Chapter 336, Faithful to Ximen Qing

Reinhardt and his men had already joined Phineas halfway through.

At this time, the servants around Fei Ge recovered from two to five. A maid, an original commander, and four mass-produced soldiers.

Sensing the obvious hostility of the lord, Reinhardt immediately took action.

The four robo-soldiers surrounded the four sides of the pavilion, and Reinhardt burst in, standing slightly between Kuai Fei and Simon Fei. The three people form a triangular position. In this position, Reinhardt can not only suppress any stupidity of Simon Fat at the first time, but also use his body to cover the fan surface of the lord's side about 100 degrees.

The dungeon didn't have time to develop gunpowder guns.

Reinhardt and his men wield crossbows and hatchets.

Such a weapon configuration is exquisite. In 1096, the Crusades began in Europe. Chain mail and leather armor are beginning to transform into heavy plate armor.

This shows that the blacksmith forging and casting process of this year is about to reach its peak.

Although the heavy metal full-body armor was later eliminated, it even became a laughing stock in the history of cold weapons.

But it is undeniable that the heavy plate armor of this historical stage is an effective defense for two or three hundred years. The reason for this is that the bow and crossbow manufacturing process in these years is not effective.

The limit of the bow's penetration has been discovered. Heavy plate armor happens to be the armor that has been proven to be impenetrable by ordinary crossbows.

The spear and shield have been a competitive relationship between one foot high and one foot high since ancient times. Bows and armor have been competing like this for three thousand years.

The terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin Dynasty did not wear helmets, and the Han Dynasty appeared with iron heads, but the image of Lord Guan Yu was still wearing a cloth head. Takeben's hat is leather. It was indeed the standard for the commander of the Great Han Dynasty Tiger Ben Praetorian Guard to stick two chicken feathers on his head, but that thing should actually be worn on the head of the commander of the Xiyuan troops in Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's youth. In short, before the Tang Dynasty, the wrought iron technology was not mature enough, and it could not block the blow of the bow and crossbow anyway, so the iron armor was simply not used, and the soldiers and generals chose lighter leather armor.

The Tang Dynasty began to equip Mingguang armor on a large scale. However, even in the richest and most powerful Tang Empire, Mingguang armor is very valuable. In the rest of the troubled times when the national strength was weaker than that of the Tang Empire, Mingguang armor was a rare commodity that only high-level generals could equip.

After the 1100s, the financial strength of the great powers of Europe and Asia was improving. The skills of the Hui craftsmen of Damascus and India and Babylon were constantly upgraded, and more and more high-quality armor was sold all over the world through the sale of Arab maritime merchants. Although the Age of Discovery has not yet been fully opened, the Maritime Silk Road from Calicut to Quanzhou and the golden Carthaginian route from the Persian Gulf to Jerusalem to Cyprus to Naples have long been ripe.

For a long time, the bow will be more powerful than ordinary armor, but not enough to break through the defenses of heavy armor.

As the oldest projection weapon, the bow and crossbow have also been improving, and now they have reached a bottleneck where they can no longer advance an inch.

The maximum projection power that can be output by the bow arm of the wooden structure and the bowstring of the horsetail material has been excavated to the limit.

It is said that Genghis Khan's subordinates first thought of using a composite material composed of horns, tendons, and fish purine gum to increase the upper limit of the elastic modulus of the bow arm. This created the superiority of the Mongol light cavalry in terms of firing range and penetration. It is also said that in those days, the catapults all over the world were hand-pulled by dozens of people, and it was Genghis Khan who preemptively conquered India and Persia, and obtained the secrets of the manufacture of rubber band catapults from the hands of Hui craftsmen.

Of course, there will be no rubber in these years. The rubber band is just a metaphor. In fact, it is impossible to determine what kind of high-modulus elastic material is used in the return gun. But the return cannon is indeed a very powerful weapon that sweeps the world. In the classical catapult dragged by dozens of people, the rubber band catapult has the advantage of crushing.

The fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially the loss of Xiangyang City, was the result of the return artillery technology.

Both the Tang Empire and the Great Song Empire attached great importance to the use of catapults. The fortifications were also designed to resist the blows of catapults.

The Datang catapult can blast boulders hundreds of paces away, and because of its innate curved shooting characteristics, it is a more suitable weapon for attacking fortifications than bed crossbows.

In the secret essentials of the Southern Song Dynasty arsenal, it is said that the enemy's nest car is shelled with catapults, and there are no people who cannot be smashed, and the shelling of the enemy chief can also penetrate his head and even break his bones.

But what happens when the attacker is also equipped with a large number of catapults?

Engineers and officers of the Southern Song Dynasty said that the besiegers must use large stones, but the defenders can throw hard clay balls of clay. Under the premise that both sides use the best catapult with maximum output, the boulder cannot reach far and must be close to the front. Our Pellet Bullets are light and have a shotgun effect, and have a longer range, enough to kill the enemy's siege guns from a distance before they enter range.

