Chapter 113: Repeating Machine Crossbow
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At the first stop of the visit, Kevin was selected as the 213th Regiment. Originally, during the military exercise, Kevin was asked to merge with the 213 Regiment and obey the command of the 213 Regiment Commander, but unfortunately this regiment was frozen to death by a forbidden spell as soon as it opened, so that Kevin was alone in the back.
There are not many legions in China that mainly catapults or large equipment, and Kevin has long wanted to visit, after all, he is the captain of catapults, and he has to see how others train. In the past, due to the low rank, the entrance was not allowed to enter. Now with the son of the head of the Thunder Knights, this opportunity is rare and cannot be missed.
It was very quick and convenient to take the carriage, enter the teleportation, and then take the carriage, and when he arrived at the gate of the barracks, Kevin looked at his watch, about 9 o'clock. In this way, if the afternoon training was as originally planned, it felt that the visit time was too short, and Kevin immediately waved his hand to change the plan.
"Let's see how the training is going in the afternoon, I don't know what we can get from today's visit. "Kevin is very casual, anyway, now he has the final say. Sain, of course, would not object.
The two walked towards the gate of the barracks, and of course the doorman would stop them: "Two commanders, please show your ID." ”
"I'm the head of the independent department of the Thunder Knights," Kevin handed over his ID and focused on the person next to him, "This is the son of the head of the Thunder Knights, and I came here to visit me today." ”
The doorman was a little surprised, but he couldn't let people in casually, and he didn't know the commander's son, so he could only answer first: "I'll go and report it, please wait." ”
Kevin nodded, taking out his pocket watch to check the time. As soon as this pocket watch was taken out, people who knew the goods knew that it was a symbol of status, and this person might be a little bit of a talent, and he didn't dare to slack off.
It was only 5 minutes before a captain officer came all the way: "The two of you came to visit suddenly, and there was no appointment or anything like that." ”
Kevin replied with a smile: "The two of us are just junior officers, what do you want to make an appointment." Let's just go in and take a look, and if we have any questions, we can just ask ourselves. ”
"That'...... Please register. "The captain took out a notebook, and outsiders need to register when they enter and leave the camp gate, which is also a common thing. Kevin and Sain were not ambiguous, wrote their names, and then followed the lieutenant to the barracks.
Kevin spoke, "Sir, are you going to accompany us all the way?"
"Of course, since it's a visit, how can you not have a reception," the captain smiled, "where do you want to go, we also have a good restaurant here, and there is also barbecue meat in the army." ”
"We're here today to see how the catapult training is going to be in general, and we can learn from it. Kevin told the truth.
The captain was slightly surprised: "As far as I know, it seems that the Knights of Thunder only have one catapult?"
"Yes, I'm the only catapult commander. Kevin replied, "Questions?"
The captain glanced at Sain with some suspicion, thinking that he was receiving the regimental commander's son, but this man did not say a word, it was all the catapult captain who did not know where he was talking. Who is in charge? And once we talk about observation and training, we have to think of whether the higher authorities sent someone to investigate privately, whether it was a surprise inspection by the higher authorities, and so on.
"If the chief finds it difficult, then we can just walk around by ourselves. "Kevin doesn't care.
"No, it's not embarrassing. The captain laughed dryly and led the two of them towards the catapult training grounds.
At this time, on the catapult field, all the catapults were pulled in the open space, and they had just experienced a military exercise, although they were killed on the field, but at least they had walked a long way, and they were still in the maintenance stage at this time.
However, ordinary catapults are far less complicated and cumbersome than Kevin's, and they have not dropped stone bombs at a high frequency, so they will wipe the car for maintenance and repair at most one paint. This was enough for two or three people, and they had a dozen people in one catapult.
So the whole scene on the training ground was a group of veterans sitting and chatting, and a few recruits were busy in the car.
Kevin certainly doesn't have anything to say about it, in fact it's widespread. Even within the Thunder Knights, there is a similar phenomenon, after all, the veterans are all up to the standard, and their strength is enough, they just need to keep it. However, sometimes the recruits are actually up to the mark, but a training ground is all about what it looks like, so the lowest-status recruits are always training or working.
"I'll just go and see for myself," Kevin is also an expert, and he doesn't need much explanation from others. He immediately stepped forward, but when he looked back, Sain was still standing. Kevin immediately frowned: "Come here, let's study together!"
Sain's face darkened, and he reluctantly moved over. The captain on the side was extremely surprised, how could this regiment commander's son be called as a small soldier? Who is this catapult commander in front of him?
Kevin ignored other people's thoughts and walked to a catapult on his own. The catapult is roughly the same as Kevin's old catapult style, with a four-wheeled counterweight. However, there is obviously a double-row crossbow on the car, and it looks very complicated.
"What is this?" Kevin asked the new recruit directly in maintenance.
