Chapter 19: The Night Raid on Bocai
"Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao are here."
The two torches at the head of the city of Changshe were lit, and Guo Jia appeared at the head of the city by the light of the fire, and calmly looked at Bocai not far from the city.
Seeing that the person at the head of the city was indeed Guo Jia, Bo Cai was relieved, he was originally worried that Guo Jia was not in Changshe, and this trip would be in vain, it seemed that everything was as he expected.
Bocai, who dragged the reins and straightened his waist, said proudly: "Little Taigong, you are famous in Yingchuan, I love your talent in Taiping Dao, as long as you go out of the city to join me Taiping Dao, I will leave the army, how about it?" ”
As soon as Bocai's voice fell, there was an uproar in the city of Changshe.
Everyone secretly slandered themselves: The Yellow Turban thief Yingchuan is actually for this Guo Jia? Then we waited for the laborers to defend the city with blood, isn't it just because of Guo Jia?
At the same time, many suspicious eyes were locked on Guo Jia: This person is favored by the Yellow Turban Thief, what should we do? Kill him as a traitor? Or was it tied up and sent to the yellow turban thieves outside the city?
Guo Jia was secretly annoyed in his heart, this wave only said his heartfelt words, now he Guo Fengxiao is difficult to ride a tiger, now, Guo Jia can't expect Bocai to withdraw from the army, otherwise he will be even more unclear, if he doesn't kill some yellow scarves, his position is ambiguous.
"The Tao is not the same, listen to me, hurry up and retreat, otherwise the sword and soldiers will meet each other, and I am afraid that there will be no recovery." Guo Jia is righteous and awe-inspiring, but the children of the surrounding families don't think so, they prefer that Guo Jia take the initiative to go out of the city, first, to let Bo Cai withdraw from the army, and second, to get rid of Guo Jia, a madman they have been jealous of for a long time.
Bo Cai chuckled a few times, and then shouted towards the head of the city: "Listen to the people in the city, now you have two ways to go, first, send Guo Jia to the tent of my righteous army, and I will retreat and leave." Second, Ming said that I led the army to attack the city, and when the city was broken, the chickens and dogs were not left! How to choose, you can think for yourself. ”
The corners of Bocai's mouth, who turned to return, raised a faint sly smile, and when he returned to the front and back of the military formation, he ordered to the left and right: "Set up camp on the spot, send people to build a siege ladder overnight, and the rest of the soldiers should rest early. ”
The group led by Xun Yan at the head of Changshe City watched the Bocai army set up camp while there were soldiers entering the nearby mountains and forests to cut down trees, obviously to build siege equipment, and after a while, several camp tents had come into view.
The yellow scarves were busy over there in an orderly manner, and Xun Yan, the head of the Changshe City here, looked back, frowned and shouted, "What are you doing?" ”
Several children of the family wrapped Guo Jia's hidden bag around him, and pressed the hilt of the sword with his hand, and he might pull out his weapon at any time.
The scene suddenly fell into a short silence and weirdness, the children of the Xun family led by Xun Yan showed displeasure, and the rest of the children of the family seemed to be about to burst, but Guo Jia was calm and indifferent, and his face was as usual.
At this time, Chen Qun paced to Guo Jia's side, as if he had made his position clear, and said jokingly: "The Yellow Turban Thief is such a clumsy trick, how can we easily fall for it, everyone, just imagine, how can the Yellow Turban Thief use a military attack for one person?" This is a clumsy ploy by the Yellow Turban thieves, so you don't need to pay attention to it. I expect that the Yellow Turban Thief must be trying to disturb our army's heart, if I wait to be at the mercy of the Yellow Turban Thief, that wave will have to move an inch, and then let me wait to hand over Brother Hugh Ruo, what should I do? Hehe. ”
"What the long article said is true, how can we compromise with the jackal? Let's go back and rest for the time being, there will be a fierce battle. Xun Yan presides over the overall situation, and his resolution will not be violated on the surface.
From beginning to end, Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu didn't say a word, just stood by Guo Jia's side and were ready to respond at all times, and the round field or the words to solve the siege and solve doubts could only be said by people of Xun Yan or Chen Qun's status Standing up and saying, play, Xu and the others here can be described as soft-spoken, and the more they explain, the more they will make those children of the family who are ready to move have bad intentions.
