God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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"What is that?" Winchenio was stunned for a moment when he saw the crossbow bolt streaking across the sky. He had never seen anything like it before.

The Roman Empire naturally understood the crossbows of the Han Empire after so many years of fighting, and even disassembled and analyzed their structure and main principles.

Through actual training and shooting, they analyzed the differences between this thing and bows and arrows, and understood the differences between them.

The difference between a bow and a crossbow is not only in their design methods, but also in the arrows they use.

Arrows used in bows and arrows, whether longbows or shortbows, generally have a tail fin for stable flight, unless they are of poor quality.

For the Han Empire and the Roman Empire, such substandard arrows would naturally not appear on the battlefield, unless they were already used consumables.

Crossbows are completely different from bows. Crossbow bolts do not have fins; they are essentially just an arrowhead and a shaft that can be assembled into a crossbow bolt.

In terms of balance alone, crossbows are far inferior to bows and arrows.

Moreover, the crossbow itself is extremely unique, making it difficult to apply talents to it, which means that many archery talent effects that can be applied cannot be applied to the crossbow.

It was precisely because of this factor that the Romans did not place excessive importance on the crossbow.

From the perspective of the Han Empire, mass-produced crossbows could not only compensate for the lack of ranged attack capabilities of many non-ranged units, but also provide additional combat and cooperative capabilities. They didn't even require much time or effort for training. Apart from being more energy-intensive, wasteful, and prone to damage, they seemed like an excellent choice.

However, for the Roman Empire, crossbows that could not be enhanced with special effects were not worth widespread adoption and use.

With the Scythians present, the Roman Empire had no shortage of elite archers.

Even with their different talent effects and massive army numbers, Roman archers could far surpass crossbowmen in both quality and quantity.

Therefore, the seemingly minor production and time costs of crossbows were not worth the attention of the Roman Empire.

The new type of crossbow bolt that has now appeared has sparked ideas and speculations in Vincenzo's mind.

If the problems and shortcomings of the crossbow can be overcome, then the crossbow of the Han Empire can be learned from and used.

The structure is not complicated; it's just that the precision requirements are relatively high, making it difficult to manufacture. But for a serious empire, these are not problems, provided that such a thing is truly needed, or even if it is not needed, it doesn't matter.

"Enough, keep chasing!" Gently shaking his head, Vincenzo snapped out of his deep thoughts and, looking at the Han Empire army and Parthian army still fleeing, launched another attack.

Anyway, there are their own knights and officers in the camp, as well as hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops, so there is no way anything could go wrong.

Even if these crossbow bolts could indeed bypass them and fly accurately into the army camp, Vincenzo would not be worried or afraid.

Even if each arrow accurately hit one person, or even two, the maximum loss wouldn't exceed ten thousand men. This was a drop in the ocean for the Roman army camp. Besides, crossbow bolts simply couldn't achieve that level of accuracy and hit rate, so the bolts in the sky were completely negligible. "Not bad, looks about what I expected." Retracting his crossbow, Xu Huang nodded in satisfaction, quite pleased with the bolts gliding through the sky.

Normal crossbows simply can't shoot that far. Let alone a single-shot crossbow, even a real crossbow would have a hard time achieving this level of impact, unless it's a terrifyingly powerful ballista, which could achieve such an attack range.

However, with gliding arrows, all of this becomes possible, especially when combined with their talents, which further increases the probability of success.

After launching the crossbow bolt to a considerable height, the gliding wings unfold, and then the Legion's innate power is used to create a tiered elevation difference, resulting in higher air pressure below the bolt and lower air pressure above it. Even if the speed is not ridiculously fast, it is enough to support a gliding distance of less than twenty miles.

"I never expected it could be used like this! I've learned something new!" Wei Yan clapped his hands decisively, his words filled with surprise. He had never imagined that this thing could be used in this way.

It's a great thing that such a simple, low-cost, and low-loss method of achieving beyond-visual-range strikes is so easy.

In fact, even within the Han Empire, the wide variety of arrows and crossbows caused headaches for many generals.

There is a limit to the amount of supplies that can be carried in every war. Everyone should try to carry as many useful items as possible to increase their chances of winning the war. No one is an exception.

However, everyone felt a headache when faced with the arrows they needed to carry each time. So much so that when carrying arrows, they basically had a standard three-piece set, and then picked out some other arrows.

As for carrying all the arrows, that idea only exists in dreams. In reality, there is no such strong carrying capacity. Even the crossbow shield guard legion cannot do that, not even with a horse.

In fact, the most commonly used arrows are the ones that people carry the most, because they are the most effective and the easiest to understand.

The three most commonly used arrows are the triangular arrows, which have armor-piercing capabilities; the split arrows, which can be used to clear out mobs; and the oil arrows, which can be used for fire attacks. There are many other types of arrows, but which one to carry depends on the individual.

The arrows Xu Huang carried were gliding arrows, which were said to have a longer attack range.

In fact, gliding arrows can increase the attack range many times over, which seems to be a very impressive effect.

However, Wei Yan had encountered them before, so how could he not know their shortcomings, some of which were fatal? Among them, there were three, or rather, two, the most fatal shortcomings.

One problem is insufficient lethality, another is excessively slow flight speed, and the third is poor accuracy.

The reason for its insufficient lethality is largely due to its slow flight speed, hence the option of using two or three aircraft.

It can be said that these shortcomings are precisely why the probability of gliding arrows being carried is not high at all.

After all, poor accuracy and insufficient lethality mean it's difficult to kill people. Even if it has a longer attack range, so what? If it can't kill people, it can't kill people.

At its maximum attack range, even a piece of tree bark placed on your head can block the attack of this gliding arrow, which shows how weak its destructive power is... (End of this chapter)