bestfiction Chapter 176 The Princess Goes Mad
Chapter 176 The Princess Goes Mad
"Self-defense weapons? What good ideas does Ah Li have?"
Pei Heng was very curious about how many fantastic ideas his wife had in her head. He followed her into the study and saw Su Li sitting there, pen in hand, pondering for a long time before carefully beginning to draw on paper.
He drew for a while, then erased and revised it, his brows furrowed.
Pei Heng personally ground ink for her. The night was hazy, the snow reflecting white light, and a strange glow filled the room. The couple scribbled and revised under the lamplight.
I don't know how long it took, but I saw Su Li put down his pen and slapped the table and said:
"It's done!"
Pei Heng took a closer look.
At first glance, it looks like a bow.
But if you look closely, it's not like a bow. It looks more like a musket made of willow catkins, like a combination of a bow and a gun.
"what is this?"
Pei Heng looked at the blueprint, wondering what to call it. Then he heard Su Li say:
"This is called a military repeating crossbow!"
She pointed to the blueprint and explained, "This is the crossbow barrel. The cylindrical shape is the quiver, and this is the trigger. Pulling the trigger activates the mechanism, releasing the quiver. Each pull releases an arrow. The quiver can hold thirty short arrows. If you pull the trigger quickly enough, you can almost fire continuously."
"So it's called a repeating crossbow?"
Pei Heng said excitedly.
As a leading warrior in battle, he naturally understood the significance of a repeating crossbow! Shooting thirty arrows at once, the enemy had no chance to fight back.
"I just don't know what the weight is?"
He was worried that such a complicated repeating crossbow would be very heavy and bulky and difficult to carry.
"Don't worry, I'll have someone make it and you'll know."
Liu Xu's fire gun is the earliest and most primitive version of a gun. Although it is quite powerful when equipped with gunpowder, it is inconvenient to use.
It takes a lot of time to fill the gunpowder, load the bullet, and ignite it when firing.
To address this shortcoming of the musket, the weapon to deal with it must be fast!
Who says cold weapons can't beat hot weapons?
The Zhuge Crossbow invented by our ancestor Zhuge Kongming was more than enough to deal with crudely made firearms like Liuxu.
Not to mention, Su Li improved and modified the repeating crossbow based on Zhuge's repeating crossbow by incorporating the design concepts of modern military crossbows.
The next day, Su Li summoned the craftsman from the mansion. The craftsman was overwhelmed when he saw the blueprints. The things this lady crafted were becoming more and more complex and detailed each time. This time, he felt he had little confidence.
"This time the General and I will be with you!"
Pei Heng didn't go to the camp either, but stayed home to participate in the entire process. They all spent two days behind closed doors polishing and adjusting the design. When the finished product, a repeating crossbow, was ready the next evening, Pei Heng held it in his hands and couldn't let it go.
"This repeating crossbow is so exquisite that I can operate it with one hand." Pei Heng exclaimed repeatedly.
The perfect combination of fine steel and wood, the buttstock and the bow is simply a work of art.
"Let's go! Let's test its power."
Pei Heng excitedly pulled Su Li to the martial arts training ground.
He held the crossbow in one hand, took aim and pulled the trigger. With a slight crisp sound, a short arrow whizzed away and with a ding it pierced the target a hundred meters away. The arrow's momentum did not decrease and it continued to fly for nearly fifty steps before it hit the ground.
Pei Heng suddenly became energized and pulled the trigger continuously. More than a dozen short arrows were shot out one after another. With a bang, the target was shot into a sieve and then fell to the ground with a bang.
This time, even Su Li was shocked.
She knew the repeating crossbow was powerful, but she hadn't expected it to be this powerful! In close combat, it was practically invincible!
Oh my god! She made weapons!
You know, she was a furniture maker in her previous life!
"Ari! With this repeating crossbow, let alone muskets, we won't even be afraid of the fierce Beimang cavalry! Hahahahaha!"
Pei Heng laughed heartily, picked up Su Li and spun her around several times until she fainted. Then he put her down and said repeatedly:
"I'm going to the palace right now! I want to meet the emperor in secret! As long as I get the emperor's permission, we can start mass production. I want to commend you! Ah Li, you are my Daqi project!"
