We all know that in the ancient battlefield, cold weapons were used as weapons of war, swords, guns and swords were the mainstream of cold weapons, in addition to a small number of hammers, there were very few who could use bows. It's not that soldiers don't like to be archers, it's that being an archer requires great strength to pull a big bow. Some people will say, pulling a bow is not a very easy thing, in fact, this is the error caused by people in film and television works, in ancient times, the archers who could pull the bow and crossbow were basically tigers with bears, and the strength was infinitely good, and the status of archers in ancient times was equivalent to that of snipers in our current army.
Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, archers on the battlefield have always been adapted to local conditions, archers on the battlefield can not be flat shot, otherwise they will hurt their own people, can only shoot arrows into the sky and cause the arc of the fall to kill the enemy, which must have perfect judgment. During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous general Guan Yu was a good archer, which in ancient times belonged to the existence of high-level troops, and the necessary condition for archers must be physically strong and have superior arm strength, rather than as staged on TV, ancient times called bows and crossbows as "strong crossbows", it can be seen that crossbowmen are 100% fierce men with tiger backs and bear waists.
It is recorded that the ancients' bow and crossbow pull force is very huge, reaching 30-50 kg, and the modern Olympic archery project, athletes can afford to pull 31 kg of bow and arrow are among the best, but do not rule out some exceptions, there is a longbowman in the United Kingdom who has pulled 81 kg of bow and arrow, but this is related to his childhood day and night practice, because of the practice and led to the deformity of the body, so in ancient times, we can know how difficult it is to train an archer.
Even if there are differences in the current measurement methods, it is undeniable that bending the bow and arrow seems to be easy, but it is definitely not as simple as seen, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, many people have forgotten the physical exercise, and it is inevitable that our physical fitness and the ancients have differences.