Chapter 33: The Thieves Suppress the Realm
After listening to Yuan Mai's words, the suspension bridge of the racecourse was slowly lowered, and the gate was opened open.
It's not that he Yuan Mai is amiable when he speaks, nor is it the reason why the king's anger attacks and the tiger's body is shocked, but because he claims to be the son of Yuan Shao, because he is a descendant of the Yuan family.
Today, except for the Liu family, the surname of the Son of Heaven, the largest family in China is their Yuan family. The four worlds and three dukes, there are many old officials, how can they be joking, who doesn't sell three points of face?
Especially now Yuan Shao is like Zhongtian, carrying forward the identity of a wealthy nobleman to the extreme, not only was canonized by the imperial court as a general, Jizhou pastor, fake festival, supervising the military of Hebei, Qing, and three states, with 300,000 armor under his command, there is a great sweep of the world, who else is domineering!
In the land ruled by Yuan Shao, mentioning his name is much more effective than that of the emperor, and the common people all worship him as a god. Not only because Yuan Shao is powerful, but also because Yuan Shao has a good reputation. Compared with Cao Ying, Yuan Shao has a good skin, a great figure, a majestic instrument, and a dignified appearance, for the scholars of this era, such a person is undoubtedly a charming monarch.
At this time now, the battle of Guandu has not yet broken out, compared with Cao Ying, Yuan Shao has an obvious advantage, not to mention ordinary people, that is, princes from all walks of life, when it comes to Yuan Shao's name, who dares to be disrespectful? It's just that who would have expected that a few years later, the situation would be reversed, and a fire in Wuchao would burn the Yuan family to the end of the road!
At this moment, the fieldmen of the racecourse held pine torches and greeted each other in the middle of the road.
The leader surnamed Tang stood at the door and greeted: "Yuan Gongzi is here, and he is not welcomed, and I hope that Gongzi will not be blamed." Recently, the activities of the rogue around Luxian County have been rampant, so the villains dare not interrogate carefully, and don't be angry if they are offended. ”
"Huh...... Don't be polite, the world is uneven, bandits are chaotic, there is nothing wrong with being careful, what a wonder this son has! ”
Yuan Mai smiled heartily, and led the horse through the suspension bridge first, and Hao Zhao took the Fan brothers and other twenty people to dismount together, and successively passed the suspension bridge and entered the racecourse.
"May I ask where is the prince?"
The racecourse came in, but why didn't the owner come out to greet him? Or is it not there? I didn't explain it clearly!
The leader smiled apologetically: "Don't blame Childe, it's really time for you to come." My second master, I just escorted 200 horses from Di Dao before......"
"Wowhaha...... Great, Bodao, we're really lucky! ”
Listening to the leader's words, Yuan Mai was overjoyed, interrupted him with a loud laugh, and excitedly high-fived Hao Zhao in celebration.
Hao Zhao was also overjoyed, "It's really gratifying, it seems that God has let you get a general!" ”
"Since the prince is all here, why don't you come out? Could it be that I fell asleep so early? ”
Yuan Mai asked with a puzzled face, could it be that this Wang Shuang also took Zhuge Liang's route? When someone comes to visit, lie in bed and sleep a lot, wanting to indulge?
This is not scientific, it stands to reason that this Wang Shuangyi Wufu should not play such a high-IQ method, right?
After listening to Yuan Mai's words, the leader hurriedly defended: "Don't misunderstand, Childe, it's not what you think." Our second master only comes to Lu County once every six months, every time he comes to the county order to bring some Liangzhou specialties, he took people into the city at noon today, it is estimated that it will not take long to come back, the son will wait for a while, let the villain prepare food for you. ”
Yuan Mai nodded, only to understand that this Wang Shuang went to the city to give gifts, think about it, their Wang family's ancestral home is Liangzhou, if they want to gain a firm foothold in the party here, how can they not have a good relationship with the local government?
"There's no need to prepare food, you can just ask someone to get us some mung bean soup, after a long journey, my throat is about to burst into flames. We'll just wait outside for your second master. ”
Yuan Mai waved his hand, signaling the people in the racecourse not to be polite, and to do whatever they should be busy......
That's when ......
At the foot of the hillside, there was a sudden earth-shaking shout, and the bright torches lit down the hillside like day......
"Kill!"
"Grab the horses!"
"Grab the food!"
"Rob a woman!"
……
The sentry standing on the wooden tower was stunned, and shouted with a sad face: "It's amazing, there are bandits from down the hillside, there are tens of thousands of people......
The leader was suddenly frightened and fell to the ground, looking up to the sky and sighing: "I was careless, I fell for the annihilation plan of you bandits!" Uncle, second master, I, Tang Huan, can't stand you, so I have to go first......"
As the leader named Tang Huan spoke, he lifted the steel knife in his hand and was about to wipe his neck.
