Dahan first prince

Chapter 299 Triangular Arrow!
After a while, a seemingly ordinary military workshop, but in fact secretly with elite soldiers, ushered in the emperor Liu Ying, Shaofu Qing Yang Chengyan, and officials from the Shaofu.

And after stepping into the warehouse that was clearly forbidden to enter and exit, Liu Ying's eyes fell on the rows of arrowheads shining with cold light in the wooden box for the first time.

——Three-edged arrowhead!
In the past nearly a year, there was not one of the key projects of the Shaofu Military Industry Department!

But now, after a year of repeated research and improvement, the three-edged arrow that Liu Ying had been thinking about finally met the actual combat requirements.

——If the requirements are not met, Yang Chengyan will never smelt all the arrowheads in Shaofu to prepare for the mass production of triangular arrowheads!
When Liu Ying walked forward with a little joy and carefully grabbed a three-edged arrowhead, Yang Chengyan's explanation sounded in Liu Ying's ears.

"Your Majesty, let's see."

With a soft call, Liu Ying turned her head slightly, and saw that Yang Chengyan also picked up an arrowhead without a shaft in his hand.

It's just that compared with the three-edged arrowhead in Liu Ying's hand, that arrowhead is not very three-dimensional, more like a piece of iron or copper.

"In the past, all soldiers of the Han family used arrows made of these flat arrowheads for bows and crossbows."

"These arrowheads are also jokingly called by Shaofu craftsmen: leaf arrowheads; they are shaped like leaves, flat and pointed, and the edges of the arrowheads are slightly sharpened."

"To make these leaf arrowheads, you only need to pour copper and iron water into the mold to shape it, and then forge it a little bit, sharpen the blade, and then you can get the finished product."

After briefly explaining the production process of the flat arrowhead, Yang Chengyan's eyes fell on the three-edged arrowhead in Liu Ying's hand.

"However, I have received an order from Your Majesty to make these three-edged arrowheads made by the good craftsmen of the Shaofu, and they will not be seen for a long time..."

After saying this with a wry smile, Yang Chengyan turned sideways, and the officials beside him handed over two black molds.

"Your Majesty, let's see."

"This is the mold for pouring the leaf arrowhead..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, Liu Ying lowered her head with some doubts.

The moment she saw that mold, Liu Ying immediately realized: what is the meaning of "pouring three-edged arrowheads, I'm really worried" in Yangcheng Yankou.

——As far as Liu Ying can see at this moment, the mold in Yang Chengyan's hand is more than one foot long and one foot wide, and five inches thick.

If you don't look carefully, Liu Ying almost thinks that what you see in front of you are some old dictionaries and dictionaries you have seen in later generations.

And on this mold, as Yang Chengyan said, there are sixteen leaf-shaped grooves in 4x4 neatly arranged.

Even in the stomach of the groove, there are 'branches' connected to the 'leaves'!
Just looking at it like this, Liu Ying can easily figure out: Such a mold can cast sixteen flat arrowheads at one time, and the part connecting the tail of the arrowhead to the shaft can also be poured out as a whole. !
The poured flat arrowhead is then adjusted in shape and polished, and the entire arrowhead manufacturing work can be declared complete.

However, the unique three-dimensional structure of the three-edged arrowhead makes this method of pouring and forming with mold grooves impossible to use in the production of three-edged arrowheads.

This is also easy to understand.

——Pouring flat arrowheads is like leaving your own handprint on the surface of a piece of mud.

With this handprint, you can repeatedly obtain the reverse mold of this handprint by pouring the shaping liquid into the handprint.

Of course, it is one-sided, that is, there is only an inverted mold of the palm, and no inverted mold of the back of the hand.

The flat arrowhead, or 'leaf arrowhead', itself is the result of no distinction between front and back, or a three-dimensional symmetrical structure, which makes this pouring method of 'only one side' does not affect the pouring and finalization of the arrowhead at all.

But the pouring of the triangular arrowhead is more like making a model of the entire fist through reverse molding.

As for the reason, it is also very simple: like a fist, a triangular arrowhead is not flat, nor is it a three-dimensional symmetrical structure.

This makes the pouring of the triangular arrowhead impossible, like the flat arrowhead, which can be poured and molded infinitely with the grooves on the surface of the mold. Instead, it needs to make a special mold that can wrap the entire arrowhead inside the mold.

In this way, the mold for pouring the triangular arrowhead will become a one-off product just like the mold for making 'fist' through reverse molding in later generations.

