I haven't seen him for three years, Guo Mingwu is much older, his hair is mixed with gray, and his face is covered with grooves, and Jiayin is a little distressed when he sees it.

"Uncle Guo."

"I've seen General A."

"Sit, remember, always call me Huzi, Manid also sit, what is the situation of my father-in-law."

Guo Mingwu bowed in a proper manner, then sat down, and said with a wry smile: "In the past two years, the situation of the head of the family has been quite difficult, in the west, originally because of the friendship with the Bogra Khan of the Qarakhanida, so everything is relatively smooth, but the old Khan died three years ago, the eldest son Musa succeeded to the throne, called Arslan Khan, and the second son Suleiman ruled Balasagon, Suleiman was not convinced that his brother had succeeded to the throne, and Mingli did not dare to act, so he started the idea of the head of the family, and if he failed to persuade him, he would attack the caravan, and he suffered a lot of losses in the past two years.

To the east, the Khitan strengthened its control over Xizhou, and Gaochang Arslan Khan obeyed the orders of the Khitan eunuch, and the previous friendship was somewhat useless. Therefore, the head of the family is caught in the middle, and there is a bit of a dilemma. ”

Jia Yin nodded, the Khan of the Western Regions likes to use Arslan's name as a prefix, which is the meaning of the Lion King, he knows this, but he does not fully understand what Guo Mingwu said, because although he has been to the Western Regions, he can be said to be blind to the situation over there, and asked at the moment: "What does father-in-law mean?" ”

Guo Mingwu said: "The head of the family has formed an alliance with the Cao clan in Shazhou and Guazhou, and the Uighur king Jingqiong in Ganzhou, and is also actively in contact with the Khotanese state in southern Xinjiang, wanting to raise troops in Xizhou and lay down a territory for himself. ”

"Didn't you say that Xizhou was controlled by the Khitans?"

"What the Khitan wants is only nominal submission and tribute, as long as the gold and silver are in place, whoever will be in charge is the same, now, there is no shortage of soldiers, horses, money and food, only armor and crossbows, so I want to ask Huzi for a favor."

Jiayin nodded and said, "I'll discuss it with Jiulang when I go back, by the way, Manid, what do you mean?" ”

Manid shrugged his shoulders and looked impatient: "I, I have failed again, I originally wanted to prepare more rich gifts for my master, I, I don't need weapons, I want silk, I need a lot of silk, money, I will definitely pay it back, I don't pay it back, the old master will also help, the five hundred slaves I brought are still working for him." ”

Jia Yin kicked it away, and said angrily: "I said, my mouth is smeared with honey, one master at a time, you are waiting here, Uncle Guo, come with me to find Jiulang." ”

Qin Yue is talking about a happy family, and the arrival of the little sister makes Zhou Rong so happy that it is indescribable, the sisters are in harmony with each other, singing and dancing, and the whole backyard is full of laughter.

Rui'er, who helped with the soundtrack, was sharp-eyed, and saw Jiayin flashing in the corner door, so he gave Qin Yue a look, Qin Yue came out, saw Guo Mingwu accompanying him, and couldn't help but be stunned, and moved to the outer study, after listening to Guo Mingwu's explanation, Qin Yue knocked on the table and groaned for a long time, and said: "This matter, the stakes are very high, although Weng is a son-in-law, but there must be a degree of support, I don't know how to make the head of the family say to return the law?" ”

Guo Mingwu blushed a little, and squeaked: "The head of the family...... Head of House...... Your Majesty knows that the head of the family has been in business all his life, so ...... Well, what the head of the family means is that the armor and strong crossbows will be provided by His Majesty free of charge, and the good horses will be supplied at a reasonable price at that time. ”

Jia Yin burst into a foul language, and was about to scold, but when he saw Qin Yue laughing, he patted the table and said: "Yes, the armor is five thousand, the strong crossbow can only be given a thousand pairs first, and the crossbow arrows can be 100,000, which can be transported away at any time." ”

Guo Mingwu was overjoyed, and knelt down and kowtowed a few times.

Jiayin held back the fire in his belly, motioned for Guo Mingwu to go back first, and when he saw him go out, he said dissatisfiedly: "Jiulang, don't think that person is my father-in-law, just do a big business at a loss, if you want me to say, what do you fight when you are old, come back to Yizhou, and I will raise it." ”

Qin Yue said with a smile: "Your father-in-law is amazing, give money, buy it at a regular price or at a high price, this armor and crossbow really can't be bought." ”

Seeing the black line in Jia Yin's head, Qin Yue had no choice but to explain to the end: "Let me ask you, is it better to be an iron-masked king in the Western Regions who owes me a favor from the heavens, or an iron-masked king who only has business dealings?" Which one is beneficial for our future development in the Western Regions? Besides, who knows if he is tempting, if we can't do it here, it will be troublesome to go to Bianliang. ”

Jia Yin slammed the table: "He dares." ”

"There's nothing to dare to, the actual situation may be like this, you are his son-in-law, he really has no money, he can also call you out, this money, your family is still out of it, no matter how bad Bianliang, Jiangning's eldest brother and second uncle can get together with the head office, but he doesn't do it, what does it mean? But then again, as long as he succeeds, there will be more who will come back in the future. ”

"Then I don't know what about the Year of the Monkey."

