The wish is indeed beautiful, but the reality is harsh. Not only is the news about the bandits not false, but the bandits have completed their assembly and have even completed preparations for an attack.
The reason why they have not launched an attack until now is because the movements of the official army made them choose to wait first.
Wen Yuanzhong also knew that no matter how outstanding Lu Xu's ability was? No matter how much support he gave Lu Xu now, one undeniable reality is that Wei'an Fort was indeed destroyed too much after it was breached by the Beiting people.
It was so thorough that Lu Xu needed to rebuild almost all of Wei'anbao's infrastructure, including residential buildings.
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.
Wen Yuanzhong didn't mind giving Lu Xu some support when he didn't invest much.
After all, didn't he want to send his wife to Wei'an Fort? In addition, everyone in Qinfeng Road knew recently that it was not safe in the Qinling Mountains, so he naturally sent an army to escort those women and some baggage to Wei'an Fort.
How do the bandits know what this army is here for?
When they saw an official army approaching their sphere of influence, they became nervous.
Although they have decided to attack Wei'an Fort, it is because there are only fifty regular troops in Wei'an Fort, and these fifty people have just been assigned, and they are not a combat-effective force at all.
But the officers and soldiers dispatched this time are obviously elite troops with real materials, and no one is sure whether this force is just the vanguard?
Therefore, as soon as this force moved, the bandits immediately became nervous, and the matter of Wei'an Fort was naturally put behind them.
Of course, there was no need to inform Lu Xu about what Wen Yuanzhong wanted to do, but Lu Xu knew that at least until the women arrived at Wei'an Fort, the higher-ups would not let the bandits attack Wei'an Fort.
Since the higher-ups have given a wife to Wei'an Fort, it means that the higher-ups have recognized that these bandits cannot do anything to Wei'an Fort, so they have begun to make long-term plans for Wei'an Fort. Then they will naturally not allow a group of bandits.
Interfering with your own pace.
Then Lu Xu can continue to enhance his strength step by step according to his own ideas.
When the hand lathe and wire drawing machine were ready, Lu Xu used the lathe to turn out an arrow shaft made of strange wood.
This scene shocked a large number of people again!
Crossbows will be replaced by firearms in the future, and a very important reason is that the cost of crossbows 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. The firing rate and range of the crossbow are also higher than those of the early muskets. The training cost is not higher than that of the early muskets, but it is
Still was eliminated.
One of the most important reasons is that the cost of arrows is too high.
In particular, the cost of making arrow shafts was unaffordable. In the era before lathes, it was very time-consuming and laborious for craftsmen to manually grind wood of different shapes into straight arrow shafts. The story of straw boat borrowing arrows is
This reflects the high cost of arrows.
Not only that, in beams, the difficulty of processing sly wood is recognized to be high! It is unimaginable to use sly wood to make arrow shafts in girders. However, the excessive sturdiness and toughness of sly wood in wood seemed to Su Gang.
It is not worth mentioning that the cutting machine composed of multiple blades also makes it particularly easy to manufacture arrow shafts.
The appearance of the strange wood arrow shaft made everyone more curious. What kind of crossbow was Lu Xu going to build? And what kind of crossbow was worthy of being protected by 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 placed the pulley set he had built before on a wooden platform.
With a pulley block, an iron bowstring and a fixed platform, this does look like a crudely made crossbow.
When Lu Xu placed the arrow on the crossbow machine, everyone held their breath and concentrated, wanting to see how powerful this crossbow machine was?
But......
After the arrow was launched, everyone was disappointed.
The arrows fired by Lu Xu seemed to be very powerful indeed. The armors prepared by everyone were easily shot through by them. But the power seemed to be that of an ordinary crossbow machine.
In order to achieve this kind of power that is not outstanding, they made an iron bow string and used a strange wood arrow shaft? They even made a pulley block made of fine steel?
Compared with this thing created by Lu Xu, the Divine Arm Crossbow is definitely of high quality and low price!
Not to mention, the thing Lu Xu created seems to be a little less powerful than the Divine Arm Crossbow.
In everyone's opinion, there is no doubt that Lu Xu failed...
Thinking this way, many people feel a little disappointed.
But Lu Xu's eyes became brighter and brighter. He took his "Crossbow" and fired the poor arrow repeatedly, and also ravaged the armor that had been shot through countless times over and over again.
Everyone looked at it and found it boring. Everyone felt that Lu Xu was just unwilling to fail. No one would say anything for the sake of Lu Xu's face, but no one would continue to pay attention to what Lu Xu was going to do?
The crowd gradually dispersed, but Lu Xu became more and more excited. After Lu Xu fired dozens of arrows, he was finally sure that the strength and toughness of the strange wood could indeed meet his requirements.
Lu Xu had heard a ridiculing famous saying - "All fear comes from insufficient firepower."
He had not felt this sentence before, but when he came to this strange world, the first thing he thought about was to create a weapon with fire coverage to protect his own safety.
Now, he finally found this weapon!
After human civilization entered the era of hot weapons, a piece of equipment was born that can be called the most powerful individual long-range weapon in the history of cold weapons. It has the speed of fire of a bow and the power of a crossbow, and like a crossbow, it does not require
After too much training, an archer can develop combat effectiveness.
It is conceivable that if it appeared in the cold weapon era, it would definitely be the well-deserved king on the battlefield. It is the Eagle Bow!
The so-called eagle bow is to install a pulley group on the bow. With the help of the pulley group, the archer can draw the strong bow with very little effort. And what is even more frightening is that the closer the archer draws the bow to the full bow, the less force it requires.
The smaller it is, the archer only needs very little effort to maintain the stability of the bow and complete the aiming shot when the bow is fully drawn.
Why is it difficult for archers to train? It is because of the structure of the bow. Its users must undergo long-term training before they can draw a strong bow.
And this is just an introduction. The bow needs to be aimed. Being able to draw the bow does not mean that the hand will not shake when aiming. In fact, for the archer, the aiming stage after drawing the bow is the most laborious.
If you want to keep your hands from shaking, the archer must be strong enough. In other words, archers, especially longbows, are a branch of arms that non-strongmen cannot handle.