Chapter 43: The Attacking Army (5)
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In front of the gate of Fangcun Village, the second leader Cao Yuan still did not rest at the moment, but waited silently in the cottage.
The Yellow Turban Army camp in the distance had already seen firelight, but the darkness obscured the vision, and it was impossible to tell whether Yang Yu had won or not. But no matter what, he must take care of the cottage, which is the responsibility that must be fulfilled as a left-behind guard.
Looking back, I was born in a poor family and begged for a book but couldn't.
Yang Yu found him and told him: "Come and help me, I'll give you a chance to study!" It will give you glory and wealth! ”
Maybe it was because he wanted to study too much, or he didn't want to be a mud leg anymore, in a trance, Cao Yuan took the olive branch handed over by Yang Yu in this way, and when he came back to his senses, he was already the second leader of the cottage.
Cao Yuan can also be regarded as a model of love and love, and after reading a lot of books provided by Yang Yu over the years, he also actively made suggestions, handled logistics work, and helped Yang Yu keep the cottage in order.
If it weren't for this, Yang Yu would not have handed over such a heavy responsibility as staying in the hands of Cao Yuan when he went out to fight this time.
"Open the door, hurry up and open the door!" Suddenly, there were some crying shouts outside the cottage.
"Who?" Their own sentries quickly climbed the watchtower to check on outsiders.
"Hurry up and open the door, we're looking for the second boss, the big boss has an accident!" The comer hurriedly shouted.
The sentry looked at the people carefully, these people were in rags, and there seemed to be some burns on their bodies, but it could still be seen that the leader was the brother who had gone out with the big leader.
"Wait, I'll inform the second leader!" The sentry didn't dare to be self-conscious, and immediately went downstairs after replying and found Cao Yuan.
"Something happened to the eldest brother? Is the news exact?! Cao Yuan couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, and asked involuntarily.
"Report to the second leader, the one who came to report is a small fellow villager, and the one who joined the cottage with the small one, so it should still be trustworthy." The sentry replied cautiously.
"Don't be in a hurry to open the door first, follow me up to the watchtower and ask!" Cao Yuan believed a little when he heard this, but he was not impulsive enough to open the door immediately, but just signaled the sentry to follow him to the tower.
After a while, Cao Yuan came to the watchtower, looked at a few soldiers outside the door, and looked at their miserable appearance, feeling a little panicked.
"How's the big boss?" Cao Yuan shouted out the door.
"The second leader, the big leader, was ambushed, and the other party burned the camp tent and burned most of our brothers to death. Before we escaped, the big boss led people to break through, but now the life and death are unknown, the second leader should hurry up and support, otherwise I am afraid that there will be more luck and less luck! The pawn cried and cried.
"Come on! Gather all the men and horses now, and kill them with me! Cao Yuan couldn't hold his composure, and immediately went down the tower and shouted.
The soldiers below were also well-trained and quickly assembled.
In the end, under Cao Yuan's order, the gate was quickly opened, and the army began to rush towards the bottom of the mountain. According to Cao Yuan's idea, no matter whether the big boss has anything to do or not, he must go down the mountain. If the big boss is fine, he must be saved if he can save it, and if he is no longer able to return to the sky, he has already brought someone to save him, which can be regarded as the end of benevolence and righteousness.
The local forces are different from the Han Dynasty or the Yellow Turban Army, they are talking about righteousness and loyalty, as the second leader, when the life and death of the eldest brother are unknown, they do not send people to the rescue, what do the younger brothers below think? It's okay to be greedy for life and afraid of death, but if it's ugly, I still think that I just want to be a big brother, so I won't save Yang Yu.
If this wind exists, the cottage will never be peaceful in the future, especially the people in the village are more or less related to the Yang family. To put it mildly, although he is the second master, sometimes the power in his hands only needs Yang Yu's words to take it all back.
But he didn't want to, and after walking less than half a mile, a large amount of rubble fell from the sky, causing more than 30 casualties at once. The others were even more stunned, not understanding where the stone came from and why it suddenly fell from the sky.
"It's the Yellow Turban Army's trebuchet, damn they saw us go down the mountain, and they actually used it again!" Cao Yuan scolded.
It is true that trebuchets cannot cause damage to the walls and gates of the cottage, but as Cao Yuan and them get closer, it is completely possible to throw more stones, the latter heavier stones. But according to Fang Yun's meaning, he prefers the former, after all, the range of the blow is wider in this way, and then one or two catties of stones fall into the sky, which is enough to smash the pawn without a helmet to death.
