The Sacred Ding

To reclaim 5,000,000 acres of arable land north of Hengshan City, they have to move in at least 200,000 young and strong laborers, plus the old and weak women and children who are dragging their families and carrying their mouths. When the time comes, they almost need to move in. Five 600,000 people can meet the requirements.

In addition to horse farms, Yoki farms, quarries, iron ore farms, copper mines, iron smelters, and many war weapons, foundries and manufacturing workshops for loading vehicles, senior craftsmen are all It is transferred from Liquan, but it also requires nearly 200,000 young and strong labor to meet the requirements of Chen Hai.

Furthermore, these young and strong labors require a little higher than the labor force that cultivates wasteland. They need to be trained to reach the level of junior craftsmen. Where do these young and strong labors get?

Hengshan is no better than the Lianshui Mansion after the war in the early days of the war. Lianshui Mansion can absorb refugees from all around. Most of Tianshui County is under the stable rule of Liao, Wu, and Wednesday tribes. The three tribes will never allow it. The subordinates under the rule flowed into Hengshan Mansion on a large scale.

In addition, ordinary people are relocating in peace. As long as there is no major famine and war, who wants to leave their homes? Besides, they moved to the north of the Hengshan Defense Line, which was directly threatened by the monsters, to reclaim the land?

Iron essence, refined copper smelting, it is not an exaggeration to achieve this goal in five years. After all, in the northwestern foothills of Qintong Mountain, there will be no shortage of ordinary copper and iron veins, as long as they can organize With enough manpower, mine copper and iron ore to smelt down the mountain.

And Chen Hai really wants to build a strong line of defense in Yuchengling, the consumption of basic copper and iron is naturally astronomical, and the consumption of several millions of catties and tens of millions of catties is normal every year.

The production requirements of war chariots of various types of heavenly secrets are not exaggerated. When the time comes, you can consider moving the war chariot workshop of Tianji Academy in Liquan to Hengshan; the main clan of Yanzhou Previously, they all chose to purchase the manufacturing drawings of the Tianji war chariot directly from the Tianji Academy. At this time, all types of Tianji war chariot can be manufactured. The war chariot workshop of the Tianji Academy should also serve the Longxiang camp.

However, the annual output of two thousand loading vehicles, 10,000 individual crossbows, and 1,000,000 individual crossbow special arrows are too exaggerated.

At this time, Tianji Xuegong can get 2,000,000 catties of hardened gold iron from Liquan every year, and it can also secretly obtain another 300,000 catties of high-quality hardened gold iron from Lucheng. This is a considerable number, but these The existing war chariots and crossbows are exhausted, and there is no way to squeeze out more hardened iron to realize Chen Hai’s ambitious plan.

Even if Lucheng can increase the output of quenched gold and iron, coming from Lucheng has to pass through Hexi, and Hexi has always intentionally or unintentionally controlled the total amount of quenched gold and iron obtained from Lucheng by Tianji Academy.

Hexi will not tear his face with the Tianji Academy at this time, so he will not directly block the caravan from the Tianji Academy from borrowing from the Western border of the river, but if you think about it, the caravan from the Tianji Academy , It would be a big mistake to transport Lucheng’s gold-quenched iron into Qintong Mountain through Hexi in a large amount without restraint.

Although the two companies did not share this aspect, Su Yuan and the others estimated that the 500,000 kilograms of high-quality hardened gold iron from Lucheng each year should be the limit that the Dong family would bear.

Unless the Hengshan Line of Defense can discover new gold-tempered placers.

Although Su Yuan and the others did not thoroughly understand the formation principle of the quenched gold placer, the north of Hengshan City does not look like a quenched gold placer exists.

In addition, the core components of individual combat crossbows and loaders, even the simple version of the arrow box or the wind box power box, belong to the Profound Level low grade magic weapon category.

Other parts are easy to cast, but the simple version of the arrow box or the wind box car box requires a total of more than 12,000 sets of refining each year, which is also an extremely terrifying task.

Huang Shuang, Su Yuan, Sun Gan, and Zhang Xiong were all dumbfounded when they got the Chen Hai catalog, and they didn’t know what to say.

