Chapter 386: The birth of a new weapon
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The messenger Bernardick slowly took out the wooden board filled with words: "Dear Chief Ross, this is the order of the lord, please have a look."
He pushed the plank forward until it reached Rurik's face.
Not to mention, he sat on the wooden floor for the first time, and then looked at the large number of ferocious bear heads hanging on the wooden wall. His eyes were all reflective and full of flames from a campfire. He really fell in love with this warm house.
Rurik just glanced at the plank, already laughing in his heart.
After all, Rurik did not hold back, and laughed: "I thought the leader had a high opinion. It seems that his command is only one sentence?"
Benardic was a little shy. "I...I'm stupid and don't understand the meaning of these symbols."
"Huh? This is clearly our words, you actually..."
"Yes, I really don't understand. Maybe I need to learn."
Rurik didn't know if this guy was pretending to be humble or completely illiterate. The western alphabet system is inseparable from its origins. It allows ordinary people to quickly understand the meaning of other people's written documents, and only requires easy learning.
"Hey, I met the leader himself, and I had an agreement with him." Rurik talked freely. "This plank is engraved with a meaning. He said that the Ross people took your cargo, and the ice and snow melted with the fleet. Come together to meet the alliance."
"Huh? That's what it means?"
"Correct."
Bernardick felt a little depressed. He touched Roseburg at the risk of freezing to death. It was the representative leader who conveyed a promise that the Ross people had never forgotten.
This is an order, just a reminder.
"Does the leader have an oral message?" Rurik asked suddenly.
"This... The verbal order is there. The leader said that he needs goods from the Rus, and he will spend a lot of money to buy it."
Rurik nodded: "I understand. Tell your master that we can meet his needs in Rus."
"Oh, that's great, my mission is complete. So, can the villain retreat?"
"Are you in such a hurry to leave?" Rurik's smile seemed to have something else.
"Boss, you still have..."
"You are a warrior, dare to rush to our territory with a sled. For a warrior like you, we will give some rewards."
Upon hearing the reward, Bernardick's heart beats wildly. He expects the Ross people to provide a meal and feed some fodder to the reindeer by the way.
The result was beyond his imagination.
Rurik's philosophy of life has always been nonchalant, he deliberately entertained the messenger, and even the reindeer husband. This night, they ate porridge, roasted seal meat, yellow root carrot stew, and even a glass of ale.
The two lived in a vacant barn with wooden floors, and soon fell asleep wrapped in leather after eating and drinking.
In fact, in Rurik's opinion, this kind of hospitality can only be said to be of a higher standard, but for Bernardic, it is the best enjoyment of his life.
He admired the leader of Ross from his heart, specifically Rurik's character. He understood even more that the chieftain Otto had handed over most of the power to his son Rurik.
The two hard-working reindeer were fed a lot of hay, supplemented by some oats.
At dawn the next day, the messenger ate another bowl of oatmeal and got some hard oatmeal.
Bernardic received written feedback from Chief Ross, which was to engrave new text on the clerical board.
Some are Luenwen, which is carved very neatly. He took a closer look and was surprised. Because these words are not traces drawn by a knife, but smashed out with a special tool.
In fact, these are some steel stamps made by blacksmiths, and small cast iron blocks are chiseled out with mirror-like letters by steel cones. Each household of the Blacksmiths League made two sets, one is the Rune alphabet and the other is the Roman alphabet.
For example, the wooden board that Rurik gave back. Beating the steel seal makes the writing of the document faster.
In fact, this is also a trade-off. Early Sumerians used clay tablets as carriers and used various patterns of seals to write stationery.
This move by the Russ is by no means the first, it is just to write quickly at a time when wood-based documents are becoming more common.
Bernardick saw a strange set of symbols at the bottom of the Rune alphabet, which still looked like words.
He doesn't understand anything that is simply interesting.
So what did Rurik say on the board? In fact, it is also a sentence: "Noble lord, we Rus will fulfill our promise."
Rurik used an elegant vocabulary to praise the leader, which was only the most basic diplomatic etiquette.
The messenger didn't stay in Roseburg, nor did Bernardic walk the streets of Ross well, naturally he didn't know the details.
Even so, he knew the strength of the Ross people even if he was just looking around.
Just look at the three rows of ships neatly arranged on the frozen beach. Who dares to question the strength of the Rus?
The messenger's affairs are only an episode of the work of the Ross people in March, and Rurik and Otto have completed their diplomatic meetings and quickly plunged into their daily lives.
The flame of the blast furnace went out. It was intact, just because the Cravasons had no iron ore. Not only is there a shortage of minerals, they also lack charcoal.
The inside of this huge blast furnace made of clay has been substantially vitrified. It has become very hard and high temperature resistant, and the extremely thick sealing soil ensures its compressive resistance.
Kamnier was once dropped into the furnace. He was responsible for cleaning the residual **** and carbon deposits in the furnace. After many days of cleaning, the furnace was restored to its state.
But Rurik doesn't expect this blast furnace to operate for many years, maybe it will have to be rebuilt after two or three years.
At the end of March, the vernal equinox is here!
On March 28th, the stars reached their correct positions. There was almost nothing left of the high priest Velia, she almost lost her appetite, she was confused and pointed out the arrival of her successor Lumia.
This time, it was Lumia who put on the noble antler helmet and took all the priests to perform sacrifices on the stone ship altar.
Everyone saw a light high priest standing barefoot on the altar that had cleared the last snow. People were surprised to find that High Priest Veria was just sitting on the sedan chair, wrapped in leather and watching all this quietly.
The death of the high priest is already known and sad.
