Chapter 40: The Longbow and the Crossbow
"Big brother, is there no way?" Wang Rui rubbed his hands in disappointment. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Well, it's not impossible. It's just that I'm going to disobey this ancestral precept that has been passed down for more than ten generations. Ma Ju sighed.
"Ahh Wang Rui still didn't understand. In the eyes of him, a traverser, what ancestral training is not ancestral training, and he is not allowed to take it out if he has the ability?
"Third brother, let someone arrange an incense case for me, and I want to burn incense to report to the ancestors and the Mo family!" Ma Ju commanded.
"Ahh Good, good! Hurry, hurry! Immediately ask someone to prepare an incense case for me! Wang Rui happily ordered.
He was a little afraid that Ma Ju would regret it, and urged Long Ji to go quickly. Of course, Ma Ju, a person with the demeanor of a gentleman of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, is impossible to repent.
A quarter of an hour later, an incense case was prepared in the Fushan Thousand Households.
After Ma Ju bathed and changed his clothes, he told the ancestors and the Mo family giant in a reciting words, and at the same time solemnly bowed three times and nine times. The horse raised the salute for several weeks and tossed it thoroughly, no less than half an hour before the salute was completed.
Wang Rui watched intently from the sidelines, and was also affected by this solemn ceremony. It seems that the ancients did not take this ancestral lesson as lightly as modern people!
"Third brother, the ceremony is done. This strong crossbow is a good thing left down by the ancestors. Today, a certain person will go to build a general, thinking that the virtuous brother will revive the cause of the Han Dynasty! That's it, even if you give up your life for 20 years, you have to help the third brother succeed! After Ma Ju finished worshipping, he said to Wang Rui with an excited expression.
When Wang Rui saw Ma Ju with such an expression, he knew that Ma Ju, as a Ming person, was extremely obedient to the ancestral teachings, and he understood the pain and entanglement in his heart.
He immediately stood up solemnly, and gave a solemn salute to Ma Jushen: "Big brother Gaoyi! The younger brother thanked the eldest brother on behalf of the countless children of my Han family who were struggling in hardship. Big brother ancestor ancestors, if there are gods, you should also forgive your brother for breaking his oath today! ”
"That's it! Whoever calls you and me have a deep brotherly relationship, they are all for the sake of my Han family, even if it is broken, so-and-so will go! Ma Ju helped Wang Rui up and said sadly.
"Big brother ......", Wang Rui suddenly felt that this era is so beautiful, although there are too many sufferings and too many disasters happening, but he has gained full brotherhood in this era!
"Me! Wang Rui, a descendant of the Han Dynasty, a descendant of the Celestial Queen! I swear to the sky today that if I can achieve success and restore the divine power of my Han family, I will definitely live up to my eldest brother! If he violates this oath one day, he should be so arrowed! Wang Rui pointed his finger at the sky, and after finishing speaking, he suddenly picked up a bow and arrow on the side, and with a "snap", the arrow broke and broke!
"Third brother! Why? Why? Ma Ju saw Wang Rui swearing with arrows, and his mood was also very moved, and he hugged Wang Rui with tears in his eyes.
When the surrounding guards heard the conversation between the two, they also had tears in their eyes! These people usually only think about eating better, dressing better, and receiving their monthly salary on time, but the two adults are thinking about how to sacrifice their lives and regain the rivers and mountains of my Han family! What is it? This is the "realm" that adults usually talk about!
However, Wang Rui and Ma Ju didn't know the feelings of these guards, and they immediately entered the workshop to make them.
Both of them were very hands-on people, and Ma Ju took out his ancestral skills, and with the cooperation of a dozen carpenters and blacksmiths, he soon made a longbow and a strong crossbow.
The shape of the longbow is similar to the imitation of the Scottish longbow that Wang Rui has seen, but Wang Rui tried it and found that it is stronger and less laborious than the Scottish longbow. Because of the Scottish longbow, Wang Rui also played it in the previous time and space.
The longbow of the horse is much longer than that of Scotland, and it can be shot at a range of more than 300 meters in later generations.
While thinking about how to use this longbow to fight, Wang Rui sighed and said: "Our Han nation can stand tall in this world, and it is really extraordinary!" Look, these good things from the ancestors! ”
Wang Rui couldn't help but think of those straw bale slave experts who didn't know how to learn, and boasted that "Jurchen is invincible".
Well, give both sides the same weapons! How about letting these wild men fight against my Great Qin Ruishi? How about fighting against the Hussar General's Great Han Iron Cavalry? These are armies from thousands of years ago!
And the strong crossbow made by Ma Ju made Wang Rui even more surprised. After a try, it actually shot a range of more than 500 meters. Oh, my God! What a powerful existence! Wang Rui sighed in his heart.
