Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Meng Family's Father
It was as fast as the wind, from the fire ox charging into the formation, to Meng Wei leading the troops all the way into the enemy formation.
Before the main generals of the Jizhou Quartet could react to what the situation was, their own Chinese army began to retreat frantically.
The front army was still climbing the ladder to capture the city, and the right army and the rear army were waiting for military orders.
After a little effort, I saw the enemy army on the left flank, and before I could turn around in my mind, I wanted to see how Su Hou was going to deal with this matter, and I saw the fire ox charging into battle, and the enemy master would directly lead the troops to fight his own Hou Ye to the death, and he wanted to exchange with Hou Ye!
For a while, there were those who shouted for help, and there were also those who ordered not to act rashly, and the Jizhou army was in chaos.
In Chongcheng, Mei Wu and Chunxiong saw this, and immediately commanded the few remnants of the army in their hands to counterattack according to the agreement, and the dilapidated city gate was opened, and a large group of armor soldiers and ragged slaves rushed out with red eyes.
"Reinforcements have arrived, kill all the dogs in Jizhou!"
"Su Hu is dead, all the gentlemen will kill with me!"
All kinds of voices came one after another, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, and even Chen Qi looked back suspiciously.
I saw the familiar figure of three heads and six arms, slaughtering into the hinterland of Su Hou's Chinese army, quickly approaching Daxu, the flame giant was across the sky, and under the fire axe, it was flying a piece of sergeants, it was really the demon king in the world, and no one was invincible.
Although Su Hu has been fighting for many years, his essence is no different from Yuan Futong, and when he was young, he may also be a heroic soldier who killed generals and captured the flag in the military array.
After the perennial body formation, the strength under the wine and meat has already been returned to the years, where dare to fight with such an existence to the death, so I had to hurriedly get off the chariot, change into a horse, and withdraw to the rear army with my own soldiers.
The armor soldiers of the Jizhou army were not afraid of death to protect the monarch, and exchanged death for wounds on Meng Wei's body, leaving wounds one after another.
Fortunately, the current Meng Wei has rough skin and thick meat, and has full control of essence and blood, as long as it is not a vital injury, the flesh injury will be good in an instant, leaving a scar in vain.
Stretching out his hand and dragging down a Jizhou knight, Meng Wei turned over his horse again, and with a fierce attitude with the cavalry behind him, regardless of the surrounding enemy troops, he rushed towards the place where Su Hu was.
"Xiong Kang, catch Su Hu!"
Meng Wei shouted loudly, Su Hu subconsciously looked up at the sky after hearing it, only to see Jiuli Yiren swooping down like an eagle falcon, Su Hu immediately asked his own soldiers to protect him, and aimed his spearhead at the sky to prevent the stranger from falling.
"Master Hou, your robe is too conspicuous, please change your robe!"
Seeing that Yiren could find the figure of Hou Ye in the chaotic army every time, the soldiers hurriedly suggested.
Su Hu also suddenly realized, and immediately ripped off the bright yellow robe on his body and handed it to the pro-soldier who made the suggestion.
"Put on him and lure away the strangers in the sky!"
“……?”
Seeing a person wearing a yellow robe and running into the chaos alone, Meng Wei sneered disdainfully, Su Hu's hair is gray, this person's hair is like ink, and his body is a whole circle stronger than Su Hu, such a clumsy doppelganger technique, who can he deceive?
Then he shouted: "Su Hu, the bearded one! ”
Hearing this, Su Hu immediately pulled out a short knife in distress, cut off his beard, and continued to ride his horse and gallop.
"This dog thief, the reaction is really fast!"
Seeing Su Hu tearing off the corners of his clothes and wrapping his chin, fleeing all the way into the chaotic army, Xiong Kang and Meng Wei couldn't recognize which one was Su Hu for a while.
Meng Weisuo couldn't find a trace after looking for a while, so he had to shake his head and sigh, missing the good opportunity of Su Hu with a blade, and then caught up with the location of Jizhou Daxu, Qi axe slashed, and Daxu fell in response.
Xin Ping and Lian Yong immediately understood, and shouted loudly in the enemy formation with the remnants of the eight hundred cavalry.
"The anti-thief Su Hu is dead, and those who descend will not be killed!"
