Chapter 49: The War of the Whole People
"Oh my God! What's that? A flying bear soldier pointed at the monster in front of him and exclaimed, "The legs are like the pillars of the house, the ears are like dustpans, the nose is thicker than my legs, the long-nosed bull demon!" "The other Flying Bears are no better than him, and before they even fight, they have already retreated again and again, all of them are as white as earth, and they have a tendency to run away at any time.
"Don't panic, that's not a long-nosed bull demon, it's an elephant soldier of the Southern Barbarians." Wei Yan raised his gun and shouted, trying to boost morale, having said that, Wei Yan couldn't help but tremble his legs, and scolded his luck back and Kang Peng - what long-nosed bull demon? Are cows that big? But no matter how hard Wei Yan tried to restrain the soldiers, the largest land mammal was never resisted by manpower, and the neat formation of the Flying Bear Army was quickly overwhelmed by the elephant soldiers of the Southern Barbarian Army's vanguard Mulu King.
"Light torches, release rockets, elephants are most afraid of fire!" Wei Yan quickly ordered, a burst of rockets flew out, thousands of torches were thrown into the formation, the elephants were afraid of the fire, and they retreated one after another, and the Flying Bear Army finally blocked the impact of the elephant soldiers and barely stood in the formation. But without waiting for Dong Zhuojun to breathe a sigh of relief, the group of southern barbarians who only had a few leaves to cover their bodies blew the bamboo flute and knocked on the wooden drum, and after a while, a group of jackals, tigers and leopards suddenly rushed out of the formation, and went straight to Dong Zhuojun's soldiers to bite, Dong Zhuojun could resist there, only hated his father and mother for giving them two legs, and fled with his head in his arms, this time Wei Yan couldn't resist, and hurriedly commanded the sergeants to retreat, and the king of Mulu chased and killed for more than 30 miles, until he broke through the camp that Dong Zhuo's army had set up. Fortunately, Wei Yan had specially trained this Flying Bear Army to fight in the mountains as early as when he was in Meridian Valley, although it was not as good as the Wudang Flying Army to climb mountains and wade through water like walking on flat ground, but it was barely able to walk like flying in the mountains, and he did not lose many soldiers in the rout.
On February 17 of the fourth year of the first peace, Wei Yan, who was sent by Dong Zhuojun to lure the enemy, encountered the southern barbarian army on the edge of the Minjiang River south of Jialing, and lost the first battle, the Minjiang defense line was lost, and the city of Jialing was in danger. On February 18, Meng Huo's army rushed to Jialing, rewarded King Mulu, and allowed King Mulu's troops to sack Jialing for three days in the future. Although Liu Yan was present, he did not stop it, but only thanked King Mulu with a heavy gift.
That night in Jialing City, Dong Zhuojun according to Wei Yan's instructions, to the city to organize the people to retreat north, for a while, the city was full of Dong Zhuojun soldiers' shouts, "Yizhou fathers and villagers, the Southern Barbarian army is coming, Dong Taishi has prepared food, seeds and housing for you in Chengdu, you give us go, and when we counterattack Jialing, you will go home." ”
Although Dong Zhuojun notified him door-to-door, the effect was not good, and many people in Jialing questioned Dong Zhuojun on the spot: "Didn't you come to meet the Southern Barbarian Army?" Why did you flee before the battle was fought? ”
Dong Zhuojun spread his hands helplessly and said: "We can't help it, Chengdu and Guanghan were burned by Liu Yan, our army is still helping the people there to rebuild the city, now there are only 10,000 people, but the enemy has hundreds of thousands, we really can't resist it." ”
"We don't leave, our home is in Jialing, and I won't leave our home until I die."
"Folks, we are for your good, not for you to leave forever, just to let you go to Chengdu to temporarily avoid the scourge of war, and when we come back, the home here is still yours."
"No, we won't go there, just here in Jialing......"
