The tall fortress wall and the thick black fortress gate are like a big wolf that eats people and does not spit out bones, quietly waiting for the flesh and blood to offer blood and life to him.

The tall wall of the wall is full of flags and banners, and the soldiers of the Cao family who are vividly dressed and angry and the villagers with withered faces stand all over the wall, pointing at the approaching firearms battalion of the Black Tiger Army, and showing a kind of arrogance and contempt for the overwhelming hungry people.

After hundreds of years of continuous reinforcement, expansion and improvement, the Cao family compound is not so much a compound as a real city wall.

The periphery of the city is as long as 3 miles, the height of the city reaches 4 zhang, the width of the city is one zhang, the city can run three war horses, the female wall is full of dense offensive and defensive equipment, the elm spray is more than every five female walls between one, especially in the direction of the road facing the village gate, there are four respect up to 500 catties of copper cannons, this is definitely a first-class big killer in this era, the cost of this cannon alone, can be as low as all the family assets of a middle-sized landlord, it can be seen that the Cao family has strong financial resources.

Outside the city wall, the moat of two zhang wide and two zhang deep is also excavated, and a tributary of the Yinluo River is connected at any cost, and the river water flows into the surround in summer, and the upstream gate is closed in winter to release the water, and the bottom of the ditch is full of pointed wooden piles.

Not only that, but the Cao family also has their own independent blacksmith shed in their compound, nominally to build farm tools for the manor, but in fact, it is more important to make their own weapons, bows, arrows, and armor.

The quality of the bow and arrow armor made by the Cao family is several times higher than that made by the official army, but these are all imitation equipment of the Ming Dynasty, and if there is an official inspection, it can also be prevaricated. The Cao family is prosperous, the Cao family compound alone has thousands of mouths near the branches, and there are nearly two thousand farmers and long-term workers who have been caught to take care of their homes all the year round, and the manor not only accumulates hundreds of years of savings and silver, but also countless grain and grass savings, even if it is surrounded for three or five years, it is not worried about food and drink, it can be said that it is tighter than Luochuan County, even Yan'an Fucheng can not be compared with it in defense. It can really be described as an impregnable wall.

Because he knew that his family was notorious in the local area and hated by everyone, he spared no financial resources to build this impregnable castle. The peaceful years are better, over the years, there have been homeless people and bandits, and there are deserters and other constant ideas to fight the Cao family, everyone knows that if the Cao family is taken, it will be a good life for thousands of people who don't have to run around for decades, but the idea is good, every gang is in a hurry and slips away, in the face of such a monster, can not be shaken half a point.

The Cao family has also gone through continuous battle baptism, and its combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of ordinary officers and soldiers, just like this, looking at another group of tens of thousands of hungry and dying homeless people, with sticks and stones in their hands, and the idea of hitting their own manor again, it is simply not in the eyes of hitting stones with eggs.

Wu Tao observed the external shape of the Cao family compound from a distance for a while, and had a deeper understanding of this castle, but when he saw the real Cao family compound, he also revealed a feeling of powerlessness in his heart.

Their own team arrived outside the Cao family's compound, and the Cao family did not sound the gong or call the police, where were the original Xiangyong and the children of the Cao family in the city smiling and pointing at them, it was really arrogant.

Only when the spearmen of the invading army came out to line up, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion began to erect fifty elm sprays under the command of the captain and the military chief, the Cao family city wall began to stir up, and at this time, the alarm bell placed in the city gate tower rang properly.

At this time, a fat official who could not walk approached the city, looked down and shouted; "Where did the village thieves come from? How dare you harass my Cao family compound? Is there no royal law, and you are not afraid of death? "After taking a breath, he said;" Wait for you to leave quickly, or the head of my family will be angry, and you will die without a place to be buried. ”

Arrogant, naked arrogance, in fact, this fat old thing who can't even walk is just a second-rate housekeeper in the Cao family's compound, and even the big housekeeper is reluctant to come forward. But such a second-rate housekeeper is so arrogant, which shows the strength of the Cao family.

The second-rate housekeeper saw that the homeless people in the distance were standing silently, but none of them moved, and he was looking at the pole that he didn't know where to come from and still placing those elm sprays, so he pouted and whispered something to a person who seemed to be the leader next to him, and then, with the support of a few small people, he walked down the city tower with a sigh, and he didn't even bother to look at the tens of thousands of homeless people outside the city.

The little leader-like man got the orders of the second-rate butler, smiled and bent down to send him out of the city, and in a blink of an eye, he immediately commanded the people around him with vigor, and began to tinker with the five bronze cannons, and after a while, the people behind the bronze cannons ran away.

In a moment, one of the bronze cannons made an earth-shattering loud noise, and an iron pellet flew out of the cannon hall with a roar, and smashed into the dirt a thousand paces away from the city gate, smashing the frozen iron earth into a large hole, and then bounced up again, and smashed down again, and so on several times before stopping at the bottom of a gentle slope. This made the tens of thousands of homeless people standing behind the Chuang army lose their color, and the crowd began to stir a little, but the immobile momentum of the Black Tiger Army reassured them again, and everyone still stood like this.