But in Rurik's heart, since the end of this small-scale sacrifice, the era belonging to High Priest Lumia has officially begun, even if she lacks the last promotion ceremony. She is indeed very young, even young, but people can see that the old priest's deadline is approaching, and the burden of future priests will fall on Lumia's thin shoulders, and she must sustain it.
After the vernal equinox, everything has changed! The frozen sea is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the ice that was once easy to walk has become extremely dangerous.
No, the stream that poured into the Roseburg Fjord became extremely turbulent, and the central mountains of Scandinavia began to thaw. Not only the Roseburg Fjord, but also the Kemi River in the north, the cracked ice layer gave off shocking waves. With the sound of the sound, the residents of Fort Elon stood on the wooden wall, and even children climbed onto the towering crane, and they saw the river in the sun.
Time has quietly entered April, and the sea has resumed waves. All the sights prove that this year's spring is coming in time and normal.
It is this wave that is full of danger, just floating ice blocks everywhere in the fjord.
In early April, a spring rain nourished the earth like precious oil.
The rain was not cold, it was even warm.
It was this world that was shrouded in dampness that made Rurik feel really upset.
The only thing that the Ross people are grateful for is the large number of wooden blocks built on wooden piles. These wooden houses are largely isolated from the mud and damp.
The ice and snow accumulated on the ground quickly melted due to the rain. In the mines that used to be covered by ice, the rocks were exposed to the rain, and large-scale mining operations will soon resume.
In these days, even if it is shrouded in continuous rain, the construction of the Aphrora continues. Her huge body was directly exposed to the rain, but it had no effect on her solid oak hull.
The thick pine deck of the ship has been laid, and even the huge rudder at the stern has been refined.
Clavasson and the other blacksmiths, with Rurik's money, were ordered to make two gear plates. In terms of craftsmanship alone, these gears are still too rough, and Rurik doesn't expect them to instantly become talents who are good at precision machining, because it is too unrealistic.
In line with the principle of just being able to use it, after the shipbuilder took over the gear plate, he quickly buckled it with oak, and built a hard large wooden gear with a tenon-and-mortise structure.
The wooden gear is the core of the steering gear that controls the movement of the rudder, so that the steering wheel can drive the huge rudder with a small force to adjust the heading.
The other wooden gear was directly expanded into a wooden winch, which was installed on the wooden deck. Because of its extreme initiative and further reinforcement by oak boards, the Russ even used nails for riveting in order to improve the strength of the tenon-and-mortise structure.
It is a set of ingenious two-way ratchet system, this is the blueprint engraved on the wooden board provided by Rurik, as well as his personal guidance so that it can be successfully constructed.
Although the Hortra family will build a winch, creating a huge real number for the first time.
Because the maximum width of the Aphrora has reached six stikas, the maximum length of the hull has reached 33 stikas. Because of the keel, it looks very slender.
The huge triangular sail has been stitched up, it is big and heavy, only such a sail can withstand the sea wind. Now, the women who ate the food provided by Rurik are also completing the final most critical task, which is to sew the sails to the extremely long beams.
There is only one step away from the launch of the Aphrora, but as a substantial armed merchant ship with strong combat effectiveness, it has not yet been equipped with weapons.
What kind of weapon will she install?
This is the six-seat torsion slingshot, the heavy equipment that Rurik conspired with Clavasson and Kawei for a while.
Rurik wanted to recreate the Roman scorpion crossbow. He had this idea, but it was because the technology of the Rus was not strong enough at that time.
Now, times have changed.
The carpenter in Ross got Rurik's order to make some small parts. Some oak corner materials are also used by waste.
The core components of the torsion slingshot, such as the whale oil seal oil soaked in whale oil and seal oil as the source of torsion, the wool and flax mixed rope, the small cast iron ratchet system, the rotatable wooden pallet, and the firing angle adjustment lever system are mainly built by the Kravassen family .
With Rurik’s technical guidance, although this work was not difficult, it took as long as three weeks to build the six-seater torsion slingshot.
However, they are not huge existences just from the outside.
They have a uniform style. The frame structure is made of strong rough oak, and its structure is further enhanced by smashed iron bars. The width is only about 50 cm, and the "shoe tail" is only 150 cm. The ratchet winch is installed at the end of the scorpion tail.
A mixed-material cable was wound twelve times, with a crossbow made of mild steel inserted in the center. They are made very thick, so there will be no obvious bending when stretched. The crossbow arm made of iron has a greater self-weight, but considering the structural strength of the material, Rurik takes a balance.
It was not that he had never thought about making a giant steel arm crossbow. He gave up decisively when he thought of the large amount of materials required, the cost of maintenance, and the effects that could be achieved.
Regarding the casting of bronze cannons and the preparation of potions, the Rus people entered the age of gunpowder in one fell swoop, but Rurik had been deliberate. Theory is that kind of theory, and it can be realized in actual operation. It is the huge manpower and material cost to realize it in the future, as well as the output and the effect that can be achieved. The input-output ratio is destined to be unequal.
Whether it is a heavy steel arm crossbow or gunpowder-related equipment, their technological level is too high! The Roths are so high that they still don't have the ability to control it.
In the final analysis, it is a question of money.
For example, the torsion slingshot designed by Rurik, which uses low-carbon steel parts, pig iron castings and bronze parts, is enough to create a number of exquisite weapons. When these metals are made into the best weapons, they will inevitably be sold for 500 silver coins in total, and this is only the cost of the metal materials.
The special mixed material hemp rope is money, and the processing of hardwood is also money. There are so many things put together to form a torsion slingshot. Rülik estimates that its construction cost has reached at least six hundred silver coins.
