Zhao Xin didn't know that if the longbow developed better, it would have a huge impact on gunpowder weapons, which in the era of cold weapons, was most like a long-range weapon of hot weapons, and its large-scale popularization had an innate impact on thermal weapons.

Under the premise of the current basic longbow, gunpowder weapons have been greatly affected, and the most basic muskets, arquebuses, and ordinary flintlock pistols are no longer possible to appear in the Dinghai Navy, and when the smoothbore gun has advanced to the current point, even laboratory research will not be carried out.

Sometimes, more advanced may not be the most suitable, which can be seen from the end of the Warring States period, when iron weapons had appeared in the Warring States period, Wu Yue's generation, the quality of iron weapons was also very high, but the Qin State still relied on bronze weapons to unify the six countries, the key is that the large-scale popularity, Wu Yue could not solve it at that time, they just produced a batch of weapons with the help of master craftsmen.

This kind of weapon, the number is not much, many times, only the most elite guards can be used, but compared to it, it is the bronze weapon of the Qin State, the Qin State as early as BC, has mastered the modular production, and the Qin crossbow unearthed later, as long as it is the same specification, can exchange parts with each other, this point, even stronger than the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Standardized production, coupled with terrible output, this is the root of the Qin army's strength, even if it is an army composed of random slaves, once the arsenal is opened and the equipment of the Qin army is assembled, it is very terrifying.

The longbow is a weapon suitable for the Northern Song Dynasty, and through the selection, the strengthened version of the longbow constructed with lightweight iron alloy is more suitable, the power is strengthening, but the universality has not changed much, which is equivalent to saying that it directly increases the combat effectiveness.

The appearance of this ultra-thin high-hardness elastic steel, the specific gravity is higher than that of wood, but the bow arm made of this steel cannot reach the thickness of the longbow, because the toughness is enough, in the volume used, compared with the original bow arm, it is reduced a lot, overall, the weight is about the same, but in terms of elasticity, it is more than ordinary wood.

If there is no labor-saving device, along with the enhancement of the bow arm, the bowstring will also increase, now with the labor-saving device, through several layers of decomposition, the force of each bowstring is about the same as before, slightly improved, only a little more silk can be used, which fundamentally, does not add much burden.

This kind of steel, production, is not easy, the price, than the general steel is higher, about a catty between 7 to 8 Wen, used for construction, of course, is too high, easy to cause the cost to rise, but for the production of longbows, that is really a perfect match.

Itself, to process the longbow, the process of training the bow is required, this process is very time-consuming, even if it is industrial production, multiple simultaneous bow training, a certain amount of labor expenditure is still required, which is also the fundamental reason why the Dinghai Navy did not take the longbow manufacturing.

The Privy Council can use relatively cheap labor, large-scale use, and some machines provided by Zhao Xin can also reduce labor intensity, but in the Dinghai Navy, high labor costs, and the production of unindustrialized assembly lines have become problems.

On the contrary, it is a steel arm, which is a little easier, through smelting and one-time molding, and then grinding on the assembly line, installing various devices, and finally forming.

Reasonable distribution, as well as crazy production capacity explosion, this is the weapon of industrialization, through such a transformation, although in the bow itself, the cost of raw materials, may be three or four times higher than ordinary elm, but the reduction in labor costs, offset the gap between the two sides, in the future, even if the labor cost of the Navy is further increased, the ex-factory price of this new longbow will not be higher than the cost of the Privy Council, 20% higher, which has the possibility of large-scale popularization.

Because of the development of the longbow, this kind of longbow made of high-elastic steel is currently only produced in the laboratory of the Dinghai Navy, but the highest level of the military knows that even the Dinghai Navy is not equipped, but the basic data is available.

In fact, after this new longbow appeared under Zhao Xin's care, Zhao Xin really attached great importance to it and monitored the entire test process almost the whole process.

The combat effectiveness is very satisfying, with a 10% increase in weight, the bow power is increased by 2 times, and if you add a force device such as the eccentric wheel, you can make the longbowman use less power, but in terms of power, the maximum range has been increased by 30%.

