Chapter Seventy-Two: Annihilation
Without attracting attention, Lin Fan quietly let go of the spear in his hand. It was really too strong just now, and the material of this spear was too poor, and it kept shaking in his hands, and his hands were a little numb from the shock.
Before he could recover from his recovery, the blade of the Ghost Head Knife had already come close in an instant, and the strong wind that drove it even blew a few strands of Lin Fan's hair, and it was too late to hide at this time.
At the last moment, Lin Fan did not retreat but advanced, bent down and bullied up, and then his shoulder was pressed hard against the thief's chest, and he stepped back again and again.
As a result, the person's figure was unstable, and the knife naturally lost all its strength and fell into the void.
After some fighting, the spear in his hand was unusable and was close to being scrapped. However, Lin Fan didn't regret it, and threw it out directly.
Before Guo Mazi could stand firmly, he was pierced through his waist and abdomen by a spear, and even the person with the knife flew backwards, smashing far away on the ground, and the knife in his hand fell weakly not far away.
Guo Mazi used his last strength to crawl to the side of the knife, and held the knife tightly in his arms with blood-stained hands.
He gently stroked the blade of the knife, not knowing if he remembered something, a rare tenderness appeared on his fierce face.
His pupils had begun to dilate, and he held the knife and whispered, "I'm sorry! If only I had agreed and left earlier! ”
Lin Fan didn't have time to care whether the bandit was dead or not, he frowned slightly, and glanced lightly at his left shoulder.
There was a small gap, and the armor on the shoulder had been dyed red, which had been cut by a bandit with a knife during the fight.
The wound was still bleeding at this time, but he didn't care, and once again pulled out the knife from his waist and confronted the bandits.
The bandits surrounded them again, but they all looked at each other a little, and they didn't dare to approach for a while.
This person was too violent, so they couldn't stop it, but they also broke several brothers, and even Guo Mazi died.
Lin Fan's skills made most of the bandits pay attention to him, and among the more than twenty bandits who were still alive, nearly half of them surrounded Lin Fan in the middle, unable to block the officers and troops outside with all their might.
Lin Fan successfully gained a foothold in it and restrained the bandits, which greatly reduced the pressure on the soldiers outside, and An Ning followed closely behind and led people through the hole.
However, he did not help Lin Fan, but firmly occupied the entrance of the cave according to Lin Fan's instructions, and guarded the passage, so that the people behind could also pass through.
And the people outside are still destroying the gate, and the entrance to the cave is constantly expanding, and it has now expanded to enough for two people to pass.
Ma Sanjin shouted and asked the bandits to block the entrance to the cave, but he was powerless.
There were too many officers and soldiers, and those who had already entered occupied the vicinity with shields to resist the counterattack of the bandits, and kept attacking the periphery to buy time and space for the people behind.
After a while, the number of officers and soldiers who entered the cottage had exceeded thirty, which was far more than the number of bandits still alive, and the situation began to reverse.
At this point, the bandits could no longer stop the attack of the official army, and with the continuous influx of officers and troops from the gap, the bandits were unable to defend and could only retreat while fighting. But they are also brave, they have reached this point but they have not yet broken down.
The people who originally surrounded Lin Fan couldn't kill him, but a few more people died under Lin Fan's knife, although Lin Fan suffered some injuries, but they were all some irrelevant so-called minor injuries, and there was no major problem.
But at this time, these bandits found that those officers and soldiers rushed forward as if they were not killing this young man when they saw that the young man was injured.
This made Ma Sanjin's eyes light up, he understood that Lin Fan's identity was undoubtedly very important, so he wanted to take down Lin Fan to threaten these officials and soldiers, and get a chance to survive.
It's just that Lin Fan is too powerful, and the officials and soldiers rushed over to respond. After losing some manpower, Ma Sanjin could only reluctantly give up the siege and lead the bandits to choose to retreat.
The officers and soldiers were brave and invincible, constantly chasing after the bandits, forcing the bandits to have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground; In the end, Ma Sanjin could only take the few remaining people to stay in a house.
As soon as they retreated, the room was surrounded by officers and regiments, and everyone was waiting for them.
The crossbowmen aimed at every door and window, and no matter which exit the bandits broke through, if they dared to show their heads, they would fire their bows and arrows in unison, ensuring that not a single fish slipped through the net.
Ma Sanjin, who was hiding behind a desk, looked up at the surrounding situation and couldn't help but feel sad.
Now there were only five or six wounded men left around him, and all the others were folded outside.
Seeing that his subordinates were scarred one by one and looked frightened, they were surrounded by officials and soldiers outside, and there was no way to get out, Ma Sanjin's face was like ashes.
He smiled bitterly, he couldn't imagine that he had always been majestic in the past, but today he was as panicked as a lost dog, which was really ridiculous.
Ma Sanjin heard the officials and soldiers shouting outside, needless to say, he also knew that it was some that he could be lenient if he put down his arms and surrender, and knew that they were persuading him to surrender, he just sneered coldly and stopped paying attention to it.