Perhaps this money has always been a small amount of money to Rülik, but it is not!
Because the Aphrora had to install six torsion slingshots, in terms of military equipment alone, Rurik would have to invest about 36 pounds of silver.
Once tried in vain for a thousand silver coins, that is, the so-called ten pounds of silver to get a ship, the reality is like a slap, making Rurik realize that the navy is an aristocratic army like never before.
After all, the torsion slingshot is just a launcher, and its "cannonball" is still money.
Fortunately, as soon as the weapon was built, Rurik thought of the issue of ammunition.
If the torque is made of modern industrial fibers such as nylon, this slingshot must be extremely powerful. Reluctantly, this slingshot is the most powerful weapon he has created using the existing materials and technical capabilities of the Ross tribe. So from the beginning, its materials determined that there would not be a lot of torsion, so in order to get the maximum killing effect, it is necessary to make a fuss on the ammunition.
Rurik designed three weapons.
The first type, which weighs only half a pound, has a cone-shaped cannonball-style cast iron projectile. It will inevitably slow down quickly after being launched, and its flight lacks stability. It can only be used as a close combat weapon, such as knocking out enemy ships. A hole.
The second type is the short spear commonly used by the Ross people. For flight stability, it only needs to glue the tail fin of the thin wood at the end to become a kind of javelin. When the war really started, Rurik estimated that this weapon was the most commonly used.
The third type is very similar to the first type, except that the material is fired pottery block, or simply a pile of glass containing a lot of iron slag. For hard targets, it is natural to use cast iron projectiles. For soft targets, flying past a brick, Rurik is estimated to be enough.
After the weapon is built, it will naturally be tested. The experiment, it has undoubtedly become a new talk for Roseburg. Everyone knows that Lord Rurik has invented a weapon that seems to be more powerful than the crossbow.
A slightly empty coastal wasteland became a test site, and people saw a series of very good results in exclaim.
After many days of experimentation, Lurik got a number of technical indicators. What else can he say? Although he was not satisfied in his heart, but this is the current era, the level that long-range weapons can generally only reach, and cannot be expected to be too high.
Although the three-bow bed crossbow can have a range of up to one thousand meters, it is not a magic weapon that a tribe of 10,000 people can afford, not to mention the Ross people have no such skills.
The ship’s torsion slingshot has been tested and concluded that the initial velocity is not fast when it shoots various projectiles flatly, and its effective range is less than about 60 meters in flat shooting, but it can shoot about 150 meters in the projectile. Yes, Rurik has merged the concepts of stika and meter in his mind.
Its range is indeed close, but the energy storage of the cast iron projectile is amazing ~ www.novelhall.com ~ About fifty meters away, it can still punch a large hole in a pine board as thick as a finger. It does not penetrate the oak board very well. After all, this is the strength of oak, but how can ordinary enemies have ships made of all oak?
Cast iron projectiles can make sharper heads, or even make special molds, and directly cast a tail for it, so that it has stronger stability and penetration. The main job is to make holes for enemy ships.
When it launched a short spear with a tail wing, it set a record for the largest ejection of nearly 200 meters. A large amount of data shows that its range is about one hundred and sixty meters, if it goes down the wind, it will naturally fly farther.
The short spear uses the acceleration of gravity to dig the spear deep into the mud, requiring a strong man to pull it out. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if this is used on the battlefield, it can first set up the enemy’s formation to shoot outside the enemy’s archer’s range, and nail some unlucky enemies directly on the battlefield, giving the enemy huge Shocked in his heart.
In the same way, those clay and glass projectiles, they fly long distances, and are designed to hit the enemy's soft targets.
These six torsion slingshots can be used for land warfare and become the tribe’s heavy land warfare weapons. However, the future of the Rus is destined to be extremely dependent on the sea. These weapons must be excellent "ship destroyers".
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The messenger Bernardick slowly took out the wooden board filled with words: "Dear Chief Ross, this is the order of the lord, please have a look."
He pushed the plank forward until it reached Rurik's face.
Not to mention, he sat on the wooden floor for the first time, and then looked at the large number of ferocious bear heads hanging on the wooden wall. His eyes were all reflective and full of flames from a campfire. He really fell in love with this warm house.
Rurik just glanced at the plank, already laughing in his heart.
After all, Rurik did not hold back, and laughed: "I thought the leader had a high opinion. It seems that his command is only one sentence?"
Benardic was a little shy. "I...I'm stupid and don't understand the meaning of these symbols."
"Huh? This is clearly our words, you actually..."
"Yes, I really don't understand. Maybe I need to learn."
Rurik didn't know if this guy was pretending to be humble or completely illiterate. The western alphabet system is inseparable from its origins. It allows ordinary people to quickly understand the meaning of other people's written documents, and only requires easy learning.
"Hey, I met the leader himself, and I had an agreement with him." Rurik talked freely. "This plank is engraved with a meaning. He said that the Ross people took your cargo, and the ice and snow melted with the fleet. Come together to meet the alliance."
"Huh? That's what it means?"
"Correct."
Bernardick felt a little depressed. He touched Roseburg at the risk of freezing to death. It was the representative leader who conveyed a promise that the Ross people had never forgotten.
This is an order, just a reminder.
"Does the leader have an oral message?" Rurik asked suddenly.
"This... The verbal order is there. The leader said that he needs goods from the Rus, and he will spend a lot of money to buy it."
Rurik nodded: "I understand. Tell your master that we can meet his needs in Rus."
"Oh, that's great, my mission is complete. So, can the villain retreat?"
