Chapter 185

After dinner, people immediately put into the construction of the wall. As a result, the whole construction site was extremely busy, and only the command of the craftsmen and the bugles of the villagers could be heard everywhere.

A busy night passed quickly. When the first ray of sunlight came to the earth in the early morning, Huangfu Chaobo had already taken Jia Jing and Huang Xu to stand on the wall more than ten feet high. Looking at the wall under his feet and the trench dug out in front of him, Huangfu Chaobo had more confidence in fighting back the horse thieves today. After a busy night, the wall is now more than 3 meters high and about 10 meters wide. Although the wall is only compacted earth, because it has not been built to the height of the wall, there is no stone slab on it. However, the wall is more than 3 meters high, which is an insurmountable height for the brigands. In addition, because the earth was taken from the front of the wall, there is a trench three or four meters wide and nearly three meters deep in front of the wall. If there were no water around, it would be a moat now. However, this is not the final appearance of the trench, because according to the drawing, the trench in front of the wall will be about three feet wide and more than two feet deep. Not only that, there will be thick piles at the bottom of the trench. The part of the pile exposed to the ground is nearly one meter long, and all of them are sharp. In this way, once an enemy or a war horse falls into the trench If there is live water around the wall, the trench can also introduce water, thus becoming a moat. It's just that it hasn't been built at all, and there is no water source around the valley, so Huangfu Chaobo couldn't build a moat. However, for such a narrow valley, the function of moat and trench should be no different. Unfortunately, although the wall and the trench are enough to deal with the horse thieves, the gate of the wall has not been built. Because the wall has not been built, the gate hole has not been built. When the horse thieves come to attack, the gate can only be blocked with giant wood and stone. However, a simple suspension bridge has been built on the channel above the trench for people We're going in and out.

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

Looking at the busy crowd around him, Huangfu Chaobo thought that if the brigands could come two days later, the whole wall would be built. At that time, the moat gate would be equipped, and the wall would be nearly 6 meters high and 10 meters wide, which would be an insurmountable moat for the brigands. Just when Huangfu Chaobo was still in YY, a horse and a man 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 Huyan. It seemed that the horse thief had appeared. Sure enough, the warrior ran across the suspension bridge, got under the pass wall, gave the horses to the soldiers, ran up the pass wall and said to Huangfu Chaobo, "my Lord, Lord huyandu asked me to report the whereabouts of the horse thieves outside the valley. There were about 800 people. When I arrived here about half an hour later, Lord huyandu had taken the cavalry to retreat eastward according to the original plan."

Everyone was stunned. Not 500 people, right? How come it's 800 again? However, we are not very concerned about it. As far as the current situation is concerned, 5800 does not make much difference.

"Well, it's hard work. You step down first and prepare for the next battle." Huangfu Chaobo nodded his head and said, "well, Xuer, this battle is up to you. Everyone below me will listen to you."

"Yes, uncle. Huang Xu takes orders Huang Xu said, "come on, let the craftsmen and villagers in the trench withdraw immediately, and the craftsmen and villagers on the wall also retreat. After the gate is blocked, all the non combatants retreat behind the wall and obey their orders at any time. Zhou Cang and Dugu Ba, order all the soldiers to climb the city and get ready to fight. " Huang Xu turned around and ordered. Seeing that all the people around him had taken orders, he immediately called a warrior around him and asked him to return to the town and send orders to the people of Dian Wei, so that they would 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 collected their tools in an orderly way and withdrew to the back of the pass wall. The soldiers immediately put away the simple suspension bridge on the ditch, and then blocked the city gate according to the requirements. After all these were done, Huangfu Chaobo heard the sound of horse's hooves rumbling from the mouth of the valley. But a moment later, he saw a torrent pouring in from the mouth of the valley. The sound of thousands of horses running in the valley is really frightening under the response of the cliffs on both sides of the valley. However, for the people who have seen thousands of horses galloping on the grassland, the sound of the more than 1000 horses of the 800 horse thieves can not be compared at all. They all stand on the wall and quietly look at the horse thieves approaching in the distance. They were scared by the sound of horse hooves The white faced craftsmen and ordinary villagers, trembling and looking at the performance of the generals on the wall, also slowly quieted down.

However, a group of horse thieves slowly stopped their horses at the place where the pass was no more than 200 steps away, and the four or five leading men took a few steps forward.

Looking at the high wall and the wide trench in front of him, Xu could not help but look pale. As the leader of a gang of nearly 500 horse thieves, a few days ago, his horse thief sentry found a big village in the valley. It is said that there are less than 2000 people, and there is no good wall in the village. It seems that it is only the wooden wall of Zhongcun, and there is no good wall in the village It is said that there are only 200 cavalry and about 200 bowmen. For the sake of safety, he sent a more careful second leader to guard the village secretly for two days. After repeated confirmation, he decided to come to the village. At first, I thought that it was no problem for these soldiers and horses to beat down the village compared with their own horse thieves, but I would certainly hurt my bones and muscles. So I invited two small groups of horse thieves with more than 100 people in each group. There were more than 800 people in three groups, and nearly a thousand horses to work together. I didn't expect that when I saw that I was coming, there was a pass in front of me. Looking at the smiles on the faces of the other two brigands, I couldn't help but get angry and said, "second, didn't you say that there are no defense facilities in this village? So what's this? ""Big brother..." Looking at the pass and ditch in front of him, the second leader of the equine thief was stunned. After a long time, he responded and said, "brother, this... This... I came to see the one without this level yesterday morning. I swea