When the price of 150 Wen came out, everyone's expressions were all stunned, this price was really unexpected.

The power of the bow and arrow comes from the high price, a bow looks ordinary, but it is the most expensive weapon in the entire army, this is known to all generals.

150 Wen, this is the price of the current standard longbow, a 2 to 2.4 meters high 5-year-old elm, can become the material of the longbow, it doesn't seem to be casually reached, but with the previous short bow, I don't know how much easier.

Wood for the short bow is only one of the most insignificant materials, and the real key, glue bars, and other things, take a long time under different treatments.

Wood, no matter how precious the wood, will not be expensive, but animal tendons, glue, these things are made specifically, the price is much higher, plus the cost, even more so.

Longbows are different, as long as it is treated wood, even if it is processed wood, it doesn't take a long time, it takes a few years, just a simple treatment, and then release the stress, and gradually bend, this thing, let alone a master of making longbows, some carpenters, a little training, and even some carpenter apprentices.

When he was in Miaojiazhuang, Zhao Xin was completely poor and white, and with the help of those carpenters in the village, he completed the production of a large number of longbows.

The bowstring is even simpler, silk, or the kind of waste can be, find a few women, pull out from the middle, as long as more than 2 meters can be used, which is very easy for a cocoon, even if it is scrapped.

It's as simple as that, bend the bow well, and then help the bowstring, which is a longbow, the most extreme cost, I'm afraid it's not even 80 Wen, in all aspects, for example, reasonable work.

It's not that the Privy Council didn't think about adding the price, but an ordinary carpenter can complete 2 in an hour, or even more after becoming proficient, can't he give more wages for each bow, and the final price is 150 wen after balancing the profit and other aspects.

All the generals were stunned, bows and arrows, powerful, is obvious to all, many times, the difference between the peasant army and the regular army, is the lack of bows and arrows, the production of bows and arrows is expensive, but also quite meticulous, generally in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, the master who can make bows and arrows is not a simple master.

A bow, sometimes, may take 3 years to be manufactured, the price, I am afraid that it is a soft bow, a training bow of about half a stone, at least more than 2 runs, a little stronger, the standard 1 stone hard bow, at least about 5 runs, similar to the moon bow, such a super strong bow as the cloud bow, each of which is more than 2000 runs, that is the supreme treasure.

Now, a bow that has almost completely exploded most of the standard bows and arrows, its price, only 150, is this a joke, I used to buy a bow, now, you can buy 20, which is what an improvement for the Northern Song Dynasty, 150 Wen, not to mention the forbidden army, even if it is the box army and the border army, it can also be equipped.

However, the longbow is not without expensive places, the arrows are a little more expensive, the arrows of the longbow are longer and heavier, if you replace it before, equip a longbow with a battle arrow, it will cost about 180, which is almost more than 4 times the number of archers in the original, and at the same time it is heavier, and it may be equipped with longbow iron, which is 10 times more than before.

This is not good news for the large-scale equipment of the forbidden army, but fortunately, the appearance of Zhao Xin changed the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the past, the Privy Council purchased iron on a large scale, and the price per catty was 80 Wen, which was also a fairly stable price, but now, according to the latest news, the price of iron purchased by the Privy Council for weapons will be reduced to about 25 Wen, which is almost one-third of the previous one, which also makes the price of longbow arrows not so outrageous.

After carefully understanding the performance and price of the longbow, the generals on the scene asked for the first time to change their outfits.

In addition to helping their troops change their outfits at the first time, it is also necessary to find a few instructors from the Northwest, or the Privy Council, to train their troops.

These generals, all of whom were carefully selected among the forbidden army, had reached a terrible level of understanding of the tactics and forms of warfare, and in their opinion, the longbow had completely changed the course of warfare, cheaper, more popular, and more powerful.

