Chapter 3359: Small Choices, Big Problems

Chapter 3358 Small choices lead to big problems

"Pei Wenheng, what do you want to do?" ! 』

Not long after Pei Jicai and his men lined up at the gate of Anyi City, the Pei family members who heard the news in the city came in a hurry. Taking advantage of the large number of people, they loudly rebuked Pei Jicheng.

There are many people, especially if you are mixed with other people, you can use your own name to forcibly represent the will of others.

As long as other people don't speak...

"where are you going? Open the city gate? ! You are trying to kill us! 』

"How come the Pei family has a son like you?" In the face of a disaster, instead of working together, do you want to separate? ! 』

"Pei was born in Wenxi and grew up in Anyi. Now that you're gone, Pei Wenheng, are you going to separate the family?" ! 』

"This is disloyal and unfilial!" 』

"Pei Wenheng, you are so bold!" The master's body is still cold, you don't want to be filial to your subordinates, but you want to split the Pei family! 』

"What will happen if the thieves take advantage of this opening and sneak in?" ! Pei's foundation is based on this, how can he let this ignorant child become bad? 』

"My ancestors are on top!" I will rely on my old age and betray my old age, and I will ask you on behalf of my ancestors, Pei Wenheng, are you going to abandon your family and ignore it? 』

"The way of heaven is clear, how can we allow such people without kings and fathers to run rampant?" 』

"..."

There was chaos in the city.

"boom! 』

"Boom boom!" 』

There was a roar outside the city.

Many of the Pei family's children, old and young, were still wearing powder and lipstick on their faces.

Yes, cosmetics were originally used by men, but later women also used them.

Pei Ji didn't think there was anything wrong with these gentry children wearing makeup and powder before. After all, this is the trend in Shandong...

The area east of Hedong originally had an impact on the Central Plains for some time. For example, Lin Zongjin was imitated by the descendants of the gentry all over the world. But I don't know since when, the children of the Hedong gentry began to imitate the orchid fingers, white faces and willow waist of Shandong area.

And Lin Zongjin, who was not afraid of wind and rain, was thrown into the garbage.

Pei Ji watched and listened to the shouts and curses of these guys without saying a word. He just raised his head and stood in the street, blocking the men and guards who were silently preparing behind him.

Mixed in with the roar of artillery, these curses seemed somewhat feeble, and the continuity was easily interrupted, making Pei Ji unable to help but want to laugh.

Is this the Pei clan that my father has been protecting and preserving?

Is this the Pei clan member who has survived all the time fighting at the top of the city, fighting to the death?

It’s better not to keep it!

Pei Ji stared at them one by one with cold eyes. Those who were targeted by Pei Ji involuntarily shrank back. It seemed that being in the crowd gave them great courage and replenished his energy. So these people quickly stood up again in anger, and started to point fingers at Pei Ji.

Seeing that Pei Ji didn't move, he became more and more bold. Not only did he point his fingers in the air, he even poked them in front of Pei Ji, and some even pointed directly at Pei Ji's body...

"Clang!" 』

Pei Ji drew his sword.

There were still blood stains on the sword that had not been completely wiped off.

Everyone couldn't help but shrink back!

Immediately, there was an even louder yell, resounding through the sky, as if it was comparable to the sound of artillery outside the city, but no one dared to step forward anymore, they just stood a distance away, spitting angrily.

Pei Ji remained unmoved amid the scoldings, and did not even take a second look until Pei Ji saw Pei Hui's figure in the crowd.

"Second brother, why are you here too?" 』

Pei Ji put away his sword with a bit of bitterness on his face.

The crowd parted slightly to make way for them.

Pei Hui's figure is relatively weak, perhaps because he has read too much and is somewhat short-sighted, which makes his eyes slightly scattered.

Pei Hui stepped forward, his face also a little helpless and bitter, "I don't want to come either." 』

So much for the ancient conversation.

Before Cao Jun attacked the city, a short-sighted man like Pei Hui was certainly not suitable for defending the city.

