Daming kill

Chapter 225 Showing Fangs
On the night of May 21, Fang Guoan Camp outside Guangji County.

Fang Guoan and Chen Keli, who were downgraded to official by the emperor's order, are gathering together to drink in a daze.

They have been drinking for a long time, and the night is already deep, and they have talked about the wheels of the car over and over again.

Although the city has not yet been broken and the battle is still stalemate, the two are not worried about getting into trouble due to alcohol.

Not only was there a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, but they also cautiously dispatched enough scouts to monitor all the city walls and gates in Guangji County around the clock, and deployed the middle battalion at the rear of the entire army.

The peasant army in the city will not dare to come out to attack at night, and it is impossible to successfully attack them.

As for the peasant army elsewhere, across Qizhou, it is even more impossible.

Two people are very depressed now, they need to anesthetize themselves with alcohol.

On the 5000th, with Zuo Liangyu's strong support and instigation, Fang Guoan and Chen Keli gathered about [-] troops to the city of Guangji with absolute speed that they were all proud of.

But in the past six days, facing the little Guangji, they have made slow progress, and it seems unknown when they will be able to break through the city.

Although they can be regarded as veterans of the killing field, they did not put all their hopes on the gunpowder bombing city that they are very unfamiliar with from the very beginning. Traditional ants attach to siege.

They didn't even encircle Guangji, let alone encircle three gates and one. Instead, they only encircled two city walls, leaving enough safe escape space for the bumpkins in the city who were basically thieves not long ago.

They hope that those country bumpkins will be able to understand the difficulty of abandoning the city.

But the peasant army in Guangji County didn't seem to appreciate it. They resisted tenaciously and fiercely, and caused huge damage to the troops of Fang Guoan and Chen Keli.

However, the unsatisfactory siege and the huge casualties caused Fang Guoan and Chen Keli's patchwork army with weak fighting spirit to quickly have conflicts, and the attack power became weaker and more chaotic.

As a last resort, after organizing the traditional city-climbing attack for three consecutive days, Fang Guoan and Chen Keli had to stop this method of attacking the city with huge casualties and no hope before their subordinates collapsed.

But the bombing of the city with gunpowder was also extremely unsuccessful.

In the past six days, their underground excavation speed has been very slow, and even collapsed many times due to the pursuit of speed, and had to be reworked and reinforced many times. At present, it will take at least a few more days to complete the excavation.

What's more troublesome is that the peasant army in the city seems to have guessed what they want to do, and has been pointing at their excavation points on the city wall for the past few days, which makes Fang Guoan and Chen Keli very confused.

They didn't make fake excavation points, Zhao Jin didn't know whether he missed this question intentionally or unintentionally.

Therefore, at present, they have no better way than to grit their teeth and continue and look forward to the peasant army defending the city not knowing how to take correct countermeasures.

"How did you say that Zhao Jin was dug out in five days? We are also working day and night, but why can't we do it?" Fang Guoan muttered inexplicably again after taking a sip of wine.

"Yeah! Could it be that the soil here is hard or there are many rocks? But I looked at the excavated soil and asked the supervisor. The soil here is not much different from other places! We shouldn't be so different. How many?" Chen Keli responded in confusion as always.

"It should be that Zhao Jin's luck is good. He happened to come across a site that is particularly easy to dig and not easy to collapse. Then his excavation point is probably very close to the city wall, and the gang of frogs in the well in Susong are even more foolish. Destroy!" Fang Guoan continued to vent again dissatisfied.

"That's right, that's right." Chen Keli continued shaking his head in response.

The same words are always repeated, and people who drink too much sometimes get annoyed and lose interest in continuing.

The scene then suddenly quieted down, neither of them spoke, they just sipped their wine on their own.

Finally, after heaving a long sigh, Fang Guoan decided to say something new. He said with some grief and indignation: "The two of us join forces, and Kunshan and nephew Xian have supported so many of our troops, but we estimate that it will cost more than that of Zhao." It will take twice as long to break through the city, we brothers are really ashamed this time!"

At this time, there should have been a sudden strong wind, and the tent began to shake slightly, and then a faint smell came in through the gap in the tent curtain.

Chen Keli knew what it was like, his facial features were tightly squeezed together.

Many of the corpses of soldiers who died in the siege were not and could not be recovered. They were piled up under the city walls of Guangji County, and the high temperature during the day made these corpses start to rot. The smell was really unbearable.

