In addition, there is the problem of the technology tree, Bao Hong himself, as a novice, has no understanding of this aspect at all, at most it is only those understandings in the romance. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this regard, what Bao Hong knows about the science and technology tree is Zhuge Liang's inventions. Wooden oxen flowing horses, Zhuge crossbows, etc.

Bao Hong doesn't have too strong a demand for this thing for the time being, after all, to this day, Bao Hong doesn't have too many troubles about grain and grass.

However, the Zhuge Repeater is something worth paying attention to, and if it can be successfully manufactured, it can greatly increase the combat power of ordinary soldiers.

The crossbow is also known as the "Zhuge crossbow", according to legend, it is said that the "Yuan Rong" made by Zhuge Liang, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people developed the crossbow on the basis of the bow, and after the Qin Dynasty, people began to manufacture and widely use the Qifa crossbow, which can fire several arrows at the same time. The repeating crossbow made by Zhuge Liang can continuously fire crossbow arrows. However, due to the fact that the arrows used in the repeater do not have arrow feathers, the iron arrows will lose their balance and roll over when flying at a long distance, and the production of wooden arrow shafts requires high precision, and it is difficult to make them manually, and it is not easy to manufacture and use them in large quantities.

Usually ordinary arrows are made of arrowheads, wooden poles, and feathers, which play a balancing role when the arrow flies long distances. However, if the arrows of the repeater are made in the usual way, the feathers of the arrow body and the wall of the arrow box will be obstructed, so that the arrows cannot naturally fall to the firing position under the action of gravity. Therefore, the arrows of the repeater are made in an unconventional way, and it is scientific and reasonable to "use iron as the arrow". The use of iron for repeater arrows solves three major problems:

One is that because the size of the whole arrow is only "eight inches", the arrow is light and does not have much lethality. Iron Arrow solves this problem.

Second, a magnet is attached to the bottom of the arrow box, and the iron arrow will be adsorbed on the arrow groove, which solves the problem that the tilt angle of the crossbow body is greater than 90 degrees when the repeater shoots upward, and the arrow in the arrow box leaves the arrow groove and falls in the opposite direction, and the arrow slips when the bow is shot downward.

In addition, the problem of continuous supply of arrows has been solved, and continuous supply of arrows and continuous firing have been completed.

However, it is difficult to add feathers to all-iron arrows, and featherless iron arrows will lose their balance and roll over when flying long distances, which will not be effective as a long-range weapon. The production of wooden arrow shafts requires high precision, and it is difficult to make manually, and it is not easy to manufacture and use in large quantities. Due to the limitations of technical conditions at that time, Zhuge Liang and his descendants failed to solve the problem of "arrow", resulting in a great reduction in the practicability of the repeater, coupled with the profit and loss of the crossbow mechanism interaction requires high precision, when used in the field, the parts are easily deformed by the influence of rainy weather and other weather, so that the crossbow launch mechanism fails, and is neglected by the military department until it disappears.

Moreover, because the firing process of the crossbow is more time-consuming, and the soldiers holding the crossbow are inconvenient to use other weapons at the same time, the crossbowmen are often organized into groups such as "upper crossbow", "advanced crossbow", and "hair crossbow" under the cover of other soldiers, and fire continuously in turn. In the "Guarding the Stopper", it can exert its power even more.

Of course, this is talking about Zhuge Repeater's crossbow, if you simply talk about the crossbow, there were four crossbows during the Warring States Period: clamp crossbow, thin crossbow, Tang crossbow and big crossbow. The clamp crossbow and thin crossbow are lighter and have a fast firing speed, and are mostly used to attack and defend fortresses; Tang crossbow and big crossbow are strong crossbows, although the range is long, but the launch speed is slow, and they are mostly used in vehicle battles and field battles. The crossbows of the Han Dynasty were divided into two types: the crossbow with both arms stretched apart, and the crossbow with the foot pedal.

Therefore, Zhuge can only be regarded as transformation and innovation, not pure creation out of thin air.

And at this point, in fact, not only Brother Zhu can do it, Ma Jun, who appeared in Bao Hong's hometown, has such an ability.

At that time, the Wei and Shu kingdoms were often at war. When Zhuge Liang, a great military strategist of Shu State, went out on the Northern Expedition, he invented a long-range device that could launch arrows one after another - a repeating crossbow. It can fire dozens of arrows at a time, which is very powerful. The Wei army was quite surprised to find it on the battlefield. After Ma Jun saw the repeater, he thought that this weapon was very good, and said: "It's a coincidence, but there are still places where it can't be improved, and if it is improved again, the power can be increased by five times." So, he improved the repeater, and it worked very well. Up to five times more effective.

Speaking of this allusion, there is another tall thing to mention, and that is the catapult.

