Chapter 032: Zhuge Repeater
Father Zhuge greatly appreciated Young Master Zhuge for his strategy, and not only shamelessly asked Young Master Zhuge to make a delicate and movable sand table out of mud again. And he also took Young Master Zhuge as his own. He ran around and suggested that Liu Bei let Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei go to Dangyang Jingshan to ambush Cao Ren and Li Dian's 20,000 light cavalry. Liu Bei was overjoyed and immediately set about arranging.
Regarding Zhuge Daddy's brazenness, in fact, Young Master Zhuge still understands it very well. There is no father in the world who does not love his children. The reason why Father Zhuge did this was that he didn't want Young Master Zhuge to be too sharp when he was a child. Because sometimes flowers, applause, and praise can also bury a genius, especially when the genius is still a child with an immature mind. This is what people often call "killing"! Although Zhuge Liang could not know the Tao of the Wound Zhongyong, how could Zhuge Kongming, a genius legend who was the "embodiment of wisdom" in ancient China, not understand such a simple truth? However, what made Young Master Zhuge most depressed was that Zhuge Dad actually wanted to make another sand table by himself, saying that he would take it away. Isn't this fucking exploitative child labor? If this is in the 21st century, Lao Tzu will definitely go to the relevant departments to sue you! Hum! Young Master Zhuge thought so in his heart. But I still have to do the work in my hands!
Here, Daddy Zhuge shamelessly squeezed the cheap brain power and labor of this Zhuge Young Master. Over there, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei had already led Liu Bei's general to lead 20,000 cavalry to Dangyang City to ambush without stopping. This time, they not only brought 20,000 well-trained cavalry, but also brought a secret weapon newly developed by Father Zhuge - a repeater. is ready to deal a hard blow to Cao Jun's arrogance.
What the hell is this repeater? The so-called "crossbow" is actually similar to the bow and arrow, but it is different from the bow and arrow, in short, it is a modified version of the bow and arrow, but it is more powerful and accurate than the bow and arrow. Similar in function to the current sniper rifle.
Crossbow, a type of bow that uses mechanical force to shoot arrows, generally refers to bows: crossbows, crossbows, crossbowmen (archers), crossbows, and ballistas (crossbows that fire stones). The crossbow is generally made of multi-layer bamboo and wood chips, which is similar to a flat shoulder, so it is commonly known as "crossbow bear". It has a cross-bow hole in the front to hold the bow in place so that the bow does not move from side to side, and a grooved arrow channel on the front of the wooden arm for placing clusters of arrows, so that the fired arrows can move in a straight line. There is a box at the back of the wooden arm, called a crossbow machine; There is a hook hanging on the string in front of the box, which is called a "tooth"; Behind the teeth are sights mounted and are called "lookout mountains"; A trigger is attached to the underside of the tooth, called a "suspension knife". When firing, first pull the bowstring back, hang it on the hook, put the crossbow arrow on the arrow path, aim at the target, buckle the hanging knife, the tooth will be retracted, the bowstring hooked by the tooth will pop out, and the arrow will shoot out. Do you guys look at the design with a bit of a modern rifle?
But what is talent? Talent is to step on the shoulders of the predecessors to accept the cheers of the tens of thousands, and then pretend to say: "Don't worship me!" Brother is not a legend! Brother just stood on the shoulders of giants to see farther! "Zhuge Liang belongs to this kind of birdman. As a versatile ancient genius, Zhuge Liang not only knows astronomy, geography, yin and yang, gossip, Xiaoqimen, and Dunjia, but also Guan Zhong and Le Yi, but also the ancient version of the invention king China's "Edison".
This guy was bored at home once, so he took a book about military equipment written by his predecessors that Xu Shu gave him and looked through it, and after reading it for a while, he thought it was very interesting! As a result, I looked at it for three days, and I felt that the production of the crossbow inside was very good, and the killing effect was also very high, but there was one thing that was not good, that is, this crossbow arrow had to be reloaded once it was shot, which was very troublesome! And it's quite time-consuming. So Zhuge Daddy, a genius, pondered for a day, and actually put the "magazine" of a modern machine gun on the crossbow ahead of the times, which was fucking dragged! A one-time one can hit 5 arrows in the "magazine" of a crossbow. After the previous shot is fired, the next shot automatically falls into the arrow path of the crossbow arrow. It became a veritable ancient version of the "machine gun"! You want this thing! Shoot 5 arrows in a row. If this is a crossbow, it is easy to say, if there are 18,000 crossbows and bows shot out together, isn't it a moving mountain of arrows? Who can hide from the past!
However, in fact, when the crossbow made by Zhuge Lao came out, the volume and weight were too large to be used by individual soldiers, and they were mainly used to defend cities and camps in history. The famous Cao Wei general Zhang Jaw died under this kind of repeater. But today is different, who let Zhuge Father have a more genius son, Master Zhuge ? This guy shamelessly plagiarized the invention of Ma Jun, the great inventor of Cao Wei, and referred to the production principle of machine guns. The crossbow of Zhuge Lao's repeater has been greatly improved, so that the volume and weight of the improved repeater have been greatly reduced, so that it is convenient for individual soldiers, especially cavalry, to carry with them, and the fixed "magazine" that can only hold five arrows has been improved to a replaceable "magazine" that can be easily disassembled and can be loaded with fifty arrows at a time. When fighting, each cavalryman carries 3 "magazines" full of arrows, which can be replaced when they run out! It is natural to think of the "machine gun", the king of weapons on the modern battlefield.
When Zhuge Liang dedicated the improved repeater to Liu Bei, he almost didn't make Liu Bei crazy, this fucking Lao Tzu has this thing, and I'm afraid of Cao Cao's ball! Zhuge Junshi is really not a fucking human! It's a god! Immediately ordered Sun Qian and Jian Yong to produce this improved crossbow on a large scale. At the same time, he appointed his brother-in-law Mi Zhu as the supervisor to join the army, and led more than 1,000 soldiers to strictly guard the production base of the crossbow. Any illegal person who tries to approach the repeater workshop without a token is to be killed. After more than a month of overtime, 20,000 repeaters were finally built before Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei ran to ambush Cao Jun.
At the same time, before setting out on the expedition, Liu Bei also gave a special order: "Everyone must bring back the repeater crossbow in their hands!" If you lose your repeater, you will be killed! It can be seen that Liu Bei attaches great importance to Zhuge Liang's secret weapon. But it's understandable! On the battlefields of ancient times, cavalry has always had an overwhelming advantage over infantry. And the cavalry of the north was greatly superior to the cavalry of the south. Due to the special geographical location of our ancient north, it was extremely convenient for the training of cavalry. At the same time, the good breed horses that can become war horses are also mostly produced in the north. Therefore, the powerful cavalry troops under Cao Cao are actually the terrifying military strength that Liu Bei and Sun Quan are really afraid of.
And the appearance of this powerful repeater almost broke the speed advantage of cavalry against infantry. In the past, although bows and arrows posed a great threat to cavalry, they could only be shot again after each bow and arrow was fired. This may seem like a few seconds, but it is extremely valuable to the cavalry. You must know that the war horse in the gallop of the road can gallop for hundreds of meters in a few seconds. In this way, you don't have to wait for the second round of arrows to shoot out, and the cavalry will already be in front of you. But with this burst of crossbow arrows, it's different. Saving the time of taking arrows and loading arrows, you can maximize the effective killing of Cao's cavalry. This is the reason why Liu Bei was ecstatic for what to do. Because no one understands the great significance of this repeater better than this young man who has been fighting all his life!
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