Great Tang princess

Chapter 180 Sniper Concept
After announcing the matter, Li Yuechen didn't plan to stay any longer, and turned around to leave.

At the same time, he beckoned and called Geng Yunqiang: "You send your subordinates to watch them build the road in shifts. If something happens, I will not look for anyone else, but you!"

"Yes!" Geng Yunqiang first agreed, and then raised his head in embarrassment: "But Your Highness, we are guards after all, and when the time comes, the Emperor..."

"The sage has me to say, you don't have to worry."

"Yes!"

After walking out of Jixianfang, Li Yuechen got on his horse.

On the way back to the palace, Fulai next to him couldn't help asking with some doubts: "Your Highness will really let them go in a few years?"

"When it's time to let them go, Tubo has already become a part of the Tang Dynasty, and it doesn't matter if you let them go or not." Li Yuechen shook his head slightly.

Hearing this sentence, Fulai understood what she meant, and immediately flattered her: "Your Highness is brilliant!"

Although he knows that he is flattering, but anyone is willing to listen to good words, Li Yuechen can't help but smile: "By the way, remember to raise their food standards when the time comes..."

"Your Highness is too merciful, it's good to eat some..."

"What they have to do is physical work. If they are not allowed to eat well, they will be exhausted in a short time. How can you fix it?" Li Yuechen asked back.

"This……"

Li Yuechen shook his head: "It's not a question of kindness or not. Whether it's a human or an animal, if you want to work, you have to eat enough. This is a long-term solution!"

"Yes! This servant understands!" Fulai agreed.

……

After returning to the palace, Li Yuechen went to the Hall of Renshou to pay his respects to his parents, and reported that he had dispatched a group of people from the prison guards to guard the prisoners.

Li Zhi waved his hand indifferently: "Is it enough? If it's not enough, let's make more adjustments."

"It's definitely enough." Wu Zetian next to him said, "If you can't even look at five hundred unarmed people, it can only show that they are too useless."

"Well, Auntie is right!" Li Yuechen quickly poured a cup of tea for his mother and put it in front of him.

With the health ball in his hand, the old man lay on the rocking chair and shook it slightly: "Well, speaking of it, I'm quite looking forward to it. What will it look like if the two capitals can arrive within ten days."

"Grandpa, don't worry, with that four-wheeled carriage, once the road is repaired, we will definitely be able to arrive within ten days!"

But speaking of this road construction, I should really go to Mang Mountain tomorrow to see how the cement is doing.

After eating at noon the next day, Li Yuechen rode to Mount Mang, planning to chat with the craftsmen.

Li Yuechen's initial idea was to use cement as a binder, and then use stone bricks to pave the road.

But after thinking about it for a few days, the cost is still a bit high.

Speaking of which, what is the ratio of concrete to concrete?Listening to the craftsman's explanation, Li Yuechen frowned and thought about it.

The material seemed to be cement plus sand and gravel, but Li Yuechen didn't know the proportion of it.

However, the cost of this thing is much lower than that of stone bricks, so it should be no problem to pave roads.

"Well, let's do a concrete experiment recently..." Li Yuechen told them the material formula of the concrete while talking.

After asking a craftsman next to him who could write to record it, Li Yuechen said: "These are the materials needed, but the proportions need to be carefully thought out by yourself."

The craftsmen promised that they would start testing tomorrow, making more concrete bricks according to different formulas, and comparing them at that time.

After saying this, Li Yuechen was about to leave when he thought of another question.

There are no steamrollers in this era!So how to ensure the smoothness of this concrete road?
Li Yuechen raised his doubts and asked the craftsmen how to solve such problems.

The craftsman's answer was to use wooden stakes to knock the road surface little by little.

And such a backward method was directly rejected by Li Yuechen. Just kidding, the straight-line distance from Chang'an to Dongdu is more than [-] kilometers. It will take until the year of the monkey to knock it with wooden stakes?
Is it still necessary to use stone bricks for paving?No, the cost is too high to afford.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yuechen found helplessly that it was still a one-off cost, and the cost of trying to make a road roller in this era would be lower.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen got on his horse and said, "Go back to the palace and call all craftsmen from all walks of life, I have something to announce!"

