In the twelfth lunar month, when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, Daluze is divided into villages, and the once-a-month joint military formation is started again.

There are ten thousand soldiers in the army, two thousand are left to guard Julu City, and eight thousand are dividing the camp.

This military exercise was the same as in the past. It was divided into queues, battle formations, infantry, archery, and cavalry armies, and there was also an exercise among the three armies in parallel formation.

Half a day later, the formation ended. As seen in the formation, the formations of the soldiers were becoming more and more uniform.

Li Mengxi's only way to judge the strength of the formation is to be neat, and only to be neat.

After it was over, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were walking in the camp, discussing training matters and other matters.

I walked to the shooting range. In the shooting range, arrows were scattered all over the place. There were many soldiers collecting the arrows on the ground.

In the formation just now, the crossbow team only fired one arrow. After the formation, the crossbow team fired a hail of arrows forward.

At that time, I was watching and felt that the crossbow team was neatly arranged and there was no chaos at all. I thought it was okay.

But now I found that the arrows were extremely scattered, and the arrows were extremely unfocused.

Li Mengxi stopped and looked up and asked Guan Yu, "General Guan, tell me, how should you shoot a crossbow when it is thrown across the formation?"

Guan Yu thought for a while, "If you shoot upward, how else can you shoot?"

"...Then how can we concentrate the arrow rain? Look, the arrows on the ground are scattered in a mess. They are too scattered."

Li Mengxi wanted to ask Guan Yu how to concentrate the arrow rain, but Guan Yu thought for a long time and could not answer.

Guan Yu didn't even know, and Li Mengxi even less knew.

Li Mengxi firmly believed that there was a way to concentrate the arrow rain.

In the school grounds, Li Mengxi summoned 300 crossbowmen and made them stand in a square formation. Then, he used grain bags to block a solid wall in front of the formation, completely blocking the crossbowmen's eyes. This was to simulate

In actual combat, the crossbowmen are in the rear formation and their sight is blocked by the front formation. The shooting conditions.

In front of the crossbowmen, behind the grain sacks, at a position of sixty paces, a hundred targets were counted.

Li Mengxi commanded, "Throw to the upper right corner!"

Three hundred crossbowmen immediately unfurled their bows and set arrows. The crossbows made a creaking sound when they were drawn, the bow strings vibrated, and the arrows flew out in a whoosh.

After firing many times in succession, three hundred crossbowmen missed ten shots, for a total of three thousand misses.

After shooting, Li Mengxi went to check the hit status. After checking, he found that there were three thousand arrows, and less than ten arrows hit.

The projectile hit rate is so low, it's too low.

Li Mengxi came to Guan Yu depressed and said, "General Guan, you can't see. If the infantry formation blocks the front, the crossbowmen can't see the front, and the crossbowmen will be confused and the shots will be too messy. Is there any way to improve it?"

Guan Yu stroked his beard and pondered. He looked at the curled arrows scattered around the school field and thought, "If there is terrain, it is not difficult to see the crossbowmen standing at a high place."

Li Mengxi raised an objection. He frowned and said, "It is good to have terrain, but what if there is no terrain?"

The problem is very simple. The problem is that the sight of the crossbowmen is blocked by the array in front. Guan Yu frowned and thought for a long time, "How about spreading out the array a little and standing more sparsely, so that the people behind can see it."

Li Mengxi thought for a while and shook his head. If the formation dispersed, it would be easy for him to be defeated.

After retreating for the next step, Guan Yu came up with another idea. He said that it was not necessary to disperse the entire formation, but to leave gaps between the hundreds of troops, and the hundred-man leader of the crossbow team stood in the gaps to watch and command the enemy.

This method is better, but still inappropriate.

In a fierce battle, there can be no gaps in the formation. If you leave even a little gap, you may lose.

The problem reached a dead end. At this moment, a scout riding back to camp passed by.

When they saw the scouts, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were suddenly inspired.

"Cavalry! (War Horse!)"

The two of them suddenly looked at each other and said in unison.

There was such a tacit understanding that the two couldn't help but laugh.

Between infantry and infantry, the tight infantry formation in front will definitely block the sight of the crossbow team behind. This is an unsolvable problem.

