Qin Shaoyou sometimes had to admire Wu Zetian's foresight.

When any ruling group has nothing to do about something that shakes the foundation of its rule, the final choice is often the same way.

During the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the frontier was restless, and the imperial court was unable to use its own strength to contain the Hu people outside the Guan, so it strengthened the Jiedu envoys, so that they had absolute rights to maintain the stability of the frontier.

In the later period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolted, and the Eight Banners were rotten, which was not enough to quell the rebellion, so they encouraged regimental training everywhere, so that countless local warlords rose.

And now, Webster has almost nothing to do about Henan Mansion.

They can't use force, because there is a Wu Zetian here, and the daughter-in-law uses troops against her mother, which is a big rebellion in itself, not to mention that the Shence Army is by no means a general. Politically, Wu Zetian has begun to be aggressive, so that the Wei family is even more helpless, economically, Henan Mansion continues to expand, using the canal, crazy expansion of their territory, half of the world's money, half of the beginning to gather towards Henan Mansion, this Shence Mansion is like a gold-absorbing weapon, has become more and more out of control.

Such a situation, after Wu Zetian killed Wei Zhengde, had completely thrown the Wei family out of control.

Wu Zetian's face was grim, and finally said: "So you have to be careful and be prepared as soon as possible." After that, his tone was much softer, and he said: "Ziheng is well-behaved, you are a father, you don't stay home all day long, and you don't take a good look at your children, it's true." ”

Ziheng is Qin Shaoyou's son, and he was reprimanded by Wu Zetian, but Qin Shaoyou is just the only one.

But all he had in mind was four words to beware of.

The so-called careful vigilance, to put it bluntly, is to strengthen armaments. Your own strength is the most important.

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Qin Shaoyou said goodbye and left the palace. When he returned to the Shence Mansion, before he sat on his hot buttocks, Yang Wulian came in a hurry and said, "Your Highness, Your Highness, there has finally been an improvement." Finally there is an improvement......"

Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but say, "What has improved?" ”

Yang Wulian looked interested, and said: "Bow crossbow, bow crossbow, ......"

Qin Shaoyou was stunned for a moment, and he immediately remembered that he had intended to improve the bow and crossbow, so he had a special explanation to Yang Wulian a year ago, and ordered him to gather a group of skilled craftsmen to improve the current Tang crossbow.

I can't think of this time. Yang Wulian was still thinking about this.

There are probably two kinds of long-range weapons of the Shence Army, one is artillery and the other is a bullhorn bow.

Needless to say, the power of artillery can be described as a weapon to break the enemy, but it is often suitable for siege warfare, but it has a great disadvantage in field warfare, especially in encounters. After all, this artillery needs to build a position first, and it needs enough time to prepare fully. So once it was an encounter, almost before the artillery could use the artillery, the battle was over.

As for the horn bow, although it is one of the most sophisticated long-range weapons in this era, it also has his weaknesses, on the one hand. The shooting accuracy of the bow and arrow is not enough, and in terms of range, it also has its limitations, in fact, these are not important, the most important thing is that the bow and arrow are extremely skilled for samurai.

I want to train a flying horseman. can only use the elite route of the Shence Army, that is, practice day and night, practice for a year, barely have a small success, two or three years, can be regarded as a qualified flying horseman.

Because of this, in order to train a qualified flying horseman, Fang Jing almost used a lot of strength.

This played a great advantage when the scale of the Shence Army was small, but in recent years, the Shence Army has expanded wildly, and a large number of new recruits have been added. It is obviously time-consuming and laborious for these recruits to re-train, and the most important thing is to waste the resources of training.

Human physical fitness is limited, training a soldier, if you spend all your time on flying horses, then it is inevitable, so that these warriors of the Shence Army have shortcomings in other aspects, the archers who change jobs are sharp, but they are specially trained such soldiers, so the Shence Army, it is inevitable that there will be weaknesses.

Qin Shaoyou originally planned to use the principle of artillery to improve the firecracker, but after careful consideration, he finally gave up, this is not a matter of money, the Shence Mansion has a lot of money, even in other aspects, the Shence Mansion has time to save, but in the Shence Army, the cost can be described as extravagant.

One of the most important is the limitation of the skill level, Qin Shaoyou once ordered people to try to produce several batches of firecrackers, its sharpness, can only be regarded as average, and more importantly, the limitations of firecrackers are also not small, such as the weather has a great impact on it, such as maintenance is time-consuming and laborious, such as loading wastes time, and will greatly increase the difficulty of supply.

This direction, of course, can't be abandoned, Qin Shaoyou specially asked a group of craftsmen to repeatedly improve the firecracker, but according to Qin Shaoyou's estimate, there is no ten or eight years, and it is difficult to have a firearm that can really be used in actual combat.

