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"White Wolf Camp Riding Sima?!"

The White Wolf City guards the main hall of the mansion, Ma Han is at the top, Tai Shici sits on the right side, and Tang Nu and Wu Chai sit on the left.

At this moment, Tai Shi Ci was staring at a wooden plate with black edges and a red background presented by the waiter, and there was only a blue-green bronze rune on the plate, on which the seal was engraved with the words "White Wolf Camp Riding Sima".

In the Han Dynasty, the commander of a battalion or battalion was usually a lieutenant, sometimes with a lieutenant, and Sima was a deputy.

The captain of the Han Dynasty was not as worthless as the later dynasties, and even in the middle and late stages of the Three Kingdoms, the gold content of this captain was greatly discounted. But at the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms, this captain was still a lever. For example, the famous Eight Captains of the West Garden, such as the Captain of the Guardian Karasuma and the Captain of the Guardian Qiang, are all high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones, and usually only the emperor can appoint them. In the early years of the late Han Dynasty, when the influence of the Han family still existed, even many princes who dominated one side did not dare to give their subordinates the title of captain, but replaced them with Sima. This is also the reason why there were so many "other Simas" under the princes of the Three Kingdoms, but there were few "captains of other departments".

A battalion or a battalion is usually 1,000 to 2,000 men and horses, which was already very good in the early days of the Three Kingdoms. Therefore, Sima is already synonymous with a lieutenant in a sense, enough to enter the ranks of quasi-senior officers.

Tang Nu and Wu Chai, these two loyal teams who followed Ma Han's family, are only the position of Qu Junhou at the moment, and as soon as Tai Shici comes, it will be pressed on their heads. However, the two were not convinced, one was that they completely obeyed Ma Han's orders, and the other was that they were also convinced of Tai Shici's courage and skills. Although they didn't see the thrilling blows of Ma Han and Tai Shici, the courage of fighting the wolves alone, and the strong arm strength and archery skills of shooting nearly a hundred wolves, were far beyond their ability. Prairie man, respect is the hero, I'm not afraid that you will come from behind, I'm afraid that you don't have the ability to ride on the head.

With such a high regard for Ma Han, Tai Shici was both happy and hesitant.

In the last years of Zhongping, Tai Shi Ci was just a small official of Donglai, because he was entrusted by Shangguan to chase him to the capital, outwitted official documents, and destroyed books with a knife, so he was hated by the state and county official temples. As a last resort, he crossed the sea into Liaodong and began a two-year career of wandering in Liaodong. Tai Shici's behavior of abolishing the public and destroying official documents for private purposes is definitely a small number of blows in the prosperous era, but in troubled times, such behavior is a chivalrous act that is heavy and light. So much so that when the world's famous people in the Beihai phase Kong Rong, they all admired the envoy to visit, and after they couldn't find it, they fed their mother with food and clothing.

And the price Tai Shici paid was that he wandered in a foreign land for two whole years, leaving his old mother at home unable to support him. Giving up filial piety for the sake of so-called righteousness, how many people in the world know the guilt and pain in his heart? He wanted to re-enter the company and return to his hometown in fine clothes to comfort his mother's heart, and now it was a great opportunity in front of him. When Tai Shici fled from Huang County, he was just a hundred stones, and when he returned home, if he was a thousand-stone horseman, this was a proper return to his hometown!

But Tai Shi Ci still hesitated, to be honest, he didn't want to work under Sun Du, the Taishou Gongsun Du of Liaodong. In the two years of wandering in Liaodong, he made friends with many celebrities with a heroic style, all of whom hated Gongsun Du, and a Gongsun Du repeatedly recalled, but he couldn't settle down, so Tai Shici didn't want to work for him.

Another point, Tai Shi Ci is not optimistic about Ma Han, the white wolf city lord. White Wolf City is not big, but its administrative scope is not small, covering the entire White Wolf Mountain and its surroundings for nearly 100 miles. Moreover, this western Liaoning is too desolate, the registered population of the county is less than 60,000, and there are only five counties in total, which is not as good as Donglai County, and the surrounding area is full of miscellaneous hus. In such a contemptuous place, how can there be any opportunity to make contributions?

This unfavorable factor was entangled in Tai Shici's heart, making it difficult for him to make a decision for a while.

