In November, stepping through the dry and cold desert and crossing the frozen grassland, Ma Play returned from Longxi.

Earlier, the chief of Fengting reported that Ma played and stayed in Fengting for the night, and when he was nearly ten miles away from Longxian, Ma Yue's hanging heart finally fell. Running to Longxi to meet Pang De in the cold winter month was not an easy errand. Early the next morning, Ma Yue waited for the arrival of the horse in the head of Longxian County. The wind at the end of the year is even worse, and those who blow the cold lightly get goosebumps, and it seems that they are going to blow into the bones of people through the thick winter clothes.

Approaching the end of the year, there was absolutely no possibility of war in Liangzhou in the cold winter, and Ma Yue gave the entire armor-covered army a holiday. It took more than a month for Ma Yue to visit the homes of more than 700 members of the Armored Army near Longxian County to visit his parents and children who remained at home. As for the families of military households scattered in various counties of Liangzhou, he also sent his subordinates to visit them in turn, especially the widows of those soldiers who died in the war, and even ordered the county to allocate supplies for winter.

On the one hand, it was to win over the hearts of the people and stabilize the morale of the army, and on the other hand, Ma Yue felt that he should do something for them, even if some of the soldiers who died for him had never seen him...... He has not been able to bring back the bodies of many dead soldiers, and if he can't do anything for the living, he won't be able to get over the hurdle in his heart.

This time, Hanyang County's visit brought back more than 300 orphans for him, and he was temporarily placed in the empty armored barracks. He hadn't thought about the fate of these children, Jia Xu had said that he would let him include these orphans in the armored army, but Ma Yue was always a little uncomfortable in his heart, their father fought for himself until he died, did the children have to prepare to give their lives for themselves?

Ma Teng and the others have been stationed in Yuzhong this winter, and this time the cantonment may continue until the next spring, although there are letters back, but the situation is not very good. There was not much food in Yuzhong, and once the ice and snow blocking the road melted, Ma Teng had to send his subordinates back to Hanyang in batches.

The affairs of the state and county have always been presided over by Jia Xu, and Jia Xu has done a good job of everything so far. Dou Liang, the Taishou of Northland, took away seven or eight out of ten strong men in Northland County to support Xianping, everything in Northland County came to a standstill, and I am afraid that the next year's taxes will only need some support from the state government.

In the distance, Ma Yue saw a group of people leading horses to walk in the snow at the top of the city, and a dozen riders marched slowly in the wind, and the leather robe covering half of their faces was blown up by the wind, and they walked straight to the bottom of the city.

"A difficult meeting?" Ma Yue had already walked to the city, played with the horse in one hand and led his horse in the other, and said, "Let's go, go to the mansion and talk." ”

Ma shook his head, put his hands in his sleeves and asked Ma Yue, "San Lang, do you see my ears are still there?" ”

Ma Yuezhi, who asked this, was frightened, hurriedly looked at his ears, and then said, "It's still there, it's still there." ”

After entering the house, the stove burned the room temperature, Ma Yue took off his robe and asked, "It's hard work, is this journey still smooth?" ”

"It's okay, it's just that you suffer on the way." Ma Yu came to the fire and squatted to warm his hands, looked up and said: "Pang De's side is okay, he is unwilling to rebel and counterattack Han Sui, but he has no intention of leaving the Han family." Han Sui lost a battle in Luoyang, and was disabled by the elite corps under the eldest brother's general, he no longer has the ability to command the ten captains, the captains of the various departments are now doing their own thing, and Pang De is the same, now that he occupies the entire territory of Longxi, Han Sui doesn't want to order him anymore. ”

"That's it!" Ma Yue clapped his hands, at first he still had a lot of conjectures about the composition of Han Sui and the other ten captains, but now that he is nine out of ten, Han Sui is basically finished! walked to the door and said to his entourage: "Call Jia Wenhe, and say that I have something important to look for him." Bring warm soup to Ma Duwei again. ”

"San Lang, I heard that Senior Brother Yun and the kid named Gan Ning have also become school captains, our old brothers!" Ma Yu is in his thirties, a few years older than Gan Ning, not to mention his seniority, his body has also warmed up at this time, and he made a contribution and hurriedly asked Ma Yue for an official position, "San Lang, Jun Hao, make Jun, also give a certain captain?" ”

Seeing the horse playing with the monkey anxiously, Ma Yue wanted to laugh, waved his hand and said: "Brother Monkey, don't make trouble, I really don't understand, why did you become an official fan?" ”

"Then there were some old brothers in my hands before, and I lost all the battles, and I am still a captain, how can this work? Right. Ma Play said with a sly face: "Although I lost the battle in Pingxiang, but there are a few soldiers and horses in my hand, I will not retreat, and in the end I was captured by all hands and feet before I lost, but Han Sui, no one can win...... Hi! The eldest brother should listen to me and take it down for him, won't there be no such thing! ”

Ma Yue listened to Jia Xu about the situation of the Battle of Luoyang, just Han Sui was not moved by a few surrenders to play with horses, and his loyalty to scolding with a knife moved him, it was really he who knew in his heart that this brother was an expert in fighting in the end, and he didn't have the ability to govern the government, otherwise he thought that it would be okay to wait for Yuan Shu to destroy Song Jian and give Ma a martial arts game...... This is the essential difference between Ma Play and Guan Yu Gan Ning and others, Ma Play can be neither big nor small in front of him, and he doesn't take it seriously when he calls himself Lao Tzu, they are friends.

