How far can China's traditional bow and arrow shoot?

During the medieval Anglo-French War, English Welsh longbowmen could make the armor of French heavy infantry and cavalry look useless and abandon their bodies in the wilderness. When excavating the ruins of the battlefield at that time, people found an arrow running through both sides of the metal helmet. In other words, this arrow pierced the helmet and skull of the unfortunate soldier twice! Long archers usually set the shooting angle of arrows at about 30 degrees when assembling and shooting enemy dense formations, so that the arrows can accurately hit the enemy line 300 yards away and maintain strong lethality! Early muskets were inferior to longbows in accuracy, range and firing rate, so that in the eighteenth century, some people in Britain asked the army to resume using longbows. Be strong! ! ! (Don't call me a foreign admirer ~)

Another kind of bow is passed down from generation to generation by nomadic people-compound bow. Compound bow means that its bow arm is composed of two or more materials with different elasticity, usually ox horn and wood. The two materials are glued by animals to form a "C" shape, and then pulled back to the string, thus forming unique protrusions at the two shoulders. Due to the moderate toughness of composite materials, usually only a short bow arm is needed to provide enough tension. The compound bow is small in size and suitable for short people at that time to shoot at once. The famous Xiongnu, Turkic and Mongolian cavalry all use compound bows. In the wars of several centuries, the compound bow was widely spread, and cavalry used it from the Central Plains in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The compound bows of nomads are large and small, while the compound bows of Mongolians are smaller and focus on penetration.

China's bow is deeply influenced by compound bows, so that even simple bows (made of wood) have protrusions similar to compound bows. The bow of the Han Dynasty pays attention to the range and power, and the bow arm is hard, which can be seen from the fact that Li Guang, a flying general, once shot arrows at rocks. In the Tang Dynasty, he thought that the bow arm was too hard to aim at, so he developed an undiminished bow (similar to the requirements of modern bows and arrows). The iron tire bow with iron bow arm was widely used in Song Dynasty, and it became a system of its own. Due to a large number of long-range firearms equipped with troops, China's bow began to decline gradually. Although the Qing Dynasty attached importance to riding and shooting, the results fell behind the times.