The rate of fire of crossbows has always been low. An archer can shoot fifteen or sixteen arrows in one minute. A quiver holds thirty arrows and can be shot in two minutes. But crossbows cannot do that. These things are usually strung with their feet. .It relies on waist strength. You can’t do it without a lot of strength.
As the saying goes, the arms cannot twist the thighs. No matter how strong the arms of the nomads are, they are not bigger than the thighs of the farming people. Because the thighs bear weight, do farm work, carry things, bend down to harvest, and hoe the ground, all rely on the strength of the waist and legs. So. As soon as the crossbow came out, the advantage of the nomadic people's bows and arrows was offset.
When nomads have been riding horses since they were young, they need to use their legs to clamp the horse's body, otherwise it will fall off. As time goes by, the legs will take root. And riding a horse is actually sitting empty, especially when running at high speed, the rider hunches forward, Stand with your feet in the stirrups. Your butt is actually not touching the saddle.
This is actually the origin of the horse step. They have been riding horses since they were young, and their legs are naturally rooted. When fighting, it is difficult for farming people to overthrow them. Their lower body is very stable.
Everyone knows that the first foundation for practicing martial arts is the horse stance. However, what many people don’t know is that only farming people need to squat. This is to imitate the nomadic people’s horse riding. Nomads do not need to squat. Just practice it in daily life.
However, when the crossbow came out, its greatest impact was on archers and mounted archers.
An excellent archer requires more than ten years of training and consumes countless resources. The same goes for an excellent fighting warrior. However, with a crossbow, even an eight-year-old child can aim, pull the trigger, and shoot the archer and warrior to death.
The cost of war has dropped unprecedentedly.
The bow power of a crossbow is generally much greater than that of a bow. After all, it is strung with the waist and legs. It is also particularly suitable for aiming while looking for the best shooting opportunity.
The crossbow also has an aiming device, and a ruler when shooting parabolically, which is called Wangshan. This thing has a scale. In terms of range, whether it is direct shooting or projectile shooting, it is much ahead of the bow.
The only drawback is that the firing rate is too slow, two rounds per minute. The archer can shoot fifteen or six rounds.
Therefore, when farming peoples deal with nomadic peoples, there are only two ways to use crossbows. One is to use it on a large scale at a time. It can focus fire instantly and destroy the enemy.
The second is to use the formation to shoot alternately in three, even four or five stages. For example, Li Ling's 4,000 elite troops went deep into the Huns to fight against Shan Yu's 100,000 cavalry. He relied on the formation to strengthen the crossbows and killed more than 10,000 people.
Now, with the help of modern advanced technology, Yang Fan installed a power-assist pulley group in the receiver. The charging handle is pulled and the gun is wound. The speed is faster than the bow, and the firing rate can reach 20 rounds per minute.
Moreover, the pulling force is very small, and it is not tiring at all. Unlike an archer, after shooting a quiver of arrows, he can no longer lift his arms.
At this time, the archer is useless. He can neither shoot nor fight. He needs to retreat and rest.
At this time, the second round of crossbow arrows flew in, exerting greater penetrating power. Because the distance was closer, the Mongolian cavalry was charging at high speed.
Another round of people fell off their horses, this time more than twenty people fell off their horses.
Aru Buhua's heart was bleeding. This centurion team was his brainchild. It took him several years to select good talents and undergo rigorous training. At this time, they were meaninglessly killed by these hateful people. The Han man was shot to death.
He didn't get back on the horse this time. He knew that since the interval between two rounds of shooting was so short, maybe the third round would come soon.
Sure enough, everything went as he wished. The third round of shooting came as expected. This time, more than twenty people were shot down.
Aru Buhua was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
After three rounds of crossbows, there were still thirty-seven or eight of his men still on horseback.
Fortunately, they had already rushed within thirty meters of each other. He immediately got back on the horse and shouted: "Warriors of Alxa, pick up your sabers and kill these despicable Han people."
At this time, after three rounds of shooting, Zhao Yongtang gave an order, and the scouts started to hedge. The three small flags raised the three-eyed guns in unison.
Then, the insidious fire ignited by the fire crackled and burned, and the three-eyed gun roared in an instant.
Thirty people and ninety guns were fired in a very short period of time. At this time, the two sides were already close to a distance of fifteen or six meters.
At this distance, the power and accuracy of the door gun are maximized.
The dense bullets knocked a dozen people off their horses again.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry from both sides finally collided with each other. The horses' necks met, their swords were raised, and they started to kill each other. The Mongolians raised their scimitars. The scouts swung their empty three-eyed blunderbuss.
Smash into the enemy.
Yang Fan didn't equip them with sabers. Letting these rookies play with knives against the Mongols would be equivalent to giving away their heads. Although it is said that a stick can last a lifetime, but sword skills still depend on time accumulation and fighting experience. These Yang Fan are all
There is no way to teach them in a short period of time.
What these farmers are best at is doing farm work, just like the Mongolians riding horses and archery. The weapons they are most familiar with are flails for threshing wheat, or tools for smashing. These do not require learning or training. They can use them with ease. They are skilled
Outrageous.
These scouts are equipped with crossbows for shooting, multi-barreled firearms and three-eyed blunderbuss for close combat, and flails for combat.
The flail is also the nemesis of breaking shields and heavy armor. It is simply not very useful.
At this time, amid the light of calcium carbide, the two sides collided with each other, and there was no time to change their flails. At this time, quick reaction was more important than choice. The scouts swung the three-eyed blunderbuss as heavy weapons and faced the oncoming people, raising
The Alxa cavalry wielding scimitars and roaring ferociously smashed them away.
When Yang Fan was training them, he didn't teach them any protective moves at all. They were all about perish. Although this was very unethical and cruel. But, you know, Yang Fan didn't have the time to improve their fighting skills. They fought with the Mongols.
, there is no life for ten deaths. There is no point in dying like this.
Only sacrifices made by killing and injuring the enemy are meaningful. Therefore, Yang Fan could only let them fight to the death.
Otherwise, if you hesitate for a moment, your soldiers will be killed by the Mongols. Only the strategy of dying together has the highest cost ratio. If the Mongols are afraid, just dodge, and the initiative will be in your own hands. Moreover, the cavalry
The opportunity for hedging and confrontation quickly passed by the two sides.
During normal training, speed, strength, and accuracy are mechanically required. Let them become numb during training and form muscle memory. At this time, they don't have any brains at all, and they will naturally hit the opponent's vital points.
As for the machetes chopped down by the Mongols, just use cotton coats and thirty layers of densely sewn silk armor to resist them.
