Chapter 545: Tiger Prison

Half a day, just half a day, ://.

Under the fierce offensive of the Western Army, Meng Bangxiong's troops had no intention of resisting, and when Zhang Xian's subordinates jumped on the city, the enemy soldiers began to disperse. From the beginning of the siege to Xu Wei's entry into the city, it took three and a half hours, which was simply the easiest battle since the Hu'er Army was formed. It is also the easiest battle to count losses, with more than 100 killed and a little more wounded. However, once the city was broken, the defenders were lambs to the slaughter, and although no one ordered the slaughter of the defenders, they were finally surrendered to just over 800 men.

As soon as Xu Wei entered, the people of Luoyang welcomed him, and the cheers went straight into the sky. The people who had been oppressed and persecuted by the gold and the traitors held melons and fruits, carried tea, and warmly received the soldiers. Zijin Tiger then went out to appease the people, and ordered the city to be sealed down and Meng Bangxiong and others arrested.

The gentry and other leading figures in Luoyang City flocked to the office of the left-behind department, visited Xu Wei, bitterly Chen Meng Bangxiong and others for their crimes, and strongly demanded that after catching these traitors, they would abandon the city and the bosses. Xu Wei comforted the others and agreed to their request.

In the afternoon, Meng Bangxiong, his father, and his son were searched by the soldiers, and the people who hid him were also arrested by the soldiers, and they all flocked to the square in front of the Si Yamen, where they waited for the surrender of the civil and military officials of Jinhenan South Prefecture to be dealt with.

After the news reached the Yamen, the leading figures in Luoyang who were waiting for the news here were overjoyed and asked Xu Wei to be the master. The latter considered that there were still many things to interrogate Meng Yi, and it was not appropriate to open a public office. Then he asked the local gentry to temporarily retire and ordered the soldiers to embrace Meng Bangxiong into the country.

At that time, from Xu Wei down, there were more than 20 civil and military officials. When Meng Bangxiong was cut off his hands by the soldiers, pressed his head, and pushed and kicked into the hall, the faces of all the civil and military officers in Shaanxi showed disdain. With this kind of goods, if you resist fiercely, I may still be able to look at you and pretend to be, but the city is broken for a long time, and this means will also appear

Escorted to the hall, the soldier kicked him in the shin, and Meng Bangxiong knelt down. The golden belt of his official robe is gone. Wearing a black cloth and straight jacket, his face is smeared with ash from the bottom of the pot, and he can't see his true face. Kneeling on the ground, he didn't dare to raise his head, trembling.

Xu Wei frowned, I heard that this product also gathered heroes here in the early years, had tens of thousands of soldiers, and occupied Luoyang City, so he should have some courage, why is it like this?

"Wipe his face clean, what?" Zhao Bin, the military transport envoy, also serves as the Sichuan-Shaanxi transport judge, to a certain extent, represents the Xuanfu Disposal Division.

The soldier lifted the hem of Meng Thief's clothes and wiped his breath indiscriminately, so that he showed his original form. Everyone saw that what this guy did was despicable, but he was born with a good skin

"Meng Bangxiong, look up." Xu Wei said lightly.

"Sinners don't dare." Meng Bangxiong replied in a trembling voice.

"Damn, if you want to look up, you will look up, what so much nonsense" Wu Luan said in a fierce voice.

Meng Bangxiong trembled in shock, and then slowly raised his head, Xu Wei looked directly at him: "Do you know who Ben Shuai is?" ”

"The name of the prince shook the two rivers of Shaanxi, who doesn't recognize it? Sinners are fortunate enough to see the power of the tiger, it is really ......" Meng Bangxiong said.

Xu Wei didn't wait for him to finish, and snorted coldly: "Since I know this handsome, why didn't he surrender according to his orders, and he dared to resist stubbornly."

Meng Bangxiong lowered his head again, bowed to the ground, and was speechless. Xu Wei looked down on him more and more, and said in a deep voice: "What kind of crime you should be guilty of what you did in Luoyang, do you know?" ”

Meng Bangxiong knew that he would not be able to escape death, but if the dozens of members of the whole family were all punished by death, how could they not stop? It was also he who was lucky, forced his mind, and reluctantly replied: "It is difficult for sinners to atone for their sins even if they die, and they dare not ask for mercy." But please remember that my father is old, and the net is open, and the sinner still has a son, who is not yet fourteen, and he also asks the minister to leave an incense. Sinners are willing to give all their family assets, and if they buy these two lives, even if they die, they will remember the great kindness of their husbands."

