Legendary star: Signed to the Palace at the beginning

Chapter 216: Bed Crossbow
"During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang made a continuous crossbow, called Yuanrong Crossbow, which could fire ten arrows at a time. It had strong firepower, but its size and weight were too large for individual soldiers to use. It was mainly used to defend cities and camps. Compared with the powerful crossbows at that time, this kind of continuous crossbow had a shorter range and lower lethality, and it was generally used in conjunction with the kicking crossbow in combat. Later, Ma Jun improved it and changed it into a five-arrow continuous crossbow, which made Its size and weight were greatly reduced, and it became an individual weapon, but because the production was very complicated, and the arrows used had to be specially made, so it was not mass-produced, but unfortunately it was lost later.”

Xiao Chuan admires Gongshuzhong very much. He is worthy of being the descendant of the Gongshu family. He has a cheat and has traveled to the Han Dynasty and has seen the bows and crossbows of the Han Dynasty, but Gongshuzhong can speak clearly about the bows and crossbows of thousands of years ago. In ancient times, there were not so many books and Internet knowledge to search for the origin of family studies, and many of them were passed down by word of mouth.

Xiao Chuan reminded: "So the shortcomings of the crossbow are obvious. The crossbow is very bulky, so it is suitable for infantry to carry or make a ballista, but it is not suitable for the original dragon head cavalry?"

Gong Shuzhong smiled wryly and said: "Yes, the current crossbow is too heavy for cavalrymen to hold it, and if it is too light, its range is about the same as that of a bow and arrow."

Xiao Chuan smiled and said, "Mr. Gongshu, if I have a blueprint for a light and powerful crossbow, can you make it?"

Gongshu said seriously: "My lord, as long as there are blueprints, I will definitely be able to make them."

Xiao Chuan took out a blueprint and said, "This is the blueprint of the God Arm Crossbow, take a look."

The god-arm crossbow was invented by Shenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty. The length of the bow is three feet three, the string length is two feet five, and the range is as far as more than 340 steps. One of the standard weapons of the Song Army's crossbowmen, the weak Song Dynasty relied on advanced weapons to survive under the powerful enemies of Khitan, Jurchen, Dangxiang, and Mongolia.

Gongshu Zhong took the drawing of the Divine Arm Crossbow and couldn't put it down immediately. He murmured: "The Divine Arm Crossbow! Judging from the design, it can shoot at least more than 300 steps. It is also light and can be carried by cavalry. Baby."

Xiao Chuan smiled and said: "Mr. Gongshu is worthy of being an expert. You can know the range of the magic arm crossbow just by looking at the blueprint."

Yuchijia excitedly said: "My lord, if our cavalry are all equipped with crossbows, and they can shoot at the Turkic soldiers who can only shoot bows and arrows a few dozen steps away from three hundred paces, it would be really cool to think about it."

Xiao Chuan said: "Yuchijia, I still have three big guys, if you take them out, your eyeballs will fall out."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Chuan took out the blueprints of three of the sharpest long-range weapons: Eight Bull Crossbows, Doucunzi Crossbows, and Continuous Ballista.

The eight-oxen crossbow is also called the three-bow bed crossbow. The crossbow arrows are as thick as an arm. It is said that eight oxen are needed to pull them apart.

"Song History Wei Pi Biography" records: "The old bed crossbow shot only [-] steps, and Pi increased it to a thousand steps."

In the Song Dynasty, one step is 1.536 meters, and one thousand steps is 1536 meters. This is one of the highest range records achieved by ancient long-range weapons.

The Doucunzi crossbow is a powerful continuous crossbow, another type of three-bow bed crossbow in the Song Dynasty, which can shoot more than ten arrows at a time to a distance of a thousand steps.

Doucunzi crossbow needs 75 to [-] people to twist it with ropes and borrow mechanical power. It is a powerful weapon, a machine gun in cold weapons.

The ballista, which existed in the Warring States Period, is a kind of ballista. It is placed on the cart with wheels underneath, and can be moved forward and backward.

