Chapter 103: Capture the City

"Bang bang." Two stone bullets hit the tower, making it tremble, and this was just the beginning.

"Bang bang, bang bang."

"Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk."

"Woohoo, woohoo."

Catapults, crossbowmen, and throwers all began to attack from range, and the foot soldiers were eager to try it from behind. It's just that now is not the turn of the foot soldiers, and the ranged troops have not yet knocked down the enemy on the city tower, and the foot soldiers cannot easily go up. The catapult is completely aimed at the city wall, and every stone bullet that goes down always makes the city wall tremble before it is willing. The crossbowmen fired freely, looking for the cowards hiding behind the battlements until an arrow pierced their helmets. In fact, to say that it is scary is actually the thrower, as soon as hundreds of throwers make a move, it is a black cloud casually. Plus the javelins flew over the heads of the defenders, and it looked like an ancient beast about to devour all things and living things.

"Run, run." Before the first round of blows was over, the defenders ran down as if they had seen a monster, and they really hated that their parents had two legs missing when they were born.

When the defenders on the walls lose their armor and unarmour, it is when the army attacks on all fronts, "Woo, woo." The horn sounded, it was the horn of the charge, and the general raised the sword in his hand high, and the foot soldier standing behind him, who had already itched his hands, immediately rushed up with a ladder.

The ladder was erected on the city wall, and the Le'an army climbed the east gate of Nangong City without any resistance, which was the prestige of the Le'an army. Those defenders didn't have the idea of being enemies of the Le'an army at all, after all, the reputation of the Le'an army in Anping was too loud.

The city gate opened, and Liu Ke entered Nangong City with the support of his own soldiers, and this city was divided under the name of Fan Xiwen from now on, and the pace of unifying Anping also began at this moment.

This kind of thing also happened in Tangyang and Raoyang, where Fan Fengming and Zhou Jian each led a troop to the city, under the same pretext as Liu Ke. In the face of the strong Le'an army, there was really no army in Anping that dared to confront them, and they surrendered obediently without persuasion.

The Le'an army, which captured Nangong, Tangyang, and Raoyang, quickly carried out a military blockade of the whole city. The armies put up notices to reassure the people and sent sergeants to patrol the streets to stabilize law and order in the city. Subsequently, under the auspices of Liu Ke and the three people, the personnel of each county were purged. All the things in Anping are well understood, and it is clear which officials in each county are loyal to the five great families and which officials can stay in office temporarily, and the purge is very smooth.

The troops occupying the three counties of Nangong temporarily stayed in the counties, and the remaining Fucheng and Wuyi sent troops directly from Fuliu and Anping, and all the actions after that were staged again according to the three counties of Nangong, and the entire Anping fell into the hands of the Le'an army.

This quick action made the five great families directly stunned, and before the five great families reacted, the overall situation had been decided, and they didn't even have a chance to turn the tables. The defenders of the counties were all controlled by the Le'an army, and the army in the hands of the major families could not prevent an effective counterattack at all, and for a while, the major families collectively chose to lose their voices and wait for Fan Xiwen's statement.

The fierce attack began when Fan Xiwen sent a cavalry regiment to invite these county orders, and by the time Fan Xiwen and several county orders had finished flattering the county government, the major event had basically been decided. And the entire Anping country except for Le'an all the rest of the place has implemented military control, the whole Anping country is full of roadblocks and secret sentinels, these county orders who come to Le'an to participate in the banquet are blind and can't hear a little news about Le'an.

Of course, at this time, what they hear the most is a piece of flattery. Since Fan Xiwen stepped into the restaurant, this voice has not stopped, who told the new An Pingxiang to generously make all the consumption on the first floor free, and it is not a big deal for everyone to eat and drink for nothing and say something thanks.

"Subordinate Attendees." Fan Xiwen stepped into the second floor of Qingfeng Building, and everyone turned their gazes.

"You don't need to be polite, today is just a relatively large banquet, and I don't wear an official uniform, so don't be formal." Fan Xiwen made a no-nonsense gesture to the people in front of him, and then walked to his seat.

"I wish you all the best on your ascension." The compliments continued, although Le'an's people were more realistic, but today was indeed a different day, and it was understandable to say something like this.

"You don't know how I got to this position, what's there to congratulate, I'll be angry if I do this again." Fan Xiwen said very calmly, in Fan Xiwen's eyes, there is nothing to be happy about this kind of thing, and there is also nothing to hide.

"Okay, even if you're still a little self-aware." Liu Kecheng said, this kind of unnutritious compliment is really a little disgusting, Liu Kecheng is afraid that he will not want to eat if he continues to talk.

