Chapter 9: The Holy Sword and the Bow and Crossbow
Ouyang Xuan didn't speak, he didn't want to discuss with the monks on this issue, the Buddhism he understood was much different from the Buddhism of Qiuzi, the Buddhism of this era believed in Buddhism, not specific people, it was the most primitive Buddhism, not focusing on cause and effect, talking about people's feelings and the hidden philosophy under the appearance of things, guiding people to see the essence through phenomena, and finally achieving transcendence from this appearance, and reaching a state of Buddhahood, which is the most basic Theravada Buddhist theory. Mahayana is to become a Buddha through cultivation on this basis. After being introduced to Middle-earth and combined with Taoism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties to form cause and effect, the cycle of reincarnation of the six paths and the worship of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, Zen Buddhism, Buddhists in South Asia and India today are still this primitive Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism in addition to the worship of more inheritors and some secret cultivation, other teachings are Hinayana Buddhist theories.
Ouyang Xuan listened to the monk's incessant chanting, while working non-stop. Before leaving, Ouyang Xuan said, "This Buddha statue is so precious, so that Xiaoyou put a lot of effort into it, and there is no way to reciprocate, so I will give my son 10 pieces of tough iron newly made by a craftsman, in order to thank Xiaoyou for his skillful art", this tough iron Ouyang Xuan heard from an archaeological friend that it is the secret of Qiuzi, and during the Wenzong period of the Tang Dynasty, Qiuzi was destroyed by Gaochang Hui, and the craft was lost. It has only appeared in some ancient tombs, with extremely strong toughness, stainless and non-rotten, and it is said that meteorites have been added, and some of the composition analysis is still a mystery. The melting point of this iron is above 3500 degrees. Getting this thing, Ouyang Xuan was not very excited, the iron was of little use to himself, the temperature of more than 3500, it was difficult to reach the age without coke, it seems that Qiuzi has a furnace that produces a higher melting point, it will not be the legendary reaction furnace. In the Pamir Plateau, there is an Artush Heavenly Gate, Ouyang Xuan once climbed down from the Heavenly Gate, there is a stone in the middle of the cliff wall with some petroglyphs, I have taken photos, come back to show everyone, are very incomprehensible, some farming scenes are no problem, but there are a number of bullet-shaped smoking stoves of different sizes, there is a flying saucer on it, there are stones on the left, and the right side is stacked with block-like things. Ouyang Xuan once asked the local cultural relics department to understand, and they all thought that it was painted by those rock climbing enthusiasts, and finally it was not done (this is the author's personal experience). The painting is still on Ouyang Xuan's tablet, thinking of this, Ouyang Xuan immediately found a piece of sheepskin scraps, found a carbon strip to draw the stove, handed it to the monk, did not speak, just looked at the monk's face. Just got the sheepskin monk at first glanced at it, then suddenly picked it up and looked carefully, the hands holding the sheepskin were a little trembling, and finally looked up at Ouyang Xuan, "I don't know where the distinguished guest came from", "It's just by chance, I can see it at the gate of heaven", the monk listened, obviously his hands trembled very much, just now he even changed his name, and what he said to Nanwang, Ouyang Xuan still didn't understand. Then look at the king of the south with a gesture of please. "Distinguished guests, please come with me", no matter what Ouyang Xuan did after speaking, he picked up Ouyang Xuan and left, his monk guards followed closely.
