"Listen to your accent, are you from Nanyang?" Ye Zhao looked at the young general, his face was slightly red, not the kind of blush that was caused by emotions, but was born like Guan Yu, with a strong body, dignified appearance, and a bit of spirit, and asked with a smile.

"The last general is a Yiyang person." The young general bowed and said: "When the lord moved to Hanzhong, although the last general came with his father, he studied martial arts with his father since he was a child, and recruited soldiers in the state capital three years ago, and the last general was conscripted into the army, and now he is a general. ”

"Since childhood, you have been able to learn civil and military affairs, it seems that the family has a history, what is your name?" Ye Zhao looked at this person and smiled.

"The last general, Wei Yan." There was a bit of excitement in the young general's words, and he knew that his performance had successfully attracted Ye Zhao's attention.

"Okay, according to your plan, according to what you say, take your headquarters to the city, I will ...... it" Ye Zhao looked at the generals and said with a smile: "Yun Chang led eight hundred soldiers as an ambush, and when you deceive the city gate, Yun Chang led the army to attack the city, if you can capture Longxi, you will count the first merit." ”

"The last general commands!" The majesty was overjoyed, and the Shu army judged the official position with meritorious service, and the first merit of breaking through Longxi was enough for him, the general, to directly skip the military marquis and be promoted to the position of military commander.

Guan Yu was recommended by Ye Zhao to join Gongsun Zhan, that is, this position, but now the Han Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and the princes from all over the country recruited a large number of soldiers, so that the positions in the army were more proliferated.

You must know that at the beginning, the total number of soldiers and horses of the entire Han Dynasty was not necessarily more than 100,000, but now, just in Yizhou, there are 200,000 troops, this army is more, according to the establishment of the Han army, the captain leading 2,000 soldiers and horses is obviously not enough to become the main general of the army alone, and has gradually tended to be a middle and low-level general, and the army Sima leads 400 people, which is naturally lower, but for Wei Yan, who has just joined the army, this is not only the promotion of military rank, but more importantly, he has left an impression in front of Ye Zhao. Naturally, there will be more opportunities to make meritorious contributions in the future.

"As for Tianshui!" Ye Zhao turned his head to look at the generals and said: "Take Tianshui as a test stone, see if the results of our army's training over the years and the various weapons improved by the Shengong Battalion are so powerful, in this battle, I plan to allocate 10,000 troops, improve the three-stone rhubarb crossbow 100 pairs, 2 stone rhubarb crossbows 1000 pairs, strong bow 3,000, equipped with 10 sky-bombing vehicles (improved catapults), 50 ladders (enhanced siege ladders), 10 Tiantai (improved version of wells), 1,000 vine armor troops, who is willing to lead the troops." ”

The 30,000 rattan armor was wrapped in a layer of leather by the Shengong Battalion, and the rattan shield was also wrapped in a layer of animal skin, which was very strong, but this kind of invulnerable troops were a bit wasteful together, and they were distributed by Ye Zhao to the various armies as siege warriors of each army.

"The last general is going to fight!" Almost at the same time, Xu Rong, Zhang Liao, Hua Xiong, Ji Ling, Guan Hai, Ding Li, and Fang Yue all got up to ask for battle, which almost took out all the weapons that the Shengong Battalion had improved over the years, not a siege at all, but as Ye Zhao said, use Tianshui City to test the practicability of these improved weapons, and Ye Zhao's generals more or less knew the power of these things, and immediately asked for help, wanting to try the power of these weapons on the battlefield.

"Ding Li, Fang Yue, you two go and give me turns to try these weapons!" Ye Zhao looked at the generals and gave this head credit to these two people.

Ding Li and Fang Yue's abilities are good, but Ye Zhao has recruited too many fierce generals over the years, which makes the two of them seem a little mediocre.

As the military general who originally followed Ye Zhao, Ye Zhao still attached great importance to these two people, and when this battle was almost certain to be won, Ye Zhao didn't mind handing over this opportunity to the two of them.

"Lord, is our new flying boat ......" Guan Hai's heart moved, and he looked at Ye Zhao and smiled.

"The flying boat will not move for the time being, for reconnaissance purposes!" Ye Zhao shook his head, a Tianshui City, is not qualified to let Ye Zhao's hole cards play to the fullest, this time it is used to practice hands, all of them are conventional weapons.

"Whoa!" Guan Hai retreated a little stupidly.

The plan has been decided, Ye Zhao asked Guan Yu to take Wei Yan to select people and horses, since there is this matter, the first target of the attack is in Longxi instead of Tianshui, Tianshui is to fight with upright soldiers, and Guan Yu and Wei Yan are considered strange soldiers along the way, and surprise can have an effect, if Tianshui starts to fight first, Longxi may be alert.

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Li Siam is Li Dai's nephew, in terms of age, he is also thirty years old, in terms of age alone, he can be regarded as the same generation as Ye Zhao, Li Dao is one of the actual controllers of Guanzhong, as his nephew, Li Dao has grown up in the sycophancy and flattery of the people around him since a long time ago, and he has also developed an arrogant temperament.

