Chapter 54 Visitors to Ganlu Palace

"Get ready... to cum!"

At a small shooting range in Gong'an County, several veterans held the good bows in their hands, listened to the slogans, aimed at their targets, and then drew the bows and shot arrows in one go.

The small school on the sidelines hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation, and then reported the situation loudly:

"Seventy steps will penetrate the leather! Eighty steps will penetrate the wood! Ninety steps will penetrate the wooden figure!"

"Good bow!" Huang Zhong praised from the sidelines.

During this period, Huang Zhong became more and more active, especially after a letter arrived from Nanjun, saying that a distant family member wanted to adopt his son to Huang Zhong.

Liu Bei even felt that Huang Zhong looked much younger, no longer sullen.

"It is indeed a good bow!" Kong Ming said. He, Huang Zhong and Liu Bei were the only three people on the side of the school field. The bows and crossbows on display today were crossbows. Considering that Huang Zhong was the most familiar with crossbows among the generals, he took the opportunity to comment on them.

"The soldiers in Jiangdong are good at shooting! That's why there are many bow craftsmen." Huang Zhong took a long-tip bow, stretched the bow string to 80% with a little effort, and then shot out with almost no aim.

The arrows are like shooting stars, penetrating the target a hundred paces away.

"It's a pity that such a good bow only costs 600 yuan, and the good bowmaker can't even make enough food and clothing."

Huang Zhong sighed. The standard weapon in the army was the longbow, which was the cheapest. There were many good bows and bowsmiths in the south, but life was not good.

The reason is that the military formations of the Han Dynasty were basically attacking each other for offense and defense. In this case, the crossbow occupied the ecological niche of the bow.

"General Huang's magic arrow!" Kong Ming praised sincerely, and then gestured to the left and right: "But if our army has eight oxen crossbows, how will General Huang deal with it?"

In the curious eyes of Liu Bei and Huang Zhong, a wooden weapon the size of a bed was pushed out by Liu Bei's soldiers, and it was still covered with oil paper.

Kong Ming carefully uncovered it himself, and the first thing Huang Zhong saw was three giant bows placed on it!

It is really a giant bow. The length of the bow arm is almost twice the size of the three-stone bow in my hand. The three bows are fixed with machine expansion and pulleys.

Although he couldn't understand it, there was a unique beauty to the weapon. Huang Zhong almost immediately jumped on it and observed it carefully, and then asked:

"Military advisor, how do you do this?"

"It's beyond human power!" Kong Ming pointed to the two wooden wheels behind the crossbow and said, "Bring the cow over here!"

Four soldiers led the cattle over, carefully put the ropes on the wooden wheel devices on both sides of the crossbow, and held the bridles to prevent the cattle from running around.

Kong Ming and a junior high school student carefully moved a giant crossbow arrow and fixed it on the crossbow on the bed, and then signaled to open it!

The wooden wheel was slowly pulled by the oxen, the machine expander in the bed crossbow was also slowly rotating, and the three giant bows were slowly deformed and pulled apart.

Listening to the creaking sound, Huang Zhong had a feeling of tingling in his heart.

When he was practicing martial arts when he was young, he relied on his strength and broke a five-jun bow. Huang Zhong was deeply impressed by the broken bow and arrow, which sounded like a knife before it was broken.

The wooden wheel was pulled until it could no longer be dragged. He carefully carried an ax around behind the crossbow, and then aimed at a rope and struck it hard.

Hearing only a "crack", Huang Zhong felt a strong wind blowing against his face. It was not until he came back to his senses that he heard a "boom" in the distance.

Looking far into the distance, a big tree two hundred steps away had been broken down, and the crossbow arrow was nowhere to be found.

Huang Zhong couldn't help but clicked his tongue: "This kind of power lives up to the name of the Eight Bulls!"

"It's actually not yet achieved." Kong Ming said this with a pity: "Perhaps the craftsmanship passed down by later generations is different, or perhaps the key technical aspects have not been thoroughly studied."

"If the eight-oxen crossbow created now uses the power of the eight-oxen, the crossbow itself will be broken, let alone shoot."

At this time, Xiao Xiao, who ran out to look for arrows, had returned empty-handed: "At the four hundred and eightyth step, the crossbow arrows were buried in the ground and could not be found."