"The anti-thief Su Hu is dead, and those who descend will not be killed!"
At this time, the "Chaoge Bujia" on the high slope gradually emerged, where is the Chaoge elite armor, all of them are a group of old dragon bells, yellow-faced and thin refugees, wearing a layer of ill-fitting armor and holding all kinds of copper basins and bangzi bluffing.
Occasionally, I can see some soldiers and servant troops who were originally stationed in Yancheng dragging the leafy branches back and forth, setting off a dusty scene and the army advancing.
It's a pity that Su Hu can't see this scene.
Wu dared to cover and kill the left army, and Meng Wei followed the remaining 800 cavalry all the way, and did not attack, but hung Su Hu's Chinese army from a distance.
As long as the defeated army wants to turn around or rectify, it will encounter a severe blow, and along the way, the Chinese army tramples on each other, messes up, disrupts the last phalanx, and constantly oppresses the rear army.
Daxu has fallen, the lord "died in battle", where did the former army still have the idea of attacking the city, so it was also crushed by the army that Chongcheng rushed out all the way. Seeing this, the right army, which was the only one that could be formed, could not figure out the current situation of the enemy army for a while, so it had to slowly retreat with its orderly army.
This farcical war lasted from early morning until dusk.
The entire southern border of Chongguo is full of routs, leaving behind a large number of corpses that have trampled to death, and there are some Jizhou water ghosts who are panicked and trying to jump into the water to survive on the not wide Chongshui.
I don't know how far he fled, Su Hu looked at the dozens of cavalry around him, crying and mourning, touching the beards that were long and short in the middle and wanted to cry without tears.
An army of 100,000 people, not 100,000 pigs, came with a majestic face, but at this time there were only a few dozen people with them.
Su Hu looked back in the direction of Chongcheng blankly, and muttered in his mouth: "Meng taste, Meng taste!" ”
Then another mouthful of blood spurted out, his eyes were dark, and he couldn't hold on any longer, and fell from his horse, touching his head and bleeding.
"Lord!!"
The surrounding soldiers were shocked and stepped forward to support Su Hu.
Su Hu, who covered his forehead, let the blood rush to his face, mixed between his teeth, and said resentfully.
"I'm fine, pass on my military order, search for my Jizhou army's scattered division, we, go back to Jizhou!"
"No!"
It was late at night that the remnants of Chongcheng who went out of the city to pursue gradually returned to the city, and Meng Wei, who had pursued the Jizhou army all the way through Chongshui, also returned to Chongcheng with his armor.
The army was exhausted, but the post-war Chongcheng was even more dilapidated, and Meng Wei did not dare to let all the soldiers return home immediately, looking for the family reunion that he had been thinking about day and night, and the post-war order still needed to be rebuilt.
"Wu Dare!"
Hearing the summons of the general, Wu Dang immediately stepped forward to listen to the order.
"How many prisoners did you and General Umetake take?"
"Back to the general, there should be more than 20,000, our army is weak, and we can't stop too much."
Meng Wei nodded after hearing this, he had a headache about the prisoners, Mei Wu had spread the word earlier, boldly promised the slaves in the city, gave them freedom, and released the slaves and their immediate families who participated in the war after the war, and they could return to the city to serve.
Therefore, there is also a combination of Meng Wei and Mei Wu, when the enemy army is treated, as much as possible to capture as many Jizhou's armor and servant army as prisoners, and exchange strong slaves for these broken people, otherwise Mei Wu will not be so easy to borrow so many slaves and servants from the hands of major nobles and merchants, and forcibly plunder, then Mei Wu will really not live long.
Junxiong will not be willing to persuade his former clan to pick up the sword again, and let a group of slaves who have lost their will fight for a future for future generations
Meng Wei also had a headache with the problem of military strength, under this battle, there were only more than 1,000 elite armored cavalry of 3,000, and the uneven total of the Chongcheng defenders was only more than 10,000, and in the face of Jizhou prisoners who were stronger than themselves, it was extremely troublesome to take care of them.
According to the usual practice of conquest among princes, this group of captives can be bought back by Su Huran, but now Chongcheng's dilapidated appearance also talks about a hammer rule, and Su Hu's army is not a normal dispute between princes.
