"PS: I spent a lot of money today, and I feel distressed."

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"Report! There is a fire coming from the direction of the curved beam! ”

After nightfall on the third day of the ninth lunar month, a soldier who was monitoring the surrounding movements on the nearby hills reported the incident to Meng Zhongyu.

After learning of this, Meng Zhong at first mistakenly thought that Pang Xuan had attacked the camp of Zhao Cheng of Anping Jun or Li Dui of Fengyang Jun at night, and immediately brought Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu and more than 1,000 soldiers to see if there was a chance to help Pang Xuan.

However, when Meng Zhong and his party arrived in the Quliang area, they found that it was not only the camps of Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui that were burned, but also the fields near Quliang - the crops in the fields had turned into a sea of fire at this time.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhong immediately understood that it must be Wang Shi who set a few fires before retreating, not only burning his own camp, but also burning the crops in the fields of Quliangyi, so as not to fall into the hands of the rebels in the fields that were about to ripen.

"It's so ruthless......"

"He set fire to all the fields and crops of a city......

"Hmph, Master Wang...... It's like a joke. ”

Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu were not stupid, even though they were a little stunned at first when they looked at the fields full of raging fire, they still reacted quickly, or sighed that they were violent and ruined, or that Zhao Jun's behavior on the other side was really not worthy of being called Wang Shi.

In all fairness, Wang Shi abandoned Quliang, and this incident was not unexpected by Meng Zhong.

In his opinion, Wang Shi has not yet cracked his "tired enemy plan", so that he is passive everywhere, so there are only two endings waiting for Wang Shi, either being captured by the army led by Gongzi Zhang, or taking the initiative to abandon Quliang and retreat to Handan.

However, Meng Zhong did not expect that Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Dui and others would be so decisive and ruthless, and when they retreated, they resolutely set fire to the crops that were about to be harvested in the fields around Quliangyi, as if they had not considered how the people of Quliang Chengyi would live after losing this year's harvest.

Just like Mu Wu said, looking at the raging sea of fire in front of him, and then thinking that this fire was set by the Wang Shi who was stationed here before, this is really a bit ironic.

"What should I do next?" Hua Hu turned his head and asked Meng Zhongdao: "Occupy Quliang by homeopathy?" Or is it the pursuit of the evacuated Wang Shi? ”

Meng Zhong frowned when he heard this, and said: "Even if you pursue the Wang Division, the evacuated Wang Division still has at least more than 20,000 troops, not to mention that there are only more than 1,000 soldiers around us at the moment, even if thousands of our army are here, rashly pursued, it may not be possible to get any bargains, so let's ...... first."

He just wanted to say, "Take the curved beam first", when he suddenly faintly heard a burst of human voices in the field in the distance.

Pressed his hand to signal Meng Hu and the others to be quiet, Meng Zhong listened attentively, and this time he really heard the voice.

"Let's put out the fire—"

"Water—fetch water again—"

"The fields in the north can't be saved, go over there, the fire there can still be extinguished."

In the distance, voices like this can be heard.

"Could it be that Zhao people from Quliang City are fighting fires?"

Meng Zhong secretly guessed in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was very possible.

After all, Wang Shi could ruthlessly set fire to the crops in the fields when he retreated, but the people of Zhao in Quliang City might not see their year-hard harvest buried in the fire, so after Wang Shi evacuated, he immediately organized people to try to extinguish the fire - this is very likely.

The question is, how much can be saved after it has burned to this extent?

Meng Zhong looked up at the sea of fire in the distance, and his heart was not optimistic about it.

After thinking for a moment, he ordered: "In order to avoid unnecessary conflict, we will retreat for the time being, and come back tomorrow after dawn." ”

In this way, Meng Zhong led more than 1,000 rebels to return to the Qunqiu camp again.

At dawn the next day, Meng Zhong led Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu and more than 1,000 rebels to Quliangyi again.

As for Meng Sui, Le Jin, Le Xu, Xiang Yi and others staying in the camp to prepare for the relocation of the camp - after all, if Wang Shi had really evacuated from Quliang and retreated to Handan, then there was no need for them to be stationed here again.

Around midnight, Meng Zhong led his army to the area of Quliangyi.

The first thing that catches the eye is the former site of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's camp.

