stubborn thief

Chapter 29 Longbow
Yang Dingrui came here specifically to see the weapons.

This man has never practiced boxing, spear and stick, but he has a good body and a very handsome archery. This is almost all the changes that reading has brought to his life.

A good body is due to reading myopia. People generally think that myopia is a disease, and even think that Yang Dingrui is a frail person, so he makes him play Baduanjin, climb mountains, and hunt.

Baduanjin is not a martial art, but an ancient exercise method similar to radio gymnastics. To put it bluntly, it relies on a set of movements to make every part of the body move.

Moving is better than not moving.

Later, Yang Dingrui mentioned that he improved his living conditions and became rich and leisurely. These became his hobbies. He liked to read books more, looking for ancient archery books, military books, agricultural books, and everything.

In the end, it is the economic base that determines other things. After the middle school, I became a member of the imperial court. I can find a way to read more books. I can even go out and play for two months to find a book. Anyway, I have a reputation. You don't even need directions when you go out, you are very comfortable.

"The most suitable thing for you is the longbow. The giant Tang recruited infantrymen mostly used longbows, and the Song Dynasty villagers also used this. A fifty-pound tendon and horn bow can be worth [-] pounds of longbow, and a [-]-pound longbow can be worth a hundred pounds of bamboo bills. bow."

Yang Dingrui was beaming.

He was a jinshi and just resigned as a government official, and he had the spirit of a superior in his speech. Liu Xiangliang, a carpenter who was used to obeying orders, didn't even know who he was, so he brought pencils and ink fountains and put them aside for good life.

Yang Dingrui, holding the wood chips containing the tools, searched for himself on the ground, found a six-foot-long piece of wood, and began to paint by himself.

Liu Chengzong knew about the longbow he was talking about, but he had never seen it before. It was a single wooden bow that was popular in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was occasionally found in the folk in the Ming Dynasty, but the court war bows used more efficient tendons and horns. bow.

The choice of weapons depends on one's own technology on the one hand, and on the enemy on the other.

The tendon-horned bow is the best bow. According to Yang Dingrui, Liu Chengzong's bow with a bow strength of 130 catties can be equal to a long bow of [-] catties. As for the bamboo bow, it can withstand [-] catties.

130 catties, already more than the upper strength.

In the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, the fourth class of war bows set by the imperial court ranged from [-] to [-] jin, and [-] jin was the upper force at that time.

During the Wanli Apocalypse period, wars occurred frequently. In the north, there were first the armored cavalry of Altan Khan, and the double-armored horse-riding heavy infantry of the Jianzhou Guard Dragon and Tiger General Nurhaci, which put forward higher requirements for bow power.

Now the upper strength of the frontier army is 120 jin, and the lower strength is [-] jin. Liu Chengzong is currently using Zhang [-] jin bow.

In the past, he was able to use a hundred jins of war bow and four arrows in a row.

Appropriate is to find a balance between killing, precision and continuous release.

No matter how light the bow is, it is time to go to the guardhouse to find it.

The advantages of the longbow are that it is easy to make, single material, less man-hours, and moisture-resistant.

The last point is useless in northern Shaanxi, where the climate is extremely dry and cold, but its advantages of single material and less working hours are indeed very suitable for Xingpingli... In the environment of economic collapse, materials are not as easy to obtain as before.

Looking at Yang Dingrui who was scribbling a line, Liu Chengzong, who was standing on one side, nodded slowly.

Under the condition that there are not enough ribs and horns, the long bow is a clear road, a clear road that conforms to Liu Chengzong's plan.

"Just do this. I will stay here for a few days. If you don't understand anything about making bows, you can ask me."

Soon, Yang Dingrui's picture was good, and he even drew a bow training frame next to him. When he turned around, he found that Liu Chengzong was stunned, so he asked, "What are you thinking?"

"Ok?"

Liu Chengzong came back to his senses, smiled embarrassedly and said: "Xingpingli needs 150 bamboo bows, [-] continuous crossbows, and [-] long bows... Hey, let's count as much as you can make."

After that, he turned to look at Yang Dingrui.

In fact, he really wanted to ask, even if Yang Dingrui resigned from office, what would he do in their barren mountains and ridges, and would stay at their house for a few days.

Not unwelcome, just weird.

At the moment of the catastrophe, people feel flustered even if they have nothing to do. It is absolutely not the time to visit relatives and friends, not to mention that their family has not communicated with Yang Dingrui for many years.

But it was too abrupt and rude to ask this question. He just asked: "Sir used to work in Fucheng, and he knows a lot of things. I heard that Wang Zuohang hit Yaozhou. Do you think my family still has time?"

Yang Dingrui didn't look surprised, he walked a few steps outside the courtyard in deep thought, then turned his head and squinted his eyes with a confused look: "How long is the time, why do you say that?"

Liu Chengzong naturally followed the steps and walked out of the carpenter's yard, saying: "Yaozhou is a wealthy place in Hexi. There are porcelain kilns and many mines. There are many thieves. The government will save them.

He spread his hands in front of him, the meaning could not have been more clear.

The thieves dispersed, and the entire mountain in northern Shaanxi would have no peace. Whether or not these small groups of thieves found the Black Dragon Mountain in Panlongchuan, it would make the economy of the surrounding vulnerable villages worse, and the situation could only be more chaotic.

"The official army is scattered? Little lion, I'm afraid you think too much about the government."

Yang Dingrui sneered, shook his head and said, "I went back to Ansai from Fucheng, and then from Ansai City. The only place where I passed in order was Black Dragon Mountain."

"The government has searched all over the family, and no one knows whether it is Wang Zuohang or Wang Jiayin who hit Yaozhou, and no one knows whether the Guyuan frontier army is among them, and how many troops there are."

"Everywhere is hungry and poor, people are in a panic, the short term is January or February, and the long one is two or three months. I don't think it was the government that defeated the thieves in Yaozhou. Maybe the refugee thieves in Qingjian and Ansai will snatch them over there. The King of Huntian is very powerful, your family is guarding here, you need to prepare early."

Yang Dingrui said, there are also many uncertain emotions about the situation in his tone, no one can accurately say such things.

There may be few thieves coming in large numbers, at most just passing through the border, but the possibility of a small group attacking makes no one know for sure.

While talking, I don't know what Yang Dingrui's plan was, he suddenly turned around without head and tail, and said solemnly: "Lion, protect me to go to Ansai."

Ansai County is Yang Dingrui's hometown.

Ansai County is also Gao Yingxiang's hometown.

Before waiting for him to ask, Yang Dingrui paused for a moment and continued: "I killed someone in Ansai, and I fled all the way in a hurry, my family is still in Ansai, I want to ask you to protect me back, bring out my wife and children, and find another place to settle down. "

Liu Chengzong turned his head, and saw the strong guard in Yang Dingrui's eyes.

As if—as if this matter was such a great event in Yang Dingrui's heart.

Maybe this is really great for Jinshi.

But in the frontier army, people in the world, you kill me and I will kill you. Isn't that how the world works?
So he didn't ask more, just thought about it, and said, "It's better to pick up the family sooner rather than later. I'll borrow a few horses and find a friend, and I'll be able to leave in an hour."

(End of this chapter)