"Fighting?" Liu Yi threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chessboard and turned his head to look at the soldiers who came to report the news.

"Yes, from the beginning of July to August, the Wei army successively attacked Shicheng, Baidu Mountain Guancheng and Shizigang Camp, of which the Shizigang camp was broken by Sima Yi, the hussar general of the Wei army, and the defenders retreated to Shangjie Mountain." The lieutenant bowed.

"Baidu Mountain and Shicheng won both battles, and General Guan Xing even killed the general Zhang Hu."

"Zhang Hu?" Liu Yi looked at Mi Zhu: "When did the Wei Dynasty have such a general?" Newcomers? ”

Mi Zhu shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this: "It's not counted, counting, this Zhang Hu still has some relationship with Bo Yuan, this person is the son of the late Marquis of Jinyang." ”

"Zhang Liao?" Liu Yi was a little surprised and said that the Marquis of Jinyang was Zhang Liao's title.

"Not bad." Mi Zhu nodded, and said with some regret: "Under the tent of Wen Hou back then, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were all good generals, and Zhang Hu, as the son of Zhang Liao, has also made a lot of meritorious contributions over the years, and now he died at the hands of An Guo, which is really a trick." ”

Zhang Liao has a good relationship with Guan Yu, but now Zhang Liao's son has been cut by Guan Yu's son, which makes people feel that this relationship is a little weird.

"On the battlefield, how can there be a lot of affection to talk about, and the relationship between the general and Zhang Liao will not continue to his children." Liu Yi is not surprised, no matter how good the relationship between Guan Yu and Zhang Liao is, the two families are hostile, and it is impossible to move around, and when it comes to juniors, I have only heard of such a person, I don't know him, do you still expect Guan Xing to keep his hand?

Mi Zhu nodded, and handed the letter in his hand to Liu Yi and said with a smile: "But Anguo's battle is really beautiful, Cao Shuang's main force has not yet arrived, and this vanguard army will be defeated." ”

"One thousand breaks ten thousand, one enemy ten, if there is no rattan armor army, who can do it?" Liu Yi shook his head, this battle, if there was no rattan armor army, Guan Xing might not be able to win so beautifully, but in battle, there is no need to wait for the superior equipment to become moldy, but let the soldiers wear equipment that is not of the same level as the other party to go to the battlefield, that is called stupid, the battlefield is not a place for heroes.

Mi Zhu shook his head with a smile when he heard this, did not answer, but changed the topic: "The Nanyang War, in this way, Cao Wei can use all the means to be used, I heard that the Huns have begun to gather in large numbers to prepare for the autumn hunt, I am afraid that they will soon come to attack, and now all the farms are rushing to harvest grain, Hetao area, this year because of the continuous raids and plundering of the Huns, I am afraid that the grain harvested is not enough to meet expectations." ”

"This has been prepared for a long time, in recent days, in order to gather enough slaves to trade weapons with us, he raided a lot of Xiongnu tribes, and now the Huns are gathered, what do you say the Huns will do?" Mi Zhu asked with a smile.

"After Hu Chuquan, the Southern Xiongnu actually did not have Shan Yu, as far as I know, it is Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, who now leads the Huns, but he did not inherit Shan Yu." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"What's the difference?" Mi Zhu looked at Liu Yi puzzled, although he was not called Shan Yu, but the Southern Huns were still in charge of Liu Bao.

"There's a big difference." Liu Yi pondered: "Back then, Cao Cao said that the Southern Xiongnu were divided into five divisions, Liu Bao was only the left handsome, but the other four were not as powerful as Liu Bao, so he obeyed Liu Bao's command, but in fact there were five instead of one, and now Tuoba Xianbei invaded the Hetao, and the Southern Xiongnu were sandwiched between the three forces and were in a difficult situation, so they could be united. ”

"If Tuoba Yu annexes the Xiongnu, won't it make the Tuoba Department gain a firm foothold in this Hetao?" Mi Zhu was puzzled.

"That's the truth, but if we don't send troops, doesn't mean we won't do anything?" Liu Yi smiled and took out a wooden ball, looked at Mi Zhu and said with a smile: "Today's Xiongnu, just like this wooden ball, if our army and Xianbei exert force at the same time, it can naturally only be broken, but if there is only one side of the force, and our side adopts a gentle strategy, when necessary, attract some people to come in, in this way, it does not cost a single soldier to annex a large number of Xiongnu tribes." ”

As he spoke, Liu Yi directly pressed the wooden ball into the sand table.

"In this way, Tuoba Xianbei made great efforts, but in the end, he only divided the Hetao with our army equally, or even less, I'm afraid that Tuoba Yu will not be willing." Mi Zhu smiled.

"This Hetao is the land of my Han family, Xianbei friends helped us drive out and annex the Xiongnu, I am very grateful, but Emperor Wu promised to assign the Hetao to the Xiongnu, but never promised to assign it to Xianbei, the Xiongnu have been destroyed, this Hetao land should also be recovered, as for the equal division only said...... Hehe~" Liu Yi shook his head and smiled, from the beginning, he didn't make any promises to Tuoba Yu to share the Hetao with him equally, Tuoba Yu made up his own brain, he was not ready to pay.

