In April of the 14th year of Jian'an, a team of more than 30,000 people set off from Guangxin City one after another, aiming at Yulin County.

The veteran general Huang Zhong and the Jingnan general Xing Daorong were the vanguard, each leading 3,000 infantry, and the troops were divided into two routes, and they first went to capture the county on the edge of Yulin County.

However, the two generals went out, not directly in the direction of Yulin, but first to the east, and walked for an hour before changing directions.

And the Chinese army of Cao Wu and others, after the two generals set out for two hours, was also integrated and assembled, and set off in a mighty manner.

Like Huang Zhong and the others, they also went to the east first and then to the west.

During the whole process, it seems that all the generals forgot that Guangxin City and the native counties of Cangwu still need to be guarded, except for Yu Ban who stayed in the northern counties to protect the grain route, and Lejin led 3,000 people to garrison Guangxin, the others almost moved.

To the east, in order to confuse the enemy, Guangxin City is so big, it is inevitable that there will be spies from the Shi family, but those spies cannot understand the true purpose of Cao Jun, and can only judge by what they see with their eyes. They went out of the city to the east, and they happened to take advantage of this to confuse the enemy spies.

Of course, this matter will not be confusing for too long, but intelligence is very important, and it is always beneficial to be able to deceive for a while.

In Cao Wu's carriage, Lu Xun and Zhang Liao sat opposite Cao Wu together, and among all of them, only they knew Cao Wu's plan.

30,000 people captured the four counties of Shixie, and in the absence of the Jiangdong army, they used some stratagems, and there was every hope of completing it, but with Jiangdong's sideways intervention, these manpower was obviously insufficient.

After informing the north of the news, the first batch of 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers are gathering, and they only need to capture Yulin, they can have the second fulcrum of Jiaozhou, after the arrival of northern reinforcements, at the same time from Cangwu, Yulin two directions to attack Jiaozhi.

The soldiers are very fast, and now they are fighting the time difference between Shi Xie's three younger brothers who failed to firmly control all the forces in the four counties, and take this opportunity to recover Yulin.

But there is a premise for all this, that is, Guangxin cannot be lost.

In the bumpy carriage, Diao Chan skillfully poured three cups of tea and handed them to the three of them.

Zhang Liao still looked uneasy, and asked, "Guangxin only has 3,000 people, is it enough?" What if the Jiangdong Army also wants to attack Guangxin? ”

Cao Wu took a sip of tea and said, "That's enough." Mr. Chiang sent back new news that there was an unusual movement in the Jiangdong Army. Not surprisingly, they should aim directly at Guangxin. So now it's time to grab the time, see if we take Yulin first, or they take Guangxin first. But after all, Jiangdong only has 10,000 elite main forces, and the rest are the servant army of the Shi family, and the large-scale march will inevitably be controlled by us. ”

Lu Xun hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Does the lord believe in Ah Si girl so much?" ”

Diao Chan smiled: "Speaking of which, isn't Jiangdong's halberd Chibi actually thanks to Xiao Ah Si's big ship?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Liao and Lu Xun were silent.

Zhang Liao is a general, and Lu Xun is a strategist, and the war in their eyes is not without conspiracy and trickery, but they can't imagine that some tools will play too much role in the course of the war.

In Lu Xun's view, compared with the Jiangdong Army, their biggest advantage is intelligence, Jiangdong people could never have dreamed that the little-known Jiang Wan could break into the core place within a few days and obtain a lot of information.

Even Lu Xun himself didn't know why Jiang Wan could know so much when he went in as a cook, but he was convinced that Cao Wu's eyesight would definitely not be bad if Cao Wu arranged it.

They know Jiangdong's movements, but Jiangdong has a hard time knowing their movements, and they will even be deceived by them, which is enough.

……

Guangxin, Cangwu Taishou Mansion, Mi Zhen's small courtyard ushered in a special guest.

These days, Mi Zhen agreed to Cao Wu's conditions, and her life has become better, with maids and servants arranged in and out, as if she has become the best treated person in the Taishou Mansion.

Chen was injured on Chen Shuzhi's body, but he was in good spirits, and the maid led him into the courtyard.

Mi Zhen looked up and saw that although Chen Zhi was injured, he didn't have any restraints, and couldn't help but sigh.

Chen Zhi is in Liu Bei's camp, although he is not the first few generals, but he is the backbone, and he is also favored by Liu Bei, but in the battle of burning Wuximan, he was regarded as an outcast.

Pang Tong was too small-bellied, and he just didn't carry out the task of migrating the epidemic people, and he was abandoned on the day of the fire.

Later, Cao Wu tried to persuade him, of course he refused to compromise like this, but when he was escorted into Guangxin City, he heard what happened to Zhao Yun and sighed.

In the whole Cangwu, no one thought of the old feelings, only Mi Fang saw through people's hearts, and saw in advance that Wu Ju might betray, but unfortunately Zhao Yun didn't believe it and was poisoned.

In this process, Chen Zhi already knew that Mi Fang had fallen to Cao Wu, and his own lord and duchess had already given up, so what else could he not give up?

He went to see Zhao Yun first, but Zhao Yun still hadn't woken up, so he went to see it again

"Mrs. Mi ......"

Chen Zhi opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, and finally sighed.

"It's useless to talk too much, we are all prisoners, then Beifu Cao has no means to reach the sky, and I can't judge whether what I did was right or wrong. Now that you've chosen him, I have no position to blame you. ”

Mi Zhen's eyes turned red.

