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At that time, the Liaodong region was also a horse-producing area of the Great Qin Empire, mainly supplying the troops of Liaodong County or the troops of Liaoxi County on the spot.

Zhang Jiashi did not think about it, and at that time, he made the Takahashi saddle and the matching bilateral stirrups into the armed forces.

But Bai Qi did not support Zhang Jiashi's approach, because Zhang Jiashi's strength was relatively weak at that time, and if Zhang Jiashi exposed his hole card at this time, it would definitely not be a good thing.

Because the Takahashi saddle and the bilateral stirrups are too easy to copy.

It can even be said that these two things, as long as a knight with a certain amount of experience sees them, he will know what this kind of thing does.

Perhaps, Zhang Jiashi will be able to rely on these two types of equipment in the early stage to achieve a good quality advantage in cavalry combat, but after a period of time, if the enemy also produces a relatively large number of Takahashi saddles and bilateral stirrups to equip troops, then for Zhang Jiashi, it is to lose this quality advantage, and have to be suppressed by the opponent's quantitative superiority.

However, judging from this time, Zhang Jiashi had completed the clearing of most of the areas ruled by the Great Qin Empire, which was in civil strife, and gradually restored its governance efficiency.

In this case, even if Zhang Jiashi exposed this kind of equipment, he would not be too threatening.

Maybe the Huns will understand this situation in some cases, but for the Huns at that time, maybe Zhang Jiashi was hiding at this time, and he could also be caught off guard by the Huns, but even Bai Qi himself knows one thing very well, that is, the Huns are not an existence that can be easily defeated in one or two decisive battles, although it is very good to say that the idea of beating the Huns by surprise at the beginning, but Bai Qi is not optimistic that Mao Dun will concentrate on attacking a certain area, but it is more likely that in 204 BC, it will threaten the border line of the Great Qin Empire on a large scale, making it difficult for Zhang Jiashi and the garrison guarding the Great Wall to take care of both the end and the end。

In this case, once the troops using stirrups fought against the Huns, since they could not find the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the Huns, they would lose the opportunity because of the shorter preparation time.

Such a situation is also a major test for a country's border defense.

After all, if the other side concentrates its forces, it may be a very serious test for the defense of a single region, and there may even be a loss of the position. But more, if the mobility of the Huns is concerned, the main body is still the infantry-based ** regiment of the Great Qin Emperor, which is enough to lose the opportunity in many cases due to lack of mobility.

This point, even in the early Western Han Dynasty, such as the siege of Baishan Mountain and the situation of being knocked on the side by the Xiongnu many times during the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, is enough to prove that this concern is not unreasonable.

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In addition to equipping the knights of his subordinate Zhonglang unit with saddles and stirrups, Zhang Jiashi also has a small crossbow cassette type crossbow that can be fired semi-automatically, as well as a small composite riding bow that increases the ability to slide and designs a more post-life style.

In terms of range, the two did not have a significant advantage over the bows and crossbows that Zhang Jiashi originally equipped his knight troops, and in terms of lethality, they were considered to have increased significantly.

But the characteristics of these two types of bows and crossbows are not comparable to those of the older ones.

The kind of small semi-automatic shooting crossbow type hand crossbow is not very good in many ways, and the range and firing accuracy are not very good in many aspects.

However, this kind of hand crossbow, after the test of the Zhonglang knights under Zhang Jiashi, can easily press down the design of the crossbow machine with semi-automatic functions on a war horse with stirrups and Takahashi saddles, and then design it again.

In contrast to this kind of semi-automatic shooting hand crossbow, Zhang Jiashi did not think about designing the repeater crossbow.

But for the design of the repeater, Zhang Jiashi, who has experienced many failures, has to doubt this sentence about the repeater:

"The profit and loss crossbow is called the Yuan Rong, with iron as the arrow, the arrow is eight inches long, and one crossbow and ten arrows are fired"

The description of this sentence is not a problem in many places, but the important problem is that such a description is more like a fully automatic way of shooting.

However, after many attempts, Zhang Jiashi was unable to solve the problem of resetting the crossbow string after firing the first arrow.

The crossbow is a weapon that requires more tension than a bow.

Just relying on the effect of some physical design equipment, Zhang Jiashi wants to make this crossbow string fully automatic shooting at a sufficient range, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

Because he ordered the personnel who specialized in this weapon, after many failures, at most they could only change the rate of fire and design of the crossbow to a semi-automatic shooting method under the range requirements of Zhang Jiashi.

