Like many Chinese people, Zhang Lixin was also a typical exam-oriented person before he crossed over, and he still went to a third-rate university. The experimental courses in middle school are basically mixed, and the experimental courses in college are basically none, so I used to be obsessed with the so-called "static calculation".

However, perhaps it is the experience of doing practical work in the Weiyuan camp after the crossing, such as the firearm firing meter test, that many times the calculation is not equal to the reality, and there are many theoretically uncontrollable errors that need to be measured. This time, before starting to really make things, I still had an extra mind: "It's not so elegant, and the wood of the chopping wood level found casually has to bear more than 500 kilograms of force at one end, and the place with the greatest force at the two ends is equivalent to a ton of force in the middle of a two-meter pole?" It has to be reused, not to mention the thick end, can the weight of this thin end really be controlled at about six or seven catties? Even if it's a triangular vertical knife-like cross-sectional area that looks more favorable? ”

Therefore, in order to avoid wasting effort before starting work, Zhang Lixin first asked Guo "carpenter" to rebuild a small wooden stick about one meter long with the thickness of a finger and cut into the shape of a triangular axe. However, it was hung in the middle with stirrups, and stones were placed at both ends.

When Zhang Lixin tried to step on it, his whole body had not fully stood up, and the middle of the triangular wooden stick was still pressed and broken...

Zhang Lixin was silent for a long time: "No, the thick head at the thin end should at least be the thickness of an arm, at least equivalent to hundreds of fingers, and leave enough margin... ”

Zhang Lixin re-revised the design according to practice, no longer pursuing short-end counterweight, but focusing on strengthening the weight and specifications of the overall pole...

In this way, Zhang Lixin led Wang Wei, Guo "carpenter" and other cadres to start from looking for suitable dead trees and logging, and seriously prepared for the production of weight-counterweight trebuchets. And Zhang Lixin told everyone, "It doesn't matter if it's slower, the current grain in the cave plus forty taels of silver is more than enough to support a month's leisure." The first production must avoid mistakes, and try to think about every step if you have no experience... ”

Of course, not all of the more than 30 people have experience in carpentry, in order to avoid the problem of "help" that is easy to occur when "amateurs" work. Zhang Lixin's assignments for most of the others are: pottery burning, pottery ball making, and related charcoal burning work, or some work that is barely accessible with a little more hands-on ability, such as making wooden frames.

Zhang Lixin does not have the kind of leisure time that primitive people use to patiently polish stone balls in years or even generations, and the "pottery bomb" is relatively economical in practice. And when I deduced before going to bed, I also thought of a question: if it was a relatively strong stone ball or lead bullet, would there be such a problem: the problem of splash damage after landing on some ordinary land? To look at it this way: is it more appropriate for people without any experience to burn "pottery pimples" that are not too strong?

When making pottery bombs, Zhang Lixin also strictly required that the weight should be weighed with a "soil balance" before and after firing. Only when the error in shape and weight is controlled, can you avoid hurting yourself in actual combat.

Labor has always been boring, and after two consecutive days of busyness in the middle of winter, Zhang Lixin is a little tired of being busy with his career.

Of course: to Zhang Lixin's surprise, these people from the lower classes of the old era are far more industrious than those from the towns of the modern new era like himself. There are no beatings and punishments at every turn, and they can eat some wine and meat every day, many people feel great satisfaction, and their motivation to work is far stronger than Zhang Lixin's own.

I used to think that Zhang Lixin once thought that "Mr. Almost" was a stubborn disease among the Chinese people, and the spirit of seriousness and excellence was the most scarce quality. But when Zhang Lixin told people that every detail may be related to success or failure, and related to himself, and did not ask people to rush to work, from Guo Carpenter to other people, they still tried their best to do what they wanted, and did not hesitate to put forward their own opinions under inspiration.

In his spare time during the long winter nights, Zhang Lixin had no intention of giving up "political education." But I always feel that with my current prestige, I can go straight to "sarcastically preach hatred" from the things around me, which is a bit inappropriate.