Among the forbidden army, as long as it is a little more elite, all members can become longbowmen, because the standard of the forbidden army itself is to be able to open a stone longbow, to be able to open a stone longbow, almost inevitably, to be able to use a longbow of about half a stone, and in the past, a half-stone bow means weak, at most it can be used as a training bow, but the longbow, even if it is a half-stone, is also an infinitely powerful weapon, equivalent to more than 1.5 stones of an ordinary short bow, which can no longer be called the weakest.

In addition to popularizing all the staff, in the battle report they saw before, as well as the drill of 500 longbowmen, they found that the entire military system of the Northern Song Dynasty would find changes.

Seeing the process of the battle in the northwest, especially the battle in the northwest against the iron harrier, they keenly found that the longbow compressed the individual's ability to the minimum, and the salvo, which was almost impossible to use among the short bows, became the standard configuration of the longbow.

In terms of use, aiming and scattering are not pursued, but salvo, and to a certain extent, the fundamental reason for the range and rate of fire.

No matter how elite the archer is, after aiming and calculating, the time for an arrow to be sent out will not be too fast, but the longbow is like this, and the brainless shooting is obviously an exception.

The longbow's rate of fire and range allow him not to think about accuracy, but coverage, and when there are bows and arrows in every area, the lethality is high.

Thinking about the rate of fire and density, this is the best way, no matter how you hide, just ensure the density, under the terrible density, no one can escape, the odds are the same everywhere.

Covering the attack, for the enemy in an area, is the overall killing, simply each arrow hit rate is low, but on the whole, the lethality is very terrible, especially under the premise of high rate of fire of the longbow, the archer's lethality to the enemy in the area, greatly increased.

After seeing the terrible longbow, these generals are willing to change, and after being reported to Jia Chaochang, Jia Chaochang also knows what he should do next.

Leading a large-scale change of clothing in the north can greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army, Han Qi was in the Western Xia, and the war against the Iron Harrier, but after all, the Liao State defeated the existence of the Western Xia, especially in the subsequent war, and it was also under the persecution of the fortress, which finally stopped the attack.

After inquiring about many generals, including Di Qing, I knew that as long as the longbow troops were equipped, and a small number of foot armor and heavy cavalry were matched, the entire Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army would have the ability to confront the heavy cavalry head-on

This is something that Jia Chaochang did not expect, although there is a premise for this frontal battle, that is, there are sufficient bows and arrows.

The number of arrows required for the longbow is at least 10 times higher than that of the short bow, which will put huge pressure on logistics, but this kind of improvement is placed in a substantial increase in combat effectiveness, which is still acceptable.

This is not a big problem for the Northern Song Dynasty, especially at present, for the forbidden army that is preparing to fight in Hebei, Hebei is backed by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, at least on the side of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no problem, as long as there is time, you can transport enough materials, to the border pass, cure Next, Jia Chaochang is not arrogant, in one fell swoop to conquer the Liao State to Beijing, his purpose is just to get a little benefit in the sixteen states of Youyun, a state, or even a few key cities, it's okay.

Compared with the northwest border pass, the changes on the Hebei side are more noteworthy, once the victory is achieved, the shock is huge, and this credit can immediately overpower Han Qi's achievements in the northwest.

Just when Jia Chaochang wanted to announce that the research was over, and that nearly 40 armies and 100,000 forbidden troops under the command of these 12 generals would carry out a large-scale redressing and rearmament, Di Qing found another difference, that is, in this display, the part that was not shown, the fortress.

The fortress was not the focus of the Battle of the Northwest, because it was a battle outside the country, and the capture of Lingzhou relied on surprise and blockade of the news, and when the Liao State and Western Xia were not aware of it, Lingzhou was completely taken.

After the battle of Xingqingfu, relying on explosives, the city wall was killed, and the strength of both sides was placed on the same level, in this case, the loss of being captured, and the Liao State did have an advantage in combat effectiveness, which was the root cause of the demise of Western Xia.

The fortress really appeared on this battle report, that was in the back, the Liao State launched an army of more than 100,000 to attack, and it was under the fortress that the alliance under the city was signed.

