Seeing that the Yellow Turban Thieves had discovered their whereabouts, Shixun felt so careful that he almost fell off his horse. When I looked up at Tai Shici, I saw that his expression was calm and unmoved, but he opened his throat and shouted: "The handsome Black Mountain is sent by poison...... Ahem, a messenger has been sent! ”

Strange to say, the noise of the Quartet gradually subsided. It turned out that the Yellow Turban Army had just come to Duchang City, and the barracks had not yet been set up - well, more people actually had no barracks and tents to use, and they were all wrapped in broken blankets and sleeping in the open - suddenly someone saw two horses rushing in, and they beat the drums in shock, and the drums beat together, and the big guys thought that the enemy was robbing the camp, and they were in chaos on the spot. Just now, Xun was nervous and had auditory hallucinations, and the noise around him was not shouting at all, but night terrors, and bombing the camp......

When Tai Shi Ci said that - Shi Xun never thought that someone would be able to spew out all the dantian qi through his choking throat, he was two horse heads away from Tai Shi Ci, and he felt a "buzz" in his ears, and almost became really deaf after the false aphasia - the Yellow Turban Army who were trembling and touching the blades everywhere were soon born: Oh, it turned out that it was not an enemy attack, but a messenger came...... The messenger has to lead him to see the handsome, don't do our business, let's go back honestly and get ready for sleep.

So there was such a loud roar, and the whole camp was silent, but after running for more than a hundred meters, suddenly someone shouted in front: "Where is the messenger of Montenegro?" Come with me to see the big handsome. Tai Shici agreed: "It's here." With a snap of his hand, he swept the guy who was about to lead the way under the horse.

If he stabbed someone to death with a lance, maybe he would blow up the camp again, but he just swept the person under the horse, and the man lay on the ground and hummed, and everyone who saw it was stupid, and his heart said that this was an enemy, or an accident? In such a stunned manner, Tai Shi Ci and Shi Xun had already penetrated the enemy camp and came to the outside of the moat.

Although the city of Duchang is not large, the walls are high and the moats are deep, and the defense is tight. Especially outside the serious city wall, there is also a circle of sheep and horse walls along the moat, as the first line of defense to resist the enemy's siege, at this time there are many torches on the sheep and horse walls, which can be seen that there are soldiers stationed. As soon as the two of them approached the moat, seven or eight bows were erected on the wall of the sheep and horses, and then they heard and asked, "Who is it?" Stop! ”

Tai Shi Ci reported his name, saying that it was to repay Kong Rong's kindness, so he came to help. The man sneered, "Who knows if you are a spy of the Yellow Turban Thief." Shi Xun hurriedly urged the mount, stood side by side with Tai Shici, and shouted: "A certain is the nephew of the five senses Peng is Xun, can anyone recognize it in the city?" ”

Shi Yi was in charge of recruiting and training soldiers, Shi Xun helped him calculate money, food and materials, and followed him to the barracks a few times, and sure enough, his face was revealed in the firelight, and he heard someone shouting: "It is indeed the Seventh Prince, I recognize them, let them in." Several more people responded.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army also knew that something was wrong, and there was a jumble of footsteps and horses' hooves behind them. Tai Shi Ci had already tightened his grip on his horse lance and was about to turn back, but Shi Xunman's palms were full of cold sweat. Fortunately, a plank was quickly put out on the moat on the opposite side, and they were brought through, and then a few feathered arrows were shot out to block the pursuers.

It wasn't until all four horses' hooves stepped safely across the trench that Shihoon finally breathed a long sigh of relief. He turned his head to take a look, and suddenly noticed a familiar figure among the pursuers. At this moment, the man had already seen him, and immediately pouted fiercely and waved his fist at him.

Yeshun smiled and beckoned.

