Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 180 Seven Stone Bow

"Okay, you have passed the knife test, now you can try the stone. This is a stone prepared for the exam. It is a bit like a stone lock, but it is not as easy to hold as a stone lock. There are only places on both sides that you can pick with your fingers, but It’s not deep. It’s also divided into No. 250, No. [-] is [-] catties, No. [-] is [-] catties, and No. [-] is [-] catties.”

"Of course, if you are born with supernatural power, you can also propose a number, and the number is 360 catties."

"The test requires you to grab the stone with both hands and lift it between your chest and abdomen. Then use your abdominal strength to turn over the left and right bottom of the stone once. Again, it must be done once!"

"If you think you can't do it, it doesn't matter. There are also stone locks over there, which are more convenient to grab. They weigh from ten catties to fifty catties. You can choose to carry one or two, but the requirements are not only It is to lift, but to complete actions such as lifting, throwing, and catching."

"Of course, no matter which one you choose, I will record it here, and each will have a score at that time."

Shi Di's test is mainly about strength, and the minimum is two hundred catties.In addition to strength and agility, Shisuo is the lightest one, only ten catties.

Wang Tiehan still directly wanted to choose who to name, this time Lao Jia didn't stop him either.

Sure enough, for the 360-jin square stone pedicle, the iron man lifted the stone with both hands directly, and then successfully turned the bottom left and right once with the help of abdominal strength.

"Okay, you passed."

Lao Jia went over and patted this guy, "Boy, your strength is probably comparable to Shi Xin's."

"Is he very strong?"

"Well, he can separate two fighting bulls."

"I can do it too. Once, two bulls in our village were fighting for the head of a cow. Their eyes were red and their horns were broken. No one could drive them away. I was in a hurry, so I clamped one of the bull's heads with one arm and directly killed them. Push them to the ground to separate them."

"You're a cow, you're a real cow, just like Shi Xin." Lao Jia was stunned for a moment, and finally someone from the county barracks came out who could compete with Luo Xiaoliu in strength. It's not easy.

The last trial bow.

The bow is a hard bow specially used for practice, because it is just a test of strength, so there is no need to shoot arrows, just pull the bow away.This is much simpler than archery. You don't need to test accuracy, range, etc., and you can draw a harder bow than usual archery.

The units used for bow testing in the camp were stones, but they were stones from the Han Dynasty, and each stone only weighed more than [-] kilograms.There are bows ranging from one stone to nine stones, but the examiner will try one to three stone bows. If you feel that you are strong, you can also try a stronger bow.

According to historical records, Yue Fei, a famous general in the Song Dynasty, was able to pull a bow of three hundred catties, while a catty in Song Dynasty weighed more than 600 grams, equivalent to a seven-stone strong bow in the Han Dynasty.And Yue Fei's bow of three hundred catties is not a practice bow, but a bow for real combat, which can be described as arrogant.

Generally speaking, if you can practice bowing with seven stones, you may not be able to use a three-stone bow in actual combat.For example, in the martial arts examination in the Qing Dynasty, there are three kinds of hard bows in the bow examination: eight strengths, ten strengths, and twelve strengths.

In actual combat, archers of the Qing army generally used three-strength bows. It can be seen that there is a huge difference between actual combat and bow practice.

"It is required to draw the bow above the head, and the number of the bow is optional. There is a limit of three draws, and each time the bow is fully drawn."

"Tiehan, how many stone bows do you choose?"

Wang Tiehan had never drawn a bow before, and he didn't know how much the two stones weighed. He always thought that one stone weighed more than a hundred catties, so it would be very heavy.

After thinking about it, "Three stones."

Lao Jia personally selected a three-stone bow for him. One stone in the Han Dynasty was only about one-third of that in the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, the three-stone bow is actually the one-stone power bow of the Sui Dynasty.

This is also a very strong bow practice.

For real archery, a bow that can shoot a few buckets is considered good.

Tie Han took the bow, pulled it, and found that it was not as difficult to pull as he had imagined. He pulled hard and pulled it hard, but with a snap, the bow broke.

Tie Han held the bow that was broken in two, with a dazed expression on his face.

