Chapter 181 The height of the temple (Nine)

The Five Tiger Generals of the Armory and the Five Tigers were indeed famous. With the Zhuge crossbow, and the complete range of various materials and tools, the Zhuge crossbow was successfully manufactured in two days.

The newly made crossbow is very similar to the Zhuge crossbow recorded in the records: the arrow box contains ten bullets, can be continuously fired, with an effective range of 80 steps, which is close to the longbow range, but is inferior to the Huanghua crossbow. The arrow shafts are all made of iron and have extremely strong penetration ability. Within fifty steps, they can easily penetrate the armor, and within twenty steps, they actually penetrate the Qing Party armor piece.

According to Hou Dayong's special requirements, the crossbow and arrow cassette can be disassembled, that is, a sergeant can install several arrow cassettes in advance, and after shooting one arrow cassette, quickly replace it with another arrow cassette and conduct uninterrupted shooting. In order to detect the performance of the new crossbow, the Ordnance Camp used multiple crossbows to perform uninterrupted shooting. When the newly made crossbows were replaced with the seventh arrow cassette, that is, after shooting seventy iron arrows in succession, they all had faults in different parts. To be on the safe side, the Ordnance Camp recommended that Zhuge crossbows should not use more than five magazines at a time.

Hou Dayong was very satisfied with the new crossbow and named the crossbow "Five Tiger General Crossbow" to commend Guo Baoyu and others for their replication and innovation, and each person also received a bonus for technological innovation. At the same time, Hou Dayong issued the "New Weapon Confidentiality Order", which included the "Five Tiger General Crossbow" as a special weapon and strictly controlled it.

After the successful test, Hou Dayong ordered the Ordnance Battalion to produce the "Five Tiger General Crossbows". In one month, the Ordnance Battalion produced 100 crossbows painted with black water paint. The first month was still in the exploration stage of manufacturing the "Five Tiger General Crossbows". Each step was recorded in detail in accordance with standardization requirements, including the failures. After the 100 "Five Tiger General Crossbows" were manufactured, the Ordnance Battalion had formulated a relatively reasonable production process. With the standard process, the manufacturing speed and quality can be guaranteed in the future.

All of these hundred "Five Tiger General Crossbows" were sent to the personal guards. Under Hou Dayong's strict order, the professional guards immediately began strict training. The professional guards were all archers selected from each army. After repeated tests of war, they had extremely rich combat experience. After obtaining these Five Tiger General Crossbows that can be fired continuously, they quickly understood what it means to fire the ground crossbows: in the two armies, if the five hundred personal guards fired the "Five Tiger General Crossbows" at the same time, they could shoot out five thousand iron arrows in a blink of an eye. If each person continuously fired five arrow boxes, it would be 25,000 iron arrows. In other words, the five hundred personal guards equipped with the "Five Tiger General Crossbows" would not suffer any loss even if they fought with a 10,000 cavalry, just in terms of the number of crossbow arrows fired.

The "Five Tiger General Crossbow" is definitely a disaster for the grassland riders.

I understood this truth. The entire guard team was extremely enthusiastic about practicing the use of the "Five Tiger General Crossbow". Because there were only one hundred new crossbows, the five soldiers shared one crossbow. As the sergeant burned incense, each soldier had only one incense training time. When one incense burned, the new crossbow was handed over to another soldier.

The personal guards were all extremely talented archers and soon mastered the new crossbow. A week later, Hou Dayong tested the training effect. When one hundred soldiers fired at the same time, the sound of "bang, bang" continued, and a thousand iron arrows shot the wooden target fifty steps away into a hedgehog.

Seeing this effect, Hou Dayong was even more happy: these "Five Tiger General Crossbows" are very similar to pistols, and they will definitely take advantage of short-term battles in the city.

While Hou Dayong stepped up training the personal guards, the Black Eagle Army Lion Camp moved to Lian County, and its sphere of influence reached the front-end place. It was already connected with the sphere of influence of the Richie Division, and the Richie Division selected twenty outstanding disciples to Lingzhou as officials, ten teachers to Lingzhou to teach, and ten other disciples were preparing to take the exam in Daliang. Liu Jiangqing originally went to Lingzhou to teach, but at Hou Dayong's suggestion, Liu Jiangqing would also participate in the Daliang Ministry of Rites.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-November, and the autumn weather in Lingzhou was clear and cool. The cattle and sheep on the grassland were all fat and strong. They had to use this body of fat to deal with the coming cold.

After three months of travel, the imperial envoy finally arrived in Lingzhou.