After all, swords and guns have no eyesight. If Pei Hui goes into battle forcefully, he accidentally stabs himself. Therefore, he has been doing logistics and coordination work in the city. On the contrary, because of this, he and the Pei clan members in the city and the wealthy Anyi family , a little more friendship.

Now that he heard that Pei Ji wanted to open the city gate and go out, he was pulled by his tribe and had to come.

"My suggestion is to leave this place as soon as possible. Pei Ji looked at Pei Hui and said, "We can't stay in Anyi any longer... The Hussars will only open a road and won't enter the city!" The hussars did not move the cavalry! What does this mean? It’s impossible for you, second brother, not to understand...Now is the best opportunity. You can go as far as you can, otherwise...it’s not like you, second brother, don’t know the current situation in the city..."

Pei Hui was silent for a moment, "Can't we wait any longer?" Waiting for this victory or defeat, we will definitely..."

"Winning or losing?" Pei Ji sneered and shook his head, "Do we still need to wait?" There are signs of troop mobilization in Cao Jun's camp. Let's go out now to help the hussar! What’s the point of waiting until the outcome is decided? What else could it be? 』

"..." Pei Hui remained silent.

There is nothing difficult to understand about this superficial truth, so the important point is not to know the truth, but how to do it after knowing it.

As soon as the hussars came, Cao Jun immediately shrank his head and stayed in the camp.

The Hussar only commanded some of the soldiers and horses from Linfen in the east of the river and the Yinshan Mountains in the north, and they were able to suppress Cao's army at a loss.

Yes, it is undoubtedly the safest to wait until the outcome is finally determined before putting the chips on the table, but does such "safety" really meet Pei's needs?

Pei Hui did not assume such an important position under the Qiaoqi, in fact, it was also because of the previous "win or lose". At that time, Pei Hui was in Shoushan Academy. After Sima Yi left, he got the top grade in the competition. However, Pei Hui did not join Fei Qian's official structure like Wang Xiang, but there were still some The feeling of being outside.

Being free is of course a relatively relaxed chain of cause and effect. You can move left or right at any time, or you can continue to stay in the middle and ride on the wall...

Pei Ji looked back at the dilapidated Anyi city wall and said, "The wall is about to collapse... If we don't leave now, do we really have to wait until it collapses before making a decision?" 』

The outcome of Guanzhong and Shandong is indeed not determined at the moment.

Before, Pei Mao was the one who made the decision. As Pei Mao gets older, of course he hopes more for stability, harmony, and nothing to change. Even though he had lofty ideals when he was young, when he gets older, not many people can still stay young. Mentality, strong enterprising spirit.

"Eldest brother has already gone to the North..." Pei Hui said with a frown.

"I'm not going to the North!" Pei Ji said.

"Then you want to go to Guanzhong?" Pei Hui asked.

Pei Ji still shook his head, "Second brother, don't you think that Beidi Hedong Guanzhong actually looks like a different place, but in fact... it's not that far away?" I am going to take this opportunity to please transfer to the Western Region! 』

"West, Western Region?" ! Pei Hui was very surprised.

Everyone listened and was also in an uproar.

Isn’t it too far to go out of this Western Region?

Yes, diversification of investments is a traditional play of noble families.

In fact, it was not just the Pei family, but also the noble families who originally lived in Yuncheng, Hedong.

Watch and wait.

Multi-party betting, anyway, as long as there is a winner, they will be the winner, which means that they have far-sightedness and accurate betting. They have more capital anyway.

And those from poor families, even those from poor families, can only hold the few chips in their hands, place a bet, and then soon be wiped out in the opening process again and again, and leave the game.

If something unexpected happens, such as an outsider flipping over the table, most of the noble clans have one last resort, Pingsha Luoyan throws himself to the ground and performs an all-round spiral kneeling licking style...

(For details, please refer to Confucius’s teachings on kneeling and licking throughout the ages.)

This is the custom of the Shandong gentry, but the Hedong gentry, who have always followed the footsteps of the Shandong gentry, cannot help but get into this habit. Since it is a habit, some people will think it is a problem, while others will think it is a good idea. However, the two cannot communicate with each other at all.

