Kancheng, the place where the tomb of the Duke of Lu is located, on the way to the mountain, a narrow city was specially built to protect the mountain mausoleum, and the wall is several miles long. After being besieged by a group of thieves for half a decade, the momentum of the mountains and clouds and the water cage has long been gone, and only the soldiers and civilians in the city are panicked.

"Why haven't there been reinforcements yet?"

As the mausoleum of the ancestors, Lu Hou and Sanhuan's defense of Kancheng is not heavy, and there are two brigades of Lu soldiers stationed here all year round. They are all loyal and brave people selected from the countrymen, and they are replaced in turn, but the number must be maintained at one thousand, and the armor is also the best.

However, a few days earlier, this Qianlu soldier rashly attacked to expel the sporadic thieves, but fell for the thief's strategy, and was ambushed at a grassy beach, and 500 people were reimbursed. The rest fled back to the city, where the bandits raised their abandoned banners and spears outside the walls, never daring to take a single step out of the city.

Kancheng was a new area more than 100 years ago, and there were not many residents who moved in, so there were only three or four thousand people including the old, weak, women and children, who barely filled the long wall and looked out in horror.

"In the past, although there were many bandits, they were scattered and undisciplined, and they were not to be feared. However, the thieves are a little disciplined, and they are quite able to form a formation, and the guards of the tomb cannot be defeated...... "This is the urgent message that Kan Chengzai delivered to Qufu.

If you climb to the top of the city and look at it, there are 5,000 thieves in the wilderness! The outskirts of the city were densely packed with simple tents. But more than sixty percent of them are scattered and undisciplined, one in the east and one in the west. When attacking, there is a swarm, and when there is nothing to do, it is everywhere. Although there were also leaders such as "brigade commanders" and "pawn commanders" running and shouting among them. Desperately restrained, but with little effect.

But the field half a mile from the city stood more than 2,000 people. He is quite disciplined, and he is very clear compared to other thieves. From a distance, their weapons were also better, with ge, spears, halberds, bows and arrows, and there were even hundreds of armor soldiers wearing armor, these people called themselves "thieves", that is, the old team of thieves who started in Onozawa.

Standing in the middle of them was a burly, handsome commander with a bun. Dressed in a brown armor, his eyes are round and bright like stars, and he is the willow planter. He didn't drive, he didn't ride, he sat on the mound with his legs outstretched, his hand on the hilt of his sword, and the yellow weed in his mouth.

They were engaged in a military discussion to siege the city, but the map of Kan City drawn on the ground with withered branches was only halfway drawn before stopping, but it was interrupted by a sentry from the north.

Following the shocking news that the civil strife in Lucheng had subsided. Another bombshell news arrived, and the thief listened to the outpost's report on the battle of Zhongdu, and frowned.

A "brigade commander" next to him said incredulously: "There are 4,000 people under Di Lou, although the combat strength is not as good as the general's pawn. But he was completely defeated in one day, and even he was captured? ”

The thief sneered a few times and said, "Lou Lou has always been dissatisfied with me, so let him not rush to attack the city." Surrounding the city, send scouts far away to guard against reinforcements from the Lu people, and buy me time. Who knew that he was not convinced. It's completely the opposite, why don't you die? It's good. Since then, no one in the group has dared to disobey me. ”

He asked hesitantly: "But I thought that Yang Hu and Sanhuan of Lu City were in the fire, and they would not be able to win or lose without half a moon, and they would not have the time to pay attention to me, who would have expected it to be so fast, who is the commander of the Lu army?" ”

"It is said to be Dr. Zhao Wuxian......

"Zhao Wuxian?" The thief's face changed slightly, and he spit out the weeds in his mouth far away.

"What kind of excitement is this Jin person coming? I remember that he went to Lucheng with seven or eight hundred soldiers only half a month ago, and probably participated in the fire war. Now after a few days, he turned around and destroyed Lou Lou, could it be that the civil strife in Lucheng ended so quickly, and he also had his credit? ”

The group of thieves in the central capital was swept away, more than 1,000 were captured, nearly 1,000 were killed and wounded, and the remaining more than 2,000 fled in all directions, of which 1,000 fled to the vicinity of Kancheng. After gathering the remnants of the army, the number of thieves reached 6,000, but his original situation of worry-free thinking also came to an end, and Zhao Wuxian's soldiers were entrenched in the central capital and could go south at any time.

