Chapter 1008: Wei Feng
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Although the Jin State gives people the impression that the Gong clan is in decline and the Qing clan with a different surname is in power, in fact this is wrong, the Han family and the Wei family are all Ji surnames, and the different surnames are only the Zhao family. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Needless to say, the Han clan is one of the Quwo clans of the Jin Kingdom, and even the Wei clan is actually the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, after Bi Gonggao, one of the heroes of the Yin Dynasty. After the fall of the Bi Kingdom, the children of the Bi Kingdom Clan became commoners and went into exile, either in the Central Plains or in Yidi. One of them, Bi Wan, was exiled to the Jin State and served in the Jin State, serving the Jin Xiangong.
In 661 B.C., Jin Xiangong took Zhao Shu as the imperial Rong and Bi Wan as the right of the chariot and sent troops to crusade against neighboring countries, and the battle was fruitful, and the Jin army eliminated Geng, Huo and Wei in one fell swoop. After the triumphant return of the Jin army, in order to reward Zhao Shu and Bi Wan who fought bravely, Jin Xiangong gave Geng Di to Zhao Shu and Wei Di to Bi Wan, and let the two of them serve as doctors, which is the name and origin of Wei. Although the fates of the Zhao family and the Wei family are very different at this moment, at that time, they were on the same starting line as the Zhao family.
The conditions of Wei land are not good, here is located in the southern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, south of the big river, undeveloped when many land is saline-alkali land, just like the ancient "Wei Feng" sang: "Kankan cut sandalwood, put the river dry, the river water is clear and ripple...... its land is ugly and the people are poor and thrifty, crops, mulberry hemp, hunting is the main way of life here.
The ugly environment and precocious culture made the consciousness of the people in Wei also awaken earlier. Whether it is "Cutting Tan" or "The Rat", the poem is full of dissatisfaction of the lower classes of the people against the upper rulers, who ridicule the meat eaters for not working and are indignant at exploitation, believing that the so-called lords are nothing more than parasitic rats above the people.
During the reign of the Wei family, because the successive heads of the family were kind to the people, this folk custom was suppressed, but in recent years, with the frequent natural disasters, there is a trend of revival, and the Yanchi salt workers rebellion is an example, when the time is ripe, they would rather choose their own fate.
For example, on the day of the crucial decisive battle, he suddenly refused to carry out the order, and instead coerced Wei Ju to flee eastward......
On April 31, in the early morning of the second day of the decisive battle of Fenglingdu, the fleeing Wei pawns were not far from Weiyi after walking for a day and a night.
Yesterday, when the war began, there were still more than 10,000 Wei troops, and only half of them ran out when they broke through, and they were intercepted by Zhao's pursuers along the way, or left the team and disappeared on their own in the middle of the way, and now there are only less than 2,000 left, and these deserters do not have the appearance of an army.
Wei Ju's carriage was caught in the middle, and when the rout occurred, even the Wei warriors he had always trusted rebelled, and they forced Wei Ju to leave the battlefield, and after countless defeats, the spirit of this army had collapsed, and they only wanted to return home alive......
When the mulberry forest outside Wei Yi was in sight, these thirsty, hungry, and mentally depressed Wei soldiers burst into tears at once, and sang a song "Zhi Yu" in "Wei Feng".
"Zhi Bi Gangxi, look forward to my brother. Brother said: Whew! To the younger brother to serve, the night will be together. Be cautious, still come! No death! ”
No matter how much loyalty Wei preaches to the death, it is not worth the sentence of parents, wives and children, "You still come, there is no death!" ”
The familiar singing inspired everyone, and even though their legs were so heavy that they seemed to be filled with lead, they still licked their chapped lips and walked towards Wei Yi step by step.
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Outside Weiyi is a spacious mulberry forest, the end of April and the beginning of May is the season when the mulberries are ripe, and the soldiers who have not eaten or drunk for a day and a night have picked mulberries and mulberry leaves to devour, and even fought for this.
Some of Wei Ju's personal guards finally snatched some fruits from the wolves and sent them to the carriage to present to Wei Ju.
The sweet and sour purple juice relieved Wei Ju, and in yesterday's run, he once fell off the carriage and fainted, but fortunately, some guards were loyal to the lord, so he could climb back into the carriage, but the whole person was dizzy, and he didn't wake up until this time, looking at the Wei soldiers who were messing around him, he could only sigh silently.