There are twelve stone crossbows on the chariot, and each crossbow shoots seven arrows. The center arrow is slightly larger than the main arrow, and the three arrows on each side are slightly smaller.It can be regarded as an ancient rocket launcher.

Xiao Chuan had used these weapons during the defense of Shule City in the Great Han Dynasty, but at that time he was limited by the lack of resources on the battlefield, so he could only make some simple bed crossbows. Now Xiao Chuan wanted to produce high-quality products.

Gongshu Zhong took the three blueprints, looked at them, and said, "My lord, the three-bow crossbow and the crossbow cart are good things, but it takes too many people to pull them apart."

Another blueprint appeared in Xiao Chuan's hand, and he said, "I have considered this issue. If we can add a wheel axle to the crossbow, it will save effort."

Gongshu took the blueprint again and said, "I'll go back and discuss it with my clansmen."

Xiao Chuan showed murderous intent, and said seriously: "Mr. Gongshu, Brother Yuchi, weapon manufacturing is the country's top military secret. Not only must the drawings be kept secret, but the production process must be done in an assembly line. Each worker can only touch one part and cannot know the entire production process. The process, the leaker will be killed!"

Gongshu Zhong and Yuchi Jiaju both had stern looks on their faces, and they clasped their fists together and said, "I understand that only I and I know the weapon blueprints, and even my son and wife will not reveal them."

Seeing Gong Shuzhong leaving excitedly, Yu Chijia felt itchy in his heart, and said, "Master, you have given so many treasures to the Ordnance Bureau, can you also give some to my Firearms Bureau?"

Xiao Chuan said: "I have already prepared it for you."

Xiao Chuan handed over the blueprints of the Hongyi Cannon, Tiger Crouching Cannon, and Bird Gun purchased from the "Developer System" to Yuchijia, and asked him to concentrate on studying artillery and muskets.

Yuchijia said: "My lord, what can these tubes do, and there is no mechanism, how can they be launched?"

Xiao Chuan said: "Cannons and muskets fire shells and bullets, and their range and power are much greater than those of bows and crossbows."

Yuchijia said: "My lord, what are cannonballs and bullets?"

Xiao Chuan said: "It is driven by gunpowder."

Yuchijia said: "My lord, where is the gunpowder?"

Xiao Chuan said with a smile: "Then I have to ask the genius doctor Sun Simiao. Gunpowder is the product of Taoist alchemy failure."

Yu Chijia said: "My lord, then let's quickly go to Doctor Sun."

When Xiao Chuan and Yu Chijia came to Longshouyuan Hospital, Sun Simiao was performing an operation on a wounded soldier. As expected of a miracle doctor, he was already proficient in surgical techniques in less than a few dozen hours.

After the operation was completed, Sun Simiao saw Xiao Chuan waiting aside, and said with a smile, "My lord, do you need me?"

Xiao Chuan said modestly: "Master Sun, have you ever failed in alchemy?"

Sun Simiao's face darkened, and he felt a little unhappy, but he had a good impression of Xiao Chuan recently, knowing that he was not just a playboy who deliberately made fun of him, so he sighed and said, "Of course I failed!"

Xiao Chuan excitedly said: "It's really great!"

Yuchijia also said happily: "My lord, Doctor Sun also failed."

Sun Simiao was embarrassed to get angry at Xiao Chuan, and said coldly to Yuchijia: "Yutchijia, if you have the guts, don't ask me to see a doctor for the rest of your life."

Yuchijia knew that he could not offend Miracle Doctor Sun if he offended anyone, so he immediately looked at Xiao Chuan with a bitter face.

Xiao Chuan hurriedly said: "Master Sun, you have misunderstood, we want to ask you how to make gunpowder."

Sun Simiao said, "Gunpowder? I understand. You mean those potions that can be ignited with fire?"

Xiao Chuan said: "That's right, it's the potion that alchemists often use to burn off the impurities in pills."

Sun Simiao said: "You should have said it earlier, I thought you two came to laugh at me."

Yuchijia said in a low voice: "You are so brave, I still have to rely on you to save my life."

(End of this chapter)