"The military book of the Great Qin State in the Western Regions..."

In the festival hall of Lianghuai Fushi, Jia Sidao handed over and repeated what he had just heard.

The person who told him this news was not someone else, but the essay of the artillery military management bureau, Lu Shihu. This thick and black civil servant was serving him at this moment and whispered: "My husband, the official thinks that what Chen Dexing said is not false. Most of his abilities come from this military book of the Great Qin State... Now I am afraid that the Northern Lu will also get the same military book and create an ordinary stone-making machine. My Song Dynasty will be in danger!"

Jia Sidao was just silent and finally smiled bitterly: "It is also a blessing for the officials to overcome difficulties this time..."

Lu Shihu's expression was extremely solemn, and he whispered: "I'm afraid that the stone-generating machine built by Chen Dexing would not be useful enough... This stone-generating machine comes from the Western Regions, and the countries in the Western Regions should have this thing, but the Mongolian cavalry will not destroy it all the way? It can be seen that this thing is on the battlefield, at least in land battles! Your husband must not place all the hope of breaking the enemy on Chen Dexing's artillery..."

Jia Sidao sneered and waved his hand, "I have my own opinions, Muban, please go and write to Lu Anfu. I will be able to destroy the enemy of the two Huaihe Rivers within three months. When the water rises next spring, I will lead the boat to the west to aid Jinghu and Sichuan. Moreover, I also received the stone-driven machine offered by Chen Dexing, equipped with iron cannons, which can cross the Sichuan River. Our army will definitely win in this battle!"

Can the Mongols be driven out of Lianghuai in three months? Lu Shihu looked puzzled and had not spoken yet. Jia Sidao turned around and patted his shoulder, "Mu Ban, don't think so much... I'd better hurry up and build Chen Dexing's stone-driven machine and learn the artillery army. In the future, Sichuan and Jinghu will also build artillery army. If you are willing to transfer to a small military capital, you will not be able to control the commander. If you still want to be a civil servant, I will transfer you to the military weapons station in front of the hall."

Being the commander-in-chief is certainly not Lu Shihu's ideal, but the military weapons station in front of the palace is a good man, and he is also a civil servant. Lu Shihu was overjoyed when he heard this and bowed and bowed. Just as he was about to say a few words of gratitude, he saw Liao Yingzhong coming in from outside in a hurry.

"Mu Ban, let's stop here today, you can retreat." Jia Sidao waved his hand and asked Lu Shihu to retreat, then repelled his left and right, leaving only him and Liao Yingzhong.

Liao Yingzhong only took a few steps to come up and lowered his voice and said, "Mr., that man is about to enter the city in person..."

"Enter the city in person?" Jia Sidao was shocked, "The news is accurate?"

"It's true! People have arrived outside the city," Liao Yingzhong showed joy, "It seems that big things are hopeful!"

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Crunch...

When Lu Shihu came to the yard where Chen Dexing lived in the artillery army camp, it was already afternoon of that day, and the training and mathematics classes in the army had ended. Standing outside the yard, he heard the sound of sawing wood and the sound of ding-dong dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong

"Officiale Lu, please wait, I'll inform you." An older artillery soldier at the door saluted to the visiting Lu Shihu.

"No need, I'll go in by myself." Lu Shihu waved his hand, raised his legs and walked into the yard. He and Chen Dexing were considered family friends, so they were naturally casual.

As expected, carpentry work was being done in the yard. Three or five carpenters were busy, either sawing, chiseling, or knocking, and were very busy. The spacious yard was a factory, with whole pieces of wood or semi-finished products everywhere, and several piles of wood scraps. The head of the family, Chen Dexing, who was already dispatched by the artillery army, was also in the yard. He was not wearing official uniforms, but was wearing a coarse cloth shirt and a footless head like the carpenters. He was dressed up as a craftsman, and he seemed to have participated in the labor. In his previous life, he could do some carpenter work, otherwise how could he make model aircraft by himself. At this time, he was holding a super-small wooden boat in his hand, and was explaining something to an old carpenter who was a little bit of.

"Master, Official Lu is here." Zhu Sijiu, who had just served as the general of Chen Dexing's personal army, shouted.

Chen Dexing just looked up and saw Lu Shihu walking in with a frown. He seemed to have something to worry about. I don’t know if it was because the current situation was unfavorable or something else.

"I don't know if Brother Shi arrived, I'll be welcomed by mistake. I'll forgive you for your crimes." Chen Dexing hurriedly handed the ship model in his hand to the old carpenter, then took a few steps forward and bowed.

Lu Shihu spread his eyebrows and smiled, "Qingzhi's virtuous nephew is so elegant that he is fiddling with wood art at home."

"What a wood art, it's all a little trick. If it weren't for building a stone generator, my nephew wouldn't have the time to do this."

Chen Dexing waved his hand and showed a helpless smile. It was the wartime, and the establishment of the artillery army was a secret in the army, so naturally he could not do it in a grand manner. Moreover, Chen Dexing had just offended the generals of the army in Yangzhou City, and it was time to keep a low profile. Therefore, all the ceremonies of the establishment of the artillery army were not held, but they only served a wine at noon today to reward less than a thousand soldiers and generals from the entire army. After eating the wine and meat, Chen Dexing found several carpenters with good skills to his residence and began to direct them to build models of three-layer pulp warships and stone generators.

As mentioned earlier, Chen Dexing was just a model aircraft enthusiast in his previous life. He did not really know how to build ships and machinery, so he could only cross the river by feeling the stones. He started with the model, magnified it little by little, and finally made the finished product. Moreover, Chen Dexing did not stand aside and commanded it, but also personally took action and worked together. He also communicated and summarized it with the craftsmen from time to time, without any official airs of a dignified commander.

Lu Shihu's eyes slowly swept through a pile of finished products and semi-finished products, and finally landed on a wooden stone-making machine that was more than two feet long and more than one foot wide.

The bottom of the stone generator is a square wooden frame, with two parallel triangular wooden frames on it. A thick wooden stick is also installed on the top of the two triangle wooden frames. The stick is wrapped with thick linen. At the front of the square wooden frame, two bowstrings—not two, but two strands composed of countless bowstrings—a hole made from the frame of the wooden frame and then fixed with thick and short wooden sticks. The two bowstrings are twisted in shape. When twisted together, a round stick was inserted in the middle, and a small iron pot was installed on one end of the wooden stick. A thick rope was tied to the wooden stick containing the iron pot, and it was connected to another round stick across the tail of the wooden rack. This round stick passed through the wooden frames on both sides of the tail of the wooden rack, and a turntable was installed at both ends. In addition, in many important parts of this stone generator, iron devices were used to reinforce them, and some parts were tied with ropes, and I don’t know what it was used for.

Although this stone generator is smaller, it can be used. Chen Dexing has just tried it.

"The stone generator... has been made? Have you tried it?" Lu Shihu walked forward in a few steps, walked around the pocket stone generator for a few times before looking at Chen Dexing and asked. "It's just a little smaller, is this thing really usable?"

"I've tried it. A stone generator that is two feet and five inches long and one foot and six inches wide can throw three kilograms of stone bullets to fifty steps. If the size is doubled, three kilograms of iron cannons should be allowed to 200 steps away."
Chapter completed!