"Yes, yes, that's it...... Move two more feet to the left! ”

On a newly built city wall near the wharf of Yizhou Xiaocheng, Lu Ren and Shirley are directing craftsmen to install a new type of stone machine and an improved semi-automatic machine crossbow.

Although Lu Ren and Shirley are developing muskets and artillery, due to the limitations of some factors in various aspects, they do not want to install them in at least a few years, so the current stage of defense still has to rely on these catapults and crossbows. Strictly speaking, the catapult device used by Lu Ren here is already a third-generation product, and the overall structure has been relatively perfect after several improvements.

In addition to the dual use of winches and levers, the craftsmen also completed the more convenient assembly process. Usually, only the base is left on the city wall, and the working part can be disassembled for easy maintenance. Once it needs to be used, it can be assembled in a group of five people in a quarter of an hour at the earliest. In addition, there is a roller assembly on the base, which allows the hair stone frame to adjust the projection direction 160 degrees in place. In addition, Shirley somewhere found the structure of the historical wheel projection, and handed it to the craftsmen to play on their own, and now each stone frame can be fired in three bursts, and it is easy to reload and charge.

Lu Lan also brought a team of people to assemble, but she had more meaning to join in the fun. But right...... Don't underestimate the role of the beautiful cheerleader, anyway, in Lu Lan's shouting and cheering, the people on her side installed one first, and then excitedly shouted to Lu Ren at the other end: "My lord, my team is a little faster than your team." Why don't you come to my side and try it out? ”

Lu Ren saw that his side was almost there, so he handed over the finishing work to Shirley, walked to Lu Lan's side and said with a smile: "Of course we have to try to cast it, we just want to test the overall hitting surface of these things today." ”

Lu Lan took a closer look at the stone machine and asked, "My lord, how should I test it?" ”

Lu Ren asked Lu Lan to step aside, and then shouted to everyone: "Everyone, listen well." Turn the stone stand to the far right! Charge the scale to the maximum! ”

After a clattering sound of the stone frame, Lu Ren shook his hand vigorously: "Three, two, one...... Cast! ”

Dozens of stone projectiles of similar size made a graceful arc in the air, and after a few moments, they fell into the sea one after another, stirring up waves of waves. On the sea, there were buoy rafts arranged by Lu Ren in advance to test the range and scrapped boats for testing the strike strength, and Lu Ren had the corresponding data recorder by his side, who immediately reported to Lu Ren: "The farthest is nearly 300 steps. The most recent one is two hundred and seventy steps. Fifteen ships sank eleven in this round. ”

Lu Ren is more satisfied with the range, but he can't say anything about the power. These are only small fishing boats, only two medium-sized boats, and they are just scrap boats that have expired and have no real protection capabilities.

Looking at it again, Lu Ren couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's a pity that Gan Ning is not here now, if he is here, he should be able to judge the general power...... Alas, when did you really want to test the power of a whole large ship? ”

Thinking so, Lu Ren is now reluctant to take a large ship out to try. You must know that shipbuilding is difficult. It's even harder for large ships! Now those large and medium-sized ships in Yizhou are all Lu Ren's heart. Ask Lu Ren to take it out to test whether the catapult can sink a large ship? It would be better to give him a knife.

Shaking his head and not wanting to worry about it, Lu Ren stroked Lu Lan's head twice like stroking/touching a kitten, and asked, "There is nothing wrong with the construction of the rest of the city walls, right?" ”

Lu Lan said: "There are not enough manpower, and the slow is a little slow, but because of the fact that all the work teams have been in place for most of the year, the progress has been much smoother." At least now, as long as the work is properly supervised, there is no longer the need to come forward to guide at any time, as in the past. ”

Lu Ren nodded. Fu asked again: "Xiaolan, the construction of this city wall is now entrusted to you. Can you take care of it? Ziliang and Zizhen are both in Zhuya now, and those who are more familiar with this kind of thing, I am the only one left by my side now, after all, you have always been by my side at the beginning. ”

Lu Lan raised her hand and slapped Lu Ren's paw away, and then grinned: "My lord, Xiaolan is not such a useless person. Although it's usually a little naughty, it's time to really do things. Xiaolan is still very serious. But you'd better come over and check it out when you have time, and if anything goes wrong, you can fix it as soon as possible. ”

Lu Ren nodded. In fact, the current coastal defense city wall is mainly for expansion and reinforcement, and Lu Lan is here to supervise and guide, with Lu Lan's ability, he is fully competent, so Lu Ren can still put his mind at ease. Look again. Lu Ren told Lu Lan again: "You should let go of the construction of the arrow tower on the city wall first, and I will leave other things to you." ”

"Sir, say it."

