"This one is a little taller, leaving a place for the crossbow string, yes, a test shot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

With the sound of 'do-do' test firing, Xiangping Tiewu was busy. More than a dozen carpenters, crossbowmen, and lieutenants gathered in Tiewu, wearing single clothes and rolling up their sleeves to wield a strong crossbow.

If there is one thing that is most urgent than everything at the moment, it is to improve and rush to make ordnance.

Bing, Yanbei can no longer recruit in a short period of time, in addition to drills, the only way to improve the combat effectiveness of sergeants is to improve ordnance and make new ordnance.

Today's Liaodong is blessed with unique resources, although there are all kinds of steel ingots, iron ingots, oak wood for making bow arms, and pine wood for shipbuilding, but the number of production is less, and the transportation of trees is a little more difficult...... However, these challenges can be overcome.

The only deficiency is the fir wood used to make the oar, which is not available in Liaodong.

Fir is produced south of the Yellow River and is also very valuable. If he sent a fleet to buy it, not to mention that it would be too time-consuming, it would be the price of the giant wood, and he could not afford it at the moment, so he could only replace it with the remaining woods that Liaodong had.

What's more, from Liaodong to Jiangdong, the seafarers of Shuizhai do not have the experience of such long-distance voyages, and the risk is too great.

Except for this only shortcoming, everything in Liaodong is excellent for the development of the navy. There are all the towering giant trees, if it weren't for the impassability of the roads in the southeast of Liaoning, Yanbei would be able to raise the materials needed for a hundred fighting ships in a short time. In the eyes of the Central Plains, the most difficult material needed to build a big ship was the giant wood as the keel beam, but in Yanbei's eyes, it was only regarded as ordinary.

Six or seven people in southeast Liaoning hugged the giant trees with a height of more than ten zhang, and I don't know how many there are!

Therefore, they want to build a big ship, as long as they have a big ship, the transportation of materials between southeast Liaodong and Yudi will no longer be a big problem, and the materials of the entire Liaodong County will be everything for Yanbei.

What kind of blessing is it to have complete control over a territory of your own, and this territory happens to be extremely rich? The materials that need to be purchased at a high cost in the Central Plains only need to be transported here with some cheap manpower.

Not to mention that these men are all loyal to his subordinates.

Yan Bei is looking forward to the scene of fighting ships flying the Yanzi flag on the sea next summer, but before that, he is looking forward to the improvement of the strong crossbow and the Wuhan Iron and Steel ballista.

Zhang's father and son do have the ability, because Zhang Gong's sufficient experience in shipbuilding has changed the original situation of dividing the bottom of the ship into six cabins, and using the technology of dividing the bottom of the ship into nine cabins, Yitong putty powder seals, and after drying, the bottom of the ship is sealed and can also be stored.

And Zhang Zhou is even more amazing, because this kid grew up in an official craftsman, he has been a private craftsman slave for more than ten years, and he has high attainments in carpentry, masonry, and boatwork. Compared with others, Yanbei should pay more attention to craftsmen, even if he gave Zhang Gong 600 stone to supervise the shipwright, and appointed Zhang Zhou as the craftsman of Tiewu, each of them received two pieces of gold...... At the very least, he couldn't let the craftsman who worked for him still wear two layers of short clothes.

The pressure arrows of the strong crossbow did not take much effort, and in the early Han Dynasty, carpenters used a mortise and tenon structure to make it in one piece, but now the production of steel has increased significantly, and sometimes iron nails are also used to reinforce wooden parts.

For the strong crossbow they improved and tested, they only used a piece of wood cut out of the shooting table to pad the crossbow arm, and fixed it with a piece of wood and an iron nail in the middle to test fire.

The results are outstanding!

As Sun Qing pulled the trigger, the bolt was pinned to the haystack thirty paces away.

Yan Bei applauded and laughed, but Tai Shi Ci and Zhao Yun, who rushed to hear the news, frowned secretly, and Tai Shi Ci asked Sun lightly: "Sun County Order, the crossbow you use is three stones, right?" ”

Sun Qing didn't know why, nodded and said, "That's right, the three-stone crossbow...... When you say that, it seems that the damage of the crossbow is indeed smaller. ”

With Tai Shici's doubts, Yan Bei picked up another unimproved three-stone crossbow and wound it and shot it at the haystack, and with a bang, the short arrow had penetrated the haystack, and shot more than 20 steps before stopping.

The power of the crossbow increases the pitiful small after the tablet.

It could have been possible to shoot an enemy within 100 paces, but in the blink of an eye, it could only kill and injure within 50 paces.

"Why is that?" Yan Bei asked, a little irritated, and said, "Why don't you only improve the heavy crossbow and let the sailors use the heavy crossbow?" ”

"No, no, no, General, this tablet can't be placed on a heavy crossbow." Sun Qing opened the crossbow before, which was considered empathetic, and hurriedly said when he heard this: "My subordinates only use their feet to open the six-stone crossbow on weekdays, but after installing the pressing, because it blocks the shooting platform, even a three-stone crossbow can only be opened with their feet." If you change the six-stone heavy crossbow...... I'm afraid that the water pawn can't pull it away. This soldier is wearing the waves and waves, and the hull is bumpy, so it is not suitable to open the feet, and this crossbow is good for land warfare, if it is a water battle...... But no. ”

However, Zhao Yun had an idea and asked, "Is it because the wood chips are too thick and block the arrows, so the strength becomes smaller...... Why don't you ask a craftsman to make a thin piece of iron, hit it on the shooting platform with an iron nail, form an arc, and only use the bottom end to resist the tail end of the crossbow string and arrow, and then press the middle of the crossbow arrow with only a little contact at the front? ”

"Eh, Zilong said maybe it's okay!" Yan Bei laughed when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was indeed feasible, and hurriedly shouted to the craftsmen: "Quick, let the craftsman make an iron bar five inches long and one inch wide, the thinner the better, the kind that can be broken by hand!" ”

Yan Bei said that, and the craftsmen took the iron ingots from the forging furnace with iron hammers and cut them into small pieces and began to work. Yanbei's requirements are not high, thin iron sheets are the easiest, not to mention, the iron ingots consumed are only a little, even if they are dozens, they are not worth the iron ingots consumed by a ring knife.

