Chapter 466: Crossbow and Splendor (Two-in-one chapter)

As they talked along the way, they returned to the woodworking workshop again. At this time, no one objected to making crossbows. On the contrary, they were full of interest in crossbows.

After returning to the workshop, in addition to the pile of crossbow tires, another device that they didn't know what it was used for also attracted everyone's attention.

This thing had a wide base, which looked quite stable when placed on the ground. On it was a large wooden square like a beam. There were three square holes drilled through the side of the wooden square. There was also a scratch on the top of the wooden square, which looked like the crossbow arm on the crossbow just now.

It could be said that it was a crossbow arm, but no one would believe it. Who could pull such a large crossbow? This thing was taller than a person when standing up. It was estimated to be at least two meters tall. But the strange thing was that at the end of this device, there was a horizontal wooden roller (gun). There were cross-shaped handles on both sides of the wooden roller, which looked like the workpiece for rolling up cloth on a loom.

Everyone looked confused and didn't know what it was.

"Chief, is this a tool for weaving brocade? I heard that our tribe will promote silkworm breeding and brocade weaving in the future." Ying Rui asked first.

"No, this is a crossbow. This thing is the crossbow arm. Don't you see the slide on it for releasing arrows?" Luo Chong didn't beat around the bush this time, but spoke frankly.

Hiss -

everyone took a breath of cold air. This is really a crossbow

. Then Luo Chong began to introduce this giant crossbow.

"This thing is called a bed crossbow. It is named because of its huge size and bed-like base. The three holes on the side of the crossbow arm are used to install bows. A bed crossbow has three giant bows, so this thing is also called a three-bow bed crossbow."

While introducing, Luo Chong called the craftsmen to come and get other things. The first was three longbows, all of which were made of hardwood and were single-body bows. They were just one size larger than ordinary longbows, and were about two meters and two meters long.

This thing is easy to install. It can be inserted into the square hole on the side in the method of two positive and one negative, and then fixed with a wedge. The bowstrings of the three bows are connected in series, and the middle negative bow is also equipped with a copper pulley. In this way, you only need to pull the last bow to drive the three bows at the same time. Similarly, the power stored in this crossbow is the sum of the power of the three bows.

Such a huge force cannot be pulled by human power alone. Perhaps only the monster used by the giant ape has the confidence to challenge the crossbow with bare hands.

However, since it has been built, it is of course impossible to put it on display. Therefore, there are wooden rollers and capstans behind the crossbow. This thing only requires two people to operate. A little effort can stir the bowstring to achieve the purpose of being used by people.

The bow, crossbow arm and capstan are complete, so the crossbow arrows are naturally indispensable. However, there is no time to make crossbow arrows specifically for the crossbow, so a spear from the early Han tribe was found instead.

Seeing the leader actually took out a javelin as an arrow, everyone was saying "Wow" in their hearts. Of course, if they knew how to use it, the surprise and shock were still written on their faces. Luo Chong could clearly see the words "Wow" written on their faces.

"Leader, this javelin is so heavy, can the bed crossbow really shoot it out?" Shu Da asked doubtfully.

"I think it can be shot out, the only difference is how far it can be shot and how powerful it is.

If this javelin is too heavy, we can change it to a thinner one, and then change the copper spear head to iron, which can reduce a lot of weight. If it still can't shoot far, we can directly replace the arrow shaft with a hollow bamboo pole. In this way, the weight will be lighter. Are you still worried that it can't shoot far?" You Ye, who knew the bow and crossbow the most among the crowd, immediately talked about two improvement plans, which greatly increased everyone's interest in the bed crossbow and made them look forward to it.

"But chief, such a big thing requires several people to operate. We can't just take it and go. So what are we going to use such a big crossbow for?" The elder who had been silent all this time suddenly asked a question.

"Since we can't carry it, we can put it in a fixed place for use, such as on the top of the city to defend the city, or put it on a large ship, which can also be mobile, or we can transform the chassis of the crossbow into a vehicle and use horses to tow it.

There are too many uses for it. How to use it depends on where it is needed. As long as there is a need, it will always be made.

Just like the improvement plan proposed by Youye just now, we can optimize these plans.

For example, Youye said that hollow bamboo poles can be used as arrows. In this way, the crossbow arrows can indeed reduce the weight, but the power will definitely be much smaller. Then we can improve the bamboo poles.