Meng Zhong is quite familiar with this land, because last month, he was here to fight wits and courage with Zhao Ben, Lian Po and others, but later the Handan army could not support it, so he abandoned this military camp and went to Fengyangjun's military camp and joined forces with the latter.

A few days later, Fengyangjun Li Dui couldn't hold on, and finally the whole army withdrew yesterday.

Yes, after walking a little further, Meng Zhong saw Fengyangjun's military camp, of course, there was only a ruin left at the moment, which shows that Wang Shi really retreated.

Passing through the middle of the two former military camps of Zhao Baojun and Li Duijun, Meng Zhong led more than 1,000 rebels into the territory of Quliangyi.

Similar to the large and small cities in the world, the whole Quliangyi is also composed of many towns built around Quliang City, and these many towns are like Mengyi, the hometown of Mengzhong and Menghu, which are like small villages.

No, he didn't go far before Meng Zhongjun passed by a small village-like township.

It is a pity that the fields around this township should have been overgrown with crops that were about to be harvested at this time, but at this moment, the fields were only scorched with black ashes.

It is worth mentioning that in the distance, a small crop has survived.

Meng Zhong took a closer look and found that the edge of the crop was scorched by the fire, apparently saved by the villagers in the nearby township last night.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

In the distance, there was a sound of metal tapping.

Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu are all familiar with this voice, they know that this is an early warning sound, most of them are the young people in the township who have discovered their traces, so they sent a warning to the village, which is not much different from their hometown Mengyi.

In Meng Zhong's impression, his hometown of Mengyi would sometimes sound similar warning sounds, mostly because of the sighting of wild beasts nearby, and occasionally to defend against exiled thieves.

Meng Zhong still remembers that in order to drive away a big wild boar that was eating crops, the young people in the same village sounded the warning, and then beat a group of people with weapons to besiege and kill the wild boar.

As for the results...... Wild boar is delicious.

"Wow!"

From the side, there was a light laugh from Menghu.

Meng Zhong raised his head and glanced at the left front, only to see that in the countryside not far away, the village gate was closed, and through the gap in the wooden village gate, a faint figure could be seen flickering.

On the watchtower next to the entrance of the village, you can also see two or three young men holding long swords but not wearing armor, staring intently at Meng Zhong and his party at the moment.

"Looks like we're scaring them a lot." Meng Hu chuckled.

This is not surprising, according to Meng Zhong's eyesight, there are at most more than 100 households in this township in front of him, and there are hundreds of clansmen, but the rebels behind him have a team of 1,000 people, and they are all soldiers with complete armor.

"Do you want to scare them?" Meng Hu laughed evilly, with a mischievous expression.

"Don't be too troubled!" Meng Zhong stopped Meng Hu in a low voice.

Of course, Meng Zhong believed that with the temperament of Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, they would never be able to rob innocent villagers, but the Daijun soldiers who were following them at this moment may not be, in this era when soldiers robbing the people were even considered commonplace, Meng Zhong didn't want to make a piece of the countryside be looted by the Daijun soldiers because of Meng Hu's temporary pranks.

No kidding, as long as Meng Zhong acquiesced, the Daijun soldiers behind him would definitely loot that township, and even kill the villagers who stopped them for this.

And this is what Meng Zhong does not want to see.

Leading the army forward, passing through one after another villages that were wary of their arrival, Meng Zhong and the others finally arrived at the south gate of Quliang City.

During this period, Meng Zhong did not see any whereabouts of Wang Shi.

It is worth mentioning that, just like those towns that passed before, Quliang City at this moment is also closed by the city gate, and because of the arrival of more than 1,000 troops such as Meng Zhong, the guards at the head of the city are in a panic, as if they are facing a great enemy.

"Y-Who are you? Where is the army?! ”

In a short time, someone shouted at the city gate.

Under Meng Zhong's affairs, Meng Hu stepped forward and shouted towards the city: "I am Meng Hu, the commander of the Xinwei Army, and behind me is Sima Mengzhong, the commander of my Xinwei Army!" …… In the city, don't you open the city gates?! ”

"Faith Guard ......"

There was a panic in the city, and then there was no response.

Even if Meng Hu shouted again and again, there was no response from the city.

"What should I do?"