When Zhao Bin heard this, he said angrily: "What a traitor, don't say that you have squeezed the blood of the people in Luoyang, you should have confiscated it and said that you stole the income from the imperial tomb, how could you hide it and dare to ask the marshal for mercy at this price, you are innocent of death" At this point, he got up and bowed his hand to Xu Weiyi, "Xianggong, Hugh and him talk nonsense, pull the general out, and abandon the city to show the majesty of the national law and calm the resentment of the people"

While speaking, the voices of people outside were boiling, and the soldiers rushed into the yamen to report, saying that it was the Luoyang gentry and the common people of 10,000 people, gathered in front of the yamen of the left Si Si, knelt on the ground to plead their feelings, and asked the Meng thief to be punished and presented with a volume of blood

Xu Weiming unfolded it in the hall, but it was a white silk, several zhang long, and the hall of the left-behind division could not be fully extended, with blood-red names densely written on it, and those who didn't know it also pressed a handprint, which was really shocking

Public opinion is turbulent, and Meng Bangxiong wants to die, there is a way that it is difficult to commit public anger and public opinion

At this time, there was a military system to do office work, his own duty is Qinzhou's judicial participation in the military, proficient in the law, got up and said: "The system is the public, Meng Shun is admittedly unforgivable, but he suggested that he should take a cadre into custody and send him to Mianzhou, and the Xuanfu Disposal Division will instruct the Criminal Division to deal with it according to the law." ”

Zhang Xian's father, Zhang Suo, was born as a Jinshi, although he did not take the imperial examination, but because of his family's influence, he belonged to the cultural people in the army. Wen Yan retorted: "The Meng thief is extremely evil, and the people's resentment is boiling, and the handsome man leads a dignified teacher to go to Henan, if he doesn't deal with the rebels seriously and quickly, how can he deter lawlessness?" How to quell public grievances? The law of the country is indeed as big as the sky, but in troubled times, it needs to be re-enacted."

Xu Wei stopped the quarrel between the two and asked loudly: "Meng Wei should deal with it quickly, there is no need to say more." Ben Shuai only asked, he asked to spare the lives of the old father and the young son, can there be this article in the code? ”

When the office clerk heard this, he replied: "Prime minister, according to the provisions of the "Criminal Union", Meng rebelled and defected to the enemy, which is already a capital crime, plus persecution of the people, rampant lawlessness, can be used by his family. Moreover, this thief annihilated the conscience of heaven and excavated the emperor's tomb and the tombs of the common people, which is among the most heinous and should be razed by his clan. ”

The Yiqi tribe, in layman's terms, is full of beheading

However, the "Criminal System" also states that if there are less than 14 of the criminal's heirs, one person can be spared death and his incense can be kept. If you are too young to be independent, you can avoid the death of a woman and raise your young son. As for his father, the code does not specify it. ”

After hearing this, Xu Wei was silent for a while, and after a long time, he ordered: "Since the law stipulates that if the son of Meng Yi is indeed less than fourteen, he can be spared death." The rest of the people and the people of Shijin have abandoned the city and confiscated their homes to set an example."

After Meng Bangxiong heard this, his head tilted and he fell to the ground. The soldiers rushed forward and dragged him out.

On the same day, on the square in front of the Yamen who stayed behind, Meng Bangxiong and his father, as well as dozens of members of his family, including the officials of Henan Mansion in Shijin, a total of more than 100 people, were beheaded in front of thousands of people in Luoyang. Only Meng Bangxiong's youngest son was saved from death because he was less than 14 years old. Before he was sentenced, the director of the prison and beheading department asked him as usual, what else did he have to say?

Meng Bangxiong didn't speak as much as others, only thanked Xu Wei for his kindness and kept him incense. You must know that Xu Wei is leading troops to go on an expedition, who cares if you are fighting a war and what national law is not the law of the country? If you want to kill your family, you will kill your family In the Song Dynasty, the generals who went out connived at their subordinates, plundered the people, and killed not a few, not to mention the people who should be killed?

Meng Bangxiong was executed, and the people of Luoyang applauded, because his crimes were extremely evil, and the people hated them. When the execution was completed, the relevant officials, in the spirit of humanity, ordered that Meng Bangxiong's body could be collected. For man has been put to death, and his sins have vanished with the loss of life, and there is only one body left, which should be buried in the earth.

But the next day, most of the other people who were executed had someone to help collect the corpses, and some were purely local wealthy people, who paid for burials in the spirit of doing good deeds and showing compassion. But it is Meng Bangxiong's family, and no one is willing to restrain it.

The corpses were placed there, and it was so hot that it stinked quickly. There was no way, so the relevant officials had to let the soldiers carry them out of the city and dig a pit to bury the matter.

