The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 319 Volume Zhuge Liannu
In order to resist the imperial court's Bingzhou army, Yuan Shao not only repaired a large number of fortifications near Jingjing and Chenguan, but also imitated the Qin Straight Road and built a fast-traveling highway along the east side of Taihang Mountain based on cultivated soil.

On both sides of the road, Yuan Shao also repaired a large number of forts and stored a large amount of food and grass in them, turning them into nails in the future advance of the imperial army.

Yuan Shao proudly called this line of defense the "Jingchen Line of Defense"!
It is precisely because of this line of defense that Yuan Shao is extremely confident and believes that he can successfully defend against the imperial court's offensive!

As long as we can intercept the emperor's attack this time.

As long as the imperial court can be defeated here.

Given the size of Hebei, no matter how ambitious the emperor was, he would be forced to enter a strategic stalemate with Yuan Shao.

Once entering that stage, Yuan Shao was confident that he could reorganize Hebei.

At that time, it will be even harder to say who will win!
"What Ke Bineng wants is feasible! All the food and fodder they need for this expedition will be provided by me!"

In the future, the Hebei forces are destined to become the defenders and fight on their own soil.

In this case, the loss of food and fodder will actually be minimized.

It was also because of this that Yuan Shao had the capital to use money and food to win over the Wuhuan and Eastern Xianbei.

If he doesn't use these money and grain to increase his own strength, does he intend to let them become spoils of war for the imperial court?

"Once Kebi Neng annexed the Xianbei tribes in the east, his power would surely increase greatly! By then, even the Western Xianbei led by Budugen would not be able to be compared with Kebi Neng."

Maybe by that time...

When a war breaks out, Kebi Neng will defeat the Western Xianbei in one fell swoop, and spread the war to Beidi County and Liangzhou, leaving the imperial court unable to take care of itself!

With Yuan Shao's approval, Ke Bineng did not hesitate to gather all the tribesmen together.

This has always been the case with grassland tribes, with no distinction between soldiers and civilians.

Except for women and children, the rest are cavalry on horseback!

The Eastern Xianbei had a total of 30,000 troops and horses, combined with the 50,000 troops and horses of the three Wuhuan tribes, totaling 80,000, claiming to be 200,000, and they quickly swept towards the scattered Xianbei tribes in the east.

Naturally, a war of this scale could not be concealed from the Western Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu.

The Han envoys in the two places immediately rushed this information to Chang'an over 800 miles and asked the emperor to make a decision.

……

"Yuan Shao, you are raising a tiger to cause trouble."

Liu Xie originally thought that providing money and food to the Wuhuan and Eastern Xianbei was the limit of what Yuan Shao could do.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao actually helped Kebi Neng to complete the partial unification of Eastern Xianbei.

A hegemon has risen again on the grassland above his head. Doesn’t Yuan Shao know what the consequences will be?
"Perhaps Yuan Benchu ​​is still conceited and thinks he can always control the Eastern Xianbei."

Shang Shu Ling Jia Xu and Shang Shu Pushe Xun Yu also stood nearby.

After all, Xun Yu had served under Yuan Shao for a period of time, so he immediately understood Yuan Shao's nature.

Yuan Shao just thought that everything was under his control.

Even if the Eastern Xianbei completed unification, he was confident that he could capture the hungry wolf Kebi Neng.

"Innocent."

Liu Xie shook his head, but he couldn't help but worry at this moment.

"If Kebi Neng unifies the Eastern Xianbei, regardless of the impact afterwards, he will definitely be able to grow stronger in a short period of time."

"And after the enlargement of Kebi Neng, can Budugen and Liu Bao really resist it?"

……

There was silence in the palace.

This silence already explains the answer.

"Yuan Shao, damn it!"

The key point is that this disaster is not only for Yuan Shao himself, but also for the entire Han people.

Liu Xie's fingertips tapped on the table: "If we allow Bu Dugen and Liu Bao to attack Kebineng now, what are the chances of success?"

However, Jia Xu, who was familiar with the grassland tribes, shook his head and rejected the emperor's proposal: "Your Majesty, do you want to take advantage of the time when Kebineng is out in full force to attack their rear?"

"The grassland tribes fight differently from the Central Plains."

"Once the battle begins, everyone becomes a soldier. They come and go on horseback without a trace, and there is no rear at all."

"Even if there are women and children left behind... Kebi Neng has already occupied Dai County, Yuyang and other places. It is very likely that the women and children of the Eastern Xianbei were settled in this area. These places are too close to Hebei. If we go deep into them, we may be discovered by the Hebei army in advance and be surrounded and annihilated by them!"

This is the most disgusting thing about the grassland tribe!
No base!
Whenever there is war, soldiers become civilians and civilians become soldiers.

Once they ran away with their war horses and livestock, they would be almost impossible to find.

Even if they leave some women and children to look after the house, they will place their nest in an extremely secret place.

Not everyone can be like Huo Qubing, who can find the enemy's lair every time he travels thousands of miles...

And now the situation of Eastern Xianbei is even more special.

Because they had already invaded the Han area, if Liu Xie was Budugen, he would definitely place the women and children in a place near Hebei to prevent surprise attacks from the Western Xianbei.