Because in a sense, hatred comes from one's own rights and interests, and to a certain extent, it is also a disguised reaction of selfishness. As long as the behavior and position are based on the rights and interests of the individual, they are unreliable in the face of the real death threat test, and even in the face of the temptation not necessarily reliable:

If a person who has a deep hatred for an officer or the court and a person whose family is ruined suddenly encounters "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said" one day, and then soars to the top and has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the great revenge has to be avenged, is this hatred still reliable? Maybe, like Zhu Yuanzhang, but it must have changed its taste.

Combat effectiveness is tied to interests and discipline, like the Weiyuan battalion, which is not the force that wants to be pursued now.

Only when a person does not care about personal gains and losses, but regards dedication as a value pursuit, or: still cares about personal gains and losses, sometimes it is inevitable that sperm worms are on the brain, animal nature is on the head, maybe sometimes it will seriously violate military discipline, but the conceptual positioning of personal interests is obviously a level higher, then it is possible to surpass the combat effectiveness of the top troops in this era under the same conditions, not one or two or seven or eight percent, but several times, ten times or even more, a big grade...

"Did the general say yesterday that the stars in the sky are actually the distant sun? And the size of the sun is 2 million miles? And what's going on with the Milky Way? Although Cheng Hai worked with Zhang Fan for a period of time when he was in Fuzhou

"The Milky Way is a river formed by the distribution of countless suns like dust, and the size of the universe is actually far beyond the imagination of those ancients in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and even far beyond the imagination of the Buddhists... We humans may seem as small as the dust of the world, but we are the greatest things that the Emperor has ever created. Without the Spirit of all things, how lifeless everything in this universe is ... Zhang Lixin sighed in front of everyone.

In the old days, unlike the modern era with advanced information, the entertainment life of the public is actually quite boring, which is also one of the important reasons why there is a certain probability that there will be people around to watch the excitement wherever there is a fight or even a fire, or even a battle on the battlefield.

Zhang Lixin still remembers that when he was a child before the crossing, when online entertainment, including online literature, and even cable TV did not develop, even if his "story king" and "storytelling" were simply stammering and completely nonsensical nonsense and making up ghost stories, there were many classmates around to listen to them.

Then talk about politics, referring to Zhang Lixin's general impression of the political textbooks before the crossing, it is natural to start from the origin of human beings or primitive society...

However, jumping to atheism, Zhang Lixin felt that the disadvantages were great. If a person knows that his death is really "empty", then most people will definitely feel fear even if the death is worthwhile, so Zhang Lixin subconsciously feels that he cannot deny the traditional concepts of reincarnation in the next life, the underworld, and even cause and effect...

From the end of the first month to the second day of the first lunar month, in 12 days, Zhang Lixin went from the appearance of the universe to adding oil and vinegar to the Spartacus Uprising, which was basically another plane, and the dispute over the system in the late primitive society made many people with a low level of education seem to realize something.

At the same time, although literacy or pinyin education has not yet begun, the training and cognition of quantitative concepts that are very related to the new combat methods, such as distance and weight, have already begun.

Hundreds of hours of serious carpentry work, so that "Guo Carpenter", who is not very good at carpentry, and several other helpers in the team finally made a trebuchet with a total weight of only 100 catties and about 60 kilograms under the cautious guidance of Zhang Lixin

As for half a kilogram, that is, more than 13 taels of standard weight of "clay clay gnocchi", more than 6,000 were fired without requiring too much firmness, and a total of 5,000 catties of weight.

With the experience of making the weight-weighted trebuchet for the first time and more than ten days of labor, when making the second trebuchet, even if it was necessary to standardize the restoration, and even spent a lot of effort to achieve this, the whole cycle was shortened to more than seven days.

In the past half a month, in fact, most people's labor is much less heavy than when they used to work for others in the past. In addition, in the past half month, Zhang Lixin has not been stingy with overdrawing his family's inventory, and he has meat every day, and most people's physical appearance has also changed significantly, and they are no longer so thin.