The recruit was frightened and hurriedly threw away the rag and saluted: "Sir, I don't know. ”
The captain still came over and explained: "This is a test weapon given by the Mechanical Research Branch of Wang Li Academy some time ago, which can be called a repeating machine crossbow. ”
"The crossbow bolts are extremely powerful, but they are laborious to reload and have long intervals," the captain continued, "mainly because the process of pulling the strings cannot be omitted, and the crossbow bolts are more tense and the hands are particularly laborious." So the people of Wang Li Academy designed this thing and used their feet to pull the strings. ”
"The whole bolt is fixed on a wooden horse, and the man rides on the wooden horse, with his feet on the two pedals on the side. There are two crossbows, one when firing and the other pulling the string, alternating between the two. The pulling force of the string is connected to the pedal on the foot through mechanical equipment such as steel wire pulleys. The right hand controls the crossbow steering and firing buttons, while the left hand holds the arrow chain and pulls it to the other side, constantly reloading and firing. The entire machine crossbow uses all human limbs, which can be regarded as an innovation. ”
Kevin touched left and right: "Feel this machine...... It's too complicated, will it get stuck in battle?"
"At present, it is also a pilot," the captain was helpless, "if the continuous fire is not stuck, it is indeed like a rain of arrows, which is very terrifying." However, the constant riding of people on it is already very shaky, and it is basically difficult to aim accurately in continuous shooting. This thing is also large, and there is at most one catapult on it, so at most when the enemy approaches the catapult, it is just a defense. ”
Kevin nodded: "But if you want to aim, you can stop and slowly aim at an arrow." This crossbow looks good, can I try it?"
"Yes. The captain replied briskly.
Kevin immediately stepped onto the Trojan horse and stepped on the pedal. The recruit handed over a belt of arrows, and Kevin touched it, "I feel like I'm going to get stuck halfway through the shot." ”
The captain was helpless: "The technology is not yet mature, and we have also tried to tie arrows with various materials, but the effect is still not very satisfactory." ”
"If there is a space ring, then this arrow belt is not needed, and it can be loaded directly by hand here. Kevin replied, as he spoke, pulling the crossbow over the crossbow and aiming it at the clearing, and then slammed on the pedal, and the arrow whizzed straight out. But the crossbow in his right hand was also shaken, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to aim.
Sure enough, it was only about halfway, and the string of the arrow belt and the bowstring were mixed together. However, Kevin was able to continue shooting with a little fiddling.
"It feels good," Kevin affirmed, "it's a lot of work to pedal, but it's acceptable." Sain, you go up and feel it, too. ”
In the face of the novel equipment, Sain was finally a little interested and went up to fiddle with it. But the result was that the soldiers around them frowned, and they were all surprised where these two men came from, and they made a mess of the training ground.
"I'm sorry," Kevin laughed, "it's not easy to shoot arrows everywhere, isn't it easy to tie them up again?"
"It's fine. The captain waved his hand, "Is there anything else you want to see?"
"Let me see your stone bullets, or any other ones. Kevin didn't care about any of this, he came once again, and continued to watch it cheekily.
The captain had no choice but to order someone to bring out boxes of catapult bullets, in addition to the ordinary bullets such as stone bullets and oil bombs, there are also a small number of magic bullets, stone bullets engraved with fire explosion arrays, hardstone bullets engraved with hardening techniques, ultra-long-distance bombs engraved with wind flotation techniques, and even multi-system composite formations engraved on the same bullet, etc.
The catapult here is a notch worse than Kevin's, but it is far superior to the abundance of bullets. These also cost money, and Kevin remembered that he relied on his own money to make catapults, and finally felt embarrassed.
Around 11 p.m., Kevin took a cursory look at it and prepared to leave. Before leaving, Kevin was a little puzzled: "Why is there a new weapon invention in the Royal Academy, and there is no news from my side?"
The captain opened his mouth, but said nothing.
Kevin didn't ask any more questions, and left with Sain. At noon, the two returned to the barracks and had lunch. Kevin casually ordered Sain to train on his own, to practice whatever he wanted, but not out of his sight. Kevin, on the other hand, was sitting in the parking lot, writing and drawing on a piece of paper and didn't know what to do.
Sain didn't bother to pay attention to him, he started to play by himself training, all kinds of immediately somersaults, all kinds of throwing swords after swords, jumping up and down to play. This man also likes all kinds of juggling, all kinds of cool. Speaking of which, he has been reading books for several days, and he is about to suffocate him.
This practice lasted until late in the evening, when Kevin finally finished painting and stood up, and Sain was also tired and began to rest. Kevin beckoned him over, "Come and see, am I drawing correctly?"
Sain walked over impatiently and glanced at Kevin's drawings, but this glance was like a sticky and could no longer be separated.
On the drawing is the repeating crossbow I saw in the morning, and Kevin actually drew the size of the crossbow and the parts inside. There is even a special mark in it, and if it is sent to the blacksmith's shop, most of them can be typed out according to the drawings.
"How's it going?" you read it too, and see if there's anything I'm missing or wrong here?" Kevin asked, "If not, I'll try it out tomorrow with a craftsman." ”
Sain stood on the spot, and at this moment he finally felt the gap in intelligence. Others just looked at and touched it, and instantly wrote down the whole principle part, but they were still just thinking about playing, and they felt that this sudden was very fun. This seems to be far less intellectually than the attitude of the other party.
At this moment, Sain had to re-examine Kevin as a person. This person can kill two regiments in military exercises, and he is also a capable person after all. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.