As Chen Ying proposed, Deputy Director Tao did give Huang Grandfather and son a big surprise, before signing a formal peace treaty with the Jingzhou army, Deputy Director Tao released Huang Shot to return to Nieyang in advance, and also gave Huang Shot the official position of Captain Guoyi in the honor of the Han Dynasty, and named Wuling Taishou, Jingling Pavilion Marquis - don't look at Deputy Director Tao is taking Liu Biao's land official position as a favor, but even Huang Zu, Huang Jie's father, has not been mixed with a title until now.

In the face of Deputy Director Tao's generosity, Major General Huang Shot was of course very grateful, kowtowed to Deputy Director Tao from the bottom of his heart, and took the initiative to ask Deputy Director Tao what he could do, Deputy Director Tao laughed, put his hands on Huang Shot Wen Yan to comfort, and said: "The young general please get up quickly, please hurry up, there is only one small request to deal with the young general, after the young general returns to the city, he must persuade his father Huang Lao General to speak in front of Jingsheng Gong, withdraw from the anti-Tao alliance as soon as possible, and return to the imperial court, and from then on the Tao and Liu families share peace." ”

Such a simple request, of course, Major General Huang Shot agreed, Deputy Director Tao ordered someone to send Huang Shot out of the camp and send it to Nieyang City to hand over to Huang Zu, and Huang Shot was grateful for the front foot of the tears, and Deputy Director Tao smiled at the puzzled Xuzhou generals on the back foot: "This kind of waste, instead of wasting food in your hands, it is better to put it back and harm Liu Biao, in the future, the more soldiers Liu Biao let him bring, the easier it will be for us to fight Jingzhou, right?" It was strange that Deputy Director Tao was so generous, and the Xuzhou general suddenly realized it and laughed together.

In any case, although Deputy Director Tao is just doing some empty favors, Huang Zu and Huang Shot's father and son still accept Deputy Director Tao's feelings very much. The first is, of course, the reunion of Huang Zu and Huang Shot's father and son, and the second is that the old Huang family loves reputation very much, and it is of course a very glorious thing for the family to be able to produce a pavilion marquis canonized by the imperial court, so on the night of Huang Shot's return to Nieyang City, Huang Zu sent people out of the city to greet Deputy Director Tao to thank him, and promised to persuade Liu Biao to withdraw from the anti-Tao alliance as soon as possible and sign a formal peace treaty with the Xuzhou Army as soon as possible.

At the same time, the face-loving veteran General Huang Zu inevitably had some expectations, looking forward to promoting the peace treaty between Tao and Liu. Deputy Director Tao can also give himself a knighthood. Let yourself be a little bit more beautiful.

The middle and lower parts of Nanyang are well developed, and there are also waterways between Nieyang and Xiangyang, and the upstream is smooth sailing, so it only took a little more than a day. The news of Deputy Director Tao's release of Huang Shot was also sent to Xiangyang City. I was informed of this. Liu Biao, who still had some scruples about Tao Liu's peace agreement, no longer hesitated. Ignoring the resolute opposition of the Cai family, he immediately ordered the release of Jiang Gan and Li Lang, who had been detained for more than half a year, and sent Han Song to the north to return to Deputy Director Tao. And let Han Song promise to withdraw from the anti-Tao alliance on his behalf and conclude a formal peace treaty with Deputy Director Tao.

In addition, Liu Biao strongly persuaded Huang Chengyan to send his daughter Huang Shuo to Nieyang, so that Huang Shuo and Deputy Director Tao would eventually become a lover, although Huang Chengyan, who was a famous person, was unwilling to take his daughter as a concubine, but Huang Shuo wanted to marry Tao Taiwei, plus Huang Chengyan's favorite son-in-law had been beheaded by Liu Biao, Huang Chengyan, who had lost face for this future son-in-law, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and finally personally sent his daughter north to meet with Deputy Director Tao, and entrusted his daughter to Tao Taiwei, whose wife and concubine were already in double digits. pushed her daughter into the fire pit with her own hands - but it won't work if you don't push it, Huang Shuo is already twenty-two, and if she doesn't send it out quickly, she will be a typical leftover girl.

As a result, with the formal conclusion of the Tao-Liu Peace Treaty under the city of Niyang, the Nanyang War that lasted for several months came to an end, and the Jingzhou army, which had been hit hard, bent its knees and sued for peace without any hope of victory, promising to withdraw from the anti-Tao alliance and return the Xuzhou envoys who had been seized before, in exchange for the Xuzhou army not continuing to attack Jingzhou, and the Xuzhou army returning the newly captured Yuyang City, and the Jingzhou army gathered to the south as the boundary, and legally occupied several cities in the northeast of Nanyang, including Wancheng, and the two families jointly declared that they would be friendly forever and share peace - although this sentence was obvious nonsense.