Qin Yue said solemnly: "If there is a glimmer of hope, it is worth investing, because the Western Regions have been our Western Regions since the Han and Tang Dynasties, but that piece, you and I have black eyes, and if we want to pass through the Western Regions in the future, we don't know where to start."

And your father-in-law has lived there for most of his life, and if he wants to start an incident now, it means that there is a spectrum, otherwise he will definitely not act like this, you know, he is first and foremost a businessman, and he will not do it at a loss. ”

"But I still feel at a loss, besides, how can I squeeze out so many crossbows and armor."

"It's a good loss, it's a loss to find you a big wrongdoer, as for the equipment, because our equipment is going to be replaced, and after the New Year, the new equipment will be replaced in batches."

"New gear?"

Qin Yue went out and explained a few words to the guard, and after a while, the guard brought over a large flat box, put it on the table, and opened the box, but a pair of crossbows and bows were lying quietly in the pile of silk wool.

Only the crossbow bow is slightly different from the common one, but it is a five-layer crossbow arm, from the middle of the crossbow to the crossbow tip is a stepped step of the thinning decrease, the crossbow tip at both ends is reversed, the curved waist is buckled with a copper ring, the crossbow machine support is particularly thick, there are slightly open iron accessories, I don't know what to do, the handshake is recessed at an oblique angle, the polishing is very smooth, and it is very comfortable to hold.

"Sun Bao, show it to General A."

"No."

The personal guard named Sun Bao wound the crossbow, but it turned out that the two copper rings on the crossbow arm were specially used to thread the string, but when they passed through, the two ends of the string were tied up and fixed at the crossbow rack handshake, making the crossbow look like a double string.

The iron parts on the crossbow frame are specially used to wind, and there is only one string on the hook to the hanging teeth, which looks much less labor-saving than using hands, Sun Bao stepped on the crossbow ring, put on the string, and respectfully handed it to Jia Yin, and introduced: "This crossbow is automatically on the arrow, it can be loaded with ten arrows at a time, and then it is shot out again, much faster than the previous crossbow, please don't touch the hanging knife." ”

Jia Yin took it and took a look, no wonder the crossbow frame was particularly thick, it turned out to be a box with arrows, he looked at the structure carefully, and tried again with the crossbow ring, and found that although there was an iron wrench to wind it, it also needed a lot of strength.

"No wind test, you can shoot three hundred and twenty steps, one hundred and twenty steps can penetrate the paper armor and re-enter the wood for three points, and about fifty steps can even penetrate the heart goggles of the bright light armor."

Jia Yin was surprised: "So powerful? ”

Qin Yue smiled: "There is still a big gap between it and what I expected, firstly, it cannot really be fired continuously, and secondly, the lethality is not ideal enough." ”

"Isn't that ideal?"

"Yes, there is a kind of crossbow called the Divine Arm Bow, which can penetrate the armor in 300 steps."

Jia Yin shook his head, saying that he didn't dare to imagine, thinking to himself, if you want such a divine arm crossbow, do you need other weapons, with one hand, you can kill God, and Buddha should kill Buddha.

At this point, Jia Yin, a person who is accustomed to charging into battle, has more say than Qin Yue, and Qin Yue is purely harmed by the understanding of broken sentences, thinking that the divine arm bow in history can really penetrate the armor three hundred steps away, you must know that one step is two spans, and the calculation unit converted into future generations is at least about four hundred and fifty meters, and such a long distance can also pass through the armor, which is simply more than an artifact.

"Shoot 300 steps, can be pierced again", to be understood separately, the latter sentence is within the effective range, many battle records in the Song Dynasty record the firing distance of the divine arm bow.

For example, the famous general Wu Lan's tactics "In every battle, the spear is in front and cannot sit up." The second strongest bow, the second strongest bow, kneeling to the knees, the second god arm bow. If the enemy fights within 100 steps, the divine arm will take the lead, seventy steps, and the strong bow will be fired simultaneously, and the second battle will be the same. ”

A hundred steps to break through the armor is already quite powerful.

And the crossbow in Jia Yin's hand, under the innovation and improvement of the crossbow arm and crossbow string, is almost the same as the divine arm bow.

Seeing Jia Yin's eyes stunned, Qin Yue didn't know what Xiao Jiujiu was in his stomach, and scolded with a smile: "This is not good, this is resolutely not taken out, don't look at it inconspicuous, this is Wei Chang and Master Wei who contributed his secret method of making a lance and studied it together with the crossbow craftsman, which is why he has such a powerful crossbow arm."

Secondly, this crossbow string is also extraordinary, the silk and linen are mixed and special, and this string ring is not copper, but alloy, otherwise how can it be so hard and smooth, and this winding method is also one of the secret methods of this crossbow, which can not be learned casually. ”

Jia Yin hehehe, he said, "This crossbow is so precious, can it be famous?" ”

"Defeating the enemy is called defeating the enemy."