Chapter 297 The State and the People

A few days ago, Yan Liang escorted Diao Chan and Lu Lingqi to Yunnan and brought them to Wu Fan. Through the descriptions of the three, Wu Fan only knew that Cui Yangyang and his little daughter Wu Ying had returned to their hometown in Hebei, and Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang took fifty tiger and leopard cavalry to search.

However, Wu Fan had no idea about Sima Yi's dispatch of troops later.

The reason was that Wu Fan did not know that Sima Yi had already learned about Cui Yangyang's hometown in secret. Therefore, after hearing Xun You say the news, Wu Fan was immediately shocked.

Suddenly he stood up from his seat, Wu Fan asked Xun You in surprise:

"How many troops Sima Yi sent? When will he set out? Who are the generals?"

Xun You said truthfully:

"A total of five thousand men were sent, all of which were heavy cavalry of the Qing Dynasty. We set off five days before we set out from Luoyang to Yunnan. There were seven generals leading the team, namely Qiaozhang, Li Feng, Zhang Dong, Liang Gang, Ma Teng, Ma Chao, and Ma Dai."

After Xun You finished speaking, Wu Fan frowned and slowly sat back on his seat. After a moment, he murmured:

"I led my soldiers to fight hard with foreign races in this land of barbarian mountains and rivers, with heavy casualties and frequent epidemics in the army, which was to protect the territory and strengthen the country and benefit the people. Sima Yi used to yù to yù return to Yecheng and do evil intentions, and this crime was hard to forgive. Now I have the idea of ​​my family..."

Speaking of this, Wu Fan suddenly clenched his right hand into a fist and smashed it hard on the table in front of him. With a loud bang, the mahogany book case exploded from the middle, divided into two halves and flew out to the left and right. Then there were two loud noises. The two book cases were embedded in the wall built by bluestone nearly half a meter deep.

"I, Wu Fan, swore here: I will not kill Sima Yi, I hope to refer to this object like a documentary without a complete body."

Under the surprised gaze of Xun You and Ju Su, Wu Fan stood up for the second time and ordered the generals of the army to come here to discuss: to attack Yunnan City forcing the

The deliberation process will no longer be described. During this period, Guo Jia, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Xun You, Ju Su and other advisers offered suggestions, but they did not work particularly for the Southern Barbarians who were defending the city. In the end, Wu Fan selected Taishi Ci's suggestion and attacked Yunnan City at the cost of inevitable initial large casualties, forcing the Southern Barbarians who were defending the city to leave the city and fight our army to decisively. Then he took advantage of the characteristics of many shrubs outside Yunnan City to carry out a full-scale fire attack

Although doing so will cause our soldiers to fall into the sea of ​​fire. However, because the Southern Barbarians are wearing vine armor, the casualties will definitely be much more serious than our army. In the current situation where the two sides are in a stalemate and our army is eager to fight and decide quickly, this is the most effective and best way.

In fact, Wu Fan had long thought of this strategy after the Southern Barbarians retreated to Yunnan City. However, since this strategy would cause great casualties from his army, Wu Fan never took it into action.

Now, my two wives, a baby daughter, and a sworn brother have their lives worry at any time, which has caused Wu Fan to be in trouble with the Southern Barbarians again. Anyway, if you want to pacify Nanzhong, it is inevitable that your army will suffer a large number of casualties, just sooner or later. Since that is the case, the so-called short pain is worse than long pain, so let this tragic battle be staged in advance.

Then he sent the order, and the entire army immediately began to make rice, kill pigs and sheep, and each soldier could drink a bowl of water and wine - not drink too much, so as not to affect the combat effectiveness - eat a full meal. He set out at midnight to fight the Southern Barbarians

After this order was issued, the three cities suddenly became busy. The Fire Head Army was busy making fires and cooking, while the other soldiers were busy polishing the weapons in their hands, sitting with their closest friends and talking about their hearts, enjoying the last tranquility and peace.

I have been staying in this place where birds do not shit for several months, especially the lack of adaptation in the environment and the large number of people in the army have become infected. Although the soldiers did not say it, they were filled with resentment. They had long been looking forward to the day of the decisive battle with the Southern Barbarians and would make a break as soon as possible.

After a stick of incense, three cities started to eat at the same time. For a moment, the fragrance was so fragrant that the wine was everywhere. The soldiers ate a delicious meal in big mouthfuls.