The power of the longbow is in the range, and the longer the range, the longer the power, the increase in the power of the longbow.

This data, in the original, the longbow, which was a little worse than the smoothbore gun, suddenly surpassed the smoothbore gun again, and the experimental smoothbore gun was still being studied, and it lagged behind again.

Zhao Xinzhen didn't know how much further research in the laboratory would take place if various formulas of alloys appeared, such as some varieties of lightweight elastic metals, such as aluminum alloys, whose specific gravity was much lighter than that of steel, or carbon materials that formed the bow body.

Perhaps, with the support of Zhao Xin's card system, the entire Northern Song Dynasty will take another path.

It is not impossible, the development of science, there are many accidents, the development of an electronic computer, from the electron tube to the transistor, to the integrated circuit, to the ultra-large-scale integrated circuit.

But who can guarantee that this must be correct, in the universe, there are many kinds of stars, who knows if there will be a civilization similar to the earth in the vast universe, they have also developed electronic computers, and they are taking the development of electron tubes, or transistors.

Such divergent thinking, before it was opened, was vetoed by Zhao Xin, maybe in the universe, there is really a development of electron tubes, even transistor civilizations, and even in the universe, there are weapons like longbows that have been developed to the extreme, but in the current earth, this is not suitable.

Longbow, to put it bluntly, is a weapon of physical kinetic energy, his kinetic energy is limited by the kinetic energy stored in the bow arm, and is also limited by the limit of the human body.

Although it is said that in the era of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a super strong man like Sun Ji who could pull a strong bow of 12 stones, but such a person, after all, is a minority of the minority, and there are only a few in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and the general state is that it is a little stronger than ordinary people in the 21st century, but it is a limited number of powerful ordinary soldiers.

Under the premise that the longbow is destined to have a limit, even if it is as strong as Sun Ji, at most more than 400 arrows, it will lose its combat effectiveness, and the development of gunpowder weapons is inevitable.

Gunpowder weapons burn because they use chemical energy

There is no limit to gunpowder weapons, this is an exaggeration, for ordinary rifles, there is also a limit, with a gun, but also to dodge, a battle, a soldier can shoot 100 bullets, which is already a lot, which is also the fundamental reason why ordinary infantry will carry 50-100 bullets.

Gunpowder weapons say that there is no limit, after the large-scale appearance of automatic weapons, when automatic weapons with 100, 200, or even 1000 rounds per second begin to appear wildly and strafe, this is the limit of gunpowder weapons.

Before the advent of metal shells, it was very unrealistic to expect gunpowder weapons to surpass longbows in terms of rate of fire, and even before the widespread use of automatic weapons, longbows and gunpowder weapons exploded against each other.

But now, with the advent of a new metal alloy, lightweight, moderately hard, flexible and elastic metal, this is simply a perfect match for the longbow, plus the mechanical theory of labor-saving devices, so that the increased strength is not increased to the body of the archer, which represents a large-scale progress of the longbow.

Itself, because of the processing problem of the smoothbore gun, it is impossible to use only master craftsmen, it is necessary to reduce the difficulty of its production, it is impossible to drill the machine temporarily, and some suitable tools can still make some slightly worse levels, and can also be added to the production of the barrel, so as to increase production.

However, the improvement of the longbow once again blocked this possibility, and if the range did not exceed the increased range of the longbow, or there was a breakthrough in other aspects such as the rate of fire, this smoothbore gun had no future.

The development of the longbow has made the most basic arquebus have no room to survive at all, and the smoothbore gun, which is considered to have broken a little, at least overshadowed the longbow in terms of range, should have been able to be installed in a small amount, but because of the improvement of the longbow, this possibility is almost non-existent, and even small-scale installation is impossible.