Among them, three of them were not too thin and weak, and they were relatively able to eat, and they recovered to the same ordinary weight as Cheng Hai first.

Of course, there are hundreds of people of all kinds, and the same is true for dozens of people. Even after Zhang Lixin's education these days, when people realized that the day of possible war was getting closer and closer, many people still felt panic and pressure. Because what is done is not an ordinary business of stealing chickens and dogs or extorting a big family, it is Tai Sui's head that has broken ground, and there is a high probability of a vicious battle.

"When the time comes, you will die, what if you are caught? What should I do if I get hurt? I don't know if it will be ... "Everyone has also adjusted their work and rest for half a month to day and night, and when they take turns to be on duty during the day, some people are worried about it.

Li Yi also felt more and more unreliable, and after weighing it for a long time, he finally planned to persuade Zhang Lixin to make up his mind: "A few reliable brothers who went to investigate the situation have returned, and the general should understand that it is not a large Tuwei of ordinary people, but comparable to some slightly smaller county seats." A thousand households are numbered more than 1,100, this is not too far from the feet of the Son of Heaven, according to the memories of some brothers in the past and the situation investigated, not counting the vacancies for going out to do other businesses, there are more than 300 people in the camp city on weekdays, that Wang Qianhu plus a little bit of martial arts around his subordinates forty or fifty... If it was the twenty or thirty elites drawn from the Weiyuan camp back then, the siege might be quite sure. However, even if there were more than 20 soldiers with four trebuchets and more than 20 soldiers, what did the general think would be the odds of victory against the two light artillery groups and five gun-carrying groups of the Shangweiyuan battalion? ”

Zhang Lixin also knew about the situation of Zhongtun Wei Qianhu, and his original grasp was also discounted a lot. If there are no fighters, or if the opponent really does not make mistakes and mistakes, then unless the crowd gathers to pull the flag and rebel, the manpower to attack the city is simply not enough.

An important feature of the ordinary large landlords, even if it is the southern one, is that the population in the courtyard is relatively dense, and the radius is often less than 20 zhang.

However, the garrison camp city is different, although the available forces are often very weak relative to the castle head, which is really considered when the siege is first built.

"The firearms equipment and training of the Weiyuan Battalion was first built by me, and of course I know how powerful it is: the gun is a double-link coarse firearm, and the double-connected strip can press two rounds at a time, which is convenient to load, powerful, and has a low blind fire rate. Two or two rounds can be fired in two or three breaths, and our rudimentary primordial horizontal shields can't stop it at all. The 200-pound body-barreled light cannon made of copper and steel is a 100-gauge shotgun, and it can also sweep our primitive level of armament from 200 paces away. It is not difficult for Zhang Lixin to imagine that even if there is a simple shield car, what the consequences will be if he and his subordinates encounter twenty soldiers of the Weiyuan Battalion to engage in a dignified formation.

"However, my shortcomings are in hand-to-hand combat, in long-range shooting, and even in maneuvering, and in daytime encounters I will be beaten. The only way out is to fight at night. If you are well prepared to be prepared for what is not prepared, the night will not create the right opportunity. Then we can only find another way... Zhang Lixin said without hesitation.

And so, when the sun went down and everyone was ready to start their initial training. Zhang Lixin also has a plan: whether it is practical or not: at least let everyone build up at least confidence in training and testing, otherwise if there are deserters beforehand, it will always bring many twists and turns.

In this way, before the trebuchet test, the selected operator begins to weigh himself with an earthen rocker balance and determine the weight that needs to be counterweighted, in order to minimize all possible errors. At the same time, wear a wooden "helmet" and "shoulder pads" and even an earthen shield coated with fireproof mud on the back to prevent the pottery bullet from slipping and possible accidental injury during the test. Stone-throwing tests and night training activities were also rolled out.

Having experience in the Weiyuan battalion, Zhang Lixin also understands that just as static calculations can't calculate an excellent engine, sometimes calculations only provide a general direction, and only measured trim and firing meters are truly reliable.