Chapter 179: Lang Mengting

In Jiashen, Jun left the Grand Sima Ke to pacify southern Jizhou, and sent Murong Ping and Lieutenant Hou Kan to lead the Jingqin to attack Ye. In Guisi, he arrived in Ye. Early, Wei's general Zhang Wen sneaked into Ye and passed Ran Min's order. Wei's general Jiang Gan, Shizhong Miao Song, Zhanshen Liu Yi and Wen Hu's prince Zhi abandoned the city and ran west. Tens of thousands of people followed their families and retreated to Shangdang through Hukou Pass. Ran Cao led the army to occupy Xiangguo first, then entered Ye and called the King of Wei. When he heard that Ping arrived, he closed the city and refused to defend. Gengyin, Yan Wang Jun sent General Guangwei Murong Army, General Mu Yugen, Right Sima Huangfu Zhen and other commanding infantry and cavalry to assist Murong Ping in attacking Ye. They all surrendered to Yan. Ten days later, Ran Cao had finished his food and surrendered to the city.

－－－Excerpt from the introduction

Looking at the Baima Mountain that was sinking into the dusk, Murong Chui frowned and sighed softly. This high mountain still looks majestic in the dark, filled with a grand momentum. A small river, Wuchi Water, flows through the foot of the mountain on the south side of Baima Mountain, flows for dozens of miles before entering the Hutuo River. It is precisely because of Wuchi Water that a long and windy valley road appears in the continuous mountains. The Hutuo River Valley can be connected to the north, and the Xinxing County Dingxiang to the east, and the Changshan County Zhending to the south; the Meng County can be reached in the south, and then the Shouyang can be crossed along the Tan Road to Jinyang to Bingzhou.

This is a very secret path, and few people will leave Jizhou here. Since ancient times, the main roads of Jizhou have been Jingxing and Weize Pass. Murong Chui spent several years to find out this path, quietly from mountain villagers and herb collectors, and sent people to walk through it twice, so that he could drive troops straight into the hinterland of Bingzhou at critical moments and occupy Jinyang.

But now this road was blocked by the village in front. This village is called Lang Mengting, which stands on Baima Mountain. It was originally built by black bandits with rocks in the late Later Han Dynasty. It just happened to guard the natural danger. It was really a man who could pass by ten thousand men. He fought his 50,000 troops here for a whole day, but he didn't get any advantage.

"Five Generals, this battle is so fucking so much!" The vanguard captain Murong Zhi led the vanguard troops to retreat. The first thing he said when he saw Murong Chui was to complain.

"The valley in front of Lang Mengting was wide enough to have three ox carts. My five thousand soldiers went straight away but could only spread out three or four hundred people. They stood on the stone wall and shot arrows and smashed them with stones. We couldn't even rely on the edge. Five generals, look at my five thousand men. Four hundred lives are all the elites of my Yan Kingdom, and they were all fucking in this broken village."

Hearing this, Murong Chui slowly moved his gaze from behind Murong Chui. Behind Murong Chui, thousands of Yan soldiers were retreating from the front in groups of three or three. Regardless of whether they were injured or not, their faces were extremely tired. They either supported each other or walked slowly with spears in their hands. Apart from the sound of footsteps, there was only the sound of Wu Chi Shui next to them. When they passed by, they just looked at Murong Chui silently, and then slowly walked into the black behind.

"I saw it all!" Murong nodded and said lightly. "Stay good rest tonight and fight tomorrow."

Murong opened his mouth twice, and finally responded with a "oh", lowered his head and followed his subordinates to the back.

Murong Chui raised his head and continued to stare at Baima Mountain and Lang Mengting ahead. In the increasingly heavy night, Baima Mountain was like a powerful tiger entrenched, and Lang Mengting was the sharpest tiger's teeth.