This time, the imperial envoy brought a series of orders for promotion: Hou Dayong replaced Li Gu as the governor of Situ and subordinate Shi Lang, to ping Zhangshi, and supervise the national history; Shi Hu took over Hou Dayong as the governor of Shuofang, Guo Jiong replaced Shi Hu as the deputy governor of Shuofang, and Bai Linwu officially became the commander-in-chief and returned to the official list of the Ministry of Personnel.

Chai Rong has carefully considered this arrangement.

The Black Eagle Army defeated tens of thousands of Khitan troops outside the town of Lian County. This was the biggest victory of the Great Zhou Dynasty fighting against the Khitan army. Chai Rong was happy and had some concerns about the combat power of the Black Eagle Army from the bottom of his heart. The four words "The tail is big and cannot be removed" were like flying mosquitoes everywhere, always entangling Chai Rong, making Chai Rong both happy and sad. In the end, Chai Rong decided to transfer Hou Dayong, the commander of the Black Eagle Army, back to the court.

Whoever takes over Hou Dayong's position has become a problem. According to Fan Zhi's proposal, Yanzhou Jiedushi Yuan Yu replaced Hou Dayong to command the Black Diao Army. Yuan Yu was an old man before Chai Rong became emperor. He was loyal to Chai Rong and served as the Jiedushi, which was considered an excellent candidate. Wang Pu opposed Yuan Yu's replacement as the head commander of the Black Diao Army, because Yuan Yu did not have enough military achievements and was difficult to control the Black Diao Army with great military achievements. If the employment of people was not appropriate, it would be suspected of destroying the Great Wall. Therefore, Shi Hu, deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedushi, took over the position of Hou Dayong.

At this time, the main force of the Great Zhou imperial guards fell into the southern line, and there were Khitan, Dangxiang, Uighur and other tribes eyeing each other on the northern border. The security of the northern border is an important factor restricting the war in the southern line. This time, the Khitan army dispatched tens of thousands of troops to move south. If it were not for the Black Eagle Army guarding the northern line, the war situation in the Great Zhou would inevitably be deteriorating.

Chai Rong weighed the pros and cons and adopted Wang Pu's suggestion. Shi Hu took over Hou Dayong's position, and Guo Jiong took over Shi Hu's position, trying to maintain the original combat effectiveness of the Black Eagle Army. Guo Jiong's father was a relative of Taizu Guo Weidi, and was also a friend of Chai Rong's previous emperor. With Guo Jiong on the northern line, I wish I had nothing to do.

Hou Dayong had made three months of preparation for the imperial envoy and had already prepared everything. Hou Dayong figured out Chai Rong's thoughts. After receiving the imperial edict, the earlier he arrived at Daliang, the more he could express his feelings. Therefore, after the imperial envoy rested in Lingzhou for ten days, Hou Dayong urged the imperial envoy to return to Daliang as soon as possible, regardless of the strong wind and snow.

Since Shi Gao Yueming learned that Hou Dayong was about to return to the court, he has fallen into inexplicable annoyance.

After his father came to pay homage to Hou Dayong, the scene of a man calling his father Shi Gaojin "Mr. Shi" always appeared in front of Shi Gaoyueming. This scene made Shi Gaoyueming truly understand what a concubine was. Thinking that after returning to Daliang, his concubine's identity became a man. From then on, he could not have a man alone, nor could he deceive himself. Shi Gaoyueming couldn't help but feel chilled all over. Although Hou Dayong once said that Fu Ying was a kind-hearted woman, Shi Gaoyueming felt even more uneasy when he thought that Fu Ying was the sister of the Queen of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Shi Gao Yueming wanted to follow his father to Helan Mountain several times to be a free falcon. However, when he saw his daughter Xiaoqing on the swaying bed, thinking about the husband he loved deeply, his heart softened again.

While hesitating, Shi Gaoyueming came to Fengsha House by taking advantage of some common things and carefully checked the location and road map of Helan Mountain. When she returned home, she drew it on silk based on her memory. After a day, Shi Gaoyueming took the opportunity to Fengsha's room, re-checked the map, and modified the wrong places. She was ready to go to the Pochao tribe where her father was.

Shi Gaojin was already the leader of the tribe of the great tribe at this time. His thirty years of wish was miraculously realized with the help of the Black Eagle military power.

After Shi Gaojin met Hou Dayong in Lingzhou, he stepped up his preparations to regain the position of patriarch of the Pochao clan. He contacted several tribe members and kept paying attention to the movements of the Pochao Black Sheep. In September, in order to compete for the grassland, the Pochao army fought a battle with the servants. Although the Pochao army won, they also suffered great losses. Taking advantage of this opportunity, in mid-October, Shi Gaojin borrowed the power of the Black Eagle Army's wolf camp. Under the guidance of several tribe members, he went deep into the northern foot of the Helan Mountains and attacked the Pochao clan's headquarters at night.

