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

Considering that the current arrows are still wooden arrows, which are not very powerful, Ning Yuan only transferred 200 elf short bows from elf warriors, and temporarily formed a team of 200 archers.

Although Ning Yuan invited elf instructors for these human fighters, Ning Yuan didn't expect much from them after the actual operation. At least in a short period of time, they would definitely not be able to practice.

Although Ning Yuan has never touched bows and arrows in reality, after reading history books and watching film and television dramas, he is still very clear about the historical status of bows and arrows in the cold weapon era.

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

The biggest advantage of bows and arrows is that they can carry out long-range attacks on enemies.

With the advantage of the terrain, some bows and arrows with relatively strong pulling force can even attack the enemy hundreds of meters away, so that before the enemy has rushed to the front, it can kill a large amount of the enemy's vital force and weaken the enemy's overall strength.

Some excellent sharpshooters are even more frightening to the enemy.

Bows and arrows in their hands are like modern sniper rifles. With their precise shooting skills, they can continuously snipe and kill those difficult enemies on the battlefield. They can even change a war by directly sniping the enemy's commander. trend.

The so-called open gun is easy to hide and hidden arrows are hard to defend, refers to the assassination behavior of using a bow and crossbow to shoot cold arrows suddenly.

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

Bows and arrows are effective when used to shoot soldiers with little protective equipment on them, but they are not as effective when they encounter enemies wearing thick armor and holding hard shields.

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

Although the heavy infantry moved clumsily, the armor and shields they wore could not be pierced by the arrows in the hands of the archers.

Especially when they advance with their shields in hand, they can be said to be flawless from top to bottom, even the greatest marksman has nothing to do with them.

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

Of course, this is just a situation during a field battle. If it is a defensive battle, then as long as you don't shoot arrows, it will be fine. After all, it is difficult for those heavy iron cans to climb up the city wall.

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

In field battles, the heavy cavalry regiment is simply a nightmare for archers. Facing the heavy cavalry rushing towards them at high speed, the archers are powerless to fight back. Once the heavy cavalry breaks through to the archer phalanx, then What awaits them is bound to be a tragic massacre.

The characteristics of archers who focus on offense and light on defense make their survivability on the battlefield extremely low.

It's better for the victors, after all, they are the dominant side and can protect the archers in the formation very well.

But the archers on the losing side may not be so lucky. They will become the main harvest targets of the enemy cavalry with light clothes and light armor. At this time, the only choice left for them is to surrender or die. After all, the two-legged It is impossible for human beings to outrun a four-legged cavalry.

As a member of infantry, archers, 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 on a large scale, it will really hurt the bones.

A qualified archer needs not only excellent shooting skills, but also excellent arm strength. After all, drawing the bow non-stop is a physical job, and most people really can't do it.

However, archery and arm strength cannot be achieved overnight, and both require years of practice. A qualified archer army needs at least several years of training to gradually take shape.

But this is often unacceptable to those rulers who are eager to go to war, so in ancient times, archers finally appeared in two extremes.

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

Once the enemy has rushed to the front, they can immediately become the most qualified melee soldiers with their swords.

They can bend bows and shoot arrows from a distance, can kill enemies with knives from a distance, and can adapt to various complicated situations on the battlefield. Time.

The second is the pursuit of quick results. The rulers only have 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 arrows to prevent the enemy from approaching.

As for how many enemies can be shot, it all depends on God's will. Anyway, the commanders don't expect them to be able to kill the enemy alone. They still want to kill the enemy with the advantage of numbers. After all, so many arrows are shot out , There must always be an enemy to be shot.

The biggest advantage of this kind of quick-formed archers is that it only takes a few months of emergency training to train a large number of quick-formed archers.

So even if they suffered huge losses on the battlefield, the commanders of the army would not be too distressed. After all, they have not yet reached the point where they are injured. As long as there are a large number of reserves, they will be replenished soon.

As a modern person, Ning Yuan definitely hopes that all his soldiers can become the first kind of all-round fighters.

But now time is running out, so he can only train a batch of quick-formed archers for the time being. Perhaps the only good news is that these quick-formed archers are more proficient in melee combat.

Compared with their unsightly shooting skills, their excellent close combat ability is Ning Yuan's only consolation.

Since everyone is new to bows and arrows, Ning Yuan does not require them to be able to hit every shot. He only asks that they be able to shoot arrows straight ahead, and the distance must exceed 50 meters.

Although this requirement seems very simple, it is actually quite difficult for a layman who has just started to learn about bows and arrows. Not to mention others, even Ning Yuan himself, only one of the three arrows shot meets this requirement.

The main reason is that wooden arrows are still too light and difficult to control. As for those elf instructors, they are racially gifted after all. Although humans are good at learning, learning requires a certain amount of time and hard training.

Ning Yuan estimated that if his human subordinates wanted to reach the level of the film and television drama, they would not even think about it unless they practiced hard for three or four years. It seems that a mixed army of humans and elves should also be put on the agenda.