"Don't ......"

"Please spare us ......"

The two Teng women wept and pleaded, and the two men, who had been tied up by the soldiers with their backhands and stuffed with rags in their mouths, were staring at the four men on the chariot with indignant eyes.

"They are innocent civilians."

Meng Zhong said with a frown.

"Innocent?"

Meng Heng chuckled, pointed at the man who was struggling the most, squinted his eyes and said, "This guy has killed people, do you think he is innocent?" Don't think I'm talking nonsense, when you've experienced a lot, you'll feel it naturally...... Kill them, Ah Zhong! ”

Probably hearing Meng Heng's words, the two women cried and pleaded: "No, please let us go, my brother has never killed any Song people......"

"Shut up!" Meng Heng snorted coldly, frightening the two women, and the whole person trembled.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhong shook his head and lowered the sword in his hand: "They are innocent. ”

Meng Heng frowned and looked at Ah Zhong, seeing the latter's resolute attitude, he shook his head in disappointment, and immediately said to Meng Hu: "Ah Hu, you go and kill them." ”

At this time, Meng Min had already drawn his sword and stuffed it into Meng Hu's hand.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong said in a deep voice: "Ah Hu, no! ”

"I ......" Meng Hu held the sword with a panicked expression, and after a long time, he also put down the sword in his hand, shook his head and said: "Ah Zhong is right, they are just innocent civilians of Teng Kingdom...... Indiscriminate killing of innocents is not honor. ”

"Stupid!"

With a look of disappointment on his face, Meng Heng picked off the chariot, drew the sword at his waist with a bang, and slashed at the head of a man.

Hearing only the sound of "ding", his sword was blocked, and it turned out that Meng Zhong also jumped out of the chariot and blocked Meng Heng with the sword in his hand.

"What are you doing? Ah Chung? ”

Meng Heng looked at Meng Zhong with incredible eyes and asked, "Do you point your sword at your own people?" ”

"I didn't." Meng Zhong shook his head and explained, "Brother, I just don't think it's acceptable to kill civilians indiscriminately. …… They are just civilians of Teng who want to escape this war......"

"Do you know how many Song people Teng killed me? Even your brother Abel, he died at the hands of the Teng people! As he spoke, Meng Heng added a little more strength, but what surprised him a little was that Meng Zhong was obviously a few years younger than him, but the strength in his hand was not weak, and he was stunned to resist his strength.

"My brother, he died at the hands of Teng Hu, and the clansmen of my clan died at the hands of Teng Guo's soldiers, Teng Hu and his Teng soldiers will be the objects of my revenge, but not these people...... Meng Zhong replied resolutely.

Seeing this, Meng Heng's eyes showed a bit of fierceness, and at this moment, he heard Meng Min shout: "Ah Heng, enough is enough!" …… Call it a day. Don't you say that Ah Zhong is facing you with a sword, aren't you using a sword against your people? ”

Meng Heng glanced at Meng Min and finally lowered his hand.

"Stupid."

After glancing at Meng Zhong, Meng Heng dropped a word, returned to the chariot, drove the chariot, and left with a team of about thirty soldiers.

During this period, Meng Hu saw Meng Heng with an angry face and jumped out of the chariot with a knowing face.

Seeing Meng Heng leave with the people, Meng Min sighed, turned to Meng Zhong and said, "Ah Zhong, we just want to help you...... Recruits who didn't have blood on their hands couldn't even survive the first battle. I've always been close to Ah Heng and Ah Bo, and I don't want you to ......."

Meng Zhong nodded silently.

"Let them go."

Under Meng Min's orders, the two dozen soldiers released the two men and two women.

Looking at the backs of the four people fleeing in a hurry, Meng Min laughed and said, "See? Ah Zhong, your kindness did not get these people a word of thanks. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong said calmly: "What kind of kindness is it to arrest them, beat them up, and almost let them die here?" …… What's more, I didn't do it for them, but for the sake of the principles in my own heart. ”

"The principle of not killing innocents indiscriminately?"

Meng Min smiled, and with a team of soldiers, he walked slowly on the wilderness with Meng Zhong and Meng Hu.

During this period, Meng Min said with emotion: "Ah Heng, he wasn't like this before. …… In the past two years, we have seen too much, do you know "Mengju"? That's also our brother, me, Ah Heng, and your brother Abo, we used to have a very close relationship, and we were all soldiers of the team under Uncle Mengzhi. …… Like you, Mengju also opposes the killing of Teng's civilians, so we once secretly let go of many Teng's civilians, but Teng people will not be grateful for this, and in the end, Mengju was killed by the Teng people he spared...... That damn brute, seeing that Ah Ju was not paying attention, took the opportunity to take away the weapon, and stabbed Ah Ju to death with a sword......"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Meng Zhong and Meng Hu, and said with resentment: "Although in the end we cut that beast into pulp, Ah Ju will not survive. …… Ah Zhong, don't you think that the civilians of Teng Kingdom are innocent, don't forget, they hate us so much in their hearts, as long as they have the opportunity, they will bite you back, and when the time comes, no one will be merciful to you. ”

Speaking of this, he patted Meng Zhong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, this is not far from the barracks, you two should go back to the camp first, I'll go to find Ah Heng, we still have to patrol." ”

Meng Zhong nodded, and watched with Meng Hu as Meng Min, the clan brother, left with the team of soldiers.

