Working Prophet.

Chapter 169 The Sea King's Halberd Appears

The process of retrieving information is often lengthy and cumbersome.

Moreover, there will always be deviations between theory and reality, and Li Yu is not sure how effective these deduced results will be in the end.

However, these studies did bring him a lot of ideas. The black dragon in the swamp was still mysterious to Li Yu, but at least Li Yu no longer knew nothing about it.

After stripping away the magnificent coat of mythology and fictional literature on it, it is nothing more than a powerful creature.

And as long as it is a creature, it has weaknesses and blood bars.

Of course, seeing weaknesses and health bars is one thing, how to effectively break through weaknesses and complete output is another.

Li Yu had a question in his mind after downloading and browsing the app [Forging House] launched by the equipment department, and he also consulted Hephaestus later.

"Why is there no weapon equipment inside?"

The handsome mixed-race guy replied, "Please, we are a joint-stock company operating in a law-abiding manner, of course we will not develop and produce weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction, which is illegal.

"And considering the company's main business, we send employees to other universes to produce and collect beliefs, not to engage in cross-plane conquest or colonization, so the board of directors does not feel that the company has developed weapons after investigation and discussion. necessary.

"Look at the weapons that humans have today. Our ancestors once ruled the earth with cold weapons and stood at the top of the biological chain. After we have hot weapons, we basically hold those Hot weapons are killing each other." Hephaestus took the opportunity to make a political comment.

"That's what I said, but there may still be times when violence is needed." Li Yudao, "After all, there are always people in this world who are unwilling to reason, and there are quite a few of them."

"Well, you are right. If the company distributes 47 AK[-]s to each person in the business department, I believe it will greatly improve your work efficiency. Unfortunately, the board of directors does not agree with this approach. "The handsome mixed-race guy shrugged.

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To sum up, Li Yu basically gave up the possibility of obtaining weapons through the company's channels. Although there are indeed some equipment in the [Forging House] whose power is not inferior to modern weapons in Li Yu's opinion, the price of such equipment is often very high. Outrageous.

Unless he has so many beliefs that he has no place to spend them later, purchasing this kind of equipment is obviously not as cost-effective as purchasing other equipment in terms of cost performance, and Li Yu doesn't have so many beliefs on him now.

So Li Yu had to figure out a solution for the weapon issue.

On the sixth day after Jude and Juan returned from the swamp, Li Yu also got good news.

After more than a month of hard work and spending a total of nearly a thousand gold coins, Li Yu also dispatched a full 50 people to help Fitzwilliam. The shipbuilder finally made the first Sea King Halberd!

This kind of giant crossbow was originally used on warships for naval battles. It is amazingly powerful and can easily shoot through small warships that dare to approach.

The shape of the finished product is a bit like a combination of Song Dynasty bed crossbow and Roman ballista. The huge crossbow body is fixed by brackets, and an iron bar made of high-quality fine iron is installed between the machine shafts. It is a square wooden beam with arrow slots.

According to Fitzwilliam, the core craft of making a giant crossbow lies in the torsion spring.

The strength of the torsion spring determines the maximum power that a crossbow can provide.

The torsion spring used on the Neptune's Halberd is a composite material. The formula and craftsmanship have always been the secrets of the Weiting family, and no one knows about it except the family owners and the craftsmen who are mainly responsible for shipbuilding.

It's a pity that some of the materials are difficult to collect in the western region, and Fitzwilliam can only replace them with other materials, which makes the final Sea King halberd weaker than the original one.

But then the shipbuilder took someone to try shooting. It is more appropriate to use a special iron arrow, or an iron gun. It can shoot a distance of nearly 400 meters. If the arrow body is replaced with a wooden one, it can fly another 200 meters. .

This result has greatly exceeded Li Yu's expectations.

Although the Sea King Halberd is not as outrageous as the legendary three-bow bed crossbow, with an effective range of more than 1000 meters, many people are already skeptical about the data given in "Song History".

After all, ordinary pistol bullets can fly 1000 meters.

It's a pity that the craftsmanship of the three-bow bed crossbow has also been lost, otherwise Li can print a copy and bring it to Fitzwilliam for reference, and maybe help the shipbuilder gain some experience points.

But at this stage, the Sea King's Halberd is enough. It is hard for Li Yu to imagine that there are creatures in this world who can resist the arrows fired by this giant crossbow with their flesh and blood.

Even if it is a giant dragon covered in scales, as long as the distance is close enough, half a tube of blood will be lost if it is not killed by an arrow in the front.

However, this heavy weapon is not without its disadvantages. First of all, because of its huge size, it is almost immobile and can only be used fixedly. The Weiting family usually only places this kind of giant crossbow on the walls of battleships and ports.

Moreover, due to the huge recoil, even some small warships could not install the Sea King's Halberd, let alone move it around with an ox cart.

In addition, winding is also a problem.Eighteen people are required to use the shaft alone, and it takes at least 3 minutes to reload and wind the arrow after it is shot, and it takes even longer to aim and adjust the position.

And with the speed and wisdom of that dragon, it would definitely not give the crossbowman so much time. If this shortcoming can be solved by increasing the number of crossbows, then the next problem is the most troublesome for Fitzwilliam. of.

Similar giant crossbows are naturally insufficient in accuracy because they place too much emphasis on power.

At the beginning of its birth, the Sea King Halberd was basically used to deal with other ships, because only such a large target could be aimed at, and the family would spend a lot of money to train a group of excellent crossbowmen from childhood, specially used to manipulate giant crossbow.

Since the Weiting family was defeated so quickly in the previous rebellion that they didn't even have time to use the fleet, most of these people survived. However, after the war, they either joined the Imperial Navy or were given away by some foreign fleets. Poached away.

Anyway, no matter what they do next, it is impossible to come to the west.

As for the members of the Wetting family, including Fitzwilliam, no one would manipulate Sea King's Halberd.

And the shipbuilder only thought of this at the end of the construction period, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty, because Li Yu spent a lot of money to make this giant crossbow, but it might not be useful in the end.

However, Li Yu didn't mean to blame him after hearing this. Instead, he praised his skill level and gave a bonus to all those who participated in the construction of the giant crossbow. Li Yu will solve the matter in hand.

(End of this chapter)