Wang Pu was really sick. At the beginning, Guo Shao thought that Zhang Yongde was pretending to be sick, but Wang Pu didn't need to pretend.

"Cough cough cough." Wang Pu asked a maid to help her up and coughed for a while. She put a cloth pillow on her back and sat up, looking sick, "It's really rude to meet like this...

Guo Shao had just arrived at his house and met Wang Pu in his bedroom. The room was very warm, but there was a strong smell of Chinese medicine floating around somewhere, which was very pungent. People in high positions were sick and there were special people serving them, and people often wanted to visit them, but the situation was not bad. Wang Pu seemed to be in his early fifties and was in his prime, but he was indeed a little weaker and looked thinner after he got sick.

Guo Shao hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said, "The King's envoy is ill, and he still cares what the common etiquette is. I asked the Queen Mother to ask the Queen Mother to come and see him from Taichang Temple (the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple is Zuo You).

Although Wang Pu was bedridden, his face was not very bloody and his illness was obvious, but it was not so serious that he was confused. He said, "Thank you for your kindness, General Guo."

Guo Shao said: "I will lead my troops out of the capital soon and I will not be able to visit the King of Envoy again."

At this time, Wang Pu suddenly sighed and said slowly: "I have no regrets since I was a small official to a Privy Councilor, and I have no regrets. But when the sky is not over, I cannot see the unification of the world and the return of Youzhou, and I cannot see the overall situation that has affected hundreds of years... I am really a little regretful. If General Guo accidentally remembered me, poured a cup of wine underground and called me to inform me."

After hearing this, Guo Shao suddenly remembered a poem: On the day when the king's army settled in the Central Plains, he did not forget to tell his husband about his family sacrifice.

He hurriedly said kindly: "I heard that the King of Envoy was just because he was infected with the cold. You just need to take care of your illness and you will be cured soon."

Wang Puwei said.

Guo Shao then said: "The recent strategic level is based on the deployment of Wang Envoy, Xiang Gong rested in Guzhen. After the weather was warm, the Great Zhou army attacked Shu from the north and east roads."

Wang Pu nodded: "In this way, it is better than just staring at Hanzhong's chances of winning."

Guo Shao only felt that his heart was shrouded in an inexplicable sadness... a very faint and lingering emotion. It was not sadness. Although he admired Wang Pu's talents, his friendship was not deep. If you want to worry about his illness, you would be so sad that you could only make a show. Of course, you could not gloat. Wang Pu and others were his allies, very capable allies. So he felt a little sad, as if this feeling was just sad.

Guo Shao said a few more words to him and told him to rest more and rest assured to recuperate, leaving behind a bunch of good medicinal herbs such as ginseng and not much.

...When I returned to my house, Guo Shao passed by a larger restaurant and ordered a few good dishes to deliver to my house.

He took the initiative to get close to the little Taoist Qingxu. When she thought the food today was pretty good, Guo Shao asked: "Can your master, Master Chen Tuan, cure wind and cold? It's not ordinary wind and cold, it may also cause other diseases. Many doctors have not cured it..."

Qingxu frowned: "I was puzzled just now, but as expected, this is called being both a traitor or a thief if you don't have anything to do!"

Guo Shao said in surprise: "You can't just say so badly. I admit that you just want to cram the Buddha's feet for the time being. But there is nothing wrong. I have asked you for it. Wouldn't it be nice to you, but instead shout at you?"

Qingxu said earnestly: "Master Guo, you have to figure it out. Master and I are both Taoist priests, not doctors. If we know how to cure diseases, why are we going to be Taoist priests? Is it not good to change careers?"

Her single eyelids and delicate face were her face, but her tone was like this. Guo Shao felt inexplicably funny. But he was not in the mood to joke with her, and immediately said, "The Queen Mother's serious illness was not cured by Chen Tuan's elixir and your cultivation method?"

Qingxu said: "That's when a blind cat hits a dead mouse, and it's just the right symptom. It's not that we have medical skills. The elixirs and inner elixirs are originally used by Taoism to drive away fire. The empress dowager happened to use it because of the fire poison invasion. She tried it and used it. Now we are asked to treat any difficult and complicated diseases, how do I know how to treat it?"

"Wind and cold are cold poisons, and there is no pill to drive away cold poisons?" Guo Shao asked.

Qingxu said with an unhappy look: "I can't explain it clearly to the outsider! My master is now in Huashan. If you don't believe what I said, please send someone to ask him."

Guo Shao was helpless... In this world, colds and fevers may kill people. Maybe Wang Pu was caused by a cold and pneumonia, but he couldn't understand it. After all, he was not from a doctor. He still didn't want to see Wang Pu die of illness. After thinking about it, he wrote a letter and planned to send someone to Huashan to find Chen Tuan.

...

After the first lunar month, the festival atmosphere has gone far away, and there is a busy scene everywhere. In the countryside, those who are driving cattle to plow the fields, carrying fat water, and working with straw hats can be seen everywhere. The officials of various yamen are most concerned about farming this season, but the military institutions in Tokyo are still stepping up preparations for war regardless of the busy farming.

