Another harmonious and warm candlelight dinner, wasting was shameful. Both stir-fry dishes and one soup were all empty, and most of them were in Cao Hongjie's bulging belly. However, raising this girl is definitely a loss-making item. She ate a lot of food a day, but she just couldn't see her getting fat. Seeing this girl licking her lips and rubbing her belly with satisfaction, Wang Hou shook her head helplessly.

On the other side, Lu Ji was still virtuously packing the dishes, but she seemed to have some problems and was a little confused.

"I'll go on a stroll on the city wall. Today, the three songs and seven songs quarrel about grabbing braised pork. I can't help but fight tonight, so I have to stare at them!"

Putting down the bowl, Wang Hou reached out and pulled off the official robe hanging on the hanger, turned around and walked out, and before he could take two steps, the girl Cao Hongjie jumped up excitedly.

"I'll go too!"

"No! The night wind is cold! Stay at home and take care of the baby! Qiuxiang, add two pieces of honeycomb coal to the fireplace later, so you must not let the wife get cold!"

"Hmph! Spicy!"

Under Wang Hou's eyes wide and fierce eyes, he pouted in aggrievedly. Cao Hongjie sat back obediently, but after making a face at Wang Hou's departure, she suddenly started rummaging in the drawer with great enthusiasm, holding a stack of hand-painted playing cards, he grabbed Lu Ji's little hand who had just finished packing the dishes, and shouted to the outside with a raised voice.

"Qiuxiang, come here after adding coal, let's continue fighting the Landlord!"

.........

Although it is just as lively as the snack street in four counties in later generations, the dim lights on both sides of the main street of Puyang City and the popularity of people coming and going can still be regarded as the only one of the great Han scorpions who shit on the Han Dynasty. Even if it is incomparable, it is not known that the clouds of war have already enveloped the city, and the children of aristocratic families are still in and out of the Hu Ji restaurant in their clothes and horses. It looks like the world is peaceful.

Although the outside of Puyang's city wall still looked dilapidated, Wang Hou had already moved a lot at this time. A large piece of collapsed inside the southeast corner was concave and a large section of the urn city-like corridor was reinforced. If the city was attacked, the enemy who was excited to enter would definitely have a wonderful expression when they saw the dead end.

Other sections of the city walls were also renovated inwardly. A reinforced concrete wall with a width of three meters and a height of flatness was built behind the original rammed earth wall. Every 100 meters, a wall table about eight meters wide and five meters long was thickened inside, with a large pile of metal and wood parts covered with oil cloth.

This thing is a component of Huihui cannon. Gunpowder has no capacity to be used on a large scale in this era of war. This super large trencher is quite useful. After returning from the Battle of Xia Pi, Wang Hou and Wang Yuan, Wang Hammer and Wang Geda, a few craftsmen studied it carefully, repainted the drawings, and then created wooden and iron parts in advance. Once needed, the craftsmen in Puyang City can assemble ten Huihui cannons within an hour to fight the enemy.

However, in the past few days, the war did not happen up and down the city wall. In fact, he was not sure whether the thing that Wang Hou had worked hard to save was to save.

At this time, more than 600 people were left to guard the city, strolling on the broken walls of battlements that did not dare to be built. The soldiers of Puyang County wearing linen clothes and blew the cool breeze of autumn night were strolling while scolding their mother. However, suddenly, when he saw Wang Hou coming to the city, he shivered again and hurriedly straightened his waist straight, looking as if he was loyal to him. He passed by Wang Hou and respectfully saluted him and respectfully paid homage.

"Mr. Fu!"

Not to mention this era, even a soldier in later generations will never be able to talk about equality with the general. When they meet someone who is visiting him, Wang Hou just nodded calmly and walked over without stopping. However, even so, it is enough for the soldiers to be excited for a while.

In this era, the bodyguards were of high quality. When they walked to the corner tower in the northwest corner of Puyang City, without Wang Hou's instructions, the following personal soldiers immediately threw off the large telescope tube on their backs from their shoulders, supported the bracket, and placed it respectfully in front of Wang Hou.

In the past six months, Wang Hou has made a fortune with Puyang City. His telescopes have recreated a large one in a nouveau riche style. The two-layer wellbore made of brass on the outside are stuck in four sets of lenses made of best transparent crystals. It is more than one meter long and looks like a small cannon barrel. There is no need to mention single and double barrels of this thing. One face is enough to touch it. After moving the angle, Wang Houba looked down at the city.

