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Wanzi City.

Li Yanfang.

Li Yan quietly walked behind Liu Huiniang, who was fiddling with a crossbow more than one meter long, and then hugged Liu Huiniang into his arms!

Liu Huiniang said angrily: "Be careful of your son!" ”

Li Yan touched Liu Huiniang's lower abdomen and said, "I'm not worried about him, I'm worried about you, I knew that your body was so weak, so I didn't want this child!" ”

Li Yan is not coaxing Liu Huiniang, but telling the truth, there are too many women who can have children, but there is only this one female Zhuge !

Liu Huiniang glanced back at Li Yan and said, "I don't blame you yet!" ”

Li Yan smiled awkwardly!

This matter really blames Li Yan!

Because he hadn't touched a woman for too long, and his physical fitness had become too good, Li Yan accidentally hurt Liu Huiniang's vitality!

Coincidentally, Liu Huiniang is pregnant again!

This frightened Li Yan, and he hurriedly sent Yang Lin and Zhu Fu out to earn An Daoquan and Kong Hou respectively and go up the mountain!

Li Yan said: "If any of the two divine doctors, An Daoquan and Kong Hou, come to the mountain, they will definitely be able to help you take care of your body, and then I will teach you a set of five poultry operas to maintain your health, and keep your body better than me." ”

Although Li Yanqiang married her, with more than a month of getting along, Liu Huiniang has accepted her fate, and even began to help Li Yan develop a divine arm crossbow.

You could say that this is mainly the traditional thinking of women in this era.

But this designation is also indispensable to Li Yan's careful management.

Nowadays, Li Yan in Liu Huiniang's eyes is like this - domineering but gentle, good at martial arts but not obsessed with martial arts, erudite, well-informed, well-versed in world affairs, and also familiar with people's hearts, with great wisdom, not ashamed to ask, good as flow, strong body, extraordinary appearance, huh...... Unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, in short, Li Yan can still be regarded as her heart and her will.

These may be a bit illusory, so let's talk about something real:

Li Yan really believes in her talent, really gives her the opportunity to show her talent, whether it is military and political, or other things, Li Yan will discuss with her, and at least seven or eight times out of ten will adopt her suggestions, even if he does not adopt her suggestions, he will explain the reasons to her in detail.

Li Yan has a very common language with her, can talk together, unlike other people, in front of her can only listen to no refutation, often some of her whimsical ideas, will be treated as a joke, in front of Li Yan she can speak freely, Li Yan does not say everything, but can also give feasible suggestions or reasonable opinions, often can say the key to the point, and her whimsical ideas, in Li Yan not only is not prejudiced, Li Yan can also give her some answers, and even give evidence, on the contrary, Sometimes she can't keep up with Li Yan's footsteps, often Li Yan casually said, it may make her think for a long time, or even think for a long time and can't understand, and finally Li Yan has to explain to her in detail, in short, being with Li Yan makes her feel that she is not so different, she is just an ordinary woman who knows a little more, which makes her very happy who has always been very lonely.

In addition, Li Yan really loves her!

Take this time she was in poor health, for example.

Li Yan didn't say a word, so he sent Yang Lin and Zhu Fu out to earn An Daoquan and Kong Hou respectively and go up the mountain!

You must know that Yang Lin and Zhu Fu are not idlers who have nothing to do, the former originally wanted to go to Sizhou with Meng Kang to earn Ye Chun and the Ye family, and the latter, not to mention going to Jeju Mansion to open a hotel, also went to Zhenrong to earn the masters of the Qu family to raise flying slaves and excellent flying slaves!

She knew very well that whether it was a big sea ship or a flying slave, it was a treasure that Li Yan desperately wanted to get!

But for her sake, Li Yan did not hesitate to postpone these two treasures!

Let's ask, if the husband is like this, what more can the husband ask for?

Besides, now that the raw rice has been cooked, she is already Li Yan's person, and she will have to raise children for Li in seven or eight months, so how can there be any other choice?

Liu Huiniang said softly: "I'm fine...... Look at my modified Divine Arm Crossbow. ”

Li Yan took the Divine Arm Crossbow from Liu Huiniang's hand, and then blamed: "Didn't I let you rest more?" ”

Liu Huiniang said: "I built a divine arm crossbow when I was a child, and this time I just instructed others to build another one, and by the way, I will improve it, and I won't be tired." ”

Liu Huiniang said: "The more powerful and accurate the crossbow, the greater the weight, and the longer the winding time, this is the most balanced after my comparison, the maximum range can reach two hundred and seventy steps, can penetrate heavy armor, can be fired by one person." ”

(In all the introductory documents of the Song Dynasty, the three hundred and forty steps appear once, and most of the rest are two hundred and forty steps, so it is generally accepted that three hundred and forty steps is a mistake of two hundred and forty steps, and one step is one and a half meters, that is to say, the maximum range of the Song Dynasty's divine arm crossbow is 360 meters, of course, there is also a saying that the maximum range is 400 meters.) ）

Liu Huiniang's improved Divine Arm Crossbow shoots forty-five meters more than the Song Dynasty's standard Divine Arm Crossbow, which is already very powerful, but the greedy Li Yan still asked: "Can you make it more powerful?" ”

Liu Huiniang said: "Then you have to increase its weight, and one person will not be able to launch." ”

Hearing Liu Huiniang say this, Li Yan immediately dispelled this idea, if it could not be launched by one person, then the practicality of the Divine Arm Crossbow would be greatly reduced.

You must know that the rate of fire of the Divine Arm Crossbow is two rounds a minute, and it is also a well-trained situation, if it cannot be fired by one person, then it cannot be compared with a bow and arrow with ten arrows a minute.

In that case, Li Yan would give up the development of the Divine Arm Crossbow and develop the bow and arrow instead.

Speaking of which, some people may be puzzled, since the bow and arrow have such a big advantage in terms of rate of fire, why didn't Li Yan develop the bow and arrow, is it because the range of the divine arm crossbow is more than 100 meters farther than the bow and arrow?

Of course not, in fact, there is not much difference between being able to shoot 400 meters and being able to shoot 200 to 300 meters, especially if the opponent has a horse.

The real reason is that archers need to be trained for a long time.

The training of archers was a very long and painful task, especially for the Han Chinese, who founded their country on farming.

The Han Chinese, the selection of professional soldiers from among the commoners and the training of archers could not be carried out until the person was eighteen or twenty years old at the earliest.

And those nomads who grew on horseback began to experiment with the softest bows at the age of seven or eight, and when they grew up, they were first-rate marksmen.

Compared with the nomads, the Han people have no advantage at all.

Moreover, archers still have great requirements for physical fitness, and the accuracy and power of the shooter will be greatly reduced after a few rounds of shooting.

On the contrary, a crossbow can be aimed for a long time, it is much simpler to operate, and it does not require too good physical strength, therefore, the crossbow archer is much easier to train.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Li Yan won't develop archers, after all, crossbow bows have shortcomings that cannot be ignored such as slow rate of fire and difficulty in production, and they still need bows and arrows to pick up the gaps.

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