Chapter 42: Yuan Shao's Aid (Part II)
Gao Shun led the trapped camp to empty the grain stock of more than 100,000 stones in Yecheng, and when he was about to leave, the sergeant in Yecheng finally reacted.
More than 1,000 soldiers of Yuan Shaojun and the family soldiers of the big clans in Yecheng were notified of the scattered miscellaneous soldiers, and they rushed straight to the south gate with torches.
Three or four thousand against seven hundred, just when Lu Lingqi and Gao Shun wanted to let Qin Xu go first, there was a sudden shouting and a terrible alarm from the west gate of Yecheng.
"What's going on?" Lu Lingqi, who was waiting for the battle, was a little dazed, but Qin Xu was delighted, and said secretly, the time is just right.
The soldiers of the big clan and the sergeant Yuan Shao in the city were also confused by the earth-shattering shouts from the west gate at this time.
"Enter Yecheng!"
"Enter Yecheng!"
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
The soldiers of the West Gate had already been transferred a lot because of the accident at the South Gate, and in the face of the attack of an unknown number of people in the night, the terrible alarm became more and more urgent one after another.
"Looks like we can go back to Hanoi safely." Qin Xu and Gao Shun looked at each other and smiled, looking at Lu Lingqi inexplicably.
"What are they going to do?" Lu Lingqi was originally a big grinning surname, and when she saw that there was no fight to fight, she grabbed the reins and pointed to the two brothers Yuan Shang and Lu on horseback.
"These three people are also cumbersome, it's better to ......" Qin Xu pointed to Ximen, who was shouting and killing, with a hint of banter in his eyes, pointed to the three people on horseback, and said with a smile: "Dead cat, I'll give you another difficult task!" β
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The soldiers of the family and the soldiers of the Yuan army in Yecheng were finally attracted by the rapid sirens of the West Gate. The enemy at the south gate has already fled out of the city, and if the west gate is breached, then the city of Yecheng is about to be broken.
"Ahh It's a Black Mountain thief! It's a Black Mountain thief! β
"Black Mountain thieves have attacked Yecheng at night!"
There was a burst of panicked shouts, and the defense line laid by the defenders of Yecheng on the city wall was like a broken embankment, and before the reinforcements in the city arrived, they were overwhelmed by the black mountain thieves who attacked the city. There are more ants biting elephants, and the ratio of tens of thousands of Black Mountain thieves to hundreds of Yuan defenders who stayed at the West Gate has reached a terrifying one hundred to one! Even the Black Mountain thieves, in this proportion of military strength, are like beating chicken blood, and they are scrambling to climb to the top of the city one by one.
In less than a stick of incense, Yecheng was broken!
However, the Black Mountain Thieves are not high in combat power after all, and the Yuan Army and the Family Alliance Army who hurriedly rushed to the West Gate, although the ratio to the Black Mountain Thieves still reached a ratio of ten to one, but they temporarily fought with the Black Mountain Thieves.
Zhang Yan took Yang Fengbai Rao and other Montenegrin generals, but did not fight with the defenders in the city after breaking the city, but took his elite soldiers to the location of the Yecheng granary.
Although the Montenegrin army claims to be a million people, the only land in the mountains is not enough to feed these many people. The purpose of taking turns to plunder Hebei Prefecture and County is to obtain military rations for survival.
"Empty? How can it be empty? β
"Didn't Gongsun Taishou say that there are at least 100,000 stones of grain in Yecheng? What's going on? β
Looking at the empty granary, the generals of the Montenegrin Army were furious one by one.
βtnndοΌ This old Yuan is known as the leader of Hebei and dominates Jizhou, why is there no surplus food in the city? Yang Feng spat at the mouth fiercely and said hatefully.
Zhang Yan squinted his eyes, as if he sensed that something was wrong, he had been photographed by Lu Bu's prestige and the three thousand cavalry under his command, and agreed to Lu Bu's strange request, Zhang Yan had to be stationed in the same place for three days under Lu Bu's surveillance, Lu Bu was also trustworthy in Zhang Yan's eyes, and after three days, when the Black Mountain Army found out, Lu Bu's army had completely disappeared.
