There are many wonderful battles in the pacification of the Great Wei Kingdom, not to mention the five famous wars in the world, even in small-scale battles, there are many battles that are talked about, and each battle can be handed over to the group of fledgling little hairy heads as a tutorial by Guozijian.

Xu Xiao's combat exploits are the first, but there are not many classic battles that can be entered into the classroom, because the king of Xiliang commands some hard battles and death battles in exchange for victory, and most of them are fast and slow, chaotic, and less and more. is not as good as Xiahou Xiangyang, who has the reputation of "winning a hundred battles", Xu Xiao often makes some stupid moves to put himself to death, but he is lucky and will always turn the danger into a disaster.

However, among the many battles, there is a battle of the city that has never been mentioned in Guozijian, and it is forgotten intentionally or unintentionally, that is, the "Xiangfan Offensive and Defensive Battle". Wang Mingxian, the lord of Xiangfan, has the reputation of "the world's first good general", who is good at attacking and defending the city, but not good at encounters.

Before defending Xiangfan, he once used the defense as the attack to involve 50,000 iron cavalry of General Xiahou, and made great contributions to the withdrawal of the army of the previous dynasty to the south of the river, and at the same time postponed the fall of the previous dynasty for a full three years.

It is precisely because of this that when commenting on the "Top Ten Masters of the Art of War", there is a place for Wang Mingxian.

Later, Wang Mingxian was sent to guard Xiangfan City, so that he had the opportunity to meet Xu Xiao, when Xu Xiao patted his thigh and asked Fan Li to write an enthusiastic letter of surrender, and Wang Mingxian also replied with an enthusiastic letter. There is only one sentence on it, which is still a mantra that Xu Xiao often says on his lips - your grandma's legs, Xu Xiao is not only not angry. Instead, laugh heartily.

But then Xu Xiao couldn't laugh, Xu Xiao, who used to win more with less, gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and hoarded them outside Xiangfan City, Xiangfan City was impregnable and could not be attacked for a long time. Xu Xiao was so angry that he ordered the army to adopt the tactics of crowds, and under the absolute superiority of troops, captured Xiangfan City. Then he ordered the city to be slaughtered, and finally burned the entire Xiangfan City with a fire, burning the Xiangfan City into a dead city.

Xiangfan Dead City. The mountain of corpses covers the sun, the blood sinks into the sea of stars, the evil ghosts are born, and the blood is bright. Today. Not a single inch of grass grows, there is no one for a hundred miles, the yin air is full of sky, and the ghost is full of spirit -- this is the record in the history books, the battle of Xiangfan has not the slightest trick and fancy to talk about, it is all a life-and-death battle, and human life is like grass mustard, which is not an exaggeration at all.

Even today, Xiangfan City is still a dead city. Many monks and people who have attained Taoism will go to Xiangfan City to preach, hoping to lead ten thousand ghosts out of the city and into the earth. Achieved great compassion and great edification for the benefit of the world, but they did not succeed.

Now there are no people within 50 miles outside Xiangfan City, because all people who live near Xiangfan City are very susceptible to illness, and children born near Xiangfan City are very prone to deformity, some people say that this is because they are haunted by evil spirits and have to live a miserable life all their lives.

So Xu Xiao, who was originally more appreciative than derogatory, has since been called "human slaughter" by the Great Wei State, and his murder is notorious and has become a stain that will never be erased in his life.

The woman in black couldn't move, and still crawled towards Xu Xiao with great perseverance: "My father is a big hero and a loyal minister, you are not allowed to belittle him like this." The woman in black was annoyed by Xu Xiao's evaluation of Wang Mingxian as a "hypocrite".

"Heroes? Loyalists? Xu Xiao sneered, his eyes looked at the black sky outside the small courtyard, "I originally thought he was a hero, but unfortunately he wasn't." ”

Who was right and who was wrong in the events of that year, who can say clearly, there are 30,000 people in Xiangfan, none of them were spared, and they died and could not be buried, and their lives were the worst.

"Haha, Xu Xiao, Xu Xiao, no wonder you can live for so long, because you are self-deceptive, hard-hearted, and have no mercy. Isn't it because he has pinned down your army of hundreds of thousands with 5,000 men and horses that you can't move forward? The woman in black had a crazy smile on her face, "No matter how you quibble, if you go to hell, there will be bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods who will dismantle you to pieces, making your life worse than death." I can't kill you in this life, and I'll kill you down there. ”

The woman in black spoke resentfully, with deep hatred.

Xu Xiao looked at the woman in black with some pity, there was no mockery in the depths of his eyes, but a trace of pity: "Girl, you are not the first to say this, and you will not be the last, but your father is definitely not as great as you imagined." 'The world's number one good general', hmph, in the final analysis, is just a selfish ghost. ”

"Phew!" The woman in black spat at Xu Xiao fiercely, as if she didn't bother to pay attention to Xu Xiao anymore, today's foolproof assassination was unsuccessful, and she didn't want to continue to live, sometimes living is a kind of torture.

