Chapter 17: The Ghost Town Girders
The first rays of dawn slowly rose from the horizon, and the soldiers in the Fan army camp, who had rested all night, after a good night's sleep, buried the pot early to make food, and also started the first day's journey.
When you are a soldier, you can have food to eat, so that you will not go hungry.
Increasing taxes, the corruption of local officials, the endless military service and conscription of the imperial court, and the cruel impersonal laws forced more and more people to rebel.
This is a road that most people don't have to end!
But as long as you persevere, maybe there will come a day when those who have hoped for in their dreams, those who dare not think about it with their eyes open, will come with countless scars on their bodies.
"Hurry up!" Fan Xu stared at a pair of red eyes, kicking and beating those soldiers who were still lying on the ground and couldn't get up, the military discipline of Fan Xu's troops has always been a big problem, this is not to say that these soldiers are not brave in battle, but most of the soldiers are powerful and simple-minded reckless, let these people abide by strict discipline, it will be as difficult as ascending to the sky.
The person who caused this situation was none other than Fan Hao himself. Among Liu Bang's many generals, Fan Xu is the most trusted one of Liu Bang, both a brother and a brother-in-law, these two layers of relationship are there, plus Fan Xu is straightforward, what he thinks can be seen at a glance, for Liu Bang, who has reached the master level, Fan Xu is a very effective thug and bodyguard.
The dawn of the morning.
The generals of the Fan army were well fed and drunk, and with the pride and ambition of the sky, they launched an attack on the earthen wall that had depressed them yesterday, and on the city tower, the banners of the Qin army were still hunting, but most of the torches on the city were extinguished.
"Ascend to the city!"
In bursts of cheers, Fan Jun jumped effortlessly onto the Junyi earthen wall, and the leading armor soldier kicked down the banner of the Qin army and shouted loudly.
Fan Hao followed the brigade into the city from the open city gate, looking excited and a little depressed at the same time, just got the news from the city, Qin Jun actually ran away in the middle of the night!
Just one contact battle that was not long and not strong in intensity scared the Qin people to flee! This group of timid Qin dogs was so frightened that they couldn't even take away or burn the grain in the warehouse, but they couldn't run away, and the soldiers of the Fan army who had just entered the city had already asked the people in the city that the Qin army was likely to flee not far away, and hid in the ruined capital of Wei not far away.
"That young Qin dog named Li Yuan won't think about it, he can escape with his life by hiding!" Fan Xu sneered, and commanded his guards to speed up through the empty city.
Keep on the pursuit!
Since you provoked my Lao Fan, there is nothing to say, so let's take my life.
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Beam.
A deserted city, the silence of the past was broken with the arrival of the Qin army's generals, and flocks of birds submerged in the weeds flew frightened and flew quickly into the distance.
"Hurry up, it's too late, Qin Gou is going to run away again!" Fan Hao led the army in pursuit, and saw a flock of birds flying in mid-air, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Judging from yesterday's battle, this is just a stream of local county soldiers who are smuggling in small towns, and such an opponent is really invigorating, but I heard that their leader is a difficult guy, and if he can get this person's head, it will be a great achievement.
The human heart is often the most unpredictable, but also the best to ponder.
Li Yuan has more advantages than Fan Xu, with the help of the huge amount of information in later generations, so that he has a basic understanding of Fan Xu's personal temperament, and at the same time, many ancient and modern Chinese and foreign war examples also give Li Yuan a different reference, in contrast, Fan Xu can be said to know nothing about Li Yuan, and his combat experience as a butcher comes more from actual combat again and again, after all, the cultivation of famous generals is a long-term process.
Underestimate the enemy! From the bottom of his heart, Fan Xu had never looked at Li Yuan's group of Qin County soldiers in his eyes, they were just a group of rabble, and they were not vulnerable at all, and the series of counterattacks under Yongqiu City was just a desperate counterattack, and last night's battle deepened this impression.
There must not be too many Qin soldiers who fled to this deserted city, and they are scattered and hidden, this is obvious, and next, it is time to hunt down or torture and kill.
The weeds are green, or occasionally blown down by the wind, you can already see the figure of the soldiers of the Qin army, what a group of grass robbers! Fan Hao dismounted and rushed forward proudly, although it was much more troublesome to search for a group of enemies who were hiding, but the head was a credit, who told this group of Qin dogs to provoke people who shouldn't be messed with.
After Ji Xin's death, Liu Bang, Marquis of Wu'an, gave the order to kill Li Yuan, and Fan Xu wanted to meet with this inconspicuous but famous Qin man for a while.
The Fan soldiers advanced along the vaguely arguable laneway, and encountered a forked crossing, and the Fan army, who was still a little hesitant at the beginning, saw the frightened and fleeing figure in front of him, and no longer cared about anything else, and under the leadership of their respective military marquis and tun commanders, they were ready to find a way to hunt down those lone Qin soldiers.
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Li Yuan stood at the junction of a high wall and the entrance of the alley, where he was backed by a high wall, and in front of him was a spacious avenue, and by Li Yuan's side, about two or three hundred Qin soldiers were gathered, and their appearance was unusual, and most of the weapons in their hands were lost.
"Ha, Qin Gou can't escape! Kill! Fan shouted and commanded the soldiers to rush forward without hesitation. Li Yuan was in front, looking at his appearance, he was going to be trapped in a desperate situation, which is good, Fan Xu's most impatient thing is that the enemy is a soft commodity without bones.
It's close!
It was only twenty steps away from Qin Dog, and the credit was in front of him, and the generals of the Fan army were scrambling, and there was nothing else in their eyes except the head of the Qin people.
"Porphy!" A Fan Junshi's feet suddenly softened, and his sturdy body suddenly disappeared from Fan Xu's field of vision. Under the layers of soft meadows, there are tunnels that have long been hollowed out by the Qin soldiers, and in the tunnels, there are bamboo poles that have been sharpened.
The sharp bamboo body, sometimes even five or six of them pierced in unison, stabbed the fallen Fan soldiers all the organs, bleeding nonstop, and even unlucky directly pierced the head by the spikes, and for a time the brain burst out, which was unbearable. The frightened screams of the fallen soldiers of the Fan army came from underground, as if they were entangled by the unjust soul of this city.
"Ghost!"
"There are ghosts, the ghosts in the city are coming!" In all directions, the shouts of the Qin soldiers came and went, this voice was accompanied by screams, it sounded so terrifying, so that the morale of the always brave Fan army fell sharply, in ancient times when science and technology were not developed, the influence of gods and ghosts on morale was unimaginable, each of these soldiers killed more than one enemy soldier, to say that they were not afraid of ghosts to ask for souls, it was a lie.