Lao Jia was also stunned, "It's okay, you can try another bow." After finishing speaking, he turned to a county soldier and said, "Hurry up and call the captain, saying that we have found a treasure."

When Luo Cheng heard that a strong man came in a hurry, he happened to see Wang Tiehan trying out the seven stone bow.

This is a bow force of more than 300 catties.

Wang Tiehan exhausted all his strength, his face was flushed, and he slowly drew the bow until it was fully drawn.

"A monster." Lao Jia sighed.

"It is indeed natural power." Although being able to draw a hard bow does not mean that one can use such a strong bow, but this strength is no one else.

According to historical records, Sun Wu chose soldiers for the state of Wu, and the requirement was to be able to use a twelve-stone crossbow. The standard in the Qin and Han Dynasties was similar. Among the common Han crossbows, one to ten-stone crossbows were used, and the nine-stone crossbow had a bow force of about 267.84 kg. .

In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, bow strength was still the main criterion for selecting soldiers. "Book of Jin · Ma Long's Biography" records that during the Xianning period of Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty, Ma Long selected warriors for the bald tribe of Hexi Xianbei, requiring at least "36 jun for crossbows at the waist and 237.6 jun for bows".The conversion of the bow force means that it is necessary to draw a 26.4 kg crossbow with the "waist open crossbow" method, and a [-] kg bow with bare hands is considered qualified.

The "Northern Qi Book" records that Qi Lianmeng, a fierce general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, broke out in an instant when he competed with the envoys of Liang Guo, and opened four bows at the same time that "strength equals three stones".The same twelve-stone bow strength as the elite soldiers of Wei State, converted into metric system, is a huge gap between 633.6 kg and 360 kg. From this point of view, Qi Lianmeng is simply a monster.

In contrast, Yue Fei, who was "born with supernatural power, not crowned, able to draw a bow of three hundred catties (about 189.9 kilograms), and a waist crossbow with eight stones (about 607.68 kilograms)" in "Jin Tuoxuan", and "Yuan Shi" Among them, Mu Huali, who is "good at shooting with ape arms and strong with three stones (more than 227.88 kg)", seems to be a bit inferior.

Generally speaking, the bow force measurement method is to drop a certain amount of weight.However, bow strength also varies significantly with seasons and time.

For example, when the winter is dry, the bow strength is the strongest, and when the summer is wet, the bow strength is the weakest.In addition, for the same bow, the bow strength is slightly different in the morning and at noon.

Nine-stone bow practice refers to the strength of the bow that can be fully drawn without breaking by hanging nine-stone weights.

Wang Tiehan can pull a seven-stone hard bow, which is nearly [-] kilograms of bow force.

Even if it is replaced with a real combat bow, and the reduction is doubled, it can at least open a bow with three and a half stones, and it is definitely a master.

Luo Cheng is very powerful, and he can usually practice bowing with six or seven stones, but during this period of time he practiced bows and arrows every day, but up to now, he only shoots a stone bow on foot, and shoots seven buckets on horseback.Although the stone buckets here are made in the Sui Dynasty, it can be converted into the Han system and it can be tripled at most.

What's more, he has been practicing for a long time, now he can only hit one out of ten rounds in infantry shooting, but if he switches to a seven-fight step bow, he can hit three out of ten rounds.Qi Dou rides a bow, and often one of ten shots is difficult.

Luo Cheng's requirement for the archers in the battalion is to shoot six buckets on foot, and if they can hit one out of ten rounds, they are considered qualified.

"Tie Man, can you ride a horse?"

Luo Cheng called Wang Tiehan over.

"will not."

"Then can you shoot arrows?"

"Neither."

"Can you have a spear and a big knife?"

"Neither, my father and I are dedicated to logging in the mountains for people, just to be stronger." Tie Han said truthfully.

"Well, the strength is indeed great. I will now officially inform you that you have been admitted early." Luo Cheng told him the good news with a smile, "Kan Leng."

"Father." Kan Leng stepped forward immediately.

"Go to the gate of the camp and tell Wang Huzuo that the first lucky person has been born, and he is Wang Tiehan. Let him write a list and announce it!"

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