Wishes are indeed beautiful, but reality is skinny. Not only is the news about the bandits not fake, but the bandits have completed the assembly and even completed the preparation for the attack.

The reason why they have not launched an attack so far is because the movements of the government army made them choose to take a wave first.

Wen Yuanzhong also knew that no matter how outstanding Lu Xu's ability was, or how much support he gave Lu Xu now, an undeniable reality is that after being breached by the Beiting people, Wei'anbao was indeed destroyed too thoroughly. Lu Xu almost needed to rebuild all the infrastructure of Wei'anbao, including the residential houses.

Even if Lu Xu wants to make weapons, he has to build his own workshop first. This means that Lu Xu needs time to develop.

With little investment in his own way, Wen Yuanzhong didn't mind giving Lu Xu some support.

Anyway, wasn't he going to send his wife to Wei'an Fort? In addition, people on Qinfeng Road recently knew that the Qinling Mountains were not safe, so he naturally sent an army to escort the women and some supplies to Wei'an Fort.

The bandits didn't know what this army was here for?

When they saw an official army approaching their sphere of influence, they became nervous.

Although they had decided to attack Wei'an Castle, it was because there were only fifty regular troops in Wei'an Castle, and these fifty people had just been sent, so they were not combat-capable troops at all.

But the official army dispatched this time was obviously an elite unit with real materials, and no one could be sure whether this unit was just a vanguard?

So as soon as the troops moved, the bandits immediately became nervous, and naturally they put the matter behind their heads.

Of course, there is no need to notify Lu Xu about what Wen Yuanzhong wants to do, but Lu Xu knew that at least the women would not let the bandits attack Wei'an Castle.

Since the above has given his wife to Wei'anbao, it means that the above has recognized that these bandits cannot do anything to Wei'anbao, so they have begun to make long-term plans for Wei'anbao. Then they naturally will not allow a group of bandits to interfere with their pace.

Then Lu Xu can continue to strengthen his strength step by step according to his own ideas.

When the hand-crank lathe and wire drawing machine were ready, Lu Xu used the lathe car to produce an arrow shaft made of weird wood.

This scene shocked a lot of people again!

A thing like a crossbow will be replaced by a firearm in the future. One of the very important reasons is that the cost of a crossbow is too high.

The power of the crossbow is actually no worse than that of the early muskets. The lethality of the crossbow is even higher than that of the early muskets. Moreover, the rate of fire and range of the crossbow are also higher than that of the early muskets. The training cost is not higher than that of the early muskets, but it was still eliminated.

One of the most important reasons is that the cost of arrows is too high.

In particular, the cost of arrow shafts is so high that it is unbearable. In the era without lathes, it was time-consuming and laborious to allow craftsmen to polish wood of different shapes into straight arrow shafts by hand. The story of borrowing arrows on straw boats reflects the high cost of arrows.

Not only that, in the beam, the difficulty of processing the weird wood is recognized as high! Using weird wood to make arrow shafts is unimaginable for the big beams. However, the weird wood is too strong and tough in the wood, which seems so insignificant in front of Su Gang. The cutting machine composed of multiple blades also makes it particularly easy to make arrow shafts.

The emergence of the Wei Wood Arrow Stand made everyone even more curious. What kind of crossbow is Lu Xu going to build? What kind of crossbow is worthy of escorting with so many new technologies?

Everyone was eagerly waiting for Lu Xu to reveal the answer to the question. After Lu Xu built the arrow, he installed the pulley set that had been built before on a wooden platform.

The pulley set, iron bow strings and a fixed platform, does look like a shoddy crossbow machine.

When Lu Xu placed the arrow on the crossbow machine, everyone held their breath and wanted to see how powerful this crossbow machine was?

But......

When the arrow was launched, the facts disappointed everyone.

The arrows fired by Lu Xu looked very powerful, and the armor prepared by everyone was easily shot through by it. But that power seemed to be the power of an ordinary crossbow machine.

For this kind of power that is not outstanding, I created an iron bowstring, and used a weird wooden arrow shaft? I even created a pulley set made of fine steel?

Compared with the thing Lu Xu created, the Divine Arm Crossbow is definitely of good quality and low price!

Not to mention, the thing Lu Xu made seemed to be a little worse than the power of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

In everyone's opinion, there is no doubt that Lu Xu failed...

Thinking of this, many people felt a little disappointed.

But Lu Xu's eyes became brighter and brighter. He repeatedly fired the pitiful arrow with his "cross machine", and also ravaged the armor that had been shot through countless times over and over again.

Everyone felt bored as they watched. Everyone felt that Lu Xu was just unwilling to fail. No one would say anything for Lu Xu's face, but no one would continue to pay attention to what Lu Xu was going to do?

The crowd gradually dissipated, but Lu Xu became more and more excited. When Lu Xu fired dozens of arrows, he was finally sure that the strength and toughness of the weird wood could indeed meet his requirements.

Lu Xu heard a famous saying with a joke - "All fears come from insufficient firepower."

He had no idea about this sentence in the past, but when he came to this strange world, the first thing he thought was to create a weapon that could cover firepower to protect his own safety.

Now, he finally found this weapon!

After human civilization entered the era of hot weapons, a kind of equipment that can be called the most powerful single-range weapon in the history of cold weapons was born. It has the rate of fire of the bow and the power of the crossbow, and like a crossbow, it can allow the archer to form combat power without too much training.

It is conceivable that if it appeared in the age of cold weapons, it would definitely be the well-deserved king on the battlefield, and it would be the Eagle Bow!

The so-called eagle bow is to install a pulley set on the bow. With the help of the pulley set, the archer can use a very small force to draw a strong bow. What's more terrifying is that the closer the bow is to the full bow, the smaller the force required. When the bow is pulled, the full bow is to maintain the stability of the bow with only a small force and complete the aiming and shooting.

Why is it difficult for archers to train? It is because the structure of the bow determines that its users must undergo long-term training to pull a strong bow.

This is just an entry-level entry. The bow needs to be aimed. Being able to draw the bow does not mean that the hand will not tremble when aiming. In fact, the aiming stage after drawing the bow is the most laborious.

If you want to not shake your hands, the strength of the archer must be large enough. In other words, the archer, especially the longbower, is a military force that is not competent by a strongman.
Chapter completed!