The archery posture in the Qing Dynasty was very ugly, requiring you to bend over and stick your butt out! But it was very practical on the battlefield.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, countless actual battles on the battlefield showed that the Qing bow was extremely powerful.
It can face early firearms without falling behind, and can fight back and forth with a matchlock at a distance of tens of meters.
It is called the "ancient version of the anti-material rifle".
This is why they insist on riding and shooting.
Because the general characteristics of Qing bows are large size, high poundage, high power, and stable shooting.
They changed the tip of the bow to be so large, the power storage was increased, the kinetic energy of the arrow's loss was increased, and the armor-piercing ability became stronger.
But there will definitely be a price to pay in other ways.
Most Qing bows are long draw length bows, with an astonishing length (almost 178 centimeters after the string is lowered). When the archer shoots an arrow, the upper body leans forward, which can make way for the long draw length, making it easier to fully draw the bow.
Except for some uncommon special models among the Qing bows, the vast majority of Qing bows have long bow bodies. They are an anomaly in the large family of recurved tendon bows. They are the largest in size, far exceeding the others.
Various recurve bows.
And if you use a clear bow while riding a horse, if you do not lean to one side, but choose to hold the bow vertically and shoot forward, then the lower bow tip will directly poke into the horse's back.
As the bow power increases, the original structure will no longer work.
In order to enhance the safety and practicality of using this powerful bow, the ring-shaped string pad on the bow was changed to a fixed groove-shaped string pad.
This kind of string pad is taller and larger, and the string pad is also equipped with leather to cushion the huge force when the bow string is released and reduce the impact on the bow itself.
It can also prevent "bowing over" very well.
When the bow string is fully drawn, the bow string is not caught and falls off, and the bow arm bounces back.
It is very terrible to kill a cow with a bow.
If the bow arm is slapped on the face, it will be disfigured.
When using a bow, be sure to check whether the bow string is in the correct string groove, whether the bow tips at both ends are normal, and whether they are not in a straight line (skewed). Once these problems are discovered, be sure to unstring the string in time.
Bows and arrows protected by high string pads, such as Qing Bow, are relatively safe.
The super high string pad of the Qing Bow can effectively cushion the impact on the bow body when the bow string is released.
This large-tip bow, modified by the Jurchens, became the standard bow of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty - Qing Gong.
In the next three hundred years, various bow shapes such as long-tip bows without string pads, Kaiyuan bows, and small-tip bows that were originally popular in the mainland of the Central Plains were eliminated.
Because the bow is too powerful, only heavy arrows can be used.
Because only heavy arrows can consume all the energy stored in the bow.
Otherwise, the remaining force will act on the bow body and cause damage.
Heavy arrows cannot be ejected, only light arrows can be ejected. Therefore, the Qing Bow is an armor-piercing artifact with short range, high speed, and high kinetic energy.
The lighter the bow, the harder it is to control it, because the hand holding the bow is easily disturbed by the acceleration force of the arrow losing ground, causing slight deformation of the movement, which seriously affects the accuracy of the shot.
The heavier the bow, the easier it is to operate. In this way, even if the string-stringing finger makes some small mistakes, it will hardly affect the hand holding the bow, and it will not be easy for small mistakes to be magnified and affect the accuracy of the shot.
Therefore, the clear bow with a heavy bow weight is very accurate, but the shooting speed is very slow.
How big and heavy is the arrow?
Far more arrows were lost than all the countries in the world.
It is almost the same as a short spear, with a length of one meter and two meters or more, and a thickness reaching the level of the tail finger.
It's not just that the arrow is big and heavy, it's also long.
The arrow clusters are even more frightening,
Compared with the Ming Dynasty's arrow cluster, it is very "wide".
Except for a few types of armor-piercing arrows made into needle shapes, quadrangular pyramids, and triangular pyramid shapes, the arrow clusters of the Eight Banners' arrows are extremely wide, like a shovel.
When faced with enemies wearing armor, the Qing Bow has great lethality and can cause huge wounds to the enemy. During battles, there have even been cases where one arrow plowed off the enemy's arm or neck.
Even if the target's torso is not shot, hitting the limbs will cause huge wounds, causing the target to quickly bleed to death.
The disadvantage of having a large number of arrows is that the Qing archers cannot carry too many arrows.
Carrying fewer arrows requires more precise shooting. This in turn forces them to improve their shooting skills to achieve higher accuracy.
The Eight Banners had many sharp archers, which were forced out by the lack of arrows they could carry on the battlefield.
You can fight whatever kind of weapons you have, and tactics are designed based on the performance of the weapons. The same goes for modern warfare.
They were forced to be brave and rush to a distance of twenty, thirty, or even five steps from the enemy before they started to draw their bows and nock arrows.
Use precise shots to directly hit the enemy's areas where armor cannot protect them.
Such as the face, armpits and other parts. Kill the opponent in one fell swoop. This technique is called "five-step shooting in the face".
At close range, with such a large arrow cluster and such a large kinetic energy, no matter where it hits, it will be fatal.
Even if the enemy's important internal organs are not shot, the enemy's wounded soldiers are likely to die from the wounds and bleeding quickly because they cannot receive effective treatment on the battlefield.
To be able to use a bow with such a large draw force requires super physical strength.
Nurhachi started his army at the age of 24 and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty at the age of 53. During the thirty-year war to unify the Jurchens, the infantry bows used by the early Jianzhou people were the Eight Force and Ten Force.
There is no difference between the Mongolian and Ming Dynasty's walking bows.
But in the cruel war, the loser means death, the wife and daughter belong to the victor, and the descendants are slaves. They are forced to squeeze their own potential.
From then on, the level of archers of the Jiannu slaves continued to improve, until there were twenty to thirty thousand people holding tiger-force bows. The white pendulum warriors were generally able to fire 17-force bows to an astonishing level.
When Zhou Yuji saw Yang Fan personally leading the cavalry to fight Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner cavalry, he was deeply worried for him.
The arms that can pull hard bows and wield long swords and heavy weapons are equally terrifying.
What he can do now is to defeat Zhenglan Banner's heavy infantry as soon as possible, and then go to support Yang Fan.
Although he was an officer who was tricked by the emperor, and his backing was Zhang Fengji from the Ministry of War. However, he saw everything Yang Fan did, and Yang Fan was a good official he had never seen in the Ming Dynasty.
For the first time, he discovered that some people actually regarded being an official as a profession to serve the people, rather than a tool for making money.
Yang Fan enforces the law harshly, but extremely fairly.
Every soldier and official, as long as you are capable, will be able to obtain a position and remuneration commensurate with your ability.
In the Ming Dynasty, this was almost unimaginable.
And Yang Fan dared to confront Jiannu head-on, which made him even more heartbroken.
Because every man has a heroic dream in his heart.
Growing up in Liaodong, he knew deeply the horror of slavery.
"Blow the trumpet! Urge the second and third regiments to defeat the enemy in front of them as soon as possible, and then encircle. Encircle and annihilate a group of fighting enemies." Zhou Yuji ordered.
He knew that these four thousand beetles would not be eaten so easily.
This is the flag of Jiannu, not the Han army.
However, he was not in a hurry. He couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
He entangled them first and used a flexible wedge formation to trap them.
The remaining soldiers of the Han Army Banner are definitely no match for the Second and Third Regiments.
The right choice for me now is to defeat them as soon as possible. Then concentrate on superior forces to surround the heavy infantry of Zhenglan Banner.
Eleven thousand men, plus grenadiers, were enough to destroy them.