Wang Xun was too lazy to listen to Li Nanshan about Li Fen's plan to break out of the encirclement, so he turned around and went to find his sister.
"My brother-in-law plans to break out tomorrow night. Then, will my sister take her children and leave lightly with her brother?"
Wang Zhi shook his head and said: "If my husband can break out of the siege, can you still not take me with you? If you can't break out of the siege, I will die with him."
She is in her forties and was a great beauty when she was young. Now she is old and mourning the death of her father Wang Wentong. She looks very haggard and wears a white cloth on her head.
Li Fen's original intention for this northern expedition was to go straight to Yanjing and become emperor, and he took his wife and children with him. This is one of the reasons why Wang Xun accompanied them until now and is trapped in Jinan.
If it weren't for his sister and several nephews, he would have left Li Fen long ago.
Even now, Wang Zhi was really angry after hearing what Wang Zhi said, and said angrily: "This is the last chance! If I don't leave, will all my Wang family be buried with Li Fen?"
After persuading him for a while, Wang Zhi thought about it a lot, and then he called a pair of children under his knees.
She gave birth to two sons and one daughter for Li Fen. In addition to Li Nanshan, she also has a son named Li Qishan, who is only 12 years old now, and a daughter named Li Yizhen, who is 14 years old.
Speaking of which, Li Fen is handsome, Wang Zhi is also a beauty, and brothers Li Nanshan and Li Qishan are outstanding in appearance. Only Li Yizhen is most like her uncle Wang Zhen. She has a big mouth and small eyes. She cannot be said to be ugly, but she is obviously not a beauty.
But Wang Xin liked this niece the most. He patted her on the head, sighed, and said nothing more.
In short, if you can take away this bit of Li Fen's blood and call on the rest of Yidu to bring them to Old Sea City, then the Red Coat Army and the Loyalty Army will not be completely wiped out...
The next night, Li Fen was indeed ready to break out again.
And just as Wang Xin expected, he planned to break through Zhang Hongfan's defense line.
The plan was good. In the past two months, Li Fen had not attacked Zhang Hongfan's camp once, just to make his troops take it lightly.
As for why you chose Zhang Hongfan?
Because that's one of the best breakout directions.
Moreover, Zhang Hongfan became famous at a young age, but this was actually his first time leading troops on the battlefield. In Li Fen's eyes, he was just like Zhao Kuo.
For this battle, Li Fen built a flying bridge in advance, specially designed to be built on the trench, so that the soldiers could bypass the Mongolian defenses and directly enter Zhang Hongfan's camp...
This kind of arrogant military strategy might work if used on others, but Wang Xun did not think that Zhang Hongfan would fall into the trap.
He had interacted with Zhang Hongfan when he was in Yanjing, and believed that Kublai Khan did have a good eye for hiring people.
Thinking about this along the way, Wang Zhen followed the team with worried eyes.
Wang Zhi didn't know if he had told Li Fen that he sent four personal guards to take Li Qishan and Li Yizhen to follow Wang Xin.
They all dressed up like ordinary people and planned to leave Jinan quietly through the mountains and forests...
Soon, killing cries were heard in the night.
"Breakout!"
"kill……"
Wang Xun looked up and waited for a long time, and some expectations gradually emerged in her heart.
If Li Fen can break out, that would of course be the best...
"The flying bridge is not long enough! The Mongolian army dug the trench wider!"
Before Wang Zhen's expectations could simmer for too long, there was already such a cry ahead.
He touched the Zhang family's letter in his arms, gritted his teeth, and left with Li Qishan and Li Yizhen in hand.
"Follow me this way..."
"Fire the arrow!"
At the command of the Mongolian army, arrows were fired, killing all the rebels who were crossing the trench.
Zhang Hongfan is not Zhao Kuo. He is very good at running the army and there is no slack in the army.
Anticipating that Li Fen would break out in the next few nights, Zhang Hongfan ordered a vigil, and no one in the army was dissatisfied, so he was able to repel Li Fen easily.
He didn't follow Shi Ge's example of throwing fire as a signal, and went straight to Li Fen's big banner... Only the fact that he failed to fall into the arrogant soldier's plan was enough to reach His Majesty's ears.
After fighting for most of the night, Li Fen could only retreat to Jinan City.
