Tang Dynasty Bandits

Chapter 82 Meng Kai's Courage
Zhu Wen suddenly felt someone gently pulling at his armor sleeve.

Turning around, it was Tian Jun. The snake spear in her right hand swung violently, and with one strike, she forced back all three enemy soldiers who were charging at her. It was difficult to notice the small movement of her left hand.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Wen asked.

Tian Jun looked a little embarrassed and whispered, "I know you don't want to leave because you don't want to be seen as disloyal. But there's no point in us all dying together."

"If you feel bad about it, you can take Xiao Huo and me with you when you retreat. As for the others, only if you're alive can someone avenge them."

This woman, who is usually carefree, actually said something quite realistic.

Only then did Zhu Wen realize that she was from the Tian family of Wei Bo, and had the blood of Tian Chengsi, the first governor of Wei Bo, who was known for his cunning and cruelty.

Tian Jun didn't think much about what she said. It was just an instinctive judgment, coupled with a little fear of death of a 19-year-old girl.

But it inadvertently hints at the reality of the world.

Zhu Wen was not familiar with most of the knights guarding the rear.

Being a lazy person by nature, he couldn't even recognize all 500 people in his own camp, and most of the camp affairs were handled for him by his second brother Zhu Cun.

For Zhu Wen, Tian Jun and Huo Cun were close and useful people to him.

The others can be sacrificed without any harm to him.

Righteousness was constructed as a way of acting to ensure the interests of the group. However, as people came to believe in it, it became valued higher than interests, and even life itself.

Zhu Wen certainly understood the essence hidden beneath the tender affection.

But Zhu Wen really didn't like this.

Except for those superiors whose hearts are completely hardened as stone, few people like this.

Moreover, regardless of whether Zhu Wen fled alone or with a few close associates, he would be branded as a deserter in the future, and Wang Jian and others could use this to discredit his loyalty and reputation.

Otherwise, how could Wang Jian fail to consider the obvious omissions in his plan?

The reason why Wang Xianzhi chose to die in battle in Qizhou and save his brothers as much as possible was because the reputation of righteousness that he had built up over forty years could not withstand destruction.

In a trance, he saw the shadow of the white tiger again.

"Are you going to die with everyone for the sake of loyalty, or are you going to run away and survive because you are afraid of death?" Baihu sat cross-legged like a human, looking at him mockingly, with the same expression as Zhu Wen when he mocked others.

The Great Xia Dragon Bird is a magic sword, but it does not create evil thoughts in people's hearts out of thin air. Instead, it reflects and materializes the natural dark side of human nature.

Bloodlust, lust, fear of death... These negative traits are deeply engraved in human nature. Not only do everyone have them, but those in power are even more intense than ordinary people because they hold power.

The magic sword allows him to clearly see the dark side of his heart, allowing him to sharpen his mind and serving as a warning for his future.

Because Zhu Wen wanted to go above the clouds, but the people who now occupied the clouds were exactly the ones he hated the most.

While Zhu Wen was thinking, the two leaders Liu Mengyan and Tie Moler had already attacked again.

The enemy's front stretched out and climbed up the hillsides on both sides, forcing our team to shrink into an arc.

Wang Jian, Chen Liqing and Liu Xun also joined the battle slowly.

It was becoming increasingly difficult for the Cao army soldiers to resist. From time to time, some of them were killed in the interlocking attacks. The formation was torn into pieces and was about to collapse completely under the siege.

Zhu Wen had to make a decision.

But he was still unwilling to give up these brothers.

He was not reconciled.

He didn't want to be called a coward who could only run away when facing Wang Jian!
Zhu Wen charged at Wang Jian with his sword drawn. "Fool, do you think this petty trick can do anything to me?"

"Don't be so stubborn, kid," Wang Jian said calmly. "You've clearly been completely defeated, and you can only use your rage to cover up your miscalculation."

As he spoke, he swung the stick in his hand, leaving a fan-shaped afterimage to block Zhu Wen's sword light.

Seeing that Zhu Wen did not escape, the two leaders quickly approached him again.

With Wang Jian included, the three of them attacked from both sides. It should have only taken a few moves to take Zhu Wen's head.

But Zhu Wen still had hope in his heart.

It's not that he has no plans at all, but it may be too late.

A roar like thunder suddenly cut through the sky full of shocking wind.

Tie Moler, Liu Mengyan and Wang Jian felt the pain in their eardrums from the rolling sound waves, and their moves couldn't help but slow down.

Meng Kai, not wearing wide clogs or even armor, plunged his muscular body directly into the mire. With his immense leaping power, he repeatedly leaped out of the quagmire, sending the mud splattering like boiling water. The current continued to roar down, carrying rocks and ice, many of which struck Meng Kai directly. The force of the collisions quickly injured him several times, and blood began to flow from his mouth, but his expression became increasingly heroic.

"Anyone who harms my junior brother will have their clan exterminated." Meng Kai's body was covered in blood, but he glared at Tie Moler, Liu Mengyan, and Wang Jian with murderous intent: "Do you think your lives are too long, or do you think there are too many people in your clan?"

Just the surging blood and energy fluctuations in Meng Kai's body made the three of them feel as if a huge rock was pressing down on their chests, making it difficult for them to breathe.

