Wu Yi's sigh is not without reason, the newly built building ship has made a huge breakthrough in the balance and power of the ship! In Dai Yan's opinion, as long as it is not on the Yangtze River, braving heavy rain and driving against the twelfth-level wind, it is almost impossible for this building ship to sink in the inland river!

And Dai Yan pays more attention to the attack system of the building ship and the wing ship!

For water warfare in this era, water warfare is actually nothing more than two kinds: ramming warfare and broadside warfare. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Crash battle is when two ships collide directly, and whoever has a bigger and stronger ship will obviously have the upper hand in the crash battle! This is also the reason for the emergence of such a water giant as Lou Chuan!

And even more tragic is the broadside battle! The battle is divided into sword and shield fighting to defend against the enemy, and "jumping gangs" to actively attack the opponent. Since the water battle is above the vast water, once the crew falls into the water, unless they are very close to the shore, they will definitely die!

So every inch of the board is a battle! As a result, both sides of a water war need a fearless spirit and great courage compared to a land war! No cowardly sailor soldier can survive for a long time, and the water bandits, who make a living by looting, are also heroic anomalies!

In view of the characteristics of these water bandits, Dai Yan has two new weapons in his hand as a choice, and they are the latest achievements obtained by the Mo craftsmen in in-depth research on mechanics!

One of those weapons is the bed crossbow!

The bed crossbow had actually been invented in this era, but although this large bed crossbow had a long range, it was not very accurate, and could only be used as a large-scale salvo on land, so no one thought of moving the bed crossbow to the ship as a main weapon!

However, this lack of precision is not a problem at all in the case of scientific schools that are proficient in mechanics. They soon improved the structure of the bed crossbow, changing the structure of the bed crossbow to three bows to arrange, two of which were pulled along and one bow was pulled back, and this new style of bed crossbow was also called the three-bow bed crossbow!

The Three-Bow Bed Crossbow uses the tremendous power generated by three powerful bows to shoot the crossbow arrows extremely fast! This bed crossbow is more than two meters long and one meter five wide, and the length of the crossbow arrow can be freely chosen, and you can choose both heavy arrows up to 2 meters long and light arrows up to 1.2 meters long. And the power of the bed crossbow is indeed amazing, when it fires light arrows, the range can easily exceed 400 meters, and at a distance of 200 meters, it can shoot through the wooden shields commonly equipped by the armies of various countries in this era!

Although the range of a heavy arrow is not as good as that of a light arrow, it has a unique effect: at a distance of 100 meters, it can shoot directly into any wall of this era! If you need to siege the city and carry a few bed crossbows with you, you only need to shoot a few heavy arrows on the city wall, then there are "stairs" on the city wall that soldiers can climb, and the Mo craftsmen call this kind of heavy arrow the Ta Que arrow!

The bed crossbow requires five people to operate, four people turn the torsion disc on both sides to draw the bow, and one person is responsible for aiming the target and firing the bolts. And for this kind of bed crossbow, as long as it can provide a large enough space, this bed crossbow can be made very large! The craftsmen of the Mo family even thought that if it was possible, they would expand this kind of bed crossbow and arrange enough people to control it, then it would not be impossible to design a bed crossbow with a range of more than 800 meters!

And the other weapon is completely created by the Mo craftsmen themselves, which is the ballista! And its principle is completely different from the bed crossbow!

First of all, it stores energy in a completely different way than a bed crossbow. The three-bow bed crossbow uses the powerful potential energy generated by the bow arm to store energy, and then converts it into the kinetic energy of the crossbow arrow in an instant!

And the ballista is a new invention: torsion springs! It is a unique item designed with the tendons of animals as a material, and the potential energy generated by this torsion spring is instantly converted into the kinetic energy of the projectile and launched out!

The ballista has a sturdy bracket on which the main beam rests on top of the bracket and its front end is flanked by two torsion spring sets, each of which drives a crossbow arm with a bowstring attached to the end of which is a braided mesh bag containing the projectile.

