Chapter 17 Breaking Fan Kuai
When the Chu army general ran to the end of the valley, there were only two personal soldiers left beside him. Seeing that there was no way out in front of him, the Chu army general and the two personal soldiers had to draw their swords and turn around and look back, preparing to fight to the death.
Fan Kuai then raised his right hand and blocked the Han soldiers who were advancing behind him.
When the old cat faces the end of the road, he always has to tease him, and Fan Kuai is also unable to avoid the vulgarity.
At this moment, Fan Kuai had already recognized the embarrassing general of Chu State in front of him as Xiang Zhuang. He immediately took two steps forward and shouted loudly: "Xiang Zhuang, you have no way to escape. Just be aware of your feelings and surrender. As long as you present the jade seal of King Qin to King Han, Lao Fan will protect your life without worries. If you are lucky, King Han may be able to grant you a marquis."
"Do you want the Qin King's Jade Seal?" Xiang Zhuang said coldly, "Dream in the daytime!"
Fan Kuai's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent and shouted loudly: "Xiang Zhuang, don't be ungrateful!"
After saying that, Fan Kuai pointed to the murderous army behind him and shouted, "You don't even look at it. This Jue Valley has been blocked by my three thousand elite soldiers. Unless you can go to heaven and earth, where else can you go?"
"Where to go? Hahaha." Xiang Zhuang, opposite, suddenly burst into laughter and shouted, "Fan Kuai, do you know that you are dead now!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a large hanging basket suddenly dropped from the cliff behind Xiang Zhuang.
Seeing this, Fan Kuai was shocked and was about to step forward to intercept people. Hundreds of Chu archers suddenly appeared on the cliffs on both sides of Jue Valley. Each Chu archer had a faint burning rocket on the bow and arrow. The next moment, hundreds of rockets had already shot into Jue Valley.
"No, fire attack!" Fan Kuai was also a long-standing general who had been through the battle formation for a long time, and immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap.
However, Fan Kuai realized that he was too late to fall into the trap. Before he could order to retreat, the rockets shot from the cliff had already ignited the sulphur, sulphur, dried leaves, dry firewood and other fire-induced objects buried in the valley in advance. In just a moment, thick smoke had risen in the valley, and the fire spread rapidly.
Looking at Xiangzhuang in front, he had already sat on the cliff with a hanging basket.
"I've been trapped, I've been trapped!" Fan Kuai sighed twice, turned around and ran away. What else can he do if he doesn't run? The fire has already started and cannot be extinguished at all. If he doesn't run away, he will be buried in the fire.
The main general was about to leave, and the three thousand Han troops were in chaos and they all rushed towards the valley entrance.
In the chaos, countless Han soldiers were squeezed to the ground. Before they could get up, the Lieliu fire had already arrived and instantly swallowed them. Standing on the cliffs on both sides of Jue Valley and looking down, there were figures running through the fire everywhere, and there were tragic wailing everywhere, which was no less than hell on earth!
Xiang Zhuang had no sympathy in his heart. When the two armies fought, either you died or I died!
Fan Kuai stepped on the bodies of the soldiers under his command and finally escaped from Juegu. He turned around and counted the number of people. Less than half of the three thousand elite soldiers were left, and most of them were injured. Most of them were lost. Seeing that the morale of the army was disintegrating and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, Fan Kuai was afraid that there would be an ambush nearby, so he quickly led the remaining troops back along the same route.
However, after running less than ten miles forward, the sound of killing sounds like a tsunami in the dense forest next to the road suddenly sounded.
This is really the more worried about it, the more you will be. Fan Kuai was not interested in fighting. He left hundreds of people indiscriminately and quickly took a large group of troops to escape. Seeing that the commander had left, the morale of the hundreds of Han soldiers suddenly became fluctuating. In addition, most of them had no weapons, who would still stay and die in vain? Before the ambush in the dense forest could emerge, hundreds of Han soldiers had already fled in all directions.
