Whoosh~
The sharp arrows were accompanied by the sound of breaking through the air, and they shot down three more Jiangxia soldiers.
Huang Zhong took the arrow again. This time, as soon as he touched the arrow, Huang Zhong frowned slightly.
The archers under Lu Dai all used stone bows and were equipped with soft arrows.
In order to facilitate logistics supply, Yuan Jun's arrows were all uniformly regulated. Whether it is a two-stone strong bow or a one-stone common bow, the same arrows are used.
After Huang Zhong joined the army, Yuan Yao assigned more than a thousand strong men to Huang Zhong. These people were all strong men recruited by Yuan Yao with thirty hu of grain and rice and could draw a full stone bow.
With just a little selection and training, Huang Zhong trained Yuan Yao with 500 strong archers who could use two stone bows.
Bows and arrows, since the two are used together, it is best to use arrows with corresponding deflections for bows of different pounds.
This is because when shooting an arrow, the arrow will definitely rub against the crossbow. Generally, bows with lower weights use softer arrow shafts.
However, a high-pound bow with a soft arrow will easily explode the arrow, while a low-pound bow with a hard arrow will easily wear the arrow rest. Similarly, an arrow with a suitable deflection will have the least friction with the bow, making it easier to hit accurately and improve the hit rate.
Therefore, Huang Zhong asked Yuan Yao to produce a batch of hard arrows for the use of strong archers.
Yuan Yao also thought this was the best at first. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. He asked the craftsmen in Nanchang to continue producing ordinary arrows according to Huang Zhong's requirements, and at the same time, they began to make hard arrows with longer arrow feathers, tougher arrow branches, and sharper arrowheads required for the two-stone bow.
But after just producing the first batch of hard arrows, Bing Caoyu came to Yuan Yao to complain, saying that if he continued to make hard arrows, he would not be able to meet Yuan Yao's monthly production requirement of 30,000 arrows.
After Yuan Yao learned about it, he realized that the time and materials used to make a hard arrow were more than twice that of ordinary arrows.
At first, Yuan Yao thought that Bing Cao was exaggerating and was being lazy. But when he went to the workshop to see it in person, he realized that what Bingcao Pu said was true.
Huang Zhong, who was accompanying him, remained silent. It was obvious that he had long known that producing hard arrows was not a simple and easy task.
Although the soldier Cao Yu knew that Huang Zhong was Yuan Yao's new favorite general, he even heard that the two had a master-disciple relationship. But in order to keep his head from moving, and to keep the black gauze hat on his head - after all, he had issued a military order in front of Yuan Yao for how many arrows to produce every month! Therefore, even in front of Huang Zhong, Bing Caoyu still asked Yuan Yao to either reduce the total number of arrows or give up the production of hard arrows.
It is definitely impossible to reduce the number of arrows made. The monthly production of 30,000 arrows is Yuan Yao's bottom line. At present, Yuan's army has more than 2,000 crossbowmen in total. According to the minimum requirement of each archer carrying three barrels of arrows and 30 arrows in each barrel, at least 180,000 arrows are needed.
However, the total number of arrows Yuan Jun now has is just over 100,000, which is a huge gap! Moreover, most of these 100,000 arrows were captured in combat, and the arrows were seriously worn.
Including monthly training losses, etc., producing 30,000 arrows per month is already the minimum requirement.
You can't always count on capturing it through fighting, right?
Therefore, Yuan Yao immediately rejected the request to reduce the number of arrows made.
Bing Cao also knew that Yuan Yao could not agree to reduce the total number of arrows, so he urged Yuan Yao to give up the production of hard arrows.
In the words of Bing Cao, changing the two-stone bow to hard arrows can certainly increase the hit rate, but it is impossible to double the hit rate!
But if all the manpower and material resources for making hard arrows were used to produce the original arrows, more than twice the number of arrows could be made. With more arrows, wouldn't it be possible to kill more enemies?
Moreover, there is not much difference in weight between the one-stone bow and the two-stone bow. They have always used the same arrows. Only powerful bows with three stones or more will use special hard arrows.
Of course, those who use three-stone or above powerful bows are generally powerful generals. The craftsmen can spare time to make special arrows for the generals.
Now that we have to make hard arrows specifically for the five hundred strong archers, it is very likely that the entire army will be short of arrows, which will require more time to repair armaments and affect the progress of the war.
These words also touched Yuan Yao. After all, what he lacks most now is time!
My biological father, Yuan Shu, will be proclaimed emperor in a little more than a year. By then, Yuan Shu and his family will be completely reviled by the world and the target of beatings.
Sun Ce has already driven away Liu Yao, and will soon defeat Xu Gong and occupy the entire Wu Commandery. When spring comes next year, Sun Ce will attack Kuaiji County. By then, all the prosperous land in Jiangdong will belong to the little overlord.
Cao Cao now also expelled Lu Bu and pacified Yanzhou. When he welcomes Emperor Xian again and moves the capital to Xuchang, he will become the overlord of the Central Plains.
But now he barely occupies half of Yuzhang County and has few soldiers and generals, which is not enough to change his future destiny.
If you want to change your destiny against the will of heaven, the best way is to seize and plunder the luck of other historical protagonists.
Among the three families of Wei, Shu and Wu, Cao Cao's configuration is too strong, and he has many civil and military talents, and the quality is excellent. Among fans of the Three Kingdoms, he is known as Boss Cao.
