I’m The King

Cao Tiancheng's panda's eyes narrowed with a smile, and the whites of his eyes were barely visible. The spot in the middle was like a twinkling star. "Xian Li, for this!" He pointed his finger at an object on the table, that thing. Wrapped tightly in a large piece of cloth, lying quietly on the table

"What is this?" Gao Yuan threw his wet clothes in the corner, reached out his hand to uncover the piece of cloth, and a crossbow machine appeared in front of Gao Yuan.

"Arms open!" Gao Yuan exclaimed in surprise, "Is it really done?"

"It's done!" Cao Tiancheng nodded fiercely. "When the county lieutenant drew the blueprints for this thing, I summoned the most experienced blacksmiths and carpenters in the village to start researching your thing. It's almost half a year. I failed countless times. Yesterday, the first finished product was finally made."

Lifting the arm stretched crossbow on the table, it is very heavy, not less than twenty kilograms, carefully examining the various components of this arm stretched crossbow, there is a big difference from the original drawings. It seems that I can see it. In Gao Yuan’s eyes, Cao Tiancheng pointed to some of them, and said: "County lieutenant, for the parts you drew in these parts, the masters said that it is impossible to produce such a delicate thing. Everyone worked together. , I want to do everything possible to design, without reducing the range and strength of this crossbow, I changed these parts. The disadvantage is that this thing is too heavy."

Gao Yuan nodded. The parts drawn by himself are indeed difficult to polish at the current level of productivity. However, the craftsmen of this era have never lacked ingenuity. Although the replacements they came up with are heavier, they are not. Reduce the lethality of this thing, that's enough

I stretched out my hand to pull the bowstring, but it didn't move. Hmm, I put pressure on my hand, and the bowstring slowly opened, halfway through. The high arm strength has reached the extreme, but it can't be opened anymore.

"Good thing!" He praised again, placing his crossbow on the ground and stepping his foot firmly. Cao Tiancheng handed over an iron finger at the right time, put it on the finger high, and screamed, the string was finally finished. Fully open

"Have you tried it?" With both hands holding up the crossbow, aiming at the window from a high distance, hooking the trigger, the bowstring suddenly popped out, making a strong humming sound.

"I have tried it. Last night, we had a busy night. Four hundred steps can hurt people, three hundred steps can be fatal, and if two hundred steps, basically the middle one will not be saved." Cao Tiancheng got out of a package on the ground again. A prismatic arrow is drawn from the center, which is different from the usual feather arrow iron-headed wooden pole. This arrow is made of iron all over, and the arrow is prismatic.

"This arrow is also a little difficult to strike." Cao Tiancheng's face was embarrassed for the first time. "According to the county lieutenant's statement, this arrow will spin at a high speed after it is shot. Once it hits, it will cause more damage to the enemy. Ordinary feather arrows are much larger, but they are too difficult to fight."

Taking the black and featherless arrows, Gao Yuan glanced at him in surprise, "Tiancheng, did you let the blacksmiths use a hammer to hammer them out little by little? Is it possible that you can't make a mold and boil the iron." Is it made of molten iron, and the last name is cast at one time?"

"Mould?" Cao Tiancheng looked at Gaoyuan in amazement, before taking a long time to take a heavy pause. "I, I'm so confused. This arrow is not the kind of knife used by soldiers. It needs to be made into steel and cast directly. Isn't it fast? Much?"

Gao Yuan laughed and said, "You are just a bit of a horn. This kind of disposable surname does not need to be polished and polished. I only need them to be able to cause serious 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, "Donghu people have too many cavalry, and they are too powerful. We faced them, and we suffered innately. Naturally, to be honest, I sometimes can't imagine thousands of cavalry. The spectacular scene at the time of the impact, that scene, let alone the soldiers, it was me, and I was sweaty thinking about it. If you want to fight these cavalry, you must first have enough soldiers, and secondly, the soldiers must have iron nerves. , There will be no panic in this kind of scene. In the end, if you want to block the impact of the large-scale cavalry, it is possible to do it only if the infantry pays a huge sacrifice. And now, what we lack most is the manpower. Every soldier is better than me. As far as they are concerned, they are all precious. I can only think of more ways to beat the cavalry at a greater distance, reduce the speed of their impact, disrupt their formation, and make them feel fear. Although it is powerful, it is difficult to move, it is not portable, and the rate of fire is slow. This type of open-armed crossbow is different. You can carry a lot with the army. Think about it, if we have 10,000 such open-armed crossbows, the enemy When an impact is launched, effective damage can be caused within four hundred steps. What effect is that?"

"But the county lieutenant, the firing speed of this kind of open-armed crossbow can't be fast. It takes a long time to wind up. Unlike a longbow, can infantry shoot three or five feather arrows in an instant?" Cao Tiancheng said.

Gao Yuan smiled. "The infantryman has been intensively studying archery, and he can do it naturally, but his lethality is also about 100 steps, 100 steps. For the cavalry, how many arrows can he shoot? He is like this, what about other soldiers. Not even better? As for the issue of the firing speed of the open-armed crossbow you mentioned, Lao Cao, if each archer is equipped with two or three such open-armed crossbows, there will be a person behind him for him during combat. How about the winding?"