That night, there was such a conversation everywhere in Jialing City, although Dong Zhuojun patiently advised the people again and again, but the homeland is difficult to leave, almost most of the people of Jialing are unwilling to leave their hometown, and they can't be blamed, Jialing City is located on the edge of the Sichuan Basin, rich in products, the folk life is relatively rich, and rarely experience the disaster of war, this time when Liu Yan burned Yizhou, considering that Jialing City is the only way to return to Yizhou, he showed mercy to Jialing's subordinates, and did not experience the people of war, How is it possible to follow a strange army and leave the warmth of their homeland far away? There are even a few big people who have benefited from Liu Yan's hands, secretly rejoicing in their hearts, thinking about how to welcome Liu Yan's return, and how can they follow Dong Zhuojun together?
"General, except for a very small number of proletarian and unemployed people, the vast majority of the people do not want to follow us." Wei Yan's lieutenant general Lei Tong sweated profusely and reported that like the real Dong Boss, Kang Peng's characteristic is also that he dares to use people, and soon after Lei Tong returned to obedience, Kang Peng dared to give him military power and let him accompany Wei Yan into battle - of course, the family should remain in his hands.
Wei Yan didn't say a word, took out the bag that Kang Peng handed him when he was leaving, opened it, and saw that there was a piece of paper inside, but when Wei Yan looked at the content of the note again, he reacted for a while, wiped cold sweat and sighed in his heart: "Master, you are vicious enough!" Only then did Wei Yan turn to Lei Tong and said, "Immediately gather the young men in the city in the vegetable field, I was going to talk to them." ”
Lei Tong left in response, and Wei Yan ordered someone to open the Jialing Mansion Treasury and move all the knives, guns and weapons in the warehouse to the vegetable field. After a while, Dong Zhuojun called most of the young men in the city to the vegetable field, and Wei Yan also hurried to the platform, grabbed the high platform and shouted to the people of Jialing below: "Folks, Taishi Dong hopes that you will evacuate to Chengdu, but you are unwilling to abandon your homeland, and you always have illusions about the traitor Liu Yan." ”
The people of Jialing looked at Wei Yan with disdain and scoffed at his words, but Wei Yan continued: "Since you don't want and can't do it, we can't tie you up. But Master Dong was compassionate and worried that after we withdrew, you would be poisoned by the Southern Barbarian Army, so he ordered me to issue weapons to you, and if the thief army bullied you, you would not be without a weapon to resist. ”
The people of Jialing were dumbfounded, the iron of the Han Dynasty belonged to the state monopoly, and the price of weapons was very high, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion organized by Ma Xiang in Yizhou, Liu Yan was worried that the people would rebel, and he explicitly banned the trade of weapons, so even if there was a large amount of iron ore near Jialing (Panzhihua), ordinary people rarely owned weapons, and Dong Zhuojun was generous in distributing weapons to the people, which was too surprising to the people of Jialing.
But in any case, in this troubled era, since Dong Zhuojun distributes weapons for free, it is always good to have a weapon for self-defense, so in Wei Yan's hoarse shout, the young and middle-aged people in Jialing stepped forward to collect weapons in turn, and Wei Yan continued to encourage: "Folks, if you can't stay in Jialing anymore, you can rest assured to live with the Taishi, and the Taishi will definitely take care of you." "When all the weapons were distributed, Wei Yan immediately ordered the abandonment of Jialing City and the withdrawal of the whole army to the north—leaving a city full of murderous machines to the enemy.
On February 19 of the fourth year of the early Han Dynasty, the combined army of Meng Huo and Liu Yan crossed the Minjiang River and killed under the city of Jialing, and the rich and wealthy families in Jialing City had already opened the city gate, ready to work with three livestock and six animals, to welcome Liu Yan's return, and the ordinary people also put incense and wine in front of every house, hoping to move the combined army of Meng Huo and Liu Yan with practical actions, so that they would not disturb the people too much.
