Seeing the county soldiers chasing them out of the city, the Han army ran faster, covering more than two miles in one breath. However, the distance between the two sides did not become farther, but instead became closer and closer.
Liu Ji, who was originally running at the front, suddenly slowed down and gradually fell to the end alone.
Suddenly, Liu Ji turned around and stood still. Facing the wolf-like pursuers from behind, he casually shook the thrusting crescent halberd in his hand.
The halberd is a combination of a spear and a spear. The front end is a spearhead, and both sides are either crescent-shaped sharp blades or spikes. Through this distinction, halberds are roughly divided into two types, one is the crescent halberd and the other is the thrust halberd.
The halberd used by Liu Ji was very strange. The sides were not symmetrical. One side had a crescent moon and the other side had a thrust. Therefore, the halberd he used was called the thrust crescent halberd.
Several of the fastest county soldiers rushed to him first and stabbed him with their spears. Liu Ji shouted loudly and waved his halberd to block. Hearing three consecutive crisp sounds of "dang, dang, dang", the three spears hit him in unison.
Qi Xian flew out.
The three county soldiers didn't even realize what was going on. Liu Jilun's halberd swept back again. Poof! The three county soldiers were swept away by the crescent moon on the crescent halberd. All three living people were blocked.
Cut off.
Liu Ji didn't pause for a moment. He held a halberd in one hand and stabbed forward. Poof, the fourth county soldier who was catching up was pierced through the chest by his halberd. Liu Ji kicked the ground with both feet, holding the halberd in both hands, and pushed the county soldier.
Soldiers, causing him to retreat continuously, until he crashed into the crowd behind him.
With a loud shout, he tilted his halberd horizontally, and the body hanging on the tip of the halberd flew sideways, knocking several county soldiers to the ground.
Liu Ji brandished a thrusting crescent halberd and charged into the county soldiers. It was as if he was entering a deserted area. He really killed people who stood in his way, and killed Buddhas who stood in his way.
In the blink of an eye, the county soldiers surrounded Liu Ji. However, although these thousands of county soldiers surrounded Liu Ji three levels inside and three outside, no one could get close to him.
The halberd swept past, and the rushing county soldiers fell to the ground not one by one, but in rows. The halberd dripping with blood was really like a sickle in the hand of the God of Death, harvesting all living creatures around it.
I saw streams of blood spraying out from among the crowd and flying into the air from time to time.
The more than two hundred Han troops who were originally frightened by the county soldiers and fled gradually stopped running. People stopped one after another and stared at the battle group behind them with dumbfounded eyes.
Of course they couldn't see Liu Ji, they could only see the county soldiers returning to the sea of people.
However, they could hear the heart-rending screams from the crowd, and could see streams of blood splattering on people's heads. Even if they couldn't see clearly what was going on inside the crowd, they could still tell how brutal the battle was.
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Taking this opportunity, Zhu You shouted loudly: "Liu Ji is so brave that no one can defeat him. Brothers, follow me and fight back!"
"Kill -" Liu Ji alone dared to stay behind and stop thousands of enemy troops. With such a leader, what did he have to fear?
The soldiers of the Han army responded to the call, and the people shouted and came back with spears in hand.
The Han army's carbine attack really stunned the Xiangxiang County soldiers. Liu Ji killed him inside the crowd, while more than two hundred Han soldiers killed outside the crowd. Thousands of county soldiers only blinked.
A big piece fell down in a short time.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Xiangxiang County Magistrate turned his horse's head and ran towards the city without even saying hello.
When the county captain who commanded the battle saw this, he cursed secretly in his heart. He had no intention of fighting, and shouted loudly to the soldiers around him: "Retreat! Retreat to the city immediately!"
It would have been better if he didn't shout. Liu Ji, who was fighting in the crowd, couldn't see him yet. He stretched his neck and shouted, and Liu Ji looked for his voice and saw the Xiangxiang county captain riding a horse, who was very eye-catching.
Without saying a word, he held the halberd in one hand and threw the flying halberd with all his strength.
The halberd whizzed past people's heads, as if it had eyes, and hit the county captain's chest impartially.
Poof! The sharp point of the halberd came out from the county captain's back. Due to its impact, the county captain flew out from his horse and landed on the ground one meter away. He died on the spot.
This situation shocked all the county soldiers present. Some county soldiers saw that Liu Ji had no weapons and thought that their opportunity had come, so they rushed towards him one after another.
Liu Ji let go of the oncoming spear, reached forward with his arm, grabbed the opponent's arm, and then with a round of his arms, he violently threw the county soldier up.
The muffled sound of bang bang bang was heard endlessly, and the county soldiers who rushed up were smashed to the ground by the large living people in Liu Ji's hands.
In an instant, the county soldier in his hand could no longer be seen as a human being. He was just a ball of bloody flesh. Around Liu Ji, a large circle of county soldiers with broken bones and tendons lay down, and people groaned on the ground.
Struggling, wailing, and struggling.
Liu Ji, whose head and body were covered with blood and his eyes were red, looked like a ghost crawling out of the underworld. When the nearby county soldiers saw this, they were all frightened and their legs and knees were spinning.
People no longer dared to come forward and ran away screaming.
Liu Ji threw the 'meat ball' in his hand to the side, spat, threw his legs, and ran forward. Liu Ji wanted to find his weapon, but the county soldiers who were escaping in front were too slow and blocked him.
