Changxing County surrendered.

Yuan Yao's men soon took over the county seat of Changxing.

After connecting Changxing and Liyang, it can be regarded as cutting off the exchanges between Danyang County and Wu County.

Yuan Yao naturally counted the credit for capturing Changxing County on Liu Ye's head.

Not only did he tell Liu Ye his views on the Zhuge Repeater as agreed, but he also told him about the research on the thunderbolt in later generations.

Liu Ye was like a treasure, and he couldn't sleep all night with excitement, holding the simple sketch that Yuan Yao drew for him, and kept pondering.

Yuan Yao saw that Liu Ye was so interested, so he simply told him everything he knew about the crossbow.

In fact, the crossbow is not Zhuge Liang's original.

As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a record of repeating crossbows, "Historical Records: Han Xin Lu Xuanlie Biography Thirty-three": "Please order the strong crossbow master to be outward-looking." "Fu, through "attached", attached, "Zuo Chuan: The Fourteenth Year of Duke Xu" "The skin does not exist, Mao will be Fu" can be proven. Attaching two arrows to the crossbow at the same time will fire two arrows at the same time for a single hit.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, crossbows that could fire two arrows at a time had already appeared.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was also a record, "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Geng Chun": "Choose 2,000 people who dare to die, all of them hold strong crossbows, each Fu has three arrows, and the title is intermittent." This is a crossbow that fires three arrows at the same time.

The progress of technology has made crossbow arrows from firing one arrow to three arrows in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It's just that there is still a big gap between the Yuanrong crossbow invented by Zhuge Liang, a powerful crossbow that shoots ten arrows in a row at a time.

But Yuan Yao believes that as long as he tells Liu Ye that at this stage there is already a repeater that shoots three arrows in a row, and it will not be too difficult to transform it into a repeater that shoots ten arrows in a row.

What Yuan Yao didn't expect was that Liu Ye, a guy who was obsessed with repeaters, was completely close to love, so he only told Liu Ye once.

The next day, this guy came to find Yuan Yao with a decent crossbow arrow.

"Master, Master, look!"

Liu Ye happily came to find Yuan Yao, and then took out the bow and crossbow in his hand and shook it in front of Yuan Yao.

When Yuan Yao saw Liu Ye's crossbow, he immediately frowned, and then became a little interested, and couldn't help but ask Liu Ye.

"What? Did you make a repeater? ”

Liu Ye nodded excitedly.

"Well, Master, look, I have slightly modified the existing bow and crossbow according to the principle you said, and I can already shoot three arrows!"

The repeater of three arrows already existed in this era, but this thing was a secret of the imperial court, and it was only controlled by a very small number of regular troops in the imperial court.

Yuan Yao naturally didn't know, but as a modern person, he had seen someone restore this kind of repeater in later generations and knew some principles, so after telling Liu Ye about this kind of repeater that shot three arrows in a row, Liu Ye was talented and intelligent, and he actually reproduced a simple repeater overnight.

After speaking, Liu Ye also began to demonstrate to Yuan Yao.

I saw Liu Ye pick up the repeater in his hand and pull the trigger on the repeater at a haystack fifty paces away in the distance, swishing.

Three sounds of breaking the air came from Liu Ye's side, and the three arrows inserted in the bow and crossbow immediately flew out, shooting straight towards the haystack in the distance.

When Yuan Yao looked up again, he saw three arrows stuck in the haystack in the distance.

Although these three arrows hit the haystack, the three arrows were scattered and did not hit the same target.

Liu Ye looked at the repeater with half excitement, and looked at Yuan Yao proudly.

"Master, look!"

Yuan Yao was slightly surprised, surprised by Liu Ye's ability, he didn't expect this guy to get the repeater out so quickly.

However, although the repeater has been made, the accuracy and shooting strength of this repeater still need to be improved.

This kind of lethality alone is far from enough if you go to the battlefield.

However, Yuan Yao still affirmed Liu Ye's spirit of study, and immediately praised Liu Ye and said.

"Not bad, yes, it's really amazing, I got it out in a day, Ziyang, you're still amazing."

"In just one day, I got the repeater I told you about, but although the repeater came out, the accuracy and lethality are still not good, and it needs to be further improved."

Yuan Yao first encouraged him, and then put forward his own opinions.

"Look, try to improve the bowstring to increase the lethality, and at the same time improve the arrows to be more suitable for this crossbow, maybe you can increase the lethality and accuracy."

Yuan Yao's mention immediately made Liu Ye's eyes light up.

"I see, Master! Thank you, Master, for the suggestion, I will continue to improve and strive to make a repeater that can shoot ten arrows in a row as soon as possible! ”

"Okay, I'm sure you can, when you really make such a repeater, you will be credited with a great credit for the teacher!"

After appeasing Liu Ye for a few words, Yuan Yao was just about to continue to talk to Liu Ye about the improvement method of this repeater, but at this time, suddenly a scout came over from the barracks in a hurry.

As soon as he came here, he directly found Yuan Yao.

"Lord, the divine doctor is here!"

The scout quickly whipped up, and it only took five days to invite the divine doctor Hua Tuo from Guangling County to Liyang County.

Yuan Yao had been waiting in Liyang County, and when he heard the news, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly put down the things in his hand and walked directly towards the scout.

"But Hua Tuo was invited by you?"

The scout looked at Yuan Yao, smiled on his face, and touched the back of his head with his hand.

"It's 'please' here."

Yuan Yao was suddenly excited, and hurriedly followed the scouts and began to walk towards the wounded barracks.

In Liyang County, Yuan Yao set aside a special place to house wounded soldiers, including not only the wounded soldiers under his command, but also some wounded soldiers of the enemy army on the battlefield.

These wounded soldiers of the enemy army, generally as long as they are not fatally wounded, if Yuan Yao can treat them, he still tries to treat them as much as possible.

In this way, firstly, it can convince people's hearts, and secondly, after treating these wounded soldiers, a large part of them will choose to join Yuan Yao, so that Yuan Yao can get some veterans with rich combat experience.

Even if they don't join Yuan Yao, Yuan Yao will let them go back, and after these people go back, they can also help promote Yuan Yao's benevolence, so as to enhance Yuan Yao's prestige, in short, it is a good and good thing, why not do it.

When Yuan Yao came to the wounded barracks and saw Hua Tuo inside, his face was stunned for a moment, and then a wry smile appeared.

Hua Tuo was indeed invited.

It's just that this word please is a bit different from what ordinary people associate with.

I saw that Hua Tuo was tied up with five flowers, placed on a chair in the barracks, and was scolding and snarling at the soldiers present.