The next day, Lin Fan didn't wait for the master's reply, the wooden box at the door was carried away, but nothing was left, not even a strip of cloth was left, so there was no news, as if he was specially here to tease Lin Fan.

The other party was hidden in the dark Lin Fan couldn't see it, he didn't understand what the purpose of the master hiding in the dark was to show off his modified Eight Bull Crossbow technique, was it really just to show off? Don't have the intention of challenging yourself? Then this person is too strange.

Without the company of the master, Lin Fan's life is still wonderful and interesting, he is tinkering with the parts of the eight-bull crossbow, inspired by this master, he previously wanted to save effort according to the principle of the lever and bar can finally be realized, before knowing the principle but do not know how to do it, now the master made the labor-saving is the principle of the lever, he added another on the basis of the master's design, and saved half of the effort, so tossed for a day to make one.

The eight-bull crossbow was modified, Shan Xiong was very curious, and wanted to see if this modified eight-bull crossbow was as magical as Lin Fan said, and as soon as he got closer, he was pulled back by Lin Fan, saying that this kind of thing is very dangerous, how can he try it casually in the market.

The boring Shan Xiong had no choice but to open a bottle of old wine, pour himself a drink, and was about to ask Niu Zhongren and Xue Rengui to accompany him to drink, these two disappeared at some point, even Lin Fan disappeared, and then looked outside the gate, the eight bull crossbow that was originally parked outside also disappeared, and the next moment, there was a sound like a carriage passing by outside the door, where are these three people going to transport the eight bull crossbow, Shan Xiong was very puzzled, but he didn't care, he didn't want to go anywhere with wine as a companion.

When Shan Xiong was drinking by himself, in the handsome camp, Li Jing, Zhang Gongjin and several lieutenants were pointing around a map, with solemn faces.

But suddenly, a loud noise broke the atmosphere outside, and several people looked at each other with frightened looks on their faces, and the next moment, they all rushed out.

What's going on? This is the unanimous question of the four.

When they came out, their doubts were cleared, and they found a long crossbow staring at the distant wall, and the crossbow arrow was still trembling, which showed the power of this arrow.

"What are they doing here?" Li Jing saw Lin Fan, Niu Zhongren, and Xue Rengui not far away gathered in front of an eight-bull crossbow with a happy face, and pointed and pointed, and laughter came from time to time.

Seeing them so rampant, Li Jing's suspicious face suddenly became gloomy, and he strode towards them angrily, is there any royal law, he actually played siege in front of Lao Tzu, and there were many crossbow arrows in the eight bull crossbows of idle Lao Tzu.

Zhang Gongjin and a few lieutenants followed with suspicious expressions, they wanted to know if these children were kicked in the brains by the donkey, what was not good to play, they had to play the Eight Bull Crossbow, and they had to suffer now.

"Is there any military law, playing siege in the barracks, and you don't want to live one by one, right?" Li Jing's scolding voice came from afar.

When the boss came, Xue Rengui and Niu Zhongren both put away their smiles and bowed their heads quietly, but Lin Fan still greeted the past with a smile, and when Li Jing arrived at his side, he made a gesture of invitation without waiting for Li Jing to continue scolding.

"Would you like to give it a try?"

"What do you think, you don't think I've ever played with this thing? Lao Tzu started playing when you were that old. What's going on with you, what's wrong with playing, you have to play siege"

Lin Fan didn't care about Li Jing's roar, he still smiled and said: "Li Gong, I'm not playing siege, I'm trying to see if the Eight Bull Crossbow is good or not."

"Is the eight-bull crossbow good or not, do you want to try it? Lao Tzu knows better than anyone else in his heart, I doubt that you kid has any divine power, and you can actually help pull away the crossbow arrow, if you want to shoot the arrow just now, you need at least three strong men who practice martial arts, and you kid can pull it away if you are weak? I think it's Rengui and Zhongren who are working hard, and you're just mixing in it and deliberately staining it. ”

Lin Fan smiled and said, "Then I'll show you a hand."

Li Jing and the others didn't believe it, and looked at Lin Fan as if they were laughing, but when Lin Fan pulled the crossbow string, their brows furrowed slightly, and when the crossbow arrow was stretched out and shot out to make a sneering sound, they were not calm, and looked at Lin Fan in amazement.

"What's going on? Xiao Fan, are you born with divine powers? Li Jing stared at Lin Fan suspiciously.

