Every time I come back from vacation, the files on my desk will pile up extraordinarily. But in fact, this situation has been alleviated a lot. The ten-level file classification allows the city lords of each branch city to more clearly distinguish some original documents.

Documents with ambiguous levels may seem cumbersome, but in fact, they unexpectedly saved them a lot of tangles.

At the same time, Luo Ji could also more clearly divide according to this level and assign corresponding processing authority to each secretary and city lord according to their work ability, which significantly reduced his own work burden.

After quickly reviewing the several reports at hand, Luo Ji turned to look at the sky outside the window. If he worked harder, he should be able to handle them all before dark.

Just as he was thinking this, a guard walked in quickly outside the office, "Your Majesty, Ye Xuan, the director of the Ordnance Research Department..."

"Just say I'm not here." After hearing the name of the young ancestor, Luo Ji instinctively frightened, and then quickly drank a sip of tea to calm down. His mortal brain could no longer keep up with the genius's thoughts.

, please let him go.

The members of the escort team obviously knew what was going on between His Majesty and Ye Xuan. For a moment, the corners of everyone's mouths twitched unnaturally, and then Zhou Cang, who heard the report, quickly explained.

, "Your Majesty has misunderstood. Minister Ye Xuan from the Ordnance Research Department sent someone to inform Your Majesty that the hand crossbow has been completed."

"Pfft--" The tea he drank in his mouth spurted out on the spot. After that shock, it was replaced not by ecstasy, but by a feeling of tears streaming down his face, "Have you finally finished your research?"

Wiping a handful of bitter tears, ever since Ye Xuan started studying hand crossbows, he had been faced with increasingly difficult questions one after another. God knows how he managed to survive until now. At this moment, Luo Ji simply had to look up to the sky and laugh.

Three impulses! The whole person suddenly stood up, "Let's go and have a look!"

Putting aside the fact that I was going crazy with all kinds of tricky questions, the completion of the hand crossbow is undoubtedly a very important step for the military development of the entire civilization of the world, because it means that a new branch of arms is about to be launched.

Born, that is the crossbowman!

After quickly rushing to the Ordnance Research Department, Luo Ji waved his hand to indicate to Ye Xuan and others to excuse themselves, and then his eyes fell directly on the finished crossbow.

To be honest, it was much bigger than he thought. But when he thought about it, with the current technology, it would be difficult to make a hand crossbow that was too small. To be able to make one like this is already a challenge.

Thanks to Ye Xuan, a genius weapons master.

"Has there been any test firing?"

"The final debugging has just been completed, and the test launch has not yet been officially launched, Your Majesty." Xuan Ye replied quite casually.

"Then I want to try it myself." Luo Ji was obviously very interested in the hand crossbow. After all, there is basically no chance to play with this thing in the real world.

He quickly confirmed the operation method with Ye Xuan. Luo Ji, who himself participated in half of the research, found it not difficult to get started. But when pulling the string, it was really strenuous, but there was nothing that could be done about it.

One of the definite flaws of the crossbow.

If the bed crossbow is equivalent to the siege cannon of the Cold Weapon Age, then the status of the hand crossbow is basically equivalent to the firearms of the Cold Weapon Age.

Standing in the Ordnance Research Department's area specially used to test weapons, Luo Ji fiddled with the hand crossbow in his hand, and then made an aiming gesture. It looked like that.

Then the trigger was pulled, almost in the blink of an eye, everyone only heard a muffled sound of "click", and then everyone who reacted looked towards the wooden target in the distance. The crossbow arrow that hit the red heart made them fire for a while.

They exclaimed, and then shouted words such as "Your Majesty is mighty", and the system prompts officially rang...

System prompt: Congratulations to the player ‘Luo Ji’ for successfully developing the ‘Hand Crossbow’

Listening to the compliments of his subordinates and the system's prompts, Luo Ji chuckled twice, but he did not become complacent, because he knew very well that one of the characteristics of the hand crossbow was its high accuracy and it could only shoot wooden targets.

, with a little proficiency, many people can achieve this effect, and it doesn't matter how powerful he is.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that archers and crossbowmen are one of the few long-range arms in the entire cold weapon era. There is no doubt that there will definitely be a large number of people who are full and have nothing to do.

Put these two arms together to compare, and once this kind of problem arises, all kinds of rhythmic and some taken-for-granted levers will also appear. In the end, there is a high probability that this matter will be abruptly stirred up into a war.

Fighting.

To put it simply and clearly, there is actually no conflict between the existence of these two weapons. It is just like asking the world to eliminate bicycles and stop production of bicycles after you have a battery bicycle. It is purely a disease of the mind.

Getting back to the point, archers mainly rely on manpower to attack, while crossbowmen rely on mechanical power to attack. Based on this premise, the branches of the two arms have clearly branched out.

In a war in the Cold Weapon Age, there is also a clear statement that when two armies are fighting, the crossbow (ballista) will take the lead in firing a volley, then the crossbowmen will fire a volley, and then the archers will fire a volley.

After firing three rounds of volleys from hand, the enemy army will be in front of you, and finally the two armies will fight head-on.

A lot of information can be derived from this description alone. First of all, from the order of shots, the length of the effective range can be basically confirmed. Then, in the confrontation between the two armies, the bed crossbow and the crossbow soldier basically have only one chance to shoot, and

The archer has three rounds. In the words of some shooting game players, the archer reloads quickly enough.

In fact, Luo Ji had just experienced it himself. Pulling the string with a hand crossbow was indeed quite strenuous, but didn't it have any advantages? Of course it did have advantages. Although it was slow to play, it was better because of its stable output.

In other words, this is the advantage of mechanical force. Under normal circumstances, no matter how many times a hand crossbow is fired, the power, range and rate of fire of its crossbow arrows are basically maintained on a parallel line. But if it is replaced by a bow and arrow,

Because it is manpower, the arm strength of the bow and arrow will be greatly reduced, and the power and accuracy will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

In conclusion, the advantages of the bow are its simple structure, light weight, fast loading speed, and flexibility! The advantages of the hand crossbow are its strong penetrating power, high accuracy, and fast shooting speed.

At the same time, it is precisely because the firing rate is fast enough and the penetration power is strong enough that the crossbowmen can almost cause a devastating blow to the cavalry troops with a single salvo at certain appropriate times!
Chapter completed!