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"Sima, the White Wolf Camp?!"

In the main hall of the guardian palace in Bailang City, Ma Han was the first, Taishi Ci sat on the right side, Tangnu, Wu Zhui and others sat on the left side.

At this moment, Taishi Cizheng stared at a wooden plate with black edges and red base offered by the waiter. There was only a green bronze talisman in the plate, and the six words "White Wolf Camp Riding Sima" were engraved on it.

In the Han Dynasty, the chief officer of a unit or battalion was usually a lieutenant, and sometimes he was appointed as a commander and Sima was the deputy.

The Han Dynasty's lieutenant was not as valuable as the later dynasties. Even in the middle and late Three Kingdoms, the value of this lieutenant was greatly reduced. Various generals were flying all over the sky, and the lieutenant was nothing. But at the end of the Han Dynasty, the lieutenant was still very good. For example, the famous lieutenant of Xiyuan, such as the Huwuwan School Captain and the Huqiang School Captain were all high-ranking officials of two thousand stones, and usually only the emperor could appoint them. In the early years of the late Han Dynasty, when the influence of the Han Dynasty still existed, many princes who dominated the country did not dare to give their subordinates a lieutenant, but instead replaced them with Sima. This is why there were so many "Simas from other departments" under the command of the princes during the Three Kingdoms, but there were few "Simas from other departments" under them.

The first battalion or unit is usually one thousand to two thousand horses, which was already very good in the early days of the Three Kingdoms. So Sima was already synonymous with the lieutenant, and was enough to enter the ranks of quasi-senior officers.

Tangnu and Wu Zhui, these two loyal teams who followed Ma Han to start their business, are now just the job of Qu Junhou. When Taishi Ci came, they were pressed on them. However, they were not dissatisfied. One was that they completely obeyed Ma Han's orders, and the other was that they were convinced by Taishi Ci's courage and ability. Although they did not see the thrilling attacks of Ma Han and Taishi Ci, the courage of fighting alone was far from comparable to the powerful arm strength and archery skills of shooting nearly a hundred wolves. The grassland man respected heroes, not afraid that you would come from behind, but you would not be afraid that you would ride on your head without the ability to do so.

Taishici was both happy and hesitant to Ma Han.

In the late Zhongping, Taishi Ci was just a minor official from Donglai. Because he was entrusted by Shangguan, he chased him to the capital, took his official documents and destroyed his books with a knife, so he was hated by the prefectures and county officials and temples. As a result, he crossed the sea to Liaodong and began a two-year wandering life in Liaodong. Taishi Ci's behavior of destroying official documents was definitely a small group of people who were hit by the prosperous times, but in chaotic times, such behavior was a chivalrous act of being a heavy promise and being lighter. As a result, Kong Rong, a famous scholar in Beihai, sent envoys to visit him. After finding him, he could not find him and gave his mother food and clothing.

The price that Taishici paid was that he had wandered in a foreign land for two years, leaving his mother at home unable to support him. He gave up filial piety for the so-called righteousness. How many people in the world knew about the guilt and pain in his heart? He wanted to return to the government and return home in glory to comfort his mother. Now it was a great opportunity before his eyes. When Taishici fled Huang County, he was only a hundred stones of assisting Cao, and when he returned home, he was a thousand stones of riding Sima, he was definitely returning home in glory!

But Taishici was still hesitant. To be honest, he did not want to serve under the command of the Liaodong prefect Gongsun Du. In the past two years of wandering in Liaodong, he had made friends with many famous scholars with his heroic spirit. All of these famous scholars hated Gongsun Du. Gongsun Du repeatedly called him, but he refused to give in, so Taishici did not want to serve him.

Another point is that Taishici is not optimistic about the White Wolf City Lord Ma Han. The White Wolf City is not big, but its administrative scope is not small, covering nearly a hundred miles of the entire Bailang Mountain and its surrounding area. Moreover, western Liaoning is too desolate. The registered population of the county is less than 60,000, and there are only five counties in total, not as good as Donglai County. The surrounding area is full of miscellaneous Hu. How can there be any opportunity to make achievements in such a border area?

These unfavorable factors were entangled in Taishi Ci's mind, making it difficult for him to decide.

