Spring and Autumn I Am King

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Just as the little bandit leader who was captured by Zhao Wuxi said, this time it was Xujuren Zhulou who brought three or four thousand people to besiege Zhongdu.

There were no pirates in Onozawa, only savages who lived among them by fishing and shooting. But for more than 100 years, neighboring countries have encountered successive disasters from time to time, either this year's "spring snow and rain", or next year's "summer flood, no wheat seedlings". The lords and officials are ruthless, the local governments are corrupt, the taxes and labor are getting heavier, and the tyranny is fiercer than the tiger.

They used to live in the grass and swamps, but they usually lived in the swamps of fishing, hunting and gathering, and went out to loot during the autumn harvest. Their forces are not under each other, and even their nationalities are different. There are Lu people, Song people, Wei people, Cao people, Zhu people, and even Changdi, Rong, and Huaiyi who came in hundreds of years ago. You occupy a small island, I occupy a pond, and fight with each other from time to time, after all, it is difficult to become a great weapon.

This situation was not changed until Liu Xiazhi arrived.

After all, Liu Xiazhi was the concubine of the doctor. He had also learned the six arts of a gentleman during his years in Qufu, and had read some ancient military books. He was different from the rest of the bandits. He started from scratch with a few Qingxia friends, and worked hard to build his own power around Onozawa, known as Robber Zhi.

Because the robbers often have clever tricks, fight bravely, and distribute fairly, and follow their own "dao", they appear to be different.

Later, Robber Zhi began to set up a military establishment to restrain the thieves with military law. He called himself a general, and each branch of the pirates was divided into several parts according to the number of forces. Those with more than 1,000 people are called division commanders, those with less than 1,000 people are called brigade commanders and **** chiefs, etc., starting a good era when the surrounding lords and cities are terrified.

But it was not a good time for Zhu Lou.

Zhu Lou is over forty years old and has a small stature. He was originally a Chinese chivalrous man in Xuju City, Lu Kingdom. Become a thief. Guessing that after the rise of Robber Zhi, he couldn't defeat it, but instead was incorporated, but he also kept his strength. There are more than 2,000 people in his subordinates, and now he is the "master commander", the largest force only in the robber Zhi, and there are several "tour commanders" and "pawn commanders" attached to him.

"The general is really a saint, I remember he once said. Before looting, it is wise to judge the situation to decide whether to make a move; to be able to guess the location of the property in the living room is holy; to be the first to step forward when taking action is to be brave. This attack has all been done.”

Looking at the inner city of the Central Capital that was about to be breached in front of him, a **** next to Zhu Lou said with emotion.

This time, the group of robbers had long planned to go out to loot in the late autumn and early winter, so they were able to catch a few surrounding towns off guard in just a few days, and the effect was very great.

Zhu Lou, who had always felt that he should sit on an equal footing with Robber Zhi, frowned and sneered, "Sheng Ming? Liu Xia Zhi is smart, but can he be worthy of this word? Yes, the civil strife in Lu, and the reality of the Central Capital. , he guessed it right! That is to say, he guessed that Yuncheng's falsehood failed, let people run away in vain, and lost more than 100 people..."

The **** chief knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he hurriedly kept silent.

As early as the end of September, the robber Zhi, who had been concerned about the situation in Qufu in Lucheng, called a group of robbers and asserted through various sources that it would be less than a month. There will be chaos in the country of Lu! Sure enough, a series of military deployments followed, and both Linqiu and Yuncheng in the west sent their soldiers to the capital.

The city of Yun was empty, so Thief Zhi sent more than a thousand people to test it. However, I found that there were hard bones, and some people with accents from Jin and Qi occupied Yuncheng the day before. The robbers went a little late and didn't catch up with the fire. They were extremely guarded and had no chance to take advantage, so they retreated. Only relying on the advantages of the group of thieves to cut off water and land traffic, so that Xibi's soldiers cannot advance eastward.

Although the first step of the plan was frustrated, Robber Zhi was not discouraged. Most of the group of thieves were still concentrated on the east bank of Onozawa, and the nearby Zhongdu had become more and more slack in the past two years, giving Rogue Zhi a chance.

Facing the central capital of Yanwu, where the rituals were cultivated, Daozhi sent people to pretend to be refugees and mixed in with the outside world, so they won it without much effort. But the inner city has to be more tenacious, and his patience has been wearing down these days.

In the end, Robber Zhi finally decided to leave this place behind and headed south with thousands of people towards the city of Kan, the ultimate goal of his rebellion. Another of his subordinates had already surrounded the city, and he was only waiting for reinforcements. attack.

But Zhu Lou was opposed to attacking the tomb of the Duke of Lu, thinking that it would incur punishment from the Emperor of Heaven, and it would be better to **** the food honestly.

