The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 72

After the war, [-] arrows were obtained from the thatch of the city wall, enough to defend the city for a day.Wen Chou and a group of generals looked at Hao Zhao with admiration and admiration, not like before.Zhou Cang was even more obedient to Hao Zhao, and followed Hao Zhao all day long, like a personal soldier.Following Hao Zhao, he learned how to forge arrows, and made fire bricks, wooden guns, and Nunus for defending the city. The elder Hao Duan kept shouting all day long.Jia Xu also admired Hao Zhao very much, and he was thinking about whether to drag this person to vote for Prime Minister Cao.But after getting along with Yuan Xi these few days, I feel that this boy is not the same kind of person as his father. He is quite decisive in his actions, knows people well, and is brave in battle.He is also a wise lord, but the problem is that he is not the eldest son, and it is impossible for him to inherit Yuan Shao's Hebei foundation.After much deliberation, I still feel that there is no use value.

After Ma Chao returned to the camp, he yelled at Ma Dai and Pound, "I want to withdraw my troops. If I don't leave, there will be few left of the 5 troops."

Ma Dai and Pound looked at each other.Both of them sighed inwardly.Ma Dai said: "Father listened to Zhong Yao's bewitching, and blindly wanted to be the shepherd of Liangzhou. Cao Cao also promised to cede the land west of Huguankou. He will not let you withdraw." Ma Chao walked back and forth in the big tent, shouting; " We charge forward and let the Huns reap the rewards, I can't swallow this breath."

With an idea, Pang De said, "Young Master, our army has lost a lot in attacking the city in the past few days. You can excuse the shortage of soldiers and let the Huns attack the city by themselves tomorrow, so that our army can rest for a few days."

Ma Chao stopped in his tracks and said, "Okay, I'm going to have a showdown with that bullshit wise king right now, and let them work hard on their own."

Ma Chao's reasons are very good. He did suffer heavy losses, more than 2 people were lost. Not to mention, four or five generals above the captaincy and above died, and Pound was seriously injured.The siege equipment was exhausted, and only a few dilapidated ladders remained.King Zuo Xian is listening to the piano in his tent.Before Ma Chao came in, he heard a low, melodious, sad and resentful sound of the guzheng, thinking that the Huns also knew how to play such a beautiful "Four Palaces and Eighteen Tune".

Ma Chao lifted the curtain and walked in, and what he saw was a young woman in her twenties, a Han Chinese.Ma Chao was a little surprised, and couldn't help being stunned for a while. The young woman knew that someone had come in and still played quietly, without even lifting her eyelids.The slender fingers swayed freely on the thirteen strings, as if they were expressing their resentment to their heart's content.Emei is tactful, her eyes are like a pool of gentle autumn water, her pink skin is ready to break, and she is definitely not as rough as ordinary Hun women.As the bright eyes turned slowly, a touch of sadness crept up between the slightly frowning black eyebrows, looking infinitely lovely and pitiful.Ma Chao judged from the Hufu jade belt she was wearing and the decoration on her head that this Han woman should be the side concubine of King Zuo Xian.He groaned in his heart, why is this woman a bit ecstasy, this makes me how to sleep in the future, I will remember it as soon as I close my eyes.

King Zuo Xian admired the princess, and also appreciated Ma Chao's gaffe. He was so proud that he deliberately didn't interrupt Ma Chao's stupidity.This woman was captured by King Zuoxian three years ago when he sent troops to Hedong near Taiyuan. If King Zuoxian hadn't seen her bright face and outstanding demeanor immediately, she might have been taken by him like other Han women. Soldiers give—

She does not have the pretentiousness and pretentiousness of ordinary Han women, but she has the arrogance and arrogance in her bones. Agate was married as a dowry, and was canonized as a concubine.In the three years of married life, she has always been icy, except for sleeping at night, she has not fulfilled the duties of a wife, which is rare in the whole Xiongnu.If it were any other woman, she might have been rewarded by King Zuo Xian to his subordinates long ago.But for this princess whose Han name is 'Cai Yan', he can't be cruel.

Ma Chao, who was originally full of anger, was so ecstasy by this beautiful appearance that he almost forgot what he was here for.

