The final completion of the repeater was in April of Yankang. Zhuge Kongming first played the Son of Heaven, so the Son of Heaven summoned the important ministers Xun Gongda, is Hongfu, Jia Wenhe, Cao Zixiao, Xiahou Yuanrang, etc., to gather in the palace to try out the school.

If this thing is really effective, it is really a militaristic weapon, and it must not be leaked lightly, so there are not many people involved, and there are forbidden troops outside, not to mention flies, and even eunuchs can't break in. After setting up the target, Zhuge Liang transported it into the two cars, first uncovered one of the vehicles, and the two forbidden soldiers carried the crossbow down.

It was Hongsuke who took a closer look, and saw that the appearance was similar to what he saw at the beginning of the year, except that there was an wheel under it, and there was a handle behind it, and it really made it look like a ballista. But compared with the crossbow of the day, the crossbow body and crossbow arm have grown a lot, only to listen to Kong Ming's introduction: "The crossbow is four feet two inches long, the arm is four feet eight inches, the car weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, and the strength is five stones and eight buckets." ”

Then he nodded to Ma Jun, who was standing beside him, Ma Deheng understood, first looked deeply at the Son of Heaven, and then rushed over, and carried a crossbow box from the carriage, and put it on the ballista with a "click", listening to the sound, it seemed that there was a metal key bite.

It was Hongsuke who looked at it and couldn't help but be shocked - this time the crossbow box was not a cuboid, but a cylinder! With such a cylindrical crossbow box on the ballista, it's just, almost like Gatling!

After seeing that Ma Jun installed the crossbow box, he immediately pushed the crossbow cart and swayed to the target, forty steps away. The people present are all bigger than Ma Jun, Zhuge Kongming is eight feet tall and doesn't care, even if he is the same size as Ma Jun (less than seven feet), the width of his shoulders is twice that of the child, and Ma Jun is only more than two hundred pounds (after two thousand years, it must be discounted in half.) It's only a hundred pounds). And the small arms and legs. Even if he can push this ballista of about the same weight, the ordinary soldier must be able to push it.

- In fact, there is still a bit of an error in this visual inspection, although Ma Deheng is not tall, his arms and legs are thin, but he is really not a pure scholar who is powerless, because he is familiar with the craftsman's affairs, even if he can't move the blacksmith's sledgehammer, at least he can play the carpenter's big saw. If it's really a fight for your life. He must not be the opponent of generals such as the Son of Heaven and Cao Zixiao, and he will definitely not be able to beat Jia Wenhe and Hongfu, who have been in battle, because of the difference in size, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defeat Kong Mingye, but if compared with Xun Gongda, who is nearly sixty years old, he will definitely have the upper hand.

Ma Jun's cart was pushed crookedly, but everyone's eyesight was accurate, and they could see that it was not that the child was not strong enough, but that he lacked experience in pushing the cart. The balance is not very well maintained. Unicycles are easy to train, find some soldiers with medium qualifications. It will be practiced in three or five days, and it can be carried out like flying regardless of the plains and mountains.

Let's say that Ma Jun pushed the ballista forty steps away from the target and put it down, and then turned his head to look at Kong Ming, but saw Kong Ming shaking his head to signal, so he gritted his teeth, lifted the handlebar again, and dragged it to about forty-five steps. After stabilizing the ballista, Ma Deheng bowed slightly and leaned his face to the tail of the cylindrical magazine. Zhuge Liang immediately introduced: "The crossbow is one foot four inches long, the wooden pole is clustered with iron, the paper is used as the feather, and the wax is applied to it, which can avoid moisture and ......."

Cao Zixiao objected: "Replacing feathers with paper is not available in ancient times, can it be used?" Zhuge Liang nodded first, and then shook his head again: "Its stability is not as good as the feather, but the box is placed in the middle of the arrow, which can be shot in a row, if it is more feather, it is inconvenient to run." "Paper tail arrows are definitely not as good as feathered tail arrows, but compared to featherless arrows, the stability is still stronger after all, and the most important thing is that the shape is regular, which is convenient to put into the crossbow box.

Then he continued: "The box on the crossbow covers the mountain, and it is difficult to get accurate, but now it is easy to use a round box, and the end is not closed, but it can be taken from the hole of the arrow, and it is also accurate." Then he looked at the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven bowed: "Yes." So Zhuge Liang gave an order, and Ma Jun immediately shook the handle on the side of the crossbow, repeatedly wound and galloped the string, and in an instant, twenty arrows were continuously excited.

