Under such circumstances, a crossbow weapon with a slow attack speed will be like a musket and can only attack once or twice before taking a break?

The direction turns to the enemy. The enemy has infantry, crossbows, cavalry...

As for the cavalry, the power of the crossbows has weakened a lot at a distance of a hundred paces. However, at a distance of a hundred paces, the cavalry only needs a few breaths to rush past. Within a few breaths, the crossbows can only fire once or twice at most.

The relevant point was found. With a limited shooting distance and a very limited number of attacks, the enemy cavalry rushed towards us. Our army started shooting at a distance of 150 steps. After one round of shooting, the cavalry had already charged before the arrows were loaded and lost.

It's too close, but there's no time for the second round. Similarly, if you move the cavalry closer to 70 steps before attacking, you can only shoot one round, too late for the second round. It's also just one round, but the difference is that when you get close to 70 steps, you can only shoot one round.

When shooting at 150 steps, the accuracy and power of arrow misses are much greater than when shooting at 150 steps.

In particular, considering that in crossbow combat, concentrated fire and volley fire are the most efficient, especially when fighting in dense battle formations, the rear formation does not have a good field of vision, and must rely on unified command and volley fire tactics to ensure the hit rate. At this time, volley fire

The attack frequency is slower, the attack interval is larger, and it is more similar to the attack mode of a flintlock gun.

Therefore, regarding the optimal attack distance of crossbows, the first tactic to determine is - if the cavalry comes to kill, the cavalry is fast and in disguise, which means that the loading gap of our crossbows is large, so the first choice of crossbows is

Wave shooting must be good at close range shooting. Especially considering that in the formation of the army, most cavalry are elite troops. Since they are elites, most of them have excellent armor and stomach. When dealing with enemies with excellent armor and stomach, it is natural to keep the enemy closer.

Attack, otherwise, if it is a little further away, the arrow will not be able to penetrate the enemy's stomach.

The tactics are consistent with reality in many ways. In the first round, the cavalry is fast, which increases the reloading gap of the bow and crossbow in disguise, so that the distance of the first wave of attacks must be grasped and not attack prematurely; at the same time, for the cavalry, this

As a branch of arms, most cavalry have armor and have strong defense against arrows. Therefore, if you want to effectively kill, you must shoot at close range. From these two factors, it can be seen that for cavalry, bows and crossbows should be fired at close range.

At this point, there are still questions. It is known that shooting at close range is the best choice. So, how close should the approach be? How close can the arrow have enough lethality and can project enough missiles?

If the arrow misses, the total killing efficiency is the highest. What is the optimal approach distance?

Thinking about it, the pinnacle tactic of muskets and fusiliers in later generations was that the British lobster soldiers could carry the rain of bullets and get as close as thirty steps to launch a volley. With this move, the British lobster soldiers defeated the invincible opponents in the world. In the fusiliers

In the age of guns, war has proven that at a distance of thirty steps, muskets have the highest hit rate and power, and have the highest killing efficiency.

In the same way, a crossbow should also have a close shooting distance with the highest killing efficiency. This distance will never be a hundred steps. At a hundred steps, the power of the arrow will be severely reduced, it will not be able to penetrate armor and stomach, and it will be weak in killing;

Taihui is twenty steps away. At twenty steps away, the enemy's cavalry bows can already attack our formation. It is not even two steps away. At two steps away, the enemy's spears and spears have already reached their noses.

On top of it, wait until the enemy is two steps closer before shooting. It is estimated that the crossbow position will be scattered by the enemy soldiers before shooting.

Therefore, the best distance for a crossbow to shoot at close range is probably somewhere between a hundred steps and twenty steps. This distance is also related to the enemy's equipment. The thicker the enemy's armor is, the smaller the distance will be.

The shorter.

Now that the range of the answer is known, it is time to determine the specific value of the answer. If it is the era of flintlock guns, Li Mengxi can determine that the best close range shooting distance of the flintlock gun is thirty meters, and the shooting distance of the crossbow

, and how to determine?

Maybe we should test it, with one hundred cavalry in formation a hundred steps away, fire a volley of bows and crossbows, and then collect the shooting data; then use one hundred cavalry in a formation of ninety steps, fire a volley, collect the shooting data, and then

It's eighty steps, seventy steps...

Each group must collect at least a thousand data to reduce errors. In this way, after collecting tens of thousands of data, we can know what the optimal attack distance is.

After a major problem was solved, Li Mengxi breathed a long sigh of relief. He skillfully took out a pen and paper and wrote down what he had just thought.

