Step on the pedals, pull the string with both hands with leather holsters, drive the whole body to pull up, and feel the protrusion of the wooden spikes with your index finger......

Li Xiang took the crossbow arrow handed over by the guard, put it in the trench, and slid it again to let the tail feathers not be hindered.

The trigger is pulled.

Fifty meters away, the cheerful grazing fawn was hit by an arrow in the buttocks and jumped and ran away with a painful "yo-yo" sound. More than twenty long arrows were fired, and the deer in mid-air became a hedgehog and fell to the ground without a sound.

Li Xiang pouted. He aimed at the neck, but shot in the ass.

Beside Li Xiang, the guard, nicknamed Shen Eagle, smiled embarrassedly, thinking: In the back mountain of Mingyue Zhuang, there are so few prey, and the brothers haven't seen meat for a few days, so they're too excited.

Li Xiang shook his head helplessly and announced that he would add food. The guards who came out of the shade of the trees and the grass shouted: you can taste the owner's craftsmanship again!

Back in the tent, Li Xiang dismantled the prototype of the crossbow and rubbed his face depressedly.

The owner is really not easy to be.

There are too many things in Mingyuezhuang, and Li Xiang is so tired that he is dizzy. Li Xiang, who didn't want to be tired to death, took the crossbow and dozens of guards into the back mountain that had been banned for more than a year. In addition to playing, Li Xiang also tests the performance of the crossbow, inspecting tents, tarpaulins, sleeping bags and hiking boots that have been altered urgently.

Nothing went well.

The first is the prey. Due to Li Xiang's excessive capture with Mengxue teenagers, a large mountain range north of Mingyuezhuang has become a forbidden area for animals, and the back mountain of Mingyuezhuang was banned by Li Xiang early, but the prey is still scarce.

After a few days, the owner of the farm, like dozens of guards, drank meat porridge made of dried meat, dry rice, coarse salt and other things with water, and it was no wonder that those guards saw that the deer was about to run, and they were in a hurry to shoot arrows. You can eat the meat even if it's rotten, so shoot it down first!

More than a dozen craftsmen have secretly studied the crossbow for more than a year, and Li Xiang also has a preliminary understanding. Li Xiang was not satisfied, but he knew that Zhang Qingping had done his best. Even if there is a good pattern of the crossbow, it is extremely difficult to develop the crossbow from scratch.

You don't see it, just because the bow and crossbow workshop in Hangzhou has run away with a small half of the craftsmen, Fang Lajun does not dare to use the best hard bows, divine arm bows and crossbows, and can only be used when it is important. This shows how difficult it is to build and repair a bow and crossbow.

After using it for several days and shooting hundreds of arrows, Li Xiang has some understanding of the performance of the crossbow in the hand: the power is not comparable to a hundred catties of straight bows, and the accuracy is not satisfactory.

Li Xiang sighed: When will there be a mass-produced powerful stepping crossbow? The accuracy is acceptable, but the difficulty of maintenance and repair should not be too high.

The urgently altered marching material was also unsatisfactory.

Li Xiang has the advanced knowledge of the original time and space, and the requirements put forward are too high for the craftsmen and stewards of the core workshop, and some of the requirements put forward by Li Xiang are not in line with the actual situation of Qinling, which is very messy. Fortunately, Li Xiang realized this, no longer demanded blame, and let several workshops slowly change.

Shen Lao Ying commanded a few people, burned the fire, and cleaned the prey, and then went to Li Xiang's tent and asked the owner to show his skills.

Li Xiang let Shen Ying in and asked, "Shen Ying, if you are asked to command thirty personal guards, how many masters can you deal with at most?" ”

Li Xiang rose to the world in Bianjing City and met Ma Rulan, the first warrior monk of Daxiangguo Temple and Master Huiming. The fledgling Li Xiang can know a few masters, and the wealthy families who have been around for more than 100 years still don't know how many good players they have.

On the way to escape from Bianjing, Li Xiang and the others were actually scattered by several people one after another, and if they hadn't had a plan, they had exposed the location of the secret compound early.

