Invincible in the Universe: Work hard to master the skills, become a flying knife god

Chapter 152: The Supervisory Department, the Divine Crossbowmen, the Peering Eyes, the Murderous Intentions, and the Idea of ​​Purifying Saltpeter
Yangzhou.

Tianji Palace.

Qin Shuang was sitting in front of the commander's desk, handling the affairs of the city under his command. At this time, an old man in a green robe came quickly and respectfully clasped his fists to Qin Shuang to report. "Chen Laomou, I meet the Marshal!"

"Ah."

Qin Shuang nodded to Chen Laomou and asked, "Mr. Chen, how is the transformation of the flywheel warship going?"

"Reporting to the Marshal, 92 flywheel warships have been transformed, and the subsequent transformation is still ongoing!"

Chen Laomou clasped his fists respectfully and said, "The Marshal gave me the Divine Arm Crossbow. After my research, I successfully made three of them. This time, I have brought the three Divine Arm Crossbows with me. Please have a look, Marshal!"

"Oh?"

"Bring it to me and see!"

Qin Shuang was quite looking forward to hearing this.

He still had high hopes for the Divine Arm Crossbow. Now that he had made it, he could create a Divine Arm Crossbow Soldier in the future, which would become another 'trump card' troop besides the 'Qin Rui Shi' under his command.

"Yes, Marshal!"

After Chen Laomou finished speaking, he took three steps back, turned around and left the hall, calling the three craftsmen from the "Supervision Department" who were waiting outside the hall to come forward.

The Construction Supervision Department of the Tianqin Army was established by Qin Shuang's orders, and Chen Laomou was appointed as the commander of the department, which specializes in building flywheel warships and divine arm crossbows.

The three craftsmen were all tall and muscular, and each of them held a divine arm crossbow in his hand.

"Marshal, please look!"

Chen Laomou took a crossbow from a craftsman and handed it to Qin Shuang.

Qin Shuang took the divine arm crossbow.

He found that Chen Laomou built everything according to his requirements.

The crossbow is made of mountain mulberry wood, and the crossbow body is made of solid sandalwood. The string is made of silk, the trigger is made of steel, and it is tied with hemp rope. It is light and strong. The bow body is three feet three inches long and the string is two feet five inches long.

"Marshal, you can try the power!"

Chen Laomou's eyes flashed with fanatical excitement as if he was showing off a treasure.

He had already shot this divine crossbow, and the range was indeed more than three hundred and forty steps!

"Ok!"

Qin Shuang picked up the Shenbi crossbow. With this crossbow, the bowstring would be pulled onto the mechanism in advance, so the crossbow could be aimed at the target and fired when needed. This helped in capturing the right moment to shoot, and the hit rate was much higher than that of a bow.

Qin Shuang stood three hundred and thirty steps away, holding the crossbow, aimed at the pre-prepared target covered with soldier armor, and pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of a bowstring was heard, and the arrow in the crossbow flew out instantly!

"Tuk!"

The arrow hit the bull's eye accurately!

"Marshal, please have a look!"

A craftsman walked over quickly and brought over the armor target that Qin Shuang had shot through, so that Qin Shuang could take a look.

"It's worthy of being called the Divine Arm Crossbow! Its penetrating power is indeed sharp!"

Qin Shuang looked at the Qin Ruishi armor covering the target board in front of him, and a look of shock appeared in his eyes.

now.

He discovered that the arrow penetrated four inches of Qin Ruishi's armor!

According to Shan Wanjing.

The armor of Qin Ruishi is comparable to the defensive power of Li Tang's Black Armor Army's Black Armor.

This magic crossbow could actually penetrate Qin Ruishi's armor, with the arrowhead protruding four inches.

That means it can penetrate the black armor of the Black Armor Army!
Qin Shuang shot three more arrows.

Every arrow penetrates four inches of armor!

Although the Shenbi crossbow is sharp, it consumes a lot of arrows. The Shenbi crossbow has strong penetrating power, and after the arrow is shot into the crossbow, it will be severely worn out. Unlike ordinary bows and arrows, the arrowheads and arrow shafts can be picked up and recycled.

However, considering its strong penetrating power, this consumption is acceptable.

"After creating this divine crossbow, our Tianqin Army will have a divine crossbow force!"

Qin Shuang held the divine arm crossbow, his eyes gleaming, and looked at Chen Laomou and asked, "Mr. Chen, how long will it take to forge this divine arm crossbow?"

