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"Your Majesty, this is the latest repeater produced by the arsenal, which has a total of three crossbow arrows, and can fire all of them in two seconds."

In the arsenal, Cao Cao looked at the crossbow in his hand that looked a little rough, but his face was full of joy, although compared to the Zhuge repeater recorded in later generations, ten arrows were shot in six seconds, and the repeater in his hand was the same as a scum, but now, even if it is the most primitive crossbow of a scum in later generations, it is also an artifact now.

"Bring me the arrows, I'll give it a try!"

Looking at Cao Cao with a crossbow in his hand with excitement, he couldn't wait for the arrival of the arrow for a long time, and turned his head to look at the craftsman beside him with some unhappiness, but found that his face was full of hesitation, and asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be that the arrows of the repeater have not yet been produced? ”

The craftsman smiled bitterly and replied: "Not only do you hide it from Your Majesty, although the repeater is produced, the arrows it needs are not the arrows used in ordinary bows and crossbows. ”

Cao Cao didn't understand that it was all made, what else was there to hesitate, and after seeing it, he finally found out why this craftsman hesitated.

The crossbow is a miracle in the era of cold weapons, in such an era when forging and productivity are not high enough, the emergence of such automated weapons can be described as shocking, but the appearance does not mean that the crossbow does not have the slightest shortcomings.

Due to the appearance of an arrow magazine on the body of the repeater for the first time, the arrows used by the repeater are the arrows. There are no arrow feathers, the consequences of this. That's when an arrow is fired, it loses its balance and rolls over a long distance. Like a spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore gun, the hit is basically a matter of faith.

Of the three arrows Cao Cao fired next, only one arrow was fired, and the other two arrows had long since lost their sights, and this was why Cao Cao finally understood why the craftsman hesitated.

Maybe in his opinion, if the hit rate of this cheating father is not solved for a day, this repeater will not be considered a success. If you take it out, it can almost be regarded as a bully.

It's just that this problem is difficult to solve in the eyes of craftsmen, in Cao Cao's view, it is nothing, the queue of later generations to be shot, in the era of cold weapons, can also be used, a single crossbow hit rate under the pit father, then all the crossbows are gathered together, and a salvo is fired. Even in the pit daddy, it is enough to kill the enemy, which is considered to be a fast fire rate in exchange for a hit rate.

Cao Cao did not tell the craftsman about this method, but told him that he would solve it. All he had to do was start working on newer, more powerful repeaters and start producing them at the same time.

Cao Cao said so. The craftsman didn't say anything more, after all, the word royal in the Royal Arsenal. It's not just for pretending, it's about the existence of this arsenal. A large part of it is because Cao Cao pulls out some money and grain every year, otherwise the arsenal would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what the name of this repeater is?"

Naming the repeater, Cao Cao thought about it, held a relaxed attitude, and said very casually: "It's named Hongwu two-style repeater, and then if there is a new and more powerful repeater, it will be named according to the year of its production." ”

Although he felt a little awkward about the name Cao Cao, the craftsman still responded very obediently, and almost all the repeating crossbows produced afterwards were named in this way.

After watching the repeater, Cao Cao did not leave, but came to another workshop, which produced crossbows!

Although there is only one word difference between the repeater and the crossbow, the two things are different, just like the repeater is equivalent to the machine gun of later generations, then the crossbow is the rifle of later generations!

About 30,000 years ago, the bow and arrow were invented in ancient China, which is the earliest invention in machinery, indicating that human beings began to use composite tools, and the bow is to use the power accumulated by people in the process of pulling strings to eject arrows in the form of instantaneous bursts, which shows that human beings have the knowledge of mechanical storage power.

As Engels said: "The bow and arrow are as decisive weapons as the iron sword is to the age of barbarism and firearms to the age of civilization." ”

With the development of time, in the Spring and Autumn Period, due to years of disputes, the crossbow appeared on the battlefield for the first time, and the crossbow machine that controlled the shooting was already a relatively dexterous mechanical device.

The crossbow has a longer range than a bow and arrow, is more lethal, and overcomes the weakness of being limited in physical strength when drawing a bow.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, the processing accuracy and surface finish of the crossbow machine had reached a fairly high level, and the Han crossbow had eight specifications from one stone to ten stones, and the formation of these specifications showed that the machinery manufacturing standard had been initially established in the Han Dynasty.

The appearance of the crossbow machine replaced the bow to a large extent, sweeping the Great Qin Empire of Liuhe, and its combat method was to launch crossbow arrows on a large scale when the two armies clashed, and also achieved the goal of killing and shocking, and then the cavalry infantry charged, sweeping it, this combat method, accompanied by the Qin army sweeping the world.

The successor of the Western Han Dynasty inherited the Qin Dynasty's emphasis on crossbows, coupled with the lack of war horses when they got up early, and crossbows began to develop at a high speed in the Western Han Dynasty!

The crossbow began to appear on the scale for ranging aiming, which can be said to greatly improve the hit rate of the crossbow, the most powerful crossbow in the Han Dynasty is the ten-stone crossbow also known as the rhubarb crossbow, its range reached 400 meters away!

Most of the crossbows used by the armies of various countries today are rhubarb crossbows, and in this workshop, it can be easily seen that the rhubarb crossbows are produced one by one under the production of the assembly line.

However, Cao Cao came here, obviously not to watch the production process of the rhubarb crossbow, but to watch a research weapon he explained in the past, how the research was.

If the rhubarb crossbow is the pinnacle of the crossbow in the Qin and Han dynasties, then in Chinese history, the pinnacle of the crossbow is the divine arm crossbow of the Song Dynasty, that is, the divine arm bow!

Compared with the Qin and Han dynasties, the Song Dynasty can be described as tragic, not to mention the cavalry troops, even the war horses have become scarce items, which has led to the Song Dynasty on the crossbow research, compared to the Qin and Han dynasties, there are more!

The Song people are good at crossbows, which fully reveals the power and power of the crossbows of the Song Dynasty, and the pinnacle of them is undoubtedly the divine arm bow! (To be continued......)