Chapter 244: Something Happened

She was like a fire that fell down from nine heavens, passing through the clouds, burning away all the ants that stood in her way.

That silver spear, not only has the power of the overlord gun, but also the treacherous marksmanship taught by Liu Feng.

Along the way, the limbs flew and blood spattered, and no one could stop it.

Behind her, dozens of heavily armed female soldiers, wielding their swords in their hands, screamed at the rebellious foes.

Sun Shangxiang led this women's army and went on a rampage all the way, killing the rebels on Dongdajie and fleeing.

At the same time as Sun Shangxiang was on a killing spree, a well-equipped and heavily armed infantry cavalry corps of about 1,000 people drove out of the military camp near the former general's mansion and marched towards various rebel places.

Before Liu Feng left Xiangyang, he had a premonition that the pro-Cao clan in Xiangyang was very likely to take advantage of his absence to cooperate with Cao Jun to cause chaos. Therefore, although he was not there, he left half of his guards to Pang Tong.

This pro-army unit is the original descendant who has followed him since the time of Xiakou, and every soldier is a time-tested and absolutely loyal elite soldier, and its combat effectiveness is not inferior to Cao Ying's tiger and leopard cavalry.

In Xiangyang City, there were nearly 1,000 rebels of the Cai clan, plus the rest of the rebels who were instigated to participate, the total number of rebels was thousands.

It's just that although there are many traitors, they are just a rabble of servants after all, and they are the opponents of this elite army of the guards with one enemy and ten.

As soon as the counterinsurgency was staged, the rebels in a city were completely defeated, and they were routed at every slightest resistance.

The elite Su Guard, coupled with the "fierce general" of the bow-waisted Ji, the officers and troops quickly gained the upper hand, and the battle began in the afternoon and ended in the evening.

Most of the thousands of rebels were killed and wounded, and the remaining less than a few hundred retreated to the Cai family's mansion in the west of the city, relying on the high gate and wall of the Cai mansion in an attempt to stubbornly resist the encirclement and suppression of the official army.

At nightfall, more than 1,000 elite officers and soldiers, plus more than 1,000 regular troops temporarily transferred from Fancheng, surrounded the Cai Mansion of Nuoda.

With the current absolute superiority, it would not be difficult for the official army to break through the Cai Mansion and completely exterminate the Cai family, but Pang Tong only ordered a siege but not an attack.

The Cai family is a big family in Xiangyang, although the Cai family is close to Cao, but it has something to do with the Pang family, which is also a big family in Jingxiang, and in this matter, Pang Tong doesn't want to do too much.

He wanted to leave a way for the Cai family to live.

At this time, Pang Tong was stationed outside the Cai Mansion and was sending people to shout to the Cai Mansion, ordering them to open the door and surrender, as long as they were willing to surrender, they would be left alive.

Cai Fuzhong did not move, but he did not use bows and arrows to shoot back at the official army, as if he was weighing whether to surrender.

The two sides were separated by a high wall and locked in a delicate stalemate.

At the time of the confrontation, Sun Shangxiang, who was covered in blood, arrived with a group of female soldiers.

The bloodstained silver spear pointed at Cai's mansion, and Sun Shangxiang asked coldly: "Master Pang, why didn't you give the order to attack the door?" ”

"This ......"

Pang Tong coughed dryly and said with a smile: "The Cai family is the surname of Xiangyang, if they are wiped out, it will not be conducive to stabilizing the hearts of the people in Xiangyang." I mean, give them a chance to surrender voluntarily. ”

Sun Shangxiang's eyes suddenly froze, and he said angrily: "You are really pedantic, how can you be merciful to this kind of traitor?" You give me the order to attack immediately, and I will kill the chicken dog surnamed Cai. ”

Chickens and dogs don't stay?

Hearing these extremely cold words, Pang Tong couldn't help but feel a chill on his back.

When he wanted to persuade again, Sun Shangxiang's face became more and more angry, and he shouted: "At the moment of the great enemy, how can you be kind to a woman, cut the grass without eradicating the roots, if there is another disaster, can you afford this responsibility?" ”

Pang Tong's heart shook suddenly.

Although he is the best in the world, and a single strategy can decide the life and death of tens of millions of people in the flick of his sleeves, but in the final analysis, he is still just a literati.

Giving advice and letting Liu Feng kill people is what he is good at, but now, when he wants to decide whether to kill or not, he will inevitably commit the hesitation of a literati.

Although Sun Shangxiang is a woman, she continued the killing of the Sun family.

At that time, his father Sun Jian, in the name of begging for Dong, first killed his boss Jingzhou assassin Shi Wang Rui, and then killed his colleague Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi, just because these two people had contempt for themselves.

As for his brother Sun Ce, in the battle against Jiangdong, he killed the Jiangdong clan, but whoever opposed it, no matter how famous you are, you will kill it.

Sun Shangxiang has the style of his father and brother, and at this moment, he is far more ruthless and decisive than Pang Tong.

Pang Tong, who was in shock, remembered what Liu Feng once said:

Treat the enemy as harshly as winter; Treat your friends as warm as spring.

At this moment, Pang Tong fell silent.

Silence meant acquiescence, but he was reluctant to personally order the killing, lest he affect his image as a leader among the Jingxiang people.

