"Have you found a suitable replacement for our crossbow?"

In fact, the problem of grain and grass is only secondary, and the search for a substitute for the bow and crossbow is the main reason why the little Tang Grand Duke is not in a hurry. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The army totaled 3,000 people, leaving aside the Viking mercenaries for the time being, the 2,200 people that the Grand Duke of the Little Tang brought to Bergen, the 200 light cavalry, the 1,200 sword and shield soldiers and the super pikemen, and the remaining 800 were all crossbowmen!

Originally, it was possible to deal a devastating blow to the enemy from a distance.

This is not a lie, the Vikings generally did not wear armor, and the cloth was no different from the bow and arrow, plus the unique three-stage shooting of the Duke of the Tang Dynasty: the first row knelt with a crossbow and fired horizontally, the second row held a crossbow and stood flat to shoot, and the third row held a bow and stood and threw a shot. The rain of bullets is like a continuous blizzard, as long as the bow and arrows are not exhausted, no matter what kind of enemy the little Tang Grand Duke is sure that the enemy will not be able to get closer!

However, due to the severe cold weather in Scandinavia, the crossbows brought from Ireland (especially some bought from France) could not endure such cold at all, and the bows became hard and brittle, and the bowstrings became perverse. Only the ballista, originally made of oak, still lasts, and the others are almost broken.

But the next enemy to face is no longer a sneak attack like this one, this is a head-on conflict, a tough battle, the enemy is a thirteen tribal alliance with a population of more than 30,000 people, all soldiers, and it is still fighting on the mainland!

Lose, the little Tang Grand Duke never thought that the goddess of victory would always accompany him. It's just that these loyal soldiers who followed him across the North Sea, the little Tang Grand Duke still hopes to bring them back as much as possible.

"What about the Viking bows? Can't we use it? ”

Headache, really a headache, Duke Xiao Tang covered his head. Grain and grass, cotton clothes, herbs, everything is well prepared, I thought it was foolproof, but I didn't expect that there was still some omission, and it was a big omission.

"Bows can be used, and there are many of them, but ......," Knight Wade hesitated, and then said, "but most of our crossbowmen use crossbows, and there are not many people who use bows!" ”

Knight Wade is also helpless, the bow is definitely not something that a layman can use, a good hand with a bow, even in the earl can get a good position - at least the earl can take it out to show off when he goes out hunting, and the crossbow is not this treatment.

And the crossbowmen of the Duke of Xiao Tang were only ordinary civilians at that time, and they had only trained the most important speed and accuracy for more than a year, and forcibly let them use the bow was afraid that it would backfire.

"For the time being...... Let's send all the bows first, at least they have a weapon in their hands, as for not knowing, let the people who know can't teach them, as long as they can shoot arrows. ”

In the end, the Duke of Xiao Tang can only say this, providence makes people, and the three-stage shooting that was finally trained now seems to be useless, and can only return to the previous state, and the two sides shoot randomly.

But this can still be said, after all, the Vikings shoot indiscriminately first, and the Duke of Xiao Tang shoots indiscriminately, and neither side takes advantage or suffers, so they can only fight infantry. And the infantry, the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang is confident that the 'soldiers' he brought out single-handedly will definitely not lose to those so-called 'warriors'!

"I'm very sorry, Your Excellency, because the ship has to anchor a little late, so you have to wait for a long time."

While the little Duke Tang was talking to Knight Wade, the door of the tent was suddenly opened, and the figure of Knight Lefebvre walked in from the outside.

It was the intention of the little Tang Grand Duke to let the knight of Lefebvre come over, since he did not catch Haiugesund, he had to worry about the risk of the army being cut off, and it just so happened that the knight of Lefebvre's fleet still had nearly a thousand sailors on the fleet, as well as the original wounded soldiers, which was enough to take care of this ruined city.

It's just that this knight, who finally arrived after breaking through the wind and waves, seemed to have a strange face.

