usually no more than two stones. Of course, occasionally there are a few particularly fierce ones who can use two stones, five buckets or even three stones, and such strong archers have long been promoted to the rank of a hundred or a thousand people. No one will be a pawn.

Therefore, once the White Wolf Cavalry is fully equipped with a three-stone bow that can be pulled away with only a hundred catties of strength, it is definitely a suppressive combat power, and the cavalry and archery battle is completely invincible. This kind of tactic can really be brought into play.

At this moment, Ma Han, Tai Shici, Tian Yu, Tang Nu, and Wu Chai, the senior military and political officials of White Wolf City, were standing on a small hill. With a slightly nervous mood, he looked at the battle between the two hundred white wolf horsemen holding the pulley bow and the five hundred white wolf battalion cavalry fighting each other a hundred paces away.

The red side and the white wolf ride hard. Blue White Wolf Battalion Cavalry. Both sides are almost identical in equipment and have the same horsepower. Saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes are available, and the armor is the same, and all use non-arrowless blood bubble arrows. The so-called non-arrowhead blood bubble arrow is to remove the iron arrowhead, the arrow is wrapped in a two-end tightly tied sheep intestine blood bag, the sheep intestine is blown round and bulging, the intestinal wall is so thin that it is almost transparent, and it contains a trace amount of sheep blood. As long as the arrow hits the body or the horse, under the impact of the arrow, the sheep intestine blood bag will burst open, leaving obvious blood marks at the hit site. On both sides of the battlefield, there were dozens of cavalrymen with red flags, specializing in referees.

However, both sides also have an advantage that their opponents do not have: the blue side is a strong force, with 500 cavalry, including 200 white wolf cavalry, and 300 elite recruits with excellent cavalry shooting. Red has the advantage of weapons, they are uniformly equipped with pulley bows, and they have more arrows than their opponents. This is a showdown between new weapons and strong troops, and whether the combination of new weapons and new tactics can offset the superiority in troops, win more with less, and win more with small forces, depends on the actual combat drills that will be held at the meeting.

Ma Han nodded to the flag commander, the flag commander carried a cowhide flag bag, on which were planted with various small flags, immediately after the order pulled out a triangular red flag, to the bottom of the mountain to play a few simple flags, the foot of the hill to the flag bearer waved the penny yellow flag in response, while the drummer blew the horn.

Woo-woo-woo

A desolate horn sounded on the vast land, and the seven hundred drill troops, one man and two horses, and thousands of war horses were shocked, as if the thunder in the sky exploded from the ground.

The distance between the red and blue armies is one stone's throw away, which is the standard distance between the two armies, the Red Army goes first, and the Blue Army pursues in two ways, which is like the actual combat scene of being surrounded and chased by the enemy's superior forces.

Both sides had similar horsepower and the ability to control their horses - at least for the white wolf horsemen, it was difficult to distinguish between them, and although the slightly inferior new cavalry was lagging behind, the pursuit was already a front and a back, and it was not a big problem. Both sides also have spare horses, and if they chase after them like this, they may not be able to catch up until they run out of horsepower. In this case, you can see where the advantage of the force lies. The five hundred wolf cavalry were divided into two, one team pursued and the other team went around, so that after three rounds and two turns, a Ouroboros pursuit and a flank volley would be formed, so that the opponent's belly and back were in a favorable position for the enemy's blue army.

The commander of the Red Army was Wu Chase, and as soon as he saw the division of the Blue Army, he immediately ordered to blow the horn of the counterattack. Two hundred bows were raised diagonally in unison, and in the midst of the rapid gallop, they turned and pointed at the pursuers a hundred paces behind them.

The three-stone bow, which is fired with five taels of arrows and arrows downwind, can cause armor-piercing damage to targets a hundred paces away, which is simply a cheat compared to the average cavalry who must be fifty or sixty paces away before they can fire.

