"I've seen Your Majesty!"

It didn't take long for Hou Luohou to come to the Han army camp.

Liu Chan waved his hand and said straight to the point: "No need to be polite, this time I invited the leader to come over, but I have a task to explain." ”

When His Majesty came before, he said that he was going to attack Budugen, but now that he is summoned, is there a way to deal with Budugen?" As long as Your Majesty does not let me Xianbei attack Budugen alone, I will definitely obey Your Majesty's orders. ”

Liu Chan smiled and said: "I do have a way to attack Budugen, but you Xianbei have surrendered to my Han and are considered a family, so how can I let you Xianbei attack Budugen alone?" The task I have given you is very easy, and there is no need to shed blood and sacrifice at all. ”

Hearing this, Hou Luohou breathed a sigh of relief, and arched his hand and said, "Since this is the case, please ask Your Majesty to give orders." ”

Liu Chan said with a smile: "My task is very simple, just ask the leader to lead the troops to cut down trees and collect boulders. ”

"Uh......" After listening to Liu Chan's words, Hou Luohou couldn't help but be stunned: "Just cut down trees and collect stones?" ”

"Naturally, it's an easy task, isn't it?" Liu Chan nodded and said.

"It's simple, it's so simple that I can't believe it." Hou Luo said in a hurry, he originally thought that Liu Chanhui should let him attack and use Xianbei as cannon fodder to charge. Even if Liu Chan doesn't do this, he should use Xianbei and let him make a big effort.

But I didn't expect Liu Chan to only let him do such a simple thing, cut down trees and collect stones, which was simply unbelievably simple.

Hou Luohou was suddenly shocked, could it be that there is any trap in this?

Seeing Hou Luohou's hesitant expression, Liu Chan couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart: "What? Leader of the Marquis of Tho Luo, such a simple task, are you not willing to contribute? ”

Hou Luo Hou hurriedly said: "What did Your Majesty say? How could I not be willing to do such a trivial matter? I just don't know what Your Majesty is going to do by cutting down trees and collecting stones? ”

Liu Chan said in a deep voice: "This is a secret, the fewer people who know, the better, you just have to do the things I explained, and you will naturally know when the time comes." ”

"Well, in that case, let's go back to the camp here, and order someone to go and cut down the trees and collect the stones early tomorrow morning."

Liu Chan nodded and said, "Well, when the time comes, just send someone to send the collected things to my military camp." ”

"No, retire next!"

Although he didn't understand what Liu Chan wanted, since Hou Luohou had already agreed, he didn't dare to do nothing, and after returning to the camp, he handed over the task.

Early the next morning, Hou Luohou dispatched tens of thousands of people to cut down trees and collect stones.

In the afternoon, the materials were transported, 10,000 horses a day, and these materials can be said to be piled up.

The wood is used to build the return cannon, it must be enough, but the stone is not enough, Mayi is a big city in Yanmen County, the city is tall and strong, if you want to break the Mayi with the return cannon, you need a lot of rolling stones.

However, Liu Chan did not let the Xianbei people collect it anymore, because his camp was dozens of miles away from Mayi, if the stones were collected here, he would have to bring them to attack Mayi and carry them slowly, so it would be very troublesome, and it would be better to collect stones while attacking after arriving in Mayi.

It only took Xianbei a day to collect materials, but the scouts of the Wei army still found out the news and spread the situation to the ears of Qin Lang, the main general on the Ma Yi side.

Qin Lang said to the generals: "Xianbei suddenly cut down trees and collected stones, what is his intention? They've all set up camp, and they're not collecting these things for the purpose of camping, are they? ”

General Liang Xi muttered: "The Shu army has a siege weapon and a return artillery, don't they want to build a return cannon to attack my Mayi?" ”

Listening to Liang Xi's words, the faces of the generals in the hall suddenly changed greatly.

The power of the return cannon, although they have not seen it, is like thunder.

The first general got up and said: "General Qin, it is very likely that the Shu army is building the return artillery, although Ma Yi is considered a strong city, I am afraid that it will not be able to resist the power of the return artillery." According to the opinion of the last general, it is better to retreat to the Yanmen Pass, and only with the solidity of the Yanmen Pass can you resist the return artillery. ”

"Yes, General, the return cannon is too powerful, we should retreat to Yanmen and make plans."

"Not bad!"

For a while, the generals persuaded Qin Lang to retreat to Yanmen Pass.

When Budugen heard this, he was a little unhappy in his heart.

South of Yanmen Pass, is the territory of Wei, if you retreat to Yanmen Pass, then Liu Chan will occupy Mayi, and from then on send a garrison in Mayi to confront Yanmen Pass.

In this way, he Budugen will also stay in the pass, unable to get out, although he is currently subordinate to the Wei State, but he also has his own land, has his own people, within the land, he has the right to kill and take away.

But once he enters the customs, he will really send people under the fence, Wei State can't give him much land, his power will shrink for a while, and it is possible to be directly annexed by Wei, just like the Southern Xiongnu back then.

Thinking of this, Bu Dugen arched his hand and said: "At present, Xianbei is just cutting down trees and collecting stones, let's just say that the Shu army wants to build a return cannon, this is a bit of a fuss, right?" Since it is to build a return artillery, why doesn't the Shu army do it themselves?

And you have to think clearly, this Mayi is very close to Yanmen Pass, it is a fortress, if you abandon Mayi and retreat to Yanmen Pass, then Liu Chan can send troops to guard Mayi.

From then on, the land north of Yanmen Pass was not owned by Wei, and not only that, but Bingzhou would also be threatened by Shu.

At present, Captain Tian Yu of Youzhou is making a big move, Kebi can be defeated soon, as long as Kebi can be defeated, Hou Luohou will definitely retreat, and when the Shu army is difficult to support, it will definitely retreat, we only need to hold on for a few days, Liu Chan will retreat, and then we can counterattack Hetao and recover the lost territory.

Why give up such an important place as Mayi for the sake of speculation? ”

"That's a good thing!" Qin Lang said in a deep voice: "Ma Yi is too important to us, if we give up Ma Yi, then my Great Wei can only retreat to Yanmen Pass, and there is no hope of regaining the lost territory."

At present, it is unknown whether the Shu army is building a return artillery, even if they are really building a return artillery, it will take time, and my Mayi city is quite strong, and there are 60,000 soldiers and horses in the city, which is enough to hold on for a while. As long as we wait until Captain Tian defeats Kebineng, the situation will be in our favor.

However, we must also be prepared, so that the soldiers can prepare more materials and tools to repair and repair the city wall, so as not to really build a return cannon to attack our Mayi. ”

Although the Han army had the possibility of returning artillery, because of the great importance of Mayi, Qin Lang still decided to garrison Mayi and not retreat to Yanmen Pass.

"No!" The generals will take the command.