When was the crossbow invented? The age of the crossbow cannot be verified.

The only thing that is certain is that the ancestors of China first invented the crossbow.

The invention of the crossbow, like an automatic car, greatly reduces the difficulty of training archers.

In the era of cold weapons, it takes about three years to train a qualified archer. And training a qualified crossbowman can go to the battlefield in about one year.

Among the Qin army, crossbow soldiers, as an important branch of the army, played a very important role.

The powerful Qin crossbow was in the hands of these crossbow soldiers that the six Shandong countries were frightened.

Qin law stipulates that if the crossbowman fails to shoot the target, both the professor and the crossbowman need to be punished.

When a soldier becomes a crossbowman through selection, he or she is careful when a professor. Those who learn to practice crossbows are not afraid to be careless at all.

The Qin army's assessment is notoriously strict.

After strict training, the Qin army's crossbowmen and archery accuracy were the best in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

Since there are a large number of crossbowmen in the army, Meng Tian ordered the selection of crossbowmen who meet the sniper conditions to be selected, so he did not spend too much energy.

Twenty thousand crossbowmen, carefully selected, and the last two thousand elites were selected.

"Target, Xinyang City Wall, as long as someone shows up, I will be shot to death!"

Meng Tian stood outside Xinyang City on a horse, and his horse whip pointed directly at the Xinyang City Wall.

With Meng Tian's order, the snipers who were already ready pulled the generator of the crossbow, aimed at their respective targets, and released the crossbow arrows to their fullest.

Last night, I was frightened all night. After dawn, the Qin army, who was on the night, was exhausted and dejected. He supported his heavy steps and returned to the camp to rest.

The successor Chu army heard that the Qin army had attacked last night was tragic. Some people were alert and bent down while walking, paying attention to concealing their bodies.

But there are also some Chu soldiers who don’t care.

When the Qin army attacked sneak attacks at night, it was difficult for the Chu army on the top of the city to find the Qin army hiding outside the city. Now in broad daylight, if the Qin army dares to attack again, how can they hide their bodies?

The Chu soldiers on the top of the city leaned forward and looked out of the city. They saw the Qin army groping forward. When they were about five hundred steps away from the city wall, they never moved forward again.

Many Chu soldiers felt that it was safe at a distance of five hundred steps.

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The Qin crossbowmen held the crossbow weapon. After a rain of arrows, the Chu army couldn't help but look at each other.

The Qin army's crossbow arrows could actually shoot up to a distance of 500 steps.

"puff--"

The soldiers who had not yet reacted were still exposed outside the battlements, and all they had waited for were the Qin army's crossbow arrows.

"Squat down, squat down!"

The Chu army, who guarded the city during the day, finally realized the feelings of the brothers who were in trouble last night.

"Transfer to my order, crossbowmen can shoot freely, but they must not approach Xinyang City Wall."

The Qin army's crossbowmen understood Meng Tian's intention very accurately and targeted the Chu army at the head of Xinyang City to snipe.

With his hands shaking the reins, Meng Tian pushed his horse back to the camp, allowing the Qin army crossbowmen to play freely.

"General, do these crossbowmen defeat the Chu army?"

Following Meng Tian on a horse, Meng Bao's eyes showed thoughts. This was the first time he had seen him, and he could still use crossbow soldiers like this.

"If there is no city wall blocking, these crossbowmen should be able to annihilate the Chu army five times that of them."

Meng Tian responded with a smile: "You must know that I can equip each crossbowman with three auxiliary soldiers."

After the crossbowman was selected, Meng Tian retrained the training and organization.

Group with crossbowman as the core.

Each crossbow soldier is equipped with a strong talent, who is specifically responsible for kicking and pulling the crossbow. The crossbow seller only needs to be responsible for finding targets and aiming and shooting, which greatly saves physical strength.

There is also a shield hand holding an iron shield, responsible for protecting the crossbowman from being injured by flying cold arrows.

The last auxiliary soldier is a baggage soldier who is responsible for carrying crossbow arrows, replaced crossbow strings, and crossbow parts. In normal times, he practices repairing crossbows.

Such a four-person sniper team can be dispersed, broken into pieces, and hunted for opportunities. Adjacent sniper teams can also cooperate to snipe enemies.

Faced with such a tactic, unless the Chu army goes out of the city to attack, there is no good way to deal with it.

Wu was not here, and Xiang Yan's camp, his confidant lieutenants gathered together, all of whom looked cold.

"Shangzhu Kingdom, the Qin army sent crossbowmen to shoot and kill our soldiers on the city wall. Now the soldiers dare not stand up and walk. Over time, the morale of our army will be greatly affected." The captain said hatefully.

Last night, it was the turn of guarding, but the Qin army tortured him all night.

"Meng Tian's intention is very obvious, which is to make our army afraid and never let him succeed." Another captain nodded and echoed.

"The Qin army bullies too much!"

"Shangzhu Kingdom, let me lead my army to attack and fight with the Qin people!"

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For a moment, the captains in the camp were hustle and bustle, shouting to leave the city immediately to fight the Qin army.

"Ba"

The bronze town in Xiang Yan's hand suddenly hit the table.

The entire room where the matter was discussed was silent, leaving only breathing sounds.

"Do you think Meng Tian didn't think of this? Maybe he is waiting for me to lead the army to fight him in a decisive battle!"

A bitterness erupted in Xiang Yan's heart.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu army went north to the Central Plains and was indomitable, which made the vassal states of the Central Plains look for their teeth and kneel down to beg for mercy. The king of Zheng could only apologize to the Chu people with bare shirtlessness, holding Aries, and apologize to the people of Chu.

Even if the overlord of the Central Plains in the north had a hundred years of competition with the Chu State, it could only gain a little advantage.

Unexpectedly, during the Warring States Period, the Chu army's ability to fight in the field could only bully Wu Yue in the east and Qi Lu in the northeast.

The Three Jins in the north and the Qin in the west, the Chu people never took advantage of it.

After Bai Qi attacked Chu, the Chu people suffered from Qin phobia. Before they fought with the Qin people, they became timid.

Xiang Yan had more than 300,000 troops in his hands, a large number of them, almost all the troops of Chu. However, leaving Xinyang's city defense and fighting the Qin army with a strong morale, Xiang Yan really felt a little more willing but not enough.

"Hmph, does Meng Tian think there is no sharpshooter in the Chu army?"

Xiang Yan looked around the house and saw the captains lowering their heads and no longer making a decisive battle.

Just now, everyone's blood was rising, and they were impulsive. After calming down, they thought carefully and had to admit that the Chu army was indeed in danger of fighting with the Qin army.

"The sharpshooter who deals with the Qin army must also be a sharpshooter."

Xiang Yan looked at the Wei Jian and nodded with appreciation.

Last night, the captain Jian asked Xiang Yan to send a sharpshooter to support him. In a short while, the Chu army could not mobilize so many accurate archers.

"Do you know there are sharpshooters in the army who are walking through Yang with hundreds of steps?"

Xiang Yan is good at swordsmanship and has little attainment in cavalry. As the chief general of the army, it is impossible to understand everything.

After a moment of silence, the calming captain Jian suddenly stretched out his frown.

"There is indeed one person in our army who can meet the requirements of Shangzhuguo..."
Chapter completed!