Cao Yuan: The torches they lit when they went down the mountain became the best indicator light for their location. But if they put out their torches, it would be impossible, everyone lacked nutrition these days, and almost all of them had night blindness, not to mention them, even if Fang Yun turned off the lights, the surroundings were also dark, and there was no difference between reaching out and not seeing five fingers and being blind.
During this time, he has tried to eat more evenly, with some wild vegetables, and find a way to get some meat to supplement, but how can the vitamins that have been lacking for a long time be replenished in such a short time? In such an environment, it doesn't matter if you attack at night or anywhere, if you don't have torches, you really can't see the road.
Cao Yuan is in such a situation at the moment, he wants to extinguish the torch, but he is afraid that everyone will not be able to see the road and collapse without a fight; However, if you continue to light the torch and move forward, you will only be attacked by the trebuchet of the other party, and you don't know how many brothers will survive when you reach your destination.
Go back? It seems that this is the only result, and since the other party has begun to use trebuchets, I am afraid that Yang Yu is already more than lucky.
"Retreat!" Cao Yuan had to make the most correct choice.
But when they returned to the gate, and shouted for the sentry inside to open the door, the gate was tightly closed.
"Open the door, or I'll skin you alive!" When the sky sparsely dropped a three-pound stone bullet, Cao Yuan could no longer calm down, at this moment he just wanted to enter the village quickly.
But I didn't want to, an unfamiliar figure boarded the lookout, and the most surprising thing was that this person was tied with a yellow scarf on his head!
"Second Boss Cao, I'm sorry, your cottage has been taken over by our Yellow Turban Army!" Xie Ran said proudly.
Just now, it was the few soldiers who came back to report the news, deducting that the first one was the one who announced the surrender of the soldiers, and the dozen or so soldiers in the back were actually brothers of the Yellow Turban Army. As soon as they entered, they managed to go around to the side gate, kill the sentries guarding there, and then lure Xie Ran, who was waiting at the bottom of the mountain, up.
After Xie Ran came up, he took over the almost empty cottage without saying a word, and successfully cut off the retreat of Cao Yuan's return. Now Cao Er is completely homeless, and there are a thousand soldiers who can't enter.
"My general has an order, lay down your arms and surrender, otherwise you will be killed!" Xie Ran looked down at Cao Yuan and the others and shouted.
"Haha, when the Yellow Turban thief kills my benefactor, I am inseparable from you, how can I surrender?" Cao Yuan laughed.
"Then I'm sorry, use a stone!" Xie Ran shook his head and shouted to the soldiers behind him. There were more than 50 soldiers behind him, and they all picked up the stones used for defense and threw them towards the door.
Looking at these stones, which were originally used to defend against the enemy, and in turn smashed and smashed his own people to death, Cao Yuan had the urge to vomit blood. But he knew that if he wanted to smash open the city gate at this moment, he would not have this condition at all.
The only thing he could do now was to take people down the mountain...... Then, find a way to avenge your eldest brother!
"Sons, follow me down the mountain and avenge my eldest brother!" Cao Yuan raised his arms and exhaled.
"Revenge!" All the soldiers here have a little relationship with the Yang family, and I don't know if they really have Stockholm syndrome, one or two are really willing to die for Yang Yu from the bottom of their hearts.
The soldiers followed Cao Yuan down the mountain, but the trebuchet was once again powerful, and a large amount of gravel was thrown.
Unconsciously, the number of soldiers was constantly decreasing, from 1,000 to more than 700. Lacking a shield, they can only find a way to disperse some of their travels, so that they can avoid being hit by flying stones with a higher probability.
But people's luck is always limited, and finally, one of the stones, which weighed about three catties, fell from the sky and smashed into Cao Yuan.
Cao Yuan didn't wear a helmet, he only felt a shock to his head, and then he lost consciousness. At this moment, he was directly smashed by the flying stone and his brain burst, and his death was terrifying. Until he died, his eyes were wide open, and he didn't know whether he was unwilling or couldn't believe that he would die here......
"I'm waiting for the wish to surrender, Grandpa Yellow Turban will spare his life!" Perhaps it was Cao Yuan's death that spurred the others, and finally one of the soldiers threw away the weapon in his hand and shouted down the mountain.
"I'll wait for the surrender, Grandpa Yellow Turban will spare his life!" More soldiers couldn't bear it anymore and laid down their arms and surrendered.
Fang Yun, who was already preparing for a white-knuckle battle at the foot of the mountain, smiled when he heard this, signaled the stone-throwing troops to stop attacking, and took his own men and horses to surrender.
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