Chapter 55: The Fierce Battle & the End of Meng Biao
The whole hall suddenly became in an uproar, and a group of leaders who had just been apprehensive now stomped their feet angrily, beat their chests with their fists, and shouted angrily: "Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! The angry leaders were all red-eyed and seemed to be about to breathe fire. This was an eye-opener for Brother Li Rijing next to him, these thieves were still afraid to look at them directly, but now they know that this rat has made their money, so they are as excited as chicken blood one by one, which is really interesting! can only know that the benefits and disadvantages cannot be said to be moral, this is Li Rijing's evaluation of them!
The mountain hero is quite satisfied with this situation, although these people are not loyal to themselves, but at least they can use it. Meng Biao has always been one of the most hated people in Heiling Village, on the one hand, as the largest cottage outside Changshui Pass, he has little money, and on the other hand, he has repeatedly taken Heiling Village as an enemy and has been constrained everywhere. This time, I thought that the three rats were not long-sighted and wanted to seize the position of the owner of the village, but I didn't expect that Meng Biao was instigating behind him, which couldn't help but make the leaders angry. Since the military heart is available, Shan Daxia is very pleased, and Rat San does not need to be tried again, and immediately prepares to discuss how to deal with Meng Biao.
Originally, the original plan was to take advantage of Meng Biao's personal visit to the cottages and divide the profits by the way, and take the opportunity to set up an ambush in the middle of the road to take it in one fell swoop, and then pressure several small cottages to take Changshui Pass together, support Li Rijing to guard the pass, and Heiling Village handle the pass, so that all the money is in the hands of Heiling Village! If it succeeds, it is indeed a clever plan, but now that Meng Biao instructed Rat San to rebel, it must be Rat San who told Meng Biao all the plans of Heiling Village, and even the whereabouts of Li Rijing and others must have told Meng Biao. If you want to implement the original plan, it is difficult to succeed, and a suspicious person like Meng Biao must be alert!
Therefore, the plan must be recalculated!
Mountain Hero: "Captain Li, now that I have a battle between Heiling Village and Na Meng Biao sooner or later, do you have any clever plans?" ”
Li Rijing: "Cottage owner, please rest assured, I have a plan!" That's all we need to ............"
The scattered merchants outside the pass pinched the road strips they bought from the bandits and drove the carriage to the pass, panting in their hearts, for fear that the garrison of Changshui Pass, which eats people and does not spit out bones, will let them go for the sake of this road. When he got closer, he suddenly saw Meng Biao walking out of Changshui Pass with five or six hundred people in his hand, and the merchants looked quite surprised, they had not seen so many soldiers in the eighth capital out of the customs for many years, could it be to suppress bandits? It's impossible, these eighths are all well-known soldiers and bandits!
As soon as Meng Biao and a large group of people came out of the customs, a few soldiers in the team with big gongs ran to the middle of the road, and struck three big gongs together, until they attracted the attention of nearby pedestrians, and then sang and said together: "Bandits are rampant, killing people!" Endanger the Quartet, and the trade route is broken! All the chiefs are benevolent and righteous, and send troops to kill thieves! Our army will win! ”
This Meng Biao is famous, and those who pass by merchants and pedestrians don't know what kind of person he is! Now it is said that it is a bandit, God knows if it is true or not, maybe it will be used as an excuse, and it is very possible to increase the tax on thieves and so on! Thinking of this, people no longer had the heart to watch the excitement, so they hurriedly ran to the pass, and hurried over while they hadn't added money!
When Meng Biao saw the appearance of those merchants, he snorted coldly, thinking that when he returned from victory, he would have to ask you for sin! This Meng Biao searched everywhere in the Changshuiguan station and various towns a few days ago, but he didn't find Li Rijing and others, and he didn't know it well, so it was estimated that it was very likely to be reported to Feiyun City. In the past, although he had done similar things himself, even the chief had been killed by himself, but fortunately, the city lord threw a mouse trap and did not attack himself, and this time the city lord will continue to tolerate it is impossible to predict, it is likely that he will send a large army to conquer it. Therefore, Meng Biao was ready to inform Dark Cloud City, planning to go over this time and take refuge in Dark Cloud City.
However, this Heiling Village controls the fortress of the Long Water Road, and Meng Biao's messenger can't pass through it at all. Two days ago, I received a report from an undercover agent that this Heiling Village actually took in a few people from Li Rijing, and Meng Biao was worried that there was no reason to deal with them, but he didn't expect it to be sent to the door. At that time, Meng Biao sent messengers to climb the mountain through the path, preparing to contact the side of Wuyun City, and other spies came out to contact the cottages attached to him. Since Heiling Village is ready to ambush itself, let's have a counter-encirclement!
