After Yuan Yao gave instructions to Qiao Rui and Ji Ling, he began to inspect the men and horses in the city.

This time, the soldiers of the 3,000 warrior battalion he brought were still entertaining with delicious food and drink, and their daily training was not reduced.

After these few months of tempering, the soldiers of the warrior battalion have been greatly improved, whether it is physical fitness or military discipline, they are not comparable to ordinary teams.

Even some veterans in the army couldn't help but cast envious glances when they saw the warrior battalion under Yuan Yao's command.

After all, Yuan Yao's treatment of the soldiers was quite good, not only to have meat to eat, but also to get military salaries.

This is what every soldier dreams of.

After inspecting the soldiers of the warrior camp as usual, Yuan Yao soon began to think about the equipment for defending the city.

Although it is said that there are enough manpower, relying on the solid walls of the county seat of Zhuxian County, it is not a problem to resist the attack of the Cao army, but the number of Cao troops is much larger than him after all.

If you want to defend the city at the lowest cost and inflict enough damage on Cao's army, you must have some weapons that are lethal enough.

Coincidentally, Yuan Yao saw the bows and arrows in the hands of some soldiers in his warrior camp.

He took the arrows and arrows, looked at them, and began to think.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, and even throughout the Cold Weapon Era, bows and arrows were the most terrible lethal weapons. And the bow and arrow have been around for a long time, perhaps dating back to the distant age of mythology. We have heard since we were children about the legend of Hou Yi Shooting Day, this mythical story, and the most effective advertisement about the power of bows and arrows.

The bow and arrow of this era are actually not particularly advanced.

The materials used to make bows and arrows are also relatively simple.

Basically, they use wood and tie some tendons and other materials with sufficient toughness and strength.

The lethality of the bow and arrow made in this way is naturally not very strong.

However, it is not that there are no better bows and arrows.

Many of these bows and arrows made by the government were made of iron.

Subject to the technological level of the times, whether it is a bow or an arrow. It's more cumbersome to make.

The bow is better, as long as you have the right materials, it is not too difficult to make a bow that can shoot out.

It's just that if you want to make the bow and arrow more lethal, you have to work on the arrow cluster.

Because arrows are also very horizontal.

It can't be too heavy, and it can't be too light. It is also necessary to maintain the crosshairs.

Depending on the way it is made, so does the lethality.

For example, apply some gold juice and turn it into a poisoned arrow.

Another example is to make two blood slots in the arrows to make some barbs.

The person who is hit by the arrow cannot forcibly pull out the arrow, and once the arrow is forcibly pulled out from the body, the loss will be extremely large.

Even if you don't die, you will bleed profusely, causing infection and even serious injury.

Yuan Yao glanced at these bows and arrows, and already had an idea in his heart.

He wanted to improve the bow and arrows a little.

On top of this bow and arrow, a trigger is loaded to turn the bow into a crossbow arrow.

Or you can change these ordinary bows and arrows into compound bows with a slight modification.

This allows you to shoot more powerful arrows with less force.

So that ordinary people can also be comparable to archery masters.

However, these ideas can only be thought about for the time being, after all, it takes time to process the changes.

The top priority, Cao Jun is about to be killed, and what he lacks most is time.

At the moment, you can only make more arrows, and when the Cao army attacks, you can shoot more arrows to cause damage to the enemy.

He shook his head after looking at the arrows in the hands of his soldiers.

Apparently very dissatisfied.

These swordsmen in their hands were wooden swordsmen with some iron arrowheads on them.

It takes a long time to make and requires a certain amount of iron.

Wanting to make a mass production is obviously unlikely.

But what Yuan Yao wanted was an arrow that could be quickly produced on a large scale and could be used on the battlefield to inflict damage on enemy troops.

Fortunately, it was not difficult to make such arrows.

In the Huainan region, where they are located, there is a large amount of bamboo growing.

Just go out into the wild and cut down some bamboo.

Making bamboo arrows is simple and can be produced quickly.

The key is that the bamboo arrows are of the right weight, and they can also cause a certain amount of damage when shot with a bow and arrow.

Although it can't compare with that kind of elaborate bow and arrow. At this time, Yuan Yao wanted quantity rather than refinement.

As long as there are enough bows and arrows, shoot them out of the city together.

Even if you are not proficient in archery skills, you can produce qualitative changes through quantitative changes.

The blind cat meets the dead mouse.

Indiscriminate firing can also hit a portion of the enemy.

As long as the arrow is hit, the enemy's combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened.

This is a huge advantage for the defensive side.

It took two days to make bows and arrows, and thousands of arrows were produced, but with these arrows, it was enough for the time being.

He did not continue to send men and horses to transport materials, because if the movement was too large, it would easily attract the attention of Cao Jun.

The advance force led by Xiahoudun was already in the vicinity of Zhu County, and it was estimated that a large number of spies had begun to be dispatched to the vicinity of Zhu County to inquire about the situation in Zhu County.

For the remaining two days, I just need to keep a normal mind and continue to do as usual, creating a state where there is no movement.

It was enough to attract Xiahoudun's men and horses to attack the city.

Two days have passed, and Yuan Yao, Ji Ling, and Qiao Rui are all a little anxious waiting in Zhuxian, and they don't see Cao Jun coming to attack.

Yuan Yao was a little calm, but Qiao Rui and Ji Ling were a little impatient.

"Childe, the past few days have passed, and Cao Jun doesn't seem to have moved at all."

"Could it be that they weren't fooled and didn't dare to come and attack the county seat?"

The three of them were patrolling the city tower, and Qiao Rui was inevitably a little curious, so he couldn't help but ask Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao raised his eyes and glanced into the distance, his brows furrowed slightly, and he shook his head and replied.

"No, according to the marching dynamics of Cao's army, they are in a hurry to go to Huaibei so that they can engage Zhang Xun's army head-on, and they will not waste time in a small place like ours."

"It should be going to attack the city with all its might, but I guess we haven't come yet, but we haven't found out our movements yet."

"If nothing else, it should be today and tomorrow, otherwise Cao Cao's follow-up army should be coming."

"When the time comes, it will be too late to attack the city."

Yuan Yao thought for a moment and replied to Qiao Rui.

Qiao Rui nodded, temporarily relieved in his heart, but before he could answer Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao's expression suddenly sank, and then his face changed greatly.

"Look! What's over there! ”

Yuan Yaoyi stretched out his hand and motioned for Qiao Rui and Ji Ling to look in the direction of the outside of the city.

In the distance, there was a burst of sparks in the dark. Flickering light and dark, gradually from far to near.