Chapter 180: The Fire Ox Runs at Night
Fanyang is an ancient city with a long history.
The first emperor established Great Qin, and Fan Yang stood in Youzhou.
The ancient city is ancient and thick, and from a distance, it looks like an ancient giant beast, entrenched on the north bank of Fanshui.
During the Three Kingdoms era, Fanyang once belonged to Zhuo County, which was a rare fortified city in Youzhou.
Xi Shuai governed Brother Ra, and on the condition of promising to assist Li Congwei in capturing Fanyang, he was given the opportunity to enter the customs.
Recently, after entering the customs, the Xi people's sins were monstrous, and almost on the way to Fanyang, the Xi people's cavalry never stopped looting.
The people of You, Ji, Ping, and Tan have been repeatedly murdered by ridicule.
These Xi people, like hyenas on the grassland, ravaged the place, burned and looted, and the people along the way died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Xi people, not to mention tens of thousands of people, bleeding and drifting, accumulating corpses like mountains.
From Pingzhou to Youzhou, from east to west, all the people who survived by luck, but all the Li people who knew how the Xi people entered the customs, all hated and cursed Li Congwei.
If the dead could jump up, I believe that the ancestor of Li Congwei's 906 era would have jumped out of the coffin a long time ago, and he would have stuffed Li Congwei, a bastard, back into his mother's stomach.
Unscrupulous, shameless, and unfortunate families, involving generations of ancestors and following bad luck.
Li Congwei also regretted what Xi Ren had done in the Lulong area, but he was already in the boat, and he was counting on Brother Zhi Ra to help them capture Fan Yang, how could he jump out to stop the other party's plunder.
It's a pity that he doesn't know what Brother Nara has in mind, as long as he can rob the wealth, the beautiful Han people, and the sturdy male slaves, who is Li Congwei, and what kind of bird is he to go to his uncle.
can think so, when the army arrives in Fanyang, he will still pretend to express it, as for whether it is really contributing, only he knows.
On Fanyang City, Li Keju looked at the endless rebels with a gloomy face.
Wei Chixin, who was beside him, had an equally ugly face, and he hated Li Quanzhong's father and son who were standing in front of the rebels.
No one could have imagined that when the Di people entered the army, when all the armies of Fan Yang were resisting the Di people in the north, Li Quanzhong suddenly turned against the water and attacked Fan Yang.
That's fine, but the other party didn't hesitate to collude with ridicule for this, which made people disdainful and at the same time, they were so angry that they wanted to strangle this traitor to death.
"Li Quanzhong, you are really an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, you were born and raised in the Tang Dynasty, but you colluded with Di ** to harm the Tang people; When my father is alive, he treats you well, you don't want to repay your kindness, but instead plot against Lu Long, the desire for power is consumed, and there is no redemption for death. Li Keju stood at the head of the city, pointed at Li Quanzhong in front of the rebels, his chest rose and fell with excitement, and he scolded.
When Li Quanzhong heard this, his face was calm, without the slightest sense of shame, and he said in a deep voice: "Li Keju, in the land of Lulong Kyushu, the original Nine Army was guarded, but you, Li Keju, want to set up a Zhenyuan Army, and have been directing the Zhenyuan Army to suppress my mighty army, why do you want to bully me so much?" ”
"Why was the Zhenyuan Army formed? Li Quanzhong, you should know it, if you don't have any objections, why should Li raise an extra army? When the other party mentioned Zhenyuanjun, Li Keju was even more angry and asked rhetorically.
"Li Keju, as the so-called employment is not suspicious, and suspicion is not needed, since you let me out of the town and the mighty army, you should completely trust me, but you ordered me to leave the town with the front foot, and set up the Zhenyuan army to suppress me with the back foot, how can I not scruple?" Li Quanzhong was aggressive and looked arrogant.
Li Keju and Li Quanzhong fight
After so long, who is right and who is wrong, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and it has long been unclear.
"Don't talk nonsense, if it's a siege, come on." Li Keju looked at Li Quanzhong under the city with a cold face, his eyes full of Sen Ran's murderous intent.
Li Quanzhong also looked at Li Keju fiercely, his body was steaming with killing intent, only to see him wave his big hand and shout: "Li Keju has no way and cares about the people's hearts, today I, Li Quanzhong, am willing to destroy this fang for the people of Lulong, and I hope you will work together to help Li." ”
"Attack and kill Li Keju."
"Attack and kill Li Keju."
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The three armies responded, and the four fields roared, and the shouts that shook the sky almost broke through this heavenly dome.
Li Keju, who was standing in the city, had an ugly face, turned his head with complicated eyes, looked at Wei Chixin, and said bitterly: "Xiaolang, do your best, if you can't do anything, the old man will never blame you." ”
When Wei Chixin heard this, his face was solemn, and he said loudly: "Gong Li rest assured, as long as a certain family is here, Fan Yang will be fine." ”
Li Keju glanced at him with a complicated expression, and patted him on the shoulder wordlessly, an invisible emotion lingered between the pair of uncles and nephews with different surnames.
He has nothing to doubt about Wei Chixin, since Wei Chixin said this, he absolutely believes that the other party will do this.
Fan Yang's offensive and defensive battles broke out in an instant.
Li Quanzhong's 50,000 men attacked the south; Li Congwei and Li Kuangchou brothers, with more than 40,000 people, attacked the east; Xi Shuai commanded 30,000 men under the command of Brother Ra and was responsible for attacking the west.
For Brother Nara, he won't really help Li Quanzhong's father and son take Fan Yang, but it doesn't hurt to make a show.
