Chapter Fifty-Eight: Battle Report
Cai Wenji gently lifted the curtain on the window of the study, looked at the autumn colors of the courtyard, and sighed deeply. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The army attacking Wancheng has left Xudu for half a month, and now there is no news at all, and five thousand people will attack Wancheng, which is simply the most daring move, and it can even be said to be reckless, I have heard that Cao Ang Shizi is steady and cautious, how could he make such a rash decision? It must have been Yuan Yun's ghost idea, and now only Yuan Yun can bewitch Cao Ang, but Yuan Yun has always been timid and afraid, why did he suddenly change his temper this time? Could it be that Wancheng is really so vulnerable?
With a head of questions, Cai Wenji only felt that the feeling of unsteadiness and insecurity in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, which had tormented her for a long time, making her unable to sleep every time she thought about it, it seemed that since Xu Du's army went to Wancheng, she has been suffering from gains and losses like this, and at this moment, even the evening autumn color of the courtyard cannot solve the worries in her heart.
What are you worried about? As soon as Cai Wenji asked this question herself, she was stunned for a moment, and soon shook her head slightly, followed by a sigh.
"My good sister, this autumn wind is blowing comfortably, you can't lie on the windowsill half-naked, right? In case something gets sick, don't worry about death when Yuan Yun's kid comes back. It was Liu Yiyi who spoke, she was flicking her handkerchief at the moment, and slowly walked in from outside the door of the small courtyard.
Cai Wenji's face turned red rarely, and she replied calmly in an instant: "I really should tear your mouth, it's always so unobstructed that people listen to it, Yan This is the outfit at home when he is alone, so he naturally chooses to wear it briskly, and the person Brother Yun doesn't want to see is probably Yan, where will Yan be sick?" ā
Liu Yiyi turned around, followed the stone path and stepped into the door of the study, and then greeted Xing'er, and then sat next to the window, next to Cai Wenji, but still looked up and down the half-open beauty in front of her dishonestly, and then smiled.
"Saying that you are half-naked, I really didn't wronged you, what can the tulle on your body block? Chunguang is about to fly outside the courtyard, if you see Yuan Yun's kid dressed like this, he will definitely be fascinated and can't take his eyes off, where will he not want to see you? ā
"Hugh, Hugh wants to talk nonsense, now this back house is full of women, and this courtyard is not allowed for men to enter, what is the tightness if you dress thinly, you like to chew your tongue." Cai Wenji finally showed some anger, and she really couldn't stand Liu Yiyi's romantic words.
Liu Yiyi covered her mouth with a smile and laughed wildly for a while, and then gasped: "As soon as I mentioned Yuan Yun to you, you got angry...... Oh, okay, okay, I'm not joking with you, I'm here to tell you something serious. Seeing Cai Wenji's posture of holding the teacup to splash water, Liu Yiyi quickly closed her mouth, then reached out to hold Cai Wenji's jade hand, and by the way, put the teacup back on the low table in front of the window, and then continued: "The location of the Xudu Hotel has been chosen, but it is the Dong family's industry, I am a Qinglou woman came forward to buy, the Dong family has all kinds of difficulties, and I have to come to you as a talented woman, your Cai family is also a big family, the Dong family always has to give you some thin noodles, you call a Cai family's shopkeeper to come forward and solve this matter." ā
Cai Wenji was stunned and asked, "Where did you choose the location?" ā
Liu Yiyi replied: "On the bank of the Yinghe River, opposite the Rouge Building, Yuan Yun has to have three elements, there is water, the terrain is high, the popularity is prosperous, there is a market near the Rouge Building, the geographical location is also high in Xudu, and there is the water of the Ying River, so it is naturally chosen there." Speaking of this, Liu Yiyi paused, and then muttered in an instant: "This may be their immortal family's feng shui theory, I think it must be a university question, but I don't know which one of the mouthy ones spread out, but as a result, the Dong family is not sold alive or dead, their set of annexes occupies a large area, if it is collected, it will be much easier for us to expand." ā
Cai Wenji also nodded and agreed: "The Dong family's house is indeed very chic, and the inner garden corridors are all built first-class, you are a discerning person." ā
Liu Yiyi immediately shook the embroidered handkerchief in his hand and said: "What's chic, all of them have to be demolished and rebuilt, Yuan Yun also specially came up with a pattern, tsk, the newly built building is six stories high, such a tall building is rare, I am also worried about Yuan Yun's childish nature, just draw a six-story building to play, afraid that it will be dangerous to build it later, so I deliberately found the old craftsman who will be the supervisor to look at the pattern, guess what?" ā
Liu Yiyi stopped immediately when she said this, and then sold Guanzi, and smiled evilly at Cai Wenji from time to time.
