"Thief" Yuan Yao's face changed, and the people below were obviously taken aback, in this troubled world, there are two things that they are most afraid of, one is war, and the other is thieves.

If there is a war in your hometown, you will leave your hometown at most, and if there are thieves in your hometown, one of them will be ruined. The common people were obviously panicking.

Yuan Yao's heart was also anxious, he had never encountered a thief before, how powerful his cheap father was before, not to mention the thief, even some regular soldiers would not dare to touch his father's things.

And now it's different, the Yuan group has collapsed, and there are only three hundred soldiers left, and the rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled, who is this thief, how many soldiers and horses there are, and what they want, these Yuan Yao don't know.

"Don't panic, don't panic, aren't you just some little thieves who are not worth mentioning at all in front of my Zhongguo army, it's okay if he doesn't come, he comes, he will definitely not be able to go back" Just when Yuan Yao was still in panic, the cheap uncle on the side spoke.

This cheap uncle really has a bit of a role, and his plain appearance reminded Yuan Yao, not to mention that even if some thieves are attacked, as the lord of an army, you can't have the slightest fear. As soon as you panic, then it will naturally infect the people below, and even you, the lord, are afraid, let alone others.

Yuan Yao forced himself to calm down, but his body was still shaking, and Yuan Yao bit his tongue ruthlessly, the smell of blood in his mouth, and the broken wound suddenly made Yuan Yao much fresher.

Yuan Yao finally calmed down, "Everyone, just a thief, you dare to offend my Zhongguo, where is Zhang Xun" Yuan Yao's calm expression made the people below feel much more at ease.

"The last general" Zhang Xun knelt down.

"I'll teach you these thieves, it's noon now, I'll give you three, no, two hours, take down the head of the thief, otherwise I'll ask you" Yuan Yao ordered at Zhang Xun.

"The last general commanded" Zhang Xun stood up and left, "Come with me", and half of the three hundred soldiers under his hand were taken away.

"Folks, you all go back, wait for this war to end, come and get food" Yuan Yao waved his hand to appease the people.

"It's all gone, let's disperse," Yang Hong over there shouted to the people below.

Soon more than 3,000 people slowly dispersed.

Yuan Yao endured the pain and hugged his fist at Yuan Yin on the side and said, "Uncle Yuan Yin, thank you." If Yuan Yin hadn't reminded himself today, if he panicked, maybe this already stable people's hearts would have dispersed again.

"Why do you need to say more," Yuan Yin bowed, and then sniffed his nose, the smell of blood, although Yuan Yao had killed his subordinates before, he had already changed his clothes, where did the smell of blood come from.

Looking at Xixi again, Yuan Yao's lips were exceptionally bright red, and a trace of red on the corners of his mouth stuck to it.

"Your Majesty, you are injured" Yang Hong over there also found out, and hurriedly stepped forward to worry about Yuan Yao.

"It's okay, it's just a small injury" Yuan Yao had already changed his voice a little when he spoke, he was already crying in his heart, in order to calm down, he bit down and bit it big, and a gin opened on his tongue, and this blood rushed straight to his throat.

It's not a big problem, but it hurts.

"Chew your tongue and rest assured" Yuan Yin looked at his eldest nephew, this eldest nephew no longer seemed to be the second ancestor he knew before, his tongue was living meat, and the pain was much worse than in other places, but this eldest nephew bit down all of a sudden. Yuan Yin subconsciously felt that there seemed to be nothing bad about staying in this Jiang Pavilion.

Yuan Yao, under the leadership of Qin Huai, walked towards the city wall over there.

Saying that it is a city wall is simply a joke, because Jiangting was originally a small county town, if you didn't pass by here, you wouldn't know such a small place, plus he is already broken, you can know that his city wall is all earthen walls, and several city walls have collapsed, there is no difference between having a city wall and not having a city wall.

"It's not that there are thieves, where are the thieves, General Zhang, the enemy is geometric, what do they want to do, we can beat it" Yuan Yao came up with a bunch of questions, so that Zhang Xun didn't know how to answer.

After sorting out his thoughts, Zhang Xun hugged his fist at Yuan Yao and said, "Your Majesty, I have already sent scouts, they haven't come back yet, this thief is still five miles away from Jiang Ting, and it will take half an hour to get here." ”

Zhang Xun's words made Yuan Yao blush, in ancient times, there was no radio, no wired telephone telegraph, and no radar could predict the enemy in advance, so it was generally sent out to spread the scout, so that the scout could meet the enemy, if the scout was lucky, then he could come back to report the news, and if he was unlucky, he might be silent.

And the scout who came to report just now encountered the enemy ten miles away, so he hurriedly came back to tell him, so that Jiang Tingcheng would be on guard, so that he would not be caught off guard by the enemy, and he did not react at all.

Waiting for the people to disperse, Yuan Yao went up to the city wall, and only half an hour passed, Zhang Xun re-released the scouts to visit the enemy in front, and the scouts who reported the news before didn't have time to see how many enemies there were before they returned.

