Preparation before the Fifty War (Part 2): But we have mechanization

At first, everyone was very interested in trying to pull the bow and shoot the arrow. The horn bow equipped by the southern army of the Ming Dynasty was not too powerful. Most modern people can pull it open, but because they don’t know the correct archery posture, the arrows will be shot out.

After that, the hit rate became disastrous - if a 0.8-meter-diameter wooden target was placed only 30 meters away, not many could hit it!

Archery is a very advanced skill, but no one here dares to boast that they can use bows and arrows to injure enemies in actual combat. Feeling embarrassed, the time travelers laughed and laughed, and then threw them away. However, these corner bows fell on

In the eyes of caring people, it is quite different - modern people can't use bows, so what if they use crossbows?

You must know that many of these time-travelers are weapons enthusiasts, but due to the strict gun prohibition laws of the People's Republic of China, few people dare to illegally engage in black guns like Wang Ruobin. Therefore, many of them are

Put all your enthusiasm into another alternative - playing with crossbows!

Wen Desi is one of them. As a special moderator of a well-known crossbow website in China, Wen Desi has been playing crossbows for four or five years. He has domestically produced or imported high-end crossbows such as Big Black Eagle, Forest Hunter, etc.

There are several models, and the various spare parts are easy to touch and can be disassembled and assembled with your eyes closed.

After discovering that he had arrived in the Ming Dynasty, one of the things Wen Desi regretted the most was not being able to bring his beloved crossbow. But these days, even taking a train requires X-ray inspection of luggage. Who would bring one when traveling?

Crossbow machine, isn't that just making yourself miserable?

Therefore, when Wen Desi saw those horn bows that were thrown around carelessly by everyone, his eyes immediately glowed green - there is a bow back and a bow string, that's enough! The remaining brackets are left

For accessories such as triggers, go to the mechanical team to make them!

I gathered a group of brothers who were also interested in crossbows, and the most important thing was to get the comrades who started the machine tool. After two or three days of work, a group of people quickly made a machine similar to the one in "Crazy Stone"

That's a powerful crossbow that's similar to a big black hawk.

The main bracket of the crossbow is made of hardwood and fixed with steel screws - they found many screws of various types on the ship. After twisting the two bow strings into one, the tension of the crossbow was greatly enhanced. The range was also increased.

Increase. This kind of crossbow cannot be pulled open by an ordinary person with just his arms, so there is a foot ring on the front end of the crossbow. The shooter steps on the foot ring, bends down and uses the power of his waist and legs to wind the crossbow.

After testing, the farthest range of the homemade crossbow can reach 150 meters, but for accurate aiming, it is best to aim within the range of 70 meters. The coverage shooting method can be used in the range of 80 to 150 meters. Comrade Lao Ma of the artillery specially designed it for them.

A special sighting scale for crossbows has been released. The principle is to imitate the salvo sights on old-fashioned rifles. It is made of hardwood chips and is usually fixed on the side of the crossbow bracket with screws. It can be turned over when used. As long as the leader has experience

Comrades on the ground roughly calculate the distance, wind direction and other factors, and more than ten crossbows here can use a height parameter to fire, and roughly kill a certain area.

After the crossbow was made, everyone took turns to test-fire, because cocking and aiming were divided into two steps. And the ergonomic design is quite excellent - there is a grip on the front end, and the tail of the bracket is on top like the rifle.

On the shoulder, in order to keep the shooting posture stable, everyone's hit rate will be greatly improved. As long as you are not highly myopic, the impact point of the crossbow within a range of 60 meters can basically be controlled on a 0.8 meter diameter target.

This kind of accuracy is enough for shooting the human body, which means that their homemade crossbow has actual combat capabilities. So after passing various tests, this kind of crossbow machine began to be mass-produced as a supplementary substitute for muskets.

Bows were widely used in the Ming Dynasty army, and they were not regulated weapons. The folk customs in Hainan were fierce, and even ordinary hunters often had one or two bows in their homes, so it was easy for the travelers to collect raw materials.

They first searched the Lingao County arsenal, which had been a hundred-household house before, and there were still some stocks in the arsenal. After a thorough inspection, excluding those that were rusty and rotten, they found a total of more than 20 bow backs in the warehouse, as well as

More than fifty processed bow strings. Plus the trophies captured in the battle. Some good quality materials were collected from the private sector, and the arsenal started working again.

But this time the protagonist changed from Wang Ruobin to Xiao Lang. This young man showed his machine tool skills to everyone very skillfully. It is extremely efficient to use electric machine tools to manufacture the supporting parts of the crossbow machine. As long as someone designs the first set of prototypes,

Xiao Lang can process exactly the same accessories from hardwood blocks.

