The Sacred Ding Chapter 368: Rifling

() If they want to reclaim 5 million acres of arable land north of Hengshan City, they will have to move at least 200,000 young and strong laborers, plus the old and weak women and children who drag their families and carry their mouths. By then, they will almost need Only five to six hundred thousand people can meet the requirements.

In addition to horse farms, Yoki farms, quarries, iron ore farms, copper mines, various iron smelters, and many war weapons, the foundries and manufacturing workshops of loading vehicles, senior craftsmen can all be transferred from Liquan Come here, but it also requires nearly 200,000 young and strong labors to meet the requirements of Chen Hai.

Furthermore, these young and strong labors are more demanding than the labor force cultivated and cultivated. They need to be trained to reach the level of junior craftsmen. Where do these young and strong labors get?

Hengshan is no better than the Lianshui Mansion after the war, and the Lianshui Mansion can absorb refugees from all directions. Most of Tianshui County is under the stable rule of the Liao, Wu, and Wednesday tribes. The three tribes will never allow the subordinates under the rule. , A large-scale flow into Hengshan Mansion.

In addition, ordinary people are relocating in peace. As long as there is no major famine or war, who wants to leave their homes? Besides, they moved to the north of the Hengshan Defense Line, which was directly threatened by the monsters, to reclaim the land?

The smelting of refined iron and refined copper, to achieve this goal in five years, is not an exaggeration. After all, in the northwestern foothills of Qintong Mountain, there will be no shortage of ordinary copper and iron ore veins, as long as sufficient manpower can be organized , Mining copper and iron ore to smelt under the mountain.

And if Chen Haizhen wants to build a strong line of defense in Yuchengling, the consumption of basic copper and iron is naturally astronomical, and the consumption of millions of catties and tens of millions of catties is normal every year.

The production requirements of various types of Tianji chariots are not exaggerated. At that time, you can consider relocating the chariot workshop of Tianji Academy in Liquan to Hengshan. The main clan of Yanzhou has previously chosen from Tianji. The Academy directly purchases the manufacturing drawings of the Tianji chariot. At this time, all types of Tianji chariots can be manufactured. The chariot workshop of the Tianji Academy should also serve the Longxiang camp.

However, the goal of an annual output of 2,000 loaders, 10,000 individual crossbows and 1 million individual crossbow arrows is too exaggerated.

At this time, Tianji Xuegong can get 2 million catties of hardened gold iron from Liquan every year, and it can secretly obtain another 300,000 catties of high-quality hardened gold iron from Lucheng. This is a considerable number, but these uses The manufacturing of weapons such as the existing Tianji chariot and the Tianji war crossbow was exhausted, and there was no way to squeeze out more hardened iron to realize Chen Hai's grand plan.

Even if Lucheng can increase the output of quenched gold and iron, coming from Lucheng and passing through Hexi, Hexi has always intentionally or unintentionally controlled the total amount of quenched gold and iron obtained by Tianji Academy from Lucheng.

Hexi will not be torn with the Tianji Academy at this time, so it will not directly block the caravan from the Tianji Academy from borrowing from Hexi. But if you think that the caravan in the Tianji Academy can be unscrupulous A large amount of hardened gold iron from Lucheng was transported into Qintong Mountain through Hexi, which was a big mistake.

Although the two families did not discuss this aspect, Su Yuan and the others estimated that the 500,000 catties of high-quality hardened gold iron transported from Lucheng each year by the Tianji Academy should be the limit that Dong's bear.

Unless the Hengshan Line of Defense can discover new gold-tempered placers.

Although Su Yuan and the others did not fully understand the formation principle of the quenched gold placer, the north of Hengshan City does not look like a quenched gold placer exists.

In addition, the core components of individual combat crossbows and loaders, even the simple version of the arrow box or the wind box power box, belong to the category of mysterious low-grade magic weapons.

Other parts are easy to cast, but the simple version of the arrow box or the wind box car box, a total of more than 12,000 sets are refined each year, which is also an extremely terrifying task.

Huang Shuang, Su Yuan, Sun Gan, and Zhang Xiong were all dumbfounded when they got the catalog of Chen Hai, and they didn't know what to say.

