(Thank you for the generous reward!) A little excited. Thank you for the book friend reward of "Sister who can't ride a hundred tears, only a dead sister takes off", this ID is slightly familiar, well, it's the helmsman of the previous book, haha, welcome back. ）

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After breakfast, most of the soldiers returned to their respective missions, and the training ground for crossbowmen was finally deserted. Ma Han did not receive the task, it is said that yesterday the team captured the flag, made a great contribution, and was allowed to rest for a day.

It just so happened that Ma Han could dominate the training ground and practice freely, but the effect was not very satisfactory: one hundred and twenty steps, a total of ten arrows were shot, the first three arrows did not hit the target, and from the fourth arrow, the bow was ripe, and the arrows were not missing. Although less than half of the arrows hit the heart, at least they didn't miss the target. The battlefield is not a game, and you don't need to shoot arrows, as long as you hit the target and destroy it. It doesn't matter if it's in the head, in the throat, in the heart, in the limbs -- as long as it's shot, it's fine.

This time, the straw target was still pierced, but after the arrow pierced, it immediately fell on the back of the target, indicating that its momentum was exhausted. From this, it can be seen that the effective armor-piercing (shield) force of the six-stone bow is one hundred and twenty steps. To put it bluntly, this is the final distance for sniping enemy generals.

One hundred and fifty steps, the arrow penetrates into the wood, but it can no longer penetrate, this is the ultimate distance to kill the unarmored soldiers, but the quasi-head...... Ma Han can completely forgive himself, after all, the ultra-long distance of 200 meters, he has never used a bow and crossbow to test before, and one or two out of ten is already good.

As for 200 steps, it is out of reach!

Ma Han was depressed, but he didn't know that the only spectator on the side, Xiaoshizi, had a bright eye, and he was like a god—he used a leopard bow no less powerful than a crossbow to aim for a long time, and fired twenty arrows in a row, as if nothing had happened. Such a divine power, don't say that you have seen it with your own eyes, but you have never heard of it!

Xiaoshizi Le Zizi picked up the arrows one by one, and smacked his mouth: "A total of eight arrows were destroyed, if you go to Bing Cao to take them, I am afraid that I will be blamed, it is better to spend money to buy them yourself, anyway, the master has received so many rewards......"

Ma Han asked casually: "How much is an arrow?" ”

"Twelve bucks. However, I am very familiar with a branch of the Ordnance Department, and I can talk about the price as much as ten dollars. Pebble proudly flaunted his connections.

Ma Han smiled: "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you." Put down the quiver, you go and play by yourself, I want to be alone for a while. ”

Xiaoshizi promised, turned around slowly, hesitated, obviously reluctant.

Ma Han smiled and shook his head, and after a thought, he reached out and took out something from his trouser pocket, just about to call Xiaoshizi and say that he would give him a toy. Suddenly thinking of something, the whole person froze, his eyes showed a strange light, and he stared at the thing in his hand.

Infrared signal transmitter! This device is found on some assault rifles and even sniper rifles, and its function is clear, which is to assist aiming. And what I lack at the moment is not the shooting range, but the accuracy and aiming. If, attach this secondary sight to the bow handle......

Just do it. Ma Han first set the head-up aiming position at the bow handle, then took a spare bowstring, cut a section, and bound the pen-shaped infrared signal transmitter. After that, the bow poses for shooting, and the observation is repeated to adjust the sight distance. After a qiē is correct, hold the fixed bow handle in the left hand, and press the switch with the thumb to carry out the actual measurement.

One hundred and twenty steps away, a red dot the size of a fingernail clearly appeared. Unlike the soybean-sized point of a typical assault rifle's infrared device, the infrared transmitter has a point the size of a penny and is three times larger than a normal point, because its purpose is to make it easier for searchers to see. Therefore, with the sharp eyes of a horse and an eagle, this red dot can still be faintly seen from a hundred and twenty paces away.

Ma Han's heart was excited, of course, this does not mean that if you aim at this red dot, you will definitely be able to hit the target. He also needs to calculate the angle, because in long-distance shooting, the trajectory of the arrow is not a straight line, but an arc. Short and medium range shots are straight, but two parallel lines cannot intersect. Therefore, the arrows he shoots will never hit the red dot, but only above the red dot. As for whether to hit an inch or two above the red dot, it depends on the angle of the arrow.

After repeated calculations, Ma Han moved the infrared point down by an inch, and then loosened the string.

Buzz, the bowstrings tremble, and the arrows go like lightning.

Sincere! Right in the middle of the bull's-eye mouth of the straw man.

