"Your Highness... This steel forging method is really a masterpiece... With this steel filling method, the swords we came out are all invincible...!"

This is the weapon workshop in the barracks.

During this period, the soldiers trained continuously, and Ang Lee was not idle either. He began to study his soldiers' weapons. First, Ang Lee found the forging method in Zhu Chao's USB flash drive.

At this time, the Great Zhou used the steel filling method, and Ang Lee's forging steel was proposed by scientist Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The method of filling steel in Dazhou is to use soft iron to bend it, then wrap the pig iron in the middle, seal it with mud, and forge it to penetrate each other. This is called round steel, also called filling steel.

This is just fake steel. For the time being, pig iron is temporarily used to make it hard. After two or three burning times, the pig iron will naturally become cooked iron, but it is still soft iron.

This forging steel method was when Shen Kuo went on a mission to visit the Cizhou wrought iron workshop and saw the iron smelting, and then he learned about real steel.

Any iron with steel is like gluten in the noodles. Wash all the soft noodles and the gluten will appear.

The same is true for steelmaking. You only need to select refined iron and forge it more than 100 times. You will weigh it once every time forging, and you will reduce it a little until you are forging it many times and the weight will no longer be reduced. This is pure steel.

Even if it is forged a hundred times, it will not be lost. This is the pure part of the iron. It has a clear color and will appear dull blue-black after polishing, which is very different from ordinary iron.

Shen Kuo used the process of "double noodles" to vividly compare this steelmaking method. He compared pure steel to the "gluten" in the face, "Wash all the soft noodles, and the gluten will be seen." Only after a hundred times of forging can the fine iron become pure steel.

The sharpness and hardness of weapons made of such pure steel are better than those made by Dazhou using the steel filling method at this time.

This guy Zhen Geng is now the boss of the weapon workshop in the barracks. He is very clear about the steel filling method, and Ang Lee's steel forging method is a new steel method created based on the steel filling method.

So Zhen Qu can understand it as soon as he sees it, and when he sees it, he shouts that he is so skillful and has magical skills.

Ang Lee looked at Zhen Ge and showed a relieved smile. As Ang Lee had something else to do, that is, designing a crossbow and a saber.

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The saber is designed for his guards, and the crossbow is designed for the Divine Mechanic.

After all, the Divine Mechanic used to be a long-range strike force.

Bows and crossbows are definitely powerful tools in war. In ancient field battles, both sides of the combat, whether they were infantry or cavalry, had to shoot large pieces of arrows with crossbows to consume them for "long-range coverage" before the war began, in order to consume the opponent's strength.

However, in the wars of the Tang Dynasty, cavalry and Modao Hand were the key to victory. The crossbow was just an ordinary weapon and had a low status in the national army. The military strategists in the early Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to it.

Because crossbows are weapons with extreme performance, they are slow to load and are good at defending but not good at attacking, and require relatively stable shooting positions to fully utilize their performance. Therefore, they often appear in besieging and defending cities.

The proportion of crossbow soldiers in the Tang Dynasty army was relatively low, generally between 10% and 20%. For example, in the "Military Art of War of the Tang Dynasty" in the early Tang Dynasty, the proportion of crossbow soldiers in "war soldiers" was the lowest, accounting for only a little over 14%. Specifically for each army, the proportion of crossbow soldiers was even lower, such as the 4,000 people in the central army, with only 400 people in the internal crossbow soldiers, accounting for only 10%.

It can be seen that military strategists in the Tang Dynasty often pin their hopes for victory on short-term battles, and they do not seem to have much hope for the way of using long-range weapons to restrain the cavalry from rushing.

But crossbows are not simple weapons, crossbows are missiles on the battlefield... but they must be good crossbows. At this time, the crossbows of Dazhou have a range of less than 100 meters, a slow firing rate, and delayed loading. Of course, the soldiers of Dazhou do not like crossbows.

But if the crossbow can increase the range and fire it quickly, it will be another scene.

According to "The Strategies of the Warring States: Han Ceyi", "The strong bows and crossbows in the world all came out of Han, Xizi, Shaofu, and the time force, all came from 600 steps away." It can be seen that as early as the Warring States Period, the range of crossbows could reach 600 steps away.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the crossbow made a revolutionary breakthrough.

Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote "Book of Han: Biography of Li Ling": "Strike the continuous crossbow and shoot the Shanyu". The emergence of the continuous crossbow has significantly improved the efficiency of the crossbow.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang invented the Zhuge crossbow, which was even more "multi-warhead missile". According to "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms: Zhuge Liang Biography": "One crossbow and ten arrows are launched together."

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the emergence of bed crossbows heralds the emergence of ancient "nuclear warheads".

In the Battle of Chanzhou in 1004 AD, the Liao general Xiao Talin was shot and killed by the bed crossbow fired by the Song army in Chanzhou. There is a saying that Xiao Talin was nailed to the ground after being shot through. Judging from the power of the bed crossbow, this situation is completely possible.

When it comes to crossbows... the strongest one is the Divine Arm Crossbow of the Song Dynasty... It is said that it was made by Li Hong of the Northern Song Dynasty. The range can reach about 500 meters.

Unlike other crossbows, the Divine Arm crossbow can be operated by individual soldiers.

It is a standard weapon assembled by the army in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the battle between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the divine arm crossbow played a huge role. The famous general Wanyan Zongbi, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom, praised this kind of crossbow. Jin Wushu only admired the two weapons of the Song Dynasty. He once ordered Jin soldiers to defend one was a heavy axe and the other was a divine arm crossbow.

