Everyone's expressions changed. Tan Shihuai picked up a shield and quickly rushed in front of Tan Zhi. He said loudly: "My lord, please take shelter for now. We are here to resist."
Tan Zhi calmly patted Tan Shihuai on the shoulder: "Shihuai, why are you nervous? We don't know who is coming, whether we are friends or foes, and they are more than five hundred steps away from us. Are you afraid that they can hurt me?"
Tan Shihuai's face turned slightly red, but he still held up his shield: "My lord, it is my duty to protect you. Even if someone comes and wants to know their identity, you shouldn't take the risk here, let me ask them the question."
Bar."
Tan Zhi smiled and waved his hand and said: "Okay, no need to be like this, everyone should be calm and stay at their posts. The village gate is closed, the archers are in their positions, and the infantry lie behind the wooden platoon. Just listen to my orders.
Lord Luo, Captain Asiba, go and lead your men and prepare to listen to my orders."
Luo Huainan quickly ran down the guard tower, but Captain Axiba hesitated and said: "Looking at the smoke, there should only be one or two hundred people coming. I'm afraid they don't look like enemy troops."
Tan Zhi nodded: "I have my own sense of discretion here, but before making a decision, I have to see the opponent's situation. Moreover, if I, as a general, do not dare to show up in person, if it is the enemy, it will be small.
After seeing us, if they were friendly forces, they would also be disappointed."
Captain Asiba laughed: "Zi Shuai has always been brave, brave and resourceful. In order to appease us, he dared to come to our village alone. If not, how could we go out of the mountains and follow you?
So far?"
Tan Zhi smiled slightly: "Brother Axiba, you should ambush well and listen to my orders. There are many light swordsmen among the demon thieves. You are good at close combat, so you will definitely be useful."
Captain Axiba saluted and left. On the arrow tower, only Tan Zhi, Tan Shihuai, and three or four other guards were left.
Tan Zhi's eyes flashed coldly, and he nodded to Tan Shihuai on the side. He saw that the visitor had already reached a distance of about three hundred steps. Tan Shihuai drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot out an arrow, which flew out.
After about one hundred and twenty steps, he landed about a hundred steps in front of the visitor, accompanied by his thunderous and powerful roar: "Who is coming? State your identity. If you take one step beyond this arrow, don't blame us."
You’re welcome!”
The smoke gradually dissipated, and it was the running team that stopped their footsteps. The wind blew by, and their faces and shapes were revealed. I saw this team of more than 200 people, each with their own body.
They were wearing the armor of the Jin army, but almost all of them were wounded and wrapped in injury belts. Some people's injury belts were stained red with blood. There were even forty or fifty people who could only rely on each other's support.
Standing with the sword and spear in his hand, the leader raised his hand high and said loudly: "Little Li Lang is a member of the guard of General Zhengxi and General Liu, the governor of Jingzhou. We are all brothers. We crossed from Wulin
Came over there."
Tan Zhi frowned. He saw Li Lang and the dozens of sergeants behind him, all wearing white helmets and tassels. They were obviously the equipment and logo of Liu Daogui's guard. He said in a deep voice: "Your captain Lin Zihao
Where are you? Why don't you stick to your posts? Why do you want to come here instead?"
Li Lang took out the token from his arms, held it up in the air, and said: "Wulindu was attacked by the enemy. Captain Lin led his troops to garrison at Zatoichi, but Zatoichi was also attacked by demon thieves.
During the attack, he gave me the token and asked me to break out with the wounded and go to the Matou Camp to ask for help from the army."
Tan Zhi gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Come here alone and hand over the token. I am the internal history of Wuling. General Ningshu, Tan Zhi, if you have anything to say, you can tell me."
Li Lang's expression changed slightly, then he said happily: "You, are you really General Tan? Great, if you were stationed here, the brothers in Wulindu would be saved."
As he spoke, he quickly ran to the village gate. Tan Zhi had already opened the village gate. He went down from the arrow tower and stood in front of the village gate. Li Lang knelt down on one knee about five steps in front of him and raised his hands above his head.
The token was presented.
Tan Shihuai stepped forward to take the token, turned around and handed it to Tan Zhi. Tan Zhi looked at it carefully and said, "It is indeed Liu Zhengxi's token. Before I came, Liu Zhengxi said that this token is for you."
Lin Zihao, the captain of the guard, why would he give this token to you?"
Li Lang wiped the sweat from his face, still kneeling on the ground and said: "Because the situation ahead is very critical, there are enemy traitors in Wulindu, we lit two red and one black smoke pillars at the beginning, because the people who were attacking the camp at that time
The demon thieves, only more than two hundred people, came over from Lukou Ferry in the south direction of Changsha County on a fast boat. We thought it was just a small force of demon thieves, so we responded with normal defense and released them at the same time.
war."
"But after these monster thieves came ashore, they moved extremely quickly. They were completely different from those monster thieves who had made several sneak attacks on Wulindu in the past. Liu Junzhu of Wulindu, who was commanding the battle at the front, led his troops out of camp to counterattack. As a result, more than a hundred people
Brother Liu was killed by the enemy's vanguard of sixty or seventy men within a moment, and Commander Liu also died in battle."
Tan Zhi frowned: "Since you can see that the enemy's fighting power is strong, why don't you quickly set off beacon fire to call the police? There are always three smoke pillars, two red and one black, which are the signals of the enemy's small group of weak soldiers."
Two lines of tears fell from Li Lang's eyes: "In the camp, there are spies of demon thieves in the camp. After we sent out three beacon smokes, two red and one black, these traitors put other beacon smoke on top, tampered with it, and poured it on
After adding some unknown potions, all the other firewood piles could no longer be lit. Although we killed all the spies, the beacon fire could no longer be lit. Only now do we know that the thieves deliberately started with small
Attack with a group of troops, causing us to send out two red and one black beacon fire, and then do this."
Tan Zhi said solemnly: "Since there are spies who can extinguish the beacon fire, why don't the demon thieves simply extinguish all the beacon fires so that no information can be transmitted?"
Li Lang murmured: "Well, I don't know about this little one. Maybe, maybe the demon thief is afraid that we will not be able to send out the beacon fire as scheduled, which will cause doubts here."
Tan Zhi nodded: "This is a reasonable explanation, but what is the situation over there now?"
Li Lang quickly said: "After the enemy forward came ashore, there were fast boats on the river carrying more and more thieves ashore, and there were also enemy water ghosts coming ashore in the river. Now at Wulindu, there are already a thousand
There are too many enemy troops. Most of the original defenders were killed. Only our brothers in the guard are still fighting to the death. Captain Lin asked me to risk my life to break out, just to ask for help from the Matou Camp. General Tan, please save our brothers.