Chapter 179: Wolf Meng Ting

Jia Shen, Jun Liu, Sima Keping, Southern Jizhou, sent Murong Ping and Lieutenant Hou Gongshuai to attack Ye with 10,000 cavalry. 癸巳, to Ye. Early on, Zhang Wen, the general of Wei Che Cavalry, infiltrated Ye and passed on Ran Min's will. Wei general Jiang Gan, Shizhong Miao Song, Zhan Shi Liu Yi and Wen Hu Prince Zhi abandoned the city and ran west, and tens of thousands of people accompanied their families and retreated to Shangdang through Hukou Pass. Ran "Cao" led the army to first occupy Xiangguo, and then entered Ye and called the King of Wei. Hearing the peace, the city was closed and refused. Geng Yin, Yan Wang Jun sent Guangwei General Murong Jun, Dianzhong General Mu Yugen, Right Sima Huangfu Zhen and other handsome men to ride 20,000 to help Murong Ping attack Ye, and all outside the city fell to Yan. Within ten days, Ran ran ran out of food and surrendered the city.

--- Excerpt from the Introduction

Looking at the White Horse Mountain, which had sunk into the twilight, Murong frowned and sighed softly. This high mountain still looks majestic in the light darkness, and it is filled with a grand momentum. A small river, Wuqi Water, flows from the foot of the south side of Baima Mountain, flows for dozens of miles and then joins the Hutuo River. It is precisely because of the Wuqi water that a winding and long valley road appears in the continuous mountains, which can lead to the Hutuo River valley in the north, and can go straight to the west to Dingxiang, Xinxing County, and to the east to Zhending, Changshan County; It can reach Meng County in the south, and then you can cross Shouyang along the Tan Road until Jinyang.

This is a very secret trail, and few people will leave Jizhou from here. Because since ancient times, the main roads of the two states of Merge and Hebei have been Jingcheng and Weize Pass, and this trail was spent by Murong Chui for several years, quietly inquiring from the mountain people and the people who collect "medicine", and also sent people to walk quietly twice, in order to be able to wave his troops directly into the hinterland of Bingzhou at a critical moment and occupy Jinyang.

But now the road is blocked by the stockade in front of it. This cottage is called Wolf Mengting, standing according to the White Horse Mountain, it was originally the black mountain thieves in the late Han Dynasty with mountain stones, just to hold the natural danger, it is really a husband and a man who is not open. His 50,000 horses fought here for a whole day, but he didn't take advantage of it at all.

"Fifth general, this battle is really *** breathless!" The forward captain Murong Zhi led the forward soldiers and horses to withdraw, and the first thing he said when he saw Murong Chui was to complain.

"The valley in front of the Wolf Meng Pavilion is only three ox carts, and my five thousand soldiers can only spread three or four hundred people when they go immediately. Fifth general, look at my five thousand sons. The four hundred "sexual" lives are all the elite of my Yan country, and they are all *** folded under this broken village. ”

Hearing this, Murong Chui slowly moved his gaze from behind Murong Zhi. Behind Murong Zhi, thousands of Yan Army sergeants were retreating from the front in twos and threes. Whether they were injured or not, their faces were extremely tired. They either supported each other, or held the spears in their hands, and walked slowly, except for the sound of footsteps, only the sound of the black ruler water beside them. As they passed, they just glanced at Murong Chui silently, and then slowly walked into the black 'color' behind them.

"I've seen it all!" Murong Chui nodded and said lightly. "Rest well tonight and fight again tomorrow."

Murong straightened his mouth twice, and finally just responded with an "oh", lowered his head and followed his subordinates to the back.

Murong raised his head and continued to stare at the White Horse Mountain and the Wolf Meng Pavilion in front of him, in the darker and darker night, the White Horse Mountain was like an entrenched tiger, and the Wolf Meng Pavilion was the sharpest tiger tooth.

