Lu Bu received the Jingzhou delegation at the Gucheng County Government Office.
"Marquis Wen is famous all over the world.
I am truly lucky to see him today."
Kuai Liang came up and said some polite words first.
"Kuai Gong is wrong.
Is Kuai Gong here today about Gucheng?"
Lu Bu said straight to the point without being polite.
"It's a misunderstanding.
It's all a misunderstanding.
It's all my fault that the county didn't report it in time.
My lord has already punished the county magistrate.
I hope Wen Hou is not to blame."
Seeing what the other party said, Lu Bu could only say to Po Xia Donkey: "It's not entirely your fault, it's also the fault of a certain subordinate who was too impatient and acted recklessly."
The two sides spoke diplomatically and politely, going around and around for a long time.
Lu Bu finally figured out the intention of the visitor.
It turned out that Liu Biao just wanted to maintain the status quo and keep the nine counties of Jingsha safe.
The strategy for attacking the Nanyang area north of Xiangyang was just to create a buffer zone to isolate direct conflicts with powerful warlords in the Central Plains region.
Therefore, Liu Biao was happy to see a weak but tenacious force like Lu Bu enter the Nanyang area north of Xiangyang.
This is not only true for Lu Bu, but also in the future assisting Zhang Xiu to enter Wancheng and lending Xinye to Liu Bei were all based on this strategic policy.
Now that he knew the other party's intention, Lu Bu told Kuai Liang that he would never go south to invade Jingzhou, nor would he allow others to enter the boundaries of Gucheng and invade Xiangyang south along some of the roads on the west bank of the Han River.
Kuai Liang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said to Lu Bu: "Marquis Wen came here for the first time, so he must be running out of food and grass.
My lord specially asked me to bring 20,000 stones of food and grass as a gift to Marquis Wen.
I hope Marquis Wen will accept it."
Lu Bu was short of food, so he bowed his hands to Kuai Liang and said, "I am indeed short of food and grass.
Liu Shijun is here to help me in times of need.
I ask Kuai Gong to convey my gratitude to you, and I will repay you to Liu Shijun in the future."
More than two months later, the first phase of the barrier defense line built along the Han River was completed, and Lu Bu began recruiting troops again.
The conditions are also very favorable, with food, military pay, and a reward system for meritorious service.
The first thing it attracted was the large number of young people among the refugees.
Nearly 3,000 people were recruited successively, and together with hundreds of tribes, a total of more than 3,000 people were organized into the Huben Army.
The military structure is the same as in the past.
At present, there are only three brigades established.
Lu Bu also generated one hundred sword and shield heavy infantry and one hundred blast archers from the system as the instructors of the Tiger Army.
The reason why spearmen are not generated is because when the military camp is upgraded to the Dark Age, there will be better replacement units.
There are also better cavalry units such as the Kaizi Horse and the Iron Buddha.
But now Lu Bu doesn't have enough points.
In the process of taking over Gucheng, more than a thousand soldiers who surrendered in Gucheng were released.
Among them, the Jingzhou soldiers whose hometown was not in Gucheng were released, and there were still more than 700 garrison soldiers.
The garrison general is another military system of Lu Bu.
The soldiers come from recruitment, but it is still different from other warlords.
During the service period, uniform armor and weapons will be provided, as well as a small amount of monetary rewards.
The most important thing is that Lu Bu will not forcefully capture non-local strong men to serve as garrison soldiers.
In the wilderness next to the fortification.
Lu Bu personally tested the giant ballista newly produced by the Iron Age Advanced Workshop with everyone.
"Ready to release", with a loud "bang" sound as the torsion spring arm of the ballista hit the baffle, a stone projectile as big as a small watermelon was thrown out.
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It was thrown by a giant ballista that was two feet tall.
The stone projectiles flew smaller and smaller and disappeared from people's sight.
A soldier galloped out on horseback.
After a while, he turned back and reported to Lu Bu with a marching salute: "My lord, it has been measured that the stone bullets flew more than a hundred battles, which is equivalent to 400 meters in the metric system."
This soldier is a crossbow gunner generated by the system and can be measured using the metric system.
