Every time I come back from vacation, there will be a lot of documents on the desk, but in fact, this situation has eased a lot, and the division of documents at ten levels allows the city lords of each sub-city to distinguish more clearly some of the ambiguous documents that were originally divided into levels, which seems cumbersome, but in fact it unexpectedly saves them a lot of tangled things.

At the same time, Luo Ji can also be more clearly divided according to this level, and according to the work ability of each secretary and city lord, he assigns them the corresponding processing authority, which significantly reduces his work burden.

After quickly reviewing the few reports at hand, Luo Ji turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, and if he worked harder, he should be able to deal with everything before dark.

Just as he was thinking this, outside the office, a guard quickly walked in, "Tell Your Majesty, Ye Xuan, Minister of Ordnance Research......"

"Just say I'm not there." After hearing the name of the little ancestor, Luo Ji instinctively froze for a moment, and then quickly took a sip of tea to suppress the shock, his mortal brain could no longer keep up with that genius's thoughts, please let him go.

As for what the situation was between their Majesty and Ye Xuan, the members of the escort team were obviously clear in their hearts, and for a while, the corners of everyone's mouths were obviously unnaturally pulled, and then Zhou Cang, who heard the report coming in, hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty misunderstood, it was Minister Ye Xuan of the Ordnance Research Department who sent someone to inform Your Majesty that the hand crossbow was completed." ”

"Poof-" The tea that had been drunk into his mouth squirted out on the spot, and after being startled for a moment, it was replaced not by ecstasy, but by a tearful feeling, "Is it finally done researching?" ”

wiped a handful of bitter tears, since Ye Xuan began to study the crossbow, facing one after another more and more tricky problems, God knows how he managed to survive until now, at this time, Luo Ji simply had the urge to look up to the sky and laugh three times! The whole person stood up at once, "Let's go, go and see!" ”

Putting aside the fact that he was about to be tormented and crazy by all kinds of tricky problems, the completion of the crossbow is undoubtedly a very important step for the military development of the entire civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds, because this represents the birth of a new class, that is, the crossbowman!

After quickly rushing to the Ordnance Research Department, Luo Ji waved his hand, signaling Ye Xuan and the others to be exempt, and then his eyes fell directly on the finished product of the crossbow.

To be honest, it was much bigger than he imagined, but after thinking about it, according to the current technical strength, it is estimated that it is difficult for a strong man to make a hand crossbow that is too small, and it is already thanks to Ye Xuan, a genius-level ordnance master, to be able to make a one like this.

"Have you ever test-fired?"

"I have just completed the final commissioning, and I haven't officially tested it yet, Your Majesty." Ye Xuan replied rather casually.

"Then I'll try it myself." For the hand crossbow, Luo Ji is obviously also very interested, after all, this thing is basically not a chance to play in the real world.

Quickly confirmed the operation method with Ye Xuan, Luo Ji, who has participated in half of the research, is not difficult to get started, but when he pulls the string, it is really laborious, but this can't be helped, it is one of the clear defects of the hand crossbow.

If the bed crossbow is equivalent to the siege cannon in the cold weapon era, then the status of the hand crossbow is basically equivalent to the firearm in the cold weapon era.

Standing in the special field used by the Ordnance Research Department to test weapons, Luo Ji fiddled with the crossbow in his hand decently, and then made an aiming posture, looking quite like that.

Then pulled the trigger, almost in the blink of an eye, everyone only heard a muffled sound of 'Du', and then everyone who reacted looked towards the wooden target in the distance, and the crossbow arrow in the middle of the red heart made them let out a burst of exclamation, and then shouted words such as 'Your Majesty's might', and the system prompt also officially sounded......

System Prompt: Congratulations to the player 'Luo Ji' for successfully developing the 'Hand Crossbow'

Listening to the praise of the people under his hand and the prompts of the system, Luo Ji chuckled lightly, but he was not complacent, because he knew very well in his heart that one of the characteristics of the hand crossbow was high accuracy, shooting wooden targets, as long as he was a little skilled, many people could achieve this effect, not how powerful he was.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that archers and crossbowmen, as a rare number of ranged troops in the entire era of cold weapons, there is no doubt that there will definitely be a large number of well-fed and idle people who have nothing to do and compare these two types of troops together, and once this kind of problem arises, all kinds of rhythmic and some taken for granted bar spirits will also appear, and in the end, this thing will be stirred up into a tearing war nine times out of ten.

To put it simply, there is no conflict between the existence of these two weapons, which is like if you have a battery car, you have to ask the world to eliminate the bicycle and let the bicycle stop production, it is purely a brain disease.

To get back to the point, the archers attack mainly by manpower, while the crossbowmen attack with mechanical force, and under this premise, the branches of the two arms have been clearly separated.

And in a war in the era of cold weapons, it is also clearly stated that usually the two armies are fighting, first by the bed crossbow (ballista) first volley, then by the crossbowmen volley, then by the archers volley, the archers salvo three rounds, the enemy army must be in front of the eyes, and finally the frontal battle of the two armies.

A lot of information can be derived from this description alone, first from the order of shots, the length of the effective range can be basically confirmed, and then the bed crossbow and crossbowmen in the confrontation between the two armies, basically only have one round of shots, while the archers have three rounds, in the words of some shooters, the archer is fast enough to reload.

In fact, Luo Ji also experienced it just now, and it is indeed quite difficult to pull a string with a crossbow, but does it have no advantage? Of course, there is an advantage, although it is slow to play, but it is better than stable output.

In other words, this is the advantage of mechanical force, under normal circumstances, no matter how many times a crossbow is fired, the power, range and rate of fire of his crossbow arrows are basically maintained on a parallel line, but if it is replaced by a bow and arrow, because it is manpower, the bow and arrow arm force loss is large, and the power and accuracy will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

In summary, the advantages of the bow are that it is simple to build, lightweight, fast to reload, and flexible! The advantages of the hand crossbow are that it has strong penetration, high accuracy, and fast shooting speed.

At the same time, it is precisely because the shooting rate is fast enough and the penetration force is strong enough that the crossbowmen can almost inflict a devastating blow on the cavalry troops with a salvo at certain appropriate times!

(End of chapter)