Chen Zhiben was not good at words, nodded, bowed his hand, and said to the ground: "It's me and the others who are incompetent and haven't protected Mrs. Zun!" ”

"I don't blame you!"

Mi Zhen waved her hand, and it happened that Adou was crying in the house, so she hurriedly went in to coax the child.

She is not Adou's biological mother, she has no milk, and she is full of rice porridge to satisfy the child's hunger all the way south, although the child is almost two years old, she is far thinner than ordinary children.

When he arrived in Guangxin City, Cao Wucai asked people to find a woman who was good at taking care of children to help take care of them, and Adou was in better health.

As a result, slowly, Mi Zhen is already somewhat grateful to Cao Wu, at least here, she doesn't have to drift anymore.

Chen Zhi slammed to the ground, but did not hear a reply, so he sighed and walked out of the courtyard.

There was a girl waiting for him outside, it was Cao Asi of Beifu.

She and Ah Shi arrived in Cangwu at the same time, others didn't know what she was doing, but Cao Wu had already made arrangements.

She has been here for more than ten days, Ah Shi is not idle, and she is also not idle.

As the person who is the best at making so-called KitKat obscene things in Beifu, on the first day she arrived, Cao Wu asked her to restore the most beneficial thing in Beifu's technology to defend the city.

The first thing to do, of course, is a special strong crossbow made by Beifu.

This kind of crossbow arrow was equipped on the three five-tooth ships in the Battle of Chibi, and the Jiangdong Army, which had fought several times, retreated. On the day that Chen Qun came to propose, he also specially warned Chen Qun that an arrow hit the side of Chen Qun's face and asked him to leave.

This crossbow bolt is far more powerful than existing crossbow arrows, has a greater range and power, and when loaded on wheels, can be pushed on the city walls, making it ideal for defense.

Because of its high accuracy, when it is mounted on the city wall, it has a better field of vision, and can also be used to kill the commander in front of the battle.

It's just that this kind of thing is very inconvenient to transport after all, and if it is transported here from Beifu, it is estimated that it will take two or three months to transport, and it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

However, Ah Si has a way, she recruits craftsmen in the city and slowly explains to them what she wants to make.

Each craftsman is only responsible for the parts in his hand, and works day and night.

At first, the accessories they made weren't good enough, but by the seventh day, they were ready to use.

By the tenth day, the first bolt was ready, and at the same time the wheels were ready, and it turned into a ballista.

The defender of the city, Le Jin, is busy with official business, and Yang Ling, the deputy general of the city, is from Jingnan and has never fought, but he is very dissatisfied with being just a deputy general, his eyes are above the top, and he is unwilling to take care of the maids in Beifu.

So as soon as he arrived in Guangxin, he was hit by Mi Fang and Zhao Yun, and Chen Dao, who had to surrender, became the best witness to test shooting crossbow arrows.

Although Chen Zhi has not fought large-scale battles, he has followed Liu Bei to fight more with less, and has experienced dozens of battles of all sizes and has rich combat experience.

He followed Ah Si to the city wall, only to see that the three ballistae had been laid out, from the outside, these ballistas looked a little shoddy, but after a closer look, the arrows and materials used in the ballista were better than what Chen Zhi had ever seen.

Ah Sidao: "Due to the urgency of time, I can't see it in appearance, but the effect should not be bad, please test the general to see if he can prevent the Jiangdong Army." ”

Chen Zhi nodded, he came to the crossbow cart with a serious expression, put the arrows himself, and pulled the bowstring with his foot on the pedal.

He thought that such a thick bowstring should be difficult to pull, but he didn't expect that once he pulled it up, it would be extremely simple.

Ah Si said again: "The general looked at the protrusion on the ballista, that place is called the front star, where to aim with the front sight, you can shoot where you want, and the accuracy can be adjusted slowly." ”

Chen Zhi nodded, very concerned about the design of this so-called crosshair, knowing that if this thing worked, then the accuracy of the ballista would far exceed that of other shooting tools.

He aimed out of the city, chose a small hill far away, and let go of the hand that drew the bow.

Hearing only a "bang", the crossbow arrow shot out, all the way to the hillside, into the soil, and the tail feathers were still trembling.

"It's a strong ......"

Chen Zhi broke out in a cold sweat.

Originally, a servant girl from Beifu asked him to do things, he was a little hesitant, he was also a general who had been on the battlefield, how could he be instructed by the servant girl, but he knew that now he relied on Cao Wu, and he couldn't easily offend Cao Wu, so he came reluctantly.

Unexpectedly, these ballistas completely exceeded his imagination, just a round of test firing, and the crossbow arrows of the ballista showed the power beyond the times.

A battle-hardened general like him certainly knew what extraordinary effect this kind of ballista would have if it were to be mounted on a large scale in the city.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "How much can this kind of ballista be made before the arrival of the Jiangdong Army?" ”

Ah Si thought about it, and those stupid craftsmen in the city are now at a higher level, so he replied: "Five frames a day is more than enough, but there are not enough materials, maybe not a hundred, there will be no good enough wood." ”

"100 ......"

Rao is Chen Zhi experienced a hundred battles, and he was also frightened.

If there are 100 of these crossbows on the city, ready to support everywhere, I am afraid that the Jiangdong army will not be able to attack the city, and will be scared back.

He had already heard his heart beating wildly, and finally asked excitedly: "Fourth girl, if the Jiangdong army comes, can these ballistas be handed over to the unified command?" ”