Song Dynasty

Chapter 16
That's right, this thing is exactly the magic arm bow that Wang Shen had been imprisoned in the warehouse for nothing to assemble.

Wang Shen: "Gu Dutou, have you used this thing before, can you pretend?"

Gu Lie's expression was very strange, he just looked straight at the divine arm bow, and murmured: "I am an infantry soldier, and I use spears and big axes to fight people. The weapons of this crossbowman, I don't know will make."

The divine arm bow is extremely powerful, and it was an important military weapon in the Northern Song Dynasty. Each crossbow is numbered and engraved with the name of the craftsman who made it. It is in charge of a special crossbow soldier, and the assembly method is also a military secret.When the army loses a battle, it is routinely dismantled into parts and burned.Because of this, after the Song Dynasty, there was no real artifact of the God Arm Bow handed down to the world, not even a blueprint.

Wang Shen: "Gu Dutou, you are an old man on the battlefield, let me ask you, if each of you has this kind of weapon, can you win a round?"

Everyone fell silent and turned their heads to look at the past at the same time.The soldiers of the supply battalion are mainly responsible for the transfer of food, fodder and equipment on weekdays. Many of them have never been on the battlefield, let alone fought tough and bloody battles.In terms of combat experience, this Gu Lie fought Dang Xiang with Tong Guan, Fang La, Khitan, and Jurchen in Shanxi, but no one can match him.

Gu Lie didn't speak, his hands trembled slightly.

Wang Shen said loudly: "Gu Lie, tell me, how is Li Yu's bandit army compared to Jurchen? Do you remember killing Xiongling?"

"Why don't you remember?" Tears welled up in Gu Lie's eyes suddenly: "Our little manager, my two brothers, my four nephews, and my precious child all stood dead on the top of that ghostly mountain." .”

Wang Shen: "Let me ask you, at that time, how many people were left under Mr. Xiaozhong?"

"one hundred."

Wang Shenlang said: "At that time, Mr. Xiaozhong had only a few hundred men and horses, and he was facing the Jurchen elite cavalry. He just relied on a magic arm bow in his hand and guarded the Shaxiong Ridge for three days and three nights. We have There are more than 200 people, can the Jinan bandits be stronger than the Jurchen? We have a god arm bow, can't we defend it for a day? You are also a hero of the Western Army, are you afraid, and are you not afraid of the jokes of Qin Fengjun's brother Paoze? You are a little The soldiers brought out by Mr. Zhong, if he knows how to see you at this moment, he will probably be angry and come back to life."

"I'm afraid, what am I afraid of?" Thinking of the tragic battle, Gu Lie suddenly had a rush of blood in his chest, and said angrily: "Fight, fight, I'm afraid of a bird. If everyone has a magic arm bow, I will guard the day It's nothing. But... boy, you insulted me Gu Lie extremely, if you can't conjure two hundred magic arm bows today, don't blame XX for turning your back on me!"

"Okay, as long as you say it." Wang Shen clapped his hands together, and took the magic arm bow from the table, and disassembled it into several large parts in an instant.

Then, they reassembled quickly, stepped on the ring at the front end, wound up the string, and pulled the hanging knife at Gu Lie.

"Shooting" a strong wind sounded.

As an old man of the Western Army, Gu Lie didn't know how powerful the divine arm bow was. When he heard the sound of the wind, he screamed in shock and shrank his head subconsciously.

When everyone's low laughter came, he raised his head in embarrassment and annoyance.

Just as he was about to explode, Wang Shen said again: "Gu Lie, you can see clearly how I disassembled and assembled the God Arm Bow just now, do you want to learn?"

Gu Lie responded subconsciously: "Why don't you want to?"

"Okay, I'll distribute all the accessories later and teach you how to assemble them." Wang Shen yelled again and wound up, pulled the hanging knife, and shot towards an arrow target that had already been set up next to it.

This time he loaded the arrow.

With a sound of "ding", a transparent hole appeared in the three-inch thick wooden wrench, and it was actually shot through.

Seeing the power of the divine arm bow, there was a sound of gasping.

Lu Can laughed loudly: "Masters, with this artifact in hand, how can a few rogues survive my shooting!"

"Yes, yes!" Everyone cheered at the same time, with high morale.

Gu Lie stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Brother Wang, please give me this thing."

After receiving the divine arm bow, Gu Lie gently stroked the bow arm with his hand, as if he couldn't put it down.