Ma Han still has some understanding of Tai Shi Ci's life history, who made Tai Shi Ziyi so brilliant in the Three Kingdoms generals. And he also knows that Tai Shici is a subduable talent. Because Tai Shici is neither a famous family nor a strong background, but a person from a poor family. In history, after Tai Shici came back from Liaodong, he threw himself into the township party Yangzhou to assassinate Liu Xuan, but he was not reused at all, and only became a scout patrol school. At that time, someone persuaded Liu Miao to use Tai Shici as a general, but Liu Miao laughed: "If I use Ziyi, Xu Zijiang will definitely laugh at me for not knowing how to use people." ”

In this way, an all-round talent who is both civil and military, and is skilled in riding and fighting, was thrown into idleness because of his background and because of his wind evaluation. So much so that Sun Ce later said, "If Ziyi abandons me, who else can he go to?" "And in this different world, there is another person who dares to log in to Tai Shici, and he is the first to strike.

Ma Han also vaguely guessed what Tai Shici was struggling with, but there were some words that he couldn't say clearly now, so he smiled at the moment: "If Ziyi can't decide, this talisman will be put down first." Please Ziyi ponder for a while, and ask Ziyi for archery. ”

Tai Shici looked ashamed, and waved his hand again and again: "Du Wei's subordinates are defeated, and An dares to speak out, don't kill me." ”

Ma Han looked sincere: "Two hundred steps away, you are inferior to me; Within a hundred steps, I am inferior to you. Taishi Ziyi's name of divine shooting, how can it be false? Brother Wang's teachings are not hesitant. ”

Tai Shi Ci was deeply moved, and bowed: "Du Wei values it so much, do you dare to allow it?" ”

Ma Han took a deep breath, squinted and smiled, Okay, I'm afraid that if you don't stay, as long as you don't leave with your hands, sooner or later you will become my person...... Hey, something seems wrong......

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The White Wolf City was small and narrow, and Ma Han had to arrange some of the more important departments near the city guard's mansion, such as his bow and crossbow research institute. Turn in from the side gate of the City Guard Mansion, pass through a loop, and enter a quadrangular courtyard, which is the bow and crossbow research and development base of White Wolf City. At present, those who are responsible for the research of bows and crossbows are Meng Yuan and Ma Jun.

Ma Han has already understood that these two are not masters and apprentices, but they are stronger than masters and apprentices. Mengyuan is experienced and good at hands-on; Ma Jun is very ingenious and good at research and development. The two worked together, and there was hardly anything that could stump them. After Ma Han entered the White Wolf City, he directly handed over a pulley bow drawing to the two of them, and asked them to take out the sample, put down the research on riding the crossbow first, and then ignored it. Until today, I received a report from the guards that the samples came out.

In the bow and crossbow station, Meng Yuan and Ma Jun are both there, and these two people also have official bodies now, Jin Cao of 200 stones. Although the official position is small, it is already a great official for Meng Yuan, who is an eight-generation poor peasant. So much so that he is now full of red light, bent on finding his wife and children, and reuniting with him. When it comes to work, it's also full of energy.

Ma Jun's ancestors did have officials, but he was the only one who actually awarded 200 Shi Cao Peng before he was an adult. This heart is warm, he has already carried a letter home, but Liaoxi is too far away from Fufeng, thousands of miles back and forth, it has been more than a month, and I don't know if the letter has arrived home.

Among the group of officials who were actually awarded after Ma Han entered the White Wolf City, Meng Yuan and Ma Jun were the most criticized, after all, one of the two was a craftsman, and the other was underage, which was somewhat unpleasant. But Ma Han tried his best to disagree with the public and decided with one word. The two were grateful, and secretly vowed to do their best to repay it. After getting the task assigned by Ma Han, day and night, less than a month, it was finally preliminarily completed and the samples were taken out.

Ma Han now has Meng Yuan and Ma Jun's hard work for the past month, a pulley bow. Whether it is a physical bow, a competitive bow or a hunting bow, it is a pulley bow, with a variety of anti-natural labor-saving configurations, what sights, shock absorption, arrow platform, spreader, main string, attached string, string stopper, chord splitter, bow slider and so on are not too much. Under ancient conditions, it was simply impossible to make an imitation of it as it was. However, it is still feasible if you simply borrow some labor-saving tools. Only three devices were added to Maham's drawings: an eccentric wheel, a three-strand string, and a chord guard. These are the three most basic devices of a pulley bow, and when these three things are completed, a basic pulley bow is also made.

The device is very simple, the principle is not complicated, Meng Yuan got the drawings, and pondered while pouring cold water with a large bowl. A bowl of water was not filled, and as soon as the mouth smacked, it was thought through. I secretly said in my heart, this thing is going to be made, it's really effortless, but this thing called "eccentric wheel" is very difficult to get.

