As if they had been discussed, Cao Ren prepared to dispatch the gunpowder army to the west of Xudu early in the morning, on the grounds that Li Yuyou's army was gathering at Tongguan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Cao Ang had already prepared for this, and after gathering the gunpowder army, he immediately led the army to march, but the time of departure was determined at noon, and after the afternoon, he stationed all the troops in a dense forest, and only waited for the evening to get darker before sneaking back to the new city, as for the prison army sent by Cao Ren, the team was controlled as soon as it set off.

The attack on Xincheng this time was basically Cao Ren's obstinence, so he didn't tell anyone, including Sima Yi.

If Sima Yi knew about Cao Ren's decision, he would definitely give a warning, after all, Yuan Yun had already detected their siege intentions, and now if he wanted to say that he was defenseless, Sima Yi would not believe it if he killed him.

However, Cao Ren was too arbitrary, and he had heard that Yuan Yun had done the haunting of his house, but he couldn't find evidence, so he was ready to vent his temper on that new city.

Now the number of homeless deserters recruited from outside has unexpectedly increased to 5,000, even if these people have no tactics, but how can an empty city be an opponent?

When Cao Ang sneaked back to Xincheng, Zhang Liao had already arranged the place without leakage, and more than 1,000 gunpowder troops were guarded on the four city walls, and all the firearms were ready.

After everything was ready, Zhang Liao just didn't understand why Yuan Yun dug so many tunnels in the woods outside the city, if it was a fortification, then it should also be dug near the city wall, and as a result, it was a few hundred steps away from the city wall, and these tunnels almost surrounded the new city.

At this moment, Yuan Yun was sitting on the battlements of the city wall, looking at the rare clear sky in winter, and the stars shining in the sky were very spectacular, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"The snow hasn't melted yet, so it's very unwise to attack the city at this time." Zhang Liao said suddenly.

Hearing this, Yuan Yun retracted his eyes looking at the sky, and then glanced at the periphery of the city wall, which was originally a dense forest, because of the construction of the new city, this forest was cut down and only the outermost circle remained, so it looked very ugly, and the development of human beings was indeed accompanied by the destruction of nature, which was almost an inexplicable thing.

"It is estimated that these people are not here to attack the city, thinking that the fine work in the city will open the city gate for them, so they are all here to burn, kill and loot, no matter what the weather is." After Yuan Yun finished speaking, he looked at Cao Ang on the side.

Cao Ang was in high spirits at the moment, it seemed that he was the one who was most looking forward to attacking the city, wishing that the walls of this new city were now full of enemies, so that he could test those new gunpowder shells, which were now mixed with a lot of phosphorus flakes, and once the gunpowder bombs exploded, the burning ability of these phosphorus flakes could only be described as terrifying.

"Brother Cao Ang, I can't kill all the enemies, I still have to keep them to work." Yuan Yun felt that it was still necessary to remind him, lest Cao Ang kill his eyes and kill only a few of these laborers, then he would have tossed for so long in vain.

Cao Ang nodded and said with a smile: "I know, we deliberately didn't increase the defense of the new city, just to attract these people to attack, but they helped us collect the scattered homeless people and deserters around us, from now on, our territory should be more stable, as for these living labor, it is natural that it cannot be wasted." ”

Yuan Yun rubbed his hands and smiled bitterly: "This is not a lot of effort, but I sent out a lot of people to help them collect these people, so it must not be wasted." ”

Zhang Liao on the side was stunned and puzzled: "These enemies were sent by Yuan Hou to collect them?" ”

Before Yuan Yun could answer, Cao Ang had already answered: "Naturally, this is the case, otherwise they may have made an army of five thousand in a few months." ”

Zhang Liao only felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, how could Yuan Yun, a teenager, be so scheming? Thinking about it this way, I feel that it is a bit biased to define this Yuan Hou as two hundred and five before, and I still have to be cautious in the future.

"The scout is coming! Five miles east of the city, the enemy was discovered, and almost all the troops were gathered in one place, and they were attacking us. ”

Looking at the figure of the messenger leaving the city wall after the report, Zhang Liao pondered for a moment, and then said: "The enemy army is probably preparing to concentrate all the men and horses to attack only one side, hoping to break through with one blow, if we don't capture all the spies in the city in advance, once the city gate is opened by them, we will really be broken." ”

Yuan Yun glanced at the woods in the night outside the city, and then asked Zhang Liao, "Should we arrange for the gunpowder army on the city wall in several other places to come here?" ”

Zhang Liao shook his head and said: "Just now Yuan Hou only said that he wanted to crush their desire to attack the city, since it is not a war of annihilation, then the four hundred people on the east wall are enough to deal with it." ”

