There was no way to get so many war horses in a moment. Without enough war horses, it was impossible to form a cavalry team.

Now Lu Zhishen can only put his idea of ​​dealing with the cavalry on the crossbow.

In the ironmaking factory, Lu Zhishen looked at a man with a figure of over seven feet and a numb face.

"Brother Tang Long, how is the foot crossbow made?"

Bows and arrows are more labor-saving and more convenient to carry. However, the bows must be made with dry corners, tendons, glue, silk, and lacquer, collectively known as "six materials".

A good bow and arrow will take at least two or three years to make it well.

Lu Zhishen couldn't wait for such a long time for two or three years.

Although the foot-pedal crossbow is very heavy and it is very laborious to pull it up. It requires pedaling with your feet and using both hands to pull it away. It is not convenient to carry it.

But the advantage is that the production time is much shorter than that of the bow.

Especially in Lu Zhishen, he asked people to use hardwood as crossbow bodies, and used soft iron to make crossbow arms, and ropes made of vine and hemp as crossbow strings.

Using soft iron to build crossbow arms is something that craftsmen have never done before, and no blacksmith can build it at the beginning.

It was the newly resigned Golden Leopard Tang Long who volunteered to stop the task.

Tang Long said: "The crossbow arms made of pig iron can meet the requirements of the temple. Although they weigh more than 40 kilograms, Xiaoke believes that he can also make better, lighter, longer-range foot crossbows. As long as the temple allows Xiaoke to continue trying!"

Lu Zhishen said, "You continue to experiment and create better crossbows. However, before making better crossbows, ask the craftsmen to make a batch of crossbows first. This will not only allow the blacksmiths to accumulate production experience, but also allow their subordinates to train and become familiar with crossbows!"

Tang Long nodded and said, "Xiaoke understands. Xiaoke is asking people to start making crossbows!"

Lu Zhishen reminded: "This is the best! Remember, the specifications of each part of the foot-pedal crossbow must be the same. You must use the caliper test I proposed. I want to make every part universal on every foot-pedal crossbow. Do you know?"

Tang Long nodded and said, "Xiaoke understands that the craftsmen are not used to using calipers to regulate parts at first. However, after a while, the craftsmen are familiar with the standardized production mentioned by the temple. Xiaoke believes that the production of crossbows will become more and more bulky in the future, and the output will become larger and larger."

Lu Zhishen patted Tang Long's shoulder. "That's good! As long as you do what I told you, I will not treat you badly! Starting next month, you will have a monthly salary of fifty taels. If you do it, you will have a reward!"

After being beaten by Lu Zhishen, the golden leopard Tang Long shouted excitedly: "Xie Jiansi!"

The Nine-tailed Turtle Tao Zongwang used to be just a farmer. Since he defected to Erlong Mountain, Lu Zhishen, he has now transformed into a craftsman.

When you see someone from Qingzhou, you should be polite when you wear gold and silver.

My money leopard Tang Long is a blacksmith and is very good at fighting. If he gets Lu Zhishen's injury, will it be far from becoming successful?

In order to gain Lu Zhishen's appreciation, Tang Long took out his energy and quickly completed the standardized production task ordered by Lu Zhishen.

Every part of the crossbow must be measured with a caliper and must not exceed the specification.

After leaving the ironmaking factory, Lu Zhishen took a few subordinates to another factory.

Lu Zhishen stood in front of a water truck and asked, "How is it? Can it work?"

Tao Zongwang picked up an arrow and looked at it, shook his head. "The temple, the arrow body polished by the water truck is still not smooth enough!"

Since ancient times, China has been equipped with a large number of crossbows in its heyday. As long as its national strength declines, the first thing that is cut off in its arms is the crossbows.

In addition to the troublesome production of crossbows, the cost of arrows is also a major reason.

Arrows need to be made of wood or bamboo to make arrows, copper and iron, or even bones to make arrows, and feathers to make tailmasts.

Whether it is the wood or bamboo, every good arrow must be carefully cut with a plane or a knife, and it must be rounded. This will reduce air resistance and make the enclave farther.

Moreover, because of this trouble, it takes a lot of effort to create an arrow.

However, bows and arrows form saturated attacks, which can bring killing weapons to the enemy.

This causes the arrow consumption to be very large.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou Yu wanted to harm Zhuge Liang. He needed 100,000 arrows at one's mouth.

It’s not that he spoke big, but that there were really not many 100,000 arrows.

When Li Ling retreated with 5,000 men, he shot 500,000 arrows in one day.

Originally, it would take ten or half a month for hundreds of people to make a 100,000 arrows. But Zhuge Liang actually spoke and could make it in three days.

Zhou Yu was surprised that Zhuge Liang dared to make 100,000 arrows in three days, which surprised him.

Arrows are expensive and troublesome, and they cannot be supported without strong national strength.