"We can ask the Hussars..." Pei Hui paused, as if he was thinking about the words, "We can ask the Hussars to come into the city and jointly defend Anyi..."

“Second brother, don’t you understand this? Pei Ji smiled bitterly.

Not only did Pei Ji understand it later, but Pei Mao also understood it before he died. However, for Pei Mao, he was already very old, which inevitably meant that Pei Mao was unable to leave Anyi, and it was difficult for him to leave Anyi. Maybe he would have ventured into the world at that age...

So it was up to the younger Pei Ji to try it out!

Pei Hui was silent again.

I don't know when the gunfire stopped, and immediately there was a cry to kill.

Pei Ji looked back outside the city, but his view was blocked by the city wall.

"Second brother, time is running out..." Pei Ji looked at Pei Hui, "Are you still going to stop me?" 』

"Now in the city..." Pei Hui paused, "I can't give you anything... now that you're gone..."

While parents are still alive, brothers and sisters are still brothers and sisters.

Once the parents leave, the brothers and sisters each have their own homes.

No matter how close you are when you are a child, you will gradually become distant when you grow up...

"No need, I will follow the Hussars..." Pei Ji whispered, "We Pei family have stayed in Hedong for too long, and we have almost forgotten that the world is huge..."

Pei Hui was silent for another moment.

He is now equivalent to the "heir" of the Pei family in Anyi City, so it is even more impossible for him to leave everything behind and go to the world. Family property is wealth, but it is also a burden. Once you carry it on your back, you won’t be able to let it go easily.

I don't know when the people's curses stopped.

Because everyone already knows that Pei Ji's mind has been made up, and no amount of scolding will change anything, but it will be in vain. Not all of these people have bad intentions, there are some who have good intentions, and there are also some who are bad-tempered, but most of them are because they do not have enough vision, are not broad-minded, or use their own old experiences to measure the current new situation.

The reason why these people feel irritable and noisy is because their own will is not strong enough.

Just like now, when everyone understood that Pei Ji had made up his mind to leave and could not be shaken, they stopped talking.

"Whatever..."

Pei Hui waved behind him, and someone came with a brocade box.

"This is... the genealogy file..." Pei Hui took it and handed it to Pei Ji himself, "Today I will hand it over to my third brother... No matter where the world ends, remember... you are still a descendant of the Pei family..." 』

The corners of Pei Ji's eyes were sore, and he quickly bowed down before accepting it.

It's not that Pei Hui had expected the family to be separated or had copied the genealogy in advance, but how could there be only one copy of something like a genealogy that signified family inheritance and glory? Of course there is a backup. Now Pei Hui has given this backup to Pei Ji, which means that when Pei Ji leaves, he is not expelled from the clan, but separates the family.

There were constant roars outside the city, as if congratulating Pei on his new life.

From then on, after hearing about the Pei family, they separated into three families.

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The camp where Cao Jun besieged Anyi was hit by artillery shells continuously, and the gap became wider and wider, and finally collapsed in pieces.

Although the generals of Cao Jun's military academy shouted loudly to let Cao Jun soldiers use wooden bars, wooden fences, or earth bags and sandbags to block the gap, in fact few Cao Jun soldiers took action at all.

Especially after seeing a few stunned young people really go up to block the gap and then be bombarded to pieces by artillery fire, they just shrank their heads and howled, turning a deaf ear to all the orders of the generals of Cao Jun's military academy.

"Fuck me!" Come on! 』

Cao Jun's military academy shouted.

"Can't hear it!" Can't hear it! 』

Cao Jun's soldiers said that the Hussars' artillery fire was too loud and their ears were temporarily deafened.

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, Xu Chu directed the infantry to advance from both sides to the trenches on the edge of the camp, and began to deal with these trenches and antlers.

