As the saying goes, the north is good at riding a southerner.

However, in Lingnan, especially in the area of ​​Zuoxiju Town, west of Yongzhou, it belongs to a mountainous area. Although there are Zuoxi, Nanpanjiang and other rivers, the barbarians here are not very good at boating. At most, the creeks along the rivers can row canoe and small bamboo rows.

The particularity of the mountains and the extension of the tea-horse trade road have given these barbarians a lot of horse gangs. The Jucheng barbarians even have elephant troops, and there are also cavalrymen.

However, their cavalry is different from the cavalry in the Central Plains. The horses of the cavalry in the Central Plains are all tall and big horses. The good war horses are mainly Hetao horses, Hexi horses, or Turkic horses, Khitan horses, or Qinghai horses or even Dayuan horses.

Horses are also produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang and other places in the Central Plains. Shannan, Jiannan, also produced horses, but horses are worse.

However, most of the horses of the barbarians here are local horses. The unique mountainous dam terrain here and even the special climate in the mountainous areas of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau make the horses here generally shorter, but have good endurance.

It is not as explosive and impactful as those Hexi horses, but it is smaller in size but more suitable for dangerous mountain terrain.

The sound of the horn sounded.

The Juchengman began to beat bronze drums. As the Juchengmen who had mastered superb copper smelting technology as early as the pre-Qin era, they were once the dominant ones on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Their war drum skills were even more developed than those of the slang and barbarians in Lingnan.

The patterns of large copper drums are exquisite, and some even have a long history of inheritance. It can be said that they were passed down from a long, long time ago. The exquisite patterns on them were even their long historical records, but they were long lost in history, and many people could not understand them.

Teams of Jucheng and Zuoxi cavalry gathered and rushed towards the Delta.

There are many more orders to come across the river by boat or wooden raft from other ambush locations.

More than 30,000 people from both barbarians were ambushing here. There were originally many cavalrymen. The most powerful elephant soldiers did not come, but the light cavalry basically came. They were just scattered in ambushing everywhere. I didn't expect that after Qin Lang discovered the ambush, he not only did not leave, but also dared to come up.

The light cavalry missed the best charge time.

Many cavalrymen did not even put saddles on their horses when they received the order? They all thought that the Tang people were not afraid of death, and they would definitely have a head-on battle in a while, and the terrain was not suitable for cavalry.

The cavalry were waiting to watch the fun? I didn't expect them to fight in the first game.

The fast-moving horses were already turning over and starting to rush towards Tang Qi? The slow-moving horses were still looking for the saddle to find the horses and weapons.

That messy look? Fu San frowned.

The bad feeling in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.

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And here on the Tang army.

The two wings are about thirty feet wide each, but only about twenty feet deep on the passage, which is slippery and muddy after the rain? But everyone doesn't care about these things? They are all trying hard to prepare for the battle in the drizzle.

The infantry built a line of defense with spears, heavy axes, and swords. Behind were dense crossbowmen, and behind were the earth walls and pile formations that were being built. Then behind were the simple arrow towers that were quickly built.

For archers? No matter how simple the arrow tower is, as long as it has a certain height, it can increase their lethality? Not to mention, the arrow tower can also be equipped with wooden boards, shields, etc. to provide additional protection for archers.

"Sanlang, why don't you go back to the Zhenyuan to command?"

Qin Lang was unmoved.

"War is about fighting. At this time, the military flag stands here? Only then can the soldiers be motivated. The military flag is here? But I stay on the boat in the river? Who is willing to fight to the death?"

Qin Lang looked at a tower that had been set up in front of him quickly? He climbed up directly.

The slippery ground after the rain affected the barbarian light cavalry. Those short war horses that were not as big as mules in the Central Plains were the most marching in the mountains? But at this time it greatly affected the speed.

Especially the swamp area around the pond is even more affected by their development.

The first batch of people rushed over were about three or five hundred riders, and they had to be divided into two sides.

"Transfer, the crossbowman put the shot closer!"

It is true that archers are not good at melee combat, but archers are actually the strongest among infantry. Not only do they have high long-range damage, but also because the infantry can be the one with the strongest physical fitness.

The Tang Dynasty had archers and crossbow soldiers, equipped with archers and crossbows, and were long-range soldiers. But it would be a big mistake to think that they were all thin. In the past, archers generally used hard long bows. The minimum standard for archers using the palace soldiers was eight dou, and there were one stone and one stone two.

The generals even used bows of more than three stones.

Even the most ordinary Badou bow, the strength required to draw the bow is amazing.

In the Tang Dynasty, infantry bows used zhe wood long bows, a single bow made of mulberry wood and zhe wood. This bow is not as good as the horn bows used by cavalry. The horn bows of cavalry are compound bows made of various materials such as tendons, horns, bamboo, and wood. The bow is short and strong.

As a single bow, one of the major features of the infantry long bow is that the bow is very long, and the string is untied and inserted into the bow bag at the waist. Those who don’t know about it think it is a hang of a Mo knife.

The longbow is very straight after being untied, how straight is it?

It's like a shoulder pole.

In order to ensure the range of strong bow force, this single bow must be very long and thick. In order to maintain performance, it is necessary to unpack and collect when not fighting.