A picture immediately appeared in Cao Tiancheng's mind. On the battlefield, a thousand troops of Donghu people rushed in, and on this end, the infantry was heavily arrayed, and the spears in the spearmen's hands stretched out to form a piece of steel. In the jungle, behind the spearman, the crossbowmen raised their arms to open the crossbow, aiming, and shooting, while behind them, another soldier sat on the ground and wound the other crossbow when the first arm opened the crossbow to shoot. When finished, the archers put down their empty crossbows, bent over to lift the second one, and re-targeted and shot round after round. The endless fierce crossbow arrows ruthlessly swept the opponent's cavalry. When they rushed to the front of the army, they formed a formation. Already sparsely, the spearmen screamed and rushed out, piercing the cold blade of the spear in their hand, piercing the stomachs of the war horses, and picking up the knights on the horses. How happy this is. !

"I see!" Cao Tiancheng said with excitement, "As long as we have enough manpower, we can make this kind of crossbow become the dream of cavalry."

"Yes, it is definitely a dream house!" Gao Yuan said with certainty: "Look back, you call Sun Xiao, Yan Haibo, Zheng Xiaoyang, Naha, there are no infantry, let's try the power of this crossbow together."

"Good!" Cao Tiancheng happily said: "If the county lieutenant is satisfied, I will arrange all the blacksmiths and carpenters in the village to make this kind of crossbow."

"Well, you can make a batch in advance. Don't forget to improve it while making it. This thing is still heavier. If it weighs only ten catties, it would be even better to find it!" Gao Yuan weighed this one. A stretched crossbow weighing more than twenty catties

On the school ground, the soldiers curiously watched a target placed at the gate of the camp, while their county lieutenant stood at the other end of the school yard. The distance between the two was a full four hundred steps, looking at the county lieutenant’s hand. The thing in it seems to be a crossbow. Is it possible that this crossbow can be shot so far? It's the bed crossbow, it's only this distance, but the bed crossbow guy is a little too big, and now at the head of the city of Juliguan, there are two bed crossbows, which were dragged by the county lieutenant from Fufeng County. Coming

Amidst everyone’s suspicion, Gao Yuan picked up the crossbow arrows with both hands, took a glance, felt that he was not sure, gave up the idea of ​​showing his might, stretched out his hand to invite the infantry, "Infantry, you come to shoot!"

"Can this thing shoot so far?" The infantryman took the crossbow with some suspicion. As soon as he took it, he felt his hand and cried out: "So heavy?"

"Shoot an arrow and see!" Gao Yuan laughed

The infantry stood with two feet in front and one back, arms raised, steady like a mountain, and took a glance for a moment, hooked up, and with a whine, the featherless short arrow came out with a snatch, and it was inserted right into the four. On the target a hundred steps away

The soldiers immediately clapped vigorously, "Infantry Cao Hao Zhuo!"

The soldiers cheered hard, the infantry was an expert, but they were shocked in their hearts. This crossbow could really shoot so far. The recoil of the crossbow just made him suffer a dark loss and knocked him back. His shoulders were still hot at this time. Ground pain

Cao Tianci rushed over and retrieved the target. The three-sided iron arrow was inserted on the wooden target, about three minutes into the wood.

"Three hundred paces!" Pulling out the arrow, Gao Yuan instructed Cao Tianci to say "Infantry, try it out with three hundred paces!" Gao Yuan took the crossbow with his arms open, wound the string himself, and handed it to the infantry again.

Cao Tianci inserted the target and immediately hid away. Seeing the power of the arrow just now, if the infantry missed the shot and ran on to him, he would suffer.

The infantry nodded, aimed and shot again, this time with experience, but did not let the strong recoil hit him again

With a sound of Ling, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, the feather arrow was unsurprising, and hit the target again. Speaking of archery skills, among the Fufeng soldiers, the infantry is the number one person to do my part.

On the target carried by Cao Tianci, the featherless short arrow halfway completely penetrated through a few inches of thick wooden planks, and a fishnet-like crack appeared.

"Change a target, try two hundred steps this time!" Gao Yuan laughed

Two hundred steps away, one arrow hits, but this time, Cao Tianci didn’t need to carry the target back, because after the arrow went out over two hundred steps, the target was broken into countless pieces. Scattered all over the place

On the school ground, all the soldiers stretched their tongues, and the force was too great. The infantry was the first to bear the brunt. His face was a little pale.

The people present were all battle-tested guys. After Sun Xiao was silent for a moment, he suddenly yelled and rushed over and grabbed the crossbow. "What a fancy thing, with this thing, the infantry, next time we are riding. If we fight again, we will not defeat you, but will wipe you out!"

(This week, one more chapter will be issued at two o'clock in the afternoon! In addition, two chapters will be updated on time at eight in the morning and eight in the evening.) (to be continued...)