DISCUSSION

 

 

II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS

 

1 - The Shooting Arms

 

B - CROSSBOW and BALLISTA

 

B1 - CROSSBOW

 

 

 

 

          Crossbow was a weapon coming from the Bow.

 

Crossbow from medieval times.

 

Crossbow from modern times.

Antique Viet's Repeating Crossbow designed according to Mạnh-Hoạch's model belonging to Lạc-Việt people from
Three Kingdoms Warring period.

Naval fleet of Mongols (1271~1368) was using
Repeating Crossbow designed according to
Mạnh-Hoạch's model belonging to Lạc-Việt people.

 

Points of Arow excavated from Cầu Vực,
remains area of Cổ-Loa Citadel built in
An-Dương-Vương period (258-208 BC).

(Photo Credit : Wikipedia.org )

 

Points of Arow excavated from Cầu Vực,
remains area of Cổ-Loa Citadel built in
An-Dương-Vương period (258-208 BC).

(Photo Credit : Ngọc Thắng)

 

Re-Enactment of Crossbow from Cổ-Loa Citadel
in Việt-Nam (2007).

 

Shooting Test with reconstituted Crossbow
from Cổ-Loa Citadel in Việt-Nam (2007).

 

Young Girl from Red-Yao ethnic group
shooting with Crossbow in Việt-Nam (2007).

 

Young Girl from Red-Yao ethnic group
shooting with Crossbow in Việt-Nam (2007).

 

Crossbow Shooting Event at Thái-Nguyên
in North-Vietnam (2009).

 

Crossbow Shooting Event at Hòa-Bình
in North-Vietnam (2009).

 

 

 

B2 - BALLISTA

 

          Ballista was a weapon coming from the Crossbow.

Ballista holding Three Recurve Crosssbows
from China.

Ballista holding torsion spring from Romans.

     

       (To be continued...)

      

Committee of Martial Arts Masters
Bình-Định SA-LONG-CƯƠNG
FRANCE

 

 

 

 

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