Rise of Rurik

Father may be coming back soon.

A huge fleet carrying a lot of food and returning home? Rurik now hopes that those people will come back later, so that he has enough time to make the crossbow. And this is the "new trick" that Rurik gave his father Otto.

In this time and space, compared to other weapons, the steel arm crossbow is a real high-tech!

It's not just about its creative weaponization ideas, and its amazing selection of materials. The best thing about it is that it is a real machine.

Its energy storage part is a bent steel sheet.

Mild steel sheet is by no means a good elastic material, or even very bad. Maybe very springy silicon steel, better for steel arm guys.

The current situation is that the production of mild steel by the Ross tribe is already an epoch-making achievement. As for making silicon steel, that's more difficult than making a steam engine!

At least mild steel requires enormous force to break, and Rurik does not believe it at all.

The pounds of such a bow arm can exceed a thousand, but its draw distance is not destined to be very long.

The original steel sword, the length of its blade is two-thirds of the standard stika, about seventy centimeters. After some forging, it was transformed into a slightly bent steel arm of about fifty centimeters.

This thing is placed on the ground, and at first glance it does look like a bow.

Kravason wasted a lot of energy just finishing it, and he still had to make more parts under Rurik's supervision.

A piece of dried oak that was intended to be the rough rib of the boat was processed into the most critical wood for the crossbow.

To properly process it, it is a bit of a test of Clavason's woodworking skills.

Because dried oak is a hard wood with high cost performance that people can find in ancient times. Just like Spain and Portugal in history, the huge and sturdy Galen ship, the most critical wood is oak. Reinforced oak boards are hard enough to withstand the impact of solid seventeenth century shells.

Clavason manipulates steel scrapers to work wood into specific shapes.

Because of Rurik's interest, he felt that after all, he wanted to be a launcher for a long-range weapon that could aim and shoot, and naturally he had to make it in the shape of a firearm. Even he had thought about the possibility of attaching a bayonet to the completed crossbow.

After thinking about it, he still felt that his whimsy was wrong.

The crossbow naturally has limitations, and it should just do its job well.

At first glance, the special-shaped wooden support has the feeling of a bolt-action rifle integral wooden support, especially the special-shaped right-angled triangle shoulder rest. The original intention of this design is to try to disperse the recoil after the firearm is fired. Of course, a certain amount of recoil will be generated when the arrow is fired from the crossbow. Rurik estimates that his stubborn design requirements will reduce the recoil to a very low level.

Clavason's iron chisels began to cut holes in the wooden supports.

An accommodation slot that can accommodate the bow arm is completed first, followed by a hole for fixing the twine to wrap around, and a space for the crossbow machine system.

The final finish on the wooden support is a straight ravine carved by Kravassen. This gully is the arrow slot.

When Kravassen personally put the steel arm into the receiving slot, it was firmly fixed with hemp rope, which was assisted by turpentine bonding to strengthen the stability. Although the crossbow system has not yet been produced, so far, the prototype of the crossbow has emerged.

Putting aside the wooden box filled with sticky pine resin, Kravason sat casually on the ground, holding the strange object he had completed in his rough hands.

He said excitedly, "Rurik, I understand now."

"What do you understand?" asked Rurik, who was sitting on the wooden block and his hands were calluses.

"I already understand exactly how your weapon is supposed to work. When I'm done with the final mechanism, I'll just hang the bowstring of the twine on that mechanism. I'll put the arrow in the groove and I'll be able to think when to fire it. , is when to launch."

"That's it." Rurik was overjoyed, so he didn't waste his continuous explanation and guidance in the blacksmith's shop in Kravasen for two consecutive afternoons.

Rurik, who was so excited, immediately asked his servant: "Kamne, do you understand?"

"I..." The boy Kamne didn't know, and he didn't dare to rashly claim to be clear, and his words became faltering.

"It's okay, I'll let you try it when it's ready. Listen! I think this thing can kill a bear with ease."

As soon as the words fell, Kamne's spirit immediately became excited, and the originally flickering eyes were instantly resolute.

"Master, are you telling the truth? Kill a bear easily?!"

"Of course." Rurik was a little surprised, wondering if his words could still inspire the fighting spirit of the child?

