Chapter 116 - Inventing Weapons and Gadgets for Battle to Come (1/2)

Chapter 116 – Inventing Weapons and Gadgets for Battle to Come

Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto

POV back to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang did not attend the night of the banquet, because he is busy tending to his units. It now is comprised of the newly surrendered generals Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and Su Fei’s with their units along with his Urban Army.

“Little lord, is this thing really useful?!” A middle-aged man forcing a smile while showing a confused face is currently asking Liu Mang while he himself is looking at the mess on top of the table

The one who addressed Liu Mang as little lord is Huang Zhong. Since Liu Mang rescued his Huang Xu, Huang Zhong has addressed Liu Mang as little lord.

Liu Mang did not know where this Huang Zhong learned to call him little lord from, he has already been corrected a few times by Liu Mang on how to address him.

When Liu Mang recalled his decision to rescue Huang Xu, his face was filled with bitterness, and tears would well up in his eyes. Because when he brought back the Qingmei tablet and antibiotics, Liu Mang once again violated the rule of time and s.p.a.ce and was blocked not to return again to the present for an entire year.

Those two items, even though they were the main reasons for the penalty, when Liu Mang went back to the present time, he also brought back many books about warfare up to Qing Dynasty age. Along with that he also brought back books containing maps and how to create various weaponry.

He also brought back the latest revision of Bencao Gangmu to create more medicine in this world to cure more people including Huang Xu, and he brought back some paddy seed and sweet potatoes seeds; all of them sealed inside vacuum plastic.

TL: Bencao Gangmu = Compendium of Chinese material medica compiled by Li s.h.i.+zhen. The latest revision also covers on how to create antibiotics.

Liu Mang cannot advanced technology too much, otherwise if it is too advanced too quickly then these books will also be useless.

Liu Mang is currently polis.h.i.+ng some crystals on the table. These crystal are not the imitation that was made in modern times, but it is a true crystal. Liu Mang made Lu Bu collect these crystals from half of Lujiang.

Even though these crystals only dozen in numbers, each of them are priced really high.

When Huang Zhong looked at Liu Mang discarding these crystals casually, Huang Zhong’s heart almost broke.

If these crystals were changed into their weight in gold, it can be exchanged for grain and provisions for 10,000 soldier’s consumption for several months.

However those crystals were now just placed casually by Liu Mang. Some of them were cut, some of them were even grounded into powder. Even a defeated clan still did not treat their treasures like this.

“Relax! When has this boss ever done something unreasonable!!!?” Liu Mang just casually replied back.

Huang Zhong started to get familiar with Liu Mang’s speech. Sometimes he spoke in vocabulary that is difficult to understand.

If you're wondering what Liu Mang is making right now, he is building a very simple telescope based on Emperor Kangxi’s model, one of most important tools for war.

Liu Mang needed to be able to track Boss Lu when he rushed toward his enemy. In battle, Lu Bu moved too quickly, so he need to make sure of Lu Bu and his allies position in order to fight the correct enemy.

This tool can also be used to match Boss Lu’s eagle-like vision, so everyone can see from faraway. Now that Boss Lu had a domain, naturally Liu Mang will not waste this grace period. Originally he wanted to bring it from the present, but he cannot do it due to the time and s.p.a.ce rule.

So, for lack of a better option, Liu Mang decided to build it by himself.

These crystals can be a subst.i.tute material for lens. The price of these crystals is extremely high, so Liu Mang is helpless. Although currently Liu Mang has a method to create lens, currently they still do not have the necessary industrial works to do it, let alone craftsmen. So, he can only do with crystals as a lens subst.i.tute. What they needed now, is to boost Lu Bu’s army’s combat capability.

Because the threat from Jiangdong and Jing Province are too high war can breakout anytime.

This simple telescope, only comprised of one convex lens and one concave lens plus a long wooden tube to place both lenses. Liu Mang did not expect the output of a high-end telescope with only his crude technique.

Even with this simple method, Liu Mang is wasting a lot of precious crystals in order to make this one out.

“Hehehe, DONE!!!” Liu Mang was truly excited when the lens were put inside the tube and wanted to see the result immediately. “Eh?!” Liu Mang’s brow wrinkled, because he cannot see anything, it is pitch-black! Is this broken?

Liu Mang wanted to see what is wrong and suddenly he discovered that Huang Zhong is standing in front of him. No wonder he could not see anything.

“Old Man Huang, out of the way!!!” Liu Mang said toward Huang Zhong while being very annoyed.

“Oh, okay!” Huang Zhong did not know why he was reprimanded but he listened to Liu Mang’s words and stood on Liu Mang’s side.