Bed crossbow since the range can reach 1500 meters, which is not more than the range of the foreigners' musket?

Mega bed crossbow such as the Northern Song Dynasty, treading pout crossbow, three-bow bed crossbow, the North and South Dynasties period of Liu Yu, but the moon array giant crossbow, although the range is relatively far, but has not reached 1500 meters of range, the range of the provenance of this should be carefully verified again. CCTV science and technology program inside the recovery of weapons inside the description of the three-bow bed crossbow was restored is indeed amazing power, but the longest range can only reach about 200 meters, if the ancients of the crossbow design is clever, the range is doubled again is about 500 meters. But a single giant crossbow launch, precision can not be mastered, to achieve the maximum range, you must raise the aiming line, so that the arrow flight parabolic, if you want to ensure that the lethality, we must want to think of the North and South Dynasty period of Liu Yu, with thousands of giant crossbows to set out a dense launching formation, but the cost of a giant crossbow is estimated to be not very expensive, and the need for soldiers to be able to skillfully master the skills of a long period of time, only in the advanced science and technology, the economy, or at any cost. , or the era of sparing no expense is possible to appear giant crossbow.

The Song dynasty is the ancient Chinese feudal society, the economy is more developed, and technology is also more developed, so the Song dynasty produced a lot of "big killers", a variety of crossbows, a variety of guns, including early cannons, firearms are used in the battlefield, especially in the face of the Qidan's cavalry, the giant crossbow can indeed give the cavalry a huge kill, but the giant crossbow has a weakness, is to move the soldiers, the giant crossbow, the huge crossbow is a huge kill. The giant crossbow had a weakness, that is, it was not easy to move, huge in size and not very maneuverable. There are a lot of limitations on the use of the Song army, if the Song army carries enough food and grass, the number of people, and the relative density of the formation of the slow advance, at this time, if you meet the Khitan cavalry, the Song army can immediately contract the formation, with the giant crossbow to set up a line of defense, you can cope with the impact of the Khitan cavalry, the comparison of the giant crossbow's range is far more than the cavalry's bows and arrows. At the same time in the defense, giant crossbow can also play a huge role, the Northern Song giant crossbow in Tanzhou once shot dead Liao army commander Xiao Tartarin (in the commentary book Yang family generals, this is a very strong fighting enemy boss), to the Liao army psychology to bring a huge killing power.

But although the giant crossbow has a huge power, but also has a huge weakness, is inconvenient to move, huge size, but also have skillful people to use, in the Song and Liao Liao into the peace period, it is estimated that soon the giant crossbow was slowly forgotten to give up, resulting in the Jin people south, the Song army did not make much resistance. It also shows that the weapon is powerful again, also depends on the reason who use, a low fighting force, corrupt army can not play out the power of the application of weapons.

Song after the Yuan, due to the Mongols on the riding and shooting worship, so that a lot of complex weapons have been forgotten, has continued to the Ming Dynasty, like giant crossbows, stone throwers and other weapons have faded out of people's vision, the early Ming Dynasty's wars and back to a thousand years before the level of the Han and Wei, is the ordinary swords, bows and arrows. With the development of time, the Ming Dynasty encountered strong opponents, the north of the Mongolian Tartar Warat and the south of the Japanese invaders, the army had been in peace for a long time because of the lack of martial arts, and the enemy was fierce, Mongolian cavalry came and went like the wind, the Japanese invaders are the Japanese sword is strong, fierce musket. The Ming army was in a desperate situation. Luckily, Qi Jiguang, a great Chinese militarist and inventor, was able to save the Ming army from the fire. Qi Jiguang was not only a military man, but also a science and technology enthusiast. He introduced the Japanese musket for imitation and developed gunpowder on the battlefield, and his troops were equipped with a large number of firearms, such as the lifting gun (giant cannons), the bird gun (common gunpowder gun), the tiger squatting gun, and the Flambeau's gun, etc. He also invented the magical Mandarin ducks formation, which was a way of restraining Japanese swords used by the Japanese invaders. After sweeping away the Japanese invaders, Qi Jiguang was transferred to the north to defend against the Mongolian tribes. At this time, due to the development of firearms, Qi Jiguang invented the carriage formation tactics, the same as the wagon tactics during the American pioneering of the West (this term is not standard, it is my own description, which means that the wagons were placed in a ring, and then the cowboys used their muskets to form a ring defense position to deal with the Indians or the robbers), using the wagons to form a ring or other formations, and using the rockets, firearms, and bows and arrows to shoot at the enemy, which, from a In a sense, it was also a continuation of the development of the giant crossbow formation, but with firearms instead of the giant crossbow, because the rate of fire and power and accuracy of firearms are higher than that of the giant crossbow, and it is more convenient to carry.

The result is that after the Qing Dynasty, due to the influence of the ferocity of the Ming Dynasty firearms, the Qing army in the middle and late simply equipped with a large number of firearms, on the contrary, on the traditional sword, bow and arrow but seriously abandoned, in the period of Qianlong, Qianlong found that this problem, the Qing army in the pacification of the western war, the use of a large number of firearms, once the enemy sneak attacks or ambushes, the Qing army is bound to lose heavy losses, the Qing army into the only use of firearms! The Qing army became the lesser soldiers who could only use firearms for long-range shooting but did not dare to fight in close combat. The long distance weapon like crossbow was replaced by artillery, but the artillery of the Qing army was definitely behind the foreigners. After the Qing Dynasty, not to mention the giant crossbow, even the ordinary crossbow is no longer the official weapon of the court, because the Manchurians are the horse to get the world, the cavalry is more easy to use the bow, not convenient to use the crossbow, the Qing Dynasty bow range has reached the limit of the Chinese bow, but in the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are almost no people to practice the use of bows and arrows. So in the foreign wars of the late Qing Dynasty, once the line of the Qing army was broken through, the Qing army's ability to fight in close-quarters white-knuckle combat was basically zero.