The current Changshuiguan bandits, except for Heiling Village, are more or less closely related to him Meng Biao, among which the ten who are willing to listen to his mobilization! Now Meng Biao has taken more than 500 people out of the customs, plus the twelve large and small cottage people who have clearly stated that they will obey the dispatch, there are more than 1,000 people in total, which is more than twice as many as Heiling Village, and there are many people, basically as long as the people of Heiling Village are lured out, they will have a chance to be wiped out!
The location of Heilingzhai's expected action is in a gorge in the northwest of Changshui Pass, nicknamed Jiashan, so there are mountain bags on both sides, and there is a small village on one of the mountain bags, with only more than 30 people, the key is that this cottage is Meng Biao's people at all. The expected plan is that the Heiling Village Brigade will dispatch to kill the village with lightning speed, and then calmly ambush on both sides of the road, just waiting for Meng Biao to lead people to pass through on both sides.
And this action has been known to Meng Biao, the key is that Meng Biao knows this action, and Heilingzhai also knows that Meng Biao knows this action, so it feels like a tongue twister.
Meng Biao walked in front with more than 20 guards, followed by a dozen or so people carrying boxes. As we walked, looking around the hillside of the road, these guards were also quite interesting, basically sword and shield soldiers, mixed with a few pikemen and archers. It stands to reason that when the lieutenant general goes out on patrol, the guards are generally equipped with waist knives and spears, and there are generally few with shields and bows and arrows.
Meng Biao and his party slowly walked to the middle of the valley, it stands to reason that no matter how slow the ambush is here, it should be launched now, it seems that there is no movement at all, but it doesn't matter, maybe those people want to wait for most of the group to pass before launching. So the group of people still did not stop, and continued to walk, and sure enough, they walked a little further, and there was a commotion on the hills on both sides!
On each side of the hill, a long line of people appeared, glaring at them with various weapons, some of whom had already pushed down some rolling stones, and the archers set up rockets and aimed them below, and there were about a hundred people in ambush on both sides! Meng Biao looked at this gang of ambushes and sneered slightly, those guards had been waiting for a long time, and before Meng Biao gave the order, they had already stepped forward to open the shield array, and kept Meng Biao going backwards, avoiding the rolling stone arrows!
The ambush soldiers on both sides saw that Meng Biao wanted to leave, and when they rushed out of hundreds of people, they had to prepare to surround Meng Biao! At this time, more than ten soldiers carrying boxes under Meng Biao did not panic, they each put down the box and opened it, several of them took out bows and arrows from inside, and shot them upward, and an arrow shot up into the sky, and the sound shook hundreds of meters nearby! The rest of the soldiers carrying the box took out all kinds of hidden weapons, and without the slightest hesitation, all kinds of flying knives and dark arrows were fired into the ambush! And when the arrow flew in the air, the sound of people and horses galloping came from a few hundred meters behind the corner!
Those ambush soldiers are also quite interesting, seeing that Meng Biao's men are stubborn in defense, they don't hold each other much, they don't love to fight, and they turn back to the mountain and leave! It was really unexpected that these ambush soldiers could not help but be knocked down, and there were not many people around him, and the strong attack was weak, but fortunately, the hundreds of people and horses in ambush behind him were already approaching. Since the sneak attack has not succeeded, then attack! With a wave of his hand, Meng Biao commanded his soldiers to divide their troops into two ways and attack the mountains on both sides.
These two mountain packs are not very high, and they are only one or twenty meters. In an instant, Meng Biao's soldiers rushed to the halfway up the mountain, Meng Biao's men were numerous, and there were back moves, although there were not many people in Heiling Village this time, after all, it was much better to catch a few than to take people to attack Heiling Mountain directly! However, those twelve cottage people don't know if they are ready, although they don't expect those people to make any contributions, as long as they don't miss things! But as long as the fight goes smoothly here, it doesn't matter if there are people from their twelve villages!
Who knows, just when these soldiers were preparing to rush to the top of the mountain in one go and annihilate these bandits, there was a shout of killing on the mountain bags on both sides, and in the valley, Meng Biao and the soldiers were taken aback, and when they looked up, they saw that hundreds of people stood behind the hundreds of people who were ambushed at the beginning of the mountain bags on both sides, and all of them were very heroic! When the first few people stood in the center, it was the village owner Mountain Daxia and Li Rijing and others.