Even if Yuan Shu kicks off his legs at the beginning and the Huainan Civil and Military Group supports Yuan Yao's succession in every possible way and is loyal to Yuan Yao, it is impossible for Yuan Yao and Ji Ling and Yang Hong to defeat Boss Cao.
Needless to say about Liu Bei, his luck is that of a late bloomer, very late, and Yuan Yao has already robbed Liu Bei of the greatest luck in his life - Zhuge Liang, so there is no need to keep an eye on him now.
It seems that only the Sun family is the most suitable to replace him.
First of all, the Sun family has no identity background. Unlike officials like Cao Cao and Er Yuan, who start with a group of loyal civil servants and generals; nor are they like Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, and Liu Biao. After the clan, a person with the surname Liu is the biggest one no matter where they go. of the pass.
What is the identity and background of the Sun family? They were just local common people, and at most their ancestors had produced low-level officials such as county officials and subordinates. It was only in Sun Jian's generation that they became famous, but they were still not enough.
It is precisely because of his lack of fame that although the Sun family can occupy Jiangdong with Sun Ce's brave and pioneering spirit, it is difficult to stir up the world.
No wealthy family in the Central Plains compares favorably with him.
Oh, that's actually not true. The Sun family also has a background. Now the biggest background identity of the Sun family is given by the Yuan family in Runan.
Secondly, the Sun family started late and is still in the entrepreneurial stage. Companies in the startup stage are the most vulnerable, and if someone knows the business plan of the startup every step of the way, wouldn't it be easy to bring down the company? Keep this company as your own?
Therefore, Yuan Yao's long-standing plan was to cross the Yangtze River and go south like Sun Ce, first quickly pacify Yuzhang County, and then use Jiangxi as a rear base to compete with Sun Ce for Jiangdong.
Maybe Kuaiji County can't get it, but the western area of Danyang County where Taishi Ci and Zulang are entrenched must get there before Sun Ce!
Therefore, time is very important to Yuan Yao!
The enemies Yuan Yao encountered along the way, including Peng Cai, Zhu Hao, Zhuge Xuan, and Liu Yao, were actually not difficult to deal with.
They are basically small characters that can be decided in a single battle.
But the future journey cannot always be so smooth. If we encounter a situation of even strength and long-term confrontation, it may be time to compete for military reserves.
Therefore, Yuan Yao planned to compromise temporarily and let Bing Caoyu only make ordinary arrows.
Huang Zhong didn't say anything, but his eyes were inevitably disappointed.
For someone who pays great attention to details, it is always uncomfortable to not be able to do everything to the extreme.
But the next day, Yuan Yao changed his mind.
The day after he went to the workshop, Huang Zhong invited Yuan Yao to inspect the training of the strong archers.
Five hundred strong archers formed a formation. Yuan Yao casually called out the number seven, and then there was a military judge in the queue, pulling one person out of every seventh person.
In the end, fifty strong archers were randomly selected and stood in front of fifty wooden stakes. Each wooden stake was also covered with a layer of armor.
Of course, it's the kind of old armor that has been worn out and is now serving its final purpose.
At a distance of one hundred steps, the strong archers used two stone bows to shoot ten rounds of arrows, and basically six of them hit the target.
Yuan Yao stepped forward to inspect it himself and found that more than half of the arrows on the target could pass through Zha Jia.
In other words, at the extreme distance of one hundred steps, the effective killing rate exceeds 35%.
Although it is a stationary target, this is already a very good hit rate and killing efficiency.
You know, Huang Zhong has only trained these archers for two months. Huang Zhong's original plan was for these new recruits to undergo three months of training.
The above are the results of test firing with ordinary feather arrows.
Then Huang Zhong asked the strong archers to use the newly made hard arrows for test firing.
Still a hundred steps away, this time seven out of ten arrows hit the target.
Huang Zhong asked the strong archers to step back twenty steps and shoot another ten rounds.
Six shots will hit the target.
Yuan Yao stepped forward to test the killing effect again, and was surprised to find that most of the arrows that hit the target had passed through Zha Jia.
And it’s a three-pointer!
This is a distance of one hundred and twenty steps!
The ultimate shooting range of a one-stone bow is 120 steps at most, and after shooting more than 70 steps, the arrow body will float, the arrow power will be greatly weakened, and it will be difficult to achieve armor-piercing effect. This is also commonly known as "flowing arrow".
Unless it hits exposed areas such as the face and neck, it is difficult for a stream of arrows to cause effective damage.
The maximum range of the two stone bows is about 150 steps, and the effective range is about 100 steps. Of course, this is the result of both bows using the same kind of arrows. If the two stone bows use matching arrows, the effective killing range will naturally be improved.
The battlefield is constantly changing, and victory or defeat is often only a matter of millimeters. The goal is to catch someone by surprise, and it depends on who can seize the opportunity!
If you can create an invincible team of good shooters, what if you spend a little more money?
Yuan Yao no longer hesitated and immediately ordered Cao Yu to continue making new hard arrows!
At the same time, the old arrows used in the two stone bows also continued to be produced.
In order to ensure a monthly output of 30,000 arrows, Yuan Yao spared no expense and continued his strategy of spending money, increasing his salary and wages, recruiting craftsmen and apprentices from all over the place!
From that day on, the five hundred strong archers under Huang Zhong were named Qiang Gong Camp.
In the future, this unit also followed Yuan Yao in his northern and southern campaigns, and gained its reputation and made great achievements, becoming the first elite unit of the Zhong Dynasty!