It's really a Xiongguan, a Xiongguan that can make many people in the world sigh, but no matter how dangerous a Xiongguan is, if there is no iron-blooded man guarding it, it is not a Xiongguan. Although the Wolf Mengting is a cottage with a history of more than 100 years, the years have long made it dilapidated. But the dangerous terrain makes up for all this, as long as the stone wall is still there, as long as the Beifu soldiers behind it are not dead, it will always be a majestic pass that it cannot cross.

Murong Chui already knew that there were less than 1,000 Beifu soldiers in this cottage, and they were militiamen who were urgently transferred, because the nearest government soldiers were still in Shouyang City, and it was impossible to transfer them in five days. But it was these 1,000 Beifu soldiers who stopped the 50,000 Yan army's trip to merge with the state here, and it was difficult to move an inch.

I've been in front of that small county in Bailing for too long. Murong Chui never thought that a small county that was "lonely in Jizhou" would actually let its 50,000 army stop for a day and a night. When Murong Chui saw that the tattered but peaceful Beifu Bailing County Commander calmly answered in front of him, and then went to his death more calmly, he hesitated a little in his heart, this operation to attack and merge the state may fail.

If he could pass through Bailing smoothly as planned, he would not have let Meng County receive information and mobilize a thousand people to guard the Wolf Meng Pavilion that must be passed. If the plan had been smooth, Meng County would have fallen long ago, and the army would have been directed at Shouyang City. At that time, the west can enter Jinyang, and the east can attack Weize and Jingcheng Pass from the west, in that case, this plan that echoes the east and west of the fourth brother will be completed, and the Yan State will have a greater grasp of occupying the Central Plains and Hedong, which is really a pity.

Murong Chui would not say these words, let alone show hesitation and worry on his face. He still has the arrogance of the Murong family in his bones. As the handsome man of the Murong family, Murong Chui, like his father and several elder brothers, is committed to leveling the world. Heroic, talented, and family background, this is enough for Murong Chui to be proud. But since Wei Chang was captured in the First World War, Murong Chui is no longer the young handsome man who is full of arrogance and high spirits. He became less talkative and deeper, and after his wife Duan was framed and killed by the Kezuhun clan, Murong Chui became even deeper, making Murong Ke, who had always valued him, sigh.

This time, Murong Ke and Murong Chui made a plan to re-enter the Central Plains, Murong Ke was in charge of Jizhou, Yuzhou and Ran Min, and Murong Chui was in charge of merging the state, plus Liu Xibeqi and He Laitou's secret chess, in order to drag the hands and feet of Beifu, so that Yan State could capture the Central Plains as quickly as possible, and then quickly integrate the forces here, so that Yan State would have the ability to fight with Beifu and compete for the world.

Murong Chui knew that the fourth brother had already led the army to surround Ran Min, and the entry into the Wei State was just around the corner, but his own journey was full of bad luck from the beginning, will the road from now on really be smooth?

Murong Chui watched as Wolf Meng Ting slowly appeared dozens of fires in the darkness, beating in the whirring night mountain wind. He finally let out a long sigh of relief, then turned his head to the adjutant general Sun Gai and said, "Pass the order, and the whole army will have a good night's rest." Tomorrow morning, the meal will be held at three o'clock, and then the whole army will be divided into ten teams, each team of 3,000 people, taking turns to go into battle, and constantly attacking Wolf Mengting for me, no matter how big the casualties are, they will be captured for me! ”

After passing the order, Murong Chui immediately turned around and strode back to his big tent.

In the Wolf Meng Pavilion, Gu Tan, the guard general of the Wolf Meng Pavilion and the governor of Meng County, was patrolling all over the Wolf Meng Pavilion and rectifying the defenders. Among the more than 1,000 people, 600 were urgently recruited by the Meng County militia, and the remaining 400 or so were composed of Meng County patrols, veteran sergeants, Li Zheng people's husbands, and county school students.

