Ever since Chai Sang escaped, Cao Wu had been sleeping with his clothes on, and his sword was beside the bed.
Hearing the shout, he immediately got out of bed and took the sword in his hand.
"Last time it was Gan Ning who attacked at night, who is it this time?"
He leaned against the window with his sword, and sure enough he heard the sound of bows and arrows.
Xiao Qiao wanted to ask about the situation, but under the moonlight, Cao Wu made a silencing gesture towards her.
Xiao Qiao immediately shut up and grabbed the quilt at a loss.
Cao Wu gestured for her to wait there, and he opened a small crack in the window.
He saw some soldiers outside, walking around with torches. Every time they reached a door, they asked people inside to come out. Villagers were taken out of their homes one after another. If they didn't come out, they were thrown into the yard with a fire.
Cao Wu roughly estimated that there should be twenty or thirty soldiers outside, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although he has not specifically learned martial arts, he has actually been on the battlefield after all. He can cut people with his sword. There is no need to be afraid if there are just a few soldiers with little red horses and iron barrel guns.
I just wonder, who are these people? If it was really Jiangdong Army, could it be that Jiangdong Army was so short of men that it had to go to the village to catch young men?
He returned to the bedside and said to Xiao Qiao: "Maybe it's Jiang Dongjun. Follow me first and don't reveal your identity. If it's confirmed to be Jiang Dongjun, I'll communicate with them to see if I can find Zhou Yu and Da Qiao."
Xiao Qiao finally calmed down, covered his mouth, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Cao Wu took the little red horse and sat in front of it. Xiao Qiao sat behind him, hesitated, and grabbed Cao Wu's waist.
Cao Wule turned his little red horse and ran to Hua Tuo's residence next door, but Hua Tuo was no longer there, so he simply rode straight towards the place where the villagers were being escorted.
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At the entrance of the village, where everyone besieged Hua Tuo today, most of the people in the village were pressed here.
The villagers dared not speak out in anger and lined up in line as ordered.
Yang Laosan was in the crowd and kept looking back at his room, wondering if his wife and children were hiding.
A leader was holding a whip and was shouting to them: "Everyone, we are not here to kill people! Someone in Lijia Village has a disease and needs everyone's help to transport the body. Don't be afraid, everyone will come back after transporting the body!"
An old man asked tremblingly: "If this is really the case, we old bones can just go away. I hope Master Bing will let the women and children go!"
What answered him was the sound of a whip, and the leader hit him hard.
"Everyone has to go, that's the military order!"
The leader said coldly.
The villagers immediately became agitated. Everyone had been educated by the miracle doctor and knew that contact with the diseased corpses would be a great possibility of contracting the disease. How dare they go there.
The leader drew out his sword, pointed at the sky and said: "If you don't want to die, just shut up and behave!"
Mr. Su was supported by the villagers, but he trembled and stopped the villagers from moving rashly.
When the villagers stopped talking, he sneered: "That's right, I'll give you a way to survive. Don't be ungrateful!"
Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a cry of a child in the village, and the leader said: "There are still people inside, catch them!"
Seeing that the soldiers were about to catch his child, Yang Laosan was so anxious that he rushed forward, hugged the leader's horse, and cried: "That's my newborn child, let him go!"
The leader impatiently swung his sword and slashed straight at Yang Laosan's neck.
The villagers were shocked. Mr. Su was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, and the woman was so frightened that she closed her eyes.
However, the situation they imagined with their heads falling to the ground did not happen.
Suddenly, a ray of red lightning pierced diagonally and hit the leader directly.
There was a loud "boom" sound, and the leader was knocked out, drawing a parabola in the air, and hit the ground heavily, his life or death unknown.
Quiet, at that moment, the surrounding soldiers and villagers all fell silent and looked at this scene with their mouths wide open.
The leader who showed off his power and power just disappeared like this?
Even the whip and sword flew away without knowing where they were!
And the man who caused all this was actually the man from before!
He said that he was fighting with Huang Taishou, and it turned out that he was really courageous and talented in martial arts!
The villagers suddenly felt that a savior had arrived and became commotion.
Cao Wu shouted: "What are you waiting for? Kill these ruffians!"
