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Different from the tense and fierce attack and defense on the street, the place where the rebel commander Zhou Hou was at the moment revealed a trace of weirdness.

"That's a lot of crockpots......

After breaking through the portal, Zhou Hou led a team of soldiers to break into the house, but was surprised to find that there was no trace of Kunyang's pawn in the house, only broken clay pots and clay pot fragments all over the ground.

It is not difficult to see from the wooden cabinets and clay pots everywhere in the house that this should have been a shop for crockpots and porcelain business.

"Tuk."

"Tuk-tuk."

There was a sound on the floor overhead, and it seemed that someone was walking back and forth on the second floor.

Zhou Hou knew that there were guards from Kunyang on the second floor, but he didn't know whether it was a 'black scarf pawn', a 'green turban pawn', or a 'yellow turban pawn'.

This is the usual name used by the righteous soldiers to the guards of Kunyang, referring to the Black Tiger Thief, the county army and the Brotherhood militia respectively.

"Up."

With a wave of his hand, Zhou Hou led the soldiers carefully to the stairs not far away.

During this time, one of the soldiers peered over the stairs, and then, with a whoosh, an arrow hit the soldier in the right eye.

"Ahh

With a terrible scream, the rebel soldier covered his eyes and collapsed backwards, rolling back and forth on the ground in pain, and Zhou Hou and the soldiers beside him felt furious in their hearts.

After just a few breaths, the soldier with the arrow in the eye lost his life.

That's the loss of a soldier?

Don't even see what the enemy looks like?

Zhou Hou sighed secretly, and immediately whispered to the rest of the soldiers: "Kunyang soldiers are ambushing us on the second floor, let's rush up with our shields and make a big move." ”

The soldiers nodded, looking at Zhou Hou nervously, waiting for him to give orders.

I saw Zhou Hou let out a long breath, moved his hands holding the shield and sword, and immediately shouted in a deep voice: "Up!" ”

At the sound of an order, he took the lead in rushing up the stairs with his shield in hand, followed closely behind him by the soldiers.

"Whoosh-"

"Tuk-tuk-"

As Zhou Hou expected, there was indeed an ambush of Kunyang soldiers upstairs, and the moment Zhou Hou and the others rushed up the stairs, a few crossbow arrows were shot above the stairs, fortunately, Zhou Hou and the others had already taken precautions, and those crossbow arrows basically hit the shield, and only one soldier was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but he also gritted his teeth and persevered.

However, what stunned Zhou Hou and the others was that at the end of the stairs, there was a bunch of obstacles - the despicable Kunyang people blocked the tables, chairs, furniture and other objects at the staircase, completely blocking their passage to the second floor.

"Hahaha, these idiots want to rush up."

Near the staircase, there were three black tiger thieves wearing black scarves laughing, as if they were laughing at Zhou Hou and the others for thinking too easily.

Nearby, several Brotherhood militiamen wearing yellow turbans were rapidly reloading their crossbow bolts.

Seeing this, Zhou Hou shouted loudly: "Push away this group of obstacles!" ”

At his command, three rebel soldiers stepped forward, shields raised, and tried to push away the obstacles.

However, with a scream, a black tiger thief armed with a spear pierced the gap in the spear's obstacle and pierced one of the soldiers in the abdomen.

Immediately, two more black tiger thieves followed suit, but fortunately, the rebel soldiers retreated in time.

"This ...... What to do?'

Zhou Hou was at a loss.

One thing to say, Zhou Hou is also a veteran of the righteous teacher, and he followed the army all the way from Jiangxia County to this Yingchuan County, which can be described as experienced, but even if he is experienced, he has never encountered this kind of battle.

It's just that there are only three black scarf guards and four yellow turban guards, and only seven people are guarding this staircase, making it difficult for him and his hundreds of soldiers to enter.

As he hesitated, the four Brotherhood militia crossbowmen loaded their arrows and aimed their crossbows at them.

Seeing this, Zhou Hou was frightened for a while, and hurriedly shouted with his shield: "Withdraw first!" Withdraw first! ”

In the sound of several arrows breaking the air, and in the ridicule of the three black tiger thieves, Zhou Hou and the others retreated to the first floor in disgrace.

At this point, he couldn't help but feel a burning sensation on his face.

He, an uncle, with a hundred nominal soldiers, was so frightened by seven enemy soldiers that he retreated?

But then again, what if you don't retreat? Fight the other side on that narrow staircase? They can't even touch the corners of each other's clothes!

Or one of the soldiers suggested: "Uncle, why don't you set fire to this building?" ”

"No."

Zhou Hou shook his head and rejected the suggestion.

He's an uncle after all, and he knows something.

He shook his head and explained: "There is a life from above, you must not set fire to the city, we will rob this city for the winter." ”

"What then?" One of the soldiers complained, "Those scumbags blocked the stairs, and we couldn't rush up at all." ”

“……”

Zhou Hou frowned and thought about it, then looked up at the top, and said decisively: "Demolish the floor slab!" …… You guys go and move two ladders, let's tear down the floor and climb up with ladders! ”

It's a good idea.

After hearing Zhou Hou's order, the soldiers under his command immediately got busy, brought two ladders from outside, and immediately, the rest of the people straightened the ladders, and two soldiers climbed up, stabbed the floor with swords, and tried to break it.

This kind of battle will naturally alarm the Kunyang guards on the second floor.

No, except for the crossbowmen who were still standing at the window shooting arrows at the rebel soldiers in the street, the rest of the guards gradually gathered together, frowning at the tips of the knives that appeared on the floor.