The Liao State is very strong, and it comes with the morale of the destruction of the Western Xia, it can be said unceremoniously that it is difficult for them to be stopped, but on the contrary, Han Qi signed an alliance with them under the city, if there is not enough strength, it will be broken with a stab, it is absolutely impossible, the Liao State may not threaten anything, but the capture of a privy deputy envoy of the Northern Song Dynasty will also become a great military achievement of Liao Xingzong,

But such a Liao Xingzong, who came on the hesitant, signed a contract, and returned a little disappointed, what did Han Qi use to resist, the longbow? No, in Di Qing's opinion, I'm afraid it is the fortress that plays a greater role.

This made him wonder what kind of thing the fortress was and what it did.

In fact, about the fortress, it is also recorded in the Privy Council, which is also the main thing that Han Qi promotes.

However, Han Qi's stay in the Privy Council was not very long, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, his position was not low, but his foundation in the Privy Council was not high, especially in the family of the Privy Council, and Jia Chaochang, who was pressed by the Privy Changers so miserably, and was easy to turn over, of course, paid great attention to it and attacked Han Qi from all aspects.

Maybe when Han Qi was there, he would have to be more restrained, but once Han Qi went to the northwest, all the efforts made by Han Qi in the Privy Council were completely zeroed.

In the last meeting of the return, Di Qing specifically mentioned the issue of the fortress.

This question does not seem to be the focus of the Privy Council, and it is not written in detail in the war report, if it were not for a person who remembered that the original source of the fortress was in Baozhou, no one would be able to explain Di Qing's question.

After knowing that this fortress originally came from Baozhou and played an important role in the Baozhou Mutiny, Di Qing immediately flipped through the dossier on the Baozhou Mutiny.

Soon, this complete case file was sent over, although it was related to Zhao Xin, many things were written in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the whole process of the battle was written quite clearly.

The attack of nearly 10,000 forbidden troops only had less than 1,000 guardians, of which eighty or ninety percent were farmers who had just been trained for less than 14 days, which greatly shocked him.

A longbow completely changed the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, and an infantry unit with heavy infantry such as infantry armor as the main force soon became mainly archers, and heavy cavalry and heavy infantry could only be used as a supplement in battle, buying time for archers to attack.

However, no matter how strong it is, it is only strengthened on the basis of the short bow, in fact, if the price of the short bow is reduced to the level of the long bow, to a certain extent, this method of battle can be copied.

The fortress is a little incomprehensible, 1,000 peasants and 10,000 forbidden troops, what kind of strength is this, the number is ten times, but the combat effectiveness is a hundred times.

Even with the protection of the city wall, if you want to rely on 10,000 ordinary regimental training to fight against 10,000 forbidden troops, it is a difficult problem to solve, not to mention a tenfold gap, this difficulty is huge, no less than turning decay into magic.

This magical fortress has also become an existence that attracts Di Qing even more, just on paper, he can't judge how powerful this fortress is, he even asked to go to Baozhou to see it for himself.

To Lingzhou, more than 2,000 miles, even if you are fast, it will take a long time, which is also quite tiring, but the distance between Baozhou is more than 700 miles, under the state ship, if it is fast, it will also arrive in two days, and it is not so tiring.

Jia Chaochang was a little angry, why should this thing that has been determined go out of its way, is it difficult, if you don't look at this fortress, you won't do it next.

But Di Qing finally persuaded Jia Chaochang, on the one hand, the pace of equipping 100,000 forbidden troops will not stop, even if it does not do anything to Liao in the future, the necessary strengthening of the forbidden army should still be done, which is a basis for Jia Chaochang's agreement.

With the foundation, it means that they can explore calmly, Di Qing quickly released another aspect, which is the root of Jia Chaochang's strong support, the reason is very simple, to defend the Liao State, not to let them easily enter the hinterland of the Northern Song Dynasty.