The phoenix pattern is surging

How did you know? "

Li Ran smiled perfunctorily: "Maybe I read it in a book, but I can't remember the details. Let's not talk about this, can you get me a piece now?"

Yuan Mo stroked his beard and smiled: "Caomin collected a few pieces when he traveled around Danshan in his early years."

Li Ran was overjoyed: "Thank God!" Then he pulled Yuan Mo away, "Let's go and have a look."

When he came to the smelting room, Yuan Mo brought out three transparent crystals and put them on the table: "Is this what Your Highness is referring to?"

Li Ran picked up a piece and looked at it: "That's right. That's it!"

"Why does Your Highness need this thing?"

Li Ran smiled: "Don't worry. You will know soon."

He picked up the pen and paper on the table, and drew a few strokes on the picture. What he drew was a piece of presbyopic glasses. Then he handed it to Yuan Mo and said, "Can it be done?"

Yuan Mo twirled his beard and thought for a while, then nodded: "Just polish it, it shouldn't be difficult. As for this pipe, you can use a bamboo pipe, and it's not hard to find."

"Okay. Then I'll leave it to you."

About three hours later, Yuan Mo came to see him with two finished products.

Li Ran almost greeted him personally, and when he saw him, he asked, "It's done so quickly?"

Yuan Mo took out a piece of convex crystal from his sleeve and presented it to him respectfully with a bamboo tube, saying, "Please take a look, Your Highness."

There was a cut at one end of the bamboo tube, Li Ran put the "convex mirror" in, looked closer, felt something was wrong, scanned up, down, left, and right, frowned quietly, and seemed to think of something, then laughed loudly I can't hide the excitement on my face...

However, Yuan Mo couldn't figure out the way from the beginning to the end.

He leaned over carefully: "But what's the problem? Your Highness?"

"How come? It's so useful!" Li Ran laughed, stretched out his hand and patted Yuan Mo's shoulder gratefully. There was a burning light in his eyes, but Yuan Mo suffered a lot. He slapped it twice and his bones creaked in pain.

Yuan Mo lamented in his heart: How can such an elegant person have such strength?

Li Ran was completely ignorant, and said to himself: "Mr. Yuan, I won't say more about thanking you. From now on, you will always follow me, and don't even think about changing jobs."

Yuan Mo was a little dumbfounded: "Your Highness?"

Li Ran laughed: "It's okay. Please help me make two more of these things, and I will thank you later."

"The grass-roots are terrified. It's a good thing His Highness doesn't dislike the crude skills of the grass-roots. If His Highness needs anything, you can just give one or two orders. The grass-roots can never afford His Highness's thanks."

Yuan Mo made a gesture to kneel, but Li Ran held his hand and said, "You can afford it! If you can afford it, you can afford it! That's fine, I don't need this kind of nonsense here, don't kneel all day Kneel down, if you are not tired, I will be tired."

He had always had no pretensions in front of others. As time passed, Yuan Mo felt more and more that this His Highness was a "corporate of courtesy and virtuousness".

Li Ran handed him the ancient version of the "telescope" in his hand: "When you get excited, you forget about it, and you always look at it yourself."

Yuan Mo looked puzzled, and took a look at it, and was taken aback when he saw it: "Your Highness, why is this happening?"

Li Ran smiled clearly: "Isn't it amazing?"

Yuan Mo nodded repeatedly, Li Ran pushed him out: "Go outside and have a look."

At this glance, I can really see some tricks, even the bees and butterflies resting on the peony flower in the imperial garden can be clearly seen.

Yuan Mo didn't know that he had already become the inventor of a simple "telescope" and successfully stepped into the ranks of inventors.

After the freshness, the old man frowned and said: "This thing is also miraculous, but it's a pity that I can't see it clearly."

Li Ran naturally knew what the problem was, and made a gesture on the tube: "A real telescope should have two mirrors at the front and back, so that you can see things without distortion. Well..." He glanced at the simple version in his hand and smiled nonchalantly, "Although It's a bit mushy, but it's not a big deal, as long as it works."

