Chapter Eighty-Three: Victory in the First Battle
After Wei Shihao and the others returned to Qingyuan Mansion, they immediately conveyed the emperor's edict that Qingyuan Mansion had approved the elimination of Lu Dahai to the state officials.
The governor was so excited that he couldn't cry silently, and it took a long time to calm down his overexcited mood.
"Shihao's eldest nephew, you have done me a great favor in Qingyuan Mansion! Come, come, come, take your seat. The state official pulled Wei Shihao and pressed him to his seat and sat down.
"I can't help it, I can't help it, this is the throne of the state official's office, where am I worthy of sitting here?" Wei Shihao tried to stand up several times, but was pressed by the state official.
"You saved my Qingyuan Mansion from fire and water, so that my Qingyuan Mansion finally had a chance to raise my eyebrows. In other words, without you, there would be no future of my Qingyuan Mansion, you are not worthy of sitting here, who else is worthy of sitting? The governor said with a smile.
"Why don't you just sit down? The stool won't bite your ass, and it won't make you a state official, is it so terrible? Mo Qinglian didn't have a chance to sit in the position of the state official, and he was not happy, so she deliberately damaged him.
"Qinglian is right, you can sit down and receive a thank you gift from me!" As he spoke, the governor knelt down.
Wei Shihao was flattered, and immediately bounced up from the chair, blocked the state official, and said, "I can't help it!" I am a citizen of Qingyuan Mansion, and the governor is my Abba's old friend, everything I do for Qingyuan Mansion is what I should do. What's more, this credit is not mine alone, and I will pay it back to Abba, Qinglian, and Liu Chongshan...... What about Morman and the others! ”
This is true, but after counting the people who entered Beijing, why did you mention Mo Man again? He did it on purpose, right? Mo Qinglian listened with a sour heart.
Mo Tusi of Nandan County felt that after his brother had the emperor's dictation, the prestige of Qingyuan Mansion would be revived just around the corner, so he would definitely be able to get a lot of light in the future with a little Tusi.
Mo Tusi was excited, and said: "In this matter, Wei Dusi did a good job, and we simply suppressed Ensheng to help Wei Dusi regain the position of Tusi as soon as possible." My Qinglian is not small, and if her marriage is dragged down further, she will become an old girl. ”
Belch? Aren't you talking about politics? Why did Mo Tusi get involved in his daughter's marriage?
"Abba......" Mo Qinglian stomped her feet in shame, but her heart was beautiful, with a smile on her face, three points of shyness and one point of anger, and she looked very cute.
Wei Shihao's face also turned red, and he was about to say something, when Wei Daotou said with a smile on the side: "Father-in-law, where is this?" Isn't that getting down to business? ”
"It's a matter of taking down the land and sea department, and there is no need to delay the matter of taking the Xincheng Tusi Yamen?" Mo Tusi said to the state official with a smile, turned around and said to Wei Daotou: "I still say the same thing, my Qinglian has to be Mrs. Tusi when she passes the door." We've all said it, Wei Darthead, you don't want to deny it! ”
"Abba......" Mo Qinglian stomped her foot again, her pink face had reached the root of her ears, and she was embarrassed to snatch the door.
Today was not an official meeting, so Mo Qinglian's actions caused the officials in the official residence to laugh.
Wei Dart said: "Which one wants to deny?" We said okay, the dowry is a pig, 300 catties of local wine, everyone testifies, you can't open your mouth when the time comes! ”
It turned out that the important purpose of Mo Tusi and Wei Daotou often drinking and chatting together in the past few months was to discuss the marriage of the two young people.
The two old men drank and chatted, and their relationship got better and better, and they became good friends who talked about everything.
Wei Shihao felt that the two old men were not serious, so he had to shake his head helplessly and sneak out of the door.