"Will we ever be like this?"

Meng Hu asked.

"What?"

"Become as cold and heartless as these two brothers...... When we drank wine and ate meat together yesterday, I didn't feel strange at all, but I just ......."

"Let's go back."

Patting his good brother on the shoulder, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu returned to the barracks.

Back in the barracks, back to his tent, Meng Zhong lay on the straw couch and recalled what Meng Heng and Meng Min said to him, and he once again deeply realized why his teacher Zhuangzi had resolutely prevented him from serving in the army.

Perhaps because in this unjust war, there is no such thing as right and wrong, good and evil, everyone is doing what they think is right, Song Wang Yan conquered Teng in order to make Song strong, Teng Hu killed Song soldiers in order to protect his subjects, as well as Meng Heng, Meng Min, and those Teng people.

Pure good and evil right and wrong cannot define or interpret this war.

Thinking about it, Meng Zhong suddenly thought of the piece of cloth in his arms, the piece of cloth with the sketch of the well.

After a moment's thought, he turned over and got off the straw couch and went to Sima Mengqing's tent.

At this time, Sima Mengqing was in his military tent, discussing yesterday's siege battle with his younger brother Meng Zhi and the young sect leader of his Meng clan, Meng Hu.

In yesterday's siege battle, because the soldiers of the Meng clan were withdrawn from the first line of the battlefield to the flanks by the army Sima Jingyi, there were no losses in the soldiers, but Tengcheng's difficulty in conquering still caused them a certain psychological pressure.

In the most popular terms, if they don't conquer Tengcheng for a day, they will not be able to return to their hometowns for a day, and even if the unfavorable conquest causes the Song king to be angry, they will inevitably be implicated.

When the three of them were discussing, they heard a report from a clansman outside the tent: "Family Sima, Meng Zhong asks to see you." ”

Hearing that it was Meng Zhong who asked to see him, Meng Qing immediately summoned the former into the account and asked the former what he was here for, or what he needed.

"Uncle Meng Qing...... There are also Uncle Meng Zhi and Uncle Meng Yu. ”

"Ah Zhong, didn't you go out on patrol with Meng Heng and Meng Min?" Meng Zhi asked curiously.

Meng Zhong didn't explain in detail, he vaguely confused the past, and immediately, he spread the cloth with the sketch of the well on the low table in front of Meng Qing, and said: "Three uncles, about those Yibi in Tengcheng, the kid thinks that this thing can be made and cracked. …… Well car! ”

Meng Qing, Meng Zhi, and Meng Hu were stunned when they heard this, and looked carefully at the sketches drawn on the cloth, and Meng Zhi asked in surprise, "You came up with it?" ”

"It's not." Meng Zhong hurriedly explained: "I just remembered that when I watched the military parade book in the past, there were similar siege equipment painted in the military book, and I only changed it slightly......

"It's also remarkable." Meng Zhi smiled and said, "Tell us in detail and see if this thing is as you say." ”

So, Meng Zhong introduced the effect of the Jing Lang car to the three clan uncles, at first Meng Qing, Meng Zhi, and Meng Hu didn't care very much, but the more they listened, the more they felt that this thing was extraordinary.

"Good stuff!" Somewhat excitedly picked up the piece of cloth, Meng Zhi said happily: "If this thing can be made, I believe that Tengcheng will no longer be able to resist our army." ”

After that, he thought for a moment and said to Meng Zhong: "Ah Zhong, this thing ...... Do you want to talk to Jun Sima? ”

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said: "Let's build it first, try the specific effect, as for the military Sima's side, there is Uncle Meng Qing to say it, after all, it is the military Sima, and it is not appropriate for us to hide it from him." ”

"It's for the best." The three clan uncles all nodded.

So, on that day, the Mongol soldiers gathered their soldiers and ordered them to go to the woods near the barracks to cut down trees and transport them back to the camp to build a well cart.

And Sima Mengqing personally went to Wang Shi's tent to report the matter to the military Sima Jingqing, saying that their clansman Meng Zhong had come up with a siege machine that could crack the Yibi of Tengcheng.

If it were someone else, Jun Sima Jingyu probably wouldn't care about it, but considering that Meng Zhong was a disciple of Zhuangzi and the righteous brother of Hui'an, it was worth Jing Zhong's attention to this matter.

In addition, Jing Wei also personally came to the barracks of the Meng clan soldiers to observe the construction of the well car.

Because Montessori's soldiers were not craftsmen who had mastered the mortise and tenon technology, the first well car was very rough, and many of the key positions had to be tied with straw rope and hemp rope, and the degree of solidity and stability was far from Meng Zhong's expectations, but as the first well block, it was barely passable.

"Let's build four first."

After listening to Meng Zhong's introduction, the military Sima Jingyu also became interested in this thing, sent soldiers to cut down trees, and helped Meng Zhong build four well carts in just five days.

On the first day of August, the army Sima Jingyi attacked Tengcheng again.

In this siege battle, the Song army used the Jingqi car for the first time.

This new type of siege equipment aroused the suspicion of the disciples of the Mo family in Tengcheng City.