The dense sound of horses' hooves alarmed the defenders at the head of the city.

They exclaimed in surprise, and then someone began to peek into their heads.

"Open the door!"

"Open the door! Open the door! ”

The general's soldiers were clamoring.

"Who is under the city?" A moment later, someone at the head of the city asked tremblingly.

"Those from Luoyang are not Liu Qiao's soldiers, open the door quickly, and if you are late, you will be beheaded." Someone said loudly.

As soon as this sentence came out, there was no movement in the city.

The soldiers of the Turk army gradually became impatient and scolded one after another.

"If you don't open the door again, I'll beat you and others as Liu Qiao."

"I came from afar to work for King Fan Yang, and I didn't even have a hot meal?"

"Brothers, we and others are sleepy, tired, and hungry, and have to suffer from his bird's anger, which is unbearable, climb up, and chop them all up."

"That's right! Cut them down and change them to a reasonable person. ”

Gradually, someone was clamoring.

Shao Xun gestured with his eyes, and soon someone rushed into the private house attached to Guo outside the city, searching door to door. After a while, he came over with two ladders.

"Smack." The wooden ladder soon leaned against the wall, and someone with a short soldier in his hand climbed up quickly.

When he climbed to the top of the ladder, he took out an iron owl (chi) and hung it on the head of the city, and then climbed up quickly—the iron owl, also known as the "flying hook", a common climbing tool in the army.

No one stopped it, as if it were an empty city, leaving the sergeants outside the city looking for a ladder stunned.

"Squeak." The gates were soon opened.

Shao Xun was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered to enter the city.

Originally, I thought that I would have to wait until the arrival of the baggage horse team after dawn to start the siege, but I didn't expect the defenders to be so cowardly that they would abandon the defense directly, but it saved a lot of trouble.

He believed that if Liu Qiaoruo led his troops to attack at this time, he would definitely go down in one go, without any suspense.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves resounded inside and outside Xuchang.

The defenders panicked and fled in all directions.

Some even stripped off their armor and hid in the dark streets and alleys.

Others opened the other gates and fled.

There were also people who went to Tianhui Mansion and shouted loudly.

The general who entered the city did not entangle with them, and immediately divided into several parts.

One controls the gates that enter the city.

One went straight to Fanyang Wangfu to "protect" Fanyang's family.

One rushed to the treasury and controlled it in time so as not to be destroyed.

Xuchang has basically changed hands.

When Tian Hui got the news, he was crawling on the concubine and making great efforts, so frightened that he only put on a single coat, scattered barefoot, and rushed out with a rolling belt.

Just about to go out, when I saw the knights on the street, I was so frightened that I locked it up again.

While cursing Liu Qiao in his heart, he rushed to the backyard.

When they reached the bottom of the courtyard wall, they jumped and climbed, and they had already climbed over the wall and landed on the dark street.

Fortunately, there was no one here, so he hid all the way, and ran out of an open gate in the north of the city, led by several defeated soldiers.

After leaving the city, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Supervisor, Liu Qiao is afraid that he won't leave us alone, so let's leave quickly." A knight leaned over and was about to beckon Tian Hui to get on his horse and flee for his life, but was dragged to the ground.

Tian Hui didn't say much, turned over on the horse, clamped the horse's belly with his bloody feet, the horse neighed, and ran into the vast night.

He was going to Hebei in a hurry to warn King Fanyang.

Xuchang has been lost, if any support army crashes into it in a daze, won't it be a big loss? It should be a credit to report this matter in time, right?

As soon as Tian Hui left, the other defenders looked at each other, and then dispersed in a hurry, running everywhere.

In Xuchang City, Shao Xun went straight to the arsenal as soon as possible.

When the heavy gate was opened and the sergeants entered with torches, they all looked stupid.

Spears, ring-headed knives, iron armor, leather armor, axes, halberds, etc., everything, a rough look, I'm afraid there are more than 100,000 pieces?

Shao Xun's face became very exciting in an instant.

He walked over to the place where the iron armor had been placed, looked at it with his torch, and then touched it with his hand.

Obediently, it's all genuine high-quality iron armor.

The largest number is naturally the cuff armor.

In addition to this, there are more than a thousand pieces of two-crotch armor. This armor appeared at the end of the Later Han Dynasty, when it was not as popular as the sleeve armor, but it was not uncommon, and it was not really popular until the Northern and Southern Dynasties in history.

Shao Xun even saw more than 500 Mingguang armors.

This armor also appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and a small amount of equipment was already available during the Three Kingdoms period.

For example, Cao Zhi once wrote in "The First Emperor's Armor Table": "The first emperor gave his ministers armor, one collar for black light and one collar for bright light, one collar for two armors, one collar for red refining armor, and one collar for horse armor." ”

Due to its strong protection and handsome appearance, Mingguang armor was mainly worn by middle and high-ranking officers during this period. When the superior person rewarded his merits, he often issued Mingguang armor, that is, it was mainly used as a reward item, not a standard equipment in the army. The reason for this is probably that the cost is higher.

Historically, it was really equipped on a large scale in the army, but it was not until the late period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Northern Dynasties had more equipment.

"Zhou Shu Cai You Biography" cloud: "You are wearing bright light and iron armor, and you are unstoppable. The enemy said, 'This is an iron beast', and they all avoided it. ”

Sleeve armor, two-crotch armor, Mingguang armor, haha!

Shao Xun suppressed the urge to look up to the sky and laugh.

