Huang Yueying, who was so shy one second, broke away from Fei Qian's hand the next second and ran away...
This seems a little embarrassing.
But it didn't take long for Huang Yueying to drag something that looked heavy, and when he put it in front of Fei Qian, it turned out to be a crossbow!
Fei Qian blinked, looked at the crossbow on the ground, and then looked at Huang Yueying, a little unbelievable. Could it be that this crossbow was made by Huang Yueying herself?
Huang Yueying was a little proud, her big eyes were shining with the light of "Praise me, I'm awesome"...
Fei Qian picked up the crossbow from the ground, looked around, and shook it. It was heavy. It was made of wood and bronze. Even if there were no crossbow arrows, it could hit people full of heads.
The Huang family's crossbow craftsmanship may be due to the inheritance of the Mohist family. Many specific things have been inherited, such as the scale of Wangshan. This is something that is completely impossible without a lot of practical experience. Just like the Beiqu
The bed crossbow installed on it also uses a winch to open the string and look up the mountain to measure the distance, so as to have some accuracy.
Of course, what Fei Qian is holding now is an ordinary crossbow, also known as the Keng Zhang Crossbow. In fact, it is the predecessor of the Keng Zhang Crossbow, which requires slightly less strength.
"You did it? You did it very well..." Fei Qian said.
Huang Yueying squinted her big eyes, raised her chin slightly, and said: "After receiving Lang Jun's letter, I started to make it...I also made a bigger one, but...well, I can't pull it..."
Fei Qian became interested, so he stood up and walked to the open space in the backyard with the crossbow in hand, ready to test the difference between Huang's crossbow machine and some of the crossbow machines in the army.
Little Mo Dou hurriedly chased after him, still holding Fei Qian's coat in his hand...
Fei sweated this, luckily it was in the backyard...
Bows and crossbows have always been long-distance strike weapons in the Chinese army. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there have been two types of weapons: hand-fired and foot-operated. As for the perverted weapon such as the bed crossbow, it requires three or five people, or it requires animal power to winch.
Although the power of a large long-range weapon is approximately equal to that of a cannon using solid shells, it does not belong to the category of individual weapons and cannot be used in sudden field battles. It is mostly used to attack and defend cities.
Under normal circumstances, individual crossbows are far greater than bows and arrows in terms of accuracy, range, and lethality. According to what the Fei Qian Army now knows, the bows used by ordinary soldiers have a draw weight of about one stone.
The weak bow Badou is usually used by women or children. The strong bow depends on the individual. The bow commonly used by Huang Xu should be about three or four stones.
But the minimum starting point for a crossbow is one stone, and then you add one stone at a time. Normally used in military waist crossbows, it is about one to two stones. After three stones, it is basically stretched, and the highest one is the ten-stone big yellow crossbow.
It was the kind used by Li Guang in the army to continuously snipe at the leading Xiongnu generals. Under normal circumstances, it took two people to open it.
Fei Qian put on his outer robe, with disheveled hair, held the crossbow, and tried to open it. The strength was not too strong, so he hung the crossbow string on the crossbow teeth.
Huang Yueying handed over a crossbow bolt, then pointed to a big tree in the backyard near the wall, and said: "Just shoot at that tree, I often shoot at it, there is a big wood tumor in the middle of the tree!"
Fei Qian glanced at this yellow-haired girl, and it seemed that this girl's daily life was a little different...
do not care.
Fei Qian pressed the crossbow arrow into the arrow path, held the crossbow and aimed it for a while, and then slowly pulled down the crossbow's hanging blade.
The crossbow has this advantage, it can provide a stable aiming time. If the bow is fully drawn, it must be fired in a very short time, otherwise it will be a great consumption for both the bow and the human body.
With a "pop" sound, the crossbow arrow flew out smoothly and hit the unlucky big tree in an instant. However, it did not hit the wood tumor as Fei Qian wanted, but landed on the wood tumor.
About three to five centimeters below.
The Huang family's crossbow, or the crossbow made by Huang Yueying, is still very accurate.
The wood seems to be red date wood. I don’t know what the proportion of bronze alloy is. It looks a bit dark. There are some fine lines on the hanging knife. If you look closely, it turns out to be a blooming flower. This...
Well, it was a girl who did it after all.
Fei Qian also learned a lot about the military during this period. In fact, there are many reasons why crossbows gradually withdraw from the battlefield. One of them is a very cruel reason, which is that people are cheap...
Because in the long process of the Han people fighting against the Xiongnu, the Hu people's armor has not made any progress, almost nothing. Therefore, there is no need for more powerful long-range weapons to break armor. Ordinary bows and arrows that are more convenient to carry are enough.
task.
For horses moving at high speed, the lethality of large-area high-speed projectiles will be obviously higher than that of slow-moving crossbows.
Not to mention that crossbows cost more money...
Therefore, in the army, bows are gradually used as the main weapon, with crossbows as a supplement, and it is common for even all bows to be used.
However, Fei Qian wanted to use the crossbow again.
Because in this land, the war is no longer mainly against the barbarians, but against the own people.
The fighting between infantry will account for the vast majority, and against the shields of swordsmen and axemen who are densely arranged in front of the formation, ordinary bows and arrows are basically ineffective.
But if it were replaced with a powerful crossbow...
Fei Qian has done experiments. Within fifty steps, Si Shi's bow can penetrate seven layers of ordinary leather armor, and can even penetrate three layers of Zha armor. Beyond a hundred steps, the attenuation is more severe, and it can only be
Penetrates three layers of leather armor and one layer of armor.
The most basic Kung-Zhang crossbow basically starts with four stones. If you use a six-stone Kung-Zhang crossbow, then it can be said that no military equipment can withstand it within a hundred steps, no matter it is armor or shield.
live……
Unless you have a specially made shield.
However, the weight of a specially made large shield must also be specially made. In most cases, it can only be used for defense. It is more difficult to attack.
With a crossbow formation in a solid position, it can even render several times the number of enemies helpless. Moreover, even slow-moving crossbows, if used well, will leave the cavalry helpless.
Master Cai Yong once mentioned that a Han general, Li Ling, who surrendered to the Huns, relied on chariot formations and then used 5,000 troops to fight against more than 100,000 Huns. He had to carry the crossbows until they ran out of arrows, and was forced to surrender.
In this battle commanded by Li Ling, during the high-intensity battle that lasted for more than ten days, the Huns faced hundreds of thousands of cavalry and never allowed the Huns to break through the position. Apart from the command factors, it also illustrates the importance of the crossbow.
Now for Fei Qian, if weapons like crossbows are to be placed on the battlefield again, there are two problems that need to be solved urgently, one is the shooting frequency, the other is cost control...
This is why Fei Qian deliberately took the risk and took a detour to Jingxiang in order to use Huang's power.