Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

About one hundred steps, more than one hundred meters. The distance is not too close, and people with slightly poor eyesight probably can't even see the carrot clearly at such a distance, and Jun's magic arm can't shoot things that far away; but Guo Shao knew that he could, at least not miss the target.

The air was very cold, and Second Sister Fu's eyelashes trembled slightly. She clasped her hands in front of her mouth, pursed her light red smooth lips, and looked at Guo Shao with her smile back.

Guo Shao ignored her for a while, and jumped back and forth a few times in a very funny posture, like a frog. This action almost amused Fu Ermei. But when she saw that Guo Shao was not smiling, she held back her laughter, but watched him do those actions with great interest. He stood and twisted a few times as if dancing, shaking his limbs, and let out a long breath.

"Boom, boom..." Guo Shao could clearly feel his heart beating, and felt like reading after some activities. Don't think too much, he said silently.

The sound of his heartbeat seemed to be accompanied by faint drum music, and he followed the rhythm of his heart; the light white mist drifting leisurely in the cold air seemed to be the embodiment of the melody. Guo Shao murmured: "Everything is perfect." He gently took the arrow from the quiver, and every movement was calm, neither slow nor fast. Picking up the bow and setting the arrow, the muscles of the whole body are suddenly full of strength. The strong bow is pulled open with great strength, and the tendons are rattling softly under tension, as if a life is whispering: born for fighting!

The arrow stops aiming in the air, and the most appropriate moment can only be achieved consciously. Don't be too hasty; don't be too slow, it takes a lot of physical strength to keep the bow full, and it's easier to miss when you're exhausted.

"Crack!" The off-string arrow quickly pierced the air. A black shadow flashed, it was the carrot! The radish was overturned from the archery target by inertia.

"Shot!" Fu Ermei clapped her palms and said joyfully.

Guo Shao smiled and lowered his bow. Second Sister Fu came forward, took his hand and said, "You can shoot from such a distance, you just reminded me of playing a difficult piece..."

"It's back to normal." Guo Shao heaved a sigh of relief, then turned his head and said to Fu Ermei.

Second Sister Fu said: "My husband doesn't have to fight in person anymore, he is still so nervous about his martial arts."

Guo Shao said softly: "In this world, I find that most things are useless, but I rely on it to achieve leduo. I will not abandon it, just like it has always been reliable in countless fierce battles. People only see me standing in a high position and becoming powerful, but few people are interested in thinking about how I got here. Maybe it's luck, maybe it's your sister." He smiled.

"My sister won't choose you for no reason." Fu Ermei said thoughtfully.

"There is also the second sister." Guo Shao said, "There is a sentence that I wanted to say when I first met you, but I haven't said it yet. Before I have the right to approach you, I have done a lot and thought about it for a long time."

Second Sister Fu thought for a while and said with a smile, "So you've been thinking about him for a long time."

Guo Shao laughed "haha" after hearing this, and said, "In the end you still didn't escape from my palm."

Fu Ermei said softly: "I'm just waiting, when did you say you were going to run away?"

... Guo Shao gradually came out of the guilt towards Fu Ermei, and he gradually found a way to get along with Ermei tacitly. He asked for leave for three days in front of the palace. At first, he planned to make a special trip to accompany his second sister, but he didn't say anything, because he didn't want to make it too obvious that he wanted to make up for it.

For three days, he was indeed by Second Sister's side, not even taking a step apart.

Three days later, he still started to build a blacksmith's shop in the yard of his room, and called a few stout women and the blacksmith Lao Huang to help buy materials. Of course, the second sister didn't know how to do this kind of work, but she was very interested in what Guo Shao did, and she was busy serving tea, water, and meals, and watching him work.

The second sister wanted to be by his side anytime, but she wouldn't pester him. She was most interested in Guo Shao's thoughts. As she said, she wanted to know more about Guo Shao, and the second sister seemed obsessed with reading, and she regarded Guo Shao as her world.

He has the experience of running a blacksmith shop, and Huang Tiejiang is also an experienced blacksmith all his life. Now Guo Shao doesn't need to worry about the cost. He can call Huang Tiejiang to buy whatever he needs, and he is familiar with building bellows, shops, anvils and other facilities. But I have to go to work in the morning, and I only come back to work in the afternoon.

"The soup made by Yulian." Second Sister Fu took Yulian to the separate house in the courtyard that was used as a blacksmith's shop, and then added in a low voice, "I helped, I learned from Yulian."

Guo Shao took the towel from her hand and wiped off his sweat. Seeing Yulian serving soup silently, he smiled and said, "I remembered a joke. Liu Bang asked Fan Kui when he was poor, what would Brother Fan want to do when we are rich? Fan Kui said, I go to drink soy milk and ask for two bowls at a time, drink one bowl and pour another bowl; eat pancakes, eat one and throw one away, hmph!"

When Yulian brought the soup, Guo Shao deliberately touched her hand: "Isn't it funny?"

Yulian blushed, glanced at Fu Ermei quietly, and muttered: "I think Alang is the same as Fan Kuai, why are you still doing this kind of work?"