"Almost five hundred steps!" Huang Zhong was shocked. Is the range so terrifying?

"But it's a pity that it is difficult to calibrate this eight-oxen crossbow." Kong Ming shook his head.

Huang Zhong looked horrified: It would be more terrifying if a giant crossbow with a range of 500 steps could be pointed and hit. In that case, as long as the enemy is slightly connected, it can directly shoot the enemy coach to death. How can it be hit?

However, the experience of being stationed in Jingzhou for many years gave Huang Zhong a quick thought: "Military advisor, in this case..."

Liu Bei and Kong Ming's eyes lit up: "Good!"

Five days later, the public security county government.

Liu Bei was still sitting at the top, watching his close generals filing in one by one.

The first person to arrive this time was actually Guan Yu!

This man from Hedong reported the good news with a rare look of joy: "Brother, the eight-oxen crossbow made by the military adviser is really useful when placed on the boat! There is no more flooding in the river and Hudu River!"

Liu Bei nodded slowly. Huang Zhong's last idea that day was that since the bed crossbow could be placed on the city wall, it should also be placed on the ship.

Compared with the ordinary bed repeating crossbow, if this eight-niu crossbow hits a few more shots, wouldn't it be possible to sink a building and a ship?

Kong Ming adopted this suggestion and placed it on Guan Yu's ship. Now it seems that the effect is very good.

Then Kong Ming and Huang Yueying came hand in hand.

Huang Yueying and Mi Zhu submitted an opinion together and planned to officially expand the papermaking workshop. Liu Bei knew this.

The plan to print Di Bao has been postponed by Kong Ming on the grounds that the current output of paper is far less than that of Cao Cao. If Cao Cao's thieves learned from the printing of Di Bao, this move would actually benefit the thieves.

Mi Zhu has already packed her bags and plans to go to Jiangdong to open a paper shop first, and will leave after watching this light curtain.

As for Kong Ming, he had a lot to be responsible for, such as farming, ballistae, taxation, etc. He also had to study with Jiang Wan how to distinguish the good from the bad coal, how to mine it, etc.

Jiang Wan walked in, still looking unmotivated, and bowed to Liu Bei, then sat down beside Kong Ming, very consciously.

Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, and Zhao Yun, who had returned from Changsha, came together, and the three sat down beside Guan Yu, with Guan Yu as the leader.

As Mi Zhu and Sun Gan also came in and sat down, the two newest members also appeared in everyone's eyes.

The gray eyebrows were very eye-catching, and Kong Ming waved his hands happily: "Ji Chang, come here, I've saved a seat for you!"

Ma Liang greeted Liu Bei and sat down, and very consciously began to prepare paper and pen like Jiang Wan, and Jiang Wan was very pleased.

Then Liu Bei stood up and held the last person's hands in a very friendly manner:

"Zi Fang, my brother!"

Mi Fang greeted him in a proper manner: "My lord."

The two stood and said a few words in a friendly manner, and then Mi Fang also sat down next to Mi Zhu.

But Mi Fang was still at a loss as to what to do: "Brother, what are you going to discuss today? Why are you asking us to attend?"

Mi Zhu's eyes were a little happy. This brother who had been displaced with him and abandoned his official position to follow the lord was finally trusted by the lord.

There was also a little meaning: "Zifang, just wait and see the auspicious signs."

At this time, in another Chang'an, the Ganlu Palace was surrounded by the heat.

The heroic man with a majestic look on his face put his feet into the ice bucket, and the sudden drop in temperature made him feel comfortable.

Beside him was an open book, and a light curtain slowly flashed on the pages.

There were a few big words on it: "One county fights the world, and the power of China is now in the present!"

There was also something like a reading note placed aside, which recorded:

The immortal instructed to take over the Western Regions. Since this is the case, the shame of Weishui should be wiped out!

What is Mongolia? Be careful, find it and destroy it as soon as possible.

The Martial Temple was established to pacify the people and govern the country, but sixty-four generals are too many, so it is appropriate to enshrine Jiang Shang, and thirty-six generals to accompany him.

Who is Tang Suzong?

In the blank space next to it, a prototype of a crossbow cart was drawn crookedly with a pen, which was too ugly to look at.

Looking at the light curtain that appeared on the page, the man's joy flashed, and then he picked up the pen and wrote on the light curtain:

"This battle has the style of my Mingshui River!"