"!" The shouting resounded through the hall, and at this time, a banquet was being held in the Taishou Mansion of Chen Liujun.

Lu Bu took the bowl and said to Zhang Miao: "Lu Bu is unfortunately in this place, fortunately Zhang Taishou is hospitable, if there is anything needed, just say hello." ”

Lu Bu had already defected to Yuan Shao, but who knew that he was killed by him after helping Yuan Shao, and now he could only lead his family to flee, and he happened to pass by Chen Liu and was welcomed in by Zhang Miao.

Chen Gong held the bowl and said: "Now Yanzhou is very empty, and Meng Zhuo has 30,000 elite soldiers, and now he is missing the general's fire." ”

"I don't have a problem here!" Lu Bu thought that it was Cao Cao who harmed him, and now he has a chance to take revenge.

Chen Gong's words were very clear, they had long wanted to rebel against Cao Cao, but unfortunately they never found a chance.

At present, the elite soldiers in Yanzhou have been taken away by Cao Cao, and the soldiers left behind are all new soldiers and old and weak, and they can barely be used to defend the local city, which is equivalent to a good opportunity given to them by God.

After Zhang Miao listened to Chen Gong's words, he suddenly felt ashamed in his heart, Cao Cao specially asked himself to take care of his family and children before he set out on the expedition, and now he was going to raise troops against him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Miao shook his head and said: "I always feel that this matter is inappropriate, if we take the opportunity to take Yanzhou, what can Niangniang do!" ”

Chen Gong thought for a while and said: "Meng Zhuo's move is just to get rid of thieves, presumably Niangniang will know the current affairs, and this is also for the peace of Yanzhou." ”

Lu Bu laughed and said: "A girl film makes you so jealous, that Cao Ming is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he must not be at our mercy when the city is broken." ”

After Lu Bu finished speaking, everyone present fell into deep thought, once the battle started, Niangniang would become a prisoner, and then the fate would become bumpy.

A thunderclap suddenly came: "Lu Pifu stop!" When the mother blessed the people, you were still wandering around as a thief! ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he turned into anger and looked directly at the past is a fierce general, this person is sitting in the seat like Mount Tai, which makes people have to look at it differently.

Chen Gong patted the table and said, "Dian Wei is presumptuous! General Lu is too guarded guest, how can I allow you to insult you, and someone will fork it out for me! ”

The two armorers walked in when they heard the sound, and Dian Wei sat in his position and let him pull, no matter how hard the armorers tried, they still didn't move.

Lu Bu was secretly surprised in his heart, not to mention that this Dian Wei was burly, and his strength was surprisingly great, and he really wanted to have a good competition with him.

Dian Wei got up and shook off the armorer, and then said coldly: "You don't need to drive me away, the last general will leave now, so as not to obstruct the eyes of all the adults." ”

Dian Wei left the lobby with his hands, and he couldn't fight the rebellious ministers and thieves with his own strength, so he simply went to Cao Gong.

Five days later, in the Assassin's Mansion in Shanyang County, Cao Ming was holding a bamboo slip and thinking about a question, now that the most soldiers have died in the siege battle, how to reduce the proportion of casualties is a key, whether to try to make gunpowder.

At present, Yanzhou has eight counties and eight countries, and after various major reforms in the state, the number of young laborers saved is very large, and each county can provide 15,000 soldiers on average, so it will be as much as 120,000, of course, if it can provide 5,000 more people in wartime, the limit is about 160,000.

Cao Ming thought that according to the records of the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a normal county could provide more than 30,000 soldiers, but unfortunately, due to special reasons such as war and disease, the current population is far from the standard.

At present, the entire Han Dynasty can say that there are nearly 30 million people, which is less than half of the original nearly 60 million, and what is even more sad is that the population is still declining year by year, and I believe that it will fall to the trough in a few decades, and it seems that it is true that there were less than 10 million people at the end of the Three Kingdoms.

Cao Ming thought about it again and again and decided to get out the most primitive gunpowder, which could at least reduce some casualties and promote the process of unification of the world.

There are saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, these materials, and the ancients have already explained the proportions very clearly, and the rest is to send people to make experiments.

Cao Ming said to Yan Ying beside her: "You go and call Ma Jun, I have something to find him, and then let someone prepare saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, remember that this matter must be done in secret, and it is not allowed to be revealed to others." ”

"Why do you take so many things?"

Yan Ying thought to herself that these are all ignition things, does Niang Niang want to burn something, but charcoal is enough to burn things, why use three kinds of incendiary materials.

"I'm going to make a fire and cook!" A tic-tac-toe appeared on Cao Ming's head, and Yan Ying's old problem began to be committed again, and she had to ask 100,000 whys every time.

Cao Ming regretted her previous decision a little, after a few months of getting along, Yan Ying's resentment towards herself had decreased a lot, but new problems were bothering her, this woman was like an ignorant child, always like to ask some important things, and she couldn't really tell her.

Yan Ying pouted and said, "Niangniang must be deceiving me again, you don't have to cook by yourself at all, you must be doing something else!" ”

Cao Ming rubbed her temples and said, "Before I'm angry, you hurry up and prepare things, be careful that I ask someone to spank you!" ”

"No!" As soon as Yan Ying heard Cao Ming's words, she knew in her heart that she was really going to be angry, so she could only prepare according to Cao Ming's requirements.

