"Guo Xiu!" Li Xian was shocked when he heard this. This name was so familiar. According to the original development trend of the historical plane, this guy should have been escorted back to Chengdu along with the people of the three counties, and later served in Shuzhong. , and he wanted to return to the Kingdom of Wei, and assassinated Fei Yi at the banquet, so he got a good posthumous title in the Kingdom of Wei. This man was a master of assassination, and he and Jiang Wei were classmates and friends. After all, his martial arts skills should be pretty good. of.
"Kill if you want, no need to say more!" Guo Xiu said angrily.
"Be honest!" Gong Jie shouted angrily and put his foot on Guo Xiu's abdomen. He wanted to draw his sword and kill him on the spot, but Li Xian raised his hand to stop him.
"Guo Xiu, I would like to ask you if you are willing to surrender?" Li Xian asked.
"Bah! How can you, a small country, compete with me, the great Wei, for the world? Stop dreaming! I, Guo Xiu, am a minister of Wei, and I will be a ghost of Wei when I die!" Guo Xiu cursed angrily.
Li Xian was silent when he heard this, then frowned slightly and said slowly: "Then do you want to go back?"
Guo Xiu was startled when he heard this, and then cursed: "What's Shuzi's trick? I'd rather die!"
Li Xian shook his head: "General Guo misses his homeland. I am not an unkind person. General Guo really doesn't want to go back?"
Guo Xiu thought for a moment. He had no idea what Li Xian meant. He was even more afraid that there was a conspiracy that he couldn't see. He said, "I really want to go back. Are you going to let me go?"
Li Xian then smiled slightly and said: "Let him go, I must let him go, but before I let him go, he needs the general to promise me to do something."
Guo Xiu sneered: "If you want me to help you, I might as well die!"
"General, don't worry. It's so easy to die. But does the general miss his mother in Shanggui?" Li Xian still looked at Guo Xiu with a smile.
Guo Xiu was furious for a moment and yelled: "Jiang Wei, you traitor to your country for glory, pity my mother!"
"General Guo, with this general here, we can naturally keep your mother safe. When the general returns home, we will immediately send someone to reunite the general's mother and son. I wonder if the general can help me next?" Li Xian said.
"You...are you really so kind?" Guo Xiu asked in confusion.
"Of course, our Han army is known for its benevolence and righteousness. It depends on General Guo's own decision. Whether mother and son will serve the country with loyalty together, or return to the motherland in ten days, it all depends on the general's thoughts." Li Xian said calmly.
"Then tell me, what's the matter?" Guo Xiu was already shaken. For such loyal people, loyalty and filial piety are not only their shield, but also their weakness that they least want to be manipulated.
Li Xian then spoke: "I intend to train an army of 5,000 men in Nan'an. I heard that General Guo is good at flying over walls and flying over walls, and assassinating people on moonlit nights. Why don't you become the instructor of our army? As for how to teach, I have no problem with it. Everything is under the command of the general." , when these soldiers will be handed over to me, when will the general reunite his mother and son and return to his homeland."
Hearing this, Guo Xiu frowned: "Aren't you afraid that I will order them to assassinate you?"
Li Xian smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. I have two generals, Tian and Gong. Ordinary assassins can't get close to them."
"How do you really teach without asking questions? Aren't you afraid that I will gather 5,000 people on the first day and give it to you the next day?" Guo Xiu asked.
"That is also the general's own decision, and I fully agree with it." Li Xian replied calmly.
"Okay, then I promise you, since you have saved my mother, I will repay you, but this is a private matter. If we meet on the battlefield in the future, I will not show mercy!" Guo Xiu said with cupped hands.
"General Guo, when will the war begin?" Li Xian asked.
"Ten days, ten days later, we will fight with you under the first mountain pass on the west side of Nan'an. Then general, don't forget today's promise." Guo Xiu then stood up and said with cupped hands.
"Okay, General Guo, go ahead. Dali, give General Guo some jars of fine wine and let him drink to his heart's content today." Li Xian ordered.
"yes!"
After Guo Xiu left, Li Xian smiled and said, why should he envy Wang Ping's useless flying army now? As long as this army is successfully formed, it will be a sharp knife, and it will naturally have its own use on the battlefield. Thinking of this, I fell asleep without any worries...
The next day, Zhuge Liang sent hundreds of horses back to Chengdu early in the morning to report on their duties. Li Xian was responsible for all political affairs in Nan'an, and Wei Yan controlled the troops and horses in the three counties.
Nan'an County Sheriff's Mansion.
"Bring him up!" Li Xian ordered, and after understanding, he escorted Wang Shuang forward from the prison.
"Let me go!" Wang Shuang struggled hard and cursed angrily, "You are plotting to gain advantage from our generals. I, Wang Shuang, will not let you go even if I am a ghost!"
Li Xian slapped the case and shouted: "Wang Shuang! I will ask you whether you will surrender or not!"
Wang Shuang burst into laughter for a moment: "Bah! You man, you can kill me when you have the ability to fight against a general. What kind of hero is he who is plotting and plotting! If you want to die, why talk too much!"
"Wang Shuang! You are from Longxi. Now Longxi is in the hands of our army. If you surrender our army, you can protect your family's wealth. Why bother to die?" Li Xian also advised.
"Haha, what a fool! I just want to die!" Wang Shuang said nothing.
Li Xian was also helpless. These generals were just like Gao Shun in the book, with strong abilities and stubborn personalities. He was immediately annoyed and had to sigh and wave his hand: "Behead him!"
