"Wenhe, what has Yuan Benchu been busy with lately?" In Cao Jun's big tent, Cao Ying asked Jia Xu beside him leisurely.

"Back to the lord, the Hebei army still attacks every time, but they are all repelled by our army. The same is true for both Hakuba and Yeonjin. Jia Xu replied lightly.

"Hmph, Yuan Benchu is very patient, and he won't go back to Yecheng for the New Year." Cao Ying straightened the fur coat he was wearing, and said a little angrily. The confrontation has been going on for almost half a year, and Yuan Shao and Cao Ying are a little numb. The difference is that Yuan Shao is completely numb, but Cao Ying is looking for an opportunity.

"My lord, I just visited the Malay newspaper, and Yuan Shao's general Han Meng escorted grain and grass to Guandu." At this time, Cao Hong suddenly opened the curtain and came in to report.

"Oh?" Cao Ying was also overjoyed when he heard this. The strategy formulated by Guo Jia early ago was to tug of war + disturb Yuan Shao's grain road, but Yuan Shao's grain transportation will not inform you all the time, so why do you have to probe the horse to inquire about the news before sending troops to rob. But after all, this Tanma is not the commander of the Central Army, even if he learns the news, he comes back all the way back to report, and then Cao Ying sends troops again, it takes a lot of time to come and go, and many times he misses the fighter because of this. That's why when he heard the news, Cao Ying was so excited.

"Ordered Xu Huang to lead the headquarters to ride lightly to rob the grain. If you can bring it back, you can bring it back, and if you can't bring it back, you will burn it for me! Cao Ying ordered in high spirits, and the pawns hurriedly went to pass the order without mentioning it. It's snowing! "The moment the pawn lifted the curtain of the door, Cao Ying found that snowflakes began to fall in the sky." So good, Yuan Shao has no clothes and no food, I see how he spends the winter! "Cao Ying is now eager for a heavy snowfall in the world to bury all the Yuan Shaojun on the other side of the Yellow River.

Not to mention how Prime Minister Cao Cheng is, Liu Bei in Xuzhou City is also a little boring at this time. "It's snowing!" Liu Bei looked at the snowflakes falling outside, but his heart was a little empty. "Feng'er, let Daddy hug it!" At this time, Mrs. Mi came behind Liu Bei with her eight-month-old son in her arms. Liu Bei turned around and looked at his tiger-headed son, and couldn't help but smile. is different from the previous smile in front of people, but now Liu Bei is smiling extremely lovingly.

The historical surname has been continued to some extent, and Liu Bei still named his first child Liu Feng. When Zhao Feng learned about it, he couldn't say it in his heart. "Husband, but do you think of the second general?" Mrs. Mi, who was good at observing words and feelings, saw Liu Bei holding her son, but her eyes looked into the distance, and she immediately understood that he was thinking about the two worshipping brothers.

"yes!" Liu Bei also sighed lightly. Since settling in the counties more than ten years ago, the three of them have been inseparable for so many years. Now each is the governor of a state, but it is rare to see each other again. "Wait for eighteen years, just eighteen years, and when we don't fight anymore, I'll leave everything to Feng'er and their young people to take care of. When the time comes, I will go back to my hometown in Zhuo County with my wife and live a few years in peace. Liu Bei hugged his son, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was talking to Mrs. Mi.

"But I don't know what happened to Bo Tao's army to conquer the south?" Liu Bei subconsciously asked himself, this kind of thing Liu Bei naturally didn't expect Mrs. Mi to answer, in fact, just yesterday, he had just received a military report from Zhao Feng, knowing that after he conquered the Lujiang River, he was temporarily stationed in Wancheng because it was difficult to enter the army in winter. "Bo Tao is indeed a great talent." Liu Bei said to himself silently in his heart. As for Zhao Feng's loyalty, to be honest, he didn't care much about it, or he was worried.

At the same time, in Anhui City, Zhao Feng also looked at the getting heavier and heavier snow, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that he had ordered the construction of the city dock a long time ago. The tents of the ancient marching army were really poor, and they were really incomparable with the big tents on the grassland. Especially in the north, if the army dares to be stationed in tents, it is not impossible for half of them to freeze to death once the cold wave hits. In the south, even if the wind and snow are not as strong as those in the north, frostbite is still possible.

"I don't know how the wind and snow are in Xuzhou, do the two ladies miss me at home?" Zhao Feng thought of the two wives he hadn't seen for months, and he also felt a little worried. The encounter between him and Diao Chan was accidental, and he took her in out of sympathy at first, and over time, it was a long-term relationship. As for Zhen Jiang, although he has not experienced much since he realized that he was together, whenever he recalled the first encounter in Pengcheng, the rescue outside Shouchun City, and the acquaintance and conversation in the Drunken Immortal Building, although he was a little hasty, he finally had a feeling of falling in love in his previous life. Fortunately, the two ladies got along well, so that he would not catch fire in his backyard, but would enjoy the blessings of everyone. Being able to get to know them is also the most gratifying thing for Zhao Feng to come to this world.

"General, Marquis Lu asks to see you." At this moment, the voice of Hou Haozhao, his personal guard, came from outside the door. "Call him in." Zhao Feng also hurriedly let Lu Hao in. After the latter entered the door and gave a brief salute, he said directly: "General, according to your instructions, I have improved the Thunderbolt again, and the range has now reached nearly 300 steps!" ”

"What kind of thunderbolt, this name is called by Cao Ying to bluff people, let's call him trebuchet!" Zhao Feng said with a smile, and also admired Prime Minister Cao's imagination. He forgot that this trebuchet was made by Liu Ye.