Yuan Mo was still very confused, and concentrated on studying with the "telescope", and finally said to himself: "I don't know if it can be improved? I always feel that there are some flaws."

Li Ran laughed. Seeing Yuan Mo's persistence, he couldn't help but mention something: "If you want to see more clearly, you can add a concave lens to the tube."

"concave lens?"

Li Ran took out the convex lens and made a comparison: "Contrary to this one, the surface is not convex, but concave."

"Is that all right?"

"almost."

Yuan Mo took the simple version and looked at it again and again, and finally said solemnly: "So, the grass-roots people will make it."

Li Ran nodded with a smile, thinking to himself that the old man really strives for excellence.

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As night fell, bonfires were lit in the camp.

Su Mo was reclining on the soft couch, holding an agate wine glass in his hand, the wine in the glass was as bright red as blood, making him as handsome as a night demon.

The bright yellow brocade fur drooped from the couch and was dragged onto the gold-woven five-color carpet, looking extremely rich.

Only this color is the symbol of imperial power and honor, and the symbol of the emperor.

It won't be long before the land under his feet and the person in Minghua Palace will become his Xiping Yinqian's property.

The wine is good wine, sweet and mellow, with endless aftertaste after drinking, Su Mo is a little intoxicated, but it's a pity that only wine has no beauty, it's very boring.

Su Mo shook the wine glass with one hand, and beckoned to Gong Huai'an: "Bring her here."

Gong Huai'an saluted respectfully, opened the curtain and left the tent, and after a cup of tea, brought in a charming woman.

This woman is none other than Xiang Qi's daughter Xiang Xinsu, the second princess of Danfeng.

Seeing someone coming, Su Mo smiled charmingly and hooked her hand. Xiang Xinsu took a few steps closer, smelled a strong smell of alcohol, frowned and said, "You're drunk."

"Drunk? How could I be drunk? You underestimate me."

Su Mo stretched out his hand to pull her over, and lifted her chin with a finger with a smile: "Now that I have come to your Danfeng territory, how do you feel special? Huh?"

Xiang Xinsu turned his face away, with a look of shame and indignation on his face: "You still know that this place is my Danfeng realm."

Su Mo didn't think it was pestering, and smiled silently: "You obviously have me in your heart, but you have to put on a look of hating me to the bone. Could it be that you are playing hard to get?"

Xiang Xinsu bit her lips and remained silent, but her face was already blushing.

Su Mo chuckled, holding his wine glass and staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Xiang Xinsu thought about it and said, "You... have something on your mind?"

Su Mo narrowed her peachy eyes, raised her eyebrows and said, "Then tell me, what can be on my mind?"

Xiang Xinsu thought for a while, and said eloquently: "It is imperative to take Danfeng from you. Although you, Xiping, are conspiring with Dongyue now, even if you can defeat Beiye, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. In the future Xiping and Dongyue will also have a fierce battle, not to mention that Beiye is definitely not a weak and small country, how can it be easily defeated?"

After a moment of silence, Su Mo clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "You are a bit insightful, it's a pity to be a woman."

Xiang Xinsu was unmoved: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's all the views of the world, and it's no different from mine. Could it be that women can't make contributions to the country's strategy? I just don't believe it."

She looked arrogant, indescribably pitiful and cute. Su Mo stared at her for a long time, a faint warmth gradually appeared in his eyes, he reached out and stroked Xiang Xinsu's face, and said softly: "You have a lot of backbone." .”

His expression was gentle, and Xiang Xinsu's face turned red again, making her look more and more charming. Against the backdrop of the candlelight, she was almost intoxicated.

Su Mo looked into her eyes for a moment, lost his mind for a moment, and then smiled: "Do you like me?"

"nonsense!"

Su Mo grinned: "That's it."

"you!"

"What? Like me makes you feel ashamed?"

"I only know that love is a matter of mutual gratification, even if I have feelings for you, but you are ruthless to me, what's the point?"

"Are the two in love?"

Su Mo smiled lightly, but his smile was a bit bitter, and he quickly recovered his calm. With a charming smile, he said: "I also believe that love grows with time, even if you are ruthless at the moment, and face each other for a long time, there will always be a moment of emotion. I am not in a hurry, and Can't wait."

