PS: The plot needs it, a 5,000-word chapter today, and two more tomorrow......

As the small leader of the robbers who was captured by Zhao Wuxian said, the one who besieged Zhongdu with three or four thousand people this time was Suju Ren Lou.

Onozawa has no thieves, only wild people who make a living by fishing and shooting. However, for more than 100 years, the surrounding countries have encountered disasters from time to time, either this year's "spring snow and rain", or next year's "summer flood, no wheat seedlings". The princes and scholars were unreasonable, the localities were corrupt, the taxes and labor were getting heavier and heavier, and the government was harsh and fierce, and the savages and peasants who could not survive had to escape these disasters in the wilderness.

They used to be mixed in the grass, and usually lived a life of fishing, hunting and gathering in the water, and went out to loot during the autumn harvest. Their forces are not under their own control, and even the countries are different, including the Lu people, the Song people, the Wei people, the Cao people, the Yi people, and even the Changdi, Rong, and Huaiyi who ran in hundreds of years earlier. You occupy a small island, I occupy a water pool, and from time to time they fight each other, after all, it is difficult to become a big weapon, as long as a random doctor encircles and suppresses, they can be chased to the end of the world.

This situation was not changed until the arrival of willow planters.

After all, Liu Xia is the concubine of the doctor, and in the past few years in Qufu, he also learned the six arts of the gentleman, and turned over some ancient military books, which is different from the rest of the bandits. He started from scratch with a few light friends and worked hard to build up his own power around Onozawa, known as a thief.

Because the thieves are often full of clever strategies, brave in battle, and fair in distribution, and follow their own "way", they appear to be different, and they soon won support, and dozens of large and small bandits in the vicinity were subdued.

Then the thief began to set up a military system, and the thief was restrained by military law, and he called himself a general. According to the number of forces, the bandits were divided into several parts. Those with more than 1,000 people are called division commanders, and those with less than 1,000 people are called brigade commanders and pawn commanders. A good era began to terrify the surrounding princes' cities.

But it was not a good time for Lou.

Lou Lou is over forty years old and has a thin figure. He was originally a Chinese light man in Suju City, Lu State, who was hunted down by the Sikou Department for murder, fell into the grass and entered Onoze, and became a big thief. After the rise of the thief, he could not be defeated, but was co-opted, but he has always retained his strength, and there are more than 2,000 people under him, and now he is the "division commander". It is the largest force in the thief, and there are several "brigade commanders" and "pawn commanders" who are attached to him.

"The general is really a saint, I remember he once said, before looting, judge the situation to decide whether you can do it, it is wise; It is holy to be able to guess the location of the contents in the dwelling; When it comes to action, the first to step forward is brave. This attack did it all. ”

Looking at the inner city of the central capital that was about to be broken in front of him, a pawn next to Di Lou said with emotion.

This expedition in late autumn and early winter. The group of thieves had a plan in advance, so they were able to catch several surrounding towns off guard in just a few days, and the results were very great.

Di Lou, who had always felt that he should be on an equal footing with the thief, frowned and sneered: "Shengming? Although willow plantar is intelligent. But is it worthy of the word? That's right, the civil strife in the Lu country, as well as the reality of Zhongdu. He guessed it all right! That is, it is speculated that Yuncheng's reality is in vain, and it is in vain for people to run away. Lost more than 100 people......"

The captain knew that he had lost his words, and hurriedly fell silent.

Back at the end of September. The thieves who have been paying attention to the situation in Qufu in Lucheng gathered a group of thieves and asserted through various news that within a month, there will be a big chaos in Lu country! Sure enough, a series of troop transfers followed, and both Liqiu and Yuncheng in the west sent soldiers to the capital.

Yuncheng was empty, so the thieves sent more than a thousand people to test it, but found that it was hard bones, and some people with the accents of Jin and Qi occupied Yuncheng the day before. The robbers were a little late, and they did not catch up with the fire, and they were very well guarded, and there was no gap to take advantage of, so they retreated, and only used the advantage of the bandits to cut off the water and land transportation, so that the soldiers of the west could not advance eastward.