Since Lu Hao built the first trebuchet a month ago, Zhao Feng took a brief look at its structure and immediately understood how it worked. In his previous life, he had seen the schematic diagram of the construction of two trebuchets, one was a counterweight type and the other was a winch type. The former has a slightly simpler structure, but its power and accuracy are poor. The latter is more precisely made, so it is also sharper, and can even adjust the range. Originally, I wanted to draw the drawings directly by myself and let Lu Hao make them, but I couldn't draw such complicated drawings with a brush, and Suo surnamed I would improve it on this basis when I saw the real thing.

went out and followed Lu Hao to the wilderness outside the city dock to look at the trebuchet initially designed by Liu Ye and improved by himself and Lu Hao, Zhao Feng felt that it was much better than the one at the beginning. "Put it on and try it!" Zhao Feng ordered, and then the two soldiers shook the winch to press down a crossbar that looked like a big spoon, until the hook on the crossbar hooked a longitudinally fixed hemp rope, and then lifted a stone weighing more than 100 catties and put it in, and then released the active hook, as a result, the entire crossbar was directly pulled up by the winch, and the stone weighing more than 100 catties flew out.

"Bang!" The stone Feixin slammed into the ground after a distance, and the two pawns who had been prepared for a long time hurriedly pulled the rope to measure the distance. "General, about 290 steps!" The measured soldier replied loudly.

"Good!" Zhao Feng was already quite satisfied with being able to reach this range, but it was only about two hundred steps at the beginning. With an extra few dozen steps, you can basically guarantee that I can only hit you, but you can't hit me. "Lu Hao, is there a way to continue to increase the range?" Zhao Feng turned his head to Lu Hao and asked.

"General, then we have to use something else instead of bamboo strips to make a winch." Lu Hao lowered his head and thought about it. "What's that?" Zhao Feng hurriedly asked.

"Brown cable, cowhide." Lu Hao thought about it for a while and came up with these two things. "Brown cables and cowhides are easy to do, I will allocate materials tomorrow, you lead people to rush to work all night before the beginning of spring, the more the better!" Zhao Feng is also in a good mood, only if he can ensure that his trebuchet has a range of 100 steps farther than Cao Ying, it is really cool and crooked.

"The villain understands!" After Lu Hao heard the order, he also directly retreated, ready to gather the craftsmen of his battalion to prepare to start work. Hao Zhao on the side couldn't understand this "high-tech" product, but he was secretly frightened when he saw that it could throw a stone so far.

"General, you got this thing for siege purposes?" Hao Zhao thought about it for a while, and found that once this thing was used on the battlefield, it would be a big killing weapon. "That's not all!" Zhao Feng was not surprised when he heard him say this, if he didn't even have this bit of knowledge, then he wouldn't be Hao Zhao.

"More than that?" Hao Zhao was a little incomprehensible. "It can also be used to defend the city!" Zhao Feng smiled and continued to explain to him. Hao Zhao's eyes suddenly brightened when he heard this: if trebuchets were used when defending the city, then their power would be multiplied.

"Hehe, Wu Hou, Wu Hou, to be the first to try my Lao Zhao's greatest invention over the years, it can be regarded as your three lives lucky!" patted the trebuchet beside him, but what Zhao Feng thought in his heart was that after the beginning of spring, he would use hundreds of such trebuchets to attack Sun Quan's "grand occasion", and the smile on his face became more and more silvery, and Hao Zhao was also weak in his heart.

Lu Hao's speed was not slow, and after another month, nearly 100 trebuchets had been made overnight. On this day, under the leadership of Zhao Feng, except for Zhang Liao and Li Tong, who were stationed at the mouth of the water, the rest of the generals came to the wilderness with him to see the power of this latest trebuchet. In order to keep it secret, Zhao Feng never told them.

"Put!" With the wave of the small red flag in the hand of Lu Hao, who was in charge of the command, a hundred trebuchets were fired in four rows in the wilderness, and stones the size of grinding discs were thrown out one after another, smashing to three hundred paces away. For a while, the sound of "bang" was loud and dusty.

"How?" Zhao Feng turned his head to Wei Yan and the others with a smile and asked, but saw that they were already stunned and speechless. "Awesome!" After a while, Gao Ran was the first to react, and spit out two words with difficulty.

"With this baby, sweeping the Dongwu finger is just around the corner!" Wei Yan came back to his senses and immediately his confidence skyrocketed. Zhao Feng knew that he was too optimistic, but he didn't need to spoil everyone's interest at this time, did he? After seeing the power of the trebuchet, the generals, who were already a little hungry and thirsty, were even more eager for spring to come immediately so that they could send troops to Soochow.

However, it is still going to be one day at a time, this day the weather seems to be a little warmer, Zhao Feng is thinking about when he can march into the army, at this time Hao Zhao came into the door to report: "General, there is a Confucian student outside the door who asks to see, saying that he can help the general sweep away Dongwu!" After saying that, Hao Zhao was also a little disdainful, these days since Zhao Feng sat in Lujiang, this kind of person has existed almost every day, and most of them are abducted and deceived.

"Did anyone tell me their name?" Zhao Feng put down the book in his hand and asked.

"He said he was Xiangyang Longguang." Hao Zhao replied honestly.

"Long Guang?" Zhao Feng was a little surprised to read the name, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: Could it be him?

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