Qu Lingchen stared at the sword handed over by Shi Chang. The cold light on the sword seemed to project scenes: Dongting Lake holding the sword and drawing calligraphy, Xiangjiang people returning to the city, Xiangjiang victims receiving relief food, and that miserable night in Guiyang
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Liu Zhang was sitting on a stone two meters away from him. As long as he picked up the sword handed to him by Shi Chang, with just one blow, he could kill Liu Zhang and avenge his family's annihilation. He should be happy. Why did he feel this way?
Jump so fast.
"I must be too nervous. Don't be nervous. Ling Chen, don't be nervous. You can take revenge right away. After revenge, you have never thought about continuing to live. There is nothing to be nervous about. Don't be nervous."
"He killed innocent people indiscriminately. He was definitely not a good person. He was a butcher."
Qu Lingchen tried hard to convince himself, and slowly stretched out his jade hand towards the sword, and even raised the sword higher. Qu Lingchen's slender fingers stretched out to the hilt of the sword. The moment they touched it, a female voice suddenly said
Come.
"slow."
Fan Lixiang walked over in two or two steps, grabbed Qu Lingchen's sword, picked it up and looked it up and down, and praised it nonchalantly: "Good sword, really good sword."
After saying that, he pulled out the sword and admired the cold light above. Qu Lingchen was slightly startled when he saw Fan Lixiang's charming face.
With a "swish" sound, the sword was returned to its sheath. Fan Lixiang handed the sword to Qu Lingchen, and stood in front of Liu Zhang without leaving any trace.
"Since the girl has something important to do, just take the sword and leave."
Qu Lingchen's demeanor on the island in Dongting Lake was completely different from his demeanor in the Guiyang tent. Liu Zhang would never have thought that the two were the same person, but Fan Lixiang had only heard Qu Lingchen speak once.
, brain thinking will not be *involved.
Fan Lixiang gave Qu Lingchen a meaningful look. At this time, Fan Lixiang had already guessed that this woman was the woman who assassinated Liu Zhang at night. Just based on Qu Lingchen's sword, Liu Zhang didn't recognize her, and she knew him.
, I had been waiting for them for an hour with this sword.
Moreover, Qu Lingchen's action of holding the sword just now, not holding the scabbard but holding the hilt, already explained everything.
But the relationship between the two is still elusive to Fan Lixiang. No matter how smart Fan Lixiang is, she can't figure out why one must kill while the other seems to be grateful.
Before she figured it out, Fan Lixiang didn't want to expose Qu Lingchen. It might not be good for herself. Seeing Liu Zhang's smiling face that he had never seen before, it would even be thankless. Fan Lixiang was not that stupid. It would not be good for herself.
I will definitely not do it.
To save Liu Zhang, he was just afraid that Liu Zhang would die and his official position would be lost.
Qu Lingchen took the sword. With Fan Lixiang guarding him, it was almost impossible to sneak attack Liu Zhang in front of everyone. Qu Lingchen glanced at Fan Lixiang, who raised a teasing smile on his lips. Qu Lingchen
He turned around and left with a cold face.
"Girl." Liu Zhang stood up from the stone, a little surprised that Qu Lingchen left without saying goodbye. He remembered that the two of them did not break up on bad terms on the island in Dongting Lake. Why did this woman suddenly become so cold?
Maybe it's because of the unrequited hatred.
Liu Zhang thought, looking at Qu Lingchen's leaving figure with a little sadness. In fact, Liu Zhang had been thinking that when the war in Jingzhou was over, he would go to Dongting Lake to listen to Qu Lingchen's piano music again. That kind of comfortable feeling would make him
Longing for it, but haven’t had it for a long time.
But now it seems that this has become impossible.
At this time, Fan Lixiang came over, glanced at Qu Lingchen on the mountain path, and said to Liu Zhang: "My lord, stop looking. My lord, have you forgotten what you came for today?"
