Putting the "wooden ox and flowing horse" aside for the time being, Wu Liang and the rest of the Hu army regrouped and continued to explore the tomb.

Apart from the "eight formations" above, this tomb has no extra tomb passages, so there are no side chambers worth exploring, but more niches placed in the walls on both sides.

Most of the items placed in the niches are relatively ordinary burial objects.

Pottery, copperware, and lacquerware are all available, and they are reasonably classified according to different functions and materials.

Daily practical utensils, such as Gui, Li, pots, jars, and other items are usually placed in the same niches, and at most they are differentiated based on size and specifications.

Stuff like this alone occupies several niches.

Wu Liang looked at them almost one by one and found that although these things were decorated with patterns that were commonly used in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were no written records on them. For Wu Liang now, there were not many historical research pictures, so there were not many

It attracted too much attention from Wu Liang.

As for the daily copperware and lacquered woodware.

Wu Liang looked more carefully in order to find semi-automatic instruments like "wooden ox and flowing horse" inside, so as to better understand and study the technological level and production technology of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Unfortunately, like those pottery, Wu Liang did not find anything worthy of attention in it.

"Aha——"

Everyone followed Wu Liang, showing great interest at first, but after a while, they began to behave like husbands who would accompany their wives shopping in later generations, and they all yawned out of boredom.

After all, Wu Liang had been looking at the contents of these niches for an hour.

In their eyes, these things are nothing more than worthless bottles and cans, and the fineness of workmanship is even worse than those they usually see. There is really nothing to look at.

"Old sir, does your talented brother look like this every time he enters the tomb?"

Having unlocked the "Kong Ming Lock" before, Zhuge Liang had obtained the qualification to eat dry food. At this moment, he was holding a piece of cake and talking to Yu Ji in a confused voice.

"if not?"

Yu Ji said, not surprised.

"I think that as tomb robbers, we should first find valuable gold and jade objects after entering the tomb. There is no need to waste our energy on these messy things. After all, we are a professional team of tomb robbers. Brother Youcai's move is a bit

The feeling of not doing your job properly.”

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment, tilted his head and said.

"Don't you understand this? The young master is not an ordinary tomb robber."

Yu Ji smiled and pretended to be profound and said, "Just like your uncle, he robbed the tomb to find the treasures of heaven and earth to save his life, so after entering the tomb, he would definitely look for the treasures of heaven and earth first, and the young master seemed to be looking for them too.

Anything other than gold and jade, the young master never mentioned it, and we never asked about it."

"Why not ask?"

Zhuge Liang was a little puzzled.

"Young master is unpredictable. If there are things that we should know, he will tell us. If we are not supposed to know, why should we bother... You are still young, and although you have some abilities, you are not very good at being a human being. You need to

You know that some things don’t necessarily require getting to the bottom of things, and you’ll understand later.”

After all, Yu Ji is a "master" who makes a living by fooling people. He fooled Zhuge Liang into being stunned with just a few words.

Zhuge Liang looked at him for a long time as if he didn't understand, and then asked a question that "doesn't necessarily require getting to the bottom of things": "What about the old gentleman? Why did you come to rob the tomb?"

"You kid, you have such a stupid head, you can't even teach me!"

Yu Ji's cheeks trembled and he almost laughed angrily. He raised his hand and gave Zhuge Liang a chestnut blow. However, he still shook his head and said, "I am a Taoist. How can the things of a Taoist be called 'stealing'? I follow the young master."

Traveling south and north is just to find the true meaning of Taoism and to seek the supreme fruit of Taoism hidden between heaven and earth."

"So...have you found the old gentleman?"

Zhuge Liang blinked again and asked.

"Not yet, but the young master is the person who is closest to success that I have ever seen. There is a saying that 'one person can achieve the Tao, a chicken or a dog can ascend to heaven.' If he finds the Tao, it will be of great benefit to me."

Yu Ji stroked his beard and said with a wise face.

"How many of them are there?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing and Yang Wanli and asked.

"That strong man... as far as I know, he was the kind who wanted to eat meat and drink wine to keep himself full."

Yu Ji knew that Wu Liang wanted to recruit Zhuge Liang, and also knew that Wu Liang had the ability to recognize people, so he regarded Zhuge Liang as one of his own. At the same time, in order to increase his own worth, he did not deliberately hide it, raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Said, "That woman, because the young master took something from her house, she wanted to ask for it back, so she pestered the young master. But now, not only did she not ask for the things back, but she also got herself involved. It was a typical compensation.

Madam, she lost her troops again."

"There is also the sergeant hugging the dog. His situation is a little more complicated... Let's put it this way, I suspect that he has a habit of cutting off his sleeves, and I have been coveting him for a long time. If I hadn't been guarding him tightly, I'm afraid he would have succeeded.