Although their camp is some distance away from the city wall of Guangji County, it's not too far away. Usually, they can't smell anything, but as long as the wind blows and the wind direction is wrong, they will inevitably be smoked.

These smells severely hit their subordinates, making many people feel pessimistic and fearful about continuing to attack Guangji, and it also made the military discipline of the troops more chaotic, and the phenomenon of perfunctory and superfluous people became more prominent.

But they have no good way.

The peasant army in Guangji did not allow them to retrieve the corpses. The peasant army liked all the effects that could hinder their attack.

Sucking his nose, Chen Keli put on a sad expression and said: "You still think about this? I think as long as we can break the city, I'm more worried that even if we blow the city wall down, we will attack in a short while." Don't come down! We're too upset!"

Chen Keli had no doubts about whether the city wall could be blown down.

He knew that Zhao Jin falsely reported the amount of gunpowder used for them (Zhao Jin increased his own amount several times), and then they prepared a lot more, but Chen Keli still felt uneasy and felt that it shouldn't be so easy.

"What are you talking about, you crow's mouth! Li Ping can defeat the tens of thousands of bandits in Qizhou, how can we have so many people who can't defeat the thousands of small bandits here? There are no elite bandits here! What's more, these rioters were just a bunch of mud legs who can only carry hoes a few months ago." Fang Guoan said in surprise and anger.

Fang Guoan couldn't understand what happened to Chen Keli for a while, he didn't feel anything from the smell in the air.

"The thieves are mud-legged, so why not our soldiers? Although you look down on that Li Ping, you can't deny that the kid is still a little capable, especially in training soldiers. Even the soldiers trained by Zhao Jin are not good enough. Weakness is not something you and I can compare to most of our subordinates who only dare to kill good people."

Chen Keli suddenly became bold with the strength of wine, and he didn't know why he didn't want to continue to follow Fang Guoan anymore.

Fang Guoan was stunned, and then he said angrily: "Chen Keli! How can you spoil your prestige with others? That kid Li Ping is just a small man, and he only knows how to play sneakily and indiscriminately. Every time he takes advantage of others' surprise , but it’s just good luck! Where is there any skill worthy of praise?”

But this time, Chen Keli did not repeat the old tune with Fang Guoan as before, not only remained silent, but also looked at Fang Guoan with strange eyes.

Fang Guoan immediately widened his eyes, pointed at Chen Keli excitedly and said, "What do you mean?"

Chen Keli sighed, shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's not interesting, I'm holding back from drinking too much, I'm going to put water outside."

After finishing speaking, Chen Keli got up and left the tent, leaving only Fang Guoan with a dazed expression on his face.

But just as he opened his pants after leaving the tent, Chen Keli suddenly felt very uncomfortable in his stomach, so he swayed left and right and walked towards the darkness in the distance.

Several guards who were always guarding outside the tent wanted to keep up with him, but he pointed at his stomach and waved his hands to firmly stop them.

Nobody likes being watched when they're big.

Under the stars, Chen Keli crackled in a dark corner, feeling very uncomfortable. It may be that the previous smell made his nose get used to it, and he didn't feel any more about the smell he made.

So he decided to squat for a while longer until his legs became a little numb.

Just as he was about to lift his pants, he suddenly heard some strange sounds around him. It was a very obvious sound of a group of people creeping around, accompanied by some slight whispers.

Chen Keli was shocked.

Although he knew that their camp was in chaos and military discipline was loose, especially in the middle camp at the rear of the entire army.

But now it was wartime after all, and the iron law that officers and soldiers were strictly prohibited from walking around and talking in crowds after dark in the camp was still there, and those who violated it would be beheaded mercilessly.

Of course, he and Fang Guoan were the exceptions.

This is the bottom line of their untouchable control over the army, unless they don't want the army anymore.

Even for this reason, except for the fixed sentry posts, there are no mobile patrolling soldiers and horses in the entire military camp, just to prevent the officers and soldiers from bombing the camp at night because they cannot determine the situation of the people coming and going, or being used by Xiaoxiao to plot evil things.

Now, neither those people walked under the light of the brazier openly, nor did he hear Fang Guoan talk about any troop transfer at night, which is very abnormal and possibly very dangerous.

Instinct made Chen Keli break out in a cold sweat immediately, and he immediately sobered up from the wine.

