The Beginning of Troubled Times Chapter 40: The Red Turban Thief (6)

Luo Zhi leaned closer to the fire, turned his head to look around, there was still snow in the sky, the sky and the ground were gray, he suddenly stood up, grabbed the terrible mace in his hand, and yelled, "Get up, get up!"

One by one, those who were leaning against the fire and dazed, stood up and looked at their general.

"Let's go, let's go and beat Huaiyang down first, let's go to Huaiyang City to eat meat and play with women! Let Yue Zhang's dogs eat snow outside. After speaking, Luo Zhi laughed, turned over on his horse, and walked slowly.

The wizened military advisor didn't refute, but rode his horse and followed Luo Zhi, as if he also approved of Luo Zhi's plan.

The red turban soldiers suddenly became agitated, and they all danced with their eyebrows, discussing with the people around them what to eat after defeating Huaiyang, or to find a beautiful woman to vent their anger.

Suddenly a red tide gathered between heaven and earth, they were the strangers of this gray day, and they set out on the road to death with unattainable ambitions.

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The dark clouds still obscured the sun, and only gray and white were left between the heavens and the earth, making it impossible to tell the time, and the entire Huaiyang entered the field of vision of the red turban soldiers.

"My mother-in-law, that's Huaiyang? It's big enough. Someone shouted in admiration.

"It's bigger than that Apocalypse City!" Someone looked at the outline of Huaiyang City and muttered.

"Have you been?" Some people laughed at him.

"Naturally, I've been there! My family has relatives in Apocalypse City. That person retorted without hesitation, of course, his family did have relatives in Apocalypse City, but he had never been to the so-called "relative" house, but he just watched from a distance outside the city gate for a while, and Apocalypse City was also at that time, which left some impressions in his heart.

"I didn't see it, brother!" The person who had just spoken patted him vigorously on the shoulder and began to hook up with him and call each other brothers.

"Is that not it?"

"This Huaiyang City is so big, there should be a lot of soldiers, right? Can we really fight? "Someone pointed out the problem.

"That's right...... Can you beat it? Someone chimed in.

Luo Zhi listened silently to the words of the soldiers behind him.

"Isn't it just a Huaiyang? It's full of merchants and women! Where did the soldiers come from?! The military advisor sneered, and turned his head to scan the commotion of the red turban soldiers, his thin face and that gloomy expression looked particularly terrifying.

"I hope it's as the military advisor said! We will directly assault the whole army and directly enter the city of Huaiyang? Luo Zhi turned his head and asked Zhang Xiu's opinion.

Zhang Xiu nodded, "Be sure to go full speed!" Otherwise, as soon as the gate of Huaiyang City is closed, we will be in great trouble. ”

Luo Zhi raised the mace and roared in the direction of Huaiyang City, "Come on, brothers! Let's fight into Huaiyang together! Take this city, and the whole world will be ours! When the time comes, I will take you to eat the best meat in the world and play with the best women! ”

"Kill!"

The cavalry took the lead and rushed out of the hill where they were hiding, and the infantry also ran wildly with their weapons, as if if they were slow, the food and women in Luo Zhi's mouth would disappear, and they rushed forward in the footsteps of their predecessors, raising a curtain of snow behind them, covering the sky.

The guard at the head of the city was bragging with his companions about the previous night's deeds, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the red tide in the northwest direction, he rubbed his eyes, and muttered, "What is it?" Can you still be dazzled by bragging? ”

He patted his companion, pointed to the red tide, and asked, "That's ...... What is it? ”

The other guard turned his head and suddenly changed his face, and he took two steps back, probably falling to the ground if he hadn't bumped into another person.

"Are you alright?" The guard who spoke first asked.

"Quick! Close the gates! Is that...... Red Turban Thief! The guard was hoarse.

The earth-shattering bell rang suddenly, the people in the city put down their work in their hands, turned their heads to look at the direction where the bell came, the shopkeepers who were originally sleepy in the shop also poked their heads out and looked towards the west gate, there were still a few people standing at the gate of the west gate, as soon as they heard the bell, they were stunned at first, and then scolded and walked into the city gate, there were a few people scattered in the field outside the city, they were the first to see the red turban thief in addition to the guards on the head of the city, at this moment they all lost what they were doing, Don't rush towards the city gate.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! The guards at the head of the city yelled at the people who were still outside, and they didn't know if they could hear them.

"Rush!" Luo Zhi held his mace and roared, he took the lead, and he didn't care whether the people behind him could keep up or not, he raised his head, and sure enough, as the military advisor said, there were very few soldiers on the head of the city, and all of them added up to only a hundred, he was overjoyed in his heart, it seems that it is a sure thing to take down this Huaiyang City.

The guards at the gate of the city pushed the heavy gate hard, and the people kept coming in through the cracks in the door, and at the last moment, the gate was slammed shut, and the people who were still outside the city just ran more desperately, and some people were directly frightened to shed tears, while running, while wiping their tears, and some people had already arrived at the city gate, but they were stopped outside, and he knelt there, pounding the tall door hard, and cursed the guards who closed the door while crying.

The guards inside the gate worked together to lift a heavy wooden bolt and stuck it on the door, they leaned against the gate to breathe, and even could hear the cursing outside the door, but they did not dare to open the door, and when they opened the door, it was not only the people outside the door who died.

