Online Game: Barbarism And Civilization

Chapter 81 Seems simple, but it’s not easy

As the elves need to recuperate temporarily, the position of archer in the Condor Legion can only be performed by the human warriors themselves.

Considering that the current arrows are all wooden arrows, they are not very powerful, so Ning Yuan only transferred two hundred short elf bows from the elf warriors, and temporarily formed a team of two hundred archers.

Although Ning Yuan invited elven instructors for these human warriors, after a few field operations, Ning Yuan didn’t have much hope for them. At least in a short period of time, they would definitely not be able to train.

Although Ning Yuan has never touched bows and arrows in reality, after reading history books and watching movies and TV series, he is still very aware of the historical status of bows and arrows in the Cold Weapon Period.

As a major killer in the period of leading weapons, bows and arrows have very obvious advantages and disadvantages.

The biggest advantage of the bow and arrow is that it can attack the enemy from a distance.

Taking advantage of the terrain, some bows and arrows with relatively large pulling force can even attack the enemy several hundred meters away, so that before the enemy rushes to the front, it can kill the enemy’s large amount of vital power and weaken the enemy’s overall strength.

Some excellent marksmen are even more frightening to the enemy.

Bows and arrows in their hands are like modern sniper rifles. They can use their precise shooting skills to continuously kill those tricky enemies on the battlefield. They can even change a war by directly sniping the enemy commander. The trend.

The so-called open spear is easy to hide from the dark arrow, which refers to the assassination of cold arrows with the use of bows and crossbows.

Of course, bows and arrows are not invincible, otherwise the two armies would simply have more archers than either side. As a long-range weapon, bow and arrow, its biggest nemesis is thick shield and armor.

When bows and arrows are used to shoot soldiers who don’t have any protective equipment on them, they can get twice the result with half the effort, but if they encounter enemies wearing thick armor and holding hard shields, they can achieve unsatisfactory results.

Since ancient times, heavy infantry has always been the absolute nemesis of archers.

Although the heavy infantry were clumsy, the armor and shields they wore were not pierced by the arrows in the hands of archers.

Especially when they are advancing with their shields, they can be said to be flawless, even the great marksman can’t do anything about them.

At this time, the most sensible way for the archers is to retreat quickly, otherwise once they get close, what awaits the archers will be a massacre of great disparity.

Of course, this is only a situation during a field war. If it is a defense battle, then as long as you don’t shoot arrows, it is difficult for those heavy iron cans to climb onto the wall.

Since the advantages and disadvantages of the archers are too obvious, in the ancient cold weapon wars, when the two armies were engaged, they would give priority to finding ways to target the archers in the enemy camp.

In the field diplomatic war, the heavy cavalry regiment is simply a nightmare for the archers. Facing the heavy cavalry rushing over at high speed, the archers simply have nothing to fight back. Once the heavy cavalry breaks through to the archer’s phalanx, then What awaits them is bound to be a tragic massacre.

The characteristics of the archers focusing on offense and defensiveness make their survivability on the battlefield almost as low as fingertips.

The victor is a little better, after all, they are the dominant side and can well protect the archers in the formation.

But the archers of the losing side may not be so lucky. The lightly clothed and lightly armored archers will become the main harvest targets of the enemy cavalry. At this time, their choice is only to surrender or Death. After all, the two-legged ones It is impossible for a human being to run a four-legged horse.

As a member of the infantry arm, the archers are like other infantry brothers. Once defeated, their losses will be the greatest.

However, it takes at least several years or even longer to train a qualified archer, so once one’s own archer troops are killed in large-scale battles, then it will really be broken.

In addition to being skilled in archery skills, a qualified archer also needs to have excellent arm strength. After all, drawing a bow continuously is a physical task, and most people really can’t do it.

Archery and arm strength can’t be achieved overnight. They require years of practice. A qualified archer corps must be trained for at least a few years before it can gradually take shape.

This is often unacceptable to those rulers who are eager to go to war, so in ancient times, archers ended up with two extremes.

The first is to train archers as versatile fighters. In addition to having superb archery skills, they must also be proficient in close combat skills.

Once the enemy rushes closer, they can immediately become the most qualified melee soldiers by picking up their swords.

They can bend their bows and shoot arrows far away, they can swing their swords to kill the enemy at a distance, and they can adapt to various complex situations on the battlefield. They are truly elite in the military. However, to train such an almighty army, it must take a lot. Time.

The second is the pursuit of quick success. The rulers have only one requirement for the archers, that is, to be able to shoot arrows to the designated area. Their main task on the battlefield is to shoot arrow rain to prevent the enemy from approaching.

As for how many enemies can be shot and killed, it is entirely God’s will. In any case, the commanders do not expect them to snipe the enemy alone. More often, they still want to kill the enemy by relying on their superiority in numbers. After all, so many arrows were shot out. , There must be an enemy being shot.

The biggest advantage of this rapid prototyping archer is that it only takes a few months of emergency training to train a large number of rapid prototyping archers.

So even if they have suffered huge losses on the battlefield, the army commanders will not feel too distressed. After all, they have not yet reached the point of breaking their muscles and bones. As long as there is a large number of reserves, they will soon be able to replenish them.

As a modern person, Ning Yuan definitely hoped that all his soldiers could become the first kind of almighty fighter.

However, time is waiting for no one, so he can only temporarily train a batch of rapid-formed archers. Perhaps the only good news is that these rapid-formed archers are more proficient in close combat.

Compared with their unsightly shooting skills, their excellent close combat ability was Ning Yuan’s only comfort.

Since everyone has just been in contact with bows and arrows, Ning Yuan now does not require them to be able to hit a hundred shots. He only made one request, that is, that they can shoot arrows straight ahead at a distance of more than 50 meters.

Even though this requirement may seem simple, it is actually quite difficult for a layman who has just begun to learn about bows and arrows. Not to mention others, even Ning Yuan himself, only one shot of three arrows met this requirement.

The main reason is that the wooden arrows are still too light and not easy to control. As for those elven instructors, people have racial talent after all. Although the human race is good at learning, learning also requires a certain amount of time for hard training.

Ning Yuan estimated that the Terrans of Own wanted to reach the level of the film and television dramas, and if they didn’t work hard for three or four years, they wouldn’t even think about it. It seems that the mixed army of Terrans and Elves should also be on the agenda.