Rise of Rurik

Father may be coming back soon.

A huge fleet carrying a large amount of food and returning with a full load? The current Rurik hopes that those people will come back later, so that he has enough time to make the crossbow. And this is the "new trick" that Rurik gave his father Otto.

In this time and space, compared to other weapons, the steel arm crossbow can be described as a real high-tech!

Here is not only its creative weaponization ideas, but also very magical selections. The best thing about it is that it is a real machine.

Its energy storage part is a bent steel sheet.

Low-carbon steel sheet is by no means an excellent elastic material, even said it is very bad. Perhaps very flexible silicon steel is more suitable for the guy who bears the steel arm.

The current situation is that the production of low-carbon steel by the Ross tribe is already an epoch-making achievement. As for making silicon steel, it is more difficult than making a steam engine!

At least low-carbon steel requires tremendous force to break it. Relying on manpower to do this, Rurik doesn't believe it at all.

The weight of such a bow arm can be broken thousands, but its draw distance is destined not to be very long.

The original steel sword, the length of its blade is two-thirds of the standard stika, about seventy centimeters. After some forging processing, it was transformed into a slightly bent steel arm about fifty centimeters.

This thing is placed on the ground, and it does seem like a bow at first glance.

Cravason used a lot of energy just to complete it, and he still had to make more parts under Rurik's supervision.

A piece of dry oak that was meant to be the thick rib of the ship will be processed into the most critical wooden support for the crossbow.

If you want to process it properly, it really tests Clavasson's carpentry skills.

Because the dried oak is the cost-effective hard wood that people can find in ancient times. Just like Spain and Portugal in history, the huge and strong Galen ship, the most critical wood is oak. Reinforced oak boards are hard enough to withstand the impact of solid shells in the seventeenth century.

Kravasson manipulated a steel scraper to process the wood into a wooden support of a specific shape.

Because of Rurik's interest, he felt that after all, he wanted to make a launcher for a long-range weapon that could be aimed and fired. Naturally, he had to make it into the shape of a gun. He even thought about the possibility of attaching a bayonet to the finished crossbow. After thinking about it, he still felt that his whimsy was wrong.

The crossbow naturally has its limitations, and it just needs to do its own job.

The special-shaped wooden support at first glance has the feeling of a bolted rifle integral wooden support, especially the special-shaped right-angled triangle shoulder support. This design is intended to disperse the recoil of the firearms as much as possible. Of course, the crossbow will produce a certain amount of recoil when the arrows are fired. Rürik estimates that his persistent design requirements may cause the recoil to drop very low.

Cravason's iron chisel began to make holes in the wooden support.

A accommodating slot that can accommodate the bow arm is completed first, followed by a hole for fixing the twine to be wound, and space for the crossbow system.

The wooden support was finally finished, and it was a straight ravine chiseled by Cravason. This gully is the arrow slot.

When Kravasson personally put the steel arm into the holding tank, it was firmly fixed with hemp rope, assisted by rosin bonding to enhance stability. Although the crossbow system has not yet been produced, the embryonic form of the crossbow has emerged so far.

Putting the wooden box full of sticky resin aside, Kravasson sat casually on the ground, holding the strange object he had completed with his rough hands.

He said excitedly: "Ruriek, I understand now."

"What do you understand?" asked Rurik, who was sitting on a wooden block with a cocoon out of his hands.

"I already fully understand how your weapon works. When I finish the final mechanism, I just hang the bowstring of the hemp rope on that mechanism. I put the arrow in the groove, and I can think of when to fire. , When will it be launched."

"That's it." Rurik was overjoyed, so it was not in vain that he spent two consecutive afternoons in Kravassen's blacksmith's shop and kept explaining and guiding.

The happy Ruriek asked his footman immediately: "Camnier, do you understand?"

"I..." The boy Kamni didn't know, he didn't dare to brag about himself rashly, his words became hesitant.

"It's okay, when it's done, I can let you try it. Listen! I think this thing can easily kill a bear."

As soon as the voice fell, Kamnier's spirit immediately rose, and his eyes flashed instantly resolute.

"Master, are you true? Kill a bear easily?!"

"Of course." Rurik was a little surprised, wondering if his words could stimulate the child's fighting spirit?