This kind of divine arm crossbow has a long range and great power, so of course it must be produced as soon as possible so that every divine crossbow soldier can have one.

"Reporting to the Marshal, the material requirements for this divine arm crossbow are extremely high. We need to search everywhere. It takes three days to make one. If we find more craftsmen to help with the forging, the speed of forging can be increased!"

Chen Lamou clasped his fists respectfully and reported.

"Very good! Recruit as many craftsmen as possible!"

"Don't worry about the money! Make a thousand of them as soon as possible!"

Qin Shuang was secretly calculating in his mind.

In order to build a divine crossbow army, at least a thousand people are needed, each holding a crossbow. When the time comes, they will face Li Shimin's Black Armor Army. They can directly shoot with the divine arm crossbow from three hundred and forty steps away. I am afraid that Li Shimin's Black Armor Army will be shot and killed before they get close!
"Yes, Marshal! I will definitely live up to your trust!"

Chen Laomou looked respectful and clasped his fists towards Qin Shuang.

now.

Chen Laomou was extremely grateful to Marshal Qin.

The marshal established the Construction Supervision Office and appointed him as the commander, specifically responsible for transforming the flywheel warships and building the divine arm crossbow. What a trust this is!

"Marshal, when you came back from Chang'an last time, you got a batch of gunpowder from Shen Naitang. It is currently stored in a villa ten miles away from Yangzhou."

After Chen Laomou left, Qin Shuang had just finished dealing with the matters at hand when Yun Yuzhen, dressed in green, came and reported to Qin Shuang.

"gunpowder?"

Qin Shuang's heart moved when he heard this.

As far as he knows.

The strongest family in the world that makes firearms is the Jiangnan Sha family, but they only have some simple firearms, such as pyrotechnic signals. The only offensive ones are bow-shot fire pomegranate arrows, thunderbolt smoke balls, and divine fire flying crows.

Qin Shuang knew it clearly.

The power of these firearms is not good, it’s just that the saltpeter is not pure enough.

If saltpeter can be filtered and purified multiple times to improve its purity, then the power of the fire bomb made will be stronger!

As for the extraction of saltpeter, saltpeter can be extracted from the soil near the kitchen, toilet, pig and cattle pens, old corners of the courtyard, and places that are not easily washed by water.

but.

Qin Shuang has a lot of things to do right now and doesn't have time to do this, but he can write down the ideas for purifying saltpeter and hand it over to trusted subordinates.

"Keep the gunpowder for now. Oh, and find some craftsmen who have experience with gunpowder when you have time. I'll be very useful to them then!"

Qin Shuang thought for a moment and said to Yun Yuzhen.

If we could make a homemade grenade, similar to a giant "smashing cannon", and throw it directly at the enemy during a battle, wouldn't the enemy's troops be thrown to the ground?
Yun Yuzhen’s mention just now gave Qin Shuang an idea.

in the future.

What needs to be dealt with is not only Li Shimin's troops, but also the cavalry outside the Great Wall such as the Eastern Turkestan, Western Turkestan, Tiele, and Uighur. This thing is extremely powerful, so people have to be ordered to tinker with it.

"Yes! Marshal!" Yun Yuzhen bowed and agreed.

"I didn't expect that Zhai Jiao actually went to Wagang first."

"This young lady has finally come to her senses."

When Qin Shuang returned to Yangzhou, he learned that Zhai Jiao had left a letter and went to Wagang, and he immediately understood Zhai Jiao's thoughts.

The Tian Qin Army had already captured Du Fuwei and gained control of his Jianghuai territory, and its power had skyrocketed.

The saying goes well.

The icing on the cake is not as good as providing help when it is timely.

Zhai Jiao's help in winning over the old members of Wagang now is like timely assistance. When she leads her army to fight over there in the future, it will only be icing on the cake.

Qin Shuang decided to go to the border, pass by Wagang, and contact Zhai Jiao.

If we go to Shanhai County, we can kill Huyan Jin and take back her 80,000 sheepskins.

Five days later.

Zhongli City is a city on the road from Yangzhou to the border.

Ten miles outside the city.

At the edge of a dense forest near the canal, three people rushed out along the bluestone road on the river bank, using their lightness skills.