When he approached the front of Weiyi City, Wei Ju looked up at the Wei banner hanging high above, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The old walls, the mottled moss, and the shadows cast by the defeated soldiers of the Wei clan when they entered the city tower, felt a burst of coolness, as if they were at home.
But for Wei Ju, he was full of shame.
At the beginning, before Bi Wan returned to the Jin Kingdom, he asked someone to conduct a divination for himself, and got the hexagram of "Tun" and "Bi", and the diviner said that this was the seal of the prince. As the descendant of the princes, Bi Wan has been promoted to an official, and over time, the descendants will definitely be able to restore the status of the princes!
And when Bi Wan was enshrined in Wei for his merits, Guo Yan, the doctor in charge of divination in the Jin Kingdom, prophesied: "Bi Wan's descendants will be prosperous." Because his name is '10,000', 10,000 is a full number, and the fief Wei means majestic and tall, and the Wei clan will inevitably win the support of the people, and the future will be ......limitless."
This is the prophecy that several generations of Wei family owners have never forgotten, strengthening the family and restoring the status of the prince, it is also their tireless pursuit, this is what Wei Manduo has taught Wei Ju since he was a child, so in the face of Zhao's strength, the Wei family was unwilling to succumb, but after they launched a hard fight, they found that the illusion of prophecy was shattered.
The battle was a mess, and Hedong was also lost, but fortunately, Wei Yi was still in the hands of the Wei family. It has been almost two hundred years since Bi Wan was sealed in Wei and the Wei clan began, although the main town of the Wei clan has moved to Anyi, but this is still where their ancestral tomb is, who would have thought that this is also Wei Ju's last refuge......
He doesn't know what will happen in the future, the Zhao family's army has now cleared the battlefield and wiped out Qin and Zheng, their pursuers may be ten miles behind them, the situation does not allow Wei Ju to think too much, he can only let these two thousand remnants of the army enter Weiyi now, relying on the ancient wall defense, he can live one more day.
The city gate creaked open, and the impatient remnants of the Wei clan rushed in, Wei Ju's carriage and horses fell behind, Wei Ju looked at it coldly, and the first thing he did after entering the city was to behead all the generals who took the lead in escaping, and re-establish his authority.
However, after the more than 1,000 people who poured into Weiyi first staggered in, they found that something was wrong......
In the once bustling city of Weiyi, there was no one in sight, and the streets were deserted, except for a few hens walking on the road, and only after seeing a group of defeated soldiers pouring in, they fluttered their wings in horror and flew onto the roof.
"Drawbridge!" At this moment, the people behind shouted in horror, but the drawbridge had been slowly pulled up, blocking their retreat.
A shout of killing came from the wall, and as soon as everyone looked up, they saw that the Wei clan's banner was still hanging high, but it was the Zhao clan's material official who was aiming at them with a crossbow machine behind the battlements!
"Whoever descends will not die." Yan Gao, a sharpshooter from the Lu State, was condescending, and he led two thousand officers equipped with strong crossbows, who had already captured Weiyi, and this was just a bait to lure the Wei army to abandon their allies and flee!
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"Wei Yi has lost ......" When he saw that the drawbridge was pulled up suddenly, and the Wei banner at the head of the city was cut off and replaced with the Zhao flag, Wei Ju knew that the situation was not good.
Inside the city is to catch turtles in the urn, and outside the city, two Zhao pawns with thousands of people each have been outflanked from behind the city, Zhao Wuxian has sufficient troops, and it is not difficult to divide thousands of people to conquer Weiyi, and then they waited for the rabbit, who expected to block Wei Ju's remnants.
About two-thirds of the defeated Wei army had entered the city, and less than a thousand people were still stranded outside the city, and when the last shelter was also declared, their spirits collapsed at once, and many people did not want to run, so they knelt in front of the city and stood still, or simply sat in the moat and wailed.
Only Wei Ju hurriedly turned around with more than 100 people, and at this time, the Zhao army chasing from Fenglingdu also arrived, there were wolves in front and tigers in the back, Wei Ju could only use their familiarity with the terrain of Weiyi, and they could avoid the attack and escape into a dense wooded path.