Or a Brotherhood militiaman whispered, "Xu Dubai, what should I do?" ”

The man he questioned, the Brigadewolf Governor Baixubai, put his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture.

Immediately, he saw him take the spear from the hand of a black tiger thief beside him, hold it upside down, and stab it into the floor.

But listening to a scream, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground downstairs, followed by a burst of angry scolding.

"Scatter."

Xu Bai, who succeeded in the blow, hurriedly motioned for everyone to dodge.

Sure enough, just after they dispersed, a few spear tips popped out of the floor, and if Xu Bai and the others hadn't retreated quickly, I was afraid that the footboard would have been pierced.

"Upstairs, if you have the guts, come down!"

"Yes, come down!"

"What's the point of hiding up there?"

The rebel soldiers downstairs began to curse.

Hearing this, the Kunyang pawn upstairs laughed instead of being angry, and even the soldiers who were shooting arrows outside the window looked back.

In addition to laughing, the black tiger thief beside Xu Bai also opened his mouth to mock the rebels below.

"If you have the ability, you can come up!"

"Yes, if you have the ability, come up."

Only Xu Bai secretly peeked into the number of rebels below through the holes in the floor that were pierced by spears.

The two sides scolded each other across the floor, and immediately, the rebel soldiers downstairs began to tear down the floor again, and the black tiger thieves upstairs also learned from Xu Bai's tricks and used spears to sneak attack the people below.

Eventually, after the rebels had paid seven or eight casualties, they pried open a slab.

Immediately, in the second and third blocks, in a matter of moments, the rebels made a large hole in the floor and extended two ladders into it.

Seeing this, Xu Bai looked around with a sharp sword in his hand, and said solemnly: "Brothers, let's do it!" ”

Under his orders, the crossbowmen were all sent to the window and continued to shoot at the rebel soldiers in the street, while the foot soldiers, gathered around the huge hollow, waiting for the traitor soldiers below to climb up.

"Up!"

With Zhou Hou's order downstairs, one rebel sergeant after another tried to climb up the ladder, but without exception they were slashed and killed by the black tiger thieves led by Xu Bai.

"Hold the staircase! Here they can't get up! Xu Bai commanded calmly.

Hearing the words from upstairs, a blue and white color flashed on the face of Zhou Hou, the rebel commander below.

As Xu Bai guessed, he saw that this side had attracted the guards upstairs, and he was just about to send someone to attack it from the stairs......

"Wow."

A soldier rushed in from outside the house, clasped his fists at Zhou Hou and said, "Uncle, General Qu has sent me here to ask why you haven't even captured a single building yet?" ”

『……』

Zhou Hou was so angry that he couldn't speak.

That Cao Qu general, do you think they are playing with Kunyang pawns here?

However, Zhou Hou didn't dare to lose his temper at the heralds sent by Cao Wu, not to mention that Cao Wu was still good to them on weekdays.

After exhaling, Zhou Houzheng said: "Please return to Qu Jiang, I have been desperately resisted by the Kunyang people, please give me some more time." ”

It may be that the herald saw with his own eyes the difficulty of Zhou Hou and the others in capturing the second floor, nodded and said, "I will tell the general what I have seen, but ...... I hope that the uncle will step up, and in the streets outside, the brethren of our army have suffered heavy casualties. ”

"I understand." Zhou Hou nodded.

After the herald left, he looked up at the second floor hatefully, and ordered fiercely, "Tear down all the slabs above me!" ”

"Yes!"

As a result, the remaining sixty or seventy soldiers were no longer in a hurry to storm the second floor, but began to dismantle the floor slabs, so that the Kunyang soldiers on the second floor had no place to stand.

Seeing this, Xu Bai really ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

Or some people will wonder, where is this Xu Bai going to retreat?

The answer is simple, evacuate to another building.

The rebel soldiers can tear down the floor slabs, and the Kunyang soldiers can naturally tear down the walls, tear down the walls, withdraw to the building next door, and redeploy the obstacles.

After a while, seeing that there was no movement upstairs, a rebel sergeant cautiously climbed the ladder to the second floor, only to find that the building was already empty.

"What about those scumbags?"

Zhou Hou climbed up the stairs to the second floor and asked with hatred and confusion.

As soon as the words fell, a soldier explained his doubts: "Uncle, there is a hole in this wall, and Kunyang has withdrawn to the building next door." ”

"What?"

Zhou Hou was shocked and angry, walked to a house wall in a few steps, and sure enough, he saw a big hole in the house wall.

Looking down the big hole to the building next door, he saw Kunyang hiding in the house, using some wooden cabinets and furniture as cover.

『…… Do you want to fight this group of Kunyang people building by building?"

Zhou Hou was in despair.

You must know that in order to capture this building, he sacrificed more than 20 soldiers.

If this continues, less than four or five buildings will be captured, and the hundred-man team under his command will be killed and wounded.

And how many houses are there on South Street in Kunyang? At least dozens, or even nearly hundreds!

"How did this battle come to be?"

Zhou Hou was a little confused.

I don't know if it's him, including the general Cao Wu, the general Zhu Yuan, and even the Qu Shuai Guan Shuo and Chen Miao, who are standing on the inside of the South City Gate Tower at the moment to watch the battle, are all at a loss in their hearts at this moment: How could this battle be like this?

He Yishi, who has always attacked the city and the terrain like a bamboo, actually fought desperately with the people of Kunyang in Kunyang County for a building and a street, and suffered heavy losses.

While Guan Shuo was also at a loss, Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao keenly felt that the situation was out of control.

There is no other reason, but because of this battle, it has gradually become an unfamiliar appearance for them.

Completely unfamiliar, to be exact.