Chapter 119: Scuffle
The army of Zhou Lizhong, the king of Hong, and the cavalry of Mo Rigen jointly broke through the capital guarded by the king of Mao, Wu Yun, who broke through under the protection of the invincible general Zhang Yanhu.
After Mo Rigen broke through the capital, after frantically robbing a lot of wealth in the capital, he left the capital to chase after his father Chijin Bo Khan, who moved west.
After King Zhou Lizhong occupied the capital, he actually deposed the Zhou Emperor of the Xurui Dynasty, established a new dynasty himself, and proclaimed himself emperor.
After Zhou Lizhong became emperor, he immediately sent a large number of soldiers and craftsmen to repair the damaged city wall and all other city defense facilities. After that, he began to tidy up the palace, and thousands of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace were killed by King Mao Wu Yun as military rations. Zhou Lizhong ordered full-time officials to go to various places in the capital to select palace maids, and then Zhou Lizhong, who was born in the plateau grassland and likes to hunt, ordered people to collect falcons and hounds everywhere and established a beast workshop in the palace.
The news that Zhou Lizhong had established a new dynasty in the capital and proclaimed himself emperor reached the ears of Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, who was furious, and he mobilized all his troops to prepare to attack Zhou Lizhong.
Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, had been defeated by Zhou Lizhong's cavalry, and knew that those Tuchen cavalry had strong combat effectiveness. In order to ensure that Zhou Lizhong could be defeated, Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, came to the Qiqing King City to ask Shi Dewa for help. The last time Zhou Lizhong's righteous son Zhou Xiaosheng's army defeated the Taiping King Mengtai, it was Shi Dewa who helped relieve the siege and finally signed a peace treaty with Zhou Lizhong.
When Shi Dewa saw that Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, came to ask for help, he agreed without hesitation.
Shi Dewa went to the courtyard of the chief in the middle of the palace to discuss with the chief about sending troops, but he did not expect the chief to be resolutely opposed.
The chief said: "Soldier master! Now the Xurui Dynasty is in turmoil, and the big and small forces are fighting endlessly for the rights and interests of the territory, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties. Now, due to the prestige of our Nine Desolation Ridge formations, no force has taken the initiative to attack us. The forces of the Zhou family no longer exist, and the forces of the Feng family, the king of Nanling, have not shown the slightest sign of attacking us. As long as we can protect ourselves, I don't agree with the cost of your countless soldiers' lives to participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. ”
Shi Dewa was speechless after listening to the chief's words, the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains were all children of the Changyu clan of the Nine Desolation Mountains, and he had no reason to disregard the lives of the soldiers to help the Taiping King Meng Tai.
The Taiping King Mengtai did not receive the assistance of the Shidewa army, and after returning home, he led his troops to attack the capital alone, but was defeated by the Tuchen cavalry led by Zhou Lizhong's son Zhou Xiaoyi.
Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was defeated and returned to his royal city, thinking of his dead son Meng Ze, thinking of the army he had run for many years with heavy casualties, and thinking of the broken dynasty.
Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was drunk for several days, and in the middle of the night, Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was awakened by the enemy army besieging the city in his dream, and even went outside to get on a horse and rushed out.
The horse of Mengtai, the king of Taiping, rushed out of the palace, rushed into the street, and rushed to the gate of the city. The soldiers defending the city saw that it was Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, and opened the city gate, and Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was carried out of the city gate by horse and came to the edge of the moat.
Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, woke up from his dream and got on his horse without preparing a saddle. The horse ran by the moat for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran back. The horse suddenly turned around and threw Meng Tai, the king of the peace without a saddle, off his horse, and the drunken king of the peace, Meng Tai, fell from the horse and rolled into the moat.
After the death of the Taiping king Meng Tai, Zhou Lizhong's army occupied all his territories.
Shi Dewa heard that the Taiping King Meng Tai had died, and his forces were completely wiped out by Zhou Lizhong. Shi Dewa could no longer sit still, he felt that the death of Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was related to him, and he felt endless guilt and chagrin. Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was an ally with him and helped him many times, but the last time he came to ask for help, he sat idly by. Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was honest and kind, and he was not used to letting Zhou Lizhong's Tuchen forces occupy the Central Plains and call the emperor before he sent troops to attack the capital. His own marksmanship and internal force exercises are all taught by the Taiping King Meng family, the Meng family is kind to himself, and the son of the Taiping King Meng Tai is his classmate and friend. Yu is righteous and reasonable, and he can't help but avenge Meng Tai, the king of Taiping.
