After receiving Qian Chao, the old man Tang continued non-stop. He had already visited many families and many children. He said goodbye to his parents in front of him, and then got into the carriage.
The carriage was galloping, and a young man flashed out from the side of the road. He saluted the bronze carriage when he was far away. When the carriage came closer and stopped, the young man said: "Disciple has met Master Tang."
"Get up, but things have changed again in the north?"
"Exactly."
After the young man got up, he took out a letter and handed it to Mr. Tang.
After reading the letter, Old Man Tang frowned.
"Are things in the north already like this?"
"I'm afraid it will get worse. I didn't dare to delay all the way to deliver the message to my uncle. But after all, there is still some time on the way. Before coming, I made an appointment with several senior brothers. If the child is really in danger, I can only show up to save him, but I'm afraid there are people on the other side arranging it secretly."
"Well, you'd better not show up. Forget it, I'll change my schedule and go directly to pick up the kid from here. Huh, it's such a big fuss. I think that kid is at least a useful talent. I don't know anyone on this journey. Let’s go and wait until we get the child.”
"So best."
During the next journey, the bronze carriage was so fast that it left countless mountains and rivers far behind in an instant.
Daliang Kingdom, Luojing City.
Luojing City, named after Luoshui, is a large city at the junction of Liang and Jin. It was originally called Luojing Village, but was captured by the Jin State. In order to operate this place, the Jin State expanded it into Luojing Fort. Liang Guo fought hard for several years before retaking it. In order to ensure that this place would not be lost again, the leader of the Liang Kingdom built a city on the border of Liang and Jin. This is the origin of Luojing City.
After the city was built, the original Luojing Fort still existed, but it became the urn of Luojing City. This shows how majestic Luojing City is. Not only is it majestic, but the city was built without any jerry-rigged materials. In order to build this border city, the always thrifty leader of the Liang Kingdom not only recruited craftsmen from all over the country, but also spent almost seven years using national taxes to complete the construction. This city wall alone is more than five feet high. When it was built, it was built with very hard green stones. Every time a layer was built, molten iron was poured into the gaps between the stones. It stood at the end of a majestic border city.
Naturally, the Jin State would not watch the Liang State build a city in a dangerous place, and wanted to retake this place. Therefore, after seven years of building the city, the Liang and Jin countries fought here for seven years. The leader of the Liang Kingdom at that time was General Li Biao. This General Li Biao was the veteran general of the Liang Kingdom who led the army to repel the Jin army and recapture Luojing Fort. Although the relationship between the two countries has always been that Jin was strong and Liang was weak, and Jin attacked and Liang defended, Jin was defeated again, suffered heavy losses, and its national strength was greatly reduced. Even with the decline of one and the other, Liang was able to withstand Jin's offensive.
Li Biao was good at using troops. When he confronted the Jin army, the camp was stable and the military discipline was strict. In addition to confronting the Jin army head-on, there were also surprise troops everywhere, sneak attacks, burning food, assassinations, and poisoning, and resorted to all possible means. They only wanted to kill more Jin soldiers without seizing the land of the Jin state, and they had to hold back the Jin army at all costs. Even so, the city construction site was attacked several times by the Jin army. Not only did the civilians suffer heavy casualties, most of the materials were burned, and even a long section of the city wall under construction was demolished by the Jin army. .
After seven years of hard work, Luo Jing City was finally basically built, and Liang Jun could defend the city. The battle strength was greatly increased, and the Jin army retreated when they saw that there was no hope.
It is said that after the Jin army retreated, Li Biao cried loudly at the top of the city. He patted the hard stones on the city wall and called out that these were stones. They were clearly the flesh and blood of his sons who had died on the battlefield in the past seven years.
In this way, a majestic border city ensured that there had been no war between Liang and Jin for nearly sixty years.
After years of operation, the streets in Luojing City are neat and lined with shops. The gentle Luoshui River enters and exits through two water gates, and the clear river water reflects the cornices of the market on the bank.
In the years when war was low, merchants from the two countries had frequent exchanges of goods. The place where the previous battles were fought became a big market. Merchants from the two countries gathered here with their own fleets and horses. After some bargaining, Goods change hands, money changes hands, and the transaction is completed.
