After Yang Hui's death, the invasion ended, and according to the system, Xia Qi finally obtained a silver treasure chest.

After re-attaching a war-free token, Xia Qi looked through the report on his desk, which was the casualty report and loot statistics of the previous battle of Qingyan City.

The casualties in that battle were actually not large, after all, before the reinforcements arrived, Qingniu, the general of Qingyan City, had been defending the city wall, avoiding a frontal clash between the two armies as much as possible, so the focus was on the loot side.

This Yang Hui really gave him a lot of good things, capturing a large number of bronze shields, spears, bows and arrows, helmets and leather armor, plus three bed crossbows, a siege vehicle and five hundred and twenty-one surrendered soldiers.

Although there are risks in fighting, as long as the operation is good and the car does not overturn, it is really possible to get richer and richer!

However, for the current Xia Qi, the most valuable thing is not those weapons and equipment, but the more than 500 surrendered soldiers. After all, he himself is expanding his troops, and unlike the ordinary people of Great Xia, he can directly throw these troops into the barracks, and basically no one will have an opinion.

As the basic plate of Daxia is getting bigger and bigger, Xia Qi is also getting busier, but there are very few people who can help him deal with official business, Zhang Liang is counted as one, but this guy is still in charge of Tiqi's affairs, so most of the time, Xia Qi is busy alone.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty......"

Just when Xia Qi was busy with official business, a familiar shout came from outside the main hall.

There is only one person who can shout in this kind of place and not be stopped by the guards, and that is Xia Fox.

Without waiting for Xia Qi to raise his head, Xia Fox broke in in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, look, hands. The crossbow is complete! "The summer fox will be like a treasure. The crossbow was raised in front of Xia Qi's eyes.

What!?

Xia Qi, who was working with his head down, raised his head at this time.

Looking at the hand in Xia Fox's hand. Crossbow, a flash of joy flashed in Xia Qi's eyes.

Is it finally done?

The hand in front of me. The crossbow is a little bigger than Xia Qi imagined, but that's right, according to Daxia's current technology, I want to make too small hands. The crossbow is also difficult for the strong.

Xia Qi estimated that he was able to create such a body, thanks to the role played by Xia Fox in it.

"Have you ever test-fired?"

"I have just completed the final commissioning, and I haven't officially tested it yet, Your Majesty." Xia Fox replied quite casually.

"Then I'll try it myself."

For the hand. Crossbow, Xia Qi is obviously also very interested, after all, this thing is basically not a chance to play in the real world.

A few people came to an open space outside the main hall, and quickly confirmed the operation method with Xia Fox, who was also involved in half of the research, Xia Qi, who was also involved in half of the research, it was not difficult to get started, but when he pulled the strings, it was really laborious, but it couldn't be helped, it was a hand. One of the definite flaws of the crossbow.

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

Standing on the clearing, Xia Qi fiddled with the hands in his hands decently. crossbow, and then made an aiming motion at the wooden target that had just been moved in front of him, and it looked 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 hit the red heart!

The people present shouted one after another, and words such as "Your Majesty is mighty" came and went.

Listening to the compliments of the people under his hand and the prompts of the system, Xia Qi chuckled twice, but he was not complacent, because he knew very well in his heart that the hand. One of the characteristics of the crossbow is that it is highly accurate, and it is only a matter of shooting wooden targets, as long as a little proficiency is used, many people can achieve this effect, not that he is very powerful.

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 sick.

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 age of cold weapons, it is also clearly stated that usually the two armies are engaged, first by the bed crossbow first volley, then by the crossbowmen volley, then by the archers volley, the archers salvo three rounds, the enemy army must come to the front, and finally the two armies fight head-on.

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.

And in fact, Xia Qi also experienced it firsthand just now. It's quite strenuous to pull a string on a crossbow, but doesn't it have an advantage? Of course, there is an advantage, although it is slow to play, but it is better than stable output.

In other words, it is the advantage of mechanical forces that under normal conditions the hand. No matter how many times the 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 power will be greatly lost, 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! And the hand. The advantage of the crossbow is 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!

After shooting a few more arrows, after the addiction, Xia Qi, who seemed to have remembered something, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly called Xia Fox over, and after a while, Xia Fox was also brightened.

"It's easy, it will be done quickly, wait for me."

Xia Fox's movements were indeed very fast, and it didn't take long for him to hold that hand again. The crossbow ran back while the hand at this time. At the front end of the crossbow, there was something that looked like a stirrup.

And in fact, it is indeed a similar thing, because this thing is called a stirrup, and it took over the simple transformation from Xia Fox's hand. After the crossbow, I saw Xia Qi stepping on the stirrup with one foot, and after having such a borrowing point, he suddenly clearly felt a whole stretch of his hand. Crossbows, the process of loading crossbow arrows has become much easier, and at the same time, it has inevitably reaped another wave of praise.

"Anyway, let's follow this pattern, and improve it a little, and after determining that we can't make a second improvement in a short period of time, I will draw the design drawing, and then write a report, and then I will call someone from the ordnance department to make it."