Chapter 106: King Hong (I)

Zhou Lizhi, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the western Jin Dynasty, was originally the leader of the Tuchen tribe, a branch of a nomadic people from the northwest mountains, and was named Hongwang by the former emperor Zhou Tian for helping the dynasty to exterminate the rebel army, and was given the royal surname.

King Hong gladly accepted the imperial surname and took the name Lizhi, and his sons also had the surname Zhou.

King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi had eight sons, seven of whom were biological sons and one was an adopted son. Of these eight sons, two were famous. One is the second son Zhou Xiaoyi, and the other is the eighth son Zhou Xiaosheng. Zhou Xiaoyi was resourceful and good at using soldiers; Zhou Xiaosheng was born with divine power and was brave and invincible.

When Emperor Zhou Huan came to find King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi to exterminate the Taiping King Meng Tai, he did not know about the destruction of the main force of the royal army led by Zhou Chi, so he immediately agreed to Emperor Zhou Huan's request.

Emperor Zhou Huan, of course, promised Hongwang Zhou Lizhi generous conditions: 500,000 silver salaries, 100,000 horses of silk, and the possibility of looting wealth for two days in the county capital of the occupied Taiping king Mengtai.

Emperor Zhou Huan's condition made King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi act immediately. He personally led an army of 80,000 to attack the territory of the Taiping king Meng Tai, and when Emperor Zhou Huan saw that his goal had been achieved, he rushed back to the military camp of King Wu Yun.

King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi ordered his second son Zhou Xiaoyi and eighth son Zhou Xiaosheng to lead 20,000 elite troops to take the lead in entering the territory of Taiping King Mengtai, and he led 60,000 troops to respond.

The territories of the Taiping King Mengtai were all in the north, and the 20,000 troops of Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng came to the territory of the Taiping King Mengtai after a day's march.

The army of King Hongzhou Lizhi was a fierce nomadic cavalry, and most of the troops in the Central Plains were afraid of these nomadic cavalry with bows, arrows, sabers, whirlwinds.

The armies of Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng advanced to the boundary of Shuangning County without any resistance, and at this time, Meng Ze, the son of Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, had just been ordered to garrison Shuangning County with 50,000 troops.

The armies of Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng marched to a place ten miles away from the town of Shuangning County, and an army of 90,000 led by Meng Ze, the son of Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, appeared in front.

He was ordered by Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, to defend the county town of Shuangning and resist the army of King Zhou of Hong.

Meng Ze learned the news that the two sons of King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi led 20,000 troops to attack the county town of Shuangning, so he brought 50,000 troops and the 40,000 troops of the original county town of Shuangning to gather together, and left the county town of Shuangning, wanting to destroy the 20,000 enemy troops with absolute superiority before the arrival of most of the men and horses of King Zhou Lizhi.

Zhou Xiaoyi learned in advance from Tanma that a large number of troops had been dispatched from Shuangning County, and then made combat deployments.

Zhou Xiaoyi divided the 20,000 cavalry into five teams, one of 4,000 cavalry. Three groups of heavy cavalry retreated back in batches, and two groups of light cavalry rushed towards the enemy in a sparse formation.

Meng Ze led an overwhelming army of 90,000 troops slowly forward, and they first encountered two small cavalry forces on the left and right.

When the two armies were dozens of meters apart, the eight thousand light cavalry of King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi suddenly all opened their bows and shot arrows. These 8,000 light cavalry were all marksmen, and the arrows were not in vain, and Meng Ze's soldiers fell one by one.

Monzer ordered several thousand archers to fire arrows at the enemy, but his archers were far from their opponents' archery skills, and his archers did not have as long as their opponents' bows and arrows, with the result that their opponents were barely harmed and his own soldiers were killed and wounded.

Meng Ze decisively ordered the shield bearers to protect in front, and the whole army charged forward.

The shield-bearer could not block the bow and arrow, so many of Meng Ze's soldiers were still shot by the bow and arrow, but Meng Ze's army was getting closer and closer to the army of King Hong, Zhou Lizhi.

Just as the nearly 90,000 Meng family army was approaching the 8,000 light cavalry of King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi, they suddenly stopped shooting, turned their horses and ran back.

Half of Monze's army was cavalry, and when he saw the enemy fleeing, he pursued them first.