"Dashuai, although the granary is empty, but this Yecheng is the seat of Jizhou, and there are many big families in the city, so it is better to ......" Bai Rao's eyes flashed a trace of fierceness, and he suggested to the generals of Montenegro with a cruel smile.
"Not bad!"
"Xiaobai is a fast brain!"
The generals of Montenegro agreed very much with Bai Rao's proposal, and Zhang Yan also temporarily put aside the suspicions in his heart. "Not bad! These big families, there must be countless gold, silver, jewelry, grain, grass and ordnance at home, and it is not easy for us to come to Yecheng, and we can't come in vain. Tell the brothers, let's go and grab the dog! β
"No!" The generals of Montenegro restrained their subordinates with a happy face.
"Dashuai, these three people were found at the city gate!" Zhang Yan finished ordering the generals, but saw his cronies Xiao Xiao commanding a few people to press a son and two generals in armor to report to him.
"Who are these three?" Zhang Yan asked.
"I don't know the little one, but when I met these three people, none of them knew who knocked them out and threw them at the south gate!" Elementary school report.
"Wake them up!" It took a lot of time for the Black Mountain generals to restrain their subordinates, and Zhang Yan felt that these three people might be the key to solving the hesitation in his heart and the empty granary.
"Ahh You thieves, let me go, or when my father's army arrives, you will all be powdered! Yuan Shang, who fainted twice after being tossed in one night, was almost about to cry.
On the contrary, it was the Lu brothers, who didn't say a word after waking up, with a look of chagrin on their faces, and looked at Yuan Shang who was also tied up like a dumpling.
"Your father?" When Zhang Yan heard Yuan Shang say this, she stared at Yuan Shang for a while, and said with a smile: "Isn't your father Yuan Shao?" β
"Exactly!" Seeing Zhang Yan say Yuan Shao's name, Yuan Shang stiffened his rocker and said proudly: "My father's army is nearby, you know each other and release me quickly, and return the military rations, otherwise my father will make you regret being born in this world!" β
"Military rations?" Zhang Yan's eyes narrowed, and she suddenly understood. Before the Montenegrin army broke through Yecheng, there must have been other forces that entered Yecheng first and emptied the granary. Zhang Yan didn't have to think about it, when he contacted Lu Bu's strange request before, if he didn't understand that he had used Lu Bu as a shield, then Zhang Yan would be really a fool.
"Humph!" Zhang Yan smiled helplessly and bitterly, even if he knew that it was Lu Bu's trick, what could he do, Lu Bu's three thousand soldiers forced them to not dare to move for three days, could they still go to Lu Bu to ask for military rations?
Fortunately, Lu Bujun didn't do too much, at least the big families in the city were still kept by our Montenegrin Army, but Zhang Yan of Lu Bu could only talk like this to masturbate.
"Handsome! What to do with these three people? Isn't it ......" Xiao Xiao made a posture of wiping his neck, and Yuan Shang was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted: "What are you going to do?" Is this a mortal enmity with my father, Yuan Gong? β
I have to say that Yuan Shang is indeed a little anxious, and these words really moved Zhang Yan's heart.
Although it is an alliance with Gongsun Zhan, the most unreliable thing in this world is the word alliance. If Yuan Shao was really defeated or even annexed by Gongsun Zhan, then Gongsun Zhan's next target would definitely be his ally, the Black Mountain Army. When the time comes, let alone funding ordnance, Gongsun Zhan, who is very familiar with the Montenegrin Army, will already be a very upright gentleman if he returns to Ge immediately after defeating Yuan Shao.
"Don't you just want food? Yecheng was emptied by you, but my father's army still has no less than 100,000 stone of military rations, if you can spare my surname, or form an alliance with my father, my father has always liked to make friends with heroic people, much more generous than Gongsun Zhan's old man! Yuan Shang saw that Zhang Yan was moved by his own words, and he tried to make Zhang Yan believe his words, but he put the previous suspicion that Qin Xu and the others were not the Black Mountain Army!
