Chapter 129: The Wind Zhijin Grass (please vote for me!)

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Just after voting for Zhao Song, Niu Meng's intestines felt regretful!

Before, Niu Meng had always thought that he had a high prestige among the Huben Army, and that accepting Zhao Song's recruitment was the general trend, and many people would be like him.

——Niu Meng felt that as long as he took the lead in accepting Zhao Song's recruitment, at least half of the defenders of Jiangning Mansion would accept Zhao Song's recruitment with him.

But after Niu Meng defected to Song Dynasty, Niu Meng was shocked to realize that he was really wrong.

Most of the generals and supervisors of the Huben Army who were detained by Niu Meng were unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty with him, and even holding a knife to their necks was useless.

Some people even scolded Niu Meng for being unfaithful, unfilial, benevolent and unjust.

And Sun Sandai went to bite Niu Meng. Looking at his posture, he actually wanted to eat Niu Meng's meat and drink Niu Meng's blood.

If Liu Guangshi hadn't let Niu Meng kill Sun Sandai and the others, saying that Sun Sandai and the others might not be useful in the future, Niu Meng would have wanted to kill all of them.

Fang Wuji, who was not good at writing poems in the past, actually cursed for the first time: "An evil dog who is ignorant will eventually be rewarded, and he will benefit for a while without knowing what to do next!"

Not only the generals, supervisors and some officials of the Huben Army were unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty, but even the low-level soldiers of the Huben Army were unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

After the Song army crossed the river, many soldiers of the Huben army, led by low-level generals, resisted the invasion of the Song army. There were even scenes where many soldiers of the Huben army died together with the soldiers of the Song army.

There was also a junior high school student named "Yu Yin" who tried to assassinate Niu Meng. After being caught by Niu Meng's personal guards, Yu Yin asked Niu Meng sternly: "Niu Meng! Has my chief governor ever treated you badly?

, you have to be a dog?!”

The most lamentable thing is Shen Liang, the manager of Huozuo City.

After learning that the Song army had entered the city, Shen Liang, who was resting, immediately ran to fire work and then asked all the operators and craftsmen to withdraw.

After only Shen Liang and his son Shen An were left in the fire work, Shen Liang said: "The governor once said that fire work and gunpowder work are the foundation of our tiger and benign army. They must not fall into the hands of the enemy. If you

Being able to meet the Commander-in-Chief, I can tell you that he is a loyal minister of the fierce and fierce army, and I am worthy of the Commander-in-Chief's kindness in meeting him."

Shen An wanted to take his father with him and said that he could just use rockets to blow up Huo Zuo.

But Shen Liang believed that this would not only blow up the secret weapon of the Tiger Army, but if the Song army got it, the Tiger Army would be in danger.

Finally, Shen An left after being beaten and scolded by Shen Liang.

When Niu Meng sent someone to take over the fire and gunpowder preparations and prepared to use the secret weapons of the Tiger Army to claim credit from Zhao Song, Shen Liang, who really had no time to withdraw from the fire, resolutely lit the fire, and then the fire along with the gunpowder

All the operations were blown up, and even the people sent by Niu Meng to take over the fire and gunpowder operations were unable to escape.

Niu Meng's words were almost worn out, and he spent a lot of money. In the end, he only recruited less than 2,000 people from the prisoners.

Plus his battalion of personal guards.

Not enough for 3,000 people.

Seeing the situation like this, even many of Niu Meng's personal guards began to regret following Niu Meng and accepting Zhao Song's recruitment.

Without many followers, Niu Meng was undoubtedly hit hard and regretful.

But what really shocked Niu Meng and made him regret even more was not this, but the attitude of the Song Army's top brass towards him.

Before this, Niu Meng had always felt that after he accepted Zhao Song's recruitment, the senior officials of the Song army would welcome him and say that he was a loyal minister of the court and that he understood the righteousness and so on.

However, when Niu Meng really accepted Zhao Song's recruitment, Niu Meng realized that he had really thought too much. Not only was it difficult for him to see the highest level of the Song army like Liu Yanqing, but even Ma Kuo was throwing things at him.

After getting a token from the two Zhejiang Road Supervisors, it never appeared in front of him again.

No one told him how useful this token was, how many people he could control, which states and counties he had jurisdiction over, where his yamen was, and where his army was.

As for the things Ma Kuo had promised him, including the tavern proprietress, he didn't know who to turn to to fulfill them.

Later, Niu Meng asked his cronies to bribe people around Tong Guan, only to find out that the senior officials of the Song Army felt that he did not bring many troops. Not to mention the ships, Jiangning City was made a mess by him, and the food was burned to pieces.

Not to mention that all the soldiers and armor were destroyed, as soon as the Song army crossed the river, the whole army had to put out the fire. In this extremely hot day, they had to be destroyed by the fire.

Roast caused the Song army officers and soldiers to suffer a lot, so the Song army officers and soldiers all complained a lot about him. Moreover, many Song army generals felt that the promises Ma Kuo made to him were too much and thought that he was not worth the price at all.

, Hong Zai at least brought over hundreds of thousands of people, but he only had three thousand, and a few of these people just ran away at every turn.

It was only then that Niu Meng knew that Hong Zai, who had been used as a role model by Ma Kuo, had been beheaded by Zhong Shi Dao not long ago.

Niu Meng, who thought he was a hero, was devalued as worthless by others, and his great contribution in helping the Song Army cross the Yangtze River was not even mentioned by the senior officials of the Song Army.

The key point is that Zhao Song was not as good as Ma Kuo said about the people who accepted the recruitment. Hong Zai is the best example.

