Ninety-eight Fly into the sky
Li Buqi has returned to Tokyo this time, and he is ready to take this opportunity to finish some things, and then go back to Chunze Prison without any worries.
First of all, the South Workshop finally tried to produce the Divine Arm Bow. According to what Li Buqi said, the mountain mulberry wood is the body, the sandalwood is the bow, the iron is the kick head, the copper is the horse's face and teeth, the hemp rope is tied with silk as the string, and the bow is four feet five inches long. The bow strength is divided into three grades, which are one hundred and forty catties, one hundred and ten catties and eighty-five catties.
The arrow is a wooden feather arrow about eight inches long, the arrow cluster opens four tips, the iron pipe that connects the arrow shaft after the arrow cluster is only a few minutes long, when inserting the arrow shaft, it is glued with lacquer glue inside, and the outside is clamped with bamboo wire, so that once the arrow cluster is shot, it will be broken when it lands, and it can no longer be used without trimming, and the enemy can not shoot the arrow back directly.
When Li Buqi participated in the test in the Archery Academy, at a distance of 240 paces, the arrow cluster shot into the elm wood half a pole, which shows the strength of the strength. Heavy armor can be worn at a distance of 100 paces.
The craftsmen of the North Workshop used Japanese iron to create a two-collared Monkey Armor, which could not be penetrated with the Great Song Dynasty crossbow, but could be shot through within fifty paces with the Divine Arm Bow.
This armor-piercing power directly stunned Ding Du, and immediately entered the palace to report the good news to the emperor. The emperor ordered the immediate mass production of the Divine Arm Bow and distributed it to the forbidden army on the edge of the border, and at the same time strictly ordered that the manufacturing method of the Divine Arm Bow must be kept secret, and the forbidden army must never lose the Divine Arm Bow used by the Divine Arm Bow.
Of course, the emperor symbolically rewarded Li Bu with a few dollars. Li Buqi took the opportunity to suggest to the emperor that he set up a city ship division in Mingzhou, where trade with Japan, was set up to purchase Japanese iron in a unified manner, and buy as many as he could, which was used to build high-end weapons and armor.
Now in the emperor's opinion, Li Buqi is an expert in this area, so he naturally obeys his words, and specially orders that all the Japanese iron purchased will be handed over to the prison for unified management.
Coming out of the emperor, Li Buqi pulled Gao Zunyu and his gang to Zhuangzi outside the city. The materials for making the wings there were all ready, and the craftsmen also assembled and debugged them several times according to the method taught by Li Buqi. But whether it can be used or not has to wait for Li Buqi to decide.
These nobles are in a hurry, and they all want to see people fly into the sky as soon as possible.
Li Buqi also obeyed, and in such an era when he thought that there was nothing to want, the craftsman who would be the supervisor actually made usable screws by hand.
The pipes have been adjusted many times by craftsmen. Li Buqi inserted them into the connectors and fixed them with screws to form the core frame. Then fix the tough lance in the connector as two wings, and then tighten it with steel wire.
The nobles even built a frame out of huge timber, so that Li Buqi could hang the skeletons of the two wings on the thick beam. Then he kept pressing the sandbag upwards until it weighed one hundred and fifty pounds. Look at the skeleton is basically not deformed, and the horse lance can still hold up, so there is no problem in supporting a person's weight in this way.
Then fix the specially woven thick silk on the flying wing skeleton, hang it again and press the sandbag until it is one hundred and fifty pounds, and see that the wing surface of the three layers of thick silk is not torn, so you should be able to fly and try it, right?
Now there is no problem with the bearings that will be supervised, although the durability is not very good, but it is enough for experiments.
On June 21, the weather was sunny and the sun was shining. Originally, on such a hot day, people would find a cool place to stay, but today the people with heads and faces in Kaifeng rushed to the outside of Kaifeng City by car, under the sun, on both sides of the avenue, sweating and looking up.
Although many people disagree with it, in view of Li Buqi's good reputation of never telling nonsense, he is still very eager to see how people fly to the sky. Even Zhao Zhen sent in to know that Li Shunju came to watch.
Most people just waited and waited, from morning to noon, but they didn't see anything, and the sun was wilted for a long time. And the nobles who were noble enough or had the money to be qualified to watch at close range were stomping their feet, howling, and cursing Uncle Cao's generals at this time, but at the same time, they were also excited by the scene just now.
Anyone who flies for the first time is scared. When the thin family member flew up from the tricycle that was being pulled by the horse, he forgot all the essentials of Li Buqi's explanation, and only cared about shouting, but the flying wing had just flown more than three meters high, and then turned around and crashed into the canopy of the big willow tree by the roadside.
Although it was not a success this time, after all, the family general flew in front of everyone, and he really flew, which made everyone's emotions completely high.
Since the flying wing is broken, assemble the spare ones. Because they were in a hurry, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries who were usually delicate and expensive couldn't take care of hiding in the car and holding the ice basin to escape the heat, and they were all waiting with their eyes blank. This is not just two sunstrokes.
Fortunately, Li Buqi had Huoxiang Zhengqi water prepared for his father and mother, so he quickly took it out and poured it on them, and drank some salt water.
This little episode did not affect the enthusiasm of the nobles, and when they left, they asked Uncle Cao Guo: "Jing Xiu, are you okay?" I don't need my family. There's only one wing left. ”
With the lessons of the past, Uncle Cao Guo does not have much confidence in the performance of his own generals, but it is a matter of the family's face, he can only swear and promise: "Don't worry, the other one is the most reliable, and there will never be any more accidents." ”
Fortunately, the selected general did not back down, allowing the Cao family to save some face. But when Uncle Cao Guo turned around, he still saw that Li Buqi was drinking water, and whispered: "Zhongzheng, you can give my family a demonstration again." ”
Li Buqi was also worried that the family would break the last flying wing, so he agreed.
Once the wings are assembled, they are mounted on a special tricycle with bearings on all wheels to ensure that the tricycle can run fast under the drag of the horses.
The four horses are ready to go. Li Buqi pulled the family general to the flying wing, and explained to him why the family would suddenly fly in the wrong direction just now. In order to make it clearer, Li Buqi also specially drilled under the flying wings to demonstrate the action. Finally, he said: "Wait for my order, run"
As soon as the word "run" came out, one rider on the horse immediately urged the horse to gallop with a whip, and the other rider was also busy whipping the horse, and as a result, the four horses were dragging the tricycle and rolling forward. Before Li Buqi could stop, he only felt that he flickered and flew up.
In fact, my brother is going to say, "Wait for my order, run, you will take me in a good direction", why did the buddy in front of him hear it wrong?
I don't know if the flying wings made by this local method are reliable, so he didn't even think about going to the sky in person, and it was not cost-effective to finally cross and fall to death. I need to land quickly.
But just as Li Buqi was trying to find a way to land, a sudden gust of wind blew him to a high place, and now more people saw it, and there was an exclamation, which attracted more people to run out from under the trees and in the car to watch.
Xing'er jumped to her feet and shouted: "Lady, fly, fly, it's really a person flying!" ”
Zhao Min lifted the fence with his hand and exclaimed, "Who is that?" Flying so high, huh? ”
Li Buqi didn't see Zhao Min, he was busy looking for a place to land, fortunately, he saw a large wheat field not far away, and it was there.
Li Buqi had only played with the glider on the beach once before the crossing, and he was a complete rookie, so he could only control the flying wing to gradually descend by feeling, but who knew that another gust of wind blew him in other directions. Fortunately, a big lake appeared in front of him, and for a moment, Li Buqi couldn't help but be glad that he could swim.