[Meng Kai’s poisonous plan]
Meng Kai came to the front line in person and brought the leader's deep condolences, "Comrades, you have worked hard!" He also brought the leader's highest instructions: to stop the troops, rectify, and preserve strength.
Zhu Wen expressed his opinions and hit the nail on the head, pointing out the fatal shortcomings of the "anti-pornography alliance" and suggesting that the Cao army should take advantage of the enemy's unfinished strategic assembly to pursue the victory, completely crush their alliance, and create more brilliant results, thus Winning over the support of the weak-willed feudal lord.
Meng Kai was dissatisfied and taught him in a leader's tone, "Stretch your feet under the quilt - who do you think is the leader? A person worships the leader - who do you think is the oldest? In which year did you join the revolution? You have only been fighting for a few years. ?Do you understand Mao?"
The situation facing the Huangchao Group is indeed not very good. It is surrounded by powerful enemies and is in danger. Take the Yan Yan and Xia Sui coalition forces that were just repelled. They only retreated because they could not get foreign aid. They did not suffer any substantial loss in strength and may come back at any time. In this case, it is a taboo for military strategists to be greedy for merit and rush into advancement.
Huang Chao and his inner circle, who live deep in Chang'an, hold this view. Therefore, it is advocated to give up when things get better and use military advantages to realize political interests.
But Zhu Wen insisted on his own point of view, saying that the battlefield situation was ever-changing, how could there be any unchanging truth? You are at the rear and do not understand the real-time dynamics of the front line. Precisely because they are surrounded by strong enemies and lack unified command, it is even more important to hit them hard when they complete their assembly, dampen their energy, shake their will, and not let them have a chance to breathe.
The two couldn't argue, and Meng Kai was furious, "Which one of us is the leader?"
Under strong pressure, Zhu Wen could only shut up and listen to the leader's instructions.
"Restrain your subordinates for me. If anything goes wrong, I will act in accordance with military law and chop off your head. I will kill you for disobeying military orders!"
After scolding Zhu Wen, Meng Kai was still angry.
But what made Meng Kai even more angry was yet to come.
After Zhu Wen returned to the camp, he ordered his troops and horses, disobeyed Meng Kai's orders, made his own decisions, and attacked Fuping without permission.
As Zhu Wen expected, the Yan Yan and Xia Sui coalition forces that retreated into Fuping had no intention of fighting. When they saw Zhu Wen chasing after them, they retreated back to the town in one fell swoop. Zhu Wen captured Fuping again.
When the news of the victory came, Meng Kai was so angry that he ignored Zhu Wen's propriety and even scolded Zhu Wen at the celebration banquet, saying that he was just a servant who had chewed grass roots and was not even as good as a tenant farmer. He remarried with his mother. Relying on others, working like a cow, having no family background, no culture, no respect for superiors, contradicting leaders, the following mistakes, self-righteousness, sending troops without permission...
Meng Kai has always looked down on Zhu Wen, but this time he was first contradicted by Zhu Wen and then beaten in the face by his strength. As a senior leader, Meng Kai was really embarrassed, and his long-term conflict with Zhu Wen also became public.
Back in Chang'an, Meng Kai made a small report about Zhu Wen in front of Huang Chao, and read a lot about him, saying that he did not obey orders and should be executed according to law!
Huang Chao was in trouble, and now was the time to hire people. If Zhu Wen killed him in a row, wouldn't it chill the hearts of all the generals?
"Because he is a strong general, so..." Meng Kai mused: "He has a large number of soldiers and is able to conquer battles. The most important thing is that he does not listen to orders..." Leave some space for Huang Chao to use his imagination.
Huang Chaoguo then felt a chill down his spine, "Ouch! It shouldn't be possible, right? Zhu Wen has been with you and me for many years in the north and south, how could it be..."
"Those who are not of my race must have different hearts." Meng Kai said the motto of the Huangchao Group. This is their guiding ideology to exclude all "outsiders".
Huang Chao was silent.
"Besides, Zhu Wen is not necessarily brave and invincible." Meng Kai processed what Zhu Wen taught him and repeated it to Huang Chao, "The enemy troops look alike but have different intentions. They all want to use others as cannon fodder while themselves reap the benefits. Profit. That’s why the combined forces of Fuyan and Xia Sui collapsed at the first touch and retreated continuously. The real test should be Dengzhou."
Seeing that Huang Chao was still undecided, Meng Kai resorted to the strategy of "killing people with a borrowed knife". "If Zhu Wen is really brave and has no half-hearted intention towards our court, he should be ordered to attack eastward into the river, repel Wang Chucun and Wang Chongrong, and relieve Chang'an Dong." Surrounded by faces.”
Under Meng Kai's repeated instigation, Huang Chao finally issued a commendation order to Zhu Wen, which was also a letter of appointment for promotion: appoint Zhu Wen as the defense envoy of Tongzhou, "order him to take it."
