Chapter 330 Just Say I'm Not Here
Every time I come back from a vacation, the documents on the desk will pile up a lot, but in fact this situation has eased a lot. The ten-level division of documents allows the city lords of each sub-city to more clearly distinguish some of the original documents. The files with ambiguous levels, which seem to be cumbersome, actually saved them a lot of tangled things by accident.
At the same time, Luo Ji can also be more clearly divided according to this level, according to the work ability of each secretary and the city owner, assign them the corresponding processing authority, significantly reduce their work burden.
After quickly reviewing the reports at hand, Luo Ji turned to look at the sky outside the window.
Just as he was thinking so, a guard walked in quickly outside the office, "Report to Your Majesty, the Minister of Ordnance Research, Ye Xuan..."
"Just say I'm not here." After hearing the name of the little ancestor, Luo Ji instinctively cowarded, and then quickly took a sip of tea to suppress his shock. His mortal brain couldn't keep up with the genius's thoughts. , please let him go.
The members of the escort team clearly knew what was going on between their Majesty and Ye Xuan. All of a sudden, the corners of everyone's mouth twitched unnaturally, and then Zhou Cang, who heard the report, hurriedly explained. , "Your Majesty misunderstood. It was Minister Ye Xuan of the Ordnance Research Department who sent someone to inform His Majesty that the hand crossbow was completed."
"Pfft—" The tea that was in his mouth spurted out on the spot. After being shocked, it was not ecstasy, but a feeling of tears streaming down his face, "Have you finally finished your research?"
He wiped away a handful of bitter tears. Ever since Michelle Ye started studying the hand crossbow, facing the problems that have become more and more tricky one after another, God knows how he has managed to survive until now. Three impulses! The whole person "swiped" and stood up, "Go, go and see!"
Aside from the fact that he was about to be tortured mad by various tricky problems, the completion of the hand crossbow was undoubtedly a very important step for the military development of the entire Myriad Realms civilization, because it represented the imminent arrival of a new army. Birth, that is the crossbowmen!
After rushing to the Ordnance Research Department, Luo Ji waved his hand, signaling Ye Xuan and the others to avoid the salute, and then his eyes fell directly on the finished crossbow.
To be honest, he is much bigger than he imagined, but after thinking about it, according to the current technical strength, if you want to make a hand crossbow that is too small, it is probably difficult for a strong man to make a crossbow like this. Thanks to Ye Xuan, a genius-level armament master.
"Have you had a test shot?"
"The final debugging has just been completed, and the official test has not yet been launched, Your Majesty." Ye Xuan replied quite casually.
"Then I'll try it myself." Luo Ji was obviously also interested in the hand crossbow. After all, it's almost impossible to play this thing in the real world.
Quickly confirming the operation method with Ye Xuan, Luo Ji, who has participated in half of the research, is not difficult to get started, even when pulling the string, it is really laborious, but there is no way, it is a manual One of the definite flaws of the crossbow.
If it is said that the bed crossbow is equivalent to the siege artillery in the age of cold weapons, then the status of the hand crossbow is basically equivalent to the firearms of the age of cold weapons.
Standing in the Ordnance Research Department's field dedicated to testing weapons, Luo Ji fiddled with the hand crossbow in his hand, and then took aim.
Then he pulled the trigger, almost in the blink of an eye, everyone only heard a muffled sound of 'Tui', and then everyone who reacted to the wooden target in the distance looked at the crossbow arrow in the center of the red heart, which made them send out a burst of sound. Exclaimed, and then shouted words like 'Your Majesty', and the system prompt also officially rang...
System prompt: Congratulations to player 'Luo Ji' for successfully developing a 'hand crossbow'
Hearing the compliments from the people under his hand and the prompts from the system, Luo Ji chuckled twice, but he didn't get complacent, because he knew very well that one of the characteristics of the hand crossbow was its high accuracy, and it was just a wooden target. , as long as you are a little proficient, many people can achieve this effect, not to say how powerful he is.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that archers and crossbowmen, as the few long-range arms in the entire cold weapon era, there is no doubt that there will be a large number of people who are full and have nothing to do. Put these two arms together for comparison, and once this kind of problem occurs, all kinds of rhythmic and some take-for-granted gangsters will also appear. In the end, it is likely that this matter will be abruptly mixed into a fight. Tear fight.
To put it simply and clearly, the existence of these two weapons does not actually have any conflict. It is like if you have a battery car, you have to ask the world to eliminate the bicycle and stop the production of the bicycle. It is purely a disease of the mind.
Returning to the topic, the archers attacked mainly with manpower, while the crossbowmen attacked with mechanical force. Based on this premise, the branches of the two arms have clearly diverged.
In a war in the age of cold weapons, it was also clearly stated that usually when the two armies fought, the bed crossbow (ballista) first salvo, then the crossbowmen salvo, followed by the archers salvo, the bow and arrow. After three rounds of salvos, the enemy army will come to the front, and finally the frontal battle between the two armies.
From this description alone, a lot of information can be drawn. First, from the sequence of shots, the length of the effective range can basically be confirmed. Then, in the battle between the two armies, the bed crossbow and the crossbow soldier basically only have one shot opportunity, and The archer has three rounds. In the words of some shooting game players, the archer reloads fast enough.
As a matter of fact, Luo Ji had just experienced it firsthand. It was indeed quite laborious to pull a string with a hand crossbow, but wouldn't it have an advantage? Of course, there are advantages. Although it is slow to play, it is better than the stable output.
In other words, this is the advantage of mechanical force. Under normal circumstances, no matter how many times the hand crossbow is shot, the power, range and rate of fire of his crossbow arrow are basically maintained on a parallel line, but if it is replaced by a bow and arrow, Because of the manpower, the bow and arrow arm has a great loss of strength, and the power and accuracy of the bow will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
In conclusion, the advantages of bows lie in their simple structure, light weight, fast loading and flexibility! The advantage of the hand crossbow lies in its strong penetration, high accuracy and fast firing rate.
At the same time, it is precisely because the firing rate is fast enough and the penetrating power is strong enough that the crossbowmen can almost use a round of salvo fire at some appropriate timing to cause a devastating blow to the cavalry troops!