Three Kingdoms

Near Dingze, relying on the remaining city, two military strongholds have begun construction, and large teams of people are busy working on the work before the cold winter has completely arrived.

It turned out that except for a small number of soldiers under Li Hui who were still under house arrest, most of the rest were divided between Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. In today's Dingze defense system, in addition to the city being the main repair object, there are two military strongholds on the left and right, just like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei guarding Liu Bei.

Liu Bei's innate affinity skill is almost at full level. He can remember the names of people he meets casually, and the next time he casually mentions them, as the soldiers recruited by Li Hui's men, I have seen such methods before. Even though he knew that Liu Bei was trying to win people's hearts, at least Liu Bei was also trying to do so, instead of randomly throwing out a few meat bones and shouting: "Hey! Come and eat!"

There is a big difference between being careful and not being careful.

Although some of Li Hui's soldiers were under the direct control of Li Hui's headquarters, most of them were recruited from nearby Jianning, and there were many refugees and migrants among them. Therefore, as long as Liu Bei did not lack food, grass, and pay, these recruited soldiers would be fine. Naturally, I thought it was enough. After all, it’s not selling one’s life to someone else?

Just like the era of warlords fighting in later generations, there seems to be no difference between Marshal Liu today and General Ma tomorrow.

In the Troubled Times army, ninety-nine out of one hundred armies are in this situation. The remaining one is naturally an alien.

Pei County Dafeng is one of the outliers. Not only did he successfully form an army from the second-rate recruits that was restrained and ambitious, but his subordinates were able to work together to advance and retreat together, and they even fought hard together. In the end, they actually stood on the high platform and sang the song of the great wind.

The rest either fell in the battles or were absorbed by more powerful forces. Of course, even the Gale Knight who sang Ander Warriors raised his sword and gun against his brothers after he secured his position.

Liu Bei has wanted to become a Gale Knight for a long time. Sometimes he would lament, why he, who was also a grassroots figure, did not have the luck of Gale Hero and Green Lantern? Is it so difficult to get ahead?

However, since coming to Dingze, Liu Bei's originally cold heart gradually became a little warmer in this cold season.

The focus of the Cavalry General Fei Qian is obviously not on Sichuan and Shu, but on Guanzhong. Therefore, for the Cavalry General Fei Qian, who is up and down in Sichuan and Shu should not be his focus. What is important is Who can be optimistic about this territory for the Hussars General...

At present, Xu Shu and Wei Yan in central Sichuan are indeed a behemoth in the Sichuan and Shu area. Even the Sichuan and Shu gentry who used to be cunning and cunning under Liu Zhang have to bow their heads and obey orders and dare not have sex directly.

So, there is still a chance.

And this opportunity came not only from Ding Ze but also from his previous opponent Li Hui.

But all said and done, food and grass are the most important at this stage. Even if Liu Bei occupies Dingze, he still needs a certain supply of food and grass. Before he is self-sufficient, he can only stand under the nostrils of Xu Shu and Wei Yan and say "it smells good". .

Li Hui was sitting quietly in the tent, as if he didn't hear the noise from the outside world at all.

But the more we pursue peace, the harder it is to obtain.

The curtain of the big tent suddenly lifted, and the cold wind immediately rushed in along with the light from the outside world, forming a small vortex in the big tent, instantly sucking out the heat that had finally been accumulated. Amidst the swaying light and shadow, Liu Bei and Guan Yu walked in. Liu Bei cupped his hands and smiled, his smile still gentle, "Li Shijun, I am so negligent, please forgive me..."

Li Hui rolled his eyes, glanced at Liu Bei, and then at Guan Yu, and then did not stand up to greet him. He just slightly cupped his hands and said, "A defeated general, what can be said about neglect? Sir Liu, let's be frank, I need someone." for what?"

When he first surrendered, Li Hui was still a little worried and scared, but as time went by, Li Hui slowly understood that Liu Bei would not kill him, or in other words, he would not kill him in vain. Wherever there is use, there is value, and naturally one can survive.

Liu Bei smiled when he heard this, and didn't even say anything about Li Hui's impolite behavior. He went straight to the side and sat down. Li Hui is putting on airs now because Li has the confidence in Jianning. Of course, killing Li Hui alone was nothing, but it cut off a road in Jianning.

