Chapter 30 Sharp weapon divine crossbow
When Liu Bu heard that it was a rumored weapon of killing, he yearned for it, and then said to Mao Shengli: Uncle Ling can indeed make a divine arm crossbow?"
Mao Shengli said: "How dare villains deceive adults in these things?"
"Invite him, no, I will go and invite him in person." Liu Bu was too late to wait and showed Liu Bei's style of visiting the cottage three times.
The Mao family was one of the thirteen major families that had existed when Fushan was opened and were also military households for generations, but they had moved to the mountain village outside Fushan City to live.
Liu Bu went to invite him in person, which was a great honor. Mao Shengli was very excited and said, "The villain guides the adults."
The servants found a horse for Liu Bu and asked him to ride a horse to visit Maojia Village.
There are not many horses in Fushan District, only more than fifty horses. Liu Bu was very dissatisfied. Liu Zhongyong already knew that this was the only one among all the Thousand Households in the country. If one thousand households had more than fifty horses, if other generals saw it, they would be jealous. Of course, these horses were the private property of the Liu family, not the Thousand Households.
Liu Bu has been learning to ride a horse recently. Where can he, a modern man, have the opportunity to ride a horse? So he is clumsy, but no one doubts or thinks there is anything wrong, because Liu Bu brags directly: "In the past, young master, I have always been sitting in a sedan chair and a carriage. My carriage is built with 20,000 taels of silver, and there is only one in the Ming Dynasty."
As a eldest son of a noble family, he looks more grand in a carriage and sedan chair, and others think so, so it is normal for him to learn horse riding to relieve his honor and honor, and he doesn't know how to do it.
Liu Bu knew the importance of learning to ride a horse. Many records in history books are that when the generals were besieged by the enemy and were defeated, they all rely on a fast horse to break through the siege and escape from the sky.
Fushan Temple is old and broken, and the city walls are covered with moss and weeds. After arriving outside the city, it is even more damaged. There are not even a few mud brick houses, all of which are made of thatch. There are many villages around Fushan Temple.
They came to a mountain village at the foot of Fushan Mountain. There were about twenty or thirty families, and only a few were made of mud bricks. Others were made of either wood or thatched, which looked very dilapidated and poor.
When Liu Bu and his group arrived, the locals seemed very surprised and immediately came out. When they saw Liu Bu's banner, they knelt on the ground and said, "I said I have met the Qianhu Lord."
Liu Bu’s current banner is the fifth-rank general of Wude, the Thousand Households of Fushan District, and the boss of this area is a high-ranking official among these ordinary people. He is a very amazing official. If he doesn’t kneel down when he sees an official, this is a great crime of disrespect. It is possible to take it out and beat the board.
The adults were kneeling down, and the children were running around to watch the fun. Liu Bu was the grandson of the eldest son of aristocratic family. He was very happy to see so many children and said to Liu Kang: "Send candy!"
Liu Bu believes that he must be popular with others. First of all, he must be popular with children. Children are the hope of the future. If everyone likes him, he will have hope. So he ordered Liu Kang's backpack to be filled with candy. The two bags on Liu Kang's horse's back were filled with two bags of candy. As long as he saw the children lively, he would give him candy, and then he was the most beautiful boy in Fushan.
Sure enough, Liu Kang took out a lot of candy, and often as soon as he sprinkled from the sky, the children rushed to grab the candy one after another. Even some adults couldn't help but grab it.
With this move, Lord Liu Bu's reputation as the most beautiful boy in Fushan spread. When everyone saw the adults giving candy, they smiled and said, "Thank you."
Seeing that the people here are so poor and that they are the people under their rule, they said to Liu Kang: "Each person is rewarded with ten cents."
There are only twenty or thirty families here, with a hundred people, each of which costs ten cents, and only a dozen taels of silver. For Liu Bu, he is now beginning to establish a reputation for himself.
When everyone heard this, they were even more happy and kowtowed repeatedly and said, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
At Liu Bu's order, Liu Kang immediately sent the money, and the people kept cheering and kowtowing, saying, "I wish you a happy and a long life."
Liu Bu sat majestic on the horse, led by Mao Shengli, and came to the floor outside Mao's house.
Mao Shengli said, "Please wait here, and the little man will ask my uncle to come out immediately." As Liu Bu's identity, he was a little condescending to let him enter the house and enter the thatched house.
Mao Shengli immediately ran into the thatched room and said, "Uncle, come out quickly, the Lord Qianhu is here, come and pay your respects."
Mao Shengli's uncle is Mao Qiao. Although their family is a military archer of generations, he has not inherited the position of military archers. He has learned ironwork and has mastered a lot of skills. He usually helps everyone to make ironwork and repair weapons, etc. He is also a knowledgeable person. When he saw Mao Shengli wearing the official uniform of a hundred households, he was a little surprised: "Oh! I'm not mistaken, right? Or is there something wrong with my eyes?"
