More than an hour later, a bunch of fragmented wooden components were piled in the middle of the open space. Gao Muqing, Liang Qi and others stared at the round and curved wooden components in a daze. Liang Qi asked stupidly: "Military advisor, what are you doing here?"
Are you trying to tie up the bathtub?"
This sentence almost made Lin Jue depressed to death. But when he looked at the components on the ground, they really looked like they were going to be hoops for a big wooden barrel.
"Brother Liang, if this is a wooden barrel, it is not a bathing barrel, but a soul-calling barrel that can kill people." Lin Jue said with a smile.
These words made everyone even more curious. Lin Jue called a dozen craftsmen forward and personally guided them in assembling the components piece by piece. A strange octagonal horn gradually appeared in everyone's sight.
This object is about six feet long and more than three feet in diameter. It is larger in front and smaller in back. If it is erected, it does look like a large wooden barrel with a unique shape. However, it is not hollow inside. There are several horizontal boards hidden in the middle.
A wooden path connects them. Dozens of circular holes are densely drilled on the horizontal plates, about an inch wide. Several partition holes are connected and positioned opposite each other. They are made extremely finely.
"What the hell is this?" Everyone was confused.
Lin Jue chuckled and said: "You will soon know that there is still a lot of work to do. You don't have to wait here to see. When everything is ready, I will let you know its wonderful use."
Everyone had no choice but to keep silent and not ask. Lin Jue carefully inspected and polished the octagonal horn again, and ordered someone to fetch a bundle of iron-tipped arrows, and made some gestures into the horn. In this way,
, everyone seems to understand somewhat. Emotions are used to shoot arrows. But with such a cylindrical thing and no bow string, how to shoot arrows? It is even more unclear why. I don’t know what it means.
Not long after, someone came to report that the leader of Ruan Village had brought an envoy from Heifeng Village down the mountain to deliver a message. Gao Muqing and Liang Qi hurriedly asked Lin Jue to go and have a look, but Lin Jue waved his hand and said, "You can just go and see them."
, I don’t have time at the moment. It must be Qin Donghe and the others who have agreed to a decisive battle with us. You can just go and deal with it."
Gao Muqing had no choice but to take Liang Qi and others to meet someone. Half an hour later, Gao Muqing and Liang Qi returned to the open space behind the hall with stern faces, looking very nervous.
"Where's the military advisor?" Gao Muqing looked around but didn't see Lin Jue, so he asked the craftsman next to him.
"I'm here." Lin Jue stuck his head out from one end of the loudspeaker. His head was covered with sawdust.
"The inside needs to be polished smooth. I have to do it myself." Lin Jue retracted his head, holding a cloth bag filled with fine sand in his hand and vigorously polishing the internal components and wooden strips of the tube wall.
Gao Muqing was speechless, squatted down and called inside: "Come out, I have something to tell you."
Lin Jue's voice sounded loud and angry: "You just say it, I can hear it."
Gao Muqing frowned and said helplessly: "Things have changed... Qin Donghe sent someone to deliver a letter, and he has a new trick. Our plan..."
The sound of hula la la grinding paused.
"They rejected our challenge?" Lin Jue asked.
"No, they accepted it, but they... refused to fight in Luoyan Valley, and wanted us to go down the mountain to fight them in the Pheasant Ridge Valley in the south. What do you think we should do?" Gao Muqing whispered.
"So that's it. I thought they refused. Just accept it. The valley under Pheasant Ridge? It's also a good place for fighting. Very good, just go and answer them. Three days later, Pheasant Ridge
The next showdown will be a showdown. During these three days, no harassment or attack is allowed." Lin Jue said angrily.
"What? Can you agree to this? Military advisor, did we hear it correctly?" Liang Qi exclaimed in surprise.
Lin Jue stuck his head out again and said with a disgraced face: "You heard me right. A fight to the death in the valley below Pheasant Ridge is exactly what I want. Just go and reply to them."
Gao Muqing smacked his lips and said: "Can you discuss it with us carefully? Stop messing with this thing. The plan has changed, and you are still joking. How can the plan we discussed before be implemented? How can we use water to start a war in the Pheasant Ridge Valley?
Attack? I'm so anxious."
Lin Jue reluctantly climbed out of the barrel, stretched out his hand and patted himself. Smoke and dust suddenly flew everywhere. Several people around him coughed.
"Mu Qing, Brother Liang, I forgot to tell you that I changed my mind." Lin Jue said with a smile.
"Changed your mind? What do you mean?" Gao Muqing looked at him in surprise.
Lin Jue said with a smile: "It means that I don't plan to use the method of destroying the dike to defeat the enemy. I thought about it, firstly, that would cause too much damage to Luoyan Valley, and it would take too much time to rebuild.
The washed-out soil cannot be restored, and Luoyan Valley cannot be restored to life within at least two or three years. The price is too high. Moreover, this year's farming season will be delayed, and farming will be delayed. There will be a famine in the mountains this year. Then our troubles will be even greater.
Secondly, no one is spared from the flood. God is good at saving lives, so this method should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary, otherwise you may be punished by God."
