Sun Ji's answer explained clearly why the longbow team was so easy to form, because it didn't train the skills of a single person, but just responded differently according to certain tactics, as long as it was launched at a fixed angle and direction.

In this way, any archer can do it, and even ordinary people who have not been exposed to bows and arrows can do it with a little refreshment, for a certain period of time, after a long period of repetition.

This is also the reason why the previous training was so fast, this kind of training method that is very different from ordinary bows and arrows, makes the captain of the pro-soldier a little puzzled, isn't this putting the cart before the horse, it looks like such a wonderful performance, it's a show.

Similar performances, the captain of the pro-soldiers has also seen, it is in some empty salary teams, or local troops, their actual combat effectiveness is terrible, but when it comes to the real performance, it is definitely clear-eyed, and even stronger than ordinary elite troops.

This is a professional performance, but is it the same with this longbow team, so how to explain the fight against the rebels? That's a real kill.

This is also the only point that the captain of the pro-soldier doubts, he has no way to refute, he can only listen carefully.

Sure enough, soon, he mentioned that you had just come out of the doorway, and there was a leading archer in the longbow team.

The leading archer is the originality of the longbowman, at present, there are only a few marksmen such as Sun Ji and Xue Yu, generally speaking, they bring 200-300 and shoot a salvo together.

Volley, lead archer, these two new terms that are not new, but have never been combined, made the doubts of the captain of the pro-soldier suddenly clear.

In the entire Great Song Dynasty, who is stronger than Sun Ji in archery, there used to be a Danmu in the northwest, but recently I heard that he died, Danmu died, not even closer, this Sun Ji's leading archer, can definitely be called strong.

Of course, this performance, Sun Ji did not end up, the leading archer was Xue Yu, but Xue Yu was also not bad, as the archer second only to Sun Ji in the entire imperial class, his performance was remarkable.

This is a big loophole, the newly created longbow team does not have the presence of leading archers.

When the captain of the pro-soldier raised this question, he found that Sun Ji smiled, the longbow is very simple to get started, and it is a projectile, and you don't even have to think about what a hundred steps to penetrate Yang, as long as it is roughly in the direction, it can be used 200 steps away, as long as the projectile does not exceed 10 meters.

200 steps error of 10 meters, this is not accurate shooting, let alone 100 steps through Yang, this is a more than half a year, a little better talent, three months of training, can be better than him.

Direct fire can hit the target, and a little mastery of the characteristics of longbow projectile can do this.

That's right, that's it, the mature longbow team in Europe does not have a leading archer, and the leading archer is just set by Zhao Xin in order to make up for the lack of training.

Even if there is an archer plus one, but the archer is the most test of experience and talent, not everyone is suitable to be an archer, selected from the group training, more from the strength of the focus, other aspects, he does not know what method to use.

At the same time, more than a month is not enough time for them to become an elite qualified archer, who can shoot a bow and shoot arrows according to the prescribed routine, which is already good.

But Sun Ji and Xue Yu are in, in this way, in the million-strong army, they can be ranked in the top 20, Sun Ji is the first to exist as a super archer, it is not a waste not to use it, the setting of a leading archer has almost doubled the power of the longbow team, which is also the fundamental reason for suppressing the enemy on the battlefield.

I was still elated just now, thinking that the captain of the pro-soldier had completely shut up when he found the loophole, this loophole existed, and it was very big, but the appearance of the leading archer made this loophole completely gone.

The standard for a lead archer is low, so low that any qualified archer can act as a lead archer with a little knowledge of longbows and projectiles.

It has to be said here that the mechanism of the longbow is different from that of the short bow, which is more about accuracy, direct shot and strength of the short bow, which can allow them to hit the opponent relatively high and gain an advantage on the battlefield.

The longbow is soft, even with the bonus of the longbow itself, in direct fire, it is not as good as the recurve bow, but the projectile is different, not only the range is longer, the power is greater, and the hit rate can also be replaced by a covering attack.

The longbow uses projectiles, the point is that the attack is used to cover the attack to achieve the effect of killing, he does not need to pursue a certain arrow to hit the enemy, one does not work, two, two does not work three, when a range, all are a rain of arrows, how do you block.

In this way, the hit rate of a simple one will be low.,The overall hit rate is not low.,Covering the attack.,For the division of the area.,And the damage is enough.,When the rate of fire is played.,3 times the rate of fire of ordinary archers.,It also makes up for the low hit rate.,In this regard,The attack power is absolutely outstanding.。

The captain of the pro-soldier smiled bitterly, such a simple truth, after explaining it clearly, he understood, but he thought he had found a loophole, but he didn't know that this loophole was the biggest advantage of the Longbow team.