Everyone retreated, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, and Xi Zhicai walked to a corner of the city, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and under the faint moonlight, the camp of the Bocai army was in front of them.
"Fengxiao, now, do you know how to behave?" Xi Zhicai's face was worried, and Xu Shu also frowned and pondered.
Guo Jia sighed and said with a wry smile: "For today's plan, I am afraid that Bo will withdraw the army." If he withdraws his army, after the Taiping Dao rebellion is put down, the matter of today will be used by villains, and I, Guo Fengxiao, will become a member of the Taiping Dao rebellion. And in order to block the mouth of Youyou to make a stand, at least the Bocai army must be severely damaged, and if possible, the head of Bocai can be cut off with his own hands to be Mingzhi. ”
Walking to Guo Jia's side, Xu Shu said in a low voice: "The children of the wealthy families in the city are all greedy for life and afraid of death, and I am afraid that they will gang up to send Fengxiao out of the city." ”
Holding one hand on the broken and cold city wall, Guo Jia sneered: "Although Changwen has analyzed Bocai's intentions just now, but Changwen is only half right, I expect Bocai to come for me, but he will not kill me, but capture me in front of Zhang Jiao to ask for credit, but Changwen still said one thing, even if I Guo Fengxiao is sent to Bocai, Bocai will not keep his promise to stop the army." He Bocai broke the 100,000 army of Huangfu Song, this matter has spread all over the north and south of the river, and the world thinks that he Bocai is a peerless general, using soldiers like a god, otherwise how can he break the enemy 100,000 and kill countless generals? I'm afraid that even he Bocai himself thinks so, so he won't retreat, Changshe is such a small city, if he quits his army, his prestige will be damaged, how can this be the case? Those children of the scholar clan who claim to be handsome and talented in Yingchuan, if they can't even see this, then I, Guo Fengxiao, are wrong, I mistook them, it turns out that they are not just mediocre, but stupid. ”
At this time, the wind suddenly rose, the three of them had their hair flying, their clothes were dancing, the three of them looked up at the sky together, and then looked at the direction of the wind, and they all locked their eyes on the Bocai camp.
The wild grass outside the castle is extremely lush, and the place where Bocai camped is no exception.
Suddenly, the three of them were happy, Guo Jia saw the excitement on the faces of the two, and said with a light smile: "The wave can be broken." ”
"Heaven helps." Drama Zhicai interface.
"Wildfire!" Xu Shu made the final decision.
The three of them hurriedly walked down the city, Xu Shu and Xi Zhicai proposed to go to the county government to inform Xun Yan, but Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Without further ado, I can lead my children out of the city to defeat the enemy." ”
After thinking about it carefully, Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu also nodded in agreement, and then came to the west of the city together, when they moved into the city, Guo Jia brought more than 300 families of people were placed here, and at this moment, on both sides of the west avenue of the city, the people snuggled up to each other, covered with thin clothes, and slept on the ground.
At this moment, Zuo Ci was lying in a remote corner and falling asleep, the image of the fairy wind bones was gone, and dozens of cloth clothes sat neatly around Zuo Ci, many of them were dozing, but there were also people who opened their eyes vigilantly, patrolled around, and when they saw Guo Jia coming, they hurriedly got up and whispered: "Little Taigong." ”
Guo Jia looked at these teenagers, and felt a little unbearable, but in this troubled time, he couldn't care too much, so he summoned nearly a hundred teenagers, and the cloth-clothed teenagers who had been trained by Guo Jia himself in the past six months were neatly aligned, walked to the avenue in an orderly manner, and stood in front of Guo Jia in the blink of an eye.
On the other side, Xu Shu and Xi Zhicai also pushed a car over, with unlit torches on the car, distributed to these cloth-clothed teenagers, each with two torches, Guo Jia briefly informed them of the strategy, and added: "This time out of the city is extremely risky, if the Yellow Turban Army discovers our intentions, it will inevitably cause a fight, if you have concerns, you can stay, I Guo Jia will not blame." ”
Nearly 100 teenagers stood in front of Guo Jia, without the slightest hesitation, and Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu nodded slightly on the side.
"Zhicai, all the affairs in the city are handed over to you to deal with, if I Guo Jiafu can't come back for a short time on this trip, I hope you will take care of these people." Guo Jia held Xi Zhicai's hand before leaving, with a solemn expression.