Seeing her attitude, Fulai knew that it was going to be a very difficult thing, so he immediately agreed, followed him back to the palace, and then went to gather the craftsmen.

Li Yuechen is quite familiar with road rollers, because when he was doing high-altitude motorcycle challenges abroad, he would repair different road surfaces and slopes according to needs.

Only when the angle is adjusted, can the motorcycle rush to a height of more than ten or twenty meters, and then have enough time in the air to perform various actions such as somersaults.

I got acquainted with the group of people who were responsible for repairing the road, and even went up and drove it myself.

……

After returning to the palace, Li Yuechen didn't even take a break, and went directly to the pavilion in the imperial city to wait.

Fulai called several young eunuchs to go to different departments to inform the craftsmen to come out and gather.

Not long after, craftsmen from all walks of life in the palace arrived, and there were nearly 200 people in total.

Nearly 200 people stood in the square outside the imperial city, and many other small officials didn't know what was going on, and they all came out to watch the excitement.

Even Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Yiyang, who were reviewing the news in the newspaper office, also came out, not knowing what Li Yuechen was going to do.

Li Yuechen didn't mind them watching, so he clapped his hands and asked them to focus on himself: "I called you here today because I want to make a utensil, and I want you to help me think about it. Simply put, we have to do it." For a round iron pillar two feet long, one side should be heavy and the other should be light, think of a way..."

Hearing the princess' request, the craftsmen raised their heads in doubt, wondering what this thing could be used for.

It doesn't really matter, the most important thing is the iron pillar, but it is quite troublesome from a technical point of view.

"You don't need to answer now, when you figure it out, just ask him to explain." Li Yuechen pointed to Fulai beside him, "If it is finally adopted, I will reward you a lot!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't say much, turned around and left.

Only a group of craftsmen were left looking at each other, wondering if they had figured out what happened.

Li Yuechen didn't know if this method would work, but no matter what, he had to try to know.

Technology can only improve through trial and error, and I have given them a relatively correct way, and it depends on whether they can figure it out.

As for the present, it is better to wait for a while, and after determining the optimal ratio of concrete, let the captives go to work first.

Before the steamroller is made, find two masons to make two stone pillars and use them first.

……

At the end of July, news came from the Military Weapons Supervisor that Li Yuechen's mechanical compound bow was finally about to be completed.

After hearing the news, Li Yuechen excitedly ran to the Military Weapons Supervisor to check their finished product.

In the hall of the Armory Supervision, the craftsmen looked at the bow on the table, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Although it is said that this bow was made by them, it feels a sense of disobedience no matter how you look at it.

Li Yuechen can actually understand, after all, this is not something that should appear in this era at all.

Seeing Li Yuechen approaching, the craftsmen stepped aside one after another, allowing Li Yuechen to see the mechanical compound bow on the table.

Black-painted bow body, ergonomic solid wood grip, brushed arrow rest, five-pin sight, plus weight rod mounted on the bow body, stopper, and ten arrows stuck on the right side ...

Even just watching from the side, a feeling of ignorance arises spontaneously.

This bow is very big, even bigger than the Manchu bow. Because it is made of metal, and the long counterweight rod underneath, it looks very heavy.

Li Yuechen directly reached out to pick it up and weighed it in his hand. He felt that it should weigh more than ten catties, which was not heavy for her at all.

Then he asked, "How much is the bow strength?"

The craftsman replied cautiously: "One hundred and ninety-six catties..."

Good guy!
Fulai next to him was speechless. This hard bow is almost a small bed crossbow. I'm afraid no one can pull it apart from His Highness, right?

However, this is not over yet, the craftsman continued: "Your Highness, this bow is too powerful for ordinary arrows to withstand, so the arrows that match it are also special..."

Li Yuechen took down an arrow and looked at it. This arrow was not a pure wooden shaft, but made of bamboo and wood.

Well, the cost of even the simplest wooden arrows has remained high in this day and age. This bow and the matching arrows have to be specially made. It seems that even if I go to the battlefield in the future, there will not be many times when I need to use a bow. .

It seems that this bow of mine is destined to be used as a sniper rifle.

In fact, this is normal. Master Liu Rengui said that when you really go to the battlefield, you don't need to use a bow that is too big.

