Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 518 Negotiation Begins

Liu Xie hugged the bow box tightly, caressing it lovingly, and there was naturally an inscrutable smile on his face.

He had to admit that Xia Houyuan was a super marksman.And Zhao Yun is even more of an outstanding general. Regardless of his physical strength, sight and endurance, as well as his shooting posture and instant sharpness, he is the best in this era.But miracles like 250 steps are still dominated by the power of technology.

The reason why Zhao Yun was able to achieve such a horrifying act was all due to the mysterious black bow and arrow in Liu Xie's bow box-it was a collection of the best minds of this era and the advanced experience of later generations. A combination bow with pulleys and sights made!

Since he came to the Han Dynasty and was bound to unify the world, the first thing Liu Xie thought of was to get the gunpowder out.But it's a pity that he, a liberal arts student, is really not proficient in science and engineering, although he knows that gunpowder is one sulfur, two nitrates and three charcoals from memory.The problem is that ancient gunpowder was an explosion caused by accidental collisions during alchemy. How to boil soil nitrate, how to purify sulfur, how to mix it evenly, and how to seal it to improve the explosion effect are all difficult problems of the times.

Therefore, Liu Xie could only use his brains on the existing cold weapons.

There is no hope for guns, only bows and crossbows. Human beings can defeat wild animals except fire. Bows and arrows are the most outstanding inventions.And when he saw that the bows and arrows used in the Han Dynasty were still adding iron to the bow body to withstand stronger tension, he suddenly felt very weird.

Because this kind of bow, compared with the competitive crossbows he had seen on TV and those bought online, was too simple and rough.

After that, Liu Xie suddenly thought of the Mongolian compound bow.Because the bows he saw were fundamentally derived from Mongolian compound bows.

As we all know, those knights in Europe are riding huge war horses, holding long spears nearly six meters long, two-handed swords nearly two meters long by their side, and long swords more than one meter long on their waists, and heavy shields in their left hands. Armed with a bola or scepter designed to strike infantry.This kind of heavy cavalry is undoubtedly the favorite of the battlefield. It is so majestic to attack the opponent's formation like a storm!

With the emergence of such arms, Liu Xie can be sure that only 1000 people can destroy a prince in the Han Dynasty at this time.But such heavy cavalry met a group of Mongolian cavalry who rode horses as big as donkeys, held strange bows and arrows and scimitars, and wore tattered clothes. Most of them didn't even have armor.

However, those Mongolian cavalry who looked like beggars beat the European heavy cavalry to the point of being helpless, and some European sources called them "yellow disaster" and "God's whip"!The reason, in addition to strategy and tactics, is that the Mongols have scimitars that are more suitable for swinging and chopping immediately and compound bows with super long range.

Especially the compound bow fully proves that technology is the primary productive force and the primary combat effectiveness.

The heavy bow of the Han Dynasty could pull the force of a stone and shoot through a layer of heavy armor at a distance of fifty steps.Most of them can open a half-stone bow and kill people within fifty steps, which meets the requirements of elite soldiers.

But the compound bow can draw the bowstring fully with only half or one-third of the effort.Such an invention undoubtedly saves a lot of physical strength and gives people enough energy to aim.And, not to mention, the compound bow that Liu Xie gave to Zhao Yun was specially equipped with sights!
If Zhao Yun wanted to, he could hit an arrow target [-] paces away, and it would still hit the animal skin with one arrow.The reason why this is not the case is that Liu Xie did not want to make the opening of the negotiation situation too rigid.

However, the only thing Liu Xie regrets is that the compound bow lying quietly in the bow case is too expensive!At present, the cost of a bow is more than gold Wuyi (one overflow is equal to 20 taels, and one tael is equal to 15.6 grams).Such an expensive cost is simply impossible to equip the troops.

Fortunately, this problem is not unsolvable. At present, Liu Xie is groping for an assembly line operation and a unified production model. If successful, it is not too far away to equip all Han soldiers with compound bows.After all, technology is the primary productive force, but division of labor and cooperation can reduce costs to a minimum.