The villagers suddenly woke up from a dream, and the men came out of the crowd one after another and approached Cao Wu.
There were only more than thirty soldiers in this group. The soldiers all had weapons in their hands, but the villagers did not. They were also sallow and thin, and their strength was clearly out of contrast.
But when the leader died, they were like headless lions, not knowing what to do.
Someone said: "There are more of us than the villagers. Killing them will be a meritorious service!"
So the soldiers prepared to form a formation.
"No chance!"
Cao Wu took the lead and stepped directly into the soldiers.
The scene suddenly turned into a cavalry fighting dozens of infantry, still unformed infantry.
Cao Wu raised his sword and cut down several people. The remaining soldiers immediately retreated as they could not think of forming a formation.
"Catch them alive!"
Cao Wu shouted while instructing the villagers to arrest people.
The battle ended in a very short time. A group of unarmed villagers actually captured a dozen soldiers, tied them up, and placed them at the entrance of the village.
Yang Laosan was covered in blood, and he knelt down to Cao Wu and said, "Thank you so much, my benefactor, for saving us!"
Mr. Su also trembled and said: "Our whole village is grateful to our benefactor!"
All the villagers also cheered and knelt down. Cao Wu didn't say much, but Xiao Qiao behind him was in ups and downs. On the one hand, she was frightened by the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere. On the other hand, Cao Wu defeated dozens of people, which really shocked her.
Her heart was pounding when she thought that the people she had dinner with just now were almost in danger due to the coercion of these soldiers.
Cao Wu was used to this kind of situation. The war continues, and these villagers in the cracks between the fighting sites are really worse than grass. A single stroke of the sickle will kill them all.
He helped Mr. Su up and went to interrogate the deserters himself.
Unexpectedly, the deserters turned out to be very harsh. They only said that they were soldiers from Jiangdong, and asked them which general in Jiangdong they were from, but they couldn't tell.
"They asked the villagers to transport the bodies. What did they want to do?"
Hua Tuo's voice sounded. His body was covered with thatch and he looked a little funny.
Cao Wu guessed that he must have escaped by hiding in the thatch. It seemed that Hua Tuo had long developed a sense of alertness as he walked in troubled times and wandered between life and death.
"Old miracle doctor, please take a step to speak."
He pulled Hua Tuo aside and sighed: "If I guess correctly, the bodies of these people who died of the epidemic will be transported to Prime Minister Cao Cao's army."
"What!"
Hua Tuo's eyes widened.
Cao Wu calmly analyzed: "Although I didn't guess where these soldiers were from, their purpose is not difficult to guess. They didn't dare to transport the corpses themselves, but they rushed the villagers to transport them. When the time came, they forced the villagers to get on the boat and take the The boat goes upstream. Just throw all the villagers and corpses into Cao's camp, and the disease will spread to millions of troops!"
After listening to Cao Wu's analysis, Hua Tuo's beard was trembling. He was not an ignorant villager like these. He had already heard that Cao Cao had raised millions of troops, and his target was Jiangxia.
Jiangxia is now desolate, the population density is very low, and the destructive power of the epidemic is not strong, but if someone really spreads the epidemic to Cao Cao's army...
Hua Tuo shudders just thinking about this situation.
Hua Tuo is not a holy lady. His sword has no eyes. The two armies fought with real swords and guns. No one can blame him for his death.
However, the method of spreading the epidemic is a method other than the battlefield, and it really breaks the bottom line of human ethics.
"Not a son of man! Hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands! How dare you!"
Hua Tuo slammed his stick on the ground, making a clanging sound.
"I hope not... but this village is still dozens of miles away from Xiakou, and there should be other villages in the middle. If nothing else happens, the first wave of corpses may have been transported out long ago!"
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Late at night, on the Yangtze River, outside the military camp of pioneer Xia Houyuan, the sentry on duty suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a ship approaching on the river, and quickly raised the alarm.
Xia Houyuan was quickly woken up. After sleeping with his clothes on, he immediately rushed to the Chinese army, but soon received new news from the sentry. It turned out that only three small boats were coming. They looked a bit like villagers' ferries, not warships.
Xia Houyuan quickly took people to see it, but before he got closer, he smelled a rotten smell.
