Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 117 Replacing Soldiers with Fire
Chapter 121

It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.As the governor of Luozhou, the fourth rank, Chen Xun has no way to turn back.

Of course, he can also surrender.

However, Chen Xun also knew that according to Ran Ming's ability, the Western Qin army was definitely not the opponent of Wei Guo, His Royal Highness the King of Chu.It is true, who would have thought that Ran Ming would wipe out Murong Ke's 14 troops with his own strength?Who would have thought that a 14-year-old boy could win Qingzhou in one fell swoop with four or five thousand remnants?
Although Fu Luo claims to have an army of 15, how many troops does Fu Jian of the Di tribe have? It is a lice on the head of a bald man. It is obvious. If Fu Luo really leads an army of 15, Fu Jian must make his troops over 15 years old. All women under the age of 50 are pulled out, and they can make up 15 horses for free.

Fu Luo's command was as high as 6 to 1 troops, but Ran Ming led more than [-] victorious troops from the Wei State and swept them in.

Therefore, Ran Ming's performance on the battlefield gave Chen Xun great confidence.In the governor's mansion, he has more than 300 servants of the Chen family. These servants are brave and brave soldiers recruited from the begging army.Speaking of which, the fighting power of the Qihuo army is almost invincible in this era. Their fighting power is amazing because of the lack of food and armor, but will the Luoyang Chen family have no food?Will there be no armor weapons?
Chen Xun has no confidence in regaining Luoyang. If he sticks to the governor's mansion, Chen Xun still has confidence. After three hours, Ran Ming's army will arrive in Luoyang, and he can rely on this insignificant victory. Express his loyalty to Wei to Ran Ming.Even if he put on a show, Ran Min would not treat himself badly.

Thinking of this, Chen Xun suddenly rushed to the bedroom wall and grabbed a sword from the wall!

Scholars in this era are not weak scholars who could not lift their hands or shoulders in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Confucius talked about educating people with "rituals, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics", which are collectively called "six arts".In today's terms, it means moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor development in an all-round way.

Chen Xun's bloodiness has also come up!He drew out his sword and said, "Gather all the servants and guard the Governor's Mansion to the death!"

In a short while, more than [-] fully armed family soldiers assembled in the compound!Chen Xun asked the steward to move out all the gold and silver from the mansion. There were more than a dozen large boxes, all of which were large silver cakes or gold ingots. Chen Xun distributed all the gold and silver to all three hundred housekeepers.Then he said impassionedly: "The country supports scholars, and the scholars should fight to the death for the country! A certain person is willing to live and die with Luoyang City. Are you willing to defend the land and fight to the death with me?"

Just a joke, the beggar army has always had the best character, and their purpose is to use people's money to eliminate disasters.After taking Chen Xun's money, they would naturally not betray their employer.

"Wish to advance and retreat together with the envoy, and fight to the end!"

Chen Xun said again: "His Royal Highness Chu Wang has already led the reinforcements to arrive, at most three hours, His Royal Highness Chu King will arrive in Luoyang. We only need to stick here for three hours."

Originally, these servants were somewhat lifeless, but after hearing Chen Xun's words, they came alive.Who doesn't know Ran Ming's reputation? He defeated Murong Ke, captured Qingzhou, and defeated the strong with the weak. Should not be a problem!
"Report to General, take down all Luoyang City except the Governor's Mansion!" Deputy General Kong Feng reported to Guo Qing excitedly.

Guo Qing was not excited. For him, Luoyang City was taken as a matter of course.He asked back: "What's going on in the Governor's Mansion?"

Kong Fengdao: "Chen Xun, the governor of Luozhou, clamored and vowed to live and die with Luoyang, and would rather die than surrender!"

Guo Qing said, "I don't care. I will leave you with 500 people. The time limit is half an hour. You must win the governor's mansion for me!"

"Yes!"

Chen Xun stood on the gate tower of the governor's mansion, commanding his family soldiers to fight.These soldiers have excellent tactics and skills, and their arrow skills are very tricky.Although they were small in number, they relied on the dead corners of the walls and towers, and used bows and arrows to kill the Qin army from time to time!In just half an hour, nearly a hundred soldiers of the Qin Army had already fallen under the courtyard wall outside the Governor's Mansion!
"Good kill!" Chen Xun said in a hoarse voice. At this moment, a gunman of the Qin army who was about to stab Chen Xun felt a pain in his throat, and bright red blood spurted out from the throat wound in an instant. All his clothes were stained red.The soldier of the Qin Army felt his eyes go dark, and his body suddenly became extremely heavy.

Chen Xun raised his sword and chopped off the man's head, and then shouted: "Anyone who beheads an enemy will be rewarded with [-] coins!"

The morale of Ding Bing of the Chen family rose even more.

Qin Jun successfully captured Luoyang City, but a small governor's mansion stopped them like a stumbling block.How many times they were about to break through and attack, but they were driven down by Chen Xun's servants who were not afraid of death!After attacking for nearly an hour, Kong Feng's 200 soldiers suffered nearly [-] casualties.In the end, he still didn't rush into the governor's mansion!

Kong Feng was angry, and he shouted: "Go and get the Chongche here, I don't believe that his little governor's mansion can resist the pace of our Great Qin Iron-Blooded Army!"

The governor's mansion is not a solid city.Even counting the back garden, it only occupies an area of ​​more than [-] square meters.

