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136, for sled

West of Xiapi City, the schoolyard.

Ouyang Jing and Lu Lingqi stood side by side on the platform, looking at the school ground with a thick layer of snow below.

On the spacious ground, there was a strong horse, dragging a wheelless monster car, moving forward in the snow.

The strange car only had a carriage with no wheels at the bottom, and there was only a flat wood shaped like a curved shoulder pole on each side. In the carriage, stones weighing 1,500 kilograms were piled up, plus a driver.

Even so, the strong horse still ran extremely lightly, as if it was not carrying a weight.

"How?" Seeing Jianma running with a strange car for a while, Ouyang Jing asked Lu Lingqi with a smile: "Is this 'sled' not bad, right?"

"It's not just good? It's simply a powerful weapon!" Lu Lingqi said in surprise: "It may be useless in normal times, but once the road is closed due to heavy snow, this strange car...sledges and sleds can be used in great use! All food and troop transports are of great use!"

"Yes. If an ordinary horse is used to carry people, it can only carry two people at the same time and cannot travel long distances. However, if it is used to pull a cart, it can pull a thousand-pound cart and travel a hundred miles. The principle of using horsepower is similar to a cart, but it is more suitable to travel in the snow, and the burden on horses is even lighter than that of a cart."

Ouyang Jing smiled and said, "With this sled, I don't need to use too many people to use 20,000 stones of corn prepared by Liu Bei for me. I only need to use three or four hundred sleds to transport 20,000 stones of grain into the city at one time."

20,000 stones of corn weighs 300,000 kilograms.

If manpower is used, even if one person can load fifty kilograms at a time, six thousand people will be used.

Such a large-scale personnel transfer cannot be concealed from Cao Cao's eyes and ears.

Moreover, people transport grain by manpower and trekking in the snow, they cannot transport grain into the city quickly. If they are not careful, they will be made into dumplings by Cao's army.

Even if cavalry is used to transport grain, a cavalry with a good horse and a complete armor and equipment are loaded with a cavalry, the speed will not slow down too much due to the load, and at most another fifty kilograms of grain will be allowed. In the end, six thousand cavalry will be used.

Let’s not talk about how large and powerful the six thousand cavalry should be. How many cavalry should be?

Nowadays, there are only more than 3,000 Wolf Cavalry under Lu Bu's command.

But with this horse-drawn sled, the situation is completely different. You only need to dispatch three or four hundred horses to transport 20,000 stones of food at a time. Moreover, the speed of horse-drawn sled in the snow is not much inferior to that of light cavalry, and you are not afraid of being caught and intercepted by Cao's army.

"If the snow can last until the day we launch a counterattack, the sled can play a bigger role."

Ouyang Jing also said: "The strongest combat power of our army is not the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, but the dead soldiers who are trapped in the formation. However, the trapped camp is a heavy armored infantry. Unless they are arrayed and face the front, it is difficult to play a role in raids and pursuits.

"The counterattack strategy I and Liu Bei formulated is the word "fast" and it is necessary to catch Cao Cao off guard with lightning speed. If it is normal, it will be difficult for all heavy armored infantry to play a role in this lightning raid. But if the snow does not melt and there is such a sled, the sled can take a sled and keep up with the speed of the cavalry's assault."

Lu Lingqi offered advice: "This sled can also be used as a chariot. Although the chariot has long since left the battlefield, that is because the cavalry is more flexible than the chariot, and the chariot itself has too high requirements for the terrain conditions of the battlefield.

"But on a snow-covered battlefield, cavalry is not more flexible than sleds. As for the terrain conditions, sleds are different from chariots. As long as there is heavy snow on the ground, you will not be afraid of rugged terrain causing overturning."

Ouyang Jing laughed: "Lingqi, you have a good idea. It is indeed better to be a sled as a chariot and rush around than to simply transport troops. However, I am not familiar with the use of chariots. How to use sled as a chariot is left to you to take charge. Well, when counterattacking, the person riding the sled will be the trap camp, and you also need to discuss this matter with General Gao Shun."