At least for this reason, forcibly dismantling the captives and making them into slaves, there is also a saying to save face, so that as soon as Chonghou returns, he will kill Mei Wu first, and then hold Meng Wei accountable for making claims.
"The army has entered the city, everything is busy, it is difficult to return home, please bear with me, the three of you will sum it up by yourself in the past few days, arrange a charter, rotate day and night, be sure to watch the prisoner camp, and wait for the Zhong brothers to arrive, you can let the officers and soldiers in the army return home to find relatives."
Wu Dare is undeniable, he is not from Chongcheng, and he doesn't need to visit his relatives.
It's just that Xin Ping looked at Lian Yong, who was silent on the side, with tears in his eyes, lowered his head and promised, and quietly touched his back with his hand, comforting the big brother.
Defending the city is tragic, along the way, there are many peasant women holding straw forks and farm tools and dying in battle, everyone naturally wants to go home to visit their families, for fear that the father and son have returned, but there are no relatives at home.
Xin Ping stood up, looked back at the sergeants, and asked softly:
"General, we are all veterans, and the matter of the battle formation is no longer surprising, since there is nothing to do, but general, you... Your father heard that he had also been stationed on the city wall and was seriously injured, so why don't you go home and visit the family first? I can wait here, the general has just recovered from his injuries, and he has been running for more than ten days, and you are also the first soldier in the repeated battles, why bother to guard this group of defeated troops again? We are willing to serve the general! ”
"I'm willing to serve the general!"
Meng Wei laughed, his heart was both moved, but also a little unbearable replied: "My father Meng Xiong, that is also the former battle array can kill ten soldiers in a row, should be fine, after the city is settled, I will return home, wait for your own business, after I coordinate the city defense with General Mei, I will guard the prisoner camp with all the kings." ”
When everyone saw this, they stopped talking, and the general's family was seriously injured, and he still passed through the door and did not enter, so what did they have to say?
After instructing the three of them, Meng Wei took several personal soldiers and walked to the Chonghou Mansion, where Mei Wu, who was currently in charge, was in charge of the affairs of the city.
When he arrived at the mansion, he didn't see Mei Wu, but he saw a black-faced slave in ragged clothes, but his body and skin were clean, and he respectfully stepped forward and bowed down.
"Hun Rong Nu Chunxiong, I have seen the benevolent General Meng Wei, may the gods bless you and prosper forever!"
Meng Wei waved his hand to stop the soldiers who wanted to step forward to drive away, nodded and replied: "I already know that Meng Wei is not a person of faith, but Chonghou has not returned, and he can't be the master, and after Chonghou returns to the city, I should ask for your life!" ”
"Chunxiong represents the cheap slaves in the city, thank the general for his kindness."
In the muddy nightmare for six years, Chunxiong burst into tears, as the seventh son of the king of Hun Rong, he followed his father to disturb the side with the ghosts, but was defeated by Chonghou and returned, and he was also captured in this Chongcheng with his clansmen, and endured for six years.
If it weren't for the fact that the merchants brought back the reform of the slave army in the city, he originally thought that he would die so mediocre, but he didn't expect to see the opportunity to return to the aristocratic sequence in his lifetime, and he was overjoyed, and immediately retreated respectfully, until Meng Wei entered the mansion, he got up and retreated with raised eyebrows, looking at the clansmen who were hiding in the corner and looking at him with burning eyes, Chunxiong smiled happily.
"This matter has been completed, General Meng's name of benevolence and righteousness can be used as a guarantee, gentlemen, we can go to the dirt city."
Seeing that the slaves in front of him were about to cheer, Chunxiong hurriedly stopped the slaves: "Don't make a noise, everyone should know that this matter is not easy, we still need to keep to ourselves and wait for General Meng's reply in a low-key manner." ”
Meng Wei looked at the deep Hou Mansion and sighed, he kept thinking about Chunxiong with hot eyes in his heart, Meng Yan did not mean to despise Chunxiong, he was also a character, and he also longed for a civilized and decent life in his heart, such a person is both dangerous and a sharp knife.
At least in this crisis in Chongcheng, Chunxiong did a good job, personally commanding tens of thousands of slaves, and blocking the offensive of the Jizhou army with flesh and blood.
