Just as Wu Enqi gathered his 100 brothers and ran down the hill and stepped on the horses with the horses, the camp of the Rakshasa people under the slope gradually fell into a "scolding" rather than a "battle" after the hustle and bustle......

Just now, Koreza had already organized his Lithuanian detachment to resist the Cossack cavalry of equal numbers on the opposite side with a standard European infantry phalanx! Actually, Coreza was lucky, so far the two sides are nothing more than "sabers against spears". Although they both saw blood, the leaders on both sides still maintained a certain amount of restraint.

On the side of the cavalry Cossacks, because the terrain of the camp was not conducive to the charge of the horse team, they could only adopt the method of the later European mounted police to deal with the rioting crowds, and squeeze the phalanx of the Lithuanians little by little. After all, most of the muskets were still in the hands of the Lithuanians, which really annoyed them, even if it could only be a "round" salvo, which would be enough for themselves to eat a pot. Besides, if the Lithuanians mutinied, the nobles in Moscow would naturally be disposed of, they were nothing more than hired "free men", and they also made the Lithuanians on the opposite side pay the price of blood, which was enough to avenge the hapless Valia who died first, so there was no need to ask for trouble.

Here, Coreza did not dare to release the first round of muskets easily. The old Pishaw muskets were too poor in accuracy and too slow to reload, and once a salvo was fired, their own infantry would become a moving target for the cavalry to eliminate one by one. If you don't shoot, it's the best deterrent. On the other hand, he killed the unruly Cossack Valia in a fit of rage just now, and regretted it a little after a bad breath - after all, he had become a registered nobleman in Moscow. If it really makes a big deal about today's events, what is the way back? He has already been exiled to Siberia, and he has no plans to defect to the Buryats!

So, after a dozen people fell one after another on the fringes of the contact, the Cossacks and Lithuanians finally chose to confront each other......

Time passed minute by minute, and no one could subdue anyone, but the invective was everywhere, and it was nothing more than a bluff.

At this moment, two of the unlucky Aguirre's men returned to the camp with the corpse of their leader. The first day of junior high school came in. The two of them were dumbfounded and stunned on the spot - this is clearly the rhythm of their own internal strife!

"You bring Aguirre to Lao Tzu!" Coreza called out at the top of her voice. For fear that the Cossacks detained them. Fortunately, the two Lithuanians behaved very wisely at this time, and did not even dare to look at the fierce cavalry Cossacks, but like a perfect combination of a "shrunken turtle" and an "outlaw rabbit". With a puff of smoke, carrying the corpse of the leader, he rushed into Coreza's infantry phalanx.

"My good brother! I've slain Valya. Avenge you! Coreza was a little excited. But he didn't dare to be too sad, after all, there were Cossacks on the other side. So he deliberately planted his brother's death on the Valya who was beheaded by himself, instead of pointing directly at the main master, little Yermak!

But when he saw the blood-dripping arrow that pierced his brother's head. Still can't help but cluck his teeth - "Damn Cossacks!" Go and call your Yermak to me! Koreza yelled at the other side.

"Darius, Lithuanians, you better surrender as soon as possible. When our captain returns, he may be able to exterminate you rebellious captives directly. Don't forget, he has always been unreasonable when he drinks vodka! A Cossack leader who temporarily led the group continued to laugh shamefully at the Lithuanians opposite.

"Vodka?" Coreza suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Little Peter, are you there?" ”

"Captain, I'm here." Little Peter, who was still "alive", hurriedly responded from his battle position.

"Come here!"

"Yes." After a while, little Peter squeezed in front of Correza.

"Is Yermak drunk?"

"Can he not get drunk? I've been drunk for a long time! Little Peter obviously remembered the blow he had just received for no reason, and shouted angrily.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Coreza hurriedly lowered her head again and looked closely at the dead brother Aguirre - it was indeed wrong!

