It's another harmonious and warm candlelight dinner, it's shameful to waste, two stir-fried vegetables and a soup are all empty, and most of them go into Cao Hongjie's bulging belly, but raising this girl is definitely a loss of money, and she eats a lot a day, but she can't see her getting fat, watching this girl lick her lips and rub her stomach with satisfaction, Wang Hou shook his head helplessly.

On the other side, Lu Ji was still virtuously cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, but she seemed to have a little problem, and she was a little nervous.

"I'm going to walk around the city wall, this three songs and seven songs are arguing for a braised pork, and I can't do a group fight tonight, I have to keep an eye on them!"

Putting down the rice bowl, Wang Houyi stretched out his hand and pulled off the official robe hanging on the hanger, turned around and walked out, but before he could take two steps, Cao Hongjie's girl was already jumping up excitedly.

"I'll go too!"

"No! The night breeze is cold! You give me an honest stay at home to raise the baby! Qiu Xiang, add two pieces of honeycomb coal to the fireplace later, you must not let Mrs. get cold! ”

"Humph! Cheapskate! ”

Under Wang Hou's round eyes and fierce eyes, Cao Hongjie pouted aggrievedly, and sat back obediently, but after making a grimace at Wang Hou's departing back, she suddenly rummaged through the drawer with great interest, holding a stack of hand-painted playing cards and grabbing Lu Ji's little hand who had just finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and shouted outside at the same time.

"Qiu Xiang, come over after adding coal, let's continue to fight the landlord!"

.........

Although it is almost as lively as the snack street in the four counties and cities in later generations, the lights on both sides of the main street of Puyang City, and the popularity of people coming and going, can still be regarded as the only one for this big man to in the scorpion, even Xu Du can't compare, I don't know that the clouds of war have shrouded the city, and the children of the family are still in and out of the orchid wine shop in fresh clothes, as if the world is too peaceful.

Although the outside of Puyang's city wall still looks tattered, in fact, at this time, Wang Hou has already moved a lot of hands and feet, a large part of the southeast corner collapsed inside by him to make a concave, a large section of urn city-like corridor to strengthen it, if the siege of the city, the expression on the face of the enemy army who is excited to drill in will be very wonderful when they see this dead end.

Other sections of the wall were also renovated inward, and a reinforced concrete wall with a width of three meters and a height of the same height was built behind the original rammed earth wall, and every 100 meters, a wall platform about eight meters wide and five meters long was thickened, and a large number of metal and wood parts were covered with tarpaulin.

This thing is a part of the return cannon, gunpowder does not have the capacity to be used on a large scale in this era of war, this super large trebuchet is still quite useful, after the battle of Xiapi returned, Wang Hou and Wang Yuan, Wang Hammer Wang Pimple a few craftsmen studied it well, redrew the drawings, and then built the wood and iron parts in advance, once needed, the craftsmen of Puyang City can assemble ten Hui guns in an hour to meet the enemy.

However, in the past few days, the war has not happened above and below the city wall, and whether the little thing that Wang Houxin has worked so hard to pull outside the city can be saved, in fact, he has no bottom in his heart.

At this time, Puyang City left a half-curved more than 600 people to defend the city, strolling around the city wall with torches on the broken pieces of the battlements but did not dare to repair the city wall, wearing linen clothes and blowing the cool breeze of the autumn night, the Puyang County soldiers were scolding their mothers while strolling around, but Leng Buding saw Wang Hou coming to the city, and it was a trembling of the spirit, and he hurriedly straightened his waist pole, with a loyal appearance, passing by Wang Hou's side and respectfully saluted, and respectfully greeted the Tao.

"Lord Fu!"

Not to mention this era, even a soldier in the future will never be able to talk about equality with the general, when he met him, Wang Hou just nodded indifferently, and walked over without stopping, but even so, it was enough for those soldiers to be excited for a while.

The quality of the bodyguards in this era is also high, and when they walked to the corner tower in the northwest corner of Puyang City, they didn't need Wang Hou's orders, and the personal soldiers who came with them immediately threw off the big telescope tube they were carrying from their shoulders, supported the bracket, and respectfully placed it in front of Wang Hou.

In the past six months, with Puyang City, Wang Hou can also be regarded as a windfall, the telescope has been rebuilt in the style of the nouveau riche to recreate a large, two-layer wellbore made of brass outside, and four sets of good transparent crystal polished lenses are stuck inside, more than one meter long, like a small cannon barrel, this thing does not need to talk about single tube and double tube, a face is enough to stick on, and the lower angle is moved, Wang Houba looked at the city.

