40. Enter Xiangzhou

A few days ago, Li Tiegun's army won a complete victory in Xiangzhou, disrupting Chen Xiliang's plan to jointly suppress bandits. Outside Xiangyang City, a hundred miles were razed to the ground and turned into scorched earth.

I couldn't even find a ghost, and all the villages were buried in the fire overnight.

People and animals are all dead.

The city of Xiangyang is in danger.

The magistrate Zhang You hurriedly recalled the army looking for the enemy outside, guarded the city, and sent messengers to ask for help. A few days later, the head of Suizhou in the east sent troops to help.

Unexpectedly, when he entered the boundary of Xiangzhou, he was attacked by several times the enemy near the Baishui River. After losing the soldiers, he fled back to Suizhou.

The reinforcements from Yingzhou came north from the Han River. When they arrived in Yicheng, they fell into the trap set by Li Tiegun. Tang Niu from Jingzhou Laozhai pretended to be the defenders of Yicheng to lure the enemy into the city, closed the door and killed all the reinforcements from Yingzhou.

The Jingmen army also made the same mistake a few days later. When the Xiazhou reinforcements passed through Jingshan, they were attacked at night, and most of the casualties had to retreat

In place.

Only the reinforcements who returned to the state came a little late. When they entered the powder water from Xiangxi, they met the enemy head-on. They fought with the water thieves, natives and the exiles on the Powder River. The two sides were hurt by each other, but the three heroes of the Powder River were not easy to deal with. The next day, they defeated the reinforcements from Guizhou and killed the leading school.

Xiangzhou is isolated and helpless. Every day at dawn, it will be harassed by thousands of thieves. He was scared to learn that it was difficult to eat and eat straight. He quickly ordered the patrol to Pengcheng to send people to patrol the city day and night to strictly prevent sneak attacks by thieves.

Although the end of the year is approaching, it is necessary to prevent fire every day and prevent thieves at night to ensure the safety of one side.

However, Li Tiegun was determined to capture Xiangzhou and slaughtered the city to vent his anger, so he tried his best to seize the city.

On the contrary, Zhang Youzhi is in the dark. He doesn't know the thief's intentions. What's more serious is that Zhang Youzhi is indeed not the leader of the army. He is far inferior to Chen Xiliang, the governor of Fangzhou. The quality of his soldiers is also average. When he comes to practice, he can only be sent out to catch a thief and scare a robber. If he really goes to battle, it is not Li Tiegun at all. The opponent of the army.

In three days, Li Tiegun thought of a clever trick.

It's a little dangerous, but it's feasible.

On this night, Wudang Chen Fu, the nine flying thief Liang Gongming, the pink river three heroes Wu Feng Wu Lang Wu Xia, and Zhushan's daughter cave stone traitors were replaced with the armor of the official army. They made a big turn and came from Tangzhou in the northeast of Xiangzhou, beating the flag of Tangzhou.

When I was about to arrive in Xiangzhou City, I pretended to encounter the army of Li Tiegun. I killed you and died in the night. The shouting sound of killing was shocking, and even the defenders of Xiangzhou City heard it.

In the dark, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The Xiangzhou garrison did not dare to open the gate at the beginning.

It was not until the army with the banner of the reinforcements in the direction of Tangzhou appeared under the city, and also played a bitter trick with Li Tiegun's team. The two sides beat each other for half an hour, killing more than a hundred people.

Zhang Youzhi, who stood on the top of the city and watched the battle, believed it. He hurriedly ordered the defenders to shoot arrows to defend the enemy, and then opened the gate to welcome the reinforcements into the city.

There were not many reinforcements from Tangzhou, only a thousand, and they entered the city from the west gate in a short time.

Zhang Youzhi saw that all the reinforcements had entered the city and quickly ordered people to close the gate.

However, this gate is easy to open, but difficult to close.

Chen Fu, Liang Gongming and others were in trouble in an instant, fighting with the defenders stationed in the West City, and the shouts of killing sounded again.

This time it was true. As soon as Li Tiegun, who was ambushed not far away, heard that Xicheng had arrived, he quickly led the brigade into the city.

Cut when you meet people, kill when you see people, and rush straight to the top of the city.

Besides, Zhang Youzhi, the magistrate, as soon as Ximen had an accident, he fled to the north city along the city wall with his cronies. When Li Tie shot into the city, he had ordered someone to open the north city and escape with people. Xiangyang didn't want it. He went all the way north and disappeared under the cover of the night.

The next day, Xiangzhou City completely fell. Li Tiegun wanted to kill all the people in the city to relieve his hatred, but Liang Gongming suggested that instead of killing them like this, it would be better to send them knives and guns to drive them to attack Fangzhou.

Attack Fangzhou!

As soon as Li Tiegun thought of Fangzhou, Chen Xiliang, the governor of Fangzhou, and Dou Wu, the inspector, he couldn't wait to pull out their skin and cramp their muscles before he could hate them.

After two days of resting in Xiangzhou, Li Tiegun's army went on the road again. This time, they drove more than 8,000 men, women and children from Xiangzhou City to Fangzhou. Half of the 8,000 people distributed armor and went all the way west in the crowd.

From Xiangzhou City to more than 500 miles away from Fangzhou, Li Tiegun's army took three days on the way, which was still a slow walk, otherwise it would take three days.

On December 5, under the city of Fangzhou, a large army lined up.

Li Tiegun drove 8,000 people from Xiangzhou to Fangzhou with an order.

Chen Xiliang, the governor of Fangzhou, sat at the head of the city and had seen those poor people for a long time, but he could not be soft-hearted, just a time for incense.

Chen Xiliang made a difficult decision, that is, to kill without mercy!

When the large and small officials of Fangzhou Prefecture heard that they were going to kill the people, they were stunned at that time. Many officials with a little conscience immediately jumped out and advised Chen Xiliang not to do anything. If they opened the city gate and let the people in, they could save a few. There were only a few thieves. What are they afraid of?

But Chen Xiliang knows what it means to open the gate, which is equivalent to suicide and stretching out his neck for others to cut.

Without waiting for these officials to finish speaking, Chen Xiliang shouted and scolded angrily, "You are confused. How many thieves don't you have eyes? At least 20,000 people, 20,000 people, more than twice as much as us. As soon as the gate is opened, they are bound to rush in. At that time, Fangzhou City will become a battlefield. Can you guarantee that we can keep the housing state? Who is responsible for the loss of Fangzhou? Who removes his head? It's you, it's you, or you! A bunch of bastards, if Fangzhou really loses it, it's still me who moves his head."

Chen Xiliang pointed to the large and small officials present and scolded. Although it didn't work, he had no choice but to kill.

After a while, Fangzhou City shot a lot of arrows, and then rushed to the people who rushed to the front and stopped. Hundreds of people fell to the ground. Next, the waves of arrows rained uninterrupted, until the more than 8,000 people from Xiangzhou were shot and finished.

At this time, the sun was already west. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Tiegun took the brigade around and pretended to be ready to attack. In fact, he was watching the play, how the governor of the state killed the people of Xiangzhou, and the defeated army in Xiangzhou in armor and unarmed hands.

The massacre lasted for more than two hours. The corpses in Fangzhou were everywhere. These people were almost equivalent to more than half of the population of Fangzhou. Chen Xiliang sat at the head of the city and saw it really. He didn't feel like it in his heart. It seemed that he had knocked over the five-flavor bottle, and all the bitterness, sour and sweet gushed out. Tears Turning in the eyes, turning, a gust of wind blew, and then came out of my eyes.