There were not many things in the yamen office. Liu Yi assigned all the tasks he could assign. As he said, if the superiors were too tired, it would be a kind of unqualified. So after Deng Ai came to the yamen office with Liu Yi, he mostly watched Liu Yi do some carvings happily. He didn't understand why Liu Yi was obsessed with these carvings. From Wei Yue to the yamen office, almost everyone had one or two jewelry made by Liu Yi.

It’s not that Liu Yi did not do well, but Deng Ai felt that with Liu Yi’s talent, he should not waste his time on such things, and he should do more.

Deng Ai was not allowed to speak in the yamen office, so he could only hold these words and questions in his stomach.

"Bo Yuan, if you look at the recruitment standards you mentioned, at most another school of troops will be built now." Wei Yue finally calculated his own affairs. He has been calculating how many troops he recruited in the past few days. Mocheng's finances can support it. This calculation is not difficult for Liu Yi, but for Wei Yue, it took him three days to figure out his clues and know how to calculate.

"If we recruit too many soldiers now, we will inevitably attract suspicion. This Mocheng is located in Jingling, which is a place for four battles. If we cannot deal with it well, no matter how many soldiers and horses are, they will be useless. In order to avoid causing trouble, the two schools are at the limit, so we will take the elite soldiers route." Liu Yi glanced at the bamboo slips in Wei Yue's hand, and nodded with a smile.

The two schools have 1,600 people, which is already good. After all, no matter how good Mocheng is, it is just a city and it is not even a county town. It is because no one can take care of its own armed forces in this war era. With these two schools and the attributes of Mocheng, it is enough to deal with many problems. In fact, there are already a lot of people. If Tiangongfang had not been here to support Mocheng, although Mocheng is now a large population, the most important thing to support the two schools is to rely on the income of Tiangongfang, otherwise the whole school would be in trouble.

"Then go to recruit soldiers according to this standard. According to what you said, choose the best among the best?" Wei Yue asked.

"No," Liu Yi nodded and smiled. As for the training method, he didn't understand. The training method in the past may not be bad. It was just because of insufficient food supply. According to Wei Yue, it would be good for the army to be able to train once or twice a month. This is the treatment of a regular army. For county soldiers, it may not be able to train several times a year. Liu Yi is not prepared to change this method. The conditions are restricted there. At least Mocheng has no conditions to let the soldiers eat big fish and meat to replenish the lost nutrients.

This is also considered that Liu Yi has a group of powers and cities that truly belong to him in this era. As for the future, what Liu Yi can think of now is just taking one step at a time.

Unfortunately, Cao Cao came too quickly, and Liu Bei looked for him too late, otherwise the population of Mocheng would be larger.

...

Just as Liu Yi was sighing at the people in Mocheng, Liu Bei welcomed the first Cao army outside Fancheng hundreds of miles away.

Although it is just a vanguard force, Liu Bei has not had many people in his hands now. Even if it is the vanguard force of Cao's army, Liu Bei has to face it with all his strength.

On the high bracket, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang stood in the bracket, looking into the distance, on the city tower below, a large number of soldiers began to gather in some more important positions, and the clouds of war began to spread.

Liu Bei looked at Cao's army with thick armor and frowned slightly. This wave of vanguard troops alone had thousands of people. In order to avoid losses, he asked Guan Yu to take the main force to Jiangxia to meet with Liu Qi. There were not enough people around him. Although there were many people accompanying him, he did not have an advantage.

"Kong Ming, do you think Fancheng can be guarded?" Liu Bei sighed and asked Zhuge Liang beside him.

Zhuge Liang shook his head when he heard this, and shook his feather fan in his hand and said, "It is not difficult to break this vanguard army, but if there were no reinforcements in Xiangyang, Fancheng would not be defended for a long time."

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang didn't know what the situation is now in Xiangyang. No one who sent to Xiangyang to report the news these days brought back any news, which made Liu Bei a little uneasy.

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded silently. After retreating from Cao's army this time, he was going to send Liu Feng to see what was going on. It was okay now. If the main force of Cao's army arrived, he would have to escape.

While speaking, the Cao army on the opposite side had already begun to arrange troops, carrying siege ladders and rushing towards this side.

The soldiers guarding the city also began to shoot with crossbows, and the thunder chariots in the back row of Cao's army also began to move forward slowly under the push of the strong.

"Buzz~" Before the thunderbolt car could show its power, the crossbow on the city head launched an attack first. This distance is actually not reachable, and it is more of a deterrent effect. But what people didn't expect was that the crossbow had a great momentum. After emitting a giant arrow, a giant arrow actually hit the branches of the thunderbolt car accurately with a buzzing sound.

Click ~

On the noisy battlefield, the sound of wood shattering was not covered by the noise. Looking from the top of the city, you can see that the side of the thunderbolt car suddenly broke, and the thunderbolt car that was originally moving slowly stopped moving.

Even Liu Bei, who had been through many battles, was a little stunned when he saw this scene: "The catapult car is four hundred steps away!"

At such a long distance, not only did he hit the scene, but he also had great power. Not only Liu Bei, everyone who saw this scene was shocked.

"This thing was done by Bo Yuan." Zhuge Liang tried hard to control his emotions and prevented himself from squirting the feather fan from exerting too much force.

Liu Bei nodded when he heard this. It seemed that he had done the right thing to ask Liu Yi to help strengthen the city defense of Fancheng. He smiled and said, "I just don't know what other things are strange?"

The archers on the top of the city had already started shooting arrows, but there was not much excellence. Instead, the archers on the brackets were shot very far away, almost equal to those on the city wall. If there were enough people, it would be enough to make Cao Jun kill the arrow so hard that he could not raise his head. However, at this moment, the little man in Liu Bei's hands could not form that kind of oppression.

Cao's army rushed up in the rain of arrows, and the archers began to show their power. With the call from General Cao, rows of arrows rose up from the ground, shooting towards the front of the city and the brackets behind the city walls like locusts.

Liu Bei didn't care at first. He had seen such a scene countless times, but he would no longer be shocked. However, at the moment, when most of the arrows were shooting towards this side, Liu Bei was suddenly uneasy.
Chapter completed!