kvmb Chapter 342 The night rain pours down! The wind never stops!
Chapter 342 The night rain pours down! The wind never stops!
"kill!"
The eight hundred warriors roared in unison, their fighting spirit soaring to the heavens.
The warhorses neighed, and the iron cavalry suddenly turned around, heading straight for the relatively weak side gate.
Outside the city, there were three thousand Qin soldiers urgently ordered by the eldest son, Fusu, to provide support.
By this time, they had already formed a tight tortoise-shell shield formation, with long spears like a forest, completely surrounding Wu County.
"The rebels are charging! Hold your shields! Anyone who retreats even half a step will be executed!" A Qin general drew his bronze sword and roared hoarsely in the rain.
Before the words were even finished!
The heavy side door was smashed to pieces by the Jiangdong soldiers from the inside, and the broken pieces of wood crashed into the Qin army formation.
"Those who block my way shall die!"
With a roar, Xiang Yu spurred his horse, leaped out of the city gate, and charged headlong into the shield formation.
The battle was fierce!
Facing the Qin soldiers ahead, Xiang Yu swung his halberd with one hand and swept it out horizontally.
"boom!"
The seven or eight heavily armored Qin soldiers in the front row, along with their heavy shields, were sent flying by the impact, their bones shattered!
"Stab! Stab him to death!" The surrounding Qin soldiers were terrified, and more than a dozen long spears were thrust at Xiang Yu at the same time.
Xiang Yu neither dodged nor avoided, but sneered and suddenly spun around with his halberd in one hand.
With a few loud "crackling" sounds, all the halberd handles were severed, and wood chips flew everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, the halberd slashed down, cleaving a Qin soldier in two, helmet and armor intact!
He charged through the enemy ranks like a tiger among sheep.
Screams of agony rose and fell!
"Is...is this even human?"
"Monster! He's a monster!"
This extremely shocking scene left all the Qin soldiers around them completely stunned.
Even the usually well-trained Qin soldiers now had fear in their eyes.
The attack stalled, and the once-solid formation crumbled.
"Charge with me!"
Xiang Yu roared again, his halberd flashing as he charged ahead, leading eight hundred Jiangdong men and breaking through the encirclement of three thousand men.
The top floor of Ji Honglou.
The night breeze blew in through the open window.
Yu Miaoyan stood frozen by the window, clutching the binoculars in her hands, completely dumbfounded.
Through the lens, she could clearly see the scene outside the city.
The heavy shields were smashed to pieces, and the Qin warriors were cleaved in two...
This purely violent visual impact shattered her pride and composure.
"Is...is this even human?"
Yu Miaoyan's red lips parted slightly, her voice trembled, and even her eyes revealed deep horror.
Only at this moment did she finally understand why Zhang Fan, who was always so shrewd and resourceful, had been so anxious and had ordered a complete retreat without even considering a fight.
Faced with such an unreasonable monster, let alone the Black Ice Guard's assassins who are skilled in killing, even if their numbers were doubled, they would absolutely not be able to stop the enemy's charge in the narrow streets.
"Gulp."
Yu Miaoyan swallowed hard, feeling her back completely soaked in cold sweat, and felt a chill run down her spine as the night wind blew.
He glanced at Zhang Fan beside him, still shaken, then at the figure that had disappeared into the rainy night, and muttered to himself:
"Thank goodness... thank goodness I listened to the magistrate's orders and didn't hold out in the yamen."
"Otherwise, with our limited manpower, if we were to actually stand in front of this monster, we'd probably be chopped into dust, just like the adults always say..."
Zhang Fan, standing to the side, twitched his lips uncontrollably.
The historical records are actually not exaggerated!
Even three thousand regular troops couldn't stop them?
They actually let him escape!
He immediately took out his phone and quickly sent the news of Xiang Yu's breakout to Commander Zhu Feng.
There was a long silence on the other end of the screen, before finally replying with only an ellipsis: "..."
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Feng sent another message offering advice:
"Comrade Zhang Fan, based on the advice of strategic experts, the Xiang clan will surely hold a grudge against us for this failed encirclement and suppression campaign. Therefore, you must not personally appear to investigate the matter of fraud tomorrow, otherwise you will incur hatred and become the target of everyone's hatred."
"Secondly, the Xiang family most likely mistakenly believes that someone else is behind this. Let Ji Dan pretend you're still in the Xiang family; he might even become a rotten apple in their eyes, spoiling the whole bunch!"
"Therefore, the person to be investigated tomorrow must be someone else."
After reading the expert's analysis, Zhang Fan immediately understood.
But who should be chosen?
Thinking about this!
Zhang Fan turned his head, his gaze drifting slowly to the side.
At this moment, Yu Miaoyan was holding up binoculars, looking around with great curiosity.
As if sensing something amiss, Yu Miaoyan suddenly looked at him, a sense of foreboding washing over her. She instinctively took a half-step back, clutching her chest warily, and asked, "What do you want?"
Zhang Fan's lips curled into a smile, and he said decisively, "Not now! We have big things to do tomorrow!"
Yu Miaoyan: ?
……
Meanwhile, in the mountains and forests west of Wu County.
The night rain was pouring down.
The eldest son, Fusu, was leading seven thousand Qin soldiers, swiftly traversing the muddy mountain paths to intercept the remaining members of the Xiang clan who were trying to escape.
Prior to this, the Black Ice Guard's assassins had already secretly left marks along the way.
The army did not need to search blindly; they could simply follow the hidden marks on the tree trunks and rocks to reach the hiding place of the Xiang clan.
On the rugged mountain road a few miles ahead.
Wearing a straw raincoat, Xiang Liang rode on horseback, anxiously urging the core members of the Xiang clan and the supply train to quicken their pace.
The roads were slippery due to the rain, and the team had great difficulty moving forward in the mud.
"Hurry! Hurry up! We'll be safe once we're hidden deep in the mountain camp!" Xiang Liang frowned, a persistent sense of foreboding creeping into his heart.
Everything that happened tonight is too eerie.
Just then, a scream came from behind!
Immediately afterwards, several scouts scrambled up the mountain path, collapsing in terror before Xiang Liang's horse.
"Master! Something terrible has happened!"
"The Qin army... a large number of Qin soldiers are catching up! Torches are everywhere on the hillsides, and they've already caught up with our rear guard!"
"What?"
Xiang Liang was shocked and turned around abruptly.
Through the heavy rain and sparse trees, a black array could be seen rapidly approaching on the mountain road behind them!
At a glance, this pursuing force numbered at least several thousand!
"That's impossible!"
Xiang Liang's pupils suddenly contracted, and his mind went blank for a moment.
The Xiang family has been operating in Jiangdong for many years, and the entire Kuaiji County has long been infiltrated by them, with Xiang family spies everywhere.
How could such a large-scale troop movement have gone unnoticed?
Even if the prefect Fang Zhenge were to betray the regime, if the generals under him received the order to mobilize troops, some of them would surely have secretly informed the Xiang family!
Xiang Liang stared intently at the Qin army approaching from behind, his face turning deathly pale in an instant.
"unless……"
"Unless... these soldiers weren't actually transferred from Kuaiji Commandery at all!"