Almost two kilometers can be seen. The moonlight is pretty good tonight. Looking around in the northwest for a long time, Wang Hou even saw clearly the only manor in the north of Puyang City. In the room of which young master of the Zhao family, Yingyingchuo and the two of them did not know what kind of misfortune were doing.

Time passed by bit by bit, and the cold wind was bored and peeping. The little bit of the moon also climbed up to the front, as if it was about to fall to the west. It seemed that I could pass by safely tonight. I was already used to going to bed early in this era. After yawning, Wang Hou finally tightened the down cloak on his body, and then took advantage of his laziness to walk back. The unsightly guard sergeant who had been used to him immediately went to collect the telescope.

However, before he could get off the stent, Wang Hou, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, suddenly turned around and picked up the telescope and peeked in the direction of Northwest Hua County for the last time.

Often history is such a coincidence. Just a flash of heart, a firefly-sized fireflies caught my eyes in the distance.

Kongming Lantern!

With one, two, three, four, five, from far to near, the lights floated up one after another. The sleepiness just disappeared, and he threw his small cannon barrel on the city wall. Wang Hou quickly turned his head and roared at Wang Congge.

"Prepare the horse! Get out of the city from the south city right away!"

However, Wang Congge responded with his fists. Before he could do anything, he hesitated for a moment. Wang Hou stopped him again: "Let your personal soldiers go out of the city with one or two, and the rest will be your commander and guard the prefect's mansion!"

There was obviously a look of regret on his face, but Wang Congge still held his fists respectfully.

"I will obey the order!"

The guest is here!

............

While the undercurrent was surging under the city of Puyang, a black dragon was roaring and running forward on the official road leading to Puyang in Huaxian County. The four horsemen were heading side by side, and the sterns were swaying like the sharps on the scales of the black dragon. The heavy horse hooves made a crisp sound on the dry road in autumn. At the front of the entire team, a general was wearing an iron tower helmet and a pot-collared iron armor. He was also carrying a large iron spear over three meters long in his hand. His old face was extremely gloomy, and he was galloping in front of the team.

At this time, Yan Liang was extremely irritable and angry. In the beginning of spring, he looked down on the newly appointed Dongjun slip-on, thinking that this guy was just a coward who was greedy for money and lust, fearing death. But now after seeing Wang Hou away, he thought about it for a long time, but Yan Liang felt more and more that he was the stupid idiot.

For several months, he had plenty of time to curb Wang Hou's development, but again and again, among this guy's smile-like grandson, he had all made a mistake. Now he wants to move Puyang but can't move! Yan Liang couldn't figure it out anyway. Did Guo Tufengji Xinping fill his chamber pot in his head? They didn't know what impact would the hundreds of thousands of stones of grain have on the upcoming war? He even developed a resentment towards Yuan Shao.

However, Yan Liang was Yan Liang after all. Since he had fallen into this delaying plan and took Wang Hou's words, he should correct the mistake by himself! While running, he saw a Puyang boundary marker suddenly coming into his eyes, and he roared gloomyly.

"There are people holding horses and leaving the bell, and one cavalryman follows one person, and those who leave the team are killed!"

This made the generals around him clever. Just this afternoon, Yan Liang was furious and beat more than a dozen civil and military officers under his command, and threw the cloth and brocade left by Wang Hou all over the ground. Seeing the residents of Hua County nearby and some small men snatched all of the money like vultures who saw rotten meat, more than a hundred civil and military officers of Hua County were worried.

I rushed straight into Puyang along the official road. This road was quite quiet. The three villages passed by had already turned off their lights, and there was not even the barking of dogs, let alone the Puyang soldiers patrolling the border. Wang Hou seemed to be really a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water. Anyway, I couldn't beat it. The border line was completely open for you! Just go there.

Puyang is just that big. After the cavalry trotted and ran for more than ten minutes, it seemed that Yan Liang could already smell the strong smell of the river. He vaguely heard the sound of running water. He snatched the gun in his hand and pointed at the front of the horizon. While galloping, Yan Liang roared gloomyly.

"After a while, the army heads straight to the Puyang Ferry, kills people when they see them, and burns them when they meet them! The entire army maintains its formation and is not allowed to plunder privately. Those who violate the order..."

Without saying a murderous slash, Yan Liang was reluctant to stagger under his crotch. At this time, Yuan Jun had absolutely no stirrups, and the spear tip was pierced. Yan Liang flew off the horse with his long spear. But with a squeak, his boots also sank into the mud. The fields in the north were almost all dry fields, but as he looked at him in shock, the ridges of the wheat fields harvested from here were completely wet, almost no difference from the paddy fields in the south.

