There are not many things in the government office, Liu Yi assigned all the tasks that can be assigned in his hands, just like he said, if the superior is too tired, it is a kind of unqualified in itself, so Deng Ai followed Liu Yi to the government office, most of the time was watching Liu Yi do some carvings there with pleasure, he didn't understand why Liu Yi was obsessed with these carvings, from Wei Yue to the lame man who watched the door, almost everyone had one or two Liu Yi's self-made jewelry.

It's not that Liu Yi is not doing well, it's just that Deng Ai feels that with Liu Yi's talent, he shouldn't waste time on this kind of thing, and he should do something bigger.

Deng Ai was not allowed to speak in the government office, so these words, these questions, he could only hold them in his stomach.

"Bo Yuan, if you look at the recruitment standards you said, now there will be at most one more school of soldiers and horses." Wei Yue finally finished calculating his affairs, he has been calculating how many more soldiers and horses to recruit in the past few days, and Mocheng's finances can support it, this kind of calculation is not difficult for Liu Yi, but for Wei Yue, it took him three days to sort out his clues and know how to calculate.

"If we recruit too many troops now, it will inevitably arouse suspicion, this Mocheng is located in Jingling, it is the place of four wars, if you can't do a good job, no matter how many soldiers and horses are useless, in order to avoid causing trouble, these two schools are the limit, we will take the elite route." Liu Yi glanced at the bamboo slip in Wei Yue's hand, smiled and nodded.

The two schools, 1,600 people, is already good, after all, no matter how good Mocheng is, it is only a walled city, not even a county seat, can have its own armed forces, or because of this era of war, no one can take care of it, there are these two schools, plus the attributes of Mocheng, enough to deal with many problems, in fact, there are already a lot, if it is not for the Tiangongfang to support it here, don't look at the population of Mocheng now, but to support the people of the two schools, the most important thing is to rely on the income of the Tiangongfang, otherwise a school is enough to choke.

"Then conscript according to this standard, according to what you said, the best of the best?" Wei Yue asked.

"Not bad." Liu Yi nodded and smiled, as for what training method, he didn't understand, the training method of these years and months may not be bad, just because of the insufficient supply of food, according to Wei Yue, the average army can train once or twice a month, this is still the treatment of the regular army, like the county soldiers, may not be able to train several times a year, Liu Yi is not ready to change this way, the conditions are limited there, at least Mocheng is not in the right place to let the soldiers eat big fish and meat to replenish the lost nutrients.

This can be regarded as Liu Yi has a group of forces and cities that truly belong to him in this era, as for the future, all Liu Yi can think of now is just to take one step at a time.

It's a pity that Cao Cao came too quickly, and Liu Bei looked for himself too late, otherwise the population of Mocheng could have been more.

……

Just when Liu Yi was sighing for the population in Mocheng, hundreds of miles away outside Fancheng, Liu Bei ushered in the first batch of Cao Jun.

Although it is only a vanguard force, Liu Bei does not have many people in his hands now, even if it is the vanguard of Cao Jun, Liu Bei has to face it with all his might.

On the high bucket arch, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang stood in a bucket arch, looking far away, above the city tower below, not many soldiers began to assemble in some more important positions, and the clouds of war began to spread.

Liu Bei looked at Cao Jun in the armor, his brows furrowed slightly, this wave of vanguard soldiers and horses alone, the number of thousands of people, in order to avoid losses, he asked Guan Yu to take the main force to Jiangxia to join Liu Qi, there is less than one school of people around him, although there are many people accompanying him, but they do not have an advantage.

"Kong Ming, do you say this Fancheng can be defended?" Liu Bei sighed and asked Zhuge Liang beside him.

Zhuge Liang shook his head when he heard this, and said lightly with the feather fan in his hand: "It is not difficult to break this vanguard army, but if there is no reinforcement from Xiangyang, Fancheng will not be able to defend it for a long time." ”

What is the situation in Xiangyang now, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are not very clear, and the people sent to Xiangyang to report the news these days have not brought back any news, which makes Liu Bei a little uneasy.

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded silently, after retreating from the Cao army this time, he was going to send Liu Feng to go in person to see what the situation was, it was okay at the moment, if the main force of the Cao army arrived, he would have to escape.

As he spoke, the Cao army on the opposite side had already begun to arrange their troops, carrying siege ladders one after another and began to rush to this side.

The defenders of the city also began to shoot with bows and crossbows, and the thunderbolts in the back row of Cao's army also began to move slowly under the impetus of the wrestlers.

"Buzz~" Before the thunderbolt car was powerful, the bed crossbow on the head of the city launched an attack first, this distance, in fact, is out of reach, more of a deterrent, but what people didn't expect was that the bed crossbow was extremely powerful, after sending out the giant arrow, in a buzzing sound, a giant arrow was accurately hit on the branch of the thunderbolt.

Click~

On the noisy battlefield, the sound of wood breaking was not drowned out by the noise, and from the top of the city, one side of the thunderbolt could be seen suddenly broken, and the thunderbolt that had been moving slowly was not moving.

It was Liu Bei, who had experienced a hundred battles, and he was a little stunned when he saw this scene: "The catapult is four hundred steps away!" ”

At such a distance, not only was it shot, but it was also extremely powerful, not only Liu Bei, but everyone who saw this scene was stunned.

"This thing was made by Bo Yuan." Zhuge Liang tried to control his emotions and not let himself fan too hard.

Liu Bei nodded when he heard this, it seemed that he had done the right thing to find Liu Yi to help strengthen the city defense of Fancheng this time, and said with a smile: "I just don't know what is so strange about other things?" ”

The archers at the head of the city have begun to shoot arrows, but there is not much brilliance, but the arrows shot by the archers on the dougong are extremely far away, almost on the same level as the archers on the city wall, if there are enough people, it is enough to rely on this bow and arrow alone, so that Cao Jun can not raise his head when he is killed, but at this moment, this little manpower in Liu Bei's hands can not form that sense of oppression.

Cao Jun rushed up against the rain of arrows, and the archers began to exert their might, and with the shout of Cao Jiang, rows of arrows swept up from the ground, like flying locusts, towards the head of the city and the dougong behind the city wall.

Liu Bei didn't care at first, he had seen such a scene countless times, and he would no longer be shocked because of this, but at the next moment, when most of the arrow clusters were shot towards this side, Liu Bei was suddenly not calm.

Two warriors holding shields hurriedly blocked in front of Liu Bei, and at the same time, Liu Bei grabbed Zhuge Liang and squatted down, and the next moment, a dense impact sounded, and the two shields were snapped by successive arrows......