Weak and difficult to penetrate thin plates, the Shenji giant crossbow made by Huaixi can have a range of up to 400 steps. It can almost accurately shoot at the enemy surrounded by it when placed on the top of the city.

The city's tornado gun emplacement.

Of course, Yin Peng did not doubt what Lu Ze said.

The first is that the Aoshan Island water battle has proven that Daliang has a higher level of casting technology of power-accumulating materials. Second, he and Wang Wenqian have also found craftsmen to trial-produce fine steel tire longbows in Chuzhou in recent years. It is really through traditional

It is too difficult to control the overall strength and toughness of the fine steel|crossbow arm just right due to the tempering and quenching treatment, resulting in a usable iron-tied bow. Not only the performance cannot surpass the traditional wooden bow, but the cost is

It is far higher than the Tuomu bow.

He also knew that Han Qian had been trying to make iron-tied bow arms and crossbow arms for a long time, and some finished products were equipped in the army, but the range and penetration were not necessarily superior to traditional bows and crossbows, but he did not expect that the beam would pass through

The spring plate structure uses multiple layers of elastic long steel sheets that are relatively easy to quench to be buckled, which nearly doubles the range of the traditional heavy-duty bed crossbow.

Yin Peng has been appointed as the Military Intelligence Staff Officer, not to mention that he is also a long-standing and successful general. There is no need to hide these matters that are generally confidential in the military from him.

Besides, Lu Ze only explained the principles, and from knowing the principles to mass-casting physical objects, it would not have been possible without the continuous accumulation of new craftsmanship over the past ten years.

However, the cost of this new spring-arm giant crossbow is still too high, and it is currently not suitable for the casting of ordinary single-man bows |

Crossbows can be said to be heavy-duty weapons.

Even if the cost is high and the iron material is wasted greatly in the casting process, it is still worth mass manufacturing.

Han Qian currently ordered the two armor and weapons workshops in Donghu and Huaiyang to work hard to manufacture new crossbows, but they cannot produce dozens of them a year.

The biggest good news at the moment is that when this spring-arm giant crossbow was put into mass production last year, Han Qian decided to give priority to equipping the navy. Now that the Liang-Chu peace talks have been successful, not only will the spring-arm giant crossbows produced in the future be given priority to equip the main force of the northern line.

When the war brigade, led by Zhao Wuji, He Liufeng, and Feng Zhang went north, they directly dismantled thirty of the fifty spring-armed Scorpion crossbows and spring-armed bed crossbows from the warships in Tangyi Navy and towed them away.

Already.

The new study book officially named the cyclone cannon as a counterweight trebuchet. Although it can throw stone bombs and kerosene cans four to five hundred paces away, the cyclone cannon has a huge and bulky structure and cannot be used in field contact battles and rapid siege operations.

among.

In the past, although Tangyi tried its best to componentize the manufacturing of the cyclone cannon to make it easier to transport, install and disassemble, so that it can be more widely used on the battlefield. This has also been the focus of imitation by other companies in recent years, but there is still no way to completely overcome its bulkiness.

It is a weak point that it is difficult to move when put into the battlefield and easily destroyed by enemy assault troops.

Yin Peng could not imagine that this winter, in the ice and snow on the east bank of Yingshui River, the Dongliang Army encountered spring-arm scorpion crossbows and spring-arm bed crossbows that could be moved quickly by being dragged by a light chariot.

The main combat brigade of Daliang will feel so bitter in his heart.

Entering the mountainous area where the southern foothills of Songshan Mountain and the northern foothills of Funiu Mountain intersect, and seeing the newly built iron beam bridges along the way, and then hearing Han Daoming doubt the difficulty of walking this journey when he went north to study as a boy, Yin Peng can deeply understand what Wang Wenqian said.

The profound meaning of the capture of Guanzhong and the unification of the world in Daliang.

It's not that Daliang didn't have the foundation to unify the world at this time. It was actually that it couldn't be conquered in Guanzhong. The situation in Heluo was so clumsy that the few soldiers and horses needed to be dispersed in too many directions, and they were passive in almost every direction.

In a defensive situation.

Only by seizing Guanzhong can we have a wider and deeper hinterland, and can we concentrate our limited elite soldiers and horses into a limited two or three directions to attack the city and seize territory.

At the beginning of the year, Han Qian defended the mouth of the Yiluo River regardless of casualties. The main reason was that Heluo did not leave much depth in the hinterland. Hulao Pass and Gongxian were not defended, so he retreated to Yanshi and Luoyang. In addition to allowing the enemy to gain a foothold in the Yiluo River, there was nothing more

On the other hand, more importantly, Heluo's agricultural production will suffer a devastating blow.

Not to mention the 700,000 to 800,000 people in the Heluo area. There are tens of thousands of troops stationed in Heluo alone, generals and their families, and their annual rations are as high as millions of dan. If they all need to be transported through the southern route, the transportation cost will be extremely high.

The arrival of overland post roads is very likely to destroy Daliang's current precarious financial balance.

Although the current military expenditure is seriously overdrafted, Han Daoming and Yin Peng entered Yichuan County and saw that the crops in the fields on both sides of the Yi River were slightly yellowing. The harvest season will enter in ten days and a half, and they felt a lot relieved.

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At this time, it can better reflect the significance of guarding the Yiluo River mouth at the beginning of the year.

Not only Mengjin, but also the agricultural production of more than 8 to 9 million acres in the area south of Yanshi has not been interrupted. After the autumn grain harvest, it can provide Heluo real estate with a total of more than 10 million shi of grain in the next year (Heluo Farming

Planting is mainly for one season harvest, and the per capita land occupation is high, but the per household grain output is lower than in the south). After the implementation of the new system, local forces such as family clan clans and large and medium landlords are greatly reduced to occupy a large amount of resources in the middle, and the central government can pass

Through methods such as taxation and unified purchase, more than two million dan of grain were directly raised from the Heluo area, which could basically satisfy the food supply for the garrison in the Heluo area and the urban residents of Luoyang.

In addition, blocking the enemy from the mouth of the Yiluo River allowed nearly one million acres of land to be allocated to the families of generals and soldiers, and was completed before May. With the victory of two defensive battles, the Heluo army's mental calculations were stabilized.

What's even more rare is that a batch of new mining workshops have been built on both sides of the Yiluo River. Luoyang's industrial and mining production has now generally returned to the level before the sudden changes in Heshuo. More refined development is needed in the future to bring Luoyang's industrial and mining production

It will take two or three years to fully upgrade to the level of Donghu and Xuzhou.

The fates of Daliang First Savings Bureau, Han Qian, and Daliang have been tied together. Even though the current overdraft is getting worse, it just means that everyone is tied together more deeply.

And even if we don't expect to dominate the world, only Han Qian can stabilize the current situation, and the overdraft of Daliang First Savings Bureau can be quickly made up to protect the interests of everyone.

The most critical thing at present is that the internal production of grain, grass, coal, iron and other materials cannot be interrupted.

As long as the internal production and supply of materials is sufficient, even if the method of borrowing money from the Daliang First Savings Bureau to expand the purchase of military supplies will become invalid due to serious overdrafts, which will exhaust the storage and capital of the Daliang First Savings Bureau, Han Qian issued a national edict.

, with his power and reputation at this time, the Official Money Bureau minted coins in a cheaper way, and comprehensively increased taxes on domestic industrial, commercial and agricultural production, and implemented a stricter and more comprehensive sales system to ensure that Daliang's resources were fully transferred.
Chapter completed!