Soon, the two were connected to the city and went to the county government to meet Kong Rong. Kong Rong was overjoyed, holding Tai Shici's hand and refusing to let go, he said repeatedly: "Zi Yiguo is a righteous person, Rong didn't look away!" ”

Shi Yi's father and son also heard the news, and Shi Yi took Shi Xun's hand and sighed again and again: "Hongfu, why do you go deep into the encirclement and come to Duchang?" Shi Xun smiled slightly, so he made a heroic appearance: "Father Jun is here, how can he not come?" "It's over, and I'm asking about the current situation. Shi Yi locked his eyebrows and told him that the Yellow Turban Thieves brought nearly one million old and young people, including 300,000 armed men and tens of thousands of capable fighters. At this time, there were only more than 2,000 soldiers in the city, and even if the people were brought in to help defend it, it would be less than 10,000, which was really dangerous.

Tai Shi Ci listened to it and comforted them and said: "Ci sees that Duchang City is small and tall, and two thousand soldiers are enough to garrison it, although there are many Yellow Turban thieves, those who can attach ants to the city will not be more than 5,000 at the same time. ”

Kong Rong said that he had sent Wang Xiu to Qi and Wang Xiao to Donglai to ask for help, but he didn't know when Lu Dao would arrive. Tai Shi Ci shook his head lightly: "Although Jiao Yuanjun has soldiers and horses, he doesn't dare to fight with thieves, where is he willing to send rescuers?" As for Donglai, as far as Ci knows, there are only thousands of old and weak people in the county, and I am afraid that they are unable to rescue. ”

Kong Rong connected the grinding and said what to do. Tai Shi Ci asked him about the stock of grain and grass materials in the city, and Kong Rong didn't know if he didn't know anything, or if Yi was more clear, and told him that it could last for two to three months.

Tai Shi Ci said: "There are millions of thieves, even if they get the grain and grass provided by Jiao Zhijun, it will not last, and they will be returned in less than two months." Ask the government army to hand over the soldiers and horses in the city to Ci to arrange Bule, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Kong Rong looked left and right and replied, "Ziyi is tired from a long journey, so let's go and rest first." I expect the thieves to attack the city tomorrow, and when the day comes, let's discuss it again. ”

Shi Xun stole a glance at Kong Rong, and said in his heart What are you pretending, you just don't want to hand over the military power - you can recognize people, you can't use people, sure enough, this famous Kong Beihai is just a useless nerd.

He didn't have a very good impression of Kong Rong before he crossed over. This guy was first killed like a dog by the Yellow Turban, and then by Yuan Tan, and lost the entire Beihai Kingdom, and fled to Xuchang to attach to Cao Cao in embarrassment. At that time, Kong Rong was a loyal dog to Cao Cao, just looking at the poems he wrote, he knew that he said - "Looking at the Kanto region is sad, dreaming of the return of Cao Gong", "From Luo to Xu Weiwei, Cao Gong is worried about the country and selfless", isn't the purpose of wanting Cao Cao to throw him a few pieces of meat and bones to gnaw?

It's a pity that Cao Cao is a knowledgeable person, and he knows that this guy has a unique mouth, and he thinks too highly of himself - "Lu Wang's old horseman, Gou is a young prisoner because of the world, and he can only make meritorious contributions" - but he has no real ability, Cao Cao has always been "only talented", in other words, he is not willing to raise it if he is not talented, so he casually threw an empty title and hung Kong Rong. Kong Rong was not happy now, and after that, he saw that the sky was awkward in front of Cao Cao, and he kept saying strange things about Cao Cao's governance, but he won the name of a loyal minister of the Han family. No one can stand this, so in the end, Cao Cao "clicked" his head.

All in all, Kong Rong is a typical example of a stinky literati who can say that he has no ability, plus he is dead.

However, after coming to this world, after being in contact with it for a period of time, Shi Xun felt that the impression he had from books in the past was a little biased? It is true that Kong Rong is not a hero in troubled times, if you take the standards of heroes like Cao Cao and Liu Bei to ask others, let alone Kong Rong, the vast majority of scholars with names and surnames in the world will not be able to pass the test, and those who live are all living, and those who die are all self-inflicted. Although Kong Rong did not govern Beihai as a happy land, he still made a little contribution to establishing education and reassuring people's hearts, and the Yellow Turban Shuai Zhang Huan would not have taken the initiative to withdraw from Beihai because of Kong Rong's mouth cannon.

