Chapter 72 Arrival
The distance of ten miles is not far. After cleaning the battlefield, the convoy entered a small road.
Not long after, black smoke appeared in everyone's sight, almost covering the road ahead.
When the convoy approached, it was discovered that it was a burning village. Guojiazhuang looked quite large, with only two or three hundred families.
There are high walls and village gates built outside the village, so they should have certain defense capabilities. Did the Tatars really have the ability to break through such villages?
When I approached Li Fan, I saw that the outer wall of the village had collapsed. Not far away, there was a thousand-pound copper cannon.
What's the situation? The Tatars also used artillery? They also rushed thousands of miles with artillery to attack Zhuangzi inside the Ming Dynasty?
Li Fan felt like he was seeing a ghost. The Qing Dynasty who invaded the Ming Dynasty with artillery was the Qing Dynasty. Why did it start decades in advance?
Did the Tatars master the art of casting cannons and have started to use thermal weapons?
Just as Li Fan was confused, a figure flashed across the gap in the wall.
Hum? Someone?
Seeing that he brought people to him, he did not go forward immediately and fled instead. He must be an enemy but not a friend!
"Catch them!" Li Fan pointed to the gap with his hand, and Hou Liang rushed out first. The other cavalry were unwilling to fall behind and rushed towards the gap in the wall.
Not long after Hou Liang rushed into the gap, screams and begging for mercy came from inside. The sound should not be alone.
Not long after, Hou Liang took several people out of the gap. On the horse, Hou Liang kept whipping the slow-moving people with the back of the knife in his hand. The group of people screamed in pain, but did not dare to resist.
Hou Liang rode his horse over a few people, clasped his fists and said, "Sir! These beasts are all Han people, and they are harming the people in the village!"
When Li Fan heard that someone was harming his own people, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
"Great mercy! It's all done by the Tatars. If the villain doesn't fire, the Tatars will kill people..."
Hou Liang said contemptuously, "Even if the Tatars force you to fire and break through the village, the women in the house will be forced to kill you?
How can you do pregnant women in Rocca? You are not worthy of being a wise man at all!”
"Ah...!" Several people were stunned for a moment, and then cried and said, "It was done by the Tatars left behind. The little people have killed the Tatars. Please beg for mercy by the Lord!"
Li Fan's face was gloomy and terrible. He glanced at several people coldly, jumped off the chariot and walked towards Guojiabao.
Before he got closer, a scent of meat was coming to his nose, mixed with bloody smell. Li Fan suddenly felt a churning in his stomach, and his face turned pale a little.
After suppressing the discomfort in his heart, Li Fan walked into Guojiazhuang. There were corpses everywhere, both men, women, young and old, lying in a pool of blood.
Several people were obviously cut in half, and their bodies crawled out of the old blood stains before they died. There was also a woman lying on the ground with red fruits all over her body, her godless eyes wide open, as if she was accusing the Tatars of their atrocities.
Not far away at the door of the house, a Tatar man fell outside the door with a steel knife inserted into his chest. The blood flowing proved that the man had just died not long ago.
Li Fan walked towards the room and retreated as soon as he walked in. The few people following him also walked in, but the speed of coming out was faster than Li Fan.
Sande couldn't help it first and vomited out "Wow!" with him, he took the lead, and even a few people who forced themselves to hold back their nausea could not hold on.
Li Fan also retching a few times before calming down the tumbling in his stomach. When he turned his head to look at the gunners who were being escorted, his eyes were full of murderous intent.
"Come on! Tie them and leave them to the group of women for disposal!"
Several gunners immediately struggled violently when they heard Li Fan's order. What they had done was the most clear in their hearts, and they didn't have to think about the consequences of the group of women.
But their struggle was useless. The "traitor" was even more hated than the alien race. A postman stepped forward and waved the back of the knife to hit their limbs. After a few strokes, the gunners were left with wailing and twisting constantly underground.
The women who were already filled with hatred pounced on the people, buckled with their fingers, bite them with their teeth, and wanted to smash them. Soon the gunners disappeared and became piles of unrecognizable rotten meat.
Walking out of Guojiazhuang, Li Fan looked at the Tatars who were taken into custody by the postmen, and said word by word: "Come here! Execute them on the spot to pay tribute to the spirit of the elders of Guojiazhuang in heaven!"
"Li Fan! It's too cheap for them to be executed on the spot. Let's turn their heads into Jingguan and always atone for the people of Guojiazhuang!" Sande's words were beyond Li Fan's expectations, and he turned his head and looked at the other party in confusion.
Sande slapped his chest and said, "The family is also a wise man! When dealing with Tatar beasts, the family can't help much, but the family has taken the responsibility of killing prisoners.
Anyway, the zodiac family is not afraid of losing their reputation. If you can make such anger, what's the point of being scolded by someone!"
The performance of Sande made Li Fan stunned, then smiled and said, "Sande! I didn't see that you are really a bit bloody!
It just so happens that my reputation is not very good? How can you get the first to avenge the people of Guojiazhuang?"
As the two said, they had decided on the life and death of more than a thousand Tatar prisoners. When every hundred of them were taken to Guojiazhuang, it was too late to resist.
The brighter the steel knife passed by, dyeing the ground in front of Guojiazhuang red. The headless body was thrown into the farm and became the fuel for the raging fire.
Under the reflection of the fire, the killing lasted until dark. In addition to the Tatar heads beheaded by the tiger's mouth, a Jingguan piled with more than 3,000 heads outside the Guojiazhuang, and the smell of blood could be asked for many miles.
Li Fan had no choice but to let the convoy pass the tiger's mouth overnight before camping for rest. However, no one in Guojiazhuang dared to approach. In the future, several brave people passed by were scared and mentally ill.
They swore that they would hear wailing sounds every night. Gradually, the legend of unjust souls was circulated in Guojiazhuang, and no one dared to enter Guojiazhuang again.
The cool breeze in the morning made people tremble, and it was hot at noon, as if it had entered the summer sky. This is the northwest Ningxia.
When Li Fan led his men to the camp, it was already the end of March. In less than two days, the date would be missed. Fortunately, after passing the tiger's mouth, the horse was flat, and the convoy's speed increased a lot, and finally arrived at the camp before the date.
Before they could approach the camp, several groups of racquets came to investigate. After learning that it was a convoy transporting military funds, Gu Du smiled.
After the army of various routes entered Ningxia, the convoys transporting food and grass in the rear were often robbed by the Tatars.
For this, the camp could only send more people to escort, and even so, the food and grass were often burned by the Tatars.
This was the first time, if there was no escort from a large army, I transported the food and supplies to the convoy of Daying and immediately returned to the Daying to report.
Before the postmen could approach the camp, a cavalry of thousands of people came up.
Chapter completed!