Geng Yunqiang, the prison guard, can draw a bow weighing more than [-] jin in terms of strength, but when on the battlefield, he may choose a bow of about [-] jin to use.

After all, the situation on the battlefield is complex and changeable. If you use a bow with extreme strength, you may not be able to shoot a few arrows and you will lose your strength.

Li Yuechen didn't really care, even though the bow weighed 96 jin, it still hadn't reached her limit strength.

And she knew very well that this kind of bow was not suitable for riding and shooting, but only for sniping.

When it comes time to go to the battlefield, if you want to ride and shoot, it is better to use the iron bow without the eccentric wheel installed before.

Li Yuechen, who wanted to try it out, stuck the arrow back and asked Fulai to hold it, planning to go to Renshou Hall to show his parents.

After all, although the arrow can be used repeatedly, its service life will be shortened every time it is launched, so it is better to use it as little as possible.

……

When they came to Renshou Hall, Li Yuechen excitedly said: "Grandfather and Mother, the baby's bow is made!"

In the room, Li Xian and Li Lun happened to be there too, and they had just greeted them, having tea and chatting together.

Hearing that Li Yuechen arrived first, the couple raised their heads and saw the big bow in Fulai's hand, which seemed to them to be a bit strange and unidentifiable.

After Li Yuechen took it over, he handed it to Li Zhi: "Grandpa, take a look, how is it?"

The moment Li Zhi took it, he felt his hand sink, which was much heavier than ordinary bows.

Then I instinctively grasped the grip, raised my hand and made a bow-drawing motion to try it out.

He didn't really try to pull it. This bow was bigger and heavier than the last one. He definitely couldn't pull it by himself.

Li Zhi looked at the long weight rod under the bow body: "Chen'er, what is this thing for?"

"Keep your balance!" Li Yuechen roughly explained, and then explained to him the usage of many accessories such as sights and stoppers.

My mother, Wu Zetian, also looked at it curiously, and even took the bow and lifted it up to try it out in an aiming posture.

Li Zhi looked interested: "Go, go and try!"

The guardhouse is next to the palace, not far away, and the family set off at the same time to see the effect.

Li Xian and Li Lun both held the big bow along the way, you looked at me and touched it, and they even pulled Li Yuechen to ask some questions from time to time.

The two of them have also been exposed to archery, but because of this, they can see how out of date this bow is.

When they arrived at the guardhouse, Li Yuechen put on the jade mask and ordered the soldiers to move the target farther away.

While the soldiers were about to do it, they all looked at the strangely shaped bow in her hand curiously.

After a while, several hay targets were set up 100 meters away.

There were no chairs in the guardhouse, and Li Zhi and the others stood by and watched.

Li Yuechen didn't talk nonsense, after taking down an arrow, he opened his bow and set the arrow to aim.

When the bowstring was fully drawn, the eccentric wheels on both sides rotated half a circle, and Li Yuechen immediately felt that the pressure on his hands was much less.

With a sound of "咻", the arrow flew out instantly, but the target in front did not respond at all!
Li Zhi and the others raised their eyebrows, did they miss the target?
Li Yuechen calmly waved to the soldiers next to him: "Go and see!"

"Yes!"

The soldier agreed, and hurriedly ran to the target to observe it, and then ran back with the target.

"Saint, the target has been penetrated! The arrow still made a small hole on the wall behind!" The soldier reported and handed the target to Li Zhi.

Looking at the small hole in the half-inch-thick wooden board behind, the husband and wife and the two elder brothers looked surprised, and even gasped slightly.

Half an inch thick solid wood can penetrate, and the target has no reaction at all, the strength of this arrow can already be imagined.

With this kind of strength, not to mention ordinary armor, even a rounder one can penetrate it with one arrow!
If it is on the battlefield, it can be said that it is where to fight!
The most important thing is that the accuracy of this thing is much higher than the bed crossbow!It can be said that it is a sharp weapon specially used to kill the enemy's senior generals!

In this era, in order to ensure morale, the generals are extremely conspicuous, and they can be distinguished at a glance!

If you can snip the enemy general before starting the battle, then this battle will basically be crushed!

Thinking of this, Li Zhi suddenly became a little excited, and his face began to turn a little red!

　Thanks to [Lin Yin] for the reward of 100 starting coins!
　　
　
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