Therefore, if these two new weapons were to be made, the bed crossbow would probably require more bows, and the ballista would require more animal bands, tendons, etc.

The second difference is that the two new weapons fire completely different things! Unlike the Bed Crossbow, which can only fire arrows, the Ballista can shoot stone projectiles with a slight modification, in addition to firing arrows!

The size of the ballista is much larger than that of a bed crossbow, and the personnel required to operate it are almost twice as large as a bed crossbow! And the distance that the ballista can fire, for the time being, is indeed farther than the bed crossbow, whether it is throwing arrows or stone projectiles, it can reach almost 500 meters, which is almost 100 meters more than the bed crossbow!

However, Dai Yan attaches more importance to the ballista, which is that the stone projectiles fired by the ballista have the effect of solid bullets fired by later artillery! For the ships of this era, a stone bullet can easily smash the wooden hull to shreds, which is undoubtedly very useful for destroying the enemy's ships in water battles!

Dai Yan couldn't make a decision with his own reason, so he thought of a good way: let the market make a decision!

He then brought in the Mo craftsmen who had designed these two new weapons and said to them: "The weapons designed by the two of you are very good weapons, their performance is very superior, and they have a great effect on water warfare, and I can't make a decision, so I can only leave it to the market to decide!" I'm going to fund the two of you to build your own factory, similar to a big blacksmith's shop, allowing you to design, produce, and sell such weapons! In the future, you can also sell your own weapons to the princes, and the money you earn belongs to you, are you willing to do so? ”

These two Mo craftsmen were a little stunned at first when they heard that they could set up their own factory, but when they heard that all the money from the sale of these weapons belonged to them, they were overjoyed and immediately agreed to Dai Yan's request!

At the same time, these two disciples of the Mo family, who were originally like brothers, completely became enemies! After getting Dai Yan's permission, the two went to apply for patents for this new bed crossbow and ballista respectively. Soon after, the Divine Crossbow Factory, which mainly produced bed crossbows and ordinary standard crossbows, and the Divine Thunder Factory, which mainly produced ballistas and even large trebuchets, was born!

And from the very beginning of the birth of these two factories, due to competition, it has completely become an endless relationship!

As for the choice of these two new weapons, Dai Yan was also very interested, he only allocated a certain amount of funds to Wu Yi, the commander of the boat division, and he would be responsible for purchasing weapons. For the sake of economy and practicality, he equipped almost all of his wingboats with a bed crossbow!

And this kind of wing boat plays a huge advantage against small boats and even sampans! With the fast speed of the winged ship and the easy operation of the bed crossbow, it is simply invincible in small water battles! And for the application of bed crossbows, they actually developed their own water warfare mode - fishing mode, which was not developed even by Wu, Yue, and Chu!

This pattern of fishing involves tying a rope to the end of a crossbow bolt and then firing it from a bed crossbow. Once the crossbow bolt hits the target ship, the sailors on the wing ship will quickly use the ship's pulley device to recover the rope, as long as the sailors on the target ship can not quickly cut the rope, then the target ship can only be quickly pulled closer by the wing boat, and finally defeated by the sailors carrying precision equipment on the wing boat one by one!

And this kind of combat method is also called fishing by the navy! Because any ship that is targeted by a winged ship and caught by a crossbow bolt will be almost completely unable to escape! With such a combat method, the Juye Boat Division actually captured nearly 1,000 small ships in just a few months!

And the ballista is not completely useless in water warfare! In the face of those water bandit flagships that are even bigger than the big wing ship of the Juye Boat Division, it is completely the turn of the building ship that was named "Dragon King" by Dai Yanxin!

From a distance, the Dragonlord can use ballistas and catapults to shoot stone projectiles, and if it hits a ship, it will be covered in bruises, which is much more lethal than a bed crossbow!