But the people of Jialing were wrong, Liu Yan's troops were better, but Meng Huo's Southern Barbarian Army could not be controlled. As soon as the army arrived at the city gate, the southern barbarians under Meng Huo who wore leaves and animal skins fell in love with the brocade clothes on the rich families of Jialing City, and couldn't help but say that they would peel them off when they went up.
One of the scholars, who was stripped to only a pair of obscene pants to cover his shame, had a relationship with Liu Yan, and rushed to Liu Yan's horse and knelt down, crying: "Lord, we are loyal to you, why do they treat me like this? What kind of system does it become in broad daylight? ”
Liu Yan glanced at him in embarrassment, turned to Meng Xu, who could be compared to Boss Dong, and said, "King, they are all my subjects, and I hope that your subordinates will be merciful and restrain the soldiers a little." ”
Meng Shu was furious, the goldfish eyes on his fat ugly face were round, and he said in a vicious voice: "Liu Yan, you promised, as long as I help you get Yizhou back, you will let us see what we will take in Yizhou?" Do you want to repent? Liu Yan was so fierce that Meng Shu's neck shrank, and he turned his head to stop looking at those big scholars, and let those southern barbarians fight to strip all those scholars.
"Ma'am, let's go into the city." Meng Shu didn't dare to be vicious when he spoke to his fiancée Zhu Rong, and said with a smile cautiously: "I heard that the clothes of Han women are very good-looking, I will pick out a few of the best ones for you when you go to the city." ”
Zhu Rongfeng, who had slightly dark skin, didn't look at Meng Huo, pursed his lips disdainfully, and shouted to the female soldier he brought: "Sisters, go to the city and choose the man you like." "There are some tribes in the southern ethnic minorities where women occupy a powerful position, and women pick men, and the marriage is all decided by the woman, and the man has no right to choose, there is no doubt that Zhurong is from this tribe. (PS: This bad habit seems to still exist in some remote mountain villages, and there are some remote mountain villages at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou where the poor wolf lives, and the handsome poor wolf does not dare to go...... )
Unlike the nomads in the north, out of admiration for the culture of the Central Plains, the southern barbarian minorities were interested in everything in the cities of the Han Dynasty. I wanted to go up and touch everything I saw, but it was hard for the merchants in Jialing City, and in less than half an hour, all the cloth shops, silk shops, clothing stores, and restaurants that could be moved were swept away. With the robbery, Liu Yan's subordinates couldn't hold back, or openly or secretly began to participate in the robbery, this Yizhou army in addition to the strong men forcibly pulled, that is, loyal to Liu Yan's Qing and Qiang soldiers, there is no slightest local feelings for the people of Yizhou, disturbing the people is more powerful than the Southern Barbarian Army, the Southern Barbarian Army at least does not harass the female dependents, but these Yizhou Army is rape and plunder.
When the Southern Barbarian Army turned the target of the robbery to ordinary houses, the powder keg was finally lit, and the men in the middle of the Sichuan were bloody, and the Southern Barbarian Army stretched out their hands to them, and the young and middle-aged Jialing with weapons in their hands could still swallow this breath? The flashpoint was a group of Southern Barbarian soldiers who broke into a private house, and the Southern Barbarian did not dare to harass the female relatives - there are many fierce women among the ethnic minorities! A southern barbarian soldier fell in love with a red belly pocket, but the belly pocket belonged to the head of the household's wife, the head of the household could swallow this breath, grabbed the iron knife he received last night, and cut off the arm of the southern barbarian soldier with only one knife, the group of southern barbarians saw that their companions were injured, and immediately besieged the head of the household, and the head of the household shouted while fighting bloodily, "Second brother Zhang, the barbarian is going to kill me, come and help." ”
Zhang Er is the neighbor of the head of the household and worships the brother, heard the brother's plea for help, without saying a word, he took out the big knife he received last night and rushed over, Zhang Er's family has many men, and they are all young men with strong blood, one by one with knives, guns and wooden forks to follow, immediately and the group of southern barbarians killed in the dark, other neighbors heard it, but also rushed to help, even sixty or seventy-year-old people came with kitchen knives, the group of southern barbarians could not eat, after being cut down several times in a row, the group of southern barbarians also began to ask for help, this time it was lively, the southern barbarians rushed to help, but more people in Jialing picked up the weapons distributed by Dong Zhuojun and rushed over, turning this place into a small battlefield in a short time. And such a small battlefield, I don't know how many there are in Jialing City at the moment.
