Chapter seven hundred and thirty-ninth the strange weapon of the king of Chu
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"Your Majesty, that artifact is..." Fazheng looked strange and confused.
Yan Liang smiled faintly, raised his whip and pointed: "That thing, I call it a water dragon."
"Water Dragon?" Fazheng and the other civil and military officials became more and more confused. They had never heard of the name "Water Dragon".
In fact, this water dragon is just an ancient fire-fighting tool, but it has not been invented yet in this era.
"I wonder what this water dragon is used for?" Fa Zhengqi asked.
Yan Liang didn't elaborate, he just said: "The purpose of the water dragon will be known soon. You can just watch the excitement."
Fazheng and others had no choice but to suppress their curiosity and looked towards Zhou Cang with suspicion.
A few dozen steps away, Zhou Cang ordered his soldiers to pour boiling hot water into the water dragon. Then he rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself.
After some aiming, Zhou Cang aimed the mouth of the water dragon at the mountain a few dozen steps away. He pushed the piston at the rear end of the water dragon with both arms, and saw a stream of water shooting out like a "poof".
Like a white rainbow, it roared out.
In a blink of an eye, the water flow hit the goat.
A miserable hissing sound suddenly occurred.
It was freezing cold, and the water turned into ice. The originally scalding hot water was completely cool in mid-air. The water flow hit the goat. At first, it only made the goat scream a few times, but in the blink of an eye, the water on the goat's body was covered with water.
It solidified into ice, and within a few seconds, the poor beast was turned into an ice sculpture.
Seeing such a scene, everyone was shocked and suspicious.
What was surprising was that the thing called "Water Dragon" could actually shoot water so far, but what was suspicious was that they didn't know what their king's creation of such a thing had to do with conquering the enemy's city.
Amidst the confusion, Fazheng was the first to react and shouted in surprise: "Could it be that your Majesty wants to use this water dragon to hit Cao's camp with water and freeze the enemy's troops?"
What Fazheng said is exactly Yan Liang's plan.
"Cao Cao knows how to use the weather to cover the city wall with ice, making my city-breaking cannon useless. How can I not learn from him and use this weather to let Cao's thieves taste what it feels like to be frozen?
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In his pride, Yan Liang understood his plan.
At this moment, all the civil and military personnel present suddenly realized. They finally understood Yan Liang's strategy, and they were all shocked and sighed by Yan Liang's incredible idea.
Yan Liang's plan was inspired by Cao Cao.
His plan was to take advantage of the cold weather to build hundreds or even thousands of water dragons and set them up in front of Luokou City. Thousands of water dragons would fire towards Luokou City.
If you, Cao Cao, don't freeze the city wall, then I will simply freeze your entire city. If you can't hold on, then I will simply freeze all of your tens of thousands of Cao Cao's troops to death in the city.
Everyone was pleasantly surprised by the cleverness of Yan Liang's plan, and their morale was greatly boosted.
At this time, Fazheng said calmly: "Although the king's water dragon is wonderful, I see that although the structure of this object is not exquisite, the most difficult thing is how to take out a shooting path from the log. I want it so much."
It's probably not easy to build a large number of them. If we can't build this thing in a short time, once the weather gets warmer and the Wei River floods, our army will have to retreat. At that time, this weapon will be useless."
"What Xiaozhi said is true. The king asked you to come and watch, just to let you think about any solutions."
What Fazheng was thinking of, Yan Liang had naturally thought of as well. He summoned everyone to watch the demonstration just to ask for their opinions.
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, unable to figure out an idea for a long while.
At this time, Fazheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he cupped his hands and said, "Although I don't know much about the art of making weapons, I can recommend someone. I think this person will be able to relieve the king's worries."
"I wonder who Xiaozhi wants to recommend?" Yan Liang perked up.
Fa Zheng said with a smile: "The person I recommend, whose surname is Ma Jun and whose courtesy name is Deheng, is from Fufeng. He is currently serving as the county magistrate in Hongnong. This man is very good at machinery. If the king can call him, he will be able to do it."
Solve current problems."
Hearing Ma Jun's name, Yan Liang's head was shaken and he suddenly realized.
Yan Liang is familiar with history, how could he not know that this Ma Jun is a mechanical expert who can be compared with his wife Huang Yueying in the history of the Three Kingdoms.
Now that Yueying was in Luoyang, it was so cold that she couldn't be allowed to come to the front line to endure hardships. Since Ma Jun was a mechanical expert and an official under his command, how could he not make good use of it.
Yan Liang was very excited and immediately issued an order to fly to Hongnong and send an order to Ma Jun.
Therefore, while waiting for Ma Jun for these days, Yan Liang ordered his troops to stand still and not to conduct any military operations in Luokou City.
A few days later, Yan Liang was studying the situation in Guanzhong in the tent. The curtain was lifted, and Fazheng walked into the tent with a middle-aged man.
"Your Majesty, Ma Deheng has arrived." Fazheng said, turning back to signal.
The middle-aged man hurriedly stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Ma Jun, pays homage to your Majesty."
"No gifts." Yan Liang waved his hand, "From what Xiaozhi said, you are very good at machines, right?"
