"Heavy shield soldiers can carry out very effective defense with a heavy shield, so the soldiers are not equipped with armor, only a set of leather armor, and a leather cap on their head. The weight of the heavy shield is not light, and this set of leather armor can also reduce the weight."

Yang Song looked at the attire of these heavy shield soldiers. They had a set of dark cotton battle robes with a bottom layer. The outside was not armor, but tawny leather armor. The leather caps on their heads looked very delicate.

There is actually nothing to drill for the heavy shield soldiers. After demonstrating the shield wall, they then demonstrated the shield circle of advancing forward in unison and defending at 360 degrees.

"Lord, next is the long-range attack unit." Lu Su explained competently as always: "This team is a powerful crossbow unit. It is equipped with a single-shot powerful crossbow. It requires the cooperation of the feet to cock it. The effective range is as far as 350 meters.

Ten meters, the rate of fire is relatively slow, but the power is very powerful."

This small group of crossbowmen came out to demonstrate. Facing the target, step on the crossbow's pedal ring with one foot, bend down and lift the bow string up with both hands to block the mechanism. After stringing, lift the crossbow with both hands, and use the left hand to lift the crossbow.

Hold the crossbow against your abdomen backwards, free your right hand and take out a long crossbow arrow from the arrow sac on your back with your backhand, put it into the arrow slot of the crossbow and lock it. In this way, all the actions of winding are completed.

Hold the crossbow body with your left hand in front, hold the trigger with your right hand behind you, aim forward, and be ready to shoot!

"Target, target two hundred meters ahead! Get ready!"

"put!"

With one command! Twelve long, thick and barbed Mitsubishi heavy crossbow arrows roared out! In the blink of an eye, the crossbow arrows hit the target!

The entire process of the crossbow arrow flying in the air is very short, indicating that the muzzle velocity is very high. The naked eye can only see a black shadow passing by, and it hits the target without any time for people to react!

The crossbowmen did not look at the flying crossbow arrows, but began to reload the second shot immediately after shooting. Even for such skilled elite soldiers, the entire reloading process was still very time-consuming! After several rounds, Yang Song estimated

One shot, about five to six shots per minute.

"Lord, these crossbowmen are now at the peak of their physical strength, with a rate of fire of six to seven arrows per minute. As combat time goes by, the soldiers' physical strength decreases, and the rate of fire will also decrease." Sure enough, Lu Su's explanation appeared in time.

"But on the battlefield, multiple teams cooperate tacitly and under the effective command of officers, they can conduct segmented shooting, which not only extends the combat time, but also improves the attack efficiency of the crossbow."

"As for the number of sections when shooting in sections, it depends on the battle situation. This is also the basis of a qualified officer!" Listening to Lu Su's introduction, some terms and very "modern" quantifiers came out of his mouth from time to time.

, Yang Song is used to it. If Lu Su was talking about ancient sayings like the distance of a few steps, it would make him confused!

Because of Yang Song's previous unified measurement, all new personnel now have relevant knowledge. This also saves these people from the process of re-learning and saves him a lot of unnecessary time for the territory! This makes Yang

Song has a lot of affection for the system!

"The crossbowmen wear the same leather armor as the heavy shield soldiers, but they are light-armored mid-range infantry. In addition to the foot-operated crossbows in their hands, they also have a standard short sword on their waists. The crossbow soldiers' short swords and the heavy shield soldiers

Just like that, it’s a protective weapon just in case.”

The crossbow squad then practiced what Lu Su called segmented shooting. Three-segment shooting is to divide the squad of twelve people into three groups and three rows, each group has four people in each row. After the first group of the first row fired,

Immediately load the crossbows. When the first group of four is loading, the second group steps forward and crosses the first group to shoot. After shooting, they load on the spot. Then the last group steps forward to shoot. After the third group shoots, the crossbows are loaded.

A group of crossbow arrows have also been loaded and ready to shoot. In this cycle, there is basically no gap between attacks!

When the shooting drill is divided into two stages, it is not as fast as when it is divided into three stages, and the attacks have obvious intervals.

"Three-stage shooting is the most commonly used staged attack. When intensive salvo fire is required, staged shooting is not needed. When a faster attack is required, staged shooting is added. Also, when the soldier's physical strength decreases, staged shooting is also added.

In short, the use of crossbows depends on one's heart!"

"Lord, you must have noticed that this branch of the army accounts for a large proportion of the army." Lu Su continued after seeing Yang Song nod.

"Yes, the crossbowmen are a very important offensive force in the entire army! The crossbowmen can give the enemy the most powerful blow at medium and long range, which is the most obvious manifestation of the army's philosophy!" Lu Su kept explaining, Yang Song looked at

He felt a little heartbroken, but seeing Lu Su's excitement when explaining, he didn't know how to persuade him!

After the crossbow team completed the drill, Yang Song was ready to have someone take a look at the archery target in the distance, but he gave up the idea as soon as he thought about it. He decided to go to the target in person to see the power of the crossbow.