In the battle of Guandu at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao used the "stone cart" to attack Yuan Shao's position, but it could only be fired single, and the efficiency was not high. Ma Jun was worried that the enemy would be able to block the stones thrown by the stone cart by hanging wet cowhide on the castle tower. On the basis of the original combat stone truck, Ma Jun redesigned a new siege weapon -- a rotating stone truck. The original stone cart was like a big scale, with a bucket hung at one end, filled with large and small stones, and many ropes hung at the other end. This kind of stone cart has many disadvantages, and every time it is launched, it takes some time, and the effect is not great. The new wheel-type stone truck designed by Ma Jun overcomes these shortcomings. It uses a wooden wheel to hang stones on wooden wheels, so that the large stones can be launched one after another by installing machinery to drive the wheels to rotate rapidly, so that the enemy has no time to defend. Ma Jun once used wheels to do experiments, which could shoot dozens of bricks and tiles hundreds of paces away in a row, which was quite powerful at the time.

Of course, it is easier to put forward the concept of catapults, and Bao Hong arranged for Zu Chongzhi to consider the crossbow first.

I believe that with Zu Chongzhi's level, it should only be a matter of time before he can get the technique of repeating the crossbow.

As for whether the repeater is effective, there is no doubt about it.

During the period of the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Han's military science and technology were the crown of the Three Kingdoms. Because Shu Han has always been at a disadvantage, the situation forced Shu Han to create sophisticated and advanced weapons to resist and defeat stronger enemies. Many weapons and tools were invented for these reasons, such as the "Yuanrong Crossbow" invented by Zhuge Liang mentioned earlier. There is also a kind of "side bamboo bow crossbow", the people of Wu like the side bamboo bow and crossbow of Shu Han very much, but they will not make it, and later when they know that the captured Shu Han generals Meng Gan, Jiao Xiong, and Li Song will make it, they immediately let them make it. It can be seen that the side bamboo bow and crossbow is also one of the advanced shooting weapons that Shu Han had but Sun Wu and Cao Wei did not.

As for the tactics of crossbowmen, they were actually used a lot in the Three Kingdoms. When Zhuge Liang retreated from the Sixth Northern Expedition, he had expected that Sima Yi would send troops to pursue, so he set up an ambush with crossbowmen. In fact, the reason why Zhuge Liang almost did not succeed in retreating every time he failed in the Northern Expedition was actually because the Shu soldiers had the most powerful crossbowmen in the Three Kingdoms, just as Cao Wei's elite division was cavalry, while Sun Wu was a naval army and Shu Han was a crossbowman. The power of the crossbowmen happened to be the nemesis of the cavalry, so that Cao Wei had to be cautious when he wanted to pursue the army of Shu Han later.

Zhuge Liang's famous eight-array diagram is actually a mixed military array that combines the four arms of infantry, crossbow, chariot, and cavalry. Use the chariot to form a large phalanx with a number of small phalanxes as a unit, the infantry crossbowmen are staggered among them, and the front part of the formation is set up with obstacles such as iron thistles, horses, deer bars, etc., when the enemy cavalry group charges, the crossbowmen are used to rely on the chariot to shoot the enemy; When the enemy approached, the pikemen relied on the chariot to resist; The enemy rushed into the formation, and due to the obstruction and restriction of the chariots, the forces were inevitably divided, so they took the opportunity to rely on the small phalanx and flank them with various long and short weapons, and each one was broken.

During the Battle of Jieqiao, Yuan Shao also used a large number of crossbowmen to defeat Gongsun Zhan's famous white horse cavalry. Since then, Gongsun Chan has been in a slump, and was finally destroyed by Yuan Shao.

Having said that, in addition to the repeater, which is a thing that improves the strength of individual soldiers, there is another strategic-level artifact, the bed crossbow, which is known as the longest-range weapon in ancient times, is something that Bao Hong is also concerned about.

The bed crossbow first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was launched by a winch, with a long range, but poor accuracy, and the tactics of large-scale salvo fire were generally adopted. It's a pity that the descendants were lost for a time.

Until the fierce grassland wind appeared, it finally summoned the king of the huge strong crossbow for the Northern and Southern Dynasties - the bed crossbow. At this time, the bed crossbow is wound with a multi-head ox force winch shaft, and the power has been greatly stronger than the repeater of the Warring States manpower winch shaft, firing a huge javelin with skin or iron leaf as the feather, mainly used to destroy the tower, siege device, city wall, etc. when attacking and defending the city, the longest range of the Song Dynasty pole is more than 1.5 kilometers, and it is the farthest range of cold weapons in the ancient world.

