sweeping the world

Chapter 460 Not consciously becoming the focus

Lei Meng sent Kuaiqi to report to Linzi and asked for instructions. During this period, Xie Daoyun and others were placed in the corner of the barracks.

Xie Daoyun asked to enter Jiangdu more than once, but was denied again and again.

You can let Xie Daoyun wander around in other places. After all, there are many hillsides around the camp, even if you want to watch carefully, you can look around from a distance.Jiangdu City is an extremely important military town. Strict control is inevitable, and it is also related to the safety and confidentiality of the water village. How could it be possible for Xie Daoyun to enter.

Six days later, an order came from the Linzi Center, asking Lei Meng to send troops to escort Xie Daoyun north.

"What do you mean that you don't need to rush so fast?" Lei Meng asked Wang Meng, and he said with a wry smile: "Recently, there have been many gangs with strange movements around, and it seems that the target is that little Xijun, and there is another gang in the center that doesn't need to work hard to mobilize the crowd." Can't rush the order..."

Jiangdu City is an important military town, and there are actually no ordinary people there. Wang Meng appeared here because he personally led a team to escort supplies as the county magistrate of Guangling County.

Lei Meng knew who Wang Meng was, and he didn't despise Wang Meng because he was just a county magistrate. Besides hosting a banquet, he also had some questions that he wanted to answer.

"Recently, the Wang clan has been fighting with the Xie clan, and the news has spread across both sides of the Yangtze River." Wang Meng has only been transferred to a local government for less than three months, and the first time he is an official in a local government, he will naturally pay attention to everything. Otherwise, it should be the job of the county lieutenant to escort the supplies.He knows why he is respected, and he is not proud of it. He wants to make achievements to be truly respected: "The family has many disciples, and some of them are partial."

The trend of gathering and raising disciples has existed since the pre-Qin period in ancient times. Before that, it was only the family of a prince who could raise disciples. In the Jin Dynasty, it was not so particular. For example, the trilogy of some small families can actually be regarded as disciples.

The south of the Yangtze River is the status quo of co-governance by aristocratic families, with thousands of private soldiers at every turn, and tens of thousands of private soldiers at most.In addition to private soldiers, clans and aristocratic families will also train their own warriors, and select some dead warriors from among the warriors.Dead soldiers are usually used as assassins, and the style of assassination is very prevalent in the situation of family rule.

Lei Meng was depressed about how he would do such a thing, and on the premise that he was clearly aware that someone was going to be unfavorable to Xie Daoyun, he said nothing to let it happen.He said to Wang Meng in embarrassment: "Can you let Xiao Xijun hide in your team?"

Wang Meng understood Lei Meng's intention in an instant, and it was nothing more than a plan to repair the plank road and secretly hide Chen Cang.

After the matter was settled, Lei Meng took Wang Meng to Xie Daoyun's resting place, informed him that he was allowed to meet the person, and told the whole story.

"Okay." Xie Daoyun responded first, then looked at Wang Meng curiously and asked, "Are you the Wang Langjun that the King of Han searched for for two years to find?"

Liu Yan searched for Wang Meng for two years, and finally found him with the help of the Sang family.With this incident as a footnote, Wang Meng's reputation is actually greater than he imagined, because as the country ruled by Liu Yan became bigger and stronger, things became more mysterious.

Wang Meng didn't have any special emotions when he heard such a question, so he paid his respects very politely, and then said: "I have to wrong Xijun and dress up again, and the accompanying entourage needs to be reduced to two."

It was agreed just now that Xie Daoyun disguised himself and hid among the group of people Wang Meng was about to return to Guangling County.Xie Daoyun agreed without even thinking about it, and he thought it was quite interesting.

After everything was ready, Lei Meng not only set up a suspicious formation, but also six teams set off from the barracks to go north, each of which looked like a team escorting Xie Daoyun.

The troops who left the barracks went north and separated. The first team to be attacked was only less than six miles away from the camp. The attackers just used a crossbow to make a wave of probing and retreated immediately. Under the pursuit of the Han army, none of them were caught. All the victims escaped through the complex terrain.

The second team that was attacked was eleven miles away from the barracks. The attackers still used their crossbows to test first, perhaps because they felt that they had found the right team to charge. The Han army and the attackers fought for less than a moment. It is over by retreating first.