King Zuo Xian clapped his hands, signaling Cai Yan to stop.Cai Yan pressed ten fingers on the strings, and the heavenly music stopped abruptly.She said in a low voice, "Yes, Your Majesty." She walked past Ma Chao.

Big brother Ma Chao almost followed her, and only after he had stepped out did he vaguely remember that he didn't seem to be here to pick up girls.

King Zuo Xian stood up, shook his white robe, and said with a loud smile, "General Ma, what's your business here?" Ma Chao woke up from his astonishment, his heart filled with anger again, and said in a deep voice; "I brought 5 horses, and now there are less than [-] left. Please think of a way to attack the city tomorrow. I really can't help you." Ma Chao exaggerated the number of casualties.

Zuo Xianwang thought to himself, after several days of attacking the city, the soldiers in the city must be exhausted, maybe they can win in a battle tomorrow, this is a big deal for me, Ma Chao boy, don't regret it.He immediately agreed; "Okay, General Ma has been working hard for days, so let's watch our Hun warriors tomorrow." Ma Chao thought, if my father didn't want to please Cao Cao, I wouldn't be messing with you, a barbarian. Together.But then again, if you send your wife to me, it doesn't matter if I risk my life for you, but it's a pity—he sighed in his heart, walked out helplessly, and kept repeating the sentence in his heart'a flower Inserted on the cow dung' it is not the cattle of the Central Plains, but the yak.

Zuo Xianwang thought that he had picked up a big deal, but he didn't know that this was the most dangerous battle he had ever experienced.He didn't attack right away, but let the brigade rest for a day.

On the third day, it was dark and windy.

It was supposed to be pink, willows and green, but, perhaps because the atmosphere of killing is too heavy, until now there is not a single bit of green around Jicheng.Although Zuo Xianwang couldn't put it down for that lady, and was afraid of melting if he held it in his mouth, his wife Cai Yan didn't care about him.Cai Yan never cared about it, and never asked where the Huns went. In short, he couldn't do anything good except kill and set fire to women. Although he has been obedient to himself all these years, every time this man hugs her late at night When falling asleep, she would smell a strong smell of blood from him, and every time she felt sick, she wanted to vomit.Cai Yan's personality is not like this. She is cheerful, generous, informal, knowledgeable, proficient in rhythm, and likes poetry in spring and autumn.The poems she wrote in the past were full of youthfulness and prosperity. It is by no means cynical or cold and cold when she picks up a pen now, and she dismisses anyone and everything.Especially the two most recent ones. "Poetry of Sadness and Anger", savor it carefully, put it in front of your eyes, and a bloody smell rushes straight into your nose.

Generally speaking, a beauty has a temper, but Cai Yan does not, even though she is a beauty with both talents and looks.She was born in a prominent scholarly family, and when other children were still reading the Three Character Classic, she was already able to recite the Analects of the Mean. At the age of less than 15, she has already become famous in Luoyang.Cai Yan is a filial daughter, how her father Cai Yong cultivated her, she will do as his father hoped.But her father didn't teach her how to learn the sword, which was the most regrettable thing in her life.This turbid world can only be washed away by the blood pierced by the tip of the sword, and it is useless to make a fuss.She thinks almost every day, can I, Cai Yan, return to the Central Plains in this life?Can you still visit the old houses in Luoyang and Chang'an?
While Cai Yan was feeling extremely melancholy, her husband, King Zuo Xian, was approaching death step by step.

In two days, Hao Zhao's Lunu, wooden blunderbuss, and fire bricks had all been built.There are three hundred small crossbows one foot long, and five thousand barbed caltrops.Hao Zhao also personally prepared a few catties of poison to seal the throat with a unique secret recipe, and smeared it on the arrow.Do not use poison on barbed terrestris to prevent your own people from accidentally stepping on it.

If the previous battles I have experienced can be called tragic, then today's battle is utterly tragic.

The battle was not surprising at the beginning, it was still the same old routine, the two sides shot at each other, and the arrows rained down to cover the sky. Although the Huns were not as good as Xiliang soldiers in climbing the wall, they were indeed much better at archery than them, so the defenders in the city looked like A little overwhelmed, a little timid, and the counterattack is getting weaker and weaker.