The crossbow arrow nailed to the city wall and made a trembling sound again, Lin Fan pointed to the eight-bull crossbow and said: "It's not that I have divine power, I don't have natural divine power like my uncle, I can pull it away just because this eight-bull crossbow is less forced."

"Impossible!"

Li Jing leaned in front of the Eight Bull Crossbow and tried to pull it, but with just a little force, the crossbow string was pulled away for a long distance.

"How is this so light, what's going on?"

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Gong Li, let's see what is the difference between this eight-bull crossbow and the eight-bull crossbow in the arsenal."

Li Jing looked at it carefully for a while, frowned and said, "It's indeed a little different, the size is about the same, it seems that something has been added."

Lin Fan briefly introduced the difference between the Eight Bull Crossbow to them, Zhang Gongjin excitedly stepped forward and tried an arrow, and said excitedly: "It's so easy, I think that when I controlled the Eight Bull Crossbow, one person could only pull it a little bit, and to achieve the effect of attacking the city, I had to add another person with high force, and now I can pull it away so easily?" Incredible, incredible. ”

Li Jing and several lieutenant generals were very excited, Li Jing laughed and circled around it while patting the eight-bull crossbow, as if touching his child's head, Zhang Gongjin tried, Li Jing and several lieutenants around him rubbed their hands and tried it themselves.

Li Jing and others, who had felt the difference of the Eight Bull Crossbow, looked left and right around the Eight Bull Crossbow, and were amazed, the eyes of several people were shining, Li Jing patted the Eight Bull Crossbow heavily and instructed Lin Fan to transform all the Eight Bull Crossbows in the arsenal, where could Lin Fan transform so many Eight Bull Crossbows, even if he rushed to make it day and night, it was impossible to transform so many Eight Bull Crossbows, so he had to say that the only way to say was to let the special forces help, in Lin Fan's opinion, the special forces he created were much stronger than ordinary soldiers.

Without saying a word, Li Jing asked Xue Rengui and Niu Zhongren to lead his subordinates to actively cooperate with Lin Fan, because to transform the Eight Bull Crossbow, Li Jing adjusted the original plan a little and decided to postpone the expedition for three days, this postponement has no meaning for Lin Fan, only three days of delay, and the first day still has to be spent on the road.

"General, the Eight Bull Crossbow is so light and convenient, we can draw out half of our troops, which greatly improves our combat efficiency, not only is the siege more efficient, but also the number of soldiers charging into battle is also a little more, haha, Jieli is afraid that it will be difficult to escape this time."

These lieutenant generals under Li Jing never took too much into account, and never treated Lin Fan as an outsider, and began to talk about confidential information in the army in front of him, Li Jing didn't seem to care, and leaned on the eight-bull crossbow to discuss the new marching route with Zhang Gongjin and several lieutenant generals.

Lin Fan knew that it was not good to know the secrets in the army, so he didn't want to listen to it, but these killers were all loud voices, where could he cover them, and as soon as he wanted to leave, he was pulled by Li Jing, and praised with laughter: "Lao Tzu really didn't see the wrong person, haha, Lao Tzu finally didn't hurt you kid in vain, didn't carry you kid in vain, he can still give such a good thing before going on the expedition, as long as the eight-bull crossbow is convenient, Jieli's rabbit cub wants to rely on the strong city wall to escape for his life, I'm afraid it's a dream, we shoot his whole person into the air, he may not know yet, Why can these eight-bull crossbows be opened by only one person・・・・・・ haha, great, with such a good eight-ox crossbow, no matter how strong the city is, we are not afraid, we will definitely be able to defeat Jieli. ”

Zhang Gongjin laughed and said: "With the new Eight Bull Crossbow, we can also taste the taste of rapid siege, we have never attacked the city at the fastest speed, this time I want to see how fast the new Eight Bull Crossbow is... ”

"We're going to win this time・・・・・・"

While a few kills were chatting happily, Lin Fan sneaked away, Li Jing didn't give himself much time, only three days more than before, it was not so easy to transform all the Eight Bull Crossbows before going on the expedition.

Fortunately, the special forces did not disappoint him.