Kamene looked at the unfinished crossbow around him with enthusiasm, and said, "If I can use this weapon, I will shoot all the bears I see. I will give it to me. Parents avenge!"

Upon hearing this, Rurik suddenly remembered that the child had become an orphan and that his parents had been killed by the bear.

"You will." Rurik stretched out his hand and covered his servant's head: "In the future, you will make more weapons of this kind and shoot more bears. Our Ross tribe should hunt bears. The best fighters must be Wear a bearskin hat on your head."

Kamnier was so happy to hear that he felt that his master was just like his elder brother. And his own "revenge" started with the unfinished crossbow.

So for this crossbow, the only thing left is to build the trigger system.

Even if Kravasson claimed to be an expert in metal utensils, Rurik didn't dare to overestimate the strength of this man. Expect this old guy to properly produce more sophisticated devices? Rurik guessed it would not work.

To have a trigger system, it must be simple and reliable, and the most important thing is the Ross blacksmith in this time and space, which can be made relatively easily.

What Rurik could think of was the classic set of Qin Nu's trigger.

After all, it is so classic that it has only three parts and two metal pins, and the material used is also bronze.

Even if its structure is simple and reliable, the molten metal to be cast is easy to manufacture, but the clay mold for casting bronze water can't be made by Kravassen based only on the rough drawings drawn by Rurik.

It's still a very simple principle, and Clavasson can't think of things he's never seen before.

The trigger system of Qin Nu is simple and simple, and the knowledge of mechanics is not simple at all.

In the previous helpers, the calluses of Rurik's hand, which were caused by holding the sword, became thicker, and his nails were often covered with mud.

This time, it was Rurik's turn to make clay molds under Clavasson's guidance.

On the afternoon of the third day, the finished clay molds with iron ore powder added began to burn paper in the furnace into hardened molds similar to crucibles. There are three such hardened mud films, and they are cast in hot and shiny bronze water one after another!

The next time is the cooling of the bronze water.

The parts and the pins were all finished. After they were polished with a sharpening stone by Cravason's assault, Rurik did not forget to remind the old blacksmith to chamfer the parts.

what! Rurik is such a habit.

Any workpiece must be chamfered, so that it does not hurt other workpieces, nor does it hurt the workers themselves.

The installation of the crossbow system went smoothly, and the three components were perfectly matched.

However, there is no so-called Wangshan in the crossbow system made by Rurik, or the sighting system does not need Wangshan from the beginning.

Because there is still a small carbon steel sheet that will be beaten out, its original function is to slightly jam the arrow placed in the arrow slot.

The so-called aiming system needs to make a fuss on this carbon steel sheet.

Rurik wanted to make aiming holes and sights on it, the so-called more reliable mechanical aiming. Even Rurik envisaged the installation of a ruler system to assist the shooter in attacking long-range targets.

With the last bronze pin being knocked in, Kravasson looked at the "staggered bow" at hand, he had already leaped and tried!

Although he knew that this thing needed some extra parts, and had to make special arrows that could be launched. It hasn't even bowed, and Clavasson has felt a powerful force.

"Rurik, tell me, when we finish it, we can really..." Clavasson pointed to the installed trigger: "I can shoot an arrow by pulling it here?"

"Otherwise?" Rurik pointed at Kamnier: "He can shoot a bear with this. We don't have a bear here. Alas! When I am finished, you can find a wooden board as a target, I dare say, Kamnier. The arrow shot will shoot through the plank."

These words made the tired Cravason extremely excited, just like last year, he learned for the first time that he could make the strongest and brightest sword through some special processing.

But who could have imagined that the bright white sword embryo that has not been edged has now become a source of power for a very special "staggered bow"?

Five full days! The steel-armed crossbow can finally be said to be completed. As far as its appearance is concerned, Rurik is more satisfied.

In the past few days, Rurik received military training in the morning, changed his clothes in the afternoon, and went straight to the blacksmith's shop in Klavasen.

All the boys are inquiring about the new weapons their boss wants to come up with, and Lurik didn't plan to make weapons, because after the crossbow is completed, he needs to equip his men to participate in training.

Especially those girls!

Rurik learned something from Jeflo. The so-called girls train for too long, and their arms might be stronger than men, which is not cute.

