Chapter 108: Armor-Piercing Heavy Arrow
Zhao Xin took out this arrow, immediately attracted everyone's attention, on the arrow, you can already see the hideous, triangular appearance, each edge is quite accurate, looks extremely sophisticated, this kind of arrow is also in the Northern Song Dynasty army, belongs to the least of all the arrows, don't underestimate such a small, its texture is quite dense, is specifically for heavy armor targets to use armor-piercing triangular arrows. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I hadn't thought about it before, the bow power of the longbow was small, and in their opinion, it would be good to be able to target the unarmored target at speed, but if you think about it carefully, the muzzle velocity of the longbow is not low, and the longbow is even heavier than the armor-piercing heavy arrow, and it is not normal to equip this.
The most important thing is that this three-edged arrow, slightly different from them, the front end is sharper, the three edges are exactly the same, the flight speed can be kept stable, and the most important thing is that on the top of the arrow, there is a blood groove and barbs, which are specially set up for heavy arrows, this arrow, organically combine them into a whole, and the lethality is even more terrifying.
The three-edged heavy arrow, which itself has a very strong armor-piercing function, has added blood grooves and barbs, and has almost developed the attack power to the extreme, especially at the edge of the three edges, and even has a very sharp winger, which is a big killer.
Three-edged arrows, because of the relationship between high-speed rotation, a shot is a hole, and the bloodletting performance is extremely terrible, now there are more of these wingers, once there is such a wound on the person's body, there is really no way, which different cross-section, how to heal, simple methods are not at all.
Not to mention the armor-piercing performance of the triangular arrow, even if it is just this winger, it increases the lethality of this bow, it turns out, it may have to hit the vital point, the most critical place in the hit, to be able to kill people, now as long as it is solid, hitting most parts of the body, it is enough to seriously injure, or even fatal.
This is the most critical improvement, and the longbow is perfect, the longbow is not accurate shooting, precision shooting has nothing to do with it, it is a range attack, this range attack, against a dense enemy, the probability of hitting any part is the same, under this premise, this kind of lethality for non-vital parts, for the longbow, the combat effectiveness is more than multiplied.
Xue Yu, who has experience on the battlefield, understands very well that the dead, wounded, and wounded are almost connected, and many people who are not familiar with the military may feel that it is better to be injured than to die, because it is better to be alive than to die.
But in fact, unless it is a defeat battle against one side, in a general battle, it is best to die, and it is more troublesome to be injured.
One side has an absolute advantage in strength, and it is no problem to die a few, as long as the strength of the two sides is not compared, and they are at an absolute disadvantage, it is a big trouble to be injured, and the injured need to be taken care of, which requires manpower.
A small number of people, for tens of thousands of troops, the problem is not too big, but in the era of cold weapons, people have not been aware of the existence of microorganisms, and there is no good care for the wounded.
This makes the wounded barracks the most terrible place on the battlefield, the mortality rate is extremely high, some soldiers look at the wounded helplessly, with a miserable howl to die, for the spirit is a kind of torment, this torment, for an army's morale blow, but huge.
The three-edged arrows used by the longbow already have a focus on this aspect, and they are not injured but not dead, and they are not the kind of injuries that can be easily handled, and they can't be bandaged without bandaging, under this premise, of course, several people are surprised.
The most important thing is that this arrow, there is no weakness of traditional armor-piercing arrows, the power of armor-piercing arrows is not small, but armor-piercing arrows are all arrows, the slowest speed, in history, the enemy general with his hand, with his mouth, catch the case of long arrows, basically, are armor-piercing arrows, other arrows, the speed is too fast, maybe you can open more, it is impossible to catch.
After aerodynamic adjustments, the armor-piercing heavy arrow is not a big problem in terms of aerodynamic force, and the drag is not a big problem, as for the weight, the armor-piercing heavy arrow is much heavier than the feather arrow of the short bow, which is more than three or four times that of the general light arrow, but compared to the heavy heavy arrow, he is about the same as the long arrow temporarily made with crossbow arrows, which is about 30% heavier than the current re-made.