Zhang Hongfan did not pursue. This was a battle that was guaranteed to win. Li Fen had no choice but to be trapped to death. He did not have to take all the credit alone.
He only ordered strict guarding to prevent any fish from slipping through the net and escaping.
After inspecting the battlefield, he frowned.
"Where's Juro?"
"The general seems to have returned to camp."
Zhang Hongfan nodded and walked towards the tent of his tenth brother Zhang Hongzheng.
Li Heng couldn't help but persuade: "Why bother Jiulang? The battle is over, young people can't stay up late..."
"The soldiers are still clearing the battlefield, and the general cannot share the joys and sorrows with them. How can I serve others?"
Zhang Hongfan responded like this and strode outside Zhang Hongzheng's tent.
In the darkness, I saw a few soldiers outside the tent acting in a panic. Zhang Hongfan was alert and immediately asked someone to capture them.
"Brother Ninth?" Zhang Hongzheng lifted the curtain and came out, forcing a smile and saying: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Hongfan responded and continued walking towards the tent.
Suddenly, I heard someone shouting not far away.
"who?!"
As soon as he hurried forward, he saw several soldiers chasing a sneaky figure. Zhang Hongfan grabbed a bow and shot an arrow, causing the fleeing figure to fall down.
The arrow only hit the man's thigh, but he did not hesitate to pull out the arrow and immediately stabbed himself in the neck.
Zhang Hongfan stepped forward again and saw that the corpse on the ground twitched twice and was already dead.
He couldn't help but secretly thought that the other party was strong, turned around and yelled at Zhang Hongzheng: "What's going on?!"
Zhang Hongzheng glanced around, drove away the surrounding soldiers, and then responded: "Wang Shu wanted to escape from Jinan and took the fifth brother's token..."
"Confused! You don't want your life, you dare to do such a thing to indulge the enemy."
"How big of a deal is this? You changed a team of people, turned a blind eye, and pretended you didn't know anything."
Zhang Hongfan sneered and said: "I think you were deceived by Wang Muqiao. Fifth brother usually hates him the most, how can he protect him?"
"Really, Ninth Brother, look at the token. Fifth Brother said he hates Wang Zhen the most, and also says he hates Li Xia the most. But now he has voted for Li Xia..."
"Shut up." Zhang Hongfan saw that he couldn't deceive Zhang Hongzheng, so he simply stopped and asked: "Which team do you plan to transfer?"
"Near the Yufu River."
Zhang Hongfan frowned and asked his bodyguard to take Zhang Hongzheng down to take a closer look. He also recruited several generals to search near the Yufu River.
"Kill without mercy, no need to leave any survivors, just go ahead..."
After arranging all this, he turned to Li Heng and said with a smile: "Brother Deqing is laughing at me. Unfortunately, there is rebellion in our family."
"Don't worry, Kuro, I won't talk nonsense."
Zhang Hongfan trusted Li Heng's character and nodded.
Li Heng added: "When someone sees something wrong in the morning, I will send someone to help Jiulang search together."
"Thank you so much, Brother Deqing."
"Between you and me, thank you very much..."
The sky is bright.
Li Fen basically lost the chance to break out of the siege. Jinan spent another day under heavy siege, and the food supply had already reached the bottom.
Zhang Hongfan, who was stationed in the west of the city, frowned deeply and his eyes became confused.
"did not find?"
"Yes, I have searched all the places nearby where people can hide, but I haven't found Wang Xun."
"Tenth brother didn't send anyone over?"
"No. Jiulang, if it's suspicious, could it be Li Heng's person..."
Zhang Hongfan raised his hand to interrupt his subordinate, shook his head and said: "There is no need to doubt brother Deqing. Since he can go out and sue Li Fen for his rebellion, how can he possibly release the traitor privately?"
"Then Wang Shu..."
Zhang Hongfan thought about it and murmured: "Maybe he returned to Jinan City."
After this day, Li Fen's subordinates began to flee one after another.
Some escaped, some didn't.
Zhang Hongfan breathed a sigh of relief and realized that what Zhang Hongzheng said was right. As long as Li Fen couldn't escape, escaping with a few small fish and shrimps was really not a big deal.
Li Fen is actually married to the clan king Tacha'er, and the feudal lords of the North are so intertwined that it is inevitable that some people will be missed.