After dinner, it was still early, and according to modern times, it was about six o'clock. The soldiers of the army slept for another three hours with a dizziness in water and wine. At midnight, the entire army was fully equipped, and more than 900,000 troops were dispatched to leave one after another from the twelve cities in the three blockades, looking at the Yunnan city fifteen miles away.

This time, Wu Fan did not ride a car like in the previous episodes, but rode the Jueying given to him by Cao. The reason was that Wu Fan sat in the back of the formation in the first few episodes, commanding and coordinating the entire army. This time, Wu Fan wanted to lead the way again and lead all the soldiers to fight together.

Seeing Wu Fan riding Jueying, holding a real dragon and flashing in his hand, and wearing the Western Heaven Dragon Armor directly on his body instead of the outer cover of the previous few times, all the soldiers realized that this decisive battle would inevitably be unprecedented.

Even so, the soldiers were particularly excited and the crowd was full of enthusiasm

Xiao Qiao, Diao Chan, Lu Lingqi, Cai Yan, Cao Chong and others sent Wu Fan to the gate of the city. Wu Fan stopped the horse and told them to stop and not leave the city. In fact, Lu Lingqi wanted to accompany Wu Fan this time and galloped side by side with Wu Fan like before. However, because she was very hasty in traveling to Yunnan, she did not carry armor and the Qinglong Yanyue Sword. Therefore, this decisive battle was already extremely dangerous, and Wu Fan certainly would not agree to Lu Lingqi's battle.

Besides, Wu Fan looked around the people who were seeing him off immediately. When his eyes fell on Cao Chong, Wu Fan's heart moved and said to Cao Chong:

"Chong'er, you haven't seen how the soldiers fight yet, have you?"

Cao Chong said:

"Chong'er, as his uncle said, Chong'er only heard of how soldiers fought, and never saw them with his own eyes."

Wu Fan nodded and said:

"Today our army will fight the Southern Barbarians. If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the last unprecedented battle between our army. Do you want to see it with your own eyes?"

When Cao Chong heard this, he immediately said happily:

"Uncle, Chong'er wants to see it, Chong'er really wants to see it. And this is the last fierce battle between our army, so uncle must bring Chong'er with him."

Wu Fan said:

"Okay, my uncle brings you."

After saying that, Wu Fanha lowered his waist and stretched out his hand, picked up Cao Chong with one arm and sat in front of him.

Wu Fan's actions surprised Xiao Qiao and the other four people. Cai Yan hurriedly said:

"Meng Xuan, you...you know that this battle is extremely fierce, why do you still have to take Chong'er?"

Wu Fan held Cao Chong's shoulders, first glanced at Cai Yan, then turned to look at the soldiers of the army who were heading towards Yunnan City, and sighed:

"We should let Chong'er take a look. This will benefit the hedge, the country and the people."

Cao Chong was extremely excited at this time, raised his head and looked at Wu Fan, then looked at Cai Yan and said:

"Godmother Cao Chong is a godmother, so you let Chong'er go and take a look. Please, godmother."

Cai Yan didn't say anything. Intuitively, she knew that there was something in Wu Fan's words, but she couldn't understand what Wu Fan was referring to for a while.

At this time, Cao Chong looked excited and begged him hard. Thinking that Wu Fan was the well-deserved general, no battle initiated by Wu Fan ended in failure. In this way, let Cao Chong follow Wu Fan to take a look.

After thinking about this, Cai Yan nodded reluctantly, as if he agreed to Cao Chong's request. Seeing that Cai Yan agreed, Cao Chong immediately cheered and was extremely happy.

Xiao Qiao took a step forward, grabbed the reins in Wu Fan's hand and pulled it. Wu Fan lowered his waist knowingly, and Xiao Qiao attached himself to his ear and whispered:

"Husband, you didn't drink too much today, are you? You took Cao Chong to the front line, what if he died? Could it be that you want to use this to get promoted with justification?"

Wu Fan stood up and looked at Xiao Qiao in entangledly, shook his head and said:

"I will explain it to you in the future, so don't ask now."

When Xiao Qiao saw Wu Fan say this, she knew that it was either inconvenient to say it or it was endless in one sentence. Therefore, she stopped pestering Wu Fan, let go of the reins and told Wu Fan to be careful, and then watched Wu Fan out of the city with the other three women.

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There was nothing to say along the way. After nearly one million Cao troops arrived in Yunnan, they first surrounded the entire city, pushed all the siege weapons such as rushing cars, well railings, thunder chariots and other siege weapons to the front of the army. Then, amid the sound of war drums that shook the sky and the earth, the entire Cao army burst out with a roar like a mountain torrent and tsunami, and rushed towards the city walls on all sides.