Kamne looked at the unfinished crossbow beside him with ardent eyes, and said with half of his milk teeth, "If I could use this weapon, I would shoot every bear I saw. I would give mine Parents take revenge!"

Hearing this, Rurik suddenly remembered that the child had been orphaned because the parents were killed by the bear.

"You will." Rurik stretched out his hand and put it on the head of his servant: "In the future, you will need to make more of these weapons and shoot more bears. We Ross tribe should hunt bears, and the best warriors must be the best. Wear a bearskin hat."

Hearing that Kamne was overjoyed, and he felt that his master was like a brother. And his own "Vengeance" began with the unfinished crossbow.

So for this crossbow, the only thing left is to build the trigger system.

Even if Kravassen claimed to be an expert in making metal utensils, Rurik dared not overestimate the strength of this man. Count on this old guy to properly make more precise devices? Rurik reckons it won't work.

To have a trigger system, it must be simple and reliable. The most important thing is that the blacksmith of Ross in this time and space can make it relatively easily.

What Rurik could think of was the classic set of Qin Nu's triggers.

After all, it is so classic that it actually has only three parts and two metal latches, and the material used is also bronze.

Even if its structure is simple and reliable, the molten metal needed to be cast is easy to manufacture, but the clay mold for casting bronze water cannot be made by Kravassen based on the rough drawings drawn by Rurik.

Still a very simple principle, Kravason can't think of things he's never seen before.

Qin Nu's trigger system is simple and simple, and the mechanics knowledge in it is not simple at all.

In the previous helper, Rurik's hands became thicker with calluses from holding the sword, and his fingernails were often covered with mud.

This time, it was Rurik's turn to make clay molds under the tutelage of Kravassen.

On the afternoon of the third day, the finished clay mold with iron ore powder added, and began to burn paper in the furnace into a hardened mold similar to a crucible. There are three of these hardened mud films, and they are poured with hot, glowing bronze water one after another!

The next time is nothing more than the cooling of the bronze water.

The parts, including the pins, were finished, and after they had been polished with a whetstone by Kravatsen's assault, Rurik reminded the old blacksmith to chamfer the parts.

what! Rurik is such a habit.

Any workpiece must be chamfered, so that it does not hurt other workpieces, nor does it hurt the workers themselves.

The installation of the crossbow system went smoothly, and the three components were perfectly matched.

However, there is no so-called Wangshan in the crossbow machine system made by Rurik, or the aiming system does not need Wangshan from the beginning.

Because there is still a small carbon steel sheet that will be knocked out, its original function is to slightly jam the arrow placed in the arrow slot.

The so-called aiming system needs to make a fuss on this carbon steel sheet.

Rurik is to make aiming holes and sights on it, the so-called more reliable mechanical aiming. Even Rurik envisaged the installation of a ruler system to assist the shooter in attacking long-range targets.

With the final bronze pin being knocked in, Kravassen looked at the "staggered bow" at hand, he had already made the leap!

Although he knew that this thing would need some extra parts, as well as having to make special arrows that could be fired. It wasn't even on the bowstring, and Clavason felt a powerful force already.

"Rurik, tell me, when we're done with it, we can really..." Kravason pointed to the installed trigger: "You can shoot an arrow by pulling it here?"

"Otherwise?" Rurik pointed at Kamne. "He could shoot a bear with this. We don't have bears here. Alas! When I'm done, you can use a plank as a target, I dare say, Kamne. The arrow that is shot will go through the plank."

These remarks made the tired Kravasen extremely excited, as if last year, he first learned that through some special processing, the strongest and brightest sword could be made.

But who would have thought that the bright white sword embryo without the edge has now become the source of the power of a very special "staggered bow"?

Five full days! The steel-armed crossbow can finally be said to be complete, and Rurik is more satisfied with its appearance.

In the past few days, Rurik received military training in the morning, changed his sweaty clothes in the afternoon, and went straight to the blacksmith shop in Kravasen.

All the boys were inquiring about the new weapons that their boss was going to come up with, and Rurik didn't plan to make weapons because after the crossbow was completed, he needed to equip his subordinates for training.

Especially those girls!

Rurik learned something from Yevlo that the girls who had been trained for too long might have stronger arms than men, which would be very unlovable.