There were suddenly hundreds of more people in Heiling Village, Meng Biao was taken aback, the bandits in Heiling Village had a basis before and after this operation, and they were obviously prepared, but they didn't know if they knew the plan arranged by Meng Biao, but it didn't matter, this operation was a foolproof strategy, and there were several followers.
Thinking of this, Meng Biao's heart was strong, and he shouted loudly to the mountain: "Captain Li, I respect you as the city lord appointed by the city lord, and you are waiting for you with good food and drink, but I didn't expect that you not only colluded with the traitor Hu Shu, but now you are colluding with the thieves of Heiling Village, which is really against the high expectations of the city lord!" I have to get rid of you as a scourge for the city lord! ”
Li Rijing: "Hmph! Meng Biao, I have collected all the evidence of your crime, not to mention anything else, just the first time we met, you bribed the officials and you should be dismissed and imprisoned! Now the righteous people of Heiling Village are here, and I am ordered by the city lord to thoroughly investigate the collusion between Meng Biao and the merchants inside and outside! Now only one person is asked, and the rest of the people are not asked, if there is an obstruction, the crime will be increased by one degree! ”
Mountain hero: "Meng Biao, do you hear it, you're finished!" On weekdays, you do everything possible to embarrass my Heiling Village, there are so many bandits outside the gate, you can't get used to us, treat us as second-class citizens, and now you hundreds of people have been surrounded by me, you don't surrender quickly, maybe I consider sparing your life! ”
Meng Biao: "Hmph! You guys think it's too simple! I have been running Changshui Pass for many years, although the garrison of the eighth capital has been reduced by me, but do you think my strength is only this eighth capital! Hahahaha! Where are the brothers in the Twelve Villages?! ”
Meng Biao shouted, the sound shook in all directions, and there were mountains and bags nearby, and under the sound, layers of echoes rang out. However, after a while, there was no response!
Mountain Hero: "Hahahaha! Meng Biao, I didn't expect it, do you think I don't know that you are complicit with the fools of the Twelve Villages?! Deputy village master! Bring them up! ”
I saw that the deputy owner of Heiling Village next to him waved his hand, and the twelve minions pressed the twelve people up, walked to the left hand side of the mountain hero, faced Meng Biao, and knelt down.
Mountain Hero: "Meng Biao! You can see clearly, this is your twelve brothers! I'm sorry, I've already taken it down in advance! ”
Meng Biao was taken aback, and after a closer look, it was sure that it was the owner of the twelve cottages that he had already contacted, but he didn't expect that they were all arrested and pressed to the ground. One of the twelve village owners raised his head and cried: "Boss Meng, a few of us really did it according to your orders, according to the plan of An's hobby, I didn't expect that the third and a few of them were ambushed by them not far from the village, and the eighth and a few of them were even more unlucky, and they were killed into the village by the people of Heiling Village when they were still sleeping. ”
Meng Biao was upset when he heard this, these people were like bandits, and they didn't have any fierceness at all, and now they were all pressed by the people of Heiling Village to eat and vomit in the mud, and they knew how to cry, how did they recruit these fools in the first place! But it doesn't matter, even so, as long as they don't fight with the people in Heiling Mountain and Heiling Village, they won't be able to take advantage of the location, and they still have a great advantage on their side!
Meng Biao: "Hmph! Cottage owner, Captain Li! Even so, how can you endure me! Brothers left and right, take down these thieves for me, go back and ask for credit for you, and make a fortune for everyone! "That Meng Biao's soldiers heard Li Rijing before, and only took Meng Biao one by the order of the city lord, and the others were not asked, and they must be fake, but these people have been washed by Meng Biao several times in a row, and the iron rods left behind are difficult to rely on Li Rijing's mouth to turn against Li Rijing, and Li Rijing doesn't expect that the reinforcements of the twelve cottages will be all taken away by Heiling Village, so he has a relationship! However, Boss Meng watched from the side, no matter how he said it, it was a regular army, how could he be afraid of bandits. So I heard Meng Biao's order, and everyone was full of spirits and rushed up together!
Seeing these soldiers rushing up, Shan Daxia and Li Rijing flashed back, and the archers behind them stepped forward together. Before the soldiers rushed up, they released a few rounds of arrows, and these archers all relied on their archery skills to eat, and they all practiced very accurately, so although they only shot a few rounds of arrows, those soldiers immediately suffered heavy losses, and many soldiers were shot backwards and rolled down the hill and knocked down many soldiers behind, and the formation suddenly became chaotic!
