Chapter 154: Into the Dust
Fan Lixiang led the original Guiyang soldiers and horses, plus the soldiers and horses left in Changsha after Zhang Yi's defeat, his father Fan Chang had a very high prestige in Zhang Yi's army, and now Fan Lixiang has received Liu Qi's order, assisted by Chen Ying, and can barely control it.
Fan Lixiang killed several generals who refused to accept the female leadership, and after stabilizing military discipline, she began to implement her own grain scraping plan, and completely retreated from the north to the south as she said to Liu Qi, almost turning over cities to loot grain, and the tragic situation in Ancheng was no longer unique to Ancheng.
"In my heart, adults will not be defeated, if these people suffer less, the only choice can only be to let Liu Qi perish as soon as possible, it is better to have a long pain, it is better to have a short pain."
Fan Lixiang stood on the city tower and said word by word, Chen Ying behind the side looked at Fan Lixiang's cold back in a military uniform, and finally kept silent.
Suddenly, Fan Lixiang saw a sergeant who took away a peasant woman's rooster, just took two steps and turned back, threw the rooster, and dragged the woman into the broken house.
The sergeant pushed open the wooden door, Fan Lixiang walked in from outside the house, the soldiers inside had already torn half of the women's clothes, their breasts were half exposed, and their hair was messily poured on the edge of the stove, the sergeant felt that someone pushed the door in, first he was angry, and when he saw that it was Fan Lixiang, he stayed in place in fright, but he remembered this beautiful and charming woman, and he didn't blink his eyes when he killed several generals.
Fan Lixiang looked coldly at the soldier who had taken off half of his clothes and pulled his belt open, and said in a deep voice: "Kill on the spot." ”
"Yes."
The two sergeants stepped forward, and before the soldiers could lift their pants, they screamed and were slashed to the ground with a knife, blood flying everywhere, and the frightened women screamed.
Fan Lixiang slowly walked to the peasant woman and squatted down, stretched out her white jade hand and patted the peasant woman's frightened face, and asked with a little evil smile on the corner of her mouth: "Is it better to be a Jingzhou soldier or a Sichuan army?" ”
The peasant woman looked sluggish, stiffly feeling the softness of the slap on her face with a little warmth.
"Say."
Fan Lixiang pushed away the hilt of the sword with her left hand with her thumb, her tone was not high, but there was a hint of coldness, the peasant woman was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Jingzhou soldiers are good, Jingzhou soldiers are good." Then he cried and cried.
Fan Lixiang stood up satisfied, shook it slightly, returned the long sword to the sheath, and left the dilapidated house, Fan Lixiang had already ordered all the soldiers who were looting to ask this question, I am afraid that now all the people in the city and villages think that the Jingzhou soldiers are "good".
As for not ** women, that is just Fan Lixiang's personal principle, and there is no other reason for it, just because she doesn't like it.
"My lord, Gongzi sent someone to urge the grain and grass, and the grain and grass of the public security is no longer enough." A Jingzhou soldier reported to Fan Lixiang.
Fan Lixiang said casually: "I know, go back and tell Gongzi that Master Ben is persuading the people to voluntarily pay grain, and there are some difficulties, let Gongzi hold on for another five days, and the grain and grass will arrive at the public security after five days." ”
"Yes." The soldier bowed and retreated.
"Report to your lordship, there is a civil unrest in Lingling, stop the grain collection team from collecting grain." Another soldier came to report.
Fan Lixiang said hatefully: "A group of Diao people, tell Bao Long, when they encounter a small resistance, they will all be killed, and if the thieves are too strong, let them retreat to Changsha, so that the Diao people will make trouble." ”
"Yes."
Chen Ying followed behind Fan Lixiang, watching Fan Lixiang give orders one by one, since Fan Lixiang returned to Guiyang, he felt as if he didn't know this eldest lady.
When I followed Fan Chang at the beginning, I only knew that the general's daughter was very smart, assisting Fan Chang in handling government affairs, and when she encountered Fan Chang's endless problems, she could always make a decision, unlike other deep ladies, but she never thought that she had such a side.
Chen Ying couldn't help but wonder if anyone who had contact with Liu Zhang would become cruel and murderous.
At the beginning, Liu Zhang appointed Fan Lixiang as the Taishou of Guiyang, Chen Ying only felt that it was an incredible thing, although he followed Fan Lixiang, but it was also due to Liu Zhang's orders, as well as some feelings for the old master Fan Chang, and he did not really obey Fan Lixiang.
But now, Chen Ying felt that he had completely become Fan Lixiang's subordinate, and Chen Ying was sure that if he showed disloyalty, Fan Lixiang would not hesitate to kill him.
Fan Lixiang is already a real general, and she doesn't need Fan Chang's residual power or Liu Zhang's deterrence, and she can use her own means to consolidate her power.
After a month, he and other soldiers almost forgot that Fan Lixiang was a woman.
Five days later, the grain and grass harvested from the four counties were piled up in a mountain on the outskirts of Youxian County, and the horse-drawn carriages and some spare siege equipment formed a circle to surround the grain in the middle.
The grain and grass that had been dug into the ground for half a month were burned in the sky-high fire, the hard work of countless farmers and peasant women who did not sleep and night for years, the accumulation of the elderly and children who saved money and thrift, and the weeping and tears of hundreds of people turned into a raging fire.
And this also announced that Liu Qi's army of 100,000 people was completely devoid of grain, and what awaited them would be the boundless haze and the angry civil uprising of the people of the four counties.
Jiangling, Liu Qi Jingzhou Army Pioneer General Wen Hiring soldiers came to the city, camped against the water, attacked the city hundreds of times in ten days, were repelled by the Sichuan army, Wen Ping saw that Jiangling and the Yang Huai camp in the west of the city were each other's horns, eager to go down, and the grain and grass did not arrive, so they could only temporarily garrison the camp and rest the troops.
The camp of 50,000 troops covered the entire river bank, and the river wind blew and hunted with banners.
A fast boat came to a halt by the river, and a soldier pulled out a war horse from the boat, and the fast horse galloped on the riverbank.
"General, urgent report, there has been a drastic change in Jingnan, the female general Fan Lixiang burned all the collected grain and grass in Youxian County, and now the public security has run out of food, the situation is urgent, Gongzi asks the general to withdraw his troops quickly."
The generals in Jingzhou were in an uproar, their faces changed drastically, and one of the generals lifted the soldier: "What did you say?" How is it possible that the grain and grass have been burned? ”
The general threw out the speechless soldiers.
"Is Fan Lixiang crazy?"
"I've long said women are unreliable."
The generals were talking a lot, arguing, and the anger on their faces was about to burst into flames, but they didn't say a word useful.
"Alright." Wen Ping, who was dressed in purple armor, shouted, and the generals immediately stopped talking, "Didn't you all approve of the son's appointment of Fan Lixiang at the beginning?" It's all happened, what's the use of talking about it now? Tell me, what are we going to do? ”
General Wu Ju stepped forward and said, "Since the prince said to retreat, what else can we do?" ”
"That is, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and the grain and grass are gone, so what kind of battle will there be."
"That's it, let's withdraw the troops."
"General, withdraw the troops."
The generals asked for their lives, Wen Ping pondered, and suddenly stood up abruptly and said, "Withdraw the army? What if you withdraw to the police? Is there food and grass? As soon as our 50,000-strong army returns, the grain and grass crisis will be further aggravated, and it will only collapse faster, and we now have only one way to survive, that is, to break through the defense line of the Sichuan army desperately. ”
[Thank you for your good faith, Jiang Yujie km, dreaming of returning to the daughter country, the son of the Yellow River 20 for the reward]