The six teams before and after were attacked in different places, and the casualties were calculated to be that the Han army had more casualties than the attackers, which made Lei Meng frowned for two or three days.

In fact, the army really has no advantage against people with martial arts skills in small-scale conflicts.The soldiers of the army used the kind of open and close moves on the battle formation, saying that either the enemy will die or we will die with one blow.The reason why samurai are called samurai is not because they have undergone long-term martial arts training and are good at performing small-scale fights, but if they go to the battlefield, their survival rate will not be much higher than that of soldiers, just because the battlefield is not so big. Space allows the samurai to flourish.

"It's rampant!" Lei Meng received the news that the attackers were at most five or sixty people, and there were a relatively small number of two or thirty people, each carrying a strong crossbow.He said to Wang Meng: "There are two to three hundred people who were stopped along the Yangtze River, and there are probably only that many who were not stopped. The Wang family clan is very generous this time."

Let’s not investigate the origin of the assailant, the number is really quite large. Generally, after the attack, they are injured and unable to escape, they will commit suicide. When the Han army inspected the body, they found that the assailant’s appearance had been disfigured, and they could not find any identity that could be used as a tracer. clues.

"There must be people from the Wang family, and there must be other families who are adding fuel to the fire." Wang Meng found it strange that the attackers looked very fierce, but only a few seemed to want to kill them, and the rest were not so determined. : "Things are more complicated than we suspected."

The Wang family and the Xie family have had a lot of trouble recently, but they are limited to mutual scolding in the public opinion, and the two sides have maintained a lot of restraint and have not staged a private family fight.

Lei Meng has a mission in mind, and what he wants to do is to complete the instructions of the center, and the starting point is to protect Xie Daoyun and arrive in Linzi.

Although Wang Meng attaches great importance to it, he does not have so many limitations. He can think from many aspects of the overall situation.He can understand that Wang and Xie are really feuding. The question is whether the two sides want to fight to the death, and how many aristocratic families want to gain any benefit from this incident.

The Han army rampantly stationed troops along the Yangtze River, and the situation in the south of the Yangtze River has changed a lot. The families, including the four big clans, have no way to find a way, or there is no family that has not sent their children north. They have been testing the Han Dynasty. China's attitude towards the southern family.

People who want to fish in troubled waters have always existed under the chaotic situation. Lei Meng ignored some details. Wang Meng saw the battle report but found the problem. The essential.

"The Xie Clan must still have people in the dark." Wang Meng thought for a while, and said something that made Lei Meng puzzled: "Can you think in other directions, for example, everything is just a southern family that wants to cause the biggest commotion and make Xie Xijun go north?" The fact that it was uploaded to everyone in the world also attracted the King's greatest attention?"

"It seems to be something like this." Raymond said in a daze: "It seems abnormal for every team to be attacked."

In order to test the deduction, Raymond then sent several teams successively, and set traps based on the previous attacker's actions.Those teams were attacked again without exception, but this time they jumped into a far more perfect trap than the last time. Most of the attackers either died in battle or committed suicide, but some attackers who attempted suicide were captured.

The torture took four days, and after the answer came out, Lei Meng didn't feel very happy, but even more angry.

"They didn't really want to kill Xie Xijun, they just wanted to cause a big commotion." Lei Meng couldn't restrain his anger and said without caring about praising the correctness of Wang Meng's guess in advance: "They killed more than 200 people one after another, and we lost [-] people." Yu soldiers, just to cause enough commotion!"

"The aristocratic family never takes human life seriously, especially the lives of subordinates." Wang Meng wanted to add in his heart that human life is the most worthless in troubled times.He said, "Now that we know what's going on, let's start tomorrow?"

Raymond, who was angry, was thinking about how to take revenge, but he didn't dare to disrupt the overall layout of the military, so he could only grit his teeth and be fierce. If he killed the south bank of the Yangtze River, he would have to take the aristocratic family severely, and let those aristocratic families Taste what death tastes like.

Guangling County is under the jurisdiction of Guangling County, and the county capital is Huaiyin City.It has [-] households with a population of more than [-]. Guangling, the county seat, has [-] residents, and the rest are scattered in various countryside.

