I’m The King Chapter 153: : arm crossbow
Cao Tiancheng's panda eyes narrowed with a smile, and the whites of the eyes can hardly be seen, but the spot in the middle is bright like a twinkling star, "Xianwei, for this!" His finger pointed to an object on the table , the thing was wrapped tightly with a large piece of cloth, and lay quietly on the table
"What is this?" Gao Yuan threw the wet clothes in the corner, stretched out his hand to uncover the piece of cloth, and a crossbow appeared in front of Gao Yuan
"The arms are tense!" Gao Yuan exclaimed in surprise, "Is it really done?"
"It's done!" Cao Tiancheng nodded fiercely, "After the county captain drew the blueprint of this thing, I called the most experienced blacksmiths and carpenters in the village to start researching your thing. After half a year, I failed countless times, yesterday, I finally made the first finished product"
Picking up the arm crossbow on the table, it is very heavy, not less than twenty kilograms. After carefully examining the various components of this arm crossbow, it seems that there is a big difference from the original drawing. Seeing the astonishment in Gao Yuan's eyes, Cao Tiancheng pointed to several parts and said, "County Captain, the masters said that it was impossible to make such an exquisite thing out of the parts you drew. , everyone worked together and tried to design thousands of ways to change these parts without reducing the range and strength of this crossbow. The disadvantage is that this thing is too heavy"
Gao Yuan nodded. The parts drawn by himself are indeed difficult to polish with the current level of productivity, but the craftsmen of this era have never lacked ingenuity. Although the replacements they came up with are heavier , but did not reduce the lethality of this thing, that is enough
Stretched out his hand to pull the bowstring, but it didn't move at all. With a hmm, he put more force on his hand, and the bowstring slowly opened. Halfway through the draw, Gao Yuan's arm strength had reached its limit, but he couldn't open it anymore
"Good thing!" He praised again, put his arm crossbow on the ground, and stepped on it. Cao Tiancheng handed over an iron finger at the right time, and Gao Yuan put it on his finger. Finally pulled away completely
"Have you tried it?" With both hands stretched, the crossbow was stretched out, Gao Yuan aimed out the window, hooked the trigger, and the bowstring jumped out, making a strong buzzing sound
"The experiment has been done. Last night, we worked hard all night. Four hundred steps can hurt people, three hundred steps can kill people, and two hundred steps can basically kill those who fall in." Cao Tiancheng started from the ground again. A prismatic arrowhead was taken out from a package. Unlike the usual feathered arrows with iron-headed wooden poles, this arrow was made of iron throughout, and the arrowhead was prismatic
"This arrow is also a little difficult to shoot." Cao Tiancheng's face showed embarrassment for the first time, "According to the county captain, this kind of arrow will rotate at a high speed after being shot, and once it hits, it will cause damage to the enemy." The damage is much greater than ordinary feather arrows, but it is too difficult to hit"
After receiving the black featherless arrow, Gao Yuan looked at him in surprise, "Tian Cheng, did you let master blacksmiths hammer it out bit by bit? Could it be that you don't know how to make a mold? Boil iron into molten iron and cast it in one go?"
"Mold?" Cao Tiancheng looked at Gao Yuan in astonishment, and then he stamped his feet after a while, "I, I'm so confused, this arrow is not the kind of knife used by soldiers, it needs to be tempered into steel, and it can be cast directly. Isn't it much faster?"
Gao Yuan laughed and said, "You're on the edge of a dead end. This kind of disposable items don't need to be polished carefully. I just need them to be able to cause major damage to the enemy at a long enough distance."
"County lieutenant, is this specially used to deal with cavalry?" Cao Tiancheng asked tentatively
"Of course!" Gao Yuan nodded and said, "The Eastern Hu people have too many cavalry, and they are too powerful. If we fight against them, we will suffer innately. Tian Cheng, to be honest, sometimes I dare not imagine thousands of cavalry The spectacular scene when Wan’s cavalry charged, that scene, let alone the soldiers, even me, was sweating profusely thinking about it. If you want to fight these cavalry, you must first have enough soldiers, and secondly, the soldiers must have iron. Ordinary nerves will not panic under such a scene. In the end, if we want to block the impact of large-scale cavalry, the infantry must make huge sacrifices. Now, what we lack the most is manpower. Soldiers are precious to me. I can only think of ways to attack cavalry at a longer distance, slow down their impact speed, disrupt their formation, and make them feel afraid. , although the bed crossbow is powerful, it is difficult to move, inconvenient to carry, and has a slow rate of fire. This kind of arm crossbow is different. You can bring a lot of it with the army. Think about it, if we have 10,000 such arm crossbows , when the enemy launches an impact, it can cause effective damage four hundred steps away, what kind of effect is that?"
"But the county lieutenant, the shooting speed of this kind of arm crossbow is not fast, and it takes a long time to wind it. Unlike a longbow, infantry can shoot three or five feather arrows in an instant?" Cao Cao Tianchengdao
Gao Yuan smiled, "The infantryman has been studying archery, so he can do it naturally, but his lethality is also around a hundred paces, how many arrows can he shoot for a cavalryman? He is the same, What about the other soldiers? Not to mention it? As for the firing speed of the crossbow you mentioned, Lao Cao, if each archer is equipped with two or three such crossbows, there will be a special one behind him when he is fighting. How about winding him up personally?"