Besides, they are women after all, their body structure dictates, perhaps they should wear special protective gear when shooting arrows, otherwise the rebounding bowstring will cause accidental damage to their bodies.

Compared with the damage caused by the explosive bow, Rurik really doesn't want them to become the legendary "Scythian Amazons", so-called taking the initiative to injure their bodies for the convenience of archery.

In the past few days, in the training ground on the hill, Rurik's feeling to others has indeed become a bit savage.

Even Fisk felt that the boss, who was two years younger than himself, had obviously become vigorous in his sword-holding movements. During the training, Fisk wanted the most brutal counterattack, but he could only serve as a training partner because of his identity. Fisk could only parry the crit of the Liulik Wooden Sword, nothing more, he vented his suffocation on other children.

Therefore, Fisk's actions, in the eyes of the boys, clearly wanted to be the best able to fight.

The crossbow is finally completed, and even the matching stubby arrow is completed.

New weapons must pass tests to prove their excellence.

Since there is only one prototype crossbow, it obviously should not be tested in the public.

This time, Rurik found two important audiences, Gould and Jeflo. Secondly, there are girls like Lumia Carlotta.

Among them, some are their own friends, and some are their own women.

To show these close-minded people the power of new weapons, Rurik felt most appropriate.

Moreover, the shooter he chose was not someone else, it was Kamnier who was aspiring to hunt bears.

In fact, just the unique shape of the crossbow earned the appetite of the onlookers.

Rurik stood with Clavason very confidently. At this time, Gould came in with a big belly, and Gould was eager to figure out something based on the current situation.

"Rurik, what are you really going to let that kid manipulate yours?"

"It's a cross bow."

"Okay. Staggered bow! Do you think this thing can really hunt bears? Rurik, I don't think you've seen a bear!"

Rurik just wanted to respond to one I've seen, and he wondered how he had seen a bear before even leaving the small realm of Roseburg.

He immediately asked: "Then I ask you, if the arrows fired by my cross bow can shoot through a wooden target, can it hunt bears?"

"This...should be possible." Gould raised his fat face and stared at the boy Kamnier, his still thin body, and the so-called staggered bow that was almost two-thirds tall. He couldn't help but feel suspicious. . "The child's arrow shot through the planks? I don't believe it! Rurik, those planks were originally used for shipbuilding. They are very hard, even similar to the hardness of stone."

"Really? We can bet." Rurik squinted deliberately.

"Bet? What to bet on? Money? A pound of gold?"

"Gold?" Rurik smiled and shook his head.

"Then what to bet?"

Rurik thought for a while, and said, "Okay! Just bet on gold! I bet that the arrows fired by Kamnier can shoot through wooden boards. You obviously bet that he can't shoot through. You won. I'll give you one. Pounds of gold, settled with ten pounds of silver coins. If I win, all those who know how to make bows in your hand will start to make cross bows according to my requirements."

Gould felt that Rurik's proposal was really inexplicable, and for a moment he felt that he was bound to lose.

Now, Kamnier takes care of his owner's trust and his desire to hunt bears. Even if the owner said, shooting at a huge target that is equivalent to two men holding shields standing about 30 meters away, the arrow will penetrate the target, and Kamni has not yet shot the arrow, he has no certainty.

Seeing that his footman was almost ready, Rurik suddenly yelled: "Camnier! Go and do it! Prove me your strength!"

Kamene glanced at Rurik again with a determined look, and began a great action.

Just before everyone's eyes, Camney picked it up and started using a strange tool that was full of twine on the ground and seemed meaningless.

What is this?

It is actually a set of winch system.

That’s right. In fact, the steel-armed crossbow developed by Rurik is actually a winch crossbow.

If the shooter is a strong man, he can put on his gloves and pull the hemp rope bowstring to the trigger slot. However, Kamnier is just a thinner seven-year-old child, he is not capable of hand-spinning at all.

This situation requires the participation of a winch.

With the help of Rurik, Kravasson cast bronze gears, the teeth of which were polished brightly and combined with other components to form a simple ratchet system.

With the crossbow lying flat on the ground, Kamnier buckled the winch on the shoulder rest, and the two hooks hooked the stretched twine bowstring.

The child was sitting on the ground, turning the wrench continuously, and the bowstring approached the trigger slot a little bit.