At this moment, Xie Daoyun was sitting on a carriage that was originally loaded with grain but now it was empty. Because there was nothing special about it, the carriage looked a little dirty. On the dry weeds, lean on the car with both hands and watch the scenery along the way.

In winter, after a few snowfalls in Huaiyin, the land in the wilderness is covered with white snow, but it is not completely silver at first glance. Some places have snow, and some places do not. It looks like a large spot in a large area. Dog fur.

Xie Daoyun, who had changed into coarse linen clothes, no longer had a gorgeous hairstyle on her head, but tied a very ordinary ponytail, which flicked and flicked as her little head looked around.

There were five or six hundred people from Guangling County who accompanied Wang Meng, the county magistrate, to Jiangdu to transport luggage, and except for some prostitutes and freelancers from the county government, they were basically people in corvee service.

There were escort sergeants in Jiangdu, and they put on an escort posture brightly. There were only a thousand of them, and all of them were cavalry who did not need to play in the initial stage of the next war.

Putting on an obvious escort posture, they have almost arrived in Guangling County without encountering even a single attack, but they don't know whether it was the Jiangdu Han army who searched and cleaned up the place, or the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River died down.

Lei Meng was really irritated by the southern clan and the aristocratic family. He couldn't send troops to the south bank to do anything, but he was able to send a large army to explore the surrounding area, but he would investigate if he felt suspicious.

The excessive movements of the Han army in Jiangdu caused a shock to the Jin army on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The co-effect was that the Jin army on the south bank also began to move out in all directions. But the actions of the armies on both sides of the strait did not know what kind of situation changes it would cause.

Wooden wheels rolled along the slightly muddy road, and many carriages walked in the middle of the road, with people on foot and cavalry on horseback on both sides.

"So, you are from Yangzhou?" Xie Daoyun often chats with ordinary people. Although she is wearing rough linen clothes, she looks very strong. At first, she was cautious and unwilling to chat. After spending a long time together In addition, she was not overbearing, and she was gradually able to chat happily later: "How is your life, can you eat?"

Chatting with Xie Daoyun were a few youthful-looking young men, and their willingness to get closer to Xie Daoyun was purely due to their instinct to approach beauty.

"Yes, yes." Ah Liu is the sixth child in his family. He is 14 years old this year. Although he is the sixth child, he is actually the only child left in the family. One mother remains.He shyly said: "Compared to before, I live a fairy life now. I just hope that I will be a few years older, and I can work hard for the king who has a good life, and earn five acres of land. I am lucky. Can have a title."

"Ambition, good ambition." Xie Daoyun said and became puzzled: "But aren't you the only child in the family? If something happens, what will the old lady do?"

Ah Liu was dumb for a while.

"A big man can only be successful if he enters the army." Lin Li is also a half-grown boy, and said with a longing expression: "Everyone wants to fight for the king..."

At this time, Ah Liu finally found some words, and interjected, "Xiaoshi from the next door's family got five acres of land from the army, and usually the government sends slaves to help with farming..."

The language organization ability of the young men was a bit messy. Xie Daoyun extracted some special fragments from many words. The general idea is that men want to change their life and destiny in Han Dynasty. Well, the fastest and most convenient way is to join the army.

Later, Xie Daoyun found Wang Meng and said bluntly, "Can I stay in Guangling for a while?"

Wang Meng was talking with the county assistant about how to arrange farming and water sources after the beginning of spring. He saw Xie Daoyun coming, but he didn't expect to come directly to intervene.

Junhou Gaoping, who was riding beside him, immediately looked at Wang Meng.The hint he got was to ensure Xie Daoyun's safety, and unless he received a new order, he would slowly send him to Linzi.

"Xijun is free." Wang Meng has no right to interfere with what Xie Daoyun thinks and does. He looked at Gao Ping, and then said to Xie Daoyun: "You should ask Gao Junhou about your itinerary."

Xie Daoyun immediately looked at Gao Ping, walked over slowly but didn't speak.

"It will snow again soon..." Gao Ping said softly, "You can stay in Guangling for a while."

Xie Daoyun saluted and thanked, turned around and walked towards a group of young men who didn't know what to say, which attracted a burst of low cheers from those young men...

(End of this chapter)