Seeing that the Han army's armored soldiers who were once extremely powerful were defeated at once, the Chu army's defeated soldiers were so excited that they screamed, biting the butts of the Han army's defeated soldiers and chopping them up. Poor that all the Han army's defeated soldiers were all wearing heavy armor. How could they run past the Chu army's defeated soldiers wearing only light robes? In less than half an hour, hundreds of Han soldiers who left behind were killed.
Besides, Fan Kuai led nearly a thousand remaining soldiers to run wildly, but he was ambushed twice along the way. Fan Kuai, who had become a frightened bird, naturally became more and more unwilling to fight and just ran all the way. When he finally took three hundred personal soldiers, he escaped back to Shouchun. When he thought that he could finally enter the city to take a breath, he suddenly saw that the Chu military flag was actually flying above Shouchun's city!
Fan Kuai thought that Zhou Ju, who was staying in Shouchun, surrendered to the State of Chu, and immediately shouted: "Zhou Ju, every man! How dare you do this!?"
Before he finished speaking, a head suddenly dropped from the head of the city. Fan Kuai looked forward and saw that his eyebrows were ferocious. Who else would be there if it was Zhou Ju, the guard general of Shouchun?
When I looked up again, there was already an additional Chu army general on the city, but it was Zhonglimei.
"Zhong Limei, the left general of the Great Chu, has been waiting here for a long time!" Zhong Limei held the pagoda with his hand and laughed loudly, "Fan Kuai, you have no way out, so you should surrender quickly, hahaha!"
"Damn it!" Fan Kuai was so angry that his beard and hair were all open, but he had no choice but to do anything.
The accompanying personal soldiers stationed commander was afraid that the Chu army's pursuits would arrive, so he stepped forward and advised: "General, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time. The Chu army's pursuits may catch up at any time, so let's go quickly."
"Let's go!" Fan Kuai roared violently, turned around and left.
After walking a few steps, Fan Kuai turned around and turned around, roaring at Zhonglimei on the top of the city with great reluctance: "Zhonglimei, bring you a word to the guy in Xiangzhuang and ask him to clean his neck and wait, I, Old Fan, will come back!"
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Not to mention Fan Kuai's fleeing in a hurry, let alone the Chu army, he is enjoying the killing feast!
The Han army's three thousand iron armor came in full force, but in the end they were beaten by the remaining soldiers of the Chu army and abandoned their armor!
"General, how exciting this battle is!" Huan Chu brought four heads and strided to Xiangzhuang. Before he could see the ceremony, he shouted loudly, "It's so exciting!"
"General, I didn't expect that the three thousand iron armors were destroyed by us like this? Haha, when I think about it now, the last generals are still dreaming! I can't believe it, it makes people unable to believe it!" Ji Bu, who was following Huan Chu, carried six heads, and even walked in a hurry.
"Yes, it's been a long time since we've won such a great victory. How great would it be if we could win such a victory every day?" Xiao Gongjiao walked at the end, but only raised one head, but the head was still wearing a leather hat. It was probably a military marquis or even a Sima.
Behind Huan Chu, Ji Bu and Xiao Gongjiao, hundreds of soldiers also had their own achievements, but more Chu soldiers were still chasing the fleeing Han army soldiers all over the mountains.
Xiang Zhuang smiled faintly and looked back at Jing Qian who was accompanying him and said, "Tell the soldiers not to chase those heads, and the entire army stopped chasing and returned to the city immediately!"
"Return to the city?" Huan Chu said in shock, "Where to go back to Shouchun?"
Ji Bu didn't believe it either: "General, why didn't this guy Zhongli really attack Shouchun?"
Xiang Zhuang did not answer and turned around to ask Wei Liao who was accompanying him, saying, "Mr. Wei Liao, do you think Zhonglimei can attack Shouchun?"
Wei Liao naturally ignored it. Xiang Zhuang didn't care and looked around the generals and said, "Even though you are taking your troops out of the mountain, Zhonglimei is probably already waiting outside the mountain. I will understand the whole army. This general has already set up a celebration banquet in Shouchun. After entering the city, everyone will eat, drink, and play. We must have fun!"