As a result, on the silent and unmanned Youzhou Army crossbow training ground, a jaw-dropping scene is being staged:

A sergeant with a big bow and a quiver on his back kept running, firing at the straw man target as he ran: 80 steps target smash, 100 steps target flip, 120 steps target with red heart, 150 steps target arrow without missing shots, 200 steps target......

"All on target! Master, all on target! The pebble jumped happily all the way, and the arrow in his arms fell to the ground.

"It's just not off target." Ma Han squinted at the straw man target two hundred steps away, which was as small as a palm, and sighed softly, "It's a pity, although the infrared shooting point can be accurately aimed, but when the eyesight is poor, it can't see clearly!" However, before the battle formation, there are thousands of troops, and there is really no need to aim, as long as the range is long enough. Hmm, if you can have a ten-stone bow, hehe......"

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It was another early morning, and the first rays of sunlight shone into the tent through the cracks in the curtains, and the horses were already fully dressed, and they lifted the curtains and came out, taking a deep breath of the air with a faint smell of blood. This was the fourth day of Ma Han's arrival in the Three Kingdoms era, and he did not know what this day meant to him, to this local war, and even to the entire history of the Three Kingdoms. He only knew that from this moment on, he would not let anyone threaten his life again.

Any danger must be eliminated a hundred steps away.

In front of the tent, Pebble was concentrating on putting on his master's armor, while Ma Han was examining the forty armor-piercing arrows that Pebble had purchased from the Ordnance Department for him.

Each scout soldier in the scout song is equipped with two sacks and twenty-four feather arrows, most of which are ordinary flat-bladed arrows, and the armor-piercing power is average. Nearly half of Ma Han's 24 arrows have been damaged after yesterday's training, so they naturally have to be replenished. Considering that his main weapon in the future will be bows and arrows, Ma Han's requirements for arrows should not only be more than the usual quantity, but also unique quality.

Anyway, I have the money and items rewarded by Gongsun Chan on hand, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there is nothing to spend in the barracks, so I don't need to change weapons to improve life support, what else can I use it for?

At a high price of 50 yuan each, Ma Han bought 40 three-edged armor-piercing arrows and two sacks. In this way, while others hung only two sack-throwing arrows on either side of the saddle, he hung four.

The results of the inspection were quite satisfactory: the shaft of the arrow was straight without knots, and the paint was very bright; The tail feathers are new, and the feathers are smooth and not locked; The three-edged arrowhead is polished and shiny, the wings are parallel, and the error is almost invisible to the naked eye. Such a good arrow, fifty dollars is not expensive.

When he was inspecting, he heard Xiaoshizi laugh and said, "Master, those two female slaves are here." ”

As soon as Ma Han raised his eyes, he saw that dozens of paces away, two women wearing pointed felt hats and single jackets were saluting him from a distance, peeking over from time to time.

When he looked at these two women, Ma Han smiled bitterly, these two Karasuma women were the slaves who were rewarded to him. Gongsun Chan only cares about rewarding, as for what Ma Han uses it for, that's his own business.

As one of the leaders of the U.S. Imperialist Gang, Ma Han does not have too many women around him, all kinds of skin colors, all kinds of identities, all kinds of styles, everything. After reading a thousand faces, his taste and grade are naturally cultivated, and his general appearance is light and difficult to enter the eyes of the law. However, when he first heard the news that the two Karasuma women who had been rewarded had arrived, Ma Han was a little excited, and even more faintly looking forward to seeing what the women of this nation that had long disappeared in the future were like.

The truth is heartbreaking. Ma Han can tolerate inferior appearance, can tolerate all kinds of strange hairstyles of women, such as loose braids, short hair, flat heads, and even bald heads, but、But you are a good woman, what's the matter with getting a mustache?

The so-called hair is the Hu people's exclusive hairstyle, shaved in the middle of the head, and left a circle of hair around it, or braided or scattered. Karasuma, Xianbei and other Mobei Zhuhu men and women all wear this hairstyle, and it is nothing for men to have this hairstyle, but women are also like this...... Where to look at it, just thinking about it is disgusting enough.

When Ma Han saw it, he immediately drove him out of his tent. Although the quartermaster who sent the slave girls repeatedly explained that the Karasuma women would grow their hair once they were married, in other words, the two slave girls were unmarried and were a gift from the thistle. But how can an appetite that has been exhausted be better again? In the end, the two slave girls had to set up another tent next to them, and did the miscellaneous work of herding sheep and milking sheep and washing clothes for the horses, and used them as ordinary slaves.

Ma Han avoided the hot gaze projected by the two black-faced, sturdy female slaves, saddled his horse, and galloped towards the western camp.

