Switch to a reverse crossbow, and even if the bowstring is broken, it will sweep forward, at least it won't hurt anyone. But the problem is that the reverse crossbow has high requirements for the strength of the crossbow arm, and it is no problem to make a small crossbow shoot 100 meters, but it cannot meet the projectile of about 300 meters.

At present, the effective range of the Shenjian bow and crossbow used by the Western Xia army and the Song army has exceeded 200 meters, if it can't go farther, it is better not to improve, and it can't be changed more and more.

The navy and the army have different needs for crossbows, and the reverse crossbow of the Golden River Empire does not need to be thrown over long distances, and throwing them on the sea is equivalent to throwing them into the sea for nothing. But the army needs to use heavy arrows to shoot over long distances, and I really took it for granted at the beginning.

Even if you can find whale baleen and whale tendons, Hong Tao can't increase the range, and the material can't be broken through overnight.

If you have a spring steel plate, you can make a reverse steel crossbow, but the problem is that the spring steel plate is all out, can you still play with a bow and crossbow? How good it is to get a rifled gun with a mini bullet directly. Even if it is a front-loading gun, it has an effective firing range of one kilometer casually, and the accuracy within three or five hundred meters is very high.

If you don't make a cannon, there are spring steel plates, and the bolt and door will naturally not be impossible to get out. Rear mount decanter is better than trebuchet, even if there is no primer and impact fuse, firing a solid iron ball can smash the enemy's head.

However, if we want to directly replace thermal weapons, it is not enough to have steel and mechanical processing industries, and the chemical industry must also keep up, and the supporting mining, oil production, oil refining, and transportation industries must go hand in hand.

Can social change of this magnitude be accomplished by a single colt? Apparently unlikely. Now it's not the Jinhe Empire, Emperor Hong is the founding king, and his prestige is boundless, and every word is automatically become the will of heaven, and the people below are all 100% implemented without questioning.

Without this kind of control, it is impossible for the state to follow the will of one person, and the most reliable way is to unite more stakeholders to move forward slowly.

To put it bluntly, it is to play the industrial revolution, create a new class, and then as its leader, lead everyone to charge into battle together, to fight against the old class, and to snatch power from them.

Either way, it's an impossible task for Hong Tao at the moment. But you can't just do it and wait for nothing, you have to come up with something useful to help the Song Dynasty army improve its combat effectiveness. Let them hold the border to some extent and suffer as little as possible, so that their own ointment and economic warfare will have time to work.

"That's right! Offensive weapons can't be used, and defensive equipment can't be used. You have a squirrel armor, I have a mouse suit, it's harder than anyone else! Old Shen, I have an idea, but I have to trouble you for something, can you help me find some armor. The forbidden army, the Liao army, and the Western Xia army all want it, and the more comprehensive the better. I'm going to use them as a prototype and see if I can make a few sets of armor suitable for the Forbidden Army. In this way, although you can't beat each other in bows and crossbows, and horses, it's also an advantage to have better defense, how about it? ”

Hong Tao's thinking mode is very distinctive, if he is blocked on a problem, he will immediately find a way to detour, and if he can't get around, he will change direction.

This kind of personality is very unsuitable for scientific research, and that thing is very indomitable, and it is necessary to trade a thousand failures for the thousandth and first success. He scratches as soon as he folds, resolutely does not gnaw hard bones, drills wherever it is soft, and saves trouble and comes.

"Armor? Brother Wang is still good at making armor?! Shen Kuo is a standard scholar's thinking, and he will not give up easily when he finds the right direction, and he is almost unable to keep up with the rhythm after being tossed by the horse like this.

In addition, he couldn't think of why a person's knowledge would be so complicated, and he didn't have much to do with it.

Flying eagles, abacus, Arabic numerals, mathematical formulas, pencil printing, ink, ondols, stoves, casting, honeycomb charcoal, waterwheels, kilns, bows, crossbows, boat construction......

That's enough of that, and now I'm ready to play with armor again. By the way, it is said that this colt can also make candles and plant flowers, even if you start learning it from your mother's womb, I am afraid you will not be able to learn it all.

"I don't dare to say that it is good, but it is not difficult to race over the Poor Son. It's a pity that Brother Shen can't stay here for a long time, without Lao Shen, you and I can't support it alone! ”

This answer is really not bragging, Hong Tao is 100% sure. Compared to making a bow and crossbow, forging armor pieces from mild steel or even medium carbon steel is simply a basic skill, as long as you figure out the general structure of ancient armor, you can make better ones in minutes.

It may not look good, but it is certainly easy to use, whether it is defense or weight, it must throw off the armor of the same era for eight streets. It doesn't rely on how exquisite processing technology is, nor is it a bullshit design concept, the key is one, material!

As long as the steel is good, it doesn't matter what monkeys and tigers are. It's half as thick and weighs yours or even less, but it's more resistant than your monkey.

Let you play the craft out of flowers, I will have one, steel good! Even if you get an iron pot on your head, your heavy arrows still can't shoot through, no reason, it's just good steel!

Moreover, as long as you make the first qualified sample, the output will roll upward, and the cost will be lower and lower.

You have the sword, I have the armor!

Your treasure knife was broken and distressed for half a year, and my treasure armor was not broken for half a year and was re-forged. I really don't have time to repair, it's more expensive to repair one than to build one, see who can't bear it first!

"It's hard to disobey the king's order, but it's a pity that Brother Wang has a good ability...... Alas, don't say anything discouraged, because my brother is about to leave for his post in the near future, and he will look at Tokyo every day, hoping that the forbidden army can be replaced with the treasure armor supervised by Lord Du Lieutenant as soon as possible. Say goodbye today, the battle armor is a registered artifact in the army, and it cannot be given privately, I will send someone to hand it over to the Water Tiger Wing King Yuhou, take care! ”

When it comes to work, Shen Kuo's mood is extremely lost, he doesn't like to lead troops to fight, and he is not good at it. But when the national disaster is at hand, this job falls on your head, and you can't say that you can't go it.

Look at this colt again, compared to him, he seems to be lucky, how much he can still serve the country, but he has no enthusiasm and full of skills, in the end he can only nest on the edge of the capital to raise flowers and trees and pour charcoal to play, and he has to tremble and look forward to what he does.

"Lao Shen, you should also take care, don't fight for a moment of victory or defeat, it doesn't matter if you lose, as long as you are here, you can serve the country no matter whether you are an official or not."

Shen Kuo can't stop Hong Tao if he wants to go, anyway, there is nothing he needs to calculate here, besides, there is still a family of young and old, and he will soon go to the front line, and it is a little unkind to spend all day in his own place.

But I don't know when I can see each other again, and when I think that this all-rounder may be killed by an enemy soldier, Hong Tao is very sorry, and at the same time a little disappointed in the emperor and Wang Anshi. There are so many people in the court who can fight, why did they choose Shen Kuo, blind!

may have been affected by this emotion, Hong Tao didn't even participate in the celebration of the Water Tiger Wings, and he didn't want to go to the boat to play nonsense with the emperor and prime minister.

He went into the workshop of Wujin Xing alone, occupied the largest room, let the apprentices of Wasp and Zhu Bajin also live on both sides to guard, and asked Lian'er to go back to the house to bring all the tools he needed in the study, and began to work hard. Don't figure out the armor...... That's fine.