Ma Han still had some understanding of Taishi Ci's life history. Who made Taishi Ziyi so glorious among the generals of the Three Kingdoms? And he also knew that Taishi Ci belonged to a talent that could be conquered. Because Taishi Ci was neither a famous family nor a powerful family, but a poor family. After Taishi Ci returned from Liaodong in history, he joined Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, in the village party, but he was not valued at all and was just a scout. At that time, someone advised Liu Yao to be a general, but Liu Yao laughed: "If I use Ziyi, Xu Zijiang will definitely laugh at me for not knowing how to use people."

In this way, an all-round talent with both civil and military skills and cavalry fighting and water fighting was idle because of his background and popularity. Even later, Sun Ce said, "If Ziyi abandoned me, who else can he join?" But in this different world, there is another person who dared to log in to Taishi Ci, and he should start first.

Ma Han also vaguely guessed what Taishi Ci was struggling with, but he was not convenient to say something clearly now, and he smiled and said, "If Ziyi cannot decide, let this talisman be put down first. Please stay with Ziyi for a while, and I will ask Ziyi for archery skills."

Taishici looked ashamed and waved his hands repeatedly: "The defeated soldiers under the commander, how dare you speak out about the arrows? Don't kill me?"

Ma Han looked sincere: "You are not as good as me in two hundred steps; I am not as good as you within a hundred steps. How could the name of Taishi Ziyi Shenzhe be so empty? I hope my brother will give you advice."

Taishi Ci was deeply moved and paused his head and said, "The commander valued it so much, dare not answer?"

Ma Han let out a sigh of relief, squinted his eyes and smiled. Okay, I'm afraid you won't stay. As long as you don't let your hands go, you will sooner or later become my person... Hey, there seems to be something wrong...

...

Bailang City has a small land narrow, so Ma Han had to arrange some more important departments near the city guard's mansion, such as his crossbow research institute. He turned from the side door of the city guard's mansion, passed through a back-up, and entered a four-sided yard. This is the crossbow research and development base of Bailang City. Currently, the people responsible for the crossbow research are Meng Yuan and Ma Jun.

Ma Han had already understood that these two people were not masters and apprentices, but they were better than masters and apprentices. Meng Yuan was experienced and good at doing things; Ma Jun was very clever and good at research and development. When these two people cooperated, almost nothing could stump them. After Ma Han entered Bailang City, he directly handed a drawing of pulley bow to the two, asking them to take out the sample as soon as possible, put down the research on riding a crossbow first, and then ignored it. Until today, he received a report from the guards and the sample came out.

In the crossbow, Meng Yuan and Ma Jun were both here. These two people are now in charge. Jin Cao, who has a 200-stone rank. Although his official position is small, Meng Yuan, who is a poor peasant of eight generations, is already an extraordinary official. So much so that he is now blushing and wants to find his wife and children and reunite with his glory. When he does work, he is also full of energy.

Ma Jun's ancestors were officials, but he was the only one who was given 200-stone Cao Guan before he was a man. He was so enthusiastic that he had already sent a message home, but western Liaoning was too far away from Fufeng, and it had been more than a month since he had been sending the message home.

Among the group of officials who were actually appointed by Ma Han after he entered Bailang City, Meng Yuan and Ma Jun were the most criticized. After all, one of them was a craftsman and the other was underage, which was somewhat unpleasant. But Ma Han was far from the crowd and decided. While they were grateful, they secretly vowed to repay him. After receiving the task assigned by Ma Han, they finally completed it day and night, and took out the sample.

Ma Han is now holding Meng Yuan and Ma Jun’s hard work this month, a pulley bow. In modern times, whether it is a body bow, a competitive bow or a hunting bow, they are all pulley bows, with various labor-saving configurations that are amazingly labor-saving, such as sights, shock absorbers, archers, dispersers, main strings, string attachments, string stoppers, string splitters, bow cable sliders, etc. It is impossible to imitate one in the original form under ancient conditions. However, if you just simply learn from some labor-saving tools, it is still feasible. Ma Han’s drawings are only equipped with three devices: eccentric wheel, three strings, and chord guards. These are the three most basic devices of a pulley bow. If these three are made, a basic pulley bow will be made.

The device is very simple and the principle is not complicated. Meng Yuan took the drawings and poured cold water on a large bowl. He thought about it while thinking about it. He didn't finish a bowl of water, and he smacked his mouth and thought it through. He thought to himself, be good, this thing is going to be done, which is really a waste of effort. This thing called "eccentric chakra" is very difficult to do.