Subsequently, in the treasury and Meng Bangxiong's home, countless properties dug up from the imperial thieves were found, and Zhao Bin, who was in charge of the inventory, used soldiers to load dozens of cars before they were roughly finished. Among them, there are not only gold and silver, utensils, antiques, treasures, but also rare classics, calligraphy and paintings of the previous generation. Its value, immeasurable, is simply not something that can be calculated with money. The excavation of the imperial tomb is, of course, a sad thing in Zhao Bin's view. But on the other hand, the property from Luoyang alone was enough for the Western Army to recover the whole of Shaanxi. In view of this, he had to leave the army and personally escort dozens of truckloads of belongings back to Shaanxi.

After the recovery of Luoyang, Xu Wei led his army eastward after hastily arranging the relevant affairs in the city. Under the rule of Henan Prefecture, the Jin army of Yong'an County, hearing that the Western Army was coming, broke up without a fight, and the city was occupied by the righteous army. In less than three days, the western army marched to Gong County. At this point, between the Western Army and the Zhengzhou Jin Army, there is only a Bishui Pass, that is, the Tiger Prison Pass.

According to the spying of the Tabai Qianjun, in order to prevent the Western Army from capturing Bishui Pass and then blocking the Jin army from Luoyang, the Jin Army had already deployed heavy troops before Bishui Pass and waited for the Western Army to come to the door.

After Xu Wei heard the news, he knew that this was a decent battle waiting for the Western Army to fight. Before entering Bishui Pass, there was a small episode, since Xu Wei had already arrived in Gong County, he naturally couldn't avoid one thing, that is, to go to Yiling.

When he took the civil and military officials into the resting place of the previous kings of the Great Song Dynasty, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of him. Eight imperial tombs, none of which were spared, the mound of sealed soil was dug up, the underground palace was also opened, and its methods were very rough, and the mausoleum was seriously damaged. Seven or eight out of ten of the stone statues in the cemetery were knocked down and smashed, overgrown with weeds and infested with wild beasts.

When Xu Wei and his subordinates were in Yongtailing, something unimaginable happened. Song Zhezong, Zhao Xu's remains, was unexpectedly corpsed in broad daylight

Song Zhezong was in the Song Dynasty and could be regarded as a British lord. Emperor Zhezong became emperor at the age of ten and was regent by Empress Dowager Gao. After he took office, he cracked down on the old party and reinstated the laws of protecting armor, exempting from military service, and cultivating seedlings in Wang Anshi's reforms, so as to reduce the burden on the peasants and greatly improve the country's situation. What is particularly commendable is that he resolutely stopped negotiating with the Western Xia, and repeatedly ordered the Western Army to send troops to crusade, so that the party members were forced to beg for peace and lost their temper.

It is precisely because of this that he only lived to die at the age of twenty-four, because his only son died when he was three months old and had no heirs, so his younger brother, Duan Wang Zhao Ji, inherited the throne, that is, the grandfather of the current emperor, the emperor Zhao Ji.

If Emperor Zhezong didn't die so early and lived for a few more decades, would the Great Song Dynasty get to this point?

is such a meritorious hero, and he will not be at peace after his death, and he was actually standing in front of the remains of Emperor Zhezong by a violent corpse, most of the civil and military officials were angry, but Xu Wei felt another way in his heart. Emperor Zhezong, you are a young son of heaven and forge ahead, but what about it? It's not heartbreaking for the cub to sell his master's field, your successor is not that piece of material at all, the country has gotten to this point, his grandfather has retreated to the south, and he can't even control his ancestors, if it weren't for me, the minister with a foreign surname, to come and see, how long would you have to be a corpse?

At that time, the conditions did not allow, and he had to rush to the war, so Xu Wei took off the purple robe he was wearing to wrap the remains of Zhezong, and ordered the soldiers to make a simple coffin and bury it hastily. Then, he returned to the army with everyone and prepared to capture the Tiger Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass, named after the tiger that King Mu of Zhou will sacrifice in captivity, after the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of Li Hu, the ancestor of the Li family, it was renamed Bishui Pass. Its location is more than 30 miles northwest of the urban area of Xingyang City, Henan Province. It is connected to Songshan Mountain in the south and the Yellow River in the north, and the mountains are staggered, which is a natural danger. It is the eastern gateway of Luoyang, and the place where the soldiers of all dynasties must fight.

