Chapter 184

After dinner, everyone immediately put into the construction of the wall. As a result, the entire construction site was extremely lively, and only the voices of the craftsmen and the shouts of the villagers could be heard everywhere.

A busy night passed quickly. When the first ray of sunlight hit the earth in the morning, Huangfu Chaobo had already taken Jia Jing and Huang Xu to stand on the wall more than ten feet high, looking at the ground beneath their feet. With the closed wall and the trench dug in front, Huangfu Chaobo is more confident in repelling the horse thieves' attack today. After a night of busy work, the closed wall is now nearly 3 meters high and about 10 meters wide. Although the wall is only compacted earthwork, it has not yet been paved with stone slabs because it has not yet been repaired to the limited height of the closed wall. , there is already a 3-meter-high closing wall, which is already an insurmountable height for horse thieves. In addition, because the earthwork was removed from the front of the wall, there is now a trench three to four meters wide and nearly three meters deep in front of the wall. If there is no water around it, it would be a moat now. However, this is not the final appearance of the trench, because according to the drawings, the trench in front of the wall will be a long trench about three feet wide and two feet deep. Not only that, but the bottom of the trench will be densely buried The inverted pile, the part of the pile exposed to the ground is nearly one meter long, and it is all sharpened. In this case, once an enemy or a war horse falls into the trench, it will definitely be a dead end. If there is running water, the trench can also introduce water sources, thus becoming a moat. It's just that it hasn't been built yet, and there is no water source that can be drawn around the valley, so Huangfu Chaobo can't build a moat if he wants to. However, for such a narrow valley, the role of a moat and a trench should be the same. But unfortunately, although the closed wall and the trench are enough to deal with the horse thieves, the gate of the closed wall has not been built yet. At that time, the position of the city gate could only be blocked with huge logs and huge stones. However, a simple suspension bridge has been prepared for the passage above the trench for people to enter and exit.

Now everything is ready, just waiting for the horse thief to attack.

Looking at the busy crowds around, Huangfu Chaobo thought to himself that if the horse thief could come two days later, the entire wall could be built. The closing wall, which is nearly 6 meters high and 10 meters wide, will be an insurmountable moat for horse thieves. While Huangfu Chaobo was still in YY, one man and one horse came running from outside the valley. Huang Xu had sharp eyes, and quickly told Huangfu Chaobo that it was a warrior who went out with Hu Yandu. It seemed that the horse thief had appeared. Sure enough, the martial artist ran across the suspension bridge on his horse and reached the bottom of the pass wall. After handing over the horse to the soldiers guarding below, he ran up the pass wall and said to Huangfu Chaobo: "My lord, Hu Yandu asked the younger one to report. The whereabouts of the horse thieves were found outside, there were about 800 people in number, and when they arrived here in about half an hour, Master Hu Yandu had already led the cavalry to retreat eastward according to the original plan."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Didn't you say five hundred people? How did it become eight hundred again? But everyone didn't care much about it. In the current situation, there is not much difference between five hundred and eight hundred.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. You should step back first and prepare for the next battle." Huangfu Chaobo nodded in response; Here it is, below me, everyone is at your disposal."

"Yes, Uncle. Huang Xu takes orders!" Huang Xu clasped his fists and said, "Come on, let the craftsmen and villagers in the trench withdraw immediately, and the craftsmen and villagers on the wall also retreat, so that the city gate After blocking, all non-combatants retreated behind the closed wall and obeyed orders at any time. Zhou Cang and Duguba ordered all soldiers to go to the city and prepare for battle." Huang Xu turned around and ordered; , and immediately called a warrior beside him, and asked him to return to the town to send an order to Dianwei and everyone, so that they would also be ready to fight at any time. After hearing Huang Xu's order, the townspeople and craftsmen in the ditch outside the pass and above the pass packed up their tools without panic,

After retreating to the back of the wall in an orderly manner, the soldiers immediately put away the simple suspension bridge placed on the ditch, and then blocked the gate of the city with the huge wood and boulders that had been prepared in advance according to the prior requirements. When everyone finished all these, Huangfu Chaobo heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes coming from the mouth of the valley, but within a short while, he saw a torrent pouring in from the mouth of the valley. The sound made by thousands of horses galloping in the valley is quite scary when echoed by the cliffs on both sides of the valley. The momentum cannot be compared at all. They all stood on the wall, quietly watching the horse thief approaching in the distance. The artisans and ordinary villagers who had already been scared by the sound of rumbling horseshoes, their faces turned pale, and their trembling trembled eyes watched. The behavior of the soldiers and generals on the city wall also gradually quieted down.

But he said that a group of horse thieves stopped their horses slowly at a place less than two hundred steps away from the pass, and the four or five people led by them took a few steps forward with their horses.

Looking at the wall that was about ten feet high and the ditch that was several feet wide, Xu Datou couldn't help but look pale. As the leader of a group of nearly five hundred horse thieves, a few days ago, his horse thieves scouted out some people in this valley. A large village, it is said that there are less than 2,000 people, and the village does not have any good walls. It seems to be just the wooden walls of Zhongcun, and there are not many soldiers and horses in the village. It is said that there are only 200 cavalry and about 200 bows. Bing, just to be on the safe side, I sent a more careful second leader to secretly guard for two days, and after repeated confirmation, I decided to come to this village. Originally, I thought that compared with the horse thieves under my command, it would not be a problem for these soldiers to take down the village, but I would definitely hurt myself, so I invited two groups of small horse thieves with more than 100 people each, and three groups There are more than 800 people and horses in total, and nearly a thousand horses come to work together. Unexpectedly, as soon as he was about to arrive, there was a pass in front of him. Seeing the vague smiles on the faces of the other two horse bandit leaders, he couldn't help being angry and said, "Second brother, didn't you say that this village doesn't have any defensive facilities?" ? Then what is this?"

"Brother..." The second leader of the horse thief looked at the pass and trench in front of him, dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to react, and said, "Brother, this... this... I went to see that there is no such a pass yesterday morning. I swear..."