Inside the main burial chamber.

Kong Jianwen, Lin Ya and others buried their heads around the main coffin, carefully cleaning up the burial goods in the outer coffin.

"Ge, halberd, crossbow, and arrowhead, why are there lead projectiles?"

"Could it be that the Nanyue Kingdom in BC already knew how to build and use firearms??"

Lin Ya was holding a lead pellet that was not round enough, and her face was full of question marks.

She can't be blamed for being confused.

In other words, whoever finds a round lead pellet in this coffin full of various weapons will be confused.

This is a tomb from the Western Han Dynasty BC.

Why are there lead shots?!

And when you put it together with a weapon, it's obviously also used as a weapon??

"What a fuss!" Kong Jianwen glanced at Lin Ya expressionlessly, pursed his mouth, and motioned for her to look at the crossbow machine in the outer coffin.

"These lead shots come out with the crossbow machine, and they are obviously for the crossbow machine."

"Don't underestimate the ancients."

"Before there were no firearms, the ancients also used crossbows to fire lead bullets."

"How else did this slingshot come about?"

"In the early days, the crossbow was also used to shoot some stones."

"Later, after the level of metallurgy improved, people in the Qin and Han dynasties found that lead was more suitable for projection and more lethal, so there were artificially poured lead shots."

"Later large trebuchets also used this principle to throw not only stones, but also large round buckshots."

"The artillery of the Ming and Qing dynasties was a solid shot put!"

A crossbow machine is a bow that shoots arrows with mechanical force, and is a long-range lethal weapon developed from a bow.

Small crossbow machines were already widely equipped during the Qin Dynasty.

When in use, it is usually one hand to lift the crossbow machine to stabilize the trajectory.

Pull the crossbow with one hand and fire a sharp arrow.

The crossbow machine of the Warring States period, in terms of precision and lethality, is no longer inferior to the modern Western rifles.

In fact, Westerners were able to invent rifles because of the crossbow machines that were transmitted from China to the West, which gave Westerners inspiration.

The crossbow machine of the Warring States period, in terms of structure and appearance, is actually similar to a pistol.

Even when you hold it in your hand and use it, both are actually pretty much the same.

The Qin State was able to dominate the world, largely because of the crossbow machine of the Qin State back then, and the lethality and precision were the highest among the six eastern countries.

Compared to a bow that requires a lot of arm effort, a crossbow machine is not only more convenient to use, but also more flexible.

As long as the bow and arrow are on well, you can fire it with one hand, which saves physical strength!

And the power of the crossbow machine is constant, as long as the soldiers have been professionally trained and formed muscle memory, they can repeatedly shoot crossbow arrows with the same power.

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This is much more stable than a bow and arrow that can be shot by a person's arms.

An eight-foot man, if he shoots so many arrows in a row, he will feel his arms sore, and the lethality and strength of the bow and arrow will become lower and lower.

Crossbow machines don't.

As long as there are enough bows and arrows, a soldier can easily send out hundreds of arrows with stable lethality!

Of course, the price of this is that the amount of arrows lost is also multiplied.

Therefore, even if the crossbow machine is very useful, the Qin army will not eliminate bows and arrows, and usually use bows and crossbows together.

It's like when modern machine guns first appeared.

It's all good, but the bullets are consumed too quickly, and the pressure on logistics is very great, resulting in the fact that although the machine is good, it cannot be equipped in large quantities, and it is not even loved by the front-line troops.

It's too bullet-free!

The same goes for the crossbow machine, it's good anywhere, but it's too expensive to lose the arrow!

A total of 13 lead projectiles were found inside the coffin, all of which were of similar size, ranging from 2.9 cm to 3 cm in diameter, and spherical in shape.

It is estimated that these lead projectiles were the secondary weapons that the South Vietnamese State equipped with for crossbow operators at that time.

If you run out of arrows on the battlefield, then use this buckshot!

Don't underestimate buckshot.

With this crossbow that can penetrate heavy armor within 200 steps, even if it fires buckshot, it is enough to have a lethal effect on enemies without heavy armor.

Even if it's not fatal, a lead bullet hits the body, and it's still okay to lose the ability to move.

However, these lead bullets are more seriously oxidized, and have appeared grayish-white, and most of them have cracked.

When I pinch it in my hand, I am afraid that it will be crushed if I use a force.

It doesn't have the lethality it had when it was first produced.

Next to these projectiles, there was also a pile of arrowheads, at least four or five hundred, and each of 20 in a bundle.

Interestingly, these arrowheads were not supposed to have been placed in the coffin in the first place.

According to the position of the arrowheads, a fragment of Kong Jianwen, these arrowheads should be divided into two piles and placed on the coffin cover.

It was only because the coffin was rotten that it fell into the outer coffin.

Moreover, the arrows of these arrows are all facing south, pointing to the tomb gate, which has the meaning of deterring tomb robbers.

Suppose a tomb robber enters through the tomb door and looks up to see hundreds of arrows facing him, the scene is quite scary.

If it's an ancient tomb robber who can't bear it very well.

Maybe you will think that there is a mechanism or that the owner of the tomb has knowledge underground, and wants to kill yourself.

Then he hurriedly ran away, not daring to go further into the main burial chamber.

In addition to these weapons.

There is also a funeral object that Kong Jianwen is very familiar with in the outer coffin.

Carriage and horse.

It's a carriage again!

Cover bow caps, umbrella handle hoops, and ......

It can be seen that Zhao Hu should be a monarch who loves to ride in cars.

There is a martyred charioteer in the cemetery, a chariot in the front room, and a bunch of chariots and horses in the west ear room.

Now even in the coffin of the main burial chamber, there is a set of chariots and horses to accompany the burial.

It can only be said that Zhao Hu is very good at playing.

According to the burial system of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a person at the monarch level died, and if you want to accompany the funeral chariot and horse equipment, you should prepare a chariot and horse pit separately.

For example, in the cemetery of the nobles of Wenfeng Pagoda Zengguo, which was participated by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, five or six chariot and horse pits of various sizes were found.

These carriage and horse pits were used by several Zeng Marquis to accompany the burial of their favorite cars, and even live horses were buried together.

The famous Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang also has a lot of carriage and horse pits, and a lot of carriage and horse vessels have been unearthed for burial.

After restoration, it is now placed in the Shaanxi and Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museums for tourists to visit and enjoy.

It stands to reason that the Zhao family of Nanyue was born in the Central Plains and served as a general of the Qin State.

In terms of the burial system, even if it is not similar to the Qin State, it should be similar to the funeral system of the Warring States Period.

However, the tomb of the Nanyue King excavated this time can be said to be very special from the beginning of the shape of the tomb.

Not only does the shape of the tomb have the characteristics of cliff cave tombs and vertical pit wooden coffin tombs, but also the culture of burial utensils is extensive.

It covers Yue, Han, Chu, Qin, Xiongnu, Ouluo and even other places.

If you insist on explaining, you may only think that after Zhao Tuo and his family conquered Lingnan with the Qin army, they were inevitably assimilated by the local Baiyue tribe in Lingnan.

Therefore, in the shape and style of the tomb, it also integrates the customs of Lingnan Baiyue.

That's why there is such a special tomb.