The sound of whimpering horns sounded. In the Tang army, local officers and soldiers and small teams often like to use flags and horns to dispatch and command the troops on the battlefield. This is related to the fact that the Tang royal family has the blood of the Hu people.

Because the Tang Dynasty royal family was mixed with Han and Hu, the Tang army's combat methods absorbed the fighting habits of Asian yellow nomadic peoples, that is, the Hu people in the Han population.

The Hu people are no different from the Han people in terms of appearance. The Han people are not the same ethnic concept in this world, but referring to the farming groups under the Central Plains court.

With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty and the integration of the Han and Hu ethnic groups, many Hu people who looked no different from the Han people had intermarried for two or three generations and basically recognized themselves as Han people. Almost all Asian Yellow races in East Asia were under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, and naturally they became Han people.

The Tang Dynasty royal family had Han and Hu blood. In order to avoid gossip, they worked hard to eliminate the gap between Han and Hu since their founding, which greatly promoted the national integration between Han and Hu people in the Central Plains and North and South. Now, there is basically no title of Hu people in the Tang Dynasty. Everyone tacitly called themselves Han people...

This is the political correctness of the Tang Dynasty!

However, An Lushan himself has the blood of the Hu people. When he rebelled, in order to bribe the northern nomadic peoples, he recognized the independent status of many Hu people, which greatly damaged the established national policy of the Tang Dynasty.

As a rebel, how do you naturally make the ruling class uncomfortable?

Moreover, doing so did win many elite soldiers of nomadic people for An Lushan. Originally, when the Tang Dynasty was unified, these Hu people could only become Han people, but now that the civil war in the Tang Dynasty was launched, there are naturally many ambitious people among the nomadic peoples who began to speculate!

Therefore, the situation in the inland Tang Dynasty was much more severe than the information obtained by Bu Haoyu, the guard of Dashi Town. Many nomadic peoples in the Anbei Protectorate have lost their constraints. However, because of the existence of green skin, they dare not fight against the Tang Dynasty. Instead, they indirectly dismantled the rule of the Tang Dynasty by supporting An Lushan!

It has to be said that the existence of green skin allowed the Tang Dynasty to preserve its last face...

Even if the northern nomadic peoples had a natural repulsion to the Tang Dynasty, they did not dare to remove the Tang Dynasty's flag, nor did they dare to stab the Tang army in Anbei Protectorate. If the Tang army in Anbei Protectorate collapsed, who would resist the endless number of green skins for them?

It was only An Lushan, who was blinded by the dream of the emperor, that he would dig out the corners of the Tang Dynasty when facing the threat of green skin...

Amid the sound of whimpering horns, the crossbowmen among the patrol battalions and officials' yamen runners began to slowly walk out forward.

Although crossbows are easier to use and are simple to train, the maintenance of bows is simpler than crossbows and is more suitable for ordinary soldiers, so the equipment rate of bows is much higher than that of crossbows.

Because the Tang Dynasty absorbed a large number of Hu people, the Hu people were good at shooting, and the areas conquered by the Tang Dynasty were large, there was no shortage of archers.

There are some crossbowmen in the infantry team, but among the regular cavalry teams of the Tang Dynasty, all cavalry units use bows and arrows, inheriting and carrying forward the tradition of the nomadic peoples...

Because of this, the Tang Dynasty won more than defeats in the field battle with Green Skin!

Any enemy who fights against the Tang Dynasty will face the first thing that is overwhelming rain of arrows!

Because most soldiers in the Tang army use bows and arrows, and bows and arrows are easy to maintain and cost-effective, bows and arrows are regarded as regular weapons of the Tang Dynasty's regular army, and many hand-to-hand combat soldiers will also be equipped with a pair of bows and arrows.

On the contrary, the crossbow will be used as a weapon for special troops.

Of course, the teams under the basic administrative units of Dashi Town are not considered regular soldiers of the Tang Dynasty at all. In the eyes of the court, they are just local garrison troops, and the regulations are naturally not strict. In addition, the quality of soldiers is uneven, so the proportion of bows equipped is much lower than that of regular soldiers in the Tang Dynasty.

Even so, there were more than 600 crossbowmen coming out of the patrol battalion and the yamen runners!

Only less than 100 of these more than 600 people are specialized crossbow soldiers, while the rest are hand-to-hand archers and archers who work part-time...

In fact, except for the regular field army of the Tang Dynasty, there will be no special archers, because the most lacking of archers in the Tang Dynasty is archers!

After Richard saw the remote troops on the opposite side, he naturally would not continue to wait. With a command, eighty heavy Ming army crossbowmen raised their heavy crossbows and aimed at the opposite side.

The heavy crossbowmen of the Ming army used the best powerful crossbows in the Ming Dynasty, and their range was farther than that of the ordinary military crossbows used by the officers and soldiers of Dashi Town on the opposite side.

The range of crossbows used by the patrol battalions and official yamen runners is not much stronger than that used in the patrol team, but the crossbows they use are more capable of breaking armor than those used in the patrol team!

In other words, as long as the distance is not too far, you can shoot through light iron armor.

Ancient crossbows calculated the effective range on the battlefield. Although some strong bows and hard crossbows can have a range of up to 600 steps in motion, this data is meaningless. Not to mention more than 600 steps, it is basically ordinary soldiers who don’t know where the arrows can float to...

People in later generations know that the hit rate of a smoothbore gun depends on the sky. In fact, the hit rate of a crossbow from a hundred steps also depends on the sky. This is why ancient crossbows often fired volleys and carried out cover-based strikes. Only when the distance is close can they be accurately sniped.

This is no different from a smoothbore gun. It can also be aimed at a close distance. It is precisely because the two are not very different that a smoothbore gun with stronger armor-breaking ability will completely replace the crossbow.

No matter how long the shooting range is, it will be in vain if you can't hit someone!

The archers of Dashi Town officers and soldiers gradually approached Richard's team. At the same time, the hand-to-hand spear formation behind them also followed closely to form a military formation as a whole.

In the combat regulations of Dashi Town officers and soldiers, you must approach a hundred steps before you can fire the crossbow, otherwise it will not cause effective damage to the enemy.

If you encounter an enemy in armor, you need to reach a distance of 50 steps to effectively kill!

The crossbows used by the officers and soldiers of Dashi Town are naturally more than a hundred steps in the range, and can be shot at two or three hundred steps. However, shooting arrows from two or three hundred steps away is basically a waste of arrows because the soldiers cannot aim accurately...

The aim here does not refer to precise aiming, but aiming in a rough direction...

Archery is not a gun, it requires calculation of factors such as the environment and wind speed. The difference between arrows flying out is a huge mistake!

Only the elites in the Tang army are sure to hurt the enemy two or three hundred steps away.

However, Richard's Ming army heavy crossbowman did not have such concerns. As a third-level soldier, he was definitely an elite unit in ancient times, so he aimed at him better than the officers and soldiers of Dashi Town opposite him. Therefore, Richard's Ming army heavy crossbowman shot the first arrow first!

Han Li, who was riding a war horse, was in the rear when he saw Richard's team preparing to shoot, and a trace of contempt flashed across his face.
Chapter completed!