Logically speaking, the trench and antlers are within fifty steps of Cao Jun's camp, which is the best shooting distance. At this time, Cao Jun's archers should have climbed up the wall and fired furiously at Xu Chu's infantry. yes. However, under the threat of artillery fire, the wall in this area was bombarded and trembled and collapsed, which also caused many Cao soldiers in other places who were originally stationed on the wall to flee the wall in a hurry.

If a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, then a villain will not stand in a dangerous place.

Only a fool would go!

Cao Jun is obviously a smart man.

To deal with ravines, the cavalry must either jump or circle, or they must have horses in front of them but no horses in their hearts. As for infantry, there are many different techniques. Not only can they touch, but they can also buckle, and by the way, they can also dig down...

It looks professional at first glance.

The infantry led by Xu Chu were all strong young men. They buried their heads in Cao Jun's ditch with a hand speed of 250, and suddenly there was a loud noise...

At the same time, the wooden planks and wooden ladders transported from behind were also delivered to the front line in time.

The ravines outside Cao Jun's barracks were quickly dug, paved, filled, and filled.

Cao Jun's shouts could be heard from time to time behind the wall, but only sporadic bows and arrows shot out from the wall.

In the face of artillery suppression, perhaps only elite troops can fight against the threat of death. And are the elites of Cao Jun in the camp of Cao Jun who besieged Anyi?

Apparently not.

Under the bombardment of artillery, Cao Jun's wall basically collapsed.

In some places, only half of the height is left, and in other places, it has completely collapsed, but it is still crumbling.

It’s not that Cao Jun did a bad job here, but because the original main defense direction of Cao Jun’s camp that besieged Anyi was towards Anyi. Even if Cao Jun’s camp tried to “renovate both internally and externally”, it would not be possible to build much. thick.

On the other hand, the main defense system of Cao Jun is still built within Cao Jun's main camp. For example, the partial camp under Anyi City is not the focus, so it is naturally impossible to build thicker walls.

Like the wall here, the activity area of ​​Cao's soldiers on the wall does not mainly depend on the thickness of the wall, but on the passage wooden boards nailed to the wall. The strength of this kind of wooden board is sufficient under normal circumstances, but in the face of artillery fire, it is a little younger.

Although the military academy of Cao's army in the camp kept shouting orders, the soldiers of Cao's army near the wall were slow to move. Taking three steps forward and back, those scattered arrows were not enough to cause any damage to Xu Chu's infantry.

Although artillery did not join many battles, humans' innate sensitivity to war was enough for Xu Chu to create a small combination similar to the combination of infantry and artillery.

Artillery opened the passage, and the infantry followed.

This unprecedented combat mode appears in the current land of China. This may be an instinct or an evolution.

The six-pound cannonball roared forward amidst the roar, invincible. Whether it was a wooden pile or a human body that was hit, it was shattered and flying all over the sky. The stirred up dust was spinning high in the air and refused to fall.

When the roar of the artillery gradually subsided, Xu Chu's infantry had already filled in two trenches, built a plank bridge, quickly passed through the dangerous area, and rushed into Cao Jun's camp!

At this time, the defender of Cao's camp who was attacked was still undecided.

The double rabbit flag had been swaying for a long time and was about to break, but in the Cao Jun camp not far away, there was still no movement at all. It was as if they didn't see or hear the roar of artillery fire here at all. They stood still. .

"what to do? 』

The general guarding Cao Jun's camp was at a loss.

He didn't know if Xu Chu was really planning to charge the camp with infantry, or if he was just using it as a cover to clear the way for the following cavalry!

If the infantry really stormed the camp, many of the fortifications would be useless!

After all, rejecting a horse means rejecting a horse, and it is impossible to turn into rejecting a person in an instant. Moreover, some small traps dug in the passages are very effective for myopic horses, but they are almost negligible for humans...

『Damn it! Should we prepare to defend against infantry or cavalry? ! 』 The general of the side camp shouted, 『Why didn't General Zilian reply? Why didn't the lord give any orders? ! Ahhhhh, what should we do? 』

『General! 』 The Cao army soldiers under him also shouted in panic, 『Qiuqi, Qiuqi, charge, they are coming in! ! 』