In the left corner of the West Camp, there is an area that burns all day long, which is the ordnance maintenance office of the Youzhou Army. Hundreds of artisans were stationed here, repairing armor, saddles, sharpening blades, repairing shields, and much more.

Ma Han walked through the camp with the sound of tinkling iron in his ears, so much so that he had to raise his voice and shout at one of the tents: "Old Yu! Lao Yu! Did I get what I wanted? ”

In response to the sound of the tent, a middle-aged strong man with a dark face and a scruffy beard came out, and when he saw Ma Han, he grinned, revealing a mouthful of big yellowed teeth: "Ah, it's Ma Baijiang, you have got what you want." My old Yu has postponed the repair of several pieces of armor, and he has made this thing for hundreds of generals, but I am afraid that I will be ...... by those soldiers."

Ma Han dismounted with his legs, took out three and five baht coins from the saddle coat, and threw it to Lao Yu: "There will be no money missing you, take out the things quickly." ”

Lao Yu deliberately complained that he was embarrassed, but in fact he also wanted to get more reward, 3,000 yuan plus yesterday's deposit of 500 yuan, which was 500 yuan more than the price negotiated before, which can be regarded as a windfall. At that moment, Leyi entered the tent, and after a while, he took out a heavy burden.

Ma Han took it and opened it, nodded, put the burden on the horse's back, turned over on the horse, and patted the horse away. When passing by Lao Yu's forging furnace, he picked up the small hammer next to the furnace and shook it at Lao Yu: "Borrow your hammer and use it." ”

Lao Yu stretched his mouth with both hands and shouted at the back of Ma Han: "If you take my equipment, you will delay my work, and you will have to pay at least ten yuan for lost work!" ”

The horse did not wave his hand back, and rode away.

On the cavalry training ground, Ma Han was riding a horse and galloping briskly, making some jaw-dropping movements from time to time: such as stirrups back to hide, hips off the saddle, body close to the horse's neck, like the equestrians of later generations, half of the body is supported high, riding and galloping, and the horse is like flying.

The reason why he was able to do this was simply that he had a stirrup - a real stirrup, not a stirrup of two pisos or ropes.

After fighting Zhao Yun yesterday, Ma Han realized this important problem. Without stirrups, it would take at least half a year to ride freely like a scout, and to do it like a white horse, I am afraid it would not be possible for a year and a half. So he immediately went to the ordnance maintenance office, drew the shape of two stirrups, and asked if he could build them as much as possible.

Stirrups are a kind of thing, basically no technical content, although Lao Yu is greedy for money, but the craftsmanship is really not bad, patting the chest to ensure that it is desirable the next day. Ma Han then asked for a horseshoe to be nailed, but Lao Yu was dumbfounded.

Ma Han was surprised, is there no horseshoe in this era?

Actually, there really isn't! According to the historical development of horse harness, the earliest appearance is the horse chew, and then the saddle, and the saddle of the Three Kingdoms period has developed quite perfectly, and the advanced form of the saddle - Takahashi saddle has appeared. Next is the stirrup, which was invented around the time of the Two Jin Dynasty, while the horseshoe appeared the latest, some believe that it was in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and some believe that it was in the Yuan Dynasty...... Regardless of which point of view, it is recognized that the horseshoe appeared after the stirrup, and at this time in the Three Kingdoms era, there was no shadow of even the stirrup.

So he ordered six more horseshoes (two spare, like a spare tire for a car). Lao Yu couldn't figure out what the use of these strange iron bumps was for a while, and he didn't know the meaning of these two things.

With the stirrup, the effect is remarkable, and Ma Han estimates that with his own riding skills, he will strengthen his training for two or three months, even if he can't compare to Zhao Yun, at least it will be no problem to join Baimayi.

And the horseshoe is also the top priority, once the war horse splits its hooves, it basically bids farewell to the battlefield, and it is not even qualified to be a pack horse. And the war horse is definitely one of the most important war resources, a small horseshoe, I don't know how many war horses and pack horses can be saved.

The horseman had experience nailing horseshoes to his precious horses, and he planned to nail the horseshoes himself himself. But just when he took out knives, hammers, spikes and other tools, suddenly, a rush of horns spread throughout the barracks, and the Youzhou barracks suddenly boiled.

After just two days of silence, the Jizhou army broke the deadlock and launched an attack, and the second phase of the Battle of Jieqiao began.

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(Regarding the Takahashi saddle, the earliest archaeological object found so far appeared in the Sun and Wu periods of the Three Kingdoms, and has the characteristics of Takahashi saddle.) Even Sun Wu, who had the fewest war horses, was equipped with such a thing, not to mention the northern princes, who were mainly cavalry. ）