Chapter 137 Sincerely Convinced
A few days later, Bai Dalang's crossbow team arrived. Before they settled down, Li Dazhuang couldn't wait to see the power of these long-range crossbows.
Bai Li asked him to settle the people, register the weapons and put them into storage, and called his elder brother Bai Dalang to bring him a crossbow for him to practice with.
Bai Li, Luo Yang, Bai Dalang, Li Dazhuang and a few others brought a few soldiers to a woods outside the barracks.
It happened that a flock of wild geese flew by in the sky. Bai Dalang grabbed a crossbow and raised it to the sky. He pulled the trigger without even aiming. Twenty crossbow arrows were fired at the same time. After the sound of "chirp, chirp, chirp...", more than a dozen wild geese fell down.
Immediately, soldiers came forward to pick up and count them.
"One, two, three, four... nineteen, twenty!"
"General Li, Marshal Bai, a full twenty wild geese!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another soldier said hurriedly: "No, there are twenty-two, and here are four connected together."
Li Dazhuang took a closer look and found that it was true.
"Haha, with such a magical weapon, why fear the barbarians?"
Li Dazhuang laughed heartily from the bottom of his heart, sweeping away his previous depression and deadness.
“Let me try!”
As a general, he was of course proficient in riding, shooting, swordsmanship and spears.
Bai Dalang handed him a bow and explained how to shoot.
The sun was setting in the west and the birds were returning to their nests. He raised his bow and aimed at the sky. After a while, an arrow was shot out with a whoosh. After a long time, a small black dot fell down in the distance.
"Go and see where it fell."
Without waiting for General Li's orders, two soldiers rode out to look for him.
While waiting, General Li shot a few more arrows, all of which were long-range shots. Anyway, all he saw was a small black dot, so he fired it out of the blue.
A cup of tea later, the sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance, accompanied by the soldiers' shouts: "General Li, they've all hit the target!"
Everyone looked up and saw that the two men were each holding a few bloody birds. As the horses were running, the birds in their hands fluttered up and down, making it difficult for them to avoid being seen.
When he got closer, Li Dazhuang saw that the birds were all shot through the chest by an arrow. He shot a few arrows and hit several birds, and laughed with satisfaction.
"This distance must be over a thousand feet. This bow and arrow is simply amazing!"
"About a thousand feet. If you shoot from a high altitude, the range will be even longer."
"Great, great! I never thought the Marshal would be so accomplished at such a young age, able to create such a divine artifact. He's truly a god. Our Great Zhou will soon be proud of itself!"
"General Li, another 10,000 troops will arrive soon. Please make sure they are properly accommodated."
"Don't worry, the barracks are ready. The barracks that once housed 50,000 soldiers are now more than enough to accommodate 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers."
"That's good."
After saying this, Bai Li secretly worried about the fifty eight-ox crossbows and the ten thousand new recruits of the Bai family army that her father was escorting.
At this time, the team led by Bai Zongren and his brothers, who were escorting the Eight Ox Crossbows, were struggling to move forward in the mud a hundred miles away from Yuanzhou.
"One, two, three! Up!"
"Brother, this won't work. This crossbow base is made of thick wood, and it's too heavy when wet!"
Bai Zongrui wiped away the rain that blocked his vision and shouted loudly.
"Boom! Boom!"
As he shouted, a few spring thunders resounded across the earth, and it seemed that even the ground was shaking.
A heavy rain in March made the yellow mud road slippery and muddy. Once you stepped on it, you couldn't pull your feet out for a long time. When you finally did, your feet were covered in mud.
People slipped every three steps as they walked, and horses' hooves also slipped. The carriage pulling the Eight Ox Crossbow got stuck in a mud pit and couldn't be pulled out. The horses were restrained by the reins and raised their front hooves and screamed, and the carriage overturned. Bai Zongren and others didn't care that they were soaked, and hurriedly worked together to lift the carriage and then the Eight Ox Crossbow.
But the Eight Ox Crossbow was so heavy that the five men in a group didn't move it at all.
"Add a few more logs, turn it over, find a stabilizing point, tie it with ropes, and then add five more people to help lift it!"
Bai Zongren was also shouting while speaking, but there was nothing he could do. The sound of rain mixed with the thunder, and the sound was not loud enough to be heard even when it was right next to him.
"good!"
Bai Zongren was thinking at this moment, it would be great if his eldest son was here, at least there would be more people to help.
Bai Dalang and several of his cousins escorted the crossbow and archery team and traveled light, so although they set off a few days later, they were still much faster than Bai Zongren and his team.
Fifty eight-ox crossbows required fifty horse-drawn carriages. Nangong Min assigned a hundred people to him, and he and his two brothers were in charge.
Bai Li originally wanted to ask her father to lead 10,000 new soldiers, but unfortunately her father's imperial edict of appointment had not yet come down, and it was not easy for him, a commoner without a military position, to lead the troops, so he had to let Nangong Min and the Bai family army lead the troops together.
Bai Li frowned slightly as she looked at the heavy rain. She didn't know where her father's team was. No matter where they were, they would definitely be soaked by the rain!
"Little sister, are you worried about Dad and the others?"
"Yes, according to their pace, they should be in the Qiangzhou area by now, right?"
"Where the terrain is low, it would be even more troublesome if there were mountain torrents or rivers blocking the way."
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that? I'm just worried they might be in danger."
"There's nothing we can do even if there's danger. I just hope Dad and the others can protect the Eight Ox Crossbows."
"Brother, you are wrong. The Eight Oxen Crossbow is nothing. People are more important than it. I just hope that Dad will not make a mistake and abandon the dead things to save his life in a critical moment."
"Little sister, you don't understand. For us soldiers, completing our mission is more important than our lives."
What Bai Dalang didn't say was that transporting strategic materials is equivalent to going to the battlefield. No matter how dangerous and difficult it is, you cannot retreat or give up. Violators will be punished by military law.
Although my younger sister now holds military power, if she acts in a partial manner and fails to win the support of the people, her career as marshal will be over.
Bai Li looked at the rain in silence.
That's not what she thought. To her, nothing is more important than the lives of her loved ones.
As for strategic materials, military law will be put aside.
Otherwise, why would she agree to the emperor's request to bring new soldiers and repel Simon's army?
With her skills and space resources, wouldn't it be great if she could find a secluded place in the mountains with her family and live a stable and prosperous life?
It was because she knew that as descendants of military men, the Bai family would definitely not stand idly by and watch the territory of the Great Zhou being invaded and the people of the Great Zhou being slaughtered by the enemy, and live in peace in a corner.
But if she hadn't taken action, the Great Zhou would have been like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, with no chance of winning, and the lives of the Bai family's men would certainly not have been saved.
So - Bai Li originally wanted to rely on the space to support his parents when he came here, and try to live a life of lying down and doing nothing, but it was never realized.
She felt that she was destined to be a hard-working person. In her previous life, she hunted zombies every day without a moment's rest. Now that she traveled back to ancient times, she still had to go to the battlefield, but the opponent had changed.
"How about sending someone back to check?"
Bai Dalang was also worried about his father. Although he had two uncles to help him, they would suffer if a natural disaster occurred.
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