The perspective of ordinary soldiers is completely different from that of officers, and for ordinary soldiers, what they pursue, high-priced weapons, high-priced weapons, brings about the improvement of performance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Every little bit of weaponry enhancement may not be obvious to the overall improvement, but sometimes, such a little bit represents the distance between life and death, and they are willing to pay the price they can pay in order to survive on the battlefield.

When it comes to senior officers, or even at a higher level, whether the weapon is cheap or not has become a key choice, and Sun Ji's level is not enough, but it just touches this level.

The Great Song Dynasty has a huge weapon workshop, since the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the development of various weapons is very fast, the improvement of the cold forging process, the armor of the Northern Song Dynasty is more sharp, the foot armor from the time when it was just manufactured, it is about 45 kilograms, at that time, only the most elite strong men, can wear the step armor.

With the improvement of all aspects of technology, in-depth research on the infantry armor, at present, the total weight of the forbidden army's infantry armor has been reduced to less than 30 kilograms, and the protection power has not been reduced but improved.

The drop in weight is directly reflected in the price, thirty or forty catties of iron, and there are almost several times, which is not a small amount.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty to the present, the price of the weapons of the forbidden army has dropped significantly, which is the fundamental reason why the Northern Song Dynasty is equipped with 800,000 forbidden troops, otherwise, it can only be equipped with a group of elite troops.

For example, 800,000 forbidden troops, under normal circumstances, will be equipped with 80-900,000 knives, which is commonly used, almost a weapon per person, the overall number will exceed the total amount of the army, there will be a certain amount of wear and tear and preparation, such a huge number, the reduction of a penny, that is, hundreds of millions, more than 10 documents, the high-level of the Ministry of Industry will be shaken, close to the savings of 10,000 yuan, this is not a small number.

The longbow is different, it is a soft bow, the bow power is only half a stone, but it is equivalent to 1.5 stones, or even higher hard bow, projectile and rate of fire, solving the accuracy and range, the hard bow does not consider the projectile, if you shoot directly, the range of the longbow is comparable to that of the jasper bow, which is its advantage.

Sun Ji and the others also listened to the conversation between Zhao Xin and Miao Yuan, and realized that the price of the longbow is his biggest advantage, 200 Wen a handful, or the current price of a small workshop, if the Ministry of Industry Weapons Department builds it, the price will be reduced to the extreme, which has a huge temptation.

Even if it is the price of 200 Wen, the entire forbidden army, if you have one hand, it is only 160,000 yuan, this number, for the average family or family, is a huge and helpless astronomical amount, and the money has always been able to feed many people, Wan Guan is a huge number that cannot be attached.

For the army of the Song Dynasty, this is nothing, Renzong's average annual income is more than 30 million guan, more than half of which is in the army, and even with the gradual deterioration of the situation in Western Xia, this proportion of investment is still expanding.

Take the current standard bow and arrow in the army, 1.5 stone hard bow, the purchase price of the army is as high as 3.4 yuan, and the number of purchases of the entire forbidden army is 70,000, less than 10% of the total number of forbidden troops.

This price is not expensive, the materials of the entire bow body, at least a dozen kinds are used, and the bowstring is a multiple combination, the value of these materials themselves is expensive, and a lot of manpower is required.

If it's just the material itself, the price of this bow won't be so high, the key is time, more than a dozen materials, or even more, to be suitable and soft together, forming a huge elasticity, this is not a day or two can be made, personally, every material is processed in place, conservative to 3 years.

Mass production, with the help of the group's performance manufacturing materials, will make the production of bows a little easier, so the price is raised, 3.4 guan This is already a normal number, this is the number obtained by the Ordnance Division after mass production, and after squeezing the craftsmen.

The price of 200 Wen, easier production, this is the advantage of the longbow, which will make large-scale equipment possible, 800,000 pieces, in the end it is only 160,000 pieces, and it will be sent out after a little squeeze, 70,000 hard bows, the total equipment price is more than 200,000, and the effect is definitely not as prominent as 800,000 zhang.

