Early this morning, Sima Fuqiang sent a phone call to Zhan Musi, confirming that the progress of the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties had finally come to September 618, and the Wagang army was completely defeated under the attack of Yu Wenhua and the Sui army led by him, and the Tianshan team followed Qin Qiong to Luoyang to vote for Wang Shichong. The Wagang camp has finally become a thing of the past, and Li Mi, who is a little disagreeable with the East China Sea team, is also dying. In other words, the Donghai team can safely enter this main line next week, so that they can join the Li Tang camp with Xu Shiji.

However, Sima Fuqiang's focus is still on tonight's power dream, with the successful experience of the first Eight Bull Crossbow, the installation and commissioning of the next few will be much faster, and it will be completed in two days at most. After entering Donghai Town, the same information from Elder Zhu Yan was the same. Therefore, Sima Fuqiang asked Zhao Meng to start rectifying the town guards, packing up his baggage, and preparing to set off on time on the morning of the third day and set off for Dongweiguan.

Elder Jin Xin prepared six carriages for the town guards to pull those eight-oxen crossbows, and the Donghai Trading House finally arrived at a batch of war horses from the state capital before they set off, replenishing the needs of the dream man and the town guard in time. The size of the town's guards has finally reached a hundred.

According to Huang Zhi's exchange with Huang Zhong, the arrow god of the Three Kingdoms, it basically takes two years to make a good bow. And now it only took more than half a month for the East China Sea team to make the Eight Bull Crossbow from parts to finished products, so there will naturally be a lot of hidden dangers in such a hurry to catch up with the schedule.

According to the opinions of the craftsmen and masters of the various workshops in Donghai Town, the things that are driven out in this way may not be very accurate if they are shot ten times or eight times, and there is even a possibility that they will fall apart at any time after fifty shots. If you really want to make a stable and durable eight-bull crossbow, you have to have at least a half-year cycle.

But obviously, people in the dream don't have so much time to wait for the qualified Baniu crossbow to be produced, so Sima Fuqiang has already made a lot of backups of some vulnerable parts in order to replace them in time.

But another problem came to the fore at the same time, that is, in a short period of ten days, the craftsmen and masters were not yet fully familiar with the assembly and maintenance of the eight-ox crossbow, let alone the training of several specialized maintenance personnel from the laymen of the town guard. In this way, once these eight-bull crossbows fail on the wall of Dongwei Pass, there will be an embarrassing scene that no one can repair.

Therefore, Sima Fuqiang decided to simply bring all the craftsmen and masters of Donghai Town and go to the front line together, so that they could replace and repair these siege weapons that determined the victory or defeat of Dongguan at any time. And the responsibility of persuading these craftsmen to go to the battlefield naturally fell on Huang Zhi's head, and with his three-inch tongue and "social" skills, it didn't take much effort.

Early in the morning of the third day, the Donghai team led more than 400 people from the town guards, together with the six eight-bull crossbows, quietly came out of the Qianmen of Donghai Town and walked up the official road to the south.

At this moment, Li Wei hurried over with more than ten cavalry soldiers and stopped the group. "I wonder where you're going?"

At the signal of the captain, Huang Zhi walked out of the team, "Isn't this an order from the imperial court, General Li, you know, we are going to attack Weidongguan." ”

Li Wei couldn't help but open his mouth when he heard this, and pointed to the Donghai Town Guards to chat with hundreds of people, "Just these people?" This official has confronted the rebels of Weixian County in Dongwei Pass for several years, and the standing strength of the rebels stationed in Weidong Pass is at least 1,000 people. ”

Huang Zhi spread his hands, "The general is reasonable, but the imperial court only gave us a two-month deadline, and seeing that a month is about to pass, it is not easy for Donghai Town to raise these troops at the moment." If the general can help us to go to the imperial court and extend this period for half a year, maybe we will have the opportunity to expand the army of 5,000 men. ”

Seeing that Huang Zhi threw the problem back to himself, Li Wei had to hum and deal with it, "Brother Shixin, it's not that Li is unwilling to help you, but he is currently ordered to lead the army to come as a backup in the East China Sea to prevent the rebels from counterattacking." With such an important position in his body, Li really can't leave. And it's a long way to go to the imperial court, and it won't last for a month, even if Li has the heart to help, it is far from quenching his thirst. ”

Huang Zhi just wanted Li Wei not to entangle himself with those confidential things, and he didn't want to embarrass him too much, so he accepted it when he saw it, "Shixin also knows that General Li is a little inconvenient at this time, but it's just that we didn't think that we could ask the general for help earlier, and now it's too late to regret it." ”

At this time, the six-horse carriage dragged the eight-bull crossbow tightly covered by canvas and walked in front of the two, Li Wei was immediately full of questions when he saw it, and turned his head to ask Huang Zhi.

