In fact, the crossbow soldier is a standing army of the Han Dynasty, and it was also mentioned in the book of Emperor Wen that compared with the Xiongnu, one of the advantages of the Han army is the strong crossbow.

Although Cao Song's official position as a lieutenant was bought with money, after all, he was the nominal supreme military commander, and a crossbow naturally couldn't arouse his interest.

"At the beginning, I saw a lot of bows and crossbows, so I won't join in the fun with you, you can go by yourself."

Cao Song paused and glanced at everyone again, and said specifically to Liu Ping and Cao Ang: "Among the grandchildren, only the two of you lead the troops independently, but you must remember clearly, no matter how strong the crossbow soldiers are, they can only be supplemented, and the decisive battle on the battlefield depends on the cavalry and infantry." ”

When he said this, Cao Song was already in a posture of being an eldest father to educate his juniors on how to use soldiers.

After all, the two in front of him are the two most promising of his grandchildren.

Of course, if it weren't for Liu Ping's outstanding achievements, Cao Song would have more confidence in educating the younger generations.

"Father, my grandson's crossbow is different, it's a pity if Father doesn't go to see it," Liu Ping said to Cao Song with a smile.

Cao Song hesitated slightly, he held his own identity, and he really didn't want to see a crossbow, but then Cao Jie had already put his arms around Cao Song's neck from behind and shook it coquettishly: "Big ...... Father...... Now that the spring is blooming, you are idle left and right, so what's the point of going to see Liu Ping's brother's crossbow? It's time to go out, Jie'er is so bored in the house. ”

"Okay, good," Cao Song said with a smile: "Can't I go, if I don't go, I'm going to break my neck." ”

Then he scratched Cao Jie's nose affectionately: "You girl, you have not married before, you are so towards your husband, and if you marry in the future, then you will have it?" ”

Cao Jie blushed and muttered, "How come? ”

The brothers couldn't help but look at the sour teeth, with Cao Jie's big move, Liu Ping had no problem doing whatever he wanted.

A group of them rode horses, rode cars, and rushed to the workshop specially set up by Liu Ping.

It was a piece of land carved out of the barracks, covering an extremely large area, and there were hundreds of skilled craftsmen recruited in it.

Liu Ping had previously instructed that this place would be under Ma Jun's command in the future, but Ma Jun was just a sixteen-year-old boy who couldn't even speak clearly, so naturally no one took him seriously.

Of course, Ma Jun didn't want to communicate with others, he was afraid that his stumbling would make others laugh.

He was just immersed in his own world, making changes to the bow and crossbow again and again, and doing whatever he wanted to change.

Only when you need something and you can't find it, you can ask someone else to find it.

So many people thought that Ma Jun was a dumb person at first, and it wasn't until he gestured to ask people to call Liu Ping that he was just a heavy stump.

But none of these craftsmen dared to laugh at him.

……

The workshop and the school military field are connected, so that the equipment that is easy to make is pulled out for practice.

Now that Cao Song, the old lady with the highest rank in the Cao family, has been dispatched, the sergeants in charge of guarding in the city are all nervous, and the water surrounding the school military field is blocked.

Seeing so many soldiers with solemn expressions, Ma Jun was already frightened, he didn't expect to send someone to spread the word, which would lead to such a big battle.

It seems that the son who appreciates himself is indeed not an ordinary person.

He timidly walked up to Liu Ping, lowered his head and said, "See ...... See...... See...... Childe! Small...... Small...... Small...... Did it...... One! ”

Cao Song is old, he likes to be quiet and doesn't like to move, he is not interested in being dragged to see a crossbow today, and he is even more disappointed when he sees that the crossbow is such a young little bumper.

However, he looked at the military field of the school with emotion, and couldn't help but think of the old things, and sighed: "I remember that when I was a lieutenant, the army would hold a 'capital shooting' every September.

One person shoots twelve arrows, and six targets are qualified, and there is a reward for exceeding them, and punishment for insufficient.

Now that I have been in office for a long time, I can no longer see the grand occasion of the year. ”

After speaking, he shook his head again and again, quite a sense of heroic twilight.

At this time, Cao Anmin, who was next to him, said quite well-behaved: "Since the eldest father wants to see people shoot arrows, what is the difficulty, why don't you let the grandchildren give you a competition to cheer up the eldest father?" ”

Cao Anmin's proposal was immediately responded to by a group of Cao disciples.

"That's very good, my world's magic shooter is finally useful."

"I'm the sharpshooter, if I can win the championship today, can my uncle talk to my uncle and let me go to the front line of Guandu?"

A group of Cao disciples were eager to try, but they were talking about bows and arrows, and they seemed to have forgotten about the crossbows that came to see them.

In fact, these guys saw that Cao Song was not interested in the crossbow, so they deliberately led the topic to other places to make the eldest father happy.

Cao Song looked at a group of vigorous children of the Xiahou clan of the Cao family, they were all full of vigor and unyielding, and Cao Song was suddenly happy.

"Okay, today the eldest father will be the judge," he immediately took off a piece of jade pendant from his waist, held it in his hand and said: "This jade is given by the first emperor, if anyone can win the first prize, this jade will be rewarded to him." ”

"Thank you, Father!"

The brothers' eyes suddenly lit up, and the jade pendant given by the emperor was still quite attractive to everyone.

Of course, this kind of family competes in archery, and the first place is not small, and the reputation it has achieved is not small.

Each of them took a bow and arrow from the soldiers who accompanied them, and moved their arms, ready to show everyone what true archery was.

"Father, this competition is not fair," Cao Jie puffed out his cheeks and said: "Brother Liu Ping can't shoot arrows, isn't this just to exclude him?" ”

Then she blinked again and said, "It's better to let him find a slave and shoot arrows on his behalf, it's not a bully." ”

The brothers immediately objected as if they were frying the pot.

"Jie'er, this is so that our brothers can't play, who doesn't know that General Taishi Ziyi is the world's magic shooter?"

"That is, our so-called magic shooting is to brag about it, who dares to shoot arrows with Tai Shi Ci, isn't that called bullying us?"

"Jie'er is indeed as the eldest father said, she has not yet married, and she is already full of husbands."

Even Cao Ang couldn't stand it anymore, coughed twice and said, "Jie'er, you are cheating." ”

Everyone, you said a word to me, and Cao Jie made a big red face.

Liu Ping hurriedly smiled and said: "Although I can't shoot arrows, I also sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman, and sacrifice ugliness to help everyone."

However, how about everyone using arrows and I using crossbows? ”

"Sister-in-law, haven't you forgotten your crossbow?" Cao Anmin said beside him: "Since they are all shots, I don't think it's okay, but let's make it clear who shoots the twelve arrows first, and then the most people can win." ”

Compared with bows and arrows, crossbow machines have advantages in range and aiming, but although today's crossbow machines can shoot continuously, it is a dilemma that they cannot concentrate on aiming if they want to pursue the rate of fire.

And a good archer, whose muscles have long formed a memory, can shoot twelve arrows quickly and accurately with one movement.