Chapter 1757 Timing
Near Dingruo, relying on the remnants of the city, the construction of two military villages has already started, and the brigades are busy rushing to work before the cold winter comes.
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. Today''s Dingze defense system, in addition to the city as the main repair object, the two military villages on the left and the right are like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei defending Liu Bei.
This guy Liu Bei has an innate talent and affinity skills that are almost at the full level. He can remember the names of people he has seen by just shaking, and then he will casually mention it next time. As the soldiers recruited by Li Hui''s men, I have seen such methods there, even though I know in my heart that Liu Bei is buying people''s hearts, but at least Liu Bei is buying people with his heart, instead of throwing a few bones at random and shouting: "Hey! Come eat!"
There is still a gap between being careful and not being careful.
Although some of Li Hui''s soldiers are under the direct control of Li Hui''s headquarters, most of them were recruited from around Jianning. Naturally, I feel that it is enough. Anyway, is it not to sacrifice one''s life for someone?
Just like the era of warlords in later generations, there seems to be no difference between General Liu today and General Ma tomorrow.
Army in troubled times, ninety-nine out of a hundred troops are like this, and the remaining one is naturally a different kind.
Gale Feng in Pei County is one of the outliers. Not only did they successfully form a restrained and ambitious army from the recruits of the bums, but they could also work together to advance and retreat together, gritted their teeth and struggled together, and even finally stood on the high platform and sang the big song.
The rest, either fell during the battle, or were recruited by a more powerful force. Of course, even the gale knight who sang the warrior of Andrew raised his sword and gun to his brother after he settled his position.
Liu Bei has wanted to become a gale knight for a long time, and sometimes he would lament, why is he also a character who came from the grassroots, but why doesn''t he have the luck of gale man and green light man? It''s so difficult to get ahead?
However, since coming to Dingruo, Liu Bei''s cold heart gradually warmed up in this severe cold season.
Hussar General Fei Qian''s focus is obviously not on Sichuan and Shu, but on Guanzhong. Therefore, for Hussar General Fei Qian, who goes up and who goes down in Sichuan and Shu should not be his focus. Who can take care of this territory for General Hussars...
At present, Xu Shu and Wei Yan in Sichuan are indeed giants in the area of ??Sichuan and Shu. Even the Sichuan and Shu gentry, who were cunningly dealt with by Liu Zhang, bowed their heads and obeyed orders, not daring to face their anus.
So, there is still a chance.
And this opportunity came not only from Ding Ruo, but also from his former opponent Li Hui.
But to say a thousand words and ten thousand, food and grass are the most important at this stage. Even if Liu Bei occupies Dingzhen, 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''s really sweet .
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 you pursue peace, the harder it is to obtain peace.
The curtain of the big tent was lifted suddenly, and the cold wind rushed in along with the light from the outside, forming a small vortex in the big tent, engulfing the heat accumulated with great difficulty in an instant. Amid the flickering light and shadow, Liu Bei and Guan Yu walked in. Liu Bei cupped his hands and smiled, the smile was still gentle, "Li Shijun, you are so negligent, please forgive me..."
Li Hui rolled his eyes, glanced at Liu Bei, and then at Guan Yu, and then he didn''t stand up to greet him, but slightly arched his hands and said, "A defeated general, why neglect? for what?"
When he first surrendered, Li Hui was somewhat worried, but as time passed, Li Hui gradually figured out that Liu Bei would not kill himself, or in other words, he would not kill himself in vain. Where there is use, there is value, and it will naturally survive.
Liu Bei smiled when he heard the words, and didn''t even say much about Li Hui''s impolite behavior, and went straight to the side and sat down. Li Hui is putting on airs now because of the confidence Li Shi has in Jianning. Killing Li Hui alone is of course nothing, but it cut off a road in Jianning.
"Brother Li is really good manners..." Liu Bei laughed, and then said, "You and I had no enmity at first, but because of Ding Ze, we gradually developed a rift, interacting with swords and guns, and Liu wanted to sit with Brother De Ang several times. Xiangshang, but I can''t find a good opportunity..."
Li Hui laughed, but did not respond.
If you talk about the scene, just listen to it.
Naturally, Liu Bei had no hope that Li Hui could be moved to tears with just a few words, so he bowed his head and waved back with a smile: "Come on, bring up the iron stone!"
A soldier walked in with a cloth bag, and then dumped the iron ore in the bag on the ground.
"Yesterday, I surveyed the iron ore, and got this stone..." Liu Bei narrowed his eyes slightly, and pointed to the iron ore on the ground, "Brother De''ang, you might as well look at it..."
Li Hui got up, took a few pieces of iron ore into his hands, weighed them up and down, smiled, and said: "Rong has said it bluntly... If Liu Shijun wants to use a certain craftsman... the molten iron needs to be divided into 50%..."
Liu Bei''s eyebrows twitched.
That''s right, the most fundamental reason why Liu Bei wanted to cooperate with Li Hui was because he wanted 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 are not available in Liu Bei.
After all, the metallurgical industry still has some barriers to entry. It doesn’t mean that those few pieces of ore can be thrown into the fire and burnt to get molten iron and copper juice.
After Liu Bei took down Dingruo, there were two roads ahead of his feet. One was to ask Xu Shu to dispatch craftsmen from central Sichuan for support, and the other was to shake hands with former enemies and use Li Hui to build Ning''s craftsmen. If the manpower deployed by Xu Shu was used, wouldn''t Xu Shu know everything about Ding Ruo''s output and the situation?
Although the people on Li Hui''s side may not be able to hide all of them from Xu Shu, but relatively speaking, Li Hui also wants to benefit from it, so at this point, he will definitely cooperate to hide the output and other data. Make a profit, so it is naturally Liu Bei''s first choice.