I have to say that Liu Guangshi's Huaixi Army is really rich.A small town treasury in Pingyuan unexpectedly managed to collect fifty sets of armor and one hundred sets of leather armor.

In particular, the cold-forged heavy armor of armored steel weighs more than 650 kilograms and needs to be made of more than [-] pieces of armor, making it difficult for swords to penetrate.

It is the standard tactics of the Western Army to form a thick formation with heavy infantry, shoot with bows and crossbows, and abuse the northern nomads.

This set is no stranger to Gu Lie, who used to be the head of the Qin Feng Army's infantry.Soon, under Wang Shen's teaching, the soldiers all held a god-armed bow and put on armor. Under his command, they lined up in four rows and began to practice on the official road in front of the warehouse.

"Front row, shoot!"

"Buzz" the sound of a bow string tearing through the air.

"Sit in the front row and back, wind up."

"Second row, shoot!"

"Second row, sit, wind up."

"The third row, what's the matter with you in the third row, the last string will kill you, why are your hands trembling?"

"Crack!" was the sound of the baton being slammed into someone's body, followed by the screams of the soldiers.

"Second team, what's the matter with the second team, why haven't you set the string yet? Zhiniang thief, you want to kill the enemy to receive a reward, and if you really go to the battlefield, you will give someone's head?"

Angrily, Gu Lie whipped the soldiers who were not moving properly with a stick, roaring loudly, and his face was distorted.

He is training soldiers, heavy infantry crossbow array and light infantry combat are completely two concepts.The Huaixi Army only had combat experience in the [-] Yanyan Army led by Liu Guangshi himself. The others were either remnants gathered or bandits recruited. Personally know.

The sky brightened up little by little, and the flames of the bandit army in the distance could no longer be seen, and the sky was filled with a bright red morning glow.

"Daosi, is it really okay to sharpen your guns in front of the battle?" Seeing that the team was in a mess, with no fighting power at all, Lu Can looked worried: "Can you really stop the bandit army with just the magic arm bow?"

"Okay, brother Ziyu, don't worry, this matter is easy." Wang Shen stood beside him, comforting Lu Can.

But in fact, he didn't have any confidence in his heart. He sharpened his gun in front of the battle, at least he was unhappy, but what else could he do?
Just now, he had asked people to bring out all the accessories of the crossbow machine, and taught everyone to assemble two hundred bows with divine arms.

To be honest, although the crossbow is powerful, its rate of fire is too slow, and strict discipline is needed in wartime, so as to form a dense rain of arrows before the battle.These logistics soldiers and civilian husbands have never fought a war before, and it is undoubtedly a dream to reach the level of training of the Western Army.

Therefore, strictly speaking, using a step bow is the best choice.The bow fires three times faster than the crossbow, allowing it to overwhelm enemies with firepower.Moreover, there are many good yellow birch bows and small shoot bows in the warehouse.

However, it is different from the soft modern bows used for exercise and entertainment in the bow and arrow clubs of modern society.Each of the traditional bows used for murder in the warehouse has a bow force of more than seventy pounds.There are two hundred people in the whole army, only Wang Shen, Lu Can, Gu Lie and other mere ten people can draw their bows.

In ancient times, archers were technical arms, and they were all warriors in the army. They were not as thin and slender as elves who used bows and arrows in online games.

As far as Wang Shen has seen in the club before, a buddy who can drive a 99-pound traditional bow, that guy is simply a trumpet Schwarzenegger, and his brain is full of muscles.

Modern people are full of fish and meat all day long, and have scientific training methods, and they can't open a strong traditional bow, let alone the group of ancient people who are as thin as a tile in front of them. It is difficult for them to open a strong bow.

Then, you can only use crossbows.

Unlike bows that use both arms to open the bow, crossbows use feet to use waist strength, especially this kind of magic arm bow still uses the principle of rods.Even a woman, as long as she uses the right method, she can easily wind up the string, and then easily shoot and kill a fierce enemy.

To put it bluntly, crossbows, especially the god-armed crossbows of the Song Army, are machine guns in the cold weapon era, the sharpest long-range weapons.Just enough power and speed to deliver, and this takes discipline to achieve.

Lu Can heard the words: "I still ask for advice."

Wang Shen stepped forward and said to Gu Lie: "Gu Dutou, I have a method that I want you to refer to, but I don't know if it is feasible."

Gu Lie had no choice but to train this group of stragglers, so he said: "Brother Wang, please tell me."