Since then, Li Xiang has often thought about how to resist the desperate blows of dozens of masters. His family knows his own affairs, and Li Xiang suspects that one day, he will become a thorn in the side of the scholarly family and the famous family.

Shen Lao Ying blinked his eyes and said conservatively: "Qi Zhuang Master." First of all, it depends on what kind of master they are, how many people are there? ”

"If it's Zhou Dong's old-timer in the Royal Boxing Gym. Ahem, the subordinates had to fight desperately with the brothers to cover the master's escape. ”

Li Xiang nodded with a wry smile, agreeing with this subordinate's statement.

Shen Ying continued, "If it's an ordinary master, like this, cough cough...... The subordinates had faith and led the brothers outside to fight against a dozen people. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Lao Ying added: "If you have armor and a bow and crossbow in hand, even if five or six Zhou Dong seniors attack at the same time, your subordinates can protect the safety of the lord." ”

Li Xiang was speechless. Exposing the armor in that place in Bianjing, isn't it a sign to sell the head?

Sighing, Li Xiang said in his heart: I still have to think of a way to deal with the assassination of the master. Since you can't find a few masters who can be trusted for a while, then fight with collective strength.

Li Xiang looked at Shen Laoying, "I heard that when you first arrived in Mingyue Village, you once said that you were rough enough to understand a kind of Five Elements Array?" ”

Shen Lao Ying said in his heart: The opportunity has come!

"The owner of Qiyu Village, his subordinate master has left a five-element array, it is said that when the late Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, a martial arts master felt that it was not easy for the mountain people to survive, and handed it over to the mountain people for self-protection."

"The Five Elements Array, there are five people in total, those who are strong and fierce are in the front, those who are good at attacking are on both sides, and those who are good at defending are in the back. The five people with weapons of different lengths and shorts responded to each other, and the offense and defense were combined, and the weak attacked the strong. The requirements for each person's martial arts and weapons are ......"

Listening to Shen Laoying's detailed explanation of the essence of the Five Elements Array, Li Xiang's heart was shocked: This formation is slightly changed, and it can be used in a place like Bianjing where water bridges meet and streets are vertical and horizontal, it is so suitable! Also, how does this formation feel so familiar, just like the appearance of a certain formation after it is disassembled, which formation corresponds to the original time and space? Why can't you think of it......

An urgent report came from outside the tent.

Shen Eagle stopped, turned to the corner of the tent, and put his hand next to the scabbard.

The person sent by Li Mengkong handed over an urgent report, and when Li Xiang saw it, it turned out that Liu Susu and his party had returned. Liu Susu took more than 500 people, probably to Mingyuezhuang after darkening.

After eating venison and cooking rice, Li Xiang took his personal guards and packed up the tent supplies and went down the mountain.

After Li Xiang went down the mountain, he couldn't be idle, and he couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of Wang Xiaochen and Cao Wenwen, so he went to the medical and health department to check first.

The Medical and Health Department was officially expanded into a three-entry compound, with a total of more than 80 wards, capable of treating more than 50 people at the same time. After the girl took charge of the medical and health department, the health situation has been greatly improved, and Li Xiang nodded again and again.

Old man Zhang, Liu Zhi and the two old men happened to come out of the top-secret room, discussing some shocking issues, and when they bumped into Li Xiang, they were all stunned. Seeing that they couldn't hide, the two old men had no choice but to take the owner into the top-secret room, and then ......

Li Xiang vomited all the food he ate in the morning and at noon, and sternly warned the two old guys who filled the gap in Da Zhou's medicine: The corpses must be cremated, no traces can be left, and no news must be leaked!

Li Xiang took Shen Laoying and walked to Mengxue, and said in his heart: "Evil, I just want the medical and health department to learn some simple surgeries to treat the wounded, maybe I will ...... one day It can also be used. Who knew that those two old men were so scientific! If the news of the top-secret room of the Medical and Health Department is spread, even the teacher Wang Qi will not be able to accept it, right?!

It was cold, and I was sweating coldly.

There are some things that you can't stop from the beginning. Li Xiang opened a door, and the two old men and the three girls put all their energy into exploring, and Li Xiang couldn't stop them.

