More than half of the nearly 6,000 Wu troops were annihilated on the banks of the water, and the remaining thousands of remnants of the army who escaped a death fled into the wilderness, and Wangnan went to rendezvous with the army of Chen Wu who received them.

After the Wei army cleaned up the battlefield, it got nearly 500 high-quality horses that were not inferior to the horses of Bingzhou, as well as a thousand excellent Mingguang armor and countless sharp Wu knives left by the Wu army. Because Qiao Ren has always asked the Wu army not to omit Miao knives, ballistas and other equipment, and the Wu army has been almost victorious in recent years, the Wei State has never captured the Wu people's Wu Dao (Miao Dao). Even if there is money to make ghosts grind, there are also Wu knives smuggled from Wu in the black market of Wei State, but they are not only small in quantity but also difficult to find, and with Deng Ai's status and Sima Shi's age, they can't afford it at all.

So when thousands of Wu knives were captured, the generals of the Wei army were so happy that they were going crazy. However, the most important thing is to find the bodies of the generals of the Wu army, and the bodies of Li Yi and Liu A were soon discovered, but the fly in the ointment is that Ling Tong's body was not found, and it seems that Ling Tong killed the ambush circle. When the sergeants carried Li Yi's body to Sima Shi and Deng Ai, both of them couldn't help but gasp.

Poor Li Yi also died a little miserable, and the body that was more than eight feet long was densely packed with nearly fifty arrows, which was even hedgehog more than a hedgehog, and it seemed that it was all because this Li Yi, who was heroic and had a huge body and was wearing dazzling bright light armor, was too eye-catching.

On the other side, Ling Tong, who escaped death, traveled three hundred miles a day with the frightened two thousand remnants of the army, and rushed to Fancheng without his life, it seems that the psychological shadow caused by this ambush is too great, the rain of arrows in the sky gives people a sense of oppression and the helplessness of death, even Ling Tong, who knows that arrows can not penetrate the armor, also feels that he is so close to death.

After returning to Fancheng. Ling Tong explained the details of this battle to Lu Xun, and Lu Xun obviously found out that something was wrong, and wrote a letter about the matter, which was sent to Jianye by a special clipper.

Judging from the scale of the battle, the number of men and horses on both sides did not exceed 10,000, and even if the two were combined, it was just a local encounter in the early 10,000s. Regardless of victory or defeat, there was really nothing worth discussing, but the appearance of Wei's crossbow sounded the alarm for Wu Guo. The reason why Wu was able to defeat Wei repeatedly relied not only on the intelligence and ability of the leading generals, but also on the leadership of ballistas and equipment, but the Han and Wei were not vegetarians. When the gap in equipment gradually narrowed, the weak characteristics of the Wu people's land warfare were also highlighted.

Jianye Wucheng Pavilion, a crisp sound came from the council hall, and Qiao Ren asked with an incredulous look at Zhong Lixu, the captain of the building ship who came to report the news in person.

"What? You said that Wei had a crossbow machine that could shoot more than 20 times in a row. Ling Tong was ambushed outside Wancheng. In a quarter of an hour, four thousand troops were damaged. ”

"Back to Da Sima, exactly! The Metropolitan felt that something was wrong. At the end of the special order, he will return to Jianye to report to Da Sima. Lu Dudu also said. Da Sima is good at the art of organs, and he is very good at the method of battle formation, so the special general will come to inquire. Zhong Lixu said to Qiao Ren, Zhang Zhao and Bu Qi, who were on duty in the attic.

"If the old man remembers correctly, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, once made a repeating crossbow that can fire ten arrows in a row, could it be that this crossbow was captured by the Wei State during the Guanlong War." Zhang Zhao touched his beard and asked tentatively.

As the father of the famous generals of Soochow in the future. One of the descendants of Zhong Liquan (Han Zhongli), one of the Eight Immortals, Zhong Lixu is obviously very clear-headed, and he has thought about all the things that he may ask about on the way to Jianye, and at this time, he heard Zhang Zhaofa ask and said without thinking: "Go back to Taiwei." Zhuge Liang did make a repeating crossbow that fired ten arrows in a row, which was called the Yuanrong crossbow, but it was customary to call it Zhuge crossbow in our army. ”

"The person who led the troops before was not Zhuge Liang, so this crossbow is not equipped with the Han army." Bu Qi's brows furrowed, and he turned to Qiao Ren and said, "Da Sima, you are familiar with the internal situation of Shu Han. It can be known that during the Guanlong War, those in the Shu Han army were Zhuge Liang's descendants. ”

It seems that Bu Qi and Zhang Zhao both believed that the Yuan Rong crossbow was obtained by the Wei army and used it to deal with the Wu army. Qiao Ren didn't think that this kind of repeater with thirty consecutive losses would be developed by Wei Guo himself, if Wei really had this ability, the future situation would not be easy to handle.