Xiang Xinsu was slightly taken aback, and said nothing for a long time, her five fingers gripped the plain clothes, forming wrinkles all over her heart.

Nan Liuliran, who is it that makes this Xiping emperor so persistent?

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Two days later, Yuan Mo asked to see him, bringing his new finished product.

Li Ran took a look and was taken aback.

I thought to myself that this old man Yuan is really fucking talented, and he actually built an improved version of the telescope.

Li Ran praised while watching, Yuan Mo looked humble, and replied respectfully: "It is not troublesome to polish the water jade, but it took some effort to transform this pipe."

While he was talking and demonstrating, Li Ran looked at Wei Wei in amazement, secretly thinking that this thing even has an automatic retractable function, the old man is really a genius, a genius.

Yuan Mo was obviously a little excited, and couldn't stop talking as soon as he opened his mouth. Holding the improved sample, he continued, "Caomin later discovered that using bamboo tubes as tubes was not as good as cowhide, so he rolled the cowhide into a cylinder and stuffed it in a cylinder." Inside the bamboo tube, there is indeed a miraculous effect."

In fact, he was right. Modern telescopes are made with a layer of black paint on the inner tube to reflect light.Now Yuan Mo has used cowhide instead of black lacquer, which is a coincidence.

After hearing these words, Li Ran wished to give the old man a Nobel Prize in Physics as a sign of encouragement, and he laughed full of praise.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and on a moonless night three days later, the spies reported that the Xiping vanguard had arrived at Linyang, the capital city, five hundred miles away, only a day and a half away from Linyang.

The night was dark, and the entire Linyang City was so quiet that only the sound of the wind whistling could be heard, making people anxious for no reason.

Li Ran stood on the tower in battle armor with a solemn expression.

It was pitch black under the city wall lit by countless torches, and everyone was waiting, waiting for a sea of ​​flames formed by thousands of torches to appear in the distance of the city, waiting for the moment of decisive battle, and even death.

54

Standing beside Li Ran, Qu Lie sighed.

Li Ran was quite surprised: "Are you sighing?"

"I'm sorry, sir."

Li Ran waved his hand indifferently: "Do you have something on your mind?"

Qu Lie thought for a while, and said: "It is only now that I understand what it means to obey the fate and know people's affairs."

Li Ran laughed: "That doesn't sound like what you said."

"The minister is just a mortal."

He was so emotional that Li Ran became more and more curious, because Qu Lie was always indifferent, and it is really rare that he would be so emotional today.

Yan Wenbin was half a step behind the two of them, and he was also worried about the commander's ambush. Now hearing their deputy commander Yuexia's emotion, it is hard to hide the literati's sourness, and he snorted secretly, and said with a sneer: "The general is afraid Those thieves?"

Li Ran knew that he still couldn't let it go, and was about to persuade him, only to hear Qu Lie chuckled, and said quietly: "I always believe that there are always things that human beings can't do. Then when the victory or defeat is decided, you can know it well It's always good too. General Yan, do you think it's right?"

Yan Wenbin didn't take it seriously, and turned his face away with a cold snort.

Li Ran shook his head with a smile. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Monkey Cub shouting from a distance: "Master! Master!"

When Qu Lie heard this, he hurriedly saluted Li Ran and went down the city wall from the other side.

The monkey boy ran up, saw Li Ran, and asked, "Have you seen my master?"

Li Ran shouldn't, with Shi Shiran on his face, the monkey boy glanced at Yan Wenbin next to him, thinking to himself that this must be someone who can't be kicked, and he didn't make fun of himself, walked to Li Ran and stood side by side with him , smiled and asked: "If you don't stay in the house, what are you doing in the middle of the night to come to the city tower to blow air?"

Li Ran rubbed his eyebrows, ignored him, and asked Yan Wenbin: "When we were fighting, how far was the opponent from us?"

Yan Wenbin thought for a while, and said: "Commander, it's about a hundred feet, so there's nothing you can do with bows and arrows."

Li Ran was a little confused: "Baizhang?"