The sky gradually darkened, and there was no news from the scouts sent by Zhang Xun for a long time, which made Yuan Yao and Zhang Xun a little anxious.

"Revisit," Zhang Xun said with a gloomy face. If one scout doesn't work, then send out two scouts, and if two scouts can't work, then three or four. You have to know what's going on.

But four scouts were sent out in a row, but there was still no news of anything.

"Revisit" Zhang Xun was about to send the fifth scout, but over there, Yuan Yao smiled bitterly, "General Zhang Xun, no need." ”

Because beyond the city walls, human heads had already appeared in the dense bushes.

The figures collided, Yuan Yao glanced at it and couldn't help but gasp, how many thieves are this.

"General Zhang Xun, there are geometric men and horses outside the city" Yuan Yao's march is the first time to fight, and it is not clear how many soldiers and horses there are outside the city.

But he heard Zhang Xun say to Yuan Yao in a calm voice: "Your Majesty, please prepare for your Majesty's withdrawal, there must be at least 10,000 people outside the city of Jiangting County." ”

"Ten thousand people" Yuan Yao really wanted to cry, don't you want to play with the dead He only has a total of soldiers and horses in the entire Jiangting City, but there are three hundred soldiers in battle, even if you add those old and weak women and children are only three thousand, and the enemies outside are tens of thousands, God, aren't you playing with me. No wonder Zhang Xun asked Yuan Yao to prepare to withdraw from Jiangting City, even if Jiangting City is intact, it can't withstand the attack of 10,000 people, where is this Nima a thief, who can dispatch 10,000 people at a time, even if the regular army encounters it, it has to avoid the edge.

"Listen, you are surrounded by our army, open the gates, lay down your weapons, and hand over your food," suddenly a shouting man with torches shouted to the people on the city wall from among the ten thousand thieves.

"Sure enough, it's a thief who came to grab grain and grass," Yuan Yao said fiercely.

"Qin Huai, you take Your Majesty and leave from the north gate, and I will cut off the queen here," Zhang Xun said to Yuan Yao.

"Retreat" Yuan Yao's mouth was very bitter, just a little accomplished, this just received Yuan Yin's heart and calmed the people's hearts, and before he had time to show his ambitions, he was about to be driven away like a lost dog.

"I'm not leaving," Yuan Yao said to Zhang Xun fiercely. Don't take such a bully.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is heavy, and we are not opponents." Zhang Xun dissuaded Yuan Yao, that is, Yang Hong and Yuan Yin on the side were terrified, an army of 10,000 people, although they had seen such a big battle, and even Zhang Xun and others had not commanded 10,000 soldiers and horses, but now it is different, they are the weaker side.

"What should we do with the people in the city when we leave," Yuan Yao asked Yang Hong and the others on the side.

Yang Hong and the others stopped talking, and they left naturally ignoring the people.

Yuan Yao's conscience was condemned, if he ran away, then the people of this city would be all finished, but on top of the death of the people of a city and his personal life, it was really his personal life that had the upper hand, but what if he ran away from those grains and grass, they didn't have any preparation in advance, you said you should go out and bring some dry food and entanglement. And which door to go to and where to escape, these are all questions that need to be carefully considered.

Yuan Yao was thinking about the escape route, but Huang Yi, the brother-in-law of the pit over there, saw that Yuan Yao was reluctant to let the people of this city and didn't want to escape, Huang Yi couldn't help but be anxious, and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, stay in the green mountains and don't worry about no firewood, I can only live when I leave." If you stay here, there is only one way to die, those thieves don't care about your identity, Your Majesty" Huang Yi, a person who was afraid of death, said to Yuan Yao, hoping to impress Yuan Yao with a threat to his life, because he knew that Yuan Yao was afraid of death. He was telling Yuan Yao that if you are captured by Cao Cao and these individuals, you can still live a few more days, and even give you some kind of peace and happiness for their bad taste, humiliating and humiliating you can still let you live, but if you are taken by these thieves, then you are ready to finish directly.

Huang Yi's words made Yuan Yao shocked, not because he was afraid of the methods of those thieves that Huang Yi said, but because he was afraid of this cheating father's brother-in-law.

They are the generals of the first army and are the center, even if they discuss escaping and saving their lives, you have to whisper, you must not let those individuals under your command know, because if you escape, there will be some people as the queen of the abandoned son, and no one wants to be this abandoned son. And before the war starts, you will flee before you fight, which is a blow to morale.

"Idiot" Yuan Yao has the heart to kill Huang Yi.

Huang Yi's words suddenly made the soldiers of Yuan Yaojun below whisper, and the commotion began.

Many of Yuan Yao's soldiers over there were also looking at Yuan Yao, and those with family members in the city were even more hopeful looking at Yuan Yao, because if they retreated, the people who remained in the city would naturally die.

"Lao Li, your baby is in the city, if Your Majesty is going to retreat, what will you do?" someone among the soldiers whispered.