Riding back to Meng Zhong's side, Meng Hu scratched his head and asked, "It seems that the city is unwilling to surrender?" ”

"Don't worry." Meng Zhong was relieved.

He knew very well that Quliang City was not unwilling to surrender, but fearful - tens of thousands of Wang Shi were repelled by them, and Quliang City, which was only garrisoned by a few hundred soldiers, how could he dare to stop the rebels?

It's just that the people in the city are afraid of the rebels, and as for what they are afraid of, of course, they are afraid of being looted by the rebels - after all, the name of the rebel is difficult to trust.

To be honest, not to mention that the people in the city didn't trust them, even Meng Zhong didn't trust the Daijun soldiers behind him very much.

He couldn't be sure, after the city in front of him opened the door and surrendered, the soldiers behind him would rush up and loot property in the city.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong suddenly felt that it was a good idea not to enter the city, as for the city in front of him, after Gongzizhang led the army to arrive, he could just throw the matter to the latter.

And just as Meng Zhong was about to lead the evacuation and patrol the nearby area to ensure that Wang Shi had evacuated, the south gate of Quliang City, not far away, opened a slight gap, and immediately, two old men on crutches walked out tremblingly.

As soon as he saw this situation, Meng Zhong immediately understood, turned over and dismounted and walked over.

Seeing this, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu also turned over and dismounted, following behind Meng Zhong.

The two old men on crutches were probably the township teacher and Li Zheng of Quliang City.

Similar to the situation in the Song Kingdom, the local official positions such as township teachers and Li Zheng were generally held by local family elders with high moral integrity, who dealt with the affairs of the people in the countryside on weekdays, but in special circumstances, they would also come forward to calm the situation, as in the case of more than a thousand rebels approaching the city.

"This ...... This young general, I don't know what to call it? ”

After the two sides approached, the two old men bowed their hands and saluted, and there was still a little panic on their faces that pretended to be calm.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong also arched his hand and bowed: "In Xia Xinwei Sima Meng Zhong." ”

As soon as he heard the words "Xinweijun", it was obvious that the fear in the eyes of the two old men was a little stronger, and he asked cautiously: "Meng Sima doesn't know...... I don't know if there's a noble one? ”

"The two of you don't have to be like this, they are also people who know the number of etiquette." Meng Zhong was relieved, and immediately asked the two old men: "As far as I know, the troops of Anpingjun and Fengyangjun have evacuated Quliang ...... yesterday."

Hearing this, one of the old men sighed, immediately realized his gaffe, and hurriedly laughed again, while the other old man, after hearing the titles of An Pingjun and Fengyangjun, flashed a little anger on his face, and replied with a sneer: "Indeed, before leaving, I ruined Quliang's harvest this year......

It may be that seeing Meng Zhong talking politely, as if he was a child of a big family, not the kind of arrogant rebel soldiers, the fear in the hearts of the two old men gradually subsided a little, and revealed some inside information to Meng Zhong.

For example, when Zhao Cheng of Anping and Li Dui of Fengyang were stationed in Quliang, they asked the families in Quliang City for a batch of money to motivate their subordinates, but when they decided to retreat to Handan yesterday, Zhao Cheng and Li Dui did not inform Quliang, and even set fire to the nearby fields before withdrawing, which made the Zhao people in the city resentful of those two.

Later, when it came to the question of what would happen to Quliang City, one of the old men cautiously told Meng Zhong that as long as Meng Zhong promised that his rebels would not loot or kill people in the city after entering the city, they would be willing to surrender the city.

Glancing back at the Dai Jun soldiers, Meng Zhong finally gave up the idea of stationing in the city, lest something happen that he didn't want to see.

He said to the two old men: "Today and tomorrow, Zhao Zhang, the king of Anyang, is about to lead the army into Quliang, and the two of them can say something to him at any time. …… As for our army, we will not enter the city for the time being, but I hope that the city will give some wine and reward the soldiers. ”

Seeing that Meng Zhong was so good at talking, the two old men were quite happy, and nodded again and again in agreement: "It should be, it should be!" ”

In this way, Meng Zhong temporarily stationed in the southern suburbs of Quliang City, and in Quliang City, he also brought enough drinks and dishes as agreed, so that Meng Zhong could treat his soldiers and appease the latter's dissatisfaction caused by not being able to enter the city.