It was the Tang Dynasty that gave the bed crossbow mobility, and the ox-drawn crossbow not only greatly improved the flexibility of deployment and the chance of survival, but also added to the icing on the cake by hooking the rope to the axle so that it could be wound while traveling, which greatly improved efficiency. The crossbow is equipped with a giant crossbow with a pulling force of 860 kg, with 7 launch slots, the longest range is more than 1 km, and the arrows used in the middle trough are more than 1 meter long.

The crossbow was greatly developed in the Song Dynasty, and the Song court, which was heavy on infantry, regarded it as a weapon against the cavalry peoples of the north. Crossbowmen mostly use stepping crossbows, using the overlapping firing method of three groups of round firing, and the invention of the 'divine arm bow' enabled the Song army's effective firing range to 370 meters. Bed crossbows range from two to four crossbows, from small to huge, there are many types, and the two-bed and three-bed bows can also be tied to an iron pocket with dozens of ordinary arrows on the string, so that the bed crossbow has the function of killing and injuring people.

The bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty was a combination of two or three bows, which greatly enhanced the tension and strength of the crossbow. When the crossbow is opened, the crossbow string is connected to the winch with a thick rope, and the soldiers shake the winch, open the crossbow string, and set the giant arrow, and when it is fired, the soldier must slam the trigger with a sledgehammer, and the machine will shoot the arrow into the distance.

。 There are eight types of bed crossbows that use compound bows recorded in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", which can be divided into two categories according to the strength and range of the crossbow. One is a double-bow bed crossbow, which is equipped with two bows, which are placed at the front and rear of the thick crossbow arm, and the two bows are placed opposite each other, when firing, first use a thick rope with hooks at both ends, hook the crossbow string at one end, hook the shaft of the winch at the other end, and then twist the winch with five, seven or more than ten warriors together, open the crossbow string, buckle it on the teeth, and the crossbowman who is in charge of loading the arrow installs the crossbow arrow and aims at the target. When firing, the power of the human hand cannot pull the trigger, and the crossbowman in charge of firing must raise a sledgehammer and hammer the plate machine with all his strength, so the huge crossbow arrow will fly towards the enemy with a roar. These arrows are very thick, and the arrowheads are flat and chiseled, so they are called "chisel arrows", and the range is about 120 to 135 steps.

The other type is the three-bow bed crossbow, which is more powerful than the previous type and has twice the range. crossbow

The three crossbows on the arm, two at the front end and one at the back, are also installed opposite to each other. Because this kind of bed crossbow is stronger, it is also called "eight bull crossbow", which means that it can be pulled apart with the strength of eight old cows. It generally takes 20 to 100 people to open a crossbow by manpower, and the general range is 200 to 300 paces, that is, about 370 to 560 meters. The crossbow arrows used in the three-bow bed crossbow are even larger, with thick shafts and iron feathers, and the front end is equipped with a huge three-edged blade iron arrowhead, because it is about the same size as the spear used by ordinary soldiers, so it is also called "one gun and three sword arrows". It also has another name called "Stepping Arrow", that is because it also has a special function, that is, when attacking the enemy's castle, the thick three-bow crossbow arrow is shot at the enemy city wall, so that the front end of the crossbow arrow is deeply inserted into the wall, leaving only half of the thick arrow shaft and tail feathers exposed outside the wall, and the besieging soldiers can climb these huge arrow shafts inserted in the wall under their own cover to climb the city wall and capture the city. As a result, this huge crossbow bolt became a pedal for siegers to climb, so these arrows also got the name "pedal arrow".

Xu is good at riding and archery of the Yuan Dynasty was too arbitrary, but the clean hand up and down the knife, the crossbow left in the previous dynasty, so the crossbow fell from the peak of the Song Dynasty to the extreme decline of the Yuan Dynasty, with the continued development of firearms, there is no chance to turn over.

In terms of Bao Hong's idea, it is natural to restore the ancient artifacts of the Warring States period first, and then carry out more innovations.

However, the impact of these two things is relatively not small, and the setting of the arsenal needs to be considered.

Of course, this is only relatively. After all, the bow and crossbow thing is ancient, and it is the same thing when it is transformed, at most, it is just to cause things like the comparison of science and technology of various forces, although it may also cause some harm, but the problem is not very big.

But if Bao Hong gets stirrups, saddles and the like out now, it will be a complete pit.

This thing is completely unexpected, and it comes to mind that it is completely who can make it up.

In this case, it will be pirated by others in minutes, so it is impossible for Bao Hong to invent these at this time, at least he should occupy a certain amount of territory in the cool and three places to be able to promote this thing.

At this time, Bao Hong found that there didn't seem to be enough scientists under his command, after all, if you really study carefully, you will find that there are still many science and technology that can be studied.

Having said that, Bao Hong was not in a hurry to summon specialty privileges, not only because the system complained that Bao Hong blindly summoned but could not make the best use of it, but also because Bao Hong needed to sort out the things in it and make more targeted summoning. (To be continued.) )