Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 542

"Clap!"

The first Jingzhou soldier dropped the weapon in his hand, quickly ran to Liu Bei's side, knelt down and shouted: "I am willing to surrender!"

Now that there is the first one who takes the lead, there will be a second and a third... "Crackling!"

After a sound of knives and axes falling to the ground, there were less than [-] soldiers and horses left around Cai Mao, and although they did not betray Cai Mao, when they faced Liu Bei's army several times larger than their own, their legs trembled.

"Ha ha!"

Cai Hao sneered, then looked at Liu Bei with a wry smile and said, "Winner and loser, I have nothing to say now, but I didn't expect that I was not taken away by Liu Qi's son, but it was cheaper." You, Liu Daer, are ridiculous, extremely ridiculous! Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!"

After saying that, Cai Mao looked up to the sky and laughed.

After laughing for a while, Cai Hao suddenly stopped laughing, and then said to Liu Bei: "Although I lost to you, the Han Dynasty will fall, even if Zhuge Liang has the talents of heaven and earth to help you. You can't be revived The Han Dynasty is just a stepping stone for others. I will wait for you below!"

After saying that, Cai Mao drew out the sword from his waist and swung it around his neck, only to see blood flying from Cai Mao's neck, Cai Mao fell off the horse with a smile on his face.

"Come here, chop up Cai Mao for me and feed it to the dogs!"

Liu Bei was stimulated by Cai Mao's words before committing suicide. If he knew that Cai Mao would mock him like this, then he would never let Cai Mao die so easily, at least he would have to be punished by a car.

"Here!"

The soldiers around Liu Bei bowed their hands to Liu Bei, and then drew out their weapons one after another, ready to chop up Cai Mao's body.

"Protect the general's body, don't let Liu Da'er's people touch the general's body!"

The soldiers next to Cai Mao's body were already terrified, but Cai Mao would rather die than surrender. The tragedy of killing himself stimulated them and made them realize that they were Cai Mao's soldiers. Surrender, how could Liu Bei's soldiers insult Cai Mao's body?

"Stubborn, if you don't surrender, kill them together!"

Liu Bei saw that someone would continue to resist, so he ordered coldly.

... Half an hour later, the last soldier next to Cai Mao's body also fell down, but even if they died, they covered Cai Mao's body with their own bodies to prevent Liu Beijun from dismembering him.

Seeing that these people were so loyal to Cai Mao, Liu Bei sighed: "This army is enough to compete with five hundred perfect men (at the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's general Han Xin led troops to attack Qi State and killed Qi Wang Tian Guang. Tian Guang, who was the prime minister of Qi State at that time, Heng, led 500 soldiers who vowed not to surrender, retreated to a desert island in the Yellow Sea to prepare for a comeback.

In 202 BC, after Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, he was afraid that Tian Heng would cause chaos, so he sent envoys to call Tian Heng to Beijing.In order to protect all his belongings, Tian Heng resolutely responded to the imperial edict.On the way, Tian Heng committed suicide because he was ashamed to be a minister to Liu Bang.When the bad news came, 500 subordinates collectively brandished knives and died for the festival, known as the "Tian Heng Five Hundred Righteous Men". ) are comparable also! "

After a pause, Liu Bei said again: "How can Cai Hao be so good that he let so many soldiers be buried with him? I don't know if someone is willing to treat me like this when I am in danger!"

Although Liu Bei resented Cai Mao for cursing him for not being able to restore the Han Dynasty, he was also moved by the five thousand soldiers, and ordered: "Pull out Cai Mao's body and bury it with the rites of a scholar-bureaucrat!"

Immediately afterwards, after Liu Bei wiped out Cai Mao, he immediately sent his troops south and continued to attack the southern part of Jingzhou in order to unify Jingzhou.

Han Xuan, the governor of Changsha, Jin Xuan, the governor of Wuling, and Zhao Fan, the governor of Guiyang, surrendered in anticipation. Only Huang Zu, the governor of Jiangxia, was stubborn and defended against Liu Bei according to Jiangxia.

Liu Bei was furious, and immediately sent his troops south to attack Xiakou.

In less than a month, Liu Bei defeated Huang Zu and took Jiangxia County in his hands.

Since then, the nine counties of Jingxiang (Nanyang County, Nanjun, Jiangxia County, Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, Changsha County, Zhangling County, and Nanxiang County.) have all fallen into Liu Bei's hands!Including Runan, Liu Bei holds a total of ten large counties in his hands, with strong soldiers and horses, no problem.

Leaving aside Liu Bei for the time being, let’s talk about the situation in Hebei. Originally, in the winter of last year, there was a heavy snowfall in Liaozhou, especially in Hanning County, where countless cattle and sheep froze to death. There was a slight smile, but Liu Wei had a countermeasure. He first bought back the frozen cattle, sheep and horses at a price that would not let the people lose money, and then peeled the skins of the cattle and sheep, marinated the meat, and then took Going to sell in the south, in this way, Liu Wei not only did not lose money, but also exchanged a large amount of grain from central Sichuan, Jingzhou, Jiangdong and other places for military rations. In addition, Liu Wei drew a keel diagram based on his memory, and then Hand it over to Ma Jun, let Ma Jun build the keel, and then use it on the warship.

If anyone in Liaozhou is the most tired and restless, it is neither Liu Wei nor Ju Shou, but the blacksmith Ma Jun.

Originally, Ma Jun was the person in charge of the Liaozhou Armory Factory, so he should not have to do any work. He only needs to supervise the workers in the Armory Factory. , sent it to Ma Jun, tomorrow I remembered the transmission wheel of later generations, and drew the transmission wheel again.It was handed over to Ma Jun and asked him to do it. Ma Jun didn't have a clue about the keel yet, so Liu Wei sent him another stack of thick drawings.

Moreover, Liu Wei thought that Liaozhou was too cold in winter, so he called Ma Jun, drew the heating principle and drawings, and asked Ma Jun to build radiators and stoves for him.

After Ma Jun built radiators for Liu Wei, Liu Wei was spoiled. He asked Ma Jun to build sixty or seventy radiators in one go, sent them to the homes of his capable civil servants and generals, and then asked Ma Jun to make more radiators. Jun built a large furnace with hundreds of iron pipes of different lengths, and first planed them randomly in the palace.Dozens of ditches were dug, and then the heater and the large stove were connected together through iron pipes underground. As long as the big stove in the palace didn't stop burning, the heated room in the palace would always be so warm.

Liu Wei installed ten heaters in the main hall, and two in the study. This is good. Those officials in Liaozhou who don’t have heaters in their homes report to Liu Wei in the palace every three days, and sit for a long time. Liu Wei couldn't coax him away, so Liu Wei had no choice but to order all the blacksmiths in Xiangping City to learn how to make radiators, and then let them make radiators and sell them to the common people.

(End of this chapter)