During this period, all the crossbow soldiers, supported by the skills of the main general, all rockets flocked into the city. Hundreds of thousands of rockets rose into the air, making Yunnan City seem to be placed in the daytime. Not only are the buildings in the city clearly visible, but the Southern Barbarians on the city walls and Cao's army, who are sieging the city with ladders under the city, are also extremely clear.

Since Cao's army siege troops filled the moat, the southern barbarian defenders on the city began to crazily suppress the arrows. The arrows were as dense as raindrops, resulting in the fact that even a place to settle down along the moat could not be found, and all were nailed to the arrows.

Under such dense arrows, the casualties of Cao's army can be imagined. Countless Cao's soldiers stepped on their companions' bodies, picked up sandbags that their companions fell on the ground, and continued to fill the moat. In the end, only one-third of the moat was filled were sandbags, and the other two-thirds were all Cao's corpses.

And this is just a prelude to the siege.

The next moment, all Cao's army carried the ladder and stepped across the moat. Under the cover of their own bows and arrows and siege weapons, they ladders were placed on the city wall, carrying the ladders like ants. The southern barbarians in the city also crowded up the city wall and killed and killed the Cao army on the ladder and slashed wildly.

Cao Jun's corpses soon piled up like a mountain under the city of Yunnan. There were several Cao Jun's corpses under the city walls, and because they were piled up too high, they were even only two or three meters away from the top of the city wall.

Cao Chong, who was still excited at the beginning, had no sound since when, but he only watched the enemy and us slashing wildly above and below the city, blood flowing into a river. The large area of ​​land under Yunnan was stained with blood.

"Did you see it? That's how our soldiers fight."

Wu Fan suddenly said something, which shocked Cao Chong. He raised his head to look at Wu Fan. Cao Chong's expression and eyes were not as excited as before, but his face was filled with sorrow and unbearableness.

"Uncle, they... are so pitiful."

Cao Chong looked at the battle scene for another time and said. Then, Cao Chong lowered his head and couldn't bear to watch it any longer.

Wu Fan lifted Cao Chong's jaw from behind and said:

"Chong'er, keep watching. Our soldiers are not even afraid of dying. Are you still afraid of watching them die?"

Cao Chong shook his head, tears were already rising in his eyes, and he said:

"No, Chong'er is not afraid, Chong'er can't bear it. They are so pitiful, Chong'er can't bear to watch it."

Then, Cao Chong raised his head and looked at Wu Fan again, and the tears in his eyes were extremely bright under the flames.

"Uncle, why do they still rush up even though they knew they would die? What is they doing this for? I don't think they are just for military merit, because once a person dies, they will not get any higher military merits."

Wu Fan sighed:

"There are many reasons for this, but there are only two main points. First, they are soldiers, and it is their responsibility to charge in battle. If they do not do this or even escape, they will violate military law. This reason is very forced. Two, they have expectations for this country. They believe that this country and even the monarch deserves their own sacrifice of their lives to protect and defend. If a country or monarch is not favored by the people, the soldiers will naturally not fight desperately; the defeat of King Zhou of Shang, who seemed powerful, to King Wu of Zhou, was a good example. This reason is the real root of the soldiers' fighting to the death."

Cao Chong nodded as he heard this and fell into deep thought.

Wu Fan continued:

"Look at these soldiers, they are about the same age as your brothers. They also have parents, brothers, and even wives and children at home, waiting for them to go back to reunite, guarding the entrance of the village every day, begging for them. However, how would they feel when their parents, brothers, wives and children learn that they will never go back, but sleep alone on this foreign land?"

When Cao Chong heard this, tears in his eyes suddenly flowed down uncontrollably. He raised his head to look at Wu Fan and choked:

"They will definitely be very sad, very sad, heartbroken, and heartbroken."

Wu Fan nodded slightly and said:

"But even if they are sad, they will only turn this sadness into infinite sorrow and send these soldiers who have been buried in foreign lands; but they will not have any resentment towards the king of this country. They still strongly support the king and will still pay taxes to support the normal operation of this country."

Speaking of this, Wu Fan sighed:

"This is our people, they are kind, simple, hardworking and brave. They contribute silently to this country without regrets; they can even sacrifice their lives to protect and defend her. After they have paid so much, they just hope that this country can provide them with a stable living environment and a place where they can live and work in peace and contentment."

After pausing, Wu Fan looked down at Cao Chong who was looking up at him and said:
Chapter completed!