Hao Zhao's eyes were quick, and he snatched his knife away, and reprimanded angrily: "At the moment of a strong enemy, you don't think about how to resist the enemy, and you actually take the lead in killing yourself, do you trust Prince Zhuquan?" ”
Tang Huan was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly: "Aren't you the same party of the robbers?" Why do you want to save me when you open the door first, and then you should join forces inside and outside to snatch our horse? ”
Hao Zhao threw Tang Huan's steel knife on the ground and snorted coldly: "Hmph, who told you that we are in the same party as the robbers?" As I said a long time ago, we are the officers and soldiers from Yecheng, and we should quickly organize the brothers to defend against the enemy. ”
At this time, Yuan Mai had quickly climbed the wooden building, and looked into the distance, only to see the torches under the mountain bright, and a large group of rabble were surrounding the hillside, but the number was definitely not tens of thousands, at best only five or six hundred people......
Damn, I'll just say, where can there be tens of thousands of thieves? With this scale, I would have gone to attack the prefectures, counties and counties a long time ago, and came to rob you of a horse farm to do a hammer!
Yuan Mai muttered in his heart, slapped the field man who had lied about the military situation just now, pulled out the "Chongxiao" sword with a "choking" sound, and shouted loudly below: "Listen to me, how can there be tens of thousands of thieves?" This guy is talking nonsense, there are only a few hundred people, don't panic, all take your weapons and prepare to defend against the enemy! ”
Hearing that there were only a few hundred bandits, Tang Huan calmed down, they were surrounded by trenches outside the horse farm, and there were wooden buildings around them that could climb on the long shot and block the attack of hundreds of people, it was still possible.
In the past few years, the horse farm has been guarded by 1450 people. However, in recent years, since Yuan Shao took control of the state, he has severely cracked down on local bandits, and the law and order in Lu County has become stable; The chaos in Liangzhou is still there, and there are often Qiang people looting, so the Wang brothers reduced the field of Luxian Horse Farm by half, and transferred the other part of the people to the Longyou Horse Farm to guard.
In this way, there are only sixty or seventy field guards left in the Luxian horse farm, and Wang Shuang took more than a dozen when he entered the city today, so now in the entire horse farm, in addition to women and children, there are only about fifty people who can fight, and there is still hope for resisting the attack of hundreds of rogues......
But to deal with tens of thousands of people, that is, the mantis arm is used as a car, so when Tang Huan heard that there were nearly 10,000 bandits, he panicked for a while, and he was so frightened that he wiped his neck......
"Ergouzi, Lao Tzu your ancestor for eight lifetimes, if you don't die today, Lao Tzu will definitely castrate you when you turn around!"
After relieving himself, Tang Huan was ashamed and angry about what he had just done, and yelled at the fieldmate who had lied about the military situation just now on the wooden building.
"Don't make any noise, you're a useless thing too!"
Looking at the performance of this leader, Yuan Mai couldn't help but be angry, Nima's, if it weren't for Hao Zhao's quick eyes, your turtle grandson would have been scared to death a long time ago, and you still have the face to be a hero here?
"Hao Bodao, prepare to meet the enemy! Help the prince fight off the thieves and protect the horse farm! ”
Yuan Mai stood on the wooden building, holding the Chongxiao Sword in his hand, looking at the black crowd below the hillside, and calmly issued orders.
Although Yuan Mai had never fought, he pondered that Hao Zhao had never fought either, and as the main general, he should still command this battle by himself.
Seeing the bandits rushing up from the bottom of the hillside, except for a dozen horses at the head, all the rest were infantry, and the formation was scattered and unorganized, and it looked like a rabble.
Thinking about the Three Kingdoms game played before crossing, the cavalry is the nemesis of the infantry, especially on this kind of hillside, there are horses on this side, condescending, if all the formations are lined up, a shout to kill, it is estimated that the light horse can also trample a lot!
"No!"
Hao Zhao agreed, waved his hand, the Fan brothers took the lead, and all twenty warriors turned on their horses, ready to meet the bandits.
"You...... Gather all your men, ten of them go up to the wooden tower and fire arrows, and all the others take up their weapons and mount their horses, and wait for my orders, and I will let you charge, and you will rush out! ”
The Chongxiao Sword in Yuan Mai's hand pointed at Tang Huan under the wooden building, and gave a loud order.
The people of the racecourse have now regarded the officers and soldiers as psychological support, and if Yuan hadn't bought them, it is estimated that they would have collapsed at this moment.
It was not that they had never fought before, but the most bandits they encountered were a team of three hundred people, and the number of soldiers facing them was still one hundred and forty or fifty people, and now it was almost a ratio of one to ten, how could they not be afraid in their hearts?
At that moment, with Yuan Mai's order, there were immediately ten field players who were usually responsible for releasing arrows, picked up the quiver, held a strong bow, and quickly climbed up the wooden building. There is a wooden tower on each side of the gate, which can accommodate just five archers at once.
The rest of the men all took up arms and mounted their horses, ready to fight to the death against the invading bandits.
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