Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 221 Repeating Crossbow
Although Huang Zu and Huang Jun, also known as Huang Chengyan, were both direct sons of the Huang family, their relationship was not very good to begin with.

After Huang Zu became the head of the Huang family, Huang Chengyan left home to study in Luoyang, and the two became more estranged. However, when Huang Chengyan was studying, his wife passed away, and his daughter Huang Yueying was still young. Huang Zu took care of her. At that time, Huang Jun returned to Jingzhou, and the relationship between the two improved greatly.

But then something happened that made Huang Jun very dissatisfied, and that was the marriage between Cai and Liu Biao - Huang Chengyan's wife was born in the Cai family, and she was Cai Xi's legitimate daughter Cai Jianjia, who is now "Mrs. Cai" Sister, so Liu Biao is still Huang Yueying's uncle.

Huang Jun was so angry that he was traveling abroad to study, and he always regretted not being able to see his wife for the last time. Before Mrs. Cai and Cai Shuang married Liu Biao, they had asked Huang Jun to refuse the marriage. After all, no matter what Liu Biao did, Handsome and talented, he was already in his forties when he came to Jingzhou. His sons were both older than Cai Shuang, and his first wife died a few years ago.

After Huang Jun was entrusted, he started walking among the Cai, Huang, and Kuai families in Nanjun. After all, it was called a marriage, but in fact it was just a "ceremony" for the Nanjun family to join forces with Liu Biao to seize the interests of Jingzhou.

However, in the end, not only did he fail to convince his father-in-law and brother, but... everyone knew that Huang Jun had a stubborn temper and were afraid that he would cause trouble, so they pretended to agree. Therefore, Huang Jun also told Cai Shuang not to worry.

As a result, Cai Shuang finally married Liu Biao, and Huang Jun didn't even know about it on the day of the wedding banquet. Seeing Cai Shuang looking at him resentfully, Huang Jun was dumbfounded.

After that, Huang Jun took Huang Yueying directly to leave the Huang family land and settled in Nanyang. He had no contact with Huang Zu for seven or eight years.

Hearing that Huang Zu was in trouble, only Huang Yueying came over quietly, and...it was just by the way.

It's just... Although Huang Zu knows some of Huang Yueying's strange things, he hasn't seen her in two years, and he hasn't had much contact with her in the past seven or eight years. Now Huang Yueying is only 17 years old, and in Huang Zu's eyes she is still the same The yellow-haired girl naturally didn't think she could do anything to help.

"I heard that the reason why my uncle was beaten to pieces by the General's Mansion before, that he was frightened, his legs were trembling, and he was in such a state of embarrassment... because he lost on a ship?" Huang Yueying asked in one breath.

"If you have something to say! You don't need so many adjectives!" Huang Zu couldn't help but said angrily.

"Then I have a way to reduce uncle's disadvantage." Huang Yueying continued without caring.

"What? Do you have the blueprints of the warships?" Ancestor Huang's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and sighed: "No, what's the use of having the blueprints now? It's too late to build..."

"No, what I have time to build is not a ship... but a crossbow! That old guy with the pretty face is quite generous. Uncle, you have a lot of ready-made bow strings, bow arms, and ordinary crossbow mechanisms here. Right?" Huang Yueying asked.

"Don't imitate your father! You're so rude...what do you mean by 'old guy'? That's your uncle!" Huang Zu reprimanded.

"Eh? Did I say it was Liu Biao?" Huang Yueying pretended to look around.

"You already said 'boy', who else could he be?" Huang Zu said seriously.

However, Huang Yueying had already gone to get the pastries from the guest seat, and then... lifted up the veil that originally covered the eyes, turned it upside down over the eyes, exposing the lower half of the face, and then put it into the exposed mouth. Stuffed pastry.

Huang Zu: ...

Huang Zu was already used to his niece's confusing behavior from time to time.

"The firing speed of crossbows is not as fast as that of short bows, and the range is not as good as that of long bows... The cliffs on both sides of the bank are actually equipped with heavy crossbows and stone. But as long as the opponent's infantry fights together and cannot form a pincer attack, Jiangxia and the Huang family are in danger! Huang Zu said and looked at Huang Yueying.

The latter also knew that the uncle was not expecting her, but hoping that her father would come back.

"Uncle, you can do it! I think with Bai Gong's nature, if Jiang Xia falls into his hands, the people may not be happy enough, and the Huang family will not die because of you, so you can rest assured." Huang Yueying rolled her eyes.

Although Huang Yueying had a good relationship with her uncle when she was a child, otherwise she wouldn't be here now, but... the one who has a better relationship with her is her aunt.

"You..." Huang Zu suspected that she deliberately made him angry.

"Didn't I say that I can use my crossbow to temporarily confront the opponent's ship on the water. If we can't defend it, then... um." Huang Yueying didn't say much, and just handed the blueprint to Huang Zu.

"What's the use of having more crossbows? You haven't seen that ship. It can carry soldiers and discharge arrows five or six times faster than the ship, and it is stronger..." Huang Zu still complained.

However, after looking at the "Usage Method" column on the drawing, Huang Zu's eyes lit up and he said: "Can fire seven shots in a row? Seriously?"

"It can fire up to twelve rounds in a row, but the material of Jiangxia's crossbow is not good, and there is no time to make it again, so we use the existing bow string, mechanism, and crossbow arm to modify it. Seven rounds is the limit." Huang Yueying said.

After Huang Zu heard this, he stood up and walked around the military tent twice. After that, he called the general and asked him to send the drawings back to E City to supervise the construction urgently and use all available manpower. If there is not enough, it will be overdrafted immediately!

Huang Zu couldn't build the five-toothed ship.

Rebuild a warship with comparable "firepower"?It’s too late!
But being able to use a repeating crossbow to increase the firepower of an individual soldier several times can have a similar effect...

"The manufacture of the crossbow box is complicated, so the arrows are loaded very slowly; after the trigger is activated once, the seven arrows will shoot continuously and cannot be stopped halfway, and the accuracy is poor; in addition...the wear and tear on the trigger is very serious. After using it for about ten times, There will be a possibility of complete jamming, especially after [-] times, and the maximum service life is no more than [-] times." Huang Yueying mentioned the weakness of the Liannu in a series of words.

"It's okay, now is not the time to talk about these things." Huang Zu also understood that the "future" can only be delayed first.

"No, I want to tell Uncle that I will watch from behind and see if there is anything worth improving." Huang Yueying said.

Huang Zu always felt as if he had been reduced to an experiment, but at this time he had no other choice.

"By the way! Uncle, I'm here to help you. If my father comes to see me later, you can't burn bridges across the river." Huang Yueying reminded.

"Don't worry, your father can't find me here." How could Huang Zu not know that Huang Jun would never see him at all.

"That's best..." Huang Yueying murmured in a low voice.

Huang Zu felt a little strange, and wondered if there was something else in it——Huang Yueying was a herd when she was a child, and her father would not restrain her too much.

Cai Shuang's marriage to Liu Biao was a unanimous decision of several major noble families in Nanjun, not to mention that it was Cai Xi who personally promoted it. However... after all, because of this matter, Huang Yueying and he no longer had the closeness they had in childhood, so he couldn't ask more questions.

On the other hand, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have also mobilized their troops again, this time advancing by land and water, and the land cavalry has also followed. They are setting up camp step by step, as if they want to completely capture Jiangxia...

(End of this chapter)