Lu Ren looked at the stone machine beside him again, as well as the improved semi-automatic machine crossbow that had not yet had time to assemble there, and said in a deep voice: "I will transfer another three hundred parts to you when I go back to the council hall in a while, and you will practice the use and maintenance of these city-guarding weapons." Another thing you must remember is that you have to train some people who are good at aiming and can adjust the angle and range to accurately hit the target. This type of person can be directly appointed as a military commander, that is, the commander of each stone frame...... I think there will be more and more of our parts in the future, and we can let these people lead the practice. But now, because I don't have anyone at hand, it's all under your direct command for the time being. ”

"Well, Xiaolan made a note of it. It's really not good, Xiaolan can also go to Lingqi girl for help. ”

Lu Ren nodded again, squatted down to stroke/touch the crossbow at his feet, but recalled in his mind that after the first meeting with Gan Ning, the fleet led by himself fired arrows and beat a group of water thieves to the ground, and couldn't help but smile.

The crossbow is now an improved version, with a semi-automatic magazine structure, with twelve arrows in each magazine, which are placed upside down on each barrel from top to bottom. When the arrows in the crossbow tube are fired, the winch can pull the string at the same time to pull the flap under the receiver, and the arrow will fall into the tube along the guide slot. It may be relatively simple to say, but in fact, there are too many things to pay attention to, such as the coordination between the flap on the arrow box and the ejection plate, and the position limit when the arrow falls...... Lu Ren and Shirley put more effort into this than others could imagine. Anyway, during that period of trial production, Zhen Jiang, who managed all matters of steel, wanted to slip away as soon as he saw Lu Ren appear.

"Hey, I don't know what the structure of Zhuge Liang's repeater is. But he is ten arrows at a time, and I am forty-five arrows at a time, which is four and a half times stronger than him; As for the reload, I think it's much better than him, and the full ammunition is forty-five times thirteen five hundred and eighty-five arrows, which can be regarded as a super-dense shooting surface in this era...... It's just too much to shoot. But don't be afraid, I have a full set of arrow processing lines here, and I can produce tens of thousands of arrows a day of full operation...... It's just the kind without arrow feathers. Little Brother Zhuge let the horse come over, when will your task of 100,000 arrows be borrowed from Lao Cao, I will sell it to you. Anyway, we also got acquainted, and I'll give you a 20% discount......"

He was laughing lewdly there, when Lu Lan suddenly called out loudly: "My lord, there are three boats docked at the dock. Look at the banner should have come back from Quanzhou. ”

Lu Ren came back to his senses, glanced at the dock and was indeed the ship returning from Quanzhou, and said strangely: "Why are there only three of them?" Xiaolan, you're watching here, I'll go over and take a look. ”

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When they arrived at the wharf, the three ships returning from Quanzhou were unloading, and Lu Ren called the person in charge to his side to inquire, and learned that the three boats were temporarily sent back from Quanzhou. And according to the person in charge, it was to send two people who might be useful to Lu Ren to Yizhou.

"Someone who might be useful to me? There is a certain Lu disciple in Quanzhou who is temporarily in charge, and he doesn't have much ability, so who can he find? Could it be that this guy has the stunt eye for talent exploration? ”

I didn't know what to call and smiled, and asked the person in charge to find the two people to meet, and I went to the teahouse here at the dock to wait first. After a cup of tea, the person in charge led the two people to the wing room to meet Lu Ren. It didn't matter when he saw this, the teacup in Lu Ren's hand immediately fell to the ground. Because the Lu family found two people, one is brown-haired and brown-eyed, and the other is blonde and blue-eyed, and they both have the same nose bridge and slightly sunken eye sockets...... Good guys, it turned out to be two foreigners!

"Wouldn't it? Where did these two foreigners get that guy from!? ”

When Lu Ren was shocked there, the person in charge introduced to the two foreigners: "This lord is our Sect Master Lu, who once served as a scholar in Xudu. You can be called Lu Servant, or you can be called Lu Sect Master. ”

The two foreigners walked into the wing room and bowed to Lu Ren as a standard bow. Lu Ren hadn't come back to his senses at this time, and the guards behind Lu Ren were quite curious about the two foreigners. After the two foreigners finished the ceremony, they saw that Lu Ren was still stunned, sitting instead of standing and not, and they looked a little embarrassed for a while. Ling Feng reacted quickly, and coughed vigorously a few times before he brought Lu Ren back to his senses, and raised his hand to signal the two foreigners to sit down in front of him.

Seeing that they all sat down, Lu Ren may have put his nerves on the wrong line, and searched the depths of his memory for a long time, and then he remembered a sentence: "Whereareyoucomefrom?" ”

The two foreigners looked at each other in surprise, and the brown-haired one spoke first: "Respected Sect Master Lu, your Latin doesn't seem to be accurate. ”

During the Double Han Dynasty, the Mediterranean region was the Roman era, and the official language of the Roman Empire was ancient Latin, which was quite different from modern Latin.

Looking at Lu Ren, who had been shocked by the two foreigners who suddenly appeared for a long time, he shook his head a few times now, and finally came to his senses completely. After correcting his mind a little, he asked, "You will speak Chinese...... The language of our Dahan? ”

Brown-haired said, "Yes." Allow us to introduce ourselves. My name is Faris? Papilos, this is my buddy Temes? Manres. Dear Sect Master Lu, our surname habits are different from those of the Central Plains......" (To be continued. )