Chapter 50: The kidnapper Wei Yan
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Originally, Wei Yan retreated to Chengdu, and the nearest way was to cross the Minjiang River and take the avenue to Chengdu, but after Wei Yan withdrew from Jialing, he opened the second bag according to Kang Peng's instructions, but saw that the above indicated that his retreat direction was to take the Qianwei detour under Mount Emei back to Chengdu, and strictly ordered him to lose several battles along the way, so as to be proud of the enemy. Wei Yan had no choice but to set up camp sixty miles northwest of Jialing City, and waited for Liu Meng's coalition army to attack.
On February 22 of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, three days after the slaughter of Jialing, the Liu Meng coalition army was still stationed in Jialing, the southern barbarian general Vulture Gu heard that Dong Zhuojun was camped in the northwest, so he preemptively led the headquarters of the rattan armor soldiers to kill, Wei Yan led the army to fight, the two armies were connected, the golden drum was shocked, the vulture bones did not say a word, and ordered the deputy general Tu'an and Xi Ni to fight, and the two generals each led an army to impact Dong Zhuojun's wings, Dong Zhuojun first met the enemy with a bow and arrow, but saw that the arrow hit the rattan armor and landed, the rattan armor soldiers were unharmed, Dong Zhuojun was shocked, and waited for the rattan armor soldiers to kill in front of him, Dong Zhuojun greeted him, but the swords, guns, axes and halberds still couldn't penetrate the rattan armor, and the rattan armor soldiers all made sharp knives and sharp blades, Dong Zhuojun could resist there, and the two wings were quickly broken through, and the formation was chaotic.
Seeing the vulture bone over there, he led the vine armor soldiers straight to Dong Zhuo's army, Wei Pai immediately stepped forward to meet him, the battle was not counted, Wei Yan's steel spear stabbed the vulture bone several times, but he was helplessly blocked by the vine armor, it was difficult to hurt the vulture bone in the slightest, and the battle was combined, Wei Yan narrowly avoided the steel knife cut by the vulture bone, returned to the horse and ran, scolding: "Withdraw!" withdraw for me! This battle is not fought by people, first elephant soldiers and beast soldiers, and now rattan armor soldiers, all blame Lao Tzu's luck. Dong Zhuojun, who was bullied by the vine armor soldiers, had long wished that Wei Yan would give this order, and when he heard the words, they all spread their feet and ran away, fortunately, Wei Yan had been training them in the tactics of escape during this time, and the teams were interspersed with cover to retreat, but they were also defeated but not chaotic, and did not give the vine armor soldiers a chance to take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle. The rattan armor soldiers chased and killed Dong Zhuojun for more than ten miles before they collected their troops, and then grabbed Dong Zhuojun's camp and sent someone to inform Meng of the good news.
When the news of the vulture victory came, Meng Yu couldn't help but be overjoyed, and repeatedly boasted in front of Zhu Rong that his army was the first in the world, and ridiculed Dong Zhuojun's weakness and incompetence, but Liu Yan took a group of Yizhou strategists to find him, Liu Yan said: "King, Dong Thief's army is standing still in Chengdu, but he sent Wei Yan's small army to lure the enemy, I am afraid that there will be fraud." β
Meng Shu laughed and said with a big grin: "There is fraud? My elephant soldiers and rattan armor soldiers are invincible in the world, and they are not afraid of deception. While speaking, Meng Shu secretly looked at his fiancΓ©e's face again, but saw that her expression was like an ancient well, and he ignored his arrogant words, and was greatly disappointed.
"The King." Dong He admonished: "Our army confronted Dong Zhuojun in the Sword Pavilion in the past, and Dong Thief also deceived and defeated several times, and even used the trick of cutting his beard and abandoning his robe, and finally lured our army into an ambush. Now that Dong Thief's small force has been defeated again and again, I am afraid that Dong Thief will do it again. β
"Fraud?" Meng Shu was so angry that he grabbed the thin Dong He and shouted: "You mean to say that the victory of our Southern Army was deliberately let by Dong Zhuojun, isn't it a real skill?" After that, Meng Shu lifted the vinegar jar's big fist and was about to hit Dong He on the head.
