Even if Liu Zheng wanted to expand the cavalry, he could not expand it. After all, due to the number of war horses, he could only gradually form a team of more than 700 people.

But the archer is different. It doesn’t require much, just a bow and a dozen arrows.

As long as the number of people is enough, Sagittarius can be said to be, and it is easy to increase the number.

But Liu Zheng's squad is not the same as those slasher troops that were drawn from Zhao Hong before.

Those so-called archers cannot be really called archers. At best, they are some miscellaneous soldiers holding bows and arrows and shooting randomly.

The number of arrows that can truly hit the enemy is extremely rare. The shooting depends on luck. If you have good luck, you can hit some. If you have bad luck, you are wasting arrows.

At that time, Sun Zhong had 30,000 people under his command, and had tens of thousands of bows. He shot over and killed hundreds of people in one shot.

It can be seen that the hit rate is really low.

Far less than a sharpshooter like Huang Zhong, he almost hit every shot.

If Liu Zheng could train a team of thousands of people, the archery skills of this team would not be like Huang Zhong, but as long as he could win four or five or one thousand people, he could shoot four or five thousand enemy targets on the battlefield.

Moreover, specializing in selecting powerful troops to shoot and kill the enemy, which can greatly impact the enemy's confidence.

"Brother Huang Zhong, I'll leave this matter to you."

Liu Zheng briefly described his thoughts to Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was worried that he had nothing to do when he joined Liu Zheng at this time. Now Liu Zheng did not let him fight on the battlefield, but instead acted as a coach and taught the Yellow Turban Army's archery skills.

This is also an excellent result for Huang Zhong.

So Huang Zhong did not refuse and quickly agreed.

"Okay, if my archery skills are helpful to coach Qu, I will do my best to teach a group of archery good people."

"Well, I'll feel relieved if you say this to Han Sheng."

When Liu Zheng saw Huang Zhong nodding, he quickly agreed.

As soon as Huang Zhong finished speaking, he remembered something and turned his head to speak again at Liu Zheng.

"If Coach Qu wants to form an elite shooter team, it is not enough to have enough and skilled personnel."

Liu Zheng didn't understand these things very well. At this time, he was a little interested when he heard Huang Zhong mention it, so he immediately asked Huang Zhong.

"Brother Huang Zhong, what else do you need to prepare?"

"Of course, some excellent bows and arrows are indispensable, including bows and arrows. In addition, we need to cultivate the relationship between archers and bows and arrows. The more familiar the bows and arrows are, the greater the chance of accurately shooting. We need to prepare some excellent bows and arrows and let the archers practice frequently to improve the shooting accuracy of the archers."

Huang Zhong's explanation made Liu Zheng suddenly realize it, and he immediately understood that if there were some sabers with superb skills, if there were not enough good bows and arrows, it would be difficult for a skilled woman to cook without rice. Only when the skills were good with good bows and arrows could they shoot more accurately.

After understanding, Liu Zheng immediately made a promise to Huang Zhong.

"Don't worry about this, Brother Huang Zhong, since I asked you to train people, I must also consider the issue of arrows. Some of the people who have been rescued from the officers and soldiers before were one of the blacksmith masters. I will order him to build a batch of iron-tied bows in a short time and then add some iron arrows."

Liu Zheng had actually considered what Huang Zhong said before. It was precisely because when he brought people to rescue Zhang Zhongjing, one of the few civilians rescued from the more than 100 remaining soldiers of the government army was the blacksmith in Runan City before.

The blacksmith master had built many weapons for Bo Cai before, so he was charged with a crime of collusion with the enemy and rebellion by Guan Jun. Now that Liu Zheng rescued him, he has become Liu Zheng's person.

Liu Zheng was also thinking about making a group of bows and arrows. At the same time, the appearance of this blacksmith gave Liu Zheng some new ideas. The stirrups he wanted to build for the cavalry were finally managed by manpower.

In the following time, the entire Runan City was in full swing, including Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao training cavalry, while Huang Zhong selected 1,000 people to start training archery, although Liu Zheng currently has not many bows and arrows.

Most of them were snatched from the government army before, but letting everyone take turns to practice shooting, these numbers are enough.

Liu Zheng himself was not idle, so he collected abandoned iron tools in Runan City and began to create new bows and arrows with the blacksmith.

Liu Zheng, a modern man, has not given many opinions to blacksmiths on how to build bows and arrows. Instead, Huang Zhong is quite familiar with this aspect. During his research, he put forward many pertinent opinions, allowing the blacksmith to improve the existing bows and arrows.

It took only two or three days to create the first modified iron-tied bow.

After Huang Zhong got the bow and arrow, he tried it. It was indeed much better than the bow and arrow he had taken from the official army before.

It’s a pity that this kind of iron-tied bow requires repeated tempering of red-burned pig iron, and several quenchings to achieve the toughness of pig iron to meet the appropriate requirements, which is quite complicated to make.

Naturally, the yield is very low. A blacksmith works continuously every day and can at most shoot more than a dozen such bows.

This is just a bow but not an arrow. If a batch of arrows is created, the output will be even lower for a day, and it will not be possible to create a few decent bows and arrows.

In order to increase production, Liu Zheng had no choice but to learn modern production processes and divide the entire iron burr production process into several different processes. Then he selected some of the more than 30,000 people under his command to study iron burr. At the same time, he had strong young strength to join the process of making iron burr.

The people Liu Zheng called over did not need to understand the entire production process. Liu Zheng only needed to be familiar with the link they needed to understand, which was enough.

And that blacksmith only needs to be responsible for checking the entire process.

Just like in a modern work workshop, when making a product, you must first make the parts of the product first, and then after it is completed, it will be assembled by one person collectively. The blacksmith is equivalent to the workshop director.

Responsible for the overall management of the situation.

In this way, not only does the workload of the blacksmith master greatly reduce, but also increases the output. Dozens of people continue to build day and night, and hundreds of iron-tied bows can be created in one day.

Although there are hundreds of iron-tied bows a day, this number is still far from meeting Liu Zheng's requirements. However, it is still barely enough to give him some more time.

But what made him even more excited was that in the past few days, the blacksmith made a pair of stirrups he had been waiting for in the diagrams given to him by Liu Zhenghua.
Chapter completed!