It is a heroic pass, a heroic pass that can make many people sigh for, but no matter how dangerous a hero is, it would not be considered a heroic pass without a man of iron blood. Although Lang Mengting is a mountain village with a history of more than 100 years, time has long made it dilapidated. However, the dangerous terrain makes up for all this. As long as the stone wall is still there, as long as the Beifu soldiers behind it have not yet died, it will always be a heroic pass that they cannot cross.

Murong Chui already knew that there were less than a thousand soldiers in the Northern Palace in this mountain village, and it was a militia that was urgently transferred. Because the nearest soldiers were still in Shouyang City, it was impossible to transfer them within five days. However, it was this thousand soldiers in the Northern Palace that made the 50,000 Yan troops stop here and it was difficult to move forward.

He had been in front of the small county of Bailing for too long. Murong Chui never expected that a small county of "alone Jizhou" would stop his 50,000 army for a day and a night. When Murong Chui saw the ragged clothes but a calm face of the Beifu Bailing County Magistrate answering calmly in front of him, and then even more calmly, he hesitated in his heart that the operation to attack Bingzhou might fail.

If I could pass by Bailing smoothly as planned, I would not have allowed Meng County to receive information and mobilized a thousand people to defend the Lang Mengting, which I must pass. If the plan was successful, Meng County would have been captured long ago and the army would be directed to Shouyang City. By then, the west could advance to Jinyang, and the east could attack Weize and Jingxing Pass from the west. In that case, the plan that echoed the Fourth Brother East and West would be completed, and the Yan State would occupy the Central Plains and Hedong would be even more confident.

Murong Chui would not say these words, nor would hesitate and worry on his face. He also had the pride of the Murong family in his bones. As a hero of the Murong family, Murong Chui, like his father and brothers, took it as his responsibility to pacify the world. He was heroic, talented, and family background, which was enough to make Murong Chui feel proud. However, since Wei Chang was captured in the battle, Murong Chui was no longer the young hero full of arrogance and spirit. He became speechless and deep. After his wife Duan was framed and killed by Kezuhun, Murong Chui became even deeper, making Murong Ke, who always valued him, sighed.

This time, Murong Ke and Murong Chui decided to re-enter the Central Plains. Murong Ke was responsible for Jizhou, Yuzhou and Ran Min. Murong Chui was responsible for Bingzhou. With Liu Xiwuqi and He Laitou's secret move, in order to hold back the hands and feet of the Northern Prefecture, let Yan capture the Central Plains as quickly as possible, and then quickly integrate the power here, so that Yan State can fight with the Northern Prefecture and fight for the world.

Murong Chui knew that the fourth brother had led his army to surround Ran Min, and it was just around the corner to enter the Wei State, but he had a lot of misfortunes from the beginning. Will the journey be really smooth in the future?

Murong Chui watched Lang Mengting slowly appear in the darkness dozens of firelights, and jumped in the whistling night mountain wind. He finally breathed a long sigh, then turned his head to say to Deputy General Sun Gai: "Send the order and the whole army will have a good rest for a night. The meal will start tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock, and then the entire army will be divided into ten teams, each with 3,000 people taking turns to fight, constantly attacking Lang Mengting for me, and no matter how much casualties are, you must conquer me!"

After passing the order, Murong Chui turned around and strided back to his tent.

In Langmengting, Langmengting's garrison, and the commander of Meng County Gu Dan were inspecting all parts of Langmengting and rectifying the defenders. Among the more than 1,000 people were Meng County militias that were urgently recruited, while the remaining 400 were Meng County policemen, veterans, civil servants and county students. In order to prepare for this team, Meng County Magistrate Chang Ye and Gu Dan almost collected all the young and strong men who could recruit in Meng County.