Seeing that Pang Tong was silent, Sun Shangxiang stopped paying attention to him, leaned in front of the horse, and said sharply: "Come on, surround Caifu with firewood and grass, and burn all these traitors to death." ”

With the murderous order, all the troops looked at each other and couldn't help but look at Pang Tong.

Seeing that everyone hesitated, Sun Shangxiang was furious and reprimanded: "I am the wife of the former general, and now I am acting as the former general's authority, and if you don't obey my orders, it will be equivalent to not obeying the orders of the former general, and those who disobey the order will be dealt with by military law!" ”

With such a reprimand, how dare the army be reprimanded again, and they are busy obeying their orders.

Not long after, piles of firewood and grass were piled up around Cai's mansion, and with Sun Shangxiang's order, countless torches were thrown at the dry firewood and grass, and in a blink of an eye, Cai's mansion fell into a raging circle of fire.

Sun Shangxiang was not enough, and ordered the crossbowmen to change to rockets and shoot into Cai's mansion from the outside.

Surrounded by fire outside, there was fire rain inside, and in a short time, the entire Cai Mansion turned into a sea of fire in this wailing sound one after another.

Under the scorching fire, the will of the rebels in Cai Mansion to resist collapsed in an instant, and one by one they either opened the door and ran out, or fled over the wall.

It's just that they have missed the chance to live.

Sun Shangxiang did not intend to leave them a little way to live, and ordered the crossbowmen to shoot all the rebels who escaped.

A raging fire rose into the sky.

The wailing was terrible.

That night, many people who were hiding in the dark and were about to rebel were shocked by this tragic scene in Caifu.

……………………………… Thousands of miles away, Hanzhong.

20,000 people rode on foot, walking with difficulty on the gravel valley road.

Of the 20,000 men, only 15,000 were armed, and the remaining 5,000 were unarmed, each carrying a sack of food. Many of these people did not even wear clothes and armor, but only to lose some weight and carry more food and grass.

On one side of the mountain road is a deep valley, and the narrowest part of the valley road can only allow one person to pass.

In an army of 20,000 people, there were about a thousand war horses, but no one dared to ride them.

The soldiers were afraid that the beast would be frightened and fall directly into the abyss. Therefore, even the cavalry would have to dismount and carefully lead their mounts forward.

Although everyone was cautious, there was still a scream from near and far in the empty valley from time to time, it was some unlucky soldier who had fallen into the deep valley without paying attention.

In the first few days, most people panicked after seeing such a thrilling and terrifying scene. But now, the soldiers seem to be used to it, and if any of their comrades fall into the valley, they just sigh and sigh a few times.

Because they know that they don't have much time to sigh, and only by seizing the time and getting out of this hellish valley road can they have hope for life.

Looking into the distance, the endless mountain road between the mountains seems to be an endless road, and there is no end in sight.

Another scream interrupted Zhang Fei's thoughts, and he subconsciously looked back, only to see that in the empty valley behind him, a soldier was still flipping and struggling in the air, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the dark deep valley.

All that was left was a dull sound.

Zhang Fei's heart couldn't help but shudder, and an illusion suddenly appeared in his mind, imagining that he was the soldier, falling into the deep valley like this, howling and struggling helplessly and desperately.

What a painful feeling it can be when you realize that there is only a short moment left in your life.

Zhang Fei took a deep breath and didn't dare to think about it anymore.

He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and continued to walk hard.

Seven days later, Zhang Fei saw hope.

Standing on the avenue more than three zhang wide, Zhang Fei looked at the endless flat field under the hillside, and his black-haired face burst with excitement.

After nearly half a month of torture, now, he and the tired soldiers and horses have finally walked out of this difficult valley road.

The Guanzhong Plain is close at hand.

"Ziyue, let's just separate here." Zhang Fei burst out with pride and said to the young general beside him with a smile.

The general of the white horse is Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Dai.

Ma Dai's face was also full of strength, and he nodded: "General Yide, I wish you success." ”

Zhang Fei laughed: "You are the same, if this battle is successful, he said that in Chang'an City, I must drink three hundred cups with you." ”

Ma Dai smiled happily: "Okay, let's make a decision." ”

The two swore an oath and encouraged each other.

After leaving the valley, the two armies and horses parted ways, Ma Dai led 5,000 cavalry to the east, and Zhang Fei led 15,000 infantry troops, looking west.

………………………… The south entrance of the valley, the camp of the Cao army.

Xiahou Yuan was very unhappy.

Once upon a time, his cavalry crisscrossed Guanlong, first beating Ma Chao to the point of fleeing, and then cutting off Song Jian, the king of Hu who had been in Liangzhou for 30 years, to exterminate him.

Prime Minister Cao Cheng gave him eight words: Tiger step is right, invincible.

But now, his tens of thousands of troops are blocked in this narrow valley, just like a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but wearing a baby clothes, he can't spread it out at all, and his body is uncomfortable with grievances.

Although Xiahou Yuan had long known that he was here to feint all the way, such an aggrieved situation still made Xiahou Yuan very annoyed.

"Pass the order, launch another strong attack tomorrow morning, I don't believe that I can't defeat Ma Chao's subordinates." Xiahou Yuan ordered indignantly.

Before the words fell, Sima Guohuai of the other department hurriedly entered, his expression full of panic.

"General Xiahou, something big happened in Guanzhong."

(To be continued)