"Bo Yuan's approach is ungentlemanly." Mi Zhu probably guessed Liu Yi's thoughts from the beginning when Liu Yi married Tuoba Corner, and he could only smile bitterly at this time.

"You are a gentleman, I am not, our Mo family is pragmatic, don't talk about these vains." Liu Yi shook his head, handed the battle report to Mi Zhu and said: "Go and talk to that Liu Bao, just say that we are here to farm, as long as he doesn't come to attack us, we will not provoke them, and we can even open trade with them, provide them with weapons and food, of course, if they have Xianbei prisoners of war or other slaves there, we can exchange with them." ”

"Don't tell me anything about the way of a gentleman, talk too much about the way of a gentleman, if you can't win the war, Brother Zizhong should know about Song Xianggong's affairs." Seeing that Mi Zhu was about to speak again, Liu Yi hurriedly stopped.

"I mean, can I add some extra weight?" Mi Zhu looked at Liu Yi and said: "After all, according to what Bo Yuan said, there is not much chance for the Huns to call, and they have a request for us, even if they don't sit on the ground and start the price, the previous price is not suitable." ”

Liu Yi thought seriously for a moment and said: "Let's go as usual, we must be honest, we can't take advantage of people's danger, we are not that kind of people, it is better to lower it in exchange for the favor of the Huns, and inform Jiang Wan that another batch of Han people will be transferred over here, three to fifty thousand, to enrich the proportion of Han people here, and Pang De can be withdrawn, and then we will only defend, consolidate what we have gained now, and not attack." ”

"Whoa!" Mi Zhu smiled bitterly and agreed, got up and left.

After the autumn harvest, the battle in the Central Plains was the first to start, Sun Quan and the Wei Dynasty sent troops at the same time, Liu Yi's side after half a year of rectification, but it made the Xiongnu and Xianbei-for-tat, after entering the autumn, the number of Huns coming to harass was reduced a lot, Liu Yi did not increase the farm, but on the existing basis, strengthen the construction of the farm, organize farmers to collect the stems and leaves of the crops, and make them into feed, so that the livestock can have enough food during the winter.

In addition, bridges, waterwheels, and waterwheels were built over the river, and after the Hetao was pacified, Liu Yi planned to build several cities along the river as the core of the future development of the Hetao.

Although the land of the Hetao is fertile, it is also relative, the city here can not be too much, otherwise it can't support so many people, in Liu Yi's current planning, the Xiongnu's Wang Ting Meiji and Qingyanze, Jinlian Yanze are suitable for building cities, in the distance is Sanfeng, Jiluzhai that piece, the development direction of the Hetao is still based on grazing, supplemented by agriculture, in addition to relying on mineral deposits to develop.

Recently, a lot of mineral deposits have been discovered in Xiliang, and there are also a lot of Hetao here, and in the future, according to Liu Yi's plan, this Xiliang and Hetao will focus on the development of industry, of course, the premise is that the steam engine can really be put into practice.

The principle of this thing is not difficult, Liu Yi has made several small steam engines, but they do not meet Liu Yi's requirements, it is difficult to expand and put into production, the reason why he shared the steam engine with his disciples is to hope to gather the wisdom of everyone, and constantly improve and develop the steam engine.

In addition, Liu Yi also successfully built a mechanical workshop with the help of several waterfalls along the Yellow River, but the principle is not difficult, with the impact of the water flow to drive the gears to connect to the hammers, through the gear transmission to let the hammer lift and then fall down to produce rivets, Liu Yi built buildings are usually based on mortise and tenon structure, but nails are also necessary in production, many things can not be solved by mortise and tenon, nails must be nailed.

And such an organ can only produce some small things such as iron nails, or the initial processing of arrow clusters, and what the workers have to do is to put the iron material under the hammer when it is lifted and wait for the hammer to be beaten, which is usually done by women, after all, this kind of thing does not require too much skill, as long as it is trained for a period of time, you can go to work, and it is a waste of labor to waste men on this kind of thing.

There are several factories like this, generally located in places with waterfalls, after all, the impact of ordinary water flow is difficult to provide enough force to lift the hammer in an instant, and some balancing mechanisms can be added in the middle, even if there is no Liu Yi's system, ordinary people can also ask craftsmen to make it after understanding the principle, Liu Yi's use of Mojia mechanism has been trying to find a way to civilianize these complex things, after all, his own strength is limited after all, rather than his own efforts to change the industry of this era, It's better to get the technology out by yourself and then promote it, as long as it can bring benefits, someone will naturally follow suit and help promote it, which is much easier than Liu Yi working alone.

There is already some industrialization, and then it depends on whether the Huns and Xianbei people can fight this winter.

Regarding the war between the two families, Liu Yi has a very hopeful and supportive attitude.

One stone fight, he will add fuel to the fire behind his back, and take advantage of the time of the two clans to fight, so that the two clans will willingly contribute a large number of people and resources to him, and the weapons he provides are only consumables after all, and when they are almost done, it is time for them to come out and clean up the mess.