Second Sister Fu laughed and said, "No, the husband is Liu Bang."

Guo Shaogan laughed and was speechless. Second Sister Fu said: "However, Liu Bang and Fan Kui had such a conversation? Was it written by Tai Shigong? Why haven't I read it...it must have been fabricated by my husband." Guo Shao laughed and said, "That's why it's a joke."

After the two women delivered the soup and returned, Guo Shao continued to work for a while, and did not call it a day until dark.

When he returned to the inner garden, Second Sister Fu said at the door: "Husband, I ordered someone to boil the water, and you can take a shower and change clothes later." Guo Shao read the head, took Second Sister into the room next to the living room, and dug out a steel plate from a pile of weapons. He picked up a sword and tapped it "Dangdang" a few times, then turned to Second Sister Fu and said, "Don't look at it as ugly, I took it to participate in the Battle of Gaoping and the Battle of Wujun Town."

"Husband built the blacksmith shop to make another pair of armor like this?" Fu Ermei asked.

Guo Shaodao: "I have to think again, but I can ask others to do it for me. I want to make a new kind of armor... This one won't work, it's too heavy, it's just a piece of iron plate hung on the chest, and ordinary soldiers can't use it. Need to think again."

At this time Dong Sanmei came to the door and said, "Ah Lang, the hot water is ready."

After hearing this, Guo Shao took Fu Ermei out of the house. After taking a bath and eating, at night he took out the drawings and pondered for a long time before holding the lamp. He drew a few pieces of plate armor according to his own imagination, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that the craftsmanship was difficult to realize.

He didn't know much about metallurgy before, he only knew some common sense, but he knew a lot about blacksmithing at that time... The current craft can't do what is on the blueprint.

There are two kinds of iron making in this era: casting and forging. Cast ones can achieve more shapes, but are not strong enough, being brittle and thick; forging is a popular method of making weapons and armor. Repeated forging can not only remove impurities, but also adjust the carbon content of iron. If the craftsmanship is good, it can be forged into steel. As the saying goes, "steel is made by forging a hundred times". For example, weapons rely on repeated forging, but the efficiency is low.

However, most of the shapes cannot be achieved by hand forging, especially it is difficult to process large pieces.

Like Guo Shao's painting, it can't be forged at all. He changed it a bit, thinking that the front chest should be mainly protected on the battlefield, and it would be enough to make a breastplate first... But it is still difficult to forge it in one piece with a hammer. If the efficiency is too low, it is better to use the popular ring mail, which is more convenient for movement... What if stamping is used? Guo Shao put his hand on his chin.

Fu Ermei took the picture he put beside him, and looked at it seriously. Guo Shao ignored her and continued to draw some gears and pulleys on the draft paper with a pen.

He wrote casually on the paper: hydraulic forging machine. But thinking about it, it's hard to find a place to test that thing now, and the river is about to freeze in winter, and I haven't specialized in hydraulic transmission before. What's more, what can be realized by water power can also be achieved by manpower at the beginning, a group of people pull or use animal power.

Moving pulleys and gears can achieve the effect of adjusting force and direction. This is the physics knowledge Guo Shaoxue has learned, and he can only rely on these things.

So he drew a very absurd picture on paper. First, he randomly drew a group of people pulling a longer rope, and then there was a pulley on the rope... followed by adding ideas. Now gears can only be made of wood, even if the tooth pitch can be calculated, the bearing capacity and wear of wood is a big problem. Guo Shao thought it would be easier to use a pulley, and the rope could be replaced by an iron chain, as long as it is thick enough, it can withstand the force.

After a while, a picture of the engine moving back and forth appeared in his mind, and the realization of some kinetic energy conversion should be related to mechanical principles. He had studied the principle of mechanics before, but he regretted that he was not serious at the time, and now he basically gave it back to the teacher.

If the "power system" can be like a millstone, Guo Shao imagined a scene where a group of mules follow the millstone to grind the surface; then the rotational kinetic energy is converted into the linear motion of the forging hammer up and down through the device. This has the value of being put into practice.

what can we do about it? Guo Shao touched the back of his head.

Second Sister Fu yawned, and said, "I'm going to sleep first, husband, don't stay up too long."

Guo Shao read the head and pondered for a while, but couldn't figure it out. I haven't been exposed to these things for a long time, and I think about ancient things all day long, and I feel confused when I pick them up for a while. He simply put down the brush and walked to the bedroom, only to see that Second Sister Fu had already fallen asleep.

Guo Shao pressed the quilt for her on the bed, remembering that he hadn't been with Yulian and Yang for a long time... As soon as he got home, he was followed by Fu Ermei, and no one else had the guts to argue with her. He immediately left the bedroom quietly, seeing that the light in Yuqing's room was still on, he walked to the door, opened the door and said, "Yuqing, get up and lock the door of the hall, I'm going to rest elsewhere tonight."

Yuqing yanked the quilt over her neck and tightly covered her neck, staring at him. "I don't do anything to you, why stare at me?" Guo Shao said angrily, seeing that she was awake, he didn't stay any longer, then he turned to the hall, picked up a lantern, went out the gate and walked eastward from under the eaves.