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After pulling the crossbow apart with one hand and putting the special arrow into the arrow box, Bai Feng, who was a little bloody, held the crossbow in both hands and aimed his shooting at an arrow target two hundred meters away, which was an arrow target used to test the Leng Huai longbow.

Normally, it is impossible for such an arrow target to be pierced by the Leng Huai longbow within a range of 200 meters, and as for the distance of 200 meters, the Leng Huai longbowmen do not have the accuracy to shoot at the target.

Bai Feng, who was holding his breath, focused all his attention on the crossbow in his hand, and the craftsmen and entourage on the side did not dare to make a sound to disturb Bai Feng's shooting, but also fixed their eyes on the crossbow in Bai Feng's hand.

"Whew......"

With a sharp whistling sound, Bai Feng, who was engrossed, finally pulled the trigger in his hand, and the sharp arrow in the crossbow also flew towards the arrow target two hundred meters away in an instant;

The arrow, which was shot from the crossbow, successfully hit the target two hundred meters away, and pierced through the target with great momentum, and after that, the arrow still maintained a fairly strong momentum, and flew forward for a distance of about fifty meters.

With a shooting distance of two hundred and fifty meters, and a range of two hundred meters, it could shoot through a wooden arrow target, such a powerful lethality and ultra-long range, the shocked eyes of Bai Feng's entourage were about to burst out.

Even the bow craftsmen who made the crossbow looked at Bai Feng with the crossbow in their hands, as if they had seen some monster, after all, when they tested the crossbow themselves, they didn't find that the crossbow was so powerful!

"The reason why my test shot was so powerful just now is not only due to this tread crossbow, because in actual combat, I can't find a large-scale warrior with the strength of a high-level swordsman to use these tread crossbows. ”

Seeing the incredulous expressions of these people behind him, Bai Feng explained with a slight smile, and the fact was indeed as Bai Feng explained, the huge power of the crossbow test just now was completely based on Bai Feng's own strength.

"Stepping on the crossbow, Lord Governor, are you planning to name this brand-new weapon the Stepping Crossbow?" After Bai Feng's explanation, the attention of those bow craftsmen immediately shifted to Bai Feng's name for this weapon.

"Yes, this bow-like weapon, I think it can be called a crossbow, and there can be a lot of crossbows, and in addition to the treadmill you have made for large-scale combat, you can also make more practical crossbows!"

"More and more practical crossbows?, Lord Governor, do you mean that we need to continue to make other types of crossbows on the basis of this kind of crossbow and use the same principle of crossbow making?"

This was another question raised by a bow-making craftsman to Bai Feng, and there was no doubt that the question of this technical talent was immediately praised by Bai Feng, no wonder these craftsmen were able to grope for the production of epoch-making crossbows, and their understanding was really unusual!

It seems that whether it is the self-proclaimed extraordinary civilized world or the backward and embarrassed barbarian world, the artificial division has never been able to erase the creative nature of human beings, and these barbarian bow craftsmen have officially won Bai Feng's approval with their own efforts.

If it is said that the production of the Leng Huai longbow is the result of Bai Feng himself teaching these bow craftsmen by hand, then the appearance of this crossbow in front of him is completely the efforts of these craftsmen themselves.

"The crossbow you have now made can be another sharp weapon in our army, but its limitation is that it can be used in a very simple way, and its effect is extremely limited.

If you can use this principle of the crossbow to make a smaller version of the one-handed crossbow, this one-handed crossbow can become a weapon for ordinary people to defend themselves, and in addition to shrinking, you can also make a larger version of the ballista to play a greater strategic role. ”

The idea of a one-handed crossbow and a ballista may be an unintelligible term for those who don't know how to do it, but for the professionals who created the crossbow, they instantly sketched out the general shape of the one-handed crossbow and the ballista in their minds.

Some craftsmen who were obsessed with crossbows, even under Bai Feng's inspiration, began to immediately fiddle with the tools in the workshop, wanting to make more powerful crossbows as soon as possible.

After personally testing the power of the crossbow and opening up a new idea for the craftsmen in the workshop, Bai Feng began to ask the person in charge of the workshop how many crossbows could be made in a month at the current production speed of the workshop.

Bai Feng, who wanted to install crossbows on a large scale in the army, had to admit that his idea was too optimistic, and although the craftsmen of the workshop succeeded in making the crossbows, the actual production of crossbows was not high.

On the premise of keeping the number of cold locust longbows produced each month unchanged, the craftsmen of the workshop could make up to a hundred of these new types of crossbows, and even this number could be guaranteed on the premise of compressing the development of other crossbows.

If more craftsmen devote themselves to the development and production of one-handed crossbows and crossbow cars, then the production of this new type of crossbow will drop to about fifty per month, such a cruel reality makes Bai Feng have to make a careful choice.

In the long run, the research and development of one-handed crossbows and crossbow carts is definitely more valuable than unilaterally increasing the number of crossbows produced, and after careful consideration, Bai Feng finally decided to set the number of crossbows produced per month at eighty.

At the same time, the research and development speed of one-handed crossbows and crossbow carts cannot be slowed down, but the number of cold locust longbows produced by the workshop every month must be reduced by about 15 percent;

The current external situation of the Roman city forces makes the Roman army not need to face the risk of fierce war in a short period of time, and the precious development time can also bring more time for the development and installation of weapons and equipment for the Roman city.

Even a slight reduction in the monthly production of the Leng Locust Longbow would not affect the combat effectiveness of the various legions in Rome City, and the number of crossbows that appeared as a new weapon was too small, so Bai Feng had to use the crossbow as a secret weapon.

The Doge's Guard, led by Perris, will be the first Roman army to be equipped with a crossbow, and the original Doge's Guard, which consists of one Elite Infantry Wing, One Longbow Wing, and One Cavalry Wing, can now add some additional units in real time.

At the rate at which the workshop produces eighty crossbows per month, the production of less than a thousand crossbows in a year is less, and considering the loss in the actual use process, Bai Feng decided to set up a new crossbow brigade of 500 people in the Doge's Guard.