To tell the truth, the Xuzhou army launched this war is definitely not big, and it can even be said that the gains outweigh the losses, and a lot of money and grain were spent to only take a few Nanyang cities that were destroyed by the war, but for the Jingzhou army, the losses in this battle were somewhat heavy, and they lost more than 40,000 troops, and the losses of grain and grass were incalculable, and they also lost the important town of Wancheng that had just recovered less than a year, and lost the initiative in the Nanyang battlefield again. At the same time, Liu Biao, who personally formed the anti-Tao alliance and was the first to withdraw from this alliance, was also disgraced, his face was snapped, red and swollen.

But fortunately, Liu Biao also has a very sufficient excuse to withdraw from the anti-Tao Alliance, during the southern invasion of Jingzhou by the Xuzhou Army, none of the princes who participated in the alliance complied with the covenant, and implemented even if it was a symbolic rescue operation, not only did not save, Cao Boss also took the opportunity to enter Hanzhong, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers also took the opportunity to fight their heads and bleed, the world was turned upside down, and the allies were so unkind and unjust, Liu Biao could naturally claim that since the alliance was useless, it was better to withdraw.

What is more surprising is the way Deputy Director Tao dealt with some details, although he knew that the Cai Huang family hated the Xuzhou army to the bone, but after the peace treaty was concluded, Deputy Director Tao not only did not take the opportunity to retaliate against the Cai and Huang families, but also gave Cai Mao and Huang Zu official titles, Huang Zu was the Marquis of Zhijiang Township of Nanjun, and Cai Mao was the Marquis of Lu Township of Xiangyang Taishouzhong, and also added the false title of General Changshui, which was very unexpected to the Cai Mao family, so Yang Changshi, who had been in trouble with the Cai Mao family for a period of time, sent someone to send a letter to Cai Mao, recounting the old friendship, General Cai Mao also replied very politely to thank him, and soon hooked up with Yang Changshi again, and developed rapidly towards the trend of hooking up and becoming a traitor.

By the way, when Deputy Director Tao and Huang Shuo met again after a few years, because his father-in-law Huang Chengyan was also at the scene, he was very restrained at first, but finally got the opportunity for the two to be alone, Huang Shuo immediately ripped off the veil on his face, crossed his waist in front of Deputy Director Tao and asked viciously: "I have no conscience, it's been almost five years, and I only think of me now, did you forget me at all in the past few years?" ”

"Nope." Deputy Director Tao flatly denied it, and said: "In the past few years, I have sent people to your house four or five times to ask for relatives. But your father just won't agree, what can I do? ”

"You sent someone to my house to ask for a kiss? How did I not know? True or fake? Huang Shuohu asked suspiciously.

"I really sent a messenger to ask for marriage, how can I be willing to lie to you?" Deputy Director Tao shouted injustice, "Daddy must be afraid that you will know, so he hid it from you." ”

Huang Shuo, who was familiar with Deputy Director Tao's treacherous character, was suspicious, looked at Deputy Director Tao for a long time before he could barely believe it, and hummed: "Count you smart, if you dare to forget me, take advantage of me and push me to that dead cripple, I will regret it for the rest of your life!" If that dead cripple had a dowry of my own making. You may not be his opponent! ”

"A dowry that you made yourself?" Deputy Director Tao Yileng. Hurriedly asked, "What weapons did you make again?" ”

"Did the cripple use any new weapons when he fought you in Guandu?" Huang Shuo asked rhetorically.

Deputy Director Tao recalled for a moment and said, "There is only one kind of poisonous crossbow arrow with a very low cost, right." The recipe for gunpowder. Did you leak it to that cripple? ”

"He stole it from my house!" Huang Shuo said angrily: "Once. He took advantage of my absence and went into my workshop with my father, and peeked at the light poison arrow I had made. At first, I didn't know it, but then I heard that he used a light poison arrow on the battlefield of Guandu, so I knew that there must be a problem, and I asked my family to find out that he had entered my workshop. I still had some half-made gunpowder in the workshop at the time, and the cripple must have stolen it together at that time! ”

"So you also invented that poison arrow?" Deputy Director Tao suddenly realized, and said with a wry smile: "Wanzhen, please pay attention to some secrecy when you tinker with these dangerous things next time, do you know, because you leaked secrets, how much suffering did the officers and soldiers of our army suffer on the battlefield of Guandu?" ”

Huang Shuo smiled very movingly, not only did he not feel a little guilty, but also said with a straight smile: "Actually, you should also thank me, at that time, I just took the other half of the light poison arrow out of the workshop and went to the bamboo forest to test fire, if you let that dead cripple steal the other half of the light poison arrow, you will suffer even more on the battlefield of Guandu." ”

"That kind of light poison arrow, and the other half?" Deputy Director Tao was taken aback, then quickly came to his senses and exclaimed, "Could it be the legendary repeating crossbow?" A repeating crossbow that can shoot ten poison arrows in a row? ”

"How do you know?" This time it was Huang Shuo's turn to be dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "I created the repeating crossbow, even my father didn't know, how did you know?" ”

"There? Over there? Show me! ”

"I brought it, but I can't show it to you now, it's my dowry, and I can't give it to you until we officially become relatives."