"Are you in such a hurry to leave?" Rurik's smile seemed to have something else.
"Boss, you still have..."
"You are a warrior, dare to rush to our territory with a sled. For a warrior like you, we will give some rewards."
Upon hearing the reward, Bernardick's heart beats wildly. He expects the Ross people to provide a meal and feed some fodder to the reindeer by the way.
The result was beyond his imagination.
Rurik's philosophy of life has always been nonchalant, he deliberately entertained the messenger, and even the reindeer husband. This night, they ate porridge, roasted seal meat, yellow root carrot stew, and even a glass of ale.
The two lived in a vacant barn with wooden floors, and soon fell asleep wrapped in leather after eating and drinking.
In fact, in Rurik's opinion, this kind of hospitality can only be said to be of a higher standard, but for Bernardic, it is the best enjoyment of his life.
He admired the leader of Ross from his heart, specifically Rurik's character. He understood even more that the chieftain Otto had handed over most of the power to his son Rurik.
The two hard-working reindeer were fed a lot of hay, supplemented by some oats.
At dawn the next day, the messenger ate another bowl of oatmeal and got some hard oatmeal.
Bernardic received written feedback from Chief Ross, which was to engrave new text on the clerical board.
Some are Luenwen, which is carved very neatly. He took a closer look and was surprised. Because these words are not traces drawn by a knife, but smashed out with a special tool.
In fact, these are some steel stamps made by blacksmiths, and small cast iron blocks are chiseled out with mirror-like letters by steel cones. Each household of the Blacksmiths League made two sets, one is the Rune alphabet and the other is the Roman alphabet.
For example, the wooden board that Rurik gave back. Beating the steel seal makes the writing of the document faster.
In fact, this is also a trade-off. Early Sumerians used clay tablets as carriers and used various patterns of seals to write stationery.
This move by the Russ is by no means the first, it is just to write quickly at a time when wood-based documents are becoming more common.
Bernardick saw a strange set of symbols at the bottom of the Rune alphabet, which still looked like words.
He doesn't understand anything that is simply interesting.
So what did Rurik say on the board? In fact, it is also a sentence: "Noble lord, we Rus will fulfill our promise."
Rurik used an elegant vocabulary to praise the leader, which was only the most basic diplomatic etiquette.
The messenger didn't stay in Roseburg, nor did Bernardic walk the streets of Ross well, naturally he didn't know the details.
Even so, he knew the strength of the Ross people even if he was just looking around.
Just look at the three rows of ships neatly arranged on the frozen beach. Who dares to question the strength of the Rus?
The messenger's affairs are only an episode of the work of the Ross people in March, and Rurik and Otto have completed their diplomatic meetings and quickly plunged into their daily lives.
The flame of the blast furnace went out. It was intact, just because the Cravasons had no iron ore. Not only is there a shortage of minerals, they also lack charcoal.
The inside of this huge blast furnace made of clay has been substantially vitrified. It has become very hard and high temperature resistant, and the extremely thick sealing soil ensures its compressive resistance.
Kamnier was once dropped into the furnace. He was responsible for cleaning the residual **** and carbon deposits in the furnace. After many days of cleaning, the furnace was restored to its state.
But Rurik doesn't expect this blast furnace to operate for many years, maybe it will have to be rebuilt after two or three years.
At the end of March, the vernal equinox is here!
On March 28th, the stars reached their correct positions. There was almost nothing left of the high priest Velia, she almost lost her appetite, she was confused and pointed out the arrival of her successor Lumia.
This time, it was Lumia who put on the noble antler helmet and took all the priests to perform sacrifices on the stone ship altar.
Everyone saw a light high priest standing barefoot on the altar that had cleared the last snow. People were surprised to find that High Priest Veria was just sitting on the sedan chair, wrapped in leather and watching all this quietly.
The death of the high priest is already known and sad.
But in Rurik's heart, since the end of this small-scale sacrifice, the era belonging to High Priest Lumia has officially begun, even if she lacks the last promotion ceremony. She is indeed very young, even young, but people can see that the old priest's deadline is approaching, and the burden of future priests will fall on Lumia's thin shoulders, and she must sustain it.
After the vernal equinox, everything has changed! The frozen sea is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the ice that was once easy to walk has become extremely dangerous.
No, the stream that poured into the Roseburg Fjord became extremely turbulent, and the central mountains of Scandinavia began to thaw. Not only the Roseburg Fjord, but also the Kemi River in the north, the cracked ice layer gave off shocking waves. With the sound of the sound, the residents of Fort Elon stood on the wooden wall, and even children climbed onto the towering crane, and they saw the river in the sun.
Time has quietly entered April, and the sea has resumed waves. All the sights prove that this year's spring is coming in time and normal.
It is this wave that is full of danger, just floating ice blocks everywhere in the fjord.
In early April, a spring rain nourished the earth like precious oil.
The rain was not cold, it was even warm.
It was this world that was shrouded in dampness that made Rurik feel really upset.
The only thing that the Ross people are grateful for is the large number of wooden blocks built on wooden piles. These wooden houses are largely isolated from the mud and damp.
The ice and snow accumulated on the ground quickly melted due to the rain. In the mines that used to be covered by ice, the rocks were exposed to the rain, and large-scale mining operations will soon resume.
In these days, even if it is shrouded in continuous rain, the construction of the Aphrora continues. Her huge body was directly exposed to the rain, but it had no effect on her solid oak hull.
The thick pine deck of the ship has been laid, and even the huge rudder at the stern has been refined.
