Many of the defensive styles of this era are still a little different from those of later generations. The first is that there are no trebuchets.

In addition, bed crossbows did not appear, although large crossbows were available, but bed crossbows fixed to the city walls as a defensive tool did not appear.

Not to mention catapults.

"When the time comes, put the made catapult on the city wall, and be able to put this large bed crossbow on the city wall, I want to see who dares to risk being killed directly to attack the city!"

Li Hang smiled and took out the design of the bed crossbow.

The requirements for a bed crossbow are actually not that high.

Again, it's primarily a material issue.

The bed crossbow requires not only a strong enough machine expansion, but also a strong enough animal band.

You know, in the days when there were no springs, the quality of things like bows and crossbows depended on the quality of the wood and rubber bands they were made of.

Needless to say, the main load-bearing material, whether there is stress relief, elasticity and structural strength are all very exquisite things, and how elastic the rubber band, how much force can be withheld, this is also a very exquisite thing.

How to make a good bow is very testing.

And the bed crossbow is even more so.

The huge bed crossbow not only has a very troublesome installation problem, but also the problem of shooting angle, and one of the most troublesome things is that it is not good and prone to the most troublesome thing, that is, the entire bed crossbow will collapse due to the wrong force structure.

This kind of collapse will definitely have an impact. But the appearance of the bed crossbow was undoubtedly a deterrent.

This kind of giant siege machine that fires spears as arrows is a kind of bug-like existence.

Have you ever seen a person strung with a sugar gourd, a bed crossbow is like this?

Have you ever seen someone who takes people as their main target and then kills them with one blow, but they don't get saved? The bed crossbow is such a existence.

As long as an arrow is hit, it is to wear a sugar gourd, or to nail a person to the ground to survive and not to die, and to keep wailing and there is no way to cure it.

What the? You say it can be saved?

In these years, there has been no surgery, and if a spear is thick and thin enters the body, it will either penetrate the internal organs or puncture the aortic aortic vein, let alone be treated, in this era when I like to pull out things inserted into the body, it is fortunate that I did not die of excessive blood loss.

Looking at the defensive design of this city wall, Ying Yun is called a crying and laughing, this thing is used on the wall of Beiping City, which is really a bit wasteful, if it is used in the border pass, it will be stronger. "Li Xiucai, how can such a good thing be used here!"

"Material problem, not enough materials, we have more iron materials here, if you really make this kind of bed crossbow, you need a lot of iron tools and rubber bands, the border army and other places can't afford such a burden, it's better to concentrate on strengthening the defense of some major key positions, such as Jinling City!"

Li Hang said with a smile.

Emperor Win Wu established the country with martial arts, and many things will develop in this direction, and these things in Li Hang's hands can well meet his wishes.

You must know that as long as you are a man, you will definitely be interested in the military. You can interject more or less.

In ancient times, not to mention military training or anything, at least the equipment of several famous legions in ancient times can still be known, such as the standard large shield and short sword of the Roman legion, the professional heavy equipment of Wei Wuzu, the crossbow of the Qin army, the round shield and super long spear of the Macedonian phalanx.

Even in Japan, which is about to modernize, the era when bows and arrows and iron cannons coexisted, in fact, it was a melee light foot corps with such ultra-long weapons, after all, the length of the cold weapon era sometimes decided many things.

Man, who doesn't like their guy to grow as long as possible, so that whether you come with a horse or without a horse, you can be knocked over with one shot.

Hearing Li Hang say this, Ying Yun noticed Li Hang's thoughts. "Li Hang, you don't want to turn the new army into a full-fledged army in the true sense, do you!"

"Of course!"

No matter how powerful a single class is, it is easy to be targeted.

The myth of the light cavalry is based on the fact that there are enough of them, and there are enough cavalry archers, and the steppe people have enough war horses, which can be two horses per person, or even three or four horses per person, and they can take turns riding and let the horses take turns to rest, but not here!

Therefore, to build a comprehensive legion to be used in the future to overthrow these steppe nomads, it is necessary to have enough weapons and equipment, and a single legion wants to push them off? That's impossible.

A real army must have no shortcomings, otherwise it will be tactically targeted.

How bad would this kind of targeting be?

Let's take a look at some of the most famous fiascos in history.

The most famous Waterloo.

In fact, before Waterloo, the dwarf could still win many battles, but it was because of one of them because of a general's command mistake that he sent away most of Brother Wheel's cavalry, resulting in no way to expand the results even if he won, and finally was eaten by people who accumulated advantages little by little, if Brother Wheel still has cavalry in his hands, maybe history will be completely different.

Similarly, there are countries like the Song Dynasty, with a victory rate of 70%, which sounds terrible, but like Brother Wheel, even if he wins, he can't expand the results, so this is the problem of the single composition of the corps.

The same is true of the extremely fierce Yuan Dynasty, where powerful cavalry legions created a super-large empire across Europe and Asia, causing the earth's population to decline like an avalanche. Inhumane relinquishing of land and bloody massacres were carried out in the occupied territories.

The essence of this is that most of the troops formed are cavalry, and it is impossible for them to tell you anything about occupation or anything, they can only use this way to reduce the impact of their lack of occupation power.

If they have enough infantry, they can occupy those places, instead of using the return of farmland to grazing as an excuse to massacre certain places.

"Infantry, logistics, long-range firepower, siege equipment troops all need to be fully built and upgraded, although the number of new armies will not be the largest, but it will definitely be the strongest in combat, which will make the new army an example for the army to imitate, as long as there are some suitable records, these new armies will become monsters in the eyes of the surrounding countries, and wherever these monsters go, they will make the enemy tremble!" As long as he can make steel, Li Hang is really confident that he can do this.

If the surrounding area is made of bronze and steel, then it is really a huge problem for them to break the defense.

What's more, there are still beast teeth in these years, and this level of weapon can't break through the defense.

When the time comes, let alone fighting, they will probably flee when they see this kind of steel armament, just like the tiger phobia of World War II.

But to arm such a legion, the amount of money required is an astronomical amount.