Therefore, the tactic of "taking advantage of their weakness and attacking their rear" had no effect at all on the grassland tribes.

After all, they don’t even have a “rear”, how can you steal from them?

"I understand."

After Liu Xie heard Jia Xu introduce the combat habits of the grassland tribes, he also covered his face with his hands and lay down on a chair at the back.

Seeing that the emperor seemed tired, Jia Xu and Xun Yu also bowed together and said, "Your Majesty, please don't work too hard."

"Although the Xianbei in the north are powerful, the real winner is still in the Central Plains, in Hebei."

“Even if the Eastern Xianbei attack in the future, as long as the Western Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu defend the Great Wall, they will be able to resist for a while.” Upon hearing this, Liu Xie just put an arm over his eyes and sighed.

"I naturally know that the final victory or defeat will be in Hebei, between me and Yuan Shao."

"That is why I don't want to waste too much energy on the Eastern Xianbei."

"Let the Western Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu defend the Great Wall... They are all cavalry fighters, so how can they use the skills of infantry officers to defend the Great Wall?"

"Besides, the Great Wall in the Hetao area is not short. If we want to achieve airtight defense, we need at least 100,000 people. Where can the Western Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu gather so many people to help the court defend?"

"..."

"never mind!"

Liu Xie slapped his forehead and decided not to dwell on the matter.

"Wenhe, Wenruo, follow me. Zhuge Liang sent me a good thing from Jingzhou these days. You must see it."

Leading the two men to the Beigong parade ground, Liu Xie patted a big guy beside him.

"What do you think this is?"

Jia Xu and Xun Yu stared at this thing and asked uncertainly: "Is it a Han crossbow?"

Judging from its appearance, it does resemble the Han army's powerful weapon, the crossbow.

But this size... is a bit too big!

It is at least five times the size of an ordinary Han crossbow!
You know, even the Han crossbow cannot be operated by ordinary soldiers, but only elite soldiers can be selected to serve as crossbowmen.

But the thing Liu Xie displayed at the moment was so huge, how could it be controlled by human power! ?

"It is a Han crossbow, but Kong Ming named it "Yuanrong Liannu". I thought it sounded bad, so I changed the name."

"What name did you change to, Your Majesty?"

"Zhuge Liannu!"

Liu Xie signaled several soldiers to finish reloading, and then sat behind the Zhuge Crossbow himself: "Watch out! Don't blink!"

As the trigger in his hand was pulled, the Zhuge Crossbow, which seemed to have nothing special, suddenly burst into roars!
"call out!"

An eight-inch long crossbow arrow suddenly flew out, and with a sound of breaking through the air, it hit a target at the edge of the parade ground!

"This……"

Although the power of the crossbow arrows fired by Zhuge Crossbow is quite amazing, there is still a weapon called "bed crossbow".

Compared with the "bed crossbow", the power of Zhuge Crossbow is not enough.

Just when Jia Xu was about to say something, his hair suddenly stood on end and he looked at the Zhuge Crossbow in front of Liu Xie in disbelief.

Liu Xie clearly did not perform any operations, but strange mechanical sounds came out from inside the Zhuge Crossbow.

next moment……

"call out!"

Another crossbow arrow was shot out!
It's not over yet!
Immediately following, another eight crossbow arrows, a total of ten, were shot out at the same time!

At this time, Jia Xu realized——

This thing is called a "lian" crossbow!

"Your Majesty, this thing..."

The power of Zhuge Crossbow obviously completely exceeded the expectations of the two.

The crossbow is a powerful and lethal weapon, but it has an extremely fatal flaw.

That is the loading time is too long.

This resulted in that in infantry combat, even though the Han crossbow was extremely powerful, it could only be used twice at most.

If there are more, the enemy will be able to rush to your front.

But the Zhuge Crossbow at the moment has undoubtedly broken their understanding of the weapon "crossbow".

Ten arrows in a row!

Is there really any flesh and blood in the world that can withstand such a powerful weapon?

The two of them even began to imagine a scene where they could put thousands of these Zhuge Crossbows on the battlefield and shoot the enemy into pulp...

Liu Xie patted the monster in front of him and said: "Although the Zhuge Liannu is good, its structure is more complicated than that of the Dahuang Crossbow, so its production is not high."

"I estimate that being able to produce 100 units is already the limit, so don't count on it too much."

After hearing this, Jia Xu and Xun Yu couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this makes sense.

If such a powerful weapon had no flaws, and thousands of them were really manufactured and piled onto the battlefield, that would be too terrifying.

However, Jia Xu still praised: "Zhuge Kongming is worthy of being the top scholar last year. He was able to create such a magical weapon. He is really smart!"

Liu Xie stroked Zhuge's crossbow, nodded and shook his head.

"It's a pity that we can't contain those grassland tribes."

Hearing that the emperor changed the topic to the north again, Jia Xu and Xun Yu became helpless again.

Although Zhuge's Crossbow was powerful, it was indeed unable to deal with the Xianbei cavalry that came and went like the wind.

The real difficulty facing the imperial court right now is not how to defeat the infantry in Hebei or the Central Plains, but to find a way to stop the Xianbei invasion from the north!

(End of this chapter)