The Dragon King also absorbed the fishing methods of the wingboats, and they chose to place several large bed crossbows around the hull - large bed crossbows that can fire 200 meters of arrows! First of all, the range of its capture ship is more than double that of a wingboat!

When it catches the ship, once it is close to this giant ship, the second big killing weapon equipped by the Shenlei Factory will come into play, this is the slap stick!

In this era, there were already levers in water warfare, but the primitive levers were a little less powerful in the face of these newer ships. Therefore, the Shenlei Factory has made a major adjustment to the old style of the racket! They replaced the front end of the lever with an iron head, and designed the head of the lever into a tapered knife-shaped, so that the lever can no longer be called a lever, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a knife!

And in order to drive this new lever, the Shenlei Factory even added a lever-like device on the Dragon King that only giant trebuchets can use. With such a device, the driving lever is extremely smooth, and in the battle with the water bandits, there is even a record of cutting the water bandit flagship in half!

With a strong building ship like the Dragon King, and the newly built Giant Wild Sailor, Onozawa's water bandits no longer dare to fight against Taoqiu alone!

Seeing the positive role of emerging military enterprises, Dai Yan immediately began to support them. Soon, some newly developed bed crossbows and ballistas were added to the walls around Taoqiu City for defense, so that the two emerging military factories have developed well!

And Dai Yan let two groups of Mo family disciples set up military factories separately, which also triggered an unexpected effect: the entire organization of the Mo family was completely dismantled.

When the Mo family first came to Dai Yan, the giant Tian Jiu had the power of life and death over all the Mo family disciples! However, after so many years, some of the disciples of the Mo family were appointed by Dai Yan as officials, some were tempted by the scientific school to specialize in academics, some entered his army and became grassroots officers, and some followed the peasant disciples to travel far away and explore the world.

As the first school to defect to Dai Yan, the Mo family was widely distributed among the forces to which Dai Yan belonged. When the Mo family is together as a whole, it is really difficult to decompose it, but when it is dispersed, the authority of the giant suddenly drops, and it becomes easy to decompose it again!

Without authority, the giant naturally no longer has the power to kill and take away the disciples of the Mo family! And the disciples of the Mo family actually didn't know this before, when Dai Yan asked the two excellent craftsmen of the Mo family to set up a military factory on their own, they achieved such a goal without consulting with the giant!

This kind of behavior made the entire Mo family in an uproar, and in the past, they would definitely be punished by the Mo family for such behavior. However, now, there are different opinions on their practices within the entire Mo family, and the giant is also undecided about their disposition. Of course, he knew that he would have to deal with these two disciples, but such an act would inevitably offend Tao Qiujun; If you don't dispose of them, the authority of the Mo family giants will be wiped out from now on!

At such a time, Dai Yan took the initiative to intercede for the two, which gave the giant a step down, and he really let go of these two Mo family disciples and did not deal with them.

And after this incident, the tight organization within the Mo family has disappeared! However, Dai Yan can clearly perceive that even though the organization of the Mo family is no longer tight, the ideas of the Mo family still exist.

Due to the existence of Mohist ideas, it was not long before they came into serious conflict with the mercenary ideology advocated by the merchants, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides over the treatment of domestic workers!

Merchants believed that only by reducing the wages of workers and increasing the profits of merchants could they be more suitable for commercial development; The Mohists fiercely opposed this, believing that profits are important, but the treatment of workers is equally important, and the interests of workers cannot be ignored just for the interests of chambers of commerce and factories!

Because the Mohists have a strong influence in academia, officialdom, and the military, this is equivalent to the coexistence of socialism and capitalism in one economy, and the bourgeoisie to which the merchants belong does not dare to exploit the domestic workers too much, so all they can do is crazy expansion!

As a school advocating utilitarianism, Mohists soon became radical once they had their own interests. In their eyes, the merchants were their enemies at home, but they were absolute allies abroad!

These two classes fought internally and externally, which made them extremely expansive and aggressive, and thus changed the pattern of Taoqiu and even the entire Song Kingdom!