Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 216 The Resentful Li Meng
"Go explore again and see where the emperor's army is going to attack?" Li Meng, who was sitting in the Hedong county office, looked like a large ant, or the kind that lay on a hot pot. on the kind.Seeing the powerless look of the sentry below, he kicked him angrily and resentfully: "Hurry up!"

"General, our brothers have gone out to spy eight times this morning, and we haven't even had time to drink..."

"Bold! If you are told to go, go quickly. How can there be so much nonsense!" Wang Fang on the side was so angry that he almost smoked, and suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist to cut at the void: "Don't spy now, wait for the emperor's army Once we arrive, we don't even know how we died!"

Sentry was helpless, but what he was thinking in his heart was that even if the army of the Han Dynasty came, wouldn't it be fine for them to just surrender?Far away, after Dong Zhuo rebelled, the emperor only punished those who committed the rebellion, and even Dong Zhuo's relatives were not implicated; recently, there are also examples of Xu Rong and Zhang Ji, who also went smoothly in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, throughout Li Meng's trilogy, the imperial court's military conquest was not regarded as a major event.

But this sentry is only thinking about it in his heart, and he absolutely dare not say it out of his mouth.Because he knew that the two generals above him didn't want to submit to the imperial court at all.

After the chaos in Chang'an, their tribe has been living in the east of the river.There is nothing in Hedong, but there is no shortage of large salt ponds.In the era of the Han Dynasty, salt was much more expensive than food. People could go without food for three days, but if the body was constantly lacking in salt, it would be fatal.

Throughout the Han Dynasty and even the entire history of China, since the Qi State implemented the dictatorship of salt and iron during the Spring and Autumn Period, the national power has increased unprecedentedly.Even in the period of Emperor Xiaowu, in order to be able to eat salt, the common people did not hesitate to risk the crime of beheading and exterminating their families, but also formed the earliest underworld to resell illegal salt.This shows how valuable the profit of salt is in this era.

With the help of the large salt ponds in the east of the river, Li Meng and Wang Fang have lived a happy life like a local emperor for more than half a year.Moreover, with soldiers in hand and no imperial system on the head, the small life really shouldn't be too carefree.

But what was never expected was that such a carefree and happy life only lasted for less than a year, and the lives of the two experienced a series of changes of great joy and great sorrow.

First, Yuan Shu from Runan sent boxes of gold, silver and jewels, and bought them off to send troops outside the pass.Li Meng and Wang Fang naturally smiled politely at this, while scolding Yuan Shu for being taken for a ride.From their point of view, even though Yuan Shu occupied Runan, even though he was powerful, he could not control them.Even if they bought this box of gold, silver and jewelry, Yuan Shu could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly.

Even if they really sent troops outside the pass, the two of them could rely on the sharpness of the Xiliang iron cavalry to fight the autumn wind behind Yuan Shu's large army. It was a very happy thing.

But just when they were preparing to send troops, they suddenly heard that the Son of Heaven led the army to march in person!
This frightened the courage of the two of them.

Li Meng and Wang Fang were very mediocre captains in Dong Zhuo's trilogy.Compared with Li Jue and Guo Si, they are not as brave and fierce as others; even compared to Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, they are still a level behind.

The results of it?
During the Battle of Chang'an, Li Jue and Guo Si became corpses who would never speak.Even, just before the two died, they couldn't figure out how the emperor planned to kill them step by step.

Not to mention, although the subordinates of the two have gone through several arrests at this time, they are still less than 2.Among them, the backbone of the Xiliang cavalry is less than 5000.

And how many people did these emperors lead?

Forty thousand troops!

No matter how stupid the two are, if they fight one, the result is predictable.

If it's just like this, the two of them don't have to be so anxious.After all, the two are also warriors on horseback, and they are more or less aware of life and death matters.But the most irritating thing is that before the emperor arrived this time, the step-by-step design made the two of them lose their appetite and sleepless nights.

First, the army was dispatched under the banner of conquering Yuan Shu, which made the two worry that Chi Yu would be harmed.And then, when the army arrived at Luoyang, they suddenly turned their guns and crossed the north, which really caught them off guard.When Li, Meng, Wang and Fang were thinking about whether they were going to fight or surrender, the army of the Son of Heaven crossed the Yellow River as if they had descended from heaven.