The first one was a man with a tall and majestic figure like a mountain. He had a deep aura and when his eyes opened, it seemed as if lightning was shooting out!
The other two, one was muscular and the other was handsome and elegant, with a very elegant air.

These three people.

They were Qin Shuang, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling who were heading to the border. As for Kankan, she had already gone ahead.

Sudden.

Qin Shuang stopped and looked into the distance, looking thoughtful.

"Marshal, what's wrong?"

Kou Zhong asked respectfully from behind Qin Shuang.

"Someone is following us."

Qin Shuang said calmly.

just.

He felt there were prying eyes in the dense forest on his left. You know, his eyesight, hearing, and perception have been improved several times, so even the slightest movement cannot escape his perception!

That prying look was immediately caught by his senses.

"track?"

Kou Zhong's eyes showed doubt, and Xu Ziling's face was also full of doubt.

They didn't sense anyone following them.

However, the Marshal was a martial arts master, so it was not surprising that he sensed it before them.

The two were very curious.

With the Marshal's current sharp flying knives and fame, how could there still be people who are not afraid of death and rush up to die?

"let's go!"

Qin Shuang did not go to look at the dense forest. He knew that the person who was following him would definitely appear again.

He was also very curious, which force did this person who was following him secretly come from who was so bold?

The prosperity of Zhongli City is not much different from that of Jiujiang City.

The sun was shining brightly, the sky was cloudless, and there were many vendors and pedestrians walking on the bluestone-paved streets.

Chengyun Restaurant.

It's time for lunch.

There are quite a few diners in the restaurant.

On the second floor of the restaurant, near the window, Qin Shuang, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling were sitting by the window.

A waiter brought the seven or eight dishes that Qin Shuang and the other two had ordered, including the Yueguogong Broken Gold Rice, the Imperial Yellow Queen Mother Rice, the Golden Dragon and Phoenix Crab, the Five Spicy Vegetable Platter, and a Threaded Chicken.

"Please enjoy your meal, gentlemen!"

The waiter, who was thin, about thirty years old and slightly tall, said something respectfully to Qin Shuang and the other two, wiped the white cloth off his shoulders, bowed, stepped back, and prepared to leave.

"Wow, I'm in for a treat today!"

Kou Zhong looked at the table full of delicious food, his eyes shining with anticipation.

"Kou Zhong, wait a minute."

Qin Shuang called Kou Zhong to stop him, looked at the waiter, and said calmly, "Waiter, come here and try all these dishes."

After hearing Qin Shuang's words, Kou Zhong immediately knew that the marshal had discovered something wrong with the dish and did not pick up his chopsticks.

"Master, I am of humble status, how can I eat your food? This is inappropriate!"

The waiter paused, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes, turned around and waved his hands quickly.

"Kou Zhong, feed him."

Qin Shuang looked at the waiter with a sneer in his eyes and said to Kou Zhong.

"Yes!"

Kou Zhong immediately stepped forward and grabbed the waiter.

What Kou Zhong didn't expect was that the waiter twisted his body and became as slippery as a loach. At the same time, he shook his hand and a black ball as big as an egg shot towards Qin Shuang.

"court death!"

Qin Shuang suddenly slapped out with his palm, and a stream of icy energy froze the black ball into an ice ball, which lightly fell on the dining table.

At this time, the waiter saw that his attack missed and had already approached the second window, preparing to escape through the window.

Qin Shuang shot a bean-sized ice bead at the waiter's left leg. In an instant, his left leg below the thigh was covered with ice at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Qin Shuang did not take his life, but had to force him to reveal his origins.

"Who sent you?"

Qin Shuang walked up, looked at the waiter, and said lightly.

prior to.

When the waiter came over, Qin Shuang felt that there was pure true energy in his body. It was obvious that he was a master whose martial arts skills were no less than Yun Yuzhen's. How could such a master be a waiter? Moreover, with his keen perception, he sensed that this man had murderous intentions towards him.

"Now that it's in your hands, there's nothing to say! Go ahead!"

"You can't escape! Unless you stop eating from now on!"

The waiter looked at Qin Shuang gloomily and closed his eyes.

now.

The waiter knew that he was going to die, but he was extremely confused. The poison in the food was colorless and odorless, so how did Qin Shuang know that?
"is it?"

Qin Shuang looked at the waiter, pointed a finger, and immediately performed the Soul-Severing and Meridian-Severing Technique!

(End of this chapter)