Therefore, I think that he insisted on following the young master to the tomb just to get close to me. However, I have been keeping my integrity for more than ninety years and will definitely not let him ruin his moral conduct. If you get a chance in the future, please advise me and teach him how to die.

Got this heart.”

"..."

After hearing this, Zhuge Liang's little mouth had grown into an "O" shape, and he forgot to chew the dry food in his mouth.

He has never seen such a chaotic relationship in his whole life, or even heard of it, especially the relationship between Yang Wanli and Yu Ji... it is simply chilling.

Is this a professional tomb robbing team?

I always feel like something is wrong.

But speaking of this, Wu Liang seems to be even more powerful. Leading such a group of rabble without ideals and ambitions to do such a dangerous thing, and still obeying his orders, is indeed not something ordinary people can do...

Just at this time.

Wu Liang's surprised voice suddenly came from the front: "Lian Nu! This is the legendary Lian Nu!"

Everyone hurriedly followed the sound.

Wu Liang was seen standing in front of a niche where weapons were placed.

There are several bronze long swords placed erected in the niche, as well as more than a dozen long swords and halberds. In addition, there are some long bows and arrow clusters bundled together.

But Wu Liang's attention was not on these weapons, but on a strange small object stored in a wooden box.

The small object was less than a foot long. It had a handle similar to the handle of a walking stick at the front end, a small rectangular box on the side, and a long T-shaped handle at the back end.

besides.

Above the front end of this small object, there is another one... It looks like a small curved bow placed sideways, but due to its age, the animal tendon strings of the small curved bow have been rotted and broken, making it loose and weak.

Next to this small object, there are a dozen long metal needles.

These long needles are only about half a foot long. Except that the heads are ground into sharp points, it is still unclear what they are used for...

But Wu Liang knew very well that this thing was the legendary "Liannu"!

Although there are slight differences in some details, it is generally very similar to the "repeating crossbow" discovered by later archaeologists in "No. 47 Warring States Chu Tomb in Qinjiazui, Jingzhou".

Wu Liang carefully picked up this small object and inspected it carefully.

This thing is composed of two parts: the magazine and the body. The mechanism is made of metal, and the magazine is made of wood and is rectangular in shape. There are two semicircular launch holes on the lower edge of the front end.

In addition, the crossbow machine is also equipped with "teeth" for hooking the string, "Wangshan" for aiming, and "hanging knife" for the trigger...

no doubt.

This is the same thing as the "Warring States Repeating Crossbow" unearthed in the "Warring States Period Chu Tomb" in later generations!

"Crash--!"

Wu Liang shook it slightly again, and indeed there was some sound of metal colliding with the wooden box in the rectangular wooden box placed on the upper part of the repeating crossbow. The special crossbow arrows in the shape of "long needle" were contained in it.

This thing is compact and can be easily operated by one person. Its function is somewhat similar to the "semi-automatic pistol" of later generations.

However, these "long-needle" specially-made crossbow arrows have no feathers at the tail and are easy to flip over in the air after being shot, so their accuracy and range are still relatively limited.

In addition, the manufacturing process is very complicated and there is no way to mass produce it.

therefore.

A "repeating crossbow" of this level cannot be used in large-scale wars like ordinary bows and arrows. At most, it can only briefly suppress or attack the enemy in small-scale hand-to-hand encounters.

Moreover, later archaeological analysis showed that the original purpose of such a "repeating crossbow" was actually mainly for the self-defense of princes and nobles.

It is also for this reason that the "Repeating Crossbow" is designed to be so small.

In this way, it is less likely to be discovered when hidden in the relatively loose robes of the ancients, and can have the effect of a sneak attack, similar to the "sleeve arrows" often mentioned in martial arts novels.

With this discovery by Wu Liang, there is no doubt that the archaeological record of the Celestial Dynasty has been refreshed.

Because with the unearthing of the "Warring States Repeating Crossbow", later archaeological circles generally believed that this semi-automatic repeating crossbow first appeared in the Warring States Period, but now Wu Liang can be very proud and responsible in saying: This matter must go forward.

It goes back hundreds of years, all the way to the earlier Spring and Autumn Period, because according to the "History of Qi", the relocation of Qiu Mu Cemetery happened in the Spring and Autumn Period!

in addition.

Wu Liang now has more reason to speculate that Zhuge Liang's "Zhuge Repeating Crossbow" must be derived from this "repeating crossbow"!

And Zhuge Liang must have used his ingenuity to improve and innovate it to a certain extent, making the "Zhuge Liannu" have a greater range and better accuracy, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to form the famous "Yuan Rong Army"

into a large-scale war.
To be continued...