When the fire burned in Jinyang, the villagers of Huangmen Pavilion did notice the situation here.

Thinking that the water was gone, they immediately beat gongs and drums and organized people to come to the rescue.

As a result, it was still halfway through, and the villagers who were the first to be arranged to go to Zhangyang to see the situation were full of horror and ran back like madmen, screaming for slaughter.

Soon everyone learned the truth, there was actually a bandit in Jinyangju wantonly killed, and the entire village was killed.

In an instant, all the villagers in Huangmen Pavilion were boiling, and the news was reported to the elders of the Deng Shen Er clan, and many clan elders also immediately ordered the villagers to organize and prepare to resist the enemy.

The Han people have always been full of martial virtues and fierce folk customs. Especially in the land of Xuzhou, Qingzhou, there has always been a very good source of soldiers, such as Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, is a native of Xuzhou, which belonged to Xuzhou Xiapi Xiaxiang County in the late Han Dynasty, and was later known as Suqian City, Jiangsu.

Hearing that there were thieves ravaging the countryside, although they didn't know who the other party was, the villagers quickly organized their clansmen. Soon, more than 200 people who were selected as clansmen this time gathered and were led by the Deng Shen clan.

The commander was Deng Mao's eldest son, named Deng Zhao, who was four years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, and had followed Zhang Wen to Xiliang to fight against Han Sui Ma Teng in his early years. Although he was just an ordinary lineman, like Shen Zhen, he had the experience of going into battle to kill the enemy, so he was selected as the leader of the clan.

In the Han Dynasty, there were five people and one team, two teams and one tithe, five tithes for one team, and two teams for one tun. One tun was a hundred people, Shen Zhen and another Deng clan were the tun chiefs, and the three of them hurriedly went to the clan ancestral hall and ordered the clansmen to take weapons and prepare for battle.

After Cao Ren slaughtered Yang Ju and found that the horses were let go by Shen Chen, he chased and killed Shen Chen. When they met Liu Bei and others halfway and immediately chose to evacuate, Deng Zhao and the others had already ordered two hundred clansmen to set off for Zhangyang.

The two sides happened to meet halfway through, and Cao Ren watched from a distance and saw a large number of people on the road ahead.

In addition to Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and other clansmen, the rest of the Huangmenting villagers also rushed to help.

It's just that most of the clansmen and the villagers who came to help were enthusiastic, and the weapons and equipment in their hands were extremely poor, similar to the ordinary Yellow Turban Army in the early days.

Those with rakes, hoes, flattens, bronze knives, and the best equipped are a few slender deboning kitchen knives.

Iron tools in the Han Dynasty were very scarce, and salt iron minerals were monopolized by the state, and there were very few iron tools left by the people. Many of the agricultural tools and kitchen utensils used by the common people are stone or bronze.

Such as stone hoes, stone knives, stone rakes, bronze farm tools, bronze knives, etc., can own an iron kitchen knife is considered the richest family in the township.

This point is recorded in many materials unearthed from Han tombs in later generations, such as bronze knives in the "Kitchen Map".

The two clans of Deng Shen sold their property and bought a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron to build weapons, but unfortunately iron was a strategic material in these years, and even if they tried their best, they didn't get much, so the real combat effectiveness was actually very limited.

However, because the sky was too dark, Cao Ren could only see countless torches flickering in the distance, as well as the sound of shouting and killing like a tsunami, and he was shocked for a while and did not dare to move forward.

But soon Cao Ren realized that the other party could not be a powerful enemy, because Tao Qian's army was in Yan County, and even if they came from Yan County, it was impossible for dozens of miles to arrive in an instant, so these people were at most nearby villagers, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Thinking of this, Cao Ren immediately issued an order: "All the soldiers listen to the order, there are just some villagers in front, just kill them all, lest we gather and slaughter one by one, just save trouble!" ”

"Yui!"

Cao's army is all elite in a hundred battles, and their morale is magnificent.