After rehearsals and explanations, Han Qi finally understood why the longbow team was so sharp, and the rebels were such a powerful army, and there was no way to take advantage, on the one hand, it was the strength of the fortress, and the 40-meter-high city wall had some arrangements, which directly made the fortress an insurmountable obstacle, which was the point.

On the other hand, there are 500 longbowmen, on the city wall, at a height of 40 meters, you can definitely suppress 1500 archers, which has nothing to do with experience, this is purely a matter of geographical advantage, one side increases the range, one side decreases the range, under the premise that it must be closer, the archers themselves occupy something, after defending the city, the archers, is occupying something, for the side defending the city, but the fortress of the gundam, and magnifying this advantage.

Originally, it may only be less than 5% of the range, but now when it is increased to 15% or even 20%, the manpower advantage of the besieging side is difficult to play a role here.

Coupled with the fortress itself, the longbowmen are given considerable protection, even if the longbowmen are not strong and not trained enough, they can shoot the bow in a safe place, even if they are not well trained, as long as the arrows are shot according to the regulations, they can produce lethality.

Not to mention that the longbow also has many advantages such as long range, great power, and fast rate of fire, 500 longbowmen can exert three or five times, or even ten times the strength, at this point, Sun Ji is not nonsense.

Han Qi has become the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he is no longer the commander of the first army in the northwest, at that time, he was thinking about the problem, how to increase his own strength, make the battle more inclined to him, and win the war.

But now, transferred back to the center and served as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, his identity has quietly changed, and he is more on the basis of the entire Northern Song Dynasty army.

As the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Han Qi did not know how many new weapons he accepted, and some of them were even very powerful, but after so many years, the equipment of the forbidden army was still the original few, and at most during the Renzong period, the divine arm crossbow was added, and the reason was very simple, a weapon to join the forbidden army needs to be considered holistically.

As far as the current performance is concerned, the performance of the longbow is excellent, the difficulty of training is very low, it is suitable for large-scale promotion, the power is moderate, compared to the short bow, each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and even in a certain aspect, far more than the short bow, these are no problems, the key problem is the cost.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty copied the Divine Arm Crossbow very early, but the Divine Arm Crossbow entered the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army for at least 8 years.

The power of the divine arm crossbow is well known, but the initial cost is indeed emotional, the cost of a divine arm crossbow is as high as 400 times, this is not a crossbow, this is money.

Of course, unlike the original Northern Song Dynasty's demanding performance of the Divine Arm Crossbow, when tested by the Ordnance Bureau, the Divine Arm Crossbow could penetrate 5 layers of infantry armor 500 steps away, and the power was amazingly terrifying.

However, based on the price and power, the final Divine Arm Crossbow can penetrate a layer of infantry armor at a distance of 100 steps, and at most penetrate leather armor and ordinary wooden shields at a distance of 300 steps.

Although it is not an exception for soldiers to have more powerful weapons to be able to kill and injure the enemy and protect themselves, as a high-level institution of the army, it must take into account the cost.

That's right, the cost problem, the Northern Song Dynasty had 800,000 forbidden troops, plus the box army, including the local troops, there are more than 1.5 million people in total, even if everyone's equipment, add a penny, it is 1,500 guan, not to mention, the army's equipment, guan is the smallest word.

If one person increases by 1 guan, the entire military expenditure will be 1.5 million guan, and if one person increases by 10 guan, it will be 15 million guan.

The reduction in the power of the divine arm crossbow has brought about a significant reduction in price, the price of 40 crossbows is only one-tenth of the previous one, but he is still the strongest individual crossbow in the infantry, and it has entered the sequence of the forbidden army, and it has become popular on a large scale.

Han Qi keenly grasped the most critical place, and asked Sun Ji, Sun Ji heard Han Qi's inquiry, and also smiled bitterly, this cost is really the strongest place in the longbow.

He stretched out his hand and compared two fingers, Han Qi nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Two runs, it's not bad, the price is quite low!" ”

The captain of the pro-soldier also nodded, it looks like a simple longbow, its price should not be very high, 2 Guan is just in line with its identity, the biggest problem that hindered him from entering the Great Song Forbidden Army has been solved, it is estimated that it will not be long before it can be popularized on a large scale, this is a good weapon.

Sun Ji shook his head and said, "Han Xiang, I'm not talking about two guan, it's two hundred texts!" ”

"What, two hundred wen?" After coming to Miaojiazhuang, he didn't show his expression Han Qi, he couldn't hide his expression anymore, and even called out in a lost voice, a longbow that is enough to compare with 1 stone, or even 1.5 stone short bow, the price is only 200 Wen, isn't it a lie?