Chapter 22 The Fall of the City
Taking advantage of the dim early in the morning, Zhou Lan, with her cavalry and infantry chariots, panting and sweating profusely, shouting loudly: "Open the city gate quickly, the king personally brought reinforcements to avenge General Long Qie." The soldiers on the city were in a state of half sleep, holding the iron spear and swaying around. In a trance, they saw a red flag roaring loudly, with the word "Xiang" written on it. They immediately woke up and rolled and crawled down to the head of the city to go to Ding Fuben, the general on duty.
According to reports, Ding Fu had worked under Liu Bang's men before and recognized Xiang Yu. He ran up the city tower excitedly, looked at Zhou Lan, and asked, "General Zhou, why are you--" Zhou Lan was afraid that he would see the flaws and said, "No need to say more, welcome the overlord into the city quickly." Ding Fu's gaze moved backwards, and under the flag of the commander ten feet away, the strong black war horse immediately sat upright. The mighty warrior with a bearded face was undoubtedly good.
Ding Fu shouted happily, "The King of the Overlord is really sick. Hurry up, release the suspension bridge, open the city gate, and welcome the Overlord-" He Shenhe was beside Ding Fu, and quickly persuaded him: "No, I'd better ask the King of Linjiang first. If you can't afford it except for the difference, you can't afford it."
Ding Fu thought about it and hurriedly shouted to the city, "Overlord, please wait a moment, and I will immediately report to the lord and let him come to greet him in person." Zhou Lan knew that he did not dare to make decisions, so he put pressure on him: "Bold, are you not afraid of death because you are so neglecting the Overlord, aren't you afraid of death?" Ding Fu was so scared that his face was full of cold sweat and he quickly smiled apologized; "General Zhou, please give me a few good words, and the King of Linjiang will come out to greet him now."
As expected, the King of Linjiang Gongwei came out without long. His face was full of joy. He swept up his father like crying for the past few days, lifted up his battle robe, and quickly went up the city tower. At this time, the sky was a little brighter and darker. The fish belly white appeared in the east, and the shadows became magnificent. Zhou Lan was anxious and angry. "What does the King of Linjiang mean? Is it because he has surrendered to the Qin army? If so, say it as soon as possible, so as not to cry here. We will just meet each other tomorrow." As he said that, he ran to the man pretending to be Xiang Yu and whispered a few words. Xiang Yu touched his beard and nodded repeatedly.
Gongwei looked from afar, and judging from the figure of the black horse and the flag, Xiang Yu was undoubtedly the one who raised his hand and shouted tremblingly. "Big King, don't be accustomed to it. The generals under my command can't do anything. Let the Big King wait for a long time. Come on, open the city gate quickly and let the Big King enter the city, hurry up."
"Boom" Gong Wei's figure flashed on the city tower, then two thick and heavy wooden doors, one meter tall, opened outwards, followed by a squeaking sound of chains, and the suspension bridge was already lying on the turbulent moat. The wooden boards were immediately wet and soaked by the river.
Zhou Lan sneered: "Why don't the King of Linjiang come out to welcome you in person? The King of Linjiang came to save you." When the King of Linjiang Gongwei heard this, he thought to himself, although Zhou Lan called me this arrogantly, he thought from another perspective. In other words, Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, has already recognized my status as the King of Linjiang, which is a good thing.
Gongwei shouted, "Gongwei went out to welcome him and asked the overlord to enter the city. As he said that, he knelt in the door hole at the end of the suspension bridge. There were thousands of Qi soldiers guarding the city gates kneeling behind him." Zhou Lan looked at Zhang Han behind him, and Guan Ying used a color to enter the city with three swords and guns. Zhang Han, Guan Ying pointed the tip of the knife and spear at Zhou Lan's back heart, and used twelve points of force on both hands. They were most afraid that Zhou Lan would play "Infernal Affairs" and betray the Qin soldiers.
