Murong Ping can shoot nine out of ten at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, which is already a very clever and powerful archery. Although he shoots at fixed targets, which is less difficult than moving targets on the battlefield, his superb marksmanship is enough to make him respected and valued in any unit.

The archers on the battlefield shoot with multiple rounds of concentrated salvos, and do not care about the mistakes of one or two arrows, as long as the rate of fire is fast enough and the range is long enough, it can form a saturation attack and make the enemy feel terrified.

Compared to bows, crossbows are called "nest bows" and are much easier to use. To put it bluntly, a crossbow is a bow equipped with arms, which is mainly composed of crossbow arms, crossbow bows, bowstrings, and crossbow machines. The bow is fired vertically, while the crossbow is fired horizontally.

The crossbow is developed from the bow, which converts the winding aiming of the bow from one step to two steps, so that the aiming is more calm and more accurate. At the same time, because the crossbow is wound with a pedal or waist force, the same person can withstand a greater bow force and have a longer range.

The crossbow is very convenient when firing the first arrow, because the crossbow arm bears the force before it is fired instead of the human arm, but it is much more laborious than the bow to continue firing the following arrows after it has been opened. As a result, crossbows fire at a slower rate than bows and are not as convenient to use as bows. A skilled archer can shoot a steady stream of arrows, and if there are enough of them, they can achieve local saturation shots, and in large-scale field battles, bows are obviously more effective than crossbows.

Bows are suitable for large-scale fire, while crossbows are suitable for assassinations and sneak attacks. Of course, those large crossbow machines that require the cooperation of more than two people are no longer within the scope of comparison of single-person bow crossbows, and should be classified as weapons.

In other words, as long as he is a good archer, he picks up a crossbow and shoots it, and the hit rate is still very high, even more accurate than the best crossbowman. And conversely, a good crossbowman will hardly be a good archer.

This principle is like the fact that the big truck master who took the A license in later generations was not at the same level at all compared with the car driver who took the C license.

At the end of the first round of archery competition, Murong Ping won a wonderful victory, and even several soldiers who lost the competition expressed their heartfelt admiration and congratulations to him.

Next, Shi A led Murong Ping to another melee infantry training venue for the second martial arts competition.

This time, Murong Ping competed with a team leader, a military marquis, and a military horse.

The competition adopts empty-handed hand-to-hand hand-to-hand combat, except for not being able to hit the opponent's lower yin, temples, throat and other key vital parts, the rest are unrestricted, if Murong Ping is not skilled in martial arts, it is very likely to be beaten by these experienced fighting leaders.

The actual process of the competition was a bit lackluster, far less exciting than when he was shooting arrows just now, because compared to these military camp leaders, Murong Ping's martial arts were still a lot higher than them. Several people first fought with Murong Ping one by one, but they were subdued by Murong Ping in less than ten moves. Then the three of them besieged Murong Ping together, and they were easily countered by him, breaking them one by one, beating his nose and face to be swollen.

A superb archer must be a strong man with amazing arm strength, otherwise how can he pull a hard bow with a fierce range? In addition to the high requirements for arm strength, archery should also continue to exert force at the waist to maintain the stability of the body, and the legs should also be firmly rooted on the ground without slight shaking. This is also the reason why it is difficult to train archers in large quantities, because the requirements for archers are too high.

Since Murong Ping is a superb marksman, can his martial arts be worse?

At the end of the two battles, Murong Ping won without any suspense, and became famous in the military camp for a while, and the results of the game quickly reached Liu He's ears.

After Liu He heard this, he was very happy, and personally sent Murong Ping a high-grade war horse and a set of valuable stainless steel armor, and appointed him in public as the commander and head of the archery battalion of the upcoming training regiment, and his rank was on the same level as that of the military Sima.

When Liu He came to Macheng, he brought six sets of Mingguang armor forged by hand by the blacksmith of Jicheng, of which two sets with the best craftsmanship were given to his henchman Zhao Yun, and the remaining three sets were given to Sun Li, Xian Yufu and Xiahou Lan respectively.

Mingguang armor, the armor with the strongest protection in the era of cold weapons, the design process is not complicated, and the difficulty lies in the requirements for steel. Because the cost is too high, although this kind of armor has appeared in this era, it is very rare, and it belongs to the best equipment that only the main general with the army has the opportunity to have.

In the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Zhi had a record of Mingguang armor in his "Armor Table of the First Emperor's Ministers", and at that time, Cao Zhi, as Lao Cao's favorite son, had the opportunity to get such a set of rewards, which shows that Mingguang armor was not easy to come by.

In addition, although the high-grade war horse that Liu He gave to Murong Ping is not as famous as "Red Rabbit" and "Lu", it is also a good Xianbei horse produced in Mobei, and it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the market!

Murong Ping was naturally very happy to receive such a heavy reward from his son, but he didn't understand where the so-called newly formed training group was located, and what he, the commander of the archery battalion and the head of the instructor, should do.

However, Murong Ping's doubts did not last long, because only one day later, that is, the next morning, Gongzi announced a military order called "Great Training" in public on the field of Macheng University!

