Half a month passed quietly like a white horse.

Yizhou, in the territory of Anhan.

A sudden sneak attack has just ended.

From the beginning to the end, the battle was declared over in less than half an hour.

Nowadays, the smoke is not over, and the captured city is still extremely noisy; The horses neighed, their hooves rumbled, and the sound of screams and moans filled the room, and there were vague intermittent shouts of killing and the terrible screams of dying people.

After the smoke cleared, the dilapidated ruins and broken walls could be seen everywhere, the streets and alleys in the city were full of chaos, and the extremely thick blood filled the whole city, and the murderous atmosphere condensed in the sky above the city and did not disperse for a long time.

It's a lightning-fast sneak attack. At the beginning of the battle, the city gate was captured in one fell swoop, and then thousands of Xiliang iron cavalry rushed into the city and took the city defense. Immediately, before the subordinates under the jurisdiction of Anhan City packed up and tried to escape from the city, they intercepted all of them, so that all the soldiers and people in the city were blocked in the city, and none of them escaped.

An hour later, the city of Anhan, which had been ravaged by the war, finally quieted down, and there were teams of Xuanjia cavalry stationed at the head of the city, at the end of the alleys, and at the ruined city walls, surrounding the entire city with no dead ends, and not even a single mouse could escape.

In a short time, there was a thunderous rumble from the north of the city, and then the earth trembled, and the trees and flowers on the roadside were windless and automatic, and the roar came from far and near, gradually approaching the city, revealing its true face.

"Boom!"

As the distance shortened, the rumble grew louder. The scene presented in the field of vision is becoming more and more clean. But I saw that the crisp and mottled sound of horses' hooves filled my ears, and then there was a roar of "buzzing", which was deafening. When the people who have lived in this city for generations hear such a loud noise. I couldn't help but be frightened, shuddered, and held my breath and silenced, and I didn't dare to breathe.

In fact, the people are hiding in their homes at the moment, all the doors are closed, and even the cracks of the lattice windows and doors are blocked; Even so. It still can't block the thunderous rumbling horse stamping, and the sound of the horse's hooves mixed with the sound of "bang-la-la-la" ironclad shaking.

After a few moments, the rumbling died down. But the sound of the horses' hooves became clearer and louder. In the city gates and alleys that had just been cleared, I saw teams of ironclad warriors entering the city in a neat and orderly manner, with a column of four and a team of thousand. A steady stream of war horses entered the city. It stretches from the gate of the castle to the gate of the castle guard.

On this mile-long bluestone street, as far as the eye can see, all you see are the cold and shining soldiers, the flags fluttering in the wind, and the fierce cavalry with horses and teams, there are tens of thousands of people. Therefore, it took more than an hour for the cavalry alone to enter the city than it took to capture it. After the battle ride. Tens of thousands of foot troops entered the city, followed by extremely heavy siege engines and other heavy ordnance.

Wait until all the soldiers and horses have entered the city. The sky, which had been under the scorching sun, had gradually darkened, and night had quietly fallen.

?????? Anhan Fortress. After dark, the inside and outside of the mansion were brightly lit, and there were at least 50,000 soldiers and horses wearing battle armor everywhere.

On the school field in front of the mansion, more than 300 cauldrons were erected on the ground, and the slaughtered and washed cattle and sheep were directly thrown into the cauldrons, making the whole city waft with the mouth-watering smell of meat. At this point, the smell of meat replaced the lingering blood, so that many people in the city who had not eaten meat for many years smelled the fragrance and swallowed their saliva, quickly forgetting the bloody slaughter at noon, and then sniffing the fragrance that filled the wings of the nose and falling asleep.

In the main hall, a feast was being held at this time, and all the senior generals of the Eastern Route Army gathered together, staggered and drunk.

This was the first hot meal after they led the army into the rice cang road for 23 days, and it was also the first time to sit on the boundary of Yizhou to eat meat and drink a large bowl, which is very symbolic.

Prior to this, they led the army to march day and night, and for several days they slept in the open air, lived on cliffs, ate pickled vegetables and dry food, and drank spring water from deep mountains. The officers and men of the whole army, including the commander Zhou Yu and the general Li Xian, were all treated in this way, sharing weal and woe, without exception. This qiē was only because the army needed to hide its whereabouts, and it could not be discovered by the Yizhou army, let alone reveal the location of the army, so no fire could be lit during the march. If you can't make a fire, you naturally can't eat hot meals, so you can only drink cold water and eat dry food to satisfy your hunger, and you can survive for nearly 20 days.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off.

After a long journey of about ten days, the 60,000 horses of the East Route Army finally crossed Daba Mountain and Micang Mountain without danger, walked out of Micang Road, and officially entered the territory of Yizhou Ba County. This means that they have safely crossed the rice barn plank road, through the most difficult and dangerous part of the journey, laying a solid foundation for the next capture of Ba County, which can be said to be a crucial first step, but also a key step to success.

