Chapter 21: The Fighter (3)

Although the elite of the Boxers was exhausted, and although Cao Degui was already like a non-human, this huge night attack still failed. After they infiltrated the first line of defense, they were discovered by the foreigners' secret sentinels, and then there was a scuffle. Cao Degui rose up bravely and threw torches to destroy an artillery position, but he still had to flee back in embarrassment under the splashing of foreign guns.

The result was not much different from the daytime battle, except that the exchange ratio was better. However, the people who went out at night were the most elite fighters of each family, and even if they lost one on weekdays, they would suffer for a long time, and dozens or hundreds of people were broken at once, which simply made the leaders of the various families who regarded the force in their hands as heavy as their lives.

Affected by this blow, the morale of the Boxers from top to bottom was much weaker. During the daylight of the next day, the Boxer attack did not last a few times before withdrawing. As the big leader, although Cao Futian had the courage to fight to the death, his soldiers and horses had already suffered nearly a quarter of the casualties, and he was really too broken to fight.

Tens of thousands of troops were in a dilemma under the fortified city, which was the autumn of critical survival in the art of war. Cao Futian is not a rural fool who can't read a single word. When I was young, I also read a lot of books, and when I was in a restaurant and teahouse, I also heard "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and other commentaries, how do you not know that this is the most dangerous situation?

But he was faced with a dilemma. Either they don't accept the "good intentions" of the Black Dragon Society, tens of thousands of troops will be lost, and there is a danger of being wiped out overnight. Either accept the "kindness" of the Black Dragon Society, which is basically to lure the wolf into the house. Langfang, the territory of Baoding was originally precarious, and now it has sent a good excuse to the past, and the other party still doesn't take the opportunity to pocket the land of these two counties?

The next night, Cao Futian sat in the big tent all night and couldn't sleep all night. When the leaders of the various families came to his big tent again during the day, they were surprised to find that the second master of the Cao family, who was originally a tiger with a bear waist and a majestic majesty, had become withered overnight.

Everyone felt a pang in their hearts, knowing that it was because of the unfavorable war in the past few days that Cao Futian had become like this. But in their opinion, although they failed to capture the Langfang station occupied by foreign devils, they also killed and injured a lot of enemy troops. If you can't beat it in three days, it will take six days, and if you can't beat it in six days, it will take ten days. There are only more than 1,000 people, and I am afraid that it will be exhausted in less than ten days. Didn't you just pinch it to death when the time came? Why should God be hurt to such an extent?

Cao Futian looked at everyone's looks in his eyes and sneered in his heart. These guys are either excellent in martial arts, or cunning and treacherous, but none of them have a long-term vision. When a wise person sees the leaves of a tree withering and falling, he knows that autumn is coming. Although he has only lost a few thousand people now, which is nothing in the hundreds of thousands of Boxer army, he Cao Futian can see the great crisis behind this.

At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao, didn't it respond to all directions? The result? In just a few years, the Yellow Turban Army, which had gathered millions of people, was scattered. There is also the White Lotus Sect at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Red Turban Army was in trouble, the north and south of the river were like a fire to the plain, what was the final result?

Those of them who are the first to come forward have always been nine deaths and one life. The best outcome is nothing more than a precursor to the king. But his Cao family is up and down, plus tens of thousands of relatives and friends, how can he bear to see them die without a place to be buried?

So, after sitting in the tent for a day, he finally painfully admitted that he was not the material for world domination. This sweeps away the troubled times and reshapes the burden of mountains and rivers or let capable people pick it up. Anyway, the reason why he started his army is just because foreign devils deceive people too much, and now it is beyond the scope of his ability, so it's better to be a supporting role honestly. Thinking of this, he actually felt a little relaxed.

"Gong Cao, what are you", there was a good relationship who came forward to ask.

"Everyone," as soon as Cao Futian spoke, the big tent fell silent, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at it together. "I've already discussed with the big boss of the Black Dragon Society to bring their borrowing team over. As long as the two western-style buildings are flattened, the remaining foreign devils are not to be afraid! ”

"Black Dragon Society?"

"Would they be so kind to lend us the artillery team?"

"Or we'll just take all the cannons"

Everyone is a snake with intricate roots on the ground in Hebei, and they are born to deal with the dragon that crosses the river like the Black Dragon Society. Over the past year or so, most of the halls that have developed to the north have been uprooted by the Black Dragon Society. Although we have a lot of business dealings with each other, don't be too happy to do smuggling business or something. However, if it is said that there will be a good impression of the black dragon, it is estimated that there will be no more than three people in this big tent.

"Why are you pulling the Black Dragon Society in? We managed to keep them out of the north! Someone asked loudly, "Everyone, do the math, it's only been more than a year, and how much territory has the Black Dragon Society robbed us?" ”

"Humph!" Cao Degui, who was standing behind Cao Futian, didn't say anything, just snorted coldly, straightening his already straight waist, which made everyone in the big tent silent.

Although Cao Futian's face was haggard, he had a majestic bearing. He slowly glanced at everyone with a straight face, and said slowly, "It's not impossible to bring in the Black Dragon Society. ”

Saying that, he walked a few steps quickly, lifted the curtain of the big tent, pointed to the train station in the distance, and said loudly: "Then tell me, how can we take this damn place?" Fight like the previous two days, how many people are we going to die? ”

"As long as anyone can rush down the position of the foreign devils, I can give the position of the big leader with both hands!"

After finishing speaking, Cao Futian sneered in his heart, if any of you really have this kind of courage, I would like to admire it. However, to his disappointment or hatred, no one dared to come out and answer the sentence. Hmph, if you follow this group of guys who "do big things and sacrifice their lives, and forget their righteousness when they see small profits" go to the dark, then they are looking for death. Defecting to the Black Dragon Society will be able to deal with the current situation.

As for the situation after that, it's up to us to do it. Or it will be said to be a grass on the wall, or it will be said to be a rudder in the wind, but isn't that the case for the vast majority of people in this world? We just want to live.

"Then it's decided." Cao Futian sat back in the tent, "Degui, you go and invite the Black Dragon King to come over in person, and say that my Boxer Twenty-six Alliance has important matters to discuss with her." ”

"What, the Black Dragon King himself is here?"

The people in the tent changed color again.