After Zhao Yun's shot, the civil servants and generals on Cao Cao's side looked rather weird.All of them realized that this archery was different from the wine ceremony just now.If the previous wine ceremony was a head start and gave Cao Fang some prestige, then this archery is a faint deterrent.

No matter what hole cards you Cao Fang has, Liu Xieqian spared your Cao Cao's life on the battlefield.You also know that once Cao Cao died, there would be no such negotiation at all.So, you'd better take it easy, after all, if you can forgive you once, you can't let it go the next time.

Even Cao Cao, Xia Houyuan, and even everyone else saw the problem with the bow.But the more so, the more frightened they were.First of all, they couldn't make such a bow at all. In addition, the Han army relied on powerful technology, and the changed combat effectiveness was obvious to all.

The swords of the soldiers of the Cao army often collided with the blades of the Han army twice, and they were basically bumpy, while the blades of the Han army were intact.

In addition, the war horses of the Han army can travel long distances, and it seems that there is no need to replace the horses at all.It can also change formations in response to sudden changes in the situation, and create a series of tactics...

In addition, the armor of the Han army is much stronger than most of the soldiers of the Cao army who can't even wear leather armor. All of them are well-equipped elite...

All these things caught Cao Cao's attention on Liu Xie's deliberate use of wine rituals and archery.Let them weaken their own momentum before the negotiation started, and understand that there is no good end to fighting the Han army.

Fortunately for Cao Fang, during the negotiation process, although these military threats will be mentioned implicitly, everyone will restrain themselves for the purpose of negotiating.

Negotiations between the two armies are more about wrangling!Still put the books and be reasonable!Use the endless classical hadith and boundless knowledge to refute the opponent speechless!

Although the Han army can be stubborn in the negotiation and use the military as the last fig leaf to prevaricate, but this approach is too tasteless in this era.If this continues, Cao Fang will easily turn passive into active, causing the Han army to lose the momentum that they have worked so hard to raise, and then fall into passivity.

Liu Xie is fully aware that nonsense must not be underestimated. Only with both patience and wisdom can a good nonsense be achieved.When the strength is at a disadvantage, it can often make one's side... lose less ugly.Of course, if the negotiating object is as strange as the Qing government, you can even win at the negotiating table, which the army cannot win.

But Cao Cao is obviously not the Qing government, and Liu Xie is not the Eight-Power Allied Forces.Moreover, in terms of the most critical strategic situation, Cao Cao still has the advantage.They pulled Han Sui and Zhang Lu to their side, leaving Liu Xie in a state of distress in Kansai; Wan Dajun, otherwise he would be at a disadvantage.

In fact, it wasn't that Liu Xie didn't think about letting Zhao Yun shoot Cao Cao to death that time.In this way, there is a very good chance that he will end everything very quickly indeed.

But he didn't do that after all, because after careful and calm thinking, he still found the root cause of all this, which cannot be solved by killing Cao Cao.

Once there is a change in the middle, it may drag the Han Dynasty into a point of no return, and then let other princes take advantage of the situation to rise.Instead, it is better to compromise a little to get the benefits that are due, and then quickly settle the situation in Kansai.

Obviously, Cao Cao thought the same way, and he also wanted to take a step back to give himself a chance to breathe.But the question for both sides is, who should get more and who should get less?
Liu Xie said: I am the emperor, you have to let me go!
Cao Cao said: Don't talk nonsense, I spent so much energy, was it not for the purpose of going back to the pre-liberation... no, before the Eastern Expedition to Xuzhou?
Both parties know that this negotiation is actually not related to their respective future development, but more related to the future situation of the world.Whoever can compete for more points here will have more advantages in the future chaotic times. Therefore, it is almost conceivable with eyes closed that this negotiation must be very difficult, very intense, and not easy to handle!

However, the situation required them to finalize within three days at most... So, when Liu Xie and Cao Cao looked at each other again, the false smiles before disappeared. posture.The advisers and debaters behind the two of them also began to look like chicken blood, ready to go.

"Okay, let's get down to business. Negotiations, officially begin!" Liu Xie waved his hand, expressing a decisive momentum no less than a general attack on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)