For example, we can inject tung oil into the bamboo poles, make some ignition materials, ignite them and launch them, making a huge rocket.

Or we can put explosives in the hollow bamboo poles, make a blasting tube, and then use the crossbow to shoot into the enemy. Make it explode.

Or, we can be even more ruthless. Put explosives in front of the bamboo pole to start the fire, and inject tung oil in the back to expand the fire. After shooting it out, the bamboo pole will be blown up first, turning into countless thin bamboo strips to kill the enemy, and the scattered kerosene can be poured on the enemy's head. "

Seeing this thing, Luo Chong couldn't help but think of the Korean War, when our volunteer army took a bamboo pole-like blasting tube and forced it into the machine gun hole of the enemy's bunker. Although the early blasting tube has been eliminated by various rockets and high-powered grenades later, it was still very useful under the circumstances at that time, especially the shape of the blasting tube, which is just a thin stick stuffed with explosives.

Therefore, when Luo Chong heard about the bamboo pole, he immediately thought of the blasting tube and the incendiary bomb. If this thing is really made, what should it be called? High-explosive incendiary rocket? Napalm rocket? No, the fuel is liquid tung oil, emmmm.

The people around him looked at Luo Chong with stunned expressions. Youye was already in a mess, and he just said that a hollow bamboo pole could reduce the weight of the spear and arrow. The leader, on the other hand, directly came up with some more unexpected ideas.

Shu Da also looked at Luo Chong in a daze, and then suddenly shuddered as if he suddenly thought of something. He had personally participated in the blasting of the artificial river, so he naturally knew the power of the explosives. Therefore, according to the leader's description, a picture naturally emerged in his mind.

The leader stood opposite him, controlling the huge bed crossbow, and then placed a giant arrow on it. The arrow flew towards him, but because it was filled with things and was too heavy, it did not fly fast. Therefore, he saw the flight trajectory of the giant arrow clearly, predicted the landing point in advance, and then ran away.

Fortunately, fortunately, I ran away and was not shot through by the giant arrow.

But at this moment, the giant arrow suddenly landed not far away. Because the giant arrow was hit violently at the moment of landing, the explosives inside exploded instantly, and then a large number of broken bamboo strips and bamboo pieces flew in all directions, piercing me who had just run a few steps away.

Not only that, the shock wave also overturned my seriously injured body, twisted in the air and threw it far to the ground, but this was not the end.

A large amount of tung oil in the bamboo pole was ignited by the gunpowder gas, attached to the scattered bamboo pieces, and some flew directly onto my body, and then my clothes and animal skins were instantly ignited. In the end, not only was I pierced by bamboo pieces, but my internal organs were also destroyed by the shock wave. Finally, I finally fainted, and was drenched in kerosene, experiencing the pain of being burned by the fire and dying without a complete body.

When he thought of this scene, Shu Da couldn't help but shudder. Oh my god, the leader's imagination is so strange and cruel. He can torture people to death by just saying a way of playing. Fortunately, he is not his enemy. It is too scary.

"Alas! But this is just a trial product. It cannot be used now. If you want to equip the city defense in large quantities, you can only wait for a while. After all, we have limited craftsmen."

At this point, Luo Chong couldn't help but pat the bed crossbow and sighed. Even if there is no high-explosive incendiary bomb, even if it is only used as a cold weapon, it is still a big killer. Who wouldn't like it after seeing this thing?

After inspecting the progress of the woodworking workshop, everyone dispersed, and then Luo Chong returned to the county government.

The current county government is actually just a makeshift team, and Hanyang City is the first pilot county set up by Luo Chong. It will be operated here for a period of time to find and solve problems, and then find a set of effective methods, and finally promote it to the entire Han territory.

A few days later, Luo Chong found Bai Qi, the head of the printing workshop, and asked about the progress of the household registration yellow book form, that is, how many forms had been printed. After learning that a large number of forms had been printed, Luo Chong immediately called the interns of the county government.

From the observations during this period, three groups with the best performance were selected, and then they were asked to take these household registration forms to Liuyang County to take office. However, this time, the things they brought were more complete than before.

Since they are officials, they must look like officials. Uniforms are required, hats are also required, and seals and other things that prove their identity are also indispensable.