This path leads to the ancestral tomb of the Wei family.
After the vision in front of him finally widened, Wei Ju looked behind him and suddenly found that there were only dozens of people left who were still following him......
The people, soldiers, diners, and retainers of the Wei clan either defected or surrendered to the enemy, and Wei Ju completely felt what it means to rebel and leave!
At this moment, the wheels of the carriage got stuck in the cracks in the stone and could not get out again.
The shouts of killing sounded from all directions, and Zhao didn't know how many people were dispatched to chase and kill Wei Ju, so he could only get off the carriage under the escort of his own family, and staggered towards the ancestral tomb with dense graves......
Wei Ju didn't know why he came here to seek the protection of his ancestors? It turned out to be useless, or did you want to be forgiven by your ancestors at the last moment?
This is a huge cemetery area, the first thing to pass is allowed to be buried in the surrounding Wei family retainers' graves, panicked, Wei Ju also caught a glimpse of the names of Yan Fu, Nukuan and others, they were brave to admonish when they were alive, and after they died, they were also distributed around the mausoleum area to defend the soul of the head of the family.
There were very few people still around, they walked between the stone tombstones, and arrows kept coming from behind, so that Wei Ju couldn't stay**, and could only keep running.
Further inside, there is the tomb of the head of the Wei family......
He saw the grave of the founder of the family, Bi Wan, covered with grass, and two stone statues of samurai standing on the left and right of the sealed earth, because of the age, the faces of the samurai were blurred. Two hexagrams can be vaguely seen on the tombstone, which is Bi Wan's expectation for future generations, but the prophecy was completely shattered, and instead of obtaining the "great name" and restoring the status of the princes, the Wei family was forced into a desperate predicament.
Then, he saw Wei Wuzi's rough and unadorned tomb, and heard that the head of the family was a pure reckless man, who followed Jin Wengong into exile, but made a big mistake after returning to China, and barely escaped after his exploits were cut off, and he could only return to his hometown in Wei to be a loose lord, and finally died on the bed, which also made Wei's development in the Jin Kingdom fall into a bottleneck, and when the Zhao family and the Hu family launched a struggle for power, the descendants of the Wei family could only work hard as doctors......
Then there is the tomb of Wei Xiang and Wei Qi, the two heads of the Lu clan of the small sect, Wei Ju remembered his cousin Lu Xing, since Wei Yi fell, he must have died like Ling Hubo of Pusaka.
The broken man let out a scream, Wei Ju was also unfortunately hit by an arrow and fell, and when he looked up, he found that he had reached the deepest part of the cemetery, where two tombs with tall enclosures stood......
The tombs of Wei Zhuangzi and Wei Xianzi, the two greatest heads of the Wei family, the ancestors who laid the foundation for their status as the world.
For a while, Wei Ju burst into tears.
Wei Zhuang Zijiang, is the Jin mourning of the era of the minister, he advocated peace, and many times made military exploits, also has outstanding contributions in foreign affairs, Jin mourning the prince within eight years, nine princes, including half of his credit, since then Wei was able to ascend the throne for the first time, touched the power of the country......
As for Wei Xianzi Shu, Wei Ju's grandfather, he was the first Jin secretary of the Wei family, he created the Wei Xianzi phalanx in the Battle of Taiyuan, making the Wei army a leader for a while, and Wei Ju combined with the Zhao family's tactics on this basis to create Wei Wushu. After that, Wei Shu ruled for 6 years, showed his talents, carved up Qi and Yangyu, and brought the Wei territory to its peak......
"How wise the ancestors are, but the descendants are not good!"
Wei Ju first cried, then laughed again.
He kind of understood why he was here.
The bird flies against his hometown, and the fox dies on the first hill. I heard that if the fox dies outside, it will definitely turn its head towards its hole**, and Wei Ju returned to the starting point of the Wei clan when he was cornered......
"Don't Xiao descendants, today is the last to sacrifice blood food for grandfather and great-grandfather!"
Under the gaze of the heroic soul of the head of the Wei family in the past dynasties, Wei Ju pulled out his sword, crossed it in front of his neck, and killed himself in front of the tombs of Wei Zhuangzi and Wei Xianzi before the chasing Zhao soldiers touched him!
His blood splattered on the tombstones of his two ancestors like red flowers......
(To be continued.) )