Ding Chong, the Yong clan of Huangmenting Township, is at the forefront of the clansmen who have a serious Eastern Han Dynasty ring head knife in their hands, these people are basically soldiers, well-trained border pawns, although the number is small, but extremely brave.

Under their leadership, the villagers of Huangmenting behind them also rushed towards Cao's army like a tide, and their number exceeded 400 people, occupying a numerical advantage.

"Kill!"

"Avenge your clansmen!"

"Don't let any of them go!"

In a hoarse roar, the two sides finally collided together.

On the first day of the first meeting, there was a first wave of casualties on both sides.

Although the villagers are not well armed, Cao Jun has no armor, and everyone in the front row is a soldier, and the same ring head knife will kill if it is cut on people.

It's just that because Cao Jun is an elite soldier in the year of fighting, and the villagers in Huangmenting are basically veterans, the older ones are already in their forties, and the younger ones are in their thirties.

Therefore, after the two sides collided, the casualties of the villagers of Huangmenting were even greater. More than 40 fighters who rushed to the front fell almost half in an instant, while the enemy only lost more than a dozen people, and the gap was still relatively obvious.

Shen Zhen also rushed to the forefront as the commander of the tun, and under the cover of a clan brother, he sneaked up on a Cao soldier from the flank and stabbed him through the waist, the Cao soldier was also fierce, holding the blade that pierced the body with his left hand, and slashing at Shen Zhen's head with his right backhand.

It is also considered that Shen Zhen has been hunting in the mountains all the year round and still maintains his skills, after stabbing with a knife and being grabbed by the opponent and unable to pull it out, he immediately retreated and dodged this blow, and the clan brother next to him took the opportunity to cut the neck of the Cao army soldier, resulting in his life.

The next moment, another Cao Jun on the left pounced, Shen Zhen had no weapon in his hand at this time, and the clan brother had just drawn his knife and had no time to counterattack, and at the last moment, several villagers behind him used the rake and hoe in their hands to pick up and began to smash the enemy's head.

To tell the truth, when it comes to killing efficiency, these brave villagers are definitely not as good as Cao Jun, but when it comes to chaotic warfare, these Cao Jun really can't do it. Because the ring-headed knife system of the Han Dynasty is actually not long, about 80 centimeters to 1.2 meters, which is a medium-length weapon, and cannot be compared with long weapons such as spears and spears.

The hoe and rake in the hands of the townsmen are obviously longer than the ring head knife, more than one meter and five in length, and some of the long nail rakes used for drying can even reach more than two meters, although they are not like Zhu Bajie's nail rakes can have three meters, but they also take advantage of the long weapons.

As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong, when you meet the enemy head-on, the enemy can't attack you, but you can attack the enemy first. For a while, the messy farm tools greeted Cao Jun's head, which was quite a bit of a mess of punching the master to death.

It's just that the gap between the regular army and the township brave farmers is reflected in the cooperation and quality of the army, and Shen Zhen was able to cooperate with that clan brother because both of them had fought, and even enlisted in the army together and were born and died.

On the other hand, the other farmers just smashed at random, and the scene was very chaotic. After a while, Cao Jun got used to it, and the villagers suffered a lot more casualties.

It often takes three or four people to die to kill a Cao soldier, which is hard to imagine in the era of cold weapons.

Seeing that the villagers are not fighting well, there are already signs of collapse.

Behind Cao Jun, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves came.

"Yanren Zhang Yide is here, don't be afraid, the villagers of Huangmen Pavilion are here, Tao Zhijun's reinforcements are coming."

Because of his very loud voice, Zhang Fei was assigned the work of stabilizing the morale of the army.

The villagers in the distance died one by one, and the villagers in the rear were already timid, but suddenly when they heard the arrival of reinforcements, Deng Zhao was overjoyed and roared angrily: "Fellow villagers, the reinforcements are coming, kill them to avenge the clansmen!" ”

"Revenge, revenge, revenge!"

"Kill them all!"

"Rush!"

The villagers were courageous and roared and charged forward again.

