Over time, corners were cut, and the production time was too hasty. As a result, the excellent bow that I originally wanted to obtain turned into a shabby thing.
Listening to what Gao Zhang said, the official Zhao Ji's expression was also very ugly.
As a filial son determined to avenge his father Shenzong, Zhao Ji has been determined to conquer Xixia, hoping that one day he can conquer Xixia, which can be regarded as fulfilling his father Shenzong's dream.
Naturally, he also has a certain understanding of military aspects. The crossbow of the Song Dynasty can be said to be ranked first among hundreds of soldiers.
But the problem is that the problem is really similar to what Gao Zhang said.
Gao Zhang's biological father, Gao Taiwei, had reported this matter before. The crossbows he had just received from the workshop were unusable. According to the results of random inspections, new bows and crossbows would have broken bows and crossbow arms.
Although because of this incident, the emperor was furious and severely punished a group of officials.
But the problem is that such problems still happen from time to time, and it is also common for the bow to be weak.
Moreover, compared with the sword, the bow and crossbow, which the imperial court valued most, cost a lot of money.
Take bows as an example. Bows are more consumable items than hand knives. Especially in the frontier troops fighting between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, the ratio of archers was outrageously high.
It can even be said that it is similar to when the Tang Dynasty was strong and powerful, every soldier carried a bow and arrow.
Mainly because Xixia had a large number of cavalry troops, while the Song Dynasty, which originally lacked horse breeding land, was very short of cavalry.
If you want to deal with cavalry, the best way is to use long-range weapons to deal with the opponent.
In addition, in the northwest, the folk customs are fierce, and even ordinary people are very powerful, but after all, they cannot face life-and-death battles like real soldiers.
But once they have bows and arrows in their hands, they can cause huge damage to the enemy at long range.
This is also the reason why a large number of rural soldiers in the northwest frontier are archers.
As for the bow, this thing is even more useless than the sword. A high-intensity war that lasts for more than ten days will cause the bow to be severely damaged and difficult to recover, so it is considered a consumable.
Even if the cost of a bow is not very high, during the reign of Shenzong, the cost of a bow was always around 500 ren.
Up to now, it's only about seven or eight hundred yuan.
It is precisely because of the rapid consumption and the frequent cutting of corners in the workshops that the bow and arrow, the most important weapon of destruction in the Song Dynasty, became a bottomless pit of money.
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Gao Zhang knew very well who this foolish king was. Apart from art, he had little patience for anything else.
Therefore, after Jiji distorted Zhuxiang's skills, before the faint master's patience disappeared, he set out his own goal.
"Master, may I know that in addition to those yellow birch bows, black lacquer bows, white birch bows, and hemp-backed bows, there is actually a bow that is more cost-effective and high-quality."
"What kind?" Zhao Ji asked Gao Zhang with a curious face.
"No horn pieces, no bark, no twine, no longbows of all kinds of animal sinews."
"I know that such a long bow is very cheap to make, but its range and lethality are far inferior to military bows."
"Such bows are sold in Tokyo. They are made of wood and only painted. The cost is very cheap."
As a foolish king who wanders around blindly all day long, Zhao Ji is naturally very familiar with everything in Bianliang City, Tokyo.
"Master is indeed well-informed, but the longbow my disciple is talking about is not that kind, but the most popular infantry longbow during the prosperous Tang Dynasty." Gao Zhang stretched out his hands hard, trying to make a gesture. length.
However, I was not tall enough, so I could only squat down, pick up a small wooden stick, and draw a line on the ground measuring one meter and seventy-eight meters in length.
After adding more, the official Zhao Ji looked at this thing that was somewhat similar to a shoulder pole with a confused look on his face.
"This, this isn't made of a pole, is it?"
"..." Gao Zhang, who was working on the final details, almost fell to the ground when he heard this. What a goddamn shoulder pole, I’m still giving you car steel plates.
"Xiao Gao, you mean that the Tang Dynasty's army used shoulder poles to make bows?"
Hearing in his ears that Hunjun let go of Lenovo's wings and started flying blindly, Gao Zhang quickly shook his head crazily.
"What the master said is very vivid, but the disciple has not finished the painting yet..."
Seeing Gao Zhang's small body squatting there, the back of his official uniform touched the ground.
As a good master, Zhao Ji pulled him up with a smile, raised his hand and waved his sleeves to brush off the dust from his back, and said with a pleasant expression.
"The ground is too dirty. Get up quickly. Look at the dust all over your body. Come on, let's go to the house and you can draw it for my teacher to see."
Yang Jian looked at the pair of master and apprentice, rolled his eyes covertly, and followed eagerly.
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Gao Zhang stood in front of the writing desk, picked up the purple hair pen, and quickly swung it away.
A vivid and very typical Tang Dynasty infantry longbow appeared on the rice paper.
In order to let the master understand the length and width of this long bow, Gao Zhang also conveniently wrote a set of data on the side.
Before time travel, Gao Zhang had always been a fan of Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. In his consciousness, Song Dynasty was a coward.
In addition to the very developed economy of this dynasty, the military and diplomacy were almost all scum, which made people really dislike them.
But Gao Zhang was naturally familiar with all aspects of the Tang and Ming dynasties, especially the military aspect, which made people fascinated.
What about Tang Shisanjia, Tang Mingguangjia, Tang Hengdao, Tangmo Dao and so on.
Anyone who has a certain understanding of the military of the Tang Dynasty will definitely know those military equipment that would only appear in the Tang Dynasty.
The flat bow, or the pole bow as Hun Jun calls it, is one of the typical examples.
Until later generations of archaeological experts carried out fair excavations and scientific research activities again and again.
After finding this kind of bow from the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the depictions on the murals in the tombs of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, we were able to determine that this was a bow and not a long weapon.
Thanks to the development of video media in later generations, he has seen such longbow restorations on the Internet.
And after testing, although the materials used for this kind of flat bow during the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty were eucalyptus and mulberry, it was inferior to yew.
In other words, in terms of material, it is not as good as the English longbow, but its structure is more reasonable and its power is only higher but not lower.
What does it mean to have a reasonable structure? It means that the upper and lower parts are similar in shape to the width of a shoulder pole, which gives the bow arm better output efficiency.
The English longbow is a relatively primitive design, and its energy output efficiency is very low. That is to say, the energy of the bow cannot be transferred to the arrow well.
This is of course not Gao Zhang's own bragging, but it is based on scientific evidence. The Tang Dynasty is awesome, and so are its armaments.
(End of chapter)
