Chapter Eighty-Seven: Zhishilang Wang Bo
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The news that Zhang Xutuo's army had left Bocheng and went straight to Juping along the avenue was passed on to Wang Bo and Meng Rang at the first time.
At this moment, Wang Bo was meeting Duan Wencao's secret envoy in a secluded valley upstream of Wenshui, while Meng Rang was listening to the report of the scout Du Fuwei outside Fenggao City.
The news that Du Fuwei brought back made Meng Rang surprised and delighted. In Xuzhou, a rebel army with a banner broke out of the encirclement and interception of the Xuzhou official army, and advanced into Mengshan. Meng Rang is not surprised that there is a righteous army in Xuzhou, now there are more and more rebels in the north and south of the river, and it is normal for Xuzhou to have a righteous army, but this righteous army did not choose a shortcut to cross Huai to the south under the encirclement and suppression of the official army, but traveled thousands of miles to fight in Qilu, and rushed to Mengshan in front of the Changbai Mountain righteous army, which is what Meng Rang was very surprised about.
There are many coincidences in the world, but they are not good things, and it depends on whether it is beneficial to oneself. The Xuzhou Righteous Army advanced to Mengshan first, which was of course a good thing for Meng Rang and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, of course, the premise is whether the Xuzhou Righteous Army took the initiative to attack Lu County as reported by Du Fuwei, attracting and containing a part of the Lu County official army, so as to give the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army a chance to go south to Mengshan to create a zĂ o.
Li Fengyun? White-haired? Young? Meng Rang's brows furrowed, and he tried to search in his memory, but he was sure that he had never seen or heard of this person, but, according to what Du Fuwei said, Li Fengyun seemed to know something about him and Wang **, what was going on?
Meng Rang is forty years old this year, a native of Zhangqiu, Qi County, the son of an official eunuch, and he also had ideals and ambitions when he was young, but in the context of the Guanlong people curbing and attacking the Shandong people, ordinary officials and eunuchs like him have no future at all, whether they are in the army or mixed officialdom, they can only work hard at the bottom. Since it is difficult to show off in the career, then ask for money, and it is not bad to be a rich man and enjoy life. Meng Rang made money, but he was also targeted by local officials from Guanlong, but unfortunately Meng Rang hated the Guanlong people, and he would rather scatter his family wealth than cheapen the Guanlong people. The people do not fight with the officials, and the end of the fight with the officials is very miserable. Meng Rang knew this truth, but he vowed not to look back, and the result can be imagined, the government casually framed a crime and let his family die. Meng Rang fled in all directions, killing people and goods, and gradually became infamous on both sides of the Jishui River, and slowly gathered a group of outlaws around him. Wang Bo raised the banner to rebel, he was the first to respond, leading the army to attack Zhangqiu three times, vowing to take revenge, but Zhangqiu was safe and sound three times because of the timely rescue of the county Cheng Zhang Xutuo.
Meng Rang's blood feud has not been avenged so far, and the hatred torments his soul day and night, making him feel painful, however, from the time the flag was raised to the present, he was not getting closer and closer to Zhangqiu, but getting farther and farther away, which made him have to calm down and think, why is reality contrary to his wishes? Strength, the key is strength, but how can we strengthen strength? He had no answers, he could not see hope in the future, he fell into the infinite darkness, helplessly waiting for death to come in fear and confusion.
Du Fuwei is Meng Rang's little fellow countryman, when Meng Rang was in Zhangqiu and prosperous, Du Fuwei was still a little sheepherd. There was no possibility of the two intersecting, but fate was so magical, just when Meng Rang led the army to attack Zhangqiu for the first time, Du Fuwei appeared in front of him. Meng Rang's family has been ruined, Du Fuwei is also lonely, and the two Zhangqiu people have the same illness and sympathy, and they unconsciously have a trace of closeness.
Meng Rang trusted Du Fuwei because of this, and was convinced of the news that Du Fu Wei brought to him. Du Fuwei had spent an afternoon in the camp of the Cangtou Army, and had heard a lot of stories about the Cangtou Shuai and the Cangtou Army, and now he had relayed these stories to Meng Rang as they were. And Meng Rang guessed from this that the Xuzhou Righteous Army had done a lot of "big things" on both sides of the Tongji Canal that were enough to shock the Eastern Capital, especially the plundering of the heavy fleet and the total annihilation of Yongcheng Yingyang Mansion, so it can be inferred that the strength of the Xuzhou Righteous Army must have surpassed that of the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army.
