The process of retrieving information is often long and tedious.

Moreover, there will always be deviations between theory and practice, and Li Yu is not sure how much the results of the deduced results will play in the end.

However, these studies did bring him a lot of ideas, the black dragon in the swamp was still mysterious to Li Yu, but at least Li Yu was no longer ignorant of it.

Stripped of the magnificent cloak of myth and fiction, it is nothing more than a powerful creature.

And as long as it's a creature, it has weaknesses and health bars.

Of course, it's one thing to see weaknesses and health bars, it's another thing to effectively break through weaknesses and complete output.

Li Yu had a question in his heart after downloading and browsing the app [Forging House] launched by the Equipment Department, and later consulted Hephaestus.

"Why aren't there any weapons in there?"

The handsome mixed-race guy replied at the time, "Please, we are a joint-stock company that is completely law-abiding and serious, and of course we will not develop and produce weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction, which is illegal."

"And considering the company's main business, we sent employees to other universes to produce and collect beliefs, not to engage in cross-dimensional conquest or colonization, so the board of directors did not feel that the company had the need to develop weapons after research and discussion.

"Look at the weapons that humans have now, our ancestors once ruled the earth with cold weapons, standing at the top of the biological chain, and when we have thermal weapons, we are basically killing each other with those hot weapons." Hephaestus took the opportunity to make a political statement.

"That being said, there will still be times when you need to use violent means." Li Yu said, "After all, there are always people in this world who are unwilling to be reasonable, and there are quite a few of them." ”

"Well, you're right, if the company allocates 10,000 AK47s to each of the business departments, I believe it will be a great improvement in your work efficiency. Unfortunately, the Board does not agree with this approach. The mixed-race dude shrugged.

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To sum up, Li Yu basically gave up the possibility of obtaining weapons through the company's channels, although there are indeed some equipment in the [Forge House] whose power is not lost to modern weapons in Li Yu's opinion, but the price of such equipment is often outrageous.

Unless he has so much faith in his hands that there is no place to spend it in the later stage, it is obviously not as cost-effective as purchasing other equipment in terms of cost performance, and Li Yu does not have so much faith now.

So Li Yu still has to figure out how to deal with the weapon.

And on the sixth day after Jude and Juan returned from the swamp, Li Yu also got good news.

After more than a month of hard work, a total of nearly 1,000 gold coins were spent, and Li Yu also dispatched a full fifty people to help Fitzwilliam, and the shipwright finally built the first Sea King Halberd!

Originally mounted on warships for naval warfare, this giant crossbow was so powerful that it could easily shoot through small ships that dared to approach, and was one of the two great killer weapons that the Wettin family's fleet was able to cram the seas.

The finished product is a bit like a combination of a Song Dynasty bed crossbow and a Roman ballista, both of which are held in place by a bracket, with an iron bar made of fine iron mounted between the shafts, and a square wooden beam with an arrow groove on top of the iron bar.

According to Fitzwilliam, the core process of building a giant crossbow is torsional springing.

The strength of the torsion bullet determines the maximum amount of power that a bow can provide.

The torsion yellow used on the Neptune is a composite material, and the recipe and craftsmanship have always been a secret of the Wettin family, except for the successive heads of the family and the craftsmen who were mainly responsible for shipbuilding.

Unfortunately, some of these materials are difficult to collect in the West, and Fitzwilliam can only replace them with other materials, which makes the final Aquaman Halberd weaker than the original.

But then the shipwright led people to test the shot, using a special iron arrow, or more suitable for an iron gun, which could shoot a distance of nearly 400 meters, and if the arrow body was replaced with a wooden one, it could fly another 200 meters.

This result has greatly exceeded Li Yu's expectations.

Although the Neptune Halberd is not as outrageous as the legendary three-bow bed crossbow, with an effective firing range of more than one thousand meters, many people are originally skeptical about this data given in the "History of the Song Dynasty".

After all, ordinary pistol bullets can fly a thousand meters.

It's a pity that the craftsmanship of the three-bow bed crossbow has also been lost, otherwise Lee could have printed a copy and brought it to Fitzwilliam's reference, and maybe he could help the shipwright gain some more experience.

However, the Sea King Halberd at this stage is also enough, and it is difficult for Li Yu to imagine that there are creatures in this world who can resist the crossbow arrows fired by this giant crossbow with their flesh and blood.

Even if it is a giant dragon covered in scales, as long as it is close enough, it will lose half a tube of blood if it does not die from an arrow in the front.

However, this heavy weapon is not without its drawbacks, first of all, because its huge size makes it almost immobile and can only be used fixedly, and the Wettin family generally only places this kind of giant crossbow on the walls of warships and harbors.

And because of the huge recoil, even some small warships could not install the Neptune halberd, let alone move around with ox carts.

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In addition to this, winding is also a problem. It takes eighteen men to wield the winch alone, and it takes three minutes to reload the arrow again after it is fired, and it takes even longer to aim and adjust the position.

And with the speed and intelligence of that dragon, it will definitely not give the crossbowman so much time, if this one shortcoming can be solved by increasing the number of giant crossbows, then the next problem is the biggest headache for Fitzwilliam.

Similar giant crossbows will naturally be deficient in the quasi-head due to the excessive emphasis on power.

At the beginning of its birth, the Neptune Halberd was basically used to deal with other ships, because only such a large target could be targeted, and the family would also spend a lot of money to train a group of excellent crossbowmen from an early age, which was specially used to operate the giant crossbow.

Due to the swift defeat of the Wettin family in the previous rebellion, they did not even have time to use the fleet, but most of them survived, but after the war, they either joined the Imperial Navy or were poached by some foreign fleet.

Anyway, no matter what they do next, they can't run to the west.

As for the members within the Wettin family, including Fitzwilliam, no one would manipulate the Sea King's Halberd.

And the shipwright only remembered this stubble when the construction period was nearing the end, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, because this giant crossbow was made by Li Yu at a great price, but it was likely to be useless.

However, Li Yu did not blame him after hearing this, but praised his skill level, and gave another bonus to all those involved in building the giant crossbow, and then let the shipwright continue to build the second giant crossbow, and as for the crossbowman's affairs, Li Yu himself would solve it.