Volume 2 The Eagle Spreads its Wings Chapter 33 Weapon Design
After lunch, my grandfather and I came to the study again. Grandpa asked me: "Can your weapon design really make the dwarfs excited?"
Instead of answering my grandfather's question directly, I took out some design drawings of weapons from my arms, including Wuhou crossbow, Tang sword, the Divine Arm crossbow of the Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow, and later the seat crossbow, used by modern army
Military crossbows, modern sabers, sabers, Swiss army knifes, etc. In the years I came to the mainland, I found that the weapons here are very single and have almost no development. There are only swords in the army, although there are many, but they still cannot be combined with
Compared to the earth!
I slowly explained the weapons on the drawings to my grandfather. Tang Dao!
The horizontal knife, which is now called the "Tang Dadao". The horizontal knife is a two-handed knife. It was improved on the basis of the "ring-headed knife" of the Han Dynasty, and removed the common hilt and tail of the knife in the Han Dynasty.
The ring and the short handle are extended to a long handle that can be used with both hands, making it a long straight knife with narrow blade with thick ridges that can be used with both hands. The basic shape is very similar to the current "Japanese knife". The forging of horizontal knife
Technology was extremely advanced in the world at that time, with the forged blades that were extremely sharp and both infantry and cavalry.
Modao, the Modao in the Tang sword is used as an important war material equipment for the army. Its inheritance should be the long sword of the Han Dynasty (Han: a long sword is called the "broken horse sword", which should be a kind of use with both hands.
Long sword), the Han long sword is now unearthed with more than 140 cm long, which can become a two-edged long sword held by both hands and lengthened handles. The "falling knife" drawn by the General Secretary of the Song Dynasty "Wu Jing Zongyao" and "three tips"
The two-edged sword may be the direct successor of Tang Modao.
Modao is also mainly used by the infantry. According to the Tang Dynasty's "The Art of War", the main combat methods of the Tang army were recorded: among which the various troops were divided into archers, crossbowmen, garrisons, war vanguards, horse army, and jumping according to their functions.
, surprises and many other kinds. Whenever the battle begins, when the enemy is at 150 steps, the crossbowmen begins to shoot; when the enemy is at 60 steps, the archer begins to shoot; when the enemy is at 20 steps, the crossbowmen starts to shoot; when the enemy is at 20 steps, the crossbowmen starts to shoot
After the arrow, the sword and the rod (i.e., the rod) and the battle vanguard team entered the fight. After the infantry was slightly defeated, the surprise soldiers and the horse army were not allowed to act rashly. If the infantry's battle situation was not smooth, the surprise soldiers and the horses would be
The army immediately rushed forward and attacked. The infantry retreated and rectified and prepared to support again. If the surprise troops jumped, the horse army would not attack well, and all infantry must cooperate with the horse army to fight at the same time.
The enemy retreated, and the horse army was not allowed to pursue easily. It was necessary to confirm that the enemy was truly defeated before it could be blocked. The Tang army combined infantry and horses, with duties of offense and defense, infantry as vanguards, cavalry as side auxiliary, infantry equipped with bows and crossbows, knives, and cavalry were responsible for infantry
Assault and pursuit after the war. Modao, as a long-handled sword, advanced like a wall, was the main weapon for the vanguard infantry to charge in the formation. It formed the main feature of the Tang war together with the horse army and surprise soldiers. From the historical books, Emperor Taizong of Tang's battle was very personal.
In addition to its characteristics, it is the most popular scene where the enemy's formation is weak, and he personally led the cavalry to charge. "Everyone is defeated." A cavalry was flying in front and tens of thousands of cavalry followed closely. Today, it is particularly fascinating. In the early Tang Dynasty, a large number of
The cavalry is an important guarantee for victory in combat, while the infantry in the middle stage was a wall-driven tactic.
Forging: The forging of the Tang sword should inherit the "hundred-made steel" technology invented by the Han Dynasty, and the forging of the blade also uses composite forging.
crossbow!
The crossbow consists of three parts: the bow and the crossbow arm, and the crossbow machine is mounted horizontally at the front end of the crossbow arm, and the crossbow machine is installed at the back of the crossbow arm. The crossbow arm is used to support the bow, support the strings, and support the user; the crossbow machine is used to support the crossbow arm;
The machine is used to pull the string and launch. When in use, open the string and hold it with a crossbow machine, place the arrow in the arrow path on the crossbow arm, aim at the target, and then pull the crossbow machine. The bow string rebounds and the arrow is shot out. It can be seen that
Crossbow is a bow equipped with a control device that can delay firing. Ancient humanoid
It is described in the form of "bowing the arm horizontally and setting the pivot". Since the crossbow is fired in a time-lapse manner, the arrow is divided into two independent actions, without the need to be at the same time as the string is opened.
Aiming is more conducive to capturing shooting opportunities, and the hit rate is higher than that of the bow. In addition, unlike the bow that can only be used to open the string with the arm, the crossbow can also use other powers other than the arm strength to open the string, so the strength can be greater than that of the bow. Therefore,
Can reach a range farther than the bow.
Crossbow!
A crossbow that can be shot continuously. It has an arrow box on its crossbow arm. Ten arrows can be loaded at a time, and a slot can be used to move the arrow.
Once the wooden arm is pulled back, the string is pulled, the arrow is raised, and three actions are fired, and an arrow is shot. At this time, the arrow in the box will automatically drop another one, push the movable arm, pull back, and then
10 shots can be fired in a row, which improves the launch speed of the crossbow. Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms period improved the crossbow with multiple arrows that was circulated during the Warring States Period and named it
It is "Yuanrong". This crossbow was an advanced weapon at that time. It was smart and light, with accurate launch and fast launch speed. It used steel crossbow arrows. The arrow was about 20 cm long and had good penetration. However, its shooting distance was tight
, not very lethal.
Bed crossbow!
Large crossbows installed on the bed frame. Bed crossbows appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. The crossbows were extremely powerful and powerful. They used wheels and uranium, and nooses to twist the bow, and the crossbow body was installed on the wooden frame to increase stability. The arrows used in bed crossbows were as large as frames and clusters.
For example, the giant axe can shoot up to 500,1000 steps. There are 6 main types of bed crossbows in the Northern Song Dynasty: three-bow bed crossbow, also known as eight-ox crossbow, 7-person hang, big chisel arrow, 150 steps; small cicada crossbow
,7 people Zhang Fa, fired a big chisel arrow, shoot 140 steps. 4 people Zhang Fa, fired a small chisel arrow, shoot 150 steps. 20 people Zhang Fa, fired a hand-shooting crossbow, shoot 140 steps.
250 steps; three crossbows, 70 people, one shot, three sword arrows, and 300 steps; three crossbows, 30 people, 30 people, 200 steps. These large bed crossbows are mostly used for offense and defense
In the battle.
After reading the weapons I mentioned in the same way, listening to their power and design, grandpa said: "Do you want to bring all these weapons designs to the dwarfs?"
I said, "Grandpa Don't worry, I still have the intention to guard against others. Once these weapons are produced in large quantities, they will definitely bring huge changes to the war. They are the key. I don't want the enemy to hold them in a future battle.
I designed the weapon to attack my soldiers.”
Grandpa nodded and said, "I believe you will succeed. If the dwarfs do not agree, it will be their loss!"
I said: "The Dwarves are not our necessary allies, and with them we can reduce the preparation time for two years. Without them we can still make these weapons in two years!".