The militia was well equipped with 400 longbows, 600 swords, and 100 spears. The rest of the people, except for the patrol with waist knives and the veteran sergeants with longbows, had to take long wooden poles and sharpen them as soldiers. Gu Tan took these thousand people and just cleaned up the wolf Meng Pavilion when he ran into Murong Zhi and led his troops to attack. With natural danger and a lot of blood, the defenders of Beifu gritted their teeth and fought fiercely for a day, and finally defeated the Yan army, but their own losses were also heavy, with more than 200 casualties and two-thirds of the arrows. But Gu Tan knows that the most important thing now is to integrate and compile this army by "people from all walks of life", this battle will still have to be fought for a while, it is still not enough to rely on blood alone, it must be organized in an orderly manner, and advance and retreat in a measured manner, so as to reduce casualties and persist until the end.

Gu Tan divided more than 800 people into three teams, the militia and other more than 600 people into two teams, each responsible for the north and south two sections of the stone wall, and the remaining more than 200 people were mainly militia elites, as reserves, and put into key positions at the moment of emergency.

Gu Tan organized the soldiers, and then designated their respective defense areas, and then sent more than 100 people, under the cover of the longbowmen on the stone wall, to sneak out of the cottage and pack up arrows and ordnance.

After finishing all this, the exhausted Gu Tan dragged his heavy body towards the courtyard where he lived, which was also the temporary headquarters of the Wolf Mengting. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard a cry echoing: "Brother Lu, I'm not as good as you!" I'm not as good as you! ”

Gu Tan hurriedly looked at it and saw two people kneeling on the ground holding their heads and crying. The person on the left, Gu Tan, knew that it was an officer from the Governor's Mansion of Bailing County, who had just escaped secretly at night, and had met him when he was studying in Zhizhan County, Leping County. The person on the right, Gu Tan, is even more familiar, he is Meng Tao, the teacher of Meng County, and he should stick to Meng County with the county order of Meng County.

Gu Tan hurriedly went up to help the two of them, and asked for details while comforting them.

In Meng's choked voice, Gu Tan knew what was going on. Wan Wei, the county magistrate of Bailing County, was Meng Tao's classmate in Liangzhou School, and the two were assigned to Bingzhou as officials together. It's just that Wan Wei is more talented, and soon surpasses Meng Tao, who has always been a teacher, and is promoted to the Pingyang County Guard's Office. But last year, he made a mistake and was given a penalty, and then he was demoted to Bailing, a small county that was lonely on the front line, as a county order as a punishment. Meng Tao knew that Wan Wei was punished for his "misconduct", so he despised him very much, and wrote several letters to sneer at this classmate.

It was this classmate who, when Yan suddenly attacked, was not "chaotic" in the face of danger, and while organizing the soldiers to resist to the death, he sent people to quickly report to Meng County. It was precisely because of Bailing County's report and resistance that Gu Tan had time to mobilize the sergeants to this wolf Meng Pavilion.

This Wan Guan, who relied on hundreds of people and dangerous terrain to resist for a day and a night, said calmly when facing the encirclement of the Yan army and Murong Chui's personal persuasion to surrender: "The soldiers and civilians of Beifu have died but have not surrendered!" Then he drew his sword and 'committed suicide'.

The officer heard this scene lying in the pile of dead people, and endured it with tears in his eyes until dark, and fled along the mountain road back to the Wolf Mengting.

"There is no death and no surrender! Brother Lu Lu, he doesn't abide by the "conduct", but he has integrity! After saying this, Meng Tao couldn't help but cry again.

Gu Tan persuaded Meng Tao with tears in his eyes, and after he was quiet, he persuaded again: "Teach Master, you should go back to Meng County." ”

"What! You let me go back! Here are my students, there are my colleagues, you let me go back! Hearing this, Meng Tao exclaimed loudly, "I am trusted by the general and am responsible for the education of Meng County. I taught my students to be strict in their conduct, to be loyal to the monarch and to be patriotic, and to be honest, but now you tell me to guard the rear and stay out of danger! You might as well tell me to die of shame! ”

Speaking of this, Meng Tao almost roared, he took out the longbow behind him and raised it high: "Although I am a literati, I can also draw a bow and swing a knife, and my waist bag can not only hold books, but also put the heads of enemies!" ”

Gu Tan stood there silently and listened, surrounded by sergeants who rushed to hear the sound, they listened quietly to Meng Tao's words, and there was a fire burning in everyone's eyes.