It's Hongsuke who closes his eyes slightly, judging only by the sound he hears in his ears, well, the rate of fire is not much different from the first plane, and it is also one shot per second.

The forbidden army guarding the target immediately rushed over and knelt on the ground to report: "Thirteen arrows out of twenty arrows, all the targets are pierced." Zhuge Liang smiled a little embarrassedly: "Deheng is not good at shooting, ......" That means, I asked Ma Jun to test the shot, just to let you see that even such a half-grown child can drive a repeater, it is so convenient to use, and as for the quasi-head...... Ma Jun really can't aim - "Liang self-try, forty-five steps can be eight out of ten." ”

As soon as he spoke, Ma Jun took off the empty crossbow box, moved another crossbow box from the car, and installed it on the crossbow car - it seems that the weight of this crossbow box is not light, at least about 30 catties. It was Hongsuke who thought that he was going to pull the cart back and try a longer target, but who would have thought that he would suddenly turn the upper part of the ballista at a thirty-degree angle and aim at another target in the distance......

Ahh

Twenty more arrows were sent out in a row, and the middle one was seven arrows. Zhuge Liang introduced: "The crossbow can be rotated, and even the left and right are flat (can be turned at an angle of 180 degrees), this hair is about 50 steps, and the light is tried, and it can be six or seven out of ten." ”

Xiahou Yuan was overjoyed, and couldn't help but roll up his sleeves and take a step forward: "I'll try it!" Only then did he feel rude when he spoke, and quickly bowed down to apologize to the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven didn't think it was a fool, and nodded with a smile: "Yuan let you try." ”

Seeing that Xiahou Yuanrang ran over and said a few words to Ma Jun, he suddenly frowned and showed a slight anger. Zhuge Liang understood what was going on, and hurriedly said to the Son of Heaven: "Deheng is not good at words, Liang, please go." The Son of Heaven agreed, so Zhuge Liang hurriedly trotted over, repelled Ma Jun, and made a comparison with Xiahou Yuanrang. Immediately, Xiahou Yuan let the ballista come and retreated fifteen steps back easily and steadily, sixty steps away from the target. Zhuge Liang replaced him with a crossbow box, and he immediately squatted down and closed his eyes to get the ......

It was Hongsuke who suddenly thought: Yuan Rang, speaking of which, I am still your benefactor, if it weren't for me to cross, I don't think you would be able to finish it!

Let's say that Xiahou Yuan let him test fire a repeating crossbow from 60 paces away, and 14 of the 20 rounds were hit in succession - one more than Ma Jun at a distance of 45 steps. According to Zhuge Liang's introduction, the crossbow can break heavy armor within 50 steps, light armor within 70 steps, and the effective range is about 90 steps. The maximum distance can shoot up to 130 paces away. Enough to replace the bow and arrow - the normal crossbowman. That's about the range.

Of course, the cost of such a militaristic weapon is not low. He dedicated the structural diagram to the Son of Heaven and explained the role of each component in detail to the Son of Heaven and his ministers. Compared with the first machine at the beginning of the year, not only the shape and quality have increased, but the crossbow arm has been lengthened, the crossbow box has been replaced, and the iron arrow has been changed to a paper feather arrow. Installed on the wheels, it can also rotate left and right, and after repeated discussions and experiments by Zhuge Liang and Ma Jun, the original set of six copper gears was changed to a set of eight iron-toothed wooden wheels, which reduced the weight as much as possible.

Today's ballista can be simply divided into three parts, one is the car, the second is the crossbow, and the third is the box, each of which is about 70 catties. A slightly stronger soldier can easily carry it on his shoulder.

The ministers were all happy when they saw it, and they congratulated the Son of Heaven one after another. With this heavy weapon, you will be able to destroy the Shu thieves and calm the world. However, the Son of Heaven pretended to be calm, and his mind was more thoughtful, he turned his head and glanced at it from a distance, and asked Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming still has a car, what is it?" ”

Didn't you bring two truckloads of new weapons? On one cart is a repeater, and what is on the other? Zhuge Liang hurriedly ordered the curtain to be lifted, and saw that the car was also a repeating crossbow, but there were no wheels, and the shape was a whole circle larger than the previous one.

Zhuge Liang introduced: "This crossbow is five feet nine inches long, the arm is seven feet, the crossbow box weighs a total of 310 catties, the force is ten stones, and the heavy armor can be broken within 90 steps, and the long-range shot can reach 220 steps." ”

Damn, the range can reach more than 300 meters, which is amazing. It was Hongfu who asked, "Do you have to use it to defend the city?" "Such a heavy thing, even if it is put on wheels, it is not easy to push easily, it must be used to fix the defense, right?