Ma Jun said hurriedly: "I just like to study machinery in my spare time, but I never dare to claim to be good at it."
Yan Liang didn't waste much time and took Ma Jun directly to the back camp and arrived at the tent where the water dragon was stored.
"Ma Jun, can you manufacture this water dragon on a large scale?" Yan Liang pointed at the water dragon.
Na Ma Jun was originally respectful, but when he saw the water dragon, he felt as if he had found a treasure. He immediately jumped on it and looked at it carefully with surprise on his face. He was so obsessed that he seemed to have forgotten where he was.
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"Deheng..." Fa Zheng saw that his fellow countryman was rude, so he hurriedly thought of a way to remind him.
Yan Liang waved his hand, hinting to Fazheng not to disturb him.
The literati of the world valued literature over industry. Most literati regarded machinery as a strange skill. As a literati, Ma Jun showed such obsession with this water dragon. It was obvious at a glance that he had a deep understanding of machinery.
people.
What Yan Liang wanted was his obsession. Seeing Ma Jun like that, Yan Liang had higher hopes for him.
After studying for a long time, Ma Jun couldn't help but sigh: "This thing is not very complicated, but the innovation of the person who created it is really impressive. I wonder who invented it?"
"Who else, the person who invented this thing is our king." Fazheng smiled and glanced at Yan Liang.
Ma Jun was shocked. He was not only afraid of Yan Liang, but also admired him greatly.
"I only heard that the king is wise and brave, but I never thought that the king could actually invent such a wonderful weapon. The king is really a god." In amazement, Ma Jun bowed deeply.
Yan Liang laughed, helped Ma Jun up, and said disapprovingly: "It's just a small trick, nothing big. Do you have a solution to the problem I have just now?"
Ma Jun recovered from his surprise and said: "In my opinion, it is not difficult to build this water dragon. We only need to cut down the big tree and hollow out the middle to make one. As for this
Big trees, and there are big pine trees in the Guanzhong Plain, are excellent materials, just use them locally."
"Materials and craftsmanship are not a problem. The key is how to quickly hollow out the heart of the big pine tree. This is the most difficult part."
Ma Jun only pondered for a moment, and then said calmly: "It's easy to hollow out the heart of a tree. You only need to saw the big tree in half, then dig out the middle of each half into a semicircle shape, and after polishing it smooth,
Then put the two halves together, so that there will be a hollow round hole in the middle of the log. When the two halves are put together, if you want to be careful, use bamboo shoots. If it is just rough work, you can just nail them together."
As soon as these words came out, Yan Liang and Fazheng both looked excited and showed surprise.
Yan Liang didn't expect that there was such a method. The Ma Jun in front of him was indeed a mechanical expert in the world.
Excited, Yan Liang immediately said: "Very good, let's follow your method. Ma Dejun, I will now make you a general of Chu State and a great craftsman, and grant you the power to recruit craftsmen from any place in Sizhou. You must
Before the weather gets warmer, build a thousand water dragons for me."
After the king's order, Ma Jun was so shocked that he almost lost his balance.
Ma Jun's current official position is only a county magistrate with a mere 300 dan, but when he will be a great craftsman, he will be a senior central official with 2000 dan.
Ma Jun climbed several levels from 300 shi to 2,000 shi. This promotion speed was faster than a rocket. How could he not be overly surprised?
"I should not do my best to live up to the king's orders." Ma Jun was flattered and thanked him.
After Ma Jun received the order, he did not dare to delay even a little bit. The new official became busy as soon as he took office.
He first recruited craftsmen in the Sizhou area, and at the same time dispatched soldiers to the nearby forests to cut wood. At the same time, he also borrowed axes, chisels, saws, planers and other woodworking tools from the surrounding people's homes.
In this era, the population was sparsely populated and the natural environment was extremely rich. Apart from the farmland in other cities and towns, the rest of the land was basically virgin forests, and the most indispensable thing was trees.
In the primeval forest near the Wei River, there were many tall trees from the sky. Thousands of soldiers of the Chu army were dispatched, and within ten days they had cut down thousands of tall trees.
With these materials, five to six hundred craftsmen who were recruited, under the guidance of Ma Jun, worked day and night to make the water dragon.
Within twenty days, more than a thousand water dragons were completed.
At this time, the weather has entered the cold winter of March 9th, a wave of cold current has hit, the weather has become colder, and the temperature in Guanzhong has also dropped to the lowest point since the beginning of winter.
The weather is favorable and it is the time to use troops.
That day, it was freezing cold and the north wind was strong. It was so cold that if you stood outside and peeed, your urine would freeze while it was still in the air.
Yan Liang chose such a bitterly cold day to order the troops to assemble and advance in formation towards Luokou City.
When it was so cold, no one thought that Yan Liang would choose such weather to launch an attack.
At this time, Cao Cao was huddled in his room, warming himself over the charcoal, enjoying the pleasure of warming himself with warm wine.
Just when he was enjoying himself, the soldiers rushed to report, and the Chu army gathered and seemed to have the potential to attack the city.
“Pfft~~”
Cao Cao just swallowed the wine in his mouth and spit it out in one gulp. He coughed and asked in surprise: "The Yan thief is attacking the city at this time. Is he crazy?" (To be continued...)
