Chapter 74： Rebel Siege (Please collect and read)

Chapter 74 Rebel Siege (Please collect and read)

Three days later.

The day after his family members evacuated Qingfeng Mansion, Wei Tu was in the city and heard the news that thirteen members of the Li family stood in a cage at Caishikou, Qingshan County, and died alive.

While Wei Tu was saddened by this news, he also wrote down the ups and downs of the Li family for more than a hundred years, treated it as a letter, and sent it to his children, Wei Yan and Wei Xiuwen.

Let the two of them learn from this.

More than a hundred years ago, the Li family made their fortune as a traveling merchant and accumulated a fortune step by step, which led to their former wealth. However, just because of the misbehavior of an unscrupulous descendant, Li Xingye, all this good fortune was in vain, and the lives of several generations were ruined. Once the efforts are exhausted, the heir is almost extinct.

This is a good negative teaching material.

Wei Tu did not want his descendants to have people like Li Xingye - even though he knew that such a situation was inevitable and that it was not a lie to say that wealth could not last more than three generations, but as long as the second generation descendants of the Wei family did not produce such scum, he would be satisfied.

Sent someone to send a letter home to Xiaoyi Mansion, and got a reply soon.

Wei Yan, who was sixteen years old, replied: "Remember your father's teachings and abide by the family business."

 Wei Tu had already anticipated the content of Wei Yan's reply. Under Xinghua's guidance, this eldest daughter had become a serious lady, and her every word and deed was extremely well-educated.

After putting away Wei Yan’s letter, Wei Tu opened the letter from Wei Xiuwen, the second son of the Wei family.

Compared with Wei Yan's "rigid" reply, the content of Wei Xiuwen's reply is much more interesting.

Wei Xiuwen said: "The reason why Li Xingye is unwise is not that he is an anti-king staff member, but that he does not know how to deal with things carefully. The son should abide by his father's teachings, act carefully, and leave no future troubles."

Seeing this, Wei Tu secretly frowned, his face full of worry, rather than appreciation of Wei Xiuwen's reply.

Li Xingye was also a scholar after all, so he understood the disadvantages of not keeping things secret, but he still had such consequences.

He concluded that this was not something Li Xingye did intentionally, but that he was "high-minded but low-handed" and was not down-to-earth in his conduct and work.

Wei Xiuwen's reply made Wei Tu feel that he had the hope of becoming the second "Li Xingye" and bringing disaster to the family.

Thinking of this, Wei Tu wrote another letter, and wrote a several-page warning letter to Wei Xiuwen, admonishing him not to aim too high, but to be down-to-earth and take one step at a time.

However, this time, Wei Tu still did not receive a reply to the letter home he sent six or seven days later.

See this.

Wei Tu, who had been a military attache for a long time, instantly understood that this was the communication channel in Fucheng, which had been cut off by the rebels. This was why he had not received Wei Xiuwen's reply for a long time.

…

Things went exactly as Wei Tu expected.

The next day, as the "West Gate Guard" of Qingfeng Prefecture, he received an urgent military order to defend the city.

The governor's office issued a military order: He was ordered to prepare rolling logs and stones, mobilize the people, and guard the west gate to prevent any rebels from entering the city.

At the same time, the governor's office also parachuted a fifth-grade military attache as the chief officer guarding the west gate.

He, as a lieutenant, assisted in defending the city.

This fifth-grade military attaché was known to Wei Tu as the "Deng Zhijun" of the governor's office.

Early the next morning.

Standing at the top of Ximen City, Wei Tu saw densely packed Guangyuan rebels five miles away, holding various flags.

He took a closer look and saw the word "green" rusted on the flag of the former army. He immediately understood that the leader of the rebels who attacked the west gate of Fucheng this time should be Lin Quancheng, the Green Tiger King, one of the 32nd Route Army against the king.

After looking at the main flag, Wei Tu saw a yellow secondary flag with the word "明" embroidered on it.

“King of Mingzhou?”

Wei Tu narrowed his eyes. He remembered that Li Xingye took refuge with King Mingzhou and became an aide under his account.

This time, King Mingzhou and King Qinghu attacked the west gate of Fucheng. He had a hunch that there might be factors related to Li Xingye.

Otherwise, among the thirty-two rebel kings, it was the King of Mingzhou who came to Ximen.

"Being able to understand the flag language and command the soldiers under his command, it seems...the anti-kings in Guangyuan Mansion have really become a climate..."

Standing on the city, Wei Tu had this idea in his mind after seeing two groups of anti-king soldiers and horses slowly arranging their troops under the command of the flag soldiers.

After a while, Wei Tu entered the camp and began to discuss specific city defense matters with Deng Zhijun based on the military formations of the anti-king rebels, and divided the city defense areas for military attaches at all levels...

 Deng Zhijun did not "bully" his subordinates, and readily accepted Wei Tu's arrangement, and praised Wei Tu for "having a military strategy."

hour to noon.

The west gate of the city ushered in the first trial of the anti-king rebels to attack the city.

Under Wei Tu's arrangement, the anti-king rebels left in a hurry without even touching the edge of the city wall after throwing away hundreds of corpses.

“The rebels are just rebels, not worth mentioning, and far inferior to the elite officers and soldiers.”

Deng Zhijun laughed loudly when he saw the great victory and said to the military attachés in the camp.

Hearing this, all the military attachés instantly swept away the fear and fear in their hearts, and began to look down upon and ignore the rebels in Guangyuan Prefecture.

Zheng Guo has been in peace for hundreds of years. Although there are occasional small bandit rebellions in the local area, it is still rare for rebels to besiege a city in such an open manner. It is rare to encounter one in decades.

When Wei Tu, who was ranked second, heard this, his face showed a smile like all the military attaches, but he couldn't help but feel some worries in his heart.

 Half a month ago, he and Fu Zhizhou came to the conclusion that in this war between the government and the anti-king, the key to victory lies not in the two armies, but in the duel between the immortals and the innate martial arts behind them.

Therefore, whether these military attaches can hold the city in the subsequent war will have little impact on the key to victory.

…

The next day.

The rebels against the king attacked again.

Different from the last exploratory attack, this time the anti-king rebels prepared ladders, well traps, siege engines and other siege equipment.

The attack was in an orderly manner. After just a few charges, the officers and soldiers were almost overwhelmed, and the rebels almost captured their position at the top of the city.

The counterattack killed the anti-king rebels who stormed the city. It was not anyone else, but Wei Tu who hid behind the guard camp and took time to fire cold arrows from time to time.

Every arrow he aimed was aimed at the small leader who commanded the elite anti-king vanguard. Almost every time his sword was raised or an arrow fell, he could kill someone.

Without the command of their leader, the already loosely disciplined anti-king rebels had no support, so how could they survive the counterattack of the official army.

“Don’t show off, just kill a few people and keep the west gate intact.”

After shooting seven or eight people, Wei Tu stopped his hand. He pretended that his right hand was disabled, and after wrapping a white gauze to stop the bleeding, he retreated and hid in the military camp.

He still remembered that during the battle in Siyang Town, he was ordered by Xu County Lieutenant to shoot "Xie Qing" because he showed his ability as a marksman, and he almost died.

at this point.

It must be guarded against.

“Adapt accordingly. Qingfeng Mansion is not Guangyuan Mansion. This is the capital of Shannan Road. The court will never tolerate it being captured by the rebels!”

“There will definitely be an innate martial artist coming to the rescue and confronting the power behind the anti-king rebels.”

(End of this chapter)