The guards of the Northern Route Army who reinforced the Northern Route Army have begun to be mobilized one after another; the Eastern Route Army, which is mainly responsible for the Palace Front Office, will not be in trouble for more than a month... Because Shu is already on guard against the Northern Route, there is no need to hide it anymore, but the authenticity of Shu's military use in the Eastern Route should still be in speculation and inference.

Ten spacious and suitable house renovation workshops have been requisitioned in the outer city of Tokyo. There are two or three workshops organized in one house; including forging iron plates, stamped-shaped forging hammers, and some craftsmen who forged edges and corners by hand and used rivets to assemble armor. Each armor-making process divides the work and cooperates. On average, a set of forging hammers can make about a set of four pieces of armor in a day, and the efficiency is twenty or thirty times faster than the full hand-crafted and fine-tuned iron cloth shirts. Of course, the armor with only four pieces of armor is very incomplete, and cannot be compared with lock replacement.

Guo Shao predicts that he will be able to make 800 to 900 sets of streamlined armor by the end of February.

He was not satisfied with this speed, but due to the scale, he had no choice but to do anything. First of all, the supply of raw materials was slow, and then the funds and manpower were short, and the place was not large. The houses in Tokyo were private industries, and forced requisitions could easily cause conflicts, and even the workshop occupied land would have to spend money.

...The local town soldiers and guards commanded by Xiang Gong were even less armed, and the elite soldiers in the front office of the Palace were more well equipped. Guo Shao transferred the first batch of 300 armors to the guards who reinforced Xiang Gong.

By the end of February, more than 500 pairs of plate armor were completed.

Guo Shao directly equipped the first command of the Tiger Ben Army's left wing First Army, and this command itself was the heavy infantrymen deployed in the battle formation. In the past, they were all covered with ring-lock armor. Now they have been supplemented by five hundred pairs of plate armor again, and have truly become a heavy infantry command with excellent equipment and strong defense. The soldiers wore chain mail, skirt armor, head, shoulders, chest, and arm mail in the moving parts... Guo Shao tried it and was basically immune to bows and crossbows long-range. In addition to hammer blunt weapons, it is difficult for melee weapons to cause effective damage to them.

Before going to the war, the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army built some iron masks to improve facial defense, making the commanding soldiers persistently pursue defense.

When Guo Shao's army went on war, he was shocked by the lineup of the first command.

In the military camp, more than 500 people were covered with iron, and the brand new plate armor was shining with the unique cold light of metal. From a distance, it looked like a group of mechas. Apart from the fingers exposed from the linen gloves, the soldiers had almost no place exposed on their bodies. There was an iron helmet on it, and even their faces were also iron-faced. Only the eye sockets were exposed outside. At first glance, even people could not tell the difference. There were many vertical gaps in the mouth and nose position in order to breathe, and they looked like the teeth exposed by skeletons.

This is probably the ultimate infantry equipment in the era of cold weapons. Unlike the world's concept of focusing on maneuvering and lightweight, Guo Shao felt that his path seemed to be beginning to deviate from the mainstream.

...Guo Shao still sent Fu Ermei to the palace and Li Yuan'er to Li Chuyun's house. He prepared and led more than 16,000 people in the left wing of the Hu Ben Army, controlled the cranes and horses, and controlled the cranes and bows and arrows to a total of more than 21,000 people. He left Tokyo at the end of February and headed south first. At this time, the weather had completely warmed, green everywhere, and all flowers were blooming, which was a good time to be full of vitality.

After the newly formed Hu Ben Army, the right wing fought a big battle. But this time Guo Shao did not try his best to train troops, but wanted to try his best to fight and decide the war in Shu Kingdom, so he still chose the left wing of the Hu Ben Army, which had been proven by actual combat, as the main force of the Eastern Route Army.

Guo Shao led his army to Xiangzhou (now Xiangfan City). Tokyo was in the past without any obstacles and the road was very flat. At this time, the movements of the Zhou army were no longer confidential... On the endless plain, the roads parallel between the fields were full of troops. There were many people looking around in the fields and looking at this grand scene; in this place with good vision, the marching scene was very conspicuous.

Apart from gathering the guards on duty on the road, most of the people did not scrupulously suppress the pressure, because everyone went out to march and camped with a lot of things. People were carrying mules and horses, and there were many civilians behind the army who were pushing wheelbarrows and driving donkey carts. If the team was not very orderly and there were flags everywhere, they would look more like a large group of people fleeing famine in a dense manner.

Guo Shao's central army also had a passenger carriage... Everyone would rather ride a horse than ride a carriage. It was one thing that the terrain on the plain was flat, but the roads outside were not even flat, and riding a carriage was torture. But the carriage was a woman.

Aunt Sun, a half-old woman in her forties, is not very handsome. With such a woman in the army, the soldiers obviously would not think that the main general took the woman to relieve her boredom on the journey; otherwise, at least he should bring a younger one.
Chapter completed!