Clavasson and the other blacksmiths, with Rurik's money, were ordered to make two gear plates. In terms of craftsmanship alone, these gears are still too rough, and Rurik doesn't expect them to instantly become talents who are good at precision machining, because it is too unrealistic.
In line with the principle of just being able to use it, after the shipbuilder took over the gear plate, he quickly buckled it with oak, and built a hard large wooden gear with a tenon-and-mortise structure.
The wooden gear is the core of the steering gear that controls the movement of the rudder, so that the steering wheel can drive the huge rudder with a small force to adjust the heading.
The other wooden gear was directly expanded into a wooden winch, which was installed on the wooden deck. Because of its extreme initiative and further reinforcement by oak boards, the Russ even used nails for riveting in order to improve the strength of the tenon-and-mortise structure.
It is a set of ingenious two-way ratchet system, this is the blueprint engraved on the wooden board provided by Rurik, as well as his personal guidance so that it can be successfully constructed.
Although the Hortra family will build a winch, creating a huge real number for the first time.
Because the maximum width of the Aphrora has reached six stikas, the maximum length of the hull has reached 33 stikas. Because of the keel, it looks very slender.
The huge triangular sail has been stitched up, it is big and heavy, only such a sail can withstand the sea wind. Now, the women who ate the food provided by Rurik are also completing the final most critical task, which is to sew the sails to the extremely long beams.
There is only one step away from the launch of the Aphrora, but as a substantial armed merchant ship with strong combat effectiveness, it has not yet been equipped with weapons.
What kind of weapon will she install?
This is the six-seat torsion slingshot, the heavy equipment that Rurik conspired with Clavasson and Kawei for a while.
Rurik wanted to recreate the Roman scorpion crossbow. He had this idea, but it was because the technology of the Rus was not strong enough at that time.
Now, times have changed.
The carpenter in Ross got Rurik's order to make some small parts. Some oak corner materials are also used by waste.
The core components of the torsion slingshot, such as the whale oil seal oil soaked in whale oil and seal oil as the source of torsion, the wool and flax mixed rope, the small cast iron ratchet system, the rotatable wooden pallet, and the firing angle adjustment lever system are mainly built by the Kravassen family .
With Rurik’s technical guidance, although this work was not difficult, it took as long as three weeks to build the six-seater torsion slingshot.
However, they are not huge existences just from the outside.
They have a uniform style. The frame structure is made of strong rough oak, and its structure is further enhanced by smashed iron bars. The width is only about 50 cm, and the "shoe tail" is only 150 cm. The ratchet winch is installed at the end of the scorpion tail.
A mixed-material cable was wound twelve times, with a crossbow made of mild steel inserted in the center. They are made very thick, so there will be no obvious bending when stretched. The crossbow arm made of iron has a greater self-weight, but considering the structural strength of the material, Rurik takes a balance.
It was not that he had never thought about making a giant steel arm crossbow. He gave up decisively when he thought of the large amount of materials required, the cost of maintenance, and the effects that could be achieved.
Regarding the casting of bronze cannons and the preparation of potions, the Rus people entered the age of gunpowder in one fell swoop, but Rurik had been deliberate. Theory is that kind of theory, and it can be realized in actual operation. It is the huge manpower and material cost to realize it in the future, as well as the output and the effect that can be achieved. The input-output ratio is destined to be unequal.
Whether it is a heavy steel arm crossbow or gunpowder-related equipment, their technological level is too high! The Roths are so high that they still don't have the ability to control it.
In the final analysis, it is a question of money.
For example, the torsion slingshot designed by Rurik, which uses low-carbon steel parts, pig iron castings and bronze parts, is enough to create a number of exquisite weapons. When these metals are made into the best weapons, they will inevitably be sold for 500 silver coins in total, and this is only the cost of the metal materials.
The special mixed material hemp rope is money, and the processing of hardwood is also money. There are so many things put together to form a torsion slingshot. Rülik estimates that its construction cost has reached at least six hundred silver coins.
Perhaps this money has always been a small amount of money to Rülik, but it is not!
Because the Aphrora had to install six torsion slingshots, in terms of military equipment alone, Rurik would have to invest about 36 pounds of silver.
Once tried in vain for a thousand silver coins, that is, the so-called ten pounds of silver to get a ship, the reality is like a slap, making Rurik realize that the navy is an aristocratic army like never before.
After all, the torsion slingshot is just a launcher, and its "cannonball" is still money.
Fortunately, as soon as the weapon was built, Rurik thought of the issue of ammunition.
If the torque is made of modern industrial fibers such as nylon, this slingshot must be extremely powerful. Reluctantly, this slingshot is the most powerful weapon he has created using the existing materials and technical capabilities of the Ross tribe. So from the beginning, its materials determined that there would not be a lot of torsion, so in order to get the maximum killing effect, it is necessary to make a fuss on the ammunition.
Rurik designed three weapons.
The first type, which weighs only half a pound, has a cone-shaped cannonball-style cast iron projectile. It will inevitably slow down quickly after being launched, and its flight lacks stability. It can only be used as a close combat weapon, such as knocking out enemy ships. A hole.
The second type is the short spear commonly used by the Ross people. For flight stability, it only needs to glue the tail fin of the thin wood at the end to become a kind of javelin. When the war really started, Rurik estimated that this weapon was the most commonly used.
The third type is very similar to the first type, except that the material is fired pottery block, or simply a pile of glass containing a lot of iron slag. For hard targets, it is natural to use cast iron projectiles. For soft targets, flying past a brick, Rurik is estimated to be enough.
After the weapon is built, it will naturally be tested. The experiment, it has undoubtedly become a new talk for Roseburg. Everyone knows that Lord Rurik has invented a weapon that seems to be more powerful than the crossbow.