After taking a few deep breaths, Li Xiang gritted his teeth and scolded secretly: "Damn, anyway, there are too many taboo things hidden in Mingyue Village, how long can you hide them!" ”

When he came to Mengxue and looked at the young man from eight to fifteen years old, Li Xiang's heart seemed to be purified.

The curriculum of Mengxue is only further standardized, but there is not much substantive change, after all, the teaching is limited.

Mingyuezhuang's Mengxue is very suitable for the word "enlightenment", and after completing the enlightenment, let go, and want to continue learning? You are welcome to join Mengxue, and then learn the "advanced knowledge" specified by the owner while becoming a master, provided that you are at least 16 years old and pass the assessment.

Xiong Chengwen and Zhang Zhanjun took time out to accompany the owner and their master to check on Mengxue.

The land for Mingyuezhuang is getting tighter and tighter, but the school field that Li Xiang leveled a few years ago has not shrunk at all. The training of the elder battalion and the guards has been put in the mountains, so the school field has been monopolized by Mengxue.

After watching the teenagers and girls play for a while on the school grounds, Li Xiang came to the cramped wooden room.

The room used for teaching is cramped, and there is little space for children and teenagers. Li Xiang can't help it, Mingyuezhuang is very cold in winter, and if you want to keep warm, you can't build a house too big, otherwise no amount of charcoal will be enough to burn.

Li Xiang picked up a thick pencil and wrote a few words on a plain wooden board of several square meters: Ten years of trees, one hundred years of people.

Zhen honestly tried everything he could, consulted all the craftsmen in Mingyuezhuang, but they couldn't make the blackboard that Li Xiang requested, unless he used lacquer with a price higher than silver.

Li Xiang was not rich enough to use lacquerware as a blackboard, so he could only follow Zhen Laoshi's suggestion to splice a layer of bamboo on a large wooden board and use a thick pencil to write on it.

The "green and white board" made of bamboo and wood can be used, but it is very troublesome to clean, and it is necessary to clean it with a broom with water after writing more than a dozen times, and it is necessary to scrape it with a planer once after writing a hundred and ten times, but it can be used after all.

As for the pencils used by both the master and the boy, after being improved dozens of times, they also began to be used in large quantities.

Current pencils are not so delicate, with a diameter of two centimeters, and carbon strips made of graphite, clay, etc., are more than six millimeters in diameter, but still easy to break. There is also a disadvantage, that is, it is too easy to drop the ink, and when Li Xiang writes with a thick pencil, he sees the toner falling off in a slump.

Any small process advancement can take a lot of time.

Pencils are still too expensive for the average farmer. The lead core is too thick, and the children are reluctant to cut the lead core, and the writing is very large, but fortunately, the paper produced by Mingyuezhuang is very cheap. The children and grandchildren of the Great Zhou scholars use brushes, and the font is the same as large, so this is not a disadvantage, but poor.

Li Xiang flipped through the small notebook left on the table.

Seeing the teenager and girl use a piece of paper to the extreme, Li Xiang smiled knowingly, but his eyes were a little sour. Because he saw that every teenager was trying his best to write a little smaller and neater, in order to save books and pencils, of course.

The pencil is still very immature. On the other hand, the quills are already very useful.

Li Xiang took the quill pen in the hand of a Mengxue master, who was also his protégé, dipped it in ink, and was able to write seven or eight words.

But there are still problems with the ink of the quill. After dipping in ink, the ink flows quickly at first, and the handwriting is very clear, and then the ink becomes less and less, and the handwriting is quickly invisible.

Although there are still some problems with the details, pencils, blueboards and quill pens are already useful.

Li Xiang was running around for the development of Mingyuezhuang in Bianjing, and the villagers were also not idle. Under the temptation of profits, the relevant workshop owners and craftsmen are constantly improving, and strive to meet the requirements of the owner.

More and more affairs are on the right track, more and more villagers are becoming well-off, and more and more Mengxue teenagers are passing the assessment...... Unlike other places in the Great Zhou, every month or even every day, Mingyuezhuang is changing and growing.