With the sound of a gong, the first contest began. The content is to shoot three arrows each, and the target is a dummy dressed in Mongolian clothes 50 meters ahead. Ah Bream took the lead in drawing his bow and arrows. The bow he held in his hand was very good, and it was borrowed from another Luo clan leader who was good at archery. I saw him looking ahead, holding the bow in his left hand and slowly pulling the bow to the full moon with his right hand, and his posture was impeccable. Three of the dummy's arrows hit the target, one in the head and two in the chest and abdomen, to great applause.

Ouyang Xuan took the musket from his shoulder and began to reload the bullets. Among the onlookers, except for a few Yang clansmen and Banzhou soldiers who had been exposed to muskets in the early stage, the rest did not know what they were doing. Ouyang Xuan didn't explain, he raised his gun, aimed, and fired, all in one go. Everyone could only hear a burst in their ears, only to see a puff of white smoke spewing out of the iron pipe, and the clothes on the dummies in the distance were torn wide, and they were all shocked. One of the referee's Banshu soldiers ran to the dummy and shouted, "The first musket is in the chest."

Just when everyone was talking, Ouyang Xuan half-squatted and fired the second shot in a kneeling position. Shortly after the smoke, the referee's voice was heard: "Second musket in the chest". After Ouyang Xuan fired the first shot, the referee was afraid that the Banzhou soldiers would falsely report the situation, so he personally walked to the dummy to inspect it. When he got closer, he was even more surprised. The arrows were so strong that all the arrows drilled into the wooden dummies. But it pales in comparison to the musket. The musket bullets pierced the wooden dummy. At the moment, he checked that the situation of the second musket was no different from the situation of the first, and it also directly pierced the wooden man.

The first shot was in a standing position, the second shot was in a kneeling position, and the third shot Ouyang Xuan shot on the ground in a lying position, and the result was not surprising to pierce the dummy's chest. The new Thunderbolt musket uses machine tools to process rifling, and the accuracy of the barrel rifling is greatly increased, which in turn improves the shooting accuracy of the gun. In particular, the musket used by Ouyang Xuan was used for sniping by special companies, and its shooting performance was even more outstanding. In addition, he often participates in military training, and although his shooting skills are not as good as those of the sharpshooters in the army, it is also very easy to hit a dummy at a distance of 50 meters.

At the end of the first contest, the referee declared the two sides tied. In fact, in the eyes of Yang Wen and those who have many years of combat experience among the Miao people, it was actually Ouyang Xuan who had won. He shoots in two positions, kneeling and prostrating, which seems to be bells and whistles, but in fact it is extremely important on the battlefield. The Mongolian army was skilled in arching and horse, and shot very accurately. If you can fight the Mongolian army in a kneeling position and a prostrated position on the battlefield, it will inevitably greatly reduce the probability of being shot by the Mongolian army, thereby enhancing combat capability and reducing casualties. In fact, because of the force required to draw a strong bow, even a well-trained soldier could only shoot an arrow in a standing position, and from this point of view alone, the musket was much more adaptable to the battlefield than the bow and arrow.

The second competition is long-range shooting. That is, the distance of the whip mark has doubled, reaching about 100 meters, which is also the general effective killing distance of other bows and arrows except for the British longbowmen. In fact, whether it is a single bow and crossbow used by the Song army and the Mongolian army, the actual killing distance is only seventy or eighty meters. The Banshu soldiers fought in the mountains, and paid more attention to the lightness and durability of the bow and crossbow, and their bows and crossbows were shorter, and the arrows were thinner and shorter, so the effective range was only fifty or sixty meters. It's just that because the arrows are quenched with poison, the name of the Banshu crossbowman is extremely loud.

Because Ah Yu is taller than ordinary Miao Jiang warriors, his daily bow is larger and has a longer range, and he borrowed a good and strong bow, so it is easy to shoot a dummy 100 meters away. It's just that it was the autumn cold season, and the mountain wind on the top of the sea dragon tun was quite strong, Rao is his face turned red and pulled the bow into a full moon, and the arrows that flew out were also deflected under the wind. As the saying goes, "a small miss, a thousand miles away", only one of the three arrows shot out hit the dummy, and the other two shot on the muddy ground in front of the dummy.

Because it was accurate shooting, Dong Hu brought a gun rack and a scope for Ouyang Xuan, which were the standard equipment of snipers in the special company. The scope consists of two lenses mounted on the ends of a thin wooden tube and can magnify the target by a factor of four. After the glass of the Perak Army began mass production, in addition to making exquisite tableware and playthings to sell to dignitaries and nobles to earn high profits, it was used to polish lenses, make telescopes, magnifying glasses and other items urgently needed in military and industrial production, Ouyang Xuan is even instructing craftsmen to try out microscopes for use in medical schools.

On weekdays, Ouyang Xuan used a musket with a crosshair and a scope, and it was really easy to hit a dummy a hundred meters away. It's just that the wind is fierce at the moment, and the wind is much stronger than when Ah Kun shot just now, and the difficulty has also increased a lot. At that moment, after estimating the speed of the wind, he slowly lay on the ground, put the musket on the gun carriage steadily, and when his breathing was smooth, he decisively aimed and fired. After three gunshots, Ouyang Xuan slowly got up and calmly patted the dirt on his body. He had just seen through the scope that three rounds had hit the dummy, two in the torso and one in the leg. The referee's subsequent report confirmed the result. Ouyang Xuan won the second contest without dispute.

The third contest is more intimate with actual combat, with a half-arrow range of about 30 meters, shooting at an enemy with armor. Unlike the traditional impression that the Mongolian army is mostly lightly armed, the Mongolian army also has heavy cavalry units, which often appear at the most critical time of the battle and launch a thunderous blow against the enemy, which is the key force that determines the outcome of the battle. The Mongolian soldiers who attacked the Southern Song Dynasty came from a very complex source, except for a few local cavalry, most of them were servant armies of Han, Khitan, Jin, Huihui, Western Xia, Goryeo, Bohai and other ethnic groups. These servant armies consisted of cavalry and infantry, and their equipment was varied, some were unarmoured, others wore leather armor, rattan armor, and even chain mail and armor from the Western Regions.

This contest not only tests the strength of the contestants, but also tests the quality of the weapons. Although he had a large waist and a strong arm, and his bow was well-made, his arrows only pierced through the leather armor, but they could not help the rattan armor, let alone the chain mail and iron armor. On the other hand, the muskets of the Thunderbolt army showed great power to crush bows and arrows. Within half a distance of an arrow, whether it was rattan armor or chain mail, they were all pierced by Ouyang Xuan with a musket.

It's just that the heavy armor hasn't been pierced, but the wrought iron at the point where it's shot is also deeply dented, if it's the same as a sledgehammer. At present, the bullets used in the Thunderbolt musket are still based on black powder, which is slightly less powerful, and the use of soft lead bullets makes the bullets not penetrate enough. If you switch to an iron bullet, you will easily penetrate the iron armor, but the iron bullet will accelerate the wear of the rifling and shorten the life of the barrel. The new gunpowder being developed is much more powerful than black powder, and even with a lead bullet, it can easily penetrate iron armor.

With two wins in three games, the referee announced that Ouyang Xuan had won. Ah Xuan and a few clan leaders were not convinced by this, thinking that Ouyang Xuan was just relying on the advantage of firearms. In this regard, Yang Wen said lightly to everyone: "This firearm was originally invented by my son-in-law..... as soon as these words came out, which made those who were originally dissatisfied completely shut up.