"Married? Well, let's get married now, and we'll go into the cave now! ”

"Ahh You big pervert, it's broad daylight, don't pull my clothes! ”

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In fact, before Deputy Director Tao crossed over, later generations have restored the legendary Three Kingdoms repeating crossbow through archaeology and research, Deputy Director Tao has also seen news reports in the media, but he has never seen the real thing, so after sacrificing the hue and finally getting the repeating crossbow, when he really got the real thing and tested it himself, Deputy Director Tao still had a feeling of excitement and difficulty, and he was extremely glad that Zhuge Liang could not get this kind of repeating crossbow from Huang Shuo, otherwise, the Xuzhou army would have suffered a lot on the battlefield of Guandu. At the same time, once this kind of repeater technology falls into the hands of Yuan Tan, the northern front battle of the Xuzhou army will also increase a lot of difficulty - Yuan Tan can hold the land of annexing the state, concentrate the power of one state to produce and manufacture this kind of repeater, and a large number of equipment into the army is as easy as a hand.

The range of the Three Kingdoms repeating crossbow is not far, only about half of the ordinary hand crossbow, and the penetration is not strong, and it is possible to break the armor within ten steps, so Huang Shuocai chose a light and cheap pole-head arrow as a crossbow arrow, in order to increase the range and facilitate mass manufacturing, in order to increase the power of the repeater, he also genius invented the rope poison arrow - that is, the kind of poison arrow that the imperial uncle army made the Xuzhou army suffer. However, the biggest advantage of this kind of repeating crossbow is that the firing speed is fast, just pull the lever to complete the winding loading of arrows, the time required for ordinary crossbow arrows to be fired two or three times, this kind of repeating crossbow can be easily fired ten times, and the speed can be faster after proficiency, and even in the case of the enemy shooting a crossbow arrow, all ten crossbow arrows can be shot out in one breath, taking advantage of the speed cheap.

Seeing such a wonderful close-range weapon, the generals of Xuzhou who accompanied Deputy Director Tao in the test firing were of course full of praise, scrambling to test the firing, and also asked Deputy Director Tao to manufacture a large number of this kind of repeating crossbow equipment team, but Deputy Director Tao was not very satisfied. Because when Deputy Director Tao exchanged hue for this kind of repeating crossbow, he suddenly remembered that there was a genius inventor in the Three Kingdoms era who was even more powerful than Huang Yueying, who had invented countless new weapons and tools, and seemed to have improved the repeating crossbow, making the repeating crossbow more powerful and shooting more arrows, but who was this person, Deputy Director Tao only remembered his surname Ma, what was the specific name of Ma, but Deputy Director Tao couldn't remember anything - it can't be blamed on Deputy Director Tao for not learning and not knowing. The key is that Luo Guanzhong, the god of fine work, did not mention this matter to Deputy Director Tao.

"Princesses. Have you ever heard of such a person? With the attitude of trying his luck, Deputy Director Tao asked everyone present: "His surname is Ma, I have forgotten what his specific name is, I only know that he is very good at making new tools and weapons." Do you have any impression of this person? ”

The Xuzhou civil and military forces present had big eyes on small eyes. They shook their heads and said they didn't know. I haven't heard of it, but Liu Ye thought about it and recalled it for a while. Suddenly said: "Lord, is the person you are talking about called Ma Jun Ma Deheng?" ”

"Ma Jun?" Deputy Director Tao finally remembered the name he had seen by chance, and hurriedly said: "Yes, it's this Ma Jun, does Mr. Ziyang know him?" ”

"I don't know." Liu Ye shook his head and replied: "Ye only saw his name in a detailed exploration report, he is a person from Liangzhou Fufeng, after the Cao thief moved west to Chang'an, he issued a recruitment order, he went to the Cao thief army as an official, and improved the weaving machine for the Cao thief team, so that the weaving of a horse took two months to shorten to more than ten days, and was regarded as a genius by the Cao thief, and ordered a large number of such looms to be woven for self-sufficiency or sale, so our army carefully collected the intelligence of this Ma Jun by the way, and reported it to our army, Ye did not pay too much attention at the time, or the lord will mention me before I remember. ”