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"Come on, accompany me to the archery target. Zijing, I've said so much and in such detail, it's hard for you! Haha!" Yang Song joked with a smile. Such a long journey can also make Lu Su happy.

Give your throat a rest.

"The lord is joking, I'm ashamed of myself! It doesn't matter what I'm wasting this little talk about. As long as the lord and all my colleagues know how powerful this army is, it doesn't matter!" Lu Su is also a good person.

After hearing his lord making fun of him, he repeatedly raised his hands to show that he didn't dare!

"You, you! Hahaha!" Yang Song really didn't know what to say to Lu Su. He shook his head, laughed and walked quickly towards the shooting range.

Yang Song was really convinced by Lu Su's words. He was worthy of being a famous scholar during the Three Kingdoms period. He said he was helpless, but in fact he felt very useful!

"It seems that I am just a commoner!" Yang Song laughed at himself in his heart!

When they came to the archery target of the shooting range, they saw crossbow arrows all over the floor. There were many crossbow arrows stuck on the walls, underground and the most densely packed archery targets! Looking at the scene in front of them, Yang Song and others were amazed!

You must know that this is just the output of a team of twelve soldiers. Although they fired many rounds, the picture in front of them is also very shocking!

He bent down to pull out a crossbow arrow that had been inserted into the ground. Unexpectedly, it took a lot of strength with one hand to pull out the crossbow arrow. After pulling it out, he found that the crossbow arrow was nearly ten centimeters long.

Deep into the ground.

Yang Song looked at the crossbow in his hand, then at the ground, and stamped his feet, looking even more surprised.

Lu Su saw Yang Song's movements and expression, and couldn't help but explain: "Although the ground here is dirt that will cause the least damage to arrows, it has also been repeatedly compacted. Attacks are carried out from a distance of three hundred meters.

The arrows that landed here are still so powerful, think about what would happen if a real person stood here!"

Lu Su couldn't help but shudder when he explained it himself. Others also imagined based on his explanation. In the end, everyone couldn't help but feel terrible!

Yang Song looked at the crossbow arrows shooting out of the target in front of him, thinking that if it were a real person, everyone would die miserably! It was really a terrifying weapon!

As the saying goes, a strong crossbow cannot penetrate the enemy at its end! But the strong crossbow in this conventional infantry brigade seems to be different. Maybe 300 meters is far from the limit of this strong crossbow! It is not that the effective range of the strong crossbow is 350 meters.

Ten meters? What will be the consequences if it exceeds 350 meters?

Yang Song thought of this question and immediately asked Lu Su without courtesy: "Zijing, what will happen if the range exceeds 350 meters?"

Lu Su did not expect Yang Song to ask this question, and thought for a while and said: "Lord, after exceeding three hundred and fifty meters, although the power of the crossbow will decrease to a certain extent, it will not decrease too much. The impact will be greatest after this distance.

It’s accuracy!” Seeing that Yang Song seemed to understand a little bit, he continued to answer.

"An attack that exceeds the effective range will make it impossible for soldiers to aim accurately, because human vision has its limits. A person is extremely small when viewed three hundred meters away! Once fired, there is no way to know where the crossbow arrow is flying!"

Yang Song thought about it. Even if there is a distance sighting scale on the crossbow, as the speed decreases after reaching a certain distance, the kinetic energy carried by the arrow will decrease rapidly. In the end, it will be like the saying "cannot pass through"!

Isn't this just a parabola? Yang Song was shocked. He had no experience with these theories before, but now he realized that science is really everywhere!

After seeing the power of the crossbow, return to the stand. After the soldiers rearrange the shooting range, they will continue to demonstrate other arms! The crossbow squad also gathered up and stood in the last row.

"This is a small group of repeating crossbow soldiers. The main weapon is the Zhuge repeating crossbow. The effective range is only one hundred meters, but the firing rate of the repeating crossbow is extremely fast." Lu Su said.

"Liannu team! Advance!"

As the order was given, the crossbowmen team now in the first row turned right and lined up facing the shooting range, marching forward in unison!

Di Qing is the commander of this conventional infantry brigade. As the commander of the drill, he has been commanding each team. From his skillful command of various types of instructions, you can tell how familiar he is with each branch of the army. He is really a leader.

An excellent general!

Di Qing waited until the company of crossbowmen came within range before giving the order: "Stop and fire continuously!"

I saw twelve soldiers lined up in a row standing still, holding the repeating crossbows in their hands and firing at the target in front of them!

Short crossbow arrows were fired one after another, and the crossbow arrows fired by a few twelve soldiers formed a small area of ​​​​arrow rain! Continuously, without stopping. Until the ten crossbow arrows in the crossbow cassette were fired.

Stop after all ejaculation is finished.

Just when Yang Song thought that these repeating crossbow soldiers were going to stop loading crossbows, he didn't expect that the soldiers took off the arrow box from the repeating crossbow, took out another arrow box from their waists, and put it up, just like changing the magazine. That's not right.

, this is changing the quiver!
Chapter completed!