Crossing the Battle of the Three Kingdoms

The generals who received the order executed them meticulously.

And in Liaodong in the distance, the mountains and plains are full of soldiers at this time, and they are in groups of three, digging big pits at a distance of one thousand meters, just to find what Li Huiyi confessed.

In a pit tens of meters high, a young soldier brandished a hoe and was struggling to dig the soil under his feet. He asked the corporal above him:

"Head, is what the lord said true? More than 1 of us are about to overturn the mountain near the city, why haven't we found it yet?"

When the senior corporal above heard the question, he gently shook the wooden bucket containing the soil, feeling that it was still not full, and cursed in a moderate manner.

"Happy, what do you know at such a young age? If it weren't for the lord, your family has twenty acres of land and asked you to do some work, so you would just keep talking."

The young soldier pouted, and said with some displeasure: "Boss, I didn't say anything. It's been almost a month, so I can't complain."

Hearing this, the corporal leader got angry, shook the barrel and hit the young soldier, cursing and saying:

"Happy, if you're told to dig, then dig, there's so much nonsense, or if you go back now, no one will stop you."

Hit by a wooden barrel, the young soldier was unstable, leaning his back against the wall of the pit, muttering a few words in a low voice.

And the corporal leader continued cursing and said: "If you don't want to, come up, I will go down, there is so much nonsense."

The young soldier waved his hoe again, and replied: "Don't be angry, head, isn't this just a casual talk, I'm digging now."

"Boom!"

There was a sound, feeling that the hoe had touched something, the young soldier cursed, stopped and touched it with his hands, found a big stone weighing several kilograms, glanced at it with a glimmer of light, and threw it into the wooden bucket filled with soil.

Feeling that the weight was about the same, the corporal leader began to pull the rope, lifted the wooden barrel up, handed it to another soldier who had been waiting for a long time, and then put down an empty wooden barrel again.

The soldiers waiting next to them carried wooden barrels and ran to the place where the soil was piled up ahead.

"Whoa!"

"Well, why is this stone so strange?" Looking at the gray-black stone in front of him, the soldier picked it up and looked it over carefully, then decided to go to the official history office in charge and give it to him to have a look.

When they came to a temporary thatched shed, the soldier handed the stone to the desk of the civil servant sitting in the shed, and said with a smile:

"My lord, why is this rock so strange? Is it what the Lord is looking for?"

The civil official picked it up and looked at it carefully, but couldn't see anything, so he said:

"I don't know. I can only let Master Wang melt it. Anyway, I have tried so many times, and I don't care about one more time."

The civil servant picked up the stone, came to the side of blacksmith Wang who was sitting and resting tens of meters away, and said politely: "Master Wang, please melt this stone and have a look."

Wang's family of blacksmiths has been working in Liaodong for three generations, and he can distinguish any iron ore he has handled, but he really doesn't see anything in front of him.

Blacksmith Wang picked up the stone and weighed it. Although he didn't give up hope in his heart, he still politely replied: "Okay, my lord, please wait a moment."

Light the fire, pull up the bellows, and see that the temperature is about the same. Blacksmith Wang put the stones into the furnace, and increased the speed, pulling the bellows back and forth.

With the sweat slowly appearing on the face, the stone also slowly melted, and it seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, and an unbelievable smile began to appear on Blacksmith Wang's face.

When it was completely the size of half a fist, Blacksmith Wang stopped pulling and shouted excitedly: "My lord, I have it, I have it, I found it!"

Hearing the shout, the civil servant hurried forward, seeing the red and unmelted ball in the furnace, his heart was filled with excitement.

"Then who, where was this stone found, quickly lead us there."

Surrounded by the smirking soldiers, they quickly returned to their senses and led everyone in the shed to the excavation site.

But Wu Jiu didn't see the soldiers coming back, and was sitting on the ground scolding his mother. Seeing so many people coming in front of him, he quickly stood up and greeted them.

"Where are you Happy, what happened, so many people here?" The corporal came to the soldier and asked in a low voice.

The soldier replied with a smile: "Boss, we found iron ore in that pit."

"Really?" Wu Zhang followed the crowd into the pit with a look of disbelief.

The official squatted down and looked at the stones in the bucket, and asked excitedly, "There are so many stones, where did the original ones go?"

The corporal quickly replied: "It hasn't fallen, it was just dug out, and the soil underneath is getting less and less, almost all rocks."

"Really!?" The civil servant asked in disbelief, quickly confirming.

"It's true, there are a lot of rocks down there, isn't this the one the lord said?" The corporal leader had already reacted at this time, and his face was also excited.

"Yes, hurry up, I'll notify Master Hua." The civil servant left a sentence, and strode away.

As soon as the news of the iron ore discovery spread, scattered soldiers gathered here one after another and began to speed up the excavation.

Hua Xin, who was in the city, heard the news, and hurried to check it out. He confirmed that it was iron ore, and quickly sent the news back to You Beiping.

Li Huiyi was also very excited when he learned that iron ore had been found in Liaodong. He ordered his subordinates to recruit blacksmiths at a high price, and they went to Liaodong together, preparing to have every soldier wear armor as soon as possible.

At the same time, workshops began to pop up under Li Huiyi's rule, and a large number of idle old and weak women and children were recruited to work in the workshops.

The people who enter the workshop are all in a single room, each room has a procedure, and the last step of the procedure is completed by someone personally sent by the government.

Although the spies of various princes lurking under Li Huiyi's rule wanted to inquire about the mystery, it was difficult for them to find out for a while.

The two prefectures of Bing and You began to slowly restore their economies, and the army began to be completely reborn, and its combat power continued to rise. The price paid was that people left the army every day because of training and fighting.

Chapter 294

Li Huiyi was recovering his strength, but there was one person who really had nowhere to go and didn't know where to go.

That man was Lu Bu, and since Guo Si and Li Jue revived the Xiliang army and returned to Chang'an, he lost his place of refuge.

At this time, where the three counties of Hanoi, Chenliu, and Yingchuan meet, hundreds of soldiers and horses are stationed on a barren mountain, but everyone's face is full of sadness.

In the camp commander's tent, Lu Bu no longer had the sunny face of the past, his face was unshaven, and it looked like he hadn't washed and groomed for a while.

Lu Bu, who was in command, waved his hand to let the kneeling soldiers leave, and asked Zhang Liao on the left, "Wen Yuan, now that Yuan Shu refuses to accept, who should we go to!?"

Lu Bu, a fierce general of a generation, is like a hero at the end of his journey at this time, not knowing what to do.

Speaking of why Zhang Liao appeared here, we have to start from a few years ago.

Zhang Liao was sent to He Jin by Ding Yuan, and he was sent to buy military horses. When he returned, the capital was in chaos and Dong Zhuo had already entered the city.

In desperation, Zhang Liao could only hide and wait for the opportunity.

Later, when he learned of Ding Yuan's arrival, he wanted to return to the Bingzhou army, but Lu Bu suddenly killed Ding Yuan and joined Dong Zhuo.

Zhang Liao was shocked when he heard the news. After all, the relationship between Ding and Lu has always been good, so how could they turn against each other.

With doubts in his heart, Zhang Liao had been looking for an opportunity to talk to Lv Bu alone, but he was unwilling to take up a position under Dong Zhuo's command.