The thief looked at the city that was still holding on in the distance and said: "Although I have consumed five hundred soldiers guarding the tomb here, these people are the elite of the Lu country after all, and although their morale is low, they have not collapsed. The people in the city have also been loyal to Luhou for generations and have helped resist with all their might, so if they want to break through, it will take at least half a decade. ”

A thief suggested worriedly: "General, the Lu soldiers are just outside the one-day journey to the north, why don't you retreat for the time being?" ”

"Why be afraid! You are now my brigade commander, with hundreds of killings in your hands, and you still think you are a thief who is being chased everywhere by the soldiers? How can you give up so easily? ”

Although the thieves were slightly surprised by the defeat of Zhongdu, they did not flinch, but were both frustrated and courageous, and wanted to realize their ambitions, without a little bit of contention.

Facing his subordinates who were a little apprehensive, he said: "Behind this wall is the mausoleum of the Nine Palaces of the Lu Kingdom, what is there, I didn't tell you and the others?" ”

The reason why the thieves attacked this place with deep political significance and far more defense than the ordinary Kancheng of a thousand rooms was mainly because they coveted the mausoleum of the Nine Princes of Lu State behind the city.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, thick burials were popular, for example, the people of Qi advocated luxurious funerals, and during the reign of Qi Huan, most of the cloth produced was used to make longevity clothes, and the wood was also consumed to make coffins.

Although many people of insight such as Guan Zhong and Yan Zi oppose it, there are very few people who can be as honest and thin as Ji Wenzi of Lu State and Mu Zi of Zhongxing of Jin State. After the death of most of the princes and doctors, they are all rich in their burials, tall and large, the coffins must be multi-layered, the burial must be deep, the clothes of the deceased must be multi-piece, the embroidery with the burial must be rich, and the tomb must be tall.

The thief walked in front of his men, gestured to Kan Cheng, and repeated the words used to boost morale in the past few days: "In it, the beams and pillars of the nine temples are tall, and there are copper, porcelain, lacquered wood, leather, gold, jade, etc. on the sacred ridge. There are hundreds of bronze utensils such as ding, gui, and square pots, which are important in China, and if you get any one, you can melt down and cast new weapons, or go to Taoyi to resell them, and you can get a year's rations! Don't you want to? ”

"Yes!"

"When the princes died, they emptied the treasury of the treasures and adorned the deceased with gold and jade jewels. Tie it with a silk wool strap and bury the chariot and horse in the cave. And they must make many curtains, and bells, and drums, and feasts, and wine jugs, and bronze kegs, and swords, and feathers, and ivory, and leather, and bury them in the dormitories of the dead. And then satisfied. If you can cut one, it is equivalent to getting a hundred gold eridium! Not to mention nine! Don't you be impressed? ”

"This town will be broken!" The eyes of the thieves were red, the thieves had always distributed fairly, and after each raid they distributed the spoils according to their merits, so they forgot to be afraid, and they gritted their teeth and asked what to do, and the general gave orders.

The thief was very satisfied with their performance: "The news I know is that the civil unrest in Lu has not been completely calmed down now, although Zhao Wuxian has relieved the siege of Zhongdu. But he didn't have many soldiers at hand. In my opinion, this person has always been determined to take risks, first rushed from Cao Guo's lone army for 500 miles to attack Zhencheng, went out of the city with inferior troops to fight with the Qiqiu Qi people, and now thousands of people have returned to the army to save Zhongdu. With his inherent style, he must want to catch me off guard, and lead these more than 1,000 people to the south quickly, maybe they will arrive tomorrow. ”

He crouched down again and drew a map on the ground: "We might as well divide our troops." Two thousand men continued the siege and dug tunnels into the city. The rest withdrew with me overnight, and went to ambush in the grassy area to the north. There is no reason to survive. ”

"General, Lou Lou is also a brave and good fighter on weekdays, and the four thousand people were defeated by a single blow. Is it enough for us to have 4,000 men against us? "Thanks to Lou Lou. Now the achievements of the martial arts are really appalling, and Zhao Wuxian is also moving towards the ranks of "good fighters in the world".

