The large bow of the Jiannu was much longer and heavier than the Mongolian horn bow.
The length of the Jiannu bow can even reach 1.8 meters, the draw force exceeds 100 kilograms, and the length of the heavy arrows used exceeds 1 meter, which is enough to shoot through a straight armor within thirty steps.
Not to mention chain mail, cotton armor and cloth face armor.
The Jiannu's concept of using bows and arrows is also different from other barbarians. They almost never use the tactic of long-distance throwing. They basically shoot accurately at close range, so they only carry heavy arrows.
However, such a long and heavy bow and arrow is really difficult to handle if you are not tall enough.
The Jurchens originated between the White Mountains and the Black Mountains. They were taller than the Mongols, so they could control such large bows and heavy arrows, especially tall men like Obai and Yabulan.
As soon as Ao Bai came on the stage, the Eight Banners soldiers with yellow flags cheered one after another.
"Batulu! Batulu! Batulu!" The cheers were about to burst people's eardrums.
As time entered the seventeenth century, various firearms gradually replaced cold weapons and became the mainstream on the battlefield. Personal martial arts had little impact on the outcome of a war.
Jiannu has also been equipped with a large number of firearms,
But the worship of warriors still remains.
Obai raised his big bow to signal, and the cheers suddenly stopped.
Ao Bai was not only Batulu, but also Baya Lazhangjing with a yellow flag, and the commander of the protective army.
After a while, Yabulan also rode his own war horse into the pen. The slaves went up to the flag master Beile and down to the flag ding. The weapons, equipment and armor were all prepared by him.
This is actually the same model as the imperial soldiers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
This model can stimulate the warlike factor of a nation to the greatest extent and become martial.
This is derived from the simplest truth. The braver a warrior is, the greater the chance of gaining military exploits, the more property he will be rewarded with, the more women he can marry, and the better life he will have.
On the contrary, the more cowardly a warrior is, the harder it will be to obtain military exploits and rewards.
Then not only will he be despised by his neighbors, but he will also be exterminated because he cannot marry a wife.
Because of the imperial military system, the prosperous Tang Dynasty created the most powerful dynasty in China's 2,000-year history, and the Eight Banners soldiers took control of the Central Plains with a population of less than 200,000.
But even the best models have flaws.
Problems arise when the advantages are not enough to make up for the shortcomings.
The government soldiers were defeated by the land equalization system, and the Eight Banners soldiers who established slaves were defeated by the horse racing enclosure.
Back to the subject, after Yabulan came on the stage, Obei said: "You have no objection to moving the target fifty steps away?"
"Fifty steps?" There was an exclamation all around. This was nearly twice as far as the usual training distance.
The human-shaped archery targets used by Jiannu in daily training were generally thirty paces away. The test for promotion of flagmen to infantry soldiers was to shoot at a human-shaped archery target thirty paces away while galloping on horseback. Six out of ten shots would be considered qualified.
Now that Obai has increased the target distance to fifty steps, the difficulty will increase dramatically.
"No objection." Yabulan was even more excited, looking eager to try.
Oboi stopped talking nonsense and galloped to the opposite side of the fence, then turned back.
At this time, several vests with yellow flags had already moved the ten human-shaped archery targets fifty steps away.
When the war horse accelerated to almost a sprinting speed, it also arrived in front of the first archery target. Oboi's body was slightly tilted to the right, and he drew an arrow with his bow, hitting the center of the human-shaped archery target.
When the Eight Banners soldiers onlookers saw this, they cheered loudly: "Batulu!"
In less than a moment, Obai shot nine arrows while running, and the arrows hit the target.
Oboi obviously used all his strength to shoot the last heavy arrow, which directly penetrated the target.
"Barutu! Batulu! Batulu!" The Eight Banners soldiers with yellow flags were almost going crazy.
Obai rode his horse and rushed fifty steps before slowly pulling back, but his face was not red and he was out of breath.
"Yabulan, it's your turn." Obai said expressionlessly, "Don't let everyone down."
"Don't worry, it won't happen." Without any fear, Yabulan rode his horse to the opposite side of the fence.
He spurred his horse to start, first at a canter, then at a trot, and finally into a sprint. Soon after, Yabulan also shot an arrow at the first human-shaped archery target, hitting his chest steadily.
Yabulan also hit the last eight arrows steadily.
Just when everyone thought that Yabulan's tenth arrow would surely hit the target, Yabulan suddenly leaned back and made an unexpected move.
Yabram actually drew the bow away from his back.
"Wow!" There was an exclamation on the field.
Obai also shrank his pupils slightly, this guy!
This bow is a large Jurchen bow, and it is difficult to draw it normally.
This guy Yabulan actually put his hands behind his back to pull away. This requires a lot of physical strength.
"Whoosh!" Amidst the exclamations, Yabulan's tenth heavy arrow also hit the target steadily, and the arrow almost penetrated the entire target, leaving only the feathers at the tail of the arrow swaying slightly in the wind.
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"Okay!" Baiyintu and other nobles couldn't help but cheer loudly.
Oboi also nodded slightly. In terms of riding and archery alone, Yabulan seemed to have surpassed him, but to be the number one warrior in Manchuria, just being able to ride and shoot was far from enough.
