Due to adequate preparations and God's help, the wind was strong that night, so the fire started quickly. Soon after, even the wall of the village was on fire.

The 700,000 to 80,000 enemy troops besieging the city are currently scattered a hundred miles outside Jiankang City, and it is difficult to gather them together for a while, unable to come to the rescue.

There are only about 2,000 troops guarding the stone machine.

Qin Hu had no intention of risking the lives of fifty suicide squad members, so he ordered a formation to retreat in the direction of Yanziji. Their task was to guard the mountaineering path and wait for the large troops to land.

The enemy camp was attacked. Suddenly people shouted and horses neighed, war drums sounded, and countless disheveled soldiers rushed out of the tents.

The general responsible for guarding Yanziji was named Tian Laobao. He was a blacksmith in the past. He was eight feet tall and extremely powerful. Although he did not know much about the art of war, he fought extremely bravely and was not afraid of death, so he was assigned by Zhu Xie to guard the beachhead.

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This Tian Laobao used to be an honest craftsman, but after he took control of the power, his true nature was gradually exposed, and he became cruel and murderous. As long as his troops came, the old and the weak were slaughtered, the young and the strong were recruited into the army, and the women were even more cruel.

If he was allowed to be ruined by the soldiers, he would already have done a lot of evil.

In fact, Qin Hu sometimes really doesn't understand that these so-called rebels were originally forced by the government to rebel, and they embarked on this path to fight against the violence and survive. However, once they gain power, they often immediately turn their butcher's knives on those who are oppressed and suffer just like them.

The common people have become more cruel than the previous perpetrators.

The badness of human nature is clearly visible at this point.

The officers and soldiers Tian Laobao encountered in the past were corrupt, greedy, and disciplined. They had no fighting ability at all, and they were as timid as mice. They turned around and ran away as soon as they saw the rebels. Therefore, Liu Yuanjin has basically been invincible since he raised his army.

The attack was invincible, and even Tian Laobao thought he was brave and invincible.

In fact, Tuwanxu and Yuguluo were not without generals. The most critical reasons for their defeat were the following. There were too many first mobs. Almost every city in the Jiangdong region was under attack. They were afraid of the emperor's blame.

Therefore, the troops were often divided and every city had to be defended. As a result, every city could not be defended.

Secondly, the officers and soldiers under their command were all improvised county soldiers. There were only a few thousand troops in the headquarters, and they were all picked from leftovers, so their morale was low and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

The third is that Tu Wanxu and Yu Juluo do have some problems in their lives. Both of them are veterans of the late emperor and have great military achievements. They often rely on their elders and sell them, which offends these villains such as Yun Dingxing, Yu Shiji, Yu Wenshu, so their food and grass can't be enough.

Give less if you can, don't give if you can, and delay if you can.

Various reasons have led them to a desperate situation.

Therefore, Tian Laobao actually has no ability, but various factors contributed to his achievements.

Tian Laobao held a two-meter-long machete in his hand and rushed out of the camp with a strange scream. He asked his soldiers: "Damn it, what is going on? Why did the enemy come over suddenly? Since then,

Where did it come from? How many people are there? Damn it, why is there such a big fire?"

The soldiers pointed at the gate of the camp: "You can't see clearly. It seems that there are not many people there, less than a hundred. They should be coming from the north bank."

Tian Laobao was even more furious: "You dare to launch an attack just after arriving. This is a tired army. It cannot wear Lu Guan. It is too ignorant of the art of war. Come with me and watch this general chop them up. Gather, gather."

Tian Laobao got on his horse, and then asked someone to raise his flag and wave it up and down in the camp. When the soldiers saw his flag, they gathered under the flag one after another. When there were almost two or three hundred people, Tian Laobao smiled ferociously.

With a sound, the horse rushed forward.

"What kind of thief dares to attack my camp? I am Tian Laobao, the invincible general of the Wu Kingdom. Who dares to fight with me?"

Tian Laobao ran to the gate of the camp and was stunned. He saw a circular shield array. All the enemies were enclosed in the shield array. They were tightly sealed and even their feet were not exposed.

The strangest thing is that as soon as his soldiers kill him, a strange weapon will shoot out from inside, killing the soldiers in a swish.

You know, Liu Yuanjin founded the country less than a month ago. Although he has been making trouble for a year, due to the rapid development, the speed of robbery has not kept up, and the tax policy is not perfect, so the iron smelting plant cannot be opened, and the military factory cannot be opened.

So-so, so his soldiers' armor coverage rate is at most 20%.

And part of it is leather armor.

This is not surprising. There were not many soldiers stationed in the Jiangdong area. The fact that he could grab 10,000 sets of armor was already an astronomical figure, and it was too difficult to build it himself.

Warlords like him had a particularly difficult time when they first started. For example, in the first few years of Cao Cao's career, even his own armor was pieced together, and his soldiers basically belonged to the armor-free army.

Once this kind of unarmored army is hit by a crossbow, especially a repeating crossbow with a fast rate of fire, at close range, it is equivalent to facing a modern semi-automatic rifle.

Tian Laobao's subordinates were not fools either. Seeing that these people were completely blocked by the shields, they stabbed them twice with their guns, but they didn't lose any blood at all. And as soon as they got close, they basically lay flat, so they backed away one after another, and then took the

The javelin was thrown inside.

But this didn't work. They had already retreated a hundred steps, and they were still being killed by the secret weapons fired from inside, and they fell down one by one.

Frightened, they continued to retreat.

After Tian Laobao saw this, he was completely dumbfounded. He thought to himself, what the hell is going on? How can the battle still be fought like this?

"You all stand back while I watch this general take care of him. Here are a few armored men to come up with me. As soon as their formation is broken, everyone will rush forward."

Tian Laobao didn't dare to be careless, but he was wearing armor, and his war horse also had armor, so he felt confident, so he ran toward the shield formation with a big sword in hand.

Qin Hu looked at Tian Laobao and his dozens of armored soldiers from between the gaps in the shield. He slowly took out a bow and arrow from the quiver and pointed it at Tian Laobao.

"Listen, you thieves, this general is Tian Laobao, the invincible general under the command of the Emperor of Wu. I am invincible in every battle and have the courage that no man can match, so I advise you to surrender as soon as possible..."

Tian Laobao was very cunning. He deliberately spoke to attract the other party's attention, and then when the other party was not paying attention, he suddenly accelerated his horse speed and rushed towards the shield array.

Qin Hu was not polite to him either. He loosened his fingers and an arrow flew out with a whoosh and passed through Tian Laobao's throat with a bang.

Tian Laobao fell from his horse and died unexpectedly. His men immediately threw away their weapons and dispersed.

At this time, deafening shouts of death rang out from behind Yanziji, and Pei Yuanqing and Lei Yongji had already climbed the hillside with three thousand soldiers and horses.


Chapter completed!