On the battlefield of Songzhou, Xue Shuai Qi Kerang commented that Meng Kai was a martial arts genius, and given time, his martial arts skills would definitely surpass his own.

It was obvious that Meng Kai had made great breakthroughs in his art over the past six months. Xuan Hua swung his axe, and Haoran seemed to be able to split Mount Hua with all his might. The two leaders suddenly felt the pressure from their power and withdrew in an instant.

As for Wang Jian, he didn't dare to confront him. He tapped the ground with his stick and used the force to retreat three feet.

"Meng Juehai is indeed the bravest among the three armies. It was you who disrupted our plans last time." Wang Jian sneered.

Although he had expected this, Zhu Wen couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw Meng Kai's soaked armor and mud, the wounds on his body caused by the mud and rocks, and the blood on his lips. "Brother, why are you so good to me?"

Meng Kai raised his thick eyebrows: "If I say you look a lot like my brother, would you believe it?"

He added, "If he were still alive, he would be as old as you."

Zhu Wen's expression changed slightly, but Meng Kai suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahahahahaha, I was kidding you, and you actually believed it. I, Meng Kai, don't have any younger brothers."

"Isn't it natural for a senior brother to care for his junior brother?"

Zhu Wen could not have imagined that his senior brother Meng Kai, who had always been straightforward and innocent, would play such a joke on him on the battlefield of life and death.

In fact, he had Meng Kai slightly ahead, while he himself stayed behind, with the intention of using himself as bait to lure Wang Jian out. He had a number of skilled men beside Meng Kai.

Zhu Wen thought that Meng Kai's bravery was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If Meng Kai was right next to him, the enemy would definitely be afraid and would not dare to attack easily.

He had never expected that Wang Jian could be so skillful as to use the power of nature to precisely cut off the connection between the rear team and Meng Kai. He almost ended up making things worse.

What was even more unexpected was that Meng Kai came without any soldiers, brandishing his axe, and crossed through the mud created by the debris flow, despite the earth and rocks falling from the roof.

Meng Juehai has this kind of courage. Even if he is alone, he is worth thousands of troops.

This senior brother's martial arts followed the path of accumulating strength and gradually developing, and he attached great importance to laying a solid foundation. Therefore, when Zhu Wen first joined Huang Chao's school, he did not feel that his martial arts skills were far behind.

However, Meng Kai has reached the critical stage where quantitative change leads to qualitative change. After breaking through the bottleneck, the speed of his progress is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Now, even when facing the top four masters, he will not be at a disadvantage!

"Now that Alliance Leader Wang is gone, I, Meng Juehai, will be the next Alliance Leader. With the axe in my hand, I will dominate the world!" Meng Kai protested, "You bunch of insects, how can you withstand a single blow? Come on!"

Meng Kai went to the back of the team to get the horses. "It's really unreasonable for one hundred knights to be overwhelmed by five hundred barely armored infantrymen."

After hearing this, not only Zhu Wen, but also the remaining Cao army soldiers breathed a sigh of relief at having survived a desperate situation, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The Cao Army cavalry are not the elite armored cavalry of the imperial court, but the enemy's infantry are all elite. What's unreasonable about this?

However, with a top-notch general like Meng Kai leading the way, there is really no need to continue defending. We can just mount our horses and charge at the enemy.

In small-scale cavalry combat, there is a world of difference between having a powerful general as the core or not.

"The insects have retreated, which is great." Meng Kai said resolutely: "Kill them all without leaving a single one alive."

As soon as the words fell, everyone saw clouds of dust rising in the distance.

Wang Jian had apparently arranged more than one ambush; the enemy cavalry had also arrived. To avoid Zhu Wen's detection, they hid outside the detection range, so it took some time for them to arrive.

But for Meng Kai, this was undoubtedly not a big deal.

He rode down first, and swept across with Xuanhua's axe. In the blink of an eye, he had chopped the heads of four or five elite soldiers of the Zhongwu Army in half, as if they were chopping firewood.

"Although your sword is very sharp, it is still not as sharp as my axe, Meng Juehai." Facing the Kunlun Sect's leader Tie Moler who did not dare to challenge him, Meng Kai made sarcastic remarks.

Of course, Tiemole was extremely dissatisfied.

But the aura emanating from this bronze-faced young man really reminded him of the peerless aura of Wang Xianzhi, which his father Tie Kunlun had told him about before his death.

The young man was covered in mud and blood, yet his courage grew stronger, like a fierce god from another world. His awe-inspiring majesty directly shocked Tiemoler to his core.

Tie Moler said coldly, "Don't be so arrogant, kid. Wait for my Uighur knights to come over..."

It turned out that Wang Jianshe's second ambush was none other than the Uighur knights that Tiemole had recruited at a high price in Ganzhou.

These two hundred knights were all Uighur warriors, skilled in both bow and spear. Upon hearing that the eunuch Yang Fuguang, the military supervisor, was recruiting a personal guard for the military supervisory office, Tiemoler immediately offered up five hundred Uighur cavalrymen he had recruited. Three hundred of them participated in the bloody battle of Qizhou, where Wang Xianzhi was strangled. The remaining two hundred elite cavalrymen were given to Wang Jian as a further trump card.

But Meng Kai's eyes were moving, and he was so full of ambition that he didn't even take these Uighur warriors who were about to charge at him seriously.

(End of this chapter)