In fact, Wang Rui didn't know that the crossbow had reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, perhaps because it was too advanced, and there were not many fundamental changes and developments since then.
Later archaeological discoveries found that during the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Han-style copper crossbow machine with a machine Guo was still used. It's just that for some reason, the Tang and Song crossbow machines have not been unearthed so far, and the crossbow has also undergone a slow deterioration.
Until the Song Dynasty, the disappearance of the Guo Han type copper crossbow machine and the Wangshan scale can be said to be an important symbol of the degradation of the Han crossbow. However, this degradation may have occurred in the Tang Dynasty, or even earlier.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo also observed the unearthed crossbow machine, and saw the Guo Han-style copper crossbow with the scale of Wangshan Mountain.
Sadly, the divine arm crossbow, which represents the highest level of crossbows in the Song Dynasty, was the first to be a partial crossbow offered by Li Hong, a party member. The power of the crossbow is unknown, according to legend, it is the use of extremely ingenious machinery to ensure its power, the range of up to 340 steps, more than 450 meters, and the Han Dynasty of the same level of 12 stone rhubarb crossbow can shoot 400 steps, more than 550 meters. The Han crossbow is clearly more powerful.
Perhaps it was because in order to ensure the lethality of the Northern Heavy Cavalry, the Divine Arm Crossbow used a rather heavy steel arrowhead, which made the range shorter. However, it cannot be denied that although various crossbows and special crossbows of various standards appeared in the Song Dynasty like a hundred flowers, the overall technical level has long been inferior to that of the previous generation.
And when it came to the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty commented on the crossbow arrows as follows: "The crossbow is good for defending the city, not conducive to field warfare." "This makes it impossible for Wang Rui to associate the Ming crossbow with the Han crossbow that is in the world!
All in all, the continuous development of the Chinese hand-held crossbow since the Warring States and the improvement results of the Western Han Dynasty, which reached its peak, gradually disappeared after the Tang Dynasty, and finally returned to its original point in the Ming Dynasty. Maybe the crossbow should also leave in the Ming Dynasty, and the protagonist of this world's war will eventually be firearms.
The crossbow left gloomily, unwillingly leaving the stage of war, and what passed away with it was an era of real iron horse Jingo, an era when our Han nation was proud of the world!
But today, Ma Ju has restored these treasures of the ancestors! How could this not amaze Wang Rui and all the guards and craftsmen who saw all this!
Wang Rui praised and said to Ma Ju: "The bow and crossbow made by the eldest brother is really powerful!" But the little brother still has to add some black technology to it! When I add it, big brother will watch it again! ”
Ma Ju was stunned for a moment and asked, "What black technology?" ”
Wang Rui's so-called "black technology" is actually to use yellow powder and throw it with a strong crossbow raised by a horse. At the same time, through repeated and meticulous experiments, the most accurate range and shooting elements are determined. Then, according to these test data, the most scientific training manual is formulated.
In contrast, the ancients made and used utensils based on experience, and when they met smart and powerful people, they used it as a treasure! But when you meet a stupid person, no matter how good things are, they will become grass!
However, with the guarantee of Wang Rui's whole system, it can be used at any time, anywhere, and by anyone, and can exert roughly the same combat power.
When Wang Rui was eating, he discussed a question with Ma Ju: It stands to reason that the Ming Ministry of Engineering or the Craftsman Supervision also has such production drawings, why don't they play a role in the actual combat of the Ming army?
Ma Ju smiled and patted Wang Rui's shoulder: "Third brother, I really don't understand sometimes, most of the time, you are extremely wise!" Sometimes, you'll ask a very 'what' question! ”
"Stupid question, right?" Wang Rui also smiled. Yes, sometimes he really doesn't understand the affairs of this Ming society.
"Let's make this weapon! Originally, a crossbow cost a hundred taels of silver to make, but now it has begun to drift from the Ministry of Household Works, and when it comes to the craftsman's hand, the raw materials and utensils supplied may only be twenty taels of silver. How do you ask these craftsmen to make it? I had to cut corners to deal with things. Don't the officials above know? These dog officers understand it very well. However, they are all greedy in the middle! So, in the end, you see, the bird can't hit, or it explodes when it hits. Knives, guns, bows and arrows, also a bunch of rags. How to go about fighting Jiannu? Therefore, the officials of Daming are a bunch of bastards! The more Ma Ju spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but scold hatefully.
"Big brother, don't worry! Our workshop makes weapons according to the process, and there is a system guarantee! In any link, there is no difference! Wang Rui said confidently.
"Can't you get any worse?" Ma Ju was a little unconvinced......