This is also the only way for envoys from the two countries to pass through. Whether they are welcoming or sending, they are the first to set foot on each other's land.
Of course, this is still the place where the armies of both sides first entered the enemy's land during the war.
Just like now, the Jin State attacked the Liang State after accumulating national strength for decades. After Chen Bingluo Jingcheng began to attack the city day and night, not only that, the Jin State also relied on its military superiority to send a group of troops to travel without hesitation and then bypass Luojing City. , attacking and plundering in the territory of Liang Kingdom, causing a raging war in Liang Kingdom. They also defeated several Liang armies that went to reinforce Luo Jing City. For a while, the Jin army had the upper hand and Luo Jing City was in danger.
Finally, Liang Guo sent an army led by Li Mao, a well-known veteran general, to help.
The Li family is a hereditary general in the Liang Kingdom. The head of each generation is a general who holds military power in the Liang Kingdom. General Li Biao, who led the army to fight the Jin army for seven years when building Luojing City, is the great-grandfather of today's General Li Mao.
This time, Li Mao led the army to rescue Luo Jingcheng. Not only did he bring his son Li Tianxuan, who was also a general in the army, he also brought his underage grandson Li Jian to the army to observe the soldiers. The Li family trained their children and grandchildren, no matter how good they were in martial arts. , No matter how familiar you are with the art of war, it is better to go to the battlefield and see the blood.
While the army was rushing for reinforcements, Li Mao, a veteran soldier, saw through the Jin army's trick to lure the enemy, and used the advantage of the land to fight several tough battles with the Jin army without any tricks. He directly killed the Jin army who came for reinforcements. Corpses were rolling all over the field, and he used his arms and fingers like a god to show his demeanor as a famous general. The Jin army lost all its energy for a while, and was driven away by Li Mao's army and had to flee in embarrassment.
When Li Mao, who was chasing the remnants of the enemy and marching into Luo Jing City, arrived at Luo Jing City, he encountered Luo Jing City being breached. There was a loud cheer from the direction of the Jin army attacking the city, and then Luo Jing City faced Li Mao's army. The south gate opened wide, and countless people of Luojing City who were carrying burdens and looking panic-stricken and the defeated soldiers of the Liang Kingdom who had lost their fighting spirit poured out of the city gate and fled in panic. Among them were many soldiers and captains on horseback, completely ignoring them. Human lives were not only robbed but also trampled on by horses. Suddenly the city gate was in chaos and there were cries.
Li Mao was furious when he saw this, and ordered his men to catch all the defeated soldiers who were on horseback and plundering them, drag them to the roadside and behead them, and the situation was quickly stabilized. After leaving some people to gather the defeated troops and appease the people, he asked his son Li Tianxuan to lead a group of troops to attack the Jin army from outside the city. He led the rest of the troops into the city and started a fierce street battle with the Jin army that had just entered the city and was unstable. .
Outside the city, Li Tianxuan led the cavalry to attack the Jin army. He charged again and again regardless of his life and power. The iron hoofs rumbled. Countless Jin soldiers were trampled to pulp under the horses' hooves. The saber passed by and the Jin army was hit. The heads of the sergeants rolled off, and those who were lucky enough to survive were dragging their stumps and struggling and howling in the bloody mud.
Li Tiankai's cavalry also paid the price. In the rain of arrows from the Jin army, many cavalrymen and horses were hit by arrows. They fell over like hedgehogs. In the enemy's formation, as long as they fell to the ground, they would be dead. physiological.
In the city, Li Mao and his soldiers gathered the remaining troops in the city and killed them at the city gate that had just been breached. Where the Jin army invaded, the city gate had been smashed by the car, and the several thousand-jin gates in the city gate holes had not yet been fully opened. The Jin soldiers on the city wall were desperately pushing the winches to raise the thousand-jin gates, and more Jin soldiers The soldiers climbed up the city wall through the ladder, and then entered the city through the horse track on the city wall.
There were already many Jin troops who had invaded, and they were all the best soldiers among the Jin troops. After they invaded the city, their morale soared, and they were even more fearless of death. And because it was a street fight, the formation could not be deployed. When the soldiers of the two countries collided, At this time, they are fighting with the market methods of exchanging one knife for another or even hugging and biting.