Everyone knows that in war, the best weapon is long-range, replaced with a hard bow, not to mention whether you can make up so many materials, the high-end wood in the hard bow material, the tendon of large livestock, all of which are not produced on a large scale, to get together and ready, it takes a long time, and even a price problem, as high as 3 million yuan This figure is impossible.

This bow is elm and silk cocoon, the former is planted everywhere in the north of China, the latter, is a Chinese tradition, a batch of silk, at least can be made into a hundred bowstrings, how much silk is produced in the whole China, millions of horses, if you make bowstrings, I am afraid that everyone has a bow, this is not 800,000, 1 million, that is 100 times that of 1 million.

Cheap is the truth, if the longbow still has some deficiencies, that is the arrow, the cost of the arrow is a little high, the long arrow is very simple, there is no complex production, the weight is a hard injury, the weight of simple iron, it reaches 10 Wen, which is the most difficult to solve.

In a war, a well-trained archer can shoot 12 arrows in 60 breaths, train them to have a fixed angle and strength, and if they are guided by elite archers, 100 longbowmen, in 60 breaths, can also complete 1200 attacks, in the field, enough to defeat 300 light cavalry.

To be able to have a fixed defense, such as a certain number of heavy infantry, guarded in it, so that they can shoot arrows for a long time, according to the 60 times of qualified archers, they are at least more than 200 times, how powerful the lethality is bringing, and even to some extent, the forbidden army or the box army, at least half, or even fifty or sixty percent of the archer team, the heavy infantry no longer fights, as long as their safety is ensured, and then there is the slaughter of the longbowmen,

In this way, the only problem lies in the logistics, long arrows are at least 3 times heavier than ordinary short arrows, plus the increase in the rate of fire, the number of arrows will increase significantly, which will provide huge logistical pressure, and the consumption of a longbowman will be more than that of a short archman, but compared with many aspects, replace the appointment with steel, instead of victory, which is also acceptable, war is just a means, and a long time of confrontation is a huge damage to the Great Song Dynasty, which Zhao Xin understands very well, Sun Ji only touched on this aspect slightly

Take a soldier's equipment with 1 longbow and 200 arrows, the total is only 3 times, compared to the previous short bow, or even much less, the arrows of the longbow are a little large, huge arrows, at some point, can be recycled, the main price of the longbow is on the iron, other parts, not very valuable.

Sun Jihao didn't know that Zhao Xin had already set his goal on the price of iron, but for the time being, Miaojiazhuang was not suitable, and in the future, when the price of iron was reduced to 50 Wen, or even 20 Wen, it would be the real spring of the long arrow

Zhao Xin has seen some historical materials, from the beginning of the establishment of the Western Xia state, the military expenditure of the Northern Song Dynasty began to surge, at the peak, more than 10 million guan, in order to cope with the endless Xixia side, it cost a huge amount of financial resources.

Among them, the simple expenditure on weapons is always the smallest aspect, the recruitment of people, the consumption of food, the construction of a large number of fortresses and walled cities, the final pension, etc., these are the bulk of the money, one by one crazy gushing out, and finally reached an incredible degree, in the end, just the war with the Western Xia, so that the Song Dynasty's finances were dragged down, coupled with the two diversions of the Yellow River, the wealth accumulated during the Zhenzong period, a large amount of consumption.

During the period of Shenzong, the financial situation of the entire Northern Song Dynasty had become quite bad, and in order to change the status quo, it had to change the law, but it exhausted the last trace of vitality of the Northern Song Dynasty, and finally, Shenzhou sank.

Money is the most important issue, this point, Zhao Xin is very clear, not only the role of cards, if the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty goes to a higher level and further strengthens itself, even if there is no black technology of the traverser, it can still be spent smoothly, money can not solve all problems, but it can solve most of the problems.