There is still an unanswered question. The cavalry runs very fast, which magnifies the problem of the shooting interval of our crossbows. Therefore, the cavalry and crossbows can use close-range shooting tactics with muskets, but what about the infantry? The enemy infantry moves slowly.

, the neat infantry formation is particularly slow, so the shooting interval of a few breaths of crossbows is not so critical, and the crossbows no longer seem to need to be fired at close range.

The complete shooting tactics seem to be clear. To deal with cavalry, the first wave of attacks should bring the enemy closer and shoot at close range. For infantry, the attack should be started at the extreme shooting distance to miss as many arrows as possible. To deal with cavalry,

The shooting method of the infantry may be correct, but the shooting method of the infantry may not be so.

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After scratching his head and pondering for a moment, Li Mengxi felt that he had to give it a try. The test method is as follows. Let the infantry formation approach from 150 steps, and use the bow to

The crossbow starts shooting from 150 steps, and finally records the shooting data; then, the infantry starts approaching from 120 steps, and then starts approaching from 100 steps, and collects data in sequence.

When enough data is collected and the error is small enough, if the best shooting strategy for crossbows against infantry formations is to attack from the extreme range, then the data will show that from one hundred and fifty steps

The killing data will be the best when you start shooting; and if infantry, like cavalry, needs to get closer to achieve maximum killing efficiency, then the data will be the best at a certain distance in the middle.

Whatever the truth is, it will eventually show up in the data.

All finished.

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In Yuyang City, Zhang Ju, who was having a drink with everyone in the city lord's mansion, was not as indifferent as he appeared. He deliberately showed his indifference to others. After drinking, Zhang Ju found an excuse to leave the seat and left the city lord.

After arriving at the mansion, Zhang Ju hurried straight to the city.

At this time, only an hour had passed since both sides had withdrawn their troops. Zhang Ju went up to the top of the city and looked out from the top of the city. When he saw that the formation of the army had changed drastically, Zhang Ju couldn't help but feel shocked.

If there were still flaws in Julu's formation before, and the car formation had many skewed and loose deformations, then now, the Julu Army's car formation has become as neat as a real wall, so neat that it is shocking.

The contrast between before and after is particularly obvious.

Seeing this, and seeing the officers and soldiers outside the city digging trenches in front of the formation, Zhang Ju's face became more and more gloomy. He realized belatedly that he had missed his only chance to break the siege.

Those who rush out without a moment's notice should not hesitate to retreat. After a slight retreat, the officers and soldiers can reorganize their formation. If they want to break out of the siege again, it will be difficult to reach the sky.

Knowing that nothing could be done, he could only defend the city. Zhang Ju called the messengers with a gloomy face. He wanted the messengers to give orders to the city. From now on, all non-headquarters soldiers were not allowed to go to the city without orders.

Zhang Ju had foreseen that if too many people saw the military formation outside the city, even a small soldier who did not know how to fight would be able to sense the terrifying nature of the military formation. This would be detrimental to the morale of the army, so he could only conceal it. But.

, there are so many guards at the top of the city, the situation outside the city will be known to the city sooner or later, and how long can it be concealed.

Zhang Ju's efforts were as futile as a trapped animal still fighting.

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The Julu Army's vehicle formation outside the city has another arrangement. In front of the vehicle formation, directly in front of each convoy, at a distance of eighty steps, a wooden stick is inserted unexpectedly, and a hundred steps further away, another wooden stick is inserted.

It was a wooden stick, and then a hundred and fifty steps later, it was a third wooden stick. It was the same for every convoy. Looking around, these wooden sticks inserted in front of the car array were like fences surrounding the entire battlefield.

A strict circle was formed. These wooden sticks marked the shooting boundaries, which were preparations for possible battles. The shooting boundaries were respectively standard at eighty steps, one hundred steps, and one hundred and fifty steps. This was a temporary

In addition to the additional tactical arrangement, Li Mengxi decided to let the cavalry go to a distance of 80 steps before shooting. If it was an infantry, they would start shooting from the extreme range of 150 steps. This may maximize the killing efficiency. Even though these distances are wrong,

At least the effective range is marked, which is still very helpful in combat.

In the long vehicle formation, in front of each chariot, the soldiers were busy waving hoes and sweating profusely. Shallow trenches no bigger than their calves had been dug on the ground in front of the vehicle array, and the excavated loose soil was piled on the inside of the trench.

It has been piled several feet high, and another stronger defense is being built.

Will the enemy army come out? Li Mengxi looked at the tall Yuyang City and thought to himself. If the enemy army does not come out during the day or at night, after one day and one night, according to the progress, by tomorrow, there will be an extra wide line in front of the vehicle array.
Chapter completed!