Chapter 16: To Guangzong
Not long after, under the leadership of Ren Xiu'er, the Meiji Guards successfully lured the thieves to the ambush.
Just when the thieves were still fantasizing about catching these women, the sound of killing suddenly shook the sky on the left and right mountains, and there were many trees on the mountain, and the thieves didn't know how many people there were for a while, but they saw that there were soldiers rushing down from the mountain.
Suddenly, the thieves were shocked, and the thief leader who was in front shouted: "There is an ambush, retreat, withdraw quickly." "It's a pity that it's too late, the condescending Dian Wei Xu Chu instantly took the soldiers to kill, Xu Chu beheaded the nameless thief under the horse with a knife, blame him for being greedy for beauty and rushing to the forefront, otherwise he would not necessarily die if he was in the middle of so many thieves. The thieves were even more frightened when they saw that the head of the thief had been beheaded, and their morale was completely lost, and they did not dare to fight, but fled in rout.
Liu Meng also turned around at this time and ambushed the soldiers to pursue these defeated soldiers, but these thieves first ran for more than ten miles and were physically exhausted, and then forcibly pursued them even more tired, and they collapsed to the ground one by one after running not long after, knowing that they couldn't run away, they all dropped their weapons and surrendered.
Liu Meng asked Ren Xiu'er and Zou Jing to take the 1,000 somewhat tired soldiers and Meiji guards and the Xuantie Wolf Cavalry under his command to gather and surrender the troops, after all, no matter how elite they are, they are also people, and they are no longer suitable for continuing to fight after running for more than ten miles. He cut off the head of the thief and hung it in front of the horse, and then took Dian Wei Xu Chu to lead 200 cavalry and the 4,000 infantry to Qingzhou City.
Led the crowd to Qingzhou City, Liu Meng threw out the head of the thief and shouted: "You wait for the leader to be dead, when will everyone wait if they don't surrender at this time?" ”
These thieves are a rabble, at this time to see the thief head is dead is even more warlike, most of them gave up resistance and surrendered, although there are some Yellow Turban diehards stubbornly resisted, but after all, the number is not much, and Qingzhou Taishou Gong Jing saw Liu Meng kill the thief and led the army as for the city after also opened the city gate to lead the soldiers out of the city to help the battle, but also intensified the defeat of those thieves, and soon the battle ended, no one under Liu Meng's men died, even those officers and soldiers were only killed and wounded but 100 people broke more than 30,000 thieves, which can be described as a complete victory, He also gained more than 5,000 killing intent points.
After leaving people to clean up the battlefield and collect the soldiers, Gong Jing led Liu Meng and others to the Taishou Mansion to hold a banquet and celebrate with him. During the banquet, Gong Jing naturally thanked him again and again, and said that he would definitely report Liu Meng's exploits to the imperial court. After Liu Meng's goal was achieved, he chatted with Gong Jing for a while, and then led everyone back to the residence arranged by Gong Jing after the war.
"General Liu, the siege here has been lifted, when will we leave for Zhuo County?" On the way back to his residence, Zou Jing asked.
"Captain Zou, there is no military disaster there for the time being, I don't plan to go back for the time being, you can lead the army back and resume your life, I'll wait here to rest and then make plans." Liu Meng replied.
Liu Meng didn't know what the current situation was, and he couldn't think of where to go for the time being, so he wanted to wait for news in Qingzhou City first.
The next day, Zou Jing led his own army back to Zhuo County, and Liu Meng and others temporarily lived in Qingzhou City.
After more than a month, news came that Zhonglang would fight against Lu Zhi and Zhang Jiao, and the court replaced him with Dong Zhuo. Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun attacked Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang with fire in Changshe, Zhang Liang, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang led the defeated army to vote for Zhang Jiao. Now Huangfu Song and Zhang Liang are fighting in Quyang, and Zhu Jun and Zhang Bao are fighting in Yangcheng. And at this time, Liu Meng's commendation also came down, because he even solved the danger of Youzhou and Qingzhou, and Liu Yan stated in the book that Liu Meng's identity as a clan member of the Han family and praised the Emperor Ling to great joy, and specially named Liu Meng as the military Sima, with a rank of 1,000 stones, and ordered him to go to Guangzong to help Dong Zhuo break the thief, and then return to Luoyang to report after pacifying the thief chaos, Liu Meng also has an identity at this time.
Liu Meng gathered everyone together to tell these news, and when he talked about Dong Zhuo, he subconsciously looked at Ren Xiu'er, now Ren Xiu'er is his sister-in-law, he naturally won't let her use any beauty tricks, this woman is too pathetic in history, she has done what thousands of men can't do, but the ending is so tragic, what will be passed down in later generations is mostly her beauty, and how many people remember her exploits? He, Liu Meng, will never let this hard-working woman repeat the mistakes of the past.
"The imperial court has now ordered me to go to Guangzong to break the thieves, I should have gone quickly, but I have few soldiers, and it is difficult to make a difference if I go, I want to march towards Guangzong while exterminating a small group of thieves to strengthen the power, what do you think?"
"Fengyi, what if this is known by the imperial court and blames us for delaying the military plane?" Dian Wei said with some concern.
"The imperial court doesn't know that most of us are cavalry, and now we don't have much use for money, so I plan to buy some horses from Gong Jing and Xiu'er's Meiji guards to ride, so that our army is all cavalry, and the speed of the march will inevitably be greatly enhanced, even if we march to Guangzong while suppressing bandits, the time will not be much worse." Liu Meng explained.
When everyone heard about Liu Meng's plan, they all felt that there was no problem, and they had no objections.
Because of Liu Meng's help, Qingzhou City was preserved, although there were more than 100 horses, and Liu Meng said that he was buying rather than begging, Gong Jing naturally would not refuse, so the purchase of horses went very smoothly. When everything was ready, Liu Meng led his troops to Guangzong.
It took a total of two months to come to the realm of Guangzong, two months Liu Meng didn't know how many thieves he had exterminated, he met a large number of people and left, everyone was a cavalry, and the thieves couldn't catch up, and when they encountered a small number, they led the army to attack, and those thieves were routed by these cavalry in a round of charge, so there were few casualties along the way but a lot of killing intent was obtained, and the troops led by Liu Meng came here from 400 people at the time of departure to 1,000 people, except for Ren Xiu'er's department because of the limited number of horses did not increase, The other three people have all increased to three hundred, and even so, Liu Meng still has more than 20,000 killing intent points. It can be seen that the number of Yellow Turban thieves is indeed large, but fortunately, most of them are rabble, plus they were betrayed by traitors and acted in a hurry, otherwise Liu Meng really felt that Zhang Jiao's uprising might have been successful.
Dong Zhuo has had a hard time in the past two months, since he took over Lu Zhi's position, he has fought several times with Zhang Jiao during this time, each time he has been defeated, and the court's dissatisfaction with him has become more and more increasing.
"Report, a military horse came from outside the camp, saying that it was the military Sima Liu Meng, who was ordered by the imperial court to come to help in the war." A sergeant reported to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo heard that the reinforcements were coming, and he also had someone in the court, otherwise he would not have come to replace Lu Zhi, so Liu Meng also knew that he was a rising star, and he had broken the thief twice, and now he came to help Dong Zhuo was naturally happy, and ordered his subordinates to hurry out of the camp to greet him after setting up a banquet.
"Oh, Jun Sima has been traveling all the way, and Dong has already set up a banquet to wash the dust for you." Dong Zhuo pulled Liu Meng very enthusiastically.