Some people even shouted, why not use the wood of the bow and crossbow to cast the handle, so that it will not be projected farther?

Hearing this, Uncle Han scolded: "How can there be such a rough wood? If you make such a mess again, I'll project you out......" Old Man Han was scolding, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a commotion on the left, and couldn't help but turn his head to look, and saw that the middle craftsmen who were originally sitting stood up one after another and surrounded the two outsiders and saluted, and vaguely heard someone shouting Yang Zhi.

Uncle Han hurriedly closed his big mouth of saliva, ran over, picked up the crowd around, and saluted Yang Jia. Yang Jia responded one by one with a smile, and then beckoned everyone to do it as it was.

Mr. Han wanted to sit down with the Chinese, but he was called by Yang Jia, so he had to get up and stand in front with Yang Jia, Mr. Han looked at the people who were kneeling on the ground neatly, with a serious face, without a trace of noise, and couldn't help but envy in his heart: "It's still good to have an official body, just like this, that rabbit cub dares to talk more!" ”

Yang Jia on the stage looked around and said, "What we just talked about was very intense." As soon as Yang Jia said this, everyone in the audience trembled and sweated like rain. Han Laozhang on the side suddenly blossomed in his heart, and the fox pointed at the people who shouted the most fiercely before, Yang Jia glanced at Han Laozhang with amusement and continued: "You are nervous, I just asked not to punish you, who proposed to use bullet wood as a stone throwing handle just now?" Stand up and let me see. ”

Hearing this, who dared to stand up, everyone didn't dare to raise their heads, Han Laozhang thought that Yang Jia was going to punish everyone, and hurriedly interceded for them on the side, Yang Jia had to explain: "I don't mean to punish you, I'm just very interested in what you just proposed, there will be no punishment for standing up, maybe there will be a reward!" When did I, Yang Jia, lie to you? ”

Finally, someone timidly stood up and said to the three people on the stage: "I said it." "It turned out to be a craftsman in his twenties.

Yang Jia was amused when he saw it, and hurriedly asked, "As Mr. Han said, there is no such thick bullet wood at all." What do you think of this solution? ”

Seeing that Yang Jia did not punish himself at all, the young craftsman also let go of his restraint and said eloquently: "This is not simple! We can put together dozens of wrist-thick bamboo slabs to serve as the previous slinging handle, the bamboo stalk pieces are elastic and can be pressed down like a bow and arrow, so that the catapult can be thrown farther......"

Uncle Han was watching from the side in a cold sweat, he was so sorry that he had just spoken and pleaded for them, how could he stand up and talk nonsense again, how could such a four-like catapult be put into battle? Zu Jian also laughed when he heard it, these people are really whimsical, they dare to think about anything, dare to say anything.

I don't want Yang Jia to walk up to the young man with great interest and ask carefully, Zu Jian watched Yang Jia stand with the lowly craftsman regardless of the number of respects and humility, and couldn't help but shake his head, Mingxin is also a subordinate officer of the two thousand stone Fenwei general, why do you like to talk about strange skills and tricks with the craftsman?

The two talked in detail for a long time, and Yang Jia clapped his hands and commanded everyone: "Okay! In accordance with his suggestion, we will use bamboo slabs instead of stone throwers to make catapults, and quickly and quickly, all of us will stand up and find bamboo slivers. ”

After speaking, Yang Jia scribbled and painted on the ground according to the young craftsman's ideas, and after a while, he drew several important parts of the catapult with the new idea, beckoned to Han Laozhang and Zu Lian to call to the side, Yang Jia pointed to the simple diagram on the ground and explained to Han Laozhang and said: "Later, you will urge them to make catapults according to the method I said." ”

At first, I didn't believe that the young craftsman proposed that Mr. Han saw Yang Jia so sure, and he agreed with the new catapult for no reason, although he had been a craftsman all his life, but his vision was still not as good as Yang's.

Zu Lian on the side also didn't speak, and when Zu Lian traveled, Zu Ti told him to see more, ask more, and talk less. Yang Jia must have his reasons for being so confident, and it's not too late to wait until the fact to ask.

Because all the materials are available, so the progress is very fast, everyone quickly summoned all the bamboo and wood together, Yang Jia only knew the principle, but did not understand the specific operation, so he had to retreat to the side with Zu Lian, watching Han Laozhang command everyone to make a catapult. The base is still the same as before, but the upper part has been remodeled, and everyone has spent their time on the upper part of the catapult. After tossing back and forth several times in assembly, disassembly and disassembly, the arm length ratio of the catapult was finally adjusted. The length of the arm has not changed much from the previous catapult, it is still about eight meters, and the stones loaded in the wooden frame have not changed to about forty or fifty kilograms, but the position of the rope has changed, it used to be tied to the end of the handle, this time it is tied to the front of the bar, and the elasticity of the bamboo strip is used to project the stones.

Everyone installed the thick bamboo strips on the base, and the transformation was completed. Uncle Han looked carefully around the catapult, and felt that it was not much different from what Yang Zhi said, so he turned his head to look at Yang Jia and asked Yang Jia what to do next.