As for the watery tavern proprietress that Niu Meng was thinking about, she was originally a prostitute in the prostitute camp of the Song Dynasty. She was selected by Ma Kuang to perform this task. This time she performed meritorious service, and her family was pardoned, but she herself was

This outstanding performance was noticed by Liu Yanqing's son Liu Guangguo and she was taken as a concubine. If Niu Meng wanted it, he could ask Liu Guangguo for it.

The Song army unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, which made Niu Meng burst into flames and made Niu Meng regret it endlessly.

When Niu Meng came home, his wives and concubines complained to him that they would be scolded wherever they went, and some people would secretly throw stones at them.

Sai Furong couldn't help but complain: "General, why did you defect to the Song Dynasty? My family is so famous in the Huben Army?"

As a result, he was severely beaten by Niu Meng.

Sai Fulong was not angry and felt that Niu Meng was nothing. If he was angry outside, he would only take it out on his own woman, and she secretly kept this hatred in her heart.

Three days later, the Song army went to attack Zhenjiang City.

Liu Yanqing sent Niu Meng to recruit him to surrender.

Although Niu Meng knew that he would definitely not be able to recruit Zhao Han'er to surrender, he still bravely came to the city and said to Zhao Han'er on the city: "Zhao Han'er, we are waiting for the trouble. What we have done is to gain fame and wealth."

Hey, now that a good thing has been accomplished, it seems to be a good harvest. If you are accepted by the imperial court and offer the city to you, the imperial court will reward you as a high-ranking official with a generous salary, honor your ancestors, and grant you a wife and son. You will be able to obtain a lifetime of glory and wealth at your fingertips!"

Zhao Haner was not good at words, so he only said: "Niu Meng, come and see."

Niu Meng heard the words and raised his head to look. Then he saw two old men, three women, and five boys appearing on the top of the city. These ten people, including the little boy who was only four or five years old, all held

A cold weapon.

Zhao Han'er said loudly: "All eleven members of my Zhao family are here, but if one person is alive, he will not let Song Gou enter my Zhenjiang City!"

Zhao Haner's decisive words not only moved Niu Meng, but also moved the soldiers of the Song Army.

In fact, since the battle across the Yangtze River, the officers and soldiers of the Song Army have received too many shocks - shocks from the officers and soldiers of the Huben Army.

Although some of the officers and soldiers of the Huben Army are not very good at fighting, they dare to fight, and many of them are not afraid of death.

There have been countless incidents where officers and soldiers of the Huben Army died heroically.

In the end, even Tong Guan was moved.

Tong Guan sent people to capture a man who dared to die and asked him why he was so desperate?

The man said: "Here, in my home, outsiders come into my home, kill my family, destroy my farmland, suck my anointed blood, want to make me a slave again, and take possession of my wife and daughter. How can I let them get their wish?!"

After saying that, the man suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Tong Guan, even trying to hit Tong Guan with his head.

Seeing this, Tong Guan's bodyguard drew out his sword and stabbed the man to death.

Before that man died, he still had no fear at all, only hatred that had not been deleted at all. He looked at the Song generals and gritted their teeth: "Don't be complacent, my chief governor will definitely kill you and others to avenge me!"

At that moment, no one noticed that Tong Guan's old face showed unprecedented solemnity.

Niu Meng, who failed to recruit Zhao Han'er, knew that if he continued like this, he would be completely outcast. He would definitely not be able to share any glory and wealth. Moreover, he let the Song army pass the Yangtze River, which ruined Li Cun's plan.

There is definitely no turning back.

Therefore, Niu Meng became fierce and asked Liu Yanqing to lead people to attack Zhenjiang City.

Liu Yanqing highly praised Niu Meng's awareness of current affairs and agreed with Niu Meng to lead his troops to attack the city. He even sent catapults and various siege equipment to help Niu Meng attack the city.

But after the fight started, Niu Meng discovered that except for his battalion of personal guards, none of his men had any fighting spirit at all, which was incomparable to what they had been in the Huben Army before.

As a last resort, Niu Meng could only draw out a hundred troops to oversee the battle, and he would kill anyone who did not try his best to attack the city.

Under the threat of the butcher's knife, Niu Meng's tribe began to attack the city with all their strength.

Niu Meng was very hardworking and even personally led his guard battalion to rush to the city wall.

But because the Niu Meng tribe was too small in number, they were easily repelled by the Zhenjiang City defenders in the end.

Seeing this, Liu Yanqing knew that it was impossible to capture Zhenjiang City with Niu Meng's troops alone, so he sent tens of thousands of troops to join Niu Meng's troops in taking turns to launch a large-scale group attack on Zhenjiang City.

The Song army first attacked the west side of Zhenjiang City. They used the chariots and wooden curtains as cover to move to the bottom of the city, set up ladders and swarmed into the city.

Zhao Han'er commanded the officers and soldiers of the Huben Army to use bumping poles to push down the ladders, and then threw huge rocks from the city to destroy the chariots.

The Song army pushed in another giant battle tower.

The war building is tied with cowhide outside and has a climbing frame inside. Its height is almost the same as the top of Zhenjiang City.

The Song army pushed the war tower against the city wall and jumped directly from the top of the war tower to the top of Zhenjiang City.

Zhao Han'er sent men who dared to die, opened the door and left the city with swords and guns, slashed the Song army with spears and swords, and burned down the war towers.

Liu Yanqing saw that the attack on the west city wall was difficult to succeed, so he ordered Liu Zhen to lead 20,000 elite Western troops to attack the other two walls of Zhenjiang City.

The soldiers of the Western Army wore two layers of armor and braved arrows and stones to climb the city regardless of life or death.

Zhao Han'er ignored the Song army's arrows and ran back and forth on the city, covering the left and right while the governor fought to the death.

The two sides fought bloody battles for three days. The Song army attacked Zhenjiang City countless times, but was defeated by the Tiger Army.
To be continued...