The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 66: Here Comes the Abbess!

"Yingqing, try this crossbow, does it work?" Song Yingkui handed a freshly made single-shot crossbow to Song Yingqing, a cousin of the Song family in Yangxili who was helping at the side, to let him feel if he could get started.

The people in the village have basically never used a bow, so it doesn't make much sense to ask them to use a bow to shoot arrows.A crossbow is easier to use than a bow, so Song Yingkui chose to make a crossbow.

Song Yingqing pulled the strings of the crossbow and pulled it to the trigger, then put an arrow in the crossbow slot, aimed at a tree in front of him and pulled the trigger, and the arrow pierced the tree trunk with a whoosh.

"Brother Kui, you still can do it, and you actually made a good bow. The Yang family is very thin. How many bows do you have? Now we also have bows. Let's see how long they can be proud." Song Yingqing stroked the steel crossbow in his hand, and praised his distant cousin Song Yingkui.

"It's not a bow, it's a crossbow. It's much easier to use than a bow, but it's not as easy to carry as a bow." You can't even tell the difference between a bow and a crossbow. What nonsense are you talking about.

Judging from the test situation, the power of the crossbow made is not bad, and it should have certain practical value.It is really not easy to make spring steel in this era. Song Yingkui used a crucible to melt molten iron several times before he got a pot of molten steel with a suitable carbon content.To be able to produce such a pot of steel, in addition to technology, you have to rely on luck.

The skeleton of the crossbow is made of hardwood, that is, two spring steel plates are hooped on the back of the crossbow for elasticity, which is no different from the normal ancient crossbow in terms of structure.Originally, it was conceivable to use the concept of compound bows of later generations to make crossbows, but due to time constraints, we can only make a useful one in a simple way first.

The furnace of spring steel melted out is enough to make three crossbows at most, and there are no raw materials left to make this thing.Almost all the weapons that can be relied on at the moment have been made, two muskets, ten spears, six knives, a few long axes, plus the three crossbows that are being made, and a hundred or so arrows, these are all the weapons that can be used to resist the rebellion of the barbarians.

With this bit of equipment, can we survive this chaos?No one knows.As far as this may already be the best-equipped existence of several Zhuangzi nearby.

"Brother Kui, wipe off your sweat. This is the cold boiled water I gave you. It tastes just right. Take a sip quickly." Song Yingkui hurriedly took out the remaining two crossbows to make them while someone was holding the finished crossbow to familiarize themselves with how to use it.Ding Yumei ran over with water and persuaded him to drink.

Ever since the whole family fled to the Song family's kiln to take refuge, Ding Yumei, a girl, has been circling around Song Yingkui every day without avoiding others.Although Ding Derong and his wife had great opinions, they couldn't speak directly.At such a time, Song Yingkui was the pillar in the hearts of all the people in the village, and he did not dare to offend easily.

"Yumei, do you think your parents will agree to marry you to me after the chaos?" After taking a sip of the cold boiled water that Ding Yumei handed over, Song Yingkui became restless and worried about the future of himself and Ding Yumei.

Originally, the attitude of Ding Yumei's family made Song Yingkui mentally prepared to lift his pants and refuse to admit it.Who would have imagined that after the chaos, he and Ding Yumei would have a chance to get along again.

In the past few days, this girl has been wandering around in front of me, not to mention, the more she looks at it, the more pleasing it is, it is not bad to marry this girl as a wife?

"I don't care what my mother-in-law thinks. Anyway, I want to be your wife. If I can't, I will die!" Ding Yumei said harsh words while wiping Song Yingkui with a towel.

"Don't worry about whether you're dead or not. When the trouble subsides, I'll marry you in. If you and your mother don't agree, you won't be able to!" There was a woman next to her who asked about her coldness and warmth, but she didn't want to marry herself. In fact, she was pretty good.

The love between children is always short-lived. In today's chaos, there is still too much leisure time to pay attention to the affairs of men and women?After finishing the crossbow, Song Yingkui hurriedly took the people in the village to practice guarding the kiln together, and trained the third uncle how to use the matchlock gun by the way.

The kiln guarding force is mainly divided into two parts. The third uncle led a dozen or so most well-dressed people in the village to guard the lower kiln entrance, and Song Yingkui led other people to support and support the several caves opened to the cliff on the second floor kiln.

The most important thing for the so-called support and support is to throw stones down, and don't approach the entrance of the cave if you hit the chaotic soldiers.Crossbows and flintlock guns are also arranged at the openings on the second floor, the purpose of which is the same as that of smashing stones, to prevent the enemy from approaching.

After the enemy came, the hole on the ground floor would be sealed with a doorknob made of large logs, leaving only a small shooting hole, and Uncle San used an arquebus loaded with shotguns to hit the shooting hole.If there is an enemy who escaped the blocking on the second floor and rushed to the entrance of the cave, fire an arquebus to blast him out.If you shoot a matchlock gun with shotguns at close range, the power is still very good.

The matchlock gun was handed over to the third uncle to guard the entrance of the cave because it was more reliable than the flintlock gun at critical moments.

"Third father, you have to continue to use the musket to become proficient. The charging speed is too slow now. I am afraid that the enemy will attack too fast and it will be too late to fire the second shot." The third uncle has been practicing how to use the matchlock gun for the past few days.

"With this thing, I saw that the vicious people can't attack our kiln, and the gun can scare them to death. When I shot for the first time, I was terrified. After a few shots in the past few days, I became more courageous. The thin beads shot out by this thing, as long as I hit someone, I can't die." After using the matchlock gun a few times, the third uncle fell in love with this thing. Let anyone touch his gun.

I hope that as Uncle San said, the enemy can't get close to the entrance of the kiln.It was the first time in his life that he had such close contact with war. Song Yingkui was very uncertain, but he couldn't show it. He had to pretend to be full of confidence and confidence all day long.

At noon that day, Master Zhuang was eating lunch around Song Yingkui's house.Suddenly, the watchman on the top of the hill knocked on the gong and let out a sharp cry.

Hearing the sound, Song Yingkui hurriedly put down his job, and shouted loudly for Master Zhuang to run into the kiln.

After a while, several people watching the wind galloped to the entrance of the kiln on mules.

"The Fanzi came rushing to our village from the mountain road on the side of Liujiaying." The lookout who ran back, led the mule to the kiln and told what they saw. (The excavated kiln, Song Yingkui on the bottom floor, was converted into a livestock pen. It was mainly used to house valuable animals such as cows and mules. Fans would snatch anything when they came here. Pigs and chickens are not eligible to be housed. It is best not to let cows and mules be snatched away.)
"About how many Fanzi are there?" Song Yingkui grabbed a lookout and hurriedly asked about the specific situation of the enemy.

"I haven't counted them. There may be hundreds of people coming out of Niujiagou. They all rode horses. After leaving the valley, they divided into two groups. One group went up to Liujiaying Zhuangzi, and the other group came up to our village!"

(End of this chapter)