On the speed, compared to the first kind of arrow, there is a slight weakening, but not much weakening, compared to the traditional armor-piercing heavy arrow, I don't know how much, and then someone dares to catch it with their hands, that is looking for death, heavy arrows for most of the heavy armor have the effect of penetrating the attack, and an arrow will kill.
However, Zhao Xin took out only 3 three-edged arrows, obviously, it is very difficult to process, compared to ordinary arrows, at least more than 5 times more than ordinary arrows, in the blacksmith shop has not been improved, just handmade, this difficulty will be very large.
In the main countries around the Great Song Dynasty, except for those countries in the south, there is a heavy armored cavalry under the premise that armor-piercing heavy arrows must be produced, in the early stage, it can only be hard, with the help of this large number of blacksmiths, accurately create these armor-piercing heavy arrows, which is also a helpless thing.
In the future, when the blacksmith shop is changed, the ironmaking technology is strengthened, and the current iron-making furnace is transformed into a blast furnace, the iron is in the form of liquid, flowing out, and after the appropriate layout, the molten iron can be directly injected into various abrasives.
The two arrows, showing different emphases, but equally excellent, lighter standardized long arrows, improve the range of the longbow, so that the longbow can cover a larger area, which directly increases the attack power of the longbow, and the latter, is the battlefield on the anti-heaven artifact, it turns out, like the tank in the era of cold weapons heavy cavalry, in the face of them, no longer dare to show their teeth, a little careless, if they are locked by a large number of longbowmen and armor-piercing heavy arrows, if they want to leave the longbowman's hit range, they need huge casualties, armor-piercing heavy arrows, It's going to be their nightmare.
Several people have their own ideas, some people think that Zhao Xin can solve it, and some people think that they can't, but even Sun Ji, who has the most confidence in Zhao Xin, didn't expect that in the end, it was really improved, and the improvement was still so big.
It seems that in the future, Zhao Xin's words, even if they are unbelievable, will have to be turned a few more times, because they will always give you an excellent feeling.
The bow and the arrow are solved together, and the longbowmen are formed, 120 longbowmen, they are only a basic way to use the longbow, and they can only attack to one place under the command of the commander for the time being, and the error is a little big, but they can barely reach a certain direction.
With such a powerful weapon, coupled with a suitable training method, Xue Yu and Sun Ji were very sure that in a month at most, this longbowman could be formed, not only could it effectively kill the enemy in a fixed defensive position, but even if it encountered a field battle, it was not afraid at all.
Next, the whole training work is normal, the people who admire Zhao Xin's five-body surrender, for Zhao Xin's orders, do not discount at all, Zhao Xin's iron-clad facts prove that in the field of the longbow, he has enough authority, their so-called experience, in front of this authority, like paper paste.
Zhao Xin didn't expect that there would be such an effect, he had known that he had already pretended to be like this, in front of the strong people in a certain field, when he showed a better ability than them, this kind of amplitude, this kind of convincing, in the war system that he had never opened, Sun Ji's loyalty to him had exceeded 9.
9 percent is already a very high value, which means that any of his requirements, as long as it is not obviously against common sense, does not pay with Lun Chang, or has a huge impact on Sun Ji, Sun Ji will complete it without discounting, and the others, the lowest Xue Yu has also exceeded 6 percent, Yan Hua and Qu Yang both broke through seventy percent.
Zhao Xin didn't know the improvement of loyalty, but he obviously felt that the next training was much smoother, before, if it was about the longbow training method, some people would raise objections, so that a lot of time was wasted in explaining and fighting, now, not only the longbow they don't speak, some of the queue training and discipline requirements that are very objectionable to themselves are not objected, so that the training laughs and improves quickly.
This is a huge benefit, the modern army itself, the formation is much faster than the ancient army, some standardization, it seems to be just a simple queue and discipline requirements, but it can integrate a scattered army into a whole, which is very important for the army in the cold weapon era, not to mention more like the longbow of the hot weapon in the cold weapon era, and the improvement of discipline to him is obvious.