"Ahem, I don't know which one has no public morality, and he actually put poison at the door! I didn't pay attention to take two puffs for a while, I just vomited, and now it's just a little uncomfortable. ”

The little Tang Grand Duke asked, and the knight of Lefebvre had no intention of concealing it, and only halfway through his words, the knight Wade had already laughed embarrassedly twice.

"Forget it, have you all the things I wanted you to bring over?"

Secretly glanced at the Wade knight, the little Tang Duke couldn't bear to laugh and endure it very hard, so he didn't show a flaw, with a poker face, the little Tang Dagong asked again.

"This ...... You're pushing me a little hard, so I can only do my best to do as much as I can, and then bring everything I can. ”

For not completing the order of the little Tang Grand Duke, the knight Lefebvre felt very guilty in his heart, and he could speak in a low voice, but the little Tang Dagong looked very happy.

"It's good to have it, anyway, it's just a temporary idea, and it's really hard for you to rush to work; So, how much did you bring with you? ”

"Only twenty crosses......

The voice of the knight of Lefebvre was even quieter, in fact, he himself felt that this number was really unattainable, with a force of 1,000 people, and there were even more proficient engineers under him, it took two days to assemble 20 planes, this kind of achievement, it was really unattainable!

"Twenty? Twenty is good! ”

But the little Tang Duke had no intention of reproaching at all, and even had some surprises, with twenty crosses, the casualties of this war could be reduced by one percent, and more lives could be saved!

After talking for so long, what are these twenty crosses that are regarded as the magic weapon of victory by the Duke of Xiao Tang?

It was a chariot, the kind pulled by horses, which was only used in BC, and since the appearance of cavalry, it has begun to slowly disappear, and now it is a chariot that has disappeared.

This is what the little Duke of Don asked the knight of Lefevre to do.

In fact, the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang was quite happy to hear that the knights of Lefebvre had rushed to make twenty chariots, after all, during the Warring States period, those countries of thousands of times were the countries of ten thousand times, this multiplication, it was a chariot, and those with a thousand times could be said to be a big country, so thinking about it, it was really not easy for the knights of Lefebvre.

――Actually, this is the little Tang Grand Duke who is wrong.

The so-called thousand times are good for chariots, but a chariot must be equipped with three people and four horses, and a thousand times is equal to three thousand professionally trained soldiers and four thousand military horses!

For the era when the productive forces were not yet developed and a county town was a country, it could support thousands of times, and it could indeed be regarded as a big country.

"Did you get that thing on the wheel of your chariot?"

After being happy for a while, the little Tang Grand Duke asked again. In fact, the chariot is an obsolete piece of equipment only on certain occasions - here, for example, in Scandinavia, where there are basically no cavalry because of the climate, and because of the breed of horses, the chariot can be used in an all-infantry situation.

But even then, as a weapon dragged forward by horses, only if the enemy cut off the legs of the horses, then the chariot was useless; And the Vikings' big axe is actually very good at chopping horses' legs.

At this time, the little Tang Grand Duke needed something, something that could double the lethality of the chariot.

In ancient times, it was called a hub spear, and in modern times, it is called ...... 'meat grinder'.

To put it simply, it is a pit thing placed on the two wheels of a chariot and specially used to cut people's legs.

"It's already done, in fact, it's much easier to do this than to make a tank, and the lethality is considerable, do you want to test it on the spot?"

In this boring era, inventing new things and then watching them shine can be said to be the greatest pleasure of the little Tang Duke (the second greatest pleasure is to accompany little Lily).

Although it was said that it was only a temporary rise and did not put much effort into it, the little Tang Dagong, who had been idle all along, still followed the knight of Lefebvre to watch the test with great interest.

Oh, by the way, as for Knight Wade, Grand Duke Xiao Tang strictly ordered Knight Wade to dispose of the unidentified substance that was still emitting before he returned, and he couldn't ask anyone for help.

Therefore, Wade Knight now, with a bitter face, while carrying the bucket, covered his nose with his left hand, one foot deep and one foot shallow, took one step and three steps back, and began to clean up this 'damn can of fish'.