Before he finished speaking, Huan Chu, Ji Bu and the remaining Chu soldiers who were accompanying him immediately cheered enthusiastically.
Yu Ziqi came up and asked Xiang Zhuang in a low voice: "General, our army evacuated the entire Shouchun City when it evacuated. Do you think you should get some wine and food back from the mountains?"
"No need." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and smiled, "Someone has already prepared wine, meat and food for us, but you don't have to do it too much, haha."
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Gaixia, the Han army camp.
Liu Bang was drinking medicine with a sad face under the service of a beautiful maid. He was extremely happy and sad. Liu Bang was in a good mood last night. After appreciating Concubine Qi's singing and dancing, he became sexually aroused by Qi Ji. Pu Ji was so ecstatic that he accidentally got cold. He felt that he was too heavy to the end of the afternoon, so he quickly asked someone to boil the medicine to drink.
As soon as they finished drinking the bitter medicine, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping arrived together, and the expressions on their faces were very serious.
"What's wrong with you two?" Liu Bang frowned and said angrily, "I'm just holding a dead face in broad daylight?"
As usual, Zhang Liang spoke again, bowed and said, "Master, something happened. Fan Kuai just condemned the flying cavalry to report that he was defeated in Shouchun!"
"What!?" Liu Bang was shocked at first when he heard this. After he came back, he smiled at Zhang Liang and said, "Where is Zifang? You just like to joke, and you still say it like it is true. Isn't it just the thousands of defeated Chu soldiers who fled from Gaixia? Fan Kuai is also a general who has been through many battles on the battlefield. He can still suffer defeat by taking three thousand elite soldiers to chase him? Gucai doesn't believe your nonsense."
"King, Brother Zifang is really not kidding." Chen Ping said, "Fan Kuai is really defeated."
"Is Fan Kuai really defeated?" Liu Bang believed it, because Chen Ping was never joking.
Zhang Liang nodded and said, "King, Fan Kuai not only suffered a defeat, but also suffered a very miserable defeat. There are less than 300 elite soldiers left. Now they are hiding in Quyang and dare not come back to see you, King."
"This Fan Kuai is really useless!" Liu Bang immediately slapped the table and was furious. Then he hugged his head with both hands for a long time before saying depressed, "But this matter is also a matter of Gu. Gu has no thoughts. He thought it was just a defeated soldier with a disintegration of morale, but he didn't expect that the Chu army would still have the desire to fight. If he had known this, he would have sent someone else at that time."
After saying that, Liu Bang said again: "How about you, I sent Jin Xu to lead a 20,000 army?"
Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "King, last time you sent Fan Kuai to pursue the defeated Chu army, and then sent Zhou Bo to attack Sishui and Donghai counties. The King of Qi was already very unhappy. This time Fan Kuai defeated Shouchun. If the King still insisted on not using Qi's troops, I'm afraid that the King of Qi would really be suspicious. The King of Qi thought about it three times."
"Yes, king." Chen Ping also echoed, "I think the king might as well appoint Li Zuoche, the general of the King of Qi, as the main general, Jin Xu and Fan Kuai as the deputy generals, and lead the troops together. In this way, it can not only eliminate the suspicion of the King of Qi, but also ensure that the Qin King's jade seal does not fall into the hands of the King of Qi, and also ensure that the defeated Chu army entrenched in Shouchun can be wiped out. It can be said that it will win three goals in one fell swoop!"
Liu Bang rubbed his forehead and asked Zhang Liang, "What do you think of Zifang?"
Zhang Liang said: "Chen Ping's words are reasonable, so I think it's OK."
"That's it." Liu Bang slapped his thigh and said to Chen Ping, "Immediately draft an edict, with Li Zuoche as the main general, Jin Xu and Fan Kuai as the deputy general, leading 50,000 troops, and the troops will be sent to Shouchun today!"
"No." Chen Ping bowed a long time and immediately came to his desk to start drafting an edict.
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Chapter completed!