In the face of interests, enemies may become friends, and friends may become enemies.
Guan Yu snorted coldly and was about to get up.
Li Hui''s eyebrows twitched involuntarily.
Liu Bei held Guan Yu with one hand, then stared at Li Hui: "At most 20%..."
"Absolutely...impossible!" Li Hui gritted his teeth and said, then closed his eyes and raised his neck, "Thirty percent! If there is no thirty percent, Liu Shijun will do it!"
After Li Hui finished speaking, he didn''t move for a while, then slowly opened one eye, but saw Liu Bei''s big face approaching with a half-smile, he couldn''t help but leaned back, almost fell down.
"Haha, haha..." Liu Bei pulled Li Hui back, "30% is 30%! But this winter is coming, if we don''t dig and build the furnace earlier, I''m afraid we will have to wait for the whole winter..."
"It''s easy to say, easy to say! You can just write a letter and call the craftsman here!" Li Hui naturally understood Liu Bei''s meaning 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, and couldn''t see that the two of them had faced each other with swords and guns.
Guan Yu took a slight glance, then closed his Danfeng eyes, stroked his beard, and turned his head to the side...
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In the wilderness, Sima Yi squatted on the snow without any image, pulling the ropes and tarpaulins tied on the sled to make sure whether the sled could keep the goods it transported after running a big circle like this.
There has been a truce between the Xianbei Budugen and Ke Bineng for a while.
This phenomenon is generally expected for Zhao Yun Sima Yi, but it is not very comfortable for Xianbei people.
Although whether it is Bu Dugen or Ke Bineng, the number of people and horses is a huge number, but the problem is that at this stage, both of them are a little bit hard to get off, and they are not willing to retreat easily. It''s like if two tigers play their own games, they may be able to treat each other as if they don''t exist, but once they collide on the same territory, they have to decide whether to win or lose. This is not only related to the face of Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng, but also related to the future of these two people.
At worst, it will take a whole winter!
This is probably what Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng thought in their hearts...
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 were no people living for thousands of miles. It wasn''t that there were no Xianbei people grazing in this area before, but It was the current wave of unlucky ones in the middle of the battlefield who were unanimously regarded as victims by both sides, plundering people and livestock to make up for their consumption during 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 adapted to quick battles. After all, with the blessing of war horses, the movement speed was faster, but in Zhao Yun, Liu He, and the Wuhuan series Driven secretly by the public, the Xianbei people Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng, who were originally more adapted to quick battles, forcibly fought a protracted war.
And must continue to fight...
The place where Zhao Yun and Sima Yi are now is in a mountain depression, avoiding the cold wind blowing from north to south, it is more or less a shelter from the wind, and this time they came out to run such a lap specially to test the horse-drawn sled practicality.
"General, this thing is wonderful..." Sima Yi patted the sled and sighed.
It''s not flattery, but Sima Yi really thinks so.
Horse-drawn sleds can use single horses or double horses. Moving in the snow can even ignore the terrain to a certain extent. It is not mandatory to travel along the road. This is one of them.
In the second aspect, when you arrive at the resting place, you can stand up the sled and tie it to one place, and it will become a simple guardrail in a blink of an eye. Then pull a few ropes, fix it, and put the oilcloth and cowhide on it. As soon as you put it on the top, it can immediately become a shelter from the wind. Even if you don’t find a good shelter from the wind, you won’t be directly exposed to the cold at night and cause casualties. Both people and horses can get rest. and restore.
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 board can not only resist ordinary arrows, but is not even afraid of knives and guns. Of course, the premise is that there is some time to arrange it. If it is suddenly attacked, it will not provide much bonus. Having said that, it was the same when that queue was suddenly attacked.
"This thing was made by General Hussars..." Although Sima Yi praised Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun couldn''t put his name on his head. He paused and added, "General Hussars said that the more The bigger the snow, the more convenient it is..."
Last night there was another light snow, which stopped in the morning.
Sima Yi looked around for a week, then stepped forward to check the wear on the bottom of the sled, nodded, and said, "If the snow is heavy, the wear will naturally be less... However, the snow is soft and the wear is less, which also means It''s even more difficult for new horses to enter..."
Zhao Yun nodded and said: "My lord said the same thing... My lord once said that if the best is to use a strong dog to pull..."
"Huh?" Sima Yi blinked in disbelief.
Zhao Yun continued: "We don''t have that kind of strong dog now... I heard from my lord, there are in the snow area, or further north, in the depths of the desert... Even if there is one, we have to train it, just like war horses..."
"Could it be a Chuandong dog?" Sima Yi asked, "In the past when the champion conquered the barbarians, most of them used Chuandong dogs to accompany the army..."
Zhao Yun shook his head and said: "Chuandong dog... The master has sent someone to look for it... Now the Chuandong dog is useless. According to the master, it needs to be re-bred..."
The Han Dynasty was also an early dynasty that used military dogs. Huo Qubing once set up a military dog ??battalion in the army, let military dogs be in charge of guarding, and also bit and culled enemy troops on the battlefield, using Chuandong dogs.
Chuandong dog is also called Linshui dog, because it originated from the area around Linshui in eastern Sichuan. The biggest characteristic of this kind of dog is that it bites the neck of the prey during the killing process, causing the prey to suffocate and die with one blow. Sensation is very strong, and it is a very lovely Chinese native dog.
It''s just because the people of the Han Dynasty didn''t know what ecological protection is, just like treating war horses. After sending the strongest ones to the battlefield again and again, after three or four hundred years, the Chuandong dogs gradually lost some of their size. Smaller varieties…
Don''t fish in a dry pool, everyone understands the truth, but when it comes to doing it, it is often the one who cares about the flood in the future.
"Then this time going north..." Sima Yi thought about it, "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, when you and I will go north..."
(end of this chapter)