"Brother Monkey, to be honest, don't think about it, captain, I have other arrangements for you." Ma Yue sat next to Ma Play, he didn't want to chill the old pillar's heart, so he took Ma Play shoulders and said: "You have also fought a lot of battles, big and small, and have seen the most dangerous situations, my plan is that you will unload the lieutenant after a while, and when the state school is done, I will be a military teacher, and I will talk to students about tactics and teach them how to fight and how to lead troops." ”

"Don't worry, I don't want to collect your military power, but it's not appropriate to be a gentleman to lead the troops again, and in a few days I will collect all your manpower and be your private army. I'm going to put up the shelves of the state school first, and I'll talk about the rest later, the captain still has a chance. Seeing that Ma Yu's face was flushed and he was about to be anxious, Ma Yue hurriedly said: "You think, the students after the state school must learn the scriptures and martial arts, and the art of war, astronomy and geography must be involved...... I can't think of anyone better than you in this area, so why don't you do me a favor? ”

Hearing this, Ma Yu's face was slightly better, and he waved his hand and said: "I'm not greedy for military power, you take those soldiers, and when the time comes, I will recruit some tenants to cultivate the land, but I can't figure it out...... Why do you want to learn from the state, the matter of labor and money, our Liangzhou men are illiterate and won! ”

At this moment, the entourage reported that Jia Xu came with Liu Bad Zhang Shiping and others, Ma Yue hurriedly got up to greet him, and he was still thinking about how Jia Xu and Liu Bad Zhang Shiping got together? If you want to say that Liu is bad, it is easy to say, although he is a craftsman and has a clan identity, Zhang Shiping is a serious businessman, how could Jia Xu come with them.

Then he saw Jia Xu take the two of them in, and when Liu Bad saw Ma Yue, he bowed his hand and said emotionally: "Lord, our vulnerable subordinates have found a solution!" ”

Jia Xu laughed on the side and said nothing, Ma Yue hurriedly asked, "The spearhead is fragile?" Do you have any solution, let's hear it, and also, have you made a crossbow? ”

"It's done, my subordinates have brought it, and I put it with the guards outside the door, and my subordinates have brought two pairs of thin iron armor, a pair of leather armor, a crossbow made of iron-making divisions, and a short axe." Liu Bad said happily: "The crossbow can pierce three inches of armor, and it can penetrate the armor within ten steps!" Iron is hard to control, but changing weapons can solve the problem, except for the spear and the sergeant with a short axe, the iron armor can't stop it with an axe! ”

"So what are you waiting for, let's go, go out and try!" Ma Yue put on his robe and walked out, and saw the crossbow and short axe produced by the Liangzhou Iron Smelting Division at the guard in front of the mansion, Ma Yue picked up the big crossbow and pulled the crossbow string back and said, "Good guy, this has to have six stones, right?" The rider can't pull away from the horse. ”

This Liu is bad, as soon as he does it, he will come up with this kind of six-stone strong crossbow, not to mention that the rider can't pull the string on the horse, even if the foot pawn is on the ground, it is difficult to pull it away! If this kind of crossbow can't penetrate two layers of iron armor, what will it become?

In the Han Dynasty, the size of Guo, the height of Wangshan, the crossbow arm and the string and other crossbows with the same specifications are collectively called 'one stone hand crossbow, two stone crossbows, four stones, six stone crossbows, like the six stone crossbows in Ma Yue's hands, in fact, the force used by the hand to open the string is really only about four stones. But even four stones require four hundred and eighty Han catties of strength, and an ordinary sergeant like Ma Yue can't even think about it, and it's almost the same.

The crossbow bolt is sharpened like a small awl and looks very sharp. Liu Bad put on the iron armor in the far side of the courtyard and hurriedly dodged, seeing that Ma Yue was stunned for a while, this kid was afraid that the arrow of the dignified Zhou Mu would miss.

It's a joke, Ma Yuanjun used a crossbow for the first time to kill, and he is a veteran of this kind of weapon, of course, only thirty steps is not a problem, not to mention that there is a mountain of hope on this crossbow! Ma Yue shot a trigger almost without aiming, only to hear a very light 'boom' sound, the crossbow bolt had already penetrated the iron armor double layer, the arrow was nailed to the courtyard wall and two inches deeper, and a third of the crossbow bolt was nailed into it without shaking.

This kind of strong crossbow shot is easy in 300 steps, there is no armor in 200 steps, and it is almost doomed to break armor in 100 steps.

Pulling out the crossbow bolts from the deep earthen wall, as Ma Yue expected, the cluster of arrows had cracked. The walls were cracked, large gaps erupted around the breaches, and the bolts were flattened after the armor was broken.

"Envoy, this is a stepping crossbow, it's not used like this!" Liu Bad had seen Ma Yue's strength comparable to that of a god in Luoyang, and he was not surprised at the moment, but said with a smile: "Riding a crossbow is a stone eight crossbow, which can shoot a hundred steps." These two are specially made for the armored army under your command, and the other soldiers don't have such good food and can't use them. ”

Ma Yue nodded with satisfaction, picked up the short axe and looked at it, and an axe went over to split the penetrating iron armor in half, and praised Liu Bad: "The axe and crossbow are good, and they will come in handy in the future." ”

The hand axe is more surprising to Ma Yue than the strong crossbow, this thing is naturally cutting melons and vegetables, and the armor-breaking effect is also good. And the grip is very comfortable, the hardwood used for the axe handle and the iron head are tightly built together, and the whole body is about ten catties, which is very handy.

"Envoy ...... These two crotch armors are also made by us in Chuanli. ”

"Liu Bad, I'll give you a table! You're going to be a lieutenant! "Ma Yuele almost jumped up, iron armor, iron axe, strong crossbow, he was already able to predict an invincible army that only belonged to himself." Will be the captain, what is the name? ”

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