When Li Mao was commanding his soldiers to fight, he accidentally saw his grandson Li Jian, holding a bow and shooting at the Jin army. The scene was bloody and tragic, but the boy was still as calm as if he was shooting at a target in the school field. He was only thirteen years old. Although the child's physical strength was still lacking, his accuracy was quite good. Every time an arrow was shot, a Jin soldier screamed and was hit. This child's courage made Li Mao very happy.
In the end, under Liang Jun's brutal counterattack, Li Mao finally led his men to attack the city wall, but the horse trail was full of blood, smelly and extremely slippery.
The flags of the Jin army were pulled up from the top of the city and thrown to the bottom of the city. When a majestic banner with Li characters was erected on the top of the city, Liang Jun cheered in unison at the top of the city. The attacking Jin army saw Luo Jingcheng After finally capturing the enemy, they lost it again, which greatly demoralized them. Li Tianxuan took the opportunity and led the cavalry to charge and kill several more times. The generals of the Jin army finally understood the meaning of the word "Li" at the top of the city, and the camp reluctantly blew the whistle. The clarion call was given to withdraw the troops. Although the Jin army was unwilling to lose again, they could only leave the corpses on the ground and return to their camp with the wounded soldiers in resentment.
Li Mao was standing on the top of Luojing City at this time. He looked at the Jin army's camp opposite. Although the Jin army was repulsed after breaking the city, he did not believe that the Jin army would retreat easily. After nearly sixty years of forbearance, the Jin State would not end so hastily.
Li Mao took over all matters in Luo Jingcheng, and the former government office became Li Mao's temporary residence. Order after order was issued after being stamped with the seal of the general.
The soldiers and generals who originally defended the city in Luo Jing City were quickly reassigned into small teams and dispersed into the hands of Li Mao's generals to strengthen the defense force.
Local officials in Luojing City were also ordered to dispatch, with soldiers holding the household registration books of the city's population, to check the people in the city. Those suspected of collaborating with the enemy in the city, as well as those outside the city, were all detained and placed under strict supervision. No matter how hard the Jin army attacked the city, these people could not be used, and they used the method of sitting together. If one person in the detention area rebelled, ten people would die.
There was a shortage of food in the city. Before the war began, Jin merchants purchased almost all the food available on the market in Luoshui City, including pastries from pastry shops and meat from butcher shops. As soon as the Jin merchants left, the Jin army began to attack, giving Luo Jingcheng no time to re-transport food from other places.
Li Mao did not bring much food with him during the emergency march, but he could not allow the city to suffer changes due to lack of food. It would take some time for the court's food to arrive, so he ordered that all the food in the city be collected for rationing, and it would be rationed by Jia Changli every day. Food rations are being distributed to each household. Except for the young and old, people in the prime of life must participate in the construction and defense of the city every day in order to receive rations. Anyone who dares to hide food will be treated as a collaborator.
Finally, Li Mao also ordered people to go out of the city to cut down the forest, recruit craftsmen in the city, and use all means to make the equipment to defend the city.
While stabilizing the city, Li Mao also paid close attention to the Jin army still stationed outside the city. He once sent troops out of the city to challenge the city. The Jin generals below the city were probably very dissatisfied with Luo Jingcheng's gain and loss. They fought with Li Mao in a decent formation for two games. Who knew that the Jin army had strong soldiers and horses, and they had more people than Liang Jun? How many, but every time it was a huge defeat, with heavy casualties. At this time, the Jin general realized that Li Mao's reputation was not for nothing. After knowing that he was defeated, he no longer went out to fight with Liang Jun. He only gathered his men, restrained his subordinates, and guarded the camp like a hedgehog. Li Mao couldn't say anything.
However, this was not a problem for Li Mao. Since it was difficult to break through the Jin camp from the front, he sent multiple groups of troops to harass the Jin camp at night, causing the Jin camp to roar and the soldiers to be exhausted. Whenever the Jin army made an omission, the feigned attack would immediately turn into a fierce attack. They would bite the Jin army hard, but they would not be willing to fight.
Finally one day, after Liang Jun's sentinels discovered where the Jin army's grain was stored, Li Mao made a plan. He sent Li Tianxuan to make a sneak attack at night with light cavalry, bringing kerosene and other fire starters with him to destroy the Jin army's grain and fodder. Burn it clean.