"Knife!" Obai stretched out his hand and shouted.
The man next to him immediately presented him with an open sword.
Ao Bai immediately hit Bao Yi on the face with a riding crop and cursed: "Idiot, blunt knife."
Bao Yi covered his face and screamed, and quickly handed the other unbladed saber to Obei.
After a while, Yabulan came back to the pen and saw Obai holding an unbladed sword in his hand. He couldn't help but was stunned for a moment and asked: "How to use a blunt knife?"
Obei said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense and come on."
"Sir, be careful!" Yabulan took an arrow step and then slashed diagonally with his sword.
The competition just now was about cavalry and archery, but this time the competition was about foot combat, which was also the Jurchens’ main method of combat.
Yabulan used the most unpretentious diagonal slashing style. For a warrior on the battlefield, there is no emphasis on moves at all, but only on reaction speed, strength and combat experience.
Those who can be selected into the White Armor Soldiers are all warriors selected from a thousand.
These warriors are top-notch in terms of reaction speed and strength, and even if there is a gap, it won't be too big.
Yabulan's reaction speed and strength are not inferior to Obai, but his combat experience is far worse than Obai. After all, Obai is more than ten years older than Yabulan and has more than ten years of experience.
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So as soon as Yabulan moved his body, Obai had already predicted his next move.
Then a strange scene appeared. Obai turned sideways and raised the knife again. The unedited blunt knife was already placed on Yabulan's neck. During the entire fight, it looked as if Obai hadn't moved at all.
Yabulan himself bumped into Obai's blade with a lunge, and the scene froze instantly.
Yabulan was stunned on the spot for a moment.
If this were on a real battlefield, Yabulan would already be dead and elsewhere.
Bo Zhou's gorget can't stop the saber!
Yabulan's face turned red instantly and he stared at Obai in disbelief. Is the gap between the two really so big? Is he really not even able to take Obai's blow?
Obai put away his sword and retreated, saying: "Yabulan, you are defeated."
"Yes, I lost." Yabulan's head drooped.
"Boy, don't be discouraged, you are already pretty good for your age."
Obai patted Yabulan on the shoulder and said, "Come to my tent."
"Your Majesty, do you mean that I can still join Baya Lahu?"
"Yes, you are now a Baya La." Obai said happily.
Hearing this, the surrounding Eight Banners soldiers cheered: "Yabulan, Yabulan..."
Yabulan's face turned red instantly, and he finally became the Baya La of his dreams.
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In Xuzhou.
Jin Xuan is training with three thousand servants.
Oh no, after Hu Xinshui took away more than 300 horses, there were only about 2,700 left.
These two thousand seven hundred people, as well as one thousand barbarians, were all made into cavalry by Chongzhen. In order to equip these more than three thousand seven hundred people with war horses, Chongzhen did not even let go of Huang Degong's own mount.
Huang Degong went north this time and walked there with the officers and soldiers.
On the school field, Jin Xuan galloped on his horse and fired ten arrows in a very short period of time.
There was just a thumping sound, and all ten heavy arrows hit the human-shaped target fifty steps away. More than two thousand horsemen and servants lined up on one side cheered loudly.
I really didn't see it.
This civil servant turned out to be a master of riding and archery.
After riding his horse back to Ding's formation, Jin Xuan casually threw his riding bow to his followers.
"It's not just the Yi people who can ride and shoot, we Chinese can do it too, and even better!"
"Chinese people are the best at learning. As long as we want to do it, we will do it better than any other race!"
Jin Xuan's voice sounded a little low, but it was very penetrating. At least the servants in the front rows could hear it clearly, while the servants in the back could only listen to the narration of the companions in front.
"But what I want to tell you today is,"
"Mounted archery has become obsolete, now it is the world of firearms."
"Qi Shaobao once said that the key to using military force lies in eight words."
"Enough food and adequate wages, guns and guns to defeat your face, guns and guns to defeat your face, these four words refer to firearms!"
"So our Fifth Army Camp not only has to practice riding, archery, horse fighting, and infantry fighting, but we also have to practice firearms!"
The capital had fallen and the three major battalions of the capital camp had been wiped out, but Chongzhen decided to rebuild the new three major battalions.
The 2,700 dings under Jin Xuan were the seeds carefully selected by Chongzhen for the Fifth Army Camp, and the 1,000 Yiding were the seeds selected by Chongzhen for the 3,000 Battalion.
Only the Shenji Camp has not yet been found.
"No matter how brave a person is, he is still a body of flesh and blood. A body of flesh and blood can never stop the fire of guns and artillery. No matter how powerful you are in martial arts, you will still be beaten into a pulp by a shot from the Crouching Tiger Cannon."
"No matter how hard you ride and shoot, the lethality is not as good as that of a cannon."
Speaking of this meal, Jin Xuan motioned to his retinue to bring him a Rumi gun.
Load the powder, load the bullet, light the match, and then shoot at the target fifty paces away.
Then he asked the retinue to take the archery target and showed it to the servants on horseback. They saw that there was a large hole about an inch in diameter in the middle of the target. The killing power was indeed much more brutal than the arrow.
