Chapter 89: Alone in the Depths
So, are these things that Fan Li can easily handle? It's very difficult, how can it be so easy to lead a soldier, especially with such a unit that has no faith at all, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, what tricks can you have, you have to do it. Because that's what you're doing, to put it simply, is it your turn to do this? In the court, there are people who are more popular than you, who are more likely to do things than you, and who are closer to the emperor than you, do you have your turn?
So, at this time, Fan Li still thinks very thoroughly and very clearly, it's okay, let's do it, the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and I will be able to come out one day, so his state of mind is much more peaceful than before, not only writing a diary, but also reading a lot.
Because he was laid off and at home, he didn't read Zhuang Lao's books, he felt very inspired, so he thought that the books I had read in the past, I took them and read them again, and I had different feelings, this is what Fan Liang did.
It seems that time has passed like this, but in the middle, Fan Li experienced the pain of "losing his brother" (why use parentheses?). Everyone will know later), his younger brother "died", how did he die, not because of illness, but on the battlefield.
In fact, Fan Liang is the eldest brother in this family, and he has been teaching his younger brothers and the younger generations in the family a lot of guidance on how to behave, do things, and be officials, but as mentioned earlier, Fan Liang actually doesn't want his younger brother to come out and lead troops to fight, mainly because? It's just that it's too dangerous on the battlefield.
But what about Fan Ming, who has already joined the army, Fan Liang can only be forced to accept it, saying that when Fan Ming led troops to help Fan Li, Fan Liang once personally sent people to help Fan Ming fight, and taught him the safest way to fight, that is, this battle will definitely be won, Fan Ming will definitely be able to become a similar official, and his military exploits are ironclad.
It's uncomfortable to feel uncomfortable in the middle Fan Li's father died, so he had to go back to keep filial piety, but Fan Ming had to come out first than Fan Li, because Fan Ming was adopted, so he didn't have to keep filial piety, just go back and go through a process, so he didn't have to stay at home for several years.
But in retrospect, you just don't have to guard for several years, after all, it's your own father, and you haven't seen it before, and when you die at home, you come out, right? This feeling always feels like it's not quite right.
But it's not suitable, why is Fan Ming still doing this, Fan Li, as the eldest brother, is not stopped. It's because there's an inner reason here, there's a story behind it.
is because when Zeng Fan Lifu was idle at home, he was sick, arrested and scolded whom, and had quarrels with all his younger brothers, and Fan Ming was no exception.
But what about those younger brothers, because their nominal and actual fathers died, they couldn't leave if they wanted to. Only Fan Ming doesn't need to keep this filial piety. Plus he's not in a good mood, why is he in a bad mood? You see, I saw that my war exploits were all established, but my father died, and I still have to come back, and when I go back to this war exploits, he is not in a good mood.
So he and Fan Liang were on the tip of the needle at that time, Fan Liang scolded him, he couldn't wait to reply three sentences, and the two of them did a very good job. Later, there was really no trick, the eldest brother left, hiding, I won't play with you anymore.
He went to fight with others, went to the army, and when Fan Liang came back, then Fan Liang and others could be wooed back, this own brother, can he not be wooed? It has to be wooed.
So just find Fan Ming back, and arrange a place for him after he gets it back, so what does it mean, or find someone to take you with you, so that you can quickly get a little military merit, let you mature quickly, try to be in the army, you stay in the kind of place where there is no danger and merit.
The man who was sent to help Fan Ming was called Li Bin. This is Fan Ming's top handle, and this is also a famous general in Fan Ming's brave soldiers, at that time, his characteristic was to be cautious and able to fight.
What is the record like? It has conquered more than 40 cities and fought more than 600 battles, invincible. No one can beat him.
And at that time, he had just won Jiujiang, and his reputation was very high. In order to make Fan Ming and this person get along very well, Fan Liang also promoted the two of them to form a family of children and daughters.
So Fan Li thinks that this is a foolproof arrangement, I will hand over my younger brother to Li Bin, follow his in-laws, take advantage of the merits of the war, and then take a minimum of fame, and then talk about it later.
Fan Li thinks so, so when we talk about this, we think, this is no problem, so why did he die? Here, there are also the emperor's affairs, as well as his own affairs.
How do you say this, it's a long story, let's simply say that Li Bin and Fan Ming cooperated very well at the beginning, Li Bin can fight so many battles, he is very down-to-earth.
In addition, looking at Fan Li's face, it is still good for Fan Ming, but at this time, there is another urgent problem. At that time, there was a young general named Li Xiu and another person named Li Yu in the rebel army.
These two people suddenly captured Luzhou, Luzhou is actually an important town in Jiangbei, and its status is very high, so the emperor is very anxious and said what to do? As soon as I thought about it, I thought of Li Bin, so I gave Li Bin an order, saying You, hurry up and take people to Luzhou, and try your best to take Luzhou back for me.
The emperor has ordered, can Li Bin not go? He had to go, he had to go, he had to take Fan Ming with him. But this battle seems to be easy to fight, but in fact it is not easy to fight, why?
Although Li Bin fought well, he only had 8,000 people at this time, and these 8,000 people were carrying out this task after many days of continuous fighting. But the emperor didn't care about this, and asked Li Bin's troops to run hundreds of miles under such circumstances, break through the heavy defenses of the rebel army, and then take Luzhou.
This is an impossible task in terms of the current words, but the emperor has issued seven strict orders in seven days, and the words are strict, if you don't go, you can't do it, and if you don't go, you will be pulled out of your brain.
There was no trick, Li Bin led people to fight, and won four cities in a row within 20 days, which is a very good record. The record is good, and from a strategic point of view, this is a lone army, so you can follow me to imagine. You have a total of these soldiers, a little bit from one place to another, and soon he will have less than 5,000 men left.
If you move on, what is this concept? Eggs go to the stones! This matter is often said in martial arts novels, and this is called a taboo for soldiers.
So Li Bin, he held a meeting to discuss with the soldiers, saying whether we should continue to move forward. Most of the soldiers said no, we can't go any further, we have to rest here for a while before moving forward, otherwise we will be easily killed. Let's rest here, one is to relieve our own strength, and the other is to wait for reinforcements, without reinforcements, we can't move forward, everyone thinks so.