Yuan Shu played with the crossbow in his hand, which was similar in shape to the later generations, but the length of his forearm, felt its weight, and nodded slightly: "This lightness is good, but I don't know how powerful it is." ”

The shape of the hand crossbow Yuan Shu is basically in accordance with the hand crossbows seen in later generations to Mo Shen and Huang Chengyan. With a pistol-like trigger and a lightweight construction, one hand is enough to fire.

"Your Majesty can experiment with it." Mo Shen took out dozens of crossbow arrows with his hands hidden in his sleeves, placed them on the table in front of Yuan Shu, and said with a smile.

Looking at Mo Shen's small sleeves, Yuan Shu raised his eyebrows. He couldn't understand how such loose sleeves could fit so many things like the pockets of a robot cat without revealing anything. The crossbow in his hand had been taken out of his sleeve after Mo Shen had brought him here, but it was assembled and formed in a matter of moments. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really wouldn't have believed that there were so many things in such empty sleeves.

Picked up three crossbow arrows casually, felt its cold and smooth feel, looked at its sharp flat sharp triangle arrow, narrowed his eyes, and said in an inexplicable tone: "This crossbow arrow is made of fine iron, and the workmanship is very fine!" ”

Hearing this, Mo Shen's face froze instantly. Careful thinking was seen through, and he said with a little embarrassment: "Your Majesty, now that my Dachu has produced a lot of refined iron, crossbow arrows made of refined iron can already begin to be popularized. ”

Yuan Shu shook his head slightly when he heard this, filled the arrow into the groove of the crossbow in his hand, and then aimed at a wooden man in armor who was about fifty or sixty paces away in the distance, and pulled the trigger with the crossbow in his right hand.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

Three crossbow bolts flew towards the wooden man, but only one pierced the wooden man's arm, and the remaining three missed.

At this moment, Huang Chengyan's slightly ridiculous voice sounded: "Your Majesty, the accuracy of this crossbow is extremely high, basically a lightly trained soldier can accurately shoot this kind of dummy three times within fifty meters." Don't blame us for not shooting! ”

"I know!" When Yuan Shu heard this, his face turned black instantly, and he said hatefully.

And Mo Shen glanced at Huang Chengyan with some complaints, and came to relieve the siege: "Your Majesty, this crossbow has been improved, and it is extremely convenient to load arrows, and it can be loaded with twelve crossbow arrows at a time. It can be fired in a single shot, or it can be fired at the same time as His Majesty just now, but in this case, stability and accuracy will be reduced. ”

"That's pretty much it." Yuan Shu glanced at Huang Chengyan and said.

This old man was not eye-catching to him for some reason, but he had a high reputation among the craftsmen and made great contributions to the improvement and manufacture of ordnance in Da Chu. In the face of such a stubborn old cultivator, Yuan Shu endured it for the time being.

"Your Majesty, you haven't seen how powerful this crossbow is!"

Yuan Shu stepped forward, came to the wooden man, and pulled the arrow off. In the process of pulling, feeling a lot of resistance in his hand, Yuan Shu nodded secretly.

Mo Shen, on the other hand, directly took off the armor on the wooden man, looked at the part where the arrow pierced with Yuan Shao, and pointed to the deep groove where the wooden man was shot by the arrow and said: "Your Majesty, the machine part of this crossbow is carefully caused by the ministers, which greatly enhances its power, and it is enough to penetrate the ordinary fine light armor and cause a lot of damage to the enemy within fifty steps, and the lethality on the battlefield is absolutely enough." ”

"Is it easy to destroy?" Yuan Shu asked.

Technological protection is an important matter. Just like the catapult that Yuan Shu made before, he was learned by the other party as soon as he appeared. If the structure of such a sharp weapon was learned by Yuan Shao, and a batch of them were also created, wouldn't Yuan Shu, who had spent a lot of money and manpower studying it for several years, be crying to death. Therefore, thinking of the protection method of the divine arm crossbow in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Shu put forward the requirement of destroying the convenience. When you have to discard the crossbow, you can destroy it as much as possible to avoid being disassembled and copied after the opponent gets it.

"Your Majesty is assured that the key machine expansion ministers have been transformed. Unless it is disassembled in a specific way, the core will inevitably be completely destroyed and cannot be easily reproduced. Moreover, there is a switch behind the amplifier, which can be completely destroyed by pressing it. Mo Shen said confidently.

When it comes to technical protection, the Mo family who came all the way from the Warring States period is not too professional. The wooden kite that Mozi was able to make back then, but no one has been able to crack it yet. Even the catapult in Cao Cao's hand was made with reference to some of the books left by the Mo family in the Xun family's collection.

"And what about the cost of manufacturing and the production of this crossbow?" Yuan Shu asked.

At the mention of this, Mo Shen's eyes were a little evasive, and he said ominously: "The manufacturing cost is not high, because it is light, and the materials required are less. However, this output is somewhat insufficient. ”

"Something is lacking? How much can you produce in a month? Yuan Shu frowned.

"About three thousand." Mo Shen said bitterly.

"How can this be, didn't the Ordnance Department arrange a lot of manpower for you? There is no problem with materials and funds, so that you can produce 3,000 per month? It's less than the production of strong crossbows! Yuan Shu asked incredulously.

Three thousand a month, it seems like a lot. But in the midst of hundreds of thousands of troops, it can't even fight, and at this rate, it won't be able to equip the army of Dachu in ten years.

Huang Chengyan looked at Mo Shen's ashamed appearance, and said loudly: "In order to meet the requirements of this kind of hand crossbow in terms of performance, the workmanship is very fine, the internal parts are extremely small and the number is large, the assembly is complicated and there can be no mistakes, and non-skilled craftsmen can't do it." Only three or five of the 100 craftsmen could meet the standard, so the output was not as much as that of the strong crossbow. We've tried to gather as many craftsmen as we can do the job, but there are too few. ”

"I understand what you're saying. But I asked you to design a hand crossbow that can be used in actual combat and is commonly used in the military, and the current hand crossbow is really good in terms of performance. But if it can't be universally used in the military, what use do I want it to have? Yuan Shu couldn't help but say, "Can you think about it again and see if there is any other way to solve the yield problem?" It really can't be redesigned, and it doesn't matter if the performance is reduced at all. ”

Hearing this, Mo Shen, who had spent countless efforts on this and was a craftsman, couldn't help it: "Your Majesty, this crossbow is already the best work that the minister can think of at the moment, if it is weakened, I am afraid it will not be able to be used in actual combat." If you want to shrink the crossbow and ensure its convenience while ensuring its power, you can only start with the fineness of the machine expansion, which is inevitable. On top of these tiny parts, we can also carry out mass production through assembly lines and molds, but the assembly is really not skillful and cannot be done! ”

When Yuan Shu heard this, his irritable heart sank slightly. He understood what Huang Chengyan and Mo Shen said, so it was indeed a bit too hasty. How can it be so simple to make a "killing weapon" like a hand crossbow and make it universal?

After calming down for a while, Yuan Shu said, "I also know what you said. In that case, let's start producing this kind of crossbow for the time being, but don't stop working on improvements. Also, there are not many skilled craftsmen, but there are still many people who are ingenious, such as tailors and the like. Anyway, it's just assembly, you try to find it, and when you have progress, I will give you permission to conduct a large-scale recruitment. In addition, you may be able to try to assemble it through the same assembly line and mold. ”

"I've worked hard for you during this time, and I'm very satisfied with the results now, and you and the craftsmen involved in it have been rewarded."

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