Wen Yuan liked these crossbows very much as soon as he saw them, and immediately took out one to study in detail.
This crossbow has an oblate stem, about five feet and five inches long. The bow body is made of mulberry wood and is wrapped with leather strips to enhance the strength, elasticity and toughness of the crossbow body. The entire surface is coated with brown raw lacquer. In the middle of the stem, the crossbow arm contains the bow.
Coated with vermilion paint, it is beautiful, waterproof and moisture-proof, and can maintain its power even on rainy days.
The crossbow arm is three feet long and two inches wide. There is a hinge at the front end of the wooden arm to fit the bow, which is then tied with leather strips and tied back to the ears on both sides of the wooden arm to fix it.
There are concave arrow paths on the crossbow arm, which can hold the arrow and increase the surface contact area with the arrow. Although it increases the launch resistance, it helps improve accuracy. Moreover, these arrow paths have been finely polished and appear to be extremely smooth.
It is also coated with paint and wax to reduce the friction between the arrow and the arrow path when launching.
The rear part of the crossbow arm is the crossbow machine, which is precision made of bronze. It consists of Wangshan, hanging knife, and ox. Wangshan is the aiming device, three inches high; the hanging knife is the modern trigger. It is four inches long, and the ox is the most exquisitely designed
It represents the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. The tooth is connected to the hanging knife, but it does not bear the force directly, but uses the ox as the hub. When winding, the crossbow hand pulls the string against Wangshan, and Wangshan moves back, and the tooth
After the crossbow is in the upright position, the bull is reset. The upper teeth of the bull are strong and the lower one is against the hanging knife, and the crossbow enters the ready state. If the crossbow is fired, the process is exactly the opposite of winding. The crossbow pulls the hanging knife, and the cow sinks even more when it is released.
The teeth have no support, and the force sinks, and the bow string flies away with the arrow. This precise design greatly improves the reliability of projection, greatly reduces the misfire rate, and reduces the vibration during launch, which can greatly improve the shooting accuracy.
Rate.
Wen Yuan looked at it very carefully, and he even took out a crossbow bolt to test fire. Wen Yuan used his pedals to pull up the thread, casually aimed at a wooden stake seventy steps away, tapped the hanging knife lightly, and felt
The crossbow body shook, and the crossbow arrow came out in response, whistling fiercely and hitting the wooden pillar. The shoulder weighing more than one or two pierced three inches deep into the wooden pillar! The arrow shaft was trembling and not straight!
This is still a two-stone crossbow, but the power of the arrowhead is already so huge! If it were a stronger three-stone, five-stone, or even ten-stone crossbow, how powerful it would be! It is indeed a powerful killing weapon. Not only is its flying speed several times that of a bow, it is also accurate.
The speed has also been greatly improved. More importantly, the operation of the crossbow is much simpler than that of the bow. You can use it freely with just a little practice. Unlike the archer who needs to be tall and have long arms, the accuracy is also much lower. If this kind of killing weapon can be equipped in large quantities
Troops...well, maybe the only thing lacking is the rate of fire.
Wen Yuan immediately ordered the county and city soldiers to suspend the production of all other weapons, and make all the pig iron in the treasury into douchi, or armor leaves, to wear the city armor, and the two-stone and three-stone crossbows should also be produced at full capacity! If there are any materials,
If there is a shortage, the treasury will fully bear it!
There were more than 300 craftsmen in the county. When the new eunuch issued the order, they immediately took action.
After leaving the arsenal, Guo Dian led Wen Yuan around to other places. It was not until it was getting late that the two of them returned to the prefect's mansion to hold a feast.
At this banquet, all the civil servants, generals and officials from all over Julu County came to attend, and wealthy families also attended. The civil servants were composed of military officers above the rank of commander, and there were hundreds of people on both sides. Since there was no room for them in the hall, they set up wine and entertained them in the courtyard. Just because
It became a hurry, and officials from nearby counties did not arrive.
There are two main seats in the main hall, one for Wen Yuan and one for Guo Dian. On the left are the chief officials from the county and on the right are the generals brought by Wen Yuan.