Meng Rang strengthened his determination to go south to Mengshan. Going to Mengshan to join the Xuzhou Righteous Army should be the only way to strengthen one's own strength at present.
When Meng Rang sent someone to tell Wang Bo the good news, Wang Bo also sent someone to deliver bad news to Meng Rang. Lu Jun Taishou Duan Wencao opened the secret channel and issued a solemn warning to the Changbai Mountain Rebels, the Qi people should not kill the Qi people, let alone let the relatives be painful and the enemies happy, Duan Wencao asked them to kill back to Qi County, and promised to give "care" at the appropriate time.
Meng Rang hated the Guanlong people and did not believe in the Qilu nobles. The Qilu aristocracy, especially the powerful like Duan Wencao, is the vested interests of the dynasty, in order to protect their own interests, they will only treat the righteous army as a tool, as a sacrifice, the so-called "care" is on the basis of safeguarding their vested interests, they will never support the righteous army to overthrow the Great Sui and destroy the country. Once Middle-earth is divided and lives are devastated, how can they safeguard their vital interests?
At this moment, the rebels are in a predicament, lacking food and clothing, the people's hearts are scattered, and they are in danger of being destroyed at any time, and they are simply unable to confront Zhang Xutuo's army head-on, and the only way to survive is to break through to the south and enter Mengshan under the response of the Xuzhou rebels.
Wang Bo rushed to Meng Rang's army in a hurry.
The news brought by Du Fuwei is too shocking, and it is true, because when the Changbai Mountain Rebels entered Lu County, Duan Wencao not only did not send someone to warn the rebels, but Chen Bing Juping and Liang's father made a move to attack the rebels with Zhang Xutuo before and after. But suddenly, Duan Wencao made an abnormal move, not only sending a secret envoy to warn the rebels, but also promising to give "care", there must be a reason behind this, and the most likely reason is that Duan Wencao is in some kind of predicament. The news brought by Du Fuwei just confirmed Wang Bo's speculation.
Wang Bo galloped on his horse, and on the way he encountered a group of scouts, and Fu Gongqi was among them.
In the whistling mountain wind, Wang Bo listened carefully to Fu Gongyi's narration, asked many details in detail, and finally he decided that after the Xuzhou Righteous Army captured Mengshan, it was indeed possible to go north to meet the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, and the promise made by Li Fengyun to Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyi should be true. It is easy for the Xuzhou Righteous Army to gain a foothold in Mengshan, but it is difficult to develop and grow, because they are not Qilu people, and it is difficult to get the support of Qilu people in the short term, but if they join forces with the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army, this dilemma will be fundamentally improved.
Wang Bo was in a dilemma and was helpless.
Wang Bo is a native of Zouping, Qi County, over forty years old, and comes from an ordinary official family. His life experience is very similar to Meng Rang, he entered the official career when he was young and worked hard, and he was very promising, but because he stood on the wrong team, he was imprisoned in an officialdom storm in Qi County, and he almost lost his head. Finally released from prison, I wanted to be a rich man for the rest of my life, but the local bureaucracy was worried about his property again, and took advantage of the forced taxation and forced labor of the Eastern Crusade to set a trap for him to drill. Wang Bo had just fallen into this trap, and before the local bureaucrats could "close the net," a flood fell from the sky. Zouping is located between the Great River and Jishui, and the disaster was extremely severe. Wang Bo fell into the trap of the government in front, and was looted by natural disasters in the back, cornered, and rebelled in a fit of rage.
The purpose of the rebellion is to survive, where is the way to survive now? Is it to go south and enter Mengshan, or to fight back to Qi County?
Wang Bo rushed to Meng Rang's army and discussed with Meng Rang in detail.
The two brothers, Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Yi, reunited, and the two returned to the army along the way, only one day apart, but Fu Gong Yi followed the Xuzhou Righteous Army around Mengshan, and brought very accurate news to Wang Bo and Meng Rang.
Meng Rang was determined to go to Mengshan, but Wang Bo hesitated. Although the Xuzhou Righteous Army will go north to respond, but the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army is in a difficult situation, there is an interception in front, and there are chasing soldiers in the rear, once it falls into the encirclement of the official army, with the morale of the current Righteous Army, it will definitely collapse without a fight, and the whole army will be annihilated. The soldiers of the rebel army are all from Qi County, and most of them are victims on both sides of the Jishui River, if they return to Qi County, it will provoke the struggle of the soldiers and soldiers, and perhaps the chances of victory are greater.
