eurekapd Chapter 369: Attack and Kill the Goose
Chapter 369: Attack and Kill the Goose
When the two armies joined forces, Babutai pretended to respect Li Jihuan on the surface.
"I greet General Li!"
"No need to be so polite! Babutai, please tell this general about the situation in Jingchu!"
Li Jihuan really got into the role, really thinking of himself as a "young and promising" general? Any general with a little experience would not have said such arrogant words to the barbarian commander in such a situation.
This is just like when the Japanese invaded the village. As a second-in-command, no matter how high your rank was, if you saw a small soldier, you had to call him "Taijun"!
But obviously...
Li Jihuan didn't think so! His own family, the Li family, was originally the most powerful noble family in the Great Qi Dynasty.
His father was the general of the Great Qi, and his elder brother was the son-in-law of the Great Qi and the only king of a different surname. Of course, he had the capital to be proud.
Secondly! Who the hell is Babutai?
Li Jize's defeated general, a long-distance running general, he looked down upon such people even more.
Babutai was not angry either. He had a "secret decree" and if Li Jihuan did anything rebellious, he could kill him.
So when facing the arrogant Li Jihuan, he wrote down all the information he had prepared long ago, including the leaders of each rebel army, their respective territories, and their strengths, and handed it to Li Jihuan.
Li Jihuan was a little surprised!
It turns out that Babutai had not taken any action, nor was he just sitting there watching the show. He had been collecting intelligence!
Looking at the portraits of the leaders one by one, until a woman with a yin-yang face appeared, Li Jihuan gasped when he saw her.
"how come……"
Ok?
Seeing Li Jihuan's surprised expression, Babutai was stunned for a moment, and then asked in confusion: "What's the matter? General, is there anything you don't understand?"
"Who... who is this woman?"
"She is the mastermind of this rebellion, the Half-Faced Bodhisattva! She is also the leader of this rebel army."
Li Jihuan was so shocked when he heard this!
What the hell? Why is his sister-in-law Wang Yuanya here, and is she the leader of this uprising?
do not know either……
Does Babutai know this information?
Of course, in this era where women are inferior to men, people don’t pay attention to women in the first place, so who would care about who Li Jize’s ex-wife is?
A sister-in-law is a sister-in-law! She’s a former sister-in-law.
Not to mention Wang Yuanya, even if Li Jize was on the opposite side, Li Jihuan would definitely not show any mercy if he faced him now.
"General, what should we do now? Please give us your instructions!"
Babutai didn't know how to fight, or even if he knew, he wouldn't express his thoughts.
On the contrary...
He wanted to test Li Jihuan to see how much this young general, whom the Regent valued, compared to his brother.
But next, Li Jihuan’s choice was to draw lots!
He took the portrait and threw it into the sky. When everyone was puzzled...
He drew the sword from his waist and stabbed it forward, piercing through a piece of paper. Then he ordered, "Attack this man!"
Ugh! You are so awesome!
Whoever is attacked first is actually determined in this way. Whoever is poked first will be the winner.
In this chaotic uprising, the leaders of the peasant army were very interesting. Their names were such as Green-backed Wolf, Pangolin, Second General, Mountain Tiger, Starry Sky, Slashed Goose, Half-faced Bodhisattva and so on.
Anyway, no one knows their real names, only a nickname. After all, it's a rebellion! Who would be stupid enough to use their real names?
What if you win the fight, and the imperial court can't do anything to you, and knowingly digs up your ancestral graves and kills all nine generations of your family?
What bad luck! The guy Li Jihuan chose was called Zhan Man E.
We don't know why he chose this strange name. Maybe he was a goose farmer before the uprising. In order to win over his brothers to rebel, he killed all his geese and gave them to his brothers to eat.
Anyway...
Zhan Man'e was so confused that he met Li Jihuan. Especially since the other party had just arrived in Jingchu, he started fighting without even taking a breath.
When I heard the banner that the other side was waving, I wondered whose it was?
What? Li Jize's younger brother, Li Jihuan!
Holy shit! How do I fight this?
It's not Li Jihuan who is scary, it's his brother who is scary.
A man who could lead 3,000 cavalrymen to stab the anus of the barbarian's 100,000 main army, and a man who was driven overseas by the empress but was able to lead his troops back and seize Qingzhou from the barbarians.
How to fight this?
Fortunately, Zhan Man'e's subordinates persuaded him that Li Jize is Li Jize and Li Jihuan is Li Jihuan.
How could we be afraid of Li Jize and not Li Jihuan? Besides, his elder brother was a hero, carrying the national flag. But this Li Jihuan was a traitor! He was a national sinner and a lackey of the barbarians.
As a Qi people, especially in this first battle between the rebel army and the barbarians, we must show our prowess.
After being persuaded like this, Zhan Man'e had no choice but to order everyone to defend the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, he sent people to quickly ask for help from the alliance leader Wang Yuanya.
Since everyone recognizes you as the boss, you can't just ignore it when something happens and someone gets beaten up.
The appearance of that bastard Li Jize brought firearms and cannons.
The advent of cannons changed the rules of war! Sometimes city walls are no longer indestructible.
No matter how powerful your gate is, it will be smashed to pieces after a few shots.
How to deal with the siege of artillery?
Block the city gate!
Just block the city gate, you can’t come in and I can’t go out.
Of course, this is not a panacea. It means that the enemy will have a hard time taking the city, and you will also cut off your own escape route!
Once the enemy breaks into the city, there is no doubt that they will massacre the entire city.
But he had already risked his life to kill the whole goose. If he didn't defend the city this time, it would be a disgrace to his fellow rebels! Everyone was watching his first battle. Whether he could leave his name in history depended on this one.
Li Jihuan didn't say anything more. He would attack the city whether the door was blocked or not, and he would massacre the city whether the door was blocked or not!
Yes! When Li Jihuan came here, he had already decided that the first battle must be won! And after the first battle, no one should be spared, everyone should be slaughtered.
The reason for doing this was, on the one hand, to prepare for the subsequent war and let other rebel leaders know that if they did not surrender and were defeated by him, Li Jihuan, they would be dead!
On the other hand, he also did it for the barbarians to see, to show his loyalty!
Let these people know that once they dare to resist the barbarian master, once they dare to rebel, once...
When Li Jihuan goes to war, not a single blade of grass will grow!
His father and brothers already had their own reputations. If Li Jihuan wanted to overtake them, he had to use his notoriety to scare them.