Chapter 134 Comprehensive Upgrade
Of course Zhou Xu knew about the bed crossbow, a powerful weapon for attacking cities and strongholds, but Zhuang Mengdie didn't know about it. She had never had this concept before.
In other words, this drawing is completely based on her own inspiration.
The reason why Zhuang Mengdie came up with such an idea is also very simple. When she was making bamboo bows, she had already discovered that the longer the bamboo bow was, the farther the shooting range was. The power is also stronger.
Following this line of thought, a simple and crude concept of bed crossbow appeared in Zhuang Mengdie's mind.
"My problem now is how to draw such a strong bow."
Seeing Zhou Xu looking at the drawings without speaking, Zhuang Mengdie himself said the difficulties he was facing.
After hearing this, Zhou Xu nodded calmly.
“It seems that you also know what the problem with this thing is.”
Hearing Zhou Xu’s words, Zhuang Mengdie’s expression was stunned, and then he spoke...
"Chief, have you thought of this a long time ago?"
Listening to their leader's tone just now, it was obvious that he had thought of this weapon long before her.
Zhou Xu did not deny this.
"So be it."
Under normal circumstances, the bed crossbow is not a weapon that can be opened purely by human power. If you want to use this, you have to use some mechanism design. To allow them to shoot their bows more easily.
Regarding this, Zhou Xu actually has an idea in his mind, but...
“We don’t need this right now.”
The bed crossbow is a typical siege equipment, and its main target is to attack , are those huge city defense facilities, or large enough giant units.
But in this tribal era, how can there be any city defense facilities that they need to roll out?
As for using a bed crossbow to defeat individual soldiers...
This is no longer a problem of the anti-aircraft cannon being overqualified for killing mosquitoes, but that it is not so accurate and cannot hit a few individual soldiers once fired.
To put it more bluntly, you use 10,000 yuan cannonballs to kill two 50 yuan soldiers. Is there any point in doing this kind of loss-making business?
Not to mention that it is time-consuming and laborious to make bed crossbows at this stage. How can he have the extra manpower, material resources and time to do this?
In this way, the research and development plan for bed crossbow will be put aside first.
After getting this answer from Zhou Xu, Zhuang Mengdie no longer hesitated and directly started to make a new type of bamboo bow.
At the same time, all the copper arrowheads cast by the forging department will be sent to the equipment department for polishing.
In this way, Zhou Xu and his tribe's comprehensive upgrade of weapons is in full swing.
If you only need to arm the existing fifteen soldiers, then the work pressure will actually be very small.
But when an armed conflict breaks out, Zhou Xu will definitely not be able to bring only fifteen people to fight. Within the tribe, tribal warriors from various departments will still be deployed by him, but these fifteen professional soldiers, It can be mobilized as the core combat force and plays a role in determining the outcome of the battle.
For this reason, Zhou Xu directly requested to make fifty sets of the first batch of weapons.
After giving this order, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought.
He is currently struggling with a question, that is, whether to equip the skeleton soldiers with copper weapons.
There is no doubt that the skeleton soldiers are an important combat force in his hand, and they are also an important part of his current core tactics. If the weapons of the skeleton soldiers can also be fully upgraded, then his combat power will inevitably increase. Can be improved by leaps and bounds.
But the problem now is that normal skeleton soldiers are too fragile. In a head-on conflict, they will be quickly defeated by the enemy.
Although he can use the power of mantra to pull the skeleton soldiers up again.
But in this process, there is no guarantee that their weapons will not be stolen by the enemy. In other words, there is a high probability that it will be snatched away by the enemy.
After all, those enemies are not stupid, anyone with a discerning eye can see that their weapons are better.
The weapons of forty or fifty skeleton soldiers are enough to arm an entire tribe on the opposite side. If you are not careful, you will make wedding clothes for others.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also gave up the idea completely.
For now, the core value of the skeleton soldiers still lies in constant consumption. There is no need to specifically upgrade the skeleton soldiers' weapons to bear this risk.
After thinking about this problem, Zhou Xu quickly devoted himself to another thing.
Now that you have weapons, it’s time to think about armor.
Considering the background of the times, the most common armor should be leather armor.
However, Zhou Xu skipped this option directly.
Animal skins are one of the most important resources in this era, and their tribe must have them.
Before, the tribe was in the barren mountain camp and could obtain some leather resources by hunting in the mountains.
But later, with the migration of tribes, after arriving here, Zhou Xu directly started fishing and farming not long after development.
This also caused their demand for hunting to plummet, and the source of leather naturally decreased.
In this case, it is simply unrealistic for them to make leather armor on a large scale.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu had his own ideas.
Don’t forget, what he is best at is the manual work of knitting things.
In the history of their celestial dynasty, there was a very distinctive unit called the Vine Armor Soldiers!
Vine armor has many advantages such as light weight, low cost and excellent defense capability.
However, the disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, fear of fire.
There is an allusion to burning the vine-armored soldiers.
But Zhou Xu wanted to bet that the primitive people did not understand this and could not discover this.
Zhou Xu, who had already made up his mind, had ordered people to collect vines in the surrounding woods.
Although he has never weaved rattan armor before, he has weaved a rattan basket. He left a few openings in the basket so that people can stretch out their hands and heads. Rounding it off, it is just a rattan armor. Already?
Or he can simply split the vine armor into several parts such as chest protectors, shoulder pads, elbow pads, and wrist pads.
In this way, it can not only ensure the safety of key parts, but also further reduce the weight of the armor without affecting their flexibility.
In fact, these two ideas can be regarded as the difference between 'heavy armor' and 'light armor'. He still has to think about how to choose.
But when it comes to making rattan armor, Zhou Xu has the confidence that the rattan armor will not be a problem for him.
While Zhou Xu was thinking about this, the people he sent out had already pushed the tree vines back one by one.
Zhou Xu saw it and signaled his subordinates to quickly finish handling the tree vines and soak them in the water.
This tree rattan cannot be used directly. In order to make it more durable and easy to weave, it needs to be soaked in water, dried in the sun, and then soaked in oil for processing.
Anyway, his grandma used to do this, and he followed her instructions. Later, grandma thought it was too troublesome, so she stopped weaving rattan baskets and hats.
But I didn’t expect that the experience I accumulated at that time would come in handy at a time like this...
(End of this chapter)