But, by breaking away from the infantry, the problem is solved.

The war horses are much higher than the infantry. On horseback, they can directly pass over the array and block the formation, and they can see the opponent's formation at a glance.

The line of sight problem was solved directly. Li Mengxi brought a horse, and he climbed on the horse's back and started testing again.

There were still the three hundred crossbowmen, and there was still a wall in front of them, so they couldn't see anything.

"Listen to my order, upper right corner, shoot!"

The soldiers bent their bows and fired, and the arrows flew out in a whoosh.

Li Mengxi was on horseback. He had the advantage of height. He saw that the rain of arrows scattered by the soldiers was far away from the target.

"Move forward." Li Mengxi directed.

Following his warning, the soldiers set their shooting range farther, raised their crossbows higher, and drew their bows wider, and another wave of arrows flew out.

From Li Mengxi's perspective, he saw a dense rain of arrows passing over the target and heading far away.

The target was only sixty paces away, but this shot hit a hundred paces away.

"...If you get closer, you'll shoot too far."

The crossbowmen once again received Li Mengxi's instructions. This time they steepened their crossbows and lowered their bow strength.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

There was another wave of arrows, this time, it passed again, and this time the shot was closer.

"...a little further."

Swish, swish... the arrow missed, still diffusely, and still far away from the target area.

"A little further."

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

"A little closer."

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"To the left."

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"To the right again."

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After Li Mengxi was busy for a long time, the soldiers were exhausted and had no strength. He still failed to dispatch the arrow rain to the target area as he wished.

At this time, Li Mengxi realized that it was not working well and found a problem. It was a bit difficult to command the crossbow troops.

During the break of the crossbowmen, Li Mengxi imparted knowledge to the crossbowmen. Li Mengxi's idea was this. He wanted to divide the direction into twelve o'clock, use the clock direction to designate the attack direction, and then use the angle to designate the shooting height.

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For example, "Two o'clock direction, 45-degree throw."

This is an order that takes into account both direction and shooting distance. As long as the soldiers know how to shoot at two o'clock, and as long as they can accurately achieve the shooting angle, they can almost project a dense rain of arrows to a very small area.

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, Li Mengxi failed to impart knowledge. After speaking for a long time, the soldiers barely understood the sundial and the so-called twelve o'clock direction. But when they came to the angle, the soldiers

Hearing this, he looked confused.

Although Li Mengxi knew that the angle command method was good, he also knew that this command method could only be used after the soldiers had learned it. In other words, this method had a certain threshold.

In an extreme situation, with all the elite soldiers dead and wounded, and only a bunch of recruits without much training in hand, Li Mengxi fell into deep thought as to how to guide the shooting.

Li Mengxi thought of the crossbow. The crossbow has a distance scale on Wangshan Mountain. As long as the crossbow soldier specifies the direction and then the distance, the crossbow soldier can directly shoot accurately while looking at Wangshan Mountain.

But what about bows and arrows? To be lethal, bows and arrows must be fully drawn. For bows and arrows, if you want to control the shooting distance, you can only adjust the angle. And the angle is difficult to control, and there is a threshold, which makes the applicability not strong.

If he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. He practiced first and then talked about it. Seeing that the soldiers were almost rested, Li Mengxi cheered up. He called the soldiers up and started training again.

"Still in the upper right corner. Listen to my order and shoot!"

Amidst the clanging sound of crossbows, hundreds of arrows were fired.

The arrows were in a mess.

Li Mengxi scratched his head, most of the arrows just missed were too far to the right.

He looked down on the horse and said to everyone, "This time, go a little to the left."

After receiving the order, the crossbowmen opened their bows and set arrows again, and the arrows flew out with a whoosh.

Li Mengxi pointed at someone in the team unbearably, "I said go left, which is left? You don't know left and right?"

Li Mengxi, who couldn't bear it anymore, stretched out his left hand and gestured, "This is left! Can you see clearly?"

The man in the team was reluctant and did not dare to look directly into Li Mengxi's eyes.

"One more time, slightly to the left, ready to shoot!"

Li Mengxi paid attention to the guy in the queue, but this time, the guy changed the direction again.

After one shot, Li Mengxi couldn't bear it anymore and scolded the man again.
To be continued...