Three Kingdoms: Shocked, my father-in-law is Cao Cao!

Not far from the three of them, on the increasingly bustling streets of Xuchang.

Another girl with jet-black hair was about to return to the postman after finishing a day of shopping with a vegetable basket in her arm, but was blocked by a group of onlookers.

Anyway, it's not too late. The girl also became interested, so she simply moved over.

"Hey old man, what are you doing with so many people around here?"

The old man turned his head and found a young girl, and he replied cheerfully: "I heard that Cao Jun won a big victory in Qingzhou, and he is putting up notices now, but I am old and blind and illiterate, so I can't tell you in detail."

The girl turned her head to look at the notice, and indeed it was Xuzhou's army that defeated Qingzhou's enemies.

"That man is quite capable. I wonder if Xuzhou Yibie is okay recently?"

After finishing speaking, he went home with a basket to serve the two wives.

"Long spear! Anti-cavalry formation!"

"Huh!"

In the Xuzhou Army Camp in Beihai Prefecture, this home-based army has finally become more and more sophisticated in the use of long spears.

The long spears pointing obliquely at the sky, and the gun shafts protruding from the gap of the rear rows of soldiers formed a steel forest. Even the elite heavy cavalry would think twice before charging.

There is a poor way of living, since you are reluctant to spend money to train cavalry, you can only play with infantry with high volume and high price.

What's more, this army can be regarded as Jiang Zhe's current family property. Except for the four or five thousand infantry outside Beihai Mansion, those cavalry, including Wu Lang, are not all dispatch workers for Jiang Zhe, and they will be sent back to their original places one day.

The Beihai county army in another barracks also had better training with the distribution of veterans of the Xuzhou Army.

Seeing that the army was gradually taking shape, Xia Houjie, the "big send" general, was already hungry and thirsty, wishing to send the army to Yuan Xi as soon as possible.

"Jiang Zhe, why don't you attack Linzi City! Could it be that you are afraid?"

Xia Houjie yelled and cleaned up all the wine in his hands. Since his health improved, drinking and getting drunk all day has become his most common way of pastime. Of course, he also arranges a few folk girls for him to enjoy from time to time.

Although Jiang Zhe's values ​​essentially reject this kind of behavior, Cheng Du, the prefect of Beihai, told him that this is a very common practice. Is it possible that high-ranking officials and nobles should be restrained when they occasionally enjoy a few commoner women?

The more Jiang Zhe thought about it, the more angry he became, and he even wanted to beat up Cheng Du beside him, but he was reminded: Now it's good to bear Linzi and kill him.This calmed his anger.

"Jiang Zhe, talk, if you are afraid of the general, I won't make things difficult for you, hiccup~ I...I will appoint someone else to take your place, what do you think?"

Jiang Zhe got up to compose, "Returning to the general, the reason for not attacking before was that it took time to form an army, and now the army is ready to wait for your orders at any time, it's just..."

Jiang Zhe pretended to be late.

"But hiccup~ what?"

"I don't know if the general is willing to personally lead the Northern Navy's tens of thousands of people on an expedition to Linzi."

"More than ten thousand people?"

Xia Houjie thought about it again, now he has no one under his command, and he had only 2000 soldiers in his hand when he gathered the remnants of the army before. If he defeated Yuan Xi, the army's morale would be greatly shaken. At that time, these Beihai Prefecture people would not all look forward to him.

"Okay!" Xia Houjie made a decision immediately, "I am afraid that you are incompetent, so I decided to conquer the enemy myself!"

Jiang Zhe had black lines on his face, and saw Zheng Yi, who was about to get up, being held down by Wu Lang beside him.

——Be calm, be calm, and be fooled.

The departure time of the army was tentatively set in three days. Jiang Zhe immediately got on his horse after a while, but instead of returning to the barracks, he felt the armorer outside the city without stopping.

Skilled craftsmen recruited from all over Beihai have already gathered here. In addition to repairing ordnance, they "by the way" verified the secret weapon that Jiang Zhe borrowed.

"General, everything is ready, just waiting for your test."

Under the leadership of the craftsman, Jiang Zhe and his attendant Xia Houba came to an open space, where a solid object about one meter high and covered with thick linen had already been erected.

Lifting the thick cloth, a trebuchet with a strange shape was displayed in front of everyone. This trebuchet was similar to but different from the most common human-pulled lever trebuchet on the battlefield.

The front of the manpower pull was replaced with a huge wooden counterweight box, which was also wrapped with iron bars and rivets, and various parts of the trebuchet were also reinforced to varying degrees.

When it needs to be fired, use the rotation of the gear to lower the lever, insert the stone bullets, and then smash down the barrier wood. The stone bullets of hundreds of kilograms can fly hundreds of meters away and hit the enemy's city wall.

Because of the counterweight, the gravitational energy can be stored in the front end of the trebuchet, which has a huge improvement in the use efficiency of force compared to pulling by human power.

Jiang Zhe picked up a small hammer and smashed it hard like a barrier. With the sliding weight of the gears being released, the stone bullet easily flew over tens of meters and landed on the open space in front of it, raising a cloud of dust.

"Good job!" Jiang Zhe patted the foreman on the shoulder and gave him an approving look, "After today is over, go to the warehouse to receive rewards for the brothers."

For the general's excitement, Xia Houba, who was standing aside thinking about the thing in front of him, was very puzzled. What's the use of such a small thing, which can't be thrown as far as the human-powered trebuchet he has seen?
He naturally didn't know that this weird trebuchet was the counterweight lever trebuchet that the Mongolian army brought back from the Arabs, put it into the stalemate for a long time in the Battle of Fancheng and successfully destroyed the city wall. He also has a familiar name - Huihui Cannon
Jiang Zhe had already made a plan to take all these craftsmen with him when the army set off, and work only twelve hours a day with high wages, using the raw materials that accompanied the army to build this ancient weapon on the spot.

With a large number of traditional manpower trebuchets, it is bound to be able to break through the city wall of Linzi in one fell swoop!
The three days were fleeting, the sky was clear and the temperature was just right. It was a good day for marching, fighting and looting houses.

"Everyone, go!"

There was silence...

"The whole army follow me!"

Still nothing...

Xia Houjie gave orders immediately, but no one dared to respond. All the soldiers were waiting for their only general, or the only general present who had authority to direct their actions.

A brown horse came to the front of the army at some unknown time. This horse was taller and stronger than ordinary army horses. Its eyes were bright and its roar was powerful. It was afraid that it could compete with the red rabbit.

Needless to say, this is Jiang Zhe riding the best horse in the village to inspect the army that is about to go to the battlefield.

"Brothers, for the people of the Beihai Navy, for the soldiers who died in battle, for the peace of the world, for the victory and glory, we must make that son of a bitch Yuan Xi pay the price, aim at Linzi City, and set off with the whole army!"

Jiang Zhe raised his arms and shouted, and all the soldiers responded to the young general in front of him with the most intense shouts.