The militia's armed forces were complete, with 400 longbows, 600 waist knives, and 100 spears. In addition to the patrolmen and the veterans, they had to use the long wooden pole to sharpen the sharpener as soldiers. Gu Dan led these thousand people with just a few people to clean up the wolf Mengting and then encountered Murong Zhi leading his troops to attack. With natural danger and a passionate blood, the Northern Prefecture defenders gritted their teeth and fought fiercely for a day, and finally fought the Yan army, but their losses were heavy, with more than 200 casualties and two-thirds of the arrows. But Gu Dan knew that the most important thing now was to integrate and organize this group by "all kinds of people". This battle would take some time. It would not be possible to rely on passion alone. It must be organized in an orderly manner and advance and retreat in a proper manner, so as to reduce casualties and persevere until the end.

Gu Dan divided more than 800 people into three teams, and more than 600 militia and others into two teams, each responsible for the two sections of stone walls in the north and south. The remaining more than 200 people were elite troops mainly militias. As a reserve team, they were devoted to key positions in urgent times.

General Gu Dan had organized his soldiers and designated their respective defense zones. Then he sent more than a hundred people to sneak out of the village under the cover of the longbowmen on the stone wall to collect arrows and weapons.

After finishing all this, the exhausted Gu Dan dragged his heavy body to the yard where he lived, which was also the temporary command center of Lang Mengting. As soon as he entered the yard, he heard a cry echoing: "Brother Sun Lu, I am not as good as you! I am not as good as you!"

Gu Dan hurriedly saw two people kneeling on the ground and crying with their heads. The man on the left knew that he was an officer from the Duwei Mansion of Bailing County who had just escaped in secret at night. He had met when he was in school in Zhan County, Leping County. The man on the right was even more familiar with him. He was Meng Tao, the teacher of Meng County. He should stick to Meng County with the magistrate of Meng County.

Gu Dan hurriedly went up to help the two of them up, comforting them while asking for details.

In Meng Tao's choked voice, Gu Dan knew what was going on. The county magistrate of Bailing County, Wan Tiao, was Meng Tao's classmate in Liangzhou School. The two were assigned to Bingzhou as officials. However, Wan Tiao was even more talented and soon surpassed Meng Tao, who had always been a teacher, and was promoted to Pingyang County Governor's office to serve as a Jidu. However, he made a mistake last year and was punished, and then he was transferred to the small county on the isolated front line of Bailing to be the county magistrate to show punishment. Meng Tao knew that Wan Tiao was punished for his inappropriate moral integrity, so he despised him very much and wrote several letters to ridicule the classmate.

It was this classmate who was calm in the face of danger when the Yan State suddenly attacked. While organizing soldiers to resist to the death, he sent people to quickly report the message to Meng County. It was precisely because of the news and resistance from Bailing County that Gu Dan had time to mobilize soldiers to Lang Mengting.

Wan Tiao, who had been resisting the dangerous terrain for a day and a night, calmly said: "The soldiers and civilians of the Northern Palace will die and commit suicide when facing the siege of the Yan army and Murong Chui's personal persuasion.

The officer lay among the dead and heard this scene, and endured it until dark after it was dark, fleeing back to Lang Mengting along the mountain road.

"If you die, you will not surrender! Brother Sun Lu, you don't follow your ethics, but you have integrity!" After saying this, Meng Tao couldn't help but burst into tears again.

Gu Dan persuaded Meng Tao with tears in his eyes, and after he was quiet, he advised: "Teacher, you should go back to Meng County."

"What! Let me go back! There are my students and my colleagues here, let me go back!" Meng Tao shouted loudly when he heard this, "I am trusted by the general and I am responsible for the education of Meng County. I teach students to be cautious in their ethics, be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, and be honest with their integrity. Now you ask me to guard the rear and be in danger! You might as well call me to be embarrassed to death!"

Speaking of this, Meng Tao almost roared. He took out the longbow behind him and raised it high: "Although I am a literati, I can also pull the bow and swing the knife. My waist bag can not only put books, but also put the enemy's head!"