Although Xi Zhicai followed Guo Jia and learned some martial arts, it was not this material after all, and Xu Shu was ready to go, obviously going with Guo Jia, this city matter, especially the more than 300 civilians who followed Guo Jia, must be taken care of, Xi Zhi knew that such a burden belonged to him, so he could only nod gloomily, but he was quickly shocked, and resolutely said: "Fengxiao and Yuan Zhi will go here, and they will succeed in a battle." ”
Guo Jia no longer has a mother-in-law, and Xu Shu and Xu Shu took nearly a hundred cloth-clothed teenagers to the west gate of Changshe.
When he arrived at the West Gate, the person guarding the city gate was Xun Yan's son Xun Shao, although he was young, he was dignified, and when he saw Guo Jia coming with nearly a hundred young men, he stepped forward and asked: "I don't know what the little prince has to do?" ”
Guo Jia gently pulled Xun Shao and said in a low voice: "I want to lead my children out of the city to attack the camp. ”
"Does my father know about this?" Xun Shao frowned, he was the same age as Guo Jia, but his father and uncles were almost all on the same level as Guo Jia, so he was actually a little more humble when facing Guo Jia.
Guo Jia shook his head and said, "Without further ado, please also ask the son to focus on the overall situation." ”
"This ......" Xun Shao was a little embarrassed, the command of the city had fallen into the hands of his father Xun Yan, and this was recognized by the wealthy families of the Yingchuan clan, but Guo Jia was born in a poor family, and he was not the same person as them in nature, can Xun Yan restrain Guo Jia? Don't say that Xun Shao's brain can't turn around, I'm afraid Xun Yan himself can't tell.
"Childe, do you see if there are enemies outside the city? If not, you will let me wait until I leave the city and close the gates, and it will not affect your duty to guard the gates. At this time, the night wind was gusting, and Guo Jia was anxious, for fear that this good opportunity for public beauty would be delayed.
Xun Shao heard Guo Jia's proposal, thought it was reasonable, opened the west gate of the city after some investigation, and closed the gate again after Guo Jia and his party went out.
The Bocai army was stationed in the north of Changshe City, Guo Jia and Xu Shu led the cloth-clothed teenagers out of the west gate, according to the prior agreement, a team of ten people, Guo Jia and Xu Shu each led half of the people, sneaking towards the Yellow Turban camp through the lush and dense grass.
The words were divided into two ends, and the children of the Yingchuan family who returned to their residence got together again, and after discussing for a while, they decided to tie up Guo Jia and send him to Bocai to avoid this unwarranted disaster.
Wang, Huang, Li led by the three family members gathered more than 50 people to find Guo Jia's figure, the city tower looked all over and did not find, and then went straight to the west of the city also failed, was told by Xun Shao to get Guo Jia's whereabouts, the children of the family were suddenly shocked, holding torches and rushing to the county government, but at the gate of the county government saw Xun Yan, Chen Qun, and Xi Zhicai.
"Brother Hugh Ruo, something is wrong, Guo Jiana led the children of the family to join the Yellow Turban Thief!"
"Ridiculous! Bloody mouth. Xi Zhicai was furious, thinking that Guo Jia and Xu Shu led those cloth-clothed young men who were only in their early teens to go out of the city to kill the enemy, and these gentlemen only cared about their own life and death, and now they not only want to arrest Guo Jia to show favor to the thief, but what is even more odious is that they don't know the truth and are accused of being a thief!
"Humph!" Xun Yan's face was gloomy, and he didn't pay attention to this group of children of the family who were usually empty-eyed but had no real talents, and walked towards the north of the city with an expressionless Chen Qun and a resentful Xi Zhicai.
When they climbed the city tower, Xun Yan and his party were suddenly stunned like a thunderbolt from the sky.
On a crisp night, the wind-swept grass hissed, and the tents standing in the grass were in order.
The flame, lit quietly in an inconspicuous place, at one point, at two points, at three points...... The ten o'clock star fire lit up, but suddenly it soared more than ten times, the fire soared into the sky, and there were countless fires passing through the air, like a meteor falling, and when it fell, it ignited a raging flame, and the ten points of fire in different directions were like ten wild dragons, rushing up and raging away.
Riding the wind, the fire dragon swept across the land, burning up the vegetation and trees, and the tents ignited a sky-high fire with the wails of men and the neighing of horses.
On this night, the fire of Changsha instantly ignited the prairie and the flames were monstrous.