Come to a place where there is no one within 10 meters, both hands cast a Buddha, "Distinguished guest, the secret of the blast furnace please Gongzi must be strictly protected, this is cast by visitors from outside the world, with gray gold as firewood, the furnace can quickly melt anything in the world", it seems that it is really a nuclear reactor, then it is no wonder, with this temperature and worry about what temperature is not enough, thinking of this, said: "I am here, but also with this day visitors have a little connection, and there is a reluctant request, the temperature required for tough iron is too high, there is no way to process it, and please send someone to process it on behalf of the master, Drawings will be provided later", "This furnace has several sizes, the smallest one is only five people, this time the monk also came with a body and several craftsmen, now not far from here in the monk's personal camp, if you want to process any object can go by yourself, I will notify the subordinates to release, the craftsmen are all many years of masters, casting swords are the best, see the knives used by the guests should also be cast by their disciples", it is true that the town of Ingisha is not very far from there, that is to say, the knife making method of Ingisha town is the inheritance of those craftsmen, Hurry back to "Guru Gaojian, it was purchased from the next mountain town of Qiuzi Tianmen, so I sincerely thank the Guru for his affection"
"Distinguished guest, too modest, this Buddha statue and 10,000 years of sunken wood, is and my Buddha to the meaning, in the next should be grateful to the guest is, he will go to the Guizi to visit, the monk swept to wait", "certainly, a word is certain", stretched out the left palm, in the monk high-fived the appointment, the monk repeatedly rubbed the sheepskin with his hand, destroyed the pattern. Who would have thought that for this agreement, the monk lived to be 130 years old, and he has been living strongly, until Ouyang Xuan annihilated the Xiongnu from the northern line, pacified the area east of the Caspian Sea, and finally crossed the Pamir Plateau, came to Qiuzi, in the Peacock Temple of Chisha Mountain, saw the 130-year-old monk, and passed away after high-fiveing again, Ouyang Xuan gave him a nickname: Xinggu, the Buddha statue has also become a treasure in the Western Regions, enshrined in the Peacock Temple (detailed later).
After talking alone, Ouyang Xuan continued to process the Buddha statue, "After going back, you can use gold and silver powder and color." "Well, Qiuci is rich in minerals and colorful, and I will deal with it", after speaking, he turned his head and said something to King Nan, King Nan looked very happy, and ordered Wei Zheng to do some things. He patted Ouyang Xuan's shoulder happily, turned around and went back to his yurt with the monk.
In the evening, a monk sent Ouyang Xuan ten pieces of black and shiny tough iron, which was about 50 catties. What can you do with it? Ouyang Xuan pondered repeatedly, the firearm parts of later generations could draw design drawings with their eyes closed, from pistols to fully automatic assault rifles, the shape and size of each part were in his mind, the most important thing was that there were no bullets, this could be made by himself, as long as there was a suitable place, from the most basic forged malachite green until it was processed into bullets, there was a problem that the warhead and the cartridge case could not be assembled together, and the necessary equipment was lacking, and Ouyang Xuan would not get this equipment. There is also the military cross crossbow arrow, which Ouyang Xuan can also draw drawings and sizes, that is, the structure is too complex and needs to be processed by a lathe, and there is no era of lathes, which is also difficult, by the way, since it can't be processed with a lathe, then why not make a clay fan and polish it, yes, just make a simple cross. After thinking about it, it was Ouyang Xuan's usual style, and he immediately asked Wei Zheng, who was at the Zhang Luo dinner, to ask for a large sheepskin, and moved the other two pieces of wood that were brought back to the tent. Fortunately, when making a saddle and carving Buddha statues, the scraps were completely preserved. Divide the sheepskin into two parts, draw the steel parts needed for the crossbow of actual size on a sheepskin, because there is no need for a scope, so the lever principle is used to lift the trigger on the winding, the lever is the arrow groove and the integrated part of the chord groove There are two arc-shaped barb cards in the chord groove, the fulcrum of the lever is behind the trigger point, and the arrow groove is moved from the front when winding, and in the process of driving the string, the string is stuck in the hook groove during the sliding process, and the backward leveling is just put on the trigger point to hang, and then put back the arrow groove part, the string is finished, and it does not need much effort, The winding speed is fast (a reference to the rapid-fire Nu of the hunters in the Ulianghai region of the Russian Tangnu).
The drawings were quickly completed, and the handles and base brackets were to be made of sunken wood, and the design drawings of the handsaws were drawn in the hope that the tough iron would be used. The two pieces of wood Ouyang Xuan also checked carefully, they are also quite hard, at least they are about a hundred years old, and it is not bad to make Nu arrows, without arrows, a piece of wood with a hardness similar to copper. Bow, Ouyang Xuan thought that it was better to use wood, and he didn't want to do it, so it should be okay to ask Nanwang directly for a good bow.
After the picture is finished, the dinner party is about to begin, this time outside the yurt, or repeat the ancient process, this time the sa is made by a high monk, and a tribe in the deep mountains has newly surrendered and sacrificed animals. By the time the banquet was over, it was already past two o'clock. This time, Ouyang Xuan played and sang a lot of songs, but when he went back, he was still in a daze.