Almost two kilometers can be seen, the moonlight is not bad tonight, looking at the northwest for a long time, Wang Hou even saw clearly that in the only manor in the north of Puyang City, I don't know which son of the Zhao family is in the room, the two of them don't know what to do.

Time passed little by little, blowing the cold wind boring to play voyeurism, a little bit of the moon also climbed to the head, it seems to be a little bit to the west, it seems that tonight can be safely passed, has been used to the early sleep of this era, yawned, Wang Hou finally tightened the down cloak on his body, and then took advantage of the lazy waist to go back, and his accustomed guards Hu Cong also immediately stepped forward to collect the telescope.

However, before he could get off the bracket, Wang Hou, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, suddenly turned around again, picked up the telescope and spied in the direction of Northwest Huaxian for the last time.

Often history is such a coincidence, just at this glance of the heart, in the distance, a firefly-sized firelight comes into view.

Kong Ming lantern!

The brows were tightly locked, one, two, three, four, five, from far to near, one lamp after another, the sleepiness just now disappeared completely, and he directly threw his small cannon barrel on the city wall, Wang Hou hurriedly turned his head and shouted at Wang Congge.

"Prepare the horses! Get out of the South Castle right away! ”

However, Wang Congge just hugged his fists and responded, without waiting for him to do something, he hesitated for a moment, and Wang Hou shouted to him again: "Let the soldiers follow me out of the city, and the rest will be under your command, and the guards will be too guarded by the mansion!" ”

There was obviously a look of regret on his face, but Wang Congge still respectfully hugged his fists.

"The last general obeys!"

The guests are coming!

...............

At the same time as the undercurrent under Puyang City is surging, on the official road leading to Puyang in Huaxian County, a black dragon is crackling and roaring forward, four horsemen are neck and neck, stout occupy the official road, the banner and halberd on the shoulders are shaking like the tip of the black dragon scales, the heavy horse's hooves step on the dry road in the autumn and make a crisp sound, and at the front of the whole team, a general is wearing an iron tower helmet, wearing a basin collar iron armor, and holding a large iron gun more than three meters long in his hand, an old face is extremely gloomy, Mercedes-Benz at the front of the line.

At this time, Yan Liang's heart was extremely irritable and angry, at the beginning of spring, he still looked down on this newly arrived Dongjun slippery, thinking that this product was just a greedy and lustful, greedy for life and afraid of death, but this time he sent Wang Hou away, and after thinking carefully for a long time, Yan Liang felt more and more that he was the stupid idiot.

For a whole few months, he had a lot of time to inhibit Wang Hou's development, but time and again, in this guy's hippie smiling face and pretending to be a grandson, he was wrong in the past, and now he can't move Puyang if he wants to! Yan Liang couldn't figure it out anyway, did Guo Tufeng Jixin Comment have a night pot in his head? Don't they know what the impact of hundreds of thousands of extra stone grains will have on the upcoming war? Even towards Yuan Shao, he had a resentment.

However, Yan Liang is Yan Liang after all, since he fell for this delaying tactic and fell in love with his Wang Houdao, then this mistake should be corrected by himself! In the middle of the gallop, looking at a Puyang boundary monument on the side of the road, he suddenly came into view, and he roared gloomily.

"People rank horses and go to bells, cavalry one person follows another, and those who leave the team are cut off!"

Just this afternoon, Yan Liang was furious, whipped more than a dozen civil and military generals under his command, and threw the cloth brocade left by Wang Hou to the ground, seeing that the residents of Huaxian County nearby and some small ** people robbed this batch of wealth like vultures who saw carrion, and more than 100 civil and military officials of Huaxian County's 30,000 army were all related.

Along the official road straight into the territory of Puyang, this road is quite quiet, the three villages passing by have already turned off the lights, not even the sound of dogs, not to mention the Puyang soldiers patrolling the border, Wang Hou seems to be a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, anyway, it can't be beaten, the border is completely open to you! Go whatever you want.

Puyang is such a big place, the cavalry trotted and galloped for more than ten minutes, vaguely seemed that Yan Liang could already smell the strong smell of the river, vaguely heard the sound of running water, the big gun in his hand, pointing to the front of the horizon, while galloping, Yan Liang roared gloomily.

"After a while, the army went straight to the Puyang ferry, killed people when they saw them, and burned them when they encountered food! The whole army should maintain a formation and not scatter and loot privately, and those who violate the order will ....."

A murderous chopping word was not spoken, but Yan Liang was cold and staggered on the war horse under his crotch, at this time Yuan Jun had absolutely no stirrups, the tip of the spear pierced the ground, and Yan Liang flew off the horse holding the spear, but with a chirp, his boots also fell into the mud, and the northern fields were almost all dry fields, but in his stunned look, the wheat fields in front of him that had been harvested from here were completely wet, almost no different from the southern paddy fields.