Gu Dan stood there silently listening, and the surroundings were filled with soldiers coming to hear the sound. They listened quietly to Meng Tao's words, and there was a fire burning in everyone's eyes.

"My military and civilians in the Northern Palace will die and never surrender!" Meng Tao shouted almost as if he bites out one word at a time.

Hearing this, not only the entire yard, but also the entire Lang Mengting fell into a silence, and only the torches were still burning there.

After a while, someone shouted the "Qin Opera" that the people of the Northern Palace loved to sing: "The golden sand beach was so fierce that the mountains and the earth were shaken. Good men fought to the death and never survived!"

The sound drifts further and further in the thick night, echoing among the mountains of Taihang Mountains.

On the second day, from morning to night, the 30,000 Yan troops were divided into ten teams and took turns to attack the city. The sound of the shaking shouts and killing disappeared for a long time. Both sides of the offense and defense were exhausted, but they waved their swords, opened bows, stabbed spears, and raised stones according to their physical instincts. Everyone was gasping and gritting their teeth and persevering. They fell down one after another regardless of their comrades around them. As long as they were still alive, they would destroy the enemies ahead. They were secretly competing to see who could last until the last moment. Now it is no longer a physical fight, but a battle of willpower.

At dusk, the Yan army finally couldn't stand it anymore. They left dense corpses on the hillside that had turned black in front of the stone wall and retreated sadly. The 30,000 Yan army lost more than 2,000 people, but still failed to achieve their goal - occupying Lang Mengting.

The Northern Prefecture defenders suffered a lot of losses. No matter how serious the injury was, less than 500 people could carry weapons to the stone wall. However, Gu Dan knew that the city would have to be guarded for three more days, and in three more days, Leping and Jinyang's soldiers would be able to catch up.

That night, except for the torches on the stone wall, there was no fire in Lang Mengting. Everyone bid farewell to their dead comrades in the dark, packed up their broken weapons, and then leaned against the inside of the stone wall in the dark, waiting silently, waiting for dawn or the enemy to attack.

The battle on the third day was even more cruel. Murong Chui personally suppressed the formation, and those who dared to retreat were killed on the spot. The Yan army roared towards Lang Mengting, and they lined up in a crowded and long line in the narrow valley. The Northern Palace defenders did not have many arrows. Apart from shooting at the Yan army climbing the stone wall, they had no more arrows to suppress the shooting.

The Yan army's wooden ladders were filled with patches and ropes. They were pushed down, and then they were quickly repaired and put up. Because there was too much blood on it, the wooden ladder had no color of wood and turned completely black. The Yan army climbed the wooden ladder and went up one by one. They carefully avoided the arrows and stones flying down from above. Now the stone is denser and more dangerous than arrows. The arrows are limited, but the wolf Mengting, who leans against Baima Mountain, is not short of stones.

You can finally see the upper end of the stone wall. The wooden poles stabbed out of the forest always make Yan Jun fail. Standing in the narrow place of the wooden ladder, it is difficult for Yan Jun to guard against the wooden poles stabbed out from the left and right. Once they are stabbed, the sharpened tip of the pole can still drill holes in your body.

The bloody battle was fought from morning to dusk, but Murong Chui, who had a gloomy face, had no intention of withdrawing the troops. The officers and generals who did not dare to retreat had to order the soldiers to hold a torch to attack overnight. After midnight, the defenders who had fought hard for a long time were finally exhausted, and the defense line on the stone wall was in danger. Dozens of Yan soldiers had already climbed the stone wall and began to fight with the defenders to cover more colleagues up.

At this time, a man in a short-robed green shirt, dancing with a long sword, and his face was covered with blood. He was followed by more than a dozen people, but his swords were not old last year, but their swords were dancing extremely happily. The Yan army was caught off guard and was suppressed and beaten by the new force and the defenders on the stone wall. But they were all elites of the Yan army, how could they give up easily? The sword light was flying in the dancing flames, shouting loudly, and screaming mixed in the darkness.