Yuan Yun glanced at the emptiness under the city wall again, so he cautiously continued: "Isn't it a bit big for us to have four hundred people against five thousand people?" ”

Zhang Liao replied: "These days I have been helping Shizi train these gunpowder army, the understanding of firearms has been quite comprehensive, these firearms on the city wall against the enemy dare not say that one is a hundred, but one person against twenty or thirty people is definitely not a problem, and the gunpowder army armor is tough, almost not afraid of feather arrows, the firearms in the hands are big killing weapons, only five thousand people, Liao dare to vouch for the head, absolutely none of them can climb the city wall." ”

Yuan Yun heard Zhang Liao say this, and he was relieved, he was a famous general through the ages, and he didn't understand the tactics of defending the city or anything, so he naturally listened to the professionals.

Zhang Liao glanced at the terrain outside the city, and then said to Cao Ang: "Shizi, we should spread the defenders of the other three city walls, and when these people start to attack the city walls, we can take everyone from the two sides in one fell swoop." ”

Cao Ang nodded and said, "Since the matter of defending the city is handed over to General Zhang, even if you are deployed, you can completely treat me as non-existent." ”

Zhang Liao's face was grateful, and he immediately ordered his entourage to make arrangements, while he walked to the side and checked the firearms stacked on the city wall again.

Yuan Yun felt a little relieved at the moment, and saw Cao Ang casting a disdainful look at him, and suddenly felt a little displeased, damn, what's wrong with Lao Tzu being cowardly? I am a civilized person, not like you who are fighting men, not to mention that Lao Tzu is about to have two wives in his family, how can he do it if he doesn't save his life?

After a while, I saw that in the woods outside the city wall, torches were suddenly lit, and from the city wall there were thousands of them, densely distributed on the edge of the trees, just looking at the number of torches was indeed very shocking.

Originally, Yuan Yun thought that they would prepare to make siege equipment before attacking the city, but who knew that these people had no such intention at all, but went directly to the east gate to kill them, and it was estimated that they were very confident in the inner should of those new cities, thinking that as long as they rushed in from the east gate, and then wantonly robbed and burned them, it was completely the style of bandits.

More than 5,000 torches burst into the open space like a fire snake, and the team opened up for a mile in front and back, and in an instant, the snow in front of the East City Gate was illuminated by countless torches, and the people were also squeezed into a ball of black pressure.

Seeing such a chaotic scene, Zhang Liao showed a contemptuous look, pointed to a group of rabble, and said: "I still overestimate them, these people don't have any rules at all, they are completely a group of bandits, where is this what a siege looks like?" ”

The first enemy who rushed to the vicinity of the east gate was suddenly stunned, because the city gate here was closed, and there was no such thing as the internal response that had been said before, and they were suddenly a little at a loss, they rushed all the way, but they did not carry any siege equipment, how could they climb these tall city walls with their hands and feet?

When the soldier was stunned, new people and horses kept rushing behind him, and everyone was in a trance, I don't know how to get better, what about the inner response of the big open city gate?

So there are more and more people in front of the East City Gate, everyone is you looking at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do, the team leaders in the previous teams, seem to feel that there is a trace of badness, they carefully observed the scene, and finally made a decision, escape!

While these teams were not easily squeezing out of the group, and then slowly thinking about escaping in the night, they were closely followed by one or two people, and these followers were quite fast, and they were masters at first glance.

"Crossbow ready!"

There was a sudden shout from the top of the city wall, and in an instant, a dense pouring of crossbow arrows fell, and most of the enemies in the front row fell to the ground in an instant, and everyone began to panic, and the remaining teams were constantly shouting, barely suppressing the impetuous crowd.

"Gunpowder bomb ready!"

"Throw!"

With a few shouts from the top of the city wall again, there were terrifying loud noises around the rabble, and all kinds of firelight exploded, and the group of enemies gathered outside the east gate began to panic again, you squeeze me, I squeeze you into a mess, this time even those teams are desperately shouting, no one cares anymore.

The people in the front row finally knew what was going on, so they began to run back desperately, those bodies that were blown up by gunpowder bombs were scattered everywhere, not afraid is fake, this time more than 5,000 people are completely out of order, the front row is desperately retreating, and the people in the back want to rush forward for unknown reasons, and even full of curiosity about those fires.

The sound of explosions became more and more, but it was not dense, but there were constant sounds from the east and west, in fact, for the soldiers defending the city, this battle tonight was very embarrassing.

Because you can't kill too much, you have to throw gunpowder shells to the place where the crowd is scattered, the intimidation is greater than the killing, some of them are not accurate enough, and they kill a piece of people at once, and they will immediately hear Zhang Liao's scolding, so the defenders are all holding their stomachs, how can there be a war like this?