Besides, they are women after all, and their body structure dictates that they should wear special protective gear when shooting arrows, otherwise the rebounding bowstring will cause accidental damage to their bodies.

Compared to the damage of the burst bow, Rurik really didn't want them to become the legendary "Scythian Amazons", so-called taking the initiative to harm their own bodies for the convenience of archery.

In the past few days, at the training ground on the hill, Rurik has indeed become a bit savage to others.

Even Fisk felt that the eldest, who was two years younger than him, clearly became violent in his sword-wielding movements. During training, Fisk wanted to carry out the most savage counterattack, but he could only serve as a sparring partner due to the identity of the opponent. Fisk only had the ability to parry the crit of the Rurik wooden sword, and that's all, he vented his suffocation on other children.

Therefore, Fisk's actions, in the eyes of the boys, clearly wanted to be the best player.

The crossbow is finally finished, and even the matching stubby arrows are finished.

A new weapon must pass the test to prove its excellence.

Since there was only one prototype crossbow, it obviously shouldn't be tested in public.

Rurik found two important audiences this time, Gould and Yevlo. Second, there are girls like Rumia Carlotta.

Among them, some are their friends, and some are their own women.

Showing the power of new weapons to those who cared about intimacy seemed most fitting to Rurik.

Moreover, the shooter he chose was none other than Kamne, who was interested in hunting bears.

In fact, the unique shape of the crossbow alone has earned the appetite of onlookers.

Rurik stood with Kravasen with great confidence, when Gould came with a big belly, and Gould was eager to find out something in the current situation.

"Rurik, are you really going to let that kid manipulate your what?"

"It's a staggered bow."

"Okay. Staggered bow! Do you think this thing can really hunt bears? Rurik, I don't think you've ever seen a bear!"

Rurik was just about to respond to a question I've seen before, and he thought to himself, how could he have seen a bear before he even left the small world of Roseburg.

He immediately asked back: "Then I ask you, if the arrow fired by my staggered bow can shoot through the wooden target, can it hunt bears?"

"This...should be possible." Gould raised his fat face and stared at the boy Kamne, his still thin body, and the so-called staggered bow, which was almost two-thirds the boy's height, and couldn't help but feel suspicious. . "The boy's arrow went through the planks? I don't believe it! Rurik, those planks were used for shipbuilding. They are very hard, almost as hard as stone."

"Really? We can bet." Rurik narrowed his eyes deliberately.

"Bet? What? Money? A pound of gold?"

"Gold?" Rurik shook his head with a smile.

"What's the bet?"

Rurik thought for a while and said: "Okay! Just bet on gold! I bet on the arrow fired by Kamne that can shoot through the board. You are obviously betting that he can't. You win. I'll give you a shot. Pounds of gold, settled in ten pounds of silver. If I win, all your men who know how to make bows will start making cross bows according to my requirements."

Gould felt that Rurik's proposal was inexplicable, and for a moment he felt that he would lose.

Now, Kamne takes into account the trust of his master and his desire to hunt bears. Even if the master said that if he shoots a huge target that is equivalent to two men with shields standing at a distance of about 30 meters, the arrow will penetrate the target.

Seeing that his servant was almost ready, Rurik suddenly shouted, "Kamne! Go for it! Prove your strength to me!"

Kamne took another look at Rurik with determined eyes, and started a great action.

In front of everyone's eyes, a strange tool full of hemp ropes that seemed to be meaningless lay on the ground, Kamne picked it up and started to use it.

What is this?

It is actually a winch system.

That's right, in fact, the steel arm crossbow developed by Rurik is actually a winch crossbow.

If the shooter is a strong man, he wears gloves and can struggle to pull the hemp rope bowstring to the trigger slot. However, Kamne is just a relatively thin seven-year-old child, and he has no ability to wind the strings with his bare hands.

This situation requires the participation of the winch.

With Rurik's help, Kravassen cast bronze gears, whose teeth were polished, and combined with other parts to form a simple ratchet system.

The crossbow lay flat on the ground, Kamne buckled the winch at the shoulder rest, and the two claws hooked the already stretched hemp rope bowstring.

The child was sitting on the ground, constantly turning the wrench, and the bowstring was getting closer to the trigger slot.

