Cao Cao can have today, and his rewards and punishments are clear, and his meritocracy is not unrelated, such as Wang Hou, a grain official who almost lost his head, but now he is sitting on the grassland of Liaodong, with a million armor under his command...... Well, the number one warlord of the Han Dynasty with a million-dollar military salary, the remaining greedy and lustful Guo Jia, and Jia Xu, who was born as a poisoner, can all be reused by him.

But now, this good style is gone, above Tongguan, one person with two crossbows, shooting thousands of thieves in the pass is not rewarded, Cao Cao is addicted to some dead objects, just like now, the army that forcibly crossed the Yellow River is marching, this old guy is staring at Wang Hou's Wang's crossbow with the eyes of Du in Picheng back then.

Riding a horse and following him, he couldn't stand his fetish-like eyes, and Wang Hou finally hugged his fist beside him sadly and helplessly.

"If the prime minister likes ......"

"Good! Tuqiu has a heart! These gods and crossbows have been accepted, where is the prime minister's cangcao? These four repeaters are registered as exclusive to the original phase, and no one is allowed to touch them! ”

"Forehead ......"

Seeing that Mr. Cao waved his hand and Zhang Lou was clear, staring at the dog, Wang Hou shook his head sadly.

"Prime Minister, don't pay too much attention to these crossbows, this thing weighs thousands of catties, it was not easy to carry it to the carriage, it is also slow, it is extremely difficult to carry, and it also needs to be repaired at any time, replenish water and coal, this time to bring Tongguan, originally the minister-in-law wanted to use it as a fortification, but as you can see, it can't even be used for upward shooting, it doesn't come in handy at all!"

"This is still Ma Chao dizzy, this made it show its face once, if it is a battle on the plains, in the face of the thief horse, this thing has a range of only 100 meters, and before shooting how many cavalry, it has already let the thief run away!"

"Oh? This thing still needs to be repaired and maintained, so I want to send the craftsman to my house together! ”

I can't wait to give myself a slap, my face trembles in pain, and Wang Hou hugs his fist with great sadness: "Father, in Liaodong, there are no craftsmen and slaves!" The craftsmen who can make weapons of this grade are all craftsmen, at least two hundred stone officials! ”

"Tuqiu treats the craftsmen with scholars, no wonder these craftsmen can repay Tuqiu with the kindness of the scholars!"

I really sighed, but the next sentence of the old shameless man was that Wang Hou almost didn't vomit blood.

"In that case, let's be seconded! Yu Lu and Ru Liao Dongkai, you can't wronged these craftsmen! ”

"As you ......, as you wish!"

Good guy, not to mention that he didn't get any benefits after breaking it off personally, even the weapon belt craftsman was all lost!

But on the other hand, Wang Hou recruited a senior little fan brother, his eyes were really shining, he had never been so respectful, holding his fist behind Wang Houma's back, Cao Zhang's swinger eyes were shining, and he asked incredibly.

"Brother-in-law! Last time, I heard that you were armed with a double crossbow and shot thousands of thieves! What the hell is going on with this thing, could it be that you are really protected by the eternal fire, and you can exorcise demons and open bows and strings for it? ”

At that end, Mr. Cao's ears were obviously combed, in fact, this one, the old scumbag also wanted to ask this question, but he was afraid that the general would think that he was uneducated, so he held back, and now the old guy's helmet head turned to the other side casually, but the ears looked into a grid.

Shaking his head helplessly, Wang Hou sadly opened the children's general knowledge class, and deliberately said loudly.

"It's indeed the favor of the eternal fire, but it's not the favor of the exorcist!"

"Have you ever boiled a kettle! When the water boils, do you remember that the lid of the pot will jump up and down, one day, I will be blessed, want to see how strong this boiling is said, so I get a closed iron pot and put the water to boil, and then take the iron can, covered with a big stone, the result of the water boiled for half an hour, the stone is stunned to open! ”

"A pot of water is still so powerful, what if it is a jar of water! So your brother-in-law and I kept making model tests, and after tens of thousands of patient tests, we finally had this steam engine repeater! ”

"Not only this steam engine crossbow, but even the locomotive to and from Naturalized Liucheng is also driven by this boiling steam!"

The triumphant thumb was on his chest, Wang Hou seemed to take all the credit for the steam engine on himself, and he didn't want to say that he knew under the Watt Spring, just those old ways that he threw down the drawings and ran, and tested the eternal fire for him over and over again, he had to beat him up, it was too shameless!

But! The wicked have their own wicked grinding, and he hasn't finished showing off, and Cao Cao is particularly interested, so he turned his head and asked excitedly.

"What other trains? Send one to Yecheng too! ”

"Father! The train can be 20 zhang long and 6 zhang high! And this thing is too heavy to run on the railway! I really can't get lucky! ”

"That's easy! Didn't you build a naturalized city in the Xianbei people's Eilechuan? Let's build a railway from Guihua City to Yecheng! It is also convenient for those barbarians to visit the Central Celestial Empire! ”

Good guy, my own railway has not been repaired, and I have to take out another project! Sure enough, the old man is not a real relative! All the good stuff is going to your own house! I really don't want to hear Cao Cao there, I'm just a girl Red Festival! Just married a white-eyed wolf Yunyun, Wang Hou hurriedly hugged his fists sadly.

"Son-in-law......, obey!"

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In addition to pretending to be overdone and leaving himself by the river, the war was smooth sailing, Xu Huang's 4,000 men and horses crossed the river that night, and they were suddenly awakened by the 5,000 cavalry of the Yang Xing Department of the Guanzhong Coalition Army, but Xu Huang, who had a big axe, was a fierce one, fought fiercely for half the night, repelled Yang Xing, and then did not know whether he was afraid of being shot by his Wang Houshen arrow in Huangpu Banma or what, lost the confidence to fight for the pass, and did not send troops to fight again, so that Xu Huang successfully established the first bridgehead in Guanzhong.

At the beginning of August, he led a large group of men and horses to come, and the 130,000 Cao army with more than 10,000 people successfully crossed the Jiuqu Yellow River and set foot in Guanzhong.

In terms of strategic situation, Ma Chao also typically intends to exchange space for strategic advantages, giving up Tongguan, converging the ten departments in Guanzhong, and he retreated to Weinan and guarding the Weihe crossing, on the one hand, he used the Wei River to resist Cao's army, and on the other hand, he pinned his hopes on luring Cao Cao's army to go deep into Guanzhong, waiting for his food to retreat!

However, Ma Chao made a naïve strategic mistake again, always using his own military food reserves or situations to apply to others, Cao Cao also did not hesitate to bypass Tongguan, and entered Weinan, on the great plain on the north bank of the Wei River, across the river and confronted the 100,000 Chinese army.

Moreover, this time, there are 20,000 more Xianbei people in General Cao's army! In the battle of Weinan in history, with the particularly agile mobility of the Liangzhou iron cavalry, which is known as the iron cavalry and the light cavalry, Ma Chao has repeatedly intercepted the military rations of Cao Jun's Hedong to Pujin, but this time, with the ancestors of these robberies, around the Guanzhong grain road, the two armies fought a lot, but in fact, the number of successes was only a handful.

The war in the era of cold weapons is really long and boring, the war started in March, and the retreat of Tongguan played a little real fire, and now in September, the two armies still have no decisive battle, and Mr. Cao seems to have no trace of the decisive battle with Ma Chao!

In September, whether it is Liaodong or Jizhou in the Central Plains, the autumn harvest has begun, but Wang Hou jumped on the horse and watched, the huge pass, a yellow and dilapidated color, on both sides of the Wei River, on the most fertile land, not even a single wheat grew!