"Hahahaha, okay! General, be happy, General Zidan is in the northeast, don't let me die facing south!" Wang Shuang laughed and was pushed out.
Having so directly killed a strong general who was no less powerful than Wei Yan, he was extremely frustrated for a moment. Where should he find such a rare general, so he could only lament.
Gong Jie stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Is it possible that the general is unwilling to kill Wang Shuang?"
Li Xian nodded and replied: "This man is as brave as Lu Bu back then. I'm afraid our army will never see such a fierce general again."
Gong Jie cupped his hands and said: "General, don't worry. Although Wang Shuang is from Longxi, Longxi and Liangzhou have been fighting against Qiang and Hu all year round. Wang Shuang has developed his martial arts in this environment, so this Naturally, there are adult men in the two places who are no less powerful than this man, so why doesn’t the general send someone to look for him.”
Li Xian nodded, but hesitated for a moment: "You and General Tian are both from Jingzhou. We are not familiar with this place in Liangzhou, and we can't even communicate normally in some places. If we want to explore talents at this time, isn't it right? More difficult?"
Gong Jie cupped his hands and said: "Why can't the general's method in Nanzhong be applied here? Qiang and barbarians are all good at goods, so why not use merchants' goods to connect the four directions, and capable people will naturally appear."
When Li Xian heard this, he immediately nodded and looked at Gong Jie. He didn't expect that this man would have gained a lot of knowledge through his cultivation. He was immediately overjoyed: "Okay, okay, just as you said, now we have opened this four-way business road." , trade goods with Qiang and Hu, and then search for available talents in the market. Then let Liang Xu be responsible for this matter. You are a famous person in Liangzhou and you are quite prestigious here."
Liang Xu raised his hands and said, "I have the order!"
This Liang Xu was originally a famous person in Liangzhou, and he was originally the guard of Tianshui. He later surrendered together with Jiang Wei. Now his prestige in Liangzhou has not diminished. If this person can exert his appeal in Liangzhou, business will naturally become a boom.
After all the matter was handed over to Liang Xu, Li Xian felt that he was going to act like a monster again. When everyone retreated, Li Xian thought about using the mechanics principles he had learned to draw a plan that could break through Chen Cang. The blueprints of the city's siege weapons, but every time they were halfway through the design, they suddenly stopped. Such complex mechanical principles could not be solved by a simple elastic deformation. Thinking of this made my scalp numb, so I immediately asked people to go and destroy the city. The best carpenter was called.
"Shen Tou, do you understand what I mean?" Li Xian spent a lot of effort explaining for a long time, and he didn't know what this carpenter master was thinking about.
He pondered for a while and then replied: "General, are you talking about the bed crossbow?"
Li Xian was immediately startled and immediately slapped the table and said, "Yes! It's the bed crossbow!"
Shen bowed his hands and said: "General, to be honest, bed crossbows existed during the Warring States Period, but the molds at that time were very small and could only be held in the hand. I looked at the general's drawing and it seemed to be as big as Liu Ye's trebuchet, but You can give it a try, but such a large iron arrow also requires a bow string with good elasticity. This is one of the difficulties, but I should be able to find a way to solve it."
Li Xian was startled and said, "Then please sink your head."
"What are you saying, General? Give me ten days and this thing will come out." Shen nodded and patted his chest.
"Okay! Please keep your head down and keep this secret. Do not leak it. Once it is leaked, it will be a serious crime." Li Xian reminded.
Shen Tou even patted his chest at this time: "General, don't worry, my craftsmen are all devoted to the Han Dynasty, and there is no way they would do such a thing."
Li Xian heard this and nodded immediately: "Then please sink your head."
.......
At this time, in the Xiaolong Mountain pass, an army wearing black silk ribbons on its head, holding two swords, and covered only with vine armor on key parts of its body was quietly born under Guo Xiu's training...
Ten days later, Zhuge Liang had returned from Chengdu. At this time, Li Xian described in detail the major events that had happened in the past ten days. The birth of the three-gong bed crossbow made Zhuge Liang stunned for a while. This three-gong bed crossbow with a countersunk head design , using the elasticity of two bow strings to make up for the insufficient elasticity of a large bow, and the remaining bow is reversed downward to increase the momentum. In an instant, a six-foot-long iron arrow can be shot, and this thing was blackened by Li Xian The cloth cover was hidden under the Longxi Plateau, just waiting for Zhuge Liang to see it.
"Han Xing, once this thing is released, one arrow can penetrate the city wall. Where did you get such weapons?" Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment and asked.
"Prime Minister, this thing was made by the foreman Shen Tou."
"So, can our army create more?" Zhuge Liang asked quickly.
Li Xiangong raised his hand and said: "Prime Minister, it is indeed possible, but it costs a lot of money and is inconvenient to transport. I only made one. If the Prime Minister allows, I can make several more."
Zhuge Liang frowned: "This thing is indeed good, but once such a lethal weapon falls into the hands of the enemy, wouldn't it be difficult to resist?"
Li Xian cupped his hands again and said: "Prime Minister, don't worry, there is a switch under this bed crossbow. If you don't turn it off, it basically can't be pushed."
Zhuge Liang burst out laughing when he heard this: "Okay! Okay! Okay! You're a Han Xing, but your true colors are not here. You actually made me a huge treasure. Let's make nine more of this thing, so we can make ten." , after our army has finished resting, we will immediately march out to Chencang and use this thing to kill Zhang He!"
"Got the order!"
