Chapter 43: The Idea of a Steel Crossbow and a Telescope
Soon the soldiers who had placed the wooden target had finished visiting the dummy target and left the range of the repeater
"Prepare, aim, release arrows, down, change the magazine, aim, release the arrows, ........." Under the command of a hundred households, ten soldiers methodically operated the repeater crossbow
"I didn't expect this repeater to be so easy and fast to operate, let's go, let's go and see how this repeater works" After saying that, I took everyone to the dummy target
When I walked to the wooden target, the wooden target at five hundred steps was completely pierced by the crossbow arrows, and the wooden man at seven hundred steps was also shot by the crossbow arrows and was full of arrows, which shows that the effective killing distance of this crossbow can be as high as 200 meters, and this public loss is naturally a talent, I slowly walked towards the lobby of the Ordnance Division while thinking about today's events
The wooden structure of the repeater can indeed be equipped on a large scale, but as I suddenly came up with the idea of special operations, if this bow and crossbow is used in the southern water towns or tropical jungles, the wooden structure of the weapon is very easy to deform, so it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble to the soldiers of the special operations in the future, and since the Tang Dynasty already has a combination of soft and hard weapons, then the Song Dynasty should have no problem, and the birth of each new weapon can not be replaced by a group of soldiers. So as I walked, I had a side in my head that figured out how to arrange this
After arriving at the Ordnance Division, I took people directly to the inner hall, and I said to Ling Zhen as soon as I sat down
"Ling Aiqing, are all Han people in our Ordnance Division?"
"Back to the emperor, there are still some people who are officials in this dynasty from Goryeo and Fusang," Ling Zhen was very puzzled by my words, but he still answered my question 1510
"Find them out and kill them all, and in the future, all the officials and craftsmen in the Ordnance Department must be Han Chinese, and they must be Han people with pure blood"
"But Your Majesty, those ministers are doing a good job, why do you want to kill them," Ling Zhen asked
"I have my own reasoning, you can implement it immediately, and besides, the soldiers of the artillery battalion you will arrange to leave 2,000 people as experimental personnel for new weapons in the future, and the other artillery, I will transfer them back to the forbidden army camp, and the shipborne artillery you designed must be deployed on the warships of our naval division as soon as possible, and you must learn to hurry up and teach the generals of the naval division to use and maintain artillery, I do not want to one day in the future, when I am ready to sail away, our naval officers and soldiers will not use artillery, And you and your subordinates, as professional artillery research and users, must continue to innovate our existing artillery as soon as possible, do you know what I mean? ”
"Yes, the emperor's ministers will live up to the emperor's grace"
"Well, it's very good, and the morale is also very high, Ling Aiqing, when you do all these things well, and I am satisfied, I will crown you as a viscount" My words directly moved Ling Zhen to kneel on the ground and bow to me again and again, if it weren't for the fact that I was the emperor and he didn't dare to make a mistake, he would have jumped up and hugged my thigh. Then I naturally told Gong Yi my doubts about the wooden crossbow, and after listening to what I said, he fell directly into deep thought, I didn't want to interrupt his train of thought, so I said to Ling Zhen again
"Ling Aiqing, do you know Liuli?"
"This minister knows that although glassware is now widely used, but due to the complexity of its production process, many ordinary people cannot afford to use glassware, and glassware is colorful and beautiful, so its price has always been high."
"Oh, that's it, do you know the crystal mirror?"
"Crystal mirrors? I haven't seen it, but I've seen it."
"In this way, you come and see" I beckoned Ling Zhen to come closer, drew the appearance of the convex lens on the paper, and told Ling Zhen these many details very carefully, and asked him to make a sample of the telescope as soon as possible, and asked him to polish a magnet and send it to the palace the next day. After explaining all this, I will take people back to the palace, what? You ask me what I want a magnet for, of course, research Si Nan