Song Duanwu was furious, slapped the case, and stretched out his finger to point at the woman in black lying on the ground: "Why don't you know what to do, if it wasn't for Wang Mingxian, that bastard back then......"

Turning around sharply, Xu Xiao glared at Song Duanwu and motioned him not to continue.

But Song Duanwu turned a deaf ear: "Brother Xu, you let me say it, otherwise you can suffocate me." ”

Turning his head to look at the woman in black, Song Duanwu had a rare solemn face, and told the past: "Back then, our thirteen Taibao all followed Brother Xu's side, Wang Mingxian was really good at guarding, and built the entire Xiangfan City into an invulnerable iron city, even Fan Li, who had a bright head, couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing when he stood outside the city, there was no way at all. ”

Speaking of which, Song Duanwu seems to have returned to that era, fighting on the battlefield, smiling proudly in the rivers and lakes, Wang Mingxian cast a city with only 5,000 people, the moat was magically a full zhang deep, and then it was like a trick to get 5,000 heavy crossbows, food and grass were sufficient, and the soldiers were all brave and not afraid of death.

"It was the worst battle that our 13th Taibao had ever experienced, the catapults were replaced by batches, the ladders were full of soldiers, like ants, and human life became the least valuable thing. Some of the brothers were buried forever in the moat without even seeing the head of the wall, and it was a terrible scene. After three months of fighting, the Xu army finally occupied Xiangfan City by virtue of its numerical advantage. Song Duanwu couldn't help but sigh when he said this, paused slightly, glanced at the woman in black again, and continued: "After the capture of Xiangfan City, Brother Xu still had the idea of surrendering, but after entering the city, he found that General Wang Mingxian and Wang Da did something that everyone was angry and tragic. ”

Everyone looked at Song Duanwu's slightly flustered and frightened face, and they all felt that cold sweat was oozing from their backs, what was it that made this brave general who came over in the spring and autumn of the war feel frightened.

"It was early summer, the weather was hot and dry, and Xiangfan City was no exception, after the capture of the city, Brother Xu and the thirteen of us entered the city together, and saw that the people in the city were hungry and yellow, everyone was coughing and vomiting blood, and they were lying listless on the street, their skin was dead gray, and some places had been eroded. Fan Li was full of poetry and books, his brows were furrowed more and more, and he suddenly remembered a certain possibility, pulled Brother Xu and us out of the city, ordered the soldiers to close the gate, and the hundreds of thousands of troops on the whole line retreated for thirty miles. We all wondered, we didn't know what kind of medicine Fan Li had taken wrong, and it was only at this time that Fan Li told the truth with palpitations: The whole city had the necrotic plague! Song Duanwu said the last four words, and everyone present was shocked.

And Lin Wan'er was the most shocked, before the crossing, there were also incurable diseases in that world, such as AIDS and Epera, and in the era of the Great Wei Kingdom, necrotic plague was an incurable disease, and it spread extremely quickly and was extremely lethal. At first, the person only feels thirsty, but as time goes on, the person becomes scientific, and the face becomes sickly ruddy, and then the human body decays, and finally dies of pain.

What is even more frightening than what Song Duanwu said is that the necrotic plague in Xiangfan City does not seem to have occurred naturally, but someone has done it on purpose.

Song Duanwu drank a glass of wine and suppressed his shock: "But we didn't spread the news, for fear of disturbing the morale of the army, we just said that there was a flu in the city, so let's retreat for the time being." Afterwards, we analyzed, why did the defenders of Xiangfan, who had been brave and fearless of death, suddenly get sick, but the Xu family army separated by a wall was unscathed, Fan Li put forward the most reasonable explanation, someone deliberately spread the plague, who is it? It is Xiangfan Guard, the Great Confucian King Mingxian! ”

The woman in black also vaguely guessed a certain possibility from Song Duanwu's explanation, but after the other party said it, she still didn't believe it, and said in despair: "You deceive people, you deceive people, they are all deceitful, they are all deceitful." ”

"Deceitful? Hum. Song Duanwu sneered, "If the matter is over here, all the inferences can only be regarded as speculation, but then something even more bizarre happened, Xu Jiajun boiled water for cooking, and the water from the underground and the river was silver-green. At this time, Brother Xu ordered the slaughter of Xiangfan City and the burning of Xiangfan, first, to extinguish the necrotic plague, and secondly, to make Xiangfan City no longer inhabitable, and to eliminate future troubles. ”

At that time, Xiangfan was also beautiful, and won the title of "beautiful city" between the green mountains and green waters, which was much more beautiful than the capital above.

After many court officials and feudal officials resigned, most of them chose Xiangfan City to live, so Xiangfan City is also known as the "Little Imperial Capital".

Literati and chivalrous people, sages and sages, making friends, chanting poems, so unhappy, and have the reputation of "Easy City".

It is such a city, but now you can only see it, the country is broken by mountains and rivers, the city is deep in spring, and the ghost is also forested, like a flood beast with a big mouth of blood, which makes people afraid to avoid it. (To be continued......)