"This is a single-armed crossbow that has room for further improvement, but this time the improvement is not on the arbor, but on the structure of the crossbow and the crossbow. Although the casting of the crossbow has become more complicated, the single crossbow The weight can be controlled below five taels." Chen Hai said.

"So much decline?" Su Yuan and Zhang Xiong were quite surprised.

"Yes, even grade 9 gold-hardened iron is enough for the tail part..." Chen Hai said, showing the new crossbow chamber structure and the new crossbow arrow secret map from the storage ring to Su Yuan and Zhang Xiong. .

In the past two or three years, Chen Hai has been thinking about the development of portable individual combat crossbows that can fully replace traditional crossbows.

At present, with the efforts of many craftsmen and masters, the total weight of the single-soldier war crossbow developed by Tianji Xuegong has been reduced to 60 kilograms, and the effective range is controlled at 500 steps. However, it is necessary to ensure the killing power and guarantee Any general can carry enough crossbow arrows to continue fighting on the battlefield. At present, the Tianji Academy uses eight-level hardened iron to cast three-inch-long special short arrows. Even so, each short crossbow arrow weighs more than two. jin.

This makes it unrealistic to equip individual combat crossbows on a large scale in the army.

Although the short crossbow arrows can be recovered, after being shot from the bore of the crossbow, the sharpest and thinnest arrow clusters and edge parts will be severely deformed. The range and shooting accuracy are completely uncontrollable and need to be returned to the furnace. Recast.

In this process, not to mention the extra labor required, the quenched iron material itself will also consume 20% to 30%.

Hexi's ability to take Hechuan County is a fundamental change in the balance of power between the two sides over the years.

Because Chen Hai has always deliberately controlled the flow of celestial weapons and hardened iron into Hechuan County, and the actual supply of hardened iron materials in Hexi far exceeds that of other border counties, which gives Hexi a chance to suddenly The capture of the Wenhu Port defense line did not allow the Hexiang Army to form a tug of war.

As a result, the strength of the two sides is very different, so the millions of quenched gold arrows that Hexi had stored a few years before were still enough for this battle.

In order to suppress Hexi’s ambitions, and also to express to Zhao Zhong and Wen Boyuan that Tianji Academy will never join Hexi, and will never collude with the Dong family to conquer Tianshui County, Chen Hai led Longxiang to move While stationing in Hengshan, it is to release the restrictions on the supply of the Tianji combat crossbow and the Tianji chariot to the Musashi army.

Chen Hai did not do this, the Miao, Yue and other tribes, as well as the Yanran Palace and Jingjun patriarchs would do the same. After all, no one would like to see the possibility of Hexi taking Qintong Mountain; in fact, Hexi controlled cranes After the whole territory of Chuan County, someone secretly supplied the Secret Liannu to the Musashi Army.

When both sides are equipped with a certain number of secret crossbows and are evenly matched, the form of the war will naturally undergo a huge change again; both sides have a reserve of millions of golden arrows, which may only be enough for a conventional war.

From then on, evenly matched sides will likely evolve into a war that no one can afford.

The cost of hardened iron is still too high.

Of course, Hexi can obtain nearly two million kilograms of grade 8 quenched iron from Lucheng every year. The advantage is still very obvious, but at this time, it also needs to pause and regain momentum, so that one day it can break through Meishan in one fell swoop. The defensive line cannot easily give the Musashi army a chance to become a tug of war.

In the final analysis, the golden crossbow cannot withstand long-term consumption.

At this time, by changing the structure of the crossbow, Chen Hai directly reduced the demand for gold-hardened iron for crossbow arrows to four to one-fifths of the previous level. This change was naturally jaw-dropping, and it was not a big deal.

"How did the semi-closed crossbow groove become a fully enclosed crossbow bore; how did the dedicated crossbow arrows become so short and so weird?" The semi-closed crossbow groove of the individual combat crossbow became a fully enclosed crossbow bore Everyone didn't care much, but when they saw the strange crossbow arrow painted on the secret map, Su Yuan and others were shocked. This structure was too different from the crossbow arrow studied by Tianji Academy at this time.

