The Emperor's Son-in-Law

Passing the training ground, Duan Chun stopped curiously to look at the longbows and arrows used by these archers.

He was even more surprised after seeing them!

"What's wrong, nephew, do you want to try this three-stone bow?"

Xu Yong saw Duan Chun was curious about the longbow, so he asked with a smile.

"Is this a three-stone bow?"

Duan Chun asked curiously.

"Yes, there are many kinds of longbows in our military camp."

"Generally, elite archers use a one-stone bow."

"Ordinary soldiers don't even have a one-stone bow."

"Those who can pull a one-stone bow are warriors, and those who can pull a three-stone bow are archers."

"Besides your father, I am the only one who can pull a five-stone bow."

Xu Yong said proudly.

"Nephew understands."

Duan Chun put the longbow back to its original place, and didn't want to try it himself.

Because he just saw this three-stone bow, he remembered from childhood to adulthood.

Dad forced him to pull the bow in the backyard, but he never knew what the longbow he used was like?

Today he finally understood that when he was sixteen, his father had already made him switch to this kind of three-stone bow training.

Now he didn't know if he could still draw the three-stone bow.

Or draw the five-stone bow...

His father had never relaxed his training on him.

It was just that after he was injured this time and came through, his father didn't force him to train every day.

Perhaps his father had figured it out, even if he trained his beloved son to be good at martial arts.

If someone deliberately harmed him, his son would still suffer.

He put down the longbow and watched the longbow shooting of these elite sharpshooters.

They pulled the longbow, and the whistling sound was endless.

Countless arrows passed through the longbow and shot at the targets standing at the foot of the mountain.

Duan Chun took a look and was extremely surprised.

The three-stone bow is not about accuracy, but range.

It can guarantee a certain range and allow the arrows to accurately hit a certain range.

Is this a sharpshooter?

Duan Chun understood that the three-stone bow was a long-range attack method.

As long as it could accurately hit the enemy one hundred and fifty steps away, it would be fine.

And every time the three-stone bow was fired, it was a volley of archers.

It was easier to achieve long-range coverage than that.

The so-called "shooting through the willows at a hundred steps" was just a precise hit of a stone bow within a hundred steps.

It had little to do with the three-stone bow.

Duan Chun only took a look at the range of the three-stone bow.

He felt something was wrong.

The flying posture of these arrows in the air made him suddenly realize.

The power of the three-stone bow was fine, but if you want to increase the attack distance and lethality of the arrows.

There seemed to be something wrong with those arrows...

"Uncle Xu, these arrows..."

"Are they all standard three-stone bow arrows of our Dakang Corps?"

Duan Chun picked up a long arrow and looked at it carefully and asked.

"Yes, arrows specially used for three-stone bows."

"Longer length, heavier arrowheads."

Xu Wu nodded.

"This arrow..."

"Got it, let's go to the lobby in front and wait for my father."

Duan Chun looked at the arrow in his hand and understood it in his heart.

The length and weight of this three-stone bow arrow are fine.

The real problem comes from the shape of the arrowhead and the design of the tail feathers.

Perhaps in this era, the military technology has not yet developed to the level of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Such arrows flying in the air cannot convert potential energy into sufficient kinetic energy.

Then convert kinetic energy into potential energy to exert the greatest power.

Duan Chun seemed to have his own ideas in his mind.

You know, he is a modern man after all, and his understanding of arrowheads.

But it has at least two thousand years more history than anyone in this era.

The group came to the conference hall on one side at the foot of the mountain.

Yuanda quickly handed the military equipment account book to Xu Wu.

Duan Chun sat on the couch, waiting for the two to hand over the military equipment.

"Sir Yuan, there are only 1,000 longbows, 3,000 arrows, and 3,000 infantry spears."

"Less than 500 sets of armor..."

"When the general comes, how will you explain to him?"

Xu Wu frowned and asked after reading the account book.

"Please calm down, sir."

"There is nothing I can do. The decree came too quickly this time."

"I don't have time to prepare."

"Besides, there have been small-scale wars in the East Territory in the past two years."

"The inventory of the Armory Department has been transported to the East Territory."

"There are only so many left in all the treasuries of the Imperial Capital."

Yuan Da explained with a wry smile.

"It's useless to explain to me."

"Go explain to the general later."

Xu Wu said indifferently.

"Prince..."

Yuan Da looked at Duan Chun helplessly.

"Don't worry, Uncle Yuan."

"I will talk to my father for you later."

"But there is so much shortage of military equipment. Can Uncle Yuan guarantee that it will be gathered as soon as possible within half a month?"

Duan Chun asked.

"This... I can only do my best."

"But I can guarantee that there will be absolutely no problem in getting half of it."

Yuan Da said quickly.

"Get half?"

"Sir Yuan, have you forgotten the general's temper?"

Xu Wu sneered.

"Uh..."

Yuan Da's face turned pale.

"Uncle Yuan, I want to ask."

"What is the current situation of the ordnance manufacturing of the Ministry of War's Ordnance Department?"

"Is it because there are not enough workshops, or is there another reason?"

"Why are the four realms facing war?"

"Is the Ordnance Department's output so low?"

Duan Chun asked.

"Young master, you don't know something."

"This is not a problem with the Ordnance Master's Workshop."

"The number of workshops continues to increase every year, but there is no silver and no craftsmen."

"Not to mention there are not enough materials, even a low-ranking official can't make a meal without straw."

Yuanda sighed.

"Uncle Yuan, please tell me carefully."

Duan Chun suddenly became interested.

Yuanda also had no choice but to complain about the situation in the Arms Department to the two of them...

Since the founding of Dakang, everything has been in ruins.

After eleven years of continuous construction, workshops and craftsmen everywhere are rapidly putting into production.

But the situation in the Ordnance Department is somewhat special.

Because the ordnance produced by the Ordnance Department's workshops has strict standard control.

Therefore, if the Ordnance Department wants to build workshops, the cost will naturally be higher.

And the expenditure of Dakang's treasury could not meet the needs of the Ordnance Department at all.

Therefore, the Ministry of War could only hand over these ordnance workshops to the major families to share the processing.

In this way, craftsmen and materials are more concentrated.

And major aristocratic families continue to raise construction costs, taking the opportunity to secretly make a fortune...

If the Ordnance Department's output continues to maintain a certain amount, the cost will continue to increase every year.

Duan Chun understood what he heard.

What the hell, isn’t this the problem that modern Eagle Sauce is facing?

The arms group secretly increased the cost, resulting in Yingjiang no longer being able to build a new aircraft carrier.

Even aircraft and missiles are almost unaffordable.

The situation Dakang is facing now seems to be caused by the military workshops controlled by major aristocratic families!

"Uncle Xu, do you and my father also know about this situation?"

Duan Chun asked.

"Of course I do."

"So, the general and I never counted on the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War."

"Most of the Cavalry Guard's weapons are made by our own craftsmen."

“If we weren’t facing an unknown war this time, I don’t know how long the fight would last?”

"We don't even bother asking the Ordnance Department for ordnance."

Xu Wu snorted coldly.

Yuanda's face instantly turned as red as fresh pork liver.