“This is a single-armed crossbow that has room for further improvement, but the improvement at this time is not in the arrow box, but in the structure of the crossbow and the arrow. Although the casting of the crossbow has become more complicated, But the weight of a single crossbow arrow can be controlled below five taels.” Chen Hai said.

“So much decline?” Su Yuan and Zhang Xiong were quite surprised.

“Yes, even Level 9 hardened gold iron for the tail is enough…” Chen Hai said. From the storage ring, he showed the new crossbow structure and the new crossbow arrow secret map to Su Yuan and Zhang. Xiong watch them.

In the past two or three years, Chen Hai has been thinking about the development of portable individual combat crossbows that can fully replace traditional crossbows.

At present, with the efforts of many craftsmen, the total weight of the single-soldier war crossbow developed by Tianji Xuegong has been reduced to 60 kilograms, and the effective range is controlled at 500 steps, but the shooting power must be guaranteed. , And it is necessary to ensure that any general can carry enough crossbow arrows to continue fighting on the battlefield. At present, Tianji Xuegong uses eight-level quenched iron to cast three-inch-long special short arrows. Even so, each short crossbow arrow Still weighs more than two catties.

This makes it unrealistic to equip individual combat crossbows on a large scale in the army.

Although the short crossbow arrows can be recovered, after being shot from the bore of the crossbow, the sharpest and thinnest arrow clusters and edge parts will be severely deformed, and the range and shooting accuracy can no longer be controlled. , Need to be recast after returning to the furnace.

In this process, the extra labor is not to mention, the quenched iron itself will also consume 20% to 30%.

Hexi’s ability to capture Hechuan County is a fundamental change in the balance of power between the two sides over the years.

Because Chen Hai has always deliberately controlled the flow of heavenly weapons and quenched iron into Hechuan County, and the actual supply of quenched iron material in Hexi far exceeds that of other border counties, which makes Hexi There was a chance to capture the Wenhu Port defense line at once, and there was no chance for the Hexiang Army to form a tug-of-war.

As a result, the strength of the two sides is very different, so the millions of gold quenched arrows that Hexi had stored in the previous few years were still enough for this war.

In order to suppress Hexi’s ambitions, and also to express to Zhao Zhong and Wen Boyuan that Tianji Xuegong will never join Hexi, and will never collude with the Dongs to conquer Tianshui County, Chen Hai led the dragon When the Xiang base camp moved to Hengshan, it was to release the restrictions on the supply of the celestial fighter crossbow and the celestial war chariot to the Musashi army.

Chen Hai doesn’t do this, the Miao, Yue and other tribes, as well as Yanran Palace and Jingjun clan will do the same. After all, no one wants to see the possibility of Hexi taking Qin Tongshan; in fact, After Hexi controlled the entire territory of Hechuan County, someone secretly supplied the Tianji Liennu to the Musashi Army.

When both sides are equipped with a certain number of heavenly crossbows and are evenly matched, the form of the war will naturally undergo a huge change again; both sides reserve millions of golden arrows, which may only be enough for a conventional battle Consumption.

From then on, evenly matched sides will likely evolve into a war that no one can afford.

The cost of quenching gold iron is still too high.

Of course, Hexi can obtain nearly 2,000,000 kilograms of grade eight quenched iron from Lucheng every year. The advantage is still very obvious, but at this time, it also needs to be suspended and regained momentum, so that one day it can be done. The breakthrough Meishan line of defense can not easily give the Musashi army a chance to become a tug of war.

In the final analysis, the golden crossbow cannot withstand long-term consumption.

At this time, Chen Hai changed the structure of the crossbow barrel to directly reduce the demand for gold-hardened iron from the crossbow arrows to four to one-fifths of the previous level. This change is naturally jaw-dropping, and it is not a big deal.

“How did the semi-closed crossbow groove become a fully enclosed crossbow bore; how did the dedicated crossbow arrows become so short and so weird?” Everyone didn’t care about the closed crossbow bore, but Su Yuan and the others were shocked when they saw the strange crossbow arrows painted on the secret map. This structure is not the same as the crossbow arrows studied by Tianji Academy at this time. Too much.

