Chapter 18: Planning
At the same time, Zhang Yan, who was outside the city, saw this scene, and was about to ride his horse forward, rushing to the south gate regardless of the situation. Suddenly, at this moment, a gust of cold wind blew and woke up Zhang Yan's feverish head.
"Stop", Zhang Yan waved his hand, and immediately stopped the momentum of the Yellow Turban Army behind him. He carefully inspected the strange area in front of the south gate, and saw that there were potholes, some formed separately, and some were connected, but the same thing was that there were a lot of Xuzhou elite soldiers in ambush inside, and I am afraid that there were more than 2,000 people. Originally, Zhang Yan despised Xuzhou a little, but after the lesson just now, he was extra careful and attached great importance to it, so he stopped in place and thought about it, as if he didn't understand the role of those things.
To be careful, he sent out a few hundred yellow turbans to attack tentatively. I didn't want those yellow turbans to just approach the outermost layer of trenches, so suddenly a row of people stood up from inside the trenches and fired a flurry of crossbow arrows with the crossbows in their hands. Most of the equipment of the Yellow Turban Army is mainly offensive weapons, which has a lot to do with their fighting style of exchanging lives for lives. Zhang Yan frowned, and while ordering those yellow turbans to retreat, he called in five hundred archers.
"Put!" Zhang Yan gave an order. The salvo of five hundred people is said to be more or less, and if it were in normal times, those Xuzhou elite soldiers would have panicked a long time ago, and now, hum, as long as you lean over and go to the trench with a cat, most of those arrows missed, and only a few unlucky ghosts were shot, but they were not fatal. Zhang Yan suddenly realized, and said in her heart: "I underestimated you a little."
But there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, thinking that the previous battle was too unchallenging to play his true level. Seeing that the sky was about to darken, Zhang Yan had the heart to retreat, but he knew that if he retreated like this, he would definitely hurt his own yellow scarf, so he suddenly shouted, pretending to be angry and said, "That guy on the city wall!" I, Zhang Zi'an, will kill you to vent my hatred! Tomorrow, when the city is broken, it will be the time when you die! Hmph, let's go! ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! The Yellow Turban Army behind Zhang Yan all had red eyes, just that murderous aura, just that momentum, made everyone in Xuzhou tremble, and Du Chen was also worried. It's a yellow scarf...... Du Chen bit the corner of his mouth, where blood was already faintly oozing. "Brothers, go! Let these Xuzhou rats live one more day! ”
Zhang Yan pinched the horse's belly with great grace and led the yellow scarf to retreat into the barracks. So there is a very wonderful situation, the morale of the losing side is high, and the person who has made a small profit has a bleak face, like a gambler who has lost everything. And those Xuzhou elite soldiers who took the heads of the Yellow Turban Army have lost those heads, and I don't know why. It's a bit of a pity...... Du Chen sighed when he thought about it, looking at the fearful soldiers around him, he sighed in his heart, if an army has no momentum, what is the difference between it and the rabble?
Thinking of this, Du Chen laughed loudly, and the sound of laughter was so loud that I was afraid that the soldiers in the trenches and bunkers below could hear it. Tao Qian next to him was very puzzled, and immediately asked, "I don't know why Du Xiaoyou is laughing?" ”
Du Chen said in a very funny tone, "Retreat is retreat, if you have to say something beautiful before leaving, it's like a gangster fighting, you can't fight, before leaving, you have to say a few cruel words." What's more, you Zhang Yan is not the legendary Nine Shades and Fourteen Youths, and if you say 'you wait for me', you can scare the three saints and one mansion! What's the point of doing that? It's just a waste of words. If he can't capture Xuzhou tomorrow, I wonder what he will say? ”
Tao Qian opened his mouth, touched his gray beard, and said with a smile, "What Du Xiaoyou said is very true, everyone in the world has a heavy face, and I am afraid that this yellow turban general is no exception!" But the old man really hopes to see what he will say to us at this time tomorrow, could it be 'I am unwell today, and I will wait for my name?' ’”
"Hahaha!" The rest of the crowd laughed loudly, and the momentum suddenly faintly replied. "The thief's tone is so bad!" Du Chen was "furious" and said, "He doesn't want to sleep peacefully today!" "Oh?" Tao Qian's eyes lit up, "Could it be that Du Xiaoyou has another plan?" Du Chen took a few steps forward and said a few words in Tao Qian's ear, after speaking, Tao Qian's expression was very excited, Du Xiaoyou is really talented, with you here, Xuzhou City is guaranteed!"
