The Chinese repeating crossbow, also known as the Chu-Ko-Nu or the Zhuge Crossbow, is a marvel of engineering originally designed to give peasant levies a source of ranged firepower. It is so simple, even a child could operate it, and they often did.
The Repeating Crossbow is a Chinese ranged weapon that reloads and fires in a single lever-pulling motion. It was imported during the Oceanykan Dark Ages and used extensively by massed levies of peasants, allowing them to provide a limited amount of fire support, though their arrow shots are useless against any form of armour. The repeating crossbow was all but abandoned with the advent of mass-produced gunpowder weapons, but it has a spiritual successor in the Automatic Crossbow.