After more than half a month, he spent the rest of the pulley. He first found a blacksmith to cast the mold, then cast the parts, and then compared it. If he didn't work, he would come back. After several days of hard work, he finally came up with a qualified bronze piece. Then he polished it and polished it, and then installed the bow that was made early. It looked like that, but it was very astringent when pulling the strings. The bow was easy to pull a lot, but it felt very bad, which affected the accuracy and range. In the end, Ma Jun's clever thinking solved the problem.

Ma Han looked at the simple pulley bow in his hand with interest. It was a step bow. The bow was five feet long, and there was a single pulley on each upper and lower bow arms. Double strings were hung on the wheel, and a horizontal bar protruded above the grip, which was a string guard. Except for the strange appearance, the other ones were not much different from the bows of this era. Ma Han used his left hand to pull the strings and tried the bow power, and it felt that it should be between one stone and five stone.

Meng Yuan hurriedly said, "It's a kill of two bows."

Ma Han smiled and handed it to Ma Jun: "You try to show it to me."

Ma Jun scratched his head embarrassedly. He knew what the city lord meant. The city lord opened this bow like drinking boiled water, and he couldn't show anything at all. But he was different. He struggled to even pull the eight-dou bow on weekdays. If he could easily draw the bow, this bow would have meaning. However, his archery skills were really a bit shattered, and to reflect the performance of the bow, the target had to be at least fifty steps away... But seeing the city lord's bright eyes smiling, Ma Jun gritted his teeth and sacrificed his strength... he was embarrassed.

There is a narrow and long open space behind the Bow and Crossbow Research Institute, which is only three meters wide but thirty meters long. It is a shooting range used to detect the performance of crossbows.

Since actual combat bows and arrows pursue speed, the shorter the time, the more arrows are produced, the better, and accuracy is not important. Therefore, the pulley of the Marine is adjusted to have a large wheel diameter when the bow is drawn, and the wheel diameter is small when the bow is full. In this way, the resistance is small when the bow is drawn, and the resistance is greater as the backward pulls. Although it is not conducive to aiming, it can increase the rate of fire.

Ma Jun put on his wrist guard, his fingertips, took a deep breath, raised his bow and arrow, and his target was a human-shaped target of sixty steps. The bow string gradually spread out, the pulley rotated, and pressed the bow and arms to bend... When the bow was halfway open, Ma Jun's white face slightly swollen and red, gritted his teeth, and continued to pull the string. Until it was almost full, it suddenly loosened, and hello! An arrow flew out, rubbed the human-shaped target, and nailed it to an old tree at the base of the wall with a loud noise.

Ma Jun's face turned red and he took another arrow without saying a word. This arrow hit the target, and then another arrow... and then shot seven arrows in a row before he put down the pulley bow with panting.

Ma Han nodded secretly when he saw Ma Jun's arm strength. He could only use eight dou bows. If it was a normal bow that killed two dou, it would be great if he could pull it open. He could not shoot arrows at all, and it would be even more impossible to shoot seven arrows in a row.

Ma Han walked straight to the target and carefully looked at the penetration of the arrow, especially the arrow shot to the big tree in the courtyard wall and observed for a long time, and finally walked back with satisfaction.

"Is it difficult to create such bows in large quantities?" Ma Han asked Meng Yuan directly.

"It's very difficult." Meng Yuan said honestly, "The main reason is that the casting of pulleys is difficult, the waste rate is high, and I don't know if there are any one of the ten castings. Moreover, the diameters of the inner and outer wheels of the pulleys are different, curved and small holes. It's very troublesome to cast and polish..."

"How about adding the manpower?" Ma Han still held a glimmer of hope.

Meng Yuan swallowed his saliva and responded carefully: "If it can increase by 20 or 30 people, he can make a hundred and ten in three months."

Ma Han nodded, it was a little slower, and it would be difficult to assemble the troops on a large scale. However, if a group of rapid shooters were selected, there were not many. As long as there were a hundred people and such a bow was equipped, it would definitely crush Hu Qi.

"Okay, that's it!" Ma Han slapped his thigh, "Change the cavalry crossbow into a footbow for infantry to use. Before the spring of next year, you have to take out a mature footbow, and the pulley bow will reach 200. Oh, by the way, the most important thing is to convert my magic eye bow into a pulley bow, and it must be done within one month. Well, the pulley must be made of stainless steel."
Chapter completed!