This soldier named Lao Li laughed miserably, "What can I do, the family dies together" He Lao Li died on the city wall, and their doll waited for the thief army to break the city and die in the city.

"My Mother"

"My wife and children." Several soldiers began to feel restless, and their morale suddenly plummeted. There was nothing called hope on the faces of the soldiers.

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it, we can't abandon the people," Yuan Yao said in a loud voice.

"But" Huang Yi wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yuan Yao, he was afraid of this brother-in-law, and if he asked Bibi not to fight, his own people would be killed by him.

"There is nothing but, if you say that those who retreat will not be killed" Yuan Yao looked like he was not afraid of death.

Yuan Yao is bitter, where is he Yuan Yao not afraid of death, where is he concerned about the people, he is completely thinking about himself. The common people can't escape, so Yuan Yao's grain and grass in the city can still be spared

Where can Yuan Yao run now, he is not like the city under Cao Cao's officials or other princes, if one city is lost, it will be lost, and if you go to other cities, you can eat, and wait for the soldiers and horses to fight back.

And he Yuan Yao has no way out, it's just such a broken city, the grain is still in the granary, if he runs away now, everyone basically won't live, and he will starve to death if he is hungry, so Yuan Yao is reluctant to run.

"They are rogues, right?" Yuan Yao shouted to his subordinates, "We have three hundred soldiers, all of you are the elite of the army, it's a big deal to fight with them, Zhang Xun, you go and tell them that only the soldiers who died in the battle and the soldiers who surrendered" Yuan Yao said to his subordinates with righteousness.

"Yang Situ, you go to the city to gather the people, tell the people that we are now in danger of survival, let them do what they can, now the sky is dark, the enemy can't see our reality clearly, let everyone go to the city wall, and hold on for one night." Yuan Yao said to Yang Hong.

"Yes" Yang Hong took the order and left, and Huang Yi followed behind Yang Hong and was about to leave with Yang Hong.

"Brother-in-law, where are you going" Yuan Yao suddenly called out to Huang Yi, who was about to run away.

Huang Yi is a military general, yes, this Huang Yi Yuan Yao's cheap brother-in-law is really a military general, it was Yuan Yao's father who gave him the title, General Hu Ben, Yang Hong and Yuan Yin, the two scribes can be withdrawn when they are fighting, after all, they are scribes, and they can sit in the rear, but Huang Yi is a military general who must stay on the city wall.

"I, I, I'm going to help Yang Situ and mobilize the people" Huang Yi said to Yuan Yao, Yuan Yao is afraid of death, he Huang Yi is also afraid of death, if he fights on the city wall, it will be a dead person, Huang Yi is not willing to put his life on the city wall, so he wants to escape.

"Brother-in-law, do you know what it is to escape for the general" Yuan Yao looked at Huang Yi with a smile,

"Your Majesty, my brother-in-law, you can do well, let go of your brother-in-law and me, you also know that your brother-in-law and I, how can I go into battle to kill the enemy. You are in your sister's face, you don't want your sister to be widowed at such a young age" Huang Yi was about to cry, you let Huang Yi walk the dog and fight cocks, that is a good hand, you let him go into battle to kill the enemy, hehe, this is a teammate like a pig. Huang Yi was able to become a general, half of the reason was that he was the son-in-law of the Yuan family, and half of the reason was because he followed those veterans of the Yuan family to take credit behind his back.

"Who wants you to go into battle and kill the enemy?" Yuan Yao said angrily, how much strength Huang Yi has, Yuan Yao can not know how to let Huang Yi go into battle, that would be a disservice, at least Yuan Yao will send ten people to protect him.

"It's good not to go to the battlefield, it's good not to go to the battlefield," Huang Yi smiled shyly.

"Bring fifty people from your command, I have something important for you to do" Yuan Yao said to his brother-in-law, "This matter must not be divulged in the slightest" Yuan Yao looked at his brother-in-law seriously.

"Brother Yao'er, don't worry, your brother-in-law and I have a tight mouth, when do you think you went to the kiln and was found out by your father when you were molesting girls and fighting" Huang Yi patted his chest and said, but Yuan Yao was full of black lines. This product is not open which pot to mention.

"Take a few people to the granary, find a few carriages to carry the grain for me, and go straight to the north gate after the disaster, waiting for me" Yuan Yao is afraid of death, he is not the kind of game that likes to play with the enemy to die together or die for the country.

He's preparing for his own future. There are more than 10,000 enemies outside the city, and there is a ghost who can hold this broken county town, the reason why Yuan Yao doesn't run now is because he has no grain and grass, and if he runs out, he will starve to death, so Yuan Yao is going to play a bitter show, swearing to live and die with Jiang Ting, that is, he is delaying time, and let Huang Yi take people to carry the grain and grass to the north gate and wait for him.

"Hehe," Huang Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard Yuan Yao's words, and squeezed his eyebrows at Yuan Yao, "This is the Brother Yao I know."

"Get out" Yuan Yao was so angry that he kicked towards Huang Yi