"My lord...... Poof...... "Wen Hao just wanted to explain, but he felt a sweet blood in his throat, and if it weren't for Liu Ziqiu's quick hand to help him, he would have been planted off the horse at that time

Liu Ziqiu's face sank and he said loudly: "Go back to the city"

This ambush location was selected after repeated consideration, and the target was originally the main force of Xianbei under Murong Fuyun, but it turned out to be the two big traps in front of the two big traps of the people of the Seal Party, even if they were stupid, they would not be fooled, and it was useless to continue to stay here

On the way back to the city, Liu Ziqiu's mood gradually calmed down, and his original arrangement seemed to be seamless, but in fact, it was full of loopholes

Not to mention anything else, just sending Wen Hao to lead a hundred people to act as bait is an extremely risky move, Wen Hao and they are facing the three thousand men and horses of the Fine Seal Department this time, if they are facing Murong Fuyun's Xianbei army, I am afraid that these bait of them are not enough, others don't want to return to this riverbed at all, let alone Wen Hao, even if he is himself, it is impossible to retreat in the middle of more than 10,000 enemy horses

Besides, this riverbed, the entire Xihai County is not easy to find an excellent ambush site, the nameless small valley last time is counted as one, this riverbed is also counted as one, but Liu Ziqiu ignored a key problem, the riverbed can trap the horse's hooves The phenomenon is discovered by the surrounding herdsmen, but the herdsmen found this phenomenon during the day, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the temperature is above zero during the day, the sediment below the riverbed is relatively soft, and the horse's hooves can be trapped, and the temperature plummets at night, and the sediment becomes hard, it is impossible to trap the horseshoe, if it is not for the dark river below, which causes this riverbed to collapse, the fine seal of the wild Lilan's people and horses are afraid that they have already passed through here and reached the city of Weiding

According to the original plan, he went out this time, at least until Murong Fuyun was completely defeated, so when he saw Liu Ziqiu appear at the gate of the city, Liu Yu and the others were very surprised, and asked repeatedly: "Lord, why did you come back so quickly?"

Liu Ziqiu waved his hand lightly and said, "I'll talk about other things later, take me to see the city defense first."

Now it's too late to find a second ambush site, relying on the city wall to defend has become the only option, and not preparing enough emergency plans is also another mistake of Liu Ziqiu, Liu Ziqiu has deeply realized that he is still immature in many aspects

Liu Yu and Jiang Yu have been in the army for a long time, and the city defense is well arranged, and Liu Yu reported as he walked: "My lord, the old and weak women and children of these nomadic tribes are indeed not simple, almost everyone can open a bow and release arrows, and many stones on the head of the city are brought in by them from outside the city."

Jiang Yu also said: "We selected a total of 10,000 old and weak women and children, divided into four teams, one team to guard the city, one team to serve as a reserve, and the other two teams to rest in the city, rotating every two hours."

Liu Yu further explained: "Weiding City is too small, if you concentrate people at the head of the city, you can't control it, and once you start a war, it is easy to cause relatively large casualties."

"This arrangement is very good," Liu Ziqiu nodded and asked, "These old and weak women and children are tenacious-willed, enduring, good at riding and shooting, but they are not necessarily good at defending the city, many of them are probably the first time to climb the city, how to solve this problem?"

Liu Yu said with a smile: "Didn't the lord hand over to us two hundred old soldiers, and we will also divide these two hundred old soldiers into four teams, responsible for teaching those old and weak women and children how to defend the city, pay attention to the key points, and how to dodge the arrows shot from the city."

The women and children who were tasked with defending the city at the head of the city were not crowded around the edge of the city, only a few people looked down at the city in front, and most of them rested in the back to conserve their strength, otherwise they would stand down in two hours and not wait for the battle, their legs would be weak, but both women and children were in good spirits, because with the promise of the best pasture on the shore of Xihai Lake, these women and children had long regarded Weiding City as their home, and in the face of the threat of the enemy, they did not need any mobilization, and they would go all out

Liu Ziqiu was generally satisfied with Liu Yu and Jiang Yu's arrangement, he nodded and asked, "What are the difficulties?"

Jiang Yu thought for a while and said, "There are no other problems, it's just that the city wall is too short and not too strong."

Liu Ziqiu had already noticed this problem, and his footsteps paused and said: "It is obviously unrealistic to increase the height of the city wall now, but if you want to make the city wall strong, I have an idea, you should prepare more water, and pour it down from the city in the middle of the night, so that Weiding will become an ice city."

This method has been used by many people in history, but when Liu Ziqiu said it, it still made Liu Yu and Jiang Yu's eyes light up, and they even claimed to be good

Further on, I saw a group of people busy in the city, as if they were installing something

Liu Yu smiled: "My lord, that's Lord He is testing his bed crossbow"

Liu Ziqiu had only heard of this kind of weapon, but he hadn't seen it, but he didn't expect He Chou to make it, and suddenly became interested and said: "Let's take a look."

