Chapter 384 Three-Bow Bed Crossbow
Wang Dong has always acted like a teacher. Except for Zhou Xu, he sees everyone as a student or child.
This is related to his professional habits, but it is also related to their age.
After all, under normal circumstances, in the primitive era, when people could live to be thirty or older, they were indeed not very old.
“Okay, let’s start testing.”
Following Zhou Xu's order, the members of the patrol team who were roped in as young men immediately started operating around the three-bow bed crossbows under the command of Zhuang Mengdie.
“Break it here, yes, it’s here, and it’s the same on the other side.”
Although a mechanism structure has been added to reduce the burden of operation, it cannot change the operation of the three-bow bed crossbow. The fact that it's still hard to get up.
The people in their equipment department may not be able to keep up in terms of physical fitness and strength. For this reason, they called the guards from the patrol team to help them clear the area, and they also brought in six strong men.
Now it is Zhuang Mengdie who directs step by step, while the six guards do it step by step.
For Zhou Xu, this was just right, allowing him to gradually see clearly.
"There are two wooden forks on both sides of the wheel at the bottom. After being put down, the wheel will be fixed and will not rotate."
While instructing the guards to operate, as a The manufacturer of this three-bow crossbow, Zhuang Mengdie, of course did not forget to introduce it to Zhou Xu.
"There are four fixed stakes at each of the four positions here. Yes, just pull them out and insert them into the ground."
The design of the fixed stakes was specially designed by Zhou Xu Zhuang Mengdie said that after all, if the recoil problem of a strong crossbow cannot be fully solved, the stability of the attack cannot be guaranteed, which is also very dangerous for those who operate the three-bow crossbow.
But what Zhou Xu didn't expect was that Zhuang Mengdie's design of these four fixed piles was far more sophisticated than he imagined.
I think her genius mind came into play a lot when the research and development process was officially started.
"Then here, grab these two handles. After the fixed stakes have been driven in, you can move them left and right up and down to facilitate aiming."
"Left and right The rotation range is relatively large, and the space for moving up and down is very limited."
"Then there are two big wheels on both sides, two people on each side, the four of you go over and grab the handles of the wheels. , and use force to turn the wheel at the same time.”
Having said this, Zhuang Mengdie couldn't help but emphasize something.
“Remember, we need to be as synchronized as possible.”
Those who serve as patrol guards in the village have received a certain degree of military training, and they are considered to be able to work together. There is a certain tacit understanding.
Faced with Zhuang Mengdie's repeated emphasis, the four of them exchanged glances with each other, and soon the password "one two one two" sounded. In conjunction with the password, the big wheels on both sides were pretty good. It rotates smoothly and at a constant speed.
During this period, Zhuang Mengdie certainly did not forget to introduce and explain to Zhou Xu and the others.
"If one of the two wheels is fast and the other is slow, and the difference in progress is too large, it is likely to get stuck. At the same time, it cannot be turned too fast, otherwise there is a risk of dislocation and disconnection. It must be turned at a constant speed."
“However, even if the principle of the pulley block is used to reduce the strength requirements, these two large runners are also very heavy. Under normal circumstances, if you want to turn too fast, I am afraid that you cannot do it. "
After all, the technology has not reached that point yet, and it is normal to have some limitations in its use, not to mention that these limitations are within the acceptable range for Zhou Xu.
After the four of them worked together to draw the bow, as Zhuang Mengdie waved, the other two guards on the side came over carrying a giant crossbow arrow matching the size.
The arrows are temporarily made of copper. After all, there is still little iron ore at the moment, and there is no time to use it to forge weapons for the soldiers. How can there be any extra for them to make these consumables?
As for the target used to test the weapon this time, it was the rocky mountain in the distance!
The stone mountain is not big or small. At the beginning, Black Moon Village was still small, and the stone mountain was not close to their camp.
But I couldn’t stand it. In the following days, the scale of Black Moon Village continued to expand. Especially when this village also shoulders the mission of farming and needs to cultivate a lot of fields.
Gradually, this rocky mountain began to become obstructive. Its location obviously restricted the further expansion of Black Moon Village.
If the stone output from several mines was not enough for them, and the current labor shortage was still in short supply, he would have mobilized manpower to level this stone mountain.
And now, it is used as a target for them.
“What’s the distance now?”
“Three hundred meters.”
“Let’s start.”
After giving the order, there was only a sound of piercing the air, and the huge copper crossbow arrow flew out of the air, and with the flying gravel, it sank directly into the stone mountain!
This was an exciting blow that made the two modern men, Zhou Xu and Wang Dong, feel their hearts twitch.
Although modern people in the age of the information explosion have seen a lot of everything, they still witnessed the three-bow bed crossbow attacking with their own eyes, and the giant crossbow arrow was pointed in front of them, with a 'boom' sound. There is really no chance of submerging into the mountain.
This kind of personal experience brings them sensory stimulation that is definitely not something that a video or a piece of text can bring.
After taking a long breath, Zhou Xu's smile reached the point where he could not hide it at all.
At this point, this three-bow bed crossbow already has the most basic lethality!
"Pull the distance another hundred meters away."
Although I didn't go to the stone mountain to confirm, a quick glance showed that the power of this crossbow was still very high.
There is no need to try it slowly bit by bit. Just zoom out a hundred meters, which is more efficient.
During this process, it is inevitable to put away the stretched three-bow bed crossbow.
Since this was the first time for the guards to perform the operation, the whole process was inevitably a little hectic.
Zhou Xu had no idea about this.
After the test is completed and more three-bow bed crossbows are manufactured, this set of operating procedures will definitely need to be trained, and all operations will be completed in the shortest possible time.
There is no need to time it now.
After putting away the fixed stakes and untying the wooden forks on the wheels, the people from the equipment department quickly brought the cows on the side over and hitched them in front.
This three-bow bed crossbow is not light in weight. In order to increase the strength and toughness of some structures, they have used copper parts after many tests.
In this case, it can be pushed by human power alone, but the movement efficiency is very poor.
So in order to ensure the efficiency of movement, they use oxen to pull them.
When conditions permit, you can equip this three-bow bed crossbow with a horse, and then the movement efficiency will be even higher.
Measuring the distance with steps, they quickly moved to the position of four hundred meters.
The second time they deployed the three-bow crossbow, the guards undoubtedly showed a bit more proficiency in their movements.
After many tests, we finally came to the conclusion that at a position of 450 meters, the arrow part of this three-bow crossbow can barely penetrate the mountain. If it is further pulled out, it will fly over. The giant crossbow arrow will be bounced off the mountain.
In this way, it can be concluded that while ensuring the lethality, the current effective range of the three-bow bed crossbow should be between 400 and 500 meters to 500 meters.
(End of this chapter)