So all the city defenses were built based on this tactical thinking.

Before the Huihui cannon was born, the Southern Song Dynasty standard city defense technology can be described as invincible in the world (the Northern Song Dynasty failed to master this unique skill), the siege side projected boulders will extract the gunfire encountered by the mud pill cannon, if both sides use the mud ball cannon to shoot each other, it is still relying on the city fortifications of the side to suffer slight battle damage, and the field side lacks effective means of defense.

The revolutionary advantage of the return cannon is that it can prepare the counterweight in advance outside the firing range, stretch the tension of the rubber band, and then push a large number of catapults that have been prepared to collectively move forward to carry out a comprehensive bombardment. Since there is no longer a need for tens of meters to drag the gunner to the death in the line of fire, only a few cart wrestlers are needed.

Bombarded with the traditional old-fashioned sports car pulled by dozens of people shouting passwords, the return cannon became an invincible killing weapon. The heavy losses of the gunners were inevitable. Such wars are one-sided.

That is to say, the city defense strategy of the Southern Song Dynasty did not need to wait for the artillery mentioned by Marx to defeat it. It can be suppressed directly by the return cannon.

This also means that projectile weapons face a bottleneck constraint of the upper limit of the modulus of elastic materials.

If you can't solve the elastic material problem, then heavy armor has an advantage over the bow and arrow. If the elastic material problem is solved, then you don't have to wait for the big artillery to come out, and you can directly make the castle stream and the heavy armor stream a laughing stock.

Historically, both Europeans and the Southern Song Dynasty sought to find suitable elastic materials in time.

The Northern Song Dynasty tried to use the bed crossbow to increase the range and penetration, but this thing had no mobility, and its actual combat value was only a sneak attack. Since the killing of Xiao Yuanrin in the Yuan Yuan more than 100 years ago, the bulky bed crossbow has never achieved any definite success.

Yue Fei's era seems to be using the ultimate scale that ergonomics can achieve to create the strongest giant crossbow suitable for individual soldiers.

It is said that even Yue Fei needs to sit on the ground and use his waist, legs, and arms to work together to equip such a powerful giant crossbow. This means that in the field, this weapon will basically only have time to fire once in the face of heavy armored cavalry. Of course, in the face of European-style iron cans that participated in the battle on foot, Yue Fei's crossbow was still an extremely useful combat tool.

It's a pity that both the Jurchens and the Mongols rode horses.

Based on such a socio-industrial level and technical and tactical templates, the soldiers of the Dungeon of Lord of Phineas adopted small axes as their main combat weapons.

Robots are naturally stupid and clumsy. (Why can't you create a memory metal robot like the one in the Terminator, Fei Ge can't understand, there is no manual in this world.) The ghost knows how to set it up. )

A clumsy warrior of the strength type, he is naturally best suited to play with axes.

There is no need to use a giant axe. A palm-sized hand axe is the best solution. Practical tests have proved that according to the law of mass X velocity = impulse, the heavier the axe, the more lethal it is. However, an axe that is too heavy cannot swing enough blocks of speed, but is stupid, and the typical gains outweigh the losses.

Between heavy and high-speed, the product of the maximization is chosen, and this is how the small axe is now standard in this system.

Each soldier can carry 6-20 of these items. It can be chopped by hand, and it can be thrown by flying. It is a good companion for home travel to kill people and break defenses. You can even break down the door with force.

As for the matching hand crossbow, it is equipped as a small-caliber sniper weapon. After all, sometimes it is not so suitable for a bold public slash, and it is also necessary to take into account the sneaky shooting of cold arrows. In particular, crossbows naturally have a better intimidation and deterrent effect.

After all, many natives do not believe in evil and flying axes, and the public is more afraid of crossbows.

Zhuge Liang named his crossbow unit "Yuan Rong" back then, which means the most senior glorious legion, and the understanding of crossbows in the East is far deeper than that of the Westerners.

In fact, the crossbows used by the special forces in later generations were made of alloy skeletons and high-modulus composite materials, and the Great Song Dynasty could not find a suitable means of production. The power of the wooden arm crossbow is really not enough to see, Fei Ge originally planned to give up this weapon that is not in line with the rhythm of the times, but he is reluctant, so he reluctantly retains it.

Following the structure of his knowledge, Phineas tried to create the Horned Crossbow Arm. But this experiment failed.

This failure proves that the rumors are false.

Legend has it that Genghis Khan's troops still use high-quality birch wood to make their bow arms, but on the inner diameter side of the bow arms, they are neatly glued with an array of horn squares. It is said that when the bow arm is stretched, the horns are compressed to create a strong stress, which releases a more powerful ejection force when shooting.