Pei Heng gave her a big kiss on the face, laughed loudly and went into the palace overnight.
Su Li covered her face and smiled.
Man!
There are so many wonderful things you haven't seen! A repeating crossbow gets you this excited? If you saw muskets, machine guns, cannons, sniper rifles, Dongfeng Express, and so on, wouldn't you go crazy?
Forget it, luckily she doesn't know how to make those! This single repeating crossbow is enough to drive her man crazy.
After two tiring days, I can finally have a good sleep.
Su Li returned to her room and fell asleep without even taking a shower. The next day, she woke up and found that Pei Heng had not returned home all night. She called Song Zhi to ask about him and learned that Pei Heng had left the palace the previous night and left the city to go to the Jingji camp that night.
As expected, he no longer needs his wife after having a baby.
Man!
The man was busy with his career, and Su Li finally had some free time.
After sorting out the accounts for a while, I listened to Songzhi and Songtao report the news in Shengjing City over the past two days. The most explosive one was the following.
"Madam, the day before yesterday, General Lin personally led a group of people to the Marquis' Mansion. I heard that General Lin even drew his sword on the spot and threatened to chop Pei Jiannan into pieces!"
"The Marquis' wife fainted on the spot. Pei Jiannan hid in the ancestral hall and didn't dare to show his face. In the end, it was the old lady who intervened, and the two families signed a divorce agreement. Only then did the matter rest."
"Before leaving, General Lin chopped the plaque on the gate of the Marquis' Mansion in half with a single sword strike!"
Song Tao spoke vividly, and her expression became more and more exciting as she spoke.
"General Lin is truly a man of steel!"
Su Li praised.
"anything else!"
Song Tao covered her mouth and laughed,
"Hahahaha, yesterday morning, just after dawn, a few people brought a cart full of manure and dumped it at the door of the Marquis' Mansion."
"The gate to the mansion, the stone lions at the gate, and the steps were all covered in excrement. The stench spread out and could be smelled all over the street. People on the street walked around the mansion, and the faces of the people there were all covered in excrement!"
"I just took a look from a distance. It was so smelly that I didn't dare get close! Otherwise I would have gone up to you and ridiculed you! Hahahaha..."
Song Tao had been holding it in for two days, and when she saw Su Li was finally free today, she quickly told him the story with some exaggeration.
Su Li was so stunned that she even forgot to drink water.
"Who is this! So capable! So amazing! He's a role model for our generation! Salute!"
At the same time, in the Lin Mansion.
Princess Li Yan stood in front of the bed and looked at her sister who was usually so arrogant, but now she was lying on the bed as quietly as a quail, with a pale and haggard face.
She was so disappointed with the result that she said angrily:
"Li Wei! Where's your usual fearless arrogance? A stinky man has tormented you like this? You're a disgrace to our Li family!"
Li Wei turned her head silently, her eyes blank.
"My sister is right. I have brought shame upon you."
"Hmph!" The eldest princess snorted coldly, "If you know you've been humiliated, then pull yourself together. Where's your dignity as a royal princess? Get up and teach that scumbag a lesson!"
But Li Wei was like a dead fish. Even though the princess spoke so harshly, she still didn't stir up the slightest ripple. She lowered her eyes and said:
"If the Imperial Sister came to lecture me, I heard it all. You can go back now."
After saying that, he turned over and ignored him.
"Useless things!"
The eldest princess was furious, but seeing that her sister wouldn't listen to a word she said, she angrily threw her sleeves and left.
After leaving the Lin Mansion, he said to Fang Gu:
"Splash! Keep splashing!"
"People come to my house every now and then to splash water on me!"
"The Pei family is so bold! How dare they bully my sister!"
Fang Gu hesitated for a moment and said:
"Princess, this throwing of feces is really disgusting. If people knew about it, I'm afraid it would be a disgrace to you, the princess."
"I just want to disgust them! They are not afraid of doing such disgusting things, so what should I be afraid of when I am upholding justice for the people? Imperial Concubine, come and scold me if you have the guts! They took advantage of my father's serious illness and tried to cover up everything. They were the ones who lost their dignity first!"
The eldest princess left angrily.