Thief Zhi responded with a chuckle and didn't say much, but put down the prophecy again, saying that since Confucius was the slaughter of the town, the warehouse in this town might not be full, and it was enough to loot the corn in the residence of Waiguo. .

Zhu Lou sneered at this. He was a Xuju, and he naturally knew that the former doctors and magistrates were greedy people, and they all received half of the tax. I am afraid that the new Zhongduzai will not be much better. There must be surplus food!

As a result, although the defense of Zhongdu was slack, it was still tenacious. The outer Guo resisted for a long time, and the people ran into the inner city. So Zhu Lou was very anxious. He knew that the warehouse for the grain was in the inner city. If you drag it out for one more day, the people inside will eat one more day of grain!

"If the inner city is broken, there will be corn to eat this winter, and brown clothes to wear. The first one will reward the woman!"

Clothes, food, women, this is what makes the thieves brave to fight.

The robbers who climbed from the houses in the outer country to the inner city basically did not wear armor, and few of them were armed with serious weapons. Even poorer, they used bamboo spears, wooden sticks, and slings for throwing stones. The equipment was extremely rudimentary. They didn't even have a single large-scale ordnance to attack the city, and they were able to break through the outer guo of the Central Capital. It was entirely the ingenuity of the robbers. To deal with the inner city, they could only use human heads to pile up victorious moths.

Zhu Lou had seen Robber Zhi's siege tactics. He divided 3,000 people into several teams, facing the sparse arrows, and rushed under the rammed earth wall of the inner city. The stone throwers threw out the stones with leather ropes and shot them against the wall. More than 30 soldiers, under the protection of the robbers who carried the door panels, carried thick tree trunks and rammed the walls and city gates in turn.

The cries of women and children in the city resounded, and a corner of the wall had been destroyed and opened, and thieves swarmed in. However, there are still many people on the walls and in the streets who have taken off their broad Confucian clothes, and the scholars in armor are leading the remaining soldiers to fight. Among them, the tall man with tendrils on the gatehouse was even more brave. He was driving a large carved lacquer bow. Every time the bowstring rang, there would be a thief in response, and the arrow almost shot out of his body!

It is Confucius, the leader of the central capital city!

He was shot in the garden of the prime minister back then. The spectator is like a wall of archery, and it has not been abandoned because of the teaching of the six arts of archery!

A few days ago, this man was a gentle and elegant old man who stood on the wall and bowed to the thief. There was a debate between the two. What surprised Zhu Lou was that Liu Xiazhi was able to speak well, even better than Confucius, who was known as the "knowledgeable man" of the State of Lu!

Unexpectedly, today, he and those disciples who seemed helpless took off their deep clothes and wide sleeves, and took up swords and bows. All of them were able to stand against the wall, and under the command of Confucius, they repelled the attacks of the pirates many times.

Zhu Lou knew that as long as he knocked down the Confucius who was commanding the wall above his head, he could destroy the morale of the entire city!

"Bring my trolling stone!"

The "stone dragging", also known as the sling in the West, is a leather sheath with a rope tied at each end. When in use, you hold the ends of the two ropes, spin them rapidly on your head, and throw the stones in the sheath. It is simple and easy to obtain, easier to make and carry than bows and arrows, and can throw cobblestones at a distance of dozens of steps to kill the enemy. It is the main throwing weapon among thieves.

Zhu Lou placed a sling in the leather bag, grabbed the rope at the end of the belt, and swung it rapidly above his head. At the fourth and fifth laps, when the speed reached the maximum, he threw his arm violently towards Kongqiu who was bowing on the wall. !

He specially made the stone **** that were polished to increase the hit rate to break through the air and hit the target!

Because it was twenty or thirty steps away, he couldn't see where he hit, only that the tall Confucius suddenly fell, and there was a burst of crying on the wall. After hearing the sound, several disciples turned their heads and turned towards it. rushed over. Even the robbers who climbed up in front of him couldn't care about it.

Although there are many disciples of Confucius, there are only a few dozen who stay here, and not all of them have his great strength and bravery, so it is only a drop in the bucket. not to mention. After Confucius fell, the entire wall of people who were ignorant of soldiers lost their command and the situation was chaotic.

Zhu Lou was very proud that Confucius was killed in the central capital, probably dead. I don't know what Liu Xiazhi, who was still arguing with him under the wall a few days ago, and who made him speechless, would think after hearing about it?

He took this opportunity to send people to attack, not long after, the wall had been broken in many places, at least hundreds of people poured in, and the robbers shouted excitedly.

This city is over, and he is already full of joy and wants to go in and inspect the treasury. He doesn't believe that Robber Zhi's judgment is true. A huge town with a thousand rooms can at least have food for his men to spend the winter!

