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Chapter 230 The army of the Tang Dynasty made bows with shoulder poles? (first update)
After going back and forth, I cut corners and materials, and the production time was too hasty, which led to the excellent and good bow I wanted to get, but it turned into a broken thing.

Hearing what Gao Zhang said, the official Zhao Ji's expression was also very ugly.

As a filial son who aspires to avenge his father Shenzong, Zhao Ji has always been determined to establish Xixia, hoping that one day, he can conquer Xixia, which can be regarded as fulfilling his father Shenzong's dream.

Naturally, he also has a certain understanding of military affairs. The bow and crossbow of the Song Dynasty can be said to be ranked first among the hundreds of soldiers.

But the problem is that the problem is really similar to what Gao Zhang said.

Gao Zhang's father, Taiwei Gao, had mentioned this before. The bows and crossbows he had just received from the workshop were really unusable. As a result of random inspection, both the arms of the new bows and crossbows would break.

Although because of this incident, the emperor was furious and severely punished a group of officials.

But the problem is that such problems still happen from time to time, and it is also common for bows to be weak.

Moreover, compared with hand knives, bows and crossbows, which the imperial court valued most, cost a lot of money to invest.

Take bows as an example. Compared with hand knives, bows are more consumable items. Especially in the frontier troops fighting between Song Dynasty and Xixia, the ratio of archers is so high that it is outrageous.

It can even be said that it is similar to when the Tang Dynasty was strong and prosperous, every soldier carried a bow and arrow.

The main reason is that Xixia has a large number of cavalry troops, and the Song Dynasty, which lacks horse breeding land, is very short of cavalry.

If you want to deal with cavalry, the best solution is to deal with the opponent with long-range weapons.

In addition, in the northwest, the folk customs are tough, even ordinary people are very powerful, but they can't face life and death like real soldiers after all.

But once they have bows and arrows in their hands, they can cause huge damage to the enemy from a long distance.

This is also the reason why a large number of rural soldiers in the northwest frontier are archers.

And the bow, this thing, is more unusable than a hand knife. A high-intensity war that lasts for more than ten days will cause the bow to be severely damaged and difficult to recover, so it is considered a consumable.

Even if the cost of bows is not very high, during the reign of Shenzong, the cost of a bow was about [-] Wen.

Up to now, it is only seven or eight hundred words.

It is precisely because of the rapid consumption, coupled with the frequent cutting corners of those workshops, that the bow and arrow, the most important lethal weapon in the Song Dynasty, have become a bottomless pit of spending money.

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Gao Zhang knew very well who this stupid king was, and he had little patience for anything other than art.

Therefore, after Jiji swayed Zhuxiang's kung fu, before the faint gentleman and master's patience disappeared, he threw out his purpose.

"Master, do you know that apart from those yellow birch bows, black lacquer bows, white birch bows, and hempback bows, there is actually a more expensive and better quality bow."

"What kind?" Zhao Ji asked Gao Zhang with a face full of novelty.

"No horn pieces, no bark, no twine, no longbows of various animal sinews."

"I know that such a longbow is very cheap to manufacture, but it is far inferior to a military bow in terms of range and lethality."

"This kind of bow is sold in Tokyo. It is made of wood and only painted. The cost is very cheap."

As a stupid king who wanders around all day long, Zhao Ji is naturally very familiar with everything in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

"Master is indeed well-informed, but the longbow I mentioned is not that kind, but the most popular infantry longbow in the prosperous Tang Dynasty." Gao Zhang stretched his hands hard, trying to draw length.

However, I was not tall enough, so I just squatted down, picked up a small wooden stick, and drew a line on the ground with a length of 1.7 meters.

Then, after making more and more supplements, the official Zhao Ji looked at this something similar to a shoulder pole with a dazed expression on his face.

"This, isn't this made with a shoulder pole?"

"..." Gao Zhang, who was processing the final details, almost fell to the ground when he heard this remark.God damn the pole, I returned the steel plate of the car.

"Xiao Gao, do you mean that the army of the Tang Dynasty used shoulder poles to make bows?"

Hearing the sound of Hunjun letting Lenovo's wings fly, Gao Zhang quickly shook his head wildly.

"What Master said is very vivid, but I haven't finished drawing it yet..."

Seeing Gao Zhang squatting there with a small body, the back of the official uniform on his body was scraped to the ground.

Zhao Ji, who is a good teacher, pulled him up with a smile, raised his hand and waved his sleeves to wipe off the dust on his back, with a pleasant face.

"The ground is too dirty, you should get up quickly, look at the ashes all over your body, let's go, let's go to the house, you just draw for the teacher to see."

Yang Jian looked at the pair of master and apprentice, rolled his eyes covertly, and followed eagerly.

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Gao Zhang stood in front of the desk, picked up the Zihao brush, and quickly finished it with a single stroke.

A vivid, very typical infantry longbow of the Tang Dynasty appeared on the rice paper.

In order to let Master understand the length and width of this long bow, Gao Zhang wrote down a set of data on the side.

Before time travel, Gao Zhang has always been a fan of Tang and Ming, and in his mind, Da Song is a big coward.

In addition to the very developed economy of this dynasty, the military and diplomacy are almost all scumbags, which makes people really disgusted.

However, Gao Zhang is naturally familiar with all aspects of the Tang and Ming dynasties, especially the military aspects that fascinate people.

What Tang Shisanjia, Tang Ming Guangjia, Tang Hengdao, Tang Modao and so on.

Anyone who has a certain understanding of the Tang Dynasty's military must also know the military equipment that only appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

And that kind of flat bow, or the shoulder-pole bow in the mouth of Hunjun, is one of the typical ones.

Until the archaeological experts of later generations, in the excavation and scientific research activities aboveboard again and again.

After finding this kind of bow from the prosperous Tang Dynasty, coupled with the description of the murals in the tomb of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was confirmed that this is a bow rather than a long weapon.

Thanks to the development of video media in later generations, he has seen the restoration of this longbow on the Internet.

And after testing, this kind of plate bow in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, although the material used is Zhe wood and mulberry wood, is inferior to yew wood.

That is to say, in terms of material, it is not as good as the English longbow, but its structure is more reasonable, and its power is only high but not low.

What is meant by a reasonable structure is that the upper and lower pieces are shaped like the width of a shoulder pole, which gives the bow arm a better output efficiency.

The English longbow is a relatively primitive design, and its energy output efficiency is very low.That is, the energy of the bow cannot be transferred to the arrow well.

Of course, this is not Gao Zhang himself bragging, but has a scientific basis. Datang is awesome, and so is the armament.

(End of this chapter)