A few days ago, Meng Bangxiong found out that the Western Army had left Tongguan and entered Henan, so he urgently reported to Zhengzhou for help. Sitting in Zhengzhou to suppress bandits, and guard against the Western Army, the golden general, is the famous Sa Li, he has a Han general, called Yang Desheng, once served as the puppet Han Tokyo stay. This person is eight feet long, even among the northerners, he is also considered tall and claims to have four elephants in his arms, and he can shoot a hard bow of more than 300 stones with both hands, and the arrows are not missing, and he is very fierce

After receiving Meng Bangxiong's urgent report, he ordered Yang Desheng to lead 20,000 steps to ride through the Tiger Prison Pass to the west, but when he just arrived in Yong'an County, he learned that Luoyang had fallen into the Western Army's urgency, Yang Desheng hurriedly returned to the division, camped behind the Tiger Prison Pass, and asked Zhengzhou to quickly reinforce.

Sa Liyu has served in Shaanxi, and he is no stranger to the Western Army and Xu Wei. He judged that Xu Wei came here to relieve the pressure of Xianghan, and it was absolutely impossible for the main force to come out to collect the Central Plains. But even so, Xu Wei is an opponent that people dare not despise. He sent someone to order Yang Desheng to stabilize and not lose the Bishui Pass, and declared that he would immediately gather reinforcements of troops and horses, and he would arrive within three days

Yang Desheng took this reassuring pill, one is to rely on his bravery, and the other is to motivate the army. He threw out a statement, claiming that if Xu Wei didn't come, as long as he dared to come in person, he would either die under my Yang's arrow or become a prisoner of our army. Because this is the Tiger Prison Pass, the place where Zhou Tianzi "Prison Tiger" back then, wasn't Xu Wei known as Zijin Tiger? Let him come, this is his cage

August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival.

To the west of Tiger Pass, the Jin army had already set up a stronghold as solid as stone. But no matter how strong the camp is, it can't eliminate the fear in the hearts of the soldiers. The land of Henan has already spread, and Xu Wei, the Purple Golden Tiger, personally proposed 110,000 elites of the Western Army to collect the Central Plains, can we stop it?

However, although the soldiers were afraid, Yang Desheng was very confident. He thinks that he is not only excellent in martial arts, but also proficient in the art of war, and more importantly, he has 6,000 kidnappers and horses personally allocated by the fourth prince in his hand

Yang Desheng believes that what the Western Army is good at is mountain warfare, attacking and defending cities, and field warfare is not its forte. As long as I make good use of these 6,000 crutches and horses, it will not be difficult to defeat Xu Wei.

At this time, in the camp of the Jin army, Yang Desheng, in order to show his contempt for Xu Jiu, was gathering the generals and drinking wine. It is said to be a painful drink, but in fact, no one dares to drink more, in case the Western Army suddenly arrives, how can we command the battle drunk?

There was a general sitting on the handsome seat, and even though he was sitting, he was not much different from ordinary people standing. His most striking thing is the beard under his chin. In generals, it is normal to have a beard, and it is strange to have no beard. But his beard was more than a foot long, and when he drank, he had to pull it off. It's a pity that he has a long beard, no Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, and no face like a heavy jujube, and his lips are greased, so he can't be a second master.

This person is Yang Desheng, the current deputy envoy of Henan in the Dajin Kingdom, because the Jin Emperor completely changed the Han system, he was awarded the "Yongning Military Festival Envoy", which is indispensable.

"Generals, soon, my fellow villager from Hebei is here, how should this commander welcome him?" Yang Desheng propped his elbow on the table with one hand and asked with a wine glass in the other. Coincidentally, Yang Desheng is also a native of Hebei Daimyofu, but Xu Wei is from Xiajin County, and he is Linqing County, across the Grand Canal.

"Column 6,000 kidnappers and horses, cloth 10,000 spear arrays, and greet the god arm bed crossbow," the general replied loudly.

Yang Desheng laughed insolently: "Haha people say that the Purple Gold Tiger is the most relied on general after Zhao Guan's family crossed to the south, and is known as the Sichuan Shaanxi Optimus Pillar. Hehe, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in this evil handsome, but wants to see if his tiger army has three heads and six arms."

"Recruit the public, the enemy can be light, not slow. The Purple Gold Tiger is violent in the north and south, and naturally has his means, and he must not be underestimated. "The person who spoke was originally the head of the Tokyo Forbidden Army, he was a small officer, Xu Wei was in Tokyo back then, he had seen the Jingsui Battalion, the strength of the Hujie Army. It's just that Yang Desheng thinks very highly of himself, and it is inconvenient for him to speak too seriously.

Yang Desheng argued when he heard this: "How did Ben Shuai underestimate him? If I despise him, why should I wait until tomorrow to scatter and drink the army? Yesterday, the soldiers sent Gong County to clean him up."

Pick him up? It's a big breath to say that he is leaving and drinking, and he doesn't dare to say that he will clean up the Purple Golden Tiger

Suddenly, there was a commotion, and a person rushed in almost wrapped in a curtain, and said quickly: "Recruit the Western Army of Xianggong"

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