However, at this moment, there was a shout in the east of Waiguo, causing a series of chaos among the thieves!

...

When Zhao Wuxi and the others approached the Central Capital and climbed a small hill several feet high for a distant view, they found that the entire city was surrounded. Far, near, east, west, on the open ground outside the city, on the Tudao, and in the middle of the lilu in the Waiguo District. There were robbers in ragged clothes and armed with various wooden and stone weapons. Rough calculation, at least three or four thousand people, they seem to be the size of ants, but they are all over the city.

"many……"

A few military officials were slightly surprised when they saw it. If the four hundred Lu people who were temporarily recruited were not considered, they only had five or six hundred combat strength. It is relatively difficult to completely expel so many enemies, but they only defeated a group of 500 pirates in the west of the Central Capital two months ago. At that time, there were only more than 100 people. Still very confident.

Zhao Wuxi analyzed: "Although there are many people in this generation, but if you look closely, those robbers originally came for the purpose of copying food. The tools are crude and crude, much worse than the Yanghu soldiers we dealt with a few days ago. Our soldiers had a good rest last night, and this morning they were well fed. The weapons and armor and shields are excellent. Hunger, no matter how many pirates, it is not our enemy.”

The military officers all claimed to be taught, and then Zhao Wuxi clicked on Ran Qiu, wanting to hear how he would respond to the battle.

Ran Qiu said: "According to the confession, there are 2,000 people in the group, led by a middle robber named Zhu Lou, and the rest are small robbers who are not under each other's command. We should suddenly appear behind them, and then let out a loud voice, they are focusing on attacking the inner city, and they will be horrified and morale collapsed if they are attacked from the front and back!"

Zhao Wuxi took Ran Qiu's suggestion and restrained the horse. Call the military pawns to form a team and stand in the front. The newly recruited Lu people have not experienced field battles, so they are not required to go into battle. Stay in the back and fight to block the fleeing bandits.

When the 600 soldiers lined up in an assault column and advanced to a distance of one mile from the city, the sharp-eyed robbers saw them, and immediately shouted a warning.

Before the cry fell, Zhao Wuxi waved the flag. The order to shock was given.

Then, accompanied by the intensive percussion of the waist drum, countless armored soldiers dressed in armor and neatly lined up emerged from the roads, fields, and hills, trotting forward at a neat pace, striking swords, shields, and spears at the same time. Shout out in unison, the voice is soaring:

"The Zhao family's doctor is handsome and military to eliminate thieves and thieves, and you will not give up your weapons and drop them early!"

...

"The Zhao family's doctor is handsome and military to eliminate thieves and thieves, and you will not give up your weapons and drop them early!"

Wave after wave of voices rushed into the ears of Zhu Lou, who was the governor of Wai Guo. Suddenly frightened.

Zhao Wuxi's reputation was still quite loud in Onozawa because of the battle of Zhen and the last time he defeated the grain thieves in the west of Zhongdu.

Liu Xiazhi also attaches great importance to this person. The reason why Yuncheng failed to capture is because the Luqiu soldiers under Zhao Wuxi's men invaded. He sent people to cut off the water and land passages from the west, just to beware of the Zhao soldiers who were known as "Martial Soldiers" in Yuncheng. So Zhu Lou knew that this newly appointed doctor was not easy to provoke.

In fact, Robber Zhi still looked down on Zhao Wuxi. When he thought about it, it was impossible for Yang Hu and Sanhuan in Lucheng to fight for half a month, so he dared to send troops to attack Kancheng. But out of caution. Before he left, he also instructed Zhu Lou to stay here.

Attacking the city and stealing food is of secondary importance. If there are a small number of troops coming from the direction of Lucheng, resist them; if there are many troops. So he retreated and harassed him, so as to buy time for him to conquer the city of Kan and break down temples and dig mausoleums.

Zhu Lou is very self-sufficient, and he has always been positive and negative to Robber Zhi, and he did not take this order to heart, and how could he know how to arrange outposts? His men were extremely disorganized. It was normal to loot and loot all night without returning home, and I never thought to manage it, so I didn't realize it until Wu Xie and his military **** appeared in front of him like a divine soldier, but it was too late.

Immediately, whether it was the outskirts of the city or the group of thieves in Waiguo District, they all lost their ground.

"Evacuate, get out of the city quickly!" Zhu Lou's head was blank, he just wanted to evacuate the three thousand people from Waiguo first.

It took a whole moment, and after hurriedly exiting the Guoguo, he saw the attackers who had rushed over a hundred paces away, all wearing armor, and it seemed that there were no less than five or six hundred people.