"The soldiers and civilians of my northern mansion have died without surrendering!" Meng Tao shouted almost word by word.

Hearing this, not only the entire courtyard, but also the entire Wolf Meng Pavilion fell into a kind of silence, only the torches were still crackling and burning there.

After a while, I don't know who roared the "Qin dialect" that the people of Beifu love to sing: "The golden sand beach is so strong that the mountains are shaking, and the good man will fight to the death and never steal his life!" ”

The sound drifted farther and farther away in the thick night, echoing in the mountains of Taihang Mountain.

On the second day, from morning to evening, the 30,000 Yan army was divided into ten teams, and they took turns attacking the city all the time. The earth-shattering shouts disappeared after a long time, and both the offensive and defensive sides were exhausted, just swinging knives, stretching bows, stabbing spears, and lifting stones according to the instinct of their bodies. All of them gasped and gritted their teeth, ignoring the fact that their comrades around them were falling one after another, and as long as they were alive, they would destroy the enemy in front of them. They are secretly comparing to see who can hold on to the last moment, and now it is not a physical fight, but a contest of willpower.

At dusk, the Yan army finally couldn't stand it anymore, and they left a dense body of corpses on the blackened hillside in front of the stone wall, and retreated gloomily. The 30,000 Yan army lost more than 2,000 people, but it still did not achieve its goal - to occupy the Wolf Meng Pavilion.

The losses of the defenders of Beifu are not small, no matter how heavy the injuries are, there are less than 500 people who can hold weapons on the stone wall, but Gu Tan knows that this city will be defended for three more days, and it will take another three days before the government soldiers of Leping and Jinyang can catch up.

It was night, except for the torches lit on the stone wall, there was no fire in the Wolf Meng Pavilion, and all the people said goodbye to their dead comrades in the dark, packed up the broken weapons, and then leaned against the inside of the stone wall in the dark night, silently waiting, waiting for dawn or the enemy to attack.

The battle on the third day was even more brutal, Murong Chui personally pressed the formation, and those who dared to retreat were all killed on the spot. The Yan army roared and flocked to the Wolf Meng Pavilion, where they lined up in a crowded and long line in the narrow valley. The defenders of Beifu had not many arrows, except for the "shooting" of the Yan army climbing the stone wall, they had no more arrows to suppress the "shooting" attack.

The wooden ladder of the Yan army was full of patches and ropes, and they were pushed down, and then hurriedly repaired and erected again. Due to the blood on it, the wooden ladder no longer had any "color" of wood, and completely turned into a black "color". Yan Jun climbed the wooden ladder and went up in turn. They carefully dodged the arrows and stones that flew down from above. Now the stones are denser and more dangerous than arrows. Arrows are limited, but there is no shortage of stones in the Wolf Meng Pavilion of White Horse Mountain.

It was easy to see the upper end of the stone wall, but the wooden poles made by the forest always made Yan Jun fall short. Standing in the narrow place of the wooden ladder, it is difficult for Yan Jun to guard against the wooden poles that are stabbed from the left and right, once you are stabbed, the sharpened pole tip can still drill a hole in you.

The bloody battle lasted from morning to dusk, but Murong Chui, who had a gloomy face, had no intention of withdrawing his troops. The officers and generals who did not dare to retreat had no choice but to order the sergeants to carry torches and attack overnight. In the middle of the night, the defenders, who had fought hard for a long time, were finally exhausted, and the defense line on the stone wall was precarious. Dozens of Yan troops had already climbed the stone wall and began to fight with the defenders, covering more of their colleagues to come up.

At this time, I saw a man in a green shirt and short robe, wielding a long knife, his face covered with blood and killing into the dozens of Yan soldiers, followed by more than a dozen people, who didn't look very old, but their knives danced extremely happily. The Yan army was caught off guard and was pressed and beaten by this new force and the defenders on the stone wall. But they are all the elite of the Yan Army, how can they give up so easily? I saw the sword light flying in the dancing firelight, and the shouts and screams mixed together in the dark night.