A slightly empty coastal wasteland became a test site, and people saw a series of very good results in exclaim.
After many days of experimentation, Lurik got a number of technical indicators. What else can he say? Although he was not satisfied in his heart, but this is the current era, the level that long-range weapons can generally only reach, and cannot be expected to be too high.
Although the three-bow bed crossbow can have a range of up to one thousand meters, it is not a magic weapon that a tribe of 10,000 people can afford, not to mention the Ross people have no such skills.
The ship’s torsion slingshot has been tested and concluded that the initial velocity is not fast when it shoots various projectiles flatly, and its effective range is less than about 60 meters in flat shooting, but it can shoot about 150 meters in the projectile. Yes, Rurik has merged the concepts of stika and meter in his mind.
Its range is indeed close, but the energy storage of the cast iron projectile is amazing ~ www.novelhall.com ~ About fifty meters away, it can still punch a large hole in a pine board as thick as a finger. It does not penetrate the oak board very well. After all, this is the strength of oak, but how can ordinary enemies have ships made of all oak?
Cast iron projectiles can make sharper heads, or even make special molds, and directly cast a tail for it, so that it has stronger stability and penetration. The main job is to make holes for enemy ships.
When it launched a short spear with a tail wing, it set a record for the largest ejection of nearly 200 meters. A large amount of data shows that its range is about one hundred and sixty meters, if it goes down the wind, it will naturally fly farther.
The short spear uses the acceleration of gravity to dig the spear deep into the mud, requiring a strong man to pull it out. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if this is used on the battlefield, it can first set up the enemy’s formation to shoot outside the enemy’s archer’s range, and nail some unlucky enemies directly on the battlefield, giving the enemy huge Shocked in his heart.
In the same way, those clay and glass projectiles, they fly long distances, and are designed to hit the enemy's soft targets.
These six torsion slingshots can be used for land warfare and become the tribe’s heavy land warfare weapons. However, the future of the Rus is destined to be extremely dependent on the sea. These weapons must be excellent "ship destroyers".
The messenger Bernardick slowly took out the wooden board filled with words: "Dear Chief Ross, this is the order of the lord, please have a look."He pushed the plank forward until it reached Rurik's face.Not to mention, he sat on the wooden floor for the first time, and then looked at the large number of ferocious bear heads hanging on the wooden wall. His eyes were all reflective and full of flames from a campfire. He really fell in love with this warm house.Rurik just glanced at the plank, already laughing in his heart.After all, Rurik did not hold back, and laughed: "I thought the leader had a high opinion. It seems that his command is only one sentence?"Benardic was a little shy. "I...I'm stupid and don't understand the meaning of these symbols.""Huh? This is clearly our words, you actually...""Yes, I really don't understand. Maybe I need to learn."Rurik didn't know if this guy was pretending to be humble or completely illiterate. The western alphabet system is inseparable from its origins. It allows ordinary people to quickly understand the meaning of other people's written documents, and only requires easy learning."Hey, I met the leader himself, and I had an agreement with him." Rurik talked freely. "This plank is engraved with a meaning. He said that the Ross people took your cargo, and the ice and snow melted with the fleet. Come together to meet the alliance.""Huh? That's what it means?""Correct."Bernardick felt a little depressed. He touched Roseburg at the risk of freezing to death. It was the representative leader who conveyed a promise that the Ross people had never forgotten.This is an order, just a reminder."Does the leader have an oral message?" Rurik asked suddenly."This... The verbal order is there. The leader said that he needs goods from the Rus, and he will spend a lot of money to buy it."Rurik nodded: "I understand. Tell your master that we can meet his needs in Rus.""Oh, that's great, my mission is complete. So, can the villain retreat?""Are you in such a hurry to leave?" Rurik's smile seemed to have something else."Boss, you still have...""You are a warrior, dare to rush to our territory with a sled. For a warrior like you, we will give some rewards."Upon hearing the reward, Bernardick's heart beats wildly. He expects the Ross people to provide a meal and feed some fodder to the reindeer by the way.The result was beyond his imagination.Rurik's philosophy of life has always been nonchalant, he deliberately entertained the messenger, and even the reindeer husband. This night, they ate porridge, roasted seal meat, yellow root carrot stew, and even a glass of ale.The two lived in a vacant barn with wooden floors, and soon fell asleep wrapped in leather after eating and drinking.In fact, in Rurik's opinion, this kind of hospitality can only be said to be of a higher standard, but for Bernardic, it is the best enjoyment of his life.He admired the leader of Ross from his heart, specifically Rurik's character. He understood even more that the chieftain Otto had handed over most of the power to his son Rurik.The two hard-working reindeer were fed a lot of hay, supplemented by some oats.At dawn the next day, the messenger ate another bowl of oatmeal and got some hard oatmeal.Bernardic received written feedback from Chief Ross, which was to engrave new text on the clerical board.Some are Luenwen, which is carved very neatly. He took a closer look and was surprised. Because these words are not traces drawn by a knife, but smashed out with a special tool.In fact, these are some steel stamps made by blacksmiths, and small cast iron blocks are chiseled out with mirror-like letters by steel cones. Each household of the Blacksmiths League made two sets, one is the Rune alphabet and the other is the Roman alphabet.For example, the wooden board that Rurik gave back. Beating the steel seal makes the writing of the document faster.In fact, this is also a trade-off. Early Sumerians used clay tablets as carriers and used various patterns of seals to write stationery.This move by the Russ is by no means the first, it is just to write quickly at a time when wood-based documents are becoming more common.Bernardick saw a strange set of symbols at the bottom of the Rune alphabet, which still looked like words.He doesn't understand anything that is simply interesting.So what did