Before, some county orders were worried that they would cause death if they offended Lu Dahai, so they did not dare to strictly enforce the transfer order of the state official; Now, after they learned that the state official had an edict from the emperor, several county commanders under the jurisdiction of Qingyuan Mansion took the initiative to send troops to support the crusade against the land and sea tribes.
In a short period of time, the number of troops that can be mobilized in Gyeongwonfu has reached about 30,000.
After the land and sea troops arrived in the Jingliu area, they joined forces with Deng Weili to recruit troops and horses, and the strength of the army has rapidly expanded to about 20,000 people. Judging from the strength of the troops alone, although there is a huge disparity between the two sides, they still have to fight.
In November of that year, after the strength of the army had grown, the state official announced with confidence that the army would be divided into three ways to crusade against the land and sea divisions.
These three roads are not much different from the battle plan arranged by Wei Shihao to feint to attack the land and sea at that time, so Wei Shihao was entrusted with an important task, with 3,000 troops and more than 10,000 people transferred from various counties, as the main attack, attacking from the middle.
Chief Xie was the commander-in-chief, following Wei Shihao's troops.
Due to the resentment against Lu Dahai for many years and nowhere to release, this time the state official followed General Xie to the front line to supervise the battle.
"Report ......" A spy rode a fast horse and galloped in the opposite direction of the troops' advance, and when he arrived in front of Wei Shihao's war horse, he immediately dismounted and knelt on the ground, and said.
"Speak!"
"Our troops are about ten miles from the enemy's position."
Wei Shihao said: "Okay! The troops continued to advance. ”
After speaking, Wei Shihao turned his head to Qin Zhenhui and Liu Chongshan next to him and said, "I'll go up and have a look." ”
The enemy formation is located in a valley about 500 meters wide in Limiao Village, which is built by stones along the special terrain, more than 10 feet high and 6 zhang wide.
In the past, there was no official road through the Miao Village, and the villagers built the gatehouse with stones in order to defend against bandits, but later after the official road passed, the gate of the gatehouse was widened, and it lost its defensive function.
A few months ago, Lu Dahai's forward defensive position was set up in the Dadong polder, but with the support of Gonggong An behind him, his ambition exploded, and he immediately expanded the territory and built fortifications in Limiao Village, and the abandoned gatehouse was repaired by him in a short time, like a city wall blocked on the official road.
When Wei Shihao's troops came to a mile in front of the gatehouse, Lu Dahai's 3,000 troops were already waiting there under the leadership of Lu Man and Deng Qiantu.
Lu Man and Deng Qiantu carried spears and broadswords in their hands respectively, rode on black and red horses, stood in front of the team, stared ahead, and looked empty, as if they wanted to end the battle before the other party attacked the gatehouse.
"Big brother......" Deng Qiantu had never fought before, and said in fear.
"Please call Toji!" Lu Man said solemnly.
"Yes, Lu Dusi, should we go back to the gatehouse, take advantage of the natural danger of the gatehouse, wait for work, and kill them on their backs?"
"Scared? Mr. Xie, I don't care about it, how old is Wei Shihao? The battle of Shuilongzhai made this kid take advantage of the loophole and make a big profit, this time I want to see how capable Wei Shihao is as a rookie? ”
"That's right, but we only have 6,000 troops to guard the gatehouse, and the other side has tens of thousands of people, which is twice as much as us, and the difference in strength is a bit big! Now, you and I have brought out another 3,000 troops, and if anything goes wrong, the consequences will be serious. Deng Qiantu was still a little worried.
"Okay, don't say it again, it's going to disturb the morale of the army. The area of Limiao is high and densely forested, and the valley is narrow, and there is a maximum of 3,000 people here to attack at the same time, so what is the use of having a large number of them? Besides, we can still retreat to the gatehouse, and what can the enemy do to me? What's more, most of the people led by Wei Shihao are weak and scumbag village warriors, and if they want to compete with my Lu Man's troops, they are a little more tender. Lu Man still insisted on going his own way.