The long bow is usually unstrung in the bow and Tao, and is used to hang the strings to fight. The bow is thick in the middle and small at both ends, which is terrifyingly powerful.

But longbows are not easy to use. One of the biggest features of this single bow is its strength. It is not as good as the cavalry's horn bow. Because it is a composite bow, the bow body is short, or even a recurved bow, it does not require too much effort to pull it open.

The infantry longbow is straight and taller than the individual. The middle is really as thick as a shoulder pole. If you don’t have enough strength, you can’t pull it away, let alone shoot far.

So in the Tang Dynasty, an infringing archer was definitely of the top quality among infantry soldiers. They were tall and mighty, and had strong physical strength.

Many elite archers even have scoliosis due to long-term pulling and shooting arrows.

Of course, the Tang army also had a slightly bow, which was a short bow. But this was not a professional bowman, but an equipment for infantrymen of other groups of troops. The Tang Dynasty soldiers attached the most importance to the equipment of bows. Basically, they had a bow with a single bow, and all the spears and swords players were equipped with bows, but their bows were not infantry longbows, but a shorter soft bow like a slightly bow.

The 12 Guards' selection criteria for infantry archers in the palace soldiers is to shoot eight dou bows with armor, two stones and eight dou bows with crossbows, and one stone with armor, three stones and crossbows with three stones and two stones and crossbows with crossbows with top grade.

Not only should you be able to pull the specified crossbow, but you also have to wear armor to shoot, and there are range and accuracy requirements. If you need to wear armor at least 60 steps to shoot long-stack arrows, you can get more than six arrows if you want to shoot ten arrows.

Although the method of calculating bow power in the Tang Dynasty was different from the method of calculating force after the string that started in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the strength of the archer was equally strict.

According to Qin Lang's own calculations, the bow of one stone in the Tang Dynasty was about the same as the 160-pound force in later generations.

By the Qing Dynasty, the force was used as a unit, and no longer used stones. The martial arts examination required the pulling force of the bow was three forces of riding and shooting, and the five forces of the step was about twelve pounds. The three forces of riding and shooting were about thirty-six pounds, and the five forces of the step was sixty pounds.

Some elite guards, including the generals, had to force between five to seven or eight.

The longbow of the archers in the Tang Dynasty was that the force required extremely high.

Therefore, the archers of the Tang Dynasty always emphasized one sentence: to pull the bow to pull the strength, use the long bow and gravity.

The tall longbowers paired with tall longbows and used a special armor-piercing arrow to penetrate the enemy's armor with one arrow within sixty steps.

And when hundreds of infantry longbowmen fired in squadrons and those stronger crossbows, no one could stop them.

As we all know later generations, the English longbowmen who beat French plate-armored cavalry during the Hundred Years of War in Britain and France actually had an average pulling force of about 160 pounds.

This level is actually similar to the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers and infantry long bowmen, and even the style of the long bow is not much different.

It's all based on personal courage.

Such a strong infantry, of course, it is impossible to just fire three arrows in the last battle.

Three shots at the end of the battle, which refers to infantry from other troops, such as spearmen and sword players. They equipped them with a slight bow and shot three times in a row before the enemy rushed forward. At this time, the enemy rushed closer, and they threw down their bows and took the weapons of their troops to fight.

The archer and the crossbowman are combined when fighting, stay behind the spearman and knife player, and can shoot two pots of arrows in one battle.

Even if the brothers in front could not stop them, they could still use the starting spear, spear or big sword to fight in close combat. Because these archers were too strong, the auxiliary weapons provided by the Tang Dynasty were generally stair spear or big sword.

Some even directly match the Modao or heavy axe to fully utilize their super powerful force.

Not only that, even the step archers are basically equipped with armor, and they are often equipped with heavy armor. The ones with light armor are not the archers, but the crossbows. They are far inferior to the archers.

Of course, knife players are usually equipped with light armor.

How terrifying are the longbowmen of the Tang Dynasty? If we look at it, shooting a stone longbow would be almost like doing one-arm bent over dumbbell rowing training in fitness, and it would still be more than 40 kilograms.

Also, it mainly uses the latsimus dorsi to exert force.

But in the gym, people with stronger bodies usually only use fifteen kilograms per piece, while women usually only use three kilograms.

It's over forty kilograms, and anyone who has tried it knows how horrible it is.

This is the Tang Dynasty infantry archers, a group of people with the strongest strength in this era.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Hu Feng has been fierce and martial arts has become the wind. The two emperors of the Tang Dynasty are among the best archers. Li Yuan once fired more than 70 arrows in a row when he was fighting the thief, and his divine power was great.

Li Shimin's General Tiance's big arrow was even more amazing. He got four big arrows and could directly penetrate the door panel. During the battles, he used arrows to kill enemy generals and soldiers more than once.

He also once brought his four-feather arrow to the Turks, and three arrows could intimidate the Turks who were about to move.

In front of the left wing formation.

About three hundred barbarians rushed over and got closer and closer.

The captain Zhang Renzheng calmly took out the long bow of the leopard skin bow Tao on his waist, and then pulled out the armored arrows from Hu Luli.

"Lock array!"

"The longbow winds!"
Chapter completed!