Although the officials of the garrison office are insignificant small officials in the eyes of the above officials, in the eyes of ordinary people, they are amazing families. They have managed 100 soldiers, which is very amazing. They have already stepped into the ranks of officials and are an amazing person in the local area.
Mao Shengli was just a military household, but he actually became a householder, which really surprised Mao Qiao.
Mao Shengli said: "Today, Lord Qianhu officially appointed me as the commander of the archer of Fushan Institute. The official title is Baihu, passed down from generation to generation. We are considered to be the glorious ancestor and have made a fortune."
Mao Qiao said, "Master Qianhu came to see me, this is a blessing in disgrace."
Mao Shengli said: "Where is so much nonsense? Go and pay a visit quickly, don't let the lord wait for a long time. I recommend your divine arm crossbow to the lord. When you meet the lord later, you must know everything and say everything."
The people have a natural fear of officials. Since thousands of households came to the thatched house in person, Mao Qiao, who had seen the world, was also a little scared. She went out with her nephew and came outside the door.
Liu Bu was wearing golden armor and stood high above the war horse. He was surrounded by dozens of armored military generals, looking majestic.
Mao Qiao quickly knelt down and said, "The villain Mao Qiao has seen the Qianhu, and the adults are in good health."
Liu Bu said bluntly: "I heard Mao Shengli say that you can be a divine arm crossbow, take it out and take it to me to take a look."
Mao Qiao said: "The villain can do this craft. There is a sample here, but this place is probably not the place to be used, right?"
This is the entrance of the village. With so many villagers watching, it is indeed not the place to display the magic arm crossbow.
Mao Shengli was very well-behaved and immediately ordered the villagers and children to part.
The group of them took Mao Qiao's divine arm crossbow wrapped in a wooden box and came to a flat place in the back mountain, where Mao Shengli usually practiced and arched.
This is a lawn, about three or four hundred meters wide. There are more than a dozen straw men who are streaked with straw on the other end of the lawn, and a target is drawn on it. It should be the place where he usually practices archery.
Mao Shengli opened the box and lit something inside that looked a bit like a composite crossbow.
He presented the crossbow with both hands to Liu Bu. Liu Bu looked at it, which looked a bit like the divine arm crossbow he saw in the video, and then said, "Show me your hands."
Mao Shengli immediately put down the crossbow, and saw him stepping on the other end of the bowstring with his feet, then pulling the bowstring and catching it. He aimed at the target and shot the scarecrow 150 meters away.
Mao Shengli's shooting skills are very good, and he shot the target in a row of ten arrows.
Liu Bu was very surprised. This was really a magic weapon, a big killer weapon.
Nowadays, all the military equipment is hard bows. The harder the bow and the longer the range. Drawing bows and arrows is similar to modern pullers. However, when pulling a bow, you need to pause and adjust your aim, and the strength you spend is greater. Generally, it is almost the same for more than ten arrows in a row. Even when you are desperate, it is possible to pull more than twenty arrows. But it is estimated that you will not be able to go to the battlefield for a long time. Therefore, generally, archers should shoot one arrow, shoot one arrow, retreat and take the arrow, relax and adjust to prepare for the next shot, so that you can shoot a few more arrows.
He is a skilled archer who only shoots fifty or sixty arrows a day. This is why every archer brings one or two pots of arrows. After shooting two pots, it should be similar. His hands are so tired that he can't move, so he has to rest before he can pull it.
Even a man as powerful as Mao Shengli used his hard bow to shoot arrows, he had to rest after firing more than ten pieces before shooting again. But now he directly pulled the bowstring with his feet and aimed, saving a lot of energy. After firing ten arrows, he was calm and composed. It is estimated that shooting ten pieces will not be a big problem.
Liu Bu and Liu Zhongyong exchanged a glance, and immediately realized that this was a magical weapon that could greatly save the soldiers' strength. It can be said that now an archer can fight against two or three archers in the past.
They used their feet to pull the bow, greatly reducing the strength of the archers' arms, which means they could shoot more arrows faster, which is simply an ideal weapon.
Huaxia has long had the concept of maximum range and effective range. Judging from the bows that had been reduced in the Song Dynasty, the maximum range of the bow is generally around 200 meters and the effective range is within 120 meters. In other words, the effective exchange of bows and arrows after the two sides actually launched their battle formations was at a distance of 100 meters. Jiannu was a little powerful, reaching 120 meters.
It is difficult to hit the target after a general bow and arrow is shot 100 meters, but seeing its divine arm crossbow directly hit the target 150 meters, which means that its range is longer and higher than that of a general military standard.
With labor saving, longer range and greater power, Liu Bu immediately realized the value of such things, and he immediately said, "Your name is Mao Qiao?"
Mao Qiao had always seemed a little cringe in front of Liu Bu, and was a little afraid of Liu Bu's majesty, but after his excellent works showed his magical power in front of Liu Bu, he began to feel a little confident and said, "The villain is just the one."
Chapter completed!