A picture immediately appeared in Cao Tiancheng's mind. On the battlefield, thousands of troops from the Donghu people rushed towards him. On the other side, the infantry arrayed heavily, and the spearmen held out their spears. Forming a jungle of steel, behind the spearmen, crossbowmen raised their arms to stretch, aim, and shoot, while behind them another soldier sat on the ground, stringing another crossbow, as the first arm After the crossbow shooting was completed, the archers put down the empty crossbow, bent down and lifted the second one, and re-aimed and fired round after round. The endless and fierce crossbow arrows mercilessly swept away the opponent's cavalry. When they rushed to the front of the army formation , the formation was already sparse, and the spearmen howled and rushed out, stabbing the icy-cold blades of the spears in their hands, piercing the stomachs of the horses, and flying the knights on the horses. What a joy!
"I understand!" Cao Tiancheng said excitedly, "As long as we have enough manpower, we can make this kind of crossbow a cavalry's dream."
"That's right, it's definitely Mengyao!" Gao Yuan said with certainty, "Call Sun Xiao, Yan Haibo, Zheng Xiaoyang, Naha, there are no infantry, let's try the power of this crossbow together"
"Okay!" Cao Tiancheng said happily: "If the county captain is satisfied, I will arrange all the blacksmiths and carpenters in the village to work day and night to make this kind of crossbow."
"Okay, you can make a batch in advance. While making it, don't forget to improve it. This thing is still a bit heavier. If it only weighs about ten catties, it will be even better!" Gao Yuan weighed Weighing this arm stretching crossbow weighing more than twenty catties
On the school grounds, the soldiers watched curiously as a target was placed at the gate of the camp, while their county lieutenant stood on the other side of the school grounds, with a distance of four hundred steps between them. The thing that the county lieutenant was holding in his hand seemed to be a crossbow. Could it be that this crossbow could shoot so far? It's the bed crossbow, it's only at this distance, but the bed crossbow guy is too big. Now there are two bed crossbows at the top of the city of Juliguan, which were dragged by the county captain from Fufeng County. over here
Among the crowd's surprise, Gao Yuan picked up the crossbow arrow with both hands, took aim, and felt that he was not sure, so he gave up his idea of showing off his prestige, and stretched out his hand to call out the infantry, "Infantry, you shoot!"
"This thing can shoot so far?" The infantryman took the crossbow with some doubts. As soon as he took it, he felt his hand and couldn't help crying: "So heavy?"
"Shoot an arrow and see!" Gao Yuan said with a smile
The infantryman stood with his feet one in front of the other, his arms raised, as steady as Mount Tai, he took a look for a moment, hooked his machine gun, and with a bang, the featherless short arrow flew out, with a bang, and landed squarely Inserted on the target four hundred steps away
The soldiers immediately applauded vigorously, "Infantry Cao is so accurate!"
The soldiers cheered vigorously. The infantry was an expert, but they were shocked inside. This crossbow really can shoot so far. The recoil of the crossbow just now made him suffer a secret loss. Sometimes it hurts hot
Cao Tianci flew over and retrieved the target. The three-edged iron arrow was inserted into the wooden target and penetrated the wood for about three minutes
"Three hundred steps!" Pulling out the sharp arrow, Gao Yuan told Cao Tianci, "Infantry, try it at three hundred steps!" Gao Yuan took the crossbow in his arm, wound it himself, and handed it to the infantry again
Cao Tianci planted the target, and immediately hid far away, seeing the power of the arrow just now, if the infantry shot missed and ran to himself, it would be a disaster
The infantryman nodded, aimed again, and shot again. This time he gained experience, but he didn't let the strong recoil hit him again
The sound of Lin~IndoMTL.com~ The feather arrow hit the target again as everyone expected. Speaking of archery, among the Fufeng soldiers, the infantry is the number one.
On the target carried by Cao Tianci, half of the featherless short arrow completely penetrated the several-inch-thick wooden plank around the plank, and cracks appeared like fishnets
"Change another target and try 200 steps this time!" Gao Yuan smiled
Two hundred steps away, an arrow hit, but this time Cao Tianci was not required to carry the target back, because at a distance of two hundred steps, when the arrow went out, the target was already split into countless pieces Pieces scattered all over the place with a crash
On the school field, all the soldiers stretched out their tongues. The force was too great, and the infantry was the first to bear the brunt. His face turned pale
The people present were all battle-tested guys. After Sun Xiao was silent for a moment, he suddenly let out a strange cry, rushed over and grabbed the crossbow in his arms, "What a joke, with this thing, infantry, next time Let's fight on foot and cavalry again, we are not defeating you, but annihilating you!"
(This week, an additional chapter will be published at 2 o'clock in the afternoon! In addition, two guaranteed chapters will be updated on time at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm.) (To be continued..)