Chapter Forty-Six: The Strategy of Trapping the Dragon
"Teacher, the picture has been drawn, the disciple has consulted a lot of ancient books, and he has also used his brains to restore the powerful Qin crossbow, and also designed the repeating crossbow you said, but this kind of crossbow is only suitable for close ......combat when the soldiers are in close combat."
"Good! Not bad! Do you have any samples, for the teacher to see? ”
Zhuge Liang was ashamed and said: "It's not perfect...... Originally, I thought that after the disciple was satisfied, he would show it to the teacher! ”
"I'll see!"
Zhuge Liang had no choice but to take Wang Zhirong to the test site and call people to get the repeater he invented and the restored Qin crossbow.
Wang Zhirong tried the Qin crossbow, but he couldn't pull it open at all......
"Teacher, this thing needs to be kicked with your hands and feet to pull away, but it ...... shoot far."
Zhuge Liang asked a horse archer next to him who specialized in test firing to start test firing...... This kid leaned back very quickly and pulled the string against Wangshan, Wangshan moved back, and the ox reset after the teeth were in position. The ox bears the tooth force, and the lower is against the hanging knife, and with a whin, the crossbow arrow shoots out with a sound of breaking through the air, and the whole set of actions is very clean and neat, all in one go......
"One person is responsible for adding crossbow arrows, and the other is responsible for shooting them, and they can be fired continuously; When the shooter is exhausted, swap positions with the person who added the bolt and continue shooting...... Of course, this thing is heavy, and ordinary people pull it open five or six times repeatedly, and then they are exhausted...... The two swapped and could only hold on to three rounds......
Of course, when it's time to get close to the fight, it's time for a solo crossbowman......
The single crossbowman carries a sword, and after shooting, he directly changes his knife and slashes ......"
Zhuge Liang demonstrated the repeater, the range of this thing is only fifty steps, and the effective killing distance is only about thirty steps, but it is better to hold thirteen crossbow arrows in the arrow box, and the single soldier burst weapon can penetrate the double leather armor at close range, which is already good......
Wang Zhirong tried to launch a few arrows, but fortunately, he can use it himself, so most of the soldiers in this world can use it, which is very good......
"Teacher, how can I improve? Shooting arrows to kill the enemy is okay, but the clever parts of this thing are easy to damage......
And the workmanship is complicated, and it is not easy to ...... a wide range of equipment"
Wang Zhirong looked at it carefully and nodded: "A lot of complicated mortise and tenon, a skilled carpenter takes a long time to carve the tenon, in fact, it can be fixed with steel sheets and rivets, as well as the bamboo and wood structure skills you said, of course, they are easy to damage, and they can be replaced with steel......"
"Iron is brittle and unsuitable...... Copper is okay, why don't you ...... more"
Wang Zhirong smiled......
"Next, let's teach you how to make iron, how to make steel......
The conditions on the mountain, to say that the use of blast furnace coke to make wrought iron and then carburizing steel, are completely unconditional...... However, it is not a problem to smelt a little wrought iron on a small scale, and after carburizing and forging, to get some steel sheets and swords with good elasticity......
The earth blast furnace has also made a lot, this thing is pure joke to make steel, but this thing is sintered with some ore residue to form slag mixed iron, which is very brittle and easy to burst, and can be cast into a *** warhead with a big head, which is very lethal after exploding......
It can also be cast into a canister the size of a melon, filled with granular black fire ¥ medicine recently configured according to the golden ratio, to make the most primitive hand**......
These things were not thought up by Wang Zhirong, but Zhuge Liang slowly wanted to find out after trial production......
The mountain is in full swing to prepare for war, and Liu Biao's elixir under the mountain has been eaten for seven days......
He was surprised to find that his eyes were no longer dry, astringent, and had no feeling of foreign body grinding, and he could see clearly at night, he had returned to the state of his youth, he slept very steadily, he no longer cramped, and the symptoms of backache, fatigue and lack of energy have also improved a lot!
He felt as if he was twenty years younger and much more energetic......
I couldn't help but be horrified, this one on the mountain is really an immortal who was not born! If there is an elixir, there really is......
When the young state came, the ambition also rose, Liu Biao personally patrolled the camp, personally handled some government affairs and military affairs, and began to grasp the power in his hands!
Cai Mao was keenly aware of this...... He didn't understand what his brother-in-law was doing, was he worried about himself or not at himself?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the old guy was beginning to doubt himself......
Although he didn't think about replacing Liu Biao, he still had selfishness, his nephew Liu Cong is only a few years old now, and Liu Biao looks old......
Let Liu Cong take the position, no matter what, he can still control him, and it's not happy to monopolize the power......
If Liu Qi, who is now in his teens, is put on the throne, and in a few years, this kid will have a crown ceremony, that is, he will be an adult, and he will monopolize the power, and he is not his own nephew, once he is a son of heaven and a courtier, he may be killed for a reason......
After all, in the north of Jingzhou, the Cai family's power is still very large, and if Liu Qi wants to sit firmly, he must weaken and eradicate the Cai family's power......
When it comes to her life, Cai Mao has thought about it very clearly for a long time, and it's not too late to do more......
Liu is in this state, did he discover his own scheme?
Cai Mao is a little frightened these days......
However, Liu Biao's strategy on the mountain still found Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and others to discuss countermeasures!
"Training has already begun on the mountain! What do you think Jingzhou should do?
Although this is a small cottage, I don't think it's scabies!
Because the people on the mountain really have some skills and means, you must also know about it......"
Liu Biao spoke with a lot of anger at this time, changing his previous appearance of being drooping and old......
"Lord, if you lead a large army to exterminate it, it will seem that you will be embarrassed by the world; But if you ignore it, the people on the mountain are not idle people, and they will be attacked on a small scale, and they are afraid that they will not return, and they will lose their troops in vain......
The strategy of trapping the dragon is still feasible, now it is only necessary to cut off the supply of supplies to the mountain, and after a long time, they will either come down the mountain to fight, or they will descend......
In any case, it is good for us......"
This was said by Cai Mao, he thought about it for ten days, and felt that it was better not to fight and stalemate!
"Are those guys stationed at the foot of the mountain reliable? Can it be kept? Kuai Yue asked.
"Lord ......"
"Wei Yan is fickle, I can't be sure of this person's loyalty, but Gao Hu is loyal!"
"I thought that in the name of drills, we often changed generals and stations, so as not to take a long time, and our generals received favors and became double-minded!"
"That's what I want!"
"In what name do you restrict supplies from going up the mountain? After all, our son is on the mountain, so it is not appropriate to completely tear his face......" Kuai Liang asked.
"Let's just say that the Cao thieves in the north are powerful, and they will invade the south in the near future, and all parties in Jingzhou must prepare military funds, prohibit hoarding of grain, copper and iron, and things that cause fire, and prevent these things from going up the mountain, and not allowing the displaced people to go up the mountain again......
There is no food and no one on the mountain, and no matter how ambitious it is, it has to be put away! Cai Mao sneered.