, the monkey boy grinned, with a look of contempt on his face: "Everyone says that you, Nan Liuli, are well-educated and well-educated. Back then, you were able to fight three Confucian scholars with ease. Who would have thought that you were even worse than an illiterate Bai Ding? Hehe~ Weird! Weird! "

Yan Wenbin was a little embarrassed, he clasped his fists and coughed. The two of them were not easy to offend, so they simply kept silent.

Li Ran looked indifferent, stretched out his hand and put aside the monkey cub's face, and asked again: "How far is it?"

Yan Wenbin said seriously: "One zhang is ten feet, and one foot is about this long. Measured in small steps, it is about ten steps."

As he said, Li Ran walked, stopped after ten small steps and turned around, visually measured the distance between himself and Yan Wenbin, it was about three to four, and nodded clearly.

The monkey cub smiled and said, "Why are you asking this?"

"What are you talking about? Go and play."

"Hmph! My master has disappeared all day long. Who should I go to play with? But the emperor is not here. You are alone now, so you can just get together with me."

Li Ran snorted coldly, ignored him, turned his head and walked towards Yan Wenbin, thinking as he walked: Baizhang is about 400 meters, such a distance cannot be reached with the range of existing bows and arrows.

Beiye now has a bow and arrow, which has a range of about 100 meters, and the farther it is, the less lethal it is.

Even a bow and crossbow loses its original power 200 meters away, so shooting at close range is really useless.

Li Ran felt a little troubled. He frowned and thought for a long time. He looked at the sky and then at the bottom of the tower. He rubbed his hands on the battlements, as if he was thinking.

The monkey cub was a little bored, took out a walnut from his arms, and threw it out into the night sky, making an arc. It took a long time to hear a rattling sound, and it seemed to fall a little far away.

Li Ran stared at him for a moment, his mind flashed, and he couldn't help clapping his hands and snapping his fingers.

Unexpectedly, this little monkey is really useful at critical times.

If the arrow is shot out in a parabola, wouldn't the range be much farther?

Even better, with the help of gravity, the faster the speed after falling, the more amazing the power will be!

This is not the bridge that is often seen in movies.

Excited, Li Ran casually took a longbow from a soldier beside him, aimed towards the sky, bent the bow to the full string, and then let go, only to hear a whistling sound, and the arrow flew towards the night sky. To the clang of the arrow point hitting the ground.

That's it!

Hou Zaizi and Yan Wenbin watched in amazement.

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The war was about to break out, and Qu Lie had already led 3000 troops out of the city.

It was almost midwinter, the wind was blowing on the face, and it was painful, and the torch standing on the wall was blowing loudly.

Everyone was waiting with bated breath. The night was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. Li Ran took the "telescope" and looked westward, but he still didn't see the messenger. His heart sank, and he felt something was wrong.

At this time, the time agreed between him and Qu Lie was already past, but there was no news from Qu Lie.

Li Ran stood on the tower with a solemn expression.

Little Six accompanied him and whispered, "Your Highness, it's windy right now, you'd better avoid it first."

"Crap."

"But--"

"All right. I have my measure."

Li Ran looked solemn, and the little six didn't dare to persuade him, so he had to stand by the wind.

After about half a stick of incense, the sound of horseshoes gradually approached, and finally stopped at the gate of the city. A man rolled off the horse, raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Open... the door..."

The deputy general guarding the city gate threw a torch down, and with this move, he shouted down the city: "Open the city gate! Open the city gate!"

The young generals in charge of guarding the city gate didn't dare to delay any longer, they removed the latch, and the three of them pushed the two iron gates weighing a hundred catties open a small gap allowing one person to pass through.

Through the crack of the door, one can see a young general in Beiye's military uniform,

In a short time, the soldier who was seriously injured and could no longer be seen was carried to Li Ran on a stretcher by two soldiers. The army... was wiped out..."

There was a bang in Li Ran's head: "Where is your general?"

"The general... led three... a hundred people... to break through the encirclement... life or death... uncertain... the enemy... is already... three miles... away... the commander-in-chief...to protect..."

Before he could finish that heavy word, he swallowed his breath, and everyone's expressions changed drastically.

