The difference between the range of a crossbow and a bow is that the bow is fired manually. How far a person can draw the bow is determined by human power. The range depends on the quality of the bow and the strength of the person.
Crossbows are fired mechanically, and humans are only responsible for aiming, so the power is relatively fixed.
Generally speaking, the range of a crossbow is about twice that of a bow.
The crossbow first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is said that it was invented by Chu Qin.
During the war, Chu Qin felt that the power of bows and arrows was not enough, so he added arms to the bows and created the first crossbow.
In 342 BC, Qi and Wei fought in Maling. Qi's military advisor Sun Bin ambushed more than 10,000 crossbow archers on both sides of the Maling Road. When the Wei army passed by, ten thousand crossbows fired in unison, defeating the Wei army.
During the Qin Dynasty, crossbows were widely used in military affairs. According to archaeological excavations of Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Warriors and Horses, not only infantry but also cavalry at that time also used crossbows as their primary combat weapons.
Since crossbows need to be strung, bows and arrows are often used as cover weapons in tactics.
During the Han Dynasty, crossbows became mature.
Chao Cuo wrote a memorial to Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty in 169 BC, which included his opinion that the Han crossbow was superior to the Xiongnu bow. This is also the beginning of the clear separation of "crossbow" and "bow" in words.
Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, invented a repeating crossbow that could be quickly cocked with a drawbar.
The Zhuge Liannu is a repeating crossbow made by Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. It was first called the Yuanrong Crossbow and was later called the "Zhuge Liannu".
The Zhuge Liannu can fire ten arrows at a time and has strong firepower, but its size and weight are too large to be used by a single soldier. It is mainly used to defend cities and camps.
Ma Jun, the great inventor of the Wei State at the end of the Han Dynasty, wanted to improve it and make it a fifty-arrow repeating crossbow with more power. However, because the production was very complicated and the arrows used had to be specially made, there was no mass production. Later, Lost.
The Chu State had a Lianzu used for individual combat, which was an improvement and simplification of the Zhuge Lianzu. It could hold three arrows and fire them in three batches.
What Chenjiagou seized from the Du family was the three-shot Zhuge Liantu, which was extremely powerful.
The three-shot Zhuge Liantu is a piece of equipment of the Chu army. Due to its great power, civilian use is prohibited.
The Du family was able to possess nearly a hundred three-shot Zhuge Lianzu, because Du Zhixian was an official. In order to suppress the peasant uprising, Chu Huizong allowed each county to have a certain number of troops, which were also equipped with three-shot Zhuge Lianzu.
The Xue family, the Wei family, and the Shen family were just wealthy locals, not officials of Da Chu. They were not allowed to collect Zhuge Lianzu without permission. Although some were obtained through certain channels, the quantity was extremely limited. The three families only had seven Zhuge Lianzu in total.
The more than 700 people selected by the three families were just servants, guardians or tenant farmers. There were a few guardians who could fight. Because they were afraid of Zhuge Liantuo's power, they only wanted to protect themselves and stayed back.
Although there are more than 600 people in the three families, their equipment is strange.
The normal ones can be equipped with a knife, but they look similar. These are trained servants or nurses.
Some people just carried hoes, some carried poles, and others thought they were going to plow the fields.
The armed forces of the landlords were just like this, but the armed forces of the peasants in the Chu Dynasty were even worse and not good enough.
Their charge must also be very funny. If it were used in a group fight among villagers to see who is more ruthless, the fight would be based on which side has more people, but it looks similar.
This ragtag group was a bit unsatisfactory against the well-equipped Chenjiagou Self-Defense Force, which had hundreds of Zhuge Liangzu.
First of all, organizational discipline is relatively loose. Coupled with fear and fear, the speed of action is very slow.
We were procrastinated while gathering ten miles outside the county government office, and waited for an hour before everyone finally arrived.
When setting off, it was difficult to decide who would be the cannon fodder at the front.
It wasn't until the sword-wielding servants and guards got angry and chopped down several people carrying hoes and poles. In the face of absolute strength, it was decided that the ones carrying hoes and poles would be the cannon fodder.