Especially after Li Dao and Guo Yan captured Chang'an, they expelled Lu Bu and killed Wang Yun, and even the Son of Heaven was afraid when he saw Li Dao, and it also made Li Xian's arrogant temperament even heavier.

Li Dao is a good witch, there is a charming witch by his side, divination for him during the day, and he doesn't know what to do at night, anyway, Li Dao has a wife, but with him, he has always been a witch, he is already in his forties and almost fifty, but he has no heirs, and because of this, Li Xian is basically treated as an heir by Li Dao.

However, the law could not be taught, so that the thirty-year-old Li Xian was still as arrogant as a stunned youth, and he also realized that if his nephew continued, he might not be able to inherit his inheritance in the future, so Li Xian sent Li Xian to Longxi as a taishou.

First, let Li Xian learn the way of governance, learn government affairs and the art of war as soon as possible, and share his worries in the future.

And the land of Longxi, belongs to the rear of Li Dao, relatively stable, and rest assured, come again, Li Dao has been good friends with Shuzhong over the years, and the land of Longxi is the main road from Hanzhong to Guanlong, where business must pass, Longxi has also prospered a lot because of trade with Shuzhong over the years, so that he can also add some political achievements to him here, paving the way for the future position, after all, the stall is big, even if it is his own nephew, he must have a reason to be promoted, and he has to serve the public.

In addition, I also hope that Li Xian is here, can learn from the one in Shuzhong, and now Shuzhong Dazhi, from the merchants who come and go in Shuzhong, the confidence can be felt, let his nephew here, receive merchants from Shuzhong, and establish some friendship with Shuzhong, maybe it can also inspire him.

It's just that Li Wei probably never dreamed that his nephew would dare to openly detain the caravan in Shuzhong.

You must know that in order to maintain this trade route, Ye Zhao sends a lot of grain to Li Dao every year, and it is precisely because of this road that Li Dao can afford to raise more soldiers and horses and coerce the generals of Xiliang.

And although over the years, Ye Zhao has been dormant in Shuzhong, sealed the customs and locked the land, and did not interact with the Central Plains, but Li Dao knows very well that this person in Shuzhong is not a master to be messed with, and even Dong Zhuo had to give three points back then, even if Dong Zhuo won the power later, he never got any bargain on that person.

What Li Dao didn't dare to do, was done by his nephew, and not only detained other people's goods, but even intensified the seizure of hostages, wanting to knock on the bone and suck the marrow, and then extort a sum of money, this is not just as simple as breaking the rules, just if you plunder the property, go back and pay for it, and it will pass.

Now the situation in Guanlong is not very good, since Li Dao and Guo Yan turned against each other, the originally integrated Xiliang generals have gradually had a tendency to split, in order to stabilize their position, Li Dao is still thinking about how to get more help from Ye Zhao, how could he think that this nephew who was pinned on by himself had high hopes, in this critical period, not only did not help himself, but helped himself provoke the enemy.

However, for this matter, Li Dao has not yet received news, Zhao Yun's men and horses appeared in the area of the Slope Valley, which made Li Dao very uneasy, and to the north of the Slope Valley is Yi County, if Yi County is taken away, it will be equivalent to cutting off his contact with Longyou, which is not a good thing.

It is also for this reason that after Li Wei had a stalemate with Guo Yan, he discussed with Guo Yan for the first time to join forces to resist Zhao Yun, and at the same time sent people to Shuzhong to ask Ye Zhao, hoping that Ye Zhao could withdraw his troops.

On weekdays, Li Xian sent people to inspect, and Li Xian would be more well-behaved, but now that Li Dao led the army to the expedition, he naturally couldn't take care of this side, which also made Li Xian even more lawless.

Zhao Yun appeared in the valley, and it was only half a month for Li Wei to go to the defense, that is, in half a month, Li Xian made the entire Longxi into a miasma, and what he didn't dare to do on weekdays was done at this time.

In just half a month, Li Xian has collected more than 40 beautiful women for himself to serve as his concubines, Rao is practicing martial arts since childhood, and his body is strong, and in half a month, the whole person has suffered a circle, but it is also an addiction to the emperor.

"Tinghou, those merchants in Shu, brought the ransom and are now waiting outside the city to be summoned." A Xiliang soldier came in and bowed to Li Xian, who was drunk.

"So slow, I thought they weren't coming!" Li Xian staggered to his feet, pouted his lips disdainfully, and said: "It is said that businessmen are treacherous, but now it seems that there are still some human feelings!" ”

"That's what Tinghou said!" Xiliang soldiers hurriedly bowed down and said, Li Xian is addicted to alcohol, except for women, this wine is his biggest hobby, and the wine is not very good, it's okay when he is not drunk, once he is drunk, he likes to beat people indiscriminately, it is to see Li Xian drunk, these Xiliang soldiers are also following him, and they dare not contradict him.

"Let's go, take a look, I'm in a good mood today, just to see what these merchants have brought?" Li Xian took off a spear from the weapon rack and said with a smile: "By the way, find an excuse to kill two people, so that these merchants can be more behaved in the future." ”

The Xiliang soldiers couldn't help but shudder when they heard this, and they didn't dare to say more, so they gathered a few personal guards and walked towards the direction of the city tower with Li Xian in their arms.