Rurik say on the board? In fact, it is also a sentence: "Noble lord, we Rus will fulfill our promise."Rurik used an elegant vocabulary to praise the leader, which was only the most basic diplomatic etiquette.The messenger didn't stay in Roseburg, nor did Bernardic walk the streets of Ross well, naturally he didn't know the details.Even so, he knew the strength of the Ross people even if he was just looking around.Just look at the three rows of ships neatly arranged on the frozen beach. Who dares to question the strength of the Rus?The messenger's affairs are only an episode of the work of the Ross people in March, and Rurik and Otto have completed their diplomatic meetings and quickly plunged into their daily lives.The flame of the blast furnace went out. It was intact, just because the Cravasons had no iron ore. Not only is there a shortage of minerals, they also lack charcoal.The inside of this huge blast furnace made of clay has been substantially vitrified. It has become very hard and high temperature resistant, and the extremely thick sealing soil ensures its compressive resistance.Kamnier was once dropped into the furnace. He was responsible for cleaning the residual **** and carbon deposits in the furnace. After many days of cleaning, the furnace was restored to its state.But Rurik doesn't expect this blast furnace to operate for many years, maybe it will have to be rebuilt after two or three years.At the end of March, the vernal equinox is here!On March 28th, the stars reached their correct positions. There was almost nothing left of the high priest Velia, she almost lost her appetite, she was confused and pointed out the arrival of her successor Lumia.This time, it was Lumia who put on the noble antler helmet and took all the priests to perform sacrifices on the stone ship altar.Everyone saw a light high priest standing barefoot on the altar that had cleared the last snow. People were surprised to find that High Priest Veria was just sitting on the sedan chair, wrapped in leather and watching all this quietly.The death of the high priest is already known and sad.But in Rurik's heart, since the end of this small-scale sacrifice, the era belonging to High Priest Lumia has officially begun, even if she lacks the last promotion ceremony. She is indeed very young, even young, but people can see that the old priest's deadline is approaching, and the burden of future priests will fall on Lumia's thin shoulders, and she must sustain it.After the vernal equinox, everything has changed! The frozen sea is melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the ice that was once easy to walk has become extremely dangerous.No, the stream that poured into the Roseburg Fjord became extremely turbulent, and the central mountains of Scandinavia began to thaw. Not only the Roseburg Fjord, but also the Kemi River in the north, the cracked ice layer gave off shocking waves. With the sound of the sound, the residents of Fort Elon stood on the wooden wall, and even children climbed onto the towering crane, and they saw the river in the sun.Time has quietly entered April, and the sea has resumed waves. All the sights prove that this year's spring is coming in time and normal.It is this wave that is full of danger, just floating ice blocks everywhere in the fjord.In early April, a spring rain nourished the earth like precious oil.The rain was not cold, it was even warm.It was this world that was shrouded in dampness that made Rurik feel really upset.The only thing that the Ross people are grateful for is the large number of wooden blocks built on wooden piles. These wooden houses are largely isolated from the mud and damp.The ice and snow accumulated on the ground quickly melted due to the rain. In the mines that used to be covered by ice, the rocks were exposed to the rain, and large-scale mining operations will soon resume.In these days, even if it is shrouded in continuous rain, the construction of the Aphrora continues. Her huge body was directly exposed to the rain, but it had no effect on her solid oak hull.The thick pine deck of the ship has been laid, and even the huge rudder at the stern has been refined.Clavasson and the other blacksmiths, with Rurik's money, were ordered to make two gear plates. In terms of craftsmanship alone, these gears are still too rough, and Rurik doesn't expect them to instantly become talents who are good at precision machining, because it is too unrealistic.In line with the principle of just being able to use it, after the shipbuilder took over the gear plate, he quickly buckled it with oak, and built a hard large wooden gear with a tenon-and-mortise structure.The wooden gear is the core of the steering gear that controls the movement of the rudder, so that the steering wheel can drive the huge rudder with a small force to adjust the heading.The other wooden gear was directly expanded into a wooden winch, which was installed on the wooden deck. Because of its extreme initiative and further reinforcement by oak boards, the Russ even used nails for riveting in order to improve the strength of the tenon-and-mortise structure.It is a set of ingenious two-way ratchet system, this is the blueprint engraved on the wooden board provided by Rurik, as well as his personal guidance so that it can be successfully constructed.Although the Hortra family will build a winch, creating a huge real number for the first time.Because the maximum width of the Aphrora has reached six stikas, the maximum length of the hull has reached 33 stikas. Because of the keel, it looks very slender.The huge triangular sail has been stitched up, it is big and heavy, only such a sail can withstand the sea wind. Now, the women who ate the food provided by Rurik are also completing the final most critical task, which is to sew the sails to the extremely long beams.There is only one step away from the launch of the Aphrora, but as a substantial armed merchant ship with strong combat effectiveness, it has not yet been equipped with weapons.What kind of weapon will she install?This is the six-seat torsion slingshot, the heavy equipment that Rurik conspired with Clavasson and Kawei for a while.Rurik wanted to recreate the Roman scorpion crossbow. He had this idea, but it was because the technology of the Rus was not strong enough at that time.Now, times have changed.The carpenter in Ross got Rurik's order to make some small parts. Some oak corner materials are also used by waste.The core components of the torsion slingshot, such as the whale oil seal oil soaked in whale oil and seal oil as the source of torsion, the wool and flax mixed rope, the small cast iron ratchet system, the rotatable wooden pallet, and the firing angle adjustment lever system are mainly built by the Kravassen family .With Rurik's technical guidance, although this