The story of the Chenjiagou Self-Defense Forces annihilating hundreds of Du's troops has spread throughout Taiyi City, and everyone is afraid of the Chenjiagou Self-Defense Forces from the bottom of their hearts.
Before even seeing the enemy, he started to be afraid and started fighting in the nest.
The marching speed was also very slow, because everyone did not feel that they were going to make great achievements, but instead felt that they were going to die.
The faster you go, the faster you die. A journey of ten miles is suddenly replaced by a journey of a hundred miles.
The more than 600 people from the three families actually have no fighting capacity.
If Xue Pan, Wei Yu, Chen Mufeng and others successfully capture Xu Xian, Chen Changxing and others, and someone sends a message of success and asks them to go over and cheer for them, they will definitely run very fast.
But now, there is no news about Xue Pan, Wei Yu, Shen Mufeng and others. It is obvious that their plan failed and they were captured. If they are asked to charge and die, they will definitely not be willing to do so.
The hostages were prepared and the traps were laid. Xu Xian, Chen Changxing and others waited and waited, but no sign of the enemy was seen.
In the evening, Xu Xian became a little impatient and worried that the enemy would sneak up on him at night, so he lifted Xue Pan up. He first gave him a blow and beat him until his skin was bruised and swollen, and then he asked:
"Where are your people? Why haven't they come yet?"
Xue Pan burst into tears and said in a crying voice:
"The county magistrate is aware that according to the agreed time, they should have arrived long ago. As for why they didn't come, the people really don't know."
Xu Xian asked:
"Tell me first, which direction will they come from?"
Xue Pan said:
"According to the agreement, they met at a hilltop ten miles away from the main gate of the county government.
They didn't come, maybe because they were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they didn't dare to come. "
Xu Xian thought there was going to be a big battle, but Xue Pan's words turned out to be that he was afraid of death and did not dare to come.
Xu Xian punched the cotton, feeling it was too funny. Could it be that he had really overestimated the strength of more than 600 people from the three families?
In order to verify Xue Pan's words, Xu Xian sent thirty archers to search along the way to see if there was any trace of the three families.
After traveling for several miles, they arrived outside the city. It was already dark, and only the light of fire could be seen in the mountain col in the distance.
Everyone sneaked over and saw several ditch fires burning in the mountain col. Hundreds of people gathered around the ditch fires, and it was the ragtag group of the three families.
Not knowing the details of the other party, the Chenjiagou Self-Defense Force did not dare to act privately. They sent three people back to report the news, while the others continued to lurk and monitor.
After receiving the report, Xu Xian already had a guess in his mind. To be cautious, he did not take any action. Instead, he called back the twenty people, leaving only a few who were good at hunting to continue monitoring.
Early the next morning, the watcher came back to report that there was a dispute between the servants, the nurse and the tenant farmers, and a fight broke out.
Then, someone left.
Not long after, everyone dispersed one after another.
Xu Xian really didn't expect that these people from the three families were so vulnerable.
The local tyrants and gentry were arrested. The next step was, of course, to count the population and then divide their fields and property equally.
The work was relatively trivial. Xu Xian was only responsible for coordinating the overall situation and left the specific tasks to Chen Changxing and other Chenjiagou Self-Defense Forces.
According to Xu Xian's original thoughts, except for some heinous people, he did not intend to kill the local tyrants and gentry, but just wanted to expel them.
Just drive them out of Taiyi County. Xu Xian doesn't mind where they go.
If that were to happen, it would be difficult for the rich and gentry who were expelled and became deprived of anything, and perhaps more than half of them would fall on the way to escape.
Xu Xian wanted them to go to Shushan and let them be teachers to teach the Red Shadow Army in Shushan how to read and read.
The families of local tyrants and gentry have money, and most of their family members are educated, which is exactly what the Red Shadow Army needs.
The system did not embarrass Xu Xian this time and directly opened the space-time door to Shushan for Xu Xian.