Because after the pouring is complete, the only way to get the triangular arrowhead out of the mold is to destroy the mold that wraps the fist just like the molded 'fist'!
This is also the most difficult problem to solve in making triangular arrowheads.

——Arrowheads, as an important part of crossbow arrows, even if they don't become consumables, they will definitely become regular weapons installed on a large scale!
And large-scale installation means mass production.

Obviously, the production method of "making a new mold for every three-edged arrowhead" cannot meet the requirements of mass production at all.

So at this moment, Liu Ying also intentionally or unintentionally forgot the embarrassment of "wrongly blaming" Yang Chengyan just now, and instead focused on the production method of the three-edged arrowhead.

——Liu Ying is really curious, how did Shao Fu solve such a difficult problem!

Seeing the expectation in Liu Ying's eyes, Yang Chengyan didn't hold back anymore, turned sideways, handed out the mold in his hand, and took another mold.

When Yang Chengyan faced her again, Liu Ying's full attention was also completely focused on this "special mold for melting and casting triangular arrowheads", which was the same as before.

"Um······"

"interesting······"

When Liu Ying saw the second-party mold, she was taken aback.

When she saw the rather weird grooves on the mold, a meaningful smile finally appeared on Liu Ying's face.

Seeing Liu Ying laughing inexplicably, all the officials of the Shaofu who gathered around stood on tiptoe carefully, and also looked at the mold in Yang Chengyan's hand.

But it didn't make everyone confused for too long, Yang Chengyan's soft explanation solved all the doubts in everyone's mind.

"This mold was specially made by the craftsman of Shaofu, and it was thought to be used for pouring three-edged arrowheads."

"The grooves on it are all made of one of the three blades of the three-edged arrowhead, and are cast into shape following the method of pouring leaf arrowheads."

"When the arrowhead blades are obtained, first forge and sharpen the blades, then join the three blades on the side of a 'column', and then fix the blades on the column by the method of mortise and tenon to form a three-edged arrowhead... ···”

Hearing Yang Chengyan's interpretation, everyone at the scene gave a long "Oh~" as if they suddenly realized, and then nodded with a smile.

——As an official of the Shaofu, even a civil official who has never held a blacksmith's hammer is familiar with the professional terms mentioned by Yang Chengyan.

Therefore, for the successful production of the three-edged arrowhead, everyone did not show any obvious joy. It was only that the Shaofu, under the leadership of Yang Chengyan, satisfied the young emperor's absurd request.

But different from the indifference of "it should be like this" and "no big deal" on everyone's face, although Liu Ying can hold it on the face at this moment, in her heart, she wished she could jump up happily!
——As the only "visitor from later generations" in the world today, I am afraid that no one knows better than Liu Ying that the three-edged arrowhead has a major impact on the military power of the Han Dynasty!

Still the same sentence: In the battle with the Huns cavalry group, shooting with bows and crossbows was almost the only means of attack in the Han Dynasty!
And the advent of the triangular arrow can almost directly announce the long-range strike power of the Han Dynasty, which jumped up from the Black Iron Five and reached the level of at least a diamond!
In the past, the arrows shot by the generals of the Han army used flat 'leaf arrowheads' as arrowheads;

Such an arrow, unless it hits vital organs such as the internal organs, neck or even the eyes, will basically not be able to cause much damage to the Huns cavalry.

——Pull out the arrow, bandage it to stop the bleeding, and chew some herbal medicine to sterilize the poison, that is, it takes half a month to heal the wound!

Even a vital shot may not be fatal if the arrow does not penetrate deep enough into the enemy!

But in front of the triangular arrowhead, a similar situation is almost impossible to happen.

First of all, the unique three-dimensional structure of the triangular arrowhead will greatly expand the wound area, and will also greatly increase the damage caused to the body after the arrowhead is shot into the enemy's body!
Then, unlike the smooth tail of the 'leaf arrowhead', each blade of the three-edged arrowhead has a sharp barb nearly an inch long at the tail!

This made the person who was shot by the three-edged arrowhead want to pull out the arrow, or he had to pull it out bravely, and let the barb of the three-edged arrowhead leave a big hole in his body!

In order not to be injured again by the barb on the arrowhead, he had to grit his teeth and continue to insert the arrow into the body so that it could be taken out from the other side of the body...

Obviously, no matter whether it is pulled out forcefully, or continued to be inserted weirdly, after the three-edged arrowhead is shot into the enemy's body, it will inevitably cause secondary damage to the enemy.