Zhou Lan walked in the front, her speed was neither fast nor slow. She was afraid of arousing the suspicion of the Gongwei. After the three generals came to the moat, Zhang Han's heart was completely relieved. Zhou Lan began to speed up and shouted loudly, "Power King, please come in, and we will finally open the road to prevent villains." Gongwei, who was kneeling at the door, smiled bitterly in his heart. There was a villain there, and I was waiting for the Overlord to come, but it was too late, so how could he assassinate him?
A tiger is harmless, and a tiger is hurtful. Guan Ying had long been staring at the Gongwei who was lying on the ground like a hedgehog. The horse rushed across the suspension bridge, suddenly swung the iron spear, and pointed at the Gongwei's neck, and said sternly, "If you neglect the Overlord, the Overlord will punish you!" He reached out and pulled him up, threw it on the horse's back, and turned into a sharp sword, and drilled through the city gate hole and entered the city. Zhang Han made a move with his right hand: "Kill--" Countless Qin troops rushed into the city.
The Qin army attacked the killer violently, and the Qi soldiers were at a loss. They knelt on the ground and were trampled to death by iron hooves. There were countless people who were killed by random knives. The rest saw that the Gongwei was captured, and they scattered and escaped.
Ding Fu heard a chaos under the city at the top of the city, and thought Xiang Yu was greedy and wanted to seize the city. He did not dare to provoke the dignified King of Western Chu. He promptly stopped the soldiers on the city from firing arrows to help. He loudly ordered the weapons to be put down, and ran to the city and knelt down in front of Zhou Lan, who was covered in blood and like a butcher. "General Zhou, I surrender, I surrender, please reply to the King of Overlords. I Ding Fu surrendered, and the soldiers on the city also surrendered."
Zhou Lan's throat almost burst into laughter. She lifted the big knife and poked Ding Fu's back with the back of the knife. Ding Fu collapsed on the ground like rice cake. Zhou Lan lifted Ding Fu up and placed it on the saddle bridge: "Surrender is OK, but I have made it clear to you. You did not surrender to Xiang Yu but to surrender to the Qin general Wang Ben. Hahahaha."
Ding Fu was hit and dizzy, almost vomited blood, and his limbs were paralyzed, and he could barely understand. He thought to himself, it turned out that Zhou Lan had betrayed the revolution long ago, and this bastard made me suffer so much. The hero did not suffer any loss in front of him. Ding Fu hurriedly said, "Okay, the same is true for surrendering to Qin. In fact, I have long since no one wants to do anything under Gongwei. He has no idea of rewards and punishments, and has no talent-"
Zhou Lan is too lazy to listen to these words. When everyone rebelled, they would find a lot of reasons for themselves, and most of the things they said were farts.
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and order your subordinates to put down their weapons and line up under the city wall. If there is any abnormal movement, kill you first." As he said that, he waved his hand and called dozens of personal soldiers and threw Ding Fu down. He immediately put a big knife on Ding Fu's chest, tied a rope to a strong one, and pressed towards the top of the city.
The personal soldiers brought by Gongwei had been chopped into meat sauce at the city gate, and the Qin army radiated into the city. Based on the work style of the King of Qin not disturbing the people and not harming the people, the personal soldiers only killed deserters and never harassed the people. They wiped out all the Qi soldiers in all the barracks in the city. Relying on the large number of people, they raided again. The Qi soldiers lost more than half of the Qi soldiers within one hour. In addition, Ding Fu cooperated with the order that all the soldiers guarding the city gate put down their weapons and surrendered. The 80,000 troops in Qi were left. The east gate, the south gate, and the west gate were all under the control of the Qin army.