At last...... Qin Shaoyou put his goal on the improvement of the bow and crossbow.

For example, in troubled times, all kinds of weapons can be developed rapidly, but once they reach the peaceful and prosperous times, the skills are not improved, but there is a tendency to regress.

Just like the Warring States Period, the bow and crossbow have reached a very high level of skill, but over time, when the world is peaceful, the first thing the emperor Lao Tzu has to do is to collect the world's soldiers, because the demand for weapons is getting less and less, and excellent craftsmen are often difficult to make a living, and finally have to change to other industries, several generations down, many excellent manufacturing processes are completely annihilated, and when the next world is in turmoil, this business begins to flourish again, but it needs to accumulate the level of technology again.

The current Tang crossbow, to a certain extent, has a tendency to regress in terms of skill level, at least compared with the Qin crossbow and the Han crossbow, there are not many places to improve.

In particular, some bows and crossbows in the army, which can even be described as shoddy, the characteristics of Tang crossbows lie in their strong penetrating ability, and they can often reach a killing distance of six or seven or eight steps, but its disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, they are extremely bulky, and at the same time they are slow to fire, a crossbow is dozens of pounds in weight, and it is particularly unchanged to carry, although there are other uses, but the demand for the Shence Army is very different.

For the bow and crossbow, the first thing Qin Shaoyou thought of was naturally the Zhuge crossbow, and the matter of the Zhuge crossbow, Qin Shaoyou had also mentioned it to Yang Wulian. Yang Wulian has a lot of complaints about this Zhuge crossbow, the so-called Zhuge crossbow is nothing more than a repeating crossbow, the rate of fire is indeed fast, but it is not light, and the range is much worse than other bows and crossbows, not to mention the accuracy.

But even so, Yang Wulian still began to recruit a group of people and began to improve.

Now that there are obvious results, Yang Wulian didn't say a word, and immediately rushed to report the good news.

Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but say, "What a bow and crossbow." ”

"Zhuge crossbow." Yang Wulian said firmly: "It is improved by a young man named Cheng Xin, this kind of hand crossbow has improved many drawbacks of Zhuge crossbow, Your Highness might as well try it." ”

Qin Shaoyou didn't dare to slack off, he nodded busily, and with Yang Wulian out of the Shence Mansion, along the way, Yang Wulian chattered.

The so-called Zhuge crossbow, in fact, has many problems in reality, the so-called continuous fire of the Zhuge crossbow, to a certain extent, is actually similar to the automatic rifle of later generations, there is a special arrow clip at the bottom, one arrow is shot, and another arrow in the arrow clip automatically pops out, and after the string is drawn, it can be fired continuously.

A Zhuge crossbow can do half a cup of tea and shoot eight arrows in a row, while an ordinary hand crossbow can have two or three arrows. However, in order to burst fire, the most important problem is the cost, if you want the arrows in the arrow clip to be able to pop out, the thickness and length of the arrows are very high, which is like the bullets of later generations, if it is in an automatic rifle, a nine-millimeter ground caliber rifle, the caliber of the loaded bullet is different, some are more than one millimeter, some are one millimeter less, and the bullets in the magazine are indispensable to 'jam'.

Therefore, the arrows must be specially made, and the accuracy must be the same, which is a very high cost for the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, and even now, it is even more difficult to meet this condition, which not only requires the bow and arrow skills of the arrow-making to be superb, but also needs to have a certain level of integration and management, because once there is any error, it may make the Zhuge crossbow useless.

Fortunately, at this point, for Shence Mansion, in fact, it is barely able to do it, Shen Ce Mansion already has a large number of workshop production experience, that kind of small workshop production, has become a large-scale organization of production, the quality inspection management of the workshop, and the management level, have accumulated enough experience.

In addition, because of the special production of arrows, the manufacturing cost of this arrow has naturally increased a lot, and this is precisely the reason why the Shence Mansion is burdened, even the current imperial court, if it wants to support a military horse holding a Zhuge crossbow, it is also very difficult, but the Shence Mansion has enough money and food to do this.

"Your Highness, that Cheng Xin, replaced a lot of materials, especially the wood of the crossbow body and the material of the bowstring, so that the accuracy and range of the crossbow improved, but also greatly reduced the weight, in order to improve, they almost looked for all the wood and beef tendon that can be replaced, and finally fortunately did not disgrace their fate, a few days ago, Xia Guan had tried, the range can reach as many as three hundred and fifty steps, this distance, has far exceeded the horn bow."

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The first chapter is delivered. (To be continued.) )