Although Huang Zu and Huang Jun, also known as Huang Chengyan, are both direct sons of the Huang family, their relationship was originally not very good.
After Huang Zu became the head of the Huang family, Huang Chengyan left home to study in Luoyang, and the two became even more estranged from each other. However, Huang Chengyan's wife passed away while he was studying there, and Huang Zu took better care of his daughter Huang Yueying when she was still young. Dong Zhuo caused trouble in Luoyang.
At that time, Huang Jun returned to Jingzhou, and the relationship between the two improved greatly.
But then something happened that made Huang Jun very dissatisfied, and that was the marriage between Cai and Liu Biao - Huang Chengyan's wife was born in the Cai family, and she was Cai Xi's legitimate daughter Cai Jianjia, who is now "Mrs. Cai"
Sister, so Liu Biao is still Huang Yueying's uncle.
Huang Jun was so angry that he was studying abroad and had not been able to see his wife for the last time, which he always regretted. As for Mrs. Cai, Cai Shuang had asked Huang Jun before marrying Liu Biao and wanted to refuse the marriage. After all, no matter what Liu Biao did,
Handsome and talented, he was already in his forties when he came to Jingzhou. His sons were both older than Cai Shuang, and his first wife died not long ago.
After Huang Jun was entrusted, he started walking among the Cai, Huang, and Kuai families in Nanjun. After all, it was said to be a marriage, but in fact it was just a "ceremony" for the Nanjun family to join forces with Liu Biao to seize the interests of Jingzhou.
However, in the end, not only did he fail to convince his father-in-law and brother, but also... everyone knew that Huang Jun had a stubborn temper and were afraid that he would cause trouble, so they pretended to agree. Therefore, Huang Jun also told Cai Shuang not to worry.
In the end, Cai Shuang married Liu Biao, and even Huang Jun didn't know about it on the wedding day. When he saw Cai Shuang looking at him with resentment, Huang Jun was confused.
After that, Huang Jun took Huang Yueying directly to leave the Huang family and settled in Nanyang. He had no contact with Huang Zu for seven or eight years.
When I heard that Huang Zu was in trouble, only Huang Yueying came over quietly, and...it was just by the way.
It's just... Although Huang Zu knows some of Huang Yueying's strange things, he hasn't seen her in two years, and he hasn't had much contact with her in the past seven or eight years. Now Huang Yueying is only seventeen years old. In Huang Zu's eyes, she
She's still the same yellow-haired girl, so naturally I don't think she can do anything to help.
"I heard that the reason why my uncle was beaten to pieces by the General's Mansion before, that he was frightened, his legs were trembling, and he was in a terrible state... because he lost on a ship?" Huang Yueying asked in one breath.
"You have something to say! You don't need so many adjectives!" Huang Zu couldn't help but said angrily.
"Then I have a way to reduce uncle's disadvantage." Huang Yueying continued without caring.
"What? Do you have the blueprints of the warships?" Ancestor Huang's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and sighed: "No, what's the use of having the blueprints now? It's too late to build..."
"No, what I have time to build is not to build a ship... but to build a crossbow! That old guy with the pretty face is quite generous. Uncle, you have a lot of ready-made bow strings, bow arms, and ordinary crossbow mechanisms here.
Right?" Huang Yueying asked.
"Don't imitate your father! You're so rude...what do you mean by 'old man'? That's your uncle!" Huang Zu reprimanded.
"Eh? Did I say it was Liu Biao?" Huang Yueying pretended to look around.
"You've already said 'little pretty face', who else could he be?" Huang Zu said seriously.
However, Huang Yueying had already gone to get the cakes from the guest seat, and then... lifted the veil that originally covered the eyes, turned it upside down over the eyes, revealing the lower half of the face, and then put it into the exposed mouth.
Stuffed pastries.
Huang Zu:……
Huang Zu was accustomed to his niece's confusing behavior from time to time.
"The firing speed of crossbows is not as fast as that of short bows, and the firing speed is not as fast as that of long bows... The cliffs on both sides of the bank are actually equipped with heavy crossbows and stone. But as long as the opponent's infantry cooperates and cannot form a pincer attack, Jiangxia will be in danger and the Huang family will be in danger.
!" Huang Zu said and looked at Huang Yueying.
The latter also knew that the uncle was not expecting her, but hoping that her father would come back.
"Uncle, you can do it! I think with Bai Gong's nature, if Jiang Xia falls into his hands, the people may not be happy enough, and the Huang family will not die because of you, so you can rest assured." Huang Yueying rolled her eyes.
Although Huang Yueying had a good relationship with her uncle when she was a child, otherwise she wouldn't be here now, but... the one who has a better relationship with her is her aunt.
"You..." Huang Zu suspected that she deliberately made him angry.
"Didn't I say that I can just use my crossbow to temporarily confront the enemy's ship on the water. If you still can't defend it, then... um." Huang Yueying didn't say much, and just handed the blueprint to Huang Zu.
"What's the use of having more crossbows? You haven't seen that high-rise ship, carrying soldiers, releasing arrows five or six times faster than the crossbow, and it is stronger..." Huang Zu still complained.
However, after looking at the "Usage Method" column on the drawing, Huang Zu's eyes lit up and he said: "Can fire seven rounds in a row? Seriously?"
"It can fire up to twelve rounds in a row, but the material of Jiangxia's crossbow is not good, and there is no time to make it again, so we use the existing bow string, mechanism, and crossbow arm modification. Seven rounds is the limit." Huang Yueying said.
After Huang Zu heard this, he stood up and walked around the military tent twice. Then he called the general and asked him to send the drawings back to E City to supervise the construction urgently and use all available manpower. If there is not enough manpower, it will be overdrawn immediately!
Huang Zu couldn't build the five-toothed ship.
It’s too late to rebuild a battleship with comparable “firepower”!
But being able to use a repeating crossbow to increase the firepower of an individual soldier several times can have a similar effect...
"The crossbow box is complicated to manufacture, so it is very slow to load the arrows; after activating the mechanism once, seven arrows will be fired continuously without being able to stop midway, and the accuracy is very poor; in addition... the wear and tear on the mechanism is very serious, after using it about ten times,
There is a possibility of complete jamming, especially after twenty times, and the maximum service life is no more than thirty times." Huang Yueying said a series of weaknesses of the serial crossbow.
"It doesn't matter, now is not the time to talk about this." Huang Zu also understood that the "future" can only be achieved by delaying first.
"No, I just want to tell my uncle that I will watch from behind to see if there is anything worth improving." Huang Yueying said.
Huang Zu always felt as if he had been reduced to an experiment, but at this time he had no other choice.
"By the way! Uncle, I'm here to help you. If my father comes to see me later, you can't burn bridges by crossing the river." Huang Yueying reminded.
"Don't worry, your father won't find me here." How could Huang Zu not know that Huang Jun would never see him at all.
"That's best..." Huang Yueying muttered quietly.
Huang Zu felt a little strange and wondered if there was something else going on - Huang Yueying had been free-range when she was a child, and her father would not control her too much.
Cai Shuang's marriage to Liu Biao was a unanimous decision of several major noble families in Nanjun, not to mention Cai Xi's personal promotion. However... after all, because of this matter, Huang Yueying and he no longer had the closeness they had in childhood, so he couldn't ask more questions.
On the other hand, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have also mobilized their troops again. This time they are advancing by land and water. The land cavalry has also followed up. They are setting up camp step by step, as if they are going to completely capture Jiangxia...