This plan was originally to ambush the enemy army, and killed Xiping by surprise to disrupt his position, but he never thought that he would be countered by an army, which not only ruined the lives of thousands of Beiye soldiers, but even Qu Lie.

How should the battle be fought if he was cut in half before the war started?Can you still win?

The weather in midwinter was already extremely cold, making everyone feel as cold as ice.

No one made a sound, Li Ran stretched out his hand to close the young general's eyes, and said in a low voice, "Bury it."

The two guards got him to speak before they stepped forward and carried the body away.

Li Ran stood upright, without speaking for a long time.

Little Six pulled his handkerchief in a hurry, but it didn't help the matter.

Naturally, persuasion was impossible. Their Highness had always been decisive and would not be easily swayed by anyone. Standing so silently now made Little Six panic for no reason.

After hesitating again and again, Xiao Liuzi couldn't hold back after all, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, General Qu is a lucky man, and God will definitely bless him to turn evil into good luck."

Li Ran ignored it. After a long silence, he glanced at Yan Wenbin who was shocked, and said in a deep voice, "It seems that this battle will be difficult to fight."

Yan Wenbin slammed his fist on the city wall: "Today's shame will be returned several times over in the future! The general will never forget it!"

Li Ran nodded in relief, then glanced at the senior generals, and said seriously: "Xiping is coming in a menacing way, and even has the insight to kill us first. But..." His eyes swept back and forth on everyone, "Lin Yang must not be lost no matter what! In fact, the reinforcements will arrive in five days, and it depends on whether we can hold on to these five days."

Five days is not long or short.If you hold it, it is very likely to turn defeat into victory. If you can't hold it, the 5 people in Linyang City can only be wiped out.

"Even if you die in battle, you will have no complaints!"

Yan Wenbin stretched out his hand and pulled out the black iron long sword hanging from his waist with a "clang" sound. The tip of the sword pointed to the sky, and the roar almost had a deafening effect. Everyone drew their swords, and Li Ran stood opposite them. I was also deeply shocked by the sonorous air that shook the sky.

Li Ran was moved at this moment.In this era of chaotic wars in which many countries compete for supremacy, everyone is fighting hard for their own future beliefs. What they are fighting for is only their flesh and blood, and they are full of enthusiasm.

"it is good!"

Li Ran yelled, and raised the saber at his waist to his head: "For victory! No regrets!"

"No complaints and no regrets!"

"No complaints and no regrets!"

"No complaints and no regrets!"

……

Waves of sound spread, and everyone was shouting.

On the horizon in the distance, a fire dragon gradually appeared in the field of vision. Without binoculars, everyone knew that the Xiping Iron Cavalry was close at hand.

Li Ran shouted without looking back: "Yan Wenbin."

"The end is here!"

"How are the archers doing?"

"Commander, everything is ready."

"Where's the kerosene?"

"It is also appropriate."

Li Ran nodded. At the moment when the battle came, he calmed down.

When the sky turned pale, accompanied by dust, the earth-shattering sound of horseshoes gradually approached.

Su Mo was wearing a golden silk armor and riding a bloody horse, his eyes were shining brightly.

On the opposite tower, the silvery-white figure has become more and more clear, although the face of that person is still not clearly visible.

Seeing each other again after a few months, the longing seems like a lifetime ago, and Su Mo's eyes flashed with a faint light of determination.

The three armies have followed his instructions and stopped a hundred feet away from Linguan City, and started the battle that is about to attack the city.

Then, a towering sky ladder was pushed forward one after another, as high as the city wall, looking indestructible and terrifying.

On the city wall, Bei Ye's soldiers were shocked almost instantly and lost their usual calmness.

When two armies confront each other, more often than not, the test is the momentum of both sides. Li Ran deeply understands this.

He snorted coldly and winked at Yan Wenbin.

With a wave of Yan Wenbin's hand gesture, thousands of long arrows shot towards the sky, and then fell rapidly under the action of the force of the ground, piercing through the soldiers of Xiping at an astonishing speed almost instantly. The armor aroused a burst of wailing, which was astonishing.

The war finally officially kicked off at this moment.