The younger guard bowed his head, silently weeping tears, and the older guard next to him patted him on the shoulder, silent.

Yuan Yuxin was listening to Steward Ma talk about the recent big and small things in the mansion, when he heard the bell, he frowned, signaled Steward Ma not to say any more, trotted out of the study, asked the servant to lead the horse, and whipped to the west gate.

Old Man Tang was still drinking tea leisurely, his courtyard was closest to the West Gate, but he didn't care what the bell meant, and he didn't want to see it. Xiaomei patted her chest, forced herself to calm down, and was silent for a long time, but she still couldn't help but speak, "Master, what the hell is going on?" ”

"How do I know, I've been sitting in this room, you don't know, I naturally don't know." Old man Tang took another sip of tea and said slowly.

Yan Bailu suddenly walked in, threw himself on Old Man Tang's knees, and asked, "Grandpa, what was that bell just now?" ”

"Grandpa doesn't know," Old Man Tang smiled, and suddenly took out a small handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Yan Bailu.

"What is this?" Yan Bailu took the small handkerchief and slowly opened it, it was a small pile of different dried fruits, she smiled, revealing her front teeth that had not yet fully erupted, "Thank you, grandpa!" ”

Old Man Tang touched Yan Bailu's head, let her sit on the chair beside him, and said to Xiaomei, "You go and talk to Jiang Xin, don't ask anything, stay in her room, don't come out and catch a cold." ”

Xiaomei nodded and walked straight to Jiang Xin's room.

......

The Huaiyang soldiers, who had been very idle, were suddenly alarmed by the bell, and they hurried to the west gate with armor and knives, but it still took time. There were too few guards at the head of the city, and they were holding bows or crossbows, staring at the red tide outside the city.

Luo Zhi finally caught up with the person who fell last, he raised his mace and smashed the back of the man with a stick, and the person died directly without even struggling. The red turban soldiers behind Luo Zhi rushed over again and trampled the person's corpse.

One by one, the people outside the city were killed, and then swallowed up by the red tide.

Yuan Xiangxin quickly whipped his horse, followed by several guards in the house, and also rode behind him, they went straight out of the south gate, and rushed directly to a wide camp, the guards at the gate of the camp saw that Yuan Yuxin did not stop him, but stood more upright, which was considered a salute.

The horse rushed directly to the camp of the camp, Yuan Yuxin turned over and dismounted, regardless of the guards, and directly opened the curtain and walked in, "General Su, you should have heard the bell just now." ”

Su Ling nodded, "I heard, I heard, it's a red turban thief from the north?" ”

"It should be," Yuan Yuxin hesitated for a moment and said, "Over there at the north gate, the Yang family should also send troops." ”

"I got the news that there are 10,000 thieves in the red scarf? There were very few cavalry troops, and most of them were infantry. ”

"That's it, presumably your people shouldn't be mistaken." Yuan Yuxin nodded, "Since it's a red scarf thief, then you can't keep one." ”

Su Ling laughed, "That's natural, I don't know how they came here, more than 10,000 people dared to come to fight Huaiyang, although I knew that the red turban thieves were stupid, but I didn't expect them to be so stupid, the person who asked them to fight Huaiyang, I'm afraid they haven't even come to the south." ”

"In any case, don't take it lightly."

"Yes, yes."

......

Luo Zhi took the lead in rushing to the city gate, two sticks and three sticks killed a few people begging for mercy in front of him, he turned around, beckoned to the people behind, those red turban soldiers holding the ladder sped up their pace and rushed over, put the ladder on the city wall, climbed up one after another, and shot a few arrows sporadically on the city, which was not painful for the red turban soldiers who were besieging the city, and those arrows were much worse than the "arrow rain" they had heard.

The first person to reach the top of the ladder suddenly found that the ladder was a lot shorter, and it was not enough to climb the city, but when he hit those county towns before...... Obviously, he went up easily, he thought, raised his head, a big rock suddenly smashed head-on, he was smashed to the ground, and he never moved again.

The battering ram finally arrived, Luo Zhi turned his head and glanced at the "battlefield", the casualties of the red turban soldiers were very small, and the smile on his face became more and more obvious, as long as this city gate is broken, Huaiyang will be mine!

He turned over and dismounted, and followed the red turban soldiers to wield the improvised battering ram made of three logs, and when he was in the north, the gates of those counties were smashed open by the battering ram.

The battering ram smashed into the huge vermilion gate, the gate did not move, but most of the snow on the battering ram was shaken off, Luo Zhi was stunned and yelled, "Didn't you eat?!" Give Lao Tzu the strength to feed you! ”

"One, two, smash!"

This time, the remaining snow on the battering ram was also smashed, but the gate still did not move.

"How could it be ......," Luo Zhi muttered.

"General, come again!" The Red Turban soldiers behind him shouted.

"Good! Again! Luo Zhi spit twice into the palm of his hand, and held down the battering ram again, "One, two, smash!" ”

There was a loud bang, and the soldiers wielding the battering ram all sat down on the ground, and they all looked up at the city gate, which had left some marks on the gate, but they were not happy.

Luo Zhi lowered his head and looked at the scattered battering ram, his face was pale like a dead man.