Pochao Black Sheep is an old man in his sixties. He lost his tax spirit back then and liked young and beautiful women the most. In September, Pochao Army fought several times with the Pugu tribe and robbed many beautiful women from the Pugu tribe. Pochao Black Sheep chose ten people to have fun in the tent and ordered these ten women to serve in the tent without a trace. Pochao Black Sheep's body has long been decayed. Although these women are beautiful, he is powerless to attack. He can only think of some strange ways to find the past youth.

Late one night, just as Pocha Black Sheep was proving that it was still strong in the tent, there were suddenly bursts of shouts, followed by fierce fighting. When Pocha Black Sheep ran out of the tent, his camp had already been washed away, and countless spear riders galloped in the camp. Pocha Black Sheep did not recognize who the enemy was. When he was stunned, an iron arrow shot from the darkness and hit his forehead directly. With a crisp "click", Pocha Black Sheep's head cracked a small hole and expanded rapidly.

At dawn, the Tax Tax Army of Possibly Black Sheep was captured by the Wolf Camp of the Black Eagle Army and Fang Dangzhichao's territory. Possibly Black Sheep had been iced into an ice cube. Behind him were ten servant girls, blood solidified on their snow-white bodies, which was particularly strange.

Although Shi Gaojin has been away from the Pochao clan for thirty years, he has been in contact with several tribe members and is not unfamiliar with the tribe members. After killing Pochao Black Sheep, he immediately sent someone to notify the former tribe members. Under the protection of the wolf camp and Fangdangjun, Shi Gaojin held the first tribe conference. Most of the tribes such as Dangxiang, Pugu, Tongluo and other tribes maintained the original elder system. In front of the butcher knife, the elder of Pochao ministry quickly elected Shi Gaojin, the son of the former tribe leader, as the new tribe leader.

After the Black Eagle Army's Wolf Camp returned to the camp, Shi Gaojin and Shi Gaozhichao, with the help of Fang Dangjun, selected 3,000 people from more than 100,000 tribes scattered in various places as a new tribe army. After Shi Gaojin obtained the position of patriarch, Shi Gaozhichao sent Shi Gaozhichao to Lingzhou and officially proposed that the Pocha tribe surrendered Hou Dayong.

Without any effort, Hou Dayong conquered the Pochao tribe, one of the eight tribes of the Dangxiang tribes, and obtained more than 100,000 tribes. He gave some bows, arrows and swords and guns seized from the Khitan army to the clan of the army to strengthen the strength of the Pochao tribe, so as not to be eaten by the Hu tribes around because of the loss of thousands of elite soldiers of Pochao Black Sheep.

Just when the army Gao Yueming was restless, the army Gao Zhichao sent an envoy for help. Heavy snow suddenly fell on Helan Mountain and many cattle and horses were frozen to death. Pochao's troops asked the Black Eagle Army to provide some food and grass, and spent the first winter when the house was Jin and became the clan leader. Hou Dayong agreed to the army's request for Jindi, and asked Bai Shuanghua to transport some food to Lian County.

December 16th is the auspicious day of the zodiac sign, and it is also the day when Hou Dayong leaves Lingzhou.

From the day the Black Eagle Army was founded, it was marked by Hou Dayong. Suddenly, when Hou Dayong returned to the court, officers at all levels seemed to have lost their backbone. Fortunately, Shi Hu and Guo Jiong were both old commanders, so the officers felt a little relieved.

On December 14th, Lingzhou, Tongxin, Xihuizhou, Jingyuan, Lianxian and other places gathered in Lingzhou to show off to the old commander Hou Dayong. Because the imperial envoy was in Lingzhou, the chief officers of each army took the imperial envoy as the target toast, and Hou Dayong personally toasted the first glass of wine. At this time, Hou Dayong was already the prime minister of the dynasty. After the imperial envoy announced the imperial edict, the task was completed and he became an ordinary fifth-rank official. After returning to the capital, there were many places that needed to rely on Hou Dayong. Seeing that Hou Dayong was toasting himself, he drank it without hesitation. Then, Hou Dayong personally held the hand of the imperial envoy and introduced the officials under his command to the imperial envoy one by one. The imperial envoy had a great alcohol tolerance, but after touching the large bowl of wine with the military and political envoys in Shuofang, if it were not for Hou Dayong's support, he would have been unable to stand firm.