Zhang Jiashi fell into a misunderstanding. That is, even if it is a Zhuge repeater, it is not as strict as Zhang Jiashi's in terms of range.

The range of the Zhuge crossbow mainly has two data: the iron arrow is 50 meters, the general arrow is 120 meters, the single shot is accurate at 30 meters, and the continuous rapid fire is 6 seconds to shoot ten arrows.

And this range value, there is more of a problem, that is, this range is likely to be considered the maximum range.

At present, even if a crossbow made of bamboo and wood is used, it is difficult to play a corresponding role on the battlefield with a range of about 120 meters.

But this weapon is used for street fighting or ambush warfare, and the effect is very good.

In 231 A.D. (the fifth year of Taihe), Zhuge Liang's fourth northern expedition, Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming ordered Zhang to lead the generals to Luoyang to meet the attack, Zhuge Liang retreated to Qishan, Zhang chased to Mumen Valley, and the Shu army fought, the flying arrow hit Zhang's right knee, and in the ensuing battle, Zhang died.

It is said that Zhang died at the hands of the repeater.

And for a famous general to be shot by random arrows without reacting, it is likely that there are too many such arrows. And compared with the description of Zhuge Repeater, this statement is not groundless.

In fact, Zhang Jiashi can be regarded as touching the category of repeating crossbows, but Zhang Jiashi, who pursues range, can only give up the "failure" because of the short range, but it is indeed a real semi-automatic repeater that can be used to shoot once by pulling the trigger.

In the end, which design is better, Zhang Jiashi believes that range is king.

This hand crossbow, which has an effective range of nearly 200 meters, is easier to shoot than a single-shot hand crossbow, or in other words, it is quite simple to operate until the bolts of the crossbow box are fired.

Because after the first shot, the shooter only needs to press down the crank bracket so that the crossbow string can be reset again, at this point, the crossbowman only needs to shoot aim.

For some reasons, Zhang Jiashi did not deliberately develop this short crossbow for hand crossbows in order to pursue a relatively larger range, but continued to use the standard crossbow used by most crossbowmen in the Great Qin Empire.

According to the test data of the short crossbow produced on a small scale, although this kind of crossbow can still have considerable damage after two hundred meters, for infantry units with certain protection capabilities, the armor-piercing ability of this crossbow is relatively poor, and at the same distance, the general-purpose crossbow has better armor-piercing ability in many cases.

This is because the weight of the short crossbow itself is relatively light, and the weight of the long-pole crossbow is greater, but in many ways, the weight also affects the lethality of the weapon.

It's like a Japanese sword made of stainless steel, and the big sword of the squadron collides, because of weight and design factors, Japanese swords tend to suffer more.

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The biggest difference between the bows and arrows that Zhang Jiashi installed for some of the Zhonglang knights was the pulley sets at both ends of the bow body.

The history of the use of bows and arrows is quite long, and the earliest arrows were very simple, using a stick or bamboo pole, cut into a certain length of arrow, and sharpened at one end to form an arrow. The true origin of the arrow should be the primitive society Stone Age, people grind stone chips, bones or shells into sharp shapes, and install them at one end of the arrow, which makes the arrow with a stone arrowhead, bone arrowhead or shell arrowhead, which is a big step forward compared to the arrow sharpened with a wooden stick and bamboo pole. Because it is difficult to preserve the ancient arrow shafts to this day, only the arrowheads are often left in the unearthed objects. Neolithic stone, bone, mussel arrowhead, there are rod-shaped, leaf-shaped, triangular and other kinds, some have arrowhead stems and counterthorns.

In the era of cold weapons, bows and arrows were a long-range weapon with a sharp blade. The bow consists of an elastic bow arm and a flexible bowstring, and the arrow consists of an arrow, a shaft, and a feather. The arrowhead is made of copper or iron or sharp bone, the pole is made of bamboo or wood, and the feathers are the feathers of an eagle or eagle.

In a sense, the development of arrowheads was faster than that of bows: during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the main style of bronze arrowheads was the ridged double-wing type. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the three-edged arrowhead prevailed, and during the Warring States Period, this kind of arrowhead was mostly equipped with iron collars to save copper. After the Han Dynasty, the transition from copper to iron began to take about 200 years. The three-winged or four-edged iron arrowhead of the early Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Mancheng County, Hebei Province, is still molded and molded, and the sharpness is not as good as that of the copper arrowhead; the unearthed iron arrowhead of the Eastern Han Dynasty is a flat acute triangle, which is not only suitable for forging, but also has strong lethality. This shape was inherited by the point steel axes used for a long time by later generations.