Thinking of all this, Shi Dewa went to the chief and said, "Even if you don't bring a single soldier and fight for your own life, you have to avenge Meng Tai, the king of Taiping." ”
When the chief saw that the lord of the army said this, Shi Dewa, he did not stop him any longer.
Shi Dewa knew that the chief cherished the lives of the soldiers and did not want to fight, so he only led 20,000 soldiers and Zhang He's 10,000 steel armor and sword soldiers to leave the Qiqing King City.
Shi Dewa led 30,000 troops to trek through mountains and rivers, bypassing the territory of the king of Xiang'e, and after more than half a month of rapid marching, he came to the territory of Meng Tai, the former king of Taiping, occupied by Zhou Lizhong.
The 30,000 army led by Shi Dewa consisted of 20,000 soldiers and 10,000 steel-armored swordsmen, and its combat effectiveness completely exceeded Zhou Lizhong's cavalry.
Shidewa's army soon captured a number of county towns and captured a county town. But when Zhou Lizhong's army abandoned some small places and concentrated on the well-defended county capital, Shi Dewa's army could not move an inch.
Shi Dewa's army came from afar, and there were not many advanced siege equipment, and no matter how much the soldiers and steel-armored swordsmen could fight, they could not defeat the heavily guarded city walls.
There was not much silver left with Shidewa to buy military rations, and the army would soon run out of food.
Only then did Shi Dewa feel that the number of his army was too small, and he could not compete with Zhou Lizhong's army, which was dozens of times his own.
Moreover, his wealth could not even support a few months of war, and Zhou Lizhong had the financial and material resources to fight a ten-year war.
Just when Shi Dewa was in a dilemma, Wu Yun, the king of Mao, came to a place more than 20 miles away from Shi Dewa's military camp with 100,000 troops.
King Mao Wu Yun took Zhang Yanhu to Shi Dewa's military camp in person, and discussed with Shi Dewa about jointly attacking Zhou Lizhong's territory and finally overthrowing the new dynasty he established.
The desperate Shi Dewa readily agreed to the request of Mao Wang Wu Yun's alliance to attack Zhou Lizhong, and Mao Wang Wu Yun left with 100,000 troops to form an alliance with Shi Dewa's 30,000 troops, while Zhang Yanhu went back to prepare to lead another 150,000 army of Mao Wang Wu Yun to attack the capital area from another direction.
The power of the king of Mao Wu Yun is equivalent to the power of Zhou Lizhong, in the past, Zhou Lizhong had the invincible general Zhou Xiaosheng, and the king of Mao Wu Yun was a little afraid of Zhou Lizhong, and now as soon as Zhou Xiaosheng died, the king of Mao Wu Yun dared to start a comprehensive competition with Zhou Lizhong. The last time he was in the capital, Zhou Lizhong united with Mo Rigen's 100,000 cavalry and raided the capital, but the king Wu Yun was caught off guard and defeated out of the capital.
After King Mao Wu Yun gave up the capital, the main force of his army was still there, and King Mao was ready to recapture the capital.
King Mao Wu Yun waited until Mo Rigen's army withdrew, and waited until the Taiping King Mengtai was defeated before sending troops to attack Zhou Lizhong's territory. At this time, King Mao heard that Shi Dewa was attacking Zhou Lizhong's territory, so he decided to unite Shi Dewa to deal with Zhou Lizhong.
King Mao Wu Yun heard that Shi Dewa and Zhou Xiaosheng were fighting without a victory, and he came for Shi Dewa's invincible force.
Sure enough, the siege was strongly aided by the army of King Wu Yun and the crossbow arrows of 20,000 soldiers, and Zhou Lizhong's mansion could not be defended.
Zhou Lizhong's army came out of the city to fight, Shi Dewa killed a general with one shot, and the steel-armored swordsmen were even more powerful.
Zhou Lizhong's territory was quickly broken and occupied, and at the same time, the army led by the invincible general Zhang Yanhu was also invincible. As soon as Zhou Xiaosheng died, no one in Zhou Lizhong's army was Zhang Yanhu's opponent.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhou Lizhong took the initiative to abandon the capital and retreated to his original territory with the main army. Before withdrawing from the capital, Zhou Lizhong's army burned and looted in the capital, which was littered with dead bodies, and the palace and the mansions of various officials were burned down after being ransacked.