When the commission was decided, the scout suddenly reported urgently, and Zhang Xutuo led the army to leave Bocheng and rushed to Juping along the avenue.
Zhang Xutuo let the "way"? Unbelievable things, there must be a conspiracy in this. Since Zhang Xutuo drove the rebels out of Qi County and pursued them all the way to Lu County, how could he put down the killing knife?
Meng Rang believed that this was a conspiracy by Duan Wencao and Zhang Xutuo to encircle and suppress the rebel army, but Wang Bo believed that after the Xuzhou rebel army entered Mengshan and launched an attack on Lu County, the situation in Lu County changed. After the Lu County army withdrew from the front line of Juping and Liangfu, it was equivalent to making way for the Changbai Mountain rebels to move south to Mengshan. However, Duan Wencao didn't want to see the two rebel armies join forces, and then bring immeasurable consequences to Lu County, so on the one hand, he sent an envoy to warn Wang Bo, and on the other hand, put pressure on Zhang Xutuo, forcing Zhang Xutuo to go south to Juping, and help him intercept the Changbai Mountain rebel army from going south to Mengshan.
"For Zhang Xutuo, driving us into Mengshan will be beneficial to him and no harm, how can he let us kill back to Qi County?" After listening to Wang Bo's analysis, Meng Rang couldn't help but scoff, "Duan Wencao and Zhang Xutuo must have set a trap in Bocheng, just waiting for us to jump in." â
Wang Bo shook his head, "Duan Wencao is a Qi person, if Duan Wencao and Zhang Xutuo join forces to besiege us, it will inevitably affect his reputation among the Qilu nobles, which will do him all kinds of harm but not benefit, so even if Bocheng is a trap, it is also a trap set by Zhang Xutuo." However, since Duan Wencao has made a promise to us, then he will definitely take advantage of the situation in Lu County to contain part of Zhang Xutuo's troops and give us a chance to return to Qi County. â
"You know Bo City is a trap, why do you want to jump into it?"
Meng Rang was furious and couldn't help but ask sharply.
"Do you think Duan Wencao will allow us to break through Juping and Liang's father to go south to Mengshan?" Wang Bo smiled bitterly, "Why did Zhang Xutuo go to Juping?" Because Juping is also a trap. At that time, whether it was Zhang Xutuo's ambush troops left in Bocheng, or Duan Wencao, who was attacking the Xuzhou rebels on the front line of Surabaya, they would all flock to it, even if we broke through Zhang Xutuo's interception at any cost, we would also be surrounded by officials and troops on the north bank of Surabaya. â
Meng Rang leaned over to look at the map and did not speak.
"When we go south to Mengshan, we will completely turn our faces with Duan Wencao, Duan Wencao will inevitably join forces with Zhang Xutuo to besiege and kill from his own interests, and if we take Bocheng to kill back to Qi County, the opponent is only Zhang Xutuo, and at least half of his troops are located in Juping and Liangfu's line, which gives us enough time to break through."
As soon as Wang Bo finished saying this, Meng Rang sneered and asked, "If we are blocked by Bo City and fail to break through before Zhang Xutuo rushes back to Bo City from Juping, won't the whole army be wiped out?" â
Wang Bo was silent for a long time, and then asked rhetorically, "What do you have planned?" â
"Count, count." Meng Rang said, "Since Duan Wencao and Zhang Xutuo have set two traps for us, of course we have to take advantage of them, otherwise wouldn't it be in vain to waste their efforts?" â
Wang Bo immediately understood what Meng Rang meant, and his face immediately showed a look of emotion, but he couldn't help but have a trace of disappointment in his eyes. In the final analysis, Meng Rang still wants to go to Mengshan, and has no intention of returning to Qi County, perhaps in Meng Rang's view, there is still a glimmer of hope in Mengshan, and returning to Qi County, where is the hope?
Meng Rang urgently summoned Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi, told them that they had decided to go south to Mengshan, and ordered the two to immediately rush to Mengshan to ask for help from the Xuzhou Righteous Army, and implored Bai Shuaihuo to go north to respond.
Du and Fu embarked on the journey again with a group of little brothers.
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