The next day he woke up at noon, washed up, went to Wei Zheng, and found some food, and then took the sheepskin with the structure of steel to the monk, who sent an old monk to ride with him with the iron to his barracks, in a valley 20 kilometers from the valley on the west side. Under the leadership of the old monk, the craftsmen's wooden houses camped by the river were found, and they were all new wooden houses, and the wood had not yet dried. The craftsmen did not know other languages, so they could only be translated by the old monk, Ouyang Xuan spoke Kazakh, and the old monk translated into Qiuzi. After repeated communication, they finally figured out what they were asked to do. Handed the sheepskin to the head of the craftsman, he looked at it many times, but he didn't understand, it took a long time to explain and communicate through the old monk Ouyang Xuan to figure it out, and finally there was a question whether the mud fan could withstand the high temperature of more than 3600 degrees. Let them take it to the stove and take a look, Ouyang Xuan himself is not afraid of radiation, and now he finds that the repair function of the body is too strong, and the last time he killed the bear, his finger was bruised, and after a few hours, there was no trace at all. The stove was also in the wooden house, but it was buried in the ground, and soon the furnace was dug out and put to the river, Ouyang Xuan hurriedly made a device of the clay fan by the river, the craftsmen took a kind of pottery pliers and put the clay fan through the discharge port, covered it, and then pulled out a vertical white board about 1 cm thick under the discharge port, Ouyang Xuan came over to take a look, it should be a lead version. After the lead plate was pulled out, the men quickly carried the clay pot and added water to one of the mouths. There was billowing white gas coming out from under the other side, and several people took turns to add it for 5 minutes, and then pushed the lead plate back, and then added water, and after about half an hour, they opened the material mouth and took out the clay fan with pottery tongs, and it was red and red. After waiting for it to cool down completely, it took more than an hour, Ouyang Xuan looked at the mud fan, it was slightly deformed, and now it has become pottery, it seems that the 3600-degree mud fan can still withstand it. Let the craftsmen stop, he has to make a clay model first, dry and shape it, and then pour in molten iron.
This is the water washed down from the mountain, and there is very little soil, so I can only turn the stones, and it takes more than half an hour to make the mud of each part, and dry it from the material mouth with the existing high temperature. He also asked the craftsman if he could make steel wire for bows and arrows, and received a positive answer, but he needed to add some other materials, which required the approval of the monk. The old monk couldn't be the master, so he could only send the head of the soldiers, Pegasus to ask for instructions, and before the leader came back, he took out the mud fan, and he was already very dry. After measuring it, the deformation is negligible. After polishing the deformed parts of the mud fan, and after meeting their own requirements, they let them melt the iron pieces they brought, and melted 5 pieces first, these craftsmen may indeed have the guidance of masters, and there are special ceramic crucibles, this is not difficult, Ouyang Xuan can also do it, as long as there is a suitable ceramic clay. Use a crucible to hold the iron block, put one piece of crucible, put it through the discharge port, and repeat the process last time. After waiting for more than half an hour, the head also came back and brought back the message that the monk agreed, and 10 yuan was not enough, and 10 yuan could be given as a gift. Along with that leader was Wei Meng, and the news he brought back made Ouyang Xuan even more excited, the meteorite had been smashed into more than 50 pieces and had been transported to the valley. Just borrow this furnace and these craftsmen to process that iron meteorite, what is the best thing to process? Before Waymon could see the stove, he was chased away by the soldiers. I'll have to go back and discuss this with the monk. Using his craftsman and furnace to refine meteorites must be interviewed by the monks.