“Or the crossbow bullet is more reasonable” Chen Hai said with a smile: “I work in Lianshui, but I haven’t taken any time off. Trial-produce a single-soldier combat crossbow. You can test it… …” He took out a five-foot-long individual combat crossbow from the storage ring and handed it to Su Yuan and the others for a test shot.

No matter whether it’s the Heavenly Secret Crossbow or the individual golden halberd crossbow, the core is still in the arrow talisman, which can generate extremely violent restraint energy in a very small space and shoot sharp metal arrows. During the period of Tianji Xuegong, the forbidden structure of the arrow talisman was improved to make the bound energy produced by the arrow talisman shorter, stronger, and more stable. However, the thinking is still stuck on the traditional structure of the bow and crossbow. In order to ensure the balance and penetration of the crossbow arrow after it is shot, the arrow shaft is cast to be long and narrow.

However, Chen Hai has always understood Yanzhou’s arrow box as an electromagnetic gun or electromagnetic gun on Earth. The balance and penetration of the crossbow after being shot can be guaranteed by rifling. , Remove the long arrow shaft and the complex structure of the tail, the crossbow arrow actually becomes a crossbow bullet, and the consumption of gold-hardened iron can also be greatly reduced.

This question was actually thought of by Chen Hai. He also knew in Earth that Dao Child bullets produced high-speed rotation through rifling and maintained precision, but the problem was that he did not know the spiral shape inside the crossbow. Rifling is how to carve out quickly and accurately.

Chen Hai only recently thought through this issue.

Thinking about this problem thoroughly, the individual combat crossbows can be equipped with Longxiang base in batches to become a reality.

To the north of Hengshan, many rivers will change every few years. There is no condition for the formation of quenched gold placer. But Chen Hai wants to achieve the goal he set out. He does not expect to monopolize the quenched gold placer. It is continuously launching more and more advanced Mechanical Puppet weapons, so that everyone can drive cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, gold, iron, and odd stones to trade with them.

Su Yuan personally picked up Chen Hai’s trial-produced individual combat crossbow, and fired at a target outside the city, hitting a waterfowl that flew up from the water 400 steps away. Naturally, this waterfowl is not a spiritual bird. It looks like a goose and is very awkward to fly. It was torn to pieces by a crossbow shot in midair.

Zhang Xiong, Huang Shuang, and the others can accurately estimate how much formidable power this crossbow project will drill through, and they are all happy.

“This kind of individual combat crossbow, we can give priority to the Tianshui Army, other conditions can be discussed.” Chen Hai said.

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that the Wu, Zhou, and Liao tribes would not easily send the Tianji Academy to their governing land to recruit young and strong laborers, but if they would take a batch of individual soldiers every once in a while How about trading crossbows with them? They couldn’t directly smelt a large amount of gold-tempered iron in Hengshan, but what if the Miao, Yue and Dong clan also need to equip this kind of individual combat crossbow?

“Once it spreads out prematurely, what should I do if other people copy a lot?” Su Yuan asked.

“It doesn’t matter.” Chen Hai said with a smile.

Individual crossbows need to be equipped in batches, even if they are not sold to other families, even if they are stolen or robbed from the Longxiang base, the individual crossbows are not complicated to crack. The structure is not a difficult task, and the advanced craftsman can directly carve the rifling in the closed crossbow by hand.

As long as there is a senior craftsman who has established the Spirit Realm cultivation base, the perception of the six senses and the stability of the hands and eyes are enough for them to carve very precise rifling. The key issue is production.

Tianshui County has elites who have developed the Spirit Realm cultivation base, which may add up to one or two thousand people. It is the cornerstone of Tianshui County’s military and political institutions. If you don’t have a certain skill, how much Tianshui County can allocate People go to mechanical re-engraving rifling?

As long as Chen Hai guarantees that the cutting method will not be leaked for the time being, even if someone else gets the drawing of the individual combat crossbow, they can immediately imitate it, and the output and cost are far impossible and comparable to Tianji Academy.