After that, for more than half a month, he spent time with this pulley, first found a blacksmith to cast a mold, then cast, and then compared, if it didn't work, he came again, tossed for several days, and finally came out with a qualified bronze piece. After that, it was polished, and then polished, and then the bow that had been made earlier was attached, and it looked like that, but when the string was drawn, it was very astringent. The bow was easy to pull apart, but it felt very bad, affecting the accuracy and range, and in the end it was Ma Jun's ingenuity that solved this problem.

Ma Han looked with interest at the simple version of the pulley bow in his hand, which was a step bow with a body five feet long, a single pulley on the upper and lower bow arms, a double string hanging on the wheel, and a horizontal bar protruding above the grip, that is, the chord guard. Except for the strange appearance, the others are not much different from the bows of this era. Ma Han tried the bow strength with his left hand by pulling the string, and felt that it should be between one stone and five buckets with one stone.

Meng Yuan hurriedly said: "It's one stone and two bucket bows." ”

Ma Han smiled and handed it to Ma Jun: "You try to show me." ”

Ma Jun scratched his head a little embarrassed, he knew what the city lord meant, the city lord opened this bow like drinking boiled water, and it didn't show anything at all. But he is different, he usually even has a hard time pulling the eight-bucket bow, if he can easily open the bow, this kind of bow will make sense. It's just that his archery skills are really a little stumbling, and to reflect the performance of this bow, the target must be at least fifty paces away...... But seeing the bright eyes of the city lord smiling, Ma Jun gritted his teeth and let go...... Shame on you.

There is a long and narrow open space behind the Bow and Crossbow Research Institute, no more than three zhang wide but thirty zhang long, which is used to test the performance of the bow and crossbow.

Since the actual combat bow and arrow pursues speed, the shorter the time, the more arrows the better, and the accuracy is not important, so Ma Han adjusted the pulley to a large wheel diameter when the bow is opened, and a small wheel diameter when the bow is full. In this way, the resistance is low when the bow is opened, and the further back you pull, the greater the resistance, which is not conducive to aiming, but can increase the rate of fire.

Ma Jun put on his bracers and finger covers, took a deep breath, raised his bow and arrows, and aimed at a humanoid target of sixty steps. The bowstring gradually opens, and the pulley turns, pressing the bow arm to bend...... When the bow was half-opened, Ma Jun's white face was slightly swollen red, he gritted his teeth, his arm did not stop, and he continued to pull the string. Until it is nearly full, it suddenly loosens, huh! An arrow flew out, grazed the humanoid target, and nailed to an old tree at the base of the wall with a thud.

Ma Jun's face was swollen red, and without saying a word, he took out another arrow and shot it again, this arrow was on target, and then another arrow...... After firing seven arrows in a row, he panted and lowered the wheel bow.

Ma Han nodded secretly, Ma Jun's arm strength he knew, he could only open eight bucket bows, if it was a normal bow with one stone and two buckets, he would be able to pull it apart, he couldn't shoot arrows at all, let alone shoot seven arrows in a row.

Ma Han walked straight to the target to carefully inspect the penetration of the arrows, especially the arrow that hit the big tree on the courtyard wall, and observed for a long time, and finally paced back satisfied.

"Is it difficult to make such a bow in large quantities?" Ma Han asked Meng Yuan directly.

"It's hard." Meng Yuan said honestly, "The main reason is that the casting of pulleys is difficult, the scrap rate is high, and I don't know if there is a good one of the ten castings." Moreover, the diameter of the inner and outer wheels of the pulley is different, bent and bent, and there are small holes, which is very troublesome to cast and polish......"

"How about adding more manpower?" Ma Han still had a glimmer of hope.

Meng Yuan swallowed his saliva and replied carefully: "If you can add twenty or thirty people, you can make a hundred and ten in three months." ”

Ma Han nodded, it was a little slower, and it was difficult to assemble troops on a large scale. However, if a group of rapid-shooters are selected, not too many, as long as there are a hundred people, equipped with such a bow, they can definitely crush Hu Qi.

"Okay, that's it!" Ma Han slapped his thigh, "Change the riding crossbow to an infantry crossbow and use it for the infantry." Before the beginning of spring next year, we will come up with mature crossbows, and the number of pulley bows will reach 200. Oh, by the way, and most importantly, convert my Pupil Bow into a pulley bow and get it done in a month. Well, the pulleys are to be made of stainless steel. ”

Meng Yuan and Ma Jun glanced at each other and nodded vigorously: "Obey the city's orders." ”