Night 2: A Meeting of Fate (3)
(The protagonist has "died" once, and "life-sustaining water" is a good thing, but it is hard to find, and in the future in the Year of the Monkey, Ma Yue can still get a bottle, which is unknown for the time being.) According to the old fashion's habits, the protagonist's teammates always want to die, as for this time, it's a secret for the time being. But this year, it's popular to vote, so Lao Feng opened a survey, and listed the four team members who are most likely to die, and everyone votes to save the character you like. )
Changsha in January 209 is not the real-world Changsha City, but the entire Changsha County in the southeast of Jingzhou. This is a vast area stretching from Dongting Lake in the north, Wuling in the south, Poyang Lake in the east, and Yuanshui in the west. Of course, the seat of Changsha County is indeed Changsha City in the real world, although it was called Linxiang in ancient times, it is not the current Linxiang City.
At this time, the Taishou of Changsha County was Han Xuan, and Huang Zhong was one of his generals. The place where Huang Zhi appeared was in the city of Linxiang City, which saved him a lot of trouble.
After all, Linxiang City is only a county rule, no different from other cities in this period, the area is not large, much smaller than Cao Ying's royal city Yecheng, about four miles from east to west, three miles from north to south. At this time, the people were panicked, and when they heard that Cao Ying Chibi had been newly defeated, the army retreated to the front line of Jiangling and Hefei, and abandoned the rest of the counties in Jingzhou, so it can be said that the four counties of Jingnan have become an enclave cut off by the Sun-Liu coalition army.
Seeing that in a matter of months, this place will change hands again, and anyone will be confused by this. Almost all the civil and military officers in Linxiang City had no intention of performing official duties, and gathered together in twos and threes to discuss the future prospects.
In the eyes of these people, whether it is with Dongwu or Liu Bei, it is not an ideal destination. Sun Quan of Eastern Wu and Liu Biao of Jingzhou have a feud, and they will definitely not be kept in their original positions like Cao Ying, but will be transferred to the Jiangdong Shi clan to replace them. As for Liu Bei, although he has the aura of an imperial uncle, he has basically been running around like a lost dog over the years, and no one believes that they have the ability to obtain the land of Jingxiang, which is a must for soldiers.
Huang Zhi listened for a while, and all he heard were some meaningless complaints, even if he didn't listen, it was still important to find Huang Zhong, and he didn't know how long the dream world could give him to stay here. Dressed in the black clothes of Cao Ying's officials, he walked in the inner city of Changsha without attracting anyone's sideways. casually found a small official to lead the way, and he quickly found Huang Zhong's residence.
At that time, Huang Zhong was sixty-one years old, and he had passed the age of sixtieth year. He is a native of Nanyang, that is, where Zhuge Liang farmed before his debut. Therefore, when he was young, he served for Liu Biao, and was stationed in Youxian County, the southernmost part of Changsha County, together with Liu Biao's nephew Liu Pan.
During the Han Dynasty, Zhonglang will be the highest official position that ordinary military generals can obtain, and Huang Zhi's counseling doctor is the same as Guanglu Xun, the difference is a civil and a military position, and Yulu has also reached the upper limit of 2,000 stones.
However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the war, almost any military general could accumulate enough military merits and be awarded the title of Zhonglang General, but the status of this position plummeted, becoming synonymous with middle and lower-level officers, and Yulu naturally shrank a lot.
It can be said that although Cao Ying's appointment of General Huang Zhong sounded like he was not as famous as General Zhonglang, in fact, he was promoted from the local garrison of Youxian County to Changsha Mansion as Han Xuan's military assistant, and his power was greater.
Helplessly, at this time, Cao Ying's soldiers are wide and the personnel are complete, and there are eight tiger horsemen led by Cao Ren in the Cao family and Xiahou clan, and there are five good generals led by Zhang Liao, and there are other fierce generals such as Xu Chu, a tiger idiot who commands the tiger guard camp.
Therefore, the dying Huang Zhong is not in Cao Ying's eyes at all, and being able to make him a general to guard Changsha can be regarded as taking care of the face of the local forces in Jingzhou.
In the past, it was just under Liu Biao, after all, this Jingzhou pastor was more than successful and not enterprising enough, and Huang Zhong did not have much use. But at this time, Jingzhou had already surrendered to Cao Ying, and he was still not reused, so it was no wonder that he would willingly surrender to Liu Bei.
Before 211, Liu Beijun basically only had three generals of Zhang and Zhao, the north had to resist Cao Ying, the south had to resist Eastern Wu, and then he had to conquer Yizhou in the west.
