——Martial Arts Arena

"Today the Yellow Turban deceives the emperor, gathers the crowd to rebel, harms living beings, and tortures the people..." Ma Qiang took the message written for him by Zhang Zhen and read it on the high platform. Suddenly he noticed that most of the sergeants below looked confused, and he suddenly understood.

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Although I have been learning literacy, there are probably only a few people who can understand these four characters.

Ma Qiang simply rolled up the letter, then waved his hand and said, "The letter just now was so clumsy that I didn't feel happy to read it, and I think you didn't feel happy to hear it either. Let me say something simple."

Brothers! Taiping Road is rebelling now! They have broken Jixian, killed Governor Guo and Governor Liu. They also said they want to break Luoyang, change the dynasty, and make Zhang Jiao the emperor. I know that everyone is basically a refugee. In this world

It's really not that good, but everyone should have heard to some extent that Taiping Dao has a grudge against our Red Star Camp! Their chief canal commander in Youzhou was almost forced to starve to death on the city wall by me!

You think, if they conquer the world, will our Red Star Camp still have a good life? Will you still have enough to eat by then?

Now because they are rebelling, all the business in our Red Star Camp has been stopped. Everyone should also know that our Red Star Camp does not have much land, and we cannot grow enough food to feed our animals! We rely on the brothers from the Ministry of Industry and various departments.

Only friends on the trade road have money. Only with money can we buy food and cloth for everyone to eat and clothe everyone!

Now, these yellow turban thieves are going to destroy everyone’s jobs, make you hungry, and leave your families without clothes. Tell me, will you do it?”

"Don't do it! Don't do it! Don't do it!!"

These words are much more useful than what I just said about bullying the emperor and ignoring the superior.

In the final analysis, before the complete rise of nationalism and nationalism, for most people, nothing is more important than the food in their mouths.

"Then what do we do?"

"Fight the Yellow Turban Army! Fight the Yellow Turban Army!!"

Seeing that his military morale had been boosted by him, Ma Qiang felt relieved.

"Report!! An urgent military situation has come from Changping!" At this time, a sergeant wearing a communications team uniform shouted and ran up, handing over a piece of paper.

Ma Qiang took it and looked at it, then handed it to Duan Ying and said, "Changping County has been conquered. The Yellow Turban Army leader General Du led 10,000 people to conquer the county in only half an hour. The head of the county magistrate has been hung out."

, I think they will send troops to our Red Star Battalion soon!"

Ma Qiang is still very confident in his taunting skills.

"Battlemaster, this is the time to promote the reputation of our Red Star Army. We should wipe it out in one battle!" Duan Ying said with a smile.

"That's true, but none of our sergeants have ever been on the battlefield, and we are very short of bows and arrows." Ma Qiang looked at the sergeants below and expressed his worries.

"Don't worry, Camp Leader, this battle can be won not with force, but with wisdom."

Seeing Duan Ying's confident look, Ma Qiang felt relieved.

Ma Qiang could solve the problem of weapons and armor by using his knowledge of future generations, but there was nothing he could do about the bow.

Ma Qiang can indeed make a crossbow quickly, but it is just a simple hand crossbow. Its power can be seen in Wolf Warrior 2. You can barely break through the defense while wearing civilian clothes, and then cause some skin injuries to others.

To be used in war, it must be a carefully crafted war bow or war crossbow.

There are many types of traditional bows. In terms of appearance, they are divided into straight-draw bows and recurve bows. A straight-draw bow is like an English longbow, and the bowstring is tightened in the direction of the natural bending of the limbs. A recurve bow is a bow whose limbs are naturally bent toward it.

Tighten the bow string in the opposite direction. From the material point of view, it can be divided into single bow, reinforced bow and compound bow. The single bow is simply wood, the reinforced bow is made of the same or similar materials, and the compound bow adopts the properties of

Bows made of different materials, such as Han bows and even later Qing bows, are compound recurve bows.

From the perspective of production technology, a single bow is naturally the simplest, but the requirements for materials are also the highest. First, it must be a straight tree species such as yew or mulberry, and then a wooden pole without knots must be selected, which cannot be used yet.

To cut with a saw, you have to use an ax to split it, and then use a plane to carefully repair it into the proper shape. But if the materials are good, it is easy to make, and a skilled person can make one in an hour.

How hard is it to get such suitable materials? Let's put it this way. In order to store purple shirts, the UK for a while simply asked for wood without paying customs duties.

But for compound bows, it is normal for the work to take more than a year.

Many people in later generations think that ancient China only had recurve compound bows, so some novels will say that the protagonist invented the single-body straight-pull bow, and then the people around were stunned and amazed. But in fact, China has been using single-body straight-pull bows as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

There is a reason why the Chinese army prefers to use recurve compound bows more and more.

The first is efficiency. If there is a bow with the greatest range, it must be the English longbow, but that is almost to the limit of the human body. Later generations have done tests and found that an 80-pound Turkish horn bow can reach the 120-pound English longbow.

However, after reaching the 120-pound Turkish horn bow, it only has the power of the 150-pound English longbow. The further back, the smaller the advantage of the compound recurve bow, and it is gradually surpassed by the single straight-pull bow.

Therefore, for ordinary people, the power of a recurve compound bow will be greater, and a single straight-draw bow is generally the same as or taller than a person, mostly more than 1.6 meters, and a Japanese bow is even 2.2 meters, which is not

It is suitable for cavalry, and more suitable for infantry bows, but here in the Central Plains Dynasty, sorry, we have crossbows.

But this does not mean that recurve compound bows are always better than single-piece straight-draw bows. For example, in the United Kingdom or southern China, single-piece straight-draw bows are more suitable... because moisture and rain are the biggest natural enemies of compound bows.

The bow is glued, so in humid and rainy weather... the user should just draw the sword...

Ma Qiang doesn't have time to make a large number of compound bows now. Secondly, he can't find so much suitable wood to make straight-pull bows. And crossbows can't be bought at all. As for making crossbows, do you think the crossbow arm and bow

What's the difference between arms?

At this time, Ma Qiang's entire army, excluding the cavalry battalion, only had 500 bows and 50 crossbows. It can be said that he was very poor.

——Changping County

Yu Du was sitting in the county office, looking at the words written on the exquisite porcelain bottle in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh, "I've heard long ago that Changping's Red Star Erguotou is the best liquor in the world. This time I can finally taste it."

"Shuai Qu, we have captured Changping now, and the brothers are asking when we are going to attack the Red Star Camp." A big man wearing a yellow scarf walked in, this person was Sui Gu.

"Sui Gu, I always feel that the Red Star Camp will not be that simple. In the past, when the great sages came to Youzhou, they would praise Ma Qiang and others. I heard that the Red Star Camp is training volunteers recently, so we should be careful." Yu Du said on his side.

Playing with the porcelain bottle, he said, "In this way, you take three thousand people, remember, divide into two teams, separated by five miles from each other, just in case!"

"Qu Shuai, you are too careful!" Sui Gu shook his head disapprovingly and said, "Besides, who am I? Even if I lose, no one can catch me. I'm just a rabbit!"

"That's true. In addition, I plan to send three thousand people to capture the military capital. As long as the military capital mountain is defended, the Han army of the previous generation will not be able to get through." Yu Du poured out some soju and made signs on the table.

"Okay, then the troops are divided into three groups. Commander Qu, you should be more careful here. If Yuyang's troops take a detour, they can attack Changping directly."

"Don't worry! After you break through the Red Star Camp, you have to control the sergeants and don't kill them indiscriminately. Most of them are former refugees there and can be collected and used by me, the Yellow Turban."
Chapter completed!