When Ouyang Xuan came back to his memory, the craftsmen had already poured molten iron into the mud fan, and after pouring the molten iron and gently shaking it with pottery tongs, and finally it was still, everyone had an iron rod in their hands, and after more than half an hour, the mud fan was knocked out, and the red construction was sandwiched by the craftsmen with pottery tongs and put it into a bucket next to it, which was a brown liquid, and after 5 minutes, it was put into another bucket of blue liquid for about 10 minutes, and then put it in a clay pot full of river water. The water vapor was immediately generated, and someone kept taking water and pouring it into it, until no more water vapor rose, signaling Ouyang Xuan to be okay. Ouyang Xuan used to hold the building measurements one by one, and only one bolt was a little longer, and this could be grinded off. Since the connection between the swivel arm and the main structure is a buckle design, the buckle part is carefully checked, and there is no problem. Then the old monk told him that he still had some molten iron in the furnace, which was enough to make dozens of bowstrings for dozens of bows and arrows, and Ouyang Xuan told them the size of the strings, bowstrings, and guitar strings according to their measurement methods. I also made a clay model of a hand saw, with saws on both sides, a rough saw, and a fine tooth, and designed two short knives, with a thick back with sawtooth, hollowed out blood groove, designed a knife handle according to their own hand shape, drew a few clamps according to the size of the knife handle, marked the size, and also designed a number of carving knives and multi-functional pliers, marked the size. When I talked about the design drawings and craftsmen, they all had sad faces. I heard the old monk say that they can get the sawtooth, but it is not sharp, and it needs to be polished, although these tough irons do not need to be forged, it takes time to open the edge. It's good to be able to do it, originally Ouyang Xuan wanted to grind the sawtooth blade by himself, it would be better if they could grind it, through the old monk's translation, let them calculate how many materials are needed to complete it, and there were still two pieces of iron left, Ouyang Xuan didn't think about it, let them not make a short knife first, and give them the rest of the iron directly as wages, and the craftsmen were happy enough, this piece of tough iron was enough for them to become rich men in the Western Regions, and naturally their vitality was also a lot greater, and they also took the initiative to help Ouyang Xuan polish the crossbow components, what they didn't say, if they wanted to do it, they would do it. The size is up to you.
It wasn't until it was dark that all the parts were finished in prototype, and the rest was polishing, Ouyang Xuan asked them to continue polishing, and they had to go back and talk to the monks about the processing of iron meteorites, 1000 catties of iron meteorites can be smelted at least 700 catties of iron, and they only need to make a long sword about 10 catties of about 5 cm wide and about 1.2 meters and a back broadsword of 1.5 meters long by the way, as well as two 30 cm short knives. When he arrived in the valley, he saw a pile of brown-red iron meteorites next to his tent, unloaded the horse harness, sent the BMW back to the stable, and went straight to the yurt, the monk and the king of the south were discussing something, after Ouyang Xuan finished the ceremony, he directly told the monk what he thought, and told the king of the south that he had finished making the sword and left the remaining materials for the king of the south to dispose of, and after saying this, the king of the south said to the monk with a happy face, "The prince doesn't need much, you see?" "The remaining two families are divided equally, and the craftsmen of Qiuzi are responsible for creating good weapons for His Royal Highness King Nanwang". Damn, the two of them discussed this, fortunately they are not greedy, otherwise it will be really troublesome, and the monk also agreed to Ouyang Xuan's request, and asked him to bring the iron meteorite tomorrow to go over to refine and build. What Ouyang Xuan didn't expect was that these monks worshiped Buddhism extremely much, and used these iron meteorites to create a Buddha statue, and later the Indians bought the Buddha statue from Qiuzi with a lot of money to re-smelt it, cast an iron pillar and sent it to Tianzhu, which is still erected in Mehalori, near the city of Delhi, India.
The purpose was achieved, and when he returned to the tent, he drew on a sheepskin the shape of a sword and a knife, the hilt of which was still made of sunken wood, which seemed to be a little insufficient, and had to be begged for. The dinner was held in the yurt, this time there were only the king of Nan, the high monk and the former master of the Qiuzi Palace, as well as Zalando and his mother, and an official from Dawan who was similar to the prime minister, Ouyang Xuan was the second guest this time, and the first guest was the high monk. The content of the wine banquet is still those things, when the wine has passed three rounds of dishes and five flavors, when it is said that there is no good wood for the hilt of the sword and the hilt, the senior monk agreed without thinking about it, and also instructed the old monk who served next to him to let Ouyang Xuan take it at will tomorrow. also discussed Theravada Buddhism with Ouyang Xuan, but fortunately, these are all the knowledge precipitation of Ouyang Xuan over the years, and they are also having a good time.