He swept it roughly, and there were seven or eight thousand collars of iron armor in the arsenal. This is still the inventory left after Sima Yu went out on the expedition, so you can imagine how much there was before the war.

No wonder they all want to be governors, the resources in their hands are indeed huge.

Xuchang as an important town since Cao Wei, in terms of status, may be heavier than Chang'an, is the Wei and Jin dynasties well-deserved core place, after the fire of Luoyang arsenal, are not necessarily much stronger than Xuchang arsenal - Yuankang five years (295) winter October, Luoyang arsenal fire, "two hundred (zero) eighty thousand equipment, a moment of exhaustion", "so the treasure of the generation and Han Gao snake sword, Wang Mangtou, Confucius clogs, etc. are all burned." ”

Shao Xun suddenly had a divergent mind and thought of a question.

Did Liu Qiao break through Xuchang in history? Did you take any of the equipment?

In addition to Liu Qiao, was there a peasant rebel army that occupied Xuchang and relied on the equipment in the arsenal to change shotguns for guns, and suddenly trembled?

It's not that he looks down on the homeless army, it's that their weapons and equipment are not very good. A force of 10,000 people, I don't know if there are hundreds of pairs of iron armor, if they can capture a complete arsenal, it will definitely be a qualitative change for them.

He remembered Zhang Chang, who was captured and killed at the end of last year.

This person had been active in the area of Xiangyang and Wancheng, and took advantage of the opportunity when the Jingzhou soldiers were transferred to Shuzhong to quell the rebellion, and tried to capture Xiangyang, where the governor of Jingzhou was stationed, and Wancheng, where the governor of Chubei was stationed, but they were unsuccessful, and they could only turn to attack some counties.

But the attack on the county did not quench the thirst at all. Only by capturing Xiangyang and Wancheng can we obtain a huge inventory of war readiness materials in the two metropolitan governors and complete the qualitative upgrade of the troops.

Well, at that time, Liu Qiao also led the army south to Jingxiang to quell the chaos, but it was a coincidence.

These things, from now on, are all mine.

Shao Xun smiled from ear to ear, immediately called Tang Jian, and commanded in a low voice: "You immediately send people to Yushanwu to summon the news, and ask them to send someone over to move the equipment." No, you make an extra trip, go to Yunzhongwu, and let people organize the carriage and horses to come. The people of Yushanwu, I'm not very relieved. ”

"No." Tang Jian did not hesitate at all, and immediately responded.

In terms of identity, he is Shao Xun's servant, and the fifty people under him are also guests of Shao Mansion, and they belong to complete private individuals. In this era, the characteristics of personal attachment are very obvious, and there is really nothing to hesitate about. Gaine is Shao Xun fell, and the court will not let him go, and the end is unspeakably miserable.

Shao Xun quickly left the arsenal and deployed almost half of his troops there, and then went to the next door, carrying a large axe to smash the door lock.

The sergeants pushed open the gate and entered with torches.

Boy! Next door is the arsenal, and here is the money and silk.

Some decayed wooden frames can't hide the "fragrance" of the money.

Yes, in Shao Xun's eyes, money is "fragrant", because it can communicate with ghosts and gods, which is too good.

I don't know how many brave and fierce warriors, driven by Qian Bao, bravely killed the enemy and made meritorious contributions.

Wonderful!

"Gao Yi." Shao Xun shouted.

"Yes."

"First of all, give me the reward I promised to my sons, five horses of silk for each person, and never break my word." Shao Xun said: "Officers above the rank of captain will be rewarded at the section level. You calculate how much you need in total and send someone to pick it up. ”

"No." Gao Yi left excitedly.

Can I take the things in Xuchang Daku? Logically no. How can Fan Yang Wang Sima Yu's belongings be taken casually?

But then again, aren't there many armies plundering the city these days? Zhang Fang is the one who has done the most excessively, but it doesn't mean that others don't do it.

Moreover, the generals have said so, what else do they have to fear? The sky fell, and General Shao stood on it, and the charge of "arson and plunder" could not be planted on their heads.

Take this money with confidence.

Shao Xun quietly looked at the dazzling warehouses.

It's a lie to say that you don't worry, but you've made up your mind and done it, so what else can you do?

When he was in Kim Yong Cheng, he weighed the pros and cons for a long time.

300% of the interest, the capitalists dare to sell the rope that hangs themselves.

Now there is more than three times the stake. Arguably the biggest windfall he's gotten in over three years, it's totally worth the risk.

If you give up this opportunity, you don't know how long it will take to accumulate so many things. Five years? Unlikely. Decade? It's also hard to say.

Gamble on it, Sima Yue is more likely to dare to punish me?

If that's the case, I'll go straight to Plan B, go back to Luoyang, and make a big fuss.

If there are soldiers from all over the world to attack, they will directly roll up the goods in Luoyang, take the tokens given to me by Liu Yuan, bring their private troops, and lead Concubine Pei and Queen Yang to Liu Yuanhai.

Of course, this is only the last option in the case of life and death. Until then, it seems that there is another way.

Shao Xun thought about it, called two personal soldiers, and ordered them to give Huang Biao and Li Chong orders, speed up, and march lightly to Xuchang.

Xuchang's goods are shared by those who see them. Even if He Lun's department comes, you can get a touch of meat, and everyone will share it.

Lao Tzu never eats alone!

The only thing I value the most is the thousands of pairs of iron armor, and the rest can be divided.

Thinking of this, Shao Xun was in a good mood, went out of the warehouse, and began to distribute silk silks to the sergeants.