Although the Han tribe is called the Great Han, Luo Chong did not blindly inherit the system of the Han Dynasty, because the times are progressing. The things of the Han Dynasty may be the world's top in the great era at that time, but from a modern perspective, there are also a lot of backward places that need to be improved, such as this clothing.

First of all, there were no underwear in the Han Dynasty, let alone pants. Slightly more complete underwear only began to appear at the end of the Han Dynasty, and it was not yet popular. However, the Han tribe was different. Since the day when linen cloth was available, Luo Chong had invented boxer briefs.

The clothes of the Han Dynasty were generally deep-collared clothes, or clothes with a top and a skirt. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin Dynasty and then to the Han Dynasty, there was not much change. Both men and women wore a short coat on top and a skirt on the bottom, which was called a skirt.

However, in the late Warring States period, a dress with a top and a skirt sewn together appeared, which was the so-called body dress. At that time, men all wore this, wearing a dress with bare buttocks.

This is also why people in the Qin and Han dynasties liked to kneel and did not dare to sit cross-legged or sit with their legs apart. There were no benches or chairs, because if they were not careful, their genitals would be exposed, which was indecent and uncivilized. China has always advocated courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame since ancient times. People have to have face

, but the Han tribe is different. The Han tribe has underwear, pants, tables, chairs and benches, so they are not restricted by deep clothes, and they don’t have to wear the kind of dresses of the Han Dynasty.

The formal dress introduced by Luo Chong in the Han tribe, that is, the daily dress of officials, is underwear, long pants, socks, a white short coat with a cross collar on the upper body, and a cross collar right-fronted robe on the outside, that is, a robe with a cross collar in the front and the left collar pressing the right collar.

Secondly, for shoes, civil officials wear shallow cloth shoes, and military officials wear deep boots.

These are clothes that can be worn in spring, summer and autumn. When it gets colder in autumn, the long robe can be replaced with a double-layer padded jacket with wool as filling. In addition, a half-sleeved or narrow long-sleeved jacket can be put on the outside, that is, a cloak, which is similar to a windbreaker.

As for formal dresses worn on formal occasions, such as court dresses, there is no change in other places, except that the narrow sleeves are replaced with square wide sleeves. The length requirement is that a person's arms are drooping, and then the forearms are raised to keep them horizontal, which is almost the height of the hands placed on the upper abdomen, and the hem of the wide sleeves should hang down to the knees.

Of course, this kind of gorgeous-looking clothes are only worn on formal occasions as formal wear. Usually, they are mainly narrow-sleeved, which is convenient for labor or writing.

The last thing to talk about is the hat. After comparing various dynasties in history, Luo Chong still thinks that the Liangguan in Hanfu is better. The Liangguan has been passed down from the Warring States Period to the end of the Ming Dynasty. It can be regarded as a treasure of China. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that people were forced to shave their heads and remove their crowns that they completely disappeared from China. It is really a pity.

The Liangguan, as the name suggests, is a hat with several beams on it, and the number of beams on the hat can directly show a person's class status, which is actually similar to modern military rank.

The highest-level hat is naturally the Pingtianguan that only the emperor can wear, which is a hat with a long flat plate on top and two bead curtains hanging in front and back.

However, that was the emperor's formal dress, which was only worn when he attended court. Under normal circumstances, the casual clothes were all matched with the Tongtian crown, which was actually the highest level of the beam crown. It had a large row of vertical beams, about 20 beams, and was very high, about 20 to 30 centimeters high. There were holes on both sides for inserting hairpins, and ties at the bottom for tying around the chin to fix it.

Further down were the beam crowns of officials at all levels. Not only were they shorter than the Tongtian crown, but the number of beams would also gradually decrease. Nine was the highest number, and no one except the emperor dared to use this number, so they had to start with eight beams. Eight beams meant the first rank, seven beams meant the second rank, six beams meant the third rank, and so on.

You can tell the rank by looking at the hat directly. Isn't this similar to the military rank?

The temporary crown is very simple, made of black cloth, and the front beam is decorated with red cloth wrapped with thin copper strips. At the same time, the entire hat frame is also made of thin copper strips. The Han tribe now has metal wire drawing technology, and the copper output is not low. After all, this kind of official hat is rare, so there is no need to worry about wasting too much copper. Besides, there is nothing valuable on it, so it can't look precious.

(End of this chapter)