More than a dozen tents were set up in the snow only four or five miles away from Luoyang City.

Around a bonfire in the snow, more than 20 people gathered in a circle, happily munching on fragrant barbecue.

The guards gnawed on rabbit meat and venison one by one, and the corners of their mouths were smeared with sparkling fat.

Liu Wei pinched a piece of venison in his hand and chewed it slowly while talking to the person next to him.

He was not surrounded by Wang Liu and Wang Zhen, but Xu Shu, who had learned that Liu Wei was going to pitch a tent in the snow at night, and had made a special trip from the city.

What the two were talking about was also about Liu Wei and others finding corpses in the mountains.

"Where does Your Highness think it will be?" After Liu Wei told Xu Shu about the discovery of the body in the mountain, Xu Shu frowned slightly and asked Liu Wei.

"I don't know!" Liu Wei shook his head and said to Xu Shu: "They are dressed in civilian clothes, but this king can see that they are all soldiers who fight on the battlefield all year round. And it definitely won't be our Qin Jun's people! ”

"Why is Your Highness so sure he is not a soldier of the Qin Army?" Liu Wei said that the corpse was not from Qin Jun, and Xu Shu also felt very strange, and asked him again.

"The main force of the Qin army, with the knife as the main combat blade." Turning his head to look at Xu Shu, Liu Wei said to him: "There are many differences between knives and swords, the index finger joint of the wielding knife wields a lot of force, while the sword maker holds the hilt lightly, the calluses on the palm are not as thick as the knife maker, especially the difference between the index finger is a world of difference." ”

"Our army also has sword soldiers." His brows furrowed slightly, and Xu Shu said to Liu Wei with some doubts: "The dragoon guards and the palace guards are the swords. In the past, the partial battalion was not eliminated, and the soldiers mostly used short spears......"

"There's something different about it." As soon as Xu Shu's question was spoken, Liu Wei took over and said: "The soldiers of our army all use round shields, which are relatively small, and the soldiers don't need to use too much force when holding the shields, and they rarely grind out cocoons on their hands, while most of the heavy infantry in other places use square shields!" The shield is not only large and heavy, but if you practice and fight with the shield for a long time, you will definitely leave a calloon on your palm. ”

Xu Shu didn't raise any further objections, and was silent for a moment before saying to Liu Wei: "Your Highness, rest assured, Your Majesty will definitely be able to investigate, and you may be able to find out the reason in the near future." ”

"Hmm!" Liu Wei nodded, and then asked Xu Shu: "Is the military advisor sleeping in the wild tonight, or returning to the city to rest?" ”

"Your Highness is outside the city, and Your Majesty will not go back." Xu Shu smiled slightly, turned his head and glanced at the snow everywhere and said to Liu Wei: "Ruixue is a good year, the snow fell early this year, and next year will be a good harvest." ”

"Hopefully!" Also looking around, Liu Wei nodded and said: "The snow is early, the insects are frozen to death, I think there will be no more insect plagues next year......

While Liu Wei and Xu Shu were talking, Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and the twenty or so guards were immersed in nibbling on the meat roasted by Liu Wei himself, and the corners of each person's mouth were full of shiny oil.

Glancing at Wang Liu and the others, Xu Shu whispered to Liu Wei: "I don't know if Your Highness can hear about something." ”

"What?" Xu Shu suddenly came up with such a sentence mysteriously, and Liu Wei turned his head to look at him with some confusion and asked him.

"Yuan Shujian cleared the wilderness and cut down all the trees within miles outside Shouchun City." Looking at each other with Liu Wei, Xu Shu's voice was very low, and he said to Liu Wei: "Although it is called logging for heating, his subordinates think that he is preparing for war in advance. ”

......Hearing these four words, Liu Wei couldn't help frowning, and said to Xu Shu: "In this way, if our army can attack Huainan before Cao Cao, wouldn't it have to have a lot of casualties?" ”

"Your Highness, has you forgotten Jizhou?" As soon as Liu Wei's words came out, Xu Shu whispered to him: "His Royal Highness in Jizhou ordered people to make catapults and bombard the city wall for several days, and only after the city wall collapsed did they attack the city. ”

It wasn't until Xu Shu mentioned it that Liu Wei patted his forehead and said: "This king actually forgot about this matter, Yuan Shujian cleared the wilderness, just to clear the wilderness for our army, but it took a lot of time to carry wood to build a catapult. ”

"Exactly!" Xu Shu responded with a fist clenched, and said to Liu Wei: "When our army goes south, the most annoying thing outside Shouchun City is to transport wood, so His Majesty is currently developing a cart that can transport wood. ”

"Can the military advisor have researched it?" Xu Shu said that he was working on a cart to transport wood, and Liu Wei hurriedly asked.

Shaking his head, Xu Shu replied a little depressedly: "If the body is too long, there is no war horse to pull, and if the body is too short, it will not be able to carry the big wood." Your Majesty has also been very difficult these days. ”

"Strategist!" As soon as Xu Shu's words fell, Liu Wei said to him: "To build a catapult, the timber should not be too short, if it is not easy to transport it to the battlefield from a distance, the military advisor may wish to think about it, if I don't need a carriage......

