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Chapter 3 Weapon 3

Fusu groaned from his heart: "Oh my God, who are these ancestors of Qin? They have already made the murderous machine to the most perfect level! The most perfect weapon, coupled with the bravest warriors, no wonder the six countries will be beaten to the point of being beaten!" Suddenly Fusu thought about it and asked the machine: "The Qin crossbow is so complicated, is there any intention to prevent other countries from imitating it?" The machine nodded proudly and said, "What the young master said is very much. I, Qin crossbow, said that the barbarians on the grassland robbed it. Even the occasionally obtained by the six countries in Guandong were racking their brains and it was difficult to copy it!"

Fusu secretly raised his thumbs up: "Hao, it's really high. When fighting with the barbarians on the grassland in the future, he would shoot him with a Qin crossbow, so that they could make them scream and don't jump!"

Suddenly, Fusu discovered a strange fact and said, "Why do engineers only see crossbows but no bows?" Ji smiled and said, "We in Qin rarely use bows to fight! It is mainly because the range of the bow is too close and the accuracy is relatively poor! However, some generals still use it in special combat, but our manufacturing process does not produce bows!" Fusu scratched his head. It seems that the bow is not a market in Qin, and it cannot beat crossbows!

After finishing the crossbow, everyone continued to move forward and came to the place where the arrows were made. Fusu picked up a small arrow that had just been made and even a little hot, and looked carefully: the arrows were triangular in shape, with abnormally smooth sections, and the cuts were very sharp, making them look cold and shining. The manufacturing was absolutely exquisite.

Fusu was a little surprised and said, "Workman, why are these arrows all triangular? "Jiangmao smiled and said, "Young Master, compared with other shapes of arrows, triangular shapes fly more smoothly when shooting, and have huge penetration power when hitting enemy soldiers. They can easily penetrate armor and invade human bodies! This was determined by the Chinese craftsmen after countless trial productions!"

Fusu suddenly remembered: Isn’t modern bullets also in the shape of triangular edges? The Qin army’s design ideas for arrows are similar to those of modern bullets. They are amazing, so amazing! Fusu is only surprised now!

So, Fusu, excitedly picked up a few small arrows and put them in his hand to look at them. Suddenly, Fusu felt strange and hurriedly picked up two arrows to connect the sections of the triangular edges together, which was completely in line. So, Fusu was surprised to take dozens of arrows in a row, and the results were not only the three sections of each arrow were completely the same in appearance, but there was almost no difference between different arrows. Fusu moaned again from his heart, and three big words appeared in his head: Standardization!

Fusu asked the machine with a trembling trembling, "How can this type of arrow be completely the same in shape? How can there be no error at all?" The machine said strangely, "This is nothing. Not only are all the weapons we built in this work absolutely the same size, but the weapons made in all Qin's weapons are also exactly the same!" Fusu opened his eyes wide and said, "How is this possible?" Fusu did not dare and refused to believe it!

Some monks were confused and said, "Young Master, how dare you cheat on you! All the weapons in Daqin are determined by clear laws. Generally speaking, when each weapon appears, I, Daqin, will choose to design the best one, fix its size, shape, and weight in the form of a law, and then send it to soldiers from all over the country to make them according to the law. If there is any manufacturing error and does not meet the requirements, it will be a serious crime of whipping the light, and beheading the head or even killing the nine clans. Who dares to be careless!"

Fusu, who had opened his mouth wide, could not feel much surprise now. There were too many surprises today. The Qin people even developed super production technologies such as "standardized weapons production". What else can't be achieved?

Suddenly Fusu thought about it and asked the machine: "But, generally speaking, the size of a craftsman's weapons may be exactly the same, but the size of a weapon made by different craftsmen can also be exactly the same?" Fusu felt a little reluctant to leave. But the machine was obviously very proficient in its own responsibilities and nodded calmly and said: "Yes, young master, the court has exactly the same mold for each weapon, and anyone must follow it. Moreover, when the manufacturing is completed, the supervisor of each craftsman's house (equivalent to the workshop director) will use the mold to inspect it personally. If there are any unqualified ones, they will definitely not leave the factory, and the craftsman will also be punished! If you think it is qualified, you will need the three levels of craftsman, Cheng, and craftsman.

All of them are engraved with the name "Yule Gong's Name". For example, please see this arrow, please see the words "Zheng" on it (Seventeenth year of the State Wei Wei Liao, "Master" of the 17th year, "Master" of the craftsman, "Yi" and "Cheng"), referring to: This is supervised by the State Wei, the craftsman who was reviewed and approved to be in the warehouse are subordinates, the craftsman who was inspected and inspected are "Yi" and the craftsman who was directly manufactured are "Cheng"! If there is a problem in the future, if there is a problem in the army, we can investigate from me to the craftsman to the craftsman, and all of them are punished. The light is whipped, and the severe one is executed! No one dares to neglect his duties, so the essence of my weapons in the Qin Dynasty is definitely the best in the world!"