"Stop!" Zhu Rongjiao shouted: "What do you know about a dirt bun?" The literati are much more knowledgeable than you, listen to him. β
Meng Shu was afraid of his wife to a par with Kang Peng, and when he heard this, he immediately put down Dong He, nodded and said, "Sir, please say, I won't beat you." Zhu Rong also said to Dong He: "Sir, don't pay attention to this barbarian, if you have any clever plans, just say it, I'm here, he doesn't dare to be unreasonable to you." β
The well-behaved Dong He also saw who was talking in Meng Huo's army, so he hugged his fist at Zhu Rong and said: "Her Royal Highness the Queen, according to what the students have seen, Dong Thief must be worried that the army will not have enough support to attack, and he wants to meet our army in Chengdu with ease and labor......"
"Afraid of him?" Meng Shu interjected: "I'll go to Chengdu and cut off his Dong Zhuo's head as a night pot." β
"Shut up!" Zhu Rongjiao said angrily: "If you talk nonsense again, I'll tear your mouth apart." Meng Shu was startled and quickly closed his mouth, but he was a little hesitant, was he obedient and shut up? Or deliberately interjected, letting Zhu Rongxiang's little hands tear his mouth.
Dong He continued: "The students believe that Dong Thief wants to wait for work at ease, and sent a small force to harass and lure us to Chengdu for a decisive battle, and we can't fall for his tricks. The students suggested that we should repay the situation with our own people, and not care about the small force that lured the enemy, but also sent a small force to attack from all sides, harassing Dong Thief's supply line and strategic deployment, and forcing Dong Thief to go south to Jialing to fight a decisive battle with us. β
"So troublesome?" Meng Shu couldn't help but interject again: "According to me, what kind of work and leisure do you care about him, directly pull the army to Chengdu, and hack Dong Zhuo to death with one sword......" Before Meng Shu's words fell, Zhu Rong had already flown up and kicked him on his fat buttocks, and Meng Shu immediately fell and ate shit.
"That's it." Zhu Rong angrily dispatched troops and said: "The whole army is stationed in Jialing City, and ten teams of 1,000 people are sent to attack various important places in Yizhou respectively, and Dong Zhuo is brought to Jialing City. As for the small group of enemies, ignore them. β
Zheng Du's strategy of not moving the enemy and not moving was very successful, at least Wei Yan, who was in charge of luring the enemy, was in a hurry before Liu Meng's coalition army, and the enemy tiger did not come out of the hole, and Wei Yan, who had already withdrawn to a hundred miles away from Jialing, could only be exhausted in this way. Five days later, as more and more Yizhou refugees came to defect to Dong Zhuojun, Wei Yan's military rations also began to be tight, in order to save food before the expedition, Kang Peng only asked Wei Yan to bring fifteen days of food, although Wei Yan did everything he could to save, but the granary gradually bottomed out.
On February 28, Wu Yi escorted Wei Yan with half a month's worth of grain to temporarily relieve Wei Yan's worries about food shortage, and Wu Yi told Wei Yan that the defense of Chengdu had been prepared, and in order not to delay the reconstruction of Yizhou, Wei Yan was asked to lure the enemy to Chengdu as soon as possible. Wei Yan said with a bitter face: "Ziyuan, please tell Taishi, it's not that I don't know the difficulties of Chengdu, but that the enemy is staying in Jialing and not leaving, and my troops are small, and taking the initiative to attack won't hurt them, and if they don't hurt them, they won't pay attention to me, and if I don't pay attention to me, I can't lure the enemy." β
Wu Yi patted Wei Yan on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't worry, the Taishi knows your difficulties, so I specially asked me to bring you a trick bag, which contains a clever plan to lure the enemy." β
"Where's the trick?" Wei Yan was overjoyed, Wu Yi took out the bag that Kang Peng handed over to him from his arms, Wei Yan grabbed it and quickly opened it, but saw that the paper in the bag was written crookedly: 'Stupid! The customs of the Southern Barbarians are different from those of the Han Dynasty, a husband is only allowed to marry one wife, and many people's women have a higher status than men, Meng Huo's wife Zhu Rong is also in the army, you can find a way to catch Zhu Rong yourself, you are not afraid that Meng Huo will not follow you obediently! Do it well, and come back to promote your officials. β
"The status of women is higher than that of men among the Southern Barbarians? Why haven't I heard of it? After reading Kang Peng's ugly words, Wei Yan couldn't help but wonder: "Taishi, he lives in the north, how can he know the customs of the Southern Barbarians?" β
"You ask me, how do I know about the Taishi?" Wu Yi was also very inexplicable. What Wei Yan and Wu Yi didn't know was that Kang Peng's understanding of the south was far beyond their imagination, and he would use his knowledge of the south in the future......