In order to deal with running and moving cavalry, crossbowmen need to fire more and faster. This will definitely cause greater arrow consumption.

If it is made purely by hand, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources. This is not cost-effective or practical for Erlongshan, which is now short of labor.

Lu Zhishen initially planned to use hydraulic power instead of artificial arrow making.

Now I heard Tao Zongwang say that the arrow body polished by the water wheel is still not smooth enough.

Lu Zhishen was disappointed and said, "Can you improve any more and increase the rotation speed of the plane?"

Tao Zongwang shook his head and said, "Shenzhen, the water truck is now placed in the fastest water flow. There is also a lard on the water truck, and the speed is the fastest!"

Lu Zhishen frowned and watched the waterwheel walk around.

What to do? What to do!

If you can't use the waterwheel, you will need more youth and strong people.

Lu Zhishen looked at the water wheel and suddenly thought of the machine tools in later generations.

He snapped his fingers and said, "Fix the plane, and then turn the arrows with a waterwheel. Try to see how it works?"

When Tao Zongwang heard this, he asked in confusion: "Shi Shi, is this OK?"

"If you don't try, how do you know it won't work? Let's try it now and see how the effect is?"

When Tao Zongwang heard this, he had to instruct his craftsmen to make the work according to the method stated by the temple.

Fix the plane, clamp the long wooden blocks, and put them on the rotating plate of the water truck.

The long wooden block suddenly turned rapidly. As soon as the wooden block turned, it immediately shredded a lot of wood chips against the plane.

Looking at the wooden blocks that were turning rapidly, Tao Zong opened his eyes wide open.

No!

Just after such a change, the effect was very different.

Looking at the flying arrow that became round, he shouted excitedly: "Shi Shi, okay! This time it's okay!"

After taking down the arrow, Tao Zongwang touched the arrow body and shouted excitedly: "Shen Temple, this arrow can be used!"

When Lu Zhishen heard that the method of making arrows by water trucks was feasible, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Since it is feasible, then make more water trucks like this, and ask people to make more arrows. We need a large number of arrows, and it is not too small. It is best to arrange three shifts to work without stopping for a day!"

Tao Zongwang nodded and agreed, "Don't worry, Xiaoke will ask someone to do it!"

"Um!"

The production of crossbows was on the right path, but the teacher who formed the crossbow camp encountered a problem.

When it comes to charging into battle, Erlongshan can find many good players now. Not to mention Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong and others, even Lu Fang and Yanshun, as long as Lu Zhishen gave the order, they would not frown and rushed with swords and guns.

But when it comes to archery, Lu Zhishen calculated a little bit. He found that among his subordinates, Yang Zhi's archery skills were the best.

However, Yang Zhi's archery skills can only be said to be good. If you want to talk about top archery skills, only Xiao Li Guang and Huarong knows.

Li Guanghua Rong?

Lu Zhishen had thought about slowly moving him to make him defect to him.

But now the Zeng family's affairs have made Lu Zhishen decide that he can't wait any longer.

On this day, Lu Zhishen came to Shi Jin. "Brother Shi, what is the situation with you and Hua Baoyan now? Do you want your brother to help you propose marriage?"

When Shi Jin heard this, he immediately said shyly: "...Brother alone is the master!"

When Lu Zhishen heard this, he certainly understood Shi Jin's meaning. What is the decision based on his brother? He just went to propose marriage quickly.

Lu Zhishen nodded. "Sha family understands, let's go to propose marriage to the Hua family!"

"Brother Thank you!" Shi Jin hurriedly said gratefully.

After leaving Shi Jin's courtyard, Lu Zhishen did not rashly go to Hua Rong's house.

Shi Jin likes Hua Baoyan, but does Hua Baoyan like Shi Jin?

Lu Zhishen must understand this, otherwise if others don’t like it, he will not only fail to succeed when he comes to propose marriage like this, but it will be a bad thing.

So before officially coming to propose marriage, I have to send someone to inquire about Hua Baoyan’s meaning.

Of course, Lu Zhishen knew it was not suitable to ask the girl's mind. He wanted Hu Sanniang to come forward.

In the Tianzi room of Longshan Inn, Lu Zhishen looked at the closed door.

He frowned and asked, "Is she here?"

The Hujiazhuang guest who was holding the door said in embarrassment: "She has been staying in the room these two days, but..."

"Speak straight away." Lu Zhishen said, but in fact, he had simply knocked on the door in his hand.

The Hu family's villager glanced at the gate and didn't say anything, but Lu Zhishen waited for a while but understood what the other party meant!

I had knocked on the door for so long, but no one came to open it. It seemed that Hu Sanniang was lying in the room and refused to come out to see anyone.

Lu Zhishen turned around helplessly and asked, "She has always been like this!"
To be continued...