When Meng Shu received the news, he was holding a bunch of women's Hanfu and nodding in front of Zhu Rong to flatter—that look was no different from Kang Peng's appearance in front of Cai Wenji, and a herald hurriedly ran over, "Oh no, the people in the city have rebelled, and our brothers have been killed and injured by hundreds." ”
Meng Shu, who had just been slapped twice by Zhu Rong, was in a bad mood, and when he heard this, he was even more furious, and picked up the poor herald and scolded: "Mother, did you all grow up eating? Even those unarmed civilians can't do it, and there are so many casualties? After speaking, Meng glanced at Zhu Rong with interest, just now he said an idiom in his words, this is a great improvement.
The herald replied with a sad face: "Back to the king, those people also have weapons in their hands, almost all of the city, and we were caught off guard, so we suffered a great loss." Meng was stunned, and roared angrily: "Fart, so many weapons in the hands of the Han people? ”
The herald shook his head repeatedly, indicating that he didn't know either. At this time, Liu Yan also hurried over, and Lao Yuan shouted: "Oh no, the people in the city are almost all rioting, you quickly order to stop the robbery, it will be troublesome to stimulate the people's rebellion." ”
Liu Yan panted and rushed to Meng Shu, panting and said: "King, this thing is strange, in the past few years, I have banned iron weapons in Sichuan, and the people are not allowed to hold knives, where are they conjuring weapons?" ”
"You ask me, who do I ask?" Meng Huo yelled: "Kill, kill me, kill all those who have weapons, I think they still dare to resist?" ”
The herald was about to convey the order, but Liu Yan grabbed him and shouted: "The king can't, the people in Sichuan are fierce, they used to dare to rebel with the Yellow Turban thieves without weapons, but now that you have weapons, you will slaughter the city again, isn't this forcing the people to rebel?" ”
Meng Huo was furious and said, "Even if I don't kill them, they will already rebel." Stop talking nonsense, stop me again and I'll kill you too. Liu Yan was startled, quickly stepped aside, and didn't dare to speak again.
Even if Meng Shu stopped robbing the city as Liu Yan said, it was too late, and the people of Jialing had been completely enraged by Liu Yan and Meng Huo's combined forces, and they had weapons to use their weapons, and without weapons, they picked up wooden forks, hoes, kitchen knives, wooden sticks, and other things that could kill and injure the enemy, and killed them together with Liu Yan and Meng Huo's combined forces, and the entire Jialing City became a Shura slaughterhouse, with shouts and killings everywhere, screams everywhere, corpses everywhere, rivers of blood, fires everywhere, and thick smoke covering the sky.
The people of Jialing and Liu Yan and Meng Huo fought until late at night, and the people of Jialing who had not undergone any military training suffered heavy casualties, and some people began to surrender, but the red-eyed Liu Yan and Meng Huo coalition forces quickly cut off their heads, and the people of Jialing saw it, and they were not willing to sit still, and fled from Jialing City and went north to join Dong Zhuojun, and even the big families of the Shi clan abandoned their families and fled north to find those Dong Zhuojun who had been despised by them.
The battle did not calm down until dawn, and the city of Jialing, with a population of nearly 80,000, was completely in ruins, the people of Jialing were killed and wounded innumerable, the blood flowing from the city dyed the Minjiang River red, and the allied army of Liu Yan and Meng Shu also paid the price of more than 20,000 soldiers. When the news spread, the people of Yizhou helped the old and the young to flee north, and many young and middle-aged people took the initiative to find Dong Zhuojun to join the army and defend their homes with Dong Zhuojun.