The light cavalry of King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi did not really run away, but used their running to distance themselves from the enemy, and then opened their bows and arrows - nomads hunted animals on the run since childhood.

The horses of the light cavalry of King Zhou Lizhi ran faster, and they were able to maintain a constant distance from the enemy while shooting arrows.

Meng Ze's cavalry suffered a large number of casualties in the pursuit of the enemy army. The more casualties there are, the more they have to catch up, the number of enemy troops is too small, as long as they can catch up with the enemy army and start a desperate fight, the enemy army will easily be completely annihilated.

Meng Ze's tens of thousands of cavalry paid a heavy price, and they chased for dozens of miles but did not catch up with the enemy.

Meng Ze's cavalry could not run, and they saw thousands of enemy troops running farther and farther away, and finally disappeared completely.

Meng Ze's cavalry were all out of breath and sweating, and they all got off their horses in despair, panting on the ground to dissipate heat.

Suddenly, 12,000 heavy cavalry armed with broadswords were killed from the left, center, and right directions, and they whistled and screamed wildly and rushed towards Meng Ze's tens of thousands of cavalry who were placed on the ground with crooked armor and oblique swords and guns.

At the forefront of the 12,000 heavy cavalry that suddenly appeared was a middle-to-upper figure, a thin man with a strange weapon holding a hammer and a boring neck, and he was Zhou Xiaosheng, the son of Zhou Lizhi, the invincible general of the powerful north.

Zhou Xiaosheng was the first to rush up, and happened to collide with Meng Ze, who had not dismounted.

Zhou Xiaosheng picked up the hammer head boring wings and smashed the top of the head cover at Meng Ze, Meng Ze knew that the opponent's strength was great when he looked at the weapon, but he held his breath today and relied on his own martial arts force, so he picked up the steel gun in his hand and went up to smash Zhou Xiaosheng's weapon.

Meng Ze's point steel gun and Zhou Xiaosheng's hammer head boring wing lance smashed together, with the extremely harsh metal impact sound, Meng Ze "ah——!" sound, the point steel gun fell to the ground, Meng Ze was stunned by Zhou Xiaosheng a hammer head boring wing lance to smash the head of the horse.

A soldier who saw Zhou Xiaosheng smashing Meng Ze's head at a close distance was scared to death after screaming.

Zhou Xiaosheng held a hammer head boring wing lance into the enemy army, like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and the surrounding enemy soldiers were smashed by the hammerhead boring wing lance piece by piece to the brains of the brain.

It didn't take too long for Meng Ze's tens of thousands of cavalry to be annihilated by the 12,000 heavy cavalry led by Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng.

At this time, the 8,000 light cavalry also returned, and together with the heavy cavalry, they galloped in the direction of Shuangning County.

Meng Ze's tens of thousands of infantry, who were moving forward, saw the black cavalry in front of them, and they all thought that Meng Ze led the cavalry to destroy the enemy army and returned victoriously. So they turned back one after another, walking towards the county town of Shuangning.

Then another one-sided slaughter ensued, and the poor tens of thousands of infantry were powerless to resist the charge of the Tuchen cavalry of King Zhou Lizhi in an unguarded state of panic, and they were cut down to the ground like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Many soldiers threw away their swords and guns and wanted to be prisoners, but they were all cut down in a pool of blood by the cavalry led by Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng.

Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng led the cavalry to rush into the city of Shuangning County, and there was no army in the city.

Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng had just entered Shuangning County, and King Hongwang Zhou Lizhi also entered the city with a large team.

King Hong, Zhou Lizhi, ordered the soldiers who participated in the capture of Shuangning County to rob for half an hour first.

Zhou Xiaoyi took nearly 20,000 troops and began to rob unscrupulously and frantically, and half an hour later, all the soldiers of King Zhou Lizhi began to rob.

In one day, all the officials, wealthy people, and large and small shops in the city were robbed.

Of course, on this day, there are also unyielding men in the city of Shuangning County who died tragically under the knife of the Tuchen people for protecting their property, as well as countless women who have been trampled on their bodies and minds.

After Zhou Xiaoyi and Zhou Xiaosheng let the soldiers enjoy themselves in Shuangning County City for a day, they marched towards Huiyang Mansion City in front.