Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 18
When the Zangyangju fire was burning, the villagers of Huangmenting really noticed the situation here.

They thought that the water was gone, and immediately beat gongs and drums to organize people to come to the rescue.

As a result, they were still on the way, and the villagers who were first arranged to go to Zhuangyangju to see the situation were terrified, and ran back like a lunatic, screaming massacre in their mouths.

It didn't take long for everyone to learn the truth. There was actually a group of bandits killing wantonly in Zhuangyangju, and the entire village was wiped out.

In an instant, all the villagers in Huangmenting were excited, and the news was reported to the elders of the Deng and Shen clans. Many clan elders immediately ordered the village soldiers to organize to defend against the enemy.

The Han people have always been full of martial arts virtues and their folk customs are tough.Especially the land of Xuzhou in Qingzhou has always had a very good source of soldiers. For example, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was from Xuzhou.

Hearing that there are thieves and bandits who are plundering the countryside, although they don't know who the opponent is, the villagers still quickly organize their clansmen.Soon, more than [-] people who were selected as clan members gathered together, led by members of the Deng-Shen clan.

The commander is Deng Mao's eldest son, named Deng Zhao, who is 34 years old this year. In his early years, he followed Zhang Wen to Xiliang to fight against Han Suimateng.Although he is just an ordinary soldier, like Shen Zhen, he has experience in fighting the enemy, so he was selected as the leader of the clan.

In the Han Dynasty, there were five people in one team, two teams in one team, five teams in one team, and two teams in one village.There were 100 people in one village, and Shen Zhen and another member of the Deng clan were the head of the village. The three hurriedly went to the clan ancestral hall, and asked the clan members to take weapons and prepare for battle.

After Cao Ren slaughtered Zhuangyangju and found that the horse had been let go by Shen Chen, he chased and killed Shen Chen.When they encountered Liu Bei and others on the way and immediately chose to evacuate, Deng Zhao and others had ordered two hundred clan members to set off for Zangyangju.

The two sides just met on the way. 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 clan members, the rest of Huangmenting's folks also came to help.

It's just that most of the clan members and the folks who came to help out were full of enthusiasm, and the weapons and equipment in their hands were extremely poor, similar to the ordinary Yellow Turban Army in the early days.

There are rakes, hoes, poles, and bronze knives. The best equipment is a few slender boning kitchen knives.

Ironware in the Han Dynasty was very scarce, and the salt and iron mines were monopolized by the state, so there were very few ironware left by the people.Many of the farm tools and kitchen utensils used by the common people are made of stone or bronze.

Such as stone hoes, stone knives, stone rakes, bronze farm tools, bronze knives, etc., who can own an iron kitchen knife can be regarded as the wealthiest family in the village.

This point is recorded in many materials unearthed from Han tombs in later generations. For example, there are bronze knives in "The Picture of the Kitchen".

The Deng and Shen clans sold their properties and purchased a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron to make weapons. Unfortunately, iron is a strategic material these days, and even if they try their best, they don't get much. Therefore, the real combat effectiveness is actually very limited.

However, because the sky was too dark, Cao Ren could only see countless dots of torches flickering in the distance, and the sound of shouts of killing like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

But soon Cao Ren realized that the other party could not be a strong enemy, because Tao Qian's army was in Shan County, and even if they came from Shan County, it would not be possible to arrive in a few tens of miles in an instant, so these people were at most The nearby Xiangyong has nothing to be afraid of.

Thinking of this, Cao Ren immediately issued an order: "All officers and men listen to the order. There are only some villagers in front of us. It's just a matter of killing them all, so that we won't be slaughtered one by one, just to save trouble!"

"only!"

Cao's army is all elites in all battles, with great morale.

Ding Chong, the brave clan in Huangmenting Township, is at the front of the clansmen who have serious Eastern Han Dynasty swords in their hands. Most of these people have served as soldiers and are well-trained frontier soldiers. Although there are not many in number, they are extremely brave .

Under their leadership, the villagers of Huangmenting behind them also rushed towards Cao Jun like a tide. Their number exceeded 400, occupying a numerical advantage.

"Kill!"

"Avenge the clansmen!"

"Don't let them go!"

With a hoarse roar, the two sides finally collided.

When they met on the first day of the new year, the first wave of casualties occurred on both sides.

Although the villagers don't have good weapons, Cao's army doesn't have any armor. Everyone in the front row is a soldier. The same ring-shou knife will kill people if they are cut.

It's just that Cao Jun is an elite soldier in his fighting years, and the villagers at the front of Huangmenting are basically veterans. The older ones are in their forties, and the younger ones are in their 30s. If you don't go into battle, you will be rusty a lot.

Therefore, after the two sides collided, the villagers of Huangmenting suffered even greater casualties. Almost half of the more than 40 soldiers who rushed to the front fell in an instant, while the enemy only lost more than ten people, and the gap was quite obvious.