Zhuge Liang first nodded, and then shook his head: "It can be used to defend the city, but Ran Liang thinks that it can still be placed on the building ship...... "I installed such one or two heavy ballistas on the building ship, and there are still people who can resist the rivers, lakes and seas?"

When the Son of Heaven heard this, he also nodded, and then shook his head in the same way: "The cost must be huge, and the income is not ......" At present, there are not a few passes that need to be heavily guarded, and this thing may not be able to come in handy, as for the sailor - my sailor is already invincible, do you think that those small boats that Liu Bei is traveling between the water and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River can really be compared with my sailor?

Everyone was bowed, only Hongsuke was a little unimpressed. Shu is not known for water warfare, but it is not necessarily impossible to build big ships at all. In the original history, the Jin general Wang Jun once built a huge building ship in Chengdu and went down the river to destroy Eastern Wu. Wu general Tao Jun thought that there could be no big ship in Shu, so he asked Sun Hao for his life and led the army to resist, but when he saw the Jin ship, he was stupid on the spot...... As a result, the soldiers scattered, and the Soochow regime collapsed.

But as far as the current information goes, Liu Bei really hasn't built a big ship, and there is no need for Hongfu to admonish the Son of Heaven, but he just suggested: "If the East China Sea Division has to place this crossbow and shoot at the shore in a wide direction, the enemy will flee far away, and it will be easy to land on the shore." ”

In fact, the reason he made up temporarily was not very reliable, the sea ships were generally huge, and if it were not for the port, it would be impossible to rush close to the shore, and the range of the heavy crossbow was only about 300 meters, which was really not enough to cover the beachhead. However, it was Hongsuke who was the second sword in naval warfare, and the Son of Heaven and the ministers had no experience in naval warfare at all, and only considered the Yangtze River water battle - well, what he said seemed reasonable.

So the Son of Heaven finally decided to allocate a sum of money to Zhuge Liang and let him build a secret arsenal as soon as possible, specializing in the manufacture of repeaters. For small repeaters, one or two hundred should be built as needed, and as for large repeaters, only six can be built, and two can be built in one ship, and three sea ships can be armed. Immediately, the Son of Heaven asked Kong Ming: "Can the crossbow of today's system be named?" ”

Zhuge Liang said that I haven't named it yet, and I ask Your Majesty to give me a name. The Son of Heaven thought for a moment, opened his arms, and suddenly became proud: "Its hair is like a thunderbolt, shaking yin and yang, it can be called 'shock'; ”

Before the words fell, I heard the sound of Hongsuke's "poof" beside me. When the Son of Heaven heard this, he frowned and asked, "What's so ridiculous about my name?" It was Hongfu who hurriedly bowed and apologized: "The minister is choking (choking), and he dares to disrespect His Majesty." ”

The Son of Heaven stared at his eyes for a long time, and there seemed to be no flaw, so he put this matter behind him, and then turned to face Kong Ming: "Aiqing has worked hard to build this heavy weapon for me. Zhuge Liang hurriedly bowed down and thanked him: "The minister doesn't dare to live alone, and this is due to the power of the official Ma Jun." ”

The Son of Heaven asked, "Where is Ma Jun?" Zhuge Liang pointed behind him and said that it was Ma Jun. The Son of Heaven couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart I thought it was a half-grown child you specially found, in order to show that even the crossbow can be used by ordinary people...... Well, it's the color of two hundred stone officials, but being so young and immature, can you really help Kong Ming? "I'll see you here."

Because it was a secret demonstration of the new weapon, there were dense guards around it, and even eunuchs were not allowed to enter, so there were only a few forbidden army generals around the Son of Heaven who guarded and served. As soon as he bowed down and received the order, he hurried over to summon Ma Jun. Ma Deheng was a small official, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet the Son of Heaven, and he was almost stupid, but fortunately, he still had a trace of reason, so he quickly picked up his robe, rushed forward, and in front of the Son of Heaven and the ministers, he bowed to the ground six or seven steps away.

He couldn't speak at all, and simply dismissed the idea of speaking. The Son of Heaven glanced at him and immediately asked, "Qing is Ma Jun?" Ma Jun hurriedly replied: "Minister, minister, minister......" The minister lasted for a long time, and he couldn't say the second word. The Son of Heaven was angry and funny: "I have summoned a horse and a horse, and now there are ministers?" ”

It was Hongfu who made up his brain next to him: "'Feng Xi Feng Xi', so it is a phoenix." (To be continued......)