In the early morning, the sound of hurried horses' hooves broke the dullness of Xuchang, and the soldiers who had just opened the city gate saw from a distance that at the end of the official road, a disadvantaged cavalry team was galloping towards this side, and the word Xiahou could be vaguely recognized on the broken banner. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Uncle Men's expression was stunned, Xiahou is a big surname in Xuchang, and the two brothers of the Xiahou family are rare generals under Cao Cao's account, but one of the two generals fought against Zhang Liao under Lu Bu in Jizhou, and the other was a soldier in Yingchuan, both of whom had important tasks, this army should be the heirs of the Xiahou family, right?

Menbo was thinking about these things, and the other party had already come to the city gate, about a dozen people, each with an indescribable look of exhaustion.

"General Miaocai!" When the doorman saw the appearance of the leader clearly, his face changed suddenly, and he almost blurted out.

Xiahou Yuan glanced at the doorman tiredly, didn't say much, and went straight into the city with the people and horses, there were not too many pedestrians on the streets of Xuchang in the early morning, and it looked a little deserted, Xiahou Yuan didn't stay long, and went straight to Sikong Mansion with people.

"General Xiahou, ...... are you" The doorman of Sikong Mansion couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Xiahou Yuan.

"The lord is here?" Xiahou Yuan turned over and dismounted, and asked.

"Here, the villain will go to spread the word, and ask General Xiahou to enter the mansion and wait, but these soldiers ......" The doorman looked at the people brought by Xiahou Yuan with some embarrassment, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Cao are brothers and sisters, and they don't even need to report if they want to enter the Sikong Mansion, but these soldiers who followed Xiahou Yuan over can't do it.

"Wait outside the door." Xiahou Yuan turned his head and glanced at the entourage, his voice a little hoarse.

"Whoa!" A group of soldiers dismounted one after another and stood solemnly outside the Sikong Mansion, which made passers-by look sideways.

Cao Cao just woke up not long ago, when he heard the news of Xiahou Yuan's return, his heart couldn't help but sink, since not long ago Gan Ning's Henghai division suddenly entered the Yellow River and blocked the river, almost cut off Cao Cao's contact with Jizhou, Cao Cao had tried to order Qingzhou soldiers and horses to cross the river, but was fiercely attacked by Gan Ning, and could not get close to the river bank at all, but Cao Cao still had a trace of expectation in his heart, after all, Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Liao had confronted each other for so long, no matter how to say, Jizhou's 50,000 army, it is impossible to say that it is gone, right?

It was only when he heard that Xiahou Yuan appeared here that Cao Cao only felt a pain in his head, his body shook, and he stabilized with the support of his wife.

"Husband, what's wrong?" Madame Bian looked at Cao Cao worriedly.

"Out of the way." Cao Cao took a deep breath, waved his hand, the headache was his old problem, and after signaling that Mrs. Bian didn't need to care, he waved away the doorman and hurriedly walked to the conference hall.

Outside the conference hall, Xiahou Yuan stood outside the door like a door panel, when he saw Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan fell to the ground with a puff, the boss was not small, but at this time he was crying like a child: "Lord, there will be a burden in the end, Jizhou...... Lost! ”

Although he had been mentally prepared, when he heard Xiahou Yuan's confirmation, Cao Cao still felt that his brain was blank, and Xiahou Yuan didn't listen to a word of Xiahou Yuan's next words.

"Someone." After a long time, Cao Cao came back to his senses, stretched out his hand to help Xiahou Yuan, and said to the guards who came in: "Go and invite Wen Ruo, Gongda and Yuan Chang to come here to discuss matters." ”

"If you lose it, you lose it." After a long time, Cao Cao looked at Xiahou Yuan, and for a moment, he seemed to have aged a lot, shook his head and said, "Follow me in first." ”

"Yes." Xiahou Yuan agreed and followed Cao Cao into the council hall.

Soon, Xun Yu, Xun Yu and Zhong Yu came to Sikong Mansion, when they saw Xiahou Yuan, the three of them sank in their hearts, they had already guessed what had happened, and after they sat down, Cao Cao asked Xiahou Yuan to tell the matter of Jizhou again, and took out the crossbow used by Lu Bujun.

"This crossbow can fire three arrows in a row, the range is two hundred steps, Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, most of them are equipped with this crossbow, although Ziyang helped me break through Zhang Liao's defense, grabbed a lot of crossbows, but after all, defeated, the other party's use of crossbow arrows is very skilled, and the last general only brought a dozen people to break through and swim through the water overnight."

Yecheng was defeated, although there were still many survivors in Cao's army, but in the next, under the overwhelming crushing of Zhang Liao's army, Xiahou Yuan had no time to reorganize the defense, plus followed by Ma Chao to break Zang Ba, Zhao Yun fell to the ban, in the southern Hebei region, a large area of the city changed hands, Xiahou Yuan became a street rat overnight, under the pursuit of Jizhou Lu Bujun, hiding in Tibet, more than ten days later, only to find a place in the Yellow River at night where the water is not turbulent and swim over.

Cao Cao sat on the main seat, playing with the crossbow handed over by Xiahou Yuan, silently, and in the hall, Zhong Xuan frowned and looked at Cao Cao and said: "Lu Bujun's tactics are quite similar to those of the pre-Qin, when attacking the city, first suppress it with bows and arrows to suppress morale. ”

Xun You nodded, glanced at the exquisite repeater in Cao Cao's hand and said: "Since Lu Bu entrenched in Chang'an, he has been organizing craftsmen to constantly innovate crossbows, and even set up a ministry of industry, with military merits and titles to stimulate craftsmen to constantly innovate, as far as I know, this crossbow was only equipped by the hussars around Lu Bu five years ago, and now even Zhang Liao's local army has begun to equip it, and the crossbow used by the main army in Luoyang is probably even more terrifying." ”

"Just this repeater and that row of crossbows, if you want to attack Lu Bu City in the future, I'm afraid it will be more difficult." Zhong Xuan shook his head regretfully, the crash car that Liu Ye made was not bad, but unfortunately Liu Ye is missing now, and it will be difficult to get the crash car again.

