The sheriff and the soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time on the side, saw Rand standing by the crossbow in a daze and didn't dare to disturb him, but Payne stepped forward, gently touched the back of Rand's hand, and said, "Your lord, please give the order, the soldiers have already prepared." ”

"Sorry, I got distracted. Rand retracted his imagination and walked over to the ballista, where the soldiers had fully drawn their bowstrings and stuck them on the crossbow machine's cross arm, and only needed to gently pull the box to complete the launch.

Rand first tested the accuracy of firing a single arrow, he closed his eyes and looked at the target along the scale mark on the lookout mountain, 150 meters is not a short distance, Rand must raise the position of the arrow, otherwise after the impact force drops, the arrow will depart from the original route, and the final result is that the arrow falls below the target.

If you want to hit the target accurately, you need to go through continuous practice, and you also need to consider the interference of the weather, Rant dipped his finger in some water, stretched his hand in the air to test the direction of the wind, turned the winch again, and turned the arrow to the left a little.

"In actual combat, there is no need to be so troublesome, a large area of arrow rain covering the blow is enough to hit any target. Rand explained how to operate the ballista as he took aim, and he had to teach the soldiers how to operate it, and train them in a short period of time to complete the process from loading to launching.

"This position, you should be able to shoot. Rand held his breath and gently pulled the crate.

"Collapse!" the bowstring made a loud tremor sound, and Rand got closer, and his ears were suddenly shaken and painful, and the armor-piercing arrow was instantly turned into black light and broke through the airflow.

"Click!" Two seconds later, the target made an overwhelmed sound, and the armor-piercing arrow pierced a layer of leather armor and chain mail almost instantly, and the arrow directly penetrated the three-inch-thick wooden target, and even pierced the body of the arrow deeply by at least ten centimeters before it stopped due to strong resistance.

"Oh my God!" the sheriff suddenly felt his scalp tingle, "That's two layers of armor, and a distance of one hundred and fifty meters can reach this kind of power!"

"Shhh

Payne had seen the power of the Armor-Piercing Arrow, but he didn't expect that the combination of the ballista and the Armor-Piercing Arrow, two weapons of great destruction, would produce such a terrifying power.

Touron ran quickly, he tried to pull out the arrow that pierced the target, but he couldn't pull it out with all his strength, and within the range of the arrow, the chain mail of the chain mail broke into tiny iron shards, and it couldn't resist the power of the ballista head-on, even the most defensive plate armor, in front of this arrow, I am afraid that it could only fall into the hole.

"Your lord, you're a genius!" Touron looked feverishly at the arrows that pierced through the target, and with this weapon of destruction, he had absolute confidence to stand up to the rough-skinned barbarians.

"The accuracy is okay, let's try the burst next. As its maker, Rand did not show excitement or surprise, but was very plain as if everything was under his control, although his heart was not as calm as his appearance, but in front of his subordinates and soldiers, he had to remain calm and calm.

This kind of seemingly plain, but invisibly revealed power, can make your subordinates always maintain respect and admiration for you.

Isn't there a good saying, called invisible pretending, the most deadly.

Indifference, indifference is the best attitude.

......

After an afternoon of inspection and calibration, he was very satisfied with the results obtained by Rand testing the ballista, the accuracy of a single arrow within 150 percent is as high as 70 percent, and the accuracy rate can reach 100 percent within 50 meters, while the accuracy of the continuous type is much lower, and a maximum of five arrows can be fired at a time, covering a large area, and there is no possibility of missing the target for a large-scale melee.

In terms of power, a repeating arrow can definitely inflict fatal wounds on a soldier armed with only chain mail within a hundred meters, but this is not the case for barbarians, whose skin and flesh are extremely hard, and after the arrow enters the body, it is likely that it will not be able to injure the internal organs or abdominal cavity due to strong resistance.

This is also easy to solve, Rand never hesitates to use poison on his enemies, soaking arrows in venom to cause ulcers and infections as long as they pierce the flesh, and there are no skilled doctors in the barbarian tribe to treat them, Rand does not think that those mashed mountain herbs can cure all diseases.

Even if the barbarians can withstand the onslaught of arrows and follow the beast tide to attack under the gates of the wooden house, then don't forget that there are still thousands of catties of tar and coal waiting for them.

Beasts are naturally afraid of fire, and their fur and grease are good combustion, and if they dare to come, the inferno of flames will be ready to consume them.

Rand taught Payne and Touron how to operate the ballista, and told them that they were to train the soldiers to master it in ten days, and that the smelting furnace was making the springs and frames of the remaining nine ballistas without stopping, and in just a few days, there would be a row of lethal mobile turrets on the walls of the wooden house.

Rand was a little tired, and after handing over all the affairs to Payne, he returned to the palace without even taking a shower, and threw himself into bed and fell asleep.

Seeing this, the personal servant had no choice but to put aside the clean clothes and retreat silently.

It was late at night, and it was pitch black except for a little fire in the corridors, and the two guards stood at the door of the palace, also a little tired, their duty was to stand guard for Rand, to keep him safe and to stop the intruders.

Tonight's night was extraordinarily long, and one of the guards looked at the position of the stars in the sky, roughly estimated the time, and complained in a low voice: "Why hasn't Marco come to change the guard, this kid is the most unpunctual, and every time he causes me to stand for them for a long time!"

"I heard that he recently hooked up with a married man, and I guess he was caught by her husband tonight when he spent the night at her house, and now he is being hung up and beaten!" laughed his companion.

"Haha, it's very likely. I heard that the woman's husband was a nobleman?" the guards liked to gossip about this kind of adulterer's mistress, especially when it came to nobles of high status.

In the shadows that the two of them had not noticed, a thin figure slowly approached the window on the side of the palace with silent steps, he moved very quickly and took two steps along the edge of the window, then grabbed the iron hoop at the top of the window, and with a slight force on his arms, he followed the open ventilation window on the second floor like an ape into the palace.

And all this, the two guards did not know anything.