Although the first step of the plan was thwarted, the thieves were not discouraged, and most of the thieves were still concentrated on the east coast of Onozawa, while the nearby Nakadu, which had become more and more relaxed in its defenses in the past two years, gave the thieves a chance.

In the face of Yanwu Xiuli's Zhongdu Yi, the thieves sent people to pretend to be homeless people, and mixed into the outer Guo to cooperate with the outside, so it didn't take too much effort to take it. But the inner city is more tenacious, and has been wearing down his patience for the past few days.

Eventually, the thieves decided to leave the place behind, and headed south with thousands of men towards Kancheng, the ultimate goal of his rebellion, where another of his subordinates had already besieged the city and was waiting for reinforcements to attack.

But Di Lou objected to attacking the tomb of the Duke of Lu, thinking that this would incur punishment from the Emperor of Heaven, and it was better to honestly break the middle and grab the grain.

The thief chuckled at this, and didn't say anything, but put down the prophecy again, saying that since there is Kong Qiu as the ruler of the city, then the warehouse in this city may not be full, and it is enough to rob the corn in the houses of the people outside Guo.

Lou Lou scoffed at this, he is a person of Suju, and naturally knows that the previous doctors and Yi Zai here are all greedy people, and the taxes are all subject to one-half, I'm afraid that the new Zhongdu Zai is not much better, there must be surplus grain!

As a result, although the defense of Zhongdu Yi was negligent, it was still tenacious, and the outer Guo resisted for a long time, and the people ran into the inner city. So Lou Lou was very anxious, he knew that the warehouse containing grain was in the inner city, and if it was delayed for one more day, the people inside would eat one more day of food!

"If the inner city is broken, there will be corn to eat this winter, and there will be brown clothes to wear, and the first to ascend will reward the woman!"

Clothing, food, women, this is what makes the thieves rise up and fight bravely.

The robbers who climbed from the dwellings of the outer Guo to the inner city basically did not wear armor, and few of them held serious weapons, many of them took agricultural tools and hunting tools, such as rakes, rakes, bamboo bows, etc., and were even poorer, using bamboo spears, wooden sticks, and stone-throwing ropes, and the equipment could be described as extremely simple. They don't even have a large ordnance to siege the city, and they can break through the outer Guo of the central capital, which is completely the wisdom of thieves at work, and the only way to deal with the inner city is to use human heads to pile up the moth of victory.

He divided his 3,000 men into several teams and rushed to the rammed earth walls of the inner city under the sparse arrows. The stone-throwing hand threw out the stone with a leather rope and shot at the wall, and more than 30 armor soldiers, under the protection of the robbers who carried the door panels, carried the thick tree trunk and took turns to hit the wall and the city gate.

The cries of women and children in the city resounded. A corner of the wall had already been broken and opened, and bandits had swarmed in. But there are still many people on the walls and streets who have taken off their wide Confucian clothes. Soldiers in armor lead the rest of the soldiers into battle. Among them, the tall tendriled old man on the gatehouse was even braver, and he drove a large carved lacquer bow. Every time the bowstring sounded, a thief would be struck, and the arrow would almost come out of the body!

It is the middle capital of Yi Zai Kongqiu!

The archery technique that he shot in the garden of the prime and the audience was like a wall was not abandoned because he taught his disciples the six arts of archery!

A few days ago, this man was a mild-mannered old man, standing on the wall and bowing to the thief, and there was a debate between the two. To the surprise of Lou Lou, Liu Xia was able to speak well. It was even better than Kong Qiu, who was known as the "erudite and knowledgeable" of the Lu State!

Unexpectedly, today, he and those disciples who seemed to be powerless took off their deep clothes and wide sleeves, picked up swords and bows, and all of them were able to go up to the wall to resist, and under the command of Kong Qiu, they repelled the attacks of the thieves many times.