Cao Cao listened to what the two said, and his heart was even more disturbed, and he turned his head to look at Xun Yu, who had been silent beside him: "Wen Ruo, what do you think?" ”

Xun Yu was silent for a moment, then looked at everyone: "According to General Miaocai, Zhang Liao actually has enough ability to end the battle in a short period of time, right?" ”

Xiahou Yuan's face turned red, but finally nodded bitterly and said, "What Mr. said is right, if that Zhang Liao fights me head-on, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive three days." ”

"But Zhang Liao dragged on for nearly three months before he made a move to the general." Xun Yu's face became solemn, and he turned his head to look at Cao Cao and said: "The lord still remembers that when Zhang Liao's soldiers besieged Xuchang, it was also the day when Lu Bu moved to Luoyang, and the eyes of all the princes in the world were attracted to the area from Jizhou to Luoyang. ”

"Not bad." Cao Cao seemed to have thought of something, and his face became even more ugly.

A thought suddenly popped into Xun Yu's mind, looked at Xun Yu and said, "Ming Xiu plank road is dark Chen Cang? ”

"I'm afraid that now, Hanzhong has changed hands, Lu Bu's real intention is not Jizhou, but Hanzhong, as long as he occupies this place, it is equivalent to opening the door to Shu." Xun Yu nodded and said in a deep voice.

As for Jizhou, it can't be said to be incidental, but strategically, Lu Bu first occupied Hanzhong before attacking Jizhou, after all, there are Ganning's sailors, and occupying Jizhou is not a burden for Lu Bu, but it is the population of Jizhou.

"If Lu Bu is allowed to take Shuzhong, the world is divided into three, and he has occupied the second of them, and if he can occupy Shuzhong, he can go down the river and raid Jingzhou, Jiangdong, the entire Central Plains and even Jiangdong, there will be no more happy land!" Zhong Xuan's face also became ugly, Lu Bu wanted to annex the world in one go and end the rhythm of the troubled times.

"That's not necessarily, the road to Shu is difficult, Lu Bu's strong bow and crossbow are quite restricted in Shu, and the Shuzhong family never wants Lu Bu to enter Shuzhong, if you want to break Shuzhong, even if there is no external influence, it will take at least five years." Xun Yu shook his head, the Shu road is difficult, and the limitations of crossbow arrows in mountain combat are very large, because the mountain road cannot be straight, no matter how large the attack range of your crossbow arrows is, if you set up an ambush or garrison at the turn of the mountain road, the advantage of Lu Bu's bow and arrow cannot be brought into play at all.

But in any case, even if it takes five years, if Lu Bu has really taken Hanzhong, there will be conditions for capturing Shuzhong, although there is no definite news yet, but only in this way can Zhang Liao's strange actions in Jizhou be explained, why a war that could have ended quickly has been delayed for more than two months?

Cao Cao looked at the repeating crossbow in his hand, and only after a long time did he raise his head, look at Xun Yu and say, "Gongda, how many of the two stone crossbows in our army have been made now?" ”

Although Cao Cao's command failed to make a repeater, but over the years, Cao Cao has been improving the crossbow, with the research of some captured Lu Bu's strong crossbow, although there are not many innovative things in Cao Cao's hands, but the Han Dynasty's big yellow crossbow, the most powerful three-stone crossbow has a range of up to four hundred steps, that is, the range of the two-stone crossbow has exceeded two hundred steps, although it is a single shot, and it is more difficult to load crossbow arrows, but at least in the range, this repeater can be suppressed.

"Back to the lord, there are now 100,000 one-stone crossbows, and as for the two-stone crossbows, there are only 20,000 now." Xun Yu bowed.

"Twenty thousand?" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Xiahou Yuan and said, "Miaocai, you have seen the crossbow tactics under Lu Bu's command, so you will select the best in the army, organize a crossbow army of 20,000 people, and train them. ”

"Whoa!" Hearing this, Xiahou Yuan was indignant and took the order.

"Gongda, you compiled the tactics of Lu Bu's army, spread them to the garrisons in various places, and ordered them to find suitable places to fortify according to Lu Bu's tactics." Cao Cao said in a deep voice.

Where it is suitable is the terrain that is not conducive to the crossbowmen's play, such as crooked mountain paths.

"Command!" Xun You bowed and nodded.

Xun Yu and the three of them glanced at each other, Xun Yu looked at Cao Cao, bowed down and asked, "The lord is preparing for a decisive battle with Lu Bu?" ”

"Not bad!" Cao Cao nodded, it won't work if he doesn't fight a decisive battle, if he really goes on for ten or eight years, and when Lu Bu knocks down Shuzhong, when the time comes, Lu Bu's crossbow arrows don't know what to look like, and now the two stone crossbows can still suppress Lu Bu's repeating crossbows, but in a few years, I'm afraid that the two stone crossbows should also be eliminated, and Cao Cao does not have the ability to mass-produce equipment under Lu Bu.

"If this is the case, the lord still needs to send some lobbyists to lobby the Jiangdong Sun family and Liu Bei, with the current situation of Lu Bu, our army will fight against it alone, I am afraid it will be ......" Xun Yu bowed.

"Good." Cao Cao nodded, turned his head to look at Zhong Xuan, and said, "Just bother Yuan Chang to run this trip." ”

"Command!" Zhong Xuan stood up and bowed. (To be continued.) )