Although the Governor's Mansion is small and the courtyard walls are low, small size has its advantages.Although the courtyard wall is one foot or two feet high, the top of the wall is only one foot wide, and there is no way for people to stand on it.

But for the defensive side, it has an advantage.

Inside the yamen of Luozhou Governor's Mansion, there are thousands of servants of Chen's family, three classes of yamen servants and servants, including maids and servants.Using a few desks, wardrobes, carts and wooden frames to build a platform of less than four feet, the servants of the Chen family only need to stand on the frame with their waists bowed.

The rain of arrows from the Di Qin army outside did not cause any harm to them.

However, just as the Qin army had just climbed up the wall, the soldiers of Chen Di's family in the courtyard stabbed the soldiers of the Qin army who had climbed up the courtyard wall with long spears, or shot them from a long distance with bows and arrows, trying to climb over the wall one by one. Qin Jun shot into a hedgehog!
The sound of "rumbling" sounded, and Chen Xun followed the sound, and saw a rushing car approaching slowly at a distance of [-] steps from the governor's mansion.

The so-called Chongche is actually a giant tree about five or six feet thick and long.Wheels are installed below, relying on the huge inertial potential energy of the collective itself, a weapon used to hit the city gate.The earliest prototype is actually countless soldiers carrying huge logs on their shoulders.

Chen Xun's face immediately changed when he saw the rushing car coming!

The governor's mansion must not be a city wall, and the gate of the mansion is not a city gate. If it is hit by such a car, it may not be able to withstand even three or four hits.

At this moment, Chen Xun's family led Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng came to Chen Xun covered in blood. Of course, almost all the blood on Chen Zheng's body belonged to the enemy.

Chen Zheng was about 20 years old, with a very burly figure and dark skin.Although his surname is Chen, he has nothing to do with Chen Xun.Their begging army actually has a lot of background. Chen Zheng's grandfather was Chen Chuan, who was invincible in the Central Plains decades ago. Later, because of his own interests, he clashed with Zu Ti, and his power was greatly damaged. As a result, he was uprooted by Shihu.However, most of the begging army of Chen Zheng's family fend for themselves. In the end, when Chen Zheng was at a loss, he was incorporated into the family soldiers by the Chen family of Luoyang.

Chen Zheng said: "My lord, if this goes on like this, it may be difficult for us to hold on for two hours!"

Chen Xun also calmed down at this time, after all, commanding and fighting is not his strong point, Chen Xunruo is a good hand in governing the local area and coordinating food, but he can't even be regarded as a third-rate general in war.Chen Xun also understands the truth that one general is incompetent and exhausts the entire army.He asked, "Chen Zheng, what should we do?"

Chen Zhengbi was actually a tiger of the general family, and he fought countless big and vicious battles, he fought against the Jie people, and he also fought against the Huns, and it was not the first time that the Di people fought against each other.

He said lightly: "My lord, if we want to survive from death, we must abandon the periphery. Now that Diqin barbarians have rushed up, our courtyard wall can no longer be defended, but we still have a way to delay it a little bit. time!"

"What way?" Chen Xun asked nervously.

Chen Xun is putting his wealth and life on Ran Ming's timely arrival, so now he has no way out!
"Set it on fire!" Chen Zheng said with a murderous look on his face, "I saw a lot of furniture in my lord's room, and a lot of nanmu wood in the warehouse in the backyard. If we put all the wood and firewood together, Pour vegetable oil over it, pile it in the door and burn it, and the fire that soars to the sky is estimated to burn for at least an hour. We can win this precious time!"

"Hiss!" Chen Xun took a few breaths.

There is a lot of golden nanmu in the treasury, which is extremely expensive. Almost a single piece of wood can be compared to a copper coin of the same weight. Historically, golden nanmu was used exclusively for royal palaces, a few temple buildings and tombs.

These golden nanmu were transported from the south of the Yangtze River in order to repair the imperial tombs of the Jin Dynasty in Luoyang when Zu Ti recovered Luoyang.

These golden nanmu are huge wealth in themselves.Before Ran Min started to build Ran's imperial mausoleum, Chen Xun thought about dedicating this golden silk nanmu worth millions of gold to Ran Min, so that he could build the imperial mausoleum or repair the Yecheng Imperial Palace in the future.

He knew that when Ran Min conquered Yecheng, there was a fire in the palace, and the dragon chair and the palace were made of high-quality iron heart wood.He was going to dedicate this batch of treasures he found from the old warehouse in Luoyang to Ran Min.But now he can't control so much.

Chen Xun said with a dark face: "Okay, I can't do it, let's burn it. Let's burn it all! Tell all the soldiers, as long as His Highness King Chu arrives, everyone will enjoy ten acres of land!"

Chen Zheng's face remained calm, but in fact, he was already smiling in his heart. He no longer had the ambition to compete for the world like his ancestors did, and he only wanted to give these confidantes a way out.If each person can get ten acres of land, these parts can survive better!

Chen Zheng turned and left, conveying the order to set fire.More than two hundred soldiers hurriedly piled up the precious golden nanmu at the door, and at this moment, the sound of "dong dong" sounded!
Chen Zheng obviously felt that the gate of the mansion was almost collapsed, he shouted: "Quickly pour oil, pour oil, prepare to light the fire!"

After Kong Feng spent a lot of effort, he finally knocked down the gate of the governor's mansion, but a fire was burning three or four feet high behind the gate, and he couldn't rush into the courtyard at all!

(End of this chapter)