Xue Rengui and Niu Zhongren and other special forces have relatively strong hands-on ability, after Lin Fan taught them for a day, they will assemble themselves, and the parts and components can be manufactured according to Lin Fan's design, special forces often have to exercise disassembly and assembly of short crossbows during training, and other weapons, such as the eight bull crossbows, although they have not assembled, but they must be familiar with these equipment as special forces, and Xue Rengui is relatively unfamiliar here, and others are more familiar, so they started much faster, and four were transformed on the first day.

Seeing that the special forces were so familiar with weapons, had such strong hands-on ability, and were so efficient in doing things, Li Jing was shocked again, and his desire to train his army as a special forces became stronger and stronger・・・・・・

After the technology of modifying the eight-bull crossbow was handed over to the special forces, Lin Fan felt that he could live a happy life of less than five days, but he didn't expect that Li Jing still wouldn't let him be idle, and gave him a small task, saying that it was to give him a small team as a military medical reserve to help him treat the wounded, and at the same time to protect his safety.

Of course, Lin Fan didn't expect Li Jing to give him any good soldiers to protect himself, and he was more relieved to put it on Shan Xiong.

It's better than nothing, the team that Lin Fan accepted was actually the soldiers he had seen when he entered the city that day, although the first impression of these soldiers was not good, but the military order was like a mountain, since Li Jing said so, this matter had to be done.

In fact, the government soldiers are not real soldiers, they are relatively free, they do not receive all kinds of training like other regular soldiers, they receive little and scattered training, in fact, they are similar to the common people, when there is a war, they go to war, there is training, when there is no war, they are ordinary people, ploughing the fields and farming.

It's just that the government soldiers in Mayi are different from those in other big cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang, and their mental outlook is poor and they are more miserable, which is mainly related to the local style and economy.

The government soldiers have been coming for a long time, the Wei and Jin dynasties have already existed, at that time it was just a certain general's mansion and the governor's mansion and other soldiers, and later this kind of soldiers were not limited to the soldiers under the martial arts, and gradually became a kind of common people to participate in the military or military service.

The government soldiers are considered self-sufficient soldiers, except for important weapons and war horses, if the imperial court provides them, other clothing and food must be provided by themselves, and the logistics department will not consider the government soldiers.

In fact, they are soy sauce players, soldiers do not know generals, generals do not know soldiers, it is difficult for government soldiers to rely on military merits to get to the top, they are just for the generals to make wedding clothes.

On the surface, the soldiers of Ma Yi look sloppy, weak, and have no god in their eyes, in fact, the two empty eyes are full of murderous energy, and now they do not go to the battlefield to see any lethality, but once they go to the battlefield, they will be as fierce as wolves, and their combat effectiveness may not be worse than that of the regular army.

However, this is only manifested in individuals, the entire government barracks is still very flawed, the court rarely let them go to the battlefield and only let them guard Ma Yi because he doubts the strength of these government soldiers, although these people are as ruthless as wolves, but they are scattered, everyone has their own set of practices, it is difficult to obey orders like a regular army, so that the strength can not be concentrated, such soldiers on the battlefield The commander will worry about his life, let alone win the battle for him.

The imperial court recruits government soldiers mainly to see how the person's financial resources are, and then to see whether it is the material to be a soldier, and finally to see whether his family has enough men, the court focuses on financial resources mainly because the government soldiers are self-sufficient, and people who do not have a certain amount of financial resources are not qualified for the government soldiers, if this person has to run for life all the time, it is impossible to become a government soldier.

Everyone's reasons for becoming a government soldier are different.

All the soldiers of Ma Yi wanted was to vent their anger, their families, relatives, and friends had been more or less killed by Jieli, and they wanted to take revenge in person, so they gathered their strength to rise up, and the local Zhichong Prefecture took in these people and gave them militarized management to improve their combat effectiveness, and tried to maximize everyone's anger power.

The soldiers are not all for revenge, a small number of people are military enthusiasts, compared to guarding a few acres and three points of land, they yearn for the bloody and exciting life of the battlefield, some people are purely hot-headed, want to fight a rich road by earning military merits, most of them are helpless people, only rely on the army, dreaming of one day can behead a few more enemies to obtain military merits, to return to their hometown.

Although their overall quality and combat effectiveness are not as good as those of the regular Tang Army, once they encounter high-risk tasks such as stubborn defense and road exploration, the first person that the commander thinks of is these government soldiers, and the commander will not use his elite troops as a shield, life and death are commonplace, this is their new outlook on life, indifferent and helpless. (To be continued.) )