【Hezhong Wang Chongrong】
Wang Chongrong was born in a family of officials. He was the queen of the generals. He had a strong personality and was brave enough to win the three armies. In the early days, he was a military academy under the influence of his father. One day, two sergeants broke the night ban and were caught by Wang Chongrong. They were whipped severely in accordance with the law and regulations. The two sergeants who were beaten were members of the imperial army, and their leader was the eunuch Yang Xuanshi. Yang Xuanshi was furious and wanted to beat the dog to look at the owner, so he arrested Wang Chongrong and severely scolded him, saying that even the people around the emperor can be humiliated by you, a small colonel. ? Wang Chongrong spoke righteously, saying that those who violated the curfew were either traitors or thieves. Who knew they were forbidden soldiers? Then report everything that happened that night.
Although Yang Xuanshi occupies a high position and holds great power, he is not the kind of person who bullies others and is unreasonable. After hearing what happened, his anger subsided, and he also looked at the upright little colonel in front of him in a different light. Not only did he not give Wang Chongrong shoes, but he promoted him. he.
Wang Chongrong is upright and strong, and he is also sharp-tongued and eloquent. If you are unreasonable, you will not forgive others, and if you are unreasonable, you will be disturbed. If I really can't argue with you, I can still beat you. Because of this, everyone around him is afraid of him.
Huang Chao took control of Chang'an and spread the word. Li Du, the governor of Hezhong at that time, planned to surrender. The only thing that worried Li Du was the marching Sima Wang Chongrong. So Li Du promoted Wang Chongrong to be the deputy envoy of Jiedu, hoping to appease his mood with a high official and generous salary.
In order to maintain the normal operation of Huang Qi's regime and cope with the Tang Dynasty's counterattack, Huang Chao continuously sent envoys to various vassal towns to collect grain and grass supplies. Envoys came one after another, and there were hundreds of envoys in the middle of the river alone. The military and civilians in the river were exhausted and struggled to provide supplies.
Wang Chongrong then secretly summoned his subordinates and said: "At the beginning, I wronged myself, suppressed my anger, and turned into a thief, just to reduce everyone's burden. Now, the collection of goods is endless, and the food collection is finished, it is time to recruit our army , our death is coming. Why don’t we start resisting now."
These simple and unpretentious words, apart from the suspicion of whitewashing oneself by wearing a high hat in the first sentence, actually expressed the inner thoughts of all the feudal towns that surrendered to Huang Qi's regime. I surrendered to you in order to gain benefits, and at least no losses. But now not only have we not gained any benefits, we have also to provide money, food, and troops. We have also been branded as traitors and traitors. This transaction has been a loss. worth.
Wang Chongrong's call was unanimously agreed and passed unanimously. So they gathered the envoys sent by Huang Qi's regime and killed them all, announcing that they would bring order to the Tang Dynasty and return to the Tang Dynasty.
Jiedushi Li Du was afraid of harming himself, so he voluntarily gave up his leadership position, appointed Wang Chongrong as the queen in Hezhong, and then fled to the exile government of Shu.
Under the leadership of Wang Chongrong, the Hezhong Army repelled a wave of counterattacks by the Huang Qi regime.
The Tang Dynasty promoted Wang Chongrong to Hezhong Jiedushi.
Wang Chongrong contacted neighboring feudal towns and joined forces to the west. He won many battles with Wang Chucun, the Jiedushi envoy of the Yiwu Army, and Gao Xun, the Jiedushi envoy of the Zhaoyi Army, and occupied Tongzhou, Huazhou and other places to the west of Tongguan, threatening Chang'an City from the east.
In this situation, Meng Kai came up with this vicious plan to kill two birds with one stone and make a profit without losing any money: to make Zhu Wen strong and strong to Wang Chongrong.
Beating Wang Chongrong to death was to eliminate foreign troubles, and beating Zhu Wen to death was to eliminate internal traitors. Dog bites dog, a mouth full of hair. Regardless of the outcome, Meng Kai is optimistic about the outcome.
For Zhu Wen, this is another rare opportunity to show his abilities to leaders. He is like all warriors at home and abroad, both ancient and modern. He is not afraid of fighting, but afraid of not fighting. The more dangerous tasks you receive, the more important you are to your leaders.
Zhu Wen led his troops and horses to take advantage of the victory and attack Tongzhou to the east.
Mi Cheng, the governor of Tongzhou, abandoned the city and fled. Zhu Wen successfully took over Tongzhou without losing any blood.
Tongzhou is located to the north of the Wei River and west of the Yellow River, across the river from Hezhongfu on the east bank of the Yellow River.
Zhu Wen also wanted to expand his victory. After a little reorganization, he launched a tentative attack on Wang Chongrong on the other side of the river. Wang Chongrong had tens of thousands of elite troops stationed along the river and the defense was tight. Zhu Wen returned without success and retreated to Hexi.