King Zuo Xian was overjoyed, and secretly laughed at Ma Chao's incompetence and cowardice of the Han people. He waved his hand and a large group of people started climbing the city on the ladder borrowed from Ma Chao.At that moment, Zuo Xianwang was still thinking in his heart, should he grab the money first after entering the city, or play with some women first.

All of a sudden, drums and drums sounded in unison on the city, and fire bricks, small poisoned arrows, and wooden blunderbusses shot down the top of the city like raindrops.Some Xiongnu soldiers were shot into hedgehogs with four or five arrows in their bodies, some had half their heads smashed off by fire bricks, some were shot through the heart by iron water chestnuts bursting out of wooden blunderbuss mechanisms, and some fell off the ladder with poisoned arrows. into patties.The sound of wailing can almost be heard back to the Gobi Desert in the prairie.

King Zuo Xian watched from behind as his Hun warriors rushed forward like white waves, and had to retreat again and again, crying and howling, louder than the howling of the Han people when they retreated.Every time 5000 people rushed up, less than [-] retreated, and the piles of corpses and wriggling dying injuries under the city were piled up layer by layer, and the height was about to catch up with the city wall.The corner of the mouth of this wolfish and cruel beast showed a smile again, do you still need a ladder this time? Although I suffered a heavy loss just now, this time I can enter the city firmly by standing on the corpses of my brothers.

He got carried away with success for a while, so he got off his horse, put on three layers of armor in a hurry, picked up six scimitars, two hanging from his waist, two on his back, and two in his hands, shouting loudly; "The warrior of the Huns!" Ladies and gentlemen, the divine light of the prairie and snow-capped mountains shines on you, we are all invulnerable, everyone will rush to Egypt together with me," he said impassionedly.

The soldiers under him were all thinking in their hearts, can the divine light of the grassland shine so far? Why didn't I see it? The king's eyesight is really good, otherwise how could he be a king.There are also soldiers whose noses are crooked, thinking that if you put on three layers of armor for me, I will charge you.

In fact, the king is farting, and whoever rushes up will be unlucky, and no god can save them.King Zuoxian's attack put all his capital into this attack. The Xiongnu regiment of nearly 3 people rushed towards the tower in disorderly manner, and there was no one to command them. Let's kill on our own.Anyway, as long as you stand on the corpse and erect the ladder, you can climb up to two feet at most, and you can climb to the top of the city.How did he know that Hao Zhao was waiting for him to die.

Unobstructed shooting, the crowd fell one by one, and finally rushed to the bottom of the city.King Zuo Xian was the bravest, the three layers of armor on his body helped him a lot, arrows shot up and bounced off, but the iron water chestnut hit him but couldn't pierce him.Just run slowly, as bulky as a bear.The ladder is easy to get on the top of the city, and the soldiers will jump into the city in a few strokes.

Hao Zhao looked at the hot tung oil behind him, sneered, and ordered: "Pour the oil." The bubbling tung oil, together with twenty seven or eight-foot iron pans, was thrown down from twenty crenels. Watchtower.The oil is so hot that it melts the epidermis as long as it is splashed on the body.But pouring oil like this is too concentrated, and it has no lethality at all.Once again King Zuo Xian was surprised to find that his soldiers didn't suffer much damage at all.Zuo Xianwang was the first one to rush up the tower from the ladder, shouting with joy.Because only his armor is the thickest, which can block the arrows.King Zuo Xian stepped onto the battlements, hacked wildly with a knife, and killed a group of defenders.

Wen Chou and I have been watching the Xiongnu soldiers come up to die one after another in our spare time, and our army under Hao Zhao's command, from the beginning to the end, there were no more than one hundred casualties.Just when the two of us were overjoyed, we suddenly found a guy who was wrapped up tightly and looked a bit like Zhou Cang rushing to the top of the wall.That's not bad, Wen Chou and I held guns in our hands at the same time, and flew forward.The two spears pierced Zuo Xianwang's back at the same time, but they were both bounced back and couldn't penetrate.King Zuo Xian looked at the Hun soldiers who kept rushing up the city, and screamed strangely.Desperately hacked and killed the defenders.I had an idea and shouted: "Yuyu, stab his throat."

At the same time Wen Chou stabbed Zuo Xianwang's throat, Hao Zhao coldly said two words to the soldiers behind him; "Set fire—"

(End of this chapter)