As the head of the village, Shen Zhen also rushed to the forefront. Under the cover of a clan brother, he attacked a soldier of Cao army from the flank and stabbed him in the waist. The soldier of Cao army was also fierce. With the blade of the knife, he slashed at Shen Zhen's forehead with a backhand with his right hand.

It can be considered that Shen Zhen has been hunting in the mountains all year round and still maintains his skills. After stabbing in with a knife and being caught by the blade and unable to pull it out, he decisively let go and retreated, dodging the blow. The brother next to him took the opportunity to slash at the Cao soldier on his neck, and took his life.

The next moment, another Cao Jun on the left rushed up. Shen Zhen had no weapon in his hand at this time, and the clan brother had just drawn his knife before it was too late to fight back. Hit the enemy's head.

To be honest, in terms of killing efficiency, these brave peasants are definitely not as good as Cao Jun, but in terms of chaotic warfare, Cao Jun really has nothing to do.Because the ring head knife system in the Han Dynasty was actually not long, about 1.2 centimeters to [-] meters, it was a medium-length weapon, and it was incomparable with long weapons such as spears and spears.

The hoes and rakes in the hands of the village braves are obviously longer than the ring knife, more than 1.5 meters long. rice, but it also took advantage of the long weapon.

As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong. When you encounter an enemy head-on, the enemy cannot attack you, but you can attack the enemy first.For a while, the messy farm tools greeted Cao Jun's head, and it was like punching the old master to death.

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

On the other hand, other farmers just smashed randomly, and the scene was very chaotic.It took a while for Cao Jun to adapt, and the two-two cooperation caused the casualties of the villagers to be much greater.

It often takes three to 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, the sound of horseshoes suddenly came.

"Zhang Yide from Yan is here, folks from Huangmenting don't be afraid, Tao Shijun's reinforcements are here."

Because of Zhang Fei's loud voice, he was assigned to stabilize the morale of the army.

The villagers in the distance died in battle one by one. The villagers in the rear were already timid, but when they suddenly heard that the reinforcements had arrived, Deng Zhao was overjoyed and shouted angrily: "Folks, the reinforcements are here, kill them to avenge the clansmen!"

"Revenge, revenge, revenge!"

"Kill them all!"

"Come on!"

The villagers burst into courage, roaring and charging forward again.

Cao Ren frowned instantly. He didn't expect that he would be trapped by a group of villagers. Seeing soldiers coming from behind, he gritted his teeth and said, "Kill them all!"

However, Cao Jun's soldiers were not made of iron. They raided dozens of miles in the middle of the night, and then gathered, burned, killed and looted in Zangyang, which exhausted their physical strength.

Now he was entangled with the brave men from Huangmenting Township, each of them was weakened, and the speed of wielding the butcher knife was much slower.

Behind him, Liu Bei led more than a dozen cavalry into the flock and directly attacked Cao Ren's rear.

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

Under the protection of Zhao Yun, Shen Chen felt most intuitively how powerful the top generals were at slaughtering ordinary soldiers on the battlefield.

Before Zhao Yun rushed into the battlefield, he had already observed the situation. In the direction he rushed, there were four Cao troops in the shape of a character, one on each side of the left and right, and two more behind him.

This is a typical pocket formation. If Zhao Yun chooses to rush in directly, Cao Jun on the left and right sides will separate and let him rush in. At this time, the two men in the middle pretend to attack, but they are actually covering Cao Jun on both sides. Someone will stab the horse. Someone will sneak up on the flank.

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

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

At this moment, Shen Chen finally felt the happiness of Adou.

Although there was someone in front of him, it didn't affect Zhao Yun's movements at all. He was extremely skilled in body and marksmanship, coupled with excellent equestrian skills, which made it easy for him to kill four enemies in an instant, even with ease.

Not only Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but even Liu Bei who wields double swords. The male and female swords dance like dragons and snakes in their hands.

The Youzhou cavalry charged behind the four of them at the same time, Cao Jun's rear line was disintegrated in an instant, but in just three to four minutes, forty or fifty soldiers were killed or injured.

"Cao Ren!"

Liu Bei saw a man with a very familiar face among the rebellious army from a distance, took a closer look, and said angrily, "You still dare to attack?"

Before the bloody battle between the two sides in Lanling County, Liu Bei defeated Cao Ren first and then lost. The two sides fought a small-scale battle with thousands of people. Cao Ren and Liu Bei fought against each other in the rebellion recently. Guan Yu chopped into meat sauce.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, Cao Ren sneaked to Huangmen Pavilion to slaughter the villagers.

Guan Yu frowned, and snorted coldly: "Cao Ren, you escaped by chance last time, this time I will let you die by Guan's sword!"

Cao Ren never expected that the pursuer behind him was actually Liu Guanzhang. He knew the bravery of the three during the previous battle. Flatter the horse and leave.

In fact, at this time, the defeat has already been decided. His way forward was blocked by the villagers, and more than a dozen cavalrymen from Liu Bei charged in the rear, causing chaos in the rear. He had less than [-] soldiers in total, and now only a few to a hundred people.

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

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

(End of this chapter)