The inventory of military rations was correct, and Wu Yi immediately said goodbye and returned to the north, leaving Wei Yan to worry about his nerves near Jialing. Wei Yan pondered for a long time, but he still couldn't think of a way to capture Zhu Rong alive, so he had no choice but to summon Lei Tong to discuss, Lei Tong offered a plan: "General, estimated by copper, since Zhu Rong is known as the queen, he will definitely win bravely, why don't we challenge the enemy, and name Zhu Rong to fight, as long as she fights, we will lure her into the battle and capture her alive." Thinking of having to face those unkillable monsters and jackals, tigers and leopards again, Wei Yan couldn't help but feel a little frightened, but there was no other way, so he had to agree hard.
The next day, Wei Yan's troops rose up and went around to the vine armor soldiers, and gradually returned to Jialing City at the risk of being surrounded. In the early morning of the third day, Wei Yan stayed in the Lei Tong guard camp, led an army to the camp of the Liu Meng coalition army to call the battle, and named Zhu Rong to fight, the front camp of the Liu Meng coalition army was the camp of the Southern Barbarian Army general Jinhuan Sanjie, Jinhuan Sanjie heard that Dong Zhuojun called the battle, and did not go to report to Liu Yan and Meng Shu, so he led an army out of the village to meet the enemy.
The two armies met each other and set up their own positions, and the three knots of the golden ring shouted out of their horses: "I am the marshal of the Southern Army, who dares to come and send him to death?" "Wei Yan secretly pondered, since this guy is the marshal of the Southern Barbarians, if I defeat him, then Zhu Rong will definitely fight.
Thinking of this, Wei Yan slapped his horse out of the battle, took the three knots of the golden ring, and shouted in his mouth: "Zhu Rong doesn't dare to come out, so I will take your sacrificial knife first." "The golden ring three knots were angry to catch, but Wei Yan, who wanted to lure Zhu Rong out of the battle, had the heart to defeat him, a steel gun made the tiger and the tiger angry, the martial arts of the golden ring three knots were not as good as Wei Yan, and the wind fell immediately, and the battle was not counted, the golden ring three knots were picked up by Wei Yan, and fled back to the formation with a shout, Wei Yan was willing to give up, and chased after him, Dong Zhuojun also took the opportunity to cover up, and the Golden Ring three knots were defeated, but they could be chased to the gate of the camp, and the Southern Barbarian generals Dong Dana and A Huilan each led an army to kill from the left and right, Wei Yan had few soldiers, and was killed by the Southern Barbarian army, so he had to collect his troops and return to the camp.
That night, the Golden Ring Sanjie was called by Meng Huo to scold him, and in order to cover his shame, the Golden Ring Sanjie boasted that Wei Yan's martial arts were rare in the sky and unique in the world. Since we entered Sichuan, we have been invincible and invincible, so you will disgrace me, waste! β
Liu Yan didn't want to embarrass his ally Jinhuan Sanjie too much, so he persuaded him: "Don't be angry, then Wei Yan is young, but he is really good at kung fu, otherwise Dong Thief will not regard him as a vanguard general, and the marshal will not be wronged if he loses in his hands." β
Jinhuan Sanjie was grateful, but Zhu Rong became interested and asked, "That Wei Yan is really so powerful, I want to see it?" Speaking of this, Zhu Rong glanced at Meng Shu with disdain, and said contemptuously: "Look at him, is he as strong as this soil bun?" β
was despised by his fiancΓ©e, Meng Shu couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Tomorrow, I will personally go to battle, and I will definitely cut down that kid surnamed Wei!" β
"The king shall not." Fei Guan hurriedly admonished: "The enemy is alone in the depths, just order the general of the vulture bone to return to the army, and you can encircle and annihilate the enemy army, and you don't have to take the risk yourself." β
"It doesn't need to be that much trouble." Meng Shu said proudly: "Tomorrow I will personally go out into battle, and I will destroy them in three or two clicks, why bother so much to mobilize the people?" At the moment, Meng was ignored Fei Guan's persuasion, and just arranged the military horses to prepare for the next day's battle.
