Tian Biao dragged the broken leg and crawled with difficulty, and the blood flowing from the broken leg stained the red earth under him even redder, leaving a crimson mark behind him. The sharp pain from the broken leg made Tian Biao almost unconscious, but he still gritted his teeth and did not say a word, and tried to crawl forward. He knew that as long as he returned to the battle, he would be treated by the military doctor, and if he was lucky, he would be able to save his life. As for the future life, Tian Biao does not have to worry, every Jiaozhou soldier who is injured on the battlefield will be well accommodated.

More soldiers in the Nanye formation discovered Tian Biao, who was trying to survive. Several of the soldiers tried to rush forward and carry him back, but they were stopped by their commanders or commanders. Passion is needed on the battlefield and more rationality, and it is not appropriate for an officer to take more lives for a wounded soldier.

Military orders are more important than lives for the Jiaozhou army, they can save Paoze regardless of their own life and death, but they can't violate military orders. Most of the soldiers were stopped, but several of the soldiers who were in the same army as Tian Biao clashed with Wu Chang. Don't look at Tian Biao's young age, he has not been in the army for a long time, but he is very brave in combat on weekdays, and he has saved the lives of his comrades many times. This kind of life-and-death friendship made several robes willing to give their lives for him and disobey military orders.

"How can you bear to watch him die!" A soldier yelled at the captain.

"Please! Let me save him! Another soldier pleaded.

Wu Chang gritted his teeth in the face of his subordinates who were both soft and hard: "You are not allowed to go!" I'll go! Then he rushed forward.

"You are not allowed to go!" A silver spear blocked the captain's way.

"General Zhao......" Wu Chang looked up in surprise and saw that it was Zhao Yun who stopped him, and the words of defense came to his mouth and swallowed back.

Zhao Yun smiled at Wu Chang and a few excited soldiers, "It's good for you to wait!" I'm going to save people. ”

"You are not allowed to go!" The same words sounded behind Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun was stunned when he heard it, and turned his head to see that it was Nan Ye.

Nan Ye was originally watching the battle from behind, but Li Ru surprised Nan Ye as soon as he used the thunderbolt car. He was not surprised that there was a thunderbolt in Cao's army, but he wondered why Li Ru's thunderbolt was so accurate, and you must know that the latest thunderbolt car developed in Jiaozhou may not be able to achieve this accuracy. It was precisely because he felt strange that Nan Ye came to the front of the formation to take a closer look, found the red clay belt, and also saw the injured Tian Biao.

Zhao Yun was stopped by Nan Ye and just wanted to speak, when he saw Nan Ye wave his hand, an extra card appeared in his hand, and the next moment a white elephant golden corpse wearing vermilion lacquer iron armor appeared in front of Nan Ye's military array. This time, there is no need for Nan Ye to explain, Zhao Yun also knows what Nan Ye is going to do.

It was the first time that Wu Chang and several soldiers had watched Nanye National Master use "spells" at close range, and they were all speechless in shock. Before they could react, the white elephant golden corpse had already rushed towards Tian Biao.

When Tian Biao was delicately and gently curled up by the elephant trunk, he simply fainted, not because of fright, but because of peace of mind. He knew he was saved, so he didn't have to hold on anymore, the blood loss and pain made him dizzy, but there was a smile on his lips. In the days that followed, Tian Biao said the most: "My life was saved by the national teacher." And every time he said this, there was not only gratitude but also pride in his tone.

When the white elephant rescued Tian Biao, there was a burst of cheers in the Jiaozhou army. "Long live the national teacher!" The cry resounded in the sky. On the other hand, Li Ru and Cao Jun at the head of Xuchang City, their faces were much worse, and it was obvious that Nan Ye's huge mount left a deep impression on them.

What worries Li Ru the most is not the size of the white elephant, but its dexterity. Li Ru not only saw how the white elephant saved people, but also saw how the white elephant avoided the boulder flying all over the sky. Even if it was a boulder flying behind him, the white elephant could dexterously dodge, which made Li Ru have to think of the word "spirit beast", and he was a little more afraid of Nan Ye.

In this battle of Xuchang Nancheng, Nan Ye lost not many soldiers, mainly because the siege equipment was destroyed a lot, compared with the unscathed Cao army, Nan Ye still lost, but in terms of morale, the Cao army lost, which can be regarded as a mutual victory.

Liu Bei in the east of the city and Sun Quan in the west of the city were not as lucky as Nan Ye, and the soldiers under their command had not learned how to deal with the thunderbolt, and they were knocked unconscious at that time. Even Liu Bei and Sun Quan were stupid and didn't know how to deal with it, which made them not give a decisive order to withdraw their troops.

Soldiers cannot withdraw without an order, because retreating means fleeing from the battle, and they should be beheaded according to military law. Some of the soldiers chose to hide behind the rushing carts and ladders to continue their advance, while others simply launched a charge.

The power of the thunderbolt is obviously not something that can be stopped by rushing cars and ladders. As a result, the soldiers who were hiding behind the siege equipment were either hit by boulders or knocked down by the scattered siege equipment, resulting in heavier casualties.

The soldiers who chose to charge quickly rushed through the red earth belt, avoiding the thunderbolt bombardment, but were within range of the city's crossbows. A rain of arrows fell, and half of the soldiers who were poorly protected in a panic charge fell. The remaining half raised their shields to defend against the first wave of arrows, but found themselves in a dilemma. With a tall wall in front and a flying boulder behind them, if they stood still, all that awaited them was a rain of arrows.