Lu Lingqi patted her towering chest and smiled and said, "Don't worry, my father, I'll cover it with me!"

In the next few days, while urging the craftsman to build sleds, Lu Lingqi studied with Gao Shun how to transform the sled into a chariot, and mobilized soldiers from the trapped camp to train sleds to fight.

Ouyang Jing stayed quietly and only patrolled the city once a day to boost morale. He spent the rest of his time practicing and seizing time to improve his strength.

Although he had digested Lu Bu's inheritance, realized the ultimate dominance, and obtained Lu Bu's lifelong combat skills, and was able to use the heavenly halberd of the unparalleled sides, his absolute strength, after several opportunities, was still only four-star mid-level. There was still a considerable gap between him and the top famous generals.

In this unparalleled world of the Three Kingdoms, he cannot sweep the world of this world, let alone the world of reincarnation?

So although he had completely moved Liu Bei and had made plans to fight back against Cao Cao with him, completed the task and even received hidden rewards, he still could not relax at all.

After all, the first great enemy he really has to face is not in this world, but in the Hall of Reincarnation.

A few days later, Liu Bei sneaked into Xia Pi again and informed Ouyang Jing that the food had been prepared and placed in Liu Bei's camp, asking him to try to accept it.

So the next night, Cao Cao received the following message:

"What? Lu Bu attacked Liu Bei's camp at night, and Liu Bei's camp caught fire, and both food and grass were burned?"

After receiving the news, Cao Cao, who had just put on his clothes, sat on the couch for a while, and murmured: "In Liu Bei's camp, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and the three Yings joined forces, how could Lu Bu be led into the camp and burned the food and grass?"

As well received the news, Xiahou Dun, who rushed to Cao Cao's tent, said: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not in the camp tonight - Guan Yu went to the East China Sea to find Mi to raise military funds, while Zhang Fei returned to Xiaopei to recruit soldiers..."

"Never Guan and Zhang are in the military camp? How could that guy Lu Bu catch this opportunity by such a coincidence?"

Although Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, he did not expect that Liu Bei would cooperate with Lu Bu - both parties kept it strictly confidential. Liu Bei's side only Liu Guan and Zhang knew; Ouyang Jing's side also only Lu Lingqi knew.

Therefore, Cao Cao could not have imagined that Liu Bei, who hated Lu Bu, would "collude" with Lu Bu.

Cao Cao only thought that there was a spy Lu Bu in Liu Bei's army, and he immediately ordered:

"I ordered Liu Bei to thoroughly investigate the spies in the army. I would rather kill the wrong spies than let them go. Well, our army should also make a big spies. Never let the spies in the army leak the secrets in the army again!"

"Here!" Xiahou Dun bowed and agreed.

"As for Liu Bei's food and grass..."

Cao Cao said lightly: "The road was blocked with heavy snow, and it was difficult for our army to transfer food and grass. There was not much surplus in the army, so we could not help him too much. Yuan Rang, you send Liu Bei a thousand stones of food and grass. Let him find a way for the rest. Anyway, he has the help of Mi clan in Donghai, so he will not cut off the food and grass."

Just as Cao Zhuo made various arrangements, Ouyang Jing and Lu Lingqi had already brought more than 300 sleds and pulled 20,000 stones of corn, and quickly slipped back to Xia Pi City.

The so-called "attack on Liu Bei's camp at night" was of course a play he and Liu Bei collaborated. Liu Bei's camp was on fire, but it was just a pile of dead grass burned. Liu Bei not only did not lose any loss, but earned Cao Cao a thousand stone of grain in vain.

After Ouyang Jing got these 20,000 stones of corn, he no longer needed to strictly control the food. He could allow his soldiers to eat three meals a day, eat a full meal every time, maintain enough energy, and prepare to fight back.
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