It is estimated that it is Wang Hou's work, looking at this "paddy field", Yan Liang's heart is even more angry, however, he is helpless and raises the iron spear: "The whole army dismounts and marches forward on foot!" ”

The horse's advantage is undoubtedly lost here in the mud, the horse's slender hooves put more pressure on the ground than a person, it is difficult to run in the mud, and there is no stirrup, the horse is deep and shallow, and it is difficult for the knight to maintain balance.

But even if he walked in the mud with his boots, Yan Liang was still full of confidence, without Yuan Shao's order, he couldn't mobilize the 30,000 troops in Huaxian County, but the 3,000 elite cavalry he brought this time were all veterans and veterans trained by Gongsun Zhan, who had fought with the Black Mountain Army for many years, and killed warriors who had seen blood, with these 3,000 men and horses, even if Wang Hou had 10,000 county soldiers, he had the confidence to fight Wang Hou's minions.

Thousands of acres of mud seriously hindered the speed of the march, and it took more than half an hour to pass this land boundary, and the Yellow River embankment finally appeared in front of him completely, and on the edge of the embankment, a large port warehouse grain tun was built, and a stream of fine light suddenly flashed in Yan Liang's deep pupils, holding a spear high, he roared and roared.

"Kill! Burned Cao Apu's grain! ”

It is indeed the elite troops in the Hebei army, even if the feet are covered with mud and the steps are full of heaviness, the three thousand Yuan troops are still roaring and drawing their swords and spears, and bravely moving forward to kill, suddenly, there are so many enemy troops around them, and it is indeed the Cao army guarding the dock that was caught off guard, and several Cao army outposts have just let out a frightened shout, and they have been drowned in the crowd of Yan Liang's elite soldiers, seeing that the vanguard troops have swarmed to the bluestone paved port.

But this kung fu, the gong clanged suddenly, and in an instant, thousands of arrows were fired at the periphery of the warehouse, and the forward Yuan Jun was caught off guard and was shot by the rain of arrows, dozens of people fell in the rain of arrows, and the rest also retreated in fright, and then in Yan Liang's unbelievable eyes, on the empty wilderness outside the port area, rows of Cao troops seemed to emerge from the ground, and quickly formed a formation, and a big flag fluttered in the firelight.

Yu Ban's troops!

was also carrying a spear and yawning, Yu Ban came out of the ground with sadness, and while swaying towards the front line, he also complained directly: "This king Tuqiu is really good at instructing people!" Tossed to the head of General Ben! ”

However, he climbed to the top of the trench dug in advance, high in front and low in the back, looking at the dense and earthy yellow Yuan Jun in the firelight in front of him, and the still high-spirited Wuziliang General also showed a coldness at the corner of his mouth, sneering and raising his spear and pointing directly in front of him.

"Stay in formation, shoot your feet! Don't let these northern barbarians get one step closer to the grain depot, Yu Cheng, you go and light two big fires for Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu is blowing cold wind and gnawing cold steamed buns in this field, and he Wang Tuqiu doesn't want to sleep on the hot kang with Miss Cao in his arms in the city, and toss his old boy out! ”

"Drink!"

In the neat roar, three Yanzhou elite soldiers of more than 1,100 were lined up into three neat rectangles around the periphery of the two fields, and the spears and halberds of Sen Ran were put down gloomily, and there were rows of archers carrying bows and arrows and running quickly to the front of the array, and they shot at the Yuan army, which was loose and still in the whole team, and the arrows rained down on the sturdy copper helmets of the Yuan cavalry, and from time to time the unlucky eggs who were pierced into the cracks in the armor let out a miserable scream.

The land around here has been dried up, after all, it is impossible for Wang Hou to flood his granary, as soon as he came up, he was beaten with a dirty face, and he was so angry that he was smoking, and he dragged the horse violently, personally raised his gun and jumped on the horse, and took the elite of the northern kingdom under his command, Yan Liang was also like a demon, facing the rain of arrows in the sky, and rushed over with grinning teeth.

The majesty of the cavalry was fully displayed on the plain, and dozens of meters away before the archers of the Cao army who released their arrows ran back, and the lancers had already killed in front of them, and a spear stabbed out, but it was in the stunned silence that dozens of his men were stabbed to death by the cavalry spears.

Then in the night, under the firelight, a group of pure men picked up their thick and long guys, and stabbed them together in the stinky sweat blowing in the river breeze. I want to talk about "Following Mr. Cao's Three Kingdoms" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~