But in a moment, the iron sheet that Yanbei needed was ready, Zhao Yun took it and bent it into the shape it needed, and nailed it behind the crossbow arm trigger with the nail hole left by the blacksmith, and the one-inch-wide iron sheet was just pressed on the arrow platform, and a little bit of arc gently pressed the crossbow arrow, and the arrow was wound in one go, Zhao Yun carried the strong crossbow and flipped it left and right, only to see that the crossbow bolt was firmly stuck on the crossbow arm, not moving.

"Good!" Yan Bei was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly urged Zhao Yundao: "Zilong quickly test shoot, see how it is!" ”

"No!" With Zhao Yunying's next sound, he used an extremely standard crossbow movement to stomp towards the arrow. With a bang, the arrow stomped through the bottom of the arrow, pierced a hole and shot more than a dozen paces away, slanting more than two inches into the ground. The crowd shouted, "Good! ”

Can it be bad, the crossbowmen used the crossbow in the past to use the hand crossbow is extremely unstable, look at the improved crossbow arm now, if this skill is used on the hand crossbow, any ranger can use a stone hand crossbow, after the arrow does not have to worry about stability, can hit the enemy dozens of steps away, even if the foot soldier jumps is not surprising...... The crossbowman will outperform the archer in all angles except the speed of the line!

"General, the arrows are more stable!" Zhao Yun nodded to Yan Bei, and said resolutely in a deep voice: "However, Wangshan also has to be changed." ”

Wangshan is a sight on the crossbow arm, there was no scale in the pre-Qin period, and since the Han Dynasty, Wangshan has increased the scale according to the trajectory of the arrow shot by the crossbow, which is more accurate, but also more standard. In other words, if this kind of tablet is added to the shooting table, the trajectory of the arrow will be affected, and the former Wangshan will be invalidated.

"It doesn't matter, try to shoot three more arrows, if there is no problem, let the craftsman make a hundred pairs of pressed tablets and load them on the strong crossbow, gather two teams of crossbowmen to test fire, if it is feasible in terms of killing and stability, we will change all the Wangshan!" Yan Bei grabbed Zhao Yun's arm and shook it vigorously, nodded heavily with a smile, pointed to the pressing tablet on the crossbow arm and said: "If this is indeed effective, it is the ninth material of the Liaodong crossbow in addition to Wangshan, Wangshan, teeth, hanging knife, hook heart, key, arm, bow, and string, I don't think I need any other names...... It's called Zilong! ”

"When the world is stable in the future, I will dedicate this thing to the imperial court, and people from generation to generation will use bows and crossbows in the future, and your name will be recited by this act alone! Ha ha! ”

Yan Bei laughed loudly, gave Zhao Yun a chance to enter the history books, and then personally held the crossbow equipped with Zilong and shot a arrow, obviously feeling that the strength of the crossbow was not weakened, but had better strength at a certain distance.

In the past, the three-stone strong crossbow had a great chance of being overturned after eighty steps, but now it can shoot a hundred steps without turning over the arrow, Yan Bei couldn't help laughing loudly: "It's a pity that this thing can't pretend to be on the six-stone strong crossbow...... But this is enough, as a single crossbow, whether it is in water or land battles, or even in the city to kill the yin, it is an excellent weapon! ”

Just when the craftsmen began to make Zilong tablets, hoping to make 100 pieces as soon as possible to complete Yanbei's requirements, Zhang Zhou, a craftsman on the side, arched his hand and said: "General, although this thing cannot be installed on the six-stone strong crossbow, it can be installed in the Wuhan Iron and Steel crossbow, and it will definitely be far stronger than before!" ”

"Haha, great goodness!" Yan Bei put down his slavery and asked Zhang Zhou: "Let me ask you, if you are asked to transfer Tiewu manpower at will, how long will it take to build a Wuhan Iron and Steel ballista for Yan?" ”

"With ten blacksmiths, ten carpenters, and thirty apprentices, if the necessary materials can be allocated." Zhang Zhou thought about it and said slowly: "If you just make a ballista for the general to see, I think that fifteen days will be enough!" But...... If the general wants a ballista that can be used in battle, it will take at least half a year, because the bow arm needs to go through drying and other processes, which is extremely time-consuming. ”

"I'll give you twenty years, and I'll make one for me to see." Yan Bei naturally knew that a good weapon, whether it was a bow or a crossbow, or a long lance, required a long production time to ensure flexibility in order to make it strong and durable, and he was not in a hurry, so he just asked: "What do you need, and tell me to see if there is anything that cannot be allocated." ”

"Fifty catties of iron and stone, four hundred catties of all kinds of wood, five cowhides, two feet of animal tendons, and tung oil and other things, all of which are common and visible in Wu Fort."

Yan Bei nodded, and laughed loudly: "What's so difficult about this, Lei Gong, just give him everything he needs, and let him make a strong ballista to see!" ”