Some of the dozen people had their long swords broken, but they still pounced over, hugged Yan Jun, pinched them with their hands, bite them with their mouths, and then rolled down from the stone wall together. They had no helmets or armor. After a while, the cloth belt that tied their hair was loosened, and the long hair was spread on their shoulders. The blue shirt and short robe were not only broken, but also turned black and red. In the darkness and fire, they were like evil spirits, which made the Yan Jun faced him feel short of breath.

The Yan army was finally driven down, and their morale finally dropped to the lowest point at this moment. Murong Chui saw it and had to order to withdraw the troops.

Gu Dan hugged Meng Tao, covered in blood, and burst into tears. If Meng Tao hadn't rushed up with more than a dozen students just now, Meng Tang might have been captured.

"Master Meng!" Gu Dan shouted softly.

Meng Tao nodded slightly, then raised his right hand and pointed to the side with difficulty. Gu Dan looked over there, and there was a man lying there, his thin body was like other dead martyrs, covered with wounds and blood, and his childish face was covered with blood and dust.

"What a pity." Gu Dan heard Meng Tao's sigh. Yes, these students will become talents in a few years and become a valuable asset to the Northern Palace.

"Guard Gu, let's say a few words!" Meng Tao said softly at last.

Gu Dan raised his face full of tears, then shouted with all his might: "The golden beach is so fierce that the mountains and the earth are shaking. Good men will never die!"

Amid the roar, Meng Tao closed his eyes peacefully. Amid the roar, Murong looked at Lang Mengting and silently. It seems that the world has changed. You can't defeat a group of people who roar like this. When did the Han people recover their long-lost strength and passion?

Although the battle for the next two days was fierce, it was no longer the tragic situation of the previous three days. Not only was the morale of the Yan army seized, but even Murong Chui knew that the time had passed and hesitated and became more and more silly.

On the fifth day, the Leping County Captain Chang Lianpu led three thousand palace soldiers and militias to Lang Mengting. Behind him, more palace soldiers and militias were rushing over under Feng Baoan, the governor of Bingzhou.

There were only a hundred people left on Lang Mengting, but they all insisted on standing on the stone wall, holding long swords and wooden poles in their hands.

Chang Lianpu finally found his subordinate Gu Dan on the stone wall. He leaned against the female wall of the stone wall, holding a long knife with more than a dozen gaps in his hand. A long knife on his chest made it very difficult for him to breathe.

Seeing Chang Lianpu, Gu Dan felt a little surprised and struggled to get up, but he couldn't move at all. Chang Lianpu hurriedly supported him.

"Report to the lieutenant, the commander of Meng County Gu Dan was ordered to guard Lang Mengting. After the mission..." Gu Dan said intermittently while panting.

"Vice Gu Du, your mission has been completed, and now I have taken over Lang Mengting!" Chang Lianpu replied with tears in his eyes.

Hearing this, Gu Dan showed a look of relief. His nervous and stiff body just now became soft, as if all the strength in his body disappeared.

Chang Lianpu knew that Gu Dan had been reluctantly supporting him for several days, and it was already time when the lights were gone. Now that he had handed over Lang Mengting, he had no support, and his life was naturally at this moment.

Chang Lianpu hugged Gu Dan tightly. When he saw Gu Dan's mouth open, he hurriedly went over to listen. After hearing two sounds, tears immediately poured out like a flood.

After a while, in the lingering and bloody sunset, thousands of people shouted in unison: "The golden sand beach is so fierce that the mountains are shaking, and good men will never survive if they fight to the death! Since ancient times, thousands of loyal and kindness have been loyal and kind, and protect the country and the people!" At that moment, the whole world was shaken by the roar, and the majestic Baima Mountain was also shaking.

When Murong Chui heard the roar, he was silent for a long time and finally ordered the withdrawal of troops overnight and retreating to Changshan County.
Chapter completed!