This is the Cao family demonstrating to the Black Tiger Army, and the cannon is not accurate.

Of course Wu Tao is not afraid, the cannon is powerful, but after all, there are only five of the Cao family, and the cannon is heavy and difficult to move, Wu Tao really won't be stupid enough to die with these five cannons, not to mention that he has a bed crossbow that is much more advanced than the current cannon, King Chuang has repeatedly instructed that this time he will not hesitate to open the yam, that is, to blow up the Cao family compound first and then launch an attack, so as to reduce the casualties of his brothers, so this time he almost brought out the explosives on the cottage. Definitely be able to blow the walls that seemed impregnable to them to the ground.

Look at the sky, the cavalry of the Great Commander should also come into contact with the enemy of Luochuan, and the defeat of those soldiers in the Luochuan Guard Station should be hand-to-hand, don't worry, as long as you wait until the Great Commander arrives, then let this invincible Cao family taste the power of the explosive bag.

By this time, the battalion of craftsmen in the cottage had already made ten bed crossbows, and the firearms battalion had brought him with them, as well as fifty elm sprays, and plenty of gunpowder, and enough lead. Capture the Cao family compound to avenge the people within a radius of 100 miles, there is no problem at all, the problem is time, King Chuang has repeatedly instructed to seize the time while ensuring that the casualties of the brothers are reduced as much as possible, because there are still Zhang Yuan and Li Yuanhao waiting for everyone to clean up.

Wu Tao knew that as long as Zhang Yuan and Li Yuanhao were cleaned up, then his base area would have a long period of time to digest and build the countryside within his sphere of influence, that is, the base area that Lu Shi said.

The encirclement and suppression of the officers and troops is like a storm, come on, let the storm come more violently, only after the most violent storm is the most beautiful clear sky.

When Wu Tao was in reverie, a prison sergeant squeezed through the dense crowd and came to Wu Tao and said; "Military division, there are people around the outside one after another to join, now there are almost 40,000 people, due to the large number of people, there is no organization, the order began to become chaotic, the most important thing is that most of the people are hungry and ruthless, today with the march of the brigade, until now I have been standing for half a day, people began to faint, and the food we brought was distributed to the people along the way, and there is no ability to supply these tens of thousands of displaced people, so I am afraid that after a long time, there will be changes."

Wu Tao frowned when he heard this, this is really a big problem, these people all heard that the Black Tiger Army attacked the Cao family's compound, and they came spontaneously, and at that time, he and his brothers also tried their best not to follow, these people just didn't listen, let you break your mouth and follow silently, that posture is like you don't agree, you have to agree, and you will be consumed. Later, Wu Tao was helpless, and he was persuaded not to move, so he had to let the villagers go.

This is a good thing, there are more and more villagers who follow, not only along the way, but also far away There are people who are constantly inquiring.

But these folks are all yellow-skinned and thin-skinned, and they have stood in this cold and freezing weather for so long, they are really going to die, and the battle should be resolved quickly.

But there was no way, his firearms battalion and spearmen were too small in number, and he did not have the ability to enter the Cao family to annihilate the Cao family's resistance.

turned around and climbed into a big cart pulling things, and looked outside in small clothes, (Wu Tao and his brothers' coats were distributed to the people along the way, so including Wu Tao, all the Black Tiger Army and the escorted people were disheveled, and most of them were wearing small clothes.) But no one cried out that they were hungry, for their breasts were already filled with burning rage. In the periphery of the people who originally followed, there were more and more people with wooden sticks, kitchen knives and stones constantly pouring in, and the people who came kept asking the villagers who came first, why didn't the army of the king of Chuang still do it? The crowd, which had been silent, began to become noisy and spread.

Wu Tao is very anxious, if tens of thousands of people stand here and don't have something to do, then unpredictable things may break out immediately, but look at the time, it will take a long time for the arrival of the Great Commander, and you have to find a way to find something for everyone first.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao shouted loudly at the crowd of black pressure; "Folks, please be quiet, I have something to say."

The villagers saw a very powerful man standing in the car shouting to everyone, and slowly quieted down, waiting to hear what he said.

"Folks, I understand your feelings, everyone wants to quickly take revenge on their relatives and friends after Cao Jiaji, but you are all unarmed people, you can only lose your lives in vain to the deep trenches of the high city, and our firearms battalion can't climb the city, we have to wait for our follow-up army to come, it won't be too long, we can get support, please be patient and wait, everyone has been standing for a long time, all spread out to find a place to sit down and rest first, and see how we broke the Cao family compound and avenged the villagers."

The sergeant kept spreading Wu Tao's words, and everyone felt that it was reasonable to hear it, so they began to look for a place to sit and rest.

Wu Tao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it, jumped out of the car, and prepared to arrange for his brothers to rest and recharge for the upcoming war.