Chapter 65: Linxiang City Breaks
Fanqin couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Zixu is right to do this, since Zhang Xian is ruthless to me, why should I be loyal to him?" Now that the warriors in our army have been lurking in the city, they will soon be able to open the city gate, Zixu please go to gather the old department, enter the Taishou Mansion, and capture Zhang Xian's father and son, so that the thieves can be peaceful, and the people in the city can avoid the suffering of a war, isn't it wonderful? ”
Du Xun nodded, and said solemnly: "This is very good, please wait for my good news." ”
After finishing speaking, Du Xi bowed his hand to Fanqin, and then went out.
Fanqin laughed a few times, and said to the sergeant beside him: "Let's also take action, presumably the generals are also in a hurry." ”
At this moment, a military marquis suddenly asked, "My lord, why do you trust that Du Raid so much?" Aren't you afraid that he will go to the Taishou Mansion to go to Gaomi? ”
Fanqin laughed and said: "Liu Junhou is too worried, Du Zixu is the heaviest promise, he was an enemy of our general at the beginning, but he still kept his promise and released our brothers, and now he has promised to surrender to the general, not to mention that Linxiang is about to be broken, how can he tell Zhang Xian?" ”
After hearing this, the military marquis showed a look of admiration on his face, nodded, and went with Fanqin to gather people.
The hundreds of soldiers were all lurking in an alley not far from the South City Gate, not far from Du Xi's residence, and Fanqin quickly found them.
"Listen, the moment has come to decide the fate of our army, and at the same time, it is also the time for all of us to make meritorious contributions, and we are all fortunate to be selected to participate in tonight's operation, which is the trust of the general in us, and I hope you will not live up to the trust of the general. Of course, this is also a very difficult task for us, because we will not only have to open the gates, but we will also have to hold on until the general's army arrives, but as long as we all stick to it, we will be able to complete the task given to us by the general. Okay, now everyone listen to my orders and go. ”
After Fanqin issued the order in a deep voice, Bendang walked in front first, leading the team of hundreds of people to the south city gate.
After about a meal, Fanqin's team came to the city gate.
"Stop, what are you doing?" Wu Yong, the marquis of the city guard, pointed at Fanqin with the tip of his whip and said loudly.
"We are on the orders of Lord Taishou, and we came here to change the guard, Lord Taishou said, you are very hard to guard the city gate, let us take over the defense in the second half of the night." Fanqin slowly stepped forward and walked a few steps and said with a smile.
"Oh? Is there a warrant from Lord Taishou? Wu Yong stretched out a hand and said to Fanqin.
"Yes, yes, here." Fanqin hurriedly took out a piece of silk silk from his arms, handed it to Liu Xiang, the military marquis beside him, and asked him to send it over.
Liu Xiang nodded, then took the silk silk and handed it to Wu Yong.
"Hmph, I didn't even understand and handed it over to the general in person, forget it, since the other party was sent by Lord Taishou, it must be a cronie, I can't afford to mess with it." Wu Yong had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart and slowly unfold the silk silk.
But at this moment, a steel knife quietly attacked and directly cut off Wu Yong's head.
Seeing this, the soldiers behind Wu Yong were all panicked, each took out his weapon, and hurriedly prepared for battle.
But at this time, the hundreds of people on the other side all moved, waving the steel knives in their hands one by one, and slaughtered them.
This was indeed a one-sided massacre, firstly, because the other side was well prepared and had been gathering momentum for a long time, while the defenders of the city were turned into elbows and rushed to fight; The second is because the number of the opponent's defenders has exceeded that of the defenders, and all of them are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and they are very efficient in killing people, but most of these defenders are recruits who have just joined the army, and they lack a lot of combat experience; And most importantly, they don't know what happened at all, why did the other party suddenly take action? So although they rushed to meet the battle, they were all puzzled.
The battle was quickly settled, and Fan Qin ordered the drawbridge to be opened and the city gate at once, and at the same time, except for a few people who came to meet them outside the city gate, all the people came to the street inside the city gate, and resolutely held off the enemy who came to counterattack.
For them, the real battle has just begun!
Sure enough, Han Bing, the military marquis who was in charge of patrolling the city on the city tower, immediately discovered the abnormality, and he immediately led a thousand soldiers under his command to rush to the direction of the city gate, and notified the other generals to come to the gate of the city to quell the rebellion. At the same time, Han Bing also gave a death order, killing the enemy army at any cost and closing the city gates.
When they got down from the city tower, they immediately encountered the Fanqin soldiers who had been waiting there for a long time, and when Han Bing saw it, he knew that these were the rebels who opened the city gate and tried to let Liu Qi's army enter the city, and immediately led the army into battle without saying a word.
"Kill!"
