74, The rebels besieged the city for further reading)
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, and sent it as a letter to his children, Wei Yan and Wei Xiuwen.
Let the two of them learn from it.
More than a hundred years ago, the Li family made their fortune as a traveling merchant, accumulating their fortune step by step, and thus achieving 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 didn't want his descendants to have people like Li Xingye - even though he knew that such a situation was unavoidable and that it was not a lie to say that wealth could only last three generations, but as long as the second generation descendants of the Wei family did not produce such scum, he would be satisfied.
I sent someone to send a letter home to Xiaoyi Mansion, and got a reply soon.
Wei Yan, who was sixteen, replied: "Remember your father's teachings and abide by your 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 handle things carefully. Children should abide by their 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.
After all, Li Xingye was also a scholar, 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 had "high vision but low power" and was not down-to-earth in his behavior.
Wei Xiuwen's reply made Wei Tu feel that he might become the second "Li Xingye" and bring disaster to the family.
With this in mind, 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, after six or seven days, Wei Tu still did not receive a reply to the letter he sent home.
See this.
Wei Tu, who had been a military attaché for a long time, instantly understood that this was the communication channel in Fucheng and had been cut off by the rebels. This was why he had not received Wei Xiuwen's reply for a long time.
…
Things turned out exactly as Wei Tu expected.
The next day, as the "West Gate Guard" of Qingfeng Prefecture, he received an urgent military order regarding the defense of 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 the death, and not to let a rebel enter 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.
And he, as the deputy general, 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, and 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, who was among the 32nd Route Rebels.
After looking at the main flag, Wei Tu saw a yellow secondary flag embroidered with "明".
"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 teamed up with King Qinghu to attack the west gate of Fucheng. He had a hunch that there might be something to do with Li Xingye.
Otherwise, among the thirty-two rebel kings, it was the King of Mingzhou who came to Ximen.
"If you can understand the flag language and command your soldiers, 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."
It's late afternoon.
The west gate of Fucheng ushered in the first trial attack by the anti-king rebels.
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 after all. They are not worth mentioning. They are far inferior to the elite officers and soldiers."
When Deng Zhijun saw the great victory, he laughed loudly and said to the military attachés in the camp.
When the military attachés heard this, they instantly wiped away the fear and fear in their hearts and looked down upon the rebels in Guangyuan Prefecture.
During the hundreds of years of Zheng Guo's peace, although there were occasional small bandit rebellions in the local area, it was still rare for rebels to besiege a city in such an open manner, and it was 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 immortal family 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 well-organized, and with just a few charges, the officers and soldiers were almost overwhelmed, and the rebels almost took over their position at the top of the city.
The person who counterattacked and killed the anti-king rebels who stormed the city 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 nerves were raised and 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 make it public, 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, wrapped it with white gauze to stop the bleeding, then retreated and hid in the military camp.
He still remembered the scene when he was ordered to shoot "Xie Qing" by Xu County Lieutenant because he showed his ability as a marksman during the battle in Siyang Town, and 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 imperial court will never tolerate it being captured by the rebels!"
"There will definitely be an innate martial artist who comes to the rescue and confronts the power behind the anti-king rebels."