When Du Chen and Tao Qian discussed tomorrow's war, Tao Qian's guard came back, and the guard, holding a box in his hand, walked to Tao Qian's side, "My lord, bring it." "Du Xiaoyou, in order to thank you, I have decided to give you a gift in my private capacity for the Qiē I recently made for Xuzhou City."
"Gifts? What gift? "Du Xiaoyou, you see that now, the weather is cold, and we are still like this, Mrs. Du......" Du Chen reacted at this time, and hurriedly looked at Qin Xi, seeing that Qin Xi seemed to be frozen to a pale face, he suddenly felt a twist in his heart, and hurriedly took Tao Qianzhong's clothes and wanted to put them on Qin Xi.
"Husband!" Qin Xi stretched out his hand to stop Du Chen's hand, and Zhengse said, "The husband and the soldiers are all suffering from the cold, how can the concubine be an exception?" How unjust the husband is! "You!" Du Chen was a little angry for the first time, and said in a deep voice, "I'll just put it on if you put it on!" Qin Xi pouted and looked at Du Chen stubbornly. Tao Qian sighed secretly in his heart, stepped forward and said, "Mrs. Du, the old man sees that the two of you have not yet finished married, so let's take this as the wedding gift I gave you!" ”
"That's it!" Du Chen was anxious in his heart, and without saying anything, he put his clothes on Qin Xi's body, and whispered in her ear, "If you don't behave, look at how I clean you up when I go back at night!" Hearing the word clean up, Qin Xi's face suddenly turned red, and she glared at Du Chen with shame and anger, and seemed to feel that it was inappropriate, so she had to pout and put it on. "Don't worry!" Du Chen looked at Qin Xi who was dressed and his mood suddenly improved a little, as if a boulder in his heart had fallen to the ground, and said lightly, "I will let this yellow scarf retreat!" ”
"That's it! Is that! Everyone praised and congratulated, and Tao Qian was even more so. That's right! Du Chen suddenly remembered Fang Yue and said, "That Fang Yue seems to be a general, so leave this matter to him!" "Okay, I know, Du Xiaoyou, you can rest assured!" "Husband......" Qin Xi stepped forward and stood with Du Chen, "Will the yellow scarf really retreat?" "Don't believe me?" Du Chen smiled slightly.
"How can it be, the concubine body said that the concubine body will always believe in the husband and support the husband!"
At night, in the tent of the Yellow Turban Army outside the city, Zhang Yan sat in the camp tent, burning the brazier, and reading a book in the faint light. After a long time, he stood up, stretched his body, walked out of the tent, and glanced in the direction of Xuzhou. It was cold and quiet outside, with only a few crows chirping, which was annoying. Most of the Yellow Turbans were asleep, and only those who were on vigil gathered around the campfire, shivering with their thin clothes. Zhang Yan couldn't help but sigh gloomily, although the Yellow Turban was powerful, but the uprising was hasty, and there were so many people who joined the army, some soldiers couldn't even allocate weapons, let alone others.
If you don't take Xuzhou, how can you survive this cold winter? Du Chen? Who is this? Can it be valued by great sages and good teachers? However, the great sage and good teacher are too ridiculous, one city and one person, which is more important, you can see at a glance, for the sake of the soldiers below, this Xuzhou I Zhang Zi'an must take it, if that Du Chen unfortunately died in the war, the responsibility will be borne by a certain force!