Lou knew that as long as he knocked down the Kongqiu who commanded from the wall above his head, he could crush the morale of the entire city!

"Bring me the stone!"

"Drag stone" is also the western stone throwing rope, which is a leather cover with a rope tied at each end, and the ends of the two ropes are held in the hand when used. Spin sharply over your head and throw the stones out of the suit. Simple and easy to source, it is easier to craft and carry than a bow and arrow, and can throw cobblestone out of a distance of tens of paces to kill enemies. It is the main throwing weapon among bandits.

Lou placed a stone throwing in his leather bag, grabbed the rope at the end of the belt and swung it around his head, and when the speed was at its maximum in the fourth or fifth lap. With a flick of his arm, he threw it at the hole on the wall that was opening the bow!

He specially had people grind the sleek stone balls that increased the hit rate and broke through the air. Right on target!

Because twenty or thirty paces away, he couldn't see where he hit. I only knew that the tall Kong Qiu suddenly fell, and there was a crying shout on the wall, and several disciples turned around and rushed over there after hearing the sound, and they didn't even care about the thieves who climbed up in front of them.

Although there are many disciples of Kongqiu, there are only dozens of people left here, and not all of them have his great strength and bravery, so it is just a drop in the bucket. What's more, after Kong Qiu fell, there were no more people who knew the soldiers on the entire wall, and they lost their command, and the situation was chaotic.

Lou Lou was very proud, the Zhongdu Zai Kongqiu, probably dead, I don't know what Liu Xia, who was still debating with him under the wall a few days ago, and said that he was speechless, what would he think after hearing about it?

He took advantage of this opportunity to send men to attack, and in a short time the walls were already broken in many places, at least hundreds of people poured in, and the robbers let out shouts of excitement.

This city is gone, he is already full of joy and wants to go in and search the treasury, he doesn't believe that the judgment of the thief is true, a huge city of a thousand rooms, at least there can be food for his subordinates to survive the winter!

However, at this moment, a shout sounded in the east of Wai Guo, causing a series of chaos among the group of thieves!

……

When Zhao Wuxian and the others approached the central capital and climbed a small hill several zhang high to look into the distance, they found that the entire city was surrounded. Far away, near, east and west, in the open land outside the city, on the Tu Road, and in the inner Lu of the outer Guo District. Everywhere there were bandits in rags and armed with all sorts of wood and stone weapons. Roughly calculated, there were at least three or four thousand people, who seemed to be the size of ants at first glance, but there were all over the city.

"A lot of ......"

Several military officials were also slightly surprised when they saw it, if they didn't consider the four hundred Lu people who were temporarily recruited, they only had five or six hundred combat strength. It would be difficult to completely expel so many enemies, but they had only defeated a group of 500 bandits in the west of Zhongdu two months earlier, and there were only more than 100 at that time.

Zhao Wuxian analyzed: "Although there are a large number of them, but if you look closely, those thieves originally came to steal food, most of them were covered with vegetables, their feet were weak and weak, and they didn't know how long they had been hungry, and they were holding wooden and stone tools, which were simple and rough, much worse than the pawns of the Yang Tiger that we dealt with a few days ago. Our soldiers had rested well last night, and this morning they were well fed, and their weapons and shields were excellent. This is to wait for work with ease, to wait for hunger, no matter how many thieves there are, they are not my enemies. ”

The officers claimed to be taught, and then Zhao Wuxian asked Ran to hear how he would respond to the battle.

Ran begged: "According to the confession, there are 2,000 people in the group of thieves, led by a middle thief named Di Lou, and the rest are small thieves who are not under each other's command. In the event of a surprise attack, they will scatter and flee. We should suddenly appear behind them. Then he slammed his voice, and he was concentrating on attacking the inner city. Under the front and back attacks, it will definitely be shocked and inexplicable, and morale will collapse! ”

Zhao Wuxian adopted Ran Qiu's suggestion, he reined in his horse, ordered the whole team of warriors, and lined up in front, the newly recruited Lu people had not experienced field battles, so they didn't need to go into battle first, and stayed behind to guard the army to intercept the escapees.