Wang Ben has been ambushing forty miles away with the 100,000 main Qin army. After hearing a shout of horns, he immediately ordered the entire army to set off. Within half an hour, he entered the city from the main battlefield of the South Gate. Feng Jing and Gongshou guarded the South Gate, Guan Ying occupied the East Gate, Zhang Han Luoshen controlled the West Gate, and the rest of the troops were led by Wang Ben, Ren Jun, E Qianqiu, Zhou Bo, Wu Pu, and Zhao Ba to kill to the North Gate. The North Gate is the most solid defense line in the entire Gaomi City. Here, there are elite chariots with a total strength of 300 chariots, with a total force of 25,000, which was personally commanded by the general Fu Kuan.
Fu Kuan's character is the opposite of Ding Fu. Ding Fu was afraid of death, and Fu Kuan was devoted to the country to treat death as if he was home; Ding Fu was stingy, Fu Kuan was open-minded, generous, knowledgeable, and very old, but he was called a Confucian general. He was highly appreciated by Tian Heng and Tian Guang before. Gongwei was the king of Gaomi this time, and the overall strategy of "the king of the south and the tyrant Qin in the west" was proposed by him. He also had a series of plans. Gongwei respected him very much and valued him very much. Fu Kuan reciprocated his favor and was also passionate about Gongwei, and he sweared to die.
Response. I heard that the three gates of Gaomi City were lost, and the powerful Qin army was about 100,000 like the North Gate. Fu Kuan knew that he would definitely not be able to survive this time. Not only did he fail, but even if he had basically zero chance of escaping. If he escaped from Gaomi and crossed the Great Wall, he would immediately enter the battlefield where Peng Yue and the Western Chu army strangled, and it would be impossible to move forward. The Qin army behind him could catch up with him without any effort. Instead of dying like that, it would be better to have a fucking fuck like this.
Fu Kuan decided to die and arranged two hundred chariots in the open area in the city, placing them vertically. All the swords and spears were facing south, and the void in the south seemed to form an invisible barrier in the surging murderous aura of the wind blade, looking like a wide, dark and movable city wall. The remaining 100 chariots, Fu Kuan arranged them behind him, which was for the last desperate use. After the chariot in front blocked the horizontal space, Fu Kuan would lead the remaining chariots to drill through vertically. Hi, kill one more and win the battle? It is impossible.
Wang Ben had already sent a spy to know Fu Kuan's deployment. He admired Fu Kuan's attitude towards death and the arrangement of the battle formation. Such a fierce battle against the Qin army would definitely suffer a huge loss. Perhaps it would be bad if he could not capture the South Gate in a day or two. After repeated weighing, Wang Ben issued an order, mobilizing Ding Fu and his 20,000 soldiers guarding the city from outside the South Gate, and let them charge forward in front to see if the chariot soldiers of Qi could take action.
Of course, Ding Fu knew that Wang Ben asked them to be cannon fodder, but he also thought that this was his chance to make meritorious contributions. He had long heard that the 21st-class military titles of Qin were very impressive. As long as he made meritorious contributions, he would have a back cover and servant property. This is a rare opportunity. As for the lives of the brothers, go to his mother.
Ding Fu brought the infantry and formed a formation and came to the north gate in a scattered manner, facing Fu Kuan's chariot soldiers. The defeated soldiers of Qi behind him were thrown away their armor and were in a mess, with blood all over his body and his hair scattered. Everyone cried and shouted to his parents. "General Fu, don't shoot arrows, it's us--"
Wang Ben sat upright behind the formation and laughed loudly. There was a seven-meter long spear formation of 5,000 people in the middle of Wang Ben and Ding Fu's team. Five rows of long spears, two rows in front of the two rows, half-squatted and half-kneeled, and three rows in the back stood proudly and looked like lightning, with unlimited murderous aura. The head of the spear was towards the back of Ding Fu's army, and it passed through the shoulders and shoulders of the two soldiers, as if they were rows of rocket launchers waiting to be released. Behind the spear soldiers, there were three rows of oars and shield soldiers, who covered ten thousand archers.