As of a few days ago, when they received the news that the war was about to begin, the time travelers already had nearly 70 processed crossbows. Together with the original 60 or so muskets, they were finally able to arm all the personnel.

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In recent days, comrades who have received crossbows have been busy practicing shooting. Although other accessories have been unified during manufacturing, after all, the core bow back and bowstring are collected separately, which leads to

The cocking tension of each crossbow is different. Tang Jian asked everyone to practice as much as possible and get used to the crossbow machine assigned to them as soon as possible, or in other words - find the "feel".

Compared with musket bullets, manufacturing crossbow arrows is much more convenient - feed hardwood segments of suitable sizes into the entrance of the electric lathe in batches, and pull them out to produce smooth wooden rods with exactly the same length and diameter, and even the center of gravity.

Go install the cast iron arrowheads. The iron-making blast furnace at Huang Jiancheng has developed to the second generation. Hundreds of arrowheads can be made by casting molten iron at one time. They can be very sharp after a little polishing with an electric grinding wheel - it is convenient to have electricity.

The arrowhead was specially cast into a triangular shape. The triangular wound formed after being injected into the body is extremely difficult to bandage. If it weren't for the fact that the sand mold couldn't make a too complicated pattern, Huang Jiancheng even wanted to make a blood groove on the arrowhead, which would be more powerful.

It can be doubled.

Under high-intensity practice, the shortcomings of this crossbow machine have also begun to be exposed: every time you shoot, you have to bend down and pull the string hard. Once or twice is okay, but after shooting more than ten times in a row, most people can't even shoot.

I can't bend my waist anymore.

"Work hard on your akimbo muscles!" soon became the most popular slogan among the team, and everyone was required to do at least 100 sit-ups before going to bed, even those scheduled to hold muskets, because they might be needed then.

Help with winding.

Another shortcoming of the crossbow is that the rate of fire is too slow. Even the most skilled crossbowman needs nearly 10 seconds to cock the bow. Considering that the most powerful distance of the crossbow is only 60 meters, if you really want to meet the enemy face to face,

There are only three to four shots at most before the opponent rushes in front of you.

Therefore, in the staff group's plan, the crossbow unit is not actually suitable for land field operations. The real place where these crossbows can exert their greatest power should be on the sea, as a long-range strike force attached to the Qionghai.

A cloth roll wrapped in napalm or soaked in other greases is installed on the arrowhead of the crossbow. After being ignited, it is thrown onto the enemy's wooden ship using the crossbow. This is the Qionghai's main attack method.

Standing on the ship, you don’t have to worry about being rushed by the enemy, and you can set up the crossbow to fire, which is more effective than a musket. In the previous military meeting, everyone was sure that the Qionghai could be used against fifteen because they had this kind of long-range

A weapon of attack.

After the long-range weapons and equipment were complete, the weapons team also produced a batch of close-combat weapons for everyone according to everyone's requirements. The equipment of close-combat weapons is just in case. Under normal circumstances, there should be no chance to fight the enemy desperately. Therefore, in this regard

There are no unified requirements.

Everyone has different ideas. Some people like machetes, some like spears, and some like axes and hammers... Anyway, whatever you want to use, the technicians in the steel team can make it for you. Second

The iron-making blast furnaces of the modern era are still unable to produce high-strength steel suitable for guns and cannons, but it is more than enough to make ancient weapons.

A few little guys who were obsessed with playing the game insisted on making trouble and wanted Master Huang Jiancheng to make them the same weapons as in the game. As a result, Old Huang was easy to talk to and made him a weapon based on the pattern drawn by one of the little comrades.

"Ashcandir. The Sword of the Brotherhood", but after the sword was made, the boy couldn't even lift it. A lot of materials were wasted, and everyone laughed at him for several days.

Most people still chose a relatively simple design, mainly following the advice of Tang Jian Beiwei and others: use a three-edged spear with a good blood groove, and the stabbing can be fatal. Comrades who are tall and strong use axes.

One side is sharpened and the other side is made into a crane's beak shape, and a hole is cut into the armor...

Pang Yu chose a long dagger for himself. He didn't think that his height of less than 1.7 meters would be able to take advantage in close combat. Equipped with a dagger as a tool, it would be more useful.

The team looked in disarray, like a group of bandits.

The final focus of the equipment is on armor. There is a batch of 6mm thick cold-rolled steel plates in the cargo hold of the Qionghai. It was originally planned to be used by other people, but now it has also been transferred out and used just in the Wenlan River.
Chapter completed!