"How beautiful!" A blacksmith muttered to himself, staring at the sword intently.

"Dang!" Zou Yu casually held a sword and slashed at an iron ingot next to him. He heard a crisp sound, and the iron ingot, which was as wide as a palm and three fingers thick, was neatly broken.

Retracting the knife and looking at the blade without a trace, Zou Yu grinned with satisfaction.

There were test stones and wooden stakes in the forging place. Zou Yu walked over, controlled his strength, and swung more than ten knives in succession. He was not disappointed. Whether they were stones or wooden stakes, they were all cut in two without any resistance, as if cutting tofu.

generally.

"Hahaha! What a great sword! What a great sword!" Zou Yu couldn't help laughing loudly. He was very satisfied and proud that this kind of sword was forged by himself.

"Congratulations to the general for forging a sword!" Everyone congratulated one after another.

"What you do is not bad. This kind of knife cannot be mass-produced and is not worth promoting." Zou Yu explained. He was worried that these blacksmiths would follow suit and learn from it, which would delay the production of ordinary weapons.

"General, the steel crossbow is ready, please take a look!" Seeing Zou Yu come down, a blacksmith came forward to report.

Another advantage of obtaining Liaodong City is that many craftsmen were captured, and finally someone knew how to make repeating crossbows.

But this time Zou Yu planned to use steel to make the arms of the crossbow, and use the recurve bow method to make them. Recurve bows are easy to understand, that is, the back of the bow points inward. It is said that recurve bows save more force and have a longer range.

Zou Yu looked at it and saw that there were two types of crossbows, one was a siege crossbow and the other was a step crossbow.

In order to pursue strength, a siege crossbow will use several bows as arms, usually three, so it is also called a three-bow strong crossbow. However, this is a crossbow arm made of steel. Naturally, it is not as troublesome as three bows. The crossbow arrows are made of hard

Made of wood, the front end is a steel arrowhead made of molds, and the tail is made of iron.

Except that the crossbow arm is recurved and there is only one crossbow arm, the rest has not changed, so it is not difficult for the craftsmen. Currently, they are just waiting for the experimental power.

Siege crossbows generally require thirty people to work together. The same is true for steel-arm siege crossbows. In the beginning, thirty people were still required to operate them. The main thing is to wind the bow. It requires twelve people on one side to crank it at the same time. However, it requires more people, and of course it is more powerful.

Not to be underestimated, a siege crossbow is equipped with seven arrows, one large, six small, and one large at a time. Its power can split mountains and rocks and drive them into city walls, allowing siege soldiers to climb up.

A target had been prepared on one side. Soon, twenty-four strong men came forward. Some held the siege crossbow, while others began to twist the crossbow string. Then the people on the other side began to place arrows.

"General Qi! The crossbows are ready!" A soldier reported loudly.

"Let it go!" Zou Yu ordered in a deep voice.

"Buzz!" The sound of a bowstring sounded, and at the same time, a burst of "bang bang bang!" sounded to everyone's ears at the same time.

Everyone looked attentively, and five hundred meters ahead, there were seven arrow shafts stuck in the earth wall, which were trembling!

"Not bad!" Zou Yu exclaimed. He didn't need to go over there. He could tell the effect just by looking at the depth of the arrow.

"How do you feel, compared with the previous crossbows?" Zou Yu turned around and asked.

"Back to General, my subordinates feel that it is much lighter. It seems that they can wind the string without so many people." The soldiers thought for a moment and one of them said.

"Uh-huh!"

"It's much lighter!" The others also nodded.

"Step back a hundred meters and try again to see how many people can string it properly." Zou Yu nodded.

He quickly moved the siege crossbow to a distance of 600 meters, re-wound it, and tried firing. The results were very gratifying. Only twelve people were needed to cock the siege crossbow easily. In this way, twelve soldiers were saved.

At 600 meters, the power has not decreased. Obviously this is not the limit. As for the final limit distance, we can only slowly experiment, but this is already much stronger than the current siege crossbow. According to a person who has used siege crossbows

According to crossbow warriors, the current range of Goguryeo's siege crossbows is more than 500 meters, while the range of siege crossbows in the Central Plains is about 700 meters.

In other words, from the current point of view, the siege crossbow is already considered top-notch, not to mention that it requires less than ten people to operate it. In this regard, the crossbow arrows that were only enlarged and lengthened in the past are simply incomparable. This is

The benefits of talent.

The next step is the step crossbow. The step crossbow is a crossbow that uses the strength of the arms, feet, and waist to draw the bow in a sitting position. When using it, sit flat on the ground and place the crossbow flat in front of you. Put the soles of your left and right feet into your thumbs, and then strike with the crossbow.

, pry up the waist hook, and hook the crossbow string. Pull the waist hook rope with both hands, and push forward with the soles of your feet. The split body falls back, and with all the force, the machine rises by itself and hooks the vanadium structure.

Zou Yu's crossbow also uses a recurved crossbow arm. As soon as the soldiers took advantage of it, they smiled and reported loudly: "General Qi, it is much lighter!"

"Shoot!" Zou Yu nodded and ordered.

The results of the crossbow experiment were also very good. It still had lethality from a distance of 200 meters.

General bows and arrows have a straight-line effective range of fifty to seventy meters. This type of bow is a soft bow. Soft bows are also the most common bows and arrows. They are made of wood plus silk thread or animal sinew. Only soft bows can shoot most people.

The warrior fired continuously.

Next is the long bow. The long bow is also called a hard bow. It is represented by the horn bow. The effective straight range is about 80 to 120 meters. This kind of bow is 1.5 to 2.5 meters long and requires good physical fitness.

Shoot continuously, otherwise the fire will go out after two or three shots, how can you defend the city?

Archers have very high requirements for arm strength, and it is not as easy as imagined, especially continuous shooting. This is why there are only ten or twenty arrows in a barrel. Firstly, it is not easy to make, and secondly, there are more arrows.

I don't have the physical strength to pull the bow string.

Of course, this is an ordinary situation, but for a marksman, it is another situation.

In addition to these two types of bows, there is the crossbow. The average crossbow arrow has a range of about one hundred meters and is very powerful. However, the crossbow arrows are generally shot flat to maximize the power. The range of the repeating crossbow is relatively shorter; the step crossbow is more powerful.

It is larger and has a longer range, but the more powerful it is, the slower it is to reload. This is its shortcoming. The effective range of the step crossbow is more than 200 meters. As for the crossbow, there are many kinds, and the ranges are also different.

, but it is difficult to make, inconvenient to transport, slow to fill, and easy to damage, so large-scale equipment is rarely seen.

Whether it is a bow or a crossbow, it is very troublesome to make. The first thing is to choose the material. You must choose the most suitable material. It must be tough and the hardness cannot be too bad. Therefore, many bows and arrows are composite bows, which are made of several types of wood.
Chapter completed!