Even so, the enemy under the city was no longer able to return to the sky, and the ranks in front and behind were in chaos, and the number of people who died because of trampling on each other was more than the number killed by bows and crossbows and gunpowder bullets.

After a few moments, a group of brothers of the Powder Army finally appeared on both sides of the eastern city wall, and they were also like the defenders on the city wall, very carefully controlling the bows and crossbows and gunpowder bullets in their hands, and firing as many people as possible, just driving the enemy all the way to one place like driving cattle.

At this time, the enemy's rear army finally understood what was going on, so they also let go of their legs and prepared to escape, the gunpowder army on both sides had not yet formed an encirclement, and could only watch groups of more than 100 people constantly escaping.

These fleeing enemies already knew that they had fallen into a trap tonight, so they ran even more desperately, and even threw away the weapons in their hands, hoping that they could carry a lighter weight and run faster.

When more than 2,000 people finally rushed back to the edge of the dense forest, everyone was full of luck, as long as they passed through the woods, they basically succeeded in escaping, and then as long as they fled, and then continued to be their own outcasts or deserters, life would at most return to the same as before, as long as they were alive it was better than anything else.

However, when this group of people came to the edge of the woods, they immediately stopped, because the woods suddenly began to burst out in flames, and in an instant, the fire ignited the entire dense forest, and the fire rose to a height of more than ten zhang, becoming an existence that could not be crossed more than the city wall of the new city.

The gunpowder armies on both sides finally converged, and the encirclement network was completely formed, and the retreat route to escape was a wall of fire, and there was a tall wall behind it, if you wanted to escape, you could only charge with those crossbow arrows and gunpowder bullets.

"Abandon your weapons and don't kill! Surrender or kill! Suddenly, the Powder Army began to shout as they advanced.

At this time, all the enemies chose to surrender one after another when they could not see a way out, they were originally a rabble, and they were only organized to eat and drink, and desperately was not their choice at all.

Yuan Yun saw this scene on the city wall, he didn't want to stay any longer, he was even a little disappointed, originally thought that he could see a spectacular scene like when Xu Du was attacked by Liu Biao, but the result was that a few artillery battles were fired, and then a group of people who were pressed by the black pressure all prostrate on the ground, their hands and feet stretched out, and they looked like Wang Ba who did not resist at all.

Boring!

After summing up, Yuan Yun had already come to the edge of the city wall, and he was about to follow Xiao Liushan without looking back, but he was stopped by Cao Ang at this time.

I only heard Cao Ang ask suspiciously: "Brother Yun, you dug so many tunnels on the other side of the woods, is it just to cause a fire in the dense forest?" What did you use to start the fire in those tunnels, and this kind of snow-covered forest can also be lit for you, can you talk about it? ”

Yuan Yun's cheeks twitched, knowing that the magic weapon about gasoline could not be kept, but it was originally intended to be dedicated to Cao Ang, but now let him know in advance, the only hope is that Cao Ang will not treat gunpowder like gunpowder, and he is also very obsessed with gasoline, this thing is more dangerous than gunpowder.

Sighing secretly, Yuan Yun replied: "When I clean up this group of homeless deserters, I will tell you the recipe for making those fire oils, this fire oil is not like what you used before, and water cannot be extinguished." ”

Cao Ang was stunned, and then smiled bitterly in an instant: "Dong Bi's house was really burned by you!" ”

Yuan Yun slapped his thigh, damn, how did you forget this stubble, unlucky, now Cao Ang has completely grasped his handle, but forget it, this product has always been his shield, and he shouldn't embarrass himself.

After thinking about it, Yuan Yun hurriedly bowed his hand, and then slipped down the city wall.

When he arrived at the city, Yuan Yuncai asked Xiao Liu beside him, "Shi Shen has already left the city, right?" ”

Xiao Liu replied: "We have already gone out, our own brothers must be taken care of, and according to the orders of the lord, this time we will arrest all those lurking people, and when Brother Shi Shen escorts people back, we can use the method of interrogating people who do not let people sleep, and ensure that they will confess in three or four days." ”

Yuan Yun nodded, this method naturally works very well, the woman called Enchanting before has already confessed everything, it turns out that the one who sent them to kidnap him was a god stick named Yan Pu.

As for the reason for kidnapping himself, he actually thought that he Yuan Yun was the protector of the Daomen, damn, Wudou Midao deceived the pure and virtuous people of Hanzhong, and he actually deceived Lao Tzu.

When you have time, you will destroy them, today's society is already very feudal, and if you make it so superstitious, you won't give people a life?