Huang Zhi had intended to visit and ask for advice while the veteran was still in Cao Wei's camp, but the dream world did not allow him to get his wish. Later, on the fifth night of the fourth week, he obtained the "Three Kingdoms Dream Card", and he once again had the intention of visiting the Three Kingdoms Arrow God, but he encountered this incident before he could implement it, and he didn't know if it was a blessing or not.
Huang Zhong heard that someone was visiting, and he was a little confused for a while. With his position as a general at this time, there is really no one who will not climb the Three Treasures Hall without anything. With doubts, he asked Huang Zhi to welcome in.
Although he knew that there was a difference of ten years before and after, Huang Zhi was still a little panicked when he saw this future "murderer", and he mustered up the courage to introduce himself, "In the heart of the corporal, as the prime minister, I have heard that General Hansheng is good at shooting, so I came to visit." ”
When Huang Zhong heard this, he suddenly realized that this uninvited guest who came to visit suddenly was here to exchange kyudo. For the name of Shixin, he has heard of it somewhat, it is said that Cao Ying almost fell into the hands of Liu Bei's Nanhai Bayi in Huarong Dao, and it was this person who offered a strange plot to help the prime minister escape this catastrophe. It's just that I didn't expect that this scholar still knows the way of the bow, so it's worth intersecting.
"Today, Mr. Zhang Shixin visited, this burrow can be described as full of brilliance!" Knowing that this person was a new celebrity in front of Cao Ying, Huang Zhong complimented him, hoping that he might be able to leave this remote corner of Changsha County and go to Jiangling or Hefei, a place where soldiers must fight, to show their talents.
When the two entered the house, Huang Zhi stared at the veteran for a while before sighing, "The old general has praised it falsely, but his morale is just mediocre." In this troubled world, I don't even dare to use my real name. I am really ashamed to see the general today. My surname is Huang, and the general's family, a single name, and Shixin are words. Walking in troubled times, for fear of affecting the people in the countryside, he changed his name and surname, which is really ashamed. ”
Huang Zhong was moved when he heard this, "Han Sheng is a contemptuous person in Nanyang Township, Mr. Meng will not give up, and it is really an honor to dare to tell him with his real name and surname." ”
After the two talked, there was a sense of seeing each other late, and the topic gradually shifted to archery.
Seeing that Huang Zhi knew that he had skills such as "scattering arrows", Huang Zhong was very surprised, you must know that even on the ground in Jingzhou, not many people know about these things, so the veteran will be depressed. However, Han Shengsheng's surname was open-minded, and he didn't investigate how Huang Zhi learned about this, but exchanged bows with him with relish.
He even took off the two-stone bow on the weapon rack and asked Huang Zhi to try to pull it. Huang Zhi tried it with great interest, but he could only pull out a third. Judging from the appearance alone, this two-stone bow is no different from Huang Zhide's compound bow from the eastern bandits, but I don't know why the gap between the two is so big.
Huang Zhong has his own explanation for this.
Not to mention the distinction between Western long bows and short bows, let's talk about Asian bows, which are classified as single bows and compound bows. As the name suggests, the difference lies in the way the bow is made.
The second bow Huang Zhi captured from the South China Sea team, the ash short bow, was a single bow, which was basically an entry-level small short bow for novices.
In the West, both longbow and short bow are monolithic bows. The advantage of this bow is that it is easy to make and is suitable for armies equipped in large quantities. However, the disadvantage is that the short bow has too short a range, which is more disadvantageous in large-scale battles, and it is okay if it is only used for hunting or individual combat. A single longbow can certainly ensure the range, but because the bow is too long, it is not suitable for mounted shooting, and can only be mounted on the infantry army.
Therefore, the Asian cavalry mainly uses compound bows, which can shorten the length of the bow body while ensuring the range, which is the pinnacle of ancient Asian bow-making technology. The Europeans did not have this technique, so their cavalry largely did not use bows and arrows.
The traditional compound bow is different from the compound bow used in real-world competitions as recognized by Huang Zhi, which was called the angle bow in ancient times. The standard name of Huang Zhi's first bow is the bamboo horn bow, which is basically the lowest-grade compound bow.
The selection of materials for making horn bow trunks is Zhe wood for the top, followed by wood and oak wood, bamboo wood for the bottom, and other such as yew wood, oak, and willow wood are also available. In addition to the "dry" of making the bow body, there are also horns, tendons, glue, silk, and lacquer, which are collectively called "six materials". It is called a horn bow because the compound bow uses thin slices cut from horns and attached to the inside of the bow to strengthen the elasticity of the bow body.
The only drawback to the horn bow is the difficulty of crafting, basically a good compound bow takes two to three years to make. Generally, the bow stem is dissected in winter, the corners are treated in spring, the tendons are treated in summer, and various materials are closed in autumn.
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