Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 48 The Legendary God's Arm Bow

"Liulang! Come here quickly! Come to the grandpa!" As the pillar of the third generation of the Cao family, Cao Liulang and Cao Yanlu are highly valued by Cao Yijin.

The reason why he valued rather than loved was because Cao Yijin's attitude towards Cao Yanlu was completely different from his attitude towards Cao Yanming.

To Cao Shisi and Cao Yanming, Cao Yijin is a pure grandfather's love for his grandson.

But for Cao Liulang and Cao Yanlu, Cao Yijin regards him as a third-generation pillar who can be negotiated and trained according to the standards of future successors.

Although it may seem that the former is more favored, but the status of the two is very different. If Zhang Zhao is detaining Cao Yanlu instead of Cao Yanming, Cao Yijin will never say that Cao Yanming has to sacrifice for the family. Words come.

"Grandpa! What do you think I brought?" Cao Yanlu first greeted his uncle Cao Yuande and his father Cao Yuanzhong, then walked quickly to Cao Yijin and handed him something that looked like a crossbow.

Cao Yijin took it with a puzzled expression and began to observe it carefully. This crossbow is about three feet two inches long (a little over one meter), which is smaller than the current crossbow used in the army and the rhubarb crossbow handed down from the Han Dynasty. .

The surface of the stirrup was also made into a strange ring. Cao Yijin weighed it, and it was at least ten catties lighter than the rhubarb crossbow.

"It's Zhang Hao's crossbow, but we sent Zhang Erlang twenty warriors who fell into battle, and he returned just this one crossbow? Even Fourteenth Lang refused to put it back?"

Cao Yuanzhong stared at Cao Yanlu with a dark face. These days, his elder brother Cao Yuande couldn't sleep because of his anxiety. His son was so good that instead of bringing Shishilang back, he brought back a crossbow.

"Liulang is always alert. He didn't bring Shisi back but brought a crossbow. There must be a reason!"

Cao Yuande took a deep breath, barely suppressed the churning in his heart, and then pretended to be calm and said calmly.

"Uncle, it's not that my nephew didn't bring Shishilang back, it's that Shishilang refused to come back. He said he was researching some kind of medicine, and he was going to succeed soon, and he would come back in a few days!" Cao Yanlu knew that his uncle His eyes are not very big, so he said quickly.

Cao Yuande almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears and he heard it wrong. It turned out that Shishi Lang didn't want to come back, and Cao Yanlu also had a wry smile on his face.

"Uncle, you don't need to be anxious. Fourteenth Lang is not in danger with Mr. Zhang Erlang. He wanders around the village and no one cares about him. My nephew carefully observed it, and it seems that Fourteenth Lang is indeed studying something with Zhang Erlang. medicine."

"Interesting! Interesting! Why didn't I realize that this Erlang is still a wonderful person before! Since Fourteenth Lang is not in danger, I feel at ease." Cao Yijin stroked the beard on his chin, feeling more and more that this Erlang was a little bit Meaning.

"Liulang, don't worry about your uncle and father, tell the grandpa, what's the difference between this crossbow?"

"Grandson, please retreat to the left and right!" Cao Yanlu turned serious, and looked at the attendants and maids on the left and right.

"Get down!" Cao Yijin waved his hand to let the servants around him get down, and then stood up from the Hu bed where he was sitting.

Seeing that all the maids and servants were gone, Cao Yanlu took back this strange crossbow from Cao Yijin's hand, then lightly stepped on the top of the stirrup and pulled it on the fuselage with his hand, and then loaded the crossbow.

"Huh?" Cao Yijin couldn't help but uttered in doubt. The crossbows he used before, no matter if it was a crossbow or a rhubarb crossbow, it was difficult for one person to load it. If he could load it alone, he had to be a parachutist. Li Guang's fierce man.

Therefore, when using crossbows in the army, it is often necessary to divide soldiers into crossbow men, crossbow men, and crossbow men.

That is, one is responsible for pulling the crossbow, one is responsible for loading, and the other is responsible for shooting.

In addition, the crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow generally weigh more than ten or even twenty or thirty kilograms, and it is inconvenient to move. It often appears on the battlefield that it is difficult to respond because the reloading is too slow, and the enemy can only take three or four shots , the predicament that short soldiers have taken over.

The first battle can only be fired three to four times, obviously not enough to meet the needs of the war, so although the penetration and range of crossbow arrows in the Qin and Han Dynasties are very good, and they are also loved by soldiers, but it is still difficult to become the main firepower output. source.

