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Chapter 409 Drills
After breakfast, Fourteen took Zuo Qiuyue to the training base at the foot of the mountain.

"I originally used this place to train bodyguards. Later, by chance, I took Lan Ze and the others under my command and formed two teams." Fourteen introduced him as he led him to the training ground, " It is the two teams that I told you about before, except for Yin Zhu, Ah Cheng, Ah Lin and Song Guo, the rest of the team members are from Tule soldiers."

The construction of the training base is very simple. Except for the necessary buildings such as dormitories and kitchens, the surrounding area is a large area of ​​flat land, which is very similar to a military camp.

"Generally, people who are sent to the Escort will train here for half a year. After entering the Escort, there will be half a month to a month of intensive training every year. Their staff turnover is relatively large. There are only two groups led by Yin Zhu and Lan Ze and The reserve team has been living here, and basically never leaves the base unless on a mission.”

"arrive."

The two soon came to the side of the two training sessions. In front of them, Lan Ze and Yin Zhu were leading the team to do fighting training.

"It's very similar to the ones at home." Zuo Qiuyue noticed that the obstacles on the field were very similar to those in Xiao Zhai's backyard.

"Yes, it's basically the same." Fourteen said, "It's just that some dimensions have been changed according to the size of the venue."

"Are they killers or guards?" Zuo Qiuyue saw the team members fighting with bare hands, every move was aimed at the opponent's vital points, concise and ruthless, "The number of moves is similar to yours."

"Neither." Fourteen shook his head, "They are vanguards. The vanguards I trained."

"vanguard?"

"Yes, if soldiers are compared to a knife, then they are the tip of the knife. They will rush to the forefront of the entire team, and can stab the enemy's heart the fastest and most accurately. After they are actually on the battlefield, they will be the most Enter the battlefield first, and leave the battlefield last."

"Two groups?" Zuo Qiuyue didn't feel that Shisi's words were exaggerating, but was curious why they could be called pioneers by her.

"Don't underestimate these dozens of people. It costs more to raise dozens of them than tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers." Fourteen pointed to a certain place, motioning Zuo Qiuyue to look over.

"target?"

"Yes, look to the side." She motioned her to look at the table next to her, and at the same time, the two walked over together.

There were special caretakers nearby, seeing Fourteen and Zuo Qiuyue approaching, they immediately saluted: "Princess, lord."

Fourteen waved his hand, signaling him to continue standing guard.

I saw three tables connected to form a length of two feet, on which dozens of exquisite hand crossbows were neatly placed.There is a quiver with short arrows under the stage, which is filled with short arrows that match the hand crossbow.She picked up a handful and handed it to Zuo Qiuyue.

Although ordinary hand crossbows are exquisite, they are not as lethal as longbows, so it is rare to use them as weapons on the battlefield.

However, hand crossbows with high lethality have very high requirements for production standards. The cost of a high-quality hand crossbow is worth dozens or even hundreds of ordinary longbows.And the matching short arrows are several times more expensive than ordinary feathered arrows.

The unrefined ones are too tasteless, and the refined ones are too expensive to match.

Therefore, those who can be equipped with hand crossbows are mostly guards around important people or specially trained killers.In the ordinary army, it is basically not seen.

"This is?"

"Made in Maige." Fourteen introduced, "All the weapons equipped by these two teams are custom-made from Maige."

"In addition to the sidearms they are best at, they are also equipped with various common weapons such as spears, longbows, hand crossbows, long and short whips, iron rods, and iron pickets. Basically, they can be seen on the battlefield. If they can use it, they will use it, and use it well."

"All-rounder?"

"It can't be said, but it's almost the same." Fourteen said modestly, "An all-rounder in killing the enemy."

"Are you going to practice shooting later?" Fourteen asked the person in charge of the weapons.

"Yes, princess."

"You go and ask someone to bring the other weapons, I want to see them demonstrate."

"Yes, princess."

"Wait and see," Zuoqiu Yue said.

"It will not let you down."

……

The first demonstration is horse shooting.

People in iron armor hold the target and ride on horseback ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet... one hundred feet away, while the drillers stand at fixed locations and shoot with bows and arrows or hand crossbows.

Fourteen asked Yinzhu and Lanze to each send a team member to demonstrate the project, and Yinzhu sent a team member numbered seventeen.

"Start." The commander stood in the middle and waved a small flag, and the prepared target ten feet away began to run.

The NO.17 team members took bows and shot arrows without any hesitation.The arrow pierced through the air and shot directly through the red handle.

……

Next is shooting at a distance of twenty feet.

The same process as before, hit the target easily, and the bull's-eye was taken away by the arrow again.

"Practice seventy feet directly."

"Yes, my concubine." Yinzhu responded, and shouted to the commander, "Seventy feet!"

The commander holding the flag waved a string of flags towards the opposite side, and the person in charge of raising the target rode straight to seventy feet away.

"start!"

When Yinzhu gave an order, the commander immediately waved the flag.

The horse on the opposite side started to run. If you had bad eyesight, you would not be able to see where the bullseye was on the target.

I saw that NO.17 was no longer as relaxed as the previous two times, and was silent for a while after putting on the arrow.

At this time, a gust of north wind happened to blow, and the withered grass beside the training field was blown to the ground.

When shooting, I was most afraid of the wind to make trouble, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief for NO.17.

"Chirp!"

The arrow flew out unexpectedly on the wind.

"Hit it!" Gu Lin, the youngest in the crowd, couldn't help but exhale softly.After being glanced at by Lan Ze, he immediately restrained his face and looked solemnly, and stood up straighter.

"Good arrow skills!" Zuoqiu Yue praised.

No.17, who didn't seem to be crowned, was calm and steady, and said to Zuo Qiuyue in fluent Dali Mandarin: "Thank you, my lord, for your compliment."

After receiving Yinzhu's instructions, he trotted back to the queue.

"There is not enough space here, so we can only demonstrate up to seventy feet." Fourteen explained, "The training of eighty feet and above has to be pulled outside the base. Today I want to show you a few more projects, so let's start Come here."

Zuo Qiuyue naturally had no objection.

Lan Ze sent No.20. The bow has already been demonstrated. He used crossbows, which are the ones that were just placed on the table.

He did not stand still this time, but rode on a horse, and drove in the same or opposite direction with a certain distance from the person holding the target, shooting while driving.

When in the same direction, he only needs to catch up with the speed of the opponent to find the aiming point, but when in the opposite direction, he has to catch the intersection at that moment and shoot.If the intersection point is missed, the two horses will get farther and farther away, and the possibility of being able to shoot will become weaker and weaker, and will soon approach zero.

Compared with the previous drill, the enjoyment of this drill has been greatly improved, but the lethality is hidden in the dazzling skills.

The hand crossbow produced by Xiang Mai has a range that exceeds that of a longbow and heavy arrow.The best shooter at the base can hit targets 120 feet away.

The venue was not enough, Fourteen had someone insert the target 120 feet away, and the shooter didn't have to gallop, but just stood at a fixed location to shoot, simply showing the performance of the hand crossbow.

At this point, Zuo Qiuyue finally understood what Fourteen meant by raising these dozens of people was more expensive than raising thousands of ordinary soldiers.

(End of this chapter)