573. Fear of death

"It's not good, I've been ambushed!"

"Hurry down the mountain!"

"Don't squeeze!"

This army of slaves dared to be an army, although it had good combat effectiveness, but the discipline was lackluster, and after finding that they were ambushed, they were immediately in chaos, and their first reaction was to run out of this uncomfortable narrow mountain road, which was not orderly.

As soon as they ran like this, they ran into trouble, some ran forward, some ran backward, and the crowd was crowded, and the formation was in chaos.

And Shi Bufan, who was like a brother to the soldiers, had no good way because of his lack of prestige, so he could only shout loudly and try to maintain the military formation.

"Steady, don't mess around!"

"Line up, come one by one!"

Shi Bufan thought darkly: "There are only two ways to do it first, one is to stabilize the position and return to break through the original way, and the other is to force it through and plan to go after this narrow mountain road." ”

"The Zhou army set up an ambush here, it must have been prepared, and the retreat is only afraid that it has been blocked, and it seems that it can only rush over in one go, see the mountains and mountains, see the water and cross the water, and see the enemy kill the enemy..."

After Shi Bufan made a decision, he rushed directly to the front of the formation, he was a small slave before, and he didn't practice much martial arts after becoming a general, and his personal martial arts were mediocre, but the armor on his body and the blades in his hands were all made by skillful craftsmen, and the combat effectiveness he could exert far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers.

After killing and repelling a few Zhou soldiers in three or two, he shouted: "The whole army is assaulting, give me a blow, rush over!"

It's a pity that Ji Fa had already expected everything, and just when he dared to be the army to attack bravely, he personally led the army to rush down from the mountain road above, and directly dared to divide the army into two, so that he couldn't care about each other.

Seeing this, Shi Bufan was shocked, his front army had completely lost contact with the rear army, but he was powerless, he couldn't return to the army to fight, he could only lead the only remaining front army to continue to break through, hoping to rush out of the narrow mountain road before the Zhou army completed the siege, and when the terrain was slightly flatter, even if he couldn't turn defeat into victory, it would be much easier to run.

"Kill!"

However, what was disappointing was that in front of the soldiers and horses led by Shi Bufan, there was a sudden shouting of killing, and countless soldiers and horses were killed.

Seeing this, Shi Bufan couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, it seems that the other party's generals didn't want to leave them a way to live at all, there were three ambushes in the front and back, he was wrong when he made the choice from the beginning, no matter how he chosen, he couldn't escape!

"Will... General..."

"I... Are we going to die?"

"Zhou Jun... Zhou Jun... There are Zhou Jun everywhere...."

"Brothers, don't worry, Ben will take you out!"

Shi Bufan dealt with them one by one, trying to stabilize the morale of the army, although he knew that he lacked skills, but he was the general of the Great Shang, and he was the general of the Great Shang who was born as a slave in the Xibohou Mansion, even in the most desperate time, it was impossible to give up resistance, let alone directly sneak attack, so he gritted his teeth and continued to lead the soldiers and horses, and rushed forward without hesitation.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The soldiers who dared to be in the army knew that they would die in breaking through, but they were not afraid, and they all followed Shi Bufan's footsteps one by one.

They are all slaves from Xiqi, and they finally got rid of slaves and became upright people, standing up straight, how can there be any reason to kneel back again?

Shi Bufan led his troops to assault and led the army to kill the Zhou army.

Suddenly, he noticed an extremely well-defended place, and when he looked at it, he saw that although the battle was extremely fierce, the Zhou army was fighting quite conservatively, and soldiers and horses were constantly filling up, as if they were protecting someone.

"The commander of the Zhou army?" Shi Bufan suddenly understood, the person who can be protected in this way, even if he is not the main general, is also an important person, as long as he is killed, it will definitely make the Zhou army chaotic, if he can be captured alive, maybe he can be held hostage to break through.

Thinking of this, Shi Bufan took his blade and rushed towards the place protected by the Zhou army.

"Die!"

Shi Bufan took his own soldiers to make a last fight, and the brothers around him died one after another in the hands of Zhou Bing, and when there were only a dozen people around him, he finally killed them.

And what he saw was a familiar face, Ji Fa.

As a slave of Xibohou Mansion, Ji Fa is naturally one of the objects he serves, but unfortunately Shi Bufan recognized Ji Fa at a glance, but Ji Fa didn't recognize Shi Bufan at all, as a high-ranking nobleman, there is no need to remember the appearance of a slave.

Even, Ji Fa is quite talented, and he admires Shi Bufan's tenacity in a desperate situation, and wants to persuade him to surrender.

It was impossible for Shi Bufan to agree, he used all his strength to kill the Zhou soldiers around him, and approached Ji Fa step by step, but the cruel facts told him that such efforts were useless.

After a while, he was captured alive with the soldiers around him, and the entire army that dared to be a soldier was also dead and crippled, and the sound of fighting became smaller and smaller.

"Lone asks you again, are you willing to surrender?"

Shi Bufan was still speechless.

Ji exerted his hand and beheaded a captured daring soldier, his head fell to the ground, and he rolled several meters.

"Would you like to surrender?"

Speechless.

Another head.

Ji Fa deliberately recruited these people, not just to admire, he also had a plan.

His purpose has always been to conquer the west, and the first hurdle in front of him is to take the Bishui Pass again.

If they succeed in recruiting these merchant troops, when they attack Bishui Pass again, they will let them go to the front of the pass, even if they don't bother to tackle the key problems, they can also make the morale of the merchant troops in the pass plummet.

"Would you like to surrender?"

....

This has been repeated several times, and more than a dozen of my heads have fallen.

Ji Fa was surprised, it is understandable that the main general would rather die than surrender, it's all like this, why don't those ordinary soldiers want to surrender?

Aren't they afraid of death?

A head bone rolled to Shi Bufan's feet, and Shi Bufan remembered that this was the deputy general who persuaded Soushan before.

Shi Bufan closed his eyes gently, how could they not be afraid of death?

Those of them who had been slaves were all afraid of death, and they were terribly afraid.

What kind of existence did slaves really have?

Some people think that as long as they don't resist fiercely, life will be basically passable, and even in the years of poor harvest, because they are raised by the master's family, they may be better off than ordinary farmers, after all, even if they are slaves, they can't be inferior to the livestock raised at home, right?

Wrong, skinny and weak are synonymous with them, and after a year, there are only a few strips of linen cloth on their bodies to cover important parts, which may be passed down from their parents.

During the day, slaves were like cattle and horses, doing unusually heavy work, and at night, they were not even as good as cattle and horses, at least they did not need to sleep in shackles, and when slaves were not working, they must wear shackles.

It can't even be called a shackle, the shackles in the conventional understanding are at least able to walk, and the shackles worn by slaves are almost a piece of wood, and they are not one, they are handicaps of several people together, and they can only lie down, or sit, and cannot turn over, and they can only be opened when they have to work.

Of course, there are regular shackles, but a slave who wears that kind of shackles does not open the shackles at all, and it is easy to change them for twenty or thirty years, even from birth to death.

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