Chapter 420: Meng Yu
Lin'an City, Dayin Palace.
The news that Meng Yu, the capital of the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry, is about to marry Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has already spread wildly throughout the Yin Kingdom, and has become a beautiful talk of heroes and beauties in people's hearts.
It is this man who makes the entire Northern Regions and even the world feel the horror of the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry, Meng Yu, as a closed disciple of the former famous general Hua Ming Pavilion, followed him into the military camp when he was young, and now he is retired can be regarded as not burying the prestige of the teacher, Meng Yu, who has accumulated great military exploits in Yan Mang and Shuyue, will never lose to any of the former famous generals, and it is commendable that Meng Yu never intersects with the powerful in the DPRK and China, and would rather drink the spiciest liquor with his soldiers, listening to them boast about the short stories of those parents.
This little handyman who died in his childhood and specially fed his old man's horses has now become a famous general in the country, which is really incomprehensible to many people.
Meng Yu's background is the worst of the four famous generals, his parents are slaves who help work in the master's house, his father likes to drink, every time he gets drunk, he will beat his mother or beat him as a son, relying on the rich merchant to give a little silver every month to live, the family is always hungry for two or three days when the end of the month is approaching.
From the beginning of Meng Yu's memory, his father was always filled with a smell of two pennies and three catties of sweet potato burning, because he was scolded by the steward for doing something wrong, and he beat Meng Yu when he went home with a stomach full of anger, or he wanted his mother to be a prostitute to subsidize the family, and finally the two of them were wantonly insulted and then fell asleep, and the next day he drank a big pot of porridge that his mother had boiled early and drank almost to the bottom, and went out to help the master work with a flattering smile, and continued to come back with a stomach at night to beat them and his mother.
The children who grew up in such an environment full of alcohol and violence, there are a few who are not silent but yearn for freedom, many things in the past Meng Yu have forgotten now, the only thing I remember is the picture of my mother helping my father to medicine after he fell asleep, lighting a small yellow candle lamp, the scar on her face is as deep as a scar, which has been engraved in his heart.
The result of being beaten by his father for a long time was that he seemed to be less sensitive to pain, and gradually his skin became thicker, although the Mengyu family was the lowest status servant in the house, but outside the house, he was the child king in the hearts of many children, and the children always liked to hold wooden swords and sticks to think of themselves as soldiers, wielding their weapons and fighting each other by the river. Meng Yu always knocked them all to the ground, and in his childhood, he showed the courage to fight thousands of troops with the strength of one person.
It wasn't until he looked at the orderly ironclad cavalry in the streets that he knew that they were all soldiers who had been on the battlefield, and their weapons were made of steel, and stabbing people in their bodies could kill people, not leave them bruised.
When Meng Yu looked at the weapons on their bodies, he had the idea of becoming a soldier in the future, and he never told anyone about this idea, and planned to escape from this purgatory home when he was twelve years old and go directly to join the army.
By the time he actually touched a weapon made of steel, he was much earlier than twelve.
Later, my father stole the old man's silver to buy wine, but when he was discovered, the servants in the house were beaten half to death, and the mother ran to intercede with the old man after learning about it, and the fat old man asked his men to beat the two of them together until his father died, and even his mother was beaten to death.
When Meng Yu saw his father's corpse, it was already cold, covered with a layer of straw mats, perhaps the rich businessman who accidentally killed his parents was a little unhappy, so he gave some silver Meng Yu to bury his father, and this incident should not have happened.
But his mother was still alive, lying in bed completely paralyzed and unable to move, until she gradually became skinny and ugly like the living dead, but Meng Yu was unwilling to give up his mother.
Every day, when Meng Yu came back from the house to fetch water, he would skillfully come to the stove to burn wood and cook rice, and then use clay pots to cook medicine, spoonful after spoonful to feed his mother.
Until one day, his mother stretched out her hand to him tremblingly, Meng Yu quickly touched his mother's forehead, and then held her hand.
She kept saying sorry to Meng Yu I'm sorry I'm sorry, my mother has never been sorry for anyone in her life, but I'm sorry for you, the reason why my mother can persist to this day is because of you, but my mother looks at you and feels very tired, tired and tired, I want to die......
Even if his father beat his flesh apart, Meng Yu, who had never shed a single tear, looked at his mother, who was tortured in pain, and finally threw himself on her and cried.