It’s a pity that the divine arm crossbow has been lost. Ang Lee’s colleague Zhu Chao also said on the USB flash drive that he had found a lot of information, but it’s a pity that he didn’t find the divine arm crossbow information.

However, it's a pity that Zhu Chao found another kind of crossbow, which was born in the Han Dynasty... called the Dahuang Crossbow. This Dahuang Crossbow is a kind of continuous crossbow. In 1986, my country discovered the real crossbow of the Dahuang Crossbow in the Jiang Mausoleum in Hubei. Archaeologists have proved that this crossbow is a real automatic weapon. After each firing, the crossbow will automatically hook the string and load the arrows in the box. At the same time, the "tooth" (bow string hook) and the "hanging knife" (trigger) will be restored to its original position.

Just like modern machine guns, they can be fired continuously, and their power is very terrifying.

According to research, the range of the yellow crossbow can reach between 400 meters and 600 meters, which is almost twice that of the Qin crossbow. It can basically be regarded as the most advanced and accurate large-scale long-range lethal sniper weapon in the era of cold weapons, and its deterrence is no different from today's strategic missiles.

However, the yellow crossbow also has a flaw, that is, it is too heavy, weighing 300 pounds. You cannot hold the yellow crossbow up and chase the enemy everywhere. Moreover, the yellow crossbow can only be operated by one person, which means that two people cannot work together. In this case, the person who operates the yellow crossbow must have infinite strength.

How much strength does it take? The strength of the crossbow machine in the Han Dynasty is calculated by "stone". It is divided into one stone to ten stones. The yellow crossbow is the strongest ten stone crossbow (see the Han bamboo slips of Juyan).

In the Han Dynasty, one stone is about 30 kilograms now. In this way, it can be concluded that the yellow crossbow must have 300 kilograms of strength to be full.

This is also the reason why the big yellow crossbow is very powerful, but it is not widely used. Who has the power of 300 kilograms... The soldiers recruited by Ang Lee can have the power of more than 500 kilograms.

You said that Ang Lee was so depressed, but fortunately, later, Zhu Chao introduced that the yellow crossbow was later cracked by a man named Zhou Yansheng, who was an ancient weapon enthusiast.

I once made a Zhuge crossbow and was excited to display it, but I was humiliated by a so-called expert saying that the Zhuge crossbow designed by Zhou Yansheng was not as good as toys.

This made Zhou Yansheng very angry. He followed Zhou Yansheng and began to study the rhubarb crossbow. In the end, Zhou Yansheng spent ten years to transform the rhubarb crossbow. He directly improved the weight of the rhubarb from 400 kilograms to 120 kilograms.

Such weight can easily lift an adult, and then turn the tension from 300 kilograms, that is, 600 kilograms to 280 kilograms. Of course, if the tension becomes smaller, the range will be shorter. However, because Zhou Yansheng added torsional ejection to the yellow crossbow, although the range has been reduced, it is indeed not much reduced, and there is still a range of 350 meters.

Three hundred and fifty meters... Although for modern times, the range of this yellow crossbow is completely vulnerable, and it is also bulky and difficult to aim, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, this kind of crossbow is definitely an existence that instantly kills everything.

After Ang Lee finally obtained the production picture of the yellow crossbow, his whole body was a little trembling. He really wanted to see the scene of him making a hundred yellow crossbows and then shooting in a row. He wanted to know what kind of army could withstand his yellow crossbow.

Of course, in addition to the rhubarb crossbow as a medium weapon, Ang Lee also prepared to make light crossbows and heavy crossbows.

The light crossbow actually existed in the Tang Dynasty, called the Biaozhang Crossbow... It is introduced in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an". It cannot be fired continuously, but it can quickly launch arrows... The range is about fifty meters.

The heavy crossbow is the famous bed crossbow, also known as the "Eight Niu Crossbow". The arrows are made of hard wood as the shaft and iron sheets as the feathers. They are known as "one gun and three sword arrows". The bed crossbow can also fire "step arrows". It is spectacular when firing. The arrows are like javelins. They can be directly nailed into the city wall at close range. When firing volleys, rows of step arrows are firmly nailed into the city wall, and siege soldiers can climb up.

"History of the Song Dynasty: Biography of Wei Pi" records: "The old crossbow shot at the crossbow, which allowed Pi to increase its construction to a thousand steps." In the Song Dynasty, one step was 1.536 meters, and a thousand steps were 1,536 meters, which was one of the highest ranges achieved by ancient long-range weapons.

However, at least seven soldiers need to work together, use a winch to pull the bowstring, and the weight is about a few hundred kilograms. If you want to rely on manpower, you cannot transfer the bed crossbow. You can only have a carriage, so Ang Lee also needs to make a carriage that specializes in bed crossbows.

Because it was too troublesome, Ang Lee planned to make only five bed crossbows, keeping them as his trump card. Ang Lee carefully drew the pictures of various crossbows in his own courtyard in Zhenjia Village while looking at Zhu Chao’s USB drive information.

Fortunately, Ang Lee's sketching skills are pretty good, so he can restore and make pictures one by one. However, the production of these weapons is the same as burning money. Ang Lee has less than 200,000 guan in his hand.

If you want to make these in large quantities, Ang Lee's money will soon come to an end, and Ang Lee's first financial crisis has arrived.
Chapter completed!