The thief disagreed: "Lou Lou is just a reckless lord. Nothing. ”

He believes that he is not only the lord of a reckless party, but also the "lord of an army".

The thief had read Sima Fa and had eaten it thoroughly, believing that in order to become the leader of an army, two conditions were required.

One is the indomitable character, and only with a resolute character can the soldiers be inspired in the event of a temporary defeat, so that the whole army will not lose its fighting spirit because of the defeat. On the other hand, it is necessary to have sufficient strategy and vision in order to make wise judgments in a complicated situation, to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, and to lead the whole army to victory.

These two conditions are indispensable, if there is only the former, without the latter, no matter how persistent, you may not be able to win the final victory, and if you only have the latter, you may lose your fighting spirit and capital because of an inevitable defeat before you can win.

The events of the past decade have convinced the thief that he has both!

"Generals, the courage of soldiers, with me, I can greatly boost the morale of the whole army. My own soldiers are not scattered ordinary bandits, let alone the three armies of the princes who can only fight in a dignified and upright battle, as long as the second and third sons make good use of my tactics, they will be invincible in Huze! ”

……

Although the thief was intelligent and sensitive, he predicted the next move of the martial artist according to Zhao Wuxian's previous style, but he missed by a fraction of a second.

Two days had passed since the siege of Zhongdu had been lifted, but Zhao Wuxian's soldiers still had no intention of going south immediately.

At the military meeting, Tian Ben, Yu Xi and others also suggested that they should take the opportunity to go south when the morale was high, defeat the thieves together, complete this mission, and then raise the military might.

"The name of Si Kou will definitely be transmitted back to the Jin Kingdom, which will make Zhu Qing cold!"

The battle the day before yesterday was really an overwhelming victory, the two fought extremely happily, the opponent was like a chicken and a dog, and their own side seemed to be invincible in the world, and their mentality could not help but be a little erratic. But they were splashed with a basin of cold water by Zhao Wuxian.

"Before the battle of Chengpu that year, the Jin division was outnumbered and the Chu division was numerous, the Jin division retreated, and the Chu State made Yin Ziyu arrogant and arrogant, so he ordered the whole army to pursue the Jin division. When he was about to fight, Ziyu also boasted: There will be no promotion today! However, he was defeated in a battle, lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he had no shame to see the Kun father and brothers in Shenxi Second County, so he committed suicide. Therefore, the way of using soldiers, arrogance will light the enemy, and the enemy will be defeated! Although you have won many small victories in the past two years, you are still far from Ziyu and Ziyu, so you must take it as a warning! ”

Zhao Wuxian's actions in the past year or so seem to be risky everywhere, but it is a last resort to chase the current situation in adversity. Now that the general trend of the Lu State has been working as he and Zhang Mengtan planned, there is no need to rush forward regardless of the cost.

Ran Qiu was now quite active in the military discussion, and he said: "It is true that the battle of Zhongdu went extremely smoothly, and it only took a few hours for most of the four thousand robbers to flee, and the rest were either killed or wounded, or captured. If the thieves are also so forbidden, then it is not impossible to pursue south. ”

"But the thieves are full of tricks, and they are known to be good use of soldiers. In the past 10 years, there has not been a single defeat, and the use of troops is very unpredictable. Not to mention traveling dozens of miles to the south. began to enter the Daze area, if you rush forward. We are talking about losing out on the geographical advantage. According to the cronies of the captured thieves, there were at least five or six thousand people near Kancheng, and the soldiers and armor were better than the robbers in the north, and most of them were the elite of the thieves. ”

Zhao Wuxian agreed with Ran Qiu's analysis, in the successive dynasties of later generations, it was not the foreign enemy that gave the court the most headache and the most difficult to deal with. It's these rogues. They are extremely mobile and reproducible, and if they have no program and no overall planning, just to survive, it will be easy to exterminate.

However, once they begin to get the planning and planning of people of insight, they will form their own system, which should not be underestimated.