Ma Cheng's soldiers, who had already experienced a "city-wide cleaning" activity, were no strangers to Childe's hobby of engaging in large-scale activities, but they still underestimated the scale and duration of this activity called "Great Training", and also underestimated Childe's determination and requirements.

The "large-scale military training" activity has set up a command center, with Liu Hegongzi personally serving as the commander-in-chief, and three groups under it: training, logistics, and assessment. Among them, the person in charge of the training group is Zhao Yun, and the team members are Xia Houlan, Sun Li, and Murong Ping; The person in charge of the logistics group is Liu Fang, and the team members are Ma Tai and Xu Miao; The person in charge of the assessment team is Wei You, and the team members are Li Yan and Cheng Xu.

The entire campaign lasts for one year and is divided into three phases. Among them, February, March and April are the intensive training stage, May to October is the actual combat training stage, and the last two months are the assessment and evaluation stage.

In the intensive training phase, all soldiers are first subjected to a comprehensive physical fitness and skill test, and then reclassified according to the test results. Middle- and lower-level officers and enlisted officers and soldiers who have excelled in the various tests will have the opportunity to enter the newly opened training regiment to receive comprehensive and systematic intensive training, and after three months of training, if not eliminated, will be promoted and reused.

During the actual combat training stage, the soldiers of each battalion who have completed their training will go to the predetermined combat area in batches to launch actual combat attacks on some predetermined targets.

During the assessment stage, a special assessment committee will be set up to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the physical fitness and skills of all officers and men participating in the training, and those who perform well will receive various rewards, including promotions, fields, money, weapons, war horses, armor, and a series of dazzling and rich rewards. Those who lag behind will be subject to various punishments ranging from light to severe, such as fines, demotion, transfer, and removal.

In order to ensure the safety of the border guards during the "large-scale military training," the cavalry battalion and spear battalion under the training regiment were set up in Ningcheng, the shooting battalion and halberd battalion were set up in Macheng, the hook and car battalion were set up in Gaoliu, and the axe battalion and the sword and shield battalion were set up in Guangning, with Zhao Yun, Murong Ping, Xiahoulan, and Sun Li each in charge of the two battalions.

During the large-scale military training, if there is a battle that is critical to the security of the border fortress and Youzhou, all the soldiers participating in the training will immediately be transferred from training to combat and will be organized and dispatched on the spot. After the fighting, they continued to return to the battalions for training.

In order to clarify the standards and specific implementation rules for the training, Liu Hegongzi will also send capable subordinates to personally participate in the entire training process, record various training data, refer to the existing training curriculum of the Han army, draft a new set of standard training and teaching models, and at the same time formulate quantitative assessment standards that are in line with the actual situation of the troops.

When Liu He announced the plan of the entire large-scale military training activity, the barracks in Macheng suddenly exploded, and the soldiers showed great enthusiasm and expectation for this matter, just because the list of rewards and punishments issued by Gongzi was really loved and feared, and no one dared to take it lightly.

Since it was a training activity involving the whole army, Liu He naturally sent a transcript of the activity plan to Ningcheng, Gaoliu, and Guangning, and ordered Zhao Yun, Xiahoulan, Li Yan, and Sun Li to take action quickly.

This is a major event related to the future of Youzhou, and this is also the fundamental reason why Liu He personally went to the bottom to train as a soldier, because he wanted to set off a profound change in training among the garrisons of the four cities!

When other powerful forces were eager to recruit troops, Liu He insisted on taking a new path of elite soldiers and strong troops. This path may seem slow and dangerous, but it is the most reasonable and sustainable, and when the warlords everywhere are dragged down by the huge army of the economy and people's livelihood, the road of elite troops will show great advantages. As long as Liu He gritted his teeth and survived the predicament in the early stage, the further back he went, the time would turn to his side, and many careerists could only be leveled and eradicated by him one by one in the end.

In order to unify the ideological understanding of the officers and men, after announcing the order, Liu He gathered the officers at and above the rank of commander in the city and personally analyzed and explained to them the great significance of carrying out this military training activity. This peculiar way of mobilizing thoughts, without loud scolding and insults, nor threats such as military sticks and whips, but only infiltration and infection like a gentle drizzle, has an unexpected effect.

After Liu He mobilized the ideology of all the officers above the cantonment commander, these cantonment commanders returned to the camp and gathered all the soldiers in the cantonment, and according to the method taught by Gongzi, let the soldiers all stand up and talk about their feelings, put forward opinions, and complain, and then let the soldiers use their brains to think of ideas and ways together, which also achieved obvious results.

Liu Hequan's set is actually not profound and mysterious, but it is just a reference to the practices used by those instructors when they participated in military training in their previous lives. However, this seemingly simple set of methods is groundbreaking in this era, and its value and significance are immeasurable.

To sum it up in a professional term, Liu He's method is to extensively carry out "military democracy" among the troops, truly treat the non-commissioned officers at the lowest level as human beings, and as long as they care for and respect their feelings and opinions a little, they can arouse the enthusiasm and initiative of the soldiers to the greatest extent!