"Thank you for your father's teachings, my grandson should obey his orders!" Liu Ping respectfully saluted Cao Song.

"Well, I believe you can do a good job," Cao Song nodded, yawned tiredly, and said, "It's been a long time since I came out today, and the old man is a little tired, let's go home." ”

He waved his hand, led his entourage, and walked away complacently.

Ma Jun heard Liu Ping call the old man's father, and the old man was very satisfied with the crossbow machine he made.

Thinking that it should not be difficult for him to borrow money from Liu Ping, he looked at Liu Ping pitifully.

"Money, I won't lend it to you," I didn't expect Liu Ping to turn his face and deny it, so he gave him such a sentence.

These words suddenly made Ma Jun even more anxious, and tears were about to flow out: "Mother...... Mother...... Mother...... At an advanced age, I ...... I...... I...... Unable...... Exhaust...... Filial piety ......"

Liu Ping waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't say it, come with me!" ”

After speaking, he mounted his horse and ordered someone to leave the workshop with Ma Jun, and then turned around along the streets of Xudu.

Ma Jun didn't know why, so he could only follow in a daze, not understanding what Liu Ping wanted to do.

The group came to a secluded mansion.

It is a courtyard with seven or eight rooms, which is not very big in Xudu, but it is extremely clean and elegant.

There were two or three servants in the courtyard who were sweeping the fallen leaves on the green bricks, and when they saw Liu Ping coming, they hurriedly bowed down and saluted.

"Jun'er!" At that moment a woman's voice came from the house.

Ma Jun's expression was shocked, this voice was too familiar to him.

When he looked up, he saw an old woman standing in front of the door of the hall, Ma Jun couldn't help but rub his eyes, almost suspecting that it was in a dream.

Who is that not his mother?

It's just that now my mother has changed into a satin dress, and there is a strong maid by her side, like a noblewoman, and even Ma Jun doesn't dare to recognize it.

It turned out that Mrs. Ma had just arrived, and it happened that Ma Jun's reformed crossbow was successful again, so Liu Ping took the opportunity to bring Ma Jun here, which was counted as a reward for him.

"Mother...... Mother...... Dear, you ...... How did you get here? ”

Ma Jun hurriedly pounced, knelt down in front of his mother, and cried bitterly.

I haven't seen him for a few days, and it's like a world away.

"Jun'er, my son is really promising, even if his mother dies immediately, he can smile Jiuquan," Mrs. Ma affectionately stroked her son's hair, and looked at her son's neat clothes now, and was also very pleased.

Although she was respectfully received by Xu Du with full favor, her head was confused all the way.

She really couldn't understand that her son was a half-grown son who hadn't even been out of Beima Village a few times, and he couldn't even speak, which point of his body could be valued by the big guys.

But needless to say, the courtesy that was full of favors along the way, as soon as she arrived in Xudu, she was arranged into such a big yard that she had never dreamed of in her life, and there were still maids to serve, if it was a scam, there was no need to spend such a big battle, right?

At this time, she suddenly saw her well-dressed son, which showed that Manzhong did not deceive people, and the old woman Ma suddenly felt at ease.

"Jun'er, can you tell your mother what the hell is going on?"

Ma Jun didn't say anything, wiped his tears and pulled his mother to Liu Ping, knelt down on his knees and kowtowed: "Thank you...... Thank...... Eun Gong ...... I...... I'd like to be a cow and a horse......"

Although it is still stumbling, the meaning has been clearly expressed.

Liu Ping had already taken his mother in to settle down, and this courtyard seemed to be the house promised to him at the beginning.

Those mechanical things are what he likes, and now the young man is already grateful and doesn't know what to say.

Mrs. Ma guessed that Liu Ping was the noble man who appreciated her son, and she also knelt on the ground.

Liu Ping hurriedly helped the mother and son up and said: "If there is anything lacking in the future, even if you open your mouth, I will supply it on time as soon as you have food and clothing." ”

"I don't know where the child can help the nobleman and make the nobleman treat him so kindly?" Old Madam Ma asked with a trembling question.

Liu Ping smiled indifferently and said: "The old lady doesn't need to be suspicious, Ling Lang is a genius in the world, and all the utensils he makes are due to the imperial court, and he will be recommended to the court as an official in the next day." ”

With only one house and three meals a day, you can buy a future master mechanic, which is simply cheap.

Of course, this is thanks to Liu Ping's golden finger of predicting the future, otherwise if he was replaced by someone else, who would have known that such a small bump who was not amazing would make something that could change the outcome of the war, and even rewrite history?

"Thank you, thank you!"

Mrs. Ma didn't understand, but Liu Ping gave her son such a high evaluation, and she also recommended her son to be an official, which is indeed as Taishou said, the ancestral tomb of the Ma family is really smoking.

She turned back to her son and said, "The noble man appreciates it so much, and the son must do his best to do things for the noble man, and not be negligent and slack." ”

"Hmm!"

Ma Jun nodded heavily, thinking that the nobleman treated him so well, even if he was a cow and a horse to repay him.

"From now on, you're going to work on improving the stone thrower."

The transformation of the repeater has come to an end, and now the "giant high crossbow" has ordered people to rush to work day and night, and Liu Ping put forward a new request to Ma Jun: "Have you ever seen a stone thrower?"

If not, I will send someone to show you. ”

Ma Jun shook his head and said hurriedly: "Now...... Right now...... Go to ......"

Anyway, his mother has arrived in Xudu, and he has nothing to worry about, in order to repay the kindness, he can't wait for a moment......

Xu Du had already gathered a lot of skilled craftsmen, and under Cao Ang's coordination, all the manpower and material resources of the Cao family were all in order to ensure the production of the "Jugao Divine Crossbow".

But another problem arises.

The "Giant High Divine Crossbow" fires fifty arrows at a time, which is certainly powerful, but the consumption of arrows is too amazing.

Although it can be remade with the arrows of the bow and arrow, the stock of arrows of the bow and arrow is not so much, and I don't know if the temporary processing can be rushed.

A few days later, the crossbows made had reached more than 200, and at this time Cao Cao's military order also arrived, so that after Liu Ping'an had set up the rear, he hurriedly led the army to Guandu to assist in the defense.

At this time, it was the time when Yuan Jun hung the cowhide on the building to block the attack of Cao's stone-throwing machine, and used the rain of arrows to suppress Cao's soldiers and couldn't raise their heads.

Moreover, with the help of the archers on the building, Yuan Shao's infantry below attacked the Cao army's fortifications much more efficiently.

After all, Cao Jun had to face the attacks of the upper and lower sides at the same time, and it was inevitable that he would lose one or the other for a while, and suffer heavy losses.

On the fortification wall, after repelling a wave of Yuan's attack, most of Cao's soldiers sat underground, hiding behind the battlements and gasping for breath.

There are soldiers in charge of cleaning and transporting the corpses of the dead sergeants down.

However, there were so many dead people that they couldn't lift them for a while, so the corpses were still full of them.

There are even many who are still in the same state as when they died.

Another medic came to bandage the wounds of the wounded soldiers.

Now there is a shortage of soldiers, almost all of them are wounded, and they can no longer go down to recuperate with minor injuries, and their morale has been reduced to the limit.

Cao Cao led his civil and military retinue to the front line to boost morale.

He looked at the tragic situation in front of him, and couldn't help but turn around and sigh to everyone: "Feng Xiao once offered the 'Ten Victories and Ten Defeats', and Wen Ruo also asserted that this battle would be won.

However, how long can this official ferry be kept? ”