"The Cao thief of the dog day is competing for talents with Lao Tzu again!" Deputy Director Tao scolded angrily, and immediately ordered Liu Ye: "Mr. Ziyang, you immediately arrange for a capable and meticulous sneak to Chang'an, try to get close to this Ma Jun, no matter what means you use, you must find a way to get this Ma Jun into our army, ask for money, ask for officials, ask for beauties, in short, I will decide this Ma Jun!" ”

"No." Liu Ye agreed, and asked very strangely: "Lord, this Ma Jun is just improving the silk weaving machine, so you don't need to pay so much attention to it, right?" If the lord wants his weaving machine, we will send a detailed sketch to secretly draw the structure, why bother to get Ma Jun himself to Xuchang? ”

"You don't understand, this Ma Jun is just a small lotus who shows sharp corners, and he will ...... in the future."

Deputy Director Tao almost missed his mouth in a hurry, but fortunately, at this time, a Xuzhou herald with a red flag on his back representing the identity of an emergency messenger, with a body full of dust, rushed to the front of Deputy Director Tao and knelt down on one knee, and presented a letter bag with chicken feathers above his head with both hands, and before he could speak, the person had fallen to the ground and fainted. Seeing his anxious appearance, everyone in Xuzhou was shocked, and Deputy Director Tao's heart was also beating wildly, so he hurriedly ordered the messenger to be carried down to rescue him, and opened the envelope with trembling hands slightly, and took out the emergency military information sent by Shiyi and Xun Chen from Xuchang, and took a closer look.

After reading the military intelligence report, Deputy Director Tao did not speak immediately, his slightly trembling hands also regained his composure, and he closed his eyes and carefully calculated, but the Xuzhou Wenwu on the left and right was anxious in his heart, and asked one after another: "Lord, what's wrong?" ”

Deputy Director Tao didn't answer, and only opened his eyes after a while, looked at Tai Shici and said: "Ziyi, I will make you the general of Zhennan, Nanyang Taishou, and lead an army of 20,000 to stay in the northeast of Nanyang, remember two points, one is to hold the important town of Wancheng for me, and hold the initiative on the battlefield of Nanyang, and the other is to seize the time to build ships, train sailors, and accumulate grain in the fields, so as to prepare for our future southern expedition to Jingzhou." ”

"No." Tai Shici, who was familiar with water warfare, hugged his fists and agreed, and asked again: "Lord, you said hurry up, the last general will be brave, and I want to ask how much time it is?" Ships are not easy to build, and it is difficult for skilled sailors to train quickly. ”

"Don't worry, I'll give you two or three years or even more." Deputy Director Tao replied with a smile: "Because at least within three years, our army will not use force against Jingzhou." ”

"Three years?!" Tai Shi Ci was startled at first, then immediately came to his senses, and said in surprise: "Lord, could it be said that the northern line has a chance?" ”

"Yes, there's a chance." Deputy Director Tao nodded with a smile, and said with a smile: "Yuan Tan broke Yecheng, Yuan Shang was defeated and went to Guantao, Chen Zhi made a quick decision, and he had already taken the initiative to attack Yuan Tan, not giving Yuan Tan a chance to breathe, Zang Ba's side should also do it." ”

"Congratulations, my lord!" The Xuzhou civil and military forces present cheered, "We finally have a chance to attack Jizhou!" ”

"Don't rush to congratulate." Deputy Director Tao shook his head, then pretended to wipe a handful of tears, choked up and said: "You still have to persuade me to mourn, Yuan Tan Pifu is rebellious, he killed his mother with his son and killed his mother, and after attacking Yecheng, he blatantly killed my mother-in-law, Mrs. Liu!" Mother-in-law, you died so miserably! But don't worry, the son-in-law must avenge you and kill all Yuan Tan and his accomplices and lackeys! ”

The civil and military forces in Xuzhou laughed, hugged their fists to Deputy Director Tao together, and said in unison: "The lord please mourn!" Don't worry, we will follow the lord to the death, avenge Mrs. Liu, cut off Yuan Tan's rebels, and unify the three states of Hebei! ”

Deputy Director Tao burst into tears and smiled, and said: "Order the whole army, immediately pack up, and return to Xuchang tomorrow!" Then, the army sent to Jizhou! ”

"No!" The civil and military forces in Xuzhou sang the promise in unison, and then the crowd also resounded with ecstatic laughter, "I finally have the opportunity to go to Jizhou to raid my home!" I finally have the opportunity to go to Jizhou to raid my home! Hahahaha, Lord Ben didn't accept Yuan Benchu's solicitation back then, and he didn't stay in Jizhou as an official, which is really a wise decision! (To be continued......)