Seeing Liu Wu falling into rage, Han Anguo hurriedly whispered.
"Be careful what you say? Why should you be careful what you say? If they can hear me complaining here, can't they hear me asking for help?"
There are only 100,000 Liang troops in Suiyang city, and one-fifth of them have been killed or wounded in just a few days. And the reinforcements from the court on the other side have not yet arrived. Liu Wu naturally has complaints in his heart...
"Your Majesty, now that the matter has come to this, what's the use of saying all this? The Dai Kingdom is also pressing down on the border with an army of 400,000 troops, but so far, His Highness the King of Dai has not even sent a messenger to Chang'an to ask for help..."
Han Anguo also had a wry smile on his face. Now that things have reached this point, complaining here will not solve any problems at all. On the contrary, it will be true. Who knows if there are any people with ulterior motives in this palace?
Liu Wu's words don't sound wrong now, but if someone were to investigate him afterwards, he would feel resentful. This has always been a taboo for a courtier.
Even though Liu Wu and Liu Qi were originally brothers and sisters, they were different from each other after all.
"What are you saying about Liu Deng? That guy hasn't sent a single messenger so far. How can he survive until now with his limited experience on behalf of the country?"
When he said this, Liu Wu was stunned.
In fact, even his temper just now was completely forgotten.
How miserable is Dai Guo? Can Liu Wu still not know clearly in his heart?
You must know that after Emperor Wen just came to the throne, Liu Wu was named acting king in the second year of Emperor Wen.
At first, it was because the country of Dai was so poor that Liu Wu could not survive the hard life. Later, he went to his mother to make peace with him, and then he was renamed King of Huaiyang.
Later, when King Huai of Liang Liu Yi became childless, the emperor directly merged the Huaiyang Kingdom and the Liang Kingdom, and then added several counties around the imperial court, and finally the current size of the Liang Kingdom was achieved.
Although Liu Deng had relied on Dai's military strength to defeat the Huns several times before, how much wealth could he have accumulated in just a few years? Even if he has money, the army cannot be practiced in a short time!
These are 400,000 rebels!
Even he, the extremely wealthy King of Liang, feels very strenuous to fight now, let alone that kid Liu Deng.
It is not an easy task to use the power of one country to resist four countries...
"I don't know anything about other things, but at least the rebels are under Jinyang City and they don't have any advantage at all..."
Seeing that there was no one around, Han Anguo lowered his voice and whispered some unconfirmed news.
"I remember that when I celebrated my birthday, that boy sent me five thousand winding instruments. Where is that thing?"
When Liu Wu said this, he suddenly remembered such a thing. After receiving this thing, he just threw it to Han Anguo.
"I have some impressions, because none of the skilled craftsmen in Suiyang City could prevent this thing, so I ended up locking it in the armory!"
At that time, Han Anguo also looked for some skilled craftsmen to look at it and tried to imitate it. However, they all failed and there was no way to imitate it. Then there were only 5,000 sets, so Han Anguo simply shelved the thing.
Now that Liu Wu asked, he hurriedly said.
"What time is it now? I'll take out whatever is at the bottom of the box! I remember that it seems to save a lot of effort, so I'll have someone move out a box first!"
"promise!"
Han Anguo responded and hurried down to make arrangements. Immediately, several guards came in carrying a large wooden box.
After opening the box, there were dozens of linen bags neatly placed inside. Han Anguo opened one and carefully handed it to Liu Wu.
Liu Wu played with it in his hand, and then took off a powerful crossbow from the weapon rack next to him.
Han Anguo also came over immediately. The monarch and his minister held the winding device and gestured there for a long time before installing it.
After fixing it with a few fasteners, Liu Wu turned the handle with skill. He felt that he had fired the crossbow to the full moon without using much effort.
"hiss--"
Liu Wu couldn't help but gasped. When he first watched Liu Deng's demonstration, he just thought that Liu Deng was trying to please others, but he didn't take it seriously.
After all, he was still his nephew after all. Even if he was young and frivolous, he still had the mentality of a young man.
But now it was his turn to try it for himself, and he felt how useful this thing was.
"Whoosh——"
Liu Wu simply changed his direction, then mounted a crossbow arrow and shot it directly towards the palace pillar with a whoosh.
After cumming, turn the crank again, effortlessly wind it up again, and get fired up again!
In less than a stick of incense, he actually shot five arrows in a row!
You know, the crossbow in his hand now is the standard big yellow crossbow in the army. This thing is very powerful, but similarly, if you want to completely pull it open, the strength required is the same as the eight-stone bow!
Perhaps this data is still not intuitive enough. There is another more intuitive data. The selection criterion for the Han army's archers is that they can shoot six bows with one stone!
Even the strong men in the army cannot pull it off five times in a row within the time of burning an incense stick!
"This thing, this thing is simply amazing!"
Han Anguo's eyes widened. At first, he only considered how to imitate this thing, but he didn't think about other things. Now that he tried it, he realized that he was really wrong.
"It's a pity that Jinyang City is also surrounded by water now. Otherwise, if I get another 10,000 sets of these things from that kid, I won't be afraid of how many rebels come!"
After having an intuitive understanding of the power of this thing, Liu Wu put down the heavy crossbow with some dejection.
No wonder that boy hasn't had any messenger for help until now. With this thing, even ordinary people can use it as soldiers.
There is no need to use force at all, just aim at the crowd and fire.
"Your Majesty, let's get rid of this thing quickly! With this thing here, we won't be afraid of how many rebels will attack!"
Han Anguo said overjoyed.
"Damn it, I have to call this kid here after the battle is over and give him a severe lesson. He is so stingy even for attacking his own uncle!"
Hearing what Liu Wu said, Han Anguo almost laughed out loud, but now he really admired Liu Deng's magical skills.
Such a small thing can actually save so much effort. This kind of cleverness is really hard to find in the world...
