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Zhao Xin made the English longbow, just wanted to use it as a fixed hole card, a bow with strong attack power, not too noticeable, similar to a simple wooden single bow, which often appeared in ordinary hunters, and the government did not ban this bow, but they should be designed and used for the problem of materials, and the power is not great.

When I opened the longbow, I thought about it simply, I didn't think about large-scale equipment, as far as the existing situation was analyzed, the longbow did not appear in the Great Song Dynasty, which was a pity for the Great Song Dynasty, this one alone does not look strong, and even a little weak bow, and it is really the most suitable weapon for the existing Great Song Dynasty.

Throughout the various dynasties in history, they were all at the end of the dynasty, and under the premise of intensifying contradictions, they were finally ruined, but the Song Dynasty was one of the few who did not unify the regime in it, and its demise was not the ruin of the dynasty, but the invasion of foreign enemies.

In terms of strength, even if it is the Liao State that is now in full swing, the Jin State that will replace the Liao State in the future, and even the later Mongolia, their national strength cannot be compared with the Song Dynasty at all.

According to figures, the output of iron in the Song Dynasty was tens of thousands of tons, which was for a large country with a population of hundreds of millions, but it is unceremonious to say that the comprehensive national strength of the entire Song Dynasty was much higher than that of the nomads.

The weakness of the farming nation is also here, they have a strong national strength, there is no combat effectiveness to match, the nomads are the people on horseback, their daily activities are to domesticate livestock, hunt animals, these are all closely related to the war, the cavalry does not need to be trained at all, directly pull up the team, the men in the prime of life are soldiers, how many weapons, how many soldiers and horses can be pulled, and even all the people are soldiers.

As the greatest threat to the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia, even after the establishment of the country, they also maintained the characteristics of nomads, their mobilization is very simple, drive up the livestock, you can fight, the livestock is the military food, the mobile military food, into the Song Dynasty territory, you can eat on the spot, the Song Dynasty even the least developed border, is more developed than their grassland.

This is the imbalance of mobilization and consumption, in the Liao State before the strong, the current Western Xia, are like this, after not being able to survive and suffering disasters, they ran to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty can only passively resist, their counteroffensive, often has little effect, does not consume the enemy's living forces, the huge territory is useless, the unobstructed steppe, everywhere can be abandoned.

The most lacking thing in the Northern Song Dynasty was cavalry, after losing the sixteen states of Yanyun, it lost the place to raise horses on a large scale, coupled with the control of the Western Xia and the Liao State, horses were the most scarce thing in the Great Song Dynasty.

There was no cavalry, the once strong Northern Song Dynasty Iron Cavalry Jingsai Army, this heavy cavalry that could confront the Liao State's Tielin Army, disappeared in the military sequence of the Great Song Dynasty, the strongest force of the Great Song Dynasty, and finally became infantry, and the action force was greatly weakened, and the cavalry that came and went like the wind could only be passively resisted. Most of the archers of the size could only defend the city, because the nomads' mounted archery was about the same range as the archers, and they were no match for them.

The strength of the economy and materials was not reflected in the war, and the Song Dynasty was relatively maintained in the army, and it was impossible to put the economy on the military, or relying on ordinary tactics and tactics, at most to make the heavy infantry more prosperous, and could confront the heavy cavalry, so that it was only a passive resistance, and there was no way to take the initiative to attack.

A nation that eats grain cannot be compared with a nation that grew up eating meat in terms of muscle strength or even barbarism

With the longbow, it's different, the terrible range of the longbow owner, in terms of the current short bow, except for a few bows that exceed 8 stones, which can compare the range with the longbow, the others are not good at all.

What is the concept of 8 stones, Sun Ji can pick it up, Xue Yu can pick it up, among the golden gun shifts, there are not many people who can pull the 8 stone hard bow, maybe nomads, because the body is taller and stronger, it is a little more, but it is impossible to form a large scale.

The longbow is different, as long as there is enough economic support, it is completely possible to expand the number of archers by 20 times, truly form a huge scale, and can be used as the main force, even if it is a cavalry raid, the range of 300 steps, the ultra-fast rate of fire of the longbow is enough to send out 5-8 arrows, and the cavalry hesitates a little, and shoots more, under the premise of the same number, dense arrow rain, solve most of the enemy.

Longbow, as a dominant disease, will not act alone, will act with a part of the cavalry and heavy infantry, when the longbow is used as the main means of attack, then the task of infantry and cavalry is changed, they do not have to undertake the task of charging the formation, the task is to ensure that the longbow shooter has the opportunity to fire, and drag the occupation, the launch of the longbow group begins, the battle is over, no one can withstand the projection of steel of such a scale.

The material used in the longbow, the number is huge, it is unique to China, the reason why the grassland is called the grassland, is mainly grass and trees, there are few big trees, and the single bow made of whole wood is their biggest defect, and similarly, silk They also lack silk either to eat mulberry leaves, or to eat oak leaves, in short, they are trees.

These are what the grassland lacks, even if other alternatives can be found on the grassland, a batch of bows have been made, the Mongolian big bow, the same is a single bow, but what about steel, the smelting level of the nomads is quite low, they can't even satisfy themselves, the iron harrier of Western Xia is powerful, but their armor is passed down from father to son, burn one, there will be one less iron harrier, and a part will be replenished every year, and the number is very small.

The iron harrier has strong combat effectiveness, in contrast to the Northern Song Dynasty, the step armor has become a more common standard armor in the army, its technological level, the amount of iron used is much more than the iron harrier.

Compared with the production capacity of steel, no country is stronger than the Northern Song Dynasty, and even horizontal comparison, the forward Han and Tang Dynasties, and the backward Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it seems that in the Qing Dynasty, because of the Westernization Movement, the Wuhan steel mill built surpassed the iron output of the Great Song Dynasty.

The arrow of a longbow is about 3 times more than the arrow of an ordinary arrow, and in terms of weight, it is at least much higher than that of an ordinary archer, plus the super projection ability of the longbow is also three or four times that of an ordinary archer, so the overall consumption of iron is huge.

According to an arrow 60 grams, a dozen arrows, is a catty, a battle according to 120 arrows, just this, every battle, will project more than 10 catties of steel, which is unimaginable for dozens of catties of armor has been able to pass on as an heirloom for Xixia.

Even if the Liao State was a little better than the Western Xia, it was equally unbearable.

The steel production of the Northern Song Dynasty was already large-scale, and only a little was added in the middle, not to mention the use of modern blast furnaces, small blast furnaces and coke in later generations, as well as for temperature control, adding a certain amount of carbon could reduce the temperature of iron melting to about 1200 degrees.

This is the most suitable path for the Great Song Dynasty to take, in other aspects, sharper weapons, heavier, armor with higher protection ability, can not bring direct combat effectiveness, after all, your knife is sharper, your armor is thicker, it does not mean that you can be stronger than others, a blunt knife can kill, wooden sticks can also be used well, this little advantage, can not offset the nomadic attack power.

Bows and arrows are different, in the unit time, in the density of the unit, the projection ability of steel, directly represents the attack power, some longbows with more than 1 stone, can even have a huge armor-piercing ability, for example, with heavier, sharper, more well-made armor-piercing arrows, these are even for the heavy cavalry of this era, there is still a huge threat. Perhaps, this is the beginning of change.