Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 84

[Chapter 84 Pulley Crossbow]

“Your Highness, do you still want to try bow and arrow?”

Xu Lie and Lu Chang walked over at this time, both of them took off their helmets, their heads were drenched in sweat.

“Of course.” Zhao Xu nodded. His purpose of doing this was not only to verify the performance of the armor, but also to let the soldiers understand what they were wearing.

In this way, in the future on the battlefield, they can estimate what kind of damage they can withstand.

“Shoot an arrow at me directly.” Lu Chang patted his chest, looking fearless.

When the soldiers heard this, their hearts immediately rose to their throats.

This is really no different from actual combat.

The corner of Xu Lie’s mouth twitched, without saying much, he bent his bow and set an arrow thirty meters away.

There was a sound of “whoosh” piercing through the air, and the arrow hit Lu Chang’s body.

Like the scale armor, the bow and arrow left a depression in the plate armor and fell to the ground.

When the soldiers saw them, they immediately cheered excitedly, wishing they could get their armor and put it on immediately.

“Well, the armor-making skills that His Highness imparted to the Bing Zhansi are really unique. With such excellent armor, he will surely make Bei Di’s head bleed this autumn.” Chang Wei praised.

It has to be said that King Yan made them admire too much.

“It’s nothing, there are many things that will open your eyes in the future.” Zhao Xu laughed.

Chang Weixin suddenly felt itchy, “Your Highness, what is it?”

Zhao Xu smiled and said nothing, and closed the door, “You will find out soon.”

After that, he stood up and said to Chang Wei: “Put the armor on Let’s distribute it.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei replied, turned and left.

Zhao Xu’s eyes turned to the soldiers on the school field.

The full strength of the royal family’s army is 20,000, and with the addition of the former county soldiers, the number of troops he can call now is 23,000.

According to his current plan, he wants to build a cavalry of 5,000 men, but because of the lack of horses, there are currently only 1,500 men.

But with the purchase of horses, the number of personnel will continue to increase.

After deducting the number of cavalry, the rest are all infantry.

Among them were 4,000 heavily armed spearmen, 2,000 lightly armed spearmen, 8,000 heavily armed sword and shield soldiers, and 4,000 lightly equipped sword and shield soldiers.

After deducting these soldiers, there are still 3,500 people.

“Cavalrymen, spearmen, and sword-shieldmen.” Zhao Xu muttered.

For him, there is still a lack of a key unit in the army, that is, archers.

But for him, it was too late to train archers now.

Because in ancient times, the training of a professional archer often took five years.

After all, it is difficult to pull a bow and arrow, and it is even more difficult to pull it out and shoot accurately.

So he thought about it and decided to equip his archers with a crossbow.

This kind of crossbow is called pulley crossbow.

In ancient times, crossbows were also difficult to pull, so soldiers sometimes needed one hand to pull and one pedal to pull the crossbow strings into position.

But from modern times, Zhao Xu understands that the modern army will also prepare some crossbows.

In order to make the crossbow easier to use without weakening its power, pulleys are used to reduce the force when pulling the string.

This kind of crossbow has a pulley at each end of the crossbow arm, and the crossbow string goes around the pulley once.

Today, Bing Zhansi has been able to refine steel of various strengths.

It’s perfectly possible to make a solid pulley that takes the force of the string without deforming it.

In the past few days, what he drew was this kind of pulley crossbow.

In ancient times, the craftsmanship of crossbows was already mature, and only a pulley was needed.

More importantly, compared with bows and arrows, crossbows still have many advantages.

Such as high precision, such as high power, such as long range.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, it cannot be used flexibly immediately, and the filling speed is relatively slow.

However, his pulley crossbow can at least double the reload speed.

If it used to be three shots a minute, it should be able to do six shots now.

Such a long-range infantry equipped with a pulley crossbow can definitely give Beidi cavalry a big surprise.

Thinking of this, he and Xu Lie went to the Military Division.

“Hey, I feel free, now I finally have something to do.”

Wang Ying immediately became excited when he saw Zhao Xu’s drawings.

Now that the craftsman has mastered smelting technology and armor making technology, he only needs to supervise it on weekdays.

In the past few days, he always felt much more boring than before.

After that, he looked carefully at the drawing, and immediately showed a surprised expression.

“Wonderful, really wonderful.” Wang Ying sighed while watching.

Zhao Xu was sitting on a chair drinking tea.

In fact, there have been some primary applications of pulleys in ancient times, such as rolling logs.

So after Zhao Xu took out this design, Wang Ying was familiar with various technologies, and immediately understood the beauty of this crossbow.

“Can it be made?” Zhao Xu asked, spitting out a piece of tea.

“No problem, Your Highness, the Bing Zhan Division has craftsmen who specialize in making crossbows, and I can just make this small wheel.” Wang Ying didn’t raise his head, and was still looking at the blueprint.

Zhao Xu nodded, the craft of the pulley crossbow is not complicated, he believed in Wang Ying.

“Armor, crossbow arrows, long knives, and sword shields all need to be faster, time is running out.” Zhao Xu reminded Wang Ying.

“Yes, Your Highness, the officials have ordered three shifts of craftsmen to fall as His Highness said.” Wang Ying said.

Since doing so, the efficiency of Bing Zhansi has improved a lot.

Getting up and going outside the office, Zhao Xu felt relieved looking at the busy craftsmen.

In Yan County, almost everyone who saw him felt that he was very confident about this autumn hunt.

But in fact, only he himself knew, and he panicked.

Although Qiushou was not a large-scale attack by Beidi people.

But in the past few years, more and more Beidi troops entered Yanzhou to plunder every year.

What’s even more deceitful is that with the current situation, once Beidi Qiushou, the Yuan family will only watch him being beaten by Beidi people.

And Yanguan’s forbidden army may not come to help him.

After all, Yanguan can’t have any mistakes, the only thing he can rely on is himself.

But I only have this little soldier.

If they were all gone, I would have to go back to before liberation overnight.

At that time, let alone the Yuan family, the Zhang family would definitely not give him another chance to make a comeback.

It is precisely because of this that he wants to arm his pro-army to the teeth, they are really his treasures.

After staying in Bingzhangsi for a while, he returned to the palace.

At this time, the front of the middle courtyard of the palace was very busy, and a carload of garlic was transported to the middle courtyard.

Feng’er was pinching her waist and directing.

This little girl is becoming more and more like a housekeeper now.

“Feng’er, don’t forget to buy the petals.” Zhao Xu reminded before entering the door.

“Your Highness, this servant remembers.” Feng Er wiped the sweat from her forehead and said softly.

Zhao Xu nodded. Apart from armaments, Zhao Xu naturally did not forget to expand his business territory.

It’s a bastard who doesn’t earn money, not to mention that there will be many places that need money in the future.

Yan County is located in a chaotic place like Yanzhou, and future wars will be inevitable.

And war is about money.

(end of this chapter)