He never thought of surrendering, and with the evil things he had done over the years, he knew what would happen to him, even if he died many times.
Even if it surrenders, it will fall into the hands of the government, and it will be the same as a head, and there will be no escape from a dead word. Rather than being caught by the officers and soldiers and humiliated, it is better to fight to the death, but to die a happy death.
He saw that his subordinates were a little moved when they heard the persuasion of the officials and soldiers to surrender, so he said to them: "Brothers, don't believe the nonsense of the government, we used to listen to the words of the government too much, so we will not survive, and we will end up in the grass on the mountain!"
"Those who are in charge are all things that eat human flesh and don't spit out bones, have you forgotten how they treated us before we went up the mountain?"
"What's more, we can't count how many lives we have been contaminated with in our hands in the past few years, even if we fall, do you think we can still survive? It's better to die here! ”
"If we die, maybe the government will still open up to the women and children hiding in the backyard, and they may survive; If we live, they will inevitably be implicated! ”
The bandits originally had some luck at work, although they couldn't trust the government at all, but they just felt that if the government kept its promise, it would be a way to live!
And Ma Sanjin's words are undoubtedly like a bucket of cold water poured from their heads, making them cool from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet. They have understood that they must die today!
Seeing that the shouting didn't work, Wang Hu looked at Lin Fan and asked for instructions on what to do next.
Before Lin Fan could speak, An Ning had already brought someone to bring dry grass and firewood, piled them around the house, poured all the kerosene he could find, and then threw the torch in his hand into it, lit the dry wood, and the fire began to ignite.
And that's not all, he had all the torches he had collected thrown into the house, so that the inside also burned.
"Ahem, ahem!" Ma Sanjin and the others in the room were so smoked that they couldn't open their eyes, tears and snot flowed together, and the smoke kept pouring into their lungs, and as long as they breathed, they couldn't stop coughing.
Ma Sanjin didn't plan to be burned here, instead of being burned to charcoal, it was better to rush out and die in the hands of the officers and soldiers, so that he could be left with a whole corpse.
Ma Sanjin said to them: "Brothers, if you are burned to death here, you might as well rush out and fight with them, we can't die here with grievances, even if we die, we will die happily!"
With that, he lifted a chair and slammed it against the already burned door panel, knocking down the almost burned door panel.
He looked at the door of the black hole, and although he couldn't see anything, he knew what was waiting for him outside! He smiled miserably and shouted to the bandits, "Brothers, rush out with me!"
At the same time that the door panel was smashed open by the chairs, all the bows and crossbows outside were already aimed here, and the officers and soldiers had long known that they would fight the trapped beasts.
Ma Sanjin held a knife and took the lead in rushing out of the sea of fire, and under the steaming fire, their faces were a little unclear. Ma Sanjin saw Lin Fan, who was surrounded by everyone outside the firelight, and killed him.
The moment they stepped out of the room, dozens of arrows shot at them like locusts.
All the thieves were hit by arrows one after another, and Ma Sanjin rushed to the front, so he had the most arrows on his body, no less than a dozen, and as soon as the blood on his body flowed out, it was steamed dry by the fierce fire.
Under the inertia, he still ran a few steps towards Lin Fan before he fell to the ground, even before he died, he still tried to raise his head, his eyes stared at Lin Fan, wanting to remember his appearance.
The flames soared into the sky, and they were even more dazzling in the dark night, but the jumping firelight reflected Lin Fan's expressionless face.
Lin Fan turned to leave, he didn't look at those bandits, from the moment the bandits refused to surrender, their results were already doomed.
Lin Fan left the fire, found a quiet place not far away, and sat down. Just there watching the other people go about their work, not knowing what they were thinking.
From beginning to end, Lin Fan never said how to deal with this group of bandits.
As for the so-called persuasion, it is more like a routine matter, and there is not much sincerity, and there is no intention to keep the promise.
Because if the bandits choose to surrender, how to deal with them is not something he can calculate, and those promises are impossible to talk about.
If they chose to surrender, Lin Fan would naturally hand them over to the imperial court, which would decide what to do with them. No matter what the result is, Lin Fan will not ask, let alone have the right to ask.
Perhaps, when the bandits chose to refuse, Lin Fan would be a little more relaxed, and he even acquiesced to An Ning's approach, forcing the bandits to a dead end and forcing them to come out and die.
Even if they looked like they were dying heroically, it didn't touch Lin Fan much, they deserved it, and they didn't deserve to be pitied.
He was just thinking that most of the people here, including the big boss Ma Sanjin, were originally ordinary people, living on a few acres of land at home.
Later, natural and man-made disasters and government oppression, the land at home was snatched away, and the war started again, and the hometown really couldn't stay, so I had to come here as a last resort.
Lin Fan was thinking, why in the end, this world can make such an honest person so terrifying?