Meng Yu's mother smiled weakly and said, Mother really hopes to see you riding a big horse in armor one day, I really hope that my Meng Yu will be one day
The day can be surrounded by thousands of flags to become a real hero, I really hope you can marry a better woman than your mother...... And so the frail woman closed her eyes.
Meng Yu buried her mother under a peach tree, not by his father's side, because his mother liked the sight of peach blossoms blooming the most, and he wanted her to see them.
From this day on, Meng Yu lost his mother.
It's just that it's closer to the goal of the general.
One day when the first snow fell, someone in the house saw Meng Yu disappear for a whole day, and stepped into the stable with a bucket of things, at that time the man thought it was water to feed the horses, but in fact Meng Yu used the silver taels stained with his parents' blood to secretly go to the house to buy a bucket of stone candle water, and now the entire stable has been lit.
Meng Yu indifferently watched the burning galloping horses roar and crashed into the steward, the whole mansion was ignited by the flames on these galloping horses, those wives and concubines who were arrogant in the past, crying and screaming, escaped with a cry, and when the old man who went out rushed back, the mansion had turned into a high-burning torch.
Meng Yu burned the cage that had imprisoned him throughout his childhood, and flew out of the burning cage like a lonely blackbird flapping its wings, leaving the ruins far behind.
Blackbirds fly all the time...... Fly all the time...... Until he could no longer walk.
Meng Yu didn't know how far he had traveled or how many cities he had walked, but he knew that he might freeze to death or starve to death.
He was lying in the middle of the snow, surrounded by freshly dressed angry horses, foxes, and stunners, and no one cared about a child lying in the snow who was about to freeze to death.
Except for the man named Hua Mingge, Meng Yu felt something against his chest, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the man riding a tall black horse, poking his chest with a scabbard, and the corners of his mouth slowly pulled out a trace of arc.
Then he saw two big letters on the gate, and finally knew where he was.
Lin'an.
The capital of the Dayin Dynasty.
Hua Mingge picked him up in the snow and took him home, intending to raise him as a righteous son, which was also a blessing in misfortune for Meng Yu.
Meng Yu, who had recovered, cautiously asked why the man was taking him home, and Hua Mingge thought for a moment and gave him a strange answer, saying that when he looked at Meng Yu's eyes, he always felt like looking in a mirror.
Later, he learned that this man was the general of Yinguo, the general of Zheng Erpin, and Meng Yu didn't know how big an official Zheng Erpin was, but the man who picked him up when he was surprised was actually a general
After Meng Yu experienced so much suffering and was picked up by the general of Yinguo, he became more and more determined that he would become a famous general in the future.
He burned down his master's mansion and fled from Jiangyue to Lin'an City in one breath, and after being picked up by Hua Mingge for a period of time, he was often awakened when he slept at night, and the cold sweat all over his body couldn't stop flowing to the bed, and he vowed to get ahead in the future and return home with the army.
In the days of the general's mansion, he desperately practiced swordsmanship, a person before sunrise with a knife to chop the thick wooden pillars on the house, whenever he split ten wooden pillars in a row, there will always be a girl wearing a light veil with black eyes jumping in front of him and scolding him for being a nervous disorder, and let people not sleep early in the morning!
Meng Yu put down the knife and greeted the flower lady with a good morning, and then continued to practice the knife, and the girl who was ignored kicked him fiercely, and after finding that it was himself who was in pain, he went back to the room and continued to sleep angrily, no longer paying attention to the wild cow that was picked up by her father.
Meng Yu kept chopping the stake until Hua Youyue, the second daughter of Hua Ming Pavilion, came to bring him breakfast, and he preferred to stay with this little girl who would call him Brother Yu more than the high-spirited Miss Hua who played the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting all day long.
However, Hua Youyue sometimes secretly took away his war knife to make it easier to find, but at least she looked at herself as a person, unlike that Miss Hua or other people in the house, who wanted to point her nose to the sky when she looked at him, and her tone was so aggressive.
But Meng Yu didn't think that anyone in the house would bully him, but he liked these people very much, especially his stepmother, the young woman who always looked at him with love in her eyes, always made his eyes red and remembered his mother.
Meng Yu became more and more diligent in practicing martial arts, and after getting Hua Mingge's patient guidance, his martial arts rose by leaps and bounds, so that when Hua Mingge saw himself cut the wooden stake with a knife, he couldn't help but praise again and again, and when he was eleven years old, he made an exception to let him enter the military camp and be his horse squire.