Then, there was the triangular arrowhead, which caused the third damage to the enemy.

--bloodletting!

The shape of the flat 'leaf arrowhead', due to its shape, makes the wound of the enemy shot by this kind of arrow appear a knife-edge wound, that is, a flat 'one'-shaped wound.

Such a wound obviously cannot cause much trauma to the enemy, and it is impossible to expect the enemy to be injured due to excessive blood loss.

In the past, things like "a certain enemy was shot by an arrow, but ran away as if nothing happened", even as long as the arrow was not drawn, there would be almost no bloodshed, and it often happened among the soldiers of the Han army.

The unique three-dimensional structure of the three-edged arrowhead makes the wounds caused by the three-edged arrowhead all show the shape of a Mercedes-Benz logo, or a 'Y' shape.

It is also this kind of wound that is not tight and difficult to suture, so that the big killer, the 'bloodletting tank', can exert its greatest effect.

Take a very simple example.

- During the battle, a certain Hun was shot by an arrow feather equipped with a 'leaf arrowhead';

Since the wound was not deep, I just felt a little pain, so I just continued to fight regardless;
When the battle was over, the man remembered that he had been hit by an arrow, so he asked his comrades to help him take a look, only to find that the wound didn't even bleed much.

Seeing that no vitals were injured, the leader of the comrades in arms was relieved, and one person helped him draw his sword, while the rest were ready to go.

The moment the arrow was pulled out, the rest of the people rushed forward and blocked the wound tightly!

When the blood stopped oozing, the comrades carefully let go of the wound, quickly applied some chewed herbal medicine, and then bandaged the wound with cloth strips.

In this way, an arrow shot by the soldiers of the Han army successfully caused the Huns to have one more wounded in a short period of time, and at the same time, they also produced one more veteran who was "baptized by blood and fire"!

In the same situation, a Hun was shot by an arrow shot by a general of the Han army;

But this arrow uses a three-edged arrowhead as the arrow.

Being shot by the arrow of the Han army again, the Hun was surprised to find that the pain was much more severe this time!
But for their own glory, the Huns still decided to focus on the battle first and deal with the wounds after the battle.

Soon, the Huns found that their strength was passing away rapidly, and their eyes became blurred;

Lowering his head, the "Benz-shaped" wound inserted by the triangular arrowhead is continuously sending the blood out of the body, almost dyeing the entire lower body of the Huns red.

Knowing that the situation was not good, the Huns gave up fighting and decided to go back immediately to treat the wound.

But the comrades-in-arms who helped the Huns heal their wounds last time were a little timid at the moment.

Because this time, the Huns had already paled, their eyes were slack, and it was obvious that they had only their last breath left.

But even so depressed, when someone tried to pull out the arrow, the Huns couldn't help but wailed again and again, expressing that they were in great pain.

At this point, the comrades also reacted: there may be something on the arrow, so it cannot be pulled out.

But if the arrow continues to be inserted, it is obviously a worse decision.

It was also when everyone was scratching their heads and complaining, not knowing what to do, the vitality of the Huns completely disappeared in this moment.

After the death of the Huns, the comrades in arms took out the three-edged arrowhead that sent chills down the spine.

Since then, the Huns lost a veteran with rich combat experience, and the pain of the veteran before his death left an indelible shadow in the hearts of the rest of the soldiers;

Among the Xiongnu warriors, some "myths" that should not appear have also begun to spread: the arrows shot by the Han people are blessed by the gods of the Han people, and as long as they are shot, they will never survive!
From then on, whenever facing the soldiers of the Han army, the Huns were in awe of the bow and crossbow arrow feathers flying towards them, and wished they could bury themselves in the soil!

This kind of fear, as more and more Hun soldiers were shot by the three-edged arrowhead and lost miserably in the torture, became more and more deeply rooted in the souls of the Hun soldiers...
Thinking of this, Liu Ying showed a look of enjoyment regardless of the people around her!

——At this moment, Liu Ying seems to have foreseen: the Xiongnu Chanyu Maodun bares his breasts, bears a thorn, kneels in front of the high temple of the former emperor Liu Bang, and calls himself the "Northern Mandi Chieftain"... ···
After a long while like this, Liu Ying finally turned around reluctantly from her imagination, and looked at Yang Chengyan, but there was a little playfulness in her eyes immediately.

"Obviously there is an arrow, but it is said in the court meeting that there is no..."

"Shaofu Yangchengyan..."

"Is it my own mind?"

"It's still ordered by someone..."

(End of this chapter)