The Battle of Jingzhou has begun, and the war has never been limited to superficial fighting.

Meng Zong personally led 150,000 troops and stationed them in Yexian County to "welcome" the arrival of Tang Xiao's army, and at the same time asked Zhang Zhikui to lead 100,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Luyang, and the two counties formed a horn trend.

Although it seemed that he was going to play defense, in fact, Meng Zong's appetite was much greater than that, and he let out a bold statement that when Tang Xiao's army came, he would give them a hammer to face them while they had not gained a firm foothold after a long journey. After defeating Tang Xiao, he directly marched to Luoyang, overthrew the Liang Dynasty, and ascended the throne of the emperor.

But when Tang Xiao brought his troops to Xiangcheng, he suddenly stopped leaving, and the 190,000 troops stationed in Xiangyang, just kept sending scouts to run around.

It's been a month, and it's about to come to the rainy season in May, what do you want to do?

Meng Zong was puzzled.

Huang Yingdao, the pioneer of the Flying Tiger Army, said: "Meng Shuai, Tang Xiao's move is deliberately to wait until the rainy season before sending troops to attack us. ”

Meng Zong asked, "Why did he do that?" What's in it for him? ”

Huang Ying said: "If it rains heavily, we can't defend the city with fire oil, and then the siege will be twice as effective with half the effort." Whether it is a ladder, a siege tower, or a construction vehicle, it can be easily attached to the city wall, and if they prepare a large number of catapults, we will be even more passive. ”

"Oh..."Meng Zong often reads the battle report, and the battle report is detailed, although he has never fought, he can understand Huang Ying's words, so he frowned: "Then General Huang thinks how to crack it?" ”

Huang Ying said: "It's better for us to take the initiative to kill them, let's attack their city." ”

Meng Zong shook his head again and again and said, "I guess the enemy army is just trying to lure us out, so they set up this plan." It's too difficult to storm the city, I think it's better to wait, anyway, we have food. ”

"Oh, Dashuai, you can't wait, you have to kill it now, although it is more difficult to attack the city than to defend it, but there are many of us. And we can hoard our soldiers under the city first, and wait until the rainy season to do it, so that we will occupy the time. ”

Governor Liang Guan said: "What Huang Xianfeng said is extremely true, the marshal should make a decision this morning. ”

Deputy General Hong Mingshan also said: "If we don't take the lead, then we will give the time to others." ”

The three battle-hardened generals around him were like this, and Meng Zong was a little tempted, so he wrote to Zhang Zhikui and asked Zhang Zhikui's opinion.

Soon after, Zhang Zhikui's messenger replied: "If the commander wants to fight out, the last general is willing to lead an army of 100,000 as the vanguard." ”

Seeing the letter, Meng Zong's confidence increased greatly, and he said: "Then what else, gather the team and set off tomorrow!" ”

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The war started, the war report flew to Luoyang, Tang Yuan was appointed as the commander of the 8th Division of the Gyeonggi garrison, and Ju Wuming jointly garrisoned Luoyang City, while other troops have been sent to the east and south of Luoyang

There is a scout outside the city, if there is an enemy army rushing to Luoyang, the news will soon reach Tang Yuan's ears, so he doesn't have to stay in the city, every morning, watching Nalan Xin finish arranging the training task, he walks around.

He likes to walk around the middle of nowhere, because he always meets some poor people.

Even if Tang Yuan is not short of money now, he is not particularly wealthy, so he will not help everyone, only when he meets a mother with a child, or a lonely child, a lonely old man, he will throw some copper coins to that person, Zhang Ga followed behind him, carrying a dozen catties of money bags, wandering around.

Suddenly, he heard the noise of children not far away, and it was very loud, as if there was a fight.

The fight between the children in the alley was not unusual, but the problem was that Tang Yuan heard the girl's voice, the girl was beaten very badly, and the screams were endless, which immediately lifted General Tang's heart, he couldn't hear the voice, so he strode over.

It's a group of dirty beggars beating a girl in fancy clothes.

The girl's clothes are very expensive, they are all excellent materials, but I don't know how, she got dirty, not because she was beaten just now, at least she hasn't washed her clothes for a month.

The girl was pressed to the ground and beaten, screaming and screaming.

But the fellow was very stubborn, even if the boys who were a head taller than her stepped on her face, but she still held on to the things in her hand and did not let go, and the beggars beat more and more fiercely and desperately.

"Stop!"

The young general was strong-blooded, and he suppressed a group of beggars with a loud shout.

These hooligan beggars are not brave on weekdays, and they are all thirteen or fourteen years old, and they like to be reckless, but when they see Tang Yuan's extraordinary bearing and sharp eyes, they know that this person is not easy to mess with, and the most important thing is that he is followed by a soldier who respectfully follows behind him.

These hooligan beggars were most afraid of being soldiers, but the soldiers were respectful in front of this son, which showed that this person must not be provoked, so the beggars let go of the girl and ran away.

The girl got up and stuffed the half of the bun in her hand into her mouth, and when Tang Yuan walked over, she heard the sound of the girl chewing sand.

The girl paused, but she swallowed the food in her mouth.

Then he raised his eyes and looked at Tang Yuan.

The girl patted the ash on her leg and stood up. Although she had just been beaten, she didn't cry and her face was stubborn.

It's like I can't get over my face, and I can't cry.

In fact, Tang Yuan had already seen that the girl's heart had been greatly traumatized, and she was on the verge of crying or not crying, as long as she reached over now and patted her head, she would definitely cry out.

"If you want to cry, cry, uncle will give you money to buy buns to eat."

"Wow-"

The girl wailed.

Crying heartbreakingly.

Tang Yuan squatted down with a wry smile, looked at her at eye level, helped her dust off her trouser legs, and while taking the change from Zhang Ga's hand, he asked as if he was bored: "What's your name, is it that the child of a rich family has run away?" ”

"My name is Meng Tao, and my grandfather is Meng Danqing, the prime minister of the Great Liang Dynasty! They bully me, I'll tell Grandpa and let Grandpa punish them! I'm going to whip them! The girl stopped crying and puffed up.

“…… Who?! ”

Tang Yuan was stunned for a moment, staring at the girl, thinking that the girl was not crazy or stupid, it shouldn't be nonsense, he hurriedly looked around, covered the girl's mouth and said, "Don't shout, follow me." ”

Hasn't the Meng family been uprooted?

As the adjutant of the Meng family, Tang Yuan naturally knew about the situation of the Meng family, and he also participated in many interrogations. At that time, the Supervision Yuan, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department jointly examined and interrogated day and night, and hundreds of people were thoroughly investigated in three hours. That frenzied Meng Zong, abandoned most of the family, and ran away with a very small number of people, according to him, he had already taken away his sons and daughters, why did he leave Meng Tao alone?