When the imperial envoy and Tie Chuanyuan had the last glass of wine, the imperial envoy could no longer hold it back and spit out "wow" in one mouthful. Hou Dayong took the opportunity to say nothing and said: "Person Guard. Help the lord back to rest."

According to the practice of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial envoy generally had the responsibility of inspecting all directions. Hou Dayong did not want him to contact the generals of Lingzhou too much. However, if the Jieduan returned to the court, the local lords would not come to see him off, which would seem too artificial, so Hou Dayong still arranged this banquet.

The banquet officially began as soon as the imperial envoy left.

Hou Dayong picked up a large bowl of wine and stood in the middle of the hall. Ping held the wine bowl and didn't say anything for a long time. All the officers knew that Hou Dayong was about to start giving a wine speech, and they immediately became quiet. All the generals here followed him to fight in blood and fire for several years, and Hou Dayong held the wine bowl and looked at each other for a moment. The eyes of his subordinates showed complex expressions of respect and nostalgia.

"The first bowl of wine. According to the old rules, I wish you to kill the soldiers on the battlefield." Hou Dayong slowly poured the wine underground. The hall was paved with good bluestone. The wine entered the ground and splashed everywhere.

Following the movement of the Jiedushi, the officers poured the wine in the bowl on the ground.

"The second bowl of wine is to toast the warriors who are disabled in the Invalides."

"The third bowl of wine is toast the warriors here. Without you, how could the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty be as stable as a rock. Without you, how could the Black Eagle Army be so powerful that tonight, everyone will drink fine wine and not return without getting drunk."

On the evening of December 14, the fourth year of Xiande, Hou Dayong drank fine wine, drunk as if he was carried back to the Hou's mansion.

Shi Gaoyueming has not been asleep, waiting for Hou Dayong. When Hou Dayong was carried back, she asked Shi Gao Luqi to take Xiaoqing to sleep, and then personally wipe Hou Dayong's body and serve him to sleep.

Because parting was about to happen, Hou Dayong let go and drank the most wine since he joined the army. When he and Shi Hu met ten bowls of wine, they felt dizzy and then fell to the ground. After returning home, they crawled on the bed, vomited two large basins of filthy things, drank some honey water, and then fell asleep.

Perhaps it was alcohol that uncovered all the secrets lurking deep in memory. In his sleep, Hou Dayong returned to another world. He took his wife Xiaolin and his daughter out for a trip. The BMW was driving steadily on the highway. His daughter was sleeping in Xiaolin's arms. The car was floating in the car with his favorite old song "The Future is Bright". Suddenly, Xiaolin and her daughter were blown out of the car by a strong wind. She wanted to catch Xiaolin and her daughter, but she was weak and could not move a finger. Hou Dayong shouted desperately in her sleep.

Shi Gaoyueming sat by the bed, not daring to leave Hou Dayong for a moment. Hou Dayong opened his mouth wide, shed tears, and shouted some things he couldn't understand, as if he had encountered extremely sad things in his dream. Shi Gaoyueming looked at his beloved husband and thought about his life experience, and also sat by the bed crying.

Shi Gaoyueming kept kissing Hou Dayong's cheeks, tears wet Hou Dayong's clothes. Shi Gaoyueming said in Dangxiang's words: "Mr. Lang, I really don't want to leave you."

After the third update, Hou Dayong gradually fell asleep. It had been a few heavy snowfalls in Lingzhou in December, and the water surface had already frozen. However, due to the fire dragon land, the room was as warm as spring. Shi Gao Yueming put on a thin blanket and looked at Hou Dayong's innocent face in his sleep. He was as crazy as he was, and a few tears slowly slid down from the corners of his eyes.

The next morning, Hou Dayong got up on time. It was snowing outside the yard. Luo Qingsong and several guards cleaned the intermediate courtyard. Several guards muttered in a low voice.

A soldier has read some books and used quite elegant words, saying, "Last night, the Jiedushi was drunk, and it was still heavy snow this morning, so it was difficult for the Jiedushi to get up and practice in the morning." Another soldier retorted disdainfully: "You have only been here for a few months. I have been with the Jiedushi for two years. Not to mention snow, even if it is hail and knives, the Jiedushi must get up and practice in the morning." "The Jiedushi is about to be the prime minister, and the Prime Minister does not lead troops to fight, so there is no need to get up and practice in the morning every day." "The Jiedushi is the commander of the Black Eagle Army. Even if he becomes the prime minister, he must practice in the morning every day. If he doesn't believe it, we bet." "If you bet, we bet, we bet on the big pot of mutton in the Qingcheng Restaurant."
Chapter completed!