In the early morning of the next day, Meng Huo did not wait for Wei Yan to come to the camp to challenge, so he personally led the army out of the camp, Zhu Rong also followed with a sneer, when Meng Huo's army was killed in front of Dong Zhuo's army, Wei Yan was still in the camp to listen to the report of the scouts, for fear that Meng Huo would transfer the rattan armor soldiers back to the division, and his lone army would be dumplings by the enemy. Fortunately, the vine armor soldiers were still standing still in the big camp that Dong Zhuojun had abandoned, and when he heard Meng Shu and Zhu Rong calling for battle in person, Wei Yan couldn't help but shout: "God help me!" β
After the camp was fully arranged, Wei Yan led another army out of battle, and saw that there was a knife-carrying general under the enemy's banner who was fat and comparable to Boss Dong, and a female general with long hair in red, Wei Yan knew that the female general was Zhu Rong, and immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Zhu Rong, little girl, dare to fight me to the death!" β
Before Wei Yan's words fell, the big fat man had already come up angrily and shouted: "Boy, you dare to challenge my wife, pass me first!" Wei Yan knew that in order to provoke Zhu Rong to fight, he must first defeat Meng Shu, and he was no longer slacking off, so he stepped forward with a shot, the swords and guns intersected, and there was a loud noise, Wei Yan's steel gun almost got out of his hand, Wei Yan secretly exclaimed: "This barbarian king has great strength." β
That Meng Shu also knew that Wei Yan's strength was not as good as his own, so he shook his spirit and waved his knife again and again, wanting to cut Wei Yan under the horse, but unfortunately if he fought with Wei Yan calmly with a knife, but in the competition of speed, Wei Yan was not afraid of him, a steel gun was just inserted like a poisonous snake, but if he didn't compete with Meng Shu's strength, no one could help anyone for a while.
After the battle of Lily, the two sides are still evenly matched, both of them are young and strong, and their bodies are not tired, but the war horse under the seat is tired first, especially the big fat man Meng Shu is even more at a loss, Meng Huo sold a flaw and jumped out of the battle circle, shouting: "I don't rely on more people to bully you and less people, you don't bully my war horse is not as good as your war horse, how about we change horses and fight again?" β
Wei Yan smiled secretly, and said in his heart that this barbarian king was so straightforward and cute, so he replied: "Hurry up and change horses and fight again." β
Meng was overjoyed and laughed: "It's really fun to fight with you, I'll change horses." But Meng Huo's war horse didn't go far, and he suddenly fell, and he was already tired, which caused a burst of laughter from the two armies, and Meng Huo had to run back to the main formation to change horses in embarrassment, but when he returned to the battle, Wei Yan had already changed horses and came out of the formation.
Without waiting for Meng to get on the horse, Zhu Rong, who had been itching for a long time, suddenly rushed out of the formation, raised his double knives and shouted: "I am Zhu Rong, a descendant of the God of Fire, and I am here to meet you!" Wei Yan was overjoyed, and hurriedly patted his horse to meet him, and the two horses intersected, and they fought together, and Meng Shu shouted anxiously, "Madam, you must be careful, this kid is very fast." β
Zhu Rong disdained to answer with Meng Yu, but he couldn't stop slashing with his two knives, Wei Yan was so angry that he didn't dare to kill, but he was killed by her and retreated. After fighting for twenty or thirty times, Zhu Rong suddenly withdrew a knife, threw his left arm quickly, and a flying knife went straight to Wei Yan's heart, Wei Yan was too late to dodge, and was stabbed in his right arm by the flying knife, and the blood immediately flowed into the column.
"Damn, Lao Tzu's luck is really back, and he caught this unlucky task by lot." Wei Yan muttered in his heart again, then abandoned the gun and fled back to the formation, Zhu Rong was willing to let go, and chased after him, Meng Shu was afraid that Zhu Rong would lose, so he hurriedly drove the army to cover up, and Dong Zhuo's army was defeated.
Zhu Rong chased Wei Yan until he reached the door of Dong Zhuo's military camp, Zhu Rong hesitated slightly, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo's army camp has been broken through by his own defeated army, and Meng Zhuo's army is not far away, so he no longer has any scruples, and goes straight into the camp, but not far from the camp, Zhu Rong suddenly pulled up a tripping rope in front of the horse, Zhu Rong couldn't stop the horse, and even the people and horses fell to the ground, dozens of Dong Zhuojun's good hands and bodies pounced, and tied her up in three or two strokes.
Meng Huo saw Zhu Rong being captured by the enemy in the back, and he was so frightened that the seven souls flew six spirits, and screamed, "Madam! Meng Huo was about to step forward to save him, but Wei Yan had already used Zhu Rong's flying knife against Zhu Rong's throat and shouted: "Meng Huo, if you want your wife's life, quit my army immediately!" β
To find out what happened next, please see the next chapter, "The Battle of Chengdu".