Zhou Yi helped Gongsun Zhu, An Pinbai and Jiang Yunsheng stand up and said some words of comfort to their lives, and then invited them to enter the military craftsman's office for a look.
"Mr. Gongsun, our military workshop in Yongzhou has encountered some difficulties in smelting and casting. Can you please come and give us some advice?"
Gongsun Zhu quickly clasped his fists and saluted, "How dare you disobey me!"
"In that case, please come with me, three of you!"
Zhou Yi opened the way ahead. The closer he got to the military craftsman's station, the more excited Zhou Yi found out that the five masters and disciples of Gongsun Zhu were obviously exhausted from not doing anything this week.
As soon as Zhou Yi arrived at the military workshop, Shi Danian, who was in charge of managing the military workshop, immediately came up to him.
This Shi Danian is a blacksmith who has followed Zhou Yi since Pingliang County, and is now the head of the military forge.
When the craftsmen in the military workshop saw Zhou Yi arriving, they all stopped what they were doing and saluted Zhou Yi.
"Everyone get up and work!"
Shi Danian quickly approached Zhou Yi and asked with a smile: "Commander, what brought you here?"
"After spring begins, I will lead my troops to invade the hinterland of the Xiongnu, but I think our stock of arrows is only a million, which is far from enough!"
"So I invited our Chen country's number one foundry engineer to come and help us increase our production capacity."
When Shi Danian looked at Gongsun Zhu, whom Zhou Yi was referring to, he immediately showed a look of reverence.
Gongsun Zhu, An Pingbai and Jiang Yunsheng, who were following Zhou Yi, couldn't help showing black question mark faces after hearing Zhou Yi's words.
A mere million arrows?
A million dollars is still called a mere thing?
What a Versailles this is!
You must know that when An Pinbai was in charge of Youzhou, the number of arrows in the entire Youzhou was less than 100,000.
So An Pinbai said: "Commander, are there a little too many arrows? We should also build some other weapons and equipment, right?"
Zhou Yi shook his head and said: "The general's words are wrong. Although there are millions of arrows in the warehouse, we now have 200,000 soldiers in Yongzhou. On average, each person has 5 arrows. Calculated in this way Do you still think we have too much inventory?”
"Every soldier of our Yongzhou is a valuable asset. As the saying goes, tactics are used to intersperse the soldiers when they are poor, and firepower covers them when they are strong. Why do we need to fight hand-to-hand when we can kill them with crossbows?"
After Zhou Yi's explanation, An Pinbai and Jiang Yunsheng suddenly felt that the million arrows were not too many.
And An Pinbai gradually understood why Zhou Yi was able to win every battle without ever losing. For such a man who loved his soldiers as himself, how could the soldiers not die for him at the critical moment?
While Zhou Yi and An Pinbo were discussing the number of arrows, Gongsun Zhu suddenly noticed a pile of iron bars piled randomly at his feet.
Gongsun Zhu picked up the two iron rods on the ground and took a look. The two iron rods made a clanking sound when they hit each other. The next second, Gongsun Zhu's face suddenly changed.
Just by the sound of the clanging sound, Gongsun Zhu, who had decades of smelting experience, knew that what he had on hand was high-quality steel.
Gongsun Zhu hurriedly asked Shi Danian, the person in charge of the Xiang Military Craftsmanship Institute: "Who made this steel pillar? Why was it randomly discarded here?"
Shi Danian said with a naive smile: "Master Gongsun, you are talking about this rebar. The marshal got it from the Western Regions. We use it to make arrow equipment!"
When Gongsun Zhu heard this, he froze on the spot for a few seconds. He did not expect that the high-quality steel he had been pursuing all his life would be used as a material for making arrowheads here.
Shi Danian continued to say with a smile: "The steel that the commander got is good, but it is difficult to resmelt."
Gongsun Zhu held these two pieces of rebar and said angrily, trembling: "What a waste of nature, what a waste of nature!"
"Such a good steel is used by you to make arrowheads. What a waste!"
In Gongsun Zhu's view, materials like rebar are better than the meteorite iron sent by Yan Song. This material should be used to make magic weapons, not gadgets like arrowheads. Son.
If Gongsun Zhu could have such good steel, he would be able to make not only one Jade Dragon Sword, but also ten, a hundred, or a thousand swords.
At that time, all the eight swords and nine swords of the great Chen Dynasty were compared with the swords made by himself.
Zhou Yi looked at Gongsun Zhu, who was holding the rebar and looked excited and crazy, and thought to himself: "If I had known that this rebar was so attractive to Mr. Gongsun, why would I put so much effort into showing off? A piece of rebar was thrown in front of him!"
Zhou Yi walked up to Gongsun Zhu and said: "Mr. Gongsun, if you were here with me, you would have as much rebar as this. It's just that it's difficult to smelt. I don't know much about the technology, so I have to work hard for you." He and Shi Danian have worked hard to find ways to improve our smelting level."
"Don't worry, sir, I will do my best for you."
Although Gongsun Zhu kept staring at the rebar in his hand while speaking and did not look at Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi knew that Gongsun Zhu had completely returned to his heart.
Zhao Tiezhu, who was behind Zhou Yi, also reminded at this time: "Commander, the prototype of the Eight Bull Crossbow you asked us to develop has been completed. It is now on the school grounds. Please review it!"
"Oh? The prototype of the Eight Ox Crossbow has already been made?"
"Mr. Gongsun, General An, and Young Master Jiang, let's go see my mighty guard's new killing weapon together first!"
Gongsun Zhu was pulled by Zhou Yi, and then he reluctantly put down the rebar in his hand.
On the school grounds, the prototype of an eight-oxen crossbow has been set up at this moment.
Zhou Yi gave Shi Danian and Zhao Tiezhu the Eight Ox Crossbow graphics in the "Martial Classics General Essentials" to figure out the Eight Ox Crossbow for themselves. Zhou Yi didn't know how powerful the Eight Ox Crossbow they made was.
The eight-oxen crossbow is also called the three-bow bed crossbow. The one in front of Zhou Yi is composed of three twelve-stone strong crossbows. Although there are two winches behind it, several big men still need to work together to push it open.
Zhao Tiezhu ran over with a hammer in his hand and said excitedly: "Commander, this Eight Ox Crossbow has been loaded and aimed. Please press the trigger and fire the first arrow."
Zhou Yi did not refuse, picked up the hammer and climbed onto the Baniu crossbow bed. After identifying the target ahead, Zhou Yi slammed the hammer down, and the arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbow flew out with a buzz. In an instant, the flying arrow shaft disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Quick, quick, go see where the arrow flies and how far the attack is!"
A soldier received the order, immediately mounted his horse and galloped away in the direction of the arrow shaft.
