"Retreat to the courtyard first."
Zhao Ping ordered.
"how about you?"
Gao Meng asked.
"I'll put a few things in and I'll leave them in a while."
Zhao Ping said: "Remember, after retreating to the courtyard, immediately look for something blocking the door."
"yes."
Gao Meng stopped talking nonsense and left the shop with the twenty brothers who were trapped in the camp to look for things outside.
Li Hu didn't leave, nor did he care about Zhao Ping.
Instead, he stared at the door motionlessly, holding the Tang Dao tightly in his hand.
Once someone rushes in, he will swing his knife up without hesitation and chop off the other person's head.
But those people yelled for a long time and didn't push the door open.
But it's soon.
The door bolt in the middle has been cut off, and the table behind has been pushed back a little.
There is a gap in the door.
It won't be long before they can open the door completely and rush in swarm.
Li Hu was also a little worried.
He looked at Zhao Ping.
Want to escape with him.
But he found that Zhao Ping had taken out some dark balls at some point.
He was holding a fire stick and lighting those things.
As they were ignited, thick smoke suddenly came out of the two things.
The smell...not to mention, it's a bit fragrant.
Li Hu wanted to take a few more puffs.
But Zhao Ping said sternly: "Huzi, hold your breath, this thing is poisonous."
Li Hu was so frightened that he shrank his neck and immediately held his breath.
After all the dark balls were ignited, Zhao Ping took Li Hu and ran into the yard.
Close the door and bolt it.
Gao Meng and others have already found something to block the door.
Things like stones, tables, wooden sticks, etc. blocked the door firmly.
boom!
As soon as they finished doing this, they heard a loud noise outside.
The tables inside were pushed away completely.
The door also opened.
The enemy troops rushed into the shop in a swarm.
"There's no one inside."
Someone said: "Zhao Ping must have ran into the yard."
"Everyone rush together and break that door open."
"Have you smelled it? Why is there such a fragrance in this room?"
"Not to mention, it smells pretty good."
"Poison, the smoke here is poisonous, hurry up and hold your breath."
"It's not poisonous."
Someone wondered: "We have been smoking for so long and there are no signs of poisoning?"
"Don't worry about whether it's poisonous or not, hurry up and open the door, don't delay us and chop off Zhao Ping's head."
"That's not a head, but walking silver."
"Ten thousand taels of silver, a thousand acres of land in two days. After doing this, we will have no worries for the rest of our lives."
"Come on, everyone, work harder. Even if the smoke is really poisonous, as long as we can push it away early, we can avoid the poison."
boom! boom! boom!
Those people started breaking down the door again.
However, the door was blocked very tightly this time. They tried for a long time, but they only managed to break the door loose, but did not push it open at all.
"Sir, how about we set a fire?"
Gao Meng suggested: "A fire can burn them all to death inside."
"no."
Zhao Ping shook his head, "Although this is a brick house, it is mixed with a lot of thatch and other things. There are also dry firewood piled in the yard. Once it is ignited, it will be more difficult for us to rush out."
"What should we do?"
Gao Meng said with a slight worry: "It didn't take long for them to open the door outside."
"Although this door is blocked more firmly, it can't withstand it for long."
"You don't have to resist for too long."
Zhao Ping said: "You just need to hold on for a quarter of an hour."
"Now let's find some wooden boards and make them into shields, then step back twenty meters, hide behind the shields, and be ready."
"Whenever someone breaks through the door and rushes in, he will immediately launch the Zhuge Liannu."
"Sir, we usually practice with axes and ignore the archery skills, so our shots are not so accurate."
Gao Meng said bitterly.
"It doesn't matter."
Zhao Ping said with a smile: "Our goal is not to shoot people to death, but to force them back."
"And the door is not big. At most two people can rush in at a time."
"Then let's divide the people into four groups, each group has five people."
"I believe that if five arrows are fired at the same time, even if the arrow technique is not accurate, it should be able to hit two people, right?"
"After the first wave shoots down, the second group shoots the second wave."
"And so on, shooting in turn."
"Huzi, Gao Meng, you two are hiding on both sides of the door."
"Once we don't shoot anyone to death, you should kill them in time and try to kill them with one shot. We must not let them rush to the backyard easily."
"yes."
Everyone took orders.
Gao Meng began to group the brothers who were trapped in the camp.
Then find wooden boards and make a shield.
Fortunately, this is a cloth shop, and carts are used to transport cloth back and forth.
When the cart is removed, it becomes a piece of wood.
Zhao Ping was not idle either. He was looking around, looking for a geographical environment that could be borrowed.
Although we have agreed with His Majesty that he will act as bait to fish out all the forces hiding in the dark.
I also know that His Majesty has reinforcements.
But Zhao Ping couldn't really place all his hopes on His Majesty.
It was an old silver coin after all.
What if he wants to take the opportunity to get rid of himself too?
For example, reinforcements come slower.
It was originally agreed that a battle would break out here, but reinforcements arrived two-quarters of an hour later.
What if it's delayed for a quarter of an hour?
I am afraid that I and others will have to meet the Lord of Hell.
There were even no reinforcements at all.
So you have to rely on yourself.
Even if there are only a hundred or so people on our side, it should be feasible to resist more than a thousand people with the help of a courtyard.
Just hold them back.
Over time, the news will definitely reach Liu Dingbei's ears.
He shouldn't leave such a good uncle alone, right?
When his reinforcements arrive, they can relieve the siege.
"And me?"
Xia Zhixue pointed to his nose and asked, "What should I do?"
"You come with me and patrol the rear."
Zhao Ping said: "Once someone approaches, shoot him with a Zhuge Liannu."
"Those who can't be killed, hit them from close range."
"We must not let the people rushing in disrupt our formation."
"good."
Xia Zhixue was also a little nervous.
He is a veteran, but he has retired for a long time.
To be honest, I haven't been to a real battlefield in a long time.
Even if he became an escort, he would still be responsible for gathering intelligence, relying on his wisdom rather than his combat prowess.
Today, let him once again show his heroic demeanor as a veteran.
Zhao Ping was still looking around.
There are only some clothes drying racks in the yard. To put it bluntly, they are just wooden sticks.
Can only be used as a weapon.
There is no other use.
There are also dye vats with different paints in them.
This doesn't seem to be of any use.
However, there were dry firewood piled near the corner of the yard.
If the enemy is inside, you can attack with fire.
Now that they are inside, once they light a fire, they will be the ones burned, and they are also eliminated by Zhao Ping.
The courtyard wall is very high, nearly ten feet tall.
It's a bit difficult for enemies to climb in from the outside, so it's a good defense.
Further inside, there are rows of houses.
But there are few resources available.
But if you really can't resist it, you can hide in these rooms.
Hide some people in a room.
If someone goes in to search, they can give the opponent a fatal blow by surprise.
If there are many people entering, just escape through the window and continue to escape.
That means there are no tunnels, otherwise it would be almost like guerrilla warfare.
On the way, they also met people from the Imperial Guard, who reported some things to Zhao Ping.
There were indeed people climbing in through the courtyard wall, but not many. They had all been killed or driven down. There was not a single enemy entering the village yet.
Zhao Ping was very satisfied with this.
After a few words of encouragement, he returned to the courtyard outside.
And something happened there.
