The Silent Arrow: China’s Auto-Crossbow and the West’s Missed Opportunity
Imagine a battlefield in the heart of China, two millennia ago. Soldiers aren’t just hurling arrows one by one; they’re unleashing a volley, a hail of death, from a single, terrifying device. This wasn’t a fantasy; it was the reality of the Chinese repeating crossbow, a marvel of engineering that predates its Western counterparts by … Read more