Fortunately, although the thieves were smart and had different ambitions and ideals from ordinary thieves, they still did not clearly put forward a program like Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and even Liu Bang and Huang Turban. Therefore, it can only be regarded as a reckless man, and it is difficult to achieve great things.

Wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows, to put it bluntly. Theft is ultimately an economic and political issue, not a military one. Zhao Wuxian was very sober, and he didn't want to calm the ulcer that spread for hundreds of miles at once.

Stealing this person. Wuxian has been extremely vigilant and does not dare to be careless. He's here to drive out the thieves, and he's not here to fight. Why put yourself in it? Therefore, Zhao Wuxian vetoed the risk of going south, thinking that it was better to hold on to it.

As soon as he came, he had learned that Kan Cheng was still holding on. The second is that since he has secretly promised the future Zhongdu Zai to Zai Yu, then the rest of the Lu Kingdom is close to the rest of Dayozawa, so it is natural to arrange some back-ups.

He has not been idle in the past two days, first clearing the road: the thieves raided Yuncheng without success, so they retreated east to attack Zhongdu, leaving hundreds of thieves along the way to obstruct pedestrians and cut off Tu Dao. Wuxian let Yu Xi take the light knight to the west, and soon cleared these thieves who dug roads and broken bridges, and contacted Yuncheng.

On the Yuncheng side, Zhang Mengtan looked at the situation and knew that the key in the next few months would be concentrated in the east, so he had already personally gone to Yuncheng to sit in town, and Zhen and Liqiu were handed over to Ji Qiao and Yang Tongue Rong. The Tiger Society originally brought 800 people, and transferred troops from Liangyi to recruit Yuncheng people, and gathered 1,500 people, which could transfer 1,000 soldiers for Zhao Wuxian's use.

Lucheng in the east, negative flaws; Wen Shang and Suju in the north; Gaoyu and Fanyi in the west; Zhao Wuxian all transferred a letter in the name of Xiao Sikou to ask the doctors, Zai, and Sima to send troops to support.

But today, Zhao Wuxian just received a reply from each city, except for the hundreds of people from Lucheng, and a hundred people sent by Dr. Gao Yu, who had a little friendship with Zhao Wuxian, the rest of the towns all shirked.

"What a bunch of thieves defending their own land! Doctor, why don't you move the book and ask for help from a farther town? ”

Zai Yu helped Zhao Wuxian scold these doctors who were unwilling to send troops in the Yi Temple, and Zhao Wuxian had proposed to Confucius in the name of Xiao Sikou in the past few days, so that Zai Yu could take over the affairs of the city, which could be regarded as burying the thread for future promotion. In fact, after Zigong, Zilu, and Ran Qiu were not there, Zai Yu was originally the main auxiliary of Confucius, scolding and scolding, disgust and disgust, and even Confucius had to admit that although this disciple was not virtuous, his ability was indeed very strong.

Zhao Wuxian threw all the slips on the case: "It's okay, although there are few people who come, but just like the poem, the house is beautiful, and the reason is that it is very good; The king's affairs are in a hurry, and he will not be left behind. Someone has to worry about the country, and we can't wait any longer......"

Because of Lu Cheng, Lu Hou has sent people to urge him several times, and he is afraid that he has dreamed of the ancestral tomb being dug up every night in the past few days.

This is a standing experiment, Zhao Wuxian is now a doctor in Sanyi, with more than 10,000 households and thousands of soldiers under his rule, and he is the most powerful force in the West. And his position as a junior secretary is also enough to assign the surrounding doctors, but this time it was not very successful, so Dr. Gao Yu gave face.

Those who are willing to cooperate, Zhao Wuxian naturally keeps it in mind, as for those who refuse to send troops to support, no matter what the high-sounding reason, Zhao Wuxian has decided that if he can't get the full credit for this crackdown, then the black cauldron will be handed over to them to carry it!

After gathering enough 2,500 people in the first division, Zhao Wuxian was already fully prepared, and on the day when he swore south at the south gate of Zhongdu and prepared to hunt with the thieves, the news that Zilu was in Yangguan also came from Lucheng......

PS: The big chapter written by staying up late, two more tomorrow...... (To be continued......)

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