Chapter 475

Soon, someone stood on the shooting range with a dummy wearing iron armor. Seeing the iron armored dummy standing at fifty steps, Wang Yang couldn't help but frown slightly. "Bai Shuling, what is the longest range of the Divine Arm Crossbow."

"Where can penetrate the armor at 240 steps to 320 steps, at 150 steps. If it is like Xixia Jiangzi Jia, it will take at least about fifty or sixty steps to get close to..."

Wang Yang nodded suddenly. He had tried it outside Yuehua Gate before. Whether it is the Song Yuanyoujia or the Xixia Jiangzijia, it is already quite good to be able to penetrate the armor in fifty steps.

"Then try these steel arms first, oh no... try what the longest range of these Yuanyou crossbows..." Wang Yang tilted his head to the side, and ten Yuanyou crossbows using steel crossbow arms began to shoot forward...

After three rounds of shooting, all Yuanyou crossbows had the nearest range of 100 steps, and there were 150 steps, and there were 200 to 230 steps. However, among them, two steel crossbows had the farthest reaching about 320 steps.

"The farthest range is the crossbow arrow painted green and black. The green crossbow arrow is this type..." Zhang Shuling pointed at one of the Yuanyou crossbow hands with a very excited expression.

"Sir, mine is from the black arrowhead." Another Yuanyou crossbowman raised his hand in disbelief and shouted loudly.

Wang Yang strode to the two of them. One used a steel arm crossbow with two soft steel plates stacked on it, the other used a steel arm crossbow with four-quarters thick steel plates in the middle, and two-quarters thick mild steel plates at both ends.

"The steel can actually be used as a crossbow arm..." Bai Shuling looked at the two men with disbelief, and was still a little unbelievable for a while.

"Try the five arrows again and see if their range can still be maintained above 300 steps." Wang Yang suddenly became a little excited.

Fortunately, these things finally didn't disappoint me. It seems that no matter what era it is, as long as there is suitable steel, there is a chance to make excellent long-range weapons.

Those crossbows that were eliminated were either because of insufficient thickness of the steel plate and too weak elasticity, or because of the structure being too simple and the kinetic energy could not be achieved.

The performances of the two Yuanyou crossbows, which performed the best, did not disappoint everyone. Except for one of the arrows falling within a range of 300 steps, the other nine arrows continued to be scattered around 320 steps.

Moreover, the time for crossbows is shorter than the divine arm crossbow that requires a lot of effort to hang the crossbow machine. Wang Yang made a silent count based on the process of putting down the crossbow that had been shot, then trampling it on his feet and starting to pull the string, then stuffing it in the crossbow arrow and then re-aiming it. It can be completed in approximately twenty seconds.

The Divine Arm Crossbow takes about thirty seconds to complete a string pulling and aiming action. That is to say, if the crossbowmen are arranged in three rows or four rows to take turns shooting, the arrow rain, like a storm, will become the enemy's nightmare.

At one hundred and fifty steps, two steel arm crossbows and one divine arm crossbow used for testing easily penetrated the Dasong standard iron armor, and even reached the bottom of the wood.

At one hundred steps, three crossbows penetrated the current standard iron armor of the Song Dynasty again without any surprise, and reached more than three inches of wood. This result made everyone present happy.

"Zhuangyuan Gong, should we go to the palace now to report this good news to the emperor and the empress dowager?" Bai Shuling's mouth was trembling, and now he didn't care whether he was rude or not, and kept talking beside Wang Yang.

Wang Yang thought about it, but now he didn't know if today's dynasty was over. It just so happened that the remaining hot iron was to strengthen the confidence of those pro-war factions and strive to crush the Xixia, which was like a dog-skin plaster, as soon as possible, and lay a solid foundation for the expansion of the Song Dynasty.

"Okay, let's set out now, but we should ask Lord Lu to come forward. After all, this is the credit of our military weapon surveillance. What does Lord Bai think?"

Naturally, there would be no problem with Bai Shuling. The two hurried to Lord Lu's office. Although Mr. Lu was qualified to attend court, the problem was that he was still weak now, so the Empress Dowager allowed him to only go to the office of the yamen and would not have to attend court for the time being.

As a result, Lord Lu, who was about to have lunch, picked up his chopsticks when he saw Wang Yanghuo, Bai Shuling and Zhang Shuling rushed in. What’s important is that Bai Shuling and Wang Yang rushed in with a crossbow in their hands.

He was so scared that the chopsticks in Lord Lu's hand fell onto the couch, and almost covered his heart and sucked over. Seeing this scene, Wang Yang was so scared that he quickly handed the Yuanyou crossbow in his hand to Zhang Shuling beside him. "Don't worry, Lord Lu, Xiaguan and others have a good thing to report to you."

"You... Um..." Lord Lu was in a hurry and quickly took out the medicine bottle and took another pill, then he let out a long sigh of relief. "You guys, can you guys report it first when you enter my door next time? Also, can you stop pointing that thing at me?!"

"Oh, sorry, I'm so rude, I'm really rude." Bai Shuling noticed that the Yuanyou crossbow in his hand was facing the direction of Lord Lu. He smiled embarrassedly and quickly put the Yuanyou crossbow aside carefully and apologized repeatedly.

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"This, can this be a substitute for the crossbow of the God-arm? You are not joking..." Lord Lu looked at the two crossbows that were awkward no matter how they looked at them, thinking that these guys wouldn't be too eager for quick success or instant benefits, right?

"Sir, how can you say that? When did Wang dare to joke with you on such a military and national event?"

"Sir, it's true, absolutely true. The lower official can swear to the heaven that the Yuanyou crossbow invented by Lord Wang can be comparable to the Divine Arm crossbow. What's important is that its crossbow arms are just mild steel. It no longer requires six materials in the past, and it took nearly one or two years to make a good crossbow arm..."

"...Mutual steel?" Lord Lu took the Yuanyou crossbow with a substantial amount. Well, it was actually just a crossbow arm that used to replace the composite crossbow arm with a soft steel plate.

The most important and most difficult thing to make in the Song Dynasty is the crossbow arm and the bow arm. Unexpectedly, Wang Yang actually caused trouble in just one day.

Lord Lu smashed his mouth. Well, with a subordinate like Wang Yang, you are happy, but the heart often has an impulse that cannot bear.

"You let me see the effect first. If it really works miraculously, then I will enter the palace with you and congratulate Your Majesty and the Empress."
Chapter completed!