Wang Shen whispered something in his ear, Gu Lie was stunned: "Is this possible?"

"How do you know if you don't try."

"Forget it, a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor. Anyway, that's it. Let's follow Brother Wang's method. Brother Wang, you can practice it for us first."

"Okay." At that moment, Wang Shen walked to the front of the team and said kindly: "Brothers in Paoze, it's easy to string and shoot the arrows. You have to act in unison under the orders of the officers. I also know that when you panic, you don’t know what to do next, isn’t it?”

Just now when everyone made a mistake, they would eat Gu Lie's army sticks, and when they ate the sticks, they would panic even more and their subordinates would follow suit.

It's not that Gu Lie's training method is wrong, the key is that time is running out, so we have to think of another quick way.

Seeing that Wang Shen had no intention of blaming, one of the soldiers boldly said: "The commander is right, we clearly know what to do, but when we really do it, our minds are confused."

Wang Shen: "Don't worry, anyone will be confused at the beginning. In this way, I will break down the bow and archery into several movements, and you can follow me to learn. By the way, you must strictly obey the orders of the officer, and the officer tells you to do it." What, do what you do, and yell before you do it. Now, everybody listen—everybody listen, bow—shout!"

"Bow and pestle ground!" Everyone yelled at the same time, and put the ring at the top of the crossbow on the ground.

"tread!"

"Step!" Everyone stepped on the ring with their right feet at the same time.

Wang Shen put both hands on the bracket: "Turn on!"

"Wind!"

"First row, shoot!"

"Shoot!" This time, there was a neat sound of shooting.Fifty crossbows were fired at the same time, and the sound of the strings was connected together. It was as loud as a whip covered with dew in the morning, and it made people's hairs stand on end.

"First row, sit!"

"Sit!" The crossbowmen in the first row sat down in the clatter.

Wang Shen gave Gu Lie a wink.

Gu Lie understood: "Second row, shoot!" There was another neat sound of shooting.At this time, the soldiers in the first row shouted again: "Step!"

Lu Can walked to the third row: "Third row, shoot!"

In this way, the voices of officers' orders and soldiers repeating orders filled the world, and the four rows of crossbowmen rose and fell like a surging tide.

The sound of bowstrings kept going, echoing again and again.

……

"Okay, that's it, you practice first, officer, what about the officer, take over the team."

Seeing that the team finally looked a little better, Wang Shen nodded in satisfaction.

A strange look appeared on Gu Lie's sloppy face: "Brother Wang, is this soldier still trained like this?"

Wang Shen: "Gu Lie, I just want to ask you if this method is good or not?"

"This method is really good. Break down the string shooting into several actions, and let everyone follow orders. In this way, the soldiers know what to do now and what to do next. Even if the brain is still confused, follow everyone over and over again. After yelling this a few times, I woke up."

"It's good if it works." Wang Shen didn't feel satisfied. In fact, he also saw this method on TV.In modern society, he once saw a rocket training program on CCTV7 Military Agriculture Channel.

When the Rocket Army soldiers refuel and launch the missiles, they will follow strict standards and shout out every time they make a movement.In this way, even in the dark night, the missile can be launched as quickly as possible.

The reason is very simple, but it is to decompose the whole process into several fixed actions, shout loudly, and practice repeatedly to form conditioned reflexes.To put it bluntly, a soldier is a part of the war machine, and he does his own actions without thinking.

Wang Shen also had a flash of inspiration just now, transplanting this method to ancient times, it seems to work well.

You only need to practice repeatedly for half a day before you can go to the battlefield.

Gu Lie sighed suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Brother Wang can come up with this method, of course I admire it very much. It's just that none of the soldiers in the army have ever been on the battlefield, and I'm afraid that they will be in a bloody mess later." .According to the standards of our Western Army, this group of people are all fucking trash."

Before Wang Shen could answer, Lu Can smiled wryly in a low voice: "Who knows, killing the enemy and serving the country is nothing more than death."

Wang Shen shook his head unconsciously, this Marquis Lu Yu, he would just die when something happened, it was really irritating.

He smiled: "Gu Dutou, you said our army is trash, and Li Yu's bandit army is even worse. I can win this battle, I am sure of that."

Having said that, he is full of confidence.

Yes, it can win, this is the foresight of the traverser.

Of course Gu Lie didn't know this, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with Wang Shen, he just said: "We are just humble men on the battlefield, this life is worthless, the boss tells me to do whatever I want, don't use my brain. "

(End of this chapter)