This seemed to make sense in theory, but the experiment failed.

Kuai Fei couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. In short, this is an unsolved subject. This became another main reason why Reinhardt and others carried hand crossbows with them. Phineas wanted to test new materials on the go. Didn't Edison test more than a thousand different materials in order to find the right filament?

To test a new crossbow material, you naturally need an experienced shooter to do it. In order to get the correct comparison conclusion, the tester needs to use the same standardized technique and the same force to select the same target at the same distance every time he shoots. It just so happens that these robot soldiers are the most suitable for this.

So even though this version of the crossbow was defective, they were all equipped with it.

As soon as the warning signal came out, the soldiers were all on fire.

They aimed at the delegates present.

The rest of the deputies knelt down on the spot, prostrate on the ground, and did not dare to raise their heads. The previous big bang had completely frightened them. The only thing they could do at the moment was to turn their faces and eyes to the ground. This is undoubtedly the best gesture to prove that he is not a threat.

Only Simon Fat refused to give in.

Ten wryly smiled bitterly and said: "There is really someone behind the martial family, Ximenqing is my clan's nephew, you say, how can I let go of this junior of my clan." “

Kuai Fei's feeling is so tangled.

His eyes blinked for a while, and he didn't give Ximen Fei a positive answer, and asked inexplicably: "What bad things did your nephew do?" “

When he asked, he didn't believe in evil. The world has seriously deviated from the main line of the Water Margin, so those things in Yanggu County should also be unrecognizable.

So Kuai Fei still hopes for luck, hoping to hear a different plot synopsis from the other party.

Maybe this version of Yanggu County is calm and calm, and there is no tragedy at all. Because Wu Song hasn't killed a tiger yet, naturally he shouldn't trigger a follow-up event.

I feel that a certain lotus can be rescued again.

In other words, Kuai Fei thought again, Wu Dalang's family played by me is in Kaifeng, and he has never been to Yanggu at all, my goddaughter's name is Deng Jiuniang, nicknamed Ah Lian, I didn't assign her Pan Jinlian.

That is to say, even if there is a copy of the tragedy in Yanggu County, it is a contradiction between other Wu Dalang and other Pan Jinlian, and it has nothing to do with me.

In short, we Feige have all kinds of luck psychology, hoping that this matter will have a harmonious evolution.

At the same time, it will not be possible to get him to abandon the investigation of the case. This curiosity came up, and I couldn't suppress it at all.

Ximen Fat smiled miserably: "There was once a master who persuaded me to lead the Ximen clan to move westward, but unfortunately I couldn't listen. I always thought that the worldly masters disdained to meddle in mundane cause and effect, but I didn't expect it to be wrong, wrong. “

Kuai Fei was even more curious: "Hey! I'm just asking your nephew's name, and by the way, what he's doing. I didn't say anything like killing your whole family. Are you like that? Are you concerned? “

"Ugh!" Ximen Fei waved his hand slowly and slowly wiped his sweat. It can be seen that this fat man has seen some big scenes. Under the threat of five crossbows and five axes, he actually knew the hard truth that every move had to be done slowly. lest it lead to a misreading by Reinhardt and others. This is a talent!

If Ximen Qing hadn't done anything particularly annoying, Kuai Fei would really be very optimistic about this Uncle Ximen.

"My nephew, who is not a weapon, is the deputy envoy of the regiment training in Nanguan Town, Yanggu County, and his mission is that he has to be loyal, so he ...... He ......"

"Why is he lacking in virtue?"

He was ordered by Zhang Shaoyin of Kaifeng Mansion to come to Zhang Qiu Town on a business trip and met a thief surnamed Wu...... Stealing that, yes, stealing the handsome, did a fight for no reason. was reprimanded by the Kaifeng Mansion, and was stripped of his official body by the Imperial City Division, and now he is at home, and he is about to use countless money to redeem his mistakes. “

Well? Where is this plot crooked? It's completely beyond Feigo's imagination.

However, it doesn't seem to be as sad as the original.

Kuai Fei was in a much better mood, and asked with interest, "What is your business?" How to strip off the official body? Could it be that the business trip has failed completely and cannot be remedied? “

He didn't understand the various rules in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, thinking that Ximenqing took the task from Zhang Shuye, and it was normal that he didn't complete it, and it was completed beyond the time limit, so he wouldn't be dismissed and fined, isn't it a time-limited task? Failure to complete the overtime sentence is severe? Isn't Ximenqing too unlucky?

As for why the surnamed Wu asked Ximen Qing to fight for no reason, this question is a little embarrassing, and Kuai Fei is embarrassed to ask. Wu Song wants to beat someone, do you need a reason? It doesn't need to be good at all.

Although this version does not seem to have happened to a very shameful tragedy, Wu Erlang wants to beat Ximenqing, so he naturally has a hundred and a thousand reasons.

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