Zhu Lou panicked and directed the bandits directly under his command to resist, and managed to assemble a frontal formation of more than a thousand people. However, the military pawns did not care about their lives. Although the number of soldiers was small, they were like a sharp arrow that went straight into the crowd of more than a thousand robbers, and gradually killed them from the outskirts of the city to the outer wall.

No one dared to approach the spearmen's two zhang chief spears. Once they ran in unison, three or four corpses could even be strung on them. What was even more rare was that they could keep their formation unchanged during the battle.

Sword and shield soldiers are the flexible part of the attack, they can cut through all obstacles in front of them, and they are harvesting scattered bandits.

In the wilderness on the outskirts of the city, there are still archers, pawns or long-range projectiles, or screaming to help. The spear-thrower, excited at the sight of blood, smashed any robbers who dared to resist like hungry wolves.

The group of thieves was in a hurry and unprepared. In the past, most of the thieves were peasant hunters, and they were not opponents of military pawns at all. Yu Xi gathered together with dozens of light knights, raised their spears and bowed, and launched an attack on the left and right rear of the main force of the robbers.

Zhao Wuxi and Mu Xia personally supervised the heavy foot soldiers in front, the knights led by Yu Xi in the back, and Tian Ben and other fierce soldiers on the left and right.

But after a quarter of an hour, the battle in Zhongdu City was over. The collapse of morale is contagious. The thieves who have not made any decent resistance quickly lose their fighting spirit in front of the seemingly unrivaled military pawns. Thousands of thieves are defeated, and they turn around and flee in all directions.

Zhao Wuxi sent Yu Xi to pursue the remaining enemy, while Xiang Tuo took the Lucheng people who had not had time to participate in the battle to guard the prisoners. He then led Ran Qiu and a clerk named Fei Chou into the central capital by himself.

...

When entering Waiguo, there were still some slow-moving robbers who didn't have time to run out, some gathered in the streets and alleys and resisted, some hid in Lilu houses and couldn't hide. Zhao Wuxi ordered Tian Ben to take one of them. Once checked out, don't miss it.

Walking on the streets of Waiguo, Zhao Wuxi couldn't believe that this was the place where Zeng Dian and Dian Ying sang two months ago: the things in the people's living room were checked out and thrown everywhere. There were broken pottery pieces everywhere. , looked startled.

When the army crosses the border, there must be a year of disaster. Where the division is, there are many thorns, not to mention the influx of thieves like hungry wolves?

"Under the rule of Confucius, it is said that men and women are separated from each other, and there is no need to pick up things on the road. Zhongdu, which knows rituals and music, and promotes education, is completely finished. The outer kingdom has been broken, and this year's hukou and tax reduction are inevitable. Maybe it will take a generation to regain its former vigor..."

Wu Xie felt sorry for this city in her heart, but she was also relieved.

Confucius' method of cultivating martial arts and reviving Zhou's politics may be a lofty and mellow ideal, but it was shattered by the **** reality in the chaotic world. This is also the reason why the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period seldom used Confucianism to govern. Only the State of Lu once used Zisi. Although it was also effective in respecting the monarch's power, it did not even splash a single splash in the wave of Qixiong's reform.

Up to now, if you look down at the west of Lu State from a high altitude, you will find that the seemingly bright candle in Zhongdu has been blown out by a breeze from the robbers.

From then on, Sanyi under Zhao Wuxi's jurisdiction will become the only beacon of Lu!

They walked towards the inner city where the wall collapsed, but because the military soldiers came to rescue in time, they walked towards the inner city which survived the disaster. A group of Confucius disciples greeted them at the door, and the surviving people in the town also gathered on the side of the road to watch.

In the past, although these disciples were poor, they liked Confucian clothes with crowns. When the wind blew, they all had long sleeves fluttering - although there were often patches and threads on the long sleeves. But now, they are either wearing armor or short clothes, and everyone has blood stains on their bodies, even Zengdian is no exception, and I don't know if it is someone else's or their own.

Seeing Zhao Wuxi coming over, the Confucian disciples who came out to greet them all bowed down under the leadership of the eldest Zeng Dian, and the etiquette was standardized: "Zhongdu can be spared from theft~www.readwn.com~ It is all thanks to Dr. Zhao's hard work and rescue. The kindness we will never forget!"

Zhao Wuxi took a step forward, helped the crowd with both hands, and said hurriedly: "Yu's rescue is late, I'm sorry, I dare to ask where Confucius and Ziyuan are? Are you all right?"

He glanced around and saw Ran Yong, Min Sun, Gongzhichang, Zai Yu, etc. However, there was no Confucius or Yan Hui among them. And everyone bowed their heads and looked sad, and several of them had tears on their faces.

"What happened!?"

Zhao Wuxi secretly thought that something was wrong, and the careful Ran Qiu also had a premonition of something, and his face suddenly changed... (To be continued.)

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