"Brother Li is indeed very graceful..." Liu Bei laughed out loud, and then said, "You and I originally had no grudges, but due to the Dingzuo relationship, we gradually developed a rift. We exchanged swords and guns, and Liu wanted to sit down with Brother De'ang several times. However, we can’t find any good opportunities for business negotiations..."

Li Hui laughed and did not respond.

It's just a scene, just listen to it.

Naturally, Liu Bei had no hope that just two words could move Li Hui to tears. He bowed his head and waved back with a smile: "Come here, bring me the iron stone!"

A soldier came in carrying a cloth bag, and then poured the iron ore in the bag onto the ground.

"Yesterday, someone surveyed the iron ore and found this stone..." Liu Bei squinted slightly and pointed at the iron ore on the ground, "Brother De'ang might as well take a look at it..."

Li Hui stood up, took a few pieces of iron ore into his hands, weighed them up and down, smiled, and said: "Rong said bluntly... If Liu Shijun wants to use a certain craftsman... the molten iron needs to be divided into a certain 50%... …”

Liu Bei's eyebrows jumped.

That's right, the most fundamental reason why Liu Bei wants to cooperate with Li Hui is because he wants Li Hui's smelting craftsmen. Jianning has had a metallurgical industry since the Qin Dynasty. Now under Li Hui, there are naturally many craftsmen, and these craftsmen Liu Bei does not have.

After all, there are still certain thresholds in the metallurgical industry. It doesn't mean that by throwing a few pieces of ore on the fire and burning them, you can get molten iron, copper juice or the like.

After Liu Bei captured Dingze, there were two paths at his feet. One was to ask Xu Shu to dispatch craftsmen from central Sichuan for support, and the other was to shake hands with the former enemy and make peace with Li Hui and Jianning's craftsmen. If the manpower assigned by Xu Shu was used, wouldn't Xu Shu know exactly how much Dingzuo produced and what the situation was like?

Although the people on Li Hui's side may not be able to hide everything from Xu Shu, relatively speaking, Li Hui also wants to gain benefits from it, so at this point, he will definitely cooperate with him in concealing production data and so on. To make profits, it is naturally Liu Bei's first choice.

In the face of interests, enemies may turn into friends, and friends may turn into enemies.

Guan Yu snorted coldly and was about to get up.

Li Hui's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.

Liu Bei held Guan Yu with one hand, and then stared at Li Hui: "At most 20%..."

"Absolutely... absolutely impossible!" Li Hui gritted his teeth and said, then closed his eyes and raised his neck, "Thirty percent! If not, Liu Shijun will take action!"

After Li Hui finished speaking, there was no movement for a while, then he slowly opened one eye, and saw Liu Bei's big face approaching with a half-smiling face. He couldn't help but lean back and almost fell down.

"Haha, haha..." Liu Bei grabbed Li Hui, "30% makes 30%! But the cold winter is coming, if we don't dig and build the furnace earlier, I'm afraid we will have to wait all winter in vain..."

"Easy to say, easy to say! I can just write a letter and dispatch the craftsmen here urgently!" Li Hui naturally understood what Liu Bei meant and said quickly.

"Good! It's hard work for Brother De'ang..." Liu Bei held Li Hui's hand, looked at each other and laughed, completely unable to see that the two of them had been at each other's swords.

Guan Yu glanced briefly, then closed his red phoenix eyes, stroked his beard, and turned his head to one side...

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In the wilderness, Sima Yi squatted on the snow without any image, pulling at the ropes and oilcloth tied to the sled to determine whether the sled could keep the goods it carried after running in such a circle.

There has been a truce between Xianbei people Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng for some time.

This phenomenon was generally expected for Zhao Yun and Sima Yi, but for the Xianbei people, it was not very comfortable.

Although whether it is Bu Dugen or Ke Bineng, the number of people and horses chewing is a huge number, but the problem is that at this stage, both of them are riding a tiger and are unwilling to retreat easily. Just like two tigers playing their own game, they may be able to treat each other as non-existent, but once they collide on the same territory, a winner must be determined. This is not only related to Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng's face, but also related to the future of these two people.

At worst, it will take a whole winter!

This is probably what Budugen and Kebineng were thinking...