The soldiers were almost at the top of the mountain at this time, and they were about to kick the door, where they would retreat because of a few rounds of arrows, and they all shouted to kill and rushed in! The archers over there saw that the official army was approaching, so they retracted their bows and retreated, and Li Rijing, Meng Ersil, and Wang Xian on the right, shouted, turned around and waved his hand, and the minions had already been prepared.
Without saying much, Li Rijing jumped first with a blood gun in his hand and shouted, "Kill me!" All the minions shouted together, "Kill!" The sound of killing flew and shook, and hundreds of minions jumped lightly, jumped into the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and fought with them. Li Rijing read that they were all brothers in the officers and soldiers, strictly speaking, these soldiers were still his subordinates, so they did not attack heavily, but Rao was so, and everywhere he passed, the red spear shadows were blurred and flying in all directions, and there were no more upright people nearby, all of them fell to the ground, or sat or leaned, or were shot in the ankle or knocked in the back, or swept out, all groaning on the ground, unable to stand.
The minions of Heiling Village have been fighting on the front line for a long time, and the poor martial arts are not merciful, most of them have been killed, and now these are all fierce and vicious, and they have some ability, and on the other hand, although the officers and soldiers will train on weekdays, they are definitely not as desperate as the bandits, not to mention that they will never train under Meng Biao, and they are even more pampered, they all say that the bandits are afraid of the officers and soldiers, in fact, when it comes to heads-up, where can these officers and soldiers fight! But on the other hand, it can be seen that although these officers and soldiers are not opponents when they fight alone, they will cooperate in groups of ten, and seven or eight people from Heilingzhai can not get close to the group of ten officers and soldiers, and there will be bows and arrows shooting at the front as soon as they get forward, and then there are spears in front of them, and there are shield soldiers and sword soldiers to avoid spears, and the arms are matched with each other, which is very difficult to deal with.
In the entire valley, thousands of people fought here, and the officers and soldiers took the lead in numbers and cooperated tacitly, so they couldn't hold on to each other with the minions of Heiling Village. Meng Biao saw that the two sides were holding each other and was about to take the guards around him to participate in the battle, but at this time, he heard the noise of the crowd behind him, and there must have been a large group of people coming, and he was happy in his heart, it must be other soldiers stationed at the pass to come to help. When I looked back, sure enough, I saw hundreds of soldiers wearing the light yellow uniforms of the Feiyun City garrison running towards here!
Meng Biao was excited in his heart, and said in his heart that Deputy General Huang, who stayed at this pass, was like a stupid fork on weekdays, so he slapped back and played women, and now he finally used it for a while. At this time, Meng Biao didn't have time to think about why Vice General Huang, who had never had much guts, was like a veteran on the battlefield at this time, knowing that he Meng Biao was trapped here. He first pulled out the big knife and swung it forward, but he didn't dare to go up to find trouble with Li Rijing, so he rushed to the other side!
Meng Biao had more than 20 sword and shield guards and more than 10 hidden weapons around him, and he could easily change the balance between the two sides in any direction. Everywhere they went, the minions of Heiling Village couldn't resist the enemy, and they fled in all directions! The morale of the officers and soldiers was for a while, and they each attacked stubbornly, and the minions retreated frequently!
How could Li Rijing let Meng Biao kill everywhere, the blood gun went to the ground a little, with the elastic power of the blood gun, he jumped up from the ground, jumped over more than ten zhang, ran two steps forward, and then used the gun to the ground again in the third step, jumped forward again, held the gun in both hands, and fell vigorously from the sky, the sword and shield guards around Meng Biao had not yet reacted, only felt that a person was rushing over, and he blinked a few times before he came to his eyes.
The two sides of the battle around heard a loud "bump", a sword and shield soldier with a shield facing up was split alive by a line of red shadows from above, blood splashed several meters away, and the other officers and soldiers suddenly looked like earth, and some silently chanted: "This, this, this, this is not a person!" It's not human! "Meng Biao has been a soldier for many years, and he has seen a lot of masters, and it is really the first time to see this kind of direct shot splitting a person's shield in half, if it weren't for the guards on both sides to hold it quickly, he would have knelt down with a soft knee! Li Rijing actually regretted a little in his heart, he had to be forgiving and forgiving, but he didn't expect this shot to be so powerful, and thought about it again, anyway, most of these sword and shield soldiers are Meng Biao's henchmen, and if they die, they don't repent, and it doesn't matter if they kill, so they are relieved!
At this moment, in the middle of the road at the foot of the mountain, the hundreds of officers and soldiers who had just arrived had arrived, and all the officers and soldiers let out a cheer in unison, and the strange thing was that the minions of Heiling Village on the slopes on both sides did not panic at all, and continued to fight with the officers and soldiers.