Zhuge Liang observed the two rounds of the thunderbolt's attack, and found that the stone had fallen near the red clay line on the ground. So he took advantage of the interval between the thunderbolts and stones to order the troops to be withdrawn, and only then did he save the soldiers who could not advance or retreat. Sun Quan and Lu Su were a beat slower than Zhuge Liang before they discovered the law of the thunderbolt car, and the result was that the soldiers and horses of Eastern Wu suffered greater losses than Liu Bei's soldiers and horses.

Before the war, although Nan Ye, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan all had the idea of feints, they felt that at least the siege weapons should be close to the city walls, so that they could be regarded as the standard of feints. No one expected that their siege equipment would be smashed by the thunderbolts in the city from a stone's throw away. In this way, none of them have to pretend and retreat directly.

After the war, the three generals gathered in the Nanye tent to discuss countermeasures. Sun Quan's record was at the bottom again, which made him really unable to raise his head, and he couldn't help complaining: "I heard that the thing that Li Ru defended the city is called the thunderbolt car, which was made by the national teachers during the great war of Cao Cao and Yuan Shaoguandu, but I don't know if it is or not." ”

Of course, Nan Ye heard Sun Quan's dissatisfaction, but there was nothing to hide about this matter, so he nodded and said, "That's true." It's just that I didn't expect today's defeat at the beginning. ”

Sun Quan saw Nan Ye's admission and said even more angrily: "The national teacher is an unpredictable prophet, how can he not know today's events? ”

Nan Ye could tolerate Sun Quan's emotions, but he couldn't tolerate him repeatedly finding fault and provoking, so he snorted coldly and said: "If I didn't know the prophet, I wouldn't have saved Sun Wentai in the Tiger Prison Pass, so as not to be arrogant here." ”

Sun Quan's face turned red when he heard this, Sun Jian and Sun Ce both said that Nan Ye was kind to the Sun family before he died, but Sun Quan didn't take it to heart, and he didn't calculate Nan Ye for the benefit of Eastern Wu, and he did have some meaning of revenge.

Lu Su saw that Nan Ye was angry and Sun Quan was embarrassed, so he played a round and said: "Don't blame the national teacher!" My lord does not mean to blame the national teacher. Instead, he thought that the national teacher could create this strange thing and there must be a way to crack it, and asked the national teacher to give him advice. ”

Nan Ye was too lazy to get angry with Sun Quan, he knew that Sun Quan, Sun Jian, and Sun Ce were not the same kind of people. Sun Jian and Sun Ce's personalities are more like generals, while Sun Quan is a qualified politician. Nan Ye never expected Sun Quan to be grateful to him, and he saved Sun Jian because he was like-minded with Sun Jian. Listening to Lu Su's round, Nan Ye said: "If you want to break the thunderbolt car, you don't need other methods, we will also build a thunderbolt car." ”

Zhuge Liang and Huang Chengyan were friends, and they were also very proficient in various instruments, so they wondered: "Cao Jun occupies a favorable location and is condescending, even if he builds a thunderbolt, I am afraid that it will be difficult for stone bullets to fly into the city." ”

Liu Bei also understood what Zhuge Liang said, in the case of the same range of the thunderbolt, naturally the side with high terrain had more advantages. If the same thunderbolt was used to throw stones into the city on the red clay belt, I am afraid that the city walls would not be able to be hit at all. So Liu Bei proposed: "We might as well build a mountain first, and then build a thunderbolt to attack the city." ”

Nan Ye smiled when he heard this: "Why bother so much, we only need to build a bigger thunderbolt car, and the range can be longer." After all, the land at the head of the city is limited, and Li Ru has nowhere to put it if he wants to build a bigger thunderbolt. ”

Sun Quan was overjoyed when he heard this: "The method of the national teacher is very wonderful, and I also ask the national teacher to inform me of the method of building a thunderbolt car." ”

Nan Ye looked at Sun Quan at this time, and it seemed that Sun Quan was still acting more than half of the way just now, in order to set out his own thunderbolt drawings. In fact, Nan Ye didn't want to keep it secret when he handed over the first-generation thunderbolt drawings to Cao Cao, so he very happily asked Guo Jia to take out the first-generation thunderbolt drawings and hand them to Liu Bei and Sun Quandao: "This is the thunderbolt blueprints, as long as you enlarge and build them according to the drawings, you can restrain Cao Jun." ”

Sun Quan and Liu Bei were overjoyed to get the drawings, and after thanking Nan Ye, they went back to the camp to study the drawings and build the thunderbolt. In order to hide his strength, Nan Ye, like Sun Quan and Liu Bei, began to build a large-scale generation of thunderbolts.

Li Ru didn't care when he saw that the three families outside the city were building equipment, and they thought that the three families were making up for the losses of the previous war. But after two days, he found that something was wrong, because the three families were building equipment in front of the formation instead of behind the formation, and the prototype of the equipment that gradually took shape also made Li Ru see the clues, and it was clearly a thunderbolt. At this time, Li Ru remembered that the opponent this time was different from the past, and Nan Ye, the inventor of the thunderbolt car, was under the city.

In fact, the catapult is really not an invention of Nan Ye, nor is it an invention of Liu Ye, as early as the Warring States Period, the Mo family began to use catapults. It was only later that the hundred schools of thought were deposed, Confucianism was respected, the Mohist doctrine declined, and the method of building the thunderbolt car was almost lost, which made the thunderbolt car a new invention in the late Han Dynasty.

Li Ru knew very well the power of the thunderbolt, so naturally he couldn't sit still. Cao Zhang, Xiahou Shang and others were sent out of the city in turn, wanting to destroy the construction of the Thunderbolt. It's just that the three families have been prepared for a long time, and the Cao army not only failed to succeed, but also lost its troops. Li Ru, who had no choice but to order a part of the thunderbolt cars to be removed from the wall and moved into the city, just in case.