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Both ancient Xiangyang and Xiangyang's city defenses have been inspected. Xiangyang was the state government of Jingzhou, and Liu Biao had been running it for many years without finding any loopholes. However, in ancient Xiangyang guarded by Xu Shu, there was no other good way except cutting off the corridor as mentioned by Fa Zheng.
On the same day, Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren's army to raid the corridor. The Jingzhou soldiers in the corridor seemed to have been prepared for the Sichuan army's attack. After seeing the Sichuan army arriving, the soldiers who defended the corridor resisted for a while and then all retreated.
If they stay, they will only die.
Zhang Ren left Gao Pei to guard the corridor. In the first few days, Cai Mao from Xiangyang City sent troops to attack the corridor, but they were beaten to death. Those Jingzhou recruits were no match for the Sichuan army in the field. Corpses were everywhere. The Jingzhou generals fled back in embarrassment with the remaining troops.
Within the city.
The Sichuan Army concentrated its main force of 50,000 people and divided it into ten echelons. Every day, five echelons took turns attacking the east city of Ancient Xiangyang. In order to make a quick victory before the food and grass were cut off, the Sichuan Army launched a fierce offensive. As the city walls gradually dried up, the pressure on Ancient Xiangyang increased.
In order to cope with the Sichuan army's attack, Xu Shu divided the city's defenders into three echelons and took turns defending the city. The remaining echelons hid in the Tibetan Soldier Cave to rest.
In ancient Xiangyang, it was used as a military fortress after Liu Biao moved it to rule. The Tibetan Soldier Cave was evenly distributed throughout the city wall. If the war on the city wall became urgent, the soldiers in the Tibetan Soldier Cave could quickly provide reinforcements.
Xu Shu also installed hundreds of single-shot hard crossbows on the city wall. The most indispensable thing for the Jingzhou navy was arrows, and the all-iron arrowheads used in the hard crossbows were also transferred to the city in large numbers by Xu Shu. Whenever the Sichuan army attacked the city, they would
Hundreds of crossbows fired in volley, and each all-iron arrow could kill several enemy soldiers within half a range. Whenever the Sichuan army attacked the city, the crossbow arrows reaped human lives like poisonous snakes, and each time they were able to repel the Sichuan army's attack at the critical moment.
Eight days had passed since the war, and the sun was in the sky. The Sichuan army suffered heavy losses and failed to capture Gu Xiangyang. Watching the Jingzhou soldiers on the city wall collecting the corpses of their companions, Liu Zhang silently turned around, waved his hand, and once again led his troops to withdraw from the commander-in-chief.
tower.
Fazheng was right. After the corridor was cut off, the siege of the city would indeed be much smoother. However, under the deployment of Xu Shu, the ancient Xiangyang troops and defensive weapons were almost perfect. For a while, the Sichuan army could not advance even an inch, and both sides suffered under the scorching sun and heavy losses.
of casualties.
Liu Zhang held a military meeting, but no outcome was reached. Apart from attacking by force, the generals withdrew in silence. Only Fazheng was left. Fazheng hesitated for a long time and said to Liu Zhang: "My lord, go find him."
Let's call Pang Tong, he should be able to find a solution."
"Pang Tong? Why are you looking for that boy? My lord, I will come in person tomorrow and promise to take down the city for you. Otherwise, you will chop off my head." He was so powerful that he became angry when he heard the name Pang Tong.
"Don't interrupt." Liu Zhang scolded him. With his powerful invulnerable armor, if there were a hundred of them, they might be able to capture the city. Unfortunately, it was just him and a can of kerosene could solve the problem. Imagine,
It’s such an amazing scene of the rough muscles being ignited...
Liu Zhang shook his head and said to Fa Zheng: "If you go to Pang Tong at this time, will he offer advice?"
"Since Pang Tong really wants to surrender to the Sichuan Army, he won't keep his face. He just hopes that the lord can endure it. I think Pang Tong will definitely refuse a few times to show off that the lord doesn't take it to heart. In this way, Pang Tong should be able to
Offer your advice sincerely.”