In ancient times, the shafts of arrowheads were mostly made of bamboo, but there were also wooden ones. In the pre-Qin period, in the southern Yunmengze and the northeast inhabited by the Sushen people, they were all produced and targeted. Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, bamboo poles were used to make arrows in South China, willows were used in North China, and birch poles were used in the northeast and northwest. In order to hit the target more accurately, it is necessary to grasp the direction of the arrow in flight, so people install feathers on the tail of the arrow shaft to make the shape of the arrow tend to be perfect.

In the performance selection of arrowheads, Zhang Jiashi did not pursue the advantages brought by raw materials too much, but to a certain extent, chose a design that was extended from the historical development of the arrowhead itself to enhance or supplement the shooting performance of a large number of arrowheads.

This design is the wind feather arrow in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"History of the Song Dynasty: Soldiers" recorded: "In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), the Song court "gave 300,000 crossbow arrows to the head of Yanlu, Feng Yuzi". It can be seen that the wind feather arrow is also a kind of actual combat weapon. This type of arrow hollows out both sides of the tail feather, and uses the hollow groove that is recessed inward to create vortex resistance to keep the arrow flying steadily.

This kind of wind feather arrow is quite strict about the opening design of the arrow shaft, and if there is a certain deviation, it will lead to a lot of reduction in the combat effectiveness of the arrowhead.

In Zhang Jiashi's current arrow production plan, the wind feather arrows are mainly used on light hand crossbows, after all, the rate of fire of these hand crossbows also makes the matching arrow arrows consume quickly. In this case, the Wind Feather Arrow, which has a worse performance than a high-quality arrowhead, is actually just able to make up for this shortcoming. Besides, when you use a lot of arrows to fight, you don't care about the performance gap caused by arrowheads.

And many of the arrows that Zhang Jiashi configured on these knights are this kind of wind feather arrows.

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Compared with the long-range equipment, Zhang Jiashi's weapon matching for the personal guard knight troops under his command is not the standard medium-handled glaive knife, nor is it a Miao knife that is too expensive to frighten people to death, and it is also not conducive to melee combat in the knights, but a scimitar.

After many wars and historical developments, many people have discovered that the scimitar with a shape that conforms to fluid mechanics is more suitable for chopping.

In the history of cold weapons in the world, the more famous scimitars mainly include the Damascus scimitar, which is famous for its sharpness, the Gurkha scimitar, which is widely used, and the Mongolian scimitar, which is considered to be the most suitable for knights.

Each of the three cutlass has its own merits:

The Gurkha knife is a medium-length scimitar that is worn by every Gurkha soldier in daily life and in battle. In their hands, it is an awe-inspiring, razor-sharp weapon, as well as a cutting tool. In fact, the human knife has become one, as if it were an extension of their arm.

When the rifle could not be fired, or when the bullets ran out, the Gurkhas would draw their Gurkha knives and fight to the death against the enemy with unparalleled courage, and this scene gave birth to the legend of the Gurkha knives. The Gurkha knife has always been used as a super clean and sharp slaughter weapon, and the enemy often shrinks after two stabs, and when he is dying, he will be surprised by such a merciful stabbing death, because it is a swift assassination.

The reason why the Damascus scimitar is so sharp is mainly because of its distinctive method of forging. Modern scientists have found that the unique pattern of the Damascus scimitar is actually composed of countless small serrations that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and it is these small serrations that increase the power of the Damascus scimitar. The patterns on the Damascus steel knife are simply artificially carved in nature. Because of the moving legend and its excellent performance, knives made of Damascus steel have become the best in the world of knife collecting. In recent years, some companies have adopted the tin plating process to imitate the pattern of Damascus steel, and the real Damascus steel, also known as crystalline pattern steel, is a perfect combination of ancient powder metallurgy and forging technology.

In the long melee, the Mongolian scimitar has been improved to be more suitable for combat: in hand-to-hand combat, it is more in line with the principles of mechanics, does not require the soldier's own strength, and can easily cut off the enemy's head by the impact of horses alone, which makes up for the physical strength of the Mongols compared with Central Asia and Europeans. According to certain Western texts, the Mongol cavalry simply placed a scimitar on the side of the saddle, and the curved part of the blade stretched out in a long way. The part near the shank is straight and much longer than the part near the shank of a regular scimitar. This makes sure you don't injure yourself. As soon as the cavalry rushed into the enemy line, it was easy to cut off the enemy's armor and armor. It also saved the physical strength of the cavalry themselves.