The Eight Ox Crossbow is the secret weapon of the East China Sea team, and this technology must be enjoyed exclusively to form an advantage, and I don't want the state capital to know, not to mention that the battle of Dongguan has not yet started at this time, and it cannot be exposed at will.

Huang Zhi had long been wary of Li Wei's question, and at this time he hurriedly continued the topic just now, "It's just that I don't know if General Li can lend us some troops within the scope of his authority, and once Weidongguan is taken, return it to the general immediately." And when the time comes, among the military exploits of taking Weidongguan, the general will naturally be indispensable, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. ”

Li Wei heard that the muscles on his face twitched, and he didn't care about asking questions anymore, so he hurriedly pressed Huang Zhi's arm, "I'm afraid this won't work!" Li also acted on orders, and the imperial court asked me to lead troops to be stationed in Donghai Town, in case your army was counterattacked by the rebels of Weixian County after the failure of the knock. Even if you divide your troops to help you win, I'm afraid the imperial court will still punish me for a felony of disobedience, no, no! ”

"Then it's okay to borrow some ordnance horses, right?" Knowing that the answer would inevitably be negative, Huang Zhi continued to ask.

Li Wei explained with his surname, "The control of ordnance in the state capital is quite strict, and how much of what he brought with him on this trip is registered, which is not as good as when Li was stationed in Dongwei Pass." At that time, because of the perennial guard, there were some attrition indicators on hand to support you, but this time I really couldn't help. ”

"Yes, I've thought of another plan!" Huang Zhi suddenly clapped his hands and shouted.

Li Wei heard the bitter taste in his mouth, how could this dream man be so good at the big snake with the stick. I really shouldn't have asked them about the purpose of their trip, let alone pointed out the problem of their lack of troops.

"Didn't General Li be ordered to be stationed in the East China Sea to prevent a counterattack by dangerous rebels, why didn't he just pull the army under Dongwei Pass? If the rebels in Weixian County have a tendency to counterattack at that time, the general may as soon as possible to enter Dongwei Pass and expel the rebels. What do you think? ”

The blue tendons on Li Wei's forehead were already beating faintly, and it stands to reason that he should have done this, but the dream man of the East China Sea Team obviously planned to use this to pull him onto the thief ship, so it was absolutely unacceptable. "Well, how can I say it...... Li received the order to be stationed in Donghai Town, not the Donghai territory. If the army is pulled directly to the front line of Dongwei Pass, it is also a crime of disobedience. ”

Although Huang Zhi saw that the other party was talking nonsense, he still pretended that he had believed it, but he asked again with "regret", "Really?" ”

"Not really!" Li Wei subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

At this time, the six eight-ox crossbows had gradually moved away under the traction of the carriage, and even if Li Wei opened his mouth to ask, Huang Zhi could casually make up a name to confuse the past. However, this general Dingyuan, who was from the state capital, was obviously frightened by his opening and closing his mouth to ask for this and that, and quickly said that he still had official business, and left after suing for a crime.

After sending Li Wei away, Huang Zhi caught up with his teammates who were one step ahead and informed Sima Fuqiang of the situation.

Captain Tokai was quite satisfied with the result, "It's really yours! I also filmed Li Wei had to go to Dongwei Pass with us, so I had to sneak away, but I didn't expect you to make him obediently shrink in Donghai Town with a few words. Hehe, there is no army from the state capital in the way, so we can use that trick to take Weidongguan. Otherwise, even if I win the tail Dongguan, I will have to expose the secret of the Eight Bull Crossbow, and I really don't want that kind of situation to happen. Now it's the best of both worlds! ”

From Donghai Town to Dongweiguan, the whole journey is more than 400 miles, and it takes three days to arrive on a light horse, not to mention that there are nearly 400 foot soldiers and six eight-ox crossbows accompanying them, and it is categorically impossible to arrive without five days. And the dreamer's stay on this night is only four days, so he has to use the "night tent" to leave the power dream halfway through, leaving the unfinished journey for Zhou Yuye to continue.

(To be continued)