The commander of the BLU team was Donnu, and he had never believed in the power of this strange three-strand bow with a strange iron ring and a thin three-strand string bow. Wu Chai only let him look at the appearance of the strange bow, and then said, "I'll wash the saddle later." ”

Before the drill started, it was as if Lao Tzu had lost! Donuna called an angry crown, holding his breath and asking you to chase me to wash my horse's ass.

When Tang Nubing intercepted in two ways, he was still proud. However, when he saw that the two hundred white wolf horsemen led by Wu Chaser had raised their bows a hundred paces away. I was stunned...... What's going on? Bow in a hundred steps, what does this kid want to do? Is it possible that you still want to snipe the enemy in a hundred steps? If that's fine, that's fine. That's a fart, just admit defeat.

The next moment, Donnu was dumbfounded.

Stretch Tension -

The strings sounded densely, the sky was full of arrows, and when they got close to the eyes, the red blood bubbles were like the blood pupils of demons......

Puff puff! Blood flowers burst open, people scream horses, and smoke and dust fly. Someone even fell off a horse.

Arrows, no arrowheads. body, protection. But the strong impact still caused a lot of damage to the centaurs. Some arrows still pierce the horse's body, and some arrows hit vulnerable parts of the human body, such as the hands, feet, and heads, which are not too thickly wrapped, and fall off the horse in pain and dizziness.

Donnu was also hit by two arrows, one in the arm. One is the helmet, according to the rules of the exercise, this is a minor injury, and you can continue to fight. Donnu was no longer confused. He was just shocked. A hundred steps back to the horse galloping, he can also do it, four hundred white wolves in the middle of the horse. At least a hundred people can do it, provided that they use a two-stone bow. Shooting unarmored cavalry from a hundred paces away is not a big problem. It is also possible to break a single layer of leather armor, but after the armor is broken. The flesh is not deep, and unless it is shot at the vital point, it is most likely to be injured but not killed.

In terms of the impact and pain of the arrow in his arm, the strength of this arrow is definitely more than two stones, and if it is equipped with an iron arrowhead, it can definitely shoot through the arm. Looking at the soldier next to him who was shot off his horse by the arrowless arrow, Donnu even felt that the other party was using a three-stone bow...... But the problem is, it's not one or two people, it's two hundred! The two hundred cavalrymen who made the three-stone bow were afraid that all the strong archers of the three prefectures of Karasuma would be concentrated, and that would be no more than that.

More than 200 cavalry under Tang Nu were shocked by this unexpected blow, and when they were advancing and retreating, the opposite string was like thunder, and the second, third, and fourth rounds of critical attacks came one after another. Donnu can only run, and he must run in a dispersed manner, the formation is too dense, and he is "killed" faster.

The Red Army's 200 white wolf horsemen did not need to give orders at all, and each wolf horseman was very skilled in grasping the fighter plane and immediately returned to his horse to chase and kill. The backward cavalry was constantly cleared one by one, and only stopped to rest until they could no longer catch up. At this time, the other cavalry of the Blue Army was also frightened, and the home team broke up in just a moment. Seeing that the Red Army was going to raise horsepower and recuperate, they did not dare to step forward.

Soon after, after the rest was over, the Red Army, which was full of energy, began to fight back again. 100 steps to 50 steps, attacking from afar and approaching the lackeys, you can imagine the fate of the Blues' vice-team......

