Inside the main tomb.

Kong Jianwen, Lin Ya and others were immersed in the main coffin, carefully and carefully cleaning the funerary objects in the outer coffin.

"Forget it about spears, halberds, crossbows, and arrowheads, why are there lead bullets?"

"Is it possible that the Nanyue Kingdom in BC was already able to make and use fire guns??"

Lin Ya held a lead shot that was not round enough, with question marks all over her face.

Can't blame her for being confused.

Anyone else would be confused when they unexpectedly find a round lead shot in the outer coffin filled with various weapons.

This is a tomb from the Western Han Dynasty BC.

Why are there lead pellets?!

And if it is put together with a weapon, it is obviously also used as a weapon??

"What a fuss!" Kong Jianwen glanced at Lin Ya expressionlessly, pursed his lips, and motioned for her to look at the crossbow machine inside the outer coffin.

"These lead pellets came with the crossbow machine, and they are obviously for use by the crossbow machine."

"Don't underestimate the ancients."

"Before there were firearms, the ancients also used crossbows to fire lead bullets."

"How else did this slingshot thing come about?"

"In the earliest days, crossbows were also used to launch some stones."

"Later, after the level of metallurgy improved, people in the Qin and Han dynasties found that lead was more suitable for projecting and more lethal. This led to the creation of artificially poured lead shot."

"The later large trebuchets also used this principle. They threw not only stones, but also large round lead bullets."

"The artillery in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a solid lead ball fired!"

A crossbow is a bow that uses mechanical force to shoot arrows. It is a long-range shooting and wounding weapon developed from a bow.

Small crossbows were already widely equipped during the Qin Dynasty.

When in use, one hand is usually raised to hold the crossbow to stabilize the ballistic trajectory.

Use one hand to trigger the crossbow and fire arrows.

The crossbows of the Warring States Period were no less sophisticated and lethal than modern Western rifles.

In fact, the fact that Westerners were able to invent rifles was also due to the crossbow machine that was transmitted from China to the West, which inspired Westerners.

The crossbow during the Warring States Period was actually almost the same as a pistol in terms of structure and appearance.

Even holding it in hand and using it are actually almost the same.

The Qin State was able to dominate the world largely because of the Qin State's crossbow machine, which was superior in lethality and precision to the six eastern countries.

Compared with bows that require a lot of arm strength, crossbows are not only more convenient to use, but also more flexible.

As long as the bow and arrow are loaded, you can shoot it with one hand, which saves energy!

Moreover, the power of the crossbow is constant. As long as soldiers undergo professional training and form muscle memory, they can fire crossbow arrows with the same power repeatedly.

This is much more stable than a bow and arrow that relies on human arms to shoot.

If an eight-foot tall man shoots more than a dozen arrows in a row, his arms will feel sore, and the lethality and strength of the bow and arrow will become less and less.

Crossbows don't.

As long as there are enough bows and arrows, a soldier can easily fire hundreds of arrows with stable lethality!

Of course, the cost of this is that the number of arrows consumed also increases exponentially.

Therefore, even if the crossbow machine is very useful, the Qin army will not eliminate bows and arrows. They usually use bows and crossbows together.

This is like when modern machine guns first came on the scene.

Everything is good, but the bullets are consumed too quickly, which puts great pressure on logistics. As a result, although the machine is good, it cannot be equipped in large quantities, and it is not even liked by the front-line troops.

Too much bullets!

The same goes for crossbows, they are good everywhere, but they cost too much arrows!

A total of 13 lead pellets were found from the coffin, all of which were similar in size, ranging from 2.9 cm to 3 cm in diameter, and spherical.

It is estimated that these lead pellets were the secondary weapons provided by the South Vietnamese country to crossbow operators at that time.

If you run out of arrowheads on the battlefield, use this lead bullet!

Don't underestimate lead bullets.

With this kind of crossbow that can penetrate heavy armor within two hundred steps, even if it fires lead bullets, it is enough to have a fatal effect on enemies without heavy armor.

Even if it's not fatal, if a lead bullet hits your body and you lose the ability to move, there's still no problem.

However, these lead bullets have been severely oxidized and have turned gray-white, and most of them have cracked.

When I hold it in my hand, I am afraid that it will break if I apply force.

It no longer has the lethality it had when it was first produced.

Next to these projectiles, there is a pile of arrowheads. There must be at least four to five hundred arrowheads, and every 20 arrowheads are in a bundle.

Interestingly, these arrowheads were probably not placed in the coffin from the beginning.

According to the position of the arrowheads and the fragment of Kong Jianwen, these arrowheads should be divided into two piles and placed on the coffin cover.

It was only because the coffin was rotten that it fell into the outer coffin.

Moreover, the arrowheads of these arrowheads are all facing south, pointing at the tomb door, which is meant to deter tomb robbers.

Suppose a tomb robber enters through the door of the tomb, and when he looks up, he sees hundreds of arrowheads pointed directly at him, it would be quite a scary scene.

If you are an ancient tomb robber who is not very mentally capable.

You might think that there is an agency or that the owner of the tomb is someone who wants to kill you.

Then he ran away in a hurry, not daring to go further into the main tomb.

In addition to these weapons.

There was also a burial object in the outer coffin that Kong Jianwen and the others were very familiar with.

Chariot and horse equipment.

It’s the chariot and horse equipment again!

Bow cap, umbrella handle hoop, cap...

It can be seen that Zhao Hu was a monarch who loved riding in cars.

In the tomb passage, there is a coachman who was buried with a car. In the front room, there is a car set up by Jingxiang Ling. There are also a pile of carriage and horse equipment in the west room.

Now even the coffin in the main tomb chamber is buried with a set of chariots and horses.

All I can say is that Zhao Hu is very good at playing.

According to the burial system of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when a monarch-level person dies, if chariots and horses are to be buried with him, a separate chariot and horse pit should be prepared.

For example, five or six chariot and horse pits, large and small, were discovered in the Wenfeng Pagoda Noble Cemetery of Zeng State, which was participated by the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

These chariot and horse pits were used by several Zeng Hous to bury their beloved chariots, and even live horses were buried with them.

The famous Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang also has many chariot and horse pits, and many chariot and horse utensils that were buried with him were unearthed.

After restoration, it is now placed in the Shaanxi and Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum for tourists to visit and appreciate.

Logically speaking, the Zhao family of Nanyue Kingdom was born in the Central Plains and served as a general of the Qin Kingdom.

In terms of the burial system, even if it is not similar to the Qin State, it should be similar to the burial system during the Warring States Period.

However, the tomb of the Nanyue King excavated this time can be said to be very special starting from the shape of the tomb.

Not only the shape of the tomb has the characteristics of cliff cave tombs and wooden coffin tombs with vertical caves, but the culture of the burial artifacts has a wide range of origins.

Covering Yue, Han, Chu, Qin, Xiongnu, Ouluo and even other places outside the territory.

If we insist on explaining it, we can only think that after Zhao Tuo led the Qin army to conquer Lingnan, they were inevitably assimilated by the local Baiyue tribe in Lingnan.

Therefore, the shape and style of the tombs also incorporate the customs of Lingnan and Baiyue.
Chapter completed!