Wait until the six hundred soldiers march in an assault column to a mile from the city. The sharp-eyed thieves saw them and immediately shouted in a loud voice to warn them.

Before the shout fell, Zhao Wuxian waved his flag and gave the order to attack.

So with the sound of the intensive beating of the waist drum, countless armor soldiers in armor and neat formations emerged from the roads, fields, and hills, trotting forward with neat steps, and at the same time striking swords, shields, and spears, shouting in unison. Sound Shocking:

"Doctor Zhao's handsome military officers will eliminate thieves and thieves, and you will not abandon your weapons and surrender early!"

……

"Doctor Zhao's handsome military officers will eliminate thieves and thieves, and you will not abandon your weapons and surrender early!"

The sound came one after another, like a tide, rushing into the ears of Lou Lou of Wai Guo Duzhan. Immediately shocked.

Zhao Wuxian's name, because of the battle of Zhen and the defeat of the grain robbers in the west of Zhongdu Yi last time, is still quite loud in Dayozawa.

Liu Xia also attaches great importance to this person. The reason why Yuncheng did not succeed was because the Liqiu soldiers under Zhao Wuxian entered indiscriminately. He sent men to cut off the land and water passages to the west. It is to beware of the Zhao soldiers in Yuncheng who are known as "warriors". So Lou Lou knew that this newly appointed doctor was not easy to provoke.

In fact, the thief still looked down on Zhao Wuxian. In his mind, it was impossible for Lucheng's Yang Hu and Sanhuan to decide the winner in the internal struggle for half a month, so he dared to send troops to attack Kancheng. But out of prudence, before leaving, he also instructed Lou Lou to stay here.

Attacking the city and stealing grain is secondary, if there is a small number of troops coming from the direction of Lucheng, resist it; If there are many soldiers, they will retreat and harass them, so as to buy time for him to conquer Kancheng and break the temple and dig the tomb.

Lou Lou is very self-controlled, and he has always been obedient to the thief, and he didn't take this instruction to heart, and how can he know what to arrange an outpost? His subordinates were extremely scattered, and it was the norm to loot grain and loot all night without returning, and he didn't think about it, so he didn't notice it until Wuxian and his soldiers appeared in front of him like a divine soldier, but it was too late.

Suddenly, whether it was the suburbs of the city or the outer Guo District, the group of thieves all advanced and retreated.

"Withdraw, get out of the city quickly!" Lou Lou's mind was blank, and he only thought about withdrawing the 3,000 people from Waiguo first.

It took a whole moment, and after hurriedly leaving the outer Guo, he saw that the attackers who had rushed to a hundred paces away, all wearing armor, looked like they were pressed layer by layer, and there were no less than five or six hundred people.

Lou Lou panicked and commanded the bandits under his command to resist, and finally gathered more than 1,000 people to disperse in a frontal formation. However, the soldiers fought desperately, although the number was small, but like a sharp arrow off the string, they went straight into the more than a thousand bandits, and gradually killed from the outskirts of the city to the outer wall.

No one dared to approach the spearmen's two spears, and once they ran in unison, they could even string three or four corpses on them, and what was even more rare was that they could keep the array unchanged during the battle.

The sword and shield soldier is the flexible part of the attack, able to cut through all obstacles in front of him, and is harvesting the scattered bandits.

On the outskirts of the city, in the wilderness, there were archers, unscrupulous or long-range projectiles, or shouting for help. The spear-throwers, who were excited at the sight of blood, crushed any robber who dared to resist like hungry wolves.

The group of thieves was in a hurry, and most of them were peasant hunters before the thieves, and they were no match for the warriors at all, and they were scattered by the sword and shield hands and the spear array in the blink of an eye. Yu Xi gathered with dozens of light knights, raised his spear and opened his bow, and launched an attack on the left and right rear of the main force of the robbers.