Coreza knows Jr. Yermak's riding and shooting skills. Even if he didn't drink, it would be a problem for him to shoot three arrows in a row, even if one of them could hit an elephant fifty paces away. That is, this person, like an ordinary Cossack, is not very good at archery, or even worse! But under his grief just now, he clearly saw that the feather arrow that killed Argir was straight through the skull! That strength and precision are definitely not the work of little Yermak!

Sure enough, this glimpse again shocked Coreza - the shaft of the arrow that pierced Algi's skull was a cone-shaped iron arrow soaked in blood at one end, and a black arrow feather at the other end, and the total length was three Russian feet[1]! And there was a string of words written on the shaft of the arrow that he didn't recognize...... This is clearly not the arrow shaft that the Cossacks are used to, it is much longer and much more refined!

In fact, where can Koreza know the Dao, this is the standard "war arrow" of the Manchurian Eight Banners! At present, there are three main types of arrows commonly used by the Qing army: arsenic arrows, plum needle arrows and war arrows. The main characteristics of the batch arrows are that the arrows are thin and wide and have a long shaft, while the arrows of the plum needle arrows are more elongated. These two and the other types of "arrows" are generally used in school readings. The main ones used for combat are war arrows (shooting) and ringing picks (iron with small bone whistles, for warning). The arrow of the war arrow is conical, the so-called "where the length of the construction is three feet, the upper circumference is one inch and two minutes, the middle circumference is one inch and four minutes, and the lower circumference is one inch of the arrow shaft".

As Wu Enqi's subordinates said proudly, if Coreza had been in the heart of studying weapons and equipment at this time, and had pulled this arrow shaft off the heads of the four men and played with it carefully, he would have found how finely the arrow shaft of the Great Qing Dynasty had been made—the upper circumference (the circumference of the end of the arrow) was 1 inch and 2 minutes, the middle circumference (the circumference of the middle part) was 1 inch and 4 minutes, and the lower circumference (the circumference of the arrow end) was 1 inch. Because it is finely polished, the change in the thickness of the arrow shaft is not sudden, but should be a streamlined gradient in order to achieve flight speed and stability. And this change in thickness before and after is very small, usually not observed, only by caressing the experience can be noticed.

As for the writing on the shaft of the arrow found by Correza, it is actually the name of the person who used the bow and arrow. Even in later generations, some people will be puzzled by this, and they will think that the name of the "maker" should be written instead of the "user". Actually, it's easy to understand -

Although the name of the user was written on the body of the arrow in the Qing Dynasty, although it had not been heard of in the previous dynasties, the Qing soldiers did so for a reason: first, the arrow was usually used with the bow, and the ideal situation was that the arrow used by the archer should be exactly the same, so that it was possible to achieve "one hundred shots and one hundred hits". However, it is impossible for arrows to be made exactly the same, such as the weight of the arrow, the elasticity of the arrow shaft, the proportion of the center of gravity and the center of the arrow shaft, and other parameters directly related to the material of the arrow shaft are difficult to achieve unity, even if the performance of two arrows made of one wood is difficult to be exactly the same. This requires the shooter to be very familiar with each arrow he uses, and to experience the most appropriate aiming method through constant practice. Therefore, it is best for each shooter to use his own arrows, and writing his own name is a manifestation of "exclusive right". Second, unlike modern bullets, arrows are not disposable, but can be used repeatedly. In this way, after the archer's many practice and actual combat, there will be some changes, such as sharpness, the bending degree of the arrow shaft, etc., at this time the archer should be able to carry out some simple repairs and corrections, then the name of the archer is still conducive to the "dynamic management" and "long-term maintenance" of the bow and arrow. Third, the name of the shooter is written on the body of the arrow, which is also convenient for counting the results of each shooter when practicing shooting, and is also conducive to the combat effect of the archer after the war.

(Chapter to be continued)

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

The layout is a long-cherished wish

It's hard to come and go

Get up and spend a hundred years

Point out the suffering and diseases of the world

The edge of the town was razed to the sea

Wen'an Wuding tears of joy

[1] One Russian ruler is about 30.48 centimeters. In the Qing Dynasty, carpentry rulers mostly used "construction rulers", and a construction ruler was about 31.1 centimeters now. (To be continued......)