stubborn thief

Chapter 25 Anti-theft Equipment

Repeating crossbows were high-tech in ancient times.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the continuous crossbow was no longer a weapon of the military, but it was only a tool for the people to steal.

On the drawing that Liu Xiangyu gave to Liu Chengzong, the crossbow has a box with arrows, which can hold ten arrows, and rely on gravity to shoot one arrow and fall the other arrow. .

This thing is very large, with a hollowed-out grip at the front of the crossbow, and an arc-shaped support at the tail, which is directly supported on the chest and abdomen.

It takes longer to make than an ordinary crossbow. Because it is easy to wind, its strength is not as strong as that of a large crossbow. Besides, it is not easy to feather the arrow tail when the arrow falls from the receiver.

That's why I use the action of propping on the chest and abdomen to push and shoot, which is not easy to accurately aim.

The design purpose is to deal with short-range unarmored enemies, ten steps and twenty steps, and a general accuracy is enough.

Liu Chengzong made a small change to the drawing, replacing the hollowed-out grip on the front of the crossbow with a more comfortable grip.

The old carpenter in Xingpingli got the blueprints at noon, and before evening, he let his little grandson go to Liujiamao to find Liu Chengzong, who was training the mechanic, and asked him to get a bowstring.

In fact, for a skilled carpenter with tools, a crossbow, especially a civilian-level repeating crossbow, is the best to make, but it is not easy to find a suitable string, because this is not within his professional scope, and there is no ready-made one at hand.

On the contrary, the hunting crossbow that hunters usually use is a little more difficult than the continuous crossbow, because the mechanism of the hunting crossbow is made of metal, and the body of the crossbow without the mechanism is the crossbow body.

Strings are not a problem for Liu Chengzong.

He can make strings, and he often carries a few spare strings in his arms. This time he went home with a lot of them, which just came in handy.

On the third day, a continuous crossbow and ten wooden arrows were delivered to Master Liu.

Since it is only used for experiments, even the iron clusters are useless. The crossbow arrows are only eight-inch long sharpened wooden sticks. Opening and closing, a wooden arrow was shot at the bird gun target at a very fast speed.

The rate of fire was very fast. After the sixth arrow was shot out, it jammed a bit. Liu Juren knocked on the receiver with the crossbow, and then shot the remaining three arrows. Only then did he move the connecting rod. Hand said: "It's quite tiring, let's see if it's accurate."

Liu Chengzong looked puzzled on the side, and it took a while to react. Dad's eyes were reading and reading, and he simply said: "It's very common, one shot on a soil target, and three hits were not nailed in and bounced off. , there are six more skewed."

It must have something to do with technology, and the hit rate can definitely be improved after being proficient, but the lethality is really not high.

"Big, this is only fourteen or five steps. The wooden arrow nails will not enter the soil target. As long as the thief wears clothes at this distance, most of them will be injured."

He was very dissatisfied with the damage of the repeating crossbow, and he said something nasty to let him take a few steps forward. With his ability to throw a throwing knife, he could stab a sharpened wooden arrow on the target.

This strength reminded him of the small light bow used by Li Hongji when he was [-] or [-] when he was just learning bow.

However, the country craftsmanship of the archer at the post station also made Li Hongji play bad and wrapped in rags, and his appearance was very vulgar.

With a mere [-] jin of bow force, the arrow can be shot with a cracking sound, and it can be nailed to the thick wood arrow with a stomping sound. The strength is stronger than this repeated crossbow.

However, Liu Juren was very satisfied with the repeating crossbow. He stepped forward to pick up the wooden arrow that should be picked up, and pulled it out. Holding the repeating crossbow, he said with a smile, "It won't be a problem if you have less strength."

"As long as it is used smoothly, this is just a single-handed crossbow, which is just right for women; there are many crop heroes in Xingping, and there are many people with two arms on their arms."

"Today, I went back and chopped up all the bamboo planted in the yard, used it to make second and third supports, and then asked the blacksmith to make a batch of iron clusters, twenty steps."

In the long years of using the crossbow in ancient China, it has developed extremely maturely like a bow, and with the emergence of gunpowder and firearms since the Tang and Song dynasties, the composition of military heavy weapons has gradually been reduced, and it has sunk into the people. Its structure has become not difficult. Acquired general knowledge.

Liu Xiangyu said that the second and third supports are a structure that increases the strength of the crossbow arm. Generally speaking, the crossbow arm can also be called wings. The wings are made of tough and soft wood, and the single-wing structure with just the right thickness has the greatest natural lethality.

However, good materials are hard to find. If you are looking for a moderate method in terms of production cost and finished product utility, the multi-wing structure is more suitable.

The single-wing is made of soft wood that is not so thick, and the thick bamboo pieces that are shortened in turn under the single-wing are available in three, five, and seven.

This kind of structure is rarely installed on the repeating crossbow.

Liu Xiangyu's three-stretched crossbow was just a helpless move when materials were difficult to obtain in difficult times.

"There will also be a batch of three-strength crossbows, guarding all the grass and black poison, and making them into medicine crossbows with superb shooting skills, so that the middle ones will be killed, and they will also be used to scare off."

Liu Xiangyu put down the repeated crossbow, and said with a three-inch short beard, "Concurrently build a city to defend and fire a hundred crossbows at once, and let thieves run rampant, so don't disturb me in Xingpingli."

Hundred crossbows fired?

Liu Chengzong laughed like a fox that only stole a chicken. It must be an exaggeration to say that a hundred crossbows are fired at once.
Forty crossbows, regardless of single or triple support, continuous or powerful crossbow, must be controlled by forty people.

What's more, it is a waste for a man of five or three thickness to use a single crossbow. That thing should be left to half-old children and women. As for the extraordinarily strong women and strong men, it is more appropriate to use a strong crossbow.

"Da, if you want to prepare like this, one team of mechs is definitely not enough, so you have to have five teams. It's good to train crossbowmen and crossbowmen!"

He laughed and said, "All the people are soldiers, it is imperative."

A crossbow is a good thing. In Liu Chengzong's eyes, a crossbow is a great thing for one reason - it is very similar to a bird gun.

Although the crossbow and the bow are very similar, especially the Chinese crossbow basically puts a bow on the crossbow, but the qualified crossbowman has not learned the bow and arrow, and the bow is still inaccurate.

After changing the gun, it will be different. As long as a qualified crossbowman is familiar with the operation of the musket, he will soon be able to use the musket with ease.

In terms of lethality, the positioning of these two weapons on the battlefield is basically similar. Liu Chengzong believes that in the comparison of weapons, the bird gun is better than the crossbow.

This advantage does not lie in killing and range, which can be ignored, but in one point, the crossbow relies entirely on manpower.

After the shooting, the efficiency of the crossbow hand-knife combat decreases, but the bird-and-gun hand can join the infantry queue to carry the knife to fight.

That alone is amazing.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiangyu didn't answer the question again. He just stood on the edge of the mountain overlooking the small village in the mountains for a while, and then said, "When the city is built, let's take care of Chengzu and your lifelong affairs."

(End of this chapter)