Chapter 59: The Horn
Although I knew that this time it was a big incident, it was like a joke. But there was no way to hinder the pressure at home, Cao Ying still had to step into this mud.
Regarding last night's incident, Cao Ying also carefully observed the scene, and from the clues, Cao Ying knew that it must be the master's doing, since those people can come once, they will definitely come a second time.
You can kill ten people, no one can detect it, you can kill a hundred people without anyone noticing, you can set food on fire once and then you can light it again. The reason why they didn't cause much damage was not because of the people who came to sneak attack, not because they wanted to kill them all, but because they wanted to make chaos here.
Cao Ying knew that the period of rout was coming, but Cao Ying didn't want to stop it at all, and she was powerless to stop it. Those fat-brained guys in the family should let them taste failure.
With the backhands left in the family, even if this thing fails, they can escape into the mountains and forests incognito. Cao Ying even felt that this failure was not necessarily a bad thing, and if she could wake up those stupid guys with this incident, there would still be more benefits than disadvantages.
"It's so stupid, it's a lot of tricks, if it can succeed, everyone in the world is stupid." Cao Ying opened her mouth and scolded in a low voice, sighed, and went back to the camp.
Although Cao Gong has his own selfish intentions, Cao Ying also believes that what he said is the truth, and Su Ci will not touch him for the time being because he wants to appease people's hearts, but he still has to be careful.
Obviously, Su Ci's crying when he saw Su Feng played a key role at this time, leaving a good impression on everyone, at least on everyone in the vanguard.
On the other hand, after knowing that Cao Gong was Cao Ying's person, Li Xie began to look for Cao Gong as soon as he returned to the outer camp. Breakfast had just passed, and lunch was approaching, so he should be in the kitchen at this point.
But after looking around, let alone the kitchen, Cao Gong was not found in the entire outer camp. Since there is no outside, it must be inside, what can Cao Gong do when he goes inside? For the first time, Li Xie was wary of this big brother who loved Su Ci's sycophants.
When he found Cao Gong, Li Xie didn't directly ask anything about Cao Ying, but just pretended to be free and stayed by his side, chatting constantly.
"By the way, I went to the inner camp today, and I found out that there was a team of women inside. What is the origin of this group of? It is possible to gain a foothold in it. I wanted to think of it inadvertently, and I asked out of curiosity.
Cao Gong originally had a ghost in his heart because of the small report of beating people behind his back. was asked by Li Xie about Cao Ying, and was immediately taken aback. Fortunately, he is big, thick-skinned, his expression has not changed, and he said casually:
"That's the eldest lady of the Cao family's personal guards, and I'm always there to protect her safety."
"Descendant?" The Cao family is a big family in the south, if Cao Ying is the descendant of this family, then it will not make people feel strange to have such a status and particularity.
"Sideline, but the current head of the Cao family is her uncle." Cao Gong mentioned it in passing, and then didn't introduce it further.
When Li Xie heard this, he felt that his worries were indeed not wrong, this Cao Ying was definitely a powerful character. As a collateral child, she can have her current status, even if her uncle is the head of the family, she must have extraordinary skills to support her.
As for the more detailed information that follows, such as how is she as a person? If she has any classic past events, Li Xie doesn't dare to ask any more. Now he hasn't drunk during the day, Cao Gong is Cao Ying's person, and from Cao Gong's attitude towards Su Ci, Li Xie has become wary of Cao Gong.
Li Xie was afraid that if he asked in detail, he would arouse suspicion. Time flies quickly during small talk, and before you know it, lunch is ready. Li Xie followed Su Ci to pull the food into the inner camp one by one, and walked out after distributing lunch. Before he could even rest for a moment, the trumpets suddenly blew in the camp.
It has been two or three days since he arrived here, and Li Xie has not participated in the production of weapons or the management of the wounded. The small life was so comfortable that he almost forgot that this was the place where the barracks would fight at any time.
As soon as the horn sounded, the first to move were the people of the inner camp, and they saw groups of people pouring out of the inner camp, and the leaders and captains of the outer camp gathered those who had not been trained much.
Then someone from the inner camp came out with a cart of things and distributed them to their respective hands. Li Xie looked at the weapons distributed to him, and felt his head grow for a while. This is really not treating human life as human life, and it is difficult to be a pile of meat that consumes the enemy's supplies.
Moreover, the shields issued by these people are all made of bamboo pieces, and such shields, not to mention the swords of others, or the arrows shot down from the city walls, may not be able to block them. What's even more terrifying is that such a shield is not big, and the diameter of this king is only half a meter at most.
Taking an adult as an example, such a shield is not only against the whole body, but also against the head and heart, and only those with a relatively small body can do it. To be honest, this kind of thing is a bit thin, not to mention being used as a shield, even if it is used as a dustpan.
And the weapons that were distributed were even more terrifying, and the harpoons with wooden poles were considered good among these weapons. More often, some iron rods were sharpened and then joined to a thatch of wood. It's possible to kill people with such a thing, but let these people who have only been trained for a few days, or even those who have not been trained, carry such weapons.
Not to mention fighting with the regular army, even a civilian with a knife may not be able to compare. Because he has only one way to attack, and that is the sting, which is a weapon that only the tip of its weapon can pierce the enemy's body. As for the rest of the instability, at most it can only smash and injure people.
Not to mention anything else, it can be seen from these weapons that these outside the camp are completely prepared for the purpose of consuming the bows and arrows on the city tower. There is a lot of iron ore in this era, but the iron-forming rate is surprisingly low because of the iron-making process, and an iron-making factory with hundreds of people can produce about 50 catties of pig iron in a day at most. A pound of iron can be made into ten to twenty arrowheads, and fifty pounds is about five hundred to a thousand, but if these are used to make iron grain, to feed a group of people.
It is possible to feed equal people, and then have these people charge with wooden shields. One person can consume two to three arrows, or even more.