The next day, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Gongzizhang led nearly 30,000 rebels to Quliang.

I have to say that Gongzizhang is actually a sensible person, or he doesn't want to lose the hearts of the people, so under the persuasion of Tian Buyu, Gongzizhang did not send troops to Quliang City, but only vaguely asked for a batch of money from various families in Quliang City, so that he could reward meritorious people.

Although ruthless, the family in the city still agreed and paid a lot of copper money.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, because of the large-scale evacuation of Wang Shi, Le Yi evacuated from the north of Feiyi and returned to Quliang, and Pang Xuan, Ju Xin, Zhao Hao and others, who were originally stationed in Xindu, also came to Quliang to celebrate the banquet under the call of Gongzi Zhang.

That night, Gongzi Zhang rewarded the troops and rewarded them for their merits, and distributed the money demanded from the various families in the city to the rebel generals under his command.

And Meng Zhong, of course, was listed as the first merit by Gongzi Zhang, and Gongzi Zhang also rewarded Meng Zhong with a large box of cloth coins alone, but Meng Zhong distributed them all to the soldiers under his command, whether it was the Xinwei Army or the thousands of generations of county soldiers, they were all treated equally.

As far as we can see, the soldiers under Meng Zhong's command were a little dissatisfied with the former not acquiescing to them entering the city to loot and loot, but seeing that Meng Zhong gave them all his rewards, these soldiers were still very impressed, and the cohesion of the soldiers was also enhanced.

In fact, in all fairness, as long as the Lord is not greedy for money, and from time to time he will give the rewards he has received to the soldiers below, there will naturally be soldiers who are willing to give him their lives, and it has nothing to do with Meng Zhong's personal charm.

On the sixth day of the ninth month, the scouts sent by Meng Zhong to the area around Handan sent back the news that Zhao Cheng, the king of Anping, Li Dui, the king of Fengyang, and others had retreated to Handan and built a camp about ten miles east of the city of Handan.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the armies of Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui, Wang Shifang has another army, which is under the banner of "Yanmen Shou" and "Zhao Yuan", which is the county guard of Yanmen County who is stationed in Yanmen County.

Although Gongzizhang was resentful of Wang Shifang's extra Zhao Yuan's army, there was nothing he could do, at most he said a few cruel words, "When I regain the throne in the future, I will definitely do what Zhao Yuan will do".

On the eighth day of the ninth month, Zhao generals Li Jian and Niu Jian led their troops to Handan and Quliang respectively.

The difference is that Li Yan bypassed the northwest of Xindu and went directly to Handan, and did not send anyone to negotiate with Gongzizhang from beginning to end; Niu Jian led the army to Xindu, built a military camp in the southeast of Xindu and the northeast of Quliang, and Niu Jian himself also sent several soldiers to Quliang to inform Gongzi Zhang that he had arrived with the army.

So the position of these two people is clear at a glance.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, Gongzi Zhang invited Niu Qian, Meng Zhong, and Pang Xuan to discuss with them the strategy of attacking Handan in the newly built rebel camp west of Quliang City.

Don't look at the Wang Shi on the opposite side of the army around this time to get the support of Zhao Yuan, Zhao Gu, Li Jian and others, and the rebel army only Niu Jian led the army to help, but considering that the Wang Division's reinforcements are all foot soldiers, and Niu Jian has more than 10,000 cavalry under his command, which makes Gongzizhang more confident, and he is impassioned in the military council, as if he does not take the opposite Wang Shi in his eyes at all.

But to be honest, although there are more reinforcements, Wang Shi's chances of victory are indeed not high.

At the military meeting that day, Tian Buyu put forward his opinions.

"Meng Zhong and Pang Xuan, I hope that the two of you will advance to Handan in the next few days to prepare for the next decisive battle, and Niu Qian's general, Gongzi hopes that you will defeat Zhao Xi's army first......"

"Zhao Xi?" Niu Jian looked disapproving.

"Exactly!" Tian Buyu said to Niu Qian: "In recent days, Han Gu has sent people to ask for help several times, hoping that Gongzi will send troops to support, otherwise Zhao Xi is afraid that he will break through the Qinghe River and attack the Dune Palace, but Gongzi currently has no extra troops to support Han Gu, so he can only rely on the Niu Army to ...... you."

