Ruixue Zhaofeng Year is not a lie, since the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials sacrificed the heavy snow in the world, it has rained in various places in the entire Han Dynasty one after another.

The big man, who has been shrouded by drought for three years, has completely come out of the haze.

Due to the three-year drought, the grain and grass in the territory of many princes were completely depleted, and they were unable to fight. In the past year, all the princes have been cultivating and recuperating.

In the second year of Jian'an, that is, in 197 AD.

At the beginning of the year, after Yuan Shao learned the role of righteousness, he did not dare to look at the son of heaven again. He also followed the example of the rest of the princes and began to send tribute to the imperial court.

At the same time, at the suggestion of his advisers, he also began to take the initiative to ease relations with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao is also not very human, and he did not hold a grudge because Yuan Shao led his troops to attack Xuzhou for no reason.

And he also took the initiative to show the Son of Heaven, saying that he was immoral and incompetent, resigned from the position of Yanzhou pastor, and recommended Yuan Shao to serve as Yanzhou pastor.

Cao Cao acted like this, which made Yuan Shao feel happy and ashamed at the same time. Since then, the two have frequently sent envoys to communicate with each other, and the relationship has become better than before, and there is a tendency to ally against Chen.

As for Liu Biao in Jingzhou, seeing Sun Cehu in Jiangdong, it is difficult to sit and lie down every day.

Kuai Liang offered advice to Liu Biao: "Liu Yuzhou is a relative of the Han Dynasty and the younger brother of the lord. Now that Xuande Gong occupies Yuzhou and has a bad relationship with Sun Ce, it can be used as foreign aid. ”

Liu Biao was overjoyed and immediately asked, "Who can send an envoy to Yuzhou?" ”

Kuai Liang said: "Yi Jibo can speak well, and he can take on this important responsibility. ”

Jibo is the table character of Yi, and Yizhi is a native of Shanyang County, Yanzhou, with few virtuous names, and then attached to Liu Biao.

Hearing that Kuai Liang mentioned his Yi nationality, Liu Biao stroked his palms and laughed: "You can't do this without a machine uncle!" ”

After Yi went to Yuzhou to meet Liu Bei, he prepared Liu Biao's praise for Xuande. Xuande was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "I never thought that Liu Jingzhou also knew that I Liu Bei's reputation?" ”

Yi Ji laughed and said: "Who in the world does not know the name of the king?" ”

"If it is according to the genealogy, my lord still makes the king the elder brother. Now that Sun Bofu is in Jiangdong, and there are Zhou Yu, Tai Shici and others as minions, his wolf ambitions must be guarded against. ”

"My lord wants to form an alliance with the envoy and advance and retreat together, I wonder if the envoy is willing?"

Although Liu Bei has always claimed to be a member of the Han family, he has never been recognized. Now Liu Biao, in order to form an alliance with him, took the initiative to recognize Xuande's identity.

If Wen Zhao learned about this, he would definitely sigh.

In the past, when Liu Bei came to Puban, Wen Zhao tried every possible way not to let the two meet alone in order to prevent the Son of Heaven from recognizing Xuande as the emperor's uncle.

He didn't expect that Liu Bei's identity now would be justified because of Liu Biao.

Liu Biao is an authentic relative of the emperor, as long as he recognizes Xuande's identity. In the future, if Xuande bears the name of the Han family, no one will dare to say anything.

How could Xuande himself not know this?

After he heard Liu Biao's intention to form an alliance, he naturally agreed, and then set up a banquet to entertain the Iraqis.

During the banquet, Jian Yong whispered to Liu Bei: "Lord, I see that this person has a great impression of you. If the lord can treat him sincerely, and then be there in Liu Jingzhou, this person will be able to be used as internal help. ”

Xuande thought so deeply and treated the Iraqi people very respectfully.

Yi Ji talked with Xuande, and felt that this person was humble and polite, and treated people sincerely, not a thing in the pool, and he had the feeling of seeing each other late.