I saw that some of the dozen or so people were broken with long knives, but they still pounced, hugged Yan Jun, pinched them with their hands, bit them with their mouths, and then rolled down from the stone wall together. They had no helmets and no armor. After a while, the cloth that bound their hair was loosened, the long hair was scattered over their shoulders, and the green robes were not only torn, but also black and red. In the darkness and firelight, they were like ghosts, which made the Yan army in front of them feel short of breath.

The Yan army was finally driven down, and their morale finally dropped to the lowest point at this moment. Seeing it in his eyes, Murong Chui had no choice but to order the troops to be withdrawn.

Gu Tan hugged Meng Tao, who was covered in blood, and burst into tears, if Meng Tao hadn't rushed up with more than a dozen students just now, this wolf Meng Ting might have been captured.

"Master Mengzi!" Gu Tan shouted softly.

Meng Tao nodded slightly, then raised his right hand to the side with difficulty. Gu Tan took the opportunity to look over, and there was a person lying there, his thin body was like the other dead martyrs, full of wounds and blood, and his childish face was covered with blood and dust.

"It's a shame." Gu Tan heard Meng Tao's sigh. Yes, these students will become talents in a few years and become a valuable asset in Beifu.

"Gu Duwei, roar a few words!" Meng Tao finally said softly.

Gu Tan raised his face full of tears, and then shouted with all his might: "The golden sand beach is so strong that the mountains are shaking, and a good man will never steal his life if he fights to the death!" ”

In the roar, Meng Tao closed his eyes peacefully. In the roar, Murong looked down at the wolf Meng Ting and was silent. It seems that the way of the world has changed, and there is no way you can defeat a group of people who are shouting to die like this. When did the Han people regain their long-lost fierceness and blood?

Although the next two days of fighting were fierce, they were not as tragic as the first three days, because not only was the morale of the Yan army robbed, but even Murong Chui knew that the time had passed, and he became more and more hesitant and half-hearted.

On the fifth day, Chang Lianpu, the captain of Leping County, rushed to Langmengting with 3,000 government soldiers and militiamen, and behind him, more government soldiers and militia were rushing over under Feng Baoan, the governor of Bingzhou.

There were no more than a hundred people left on the Wolf Meng Pavilion, but they all insisted on standing on the stone wall, holding long knives and wooden poles in their hands.

Chang Lianpu finally found his subordinate Gu Tan on the stone wall, he leaned against the female wall of the stone wall, holding a long knife with more than a dozen notches in his hand. A long cut in his chest made it very difficult for him to breathe.

Seeing Chang Lianpu, Gu Tan's face was full of surprise, and he struggled to get up, but he couldn't move at all. Chang Lianpu hurriedly supported him.

"Captain, Captain Gu Tan of Meng County was ordered to guard the wolf Meng Pavilion, and the mission is ...... completed" Gu Tan said intermittently while panting.

"Captain Gu, your task has been completed, and now Wolf Mengting has been taken over by me!" Chang Lianpu replied with tears in his eyes.

Hearing this, Gu Tan showed a look of relief, and his body, which was still nervous and stiff just now, suddenly became soft, as if the strength of his whole body had disappeared all of a sudden.

Chang Lianpu knew that this was Gu Tan barely supporting for a few days, and it was already the time when the lamp ran out. Now that he has handed over to Wolf Mengting, he has no support, and his "sexual" life is naturally at this moment.

Chang Lianpu hugged Gu Tan tightly, he saw Gu Tan's mouth open, and hurriedly listened to it, and when he heard it twice, tears suddenly poured out like a flood.

After a while, in the bloody sunset, thousands of people shouted in unison: "The golden sand beach is so strong that the mountains are shaking, and the good man will never steal his life if he fights to the death!" Since ancient times, thousands of loyal and good, for the country and the people to protect the rivers and mountains! At that moment, the whole heaven and earth were shaken by this roar, and the majestic White Horse Mountain also trembled at this roar.

Murong Chui heard this roar and was silent for a long time, and finally ordered the troops to withdraw overnight and retreat to Changshan County.