Early the next morning, Ouyang Xuan first went to the old monk to intercept half a meter of sunken wood, and then took the sheepskin painted at night and the old monk brought about 100 catties of iron meteorite and the sunken wood to the Qiuzi military camp, and when they arrived at the wooden house, those craftsmen were still sleeping, and all kinds of polished parts were placed in a sheepskin bag, and the steel wire had been made, with more than 20 kinds of thicknesses and thicknesses, all of which were more than two meters long. When the craftsmen saw the iron meteorite, the light of their eyes could illuminate the wooden house, and they didn't know what to say, so the old monk asked them to refine the meteorite, and the other materials needed could be used at will, without asking for instructions. As soon as he said it, he dug out the furnace, weighed the meteorite into a large crucible, weighed some powder of unknown color and put it into the crucible, and fed it into the melting furnace from the top.
A morning hurried by, with a handsaw and their own short knife cut the sinking wood, first made a handsaw grip, this is very simple, with a hat rivet fixed to kill, with tools to make a quick morning to get two short handles, with a carving knife carved fine lines, multi-functional pliers also made a handle. At noon, the meteorite iron was also refined, and it was forged according to their process, and when the forging was about the same, it was returned to the furnace to continue smelting, and it was repeated over and over again 3 times, and the last forging took a whole afternoon, and I heard the old monk say that because it was an alien stone, it took at least five days to forge the artifact. A knife, a sword, and two short knives were started at the same time, which was too complicated, and I originally thought it would be simple. The old monk explained to the craftsmen again, and then went back to the valley with Ouyang Xuan, and the old monk and Ouyang Xuan explained that they would send someone to notify them after they were done, so that Ouyang Xuan could rest assured that he would do other things. There is no way for the process to be like this, so I can only wait.
I went back to the camp and finished building and assembling the crossbow, tied the thickest string, and used the two pieces of wood to make 2 arrows, not arrows, and planned to make some arrows from the leftovers of the iron meteorite. I went outside to test the power, the toughness of the iron is excellent, and now this spiral arm is obviously not poured out by itself, but has been forged by them, the toughness is several times stronger than when it was just poured, and the elastic tensile force has also made a qualitative leap. Put the crossbow arrow lever on the winding, pull the trigger, accurately shoot the trunk of the tree 200 meters away, retrieve the crossbow arrow, the arrow part is not as good as the metal one, it is already dull. He found a cowhide cut to the size of a palm, fixed it with a branch, and made a weighted crossbow arrow, and the arrow was weighted according to the metal head. The target was placed at a distance of 300 meters, first aimed directly, and shot accurately, it seems that the initial velocity is higher than that used by the later generations, and 400 meters away you need to consider gravity, adjust the position of the arrow, and 500 meters can still shoot through the sheepskin. Powerful good. And it is very small, the swivel arm is a double buckle design, which is easy to disassemble. The trigger and handle were designed by later pistols. I changed the steel strings for the guitar and tied the rest of the steel strings and put them in the backpack headbag.
The next day, Ouyang Xuan practiced the use of crossbow arrows repeatedly, and finally designed the training venue on the hillside, tried it, and recovered his feelings. I put a lot of black trees in the woods to practice my reaction skills. After a day of running and jumping, it was as if I was back in the training ground of the year, and the only difference was that there were no gunshots. For the next few days, every day was like this, every day was non-stop training, training, assassination and martial arts, and no one could find anyone to practice. I went to the reactor again, took 20 catties of iron meteorites and added the remaining leftovers, and made 100 hollow three-edged arrows, which do not need to be forged, the mud fan is formed, and a little polishing can be done, and the word "Xuanqi" is engraved on each crossbow arrow shaft. When the last inscription was required to be engraved on the sword, the craftsman's head asked Ouyang Xuan to come over when he finally quenched and polished it. The authority spoke, so I had to go back and assemble it with an arrow, and the people who died under this arrow were probably lucky. Assemble 50 pieces first, and pack the rest to be sealed. In the following days, he added crossbow shooting training during the march, and went to the wolf tower woods to shoot animals to practice moving targets. In the end, he simply went to Wei Meng and asked him to pull Xuanmu's rope and practice crossbow arrow shooting on the go, and after a few days of training, he could basically reach 100% hit.