At the banquet, Wen Yuan and Guo Dian drank and chatted happily, and all the civil and military officials from the county and city also toasted enthusiastically, hoping to establish a good relationship with their future boss.
In the Han Dynasty, the prefect did not have a captain, and the prefect was the military commander-in-chief of a county. Below him, there was a county magistrate, the rank of prefect, with a rank of 600 shi, responsible for civil affairs;
Cao, Tian Cao, Shui Cao), finance (Cang Cao, Jin Cao), transportation (Ji Cao, Cao Cao, Fa Cao), military (Bing Cao, Wei Cao), public security (thief Cao), justice (Jue Cao, Ci Cao)
), education (academic officer), health (medical officer), etc.
In addition to the more important functions, there are also more important meritorious officials, such as Wuguanju and postal supervisors. These officials have greater real power and are the right-hand man of the prefect. They have the highest status among the subordinate officials appointed by the county government. They are responsible for the overall situation, commanding or
Supervise the performance of other departments.
In addition to the various Cao chiefs, there were more than 200 people in the army including Shu Zuo, Xun Xing, Qian, and Xiao Shi. However, these people's status was too low, so naturally they had no chance to participate.
After becoming a prefect of a county, all personnel appointments and removals in the county, except for the prefect, are in the hands of the prefect. Even if he is the prefect, the prefect who holds the overall power of the army can easily get rid of him, so all the Cao Cao who came to the banquet
The officials all came to Wen Yuan with drinks in their hands with almost flattering expressions.
Wen Yuan asked each of them their names cordially. Unfortunately, none of these people were famous scholars.
After the civil servants came the generals. Julu had a battalion of soldiers and horses, and there was a Sima named Xia Yang. Wen Yuan had no impression of him. There were several military commanders under him. Wen Yuan asked their names one by one, and the result was the same.
Yuan is slightly regretful that, except for the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Julu County seems to have produced no decent civil servants or generals during the Three Kingdoms period.
Thinking about it, being able to meet third-rate military generals such as Zhang Nan, Jiao Chu, Su You, and Murong Ping is already pretty good. And isn't there Tian Toyota Yuanhao in Ren County? As long as he can help, it will definitely be worth it.
An army of hundreds of thousands!
Thinking of this, Wen Yuan's heart suddenly became eager and his mood became extremely good. He drank happily with various civil and military officials. The subordinates were secretly happy to see the new superior official being so generous.
After the civil and military officials, representatives of the local wealthy families in Yingtao also came to the hall one after another. They were the local bosses here, and many county officials were their descendants. Wen Yuan was polite and polite, chatting and laughing with them one by one.
But speaking of it, the power of the wealthy families in Yitao City is really small. There are only two families with some strength. The largest family is a small family named Hu. The family has more than 7,000 acres of land. The leader Hu Man is a shrewd-looking fifty-year-old man.
The old man has nearly three hundred relatives and more than a thousand followers. This may be a characteristic of Julu as a whole. No wonder there are no outstanding talents in these small families.
Wen Yuan could not bear the banquet, even if it was very low-alcohol rice wine and a group of gentry took turns. The banquet lasted until late at night. Guo Dian repeatedly invited Wen Yuan to rest in the county mansion, but Wen Yuan refused to let him go.
, let Jiao Chu sway and carry him back to the hotel. He slept until three o'clock in the morning on the second day before getting up.
Because the handover had just been completed yesterday, Guo Dian still needed some time to pack his luggage. After Wen Yuan washed up and had breakfast, he waited until Guo Dian had packed up everything in the afternoon before he personally led the county civil and military officials to see Guo Dian and his family's car out of the city and back home.
After sending Guo Dian away, Wen Yuan could finally move into the prefect's mansion in a dignified manner. As soon as he sat in the seat where Guo Dian once sat, the civil and military officials of the county and city gathered together, and Wen Yuan immediately issued the first order after becoming the prefect!
"Instruct all counties to leave county captains to guard the city, and all county magistrates, chiefs, and county magistrates will gather Ying Tao in five days. If they are not available, military law will be engaged!"