After the alliance between the two Lius, Sun Ce was even more vigorous every day, and he did not dare to slack off.

In the second year of Jian'an, the harvest in Guanzhong and Bingzhou was very good.

Those people who had newly moved into Guanzhong returned the seeds borrowed by the government, and their families also had some surplus food.

In addition, Chen Qun assisted the government to help Wen Zhao govern the territory in an orderly manner. In the current Chen Xu territory, although it is not said that the night is not closed, the road is not far behind.

It was only now that Chen Xu felt how important an internal affairs talent was to a prince.

Although Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Li Ru, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong. They are all resourceful. But when it comes to talent in internal affairs, he can't compare to Chen Qun.

After having Chen Qun, Wen Zhao liberated himself from the vast documents.

This year, with Ma Jun as the main and Zhao Feng as the auxiliary, the crossbow and trebuchet were developed.

Due to Chen Xu's appearance and mention, Liu Ye's trebuchet and Zhuge Liang's crossbow appeared in advance.

The repeating crossbow that Ma Jun and the others researched can be loaded with eight arrows at a time, which is still a little worse than Zhuge Liang's one shot and ten rounds.

However, due to the increased cost of all-iron arrows and the fact that crossbow arrows cannot be feathered, the accuracy of the arrows decreases as the range is long. As a result, even crossbow arrows can only be shot with wooden shafts.

The arrows have no feathers, which limits the range of the repeater.

Although the repeater has a strong ability to fire continuously, it can form a dense firepower. However, the shortcomings of low accuracy, short range, and complex structure are also destined to not be used on a large scale.

In the war between Wen Zhao and Yuan Shu in the first year of Jian'an, although the trapped camp made great achievements, it also suffered heavy casualties.

Over the past year, Gao Shun has been busy training those newly recruited soldiers in battle.

Due to the shortcomings of the difficulty of making repeater arrows, it was impossible to equip the army on a large scale. Therefore, Chen Xu's first thought was to equip the trapping camp with a repeating crossbow.

Although they can also wound the enemy with bows and arrows, the number of people trapped in the camp is too small after all. Even if everyone is a marksman, they can't deal effective damage to the enemy.

However, when the repeater is equipped, the situation is completely different. Can you imagine what it would be like for thousands of people to hold eight-shot repeating crossbows and shoot them in one round?

The dense arrows can completely cover the sun in the sky.

Even if the lethality is small, it can't stand up to shoot a lot.

On the battlefield, it is not necessary to kill the enemy, as long as they can shoot the enemy, they will be ineffective.

In addition, Wen Zhao also equipped his own personal battalion, as well as the personal soldiers of important strategists and generals under his command, with crossbows.

It doesn't hurt if it's just that, if there are too many arrows, there will be a shortage of arrows.

What's more, repeaters are precision instruments and are very vulnerable to damage.

Once damaged, it is very difficult to repair it. That's why repeaters can't be equipped on a large scale.

Over the past year, the wolf cavalry led by Zhang Liao has also made a name for itself in Liangzhou and outside the Saiwai. This peerless general in history has bloomed with great brilliance and is called the 'Northwest Wolf' by the Qiang people.

On this day, Chen Xu asked people to summon Sima Lang, Sima Yi, and Dianman.

He looked at Sima Yi and Dianman, who had grown up, and the joy on his face became stronger and stronger.

Turning his head, Wen Zhao said to Dian Wei: "Guofu, Aman is also nineteen years old this year, and it's time for him to become a leader." I want to take him with me and let him take the position of a personal soldier first, I wonder what my brother thinks? ”

When Dian Wei heard this, he was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded his head.

He knew that talents like Xu Huang and Hao Zhao, who were valued by Chen Xu, had all served as the personal soldiers of their own lords.

Let them serve as pro-soldiers, on the one hand, to cultivate loyalty, and on the other hand, to let them warm up their qualifications and learn knowledge.

As long as they achieve something, they will be promoted and reused.