Liu Kecheng spoke, and Le Anjun's old qualifications, who were familiar with Fan Xiwen's temper, also began to smile to ease the atmosphere, and the anger of the banquet suddenly rose for a while. It's just that this kind of banquet, the five county magistrates from the family who were invited were not used to it, because since they were children, they accepted the Four Books and Five Classics plus the Three Outlines and Five Constants, so that everyone sat together and drank without scruples and spoke without scruples, which was not in line with etiquette at all.

Even if these five county magistrates are not used to it, there is no way, for the sake of Fan Xiwen's face, they must force laughter, but the facial muscles twitch a lot.

"Today, you can take time out of your busy schedule to participate in this banquet is an honor for Xiwen, in the first year of Zhongping, Xiwen occupied Le'an with hundreds of young people, and I think how depressed the original scene was. Now Xiwen has more than 30,000 soldiers, and everyone knows the sadness that has been experienced in the past two years, and thanks to everyone's support, Xiwen can survive. So today, I would like to give you a glass. After speaking, Fan Xiwen took the lead in standing up and raising a glass to everyone to pay respect, how common this behavior is in the eyes of everyone in Le'an, but in the eyes of the five outsiders and county commanders, it seems a little crazy, who calls people who are not Le'an people don't know Le'an's code of conduct and Fan Xiwen's temperament.

"Come on, everyone." Everyone raised their glasses and stood up in the middle, and then took it back and closed it in one gulp, and poured the glass downward, only a small drop of wine flowed out.

The banquet is very grand to say, but it is actually quite simple and boring. In this era, there is no entertainment program, and the whole thing is to drink with fists, tear up their throats and roar, and in the end, there are not many people who don't have a few ducks in their ears. What made Fan Xiwen a little speechless the most was that he didn't know that the bastard was drunk and actually asked Fan Xiwen to sing, but everyone agreed, Fan Xiwen had no choice but to sing his own famous song, and finally blushed half the sky.

The five county commanders were later sent back by the cavalry regiment, and Fan Xiwen didn't know if they would let out a ghost cry wolf howl after they found that the county army had been taken over by the Le'an army after they went back, and then came to Fan Xiwen with a sword to fight hard. It's just that now is not the time to think about these issues, because Fan Xiwen is also drunk, and when he was carried back by the guards, he was full of nonsense, and he was not sober at all.

"Shuang'er, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I'm afraid that you don't have much of a good impression of me, and when I go to your house to propose marriage, you refuse, will I lose that bit of face soon?" Fan Xiwen lay on the bed and kept shaking her head, talking drunk words in her mouth. The phrase "drunken spitting out the truth" was so effective in that era.

In Fan Xiwen's dream, Da Qiao cried like a tearful person, and kept asking Fan Xiwen why he didn't come to her house to propose, and asked Fan Xiwen if he didn't like himself. As soon as Fan Xiwen saw a woman crying, his head went numb. Others can't move their legs when they see a beautiful girl, and their lower body commands their upper body. But Fan Xiwen saw her sister crying, her upper body commanding her lower body, and she couldn't move at all. So he used the whole body's solution to explain it there non-stop, with only one purpose, hoping that Da Qiao would be able to clear after the rain.

Fan Xiwen's drunken words are a little unclear, but some people are quite clear, and this issue is really someone's biggest concern at the moment. "Brush." A silk scarf fell to the ground, Da Qiao's whole body trembled, this sentence is the answer to the question Da Qiao has always wanted to ask, how can he not be happy now that he has been affirmed? So, Da Qiao in the dream cried like a tearful man, and Da Qiao in reality was also pear blossoms with rain and pitiful.

Fan Xiwen's first trip to Luoyang ended in halfway, which was the second year of Zhongping. And when Fan Xiwen returned to Le'an, he also brought back his only harvest, Qiao's father and daughter and the poisoner Jia Xu, it has been more than half a year since Qiao's father and daughter came to Le'an. Da Qiao has been extremely interested in Fan Xiwen since his songs "Three Kingdoms Love" and "Three Kingdoms Killing", and when a girl becomes interested in a boy, it is not far from falling in love with this boy, so Da Qiao fell in love with Fan Xiwen.

Fan Xiwen naturally likes Da Qiao too, which can be seen from his every move towards Da Qiao, but the two have been together for half a year, but Fan Xiwen has never proposed to Qiao Lao. This is like a thorn, which has been stuck in Da Qiao's heart, and sometimes even makes Da Qiao unable to sleep, how many times I want to say it, but the reserve of her daughter's family makes her not have the courage.

Now, Fan Xiwen's dream words made Da Qiao get the answer he wanted, and he was quite excited in his heart.

Carefully picking up the silk scarf that fell on the ground, Da Qiao gently wiped the beads of sweat from Fan Xiwen's forehead, no matter how he looked at it, it looked like a little wife serving a drunken husband.