"Is the winding so slow?" Gould, who felt that he was about to lose, felt that he could win again.

Rurik said casually: "The winding is indeed slow. You should see that a child is winding it. You should also understand that it is difficult to wind, which must indicate that it is very powerful."

After hearing this explanation, the hope that Gould had just ignited was shattered again.

After spending some time, Kamnier finished the winding work. He then cautiously inserted the stubby crossbow arrow into the arrow slot, and was lightly fixed by the carbon steel sheet at the end.

Compared to other bows, the so-called staggered bow is a bit heavy.

Rurik never expected a child to be able to shoot with it, so a sharpened wooden stake was smashed into the sand and it was used as a support!

Kamni furiously erected him, and then began to take aim.

The boy's thin cheeks were pressed against the wooden support. He squinted his left eye, fixed his right eye on the front sight, and aimed the sight at the huge wooden target.

"Three points and one line, three points and one line." Kamnier said silently, his hand also touched the trigger, but he lacked the courage to press it down.

He is waiting for an order.

Seeing that he was ready, Rurik shouted: "Launch!"

Kamni slanted his heart, and he squeezed the hand that was holding the trigger vigorously.

A strong recoil acted on its shoulders, and almost instantly, there was a loud noise from the target, as if it had broken.

All the onlookers stared, even including Rurik.

Before the crossbow fired an arrow, Rurik could only estimate its power. The results of the experiment are terrifying! Not only was the wooden target pierced, it also broke a big hole!

A large number of sharp sawdust fragments bloomed toward the back of the plank. As for the stubby arrows, it appeared to fly to the sandy ground not far behind the target.

Gould was shocked: "I...I lost! Rurik, your people really...really succeeded! Your weapon..."

Rurik was so happy, he ignored Gould, and shouted as hard as he could: "Camnier! Keep firing! Shoot all your arrows!"

For Kamnier, he didn't realize what the "plank chipping" was like, but now it is the case. The arrow made a hole in the oak plank that was originally intended to be a ship, not to mention it, and then ran through it again. distance.

Can bows and arrows have such power?

"Damn it! If my father could have such a weapon, it would be a bear!"

Thinking of the tragedy that had happened to him, he wept bitterly, but in Rurik's view, his footman was in tears with excitement.

As usual, Kamni used a ratchet winch to wind the powerful cross bow. Although the process was slow, the power of the arrow was real.

After that, there were four more successful shots, with a wooden target that had been quenched and stubby with two pieces of wild goose feathers glued at will.

The experiment came to an end. Everyone ran to the target. The happiest one here was the shooter Kamnier. The rest of the people looked at the ending in amazement.

In fact, the wooden target is only about two centimeters thick. It is not a particularly high-quality ship rib, but the bows and arrows owned by the Ross people are shot against these wooden boards. That's it.

"You lost." Liu Likla tugged at Gould's skirt.

"Yes! I lost. From your cross bow, the old wooden bows are all firewood!" Gould stomped his feet. The old guy was fully aware of the crossbow after seeing the five holes in the wooden target. Powerful tactical value.

Because the wooden ribs of ordinary transport ships ~www.readwn.com~ are often only as thick as fingers, although warships are thicker, I am afraid they can be penetrated by these weapons.

What does that mean? Ship destroyed and killed!

Gould's eyes stared like copper bells. He looked at Rurik who was smiling, and he tremblingly said: "You won, I like your new weapon very much. Ke? Really the best weapon I have ever seen. I think I have to make it for you."

Rurik nodded with satisfaction; "Of course. What I want is your promise. You have to make it clear first. I allow you to make it for our Ross tribe, but don't think about selling it secretly! I am Those who trust you don't trust any other merchants. If... this weapon falls into the hands of the Danes, we will suffer!"

"Yes!" Gould hurriedly bowed: "If I disobey your decision, you can punish me. My family is in the Ross clan. I dare to pledge the honor of my family. I am only loyal to you. Oh, how much I am eager to see more miracles in my lifetime!"

Rurik laughed: "Okay! You will see. The experiment was a big success, I think I should guide your people immediately and make me a stelke (steel arm crossbow). From now on it must be our Ross A necessary weapon for the army of the tribe."