It was probably Wang Hou's work. Looking at this "water field", Yan Liang was even more furious. However, he could not help but suddenly raised his iron spear: "The whole army dismounted and walked forward!"

The advantages of horses are undoubtedly lost in the mud here. The four pointed and thin hooves of war horses are more pressure on the ground than those of people. It is difficult to run when trapped in the mud. There are no stirrups, and it is difficult for knights to maintain balance if they are deep and shallow.

But even if his boots were walking in the mud, Yan Liang was still full of confidence. Without Yuan Shao's order, he could not mobilize the 30,000 troops in Huaxian County. However, the three thousand elite cavalry he brought this time were all veterans and soldiers trained to fight Gongsun Zan and the Heishan Army for many years, and had killed warriors who had seen blood. With these three thousand men, even if Wang Hou had 10,000 county soldiers, he would have the confidence to attack Wang Hou and his minions.

Thousands of mud belts of tens of thousands of acres seriously hindered the speed of the march. It was said that this land area took more than half an hour. The Yellow River embankment finally appeared in front of us. There was also a large area of ​​port warehouses and grain troughs built on the edge of the embankment. A stream of light suddenly flashed in Yan Liang's deep pupils, holding a spear high, and he roared.

"Kill! Burn Cao Aman's food!"

It was indeed the elite troops of the Hebei army. Even though their feet were covered with mud and their steps were heavy, the three thousand Yuan troops still roared and drew their swords and spears, and rushed forward bravely. Suddenly, there were so many enemy troops around him, which really caught Cao's army guarding the dock off guard. Several Cao army outposts had just made terrifying screams, and they were already submerged in the crowd of Yan Liang's elite soldiers. As the vanguard troops rushed to the port paved with bluestone.

But in this kung fu, the gongs suddenly rang out. In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired outside the warehouse. Yuan Jun, the vanguard, was caught off guard, and all the arrows were shot by the rain of arrows. Dozens of people fell down in the rain of arrows, and the rest retreated in fear. Then, in Yan Liang's unbelievable eyes, in the empty wilderness outside the port area, rows of Cao troops seemed to emerge from the ground, quickly and sequently formed a formation, and a large flag of Yuzi fluttered in the flames.

Yu Jin's troops!

He was also carrying a spear and yawning. Yu Jin was sad and came out of the ground. While wandering towards the front line, he complained: "This Wang Tuqiu is really good at instructing people! He has troubled me!"

However, he climbed to the trench that was dug in advance, high in front and low in the back, looking at Yuan Jun, who was densely filled with yellowish colors in front of him, and was still energetic, and a cold and harsh sound appeared on the corner of his mouth. He sneered and raised his spear to point straight in front of him.

"Keep the formation and shoot the formation! Don't let these northern barbarians approach the grain warehouse one step, Yu Cheng, go and light two big fires for me! I'm blowing the cold wind in this field and eating cold steamed buns. Wang Tuqiu doesn't want to sleep in the city with Miss Cao on the hot kang, and tossing him out!"

"drink!"

With the neat roar, three Yanzhou elite soldiers with more than one thousand and one hundred bends were arranged around the two sides to form three neat rectangular arrays. The spears and halberds were placed gloomyly. Rows of archers and archers quickly ran to the front of the array with bows and arrows, and shot at the Yuan army who were loose and still in the whole team. The arrows hit the strong copper helmets of Yuan army, and from time to time, the unlucky guys who were pierced into the crack of the armor made screams.

The land nearby has already dried up. After all, Wang Hou could not have flooded his granary. He was beaten to pieces as soon as he came up. He was so angry that he suddenly pulled over the horse, and personally leaped over the horse, and took the elite northern troops under his command, Yan Liang, like an evil ghost, rushed over with a grin in the rain of arrows all over the sky.

The might of the cavalry was fully revealed on the plain. Before the Cao army archers who had fired the arrows ran back a few dozen meters away, the lancers had already reached their sight. A spear suddenly stabbed out, but Yu Jin was stunned and dozens of them were stabbed to death by a cavalry gun.

Immediately in the night, under the fire, a group of pure men picked up their thick and long guys, and sniffed the river breeze in their sweat. I wanted to talk about "Following General Cao to Mix the Three Kingdoms" with more like-minded people, follow "Youdu Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find friends~
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