From the beginning of the forging to the last notification of Ouyang Xuan, it took 11 days, and when Ouyang Xuan rushed over, he saw that the unpolished prototype of the sword was a bright silver with a hemp surface, not black or other colors that thought it would be meteorite, and the blocking hand was that brownish-black, close to the color of sunken wood, and it was also shiny and shiny. The head of the craftsman asked Ouyang Xuan to write the inscription on the sword with pine resin, which could not be thickened, took the very thin red pine resin with the added material, and wrote "Huaxia sharp weapon, Xuan Zhi plus body" near the hilt of the sword with a wooden strip dipped in the blood groove of the sword, and wrote "Xuan Weapon" near the hilt of the sword, and drew a pattern around the blood groove, and wrote "The world is not to scream, protect the blessing of the common people" at the blood groove on the other side of the sword, and the word "Ouyang" was written on the hilt of the sword, and the words "Ouyang" were written on the hilt, and they were all written in Lishu. On one side of the knife, a roaring tiger is drawn, and on the other side is a running lion, and on the handle of the tiger is written Xuanqi, and on the lion side, Ouyang is written. The two short knives are written on one side of the handle of the Xuan, the other side of the Ouyang is written, and on both sides are drawn two parallel lines that cross the two directions. Give it to the boss when you're done. After waiting for more than an hour for the pine resin to dry completely, put the sword on the charcoal fire and roasted it, the red pine resin turned sky blue, and put it in the furnace again, and did not cover the feed port, the lead plate was pulled out, and it took less than half a minute to push it back, and the sword was quickly taken out with pottery tongs, and the pine resin was long gone, and there were traces of burning, and then the sword was put into a bucket of blue liquid, and it was placed for half an hour before it was taken out, and wiped with a linen cloth, and the sky blue inscription on the sword was clearly visible on the bright silver face, Next up is grinding. Toutou said that the whole grinding process takes three days.
Go back and wait, Ouyang Xuan has not been idle in the past three days, and Nanwang asked for a five-needle pine bow, 100 arrows, and replaced the bowstring with a steel wire string, in addition to various training every day, it is to practice archery, through Nanwang found a captain of a hundred team with better archery, guided the practice, and through three days of practice, he reached 100 meters away from ten arrows and nine shots, and half of them were 200 meters away, it seems that he still has to practice. Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the urging horse came to the Qiuzi military camp with the hilt of the sword and the old monk. When the craftsman put the polished sword in front of Ouyang Xuan, Ouyang Xuan was deeply impressed by this amazing skill. The sword is as bright as a mirror, the cold light is shining, and the sky blue inscription shines brightly. Quickly take out the hilt of the sword and assemble it one by one, because the standard parts made in strict accordance with the size are perfectly combined. There was only one short knife that had some problems, the size of the groove was small, and it was carved again, a sword, a knife, and the handles of the two short knives were compacted to the wooden mortise and tenon structure, and the rivet bolt made of the original mud model was inserted, and the hat on the opposite side was smashed tightly. Press the rivet hole with a finished sunken wood cap, and cut it flat with a carving knife. Even if the four swords are completed, I took the sword test and cut down the trees, which are extremely sharp. The leader told Ouyang Xuan through the old monk that there was no problem with these four sharp blades cutting metal. I found an iron waste knife to be returned to the furnace, put it on the table and raised the sword to cut, the knife was broken in response, the blade was unscathed, and let a person take another waste knife and cut hard, the knife was also broken in response, the blade was also undamaged, the sword surface did not even have scratches, and the iron knife was scratched on the sword surface, which was also undamaged. After putting away the sword and returning to the valley, there is still a lot of content to practice, the sword is there, and the corresponding tactics are not yet mature. The use of short knives was trained in the service, and when I learned the Tai Chi sword with the old dean, the knife technique would also be a move of the 29th Army, and I had to practice it immediately.
Note: This chapter is based on the Pamir Plateau petroglyphs and some legends of the science fiction, there is a saying that the iron pillar in India was given by the turtle in that year, the source is the iron meteorite, the method of carving the inscription is the ancient method of carving the inscription with the knife of Ingisha, and now it is laser engraving.