"With so many soldiers casualties, what does my face mean?" Liu Zhang sighed, and after a while, he said to Fazheng: "Actually, I already looked for him last night."
"What did Pang Tong say?" Fazheng did not expect that Liu Zhang would take the initiative to find Pang Tong. After that night, Fazheng never mentioned Pang Tong's matter, just because he was afraid that Liu Zhang would not be able to speak.
Liu Zhang said calmly: "Pang Tong never refused. He said that as long as I agreed to three conditions, he would agree to be the military advisor of the Sichuan Army. Pang Tong said that he didn't know how to get to Xiangyang now, but as long as I appointed him as the military advisor, within a month, he would be the military advisor of the Sichuan Army.
We must take the city, otherwise I will chop off his head."
"What three conditions?"
"First, let Ronger return to Chengdu. Second, remove Fan Lixiang from her official and military posts. He will be responsible for appeasing the 20,000 peasant troops. Third, give up providing disaster relief to the two rivers."
"My lord didn't agree?"
Liu Zhang looked at the ground, "Pang Tong also gave me an idea. Recently, in the Yiling area, Jingzhou stragglers who are unwilling to join us have taken over the mountains and turned into bandits. We can pretend to transport a batch of grain to Jiangling. If the escort is lax, the Yiling bandits will
We will definitely come to rob them, and then we can excuse ourselves by saying that our food was robbed by Jingzhou soldiers, and we can also frame it for Liu Biao.
In this way, we can not only provide disaster relief, but also arouse the victims' hatred towards Liu Biao and win the hearts of the people in Liangjiang."
"What a wonderful idea." Fazheng praised in admiration, and his admiration for Pang Tong deepened, but he fell silent immediately, knowing that Liu Zhang must not agree.
"My lord didn't agree, did he?"
Liu Zhang stood up, looked at the dazzling sunshine outside, and smiled lonely, "I agreed, I promised half of it, I have ordered Yuweiguan to transport a batch of fake grain to Jiangling, and pretended to be robbed by Yiling bandits on the way.
Then let Huang Zhong publicize that our food and grass were robbed by Jingzhou rebels, and Jiangling only had one month of military rations left. But even so, Jiangling continued to provide disaster relief, preferring to starve the soldiers to death, and would not close the soup kitchen shacks and shelter alleys to make the people feel relieved.
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Since Fan Lixiang used "skills" twice to win the hearts of the people in Jingnan and Xiangjiang, Liu Zhang unknowingly got used to this method.
"My lord is wise." Fazheng praised him, but there was no excitement on his face. He sat in front of the table and muttered: "With this incident, the victims' expectations for the intensity of disaster relief will be reduced a lot, which will help
In order to maintain the stability of the disaster area, the people's support has improved, and the rear area is considered stable, but we still only have less than a month left."
Liu Zhang nodded. Eight days have passed and there are still twenty days left. We still have to hope that it won’t rain during this period. The hope of capturing Xiangyang is getting slimmer and slimmer. Liu Zhang seems to be a little hesitant at this moment. For the sake of the victims, he will give up.
Xiangyang, is it really worth it?
Or, for the sake of the great cause, the hundreds of thousands of victims should be sacrificed?
Liu Zhang could agree to the first condition Pang Tong said, and he could find a way to reluctantly agree to the second condition. But on the third condition, although Liu Zhang knew Pang Tong was right, he still couldn't make a decision.
"With the support of the people, even if we can't capture Xiangyang, the situation should be better after retreating to Jiangling." Fazheng said, but in fact he didn't really believe his words. In this era when the family controls everything, there is no support from the family.
, the public support is useless, this is the real reason why the mighty red-browed green forest army could not defeat Liu Xiu.
Just when the two were at a loss and Fa Zheng was about to leave, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Report to the Lord that two dead pigs were found in the well in the backyard."