Yang Dingrui came here specifically to see the weapons.
This man has never practiced fists, feet, guns or sticks, but he has a good body and excellent archery skills. This is almost all the change that reading has brought to his life.
Good health is due to my short-sightedness from reading. People generally believe that myopia is a disease. They also think that Yang Dingrui is a frail and sickly person, so they let him play Baduanjin, climb mountains, and hunt.
Baduanjin is not a martial arts mental method, 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 won the imperial examination, improved his living conditions and became rich and leisurely. These became his hobbies. He preferred reading books, looking for ancient archery books, military books, agricultural books, and everything else.
After all, the financial foundation determines other things. After passing the imperial examination, he became a student member and was raised by the imperial court. He could find a way to read more books. He even spent three months traveling around the mountains and rivers just to find a book. Anyway, he has fame.
You don't even need a guide when you go out, it's very comfortable.
"The most suitable thing for you is the long bow. Longbows were mostly used when recruiting infantry in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the country warriors also used this. A fifty kilogram sinew bow can be worth a seventy kilogram long bow, and a seventy kilogram long bow can be worth a hundred kilograms of bamboo.
bow."
Yang Ding's eyebrows were dancing with joy.
He was a Jinshi scholar and a recently resigned government official, and he had the aura of a superior when he spoke. Liu Xiangliang, a carpenter who was accustomed to following orders, brought pencils and ink fountains and put them aside without even knowing who he was.
Yang Dingrui was holding the wood piece holding the tools, searching for himself on the ground, found a six-foot-long piece of wood, and started painting by himself.
Liu Chengzong knew about the longbow he was talking about, but had never seen it before. It was a single-piece wooden bow that was popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was occasionally seen among the people in the Ming Dynasty, but the imperial court's war bows all used more efficient ribs.
bow.
The choice of weapons depends on your own technology on the one hand, and the enemy you face on the other.
The tendon bow is the best bow. According to Yang Dingrui, Liu Chengzong's bow with a bow weight of 70 kilograms can be worth a hundred kilograms of long bow, and the bamboo bow can even hold up to a hundred and thirty kilograms.
One hundred and thirty kilograms is already more than the upper limit.
During the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set the fourth level of war bows, ranging from forty to seventy pounds. At that time, seventy pounds was the upper limit.
During the Wanli Tianqi period, wars broke out frequently. In the north, there were first the armored cavalry of Anda Khan, and then the double-armored horse heavy infantry of Jianzhou Guard Longhu General Nurhachi, which put forward higher requirements for bow power.
Nowadays, the upper force of the frontier army is one hundred and twenty kilograms, and the lower force is seventy kilograms. Liu Chengzong currently uses a seventy kilogram bow.
In the past, he could shoot four arrows with a hundred-jin war bow, but now with a seventy-jin bow, sometimes he would get into accidents even if he tried to shoot a volley of arrows.
Suitability means finding a balance between killing, precision and continuous release.
No matter how light the bow is, you have to go to the guard station to find it.
The advantages of the longbow are that it is easy to make, has a single material, requires less labor, and is resistant to moisture.
The last point is useless in today's extremely dry and cold climate in northern Shaanxi, but its advantages of single materials and fewer 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 drawing lines with his pen, Liu Chengzong, who was standing on one side, nodded slowly.
Under the condition that there are not enough tendon bows, the long bow is a clear way, a clear way that conforms to Liu Chengzong's plan.
"Just follow 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 drawings were so good that he even drew a bow training stand next to him. He turned around and found Liu Chengzong in a daze, so he asked: "What are you thinking about?"
"Um?"
Liu Chengzong came back to his senses and smiled sheepishly before saying: "Xingpingli needs one hundred and fifty bamboo bows, forty repeating crossbows, and thirty long bows... Hey, just take what you can."
After saying that, he turned to look at Yang Dingrui.
In fact, he really wanted to ask, even if Yang Dingrui resigned, what was he doing in their barren mountains and how many days would he stay at their house?
It's not that I'm not welcome, it's just strange.
In the face of a major disaster, people feel panicked even if they have nothing to do. It is not the time to travel around and visit relatives and friends, not to mention that their family has not had contact with Yang Dingrui for many years.
However, this question was too abrupt and seemed rude. He just asked: "Sir, he used to work in Fucheng and knows a lot of things. I heard that Wang Zuogao attacked Yaozhou. How much time do you think our family has?"
There was no surprise on Yang Dingrui's face. He walked a few steps outside the courtyard in deep thought, then turned his head and narrowed his eyes with a look of confusion: "How long does it take? Why do you say that?"
Liu Chengzong naturally followed suit and walked out of the carpenter's yard, saying: "Yaozhou is a wealthy place in the west of Hexi. It has porcelain kilns and many mines. Bandits are gathering in groups. The government must rescue them. When officers and soldiers arrive, the bandits are scattered. Time is running out."
He opened his hands in front of him, his meaning couldn't be clearer.
The bandits have dispersed, and there will no longer be peace in the mountains of northern Shaanxi. Regardless of whether these small groups of thieves will find the Black Dragon Mountain in Panlongchuan, they will make the surrounding extremely fragile village economy worse, and the situation will only become more chaotic.
"The officers and soldiers are gone and the thieves are scattered? Little Lion, I'm afraid you think too much of the government."
Yang Dingrui sneered, shook his head and said: "When I returned to Ansai from Fucheng, and from Ansai City to here, the only place where order was in order was Black Dragon Mountain."
"The government searched all the families, but no one knew whether it was Wang Zuogao or Wang Jiayin who attacked Yaozhou. No one knew whether the Guyuan border troops were among them and how many troops there were."
"There is hunger and poverty everywhere, and people are panicking. It can be as short as January or February, or as long as February or March. I think it may not be that the government defeated the Yaozhou bandits. Maybe the refugees in Qingjian and Ansai turned into thieves and looted them.
King Huntian is powerful, and your family needs to make preparations in advance to defend here."
Yang Dingrui said it all, with a lot of uncertainty about the situation in his tone. No one can say such things accurately.
There is almost no chance that thieves will come in large numbers, and at most they will just pass through the border, but the possibility of a small group invading is anyone's guess.
While talking, I didn't know what Yang Dingrui had planned. He suddenly turned around and said seriously: "Lion, protect me to go to Ansai."
Ansai County is Yang Dingrui’s hometown.
Ansai County is also the hometown of Gao Yingxiang.
Before he could ask the question, Yang Dingrui paused for a moment and continued: "I killed someone in Ansai and fled in a hurry. My family is still in Ansai. I would like to ask you to escort me back, take out my wife and children, and find another place to live.
"
Liu Chengzong turned his head and saw deep alertness in Yang Dingrui's eyes.
As if - as if this matter was such a big deal in Yang Dingrui's heart.
Maybe this is really a big deal for Jinshi.
But in the case of the frontier army, among the people in the world, you kill me and I kill you. Isn’t that how the world works?
So he didn't ask any more questions. He just thought about it and said, "It's better to pick up the family sooner rather than later. I'll borrow some horses and find a friend. We can set off in an hour."