"I'm going to have early menopause, and I'm getting more and more angry"

Cao Ming couldn't help but complain about herself, and then thought about it, Sister Lian was still easy to get along with, she never asked questions, and she could do things more perfectly every time.

"Sister!" It happened that Cao Ang hurriedly walked in, and it seemed that there was something important.

"Get out!" Cao Ming thought that Yan Ying was annoying herself again, but after a closer look, she was dumbfounded, the person in front of her seemed to be her eldest brother Cao Ang, and she had to find a way to make amends quickly.

"Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water!" Cao Ming was in a hurry to make up a sentence, and finally dispelled the other party's doubts.

Cao Ang immediately interrupted Cao Ming's words and said: "Sister let go of leisure first, there is a big thing in Yanzhou now, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao betrayed his father, and now he has united several large counties, and he will be in Shanyang County in less than half a day." ”

Cao Ming saw that Cao Ang didn't seem to be joking, and thought that as soon as Cao Cao left on the front foot, this Zhang Miao began to rebel, and it seems that brotherhood is an empty word.

Cao Ming pondered: "Now there are only two thousand armor soldiers left in Shanyang County, even if it is very difficult to defend the city, the only way out is to ask Uncle Xun for help, he still has more than 10,000 armor soldiers under his command. ”

Cao Ang sighed and said: "My sister may not know, that Lu Bu also participated in the rebellion, and there are only four cities in our hands at present, so Mr. Xun may not be able to take care of us." ”

Cao Ming thought to himself that Chen Liuke was a big county, plus Chen Miao united several counties, the total strength of this rebel army was 50,000 at least, and Cao Cao was now entangled with Tao Qian, even if he withdrew at the smallest cost, at most there would be about 50,000 people left, so it seemed that Cao Cao did not have much advantage.

Thinking of this, Cao Ming said: "Now we can only rely on ourselves, I am not worried about the number of rebels now, I am worried that the people's hearts will not belong to us." ”

Cao Ang thought for a while and said: "The scholars in all states are against their fathers, but they really haven't heard anything against their sister, so Lu Bu must be unpopular when he first comes to Yanzhou, maybe this is really an opportunity, but it's a pity that we don't have an army in our hands." ”

Cao Ang also couldn't figure out what the scholars thought, why they supported Lu Bu to become the pastor of Xinzhou, but he knew that his father must have offended the scholars, and he didn't know what it was

Cao Ming proposed: "I'll figure out a way for the army, you are responsible for calling on the people to defend the city, and then order the workshop to make more tools to defend the city, after all, there are too many of our efforts in the city." ”

At present, several new large-scale workshops are all in the county town, and Cao Ming doesn't want to give them to others, and the only way is to stick to the city and not leave.

"Okay, I'll go get ready!" Cao Ang hurriedly ran out to recruit men, now every moment of the night could bring defeat, and the enemy was still a few hours away.

After Cao Ming waited for Cao Ang to go out, he immediately took out a piece of paper and wrote a letter, and then stamped his phoenix seal.

"Someone!" Cao Ming decided to send someone to send a letter to Yang Heng, the current crisis can only be solved by him, and the addition of troops from one state will definitely be able to win.

A soldier walked in outside the door: "What do you command?" ”

Cao Ming instructed: "You send this letter to the Yuzhou Assassin's Mansion and ask him to send elite soldiers to come to the aid as soon as possible, and the survival of Shanyang County is in your hands." ”

After receiving the letter, the armor knelt on the ground and said, "Don't worry! As long as the villain has a breath, he will definitely send this letter to Yuzhou. ”

"Go ahead!" Cao Ming thought that he could only wait with peace of mind, and at present, going out of the city to meet the enemy was to send him to death, and the only hope was the rescue of Yuzhou.

Not long after the messenger left, a servant ran in, looking a little panicked and afraid.

The servant knelt down and said, "Niangniang has a strange person who wants to enter the mansion, and he looks fierce and vicious, I'm afraid he will make trouble." ”

Now Cao Ang has gone out of the Assassination Mansion to plan to defend the city, and only Cao Ming is the only one in charge of the mansion, so she has to decide on big and small matters.

Cao Ming got up and said, "Let that weirdo wait in the lobby, serve him some tea, and I'll be there in a while." ”

Cao Ming thought that it was all this time, and there were still idlers to harass him, and he really wanted to send someone to blow him away.

In the lobby, a strong man was sipping refreshments, Cao Ming observed from a distance, it didn't look like he had come to the house to cause trouble, maybe he really had something to see him.

"All of you go down!" Cao Ming's body has recovered well, and now he is no longer afraid of assassins, so he dares to let the servants withdraw.

After the strong man saw Cao Ming, he knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general Dian Wei was originally a partial general under Zhang Miao, and now Zhang Miao treacherously rebelled against Cao Gong, Dian Wei is willing to abandon him and swear allegiance to Cao Gong and the queen mother." ”

When Cao Ming heard that this person was Dian Wei, she was so excited that she almost kissed him, which was simply a send-off in the snow.