It was at that time that he saw Bai Yun and Ye Zang, who entered the barracks in the same year as himself, I don't know why these three people became good friends when they were in the barracks, and supported each other in the future battlefield, and helped each other escape from life and death many times, maybe in the hard and lonely years when they entered the barracks, the three of them all hoped to find a friendship in it, and they just liked each other, but they didn't know that the three of them became famous generals of Yinguo in the future.
The three of them hit it off and became good friends, especially Meng Yu was like a bull who found a suitable arena in the barracks, and defeated the soldiers who were called elite soldiers in the same camp with him many times, and fought with the general's sister-in-law on the school martial arts field, and almost cut off someone's head.
The son of the general who was defeated from Meng Yu had a grudge and knew that he and his men could not defeat Meng Yu, so he chose to attack Meng Yu's two good friends.
One night, after dragging the sleeping Baiyun and Ye out of the tent, he was beaten half to death and hung in front of Meng Yu's tent with a rope to demonstrate.
This incident caused a lot of turmoil at the time, because the man bought off many soldiers in the barracks, and in the end the matter was not solved without any punishment.
A week later, Meng Yu carried two knives and broke into the camp of the general's sister-in-law who hurt Ye Baiyun alone, and slashed him dozens of times like a dead hand, and even the soldiers who rushed to save his life were cut to the ground by Meng Yu's knife, and watched Meng Yu, who went mad, chop him into pieces of flesh and walked away with blood all over his body.
Meng Yu has always been a good talker, but once he is not good at talking, he will make you not even have a chance to speak in the next life.
After this incident, Meng Yu was arrested and whipped dozens of times, but he was not expelled from the barracks, and soon the general who lost his beloved son resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown.
Since then, no one in the barracks has dared to provoke Meng Yu and his two friends, and Meng Yu has been called a mad dog, and everyone avoids him.
And then in the later battle of the Golden Horde, this mad dog turned into the most popular young military god at that time, thousands of horses rushed to the head of the enemy general, and led the cavalry all the way to kill the defenders of the northern line of the Golden Horde, Meng Yu relied on the cavalry of 3,000 people to frighten the barbarians of the Golden Horde who were not afraid of the sky and the earth to unload their armor and escape, and then Chu Xiaohua's army successfully defeated the northern line, and then had the opportunity to enter the Tiannu River.
Meng Yu's birth made the entire Golden Horde soldiers realize the horror of what is a sonorous iron armor and broken ice, and now the fear of mentioning the word "Meng Yu" is even more than half a point of fear than that man named Chu Xiaohua.
Later, he really became a general, replacing General Hua Mingge, who died in the Battle of the Golden Horde, to become the general of the protector of the country, and he should have been at the celebration banquet of joy and encouragement, but this mad dog who had always shed blood and did not shed tears cried silently, and looked at the corpse of his mentor with great sadness.
In the next life, he will never be able to find a man worthy of his respect so much, a back that he looks up to.
This young man, at this time, remembered that many years ago, this man generously handed him his war knife, let him ride on his war horse, and looked at him with a smile on his face.
The father and son, who are not related by blood, will fight together on the battlefield in the future.
When the idea of becoming a general first appeared in his mind, he did not dare to tell anyone but his mother, because in his opinion the general was the most powerful man, just a little worse than the emperor.
"Mother, I became a general, but you are gone...... Meng Yu said softly.
And then in the later battle of the Western Forest, Meng Yu led the army called the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry to smash the entire Western Dynasty to pieces, and those defeated generals who would rather die than give in were directly decapitated by him, and hundreds of corpses were directly hung on the city wall by him as a deterrent.
But Meng Yu kills people and kills people, compared to the soldiers under Bai Yun who were so bold as to press the Empress Xilin under him, he would not do those things that raped women and slaughtered children, nor did he allow his own men to do it, and those who violated it were beheaded for public display, and often sent his own military Lu to the families of those soldiers who died in battle in his hands.
In the battlefield, there is his mentor lying down, although he dies, he has no regrets.
Outside the battlefield, his brother was standing, drinking and laughing.
Meng Yu never felt that fate owed him anything, because God gave him everything he wanted.
When it comes to life, it doesn't get much more rewarding.