But this crossbow is different. It can be operated by one person. Judging by Cao Yanlu's speed, he can at least achieve the rate of fire of four to five rounds of a cup of tea (five minutes). Fired more than eight volleys, this time the combat effectiveness has more than doubled!

"How many stones does this crossbow have?" Understanding the importance, Cao Yijin asked eagerly. In his mind, this crossbow didn't have to be as terrifying as the ten-stone power of the rhubarb crossbow. With such a rate of fire, it could reach two Stone is considered a magic weapon.

"Zhang Erlang said that this crossbow is poorly made and can only reach two stones for one fight. If the materials are complete, he can do more than two stones for seven fights!"

"Enough! Enough! Even a fight of two stones is enough!" Cao Yijin murmured, "Yuan Zhong, hurry up and fetch two infantry armors!"

The so-called infantry armor is a kind of Tang Shisan armor, which is the predecessor of the infantry armor in the Song Dynasty. It has strong defense, solid leather and durability!

Cao Yanlu picked up this bow, which Zhang Erlang called a divine arm bow, aimed at the pierced armor on a large piece of pork in the distance, and the "swish" arrow was an arrow two hundred steps away.

"Come out through the armor!" Cao Yuanzhong rushed to the armor of the infantry who had just been pierced by the crossbow, uh!It is a bit exaggerated to say that it came out through the armor, but it did penetrate the infantry armor.

"If you can pierce it at two hundred steps, you will be able to pierce the armor at one hundred steps, and you will surely die within fifty steps!"

Cao Yijin was obviously much calmer, but there was still a terrified look in his eyes.

"Grandpa! This is infantry armor. We don't have many of us. Ganzhou Yiyou and Gaochang Uighurs have even less collars. As for their so-called soldiers who are locked in cowhide armor with a layer of iron rings, within a hundred steps Must die!
Not to mention the Suzhou Long family and Dadan people who perfidiously attached themselves to Yiyou. They don’t even have leather armor. ! "

Of course Cao Yanlu knew the magic of this crossbow. It is light, has a high rate of fire, and is not weak in armor-piercing ability. It is suitable for individual operation.

As long as there are five hundred crossbows of this kind, combined with one or two hundred longbowmen and large shield spears to form a large crossbow array, the strength of one down-folding Chongfu (eight hundred people) can form a combat force. Riding is enough to be invincible!

"Yuan Zhong, you go and warn the servants in the mansion immediately, whoever dares to discuss this matter will be dealt with according to family law!"

Cao Yijin patted Cao Yanlu on the shoulder approvingly. Of course, such a magical weapon can only be displayed after turning away from the screen.

"Does this crossbow have a name?"

"Zhang Erlang said that this crossbow is called the God Arm Bow! But" Cao Yanlu rubbed his chin.

"Grandson thinks that when Zhang Erlang uttered the three words "God Arm Bow", his expression was very strange, as if he didn't know whether he should call it "God Arm Bow."

Of course Zhang Zhao didn't know, because the divine arm bow was very controversial in later generations, and what he made was restored by himself and a group of bow and crossbow enthusiasts in later generations.

The data is not worse than that in "Song Hui Wants to Compile Manuscripts", and the appearance is also similar, but if it is not really the magic arm bow in history, then only God knows.

"No! No! Something is wrong!" Cao Yijin suddenly felt that something was wrong, he turned around twice, and said to himself somewhat naturally.

"Why did Zhang Erlang take the initiative to ask you to bring back such a god-armed bow, which can be called the country's most important weapon?
If I were Zhang Erlang, if I had such a good thing, I would never show it until I mastered considerable strength!

This Guiyi Army is his family's ancestral property, he really doesn't want to take it back?impossible? "

After Cao Yijin said this, Cao Yanlu also felt that something was wrong.

Yup!

How could he give such a good thing to himself? You must know that although everyone is relative in several places, it is actually the Cao family who took over the Zhang family business, and the two families have enmity!
"It can't be uh... Fourteenth Lang... I can't figure it out! I really can't figure it out!" Cao Yuande felt something keenly, but he also instinctively felt that his son was far less valuable than this divine arm bow.

"Liu Lang, you have to go to Zhang Erlang's place one more time, and tell Cao Yijin that you want to meet him!"

After thinking for a while, Cao Yijin said, hearing is believing, seeing is believing, he wants to meet Zhang Erlang in person for a while.

(End of this chapter)