At the same time, the emperor issued an edict, counting Li Meng and Wang Fangchu's ten major crimes of rebelling against the court and colluding with rebellious ministers.Look at that menacing appearance, it's not for them to voluntarily surrender at all.On the contrary, it seems that they will fight if they don't surrender, and even if they surrender, they will have to fight a battle.

At this time, Li Meng and Wang Fangfang had become ants on a hot pot, and they were spinning around without an idea.Finally, they heard the news that the emperor's army had arrived at Dayang, but later, they found that the Han court army had not moved at all for three consecutive days.

This move completely stunned Li Meng and Wang Fang.

Dayang is actually not special at all.The only thing worth mentioning is that this county is located in the center of Anyi and Jiguan, the governorship of Hedong.And Jiguan is where Fan Chou's leading troops are stationed.

The only Xiliang generals who escaped from Chang'an were Li Meng, Wang Fang and Fan Chou, and Li Meng and Wang Fang could not understand Fan Chou's strength.After arriving at the boundary of Hedong, it experienced another split.Li Meng, Wang Fang, and Wang Fang had more trilogy, so they pushed Fan Chou to Jiguan.

As a result, Li Meng and Wang Fang began to mutter in their hearts: The emperor scolded both himself and Fan Chou with an edict. Are they going to beat Fan Chou first, or himself first?

The ridiculous thing is that until this time, the two of them had never thought about contacting Fan Chou to fight against the Han court together.They just kept writing letters asking Yuan Shu to send troops to rescue quickly. As for Yuan Shu...he was busy directing and acting the war of the century, so how could he have time to care about them two little grasshoppers?

"Damn it! I don't believe that God would play us brothers like this!" Li Meng, who was running back and forth, was about to dazzle Wang Fang's eyes, and finally clapped the case and made the final decision: " Let's fight the Han court first, if we can win, we don't need to say anything, if we can't win, it's not too late to surrender!"

What he said was very unfounded, thinking about what to do if he lost before the battle started.But when Wang Fang heard this, he immediately felt that Li Meng was a great expert: "Brother Li, this is a good idea. Let's fight the emperor first, at least let the world see our strength. It won't save us from waiting for us to take refuge in the past." , and made others look down on him."

So, the two of them finally slept peacefully tonight.

At dawn the next day, the two of them were woken up by the guards, "General, don't sleep, the army of the world has arrived!"

This is the second time the two of them shocked the marching speed and elusiveness of the Han court army.

Fortunately, the two of them had already made up their minds, and they put on their helmets and put on their armor and went to the battlefield after calmly eating and putting on their clothes.

Facing Xu Huang who was holding a big ax in front of him but looked constipated, the two exchanged glances, and they both saw the doubts in each other's hearts.

For this pioneer of the Han Dynasty, they naturally heard a little bit of fame.But Xu Huang was very strange to them.They only knew that Xu Huang was just a military officer under Yang Feng's tent at the beginning, and Yang Feng was just a Baibo traitor general under Li Jue and Guo Si's subordinates.

But the two of them also heard that Xu Huang's force is very powerful, and Xu Rong's ability to command troops and lead training is even more praised by Xu Rong.Therefore, Wang Fang Li Meng was completely at a loss for this general who had been promoted very quickly and had a good reputation, but he just didn't know what he was capable of.

"Brother Wang, morale is the most important thing in the first battle. Why don't you go out and capture this yellow-faced man in one fell swoop?" Li Meng felt pain in his buttocks while sitting on the horse, blinked his eyelids twice, and thought of a plan to kill with a knife.

But Wang Fang was not a vegetarian, so he turned his head and said to Li Meng: "Brother Li, my younger brother has always been your leader. How can this kind of honor be snatched away by my younger brother?"

"Hehe, the comer is not kind. I'm afraid it's not so easy to take him down. I'm old, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of him for a while." Li Meng slapped him, although he admitted his cowardice, he still didn't want to Give up the idea of ​​letting Wang Fang take the lead.

"Brother Li, I don't think you are old, but you spent all your energy last night with your wife and concubine, right?" After all, Wang Fang was younger. Hearing what Li Meng said, he really thought that Li Meng had begun to give in to him.Thinking that after winning this battle, he could become the leader of these two Xiliang iron cavalry, and rushed towards Xu Huang as soon as his brain got hot:

"The thief will be killed quickly!"

(End of this chapter)