The offensive and defensive battles in Fanyang were very fierce, and Zhu Li was collecting ploughing cattle while sending people to secretly monitor the battle situation here.
Three days, just three days.
The guards who died in the battle on both sides were as high as 30,000 or 40,000 people, and even if they were dozens of miles away from Fan Yang, they could hear the shouting and killing sound from the direction of Fan Yang, and smell a faint smell of blood.
Zhu Li, who was far away in Liangxiang, collected nearly 3,500 ploughing cattle in three days with the help of Yan Yun and Yan Xiao brothers, and Zhu Li immediately wrote them an IOU.
In ancient times, especially in the Central Plains, it was forbidden to slaughter cattle, and the price of beef was very cheap because it was a black commodity.
But if you buy a ploughing ox, then it's a different matter, the price of a ploughing ox, to say the least, also costs dozens of taels of silver, Zhu Li collected 3,500 heads, 21 heads, and also needs 70,000 taels of silver.
When writing the IOU, Zhu Li secretly smacked his tongue, fighting a war, not only cheating people, but also cheating money.
It took one or two days for Zhu Li to put 1,500 ploughing cattle to the west of Fanyang, and as for the east and south, he arranged for men to put 1,000 heads each.
After each ploughing ox had eaten and drunk enough, it covered its mouth with a horse's chew and covered its eyes with a black cloth.
The tail of each ploughing ox is tied with an oilcloth, which has been soaked in tung oil; Moreover, their horns are also tied with sharp knives, and they are tied to them with hemp rope, which is very strong.
On the backs of every two oxen, when carrying a wooden raft, the front part of the wooden raft is sharpened very sharply, and the two sides are rigidly fixed to the cows on both sides.
On the night of the preparation for the operation, Zhu Li first secretly ordered the ghost warriors accompanying the army to take action, cut off the scattered sentry posts, and then led his troops to the west of Fanyang City, and gathered at a distance of two or three miles from the camp of the Xi people.
Li Quanzhong and Li Congwei, the traitor father and son, although Zhu Li
hated so much that his teeth itched, but he could spare it for the time being, but he must do it for the taunts who entered the customs and caused countless killings.
Look at what Brother Zhi did when he arrived in the Guannei, looting, or looting, making the four states of You, Tan, Ji, and Ping, the lives of the people miserable, the chickens and dogs are restless, and they don't treat the Han people as human beings at all, slaughtering wantonly, cold-blooded and ruthless, how can he let go of these beasts.
Night, which seems to cast a mysterious protective color over the raid.
On the west, south, and east sides of Fanyang, two or three miles away from the three camps of Li Quanzhong, Li Congwei, and Brother Zhira, three waves of people quietly gathered.
In front of these people, a group of ploughing oxen stood side by side, and in front of each ploughing ox, there was a guard, standing on one side, and on the tail side of the ploughing ox, also followed by a guard, holding a fire fold in his hand.
On the night of the murderous night with the moon and the dark wind and high wind, with a rocket tearing through the air, it suddenly shot into the air, and all the guards immediately ignited the oilcloth on the ox's tail, and at the same time, the guards standing on the side in front of the ploughing ox quickly took off the black cloth on the bull's eye.
There was a sudden pain in the tail, and there seemed to be a bright red fire flickering behind them, which made the ploughing cattle go crazy in an instant, and they rushed forward desperately, as if they wanted to shake off the red fire behind them and let their tails out of the fire.
"Knock knock, knock knock、......"
The earthquake trembled, the four fields shook, and thousands of manic ploughing cattle slammed up, causing a movement that was even greater and more violent than the movement of thousands of horses galloping.
Desperate to run, crazy galloping, these attempts to get rid of the red fire of the ploughing cattle, swift, fierce rush to the straight line of the garrison village, more than 1,500 ploughing cattle, a total of two rows, the fence behind the military village was immediately broken, almost not the slightest stagnation, the cattle like a flood of beasts rushing out of the darkness, rushed into the camp of the Xi people.
In their eyes, there is only one thought of all the obstacles that hinder their escape, which is to trample through, destroy everything, and crush everything.
"Ah, what's that?" When the Xi people saw the fire ox rushing into the camp, they exclaimed in shock.
"Cows, it's cows, fire cows, why are there so many, these cows are all crazy, run." The clever and experienced old man immediately realized the danger and hurriedly shouted.
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The fire ox rushed to the camp, causing a panic, and the sober Xiren warrior hugged his head and ran around, crying for his father and mother; As for the Xi people who are still asleep, let's ask for more blessings.
After all, two legs can't run on four legs, and there are mocking warriors who hit the crazy ploughing cow head-on, and the ploughing ox is directly knocked into the air.
There were clever warriors who wanted to pass through the gap between the oxen, but they didn't want to, almost every two oxen, there were sharp wooden rafts, waiting there, as soon as they showed their heads, they were directly pierced through the body by the spikes on the wooden rafts, and blood flowed all over the ground and wailed.
The Di warriors are all wearing leather armor, few people wear iron armor, once they are hit by the spikes of the wooden row, it is definitely a piercing of each other, with few exceptions.
The warrior of the taunting people who was put on the wooden raft, under the gallop of the two oxen, was dragged far away and wailed for a long time before he tilted his head and died.
The fire ox galloped by, and there was a mess all around.
Behind the bull, Zhu Li brandished a double-edged spear, led 800 tooth soldiers, and more than 3,000 heroic warriors, followed closely behind, they didn't need to charge, they just needed to pick up leaks.
Behind these cavalry, there are also thousands of guards, who are also distributed, specifically picking and killing, those who can survive after being hit by the fire bull.