Wei Shihao's troops had already detected this enemy situation, and stopped about two miles away from Lu Man's troops.
After Wei Shihao understood the situation ahead, he asked the troops to form a battle formation and continue to advance, while he carried the Glaive Knife and took the lead.
This is about to fight with the enemy, Liu Chongshan held a double hammer in his hand, was very excited, and also rushed to the front of the team.
"Hmph, a rookie who has never led a soldier has also become the capital of Qingyuan Mansion, according to my Lu Mou, he brought me food, right?" Just when the two sides were connected, Lu Man said to Wei Shihao contemptuously.
After Wei Shihao waved his hand to stop the troops, he said with a smile: "Is there Lu Man in front of his defeated generals?" Don't we know who the rookie is when we fight? Do you have a kind of two tricks with someone Wei? ”
"General Ben has been waiting here for a long time, and it is your words that I have been waiting for. Come, take your life! ”
Lu Man's legs clamped, and the black war horse immediately rushed out like an arrow off the string.
"Hey......" Deng Qiantu knew Wei Shihao's ability very well, and just wanted to stop it, but it was too late.
The corners of Wei Shihao's mouth turned up slightly, and he also patted his horse to meet him.
The two armies were fighting, the generals of both sides were single-handed, and the soldiers could not attack without orders, so the troops on both sides waited in place, waiting for the opportunity to attack.
After 30 rounds of fighting between the two of them, Wei Shihao gradually gained the upper hand.
"Boy, there are two hits, but don't be too happy."
After Lu Man roared angrily, a "throat lock gun" went straight to Wei Shihao's throat.
The gun, fast, accurate, and ruthless, came in a blink of an eye, which made Wei Shihao's soldiers gasp.
"Good time!"
Wei Shihao flicked the glaive, and the head of the gun was out of the way, and he didn't threaten at all.
At this time, the state official and Mr. Lu had already arrived, and seeing that the two were fighting, they couldn't help but show a look of harmony.
Wei Shihao is fighting more and more, on the other hand, Lu Man's physical strength has begun to decline, and the victory or defeat is self-evident.
"Look at the knife!"
The powerful Glaive Knife slashed down from top to bottom, heading towards Lu Man's head.
The knife technique was so fast that Lu Man was shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly raised the gun to parry.
"Zheng!" A knife slashed at the barrel of the gun, Lu Man barely held it, but he felt that the two tiger's mouths were numb from the shock, and the spear almost fell off.
Wei Shihao stepped down the well-trained white dragon horse and just passed by Lu Man's black horse, and was about to turn around, but before he could turn around, the glaive knife was already like a dragon in the air, and the blade flipped.
"Look at the knife!"
Wei Shihao made a move "Rhino Moon Looking", and the Glaive Knife immediately reversed its blade and slashed across Lu Man's chest.
"Huh?" Lu Man exclaimed, if this knife is slashed, his body will be divided into two parts.
He didn't have time to react to the fight, and instinctively bounced back from his horse.
Lu Man's movements were fast, but Wei Shihao's knife was faster, and the moment the former flew away from the horse's back, the tip of the knife still cut a deep cut in his chest.
With a muffled sound of "bang", Lu Man held his chest, his ass fell heavily to the ground, and blood immediately gushed out from his fingers, making his swollen and red face wrinkled like a bitter gourd. However, he gritted his teeth and did not dare to shout, because he knew that if he opened his mouth, the blood in his body would spit out from his mouth.
The knife hurt him a little badly, but fortunately it did not hurt his internal organs and did not threaten his life.
"Help!" Deng Qiantu's face changed drastically, and the moment he saw the glaive knife slashing into Lu Man's chest, he screamed.
After Wei Shihao defeated Lu Man, he was relieved, and just as he turned the horse's head to take Lu Man's head, he suddenly "swish, swish, swish" countless cold arrows flew down from the gatehouse.