This suggestion is not ruthless.

You must know that there are many nobles and landlords at the grassroots level, and the families are generally relatively large, ranging from dozens to hundreds.

Think about it, the last time we dealt with the rebels, the people who were Ling Chi were only two people, King Pan and King Ze......

However, excluding cruelty, this method is indeed feasible, because now the entire Cangguo is terrified of Ling Chi's punishment, and these captives who were escorted to various places have also heard some rumors, coupled with Kong Shangxian's propaganda intentionally or unintentionally, they have already planted fear in the hearts of all captives.

How jealous are you of Ling Chi's punishment? From a small detail, it can be seen that before the great punishment that shook the country, there were occasionally some captives looking for opportunities to sneak away, but since hearing about the tragic situation of the great punishment, no one dared to sneak away during this time.

The reason for this is that Kong Shangxian was busy with the affairs of the Ministry of Education and did not have so much energy to waste with the prisoners, so he issued an order of 'all escapees are late', so that the entire reclamation team was wiped out.

Maybe he tasted the sweetness, so Kong Shangxian put forward this suggestion.

"It's a little cruel, but it's not a good idea compared to the consequences of the risk outbreak." Yang Mu nodded, even if he approved this method, it didn't matter if it was really implemented after the war, because compared to the people of the entire Zheng Kingdom, a few hundred people were only a few after all.

Soon, more than a hundred centurions were summoned to the royal chariot and listened to the instructions.

At noon, it was the lunch time of the Blue Dragon Legion, Yang Mu put down the emperor's shelf, casually picked up a bowl of food eaten by ordinary soldiers in the basket, sat with the soldiers, chatted casually, and ate slowly.

This scene made the soldiers of the entire Blue Dragon Legion very moved, and their blood boiled one by one.

After lunch, while the soldiers were practicing, Yang Mu led hundreds of personal guards, accompanied by a group of generals, to inspect the camp.

I have to say that after incorporating many elements of later training, the Blue Dragon Legion has been reborn, no longer a single fight, and there are more knowledge and skills imparted.

"Hey, this is ......" Suddenly, Yang Mu saw a group of soldiers in the distance on the side of the road, pushing something similar to a small cart, surrounded by a very familiar look.

Seeing this, one of the accompanying generals hurriedly said: "Tell Your Majesty, this is a repeating crossbow made by the Ministry of Industry a few days ago, and it was later handed over to the Ministry of Science and Technology. ”

Repeater......

Yang Mu was surprised, no wonder it was so familiar, it turned out that the Ministry of Science and Technology made a repeater according to the sketch he drew at the beginning!

In fact, the crossbow is a kind of bow fired mechanically, improved on the basis of the bow and arrow, first appeared in the Warring States Period, to the Han Dynasty, the crossbow can already be fired continuously, so it is called a repeater, Zhuge Liang improved the repeater, designed a repeater that can continuously fire ten arrows, the launch speed is fast, powerful, has the function of automatic loading, has the prototype of a machine gun, but because of the large and bulky size, so there is no large-scale promotion.

Later, the great inventor Ma Jun improved it to make it a kind of fifty-arrow crossbow, which was more powerful, but because the production was very complicated, the arrows used had to be specially made, and they were gradually replaced by firearms.

And this kind of repeater crossbow that can carry fifty arrows is very good in today's Cangguo.

"Let's go, let's go!" Yang Mu came to be interested, he has always been very interested in the development of science and technology, this will be the core competitiveness of Cangguo in the future, the first time he heard that there is a newly developed war weapon applied to the army, his heart is very hot.

As a group of people approached, the soldiers who were testing were suddenly very nervous and moved out of the way.

Yang Mu stared at the crossbow carefully.

The general structure of this repeater is very simple, the bottom is an ordinary crossbow, the key is the quiver box on the top, there are many arrows arranged vertically in the quiver box, the bottom is the launch track, there is an opening at the front end of the track, the two sides are long grooves for the string to pass through, and the end groove is perpendicular downward, forming a hook.

The front section of the quiver box, on the other hand, can be slid back and forth, and the rear part is connected to a handle with a shaft, and the rotary shaft of the handle is attached to the long arm of the crossbow, and the corresponding position of the crossbow arm has a metal cylindrical thimble.

Subtle!

Although he was accustomed to seeing modern mechanized machines, after Yang Mu saw it, he still let out such an exclamation, compared to other things in this world, just a repeater crossbow was already called ingenious.

Yang Mu stepped forward and fiddled with it, there were more than twenty arrows in total, which were not as terrifying as the fifty in the improved version, but at the same time, it also avoided the characteristics of being cumbersome and complex, basically one person could barely use it, and the two of them could complete it well together.

It can be said that one such repeater is enough to be worth a ten-man bow and arrow team, if the entire bow team is equipped with such a repeater...... Of course it is impossible.

The reason is simple, it can be seen from the history of the army in ancient China for two thousand years, that the main position is not the crossbow, but the bow. Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Ge has disappeared, halberds have disappeared, swords have been popular for a period of time, and they have slowly faded out of history, and knives have continued to evolve with the times, only bows and arrows have a long history.

The mainstream of China is the compound bow, and it is a double-curved countertension bow, and the massive compound countertension bow and the corresponding infantry and cavalry battle formations are the real level of ancient Chinese military power, not a repeater.

Therefore, although the repeater is good, it is only a tool in war, and its mobility and projection power are destined to be unable to replace the bow as a conventional weapon.

"Well, ask the Ministry of Science and Technology to step up research and development and improvement, and at the same time manufacture a batch of repeating crossbows, although it will not be possible to form large-scale combat effectiveness in the short term, but in the upcoming war, it is still possible to scare the enemy's courage." Yang Mu said to a few soldiers.

"Yes!" The soldier complimented, seemed to hesitate, and pushed out a man in a servant's uniform next to him.

"You are?" Yang Mu looked at him, he hadn't paid much attention to it just now, but this time he noticed that his dress was very different from that of other soldiers.

"Back to Your Majesty, the villain is a small official of the Ministry of Science and Technology, responsible for this experiment, and then record the areas that need to be improved." The little official said.

"That's right, you go back and tell Ouye, let him organize the manpower during this time, and put the rest aside in advance, and get the repeater out to me, and make steel...... Well, let the steelmaking work be left to the Ministry of Works, and let him concentrate on the repeater, and if I didn't see ten repeaters on the day of the expedition, I would have his head removed. ”

"Yes, villain obeys!"