Qiao Ren thought for a moment and said, "Deng Zhi, Zhao Yun, and Liu Yan are all members of Zhuge Liang's family!" General Zhongli, these three soldiers and horses are at war with the Wei army! ”

According to the news from General Zhu of Wuguan, these three people all had a Yuan Rong crossbow soldier with thousands of people. Moreover, Liu Yan, the general of the Shu Han Guard, led his troops to garrison Wugong, and on the way to the enemy general Cao Zhen's retreat, he attacked Wugong, Liu Yan and his subordinates were killed, and the Yuanrong crossbow was captured by the Wei army in this battle. ”

"That's not right! Listening to the official position, Liu Yan's status is not low, how could he lead this bit of soldiers and horses to garrison the place where the Wei army must take, could it be that someone ???" The more Bu Qi said, the more certain he was that someone wanted to trap Liu Yan to death.

"Exactly!!" Zhong Lixu said: "Governor Lu also knew about this, and concluded that Li Yan, the captain of Shu Han, was not on good terms with Zhuge Liang, and wanted to use the hand of Cao Jun to get rid of his subordinates. ”

"Hey! This Shu Han land is not very big, and there is constant infighting!! Zhang Zhao shook his head and ignored it, because he knew that Wu Guo's own internal infighting was missing!

Bang! The sound of slapping the table sounded in the pavilion again, and the subordinates working on the side all focused their eyes on Qiao Ren, and Qiao Ren was angry at this time, and scolded loudly: "This Li Zhengfang not only misled the country, but also made enemies!! ”

At this time, Qiao Ren had already remembered a very famous allusion in history, that is, Ma Jun improved the Zhuge Repeater and increased its efficiency by five times. It can be seen from this that Ling Tong said that Wei had a repeater that had been lost thirty times in a row, and it was thought that it was Ma Jun's achievement in improving Zhuge repeater.

"Why did Da Sima say this!!" Bu Qi on the side saw that Qiao Ren was suddenly angry and then scolded Li Yan, so he was quite strange, so he asked.

Qiao Ren sighed, organized the wording, and said: "The Wei army's capture of the Yuanrong crossbow should be in martial arts, but the repeater crossbow used by the Wei army is not the Yuanrong crossbow. As far as I know, Ma Jun is known as the contemporary Lu Ban in the Wei State, and he is extremely proficient in the art of the organ, which is slightly better than Liu Ye in Huainan. Presumably, this person must have changed the Yuan Rong crossbow that fired ten arrows in a row into a sharp weapon like this, but hated this Li Zhengfang for his own selfish anger but made the enemy's army stronger. ”

"Hey!!" For a while, the hall was also lamenting.

"By the way, General Zhongli's department has a Yuan Rong crossbow." Qiao Ren suddenly thought that the Wei State could reform the Yuan Rong crossbow, why couldn't the Wu State!? Although Wu Guo didn't want Wei and Han to have great inventors, there were many skilled craftsmen, and the strength of the prisoner was better than that of Wei and Han combined.

"Back to Da Sima, there is!! Governor Lu entrusted General Mi Fang to purchase one from a Shu army general with a lot of money, and the last general brought Jianye with him. "Since Zhong Lixu entered the palace to meet the big guys, he didn't bring the Yuan Rong crossbow with him, so he could only talk about it.

"Ziyan, what do you mean!!" Zhang Zhao poked his head and asked Qiao Ren.

Qiao Ren said bluntly: "The Wei State can imitate or even improve the Yuan Rong crossbow, and my Great Wu will be a master craftsman and have countless skilled craftsmen, and he will definitely succeed." If Wei is allowed to occupy this advantage, our army will be at a disadvantage in the future. Now that my Great Wu is thriving, the country's fortunes are getting stronger and stronger, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is imminent, we must not let Yuan Rong's crossbow hinder His Majesty's great cause! ”

"Hmm!!" Zhang Zhao said in a deep voice: "Okay!! General Zhongli: Tomorrow, you and the old man's army member Lou Xuan will send the Yuan Rong crossbow to the general as a prisoner. ”

"Woo 1!" (To be continued......)