Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 135 Zhuge Liang's Formation, Huang Yueying's Blower
"Zi Yu! Come with me!"

After leaving the hall and preparing to return to his general's mansion, Xing Daorong was directly pulled away by Zhuge Liang.

But as soon as I entered Zhuge Liang's house, I saw a huge cloth map hanging in the room.

It is a partial map from Nanjun to Xiangfan, and it is drawn in great detail.

All the big cities and small counties, mountains, rivers and streams are clearly marked.

Looking closely, one can find that the Xiangfan area on the cloth painting is even darker.

Xing Daorong knew that this was probably the mark left by Zhuge Liang when he looked at the map with a lamp in his hand countless nights.

I think even in Chengdu, Zhuge Liang was always concerned about the war in Xiangfan.

"Zi Yu, come and take a look at this."

Just as he was feeling grateful for Zhuge Liang's hard work, he suddenly heard his call and quickly turned around to look.

There was a huge Bagua diagram on the table.

After a closer look, I realized that this was not a simple Bagua diagram, but a formation diagram.

Bagua formation!
Xing Daorong's heart moved, and he secretly guessed that this should be Zhuge Liang's famous Bagua formation.

"but."

"Didn't Zhuge Liang pass this thing to Jiang Wei later? What are you showing me?"

Xing Daorong was thinking this when he heard Zhuge Liang say, "I heard that Ziyu is using the Mo Dao in Xicheng to deal with the cavalry?"

This should be what Cui Yan said to Zhuge Liang.
Xing Daorong immediately had some guesses in his mind, but he had nothing to hide from Zhuge Liang, so he nodded and said, "Last time we fought, I felt that Cao Xiu's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was really powerful, so I thought of a way to deal with Cao Cao's cavalry."

"If we don't go to the Central Plains for a decisive battle in the future, I'm afraid Cao Cao's cavalry will be really disadvantageous to our army."

"This Mo Dao...was inspired by the saber, but the saber wasn't powerful enough, so we wanted to make it double-edged and have a longer blade, so it would be easier to kill the enemy."

Zhuge Liang nodded after listening, but he pulled Xing Daorong to sit down and said, "Zi Yu, if you want to defeat Cao Cao's cavalry, you can rely on a sword, but I'm afraid it's not enough."

"Take a look at this formation of mine. If you can learn it, ordinary cavalry can also respond to it."

Xing Daorong looked carefully and saw that the eight trigrams of the formation depicted the military formations in the shapes of heaven, earth, wind, cloud, bird, snake, dragon and tiger.

Xing Daorong was really confused and didn't know what was going on.

Zhuge Liang explained: "This is the Bagua formation, which requires nine large formations and sixty-four small formations. It is formed using the principle of the five elements' mutual restraint, and is extremely complex. This formation is indispensable if you want to deal with cavalry."

It would have been fine if Zhuge Liang hadn't explained it, but after he did, Xing Daorong became even more confused.

What is this “nine large formations, sixty-four small formations, utilizing the five elements’ mutual restraint”? How could Xing Daorong understand this?

He turned around and said with difficulty: "Kong Ming, forgive my dullness, I really don't understand your formation at all."

Although Xing Daorong seemed to be in a difficult situation, Zhuge Liang trusted him very much.

But he said, "Zi Yu is so smart, how could he not understand it?"

As he spoke, he actually took out a pile of bamboo slips.

Xing Daorong opened it and saw that it contained various annotations on the formation.

"Zhuge Formation?"

A noun popped up in Xing Daorong's mind, but he was slightly dazed as he looked at the bamboo slips in his hand.

Zhuge Liang said, "All of this is my understanding of the Bagua formation. Zi Yu, take it and have a look. If you don't understand, come and ask me."

Hard work!

This is the hard work of Zhuge Liang!
Xing Daorong felt that even if he didn't understand it, he couldn't let Zhuge Liang down.

He could only take it honestly and said, "I'll do my best." But even though he said that, Xing Daorong still felt unsure.

After coming here, Xing Daorong realized that except for his "vision" which was slightly better than the smart people of this time, in other aspects, do you think he could compare with Zhuge Liang or Zhou Yu in terms of intelligence?

To be honest, this kind of formation, something that Xing Daorong had never come into contact with, might not be something he could learn.
All I can say is try.
...

"As soon as you come back, you start talking about business. You didn't even bother to ask General Xing to have some tea."

Xing Daorong was feeling a lot of pressure when he heard a gentle voice coming from the side.

Then a woman came out holding tea.

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Madam is right. I was just impatient at the time."

Zhuge Liang's wife
Isn’t that Huang Yueying?
Xing Daorong quickly bowed and said, "Thank you, Madam."

Huang Yueying nodded slightly and smiled: "I have heard of General Xing's name for a long time, but I just met him today. He is indeed a hero."

After saying a polite word, Huang Yueying put down two cups of tea on the table, but turned around and looked at Xing Daorong again, with no intention of leaving.

Come to think of it, I had heard rumors in my previous life that Huang Yueying was an ugly woman. Now that I see it, it seems like pure nonsense!
Even Huang Yueying was bold enough to look at herself up and down in front of Zhuge Liang, and I didn't know what she meant.
Xing Daorong was being stared at and felt somewhat uncomfortable, so he asked, "Madam, is there anything wrong with me?"

Huang Yueying shook her head and said, "That's not the case. I just heard that the general encountered some troubles in iron smelting?"

Xing Daorong raised his eyebrows as he listened, not knowing why Huang Yueying was concerned about his iron smelting.

He turned to look at Zhuge Liang, but found that he just had a wry smile on his face and had no intention of stopping him.

Knowing what was going on, he responded in a friendly voice, "Madam, I am indeed troubled by this matter."

Huang Yueying asked again: "What went wrong?"

Xing Daorong said: "It takes too long to make steel. One piece of steel needs to be forged repeatedly for several days in a row, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive."

"There is a shortage of iron ore, so we can't grow to scale."

Huang Yueying smiled and said, "I don't have much to do with the iron ore issue, but I may be able to help the general with the forging time issue."

As she spoke, Huang Yueying called out to the outside, and then she saw several maids carrying an "iron lump" in.

The "iron lump" looked like a conch, but the opening was not that big. It had two handles and a pedal on the side.

There were also a lot of belts and gears inside.

There is also a fan-shaped thing, with left and right parts.

这 是
Xing Daorong was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to take it from the maid, examined it carefully, and looked at Huang Yueying in disbelief, "Is this a blower?"

Huang Yueying was also stunned when she heard this, and looked at Xing Daorong in surprise and said, "General Xing, do you know what this thing is used for?"

Xing Daorong finally realized that he had lost his composure and finally collected his thoughts. He explained, "I heard this when I was in Xicheng. The most important things for forging iron are wind pressure and air volume. It's just that it's difficult to form a stable wind pressure with normal natural ventilation."

"Seeing Madam talking about iron smelting and then taking this out, I guessed it was used to make blast furnaces."

Huang Yueying nodded hesitantly after hearing this and said, "Yes, this substance is indeed used to aid combustion and generate high temperatures, but I didn't expect General Xing to see it at a glance."

Then he began to explain to Xing Daorong the functions of each accessory one by one, but Xing Daorong became more and more surprised as he listened.

Apart from the fact that the power comes entirely from manpower, the rest are the prototypes of impellers, diffusers and volutes!
I have heard that Huang Yueying is a skilled craftsman, but I didn't expect she had such a skill!

It’s a pity that there is no rubber these days.

Otherwise, if we could invent a steam engine or a fully automatic blower, the forging technology would take off to another dimension.

But for now, this blower is pretty good.

(End of this chapter)