Slaves are a deformed species, he has no way to fundamentally change anything, at least he has made a good start in the dirty city, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, he is not afraid of ambitious people among the slaves, what he is afraid of is that this group of people don't even know what to resist, that is the greatest sorrow.
It's just that this matter still needs to be well planned, at least there must be a suitable reason, or to divide the distribution of meritorious deeds after the war with the major nobles in the city, otherwise, it is an extremely terrible thing for this person to make trouble.
Alone, growing up in this slave society, he knew better than anyone how terrible it would be to move the cake of most nobles.
The pressure and risk are not much simpler than the encroachment of the fields by the families of later generations, and this era is the era of controlling the population, and whoever has enough population in his hands will have the strength to call out other princes.
Whether it is a war armor or a slave, as long as there are people, a city will flourish, the more slaves, the more civilians and people willing to settle in the city, slaves occupy the lowest level of society, do the most dangerous and hardest things, the more others, the more prosperous the agriculture, mining and other industries, will attract merchants to come and go, and the city-states with frequent exchanges will naturally prosper.
With a heavy heart, Meng Wei finally saw Mei Wu, who was the humerus of Chonghou in the past, and was in a high position, but at this time, only two years later, Meng Wei was already standing in the Hou Mansion and was at eye level with Mei Wu.
Mei Wu looked at the young man in front of him, and he also felt a lot of feelings in his heart, the back waves of the big river beat the front waves, and the momentum of the back waves was really too fierce.
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In the following days, it was the rectification of various matters in the city, with Meng Wei and Mei Wu joining forces, the entire Chongcheng finally ushered in a rare tranquility and stability after the defeat of Jizhou.
With the arrival of the Zhong brothers with the follow-up cavalry, Meng Wei finally relieved the sullenness in his heart, and the more than 1,000 armor soldiers in the city who returned to Chong first were finally able to change their guards and go home to find the old concerns.
With Meng Wei's order, all the soldiers left the barracks silently and returned to their respective homes.
Return, return, two years old did not return home, when they went to ten thousand people, when they returned a thousand, they can still have a home to return, but more people, like wandering spirits, most of them can be returned, only a piece of armor and broken weapons.
"Meng Wei!"
"Fellow villager, Meng Wei is back, General Meng Wei is back!"
With the call of the childish child at the entrance of Mengcun Village, the silent Mengcun outside the west gate of Chongcheng instantly became lively, and everyone walked towards the entrance of the village one after another, welcoming them to the big hero of Mengcun who went out.
Meng Wei looked at the neighbors of this village warmly, with a gentle smile on his face, but seeing that there were many fewer familiar faces, the smile fell silent again, and he hurriedly searched for his parents in the crowd.
"Taste! Where is my second son? Where are you, my son? ”
Suddenly, listening to the familiar voice in his ears, Meng Wei's eyes instantly moistened, and he hurried all the way, lest the sword soldiers descend on this small village, lest he never see the familiar person again, his beloved parents.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's just that Grandma's situation is very wrong, she is obviously standing at the entrance of the village, why can't Grandma see herself?
Meng Wei immediately gave up his hand, confessed to the uncles and brothers around him, stepped forward to meet his mother, grabbed his mother's rough hands tightly, and said in a choked voice: "Son... Son is here. ”
Meng Jia's mother listened to the voice of her second son, and cried bitterly, her rough palm kept groping on Meng Wei's face, she rubbed Meng Wei's thick earlobe, and finally confirmed that this was her son, and immediately hugged her child into her arms.
"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Meng Wei's voice trembled a little, she was fine when she went, why did her mother's eyes seem to be invisible?
The mother didn't answer, just howled hoarsely and cried, Meng Wei felt a faint pain in her heart, and her red and swollen eyes kept exploring the memory of the dark and thin man in the crowd.
Meng Zhu and Meng You, who returned to Chongcheng with Chongcheng's main formation last year, slowly stepped forward, patted Meng Wei's back, looked at each other, but there was no way to say the words to their mouths, and finally the older Meng Zhu said in a deep voice.
"Taste, Uncle Xiong, it's gone!"
I write so sleepy, I sleep 6 hours a day, and I hope that my middle father will pity me!!
(End of chapter)