Only then did Yang Jia come forward, instructed everyone to find a total of forty or fifty kilograms of several huge gravel and put them in a wooden frame, adjusted the direction, and asked the craftsmen to come up and test the shot.

More than a dozen young craftsmen walked to the back of the catapult according to the words, wrapped the rope and let the bottom pull it, did not want the bamboo strip to synthesize the stone throwing arm did not move, Yang Jia had to send someone to pull the rope again, except for Yang Jia and Zu Lian who were present, all ran to the back of the catapult to pull the rope, everyone shouted the slogan and made a sudden effort, just saw the bamboo strip bent down, did not want to 'bang' The rope broke, and the people who fell sat on the ground, howling miserably. Zu Lian, who was watching, covered his mouth and chuckled.

Yang Jia saw that the bamboo strips were bent, and he was anxious to ask someone to get a few more ropes, and after adding several more ropes, everyone began to pull the ropes again.

Yang Jia, who was standing next to him, saw it clearly, the slinging arm composed of bamboo strips bent down little by little, and the craftsmen felt that the slinging arm was bent down, the slogan was shouted louder, and his face was flushed, so that he was born with strength. After seeing that the bamboo smeak was bent to the maximum limit, Yang Jia shouted loudly! The people loosened the ropes in their hands as they were told.

But I saw that the curved bamboo strip bounced up instantly, slashed forward, and hit the crotch pole in front of it, and was smashed back in an instant, while the gravel in the wooden frame flew out, like a sharp arrow off the string, flying towards the sky in a parabola.

Seeing that the stone really flew out, he opened his mouth wide in surprise, but the craftsmen looked strange, this is for sure! Yang is engaged in the design of sharp weapons, how can there be no success!

When the craftsman who measured the range ran over and told Yang Jia that the stone was one hundred and fifty steps away from the location of the catapult, that is, more than two hundred meters, Yang Jiazu was dumbfounded, this power was a bit big.

Seeing Zu Lian bow his head and count, the medium crossbow arrows used by the army weigh two coins, and the effective killing distance is fifty steps (seventy meters), and the best archers in the army use Qingzhang, which is full to the fullest, and the bow is only a hundred steps deep, and most archers are only about seventy or eighty steps. This improved catapult turned out to be more than 150 paces, and the accuracy of the improved catapult was much higher than before, depending on the direction of the throw.

"You build twenty such catapults overnight, and send them to Qian County for Fenwei to test." Without waiting for Yang Jia to speak, Zu Jian hurriedly urged the craftsmen to start work. I don't want to have a craftsman to do it, all of them stared at Zu Jian with unkind faces, how did Yang Zhi find such a kid who didn't know how to be a soldier of etiquette, Yang Zhi hadn't spoken yet, how could this kid take command on his behalf. It's only to blame Zu Lian for being high, and Yang Zhi, who everyone only knows, doesn't know the famous ancestor heir.

Yang Jia Zhile, who saw such an embarrassing situation, hurriedly opened his mouth to explain Zu Lian's identity, and everyone was in a cold sweat when they heard this, and they didn't think about running directly to work. almost stabbed the sky, if he delayed for a while, maybe this unhappy-looking ancestor Xiao Langjun would kill people. No matter how capable Yang is, can he still stop those reckless children of the scholar clan who are dizzy? However, after being busy for a while, everyone is smiling, it is estimated that there will be delicious fish to eat in the past few months, and Yang Zhi has dealt with him several times, Yang Zhi's personality is not clear to everyone, as long as you forge it with your heart, there will be a reward. What's more, today he built a catapult that made Zu Lian jaw-dropping, how could this kind of Grand Duke Yang forget to commend him?

Yang Jia saw that Zu Jian was still unhappy, so he walked over and hooked Zu Lian's shoulder and joked: "These people are really eye-catching, they don't know the dignified Zu Jialangjun, but they only know me who is a hard-working Zhonglang." ”

Listening to Yang Jia's jokes, Zu Jian was also helpless, just such a trivial matter, it was really not worth being angry with these people, so he had to laugh and scold a few words about Diao Min and the like, and let Yang Jia pull him to the side of the furnace shed.

It didn't take long for the sky to get completely dark, and the two of them settled down in the humble wooden house where the ancestor had been last time. As for the craftsmen in the open space, Yang Jia didn't have to worry too much, the sky was dark, and the catapult couldn't be built, so everyone would naturally go back to their residence according to Han Laozhang's instructions.

However, all the craftsmen who were on the way home were disappointed, and when they made the catapult, they generally put their minds on the catapult, and generally thought about how Yang Jia would reward themselves this time, and they didn't want Yang Jia to go back forever, which made everyone not disappointed, and they were listless and went back without saying a word. Old Master Han looked at the dull crowd happily, and cheered everyone up with a smile: "Don't worry, Yang will not forget the reward." If you forget the old man, I am taboo, can't I go and ask Yang to do it for you? ”

However, Mr. Han's words didn't have much effect, Mr. Han shook his head secretly, it seems that Yang must be reminded tomorrow, otherwise such an atmosphere will affect the quality of the catapult.