Fusu can only nod his head now. With such strict and advanced weapons industry as a backing, if the Qin army still cannot win a battle, it will be a group of pigs!

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Immediately afterwards, the machine took Fusu and others to visit the fourth work: the Spear and Slayer House.

This is a place that specializes in the production of large weapons such as spears, halberds, beryllium and other weapons. Fusu is very familiar with heavy weapons such as spears and halberds, but he doesn't know what kind of weapons it is. After careful observation, Fusu found that beryllium is actually a weapon formed by a shortened bronze sword mounted on a long wooden handle. Fusu, who suddenly realized that beryllium is such a weapon! No wonder many archaeologists in modern times think that beryllium is just a bronze short sword after the wooden handle of beryllium has been rotten for a long time!

Fortunately, Fusu and others' brain nerves are now very strong, so when they see various weapons such as shining cold light, extremely sharp, and other weapons, there is no surprise. Although everyone still feels a sense of fear from the heart of these powerful heavy weapons.

Suddenly, Fusu came to the place where the finished heavy weapons were stored. He was stunned again and asked, "Worker, why are the lengths of these three weapons, spear, beryllium and halberd, completely different?"

The gun replied: "The spear is two feet long (about six meters and three!!), and is the most protruding group of infantry formations except crossbow soldiers. Their weapons must be directly aimed at the enemy, so according to the experience of one inch long and one inch strong, the spear is made into such a length. Through the Qin army's trial experience, it was found that a three feet long weapon is the limit length that ordinary soldiers can use, so for the sake of flexibility, it was reduced to two feet and seven feet. Beryllium is one feet and five feet long (about three meters and five), and the beryllium is located behind the spear and guards the army. Because the spear is too long, although it is sudden.

The attack is powerful and unstoppable, but if the enemy breaks into the formation, the spearmen and spears are huge and they have no ability to fight in close combat, and they can only be slaughtered by the enemy. At this time, the beryllium soldiers come forward to attack and block the enemy. The halberd is 12 feet long (about 2.8 meters), and the halberd soldiers are best at close combat. If the two formations of the spearmen and the beryllium soldiers in front are destroyed by the enemy, it will be the halberd soldiers who will sway the halberds to fight! The length and weight of these heavy weapons are formulated according to the best battlefield experience, so they are used to conquer the battlefield and charge into the formation, which is extremely powerful!"

What else is there to say? Fusu had nodded violently. Who said that he knew almost nothing about Qin's weapons industry?

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The last scholastic house: the armored scholastic house.

This is a comprehensive scholastic house that produces various armor, chariots and other things.

Compared with the four rooms in the previous four, the shock brought by the military armor scholars to Fusu and others was much smaller, but just from some small things, we can see the strictness of the Qin army's military armor: the Qin army's armor was mainly leather armor, and only some generals were made of metal; while all the leather armor of the Qin army was sewn from leather strips and ribs. The stitches were thick and thin, long and short, and the crafts were different, but errors were never allowed. Even the eighteen pinholes on each piece of armor were meticulous. Once one was found to be missed, the female craftsman who was in charge would be punished by warning or even whipping! (Fusu sweated, only one word in his mind: strict!)

The Qin army's chariots were also very powerful and solid. In order to ensure the sturdyness of the chariot, even a few willow nails were required to be ordered in a certain part. What is even more shocking is the advanced wheel design of the Qin army's chariot: the bronze wheels are very delicate and sturdy, with no more than thirty spokes similar to today's bicycle wire dispersed the pressure on the wheel rim itself, making the chariot run faster and steadily; the processing complexity of the hub is far beyond the imagination of today's people: it only has the two ends connected to the axle, but there is a bulging cavity in the middle, which is filled with grease, which plays a role similar to lubricating oil today, making the friction between the hub and the axle more flexible, and makes driving more light and more flexible!

Fusu was also very surprised: No wonder the 400,000 Zhao army was strangled by a chariot and army unit sent by Bai Qi in the Battle of Changping. With such a powerful chariot, it was as powerful as Mount Tai when it charged and was overwhelming!

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At dusk, Fusu and everyone bid farewell to the palace and returned to the palace. No one on the way said anything, and they were obviously deeply shocked by the huge and advanced weapons and engineers of Qin. Fusu took a long breath: Qin's strength can indeed allow a child to win the world immediately, let alone Qin Shihuang, the emperor of the ages. The demise of the six kingdoms is indeed an unstoppable historical trend!
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