In front of Zhao Wuxian, Mu Xia personally supervised the heavy foot soldiers, after Yu Xi led the knights, left and right Tian Ben and other fierce attacks of the fierce attack, this routine is unpleasant, the robbers are attacked on all sides, where can they resist.

In just a quarter of an hour, the battle of Zhongduyi was over. The collapse of morale is contagious, and the bandits, who have not yet made any decent resistance, quickly lose their fighting spirit in the face of the seemingly invincible warriors, and thousands of bandits are all routed, turning around and fleeing in all directions.

Zhao Wuxian sent Yu Xi to pursue the remnants of the enemy, while Xiang Tuo took the people of Lucheng who had not yet had time to participate in the battle to watch the prisoners. He led Ran Qiu and the assistant of the Sikou Department named Fei Chou into the central capital.

……

When entering Waiguo, there were still some thieves who reacted slowly here who didn't have time to run out, some gathered in the streets and alleys to resist stubbornly, and some hid in the houses in Lilu and couldn't shrink out.

Walking on the streets of Waiguo, Zhao Wuxian couldn't believe that this was the place where he had ordered Yinghe to sing two months ago: the things in the people's homes had been rummaged through and thrown everywhere, and the broken pottery shards were scattered everywhere, and it was shocking to watch.

When the army crosses, there will be a disaster year, and the division is full of thorns, not to mention the influx of hungry wolf-like robbers?

"Under the rule of Confucius, it is known that men and women are not painted, the road is not left behind, and the Zhongdu Yi is completely finished. The wai guo has been broken, and it is inevitable that the household registration and taxes will be greatly reduced this year, and it may take a generation to regain the vitality of the past......"

Wuxian felt sorry for this city in his heart, but he was also relieved.

Confucius's method of cultivating martial arts and reviving Zhou politics may be a very lofty and mellow ideal, but it was shattered by the bloody reality in the troubled times. This is also the reason why the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period rarely used Confucianism to govern, but Lu Guo used Zisi, although it was also a little effective in respecting the monarchy, but it did not even splash a splash in the wave of changes of the Seven Heroes.

Now, if you look down on the western part of the country from a high altitude, you will find that the seemingly bright candle flame in Zhongduyi has been blown out by a breeze set off by thieves.

From now on, the Sanyi under the jurisdiction of Zhao Wuxian will become the only lighthouse in the Lu country!

They walked towards the inner city, where the wall had collapsed, but had survived because the soldiers had arrived in time to rescue them, and a group of Confucius disciples greeted them at the door, and the surviving people of the city also gathered on the side of the road to watch.

In the past, although these disciples were poor, they liked to wear Confucian clothes, and when the wind blew, they were all long-sleeved fluttering—although there were often patches and threads on the long sleeves. But now, they are wearing armor or short clothes, and everyone has blood stains on their bodies, even Zeng Dian is no exception, and I don't know if it is someone else's or my own.

Seeing Zhao Wuxian coming, the sons of Confucius who came out to greet him bowed down together under the leadership of the eldest Zeng Dian, and the etiquette was standardized: "Zhongdu Yi can survive the theft, thanks to Dr. Zhao's hard work, and the grace of rescue will never be forgotten!" ”

Zhao Wuxian took a step forward, supported everyone with both hands, and spoke hurriedly: "Yu rescue is late, I can't help the sons, dare to ask where Confucius and Ziyuan are?" Are you okay? ”

He swept his gaze and saw Ran Yong, Min Loss, Gongzhichang, Zai Yu, etc., but there was no Kong Qiu and no Yan Hui among them. And everyone hung their heads and their faces were very sad, and several of them had tears on their faces.

"What's wrong!?"

Zhao Wuxian secretly said that it was not good, and the careful Ran Qiu also had a premonition, and his face suddenly changed greatly...... (To be continued......)

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