On his way. Liu Ji raised his fists and punched them forward. Two bang bang sounds were heard. His fists hit the helmets of two county soldiers. The iron helmets were smashed hard by his fists.
Big pit.
Poor these two county soldiers, they both fell to the ground and could not get up again. Blood mixed with brain matter flowed out from the gaps in their helmets.
Liu Ji ran to the halberd he had thrown. There were two county soldiers pulling out his thrusting crescent halberd. He didn't know whether his halberd was too heavy or whether it was inserted too tightly into the county captain's body. The two of them worked together.
They couldn't pull out the halberd.
He ran forward, kicked each of the two county soldiers, and kicked them far away like a ball. Liu Ji stepped on the corpse of the county captain with one foot, grabbed the halberd with one hand, and pulled it out with all his strength.
, with a pop, the halberd was lifted with one hand.
He looked around, and everywhere he looked, there were county soldiers fleeing. At the same time, his brothers also came up from behind and killed them.
Liu Ji threw his head back and laughed, waved his halberd forward, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me into the city!"
"kill--"
More than two hundred people led by Liu Ji, carrying the county soldiers, rushed directly into Xiangxiang City. The Xiangxiang County magistrate who fled back to the city first did not want to close the city gate, but could not close the city gate at all.
The county soldiers who had fled back were like a flood, crowding the city gate and squeezing in desperately. How could the city gate be closed under such circumstances?
Liu Ji rushed into the city and chopped down the surrounding county soldiers with all his strength. The county magistrate standing on the city wall pointed at Liu Ji, who was the first to enter the city, and shouted desperately: "Kill him! Kill him quickly!"
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The county magistrate also made the same mistake as the county lieutenant, that is, he successfully attracted Liu Ji's attention. Liu Ji, who was in the mood to kill, looked up and saw the county magistrate holding an arrow butt with his hands, leaning his head and shouting down.
make.
He opened his mouth, revealing two rows of white teeth, smiled, dragged the thrusting crescent halberd, and began to charge towards the city wall.
There were many county soldiers blocking him, but in front of Liu Ji's halberd, they all looked like grass and were cut down to the ground row by row.
Liu Ji fought from the bottom of the city wall to the top of the city. Wherever he passed, it was difficult to find a complete corpse. Either the head was missing, or it was cut off at the waist. The corpses were all mutilated.
piece.
After successfully ascending to the top of the city, Liu Ji went straight to the county magistrate without looking for anyone else. Looking at Liu Ji coming straight towards him, the magistrate's spine felt cold, he screamed in fear, and turned around to run away.
But how could a county magistrate who was a civil servant be faster than Liu Ji?
The latter took three steps into two steps, chased behind the county magistrate, and kicked him on the lower back. The county magistrate screamed and fell forward, his face covered with blood.
His head was wailing on the ground.
Several government officials who were relatively loyal to the county magistrate boldly stepped forward to try to stop Liu Ji.
The latter sneered and stabbed out a halberd, first piercing the chest of a government servant, and then stabbed into the chest of a government servant behind him without losing force.
Liu Ji shouted loudly and pushed forward with his halberd. The two government officials were pushed out of the arrow stack and fell from the top of the city.
A government officer rushed up from the other side of him and slashed his neck with a sword. Liu Ji did not retreat but advanced. He first raised his hand to block his sword-holding arm, then raised his knees and placed them hard on the opponent's lower body.
The yamen servant screamed and fell to the ground, his body bent into a ball. Liu Ji poked his halberd to the side, picked up the yamen servant's sword, raised the sword and dropped it, stabbing the man to the core.
He held the sword, walked up to the magistrate, looked down at him, reached down with his big hand, grabbed the magistrate's hair, and lifted him from the ground.
He looked into the frightened eyes of the county magistrate and said in a solemn voice: "Remember clearly, my name is Liu Ji. Go report to the King of Hell. Don't give me the wrong name!"
As he spoke, he waved his sword-holding hand outwards, and with a click, the sword edge cut off the county magistrate's neck.
The headless corpse fell to the ground, and the severed head with the hair attached was still tightly held in Liu Ji's hands.
He didn't know the specific official position of the deceased, but judging from his clothes, he should be a high official.
He smoothed out the severed hair and tied it directly around his waist. Who would have thought that the head of the dignified Xiangxiang County Magistrate would become a trophy hanging on Liu Ji's waist.
Liu Ji threw away the officer's sword, picked up his thrusting crescent halberd again, and walked toward the city wall in a swaggering manner.
The county soldiers and government officials in Xiangxiang were really frightened by Liu Ji, especially when they saw the county magistrate's head hanging around his waist, they were so frightened that they fled away.
Liu Ji refused to give up. He led his Han troops and rushed into the city, continuing to hunt down the fleeing county soldiers and government officials. The huge Xiangxiang City was in a state of chaos, with people fighting everywhere.
In this battle, the Han army led by Liu Ji achieved a complete victory. Not only did they kill the county magistrate and county captain of Xiangxiang, but they also almost wiped out all the county soldiers and government officials below.
On the other hand, the Han army's own casualties totaled only about a hundred people.
Therefore, many people later believed that Xiangxiang City was captured by Liu Ji alone.
It was through the Battle of Xiangxiang that Liu Ji became famous in the first battle. From then on, people knew that there was a general in Zhutiandu who was brave enough to defeat the three armies. People also remembered his name firmly. Liu Ji