If the law does not punish everyone, it will pass if you just turn a blind eye.
It is time to speed up the suppression of Li Fen's rebellion.
Cannibalism has already appeared in Jinan, and Li Fen's defeat is indeed not far away...
September 20th.
The city collapsed.
Li Fen was also disheartened and gave up on breaking out.
He actually climbed up a building in the Jinan government office, looked out, and composed a poem.
"I join the army with a sword on my waist and a handkerchief on my head, and I stand alone in the garrison and gaze at it. The atmosphere of the Central Plains, where foxes live in rabbit dens, and the mist of dusk shines..."
Wang Zhi slowly walked up to the pavilion, looked around, and saw Li Fen writing these five sentences on the wall.
Looking up, the Central Plains was occupied by barbarians and magpie nests, and her husband inherited the spirit of resistance of a generation of heroic couples.
The whole world is bowing down, but he is still fighting...
"The world has changed dramatically, and many people have been disturbed. There has been a lot of fighting, and there is no time to rest. Who can drive them away?"
The people have suffered so much from the war that they cannot recuperate. Who else can expel the barbarians and regain the Central Plains?
If things fail today, who else is there?
Wang Zhi didn't know who else was there.
She looked around and saw that Li Fen's hands were trembling a little as he wrote this.
Although he hadn't turned back yet, she could read the sadness in his back.
"Mountains and rivers in the eyes, career in the heart, and a long roar."
Li Fen did not scream. After a long pause, he wrote the last sentence.
"In peacetime, the prime minister will be close, and Yan and Zhao will be stable for a hundred years."
After writing, he muttered another sentence to himself.
"Who can drive away the sweep? Longxi is young, Yanzhao has been hundreds of years..."
Putting away the pen, Li Fen turned around and was stunned for a moment when he saw his wife, with a look of despair on his face.
Wang Zhi took out a dagger and handed it to Li Fen, saying: "I don't dare to do it, let your husband do it."
Li Fen said nothing.
A failed man has nothing to say.
He hugged his wife and stabbed her in the back with a dagger...
After killing several wives and concubines, Li Fen went to Daming Lake. He jumped into the water and walked towards the center of the lake.
Just when he reached the waist level of the water, a man rushed up from behind and grabbed Li Fen.
"Why do you do this, sir?!"
Li Fen turned around and saw that the staff member was very old. He only remembered his surname was Huang, but had forgotten his name.
Because he is just a mediocre person.
Apart from his father-in-law Wang Wentong, how many talented scholars were around Li Fen?
"open……"
Li Fen was tall and strong, and he was afraid that with just one movement, Mr. Huang would be blown away.
Then he heard another sentence that struck his heart.
"My husband is doing something because the world is unfair, why should he harm himself?!"
Li Fen was stunned.
Since we are fighting injustice for the world, how can we die alone?
Losing yourself today is just like the wishes of those princes...
At this thought, he suddenly laughed, turned around and landed on the shore, allowing the Mongolian army to capture him.
Capturing Li Fen in this way was actually somewhat beyond Shi Tianze's expectations.
After much deliberation, he had to suggest to the clan king Hebichi that it would be better to kill Li Fen in Jinan instead of taking him to Yanjing.
The entire counter-insurgency process this time was actually directed by Shi Tianze. As the nominal commander, Hebichi rarely interfered in the war, but at this time he asked a question in Mongolian.
"Why do you want to kill Li Fen now?"
Shi Tianze was silent for a moment, and finally replied in Mongolian: "To reassure people."
"Whose heart is at ease?" Hebichi asked again.
Shi Tianze didn't answer.
He Bichi waited for a while, then looked around at the hall full of Shihou generals, patted his belly, and said: "Okay, then kill him."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Hebichi continued to pat his belly and laugh, as if he was a rough prairie man.
There was a hint of cunning in his eyes, and he suddenly shouted: "Bring Li Fen here, I will kill him after trial!"
This sentence shocked all the princes.
Looking back, I saw a Mongolian soldier coming over with a box full of envelopes.
For most princes, the truly difficult battle... has just begun.
But some people lowered their heads and sneered secretly.
"Want to pursue the case? Ali Bu Ge Wei Ping in the north, Guan Longxin was defeated by Li Xia... I saw how many people can be held accountable in the end?"