Is a weapon like the Falling Moon Bow good, in the hands of other people, it can almost threaten Sun Ji,

Such a weapon, on the battlefield, can kill the existence of the flag and capture the flag, the value, of course, is very high, Qianguan is really not much, but such a weapon, how many can there be,

Expensive is one aspect, difficult, and the same, there are not many thousands, if you really need it, the money in Zhao Xin's hand, equipping a team of 10,000 people, is it easy, but is it possible?

On the one hand, this is a treasure, there is only such a thing in the world, it is difficult to reproduce, and in the same way, those who can use it are destined to be a minority among the few.

In itself, the advantages of the smoothbore gun have become obsolete after the improvement of the longbow, and the longbow has actually replaced the low-level gunpowder weapons, whether it is the range, rate of fire, or power, are greatly exceeded, the only problem is the length of use.

This can be solved with three or even five stages, massively expanding the number of troops, and once the Longbow is put into battle, it is either a war of annihilation, or it is necessary to maintain continuous combat capability, for example, the Longbow team is divided into 3 parts, or even 5 parts.

In this way, even if a part can hold on for 20 minutes, after 10 minutes of attack, 10 minutes of rest, it can always hold on longer, if a person can hold on for 40 minutes, 3 teams are 2 hours, 5 teams, is more than 3 hours, such a time, to support a small scale of high-intensity battles, it is already possible.

In fact, in the early days of the development of gunpowder weapons, the British longbow was not without a fight, but because the English longbow was too powerful, one branch of the army suppressed the phalanx of the whole Europe, and the whole of Europe resisted him.

For example, the main wood for the production of the English longbow was the purple shirt, which was not native to England, but was widely distributed throughout Europe, and in order to restrain England, almost all the countries that produced the purple shirt wood at that time imposed an embargo on the United Kingdom.

This is the sadness of the island nation, even if the longbow is used as a weapon, the performance is very outstanding, there is no foundation, there is not enough quantity, even if the longbow is stronger than the gunpowder weapon, it can only be replaced by the gunpowder weapon.

Although the English longbow was superior to the early arquebuses and flintlock pistols, he was not able to appear in the war.

England, which was the main force in the development of the longbow, was only able to retain a small part of it because of the raw material relationship, and as for his opponents, because of the suffering of the English longbow, he was not equipped, which was also the key to the arquebus being able to survive the initial stage.

Unlike England, the whole of China is very large, and there may be no better purple shirt in China, but the inferior elm can be said to be a common tree species in China, which is also the fundamental reason for the large-scale popularity of the longbow after it was launched.

800,000 forbidden troops, 300,000 have been transformed, and the rest will be transformed in a short period of time, if there are still some problems with elm, it will take many years to grow, the better the performance of the elm, the longer the growth time.

If the demand is large, production can not catch up, there will be a bottleneck, of course, this is not a short period of time, it is the future, when the large-scale popularization of the longbow, and there is no reasonable and orderly development, there will definitely be problems.

This is not big or small is also a problem, but now, this problem has been solved, the bow arm of alloy iron, as long as there is iron ore, can be produced in large quantities, Dinghai Iron and Steel Plant, in large-scale production, can control costs, can also increase production, this perfect solution to this problem.

After the biggest problem of restricting the longbow is solved, even if there is no elm, simple steel is enough to replace, as for the bowstring, that is the least problem, China from ancient times, began to raise silkworms and mulberry, to the Northern Song Dynasty developed to a peak, the bowstring used silk is not much, a cocoon, or even a waste silkworm cocoon can be provided, unless the number of longbows is large enough to the extent that each person has a hand, otherwise it cannot affect the longbow at all.

The progress of the longbow has greatly delayed the appearance of firearms and weapons, but Zhao Xin suddenly thought of something that should have been developed first, but because of his neglect, no one has proposed it until now.

This kind of weapon, the production and production speed are not a problem, even if it is carefully crafted, it is acceptable, it is a small amount, it can affect the entire battlefield situation, and no matter how backward it is, once it is produced, it can overwhelm the longbow weapon.

That's right, what Zhao Xin ignored was nothing else, it was the weapon of artillery, the perfect combination of metal and gunpowder, the god of the battlefield.

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