But at this time, this evaluation has come full circle back to the original point. Kong Rong scholar, it's normal to not know how to fight, you can't ask all scholars to be like Zhuge Liang, the day before they were still alone in the mountains to farm, and the day after tomorrow they can lead thousands of troops and horses in Bowang to burn tun (although that is also a fictional romance). But if you don't know how to fight, you can learn, and more importantly, you can hand over the military power to someone who knows how to fight, Kong Rong is good, he has recommended Tai Shici many times before, and it is understandable that he refused to go to the thatched house three times, and now Tai Shici took the initiative to send it to the door, but he is still this garbage face who wants power and does not want to die, and it is really unpleasant to look at!

Early the next morning, Kong Rong really made all kinds of excuses, and he didn't discuss the military situation with them. Tai Shi Ci rendezvous is Xun went straight to the West City, it is Xun Na glanced at the corner of his eye, and saw that most of the soldiers guarding the city were the original Beihai soldiers, as for the guys who were newly recruited by Yi in the past six months, they didn't see any of them - it is estimated that they would have run away a long time ago.

Then he held the city wall and looked down, only to see that his eyes were full of human heads, just like the traffic on the third ring road of Gao Feng who commuted to and from work in the previous life. But there is one point, the traffic has a unified orientation, and these people can face everywhere, and they are squatting or lying down or lying on their stomachs, and the postures are also strange. At a glance, it seems that most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are the family members and soldiers brought by the yellow scarf? Where's the soldier?

As if seeing the doubts in his heart, Tai Shici patted him on the shoulder and raised his hand to point far away. It was only then that Xun noticed that among the nearly a million people, there were many tents scattered in a row, one of which was the densest, and a huge earthy yellow flag was standing in the middle.

Or Tai Shi Ci has experience, and he can immediately find out the small number of different ants among a million ants. Shi Xun faced the wind, stared at the boss, until tears were in his eyes, and he didn't see clearly how many people were there, and where the general (maybe Guan Hai) was - it would be nice if there was a telescope, the principle is simple, I don't know if there is enough clear glass or glass in this era...... Or wait until you have the money and go find crystals instead?

Tai Shi Ci sneered: "The Yellow Turban Thief's movements are very slow, it is estimated that it will be close to noon before the first attack can be organized, you and I can go down to the city to rest for a while." ”

His expectations were not bad at all, and it was not until early noon that he heard the earth-shaking drums outside the city. Not long after the two of them finished eating, they hurried to the top of the city when they heard the sound, and saw thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers each holding their swords, swords, shields and spears alternately covering in front, and archers in the back, under the guidance of several yellow flags, clamoring and heading straight to the city.

Soon, they exchanged hands with the officers and soldiers guarding the sheep and horse wall. On the battlefield, arrows flew wildly, blades collided, and from time to time there were terrible screams mixed with shouts, and in just a few breaths, nearly 100 people fell on each side. Although Shixun was in the city, his legs trembled when he saw it, and if he hadn't held on to the city wall, he would have almost gone limp. He secretly cheered himself up: "Don't panic, don't panic, you were in the city of Han a few years ago, everyone lay down and you and Shixun can stand, but don't grow back to the dog, now it's not as good as those ordinary soldiers!" ”

At this time, most of the officers and soldiers guarding Duchang were veterans who had served for several years, and they had followed Kong Rong to meet the Yellow Turban Thieves in a few battles. What's more important is that Duchang has been surrounded at this moment, and there is no way to retreat, if people have no way to retreat and are forced to sacrifice their lives, then the combat effectiveness can explode by several percentage points.

Tai Shi Ci saw that it was bloody, raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and greeted Shi Xun: "You and I will go out of the city to fight a few times, and cut off a few heads of thieves and prisoners to come back!" ”