The structure and basic principle of the bed crossbow are similar to those of ordinary military crossbows, but it is not only the expansion of the size, but also the changes in many details, which can be regarded as a relatively complex machine, He Chou finished introducing Liu Ziqiu, and said with a bitter face: "Lord, it's a pity that time is pressing, and many key components can only be replaced with wood, I'm afraid that each bed crossbow will fall apart if it can't shoot a few arrows, and there is no time to build an iron arrow, and the bed crossbow will not work."

Liu Ziqiu was already very satisfied, and encouraged: "He Chou, you did a good job, and when the war is over, Liu Mou will make a big contribution for you, and you don't have to be afraid that I will allocate a few people to build you a few more in time, first deal with the war in front of you, and then build a few real bed crossbows with excellent quality later, as for the problem of lack of iron arrows, you can completely replace it with bamboo arrows, you can go to the warehouse to retrieve Mao Zhu now."

The bamboo is sharpened as a weapon, Liu Ziqiu did it when he was in Changshan Village, and the bamboo is tough and elastic, not as easy to break as wood, and the sharpening of the end is also extremely sharp, although it is not as hard as the iron arrow, but it can barely be used, Xihai originally did not produce bamboo, but there are many in the baggage

The Great Sui court once deployed 40,000 garrisons in Xihai, these garrisons except for 6,000 people, the others fled back to Xiping, Longxi and other counties, but although the army withdrew the original camp, it was still there, and left a lot of baggage, these baggage not only included a large number of vehicles, grain and grass, but also cloth, wood, pig iron, bamboo and other materials, these materials were originally used to make and repair weapons, and had already been sent by Liu Ziqiu to move into Weiding City in batches

As soon as He Hou clicked, he immediately opened his eyes and said with great joy: "Yes, why didn't I think that not only the iron arrow can be replaced by bamboo, but some parts can also be replaced by bamboo, so I'll try it."

"Well, you go, Liu Senjun, Jiang Senjun, the ambush soldiers sent out by the army will all return to the city immediately, except for the three cavalry thousand-man team, I will hand over all the other horses to you, you must remember that it is a man's duty to protect the old and weak, women and children, and if you have to, don't let the old and weak women and children stand in front," Liu Ziqiu instructed two more sentences and said, "Wen Hao is seriously injured this time, I'll go see him first."

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Wen Hao, who was seriously injured, was sent back to his residence as soon as he entered the city, and the Xihai garrison originally had a few Langzhong, but they were not willing to stay, and Liu Ziqiu was not reluctant, so Weiding City did not even have a Langzhong now, fortunately, they were all soldiers, dealing with headaches and brain fever, and there may be no way to treat knife wounds and arrow wounds, but they will get two hits

At this moment, Wen Hao was lying on the bed, wrapped tightly in white cloth, like a mummy, of course, none of them had heard of a mummy, and they didn't know what a mummy was, but the blood stains oozing from the white cloth showed Wen Hao's extremely serious injuries

However, Wen Hao has woken up from a coma, Fan Lihua sat on the edge of the bed, feeding him spoonful by spoonful, drinking millet porridge, last time Fan Lihua was injured, Wen Hao took care of it, and now it is completely reversed, but Wen Hao's injury this time is much more serious than Fan Lihua's, feeding Fan Lihua's eyes moistened, her originally frozen heart finally opened a window, Wen Hao was so seriously injured, and I don't know if she will be disabled

Thinking of this, Fan Lihua's face had a trace of anger again, and she pushed the pottery bowl in her hand to Xiaohong's hand, Huo stood up, gritted her teeth and said: "I'll go to Liu Ziqiu now, you even sold his life to him for his birth and death, and he actually said that you ruined his big thing, and you haven't come to see you until now, it's too much."

Wen Hao was still in a coma when he was just sent back, and the dozen or so soldiers who sent him back were all life and death brothers who survived with him, although everyone was injured, but the injury was not as serious as Wen Hao, according to these soldiers, Wen Hao at that time, in order to reduce everyone's casualties, he was alone several times, and he was extremely physically exhausted, and finally Wen Hao and the other party's most powerful fine seal were also taken off, and they fought to the death, only to annihilate the team of chasing soldiers to cover everyone and come back alive, but he himself was injured like this, so the friendship between these more than ten soldiers to Wen Hao is not only a relationship between superiors and subordinates, nor just comrades-in-arms, but a real friend of life and death

When Liu Ziqiu blamed Wen Hao, these soldiers were next to them, and some words should not have been spread everywhere, but in the face of Fan Lihua's inquiry, thinking of Wen Hao's grievances, they all said it unconsciously

Fan Lihua is the daughter of a military household, she has been strong since she was a child, and she really doesn't let the heroine of the eyebrows, although the tears are rolling in her eyes, she can't help it, she didn't fall down, and went out to find Liu Ziqiu angrily, but she just opened the door and was stunned h3 The author has something to say h3 came back after eating after the morning meeting h3 just finished this chapter, it's a little late, please forgive me, thank you for your support! ，.