"I'll leave this matter to Niu." Niu Jian nodded, and suddenly asked again: "Xu Jun's side, what is the current situation?" ”

Hearing this, Gongzizhang showed a little smile on his face, because as far as he knew, Xu Jun was still stationed in Gaotangyi at the moment, whether it was the fight between Wang Shi and the rebels, or the confrontation between Han Gu and Zhao Xi, they all turned a blind eye, so it can be seen that Xu Jun may also be caught in his rebel ranks.

So he said to Niu Qian: "After defeating Zhao Xi, you might as well make an appointment with Xu Jun, if Xu Jun is willing to serve me, I will never treat him badly." ”

"Huh."

Niu Jian chuckled, nodded and said, "Enwei and Shi...... I'll leave this matter to you. ”

On the same day, after the meeting, the rebel armies launched a series of actions one after another, Niu Jian led more than 10,000 cavalry straight to the Qinghe River east of the sand dunes, with the aim of defeating Zhao Xi's army and relieving the rebels' worries; Meng Zhong and Pang Xuan each led their respective armies and advanced westward.

On the 10th day of the ninth month, Meng Zhong led his army to Feiyi and decided to camp in this area.

Knowing that the rebels had entered, Fei You, the current owner of Feiyi and the son of Zhao Xiang Feiyi, was inevitably a little panicked at first, but after learning that the commander of this rebel army was Meng Zhong, Fei You did not panic.

First, Feiyi is not rich, and the Fei people living here (Bai Di Fei clan) used to make a living by farming, hunting, and fishing, even if the rebels came to loot, they couldn't loot anything good.

Second, Meng Zhong, who led the rebels this time, had a close friendship with Feiyou's father, Feiyi, and personally returned Feiyi's body before, which moved Feiyou and even Zhao Wanghe.

How could Meng Zhong, who values love and righteousness, sit back and watch the rebels plunder the Fei people in Feiyi?

Sure enough, after leading the army into Feiyi, Meng Zhong ordered Wushen to restrain the Daijun soldiers under his command not to rob the local Fei people, probably because Meng Zhong repeatedly defeated Wang Shi during this period of time and gained the trust of the Daijun soldiers, or it may be that Meng Zhong distributed his rewards to these Daijun soldiers and won their support, all in all, there were really no Daijun soldiers who took the risk of violating military discipline to secretly rob those Fei people.

This made Fat Young breathe a sigh of relief.

In the early morning of the next day, when Meng Zhong was inspecting the construction speed of the new camp, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Sima, there is a person who calls himself 'Fat Young', please see Sima outside the camp." ”

"Ask him to come in, no, I'll go myself."

Saying that, Meng Zhong walked straight to the outside of the camp, and sure enough, he saw the fat young man outside the camp who had been absent for many days, smiled and saluted the latter: "The fat young brother is here in person, is he worried that Meng Mou will raid this township?" ”

Because of the friendship between his father Feiyi and Meng Zhong, Feiyu and Meng Zhong were also nowhere to be seen, and said with a smile: "If it is someone else, I am naturally afraid, but Meng Sima, then it is a different ......matter" Saying, he put away the smile on his face, and said: "A talent like Meng Sima, committed to the rebels, isn't it throwing the pearl in the dark?" It's a pity, admittedly. ”

Meng Zhong smiled faintly when he heard this, noncommittal or not.

Seeing this, Fat You sighed, shook his head and said, "I also know that I can't persuade you, so let's change someone else to persuade you." ”

With that, he stepped out of the way.

At this time, I saw an old man in ordinary cloth behind him slowly raise his head, looked at Meng Zhong and smiled slightly: "Boy, don't come unharmed." ”

"Yang Wenjun......" Meng Zhong's eyes flashed a few different colors.

Why didn't he expect that Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao would come to see him in disguise as a fat young entourage.

"Haha." Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao smiled, and then lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Meng Zhong, the old man came to see you privately on the order of the king this time, isn't it worth it for you to prepare good wine and good food to entertain the old man?" ”

"Your Majesty? Zhao He?'

Meng Zhong's face changed slightly, and Zhao Wanghe's appearance flashed in his mind.

Looking at Zhao Bao, who was smiling, he frowned and thought for a moment, and finally he raised his hand to ask.

“…… Please! ”

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