"What a strong bow! Good tactics! 100 steps to snipe the enemy, people chase me to avoid, people flee and I chase, like maggots attached to the bones, never die. Tai Shi Ci clapped his hands with his fist, and his face turned red with excitement, "With this strong bow and such tactics, even if it is a famous horse in the world such as Karasuma and Xianbei, he can only escape." If it is used to attack the troops in the Central Plains that lack cavalry and are mainly foot soldiers, it is simply ...... It was nothing short of a disaster. ”

Tian Yu was also in a mood: "In the past, when the White Wolf Cavalry was still known as the Hange Cavalry, this tactic was used, but because of the disadvantage of the bow and arrow, the advantage of the Karasuma Elite Cavalry was not obvious...... If there was this pulley bow when Hange Village was besieged that day, how could the old thief of Wuyan be rampant? ”

Ma Han was not as excited as the two of them, and pointed to the Red Army: "When the Red Army defeated the main team of the Blue Army, they fired a total of five volleys, and the scattering was incorrect, have you noticed, at least half of the arrows did not shoot a hundred paces, but fell seventy or eighty paces away, and some did not even reach sixty steps. If it weren't for that, Donnu's home team of the Blues would not even have a chance to escape, and would break up directly. ”

Tai Shi Ci also calmed down, frowned, and said, "Could it be ...... The one of the pulley bows...... What do you mean by 'performance' instability? ”

"I'm afraid so." Ma Han nodded and ordered, "The drill is over, collect the team, count, and check the bow and arrow." ”

Needless to say, in this battle, the Blue Army lost in a mess, not even touching a single Red Army hair, and its own net loss amounted to more than 400 cavalry -- such a high loss ratio was equivalent to the annihilation of the entire army for the cavalry. However, there were more than 10 minor and serious injuries during the exercise, and the most serious one was that he was trampled on his leg bone after falling off his horse.

Such losses are within the acceptable range of horses, what is a real combat exercise? In addition to reducing the lethality of weapons, the rest of the qiē is no different from the real battlefield, and in such a simulated actual combat situation, it is already very good to be able to avoid death. Wounded soldiers will receive timely treatment, and if they are disabled as a result, they can also be treated like veterans.

Uchai was overjoyed, and Donnu was dejected, and at the sight of the horseman, he demanded that his cavalry be equipped with this new bow. Ma Hum ignored him, and only repeatedly asked about the experience of using the red white wolf Humste, and finally found the problem.

It is mainly a matter of battlefield environment and climate season. This is the northern Xinjiang, at this time it is March, the wind and sand dust, attached to the surface of the pulley, causing the friction between the bowstring and the pulley to increase, the tension is insufficient, so the shot is not far. This can also wear out the bowstring, scratch the pulleys, and shorten the service life.

Ma Han immediately summoned Meng Yuan and Ma Jun and proposed to them the idea of using a closed eccentric wheel and a chord groove movable opening and hinge. This maximizes the protection of the eccentric wheel, maintains lethality, and prolongs the service life.

This supplementary device is not difficult, you can understand it at a glance, Mengyuan said, and all modifications can be completed in a few days.

When he turned around, he saw Tai Shi Ci playing with his magic pupil bow with a hundred refining steel eccentric wheels. After the modification, the magic pupil bow saves one-third of the effort, and only needs the pull of the seven-stone bow to use the twelve-stone super strong bow freely. In other words, Ma Han can complete hundreds of shots with the Demon Pupil Bow without exhaustion. Even Tai Shici can barely shoot three or five arrows.

"City guard, I also need a bow like this." Tai Shici and Tian Yu were almost in unison.

"No problem, you can customize it to Mengyuan according to your own bow opening strength."

"City guard, these two hundred strong riders, see if you give me a part......" Donnu's eyes also lit up.

"Don't think about it!" Ma Han waved his hand, "This new pulley bow is still too few, we must use it intensively in order to exert its power." I am going to draw out the 200 strong cavalry and set up a special strong cavalry army, which I will lead directly. ”

At this time, even Tian Yu also expressed his support: "The city guard should have a direct cavalry guard a long time ago." ”

Tai Shi Ci smiled: "Such a strong army, you have to have a name." ”

Ma Haugh touched his smooth chin and said, "This cavalry army originates from the White Wolf Horseman, and it is the sharpest tooth in the wolf horse, well, it's called the Wolf Tooth Flying Horse!" (To be continued......)