As long as Ding Fu's team had a little abnormal movement and dared to turn against each other, these spearmen and archers could destroy them completely without a stick of incense. And Wang Ben's central army stood behind him like Mount Tai, without any impact.
Ding Fu shouted to Fu Kuan, who was about to take a gamble from a distance, "Old Fu, surrender quickly. The Linjiang King has been caught. You are loyal to that. If you surrender obediently, the Qin King might bypass the Linjiang King's life, but you are stubborn, and the Qin people might kill the Linjiang King to vent their anger. You are just unfaithful and unfilial."
Fu Kuan looked at Ding Fu, a shameless guy, and in this murderous and bloody atmosphere, he couldn't help laughing, and almost fell off his back: "So, Lao Ding, you are shameless in surrendering to the enemy. Not only are you not wrong, but you have credit for it. You should be famous in history and make a big name. Because you surrendered to save the life of King Linjiang."
Ding Fu said without hesitation, "Of course, if you don't believe it, you can ask the brothers behind me. They are all from Qi, and they don't want to fight. It is inevitable that the Qin State will unify the world. Old Fu, don't commit more murder. Do you really want the soldiers of Qi to kill each other? Many of them are brothers and nephews, so how can they do it? If you don't believe it, look back at the brothers behind you."
"Yes, General, we are not going to be fighting anymore, stop fighting." The defeated soldier behind Ding Fu shouted.
"Second brother, please put down your weapons and come over. The Qin army treats prisoners preferentially. The King of Qin said that as long as you surrender voluntarily, everyone will be rewarded with hardware!"
"Yes, cousin, you should think about anything else if you don't want to think about it. Cousin's wife and nephew, you are not like their orphans and widows. After the Qin army entered the city, there was no harm, and the people were not hurt. What else should we beat? If we make people angry, we will massacre the city bloody like Xiang Yu and Liu Ji, our family and children will all suffer. Come here quickly."
"Xiaoqiu, Second Uncle, beg you, surrender quickly-"
"Goudan, let's go home together. The King of Qin said he would give the travel expenses-"
Ding Fu's subordinates were inciting and said sensational. The Qi soldiers on both sides couldn't help but burst into tears. There were no one there who had the intention to fight. Although some of these words were told by Wang Ben, they were indeed their true words, which was touching. Fu Kuan's body abandoned swords and guns in front of him and behind him. Some soldiers cut off the shaft of the chariot, and three war horses in the chariot ran away wildly.
Fu Kuan is a heart-warming person. He also understood what Ding Fu said. His IQ is much higher than that of soldiers. However, he only recognized one thing, and he was responsible for the king's worries; a good girl would not serve the two husbands, and a loyal minister would not serve the two masters. Even if he was left alone, he would have to fight to the end.
Fu Kuan sniped his teeth, and the war horse turned around and scolded Ding Fu for being a good person, selling his owner for honor, and he might die well in the future, and so on. Ding Fu sneered in his heart, let's talk about the future, I think you will not die well at this time. Fu Kuan's chariot formation completely collapsed while he was yelling. Some soldiers ran to the Qin army camp on foot, and some simply drove the chariots to flee. The formation was suddenly in chaos, like a fox breaking into a chicken cage. The chariot soldiers scattered everywhere, everywhere. If the Qin army launched an offensive, the Qi army would definitely be destroyed in a flash. Wang Ben was not so stupid, and he wanted to take the opportunity to expand his strength.
Fu Kuan roared and said, "I'll come back, no one is allowed to leave." At this time, who would listen to him? After a while, a hundred suicide squads behind him also began to escape. Fu Kuan could no longer bear it, and pulled out the sword under his ribs and killed two of them, trying to force the soldiers to come back to fight. Who knew that the Qi Bing no longer regarded him as the commander at this moment. Seeing him killing people randomly, he actually went up hundreds of them, and a random knife, and all the people and horses were chopped into meat sauce.
Chapter completed!