A tragic battle immediately took place here, and the Fanqin army was now fighting to the death, and had to fight hard, and at the same time, they also had a sense of tragedy and pride in their hearts: "It is because of us that our army can enter the city along the way, so even if we all die here today, it is very meaningful, whether it is for the general, or for those brothers who are like brothers and sisters, we would rather die than take a step back." We must kill and wound the enemy as much as we can, hold them back as much as we can, and never let them rush in, close the gates, and pull up the drawbridge. ”
Therefore, these soldiers all desperately maintained their formation, not allowing the enemy to advance even a single step, and after the people in front were killed, the people behind immediately made up for it, forming a strong wall of flesh and blood.
This battle was extremely tragic, whether it was the attacker of the Changsha army or the defender of the Jingzhou army, they were all red-eyed, because this was a key battle for their life and death for each other, once the Changsha army won, it would mean that many days of planning would turn into water, and the Jingzhou army would be difficult to attack Linxiang City today. And once the Jingzhou army successfully defended, it would mean that the city of Linxiang would be broken, and the Changsha army would no longer exist.
So this time both sides of each other are desperate, in order to stabilize the situation, Fanqin and a literati, personally holding a sword to guard the front of the team, many times hanging by a thread, fortunately the surrounding soldiers bravely rescued, which made him save the danger again and again, but even so, Fanqin was still injured, his arm was stabbed by a spear, and the blood was slowly flowing, which made his arm feel sore, and his eyes were black.
But Fanqin still did not have half a point of cowardice, he was like a not too thick tree, standing firm in the wind, welcoming the baptism of the storm again and again.
Fanqin's spirit made those soldiers all excited, they gritted their teeth, roared loudly, brandished the ring head sword, spear and other weapons in their hands, and launched a desperate battle with the enemy again and again.
Although more than 100 people died in this army after only a short stick of incense, they still did not take half a step back.
At this moment, I only heard a shout behind me, and it turned out that Liu Qi led the army into the city gate.
This team was like a tide, and soon came to the back of the bloody Fanqin team, they gently crossed this team with tears in their eyes, and then launched a desperate pursuit of the Changsha army in front.
"General, the last general has fulfilled his mission, he has successfully persuaded Du to attack, he is now estimated to have led his troops into the Taishou Mansion, the last general is too tired, so he will rest for a while." After Fanqin finished speaking, his eyes went dark and he fainted.
"Huber, Huber, Medic." Liu Qi helped Fanqin, who fainted, and couldn't help but burst into tears, he didn't expect such a weak scholar to be so resolute, which was really admirable.
The military doctor soon came, checked it carefully, and said that it was just too much blood loss, and it would be no big deal to recuperate, Liu Qi was relieved, and ordered someone to help Fanqin into the carriage, and asked Liu Shi to send fifty personal soldiers to strictly guard, and he must not be hurt again, so he turned over and led the army to attack.
At that time, in addition to passing guò from the south gate, Liu Qi also ordered people to set up a ladder and attack the city from all sides, on the one hand, in order to drag the enemy army and make it impossible for them to arrive at the city gate in time for rescue, on the other hand, it was also to allow the army to enter the city quickly, after all, the city gate was too narrow, if tens of thousands of horses and horses all entered the city, it was estimated that it would take half an hour.
In fact, even if they set up a ladder to enter the city, it was very easy today, because the city defense soldiers knew that they had just won a big victory, and no one would expect that the other party would immediately turn back and attack the city, so the patrol soldiers on the city tower were almost defenseless.
Only the defenders on the southern city wall knew that Liu Qi's army had attacked the city in a big way, but they sent some of them to the city gate, and the rest of the defenders were heroic, but they could not stop Liu Qi's army from attacking the city like a tide.
"It's over, it seems that Linxiang City can't be saved today." Hou Han Bing, the defender of the South City Gate, sighed, but had to give up resistance and ordered surrender.
Liu Qi left Wang Cang to be responsible for comforting the surrendered troops, and then personally led Liu Shi and Xu Shu to go straight to the Taishou Mansion.
But it was said that after Han Xuan's victory, Huan Jie's heart had always felt faintly uneasy, because he felt that Han Xuan's victory this time was really too easy, could it be that Liu Qi's army was bent on attacking the city, and did not have a trace of suspicion about Du Xuan? Even if he didn't have any doubts about Du Xian, how could he dare to ensure that there would be no changes in Linxiang City?
So thinking of this, Huan Jie immediately rushed to Taishou Mansion, and happened to see Han Xuan and the others were also there, although it was late at night, but because they had just won a victory, the excited Zhang Xian father and son and Han Xuan did not rest, and were talking about the current situation.
They saw Huan Jie coming, they were all excited to talk to Huan Jie about today's victory, Huan Jie nodded and listened to a few words, and saw the letter written by Du Xian that was thrown aside by Zhang Xian casually, he took out the letter and read it again in confusion, and couldn't help but say: "Lord Taishou, it's not good, I'm afraid we really misunderstood Du Xian, and according to the general's estimate, I'm afraid that Liu Qi's army has now entered my Linxiang City." ”