Everyone stared blankly at Lin Jue. The military advisor was really two-skinned, and life and death were up to him. In the morning, he said that man could conquer nature, and that the ruined valley could be rebuilt as long as there were people around. Now he said that the cost was too high. In the morning, he also said
What can't be said about women's benevolence? Now that God is said to be good at life, the military advisor's thoughts have really become faster.
"How can you just change your mind? It was fine this morning, so why did you change your mind?" Gao Muqing said angrily.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Mu Qing, it's not that I'm fickle, but because the plan this morning actually won't work and they won't take the bait. In fact, you should also understand that Qin Donghe will definitely reject our proposal. Change it.
If it were you, and the opponent's strength is far inferior to yours, but he suddenly invites you to fight, wouldn't you be suspicious? Qin Donghe is not a fool, how could he be easily fooled?"
Gao Muqing smiled bitterly and said, "Did you already know that he would refuse? But you still kept us in the dark?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do this. I was just weighing the two plans. The battle is true, but which plan to implement depends on the actual situation. He refused to be in the valley
If he wants to fight, then he can fight at the foot of Pheasant Ridge according to his ideas. The plan goes on as usual, but it’s just another backup plan."
Gao Muqing frowned and said: "How can we fight with them under such circumstances? Their strength is five times ours. Do they really have to fight to the death? I don't understand."
Lin Jue laughed loudly, pointed at the octagonal cylinder beside him and said, "Do you think my work is in vain? As long as he dares to fight with us, he will lose. No matter where he is, the result will be the same."
Gao Muqing looked at the weird-looking loudspeaker and said, "Just this thing? I don't even know what it does."
Lin Jue smiled and said: "You just need to believe me and reply to the messenger and tell him that our Luoyan Army will fight to the death with them in the Pheasant Ridge Valley in three days. Victory or defeat will be determined in one battle and there will be no retreat. The rest will be
Leave the matter to me."
Gao Muqing, Liang Qi and others looked at each other. Lin Jue smiled, bent down and continued to get into the loudspeaker. Soon after, the sound of grinding continued. Gao Muqing sighed, turned around and left. Liang Qizhui
He said: "Master of the Dazhai, what should I do? Do you really follow what the military advisor said?"
Gao Muqing gritted his teeth and said: "Of course, although I don't understand what he is doing, I have absolute confidence in him. If I don't even believe his words, then who can I believe?"
…
For two consecutive days, the busyness in the open space behind Juyi Hall has not stopped. Lin Jue led hundreds of people to work day and night, carefully making octagonal horns one after another. Lin Jue treated himself as if he were
He was polishing and assembling it as carefully as a child. Gao Muqing and others did not dare to disturb him, but they could not help. They could only stand by and stare at his busy work back and forth.
However, for all the officers and men of the Luoyan Army, the enemy did not attack in the past two days, which gave them a great opportunity to recover their physical strength. The military advisor issued an order that everyone must eat and sleep, and no physical energy should be wasted on the fortifications.
Kamizhiru alerted his men to monitor the enemy's situation, and the others recuperated their strength. Of course, the Luoyan Army's fatigue could not be recovered in three or two days, but with these three or two days of good food and sleep, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them.
The opportunity to refresh your physical and mental strength is naturally of great benefit.
On the morning of the third day, work stopped on the construction site behind the Juyi Hall. A total of fifteen octagonal loudspeakers were completed. Lin Jue ordered people to cover them with black cloth and sent people to guard them closely. No one was allowed to touch the
Get closer. Then, the intense work enters the indoor stage.
In the morning, Lin Jue called Qin Chuncao and ordered her to carry all the iron-tipped long arrows in the warehouse in the village to the Juyi Hall. These iron-tipped long arrows are precious things. There are less than two thousand in the entire village. Then
I got it by the way during the Qingshi Suppression Robbery. There was no hard bow suitable for iron-tipped arrows in the village. Therefore, it was saved when the village was in short supply of arrows.
The mysteries were revealed layer by layer. At this moment, everyone understood that the thing that the military counselor was busy with was indeed a device for shooting bows and arrows. But how to shoot the arrows out of the cylinder is something that people can’t even wrap their heads around.
Things to understand.
"Military advisor, don't try to push me away, you know? I can't sleep well these days, and I feel like a cat is scratching my head, but please don't torture us anymore." Liang Qi begged Lin Jue.
Lin Jue laughed heartily, turned around and asked Qin Chuncao: "Master Qin, where are the large wooden boxes I asked you to carry when we went up the mountain?"
"Report to the military advisor. The military advisor said that we should take strict care of it, so I ordered people to carry the box to the secret room at the side of the Juyi Hall. It will be put together with the gold and silver in our cottage." Qin Chuncao hurriedly handed over his hand and reported back.
"Okay, let's go and take a look. Don't bring candles or torches, just hold up lanterns." Lin Jue said with a smile.
The crowd surrounded Lin Jue and Gao Muqing with suspicion and came to a stone door in the east. Qin Chuncao took out the key from his waist and unlocked the door. Several people pushed hard and pushed the heavy stone door open. Inside was a square circle.
It was an airtight little room several feet long. Under the light of a lantern, one could see that there were some gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins piled in the corner. The number was not large, and it looked like it would not exceed 20,000 taels. In such a large village, there was only this little gold and silver.