"Is the winding so slow?" Gould, who felt that he was going to lose for a while, felt that he could win again.

Rurik said casually: "It's really slow to wind, you should see a child winding it. You should also understand that if it's hard to wind it, it must be powerful."

Hearing such an explanation, the hope that Gould had just ignited was dashed again.

After a while, Kamnee completed the winding work. He then carefully inserted the stubby crossbow arrow into the arrow slot, and was lightly secured by the carbon steel sheet at the end.

Compared to other bows, the so-called staggered bow is a bit heavy.

Rurik never expected a child to shoot with it, so a wooden stake with a sharpened head was smashed into the gravel to use it as a stand!

Kamne struggled to set him up, and then started aiming.

The boy's thin cheek rested on the wooden support, and he squinted his left eye, his right eye fixed on the crosshair, and aimed the crosshair at the huge wooden target.

"Three o'clock is a line, three o'clock is a line." Kamne said silently, his hand also touched the trigger, but he lacked the courage to press it.

He is waiting for an order.

Seeing that Rurik was ready, he shouted, "Launch!"

Kamne's heart sank, and he squeezed the trigger tightly.

A strong recoil acted on its shoulders, and almost instantly, there was a loud noise from the target, as if something shattered.

All the onlookers widened their eyes, even Rurik.

Before the arrows were fired from the crossbow, Rurik could only estimate its power. The experimental results are extremely terrifying! The wooden target was not only pierced, but also broke a small hole!

A large number of sharp sawdust fragments bloomed towards the back of the plank. As for the stubby arrows, it seemed that they flew to the sandy ground not far behind the target.

Gould was shocked: "I...I lost! Rurik, your people really...really succeeded! Your weapon..."

Rurik was delighted. He ignored Gould and shouted, "Kamne! Keep firing! Shoot all your arrows!"

As for Kamne, he didn't realize what the "cracked plank" was like, but now it's the truth. The arrow cut a hole in the oak plank that was supposed to be a ship, and after piercing it, it went a certain distance. distance.

Can a bow and arrow have such power?

"Damn it! If my father had such a weapon, the bear would die!"

He wept bitterly at the thought of the tragedy that had happened to him, and in Rurik's eyes, his servant was moved to tears.

Kamne used the ratchet winch to wind the powerful staggered bow as usual. Although the process was slow, the power of the arrow was real.

Then there were four successful shots, with stubby crossbow arrows that had been quenched and randomly glued with two pieces of wild goose feathers, all of which were pierced through wooden targets.

The experiment came to an end, and everyone rushed to the target in unison. The happiest shooter was Kamne, and the rest of the people looked at the ending in amazement.

In fact, the wooden target is only about two centimeters thick. It is not that kind of high-quality ship rib, but the bows and arrows owned by the Rus are shot against such wooden boards. That's all.

"You lost." Rurik tugged at Gould's placket.

"Yes! I lost. With your staggered bow, all wooden bows used to be firewood!" Gould stomped his feet. After seeing the five holes on the wooden target, the old guy was fully aware of the crossbow. strong tactical value.

Because the wood ribs of ordinary transport ships are often only as thick as a finger, although the warship is thicker, I am afraid that it can be penetrated by such weapons.

What does that mean? Ship crashed!

Gould's eyes were like copper bells. He looked at Rurik who was smiling, and said shiveringly: "You won, I like your new weapon very much. ke? It's the best weapon I've ever seen. I think I'll have to make it for you."

Rurik nodded with satisfaction; "Of course. What I want is your promise. We have to explain before you, I allow you to make it for our Ross tribe, but don't think about selling it secretly! I am If you trust you, you don't trust any other businessman. If... this weapon falls into the hands of the Danes, we will suffer!"

"Yes!" Gould hurriedly bowed: "If I disobey your decision, you can punish me. My family is in the Ross tribe, I dare to use the honor of my family as a guarantee, and I am only loyal to you. Oh how I long to see more miracles in my lifetime!"

Rurik chuckled: "Okay! You'll see. The experiment was a great success, and I think I should immediately instruct your people to make me a stelke (steel-armed crossbow). Later it must be our Ross. A must-have weapon for tribal armies."