Cai Wenji listened very attentively, so she didn't care about many face problems, and asked with a stiff face: "Say it quickly, otherwise the buns that will come out of the cage will not be your share." ā
When Liu Yiyi heard the steamed buns, she swallowed her saliva instantly, Yuan Yun taught everyone present to make steamed buns that day, and in the end, no one expected that it was Cai Wenji who learned the best, and even surpassed the taste of Yuan Yun himself.
Swallowing again, Liu Yiyi smiled and said: "Yiyi has never seen a person who knows everything, and is good at everything, Yuan Yun is an outlier, after those craftsmen who will be the prisoner saw the pattern, they followed the devil and desperately wanted to copy it, fortunately, I quickly took it back, otherwise it would have to be torn apart, so I am sure that this six-story building can definitely be built." ā
Cai Wenji had already been completely aroused in her curiosity, so she quickly nodded and said: "Tomorrow Yan will ask the shopkeeper of the Cai family to contact the Dong family, they will always give us some face, but the price may not be much cheaper." ā
Liu Yiyi smiled and continued: "Just sell it, Yuan Yun's eldest sister is very rich, Yuan Yun also explained when he left, this hotel must open in the middle of next year, I don't know what he is anxious about?" After speaking, he immediately asked, "Sister Wen Ji does she have a battle report from Wancheng?" ā
Cai Wenji Xiumei frowned, shook her head and sighed: "I'm also worried about this matter, they didn't even hear from them at all, alas, they are really anxious." ā
"I've already had news back here, so I'm here to tell Sister Wen Ji." It was Cao Qinghe who spoke, and at this moment she had already stepped into the study, so she replied apologetically: "I called a few times outside the small courtyard just now, and no one answered, but I heard the conversation between the two of you, so I took the liberty to walk in, don't blame the two sisters." ā
Cai Wenji's character was slightly red, and all her spirit was placed on Yuan Yun's side just now, and she was indeed negligent.
Liu Yiyi didn't care, and eagerly asked Cao Qinghe: "Cao Ang Shizi and Yuan Yun won the battle?" ā
Cao Qinghe smiled gently, and then nodded and said: "They hit Wancheng early in the morning, and then blocked the east city gate to face the battle, and it was Hu Che'er, the general under Zhang Xiu, who defended the city. ā
Cai Wenji is the most knowledgeable of all the daughters' families, and she was immediately shocked when she heard this, and said: "That Hu Che'er is a strong general, this is not easy to deal with!" ā
Cao Qinghe didn't know what Hu Che'er was, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be such a powerful person, I saw that their defenders in Wancheng were killed and fled, and I thought that there were no outstanding generals in Wancheng, so I was picked up by my eldest brother and Yuan Gongzi." ā
After Cao Qinghe finished speaking, he put a sheepskin battle report on the low table in front of the window. Liu Yiyi was the most impatient, so she grabbed it and began to chant at once.
Cao Ang ordered the attack to stop when the gunpowder pack at the east gate of Wancheng was about to shatter, and the whole army went on the defensive.
Hu Che'er was overjoyed, and kept cursing Cao Ang for being stupid, stopping at this time was simply giving himself a great opportunity, so he immediately gathered the elites in the city and gathered on the inside of the east city gate, his subordinates were all mountain soldiers, in addition to being suitable for fighting in the mountains, it was most suitable for blocking the gate and defending it, they were equipped with short-range weapons, if the enemy stormed the city gate, it would definitely not be good to go.