He didn't dare to move, he just pulled up his pants lightly, and then continued to keep quiet in the dark corner.

Soon, more than a dozen figures appeared in Chen Keli's sight, and a bunch of unsheathed weapons were very dazzling under the reflection of the moonlight.

Chen Keli almost cried out, but he desperately covered his mouth.

"Why is it so smelly here? The smell is too strong." A young voice in the figure complained incomprehensibly.Although the sound was very small, Chen Keli could hear it clearly in the silent night sky.

"Probably because of the wind here." Someone responded.

"Maybe! But the smell of alcohol is quite strong. In the brightly lit tent guarded by guards in front, there must be some generals of the dog army drinking, and the officers are not young. Don't go forward! The three brothers follow me Go and kill the dog officer and general there, and the rest of the people go and light fires around to signal the cavalry and the army." The original young voice continued.

His voice was full of unquestionable majesty.

"As ordered!"

"As ordered!"

A few soft replies were equally firm and unhesitating, as if no one thought that the young man who spoke was enough to kill all directions with only three people.

Chen Keli's heart was in his throat, his face was full of horror, he wanted to shout and do something, but he held back in the end.

When the figures in his sight began to disperse, Chen Keli said silently in his heart: "Brother, I'm sorry!" Then without hesitation, he immediately fled away from Fang Guoan's tent.

But soon, Chen Keli looked back in anxiety at the direction of Fang Guoan's camp, where there was a lot of noise, and there were clusters of flames burning all around.

Chen Keli was a little absent-minded, but immediately found out in panic that someone was starting to light fire around him, and his face turned green.

He began to run wildly.

Suddenly, he ran into two black shadows in a panic, and almost fell to the ground holding one of them.

"He smells of alcohol, he's not one of us!" The overturned shadow shouted quickly.

Chen Ke desperately pushed away the black shadow, and was about to get up tremblingly, but his back suddenly sank, and then he was firmly attached to the ground.

"Want to run?" The black shadow who stepped on Chen Keli's back shouted.

"Hero, spare your life!" Chen Ke immediately begged for mercy.

"Sure enough, he smells of alcohol, but he's a big man. He should be a high-ranking official. Grandpa is lucky today!" The black shadow who stepped on Chen Keli said with a smile.

"What does the hero want, I will... ah... ah..." Chen Keli was forced to stop half of what he said and replaced it with a scream. His neck was being chopped open without warning.

"I want your head!" The black shadow that was stepping on Chen Keli replied first, and then swiftly slashed at Chen Keli's half-severed neck for the second time.

……

In the early morning of the 22nd, Li Rujing, who was covered in blood, stood on a section of the city wall in Guangji County, staring blankly at the newly built concave-shaped simple city wall along this section of the city wall.

This section of the newly built simple concave city wall is an emergency response method adopted by the peasant army in the city in response to the possibility of the government and army burying gunpowder from the ground to bomb the city.

In other words, even if the officers and soldiers succeeded in blowing down the section of the city wall where Li Rujing was standing, it would be useless.

Finally, Li Rujing shook his head helplessly, then glanced at the heads of Fang Guoan and Chen Keli, who were carried by two spears behind them, and said, "What a waste! Hang them up where they will be killed."

"Then what should the officers and soldiers do if they steal back?" A personal guard behind him was surprised.

Li Rujing turned his head and glanced at the talking guard, then said expressionlessly: "If the officers and soldiers don't sneak back, how can we be sure they are dead? And how will they know what will happen to them?"

……

Also in the early morning of this day, Ma Lan was leading a reconnaissance team alone in a daze in a small mountain village at the junction of Daye County and Wuchang County.

On the only crooked dirt road that is considered a road in the village, a dozen ferocious heads stuck on a row of newly erected wooden poles are so dazzling.

No one from the village came forward to greet Ma Lan and the others as usual, and no one even approached them, but the smoke from every house in the village was still rising, and the dogs continued to bark, as if the people who were still alive in the village thought they were There is no general.

Malan and the entire reconnaissance team were not surprised by this. This was the third village like this they had come across.

They knew that the heads of those people who were stuck on the wooden poles were people who had provided them with substantial help on weekdays. They knew that these were all done by the peasant army in Wuchang County, and those peasant army seemed to have a sudden change in temperament.

Ma Lan's mood was depressed and heavy!
(End of this chapter)