Although he decided to spend time with the other party, he couldn't just do nothing. Therefore, when Zhao Yun went to the desert to check, he encountered a situation where there was no human habitation for nearly a thousand miles. It was not that there were no Xianbei people grazing in this area before, but It was this wave of unlucky ones in the middle of the battlefield who were invariably regarded as victims by both sides, plundering people and livestock to make up for their losses in the stalemate.

Such a move was naturally within the calculations of Zhao Yun and Sima Yi.

Regardless of the aspect, the longer the war, the stronger the destructive power. The nomads should have been more adaptable to quick battles. After all, they were blessed by war horses and moved faster. However, in a series of events involving Zhao Yun, Liu He, and the Wuhuan people, Under the overt and covert promotion of Xianbei people, Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng, who were originally more adaptable to quick battles, forced themselves into a protracted war.

And we must continue to fight...

The place where Zhao Yun and Sima Yi are now is in a mountain col. It is sheltered from the cold wind blowing from north to south. It is somewhat of a shelter. This time, they came out to run such a lap specifically to test the horse-drawn sled. of practicality.

"General, this thing is wonderful..." Sima Yi sighed as he patted the sleigh.

This is not a flattery, but Sima Yi truly feels this way.

A horse-drawn sleigh can use a single horse or two horses. It can even ignore the terrain to a certain extent when moving on the snow. It is not mandatory to travel along the road. This is one of them.

The second aspect is that when you arrive at the resting place, you can stand the sled up and bundle it in one place. In a blink of an eye, it will become a simple guardrail. Then pull a few ropes, fix them with nails, and put the oilcloth and cowhide on them. Once you put it up, it can immediately become a shelter from the wind. Even if you don't find a good shelter from the wind, there will be no casualties due to direct exposure to the cold night. No matter you are a person or a war horse, you can get a rest. and recovery.

At the same time, in case of encountering an enemy, the sled can also be used as a temporary position for defense. The thick wooden boards can not only resist ordinary arrows, but are not even afraid of swords and guns. Of course, the premise is that you can have some time to arrange it. If it is suddenly attacked, it will not provide much bonus. Having said that, it was almost the same when the queue was suddenly attacked.

"This thing was made by General Hussar..." Although Sima Yi praised Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun could not put the name on himself. He paused and added, "General Hussar said, Yue The heavier the snow, the more convenient it is..."

There was another light snowfall last night and it stopped in the early morning.

Sima Yi looked around, then stepped forward to check the wear and tear on the bottom of the sled, nodded, and said: "If the snow is heavy, the wear and tear will naturally be less... However, the snow is soft and the wear and tear is less, which means It’s even more difficult to advance with a war horse..."

Zhao Yun nodded and said: "My lord also said the same thing... My lord once said that if it is the best, it is to use a strong dog to pull..."

"Ah?" Sima Yi blinked in disbelief.

Zhao Yun continued: "We don't have that kind of strong dog now... I heard from my lord that there are some in Tibetan areas, or further north, deep in the desert... Even if there are, they need to be trained, just like war horses. …”

"Could it be the Sichuan East Dog?" Sima Yi asked, "In the past, when champions conquered barbarians, they often used Sichuan East Dogs to accompany their armies..."

Zhao Yun shook his head and said: "Sichuan East Dogs... My lord has sent people to search for them... Now there are too many Sichuan East Dogs to be used. According to my lord, they need to be re-bred..."

The Han Dynasty was also an early dynasty that used military dogs. Huo Qubing once set up a military dog ​​camp in the army, and let the military dogs be responsible for guarding and biting and killing enemy troops on the battlefield. He used Sichuan Eastern dogs.

The Eastern Sichuan dog is also called the Linshui dog because it originated from the area around Linshui in eastern Sichuan. The biggest feature of this dog is that it bites the neck of the prey during the killing process, causing the prey to suffocate and kill with one blow. At the same time, it territorially It has a very strong sense of belonging and is a very lovable native Chinese dog.

It's just that people in the Han Dynasty didn't understand what ecological protection was. They treated the strongest ones like war horses again and again. After three or four hundred years, the Sichuan East Dog gradually lost some of its size. Smaller varieties…

Don't fish in a dry lake, everyone knows the truth, but when you do it, you are often just trying to control the floods of future generations.

"Then this time we march north..." Sima Yi thought, "I should pay more attention to good dogs..."

Zhao Yun nodded, then looked up at the sky: "Now we are waiting for the heavy snow to come, and it is time for you and me to move north..."