Chapter 165: Ballista

Three hundred steps back, eight hundred steps.

From ancient times to the present day, no ballista has ever been able to reach a range of 800 paces.

Everyone looked at each other, even if they pretended to be calm, they couldn't help but complain in their hearts:

"This kid is so arrogant, he will be eight hundred miles away as soon as he comes up, and if he misses it then, I will see where his face goes."

"Maybe it can be done, I didn't see the coach be polite to him."

Everyone made eye contact for a while, and continued to wait and see.

"Archery—"

With Gong Yuyu's order, the crossbowmen worked together to twist the shaft and stretch the strings. Hercules raised his giant axe and slammed it into the trigger.

The joint touch of the organs, the bowstring suddenly sounded, and the seven arrows were fired in unison!

Under the scorching sun, the arrows turned into shining meteors in an instant, leaping up and riding the wind, longitudinally vast and expansive clear sky.

Liu Ruyan hurriedly raised her eyes, only to see the seven cold rays disappear in a flash, Tie Ling passed by, and the frightened birds scattered!

The seven arrows were fast and urgent, like javelins, piercing straight into the opposite rocks.

Because the distance was too far, Liu Ruyan couldn't help but stand on tiptoe, looking at it, and could vaguely see the direction of the arrow.

"That's eight hundred steps...... she cried.

"Congratulations to the general for having such a powerful weapon!" A group of people at the bottom took advantage of the situation to shoot the horse.

Xie Feng was full of energy, "He is worthy of being a famous craftsman in Bianjing, this time, thanks to the great help of the master of public loss." ”

Everyone praised each other, and at this time, there were several strange noises from the opposite rocks, and the originally bare bare stones began to peel off, and then, more and more fragments of earth and stones fell down along the mountain.

Everyone didn't know the situation, and they didn't know who shouted: "The earth dragon has turned over, everyone get down!" ”

So the soldiers fell down one after another.

"Don't panic, everyone—" Liu Ruyan rubbed her eyebrows and explained to you, "It has rained heavily in the mountains for a few days, and the strength of the arrows is too great, and the landslide is just a landslide. ”

Although her face was calm, she knew very well in her heart that the power of the three-bow bed crossbow was too terrifying.

Gong Yuyu looked at the rolling rubble with great interest, and he told the crossbowmen not to be idle, and to take another two hundred steps.

Two hundred steps back is equivalent to a total of 1,000 steps.

If this can still be shot, the Song army can attack the city while sitting in the tent.

Tsk, don't be too arrogant.

Once they were re-aiming at their targets, the crossbowmen took their positions, tightened their bowstrings, pulled the triggers, and the seven iron feathers shot at the opposite side like wild horses.

Liu Ruyan: "......"

Dong Qingxian: "......"

Xie Feng: "............"

Everyone set up a pergola with their right hands, looked at themselves against the scorching sun, and asked in a low voice: "Do you see clearly, the arrow was shot?" ”

Dong Qingxian couldn't see it either, he simply closed his eyes and listened for a long time, and finally shook his head: "It's too far away, I can't hear any movement." ”

Xie Feng sent soldiers over to check on the situation.

The soldier choked back and forth, and reported to the general.

"Reported—shot—all seven arrows were shot!"

The news has just arrived, and the voices are buzzing.

What is the concept of a 1,000-step range to shoot all.

This is an unprecedented feat!

In the past, there were some people who looked down on the public loser, but now they dare not slack off, the left is a "public loser", and the right is a "good craftsman", which is called an intimacy.

Xie Feng was also overjoyed, and he immediately ordered all the craftsmen in the army to fully assist Gong Yuyu and continue to build the bed crossbow.

In view of the time constraints, Gong Yuyu moved to a makeshift grass hut that day and instructed the craftsmen to build a three-bow bed crossbow until late at night before returning to rest.

A few days later, all the bed crossbows were completed.

"Got it—got it—"

The cicadas in the forest couldn't stop singing, and Gong Yuyu rubbed his sour knuckles.

He stretched his limbs and lazily watched the craftsmen sweep the grounds.

A craftsman was in charge of tidying up the woodworking table, he wiped off the wood chips on it with a cloth towel, and was about to clean up the drawings of the table, but was flatly stopped by Gong Yuyu.

Gong Yuyu approached a few steps, picked up the pile of sketches, and said to him: "I'll clean it up here, you can go with your business." ”

The other party nodded and went to clean up the other debris.

Gong Yuyu collected all the drawings, reclassified them, and arranged them in order, but at this time, he found that among all the sketches, the most important bed crossbow diagram was missing.

He clearly remembered that the bed crossbow diagram was placed in this pile of drawings, how could it be missing?

Gong Yuyu called everyone over and asked them one by one, but they still didn't get anything.

The craftsmen explained: "I had seen that picture before noon, and it was resting on the woodworking table, and at that time we only referred to the size in the picture, and looked at it from a distance, who dared to take it." ”

Others are even less likely to admit that everyone knows what the bed crossbow diagram means, and stealing it without permission is not as simple as losing their heads.

The news of the theft of the bed crossbow diagram soon reached the ears of the commander Xie Feng.

Xie Feng has been on the battlefield for more than 20 years, and he made a quick decision, on the one hand, he blocked the news, and on the other hand, he ordered Liu Ruyan and Dong Qingxian to secretly investigate the matter thoroughly.

When Liu Ruyan came to the outside of the pergola, martial law was already in full swing nearby.

She circled the pergola and stood in the shade of the tree in thought.

It stands to reason that Gong Yuyu and the craftsmen in the army stayed in the shed during the day and left separately at night, and before leaving, everyone had to be searched and checked. Coupled with the fact that there are soldiers patrolling on all sides, there shouldn't be even a single fly flying in.

Unless...... Guards steal from themselves.

But what's the use of stealing the drawings? Could it have something to do with the previous electric fish killings?

Thinking that there might be spies in the army, Liu Ruyan made a special trip to the sailor camp again.

Zhao Dutou was training troops in the river, and the boss saw a young man walking quickly from afar, and he shouted familiarly: "What kind of wind invited Wang Dazhuang today?" ”

Liu Ruyan glanced at the floating in the water and responded to him with a smile: "It's the southeast wind." ”

"Hey, you kid-"

She stood still on the shore and saluted with her hands crossed: "Don't come to harm's way." ”

Zhao Dutou stepped on the water and went ashore, and looked at her back and forth a few times, "I heard that the little brother has been with General Xie recently, and he has mixed well, and his body looks much stronger." ”

"Thanks to the good food in the camp." She laughed.

"Why, I came here today, I didn't come here to see my old face." Zhao Dutou teased her.

"There's something to ask." Liu Ruyan lowered her voice, "There was something going on in the camp before, I don't know what happened?" ”

Speaking of this matter, he was depressed, so he frowned and said: "All of our 50,000 sailors have been investigated, and our identities and backgrounds are very clean." Let's start with the electric fish again, but this kind of foreign object, let alone contact, the soldiers have not even seen it, and they can't find out the details hidden in the army at all, which is really a headache. ”

Zhao Dutou has a straightforward temperament, and he told the truth what he knew, "But in the past half a month, the camp has been calm, and I guess the fine work also knows that we are investigating thoroughly in secret, and we are cunning." ”

"Oh?" She was a little surprised, "It seems that the identity of the fine work is not simple." ”

Liu Ruyan inquired about the situation one after another, and when she came back from the river, the sky was half drowsy, and a full moon hung on the branches.

A few howls came from the deep mountains and old forests in the distance, and the sound sounded wild, like a hungry wolf howling under the moon.