Lu Bu spent 1,000 points to generate 500 such crossbow gunners.
In addition to being assigned to the third Huben Brigade, most of these crossbow gunners will be deployed in multiple artillery positions distributed along the defense line, two of which are located on two hills facing the river at both ends of the defense line.
Each ballista position is equipped with five giant ballistae and twenty-five medium ballistae.
It is worth mentioning that the standing garrison of the Guzhu Defense Line has an independent designation and directly takes orders from Lu Bu.
Lu Bu thought that he could hit the maximum distance of 400 meters on the plains, but he could hit a mile on the top of a mountain hundreds of meters high.
What's even more terrifying is that the stone thrown weighs more than ten kilograms.
If it is replaced by a crossbow with a wing, it can hit kilometers, but that is meaningless.
If it relies on gliding, it will lose accuracy.
This Song Dynasty three-bow bed crossbow can also do this Ordinary stone bullets are made into basically regular circles, and the weight difference between each stone bullet of the same type will not exceed 5, which ensures the accuracy of ballistic strikes.
Various special ballista "shells" were also developed.
For example, concurrent shot projectiles are placed in a row of five projectiles on the ballista tank.
There are slight differences in quality and shape between the projectiles.
They are fired in volley and eventually fall within a range of two meters in diameter.
The distance between the impact points of the five bombs will not be more than one meter.
There is also a kind of explosive bomb, which is made of fired pottery.
For this purpose, Lu Bu spent 200 points to build a primary ceramics kiln in the city.
The pottery pot is generally round in shape and is filled with kerosene.
The principle is similar to the "fire dragon" in the previous time and space, except that a torch is placed at the launch port when launching.
After the projectile is launched, it will be ignited and wrapped in linen cloth soaked in kerosene. .
After falling to the ground, it broke and the spilled fire oil was ignited.
When loading this kind of explosive bomb, the total weight needs to be measured one by one to ensure that the weight error of each bomb does not exceed 5, so as to ensure the accuracy of throwing.
Summer has passed and autumn has come, and soon it is the harvest season.
Lu Bu rarely took time to take Lu Wan to play in the countryside between Guzhu River, and Diao Chan also accompanied him.
Lu Bu looked at the yellow crops waiting to be harvested in front of him, and he had something in mind.
There is still a large area of wasteland waiting to be reclaimed in the area under his control, but where will his population come from?
With only 40,000 people in Gucheng, it is difficult to be independent in this troubled world, let alone develop and develop.
One of the main tasks in the system is to recruit refugees.
I have also issued preferential policy orders to recruit refugees, but both the refugees in Guanzhong and the refugees in Hanoi and Guandong are far away from Gucheng.
Diao Chan saw Lu Bu's mood and asked, "Why is the general so worried?
Let me play a song for the general to relieve his boredom."
After that, he asked the servant to get the zither and start playing.
Lu Bu was enjoying Diao Chan's sweet music while looking at the surrounding scenery.
At this time, he found Lu Wan squatting next to the puddle doing something, so he got up from the bench and walked over.
"Wan'er, what are you doing?
You're covered in mud.
Be careful not to fall into the water."
Lu Wan raised her little head, blinked her big black eyes and said, "There are some small fish in the puddle.
I want to dig a ditch into the river so that they can find their parents."
Lu Bu laughed loudly after hearing this, picked up Lu Wan and said, "When the rainy season comes, the river will overflow the puddles and the small fish will be able to enter the river.
Come on, let's listen to your little mother play the piano."
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When Lu Bu said this, he suddenly paused.
His daughter's childish words gave him an idea, why not open a refugee channel by himself and lead the refugees from Guanzhong from Shangyu Road to Zhugu?
In front of the sand table, Lu Bu told the generals his plan to open a passage to lead the people into his territory.
Zhang Liao shook his head and said: "With the strength of our army, it is difficult to achieve.
The Shangyu Road is more than 600 miles long and passes through the territories of many princes.
We currently have only five or six thousand men and horses, and we still have to defend our homes.
There are definitely not enough people. " Lu Bu smiled and expressed his thoughts: