Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"If you continue like this, you will inevitably suffer a lot."

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Chapter 52 The Armies Are Coming

"This... Mei Niang taught me a lesson, I will pay attention next time."

He scratched his head in embarrassment, and Zhou Cang also knew that it was really his fault.Now a Yellow Turban has taken advantage of the chaos and escaped, thinking that at this moment, he might have passed on the hostility of himself and others to the entire Yellow Turban soldiers in Taiyuan.If I really want to say it, I have already missed a big deal.

Just thinking that he and the others still have business to do at the moment, Zhou Cang still pursed his lips and asked Zhang Ning for his opinion.

"It's just that the Yellow Turban soldiers have escaped from this dungeon now. I'm afraid they will bring people back here soon after hearing the voices outside. What should we do now?"

Telling his guess, Zhou Cang was a little afraid to look into Zhang Ning's eyes.When the two of them fled under Du Yuan's men before, he only had the title of a leader, and Zhang Ning was in charge of all major and minor matters.Now that he had stabbed Lou Zi, he naturally and habitually immediately sent a distress signal to Zhang Ning.

He had originally planned to take advantage of the quietness and remoteness of the dungeon here, and wanted to firmly block the gate before the many yellow turbans present could react.In this way, because it is relatively far away from the outside world, even if everyone in the prison shouts to the outside world, it is difficult to hear any sound.

I just don't want to, maybe Zhou Cang was a little malnourished because of his fleeing career for a while, so that he couldn't take down all the opponents when he faced a dozen or so ordinary people.This time, he was plotted against and suffered a lot of injuries, even the people present were unable to watch, and one of them escaped in the chaos.

Now that the other party brings out the news, the situation will be a little troublesome for him.

"At this point, it's useless to regret it. It's better to imagine how to remedy it, or better to take advantage of the trend and see if we can achieve some other results."

Softly comforting Zhou Cang a few words, Zhang Ning didn't really mean to complain about him.She also knew that Zhou Cang had just returned to Zhang Yan's banner, so she was inevitably eager for quick success and eager to win, so she just reminded him and then turned to thinking about how to minimize the impact of this incident on everyone.

"If my guess is correct, Brother Zhou, you planned to make all the jailers in the dungeon lose consciousness, and then find a way to inform General Yang and others of Du Yuan's location?"

Asked in Zhou Cang's direction, Zhang Ning didn't wait for the other party's reply, and lowered his head to think about the result of doing so.

"If we go to the prefect's mansion now, or go out to chase the fleeing soldier, it must be too late. The soldier has been gone for almost a quarter of an hour, and it is estimated that he has arrived in the prefect's mansion."

"On the contrary, if this person goes to the prefect's mansion to report to the young general, then there will be no one to take care of Du Yuan. Seeing that the young general delayed for several hours without calling Du Yuan, even the whole Not many people in Taiyuan Yellow Turban know Du Yuan's current location."

With a flash in his eyes, Zhang Ning quickly grabbed Zhou Cang's sleeve and pulled him up from the ground:

"Brother Zhou, follow the Yellow Turban who knows Du Yuan's location to look for him now, the sooner the better! If you find him, you must do your best and never let him get away, at least you can't let him contact Jin. The other Yellow Turbans in Yangcheng..."

"As long as Du Yuan can be guaranteed, there is no way to unify the Yellow Turbans in the city and issue orders to them... Then the ownership of Jinyang City can be handed over to General Yang and General Pei!"

Hastily said something to Zhou Cang, Zhang Ning suddenly realized at this moment that if he could attract the attention of the yellow scarves in the city to the prefect's mansion, then Zhou Cang would go to raid the hiding place of the opponent's leader Du Yuan at this time. Maybe there will be some unexpected gains, and it's not necessarily...

……

"Lieutenant Jian, the scouts in front patrolled another corpse, and it looks like it should be Dubo from the West Garden."

That night, an army of more than [-] people was marching northward along Luoyang.In front of the camp, Jian Shuo was riding a steed, frowning and looking at a fire not far away.

Where the flames danced, a few soldiers wearing uniform armor from the Han Dynasty could be vaguely seen flipping through a corpse that had been dead for a long time, and the military badge of the corpse had been sent to Jian Shuo in advance by a scout in the army .

Different from Zhang Yan's more than 1 temporary recruits, Jian Shuo brought out all the [-] forbidden soldiers in the entire West Garden from Luoyang City this time.These forbidden troops are on duty in the imperial city all the year round, and they have the most affluent Luoyang city in the world to provide equipment. It can be said that their elite level can already compare with some professional or even life-long ancient troops.

Not to mention the actual combat capability, but the configuration and coordination of this unit is far better than Zhang Yan's copy-and-pasted phalanx of swords and shields.

Oh, to be precise, it is the sword phalanx, because most of the soldiers in the phalanx are yellow turban soldiers absorbed by Zhang Yan in the later period, so shields are currently only available to the soldiers in the first row of each phalanx. .

Compared with Zhang Yan's troops, one type of soldiers under Jian Shuo's command consisted of 5000 arrayed spearmen and [-] sword-shieldmen, and the rest consisted of five separately listed spearmen. Archer Squad and five Horse Archer Squads equipped with horses.

Unlike the nomadic cavalry of the grassland peoples of later generations who shot arrows and charged immediately, most of the cavalry in the Eastern Han Dynasty were melee units equipped with both horses and longbows.

This kind of unit can quickly maneuver by riding a horse on a flat place, and quickly dismount after hitting the enemy camp to fight on foot.When the opponent is scattered and fled by the impact, the horse archer can use the longbow and horse to quickly chase the enemy.

It can be said that to a certain extent, this kind of soldiers who can fight on foot, charge and kill, and draw bows and arrows is the unique special forces in the Eastern Han Dynasty who are responsible for defending the imperial city.This time, the scouts responsible for inquiring about news in front of the army were all composed of the most elite horse archers.

"The abandoned corpse was found again, this time it's still a Dub?"

Taking a bronze soldier badge from the scout beside him, Jian Shuo recognized that it was a kind of identity certificate that Zhang Yan ordered from a craftsman in Luoyang as soon as he joined the army.

If it is an ordinary soldier, most of them hold a wooden soldier card, and the soldier's identity and name are engraved on the soldier card.And if it's the captain of the corps, the soldier's badge will be replaced with cast iron.

The soldier badge that the scout sent to him was a copper medal with a size of one inch, on which a row of clearly visible small characters were being cast with special tools, which clearly read: "Zibao of the Han'an Liu family belonging to the Hanxi Yuanshang Military Camp".

"This is Chunyu Qiong's soldier, right? He seems to be a fairly brave veteran?"

"Our family remembers that in order to help Yan'er form a team that was easy to command, we specially transferred this man from the Xiyuan Youjun, but we didn't expect that this battle would make him die in a different place and his soul return to his hometown. ..."

A little silently glanced at the soldier card in his hand, Jian Shuo stuffed the soldier card into his arms, and then gave orders to the messenger beside him.

"Pass the order down, the whole army will continue to advance northward tonight."

"If it's not as expected by our family, Guo Bandit may have caught up with Yan'er's trilogy at this time, so Yan'er had no choice but to lead his army to flee to Taiyuan in the north."

"Continue to walk in the direction where the corpse was found, and walk until the third quarter of Haishi today night before setting up the tent!"

Chapter 53 Sneak Attack

Back in the afternoon, Zhou Cang had already taken the inner ghost Huang Jin to Du Yuan's hiding place.This is an ordinary house, located in the residential area of ​​Jinyang City, it is neither spacious nor gorgeous.

Contrary to Zhou Cang's expectations, the house looks surprisingly ordinary.

"This is the residence where Du Yuan stayed last night? Then I really underestimated him..."

Putting down the yellow scarf next to him from his shoulders, Zhou Cang didn't rest all the way just in order to hurry, so he carried the yellow scarf and flew straight all the way to the current house.Fortunately, this house is not too far from the dungeon where everyone was imprisoned just now. Zhou Cang didn't feel too tired. He just leaned on his knees and looked at the house in front of him, breathing slightly.

As for this Du Yuan, although he is not a capable person, but he was able to get into the position of the leader in this Taiyuan yellow scarf, obviously he also knew the reason why it was dark under the lamp. slight interest.

"It's no wonder that even the other tribes of the Taiyuan Yellow Turban couldn't find him."

Shaking his head slightly, Zhou Cang looked at the inner ghost Huang Jin with a questioning look, and that Huang Jin opened his mouth to explain to Zhou Cang:

"General Zhou, this is where the bandit Du stayed yesterday."

Perhaps Zhou Cang's personal strength has won the other party's trust. At this moment, the yellow scarf no longer called "Du Qushuai" like before, but directly called him Du thief, which can be regarded as a confession to Zhou Cang. own attitude.

"On weekdays, that Du thief is always used to plundering the women in the city for his sexual pleasure. There are at least seven or eight places for such special prostitution caves in Jinyang City. Only those who are most trusted by him, or even... It is entitled to know the existence of these places."

He explained to Zhou Cang in a low voice, but the yellow scarf had a complex expression at the moment, and he was thinking about something while looking at the house in the distance.

Just hearing the words of the yellow scarf, Zhou Cang inevitably felt a little strange.

"Only close friends can know, so you are still Du Yuan's own person?"

Curiously, he asked the yellow scarf beside him, but as soon as the words came out, Zhou Cang felt a little regretful.

"Ah, sloppy..."

Seeing the face of the inner ghost suddenly turned sour, Zhou Cang silently said sorry to the other party in his heart.

"Where are there any people of our own? We Taiyuan Yellow Turbans are all Du Yuan's brothers in name, but in fact they are all servants serving him, or even dogs to satisfy his personal vanity..."

"If it weren't for my too low strength, I..."

Looking down at his own toes, the inner ghost Huangjin couldn't tell whether it was remorse or hatred.

At this moment, Zhou Cang's words have brought back some past events in his heart that he doesn't want to recall, and seeing him like this at the moment, Zhou Cang is naturally more convinced of what he thinks in his heart.

"It seems that what the lord said is correct. In this troubled world, only strengthening one's own strength is the correct behavior forever. If you don't have enough strength, you may not even be able to protect the people around you."

Thinking of himself and Zhang Ning, and thinking of his lord Zhang Yan, Zhou Cang sighed silently in his heart.

"Okay, okay, isn't it because I'm not strong enough? After I get rid of Du Yuan for you this time, I'll discuss with the lord about assigning you to work under my command."

"With the guidance of a third-rate general like me, you will soon gain your own strength."

He comforted the other party with a wry smile, Zhou Cang didn't say anything more, just arranged for the other party to guard at the gate of the courtyard, and then he took a copper knife he had snatched from other yellow scarves, and strode towards the depths of the courtyard walked in.

"Du thief, your grandfather Zhou Cang is here!"

A loud shout broke through the locked door, Zhou Cang frowned and went straight to the back room of the house.In this era, the structures of small houses are generally very similar, so Zhou Cang was naturally able to find the most likely place where Du Yuan is at the moment.

"This is where Du Yuan is hiding?"

Frowning and walking into the back room, Zhou Cang smelled a strong smell of powder before entering the door, followed by a strong smell of fishy smell hidden under the smell of powder.

"vomit--"

Secretly suppressing the disgust in his heart, Zhou Cang glanced into the room, and saw a fair-skinned, plump woman on the bed looking in his direction with horror.That woman could be said to be quite beautiful, but the expression on the other party's face at the moment made Zhou Cang not at all interested.

Even though the other party was only wearing an extremely thin obscene garment at this time, Zhou Cang looked at the other party with only a touch of pity and vigilance in his eyes.

"It's a pitiful person, but I don't know where this Du Yuan man has gone?"

Frowning and looking around the room, Zhou Cang didn't see a trace of Du Yuan.At the first moment, he thought that he was deceived by the yellow scarf, but at this moment, the disgusting smell in the room and the woman's terrified expression were hard to say it was fake.

"Hey, that woman over there, let me ask you, have you ever met Du Yuan, the leader of the Yellow Turban in Taiyuan City?"

After asking the other party aloud, Zhou Cang stepped into the room, picked up a white dress beside him with the tip of a knife, and threw it in the direction of the woman.It's just that after he opened his mouth, the woman didn't respond, but the panic on her face became more intense.

"Hey, let me ask you something! Then Du Yuan..."

Once again, he took a step closer to the woman, Zhou Cang thought that he was rushing in with a weapon and made the other party a little scared, so he bent down as a gesture of goodwill, and wanted to put the weapon aside on the ground.But he didn't expect that at the moment when he bent down and was about to get up, a feeling like fried hair suddenly came from the back of Zhou Cang's neck.

"Not good—it's dangerous!"

Almost in an instant, a long knife slashed down from Zhou Cang's back with a deadly sense of danger, and Zhou Cang's vigilant perception brought about by his long-term escape in the wild narrowly saved him. down.

"boom--"

Rolling on the spot almost without thinking, Zhou Cang quickly dodged the silent knife behind him.While the long knife was crushing the wooden floor under the pressure of the wind, Zhou Cang picked up the copper knife he had put aside and looked at it about five feet behind him without turning around. The height of the backhand split in the past.

There was another sharp sound of breaking the wind, Zhou Cang only felt his hands go numb, and the copper knife in his hand was blocked by a hard object.

"Hey, who am I talking about, the one who keeps people from sleeping at noon, but I didn't expect it to be Brother Zhou, you go and come back."

"What's the matter, come back this time, could it be that I figured it out and finally planned to send that little girl back to my bed?"

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Turning his head and looking behind him, Zhou Cang saw a man who was more than six feet tall, with a thin face and an extremely thin figure, who was naked, holding a long knife against his weapon.

And at the place where he was standing just now, this long knife cut out a terrifying crack nearly one person long and more than three inches deep.

"Du thief, kill your grandfather!"

Although he didn't expect Du Yuan to stand behind him and prepare to plot against him, Zhou Cang only hesitated for a moment, then drew his knife and slashed in Du Yuan's direction.

"Hehe, are you injured? If you weren't injured, with your terrifying strength, Zhou Yuanfu, who was the most powerful warrior in the Yellow Turban back then, I'm afraid that the knife just now would have killed me with the sword!"

Blocking Zhou Cang's attack with a strange smile, Du Yuan reached out and touched the horrible scar on his chest and abdomen that traversed the entire abdominal cavity, and said to him with some playfulness.

"I didn't expect that, not only did your knife not hurt my life, but it made me finally break through and enter a realm that I had never imagined before."

"Now, if you still imagine hurting me as easily as before, I'm afraid it won't be that simple."

The lean muscles on his body gradually bulged, and an unreasonable increase in strength began to appear from the wound in Du Yuan's abdominal cavity.Not long after, the bulging muscles covered more than one-fifth of Du Yuan's body.