"Or the crossbow bullet is more reasonable" Chen Hai laughed: "I worked in Lianshui, but I didn't take any time off. Trial-produce a single-soldier combat crossbow. You can test it..." He reads from the storage. In the ring, he took out a five-foot-long single-soldier crossbow and handed it to Su Yuan and the others for a test shot.

Either the Tianji Repeater or the Individual Golden Halberd Crossbow, the core is still in the arrow talisman array, which can produce extremely violent restraint energy in a very small space and shoot sharp metal arrows. During the period of Tianji Xuegong, the forbidden structure of the arrow talisman was improved to make the bound energy produced by the arrow talisman shorter, stronger, and more stable. However, the thinking is still stuck on the traditional structure of the bow and crossbow. In order to ensure the balance and penetration of the crossbow arrow after it is shot, the arrow shaft is cast to be long and narrow.

However, Chen Hai has always understood Yanzhou’s arrow box as an electromagnetic gun or electromagnetic gun on the earth. The balance and penetration of the crossbow arrow can be guaranteed by the rifling, and the long length is removed. The arrow shaft and the complex structure of the tail, the crossbow arrow actually becomes a crossbow bullet, and the consumption of hardened iron can be greatly reduced.

In fact, Chen Hai had already thought of this question. He also knew that bullets would rotate through the rifling at a high speed and maintain accuracy, but the problem was that he didn't know how fast and accurate the spiral rifling inside the crossbow bore. Carve out.

Chen Hai has only recently thought through this question.

Thinking about this problem thoroughly, the individual combat crossbows are equipped with Longxiang base in batches to become a reality.

North of Hengshan, many rivers will change every few years. There is no condition for the formation of gold-quenched placer mines. However, if Chen Hai wants to achieve the goal he set out, what he expects is not to monopolize gold-quenched placer mines, but to continuously launch them. More and more advanced organ puppet warfare weapons, let the families drive cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, carry gold, iron and odd stones and other materials to trade with them.

Su Yuan personally picked up Chen Hai’s trial-produced individual combat crossbow, and shot at a target outside the city, hitting a water bird that started flying from the waters 400 steps away. Naturally, this water bird is not a spiritual bird. It is like a goose, and it is very awkward to fly. It was torn to pieces by crossbow bullets in mid-air.

Zhang Xiong, Huang Shuang and others can accurately estimate the penetration power of this crossbow projectile, and they are all happy.

"This kind of individual combat crossbow, we can give priority to the Tianshui Army, other conditions can be discussed." Chen Hai said.

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that the Wu, Zhou, and Liao tribes would not easily send the celestial mechanism to their government to recruit young and strong laborers, but if they trade with them with a batch of individual combat crossbows every once in a while What? They can't directly smelt a large amount of gold-hardened iron in Hengshan, but what if the Miao, Yue and Dong clan also need to equip this kind of individual combat crossbow?

"Once it spreads prematurely~IndoMTL.com~What should I do if I copy a lot of it?" Su Yuan asked.

"It's okay." Chen Hai smiled.

Individual combat crossbows are to be equipped in batches, even if they are not sold to other families, even if they are stealing or robbed from Longxiang base camp, they can obtain individual combat crossbows, and then it is not difficult to crack the internal structure that is not complicated. , And the advanced craftsman can directly engrave the rifling in the closed crossbow by hand.

As long as there is a senior craftsman who has the foundation of spiritual cultivation, the perception of six senses and the stability of the hands and eyes are enough for them to carve very precise rifling. The key issue is production.

Tianshui County has elites with the foundation of spiritual cultivation, which may add up to one to two thousand people. They are the cornerstone of Tianshui County’s military and political institutions. If they do not master certain skills, how many people can Tianshui County deploy to mechanical recovery Rifling?

As long as Chen Hai temporarily guarantees that the pull-cut method will not be leaked, even if someone else gets a single-soldier crossbow drawing, they can immediately imitate it, and the output and cost are far from comparable to Tianji Academy. !! (Important notice on this site: Please use the free novel APP on this site, no ads, no errors, fast update, members sync bookshelves, please follow WeChat public account appxsyd (press and hold for three seconds to copy) to download the free reader!