At the same time, no one in Wancheng's guards dared to be careless, and they had laughed at Cao Ang before being their prisoner, and they no longer dared to say the same thing, Zhang Xian was even more cautious, and immediately sent the best scouts, eight hundred miles to hurry to inform Zhang Xiu, who was out on the expedition, hoping that he could rush back to rescue Wancheng, after all, it was self-evident which was more important to attack Cao Cao or defend Wancheng.
Early the next morning, Cao Ang launched another large-scale raid before it was fully light, and the target was directly at the East City Gate.
As a result, Hu Che'er, the general of the defending army, was more sure of Cao Ang's intention, which was to pry open the city gate and then break into the city, so he sent more men to guard the east gate.
The crossbow arrows shot down from the city wall did no damage to the ox cart defended by steel plates, and four old oxen pulled a cart full of black powder and stuck it like this.
It was Xiao Liu who was driving the cattle in the car, looking at the black powder filled around him, he felt his heart beating hard, if it wasn't for the impassioned rhetoric of Xu Yi and the others before, he wouldn't have been dizzy and took the initiative to sign up for this unlucky errand, but since he agreed, he didn't escape, after driving the ox cart to the city gate, he lit the fire twist with some trembling, and then he wanted to run back to his camp desperately.
But when Xiao Liu got out of the ox cart, he suddenly found that there was a rain of arrows shooting at the head of the city, and those steel crossbow teams who were still covering because of their lack of experience, received an order to cover the ox cart close to the city gate, but they forgot that there were people driving the cart in the ox cart, so as soon as they saw the ox cart sticking to the city gate, they began to retreat. Xiao Liu had no choice but to get back into the sturdy ox cart, looking at the white smoke of the fire twist, he wanted to extinguish it several times, and the last few times he was entangled, he actually forced out the ferocity of his martial arts, and decided to die with the east gate of Wancheng.
Suddenly, a shout came from outside the ox cart: "Little Liu, your grandmother is dead?" Hurry up and get out of here! ā
Xiao Liu was overjoyed in his heart, this was Yuan Yun's voice, so without hesitation, he immediately rushed out, only to find that Yuan Yun had intercepted more than a dozen retreating steel soldiers, and then ran back to provide cover for himself.
The crossbow arrows shot down from the city wall, ping pong hit Yuan Yun's black armor, this time because they were close, the power of the crossbow arrows increased greatly, and some even penetrated the first layer of fish scale armor, making Yuan Yun look more like a hedgehog at the moment. Seeing Xiao Liu get out of the ox cart, he immediately rushed up a few steps, and then directly used himself as a shield, so he covered all the way back to his position.
"Lord, did you take the wrong medicine? How did you get fat today? After Xiao Liu returned to his position, he asked with surprise.
Yuan Yun grinned, and instantly kicked Xiao Liu to the ground, Xiao Liu honestly didn't hide this time, and then heard Yuan Yun complain: "Damn, everyone else is a desperate protector, and when they come to Lao Tzu, it's all the other way around!" ā
It turned out that Yuan Yun felt bad when he saw the steel team evacuate first, and Cao Ang also found out, originally Cao Ang wanted to come to the rescue in person, but the deputy general next to him dragged him alive and dead, saying that he would not let his own coach come forward, Yuan Yun knew that time waited for no one, so he gritted his teeth and rushed out, and this was the scene of the lord saving the general.
Cao Ang saw that Yuan Yun and Xiao Liu had come back safely, and was about to get angry at the steel team, when suddenly a loud bang came, covering up all the words he had already shouted angrily.
The fragments of the city gate that were blown up even fell to their own positions, Cao Ang had to order the whole army to retreat a hundred steps, and when the army moved back, some gravel continued to fall, smashing the dirt and the ground crackling, and all the sergeants stuck out their tongues again and again.
When the gravel is basically cleaned, the billowing smoke of the east gate of Wancheng gradually reveals the appearance behind it, to be precise, there is no appearance at all, the entire city gate has disappeared, leaving only a large disconnected gap, and the very terrifying pit on the floor, as for the enemy, it has become a variety of broken corpses that can be seen everywhere.