When Liu Wei said the words "no carriage", Xu Shu's eyes suddenly lit up and said: "Only use the wooden board as the base!" ”

Nodding at Xu Shu with a smile on his face, Liu Wei didn't speak again, reached out and pulled a piece of meat from the cooked deer on the bonfire, put it in his mouth and chewed it.

When the snow falls, the weather is not very cold.

However, once the snow melts, the temperature drops sharply.

When they had eaten their fill, they went into the tents they had set up to rest.

The sky was getting darker and darker, but the white snow reflected the bright white light, and the field did not seem so dark.

Xu Shu and the others had already gone to bed early, and there was still candlelight in Liu Wei's tent.

He sat cross-legged on the cover, and on his legs lay a map that he had ordered from Huainan earlier.

It was a topographic map of the whole of Huainan.

Yuan Shu repeatedly provoked Liu Wei, and Liu Wei always had a tolerant attitude towards him, but Yang Feng's death in Huainan made Liu Wei unforgettable.

This revenge must be avenged!

If the grain and grass are not consumed by disaster relief, and the army cannot withstand the expedition, Liu Wei should have been in Shouchun City at this time, admiring Yuan Shu's head and drinking a banquet with the generals to celebrate his achievements.

The terrain of Huainan is complex, with rivers and mountains.

Although there are no particularly steep peaks, which can be connected to a large number of mountains, it is much more difficult to deploy a large army than on the plains.

To march into Shouchun, we must first cross the Lingling, and then cross the Shuishui.

It is impossible for people in this era to know that the battle of Weishui took place hundreds of years later, but Liu Wei, who came here from later generations, knew that although the water is not very wide, as long as the enemy army holds the key pass, it is not easy to cross it.

Looking at the map, what he was studying was where to approach Shouchun from after entering Huainan.

While Liu Wei was studying the map, a violent cough sounded in his ears.

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen's tent was very close to his tent, and the coughing sound was obviously a woman, and there would be no one else except Wang Liu.

Hearing the cough, Liu Wei stacked the map and laid it aside, stood up and walked out of the tent.

Out of the tent, Liu Wei walked straight to the tent where Wang Liu lived.

Because it was very close to Luoyang, there were many tents brought by the soldiers, and the guards slept in the same tent for each of them, but Liu Wei, Xu Shu and others could each have one.

There was no candlelight in the tent where the cough was heard violently, so Liu Wei walked outside the tent and reached out to open the curtain.

It was so dark in the tent that nothing could be seen.

Just as Liu Wei opened the tent curtain, Wang Zhen, who also heard Wang Liu's cough getting more and more violent, also came out of the tent.

She wanted to come over to see what was wrong with Wang Liu, but before she could lift her feet, she found Liu Wei standing outside Wang Liu's tent, so she hurriedly retreated into the tent.

After standing outside Wang Liu's tent for a moment, and when his eyes were slightly accustomed to the darkness, Liu Wei walked into the tent with his feet raised, lit a fire and lit the white candles in the tent.

In the process of doing this, Wang Liu's coughing voice did not stop, judging from the sound of her coughing, she should be very uncomfortable at this time.

Lighting the white candle, Liu Wei glanced at the cover in the tent, but saw Wang Liu sitting on the cover, covering his mouth with his forehand and coughing violently.

"What's wrong?" Striding to Wang Liu's side, Liu Wei patted her on the back of the heart, and said with concern in his tone: "It's so uncomfortable, why don't you go back to the city and see what Mr. Hua Tuo says." ”

"It's getting late!" Covering his mouth with his hand, Wang Liu coughed violently for a while, and then said to Liu Wei weakly: "Your Highness, don't remember the last general, and you don't have to delay Mr. Hua Tuo to rest, and it is the same to bother Mr. Lao tomorrow." ”

When Wang Liu spoke, his voice was intermittent.

Looking at her frighteningly pale face in the candlelight, Liu Wei pulled her hand away.

What appeared in Liu Wei's sight turned out to be Wang Liu's palms, which were already full of coughed blood.

Seeing that Wang Liu coughed up blood, Liu Bian's heart tightened, and his heart felt as if he had been slammed by a hand.

Violent coughing is not terrible, what is terrible is that once you cough up blood, it can only mean that the lungs have been severely damaged.

This kind of injury is basically difficult to heal and can even lead to life-threatening.

"Someone!" Seeing the blood in Wang Liu's palm, Liu Wei shouted outside the tent.

His shout was full of anxiety, and when he heard this shout, a guard who was just about to fall asleep hurriedly ran out of the tent, and stood outside Wang Liu's tent with his fists in response.

"Enter the city immediately and inform Mr. Hua Tuo that this king and General Wang Liu will go to look for him later." When the guard arrived outside the tent, Liu Wei gave him an order, and then said: "Let everyone get up, and I will wait to return to the city tonight!" ”

Previously, Liu Wei insisted on camping in the snow outside the city, which shows that he wanted to have a good life and feel the flavor of camping in the wild in this cold winter.

But for Wang Liu's sake, he actually asked everyone to get up and return to Luoyang overnight, which is enough to prove how important Wang Liu is in his heart.

Leaning on the candle flame to look at Liu Wei who was full of anxiety, Wang Liu's heart warmed, and he called softly: "Your Highness......"

Stretching out his hand to take Wang Liu into his arms, Liu Wei gently patted her on the back of the heart, and whispered to her: "With this king here, you will definitely get up!" ”