Cao Ren's brows furrowed instantly, he didn't expect that he was actually trapped by a group of villagers, and when he saw the chasing soldiers coming behind him, he gritted his teeth and said, "Kill them all!" ”

However, the soldiers of the Cao army were not iron-clad, they raided dozens of miles in the middle of the night, and burned and looted in Zhangyang, and their physical strength was very exertionable.

Now I have encountered the entanglement of the Huangmenting Township Warriors, and their strength has weakened, and the speed of wielding the butcher's knife is much slower.

And Liu Bei, who was behind him, led more than ten cavalry tigers into the flock and directly raided Cao Ren's rear.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun descended the mountain like fierce tigers, wielding swords, guns, swords, and spears left and right, killing more than ten people in an instant, and continuing to rush forward.

Under the protection of Zhao Yun, Shen Chen felt most intuitively on the battlefield how powerful the slaughter of ordinary soldiers was by the top generals.

Before Zhao Yun rushed into the battlefield, he had already observed the situation, and there were four Cao Jun fighting forces in the shape of a zigzag in the direction he was rushing, one on the left and one on the left and one on the left, and two people in the rear were close side by side.

This is a very typical pocket formation, if Zhao Yun chooses to break in directly, the Cao army on the left and right sides will separate and let him break through, at this time, the middle two people pretend to attack, but in fact they are covering the Cao army on both sides, some will stab the horse, and some will sneak attack the flank.

However, Zhao Yun was not fooled at all, and deflected the horse's head to stab Cao Jun on the right side first. The man obviously didn't expect Zhao Yun to shoot so quickly, and before he could react, his chest was pierced, and blood splattered out.

In the next second, Zhao Yun didn't even look at the result, he pulled out his gun and stabbed at the left wing, and then the spear was like lightning again, like a paintbrush in the painter's hand, dotted with stars on the canvas, dyeing the Aoxue Dongmei with a touch of bright red.

Shen Chen finally felt Adou's happiness at this moment.

Although there was a person in front of him, it did not affect Zhao Yun's movements at all, his body and marksmanship were extremely skillful, coupled with his excellent equestrian skills, which made him easily kill four enemies in an instant, and even played with ease.

Not only Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but even Liu Bei who held a double-strand sword, the male and female swords in their hands danced like dragons and snakes, and every time they swung it, they would take away a life and kill Cao Jun to pieces.

The Youzhou cavalry charged behind the four at the same time, and the rear front of Cao's army was broken up in an instant, but in just three or four minutes, forty or fifty soldiers were killed and wounded.

"Cao Ren!"

Liu Bei saw from afar that among the chaotic army, there was a person with a very familiar face, looked at it, and said angrily: "You still dare to attack? ”

Before the two sides fought in Lanling County, Liu Bei first broke Cao Ren and then lost, the two sides fought a skirmish of thousands of people, Cao Ren and Liu Bei in the chaotic army have fought recently, if it wasn't for the rescue of his own soldiers, he would have been chopped into meat sauce by Guan Yu.

But he didn't expect that in the middle of the night, Cao Ren actually secretly came to Huangmen Pavilion to massacre the villagers.

Guan Yu frowned, and snorted coldly: "Cao Ren, last time I was lucky to let you escape, this time I will let you die under Guan Mou's knife!" ”

Cao Ren never expected that the chasing soldier behind him was actually Liu Guanzhang, when he fought before, he knew the bravery of the three of them, even if he had the advantage of numbers, he was almost defeated by Liu Bei's miscellaneous army, so he was so frightened that he scattered and left.

In fact, at this time, the defeat was also decided, his front road was blocked by the villagers, and more than ten cavalry of Liu Bei in the rear rushed into battle, resulting in chaos in the rear, and he had less than 200 soldiers in total, and now there are less than 100 people left.

It is impossible to turn defeat into victory if he continues to fight, so at this moment he must make a decision, decisively abandon the soldiers, and take several personal guards who can still ride horses around him to cover him out of the encirclement and want to escape.

And Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun saw that a big fish of Cao Jun was in danger alone, so they were naturally unwilling to let him escape, so they also gave up continuing to kill the pawns and chased after him.