work was not difficult, it took as long as three weeks to build the six-seater torsion slingshot.However, they are not huge existences just from the outside.They have a uniform style. The frame structure is made of strong rough oak, and its structure is further enhanced by smashed iron bars. The width is only about 50 cm, and the "shoe tail" is only 150 cm. The ratchet winch is installed at the end of the scorpion tail.A mixed-material cable was wound twelve times, with a crossbow made of mild steel inserted in the center. They are made very thick, so there will be no obvious bending when stretched. The crossbow arm made of iron has a greater self-weight, but considering the structural strength of the material, Rurik takes a balance.It was not that he had never thought about making a giant steel arm crossbow. He gave up decisively when he thought of the large amount of materials required, the cost of maintenance, and the effects that could be achieved.Regarding the casting of bronze cannons and the preparation of potions, the Rus people entered the age of gunpowder in one fell swoop, but Rurik had been deliberate. Theory is that kind of theory, and it can be realized in actual operation. It is the huge manpower and material cost to realize it in the future, as well as the output and the effect that can be achieved. The input-output ratio is destined to be unequal.Whether it is a heavy steel arm crossbow or gunpowder-related equipment, their technological level is too high! The Roths are so high that they still don't have the ability to control it.In the final analysis, it is a question of money.For example, the torsion slingshot designed by Rurik, which uses low-carbon steel parts, pig iron castings and bronze parts, is enough to create a number of exquisite weapons. When these metals are made into the best weapons, they will inevitably be sold for 500 silver coins in total, and this is only the cost of the metal materials.The special mixed material hemp rope is money, and the processing of hardwood is also money. There are so many things put together to form a torsion slingshot. Rlik estimates that its construction cost has reached at least six hundred silver coins.Perhaps this money has always been a small amount of money to Rlik, but it is not!Because the Aphrora had to install six torsion slingshots, in terms of military equipment alone, Rurik would have to invest about 36 pounds of silver.Once tried in vain for a thousand silver coins, that is, the so-called ten pounds of silver to get a ship, the reality is like a slap, making Rurik realize that the navy is an aristocratic army like never before.After all, the torsion slingshot is just a launcher, and its "cannonball" is still money.Fortunately, as soon as the weapon was built, Rurik thought of the issue of ammunition.If the torque is made of modern industrial fibers such as nylon, this slingshot must be extremely powerful. Reluctantly, this slingshot is the most powerful weapon he has created using the existing materials and technical capabilities of the Ross tribe. So from the beginning, its materials determined that there would not be a lot of torsion, so in order to get the maximum killing effect, it is necessary to make a fuss on the ammunition.Rurik designed three weapons.The first type, which weighs only half a pound, has a cone-shaped cannonball-style cast iron projectile. It will inevitably slow down quickly after being launched, and its flight lacks stability. It can only be used as a close combat weapon, such as knocking out enemy ships. A hole.The second type is the short spear commonly used by the Ross people. For flight stability, it only needs to glue the tail fin of the thin wood at the end to become a kind of javelin. When the war really started, Rurik estimated that this weapon was the most commonly used.The third type is very similar to the first type, except that the material is fired pottery block, or simply a pile of glass containing a lot of iron slag. For hard targets, it is natural to use cast iron projectiles. For soft targets, flying past a brick, Rurik is estimated to be enough.After the weapon is built, it will naturally be tested. The experiment, it has undoubtedly become a new talk for Roseburg. Everyone knows that Lord Rurik has invented a weapon that seems to be more powerful than the crossbow.A slightly empty coastal wasteland became a test site, and people saw a series of very good results in exclaim.After many days of experimentation, Lurik got a number of technical indicators. What else can he say? Although he was not satisfied in his heart, but this is the current era, the level that long-range weapons can generally only reach, and cannot be expected to be too high.Although the three-bow bed crossbow can have a range of up to one thousand meters, it is not a magic weapon that a tribe of 10,000 people can afford, not to mention the Ross people have no such skills.The ship's torsion slingshot has been tested and concluded that the initial velocity is not fast when it shoots various projectiles flatly, and its effective range is less than about 60 meters in flat shooting, but it can shoot about 150 meters in the projectile. Yes, Rurik has merged the concepts of stika and meter in his mind.Its range is indeed close, but the energy storage of the cast iron projectile is amazing ~ www.novelhall.com ~ About fifty meters away, it can still punch a large hole in a pine board as thick as a finger. It does not penetrate the oak board very well. After all, this is the strength of oak, but how can ordinary enemies have ships made of all oak?Cast iron projectiles can make sharper heads, or even make special molds, and directly cast a tail for it, so that it has stronger stability and penetration. The main job is to make holes for enemy ships.When it launched a short spear with a tail wing, it set a record for the largest ejection of nearly 200 meters. A large amount of data shows that its range is about one hundred and sixty meters, if it goes down the wind, it will naturally fly farther.The short spear uses the acceleration of gravity to dig the spear deep into the mud, requiring a strong man to pull it out. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if this is used on the battlefield, it can first set up the enemy's formation to shoot outside the enemy's archer's range, and nail some unlucky enemies directly on the battlefield, giving the enemy huge Shocked in his heart.In the same way, those clay and glass projectiles, they fly long distances, and are designed to hit the enemy's soft targets.These six torsion slingshots can be used for land warfare and become the tribe's heavy land warfare weapons. However, the future of the Rus is destined to be extremely dependent on the sea. These weapons must be excellent "ship destroyers".