Now that there is chaos in Yecheng, the crying and screaming resounding in the night sky, most of the family soldiers in Yecheng have been called by Taishou Su Chengzheng to defend the city, and they have been almost consumed in the street battle with the Black Mountain Army, and there are not many guards left in their respective families, and where can they withstand such a toss from the Black Mountain thieves.
Grain, gold and silver, coins, female dependents, everything that was favored by the Black Mountain thieves were forcibly snatched, and the slightest resistance was a knife. These pampered old men, where have they seen this kind of battle, many of them were paralyzed, and a few were directly scared to death.
Maybe it was because the Montenegrin thieves understood the truth of the long stream, or Zhang Yan especially ordered before, as long as they were not from a big family, the Montenegrin thieves did not commit any crimes, but they created a lot of trouble for Yuan Shao when he encircled and suppressed the Montenegrin thieves.
"Qin Xu, did you already know that the Black Mountain Army would come? Deliberately hiding it from me? Everyone drove towards Hanoi in a mighty way, and they gradually couldn't hear the shouting and killing, and Lu Lingqi had been frowning before asking Qin Xu sullenly.
"My eldest lady!" Qin Xu shouted and said, "Didn't you hear our conversation that night, why do you still ask that?" β
"Can't I not listen to all of it?" The eldest lady's arrogance came up, causing Qin Xu to retreat in defeat.
"Qin Xu, this time you can make Xu You miserable, if he knows, it is estimated that he will not be able to bypass you!" Gao Shun looked at thousands of war horses and sacks of grain on war horses, and joked with Qin Xu in a rare good mood.
"Mr. Xu Da probably doesn't have the heart to think about these now, Yecheng City is broken, and he Xu Ziyuan is far from being responsible! It's not like we didn't intercept the Black Mountain thieves, didn't we get off for three days? The lord's 3,000 cavalry went to fight against the 100,000 Black Mountain thieves, which is completely reasonable! Qin Xu pursed his lips and replied, "Just get so much grain and grass and war horses back, Zhang Taishou is afraid that it will take a lot of rhetoric, and Yuan Shao may trouble him!" β
"It's okay, do you think Zhang Taishou can govern Hanoi under Yuan Shao's nose, can he be an ordinary person?" Gao Shun winked at Qin Xu, tacitly acknowledging each other.
"It's just a pity that the people of Yecheng are implicated in this war!" Looking at the fire that came out in the direction of Yecheng, Lu Lingqi said suddenly.
"The Montenegrin Army can gain a foothold in Hebei and will never hurt innocent people, so Ling'er doesn't have to worry." Gao Shun said lightly: "As for those big families, there are many evildoers in peacetime, and the Black Mountain Army can teach them a lesson, maybe the people in the city are secretly happy." β
Gao Shun's level of comforting people is really not good, and when he said it, the three of them fell silent.
"It's just that I don't know what kind of way these big families will come up to bully those innocent people after the Black Mountain retreats, seeing that the ordinary people's families have not been affected." Lu Lingqi let out a sigh that was not in line with her age.
"Xing, the people are bitter! Death, the people are suffering! Qin Xu suddenly said such a sentence, and was stared at by Lu Lingqi like a monster, a little surprised.
"It's not good, this is not the military horn of the Black Mountain thief, it is the charge number of Yuan Shaojun's first camp!" Qin Xu and Lu Lingqi stared wide-eyed, but Gao Shun frowned and listened to the faint voice coming from the direction of Yecheng, and said, "We have to speed up the march, otherwise Yuan Jun will find out that the horse farm outside the city has been robbed, and it will definitely be scattered to investigate, and we won't be able to hide it for long." β
"It seems that Yuan Shao arrived quite in time!" Qin Xu sneered, dodging Lu Lingqi's sparkling eyes.