After entering the territory of Ba County, the whereabouts of the Eastern Route Army were still not exposed. So Zhou Yu and Li Xian discussed and decided to adopt a day and night marching method, taking advantage of the terrain of mountains and forests in Ba County to hide their whereabouts. If the cities encountered along the way can be detoured to the guò, avoid the head-to-head confrontation and detour to the guò; If it is not possible to make a detour, they will take advantage of the night to attack the city, quietly capture the city, and then speed up the march, and capture the next city with lightning speed before the whereabouts are revealed.

In this way, the army marched hundreds of miles in ten days, and continued to attack the city and pull out the fortress along the way, until the capture of Anhan City, and the army stopped for a short rest. After all, the long march of more than twenty days in a row had exhausted the bodies of the soldiers, and the entire army was exhausted and unable to fight again. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the soldiers can hold on for a few days, and even rush to the city of Jiangzhou, the capital of Ba County, they can grit their teeth and persevere, but the war horses can't hold on, after all, they are not as strong as human will.

Because of this, Zhou Yu and Li Xian discussed and decided that the army would rest in Anhan for three days, and then march westward to take Jiangzhou.

For the Eastern Route Army, it was crucial to quickly capture the city of Anhan, because Anhan was both a dangerous fortress to the north of Ba County and a gateway to Jiangzhou. As long as the city of Anhan is captured, it is equivalent to opening the northern gate of Jiangzhou, and it will not take much time to be able to attack the city of Jiangzhou. Once Jiangzhou is captured, the entire territory of Ba County can be quickly recovered, which means that the Eastern Route Army has a foothold in Yizhou, and then based on this, it will gradually encroach, and it can reach the city of Chengdu and capture Yizhou in a year and a half.

After the feast, the congregation will disperse one after another, and only a few people remain in the hall to discuss the next battle.

Zhou Yu, who was originally sitting in the upper echelon, was sitting at the bottom of the hall at the moment, sitting opposite Li Xian, and under the two of them sat Lu Meng, Hu Che'er, Zhang Fei and Zhang Wei. It is worth mentioning that since Zhang Fei was beaten by Zhou Yu, Li Xian often took Zhang Fei with him, as if he had become the captain of his personal soldiers; And the general who led the army to attack Anhan City this time was Zhang Fei.

It's just that Zhang Fei got into trouble again this time.

Although he led his army to capture Anhan City as fast as lightning and suffered few casualties of his own, he was too brutal and killed too much. In the process of leading his army to capture Anhan City, Anhan City, which originally had a population of 50,000 people, eventually had less than 20,000 people left. That is to say, most of the people and defenders of the city were almost slaughtered by him.

According to post-war statistics, in just half an hour, Zhang Fei led 5,000 iron cavalry and 300 personal soldiers under his tent to kill more than 30,000 people.

It is said that at that time, Zhang Fei was the first to rush into the city gate, and then led the army straight to the city guard mansion to rush away. After capturing the city and defending the palace, Zhang Fei brazenly ordered the slaughter of the city, regardless of men, women and children, killing people when they saw them, thanks to Li Xian leading the army to arrive in time and immediately stop it. Even so, more than half of the city's population was slaughtered, and only those who hid in their homes were spared.

It has to be mentioned that none of the soldiers of the defenders of Anhan City survived and were all killed; All the subordinates of the city sergeant clan and the county government and their families were all killed, including women, children, old and children, and none of them survived.

Afterwards, Li Xian ordered people to quickly clean up the corpses in the city, and be sure to clean up the corpses all over the city before Zhou Yu led the army, so as not to let Zhou Yu ask Zhang Fei again in anger after seeing the hellish Anhan City.

Even if Li Xian had remedied it in time, the slaughter of the city could not be concealed at all, and it was finally exposed. At the banquet that had just ended, some people still asked Zhang Fei in public why he ordered the massacre of the city. As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused an uproar, and then all the generals accused Zhang Fei one after another. However, Zhang Fei was very disdainful of everyone's criticism, and did not think that he was at fault, claiming that the reason why he did this was to prevent someone from escaping out of the city and revealing the whereabouts of the army.

Unfortunately, Zhang Fei's explanation is simply untenable and unconvincing. After all, the 60,000-strong army has been in Ba County for many days, and even if so many men and horses can temporarily hide their whereabouts, they will never be able to escape the enemy's scouts and eyes and ears at all, so the whereabouts of the Eastern Route Army have long been exposed.

Therefore, all the generals understand that Zhang Fei, who was born as a butcher, is violent, bloodthirsty and murderous. Coupled with the fact that he had been under house arrest for a long time before, he was extremely depressed, which made him more and more violent.

The deliberations after the feast were actually to deal with Zhang Fei.

Originally, Li Xian was worried that Zhou Yu would inevitably behead Zhang Fei in anger, but Zhou Yu did not delve into it, but said lightly: "Zhang Fei's order to slaughter the city is the first case in my Xiliang army, and the master of the army will record this matter, and then report it to the lord and ask the lord to decide." There is no need to discuss this matter until the order of the Lord Army arrives. ”

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