Chapter 78: A Blockbuster
(Bill: 24 more)
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the Zhang family's new mansion in Fangshi became lively again. Zhang Shengye greeted everyone in person.
Speaking of which, after the mansion was built, the Zhang family didn't have much.
It was first borrowed by the Black Iron Guild, and now it is borrowed by the Artifact Refining Guild—it should be said to be a 'quasi' Artifact Refining Guild.
Early in the morning, the place was crowded with people; the guards from various families and business houses completely sealed off the surrounding area, which aroused countless curiosity.
Carriages drove into the compound; a barrier rose above the compound, completely blocking the eyes of the outside world.
After arriving at the compound, everyone silently took a place and took out the things in the carriage or the storage ring.
Because the storage equipment is expensive, scarce, and the space is small, it can only be decorated with precious small things; bulky items must be transported by horse-drawn carriages.
But everyone's eyes were mostly focused on the items of the Zhang family.
The Zhang family placed three groups of items, all of which were unfamiliar.
The first group looks like a ballista, but the shape...is a bit weird, even exaggerated.
The second group is a bunch of large and small dark iron circles, which look very complicated, and I don't know what it is useful for.
The third group is a pile of tools, which are arranged neatly and orderly, but everyone can't understand them.
At this time, Zhang Hao was also looking at the items brought by the crowd. Everyone placed beautifully refined flying swords, war knives, crossbows, hidden weapons, spears, talismans, armor, shields, iron chains, mirrors, gourds, array flags, thunder hammers, jewelry and accessories, etc.
In each item, there are many duplicates.
If you think about it, there are only a few magic weapons commonly used by cultivators; there are not many who play too offline.
Zheng Changqiu turned around and finally stopped in front of Zhang Hao: "Nephew, why don't we start with you? I can't understand anything about you."
Everyone agreed.
Zheng Changqiu pointed to the weird and exaggerated crossbow bed again, "Why don't we start with this."
Everyone's eyes focused on the Zhang family's crossbow bed.
The shape of the crossbow bed in front of him is extremely exaggerated, almost two feet wide, with a total of three pairs of six crossbow arms that are as thick as an adult's arm; different from ordinary crossbow arms, these crossbow arms are actually forged from black iron, and present a faint wave shape.
At the ends of the crossbow arms, there were round wheels; from the round wheels hung the bowstrings; and under the round wheels of each pair of crossbow arms hung three bowstrings instead of the same one.
The bowstring is also different, it is actually made of twisted thin black iron wires.
A total of nine bowstrings are submerged in a slider in an orderly manner. In front of the slider, there is a guide groove as thick as an arm.
Also, this ballista does not have the usual winch.
Zhang Hao was not polite, but he didn't introduce it immediately. Instead, he came to the crossbow bed and gently shook the turntable with a size of half a meter. It was very easy.
Compared to the ballista, compared to common winches, this turntable is really small.
But as Zhang Hao turned quickly, he heard a heavy crunching sound, the slider moved backwards, and then saw the crossbow arms bent down quickly, and the arms of the arms were bent backwards. , the iron cable made of twisted black iron wires is tightly stretched, and the chute moves backward quickly.
The creaking, buzzing, and crunching sounds became deeper and deeper, and everyone's expressions changed slightly, feeling the power of this steel monster. They all moved away from the front of the crossbow bed.
Finally, with a click, the slider snaps onto a raised snap point.
Zhang Hao commanded two guards to twitch an arm-thin, three-foot-long 'super crossbow bolt' from under the crossbow bed.
This crossbow weighs almost 400 kilograms. The two guards easily placed the 'bolt' on the rail groove, and the tail stuck on the slider.
This crossbow bolt is also extremely extraordinary, in addition to the dense array patterns on the surface, there are two deep spiral grooves extending from the tip to the tail. The 'Crossbow Arrow' has no tail feathers or anything like that.
Seeing such a strange crossbow, everyone became suspicious: this thing won't roll in mid-air, it would be a joke.
Zheng Changqiu was also curious: "On this crossbow bolt, there is an armor-piercing formation and a forbidden ban, which is a bit rough. But what are these two spiral grooves for?
Also, without the tail feathers, would this roll over? "
"Then please take care of Uncle Zheng!" Zhang Hao said confidently.
At a distance of about 100 meters in front, thousands of rough iron ingots were placed. These are not smelted by the Zhang family themselves - too far away is not convenient for transportation, but custom-made from the surrounding black iron smelting families.
These dark iron ingots were stacked together and tied together with iron cables.
Zhang Hao finished aiming by looking at the mountain, and then forcefully moved the arm-length trigger.
But the slider that was fixed just now suddenly moved.
"Om..."
With a buzzing sound, the air seemed to be shaking; the movement of the crossbow firing even made the ground tremble a little.
Everyone only saw that the crossbow arm rebounded suddenly, and the crossbow bolt flew out like a bolt of lightning.
The crossbow bolts flew by, and there was only a faint hiss in the air.
"Bang!" There was a muffled sound, and the thick iron ingot in the distance exploded suddenly, and the iron chain was broken; and in the center, there was a bunch of candied haws!
Xuantie's arrow directly shot through four iron ingots, and finally sank into the fifth iron ingot.
"Hiss..." Everyone gasped. The physical defense ability of five iron ingots definitely exceeds the defense ability of the Nascent Soul Stage. Of course, the Nascent Soul Stage moves fast and can dodge; but when it comes to the battlefield, who the hell knows where the cold arrows come from.
Most importantly, such a powerful crossbow bed can knock down the strongest city wall bit by bit!
Everyone looked at the crossbow bed, then ran over to check the crossbow bolts and iron ingots in person, and finally confirmed that it was not their own eyesight.
At this time, everyone began to observe the shape of Zhang's crossbow bed with great interest. Compared with the traditional ballista shape, the Zhang family's ballista is so different.
First of all, the arm of this crossbow actually has a wave pattern; secondly, the bow string is twisted with very thin black iron wire, which is as thin as a hair, how did the Zhang family do it?
The entire crossbow arm and bowstring are all black iron with a purity of more than 90%; these alone are almost a ton of black iron.
Most of the remaining structures are made of rough iron, and there are some unfamiliar I-beams and triangular steels. However, the internal mechanical structure of the ballista is wrapped up and cannot be seen.
Everything is so strange, but the power is beyond doubt.
The most important thing is that such a powerful ballista is easy to operate; except for the process of loading the crossbow bolts and the transfer of the ballista, the rest can be completed by one person. And the crossbow, in fact, can also be done by yourself.
Everyone is a craftsman. In this prosperous age of practice, craftsmanship is not just about refining magic weapons, but also military equipment. Therefore, they saw the great value of this ballista at a glance.
Everyone looked a little surprised and even more shocked. I used to think that the Zhang family was just a black iron smelter, but I didn't want the Zhang family to give everyone a shocking answer.
After the sound of swallowing saliva, Zheng Changqiu began to ask cautiously: "This... nephew, can you explain, what is the reason for this crossbow bed?"