Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After the first version of the city defense crossbow was completed, it was presented to Zhou Xu as quickly as possible.

In order to ensure its power, the crossbow is two meters long, so the size cannot be small, and so is the weight.

It's not that easy for a single soldier to carry it and move it around, but as long as two soldiers are deployed, moving it won't be a big problem.

Under this premise, another problem is that the original design of the city's crossbow defense was to use brackets to support the outer wall of the wall to resolve the recoil generated when the crossbow arrows were fired.

Therefore, on normal ground, this bracket cannot be used at all, which makes this piece of equipment can only be used for wall defense to a large extent.

This also makes the test only possible on the wall.

Zhou Xu directly decided on the specific test location on the city wall facing the edge of the world, which was relatively safe and hidden.

Someone was asked to set up a target outside the city, and the group quickly climbed onto the wall.

The three soldiers responsible for testing the city defense crossbow at the moment are all substitute members of the crossbow team. Although they have not used the city defense crossbow before, the entire operating principle is basically the same. In addition, Zhuang Mengdie has come from With some guidance, after getting familiar with it, I got started quickly.

"Then the first round of testing will officially begin. Count from far to near, first aiming at the wooden target in the middle of the fourth row outside the city."

Following Zhou Xu's order, the three crossbowmen quickly started operating.

After mounting the city defense crossbow on the wall, opening the bracket and pressing it against the outer wall, a soldier standing at the rear was responsible for supporting the city defense crossbow to stabilize its center of gravity, while the crossbow soldier standing in front was responsible for turning it. The rotating handle located above the crossbow body completes the bow shooting and general direction aiming through the built-in mechanism structure.

Seeing the right opportunity, the third crossbowman installed the specially customized crossbow arrows.

After further aiming, and with the pull of the trigger, the crossbow arrow of the city defense crossbow shot through the air.

The shooting range and power were sufficient, but the accuracy was not right, and the fired crossbow bolt was directly inserted into the ground half a person away from the wooden target.

Although the operation process of this city defense crossbow is the same as that of the three-bow bed crossbow, the feeling of using it is not the same. It can be regarded as a new weapon for the time being.

Their mastery of it is not yet proficient enough, and they do not have any special talents. Naturally, they cannot achieve precise strikes right from the start.

If you can hit, that's luck. If you can't, that's normal.

But even so, considering that their king was standing on the side at the moment, after an arrow missed, the crossbowmen felt nervous.

However, Zhou Xu had no idea at all. After taking a glance, he calmly spoke...

"Change to the wooden target in the middle of the third row."

Without hesitation, the three crossbowmen quickly started operating.

In this first round of testing, Zhou Xu asked the crossbowmen to hit the wooden target directly in the middle, and he didn't care whether they hit or not.

Because the most important thing in this round is to test the effective range of the city defense crossbow.

In the past two years, with the improvement of Dazhou's internal process technology and the abundance of resources at hand, the range power of the bed crossbows they produced has been relatively significantly improved compared to the earliest version.

Among them, the three-bow bed crossbow has a range of 850 to 900 meters while ensuring sufficient lethality.

Considering the background of the times, there is no doubt that the three-bow bed crossbow is a super killer weapon if there is room for use.

This process technology was also used when manufacturing the city defense crossbow. Considering the entire design, the power and range will be reduced.

But as of now, while ensuring lethality, its effective killing range still reaches the range of 450 to 500 meters.

If the distance is further extended, the power will drop too much, and in Zhou Xu's opinion, there is no need to conduct a test.

"Next, the wooden target in the middle of the fifth row."

If Zhou Xu was testing the farthest effective range of the city defense crossbow before, then now he began to test the strike range of the city defense crossbow at the bottom of the wall.

For weapons like this, the bottom of the city wall is often the blind spot for their attacks, and the city defense crossbow is no exception.

But in comparison, it is not fixed, and it is relatively lightweight. It is controlled by three crossbowmen. Therefore, the adjustment of the attack angle must be much more flexible. The attack blind spot below should be able to be suppressed. Smaller.

During a simple test, Zhou Xu was basically sure that the city defense crossbows could be fired up to the sixth row. From the outside, it was almost an angle of 60 or 70 degrees. Further inside, the city defense crossbows were not good either. The operation is to attack the blind spot.

"Now start shooting to the left and right. The attack position of the city defense crossbow remains unchanged. Starting from the farthest row, shoot one by one."

Now is the time to start testing the fan-shaped attack area directly in front of the city defense crossbow.

As a result, after this test, the stability of the city defense crossbow dropped significantly. Zhou Xu and Zhuang Mengdie, who noticed this change, almost simultaneously cast their eyes on the bracket supported on the outer wall.

"It seems that this bracket needs to be adjusted again, and I need to think of something else."

While muttering to himself, Zhuang Mengdie quickly wrote down this latest question in the notebook in his hand.

However, after finishing writing, his face couldn't help but reveal a burst of unconcealable distress.

Obviously, this question gave her a headache.

In the past, when the city defense crossbow was used for frontal shooting, since the outer wall of the front was basically flat, the bracket could be set up evenly and stably.

But once the attack angle changes, the angle required for support will also change, and it will no longer be as stable as it was at the beginning.

In response to this situation, Zhou Xu could actually think of some solutions, but considering the background of the times, these methods are probably not useful.

Of course, if he gave up worrying about the bracket problem, he actually had other simpler and more crude solutions.

For example, let the crossbowmen solve the problem by running.

Under normal circumstances, Zhou Xu is unlikely to let the city defense crossbow attack small soldiers. The attack targets of the city defense crossbow are basically concentrated on the opposite siege equipment, which is used to disintegrate the opponent's siege equipment, or some special A defensive weapon for large units.

Based on this premise, this city defense crossbow is relatively light, and two crossbowmen can fully carry it and run.

At that time, wherever siege equipment or large units appear, just let the crossbowmen carry the city defense crossbows and run there to launch an attack.

Or, to be more simple and crude, simply win by quantity. If the whole row of walls is filled, there will be no running problem.

In fact, in this era, compared to solving the problem of bracket telescopic adjustment, it is easier and more reliable to use the two methods above.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also called Zhuang Mengdie aside and discussed it.

Zhuang Mengdie had been troubled by this issue, but now she nodded subconsciously after hearing Zhou Xu's words.

"Indeed, it is difficult to solve this problem. Even if it can be solved later, the cost will probably be very high. It is better to let the crossbowmen take two more steps, or to set up a few more city defense crossbows."