Chapter 174: The Destruction of the Red Guards (3)
With the entry of Chidi into Modu and the fall of the country, this ancient city with a history of nearly 600 years was officially abandoned. But who would have thought that after Duke Wei Wen was restored, Wei Guo would become the last prince to be destroyed by Great Qin.
The members of the office hurried to the river among the refugees, and by this time people could already see the battle flags and camps of the Song army on the other side. At this time, Chidi's vanguard was less than thirty miles away from the fleeers, and Ning Zhuangzi recruited a death squad to prepare for the final resistance; The reinforcements on the other side sent ships to meet the defenders.
Chidi's vanguard galloped forward, but was ambushed by the guards. The enemy lost some men and had to turn around and flee. The enemy escaped from the encirclement, and the commander looked up and saw that the vast land on the left side was unobstructed, and there was not a single enemy. He immediately led the army around to the left and made a small circle to attack the refugee ranks.
The attack caused great panic, and the people scrambled to get to the boats, and many of the boats were overturned, and the people on board were planted in the river, and the people who knew and those who could not swim, the brave and the cowardly, were all mixed together and drowned. There were also a large number of people who rushed into the river as if they had committed suicide, and whose souls had been snatched away, and who had drowned or frozen to death in the river in order to escape Chidi's iron hooves.
Seeing this chaos, the Song people hurriedly drove their boats out of this hellish water. The departure of the rescuers made the guards completely desperate, but at this time, Ning Zhuangzi rushed back with the death squad panting. The already crazy patriots once again inflicted no small amount of damage on Chidi; By this time the sun had set, and Chidi, fearing a larger counterattack, turned his horse and retreated.
The remnants of the guards crossed the Yellow River at nightfall, and Song Huan personally greeted the dead on the south bank. When the sun rose the next day, the Chidi army drove to the shore; Those who did not have time to cross the river either fled along the river or were killed or captured.
At this time, it was raining cold winter rain. Heaven weeps, rivers whimper; Human sorrow is nothing by comparison.
The two armies faced each other across the river for several days, and neither side had any intention of taking the initiative to attack. Qi Shi soon arrived, and Qi Shi came after him not because they were lazy, but because Song Shi was acting too fast. Chidi was still quite jealous of the Qi people, they didn't dare to make provocative acts, and they were afraid that the Qi people would take the initiative to attack, so they took the initiative to withdraw their troops.
Shi Qizi counted the survivors: in the end, there were only 730 patriots left alive who reached the south bank! If all men, women, and children were formed into an army, one commander could command the whole army! This number touched everyone. Fortunately, there are still some cities in Henan, and there are more than 100,000 people together.
Wei Ren set up Zhaobo's son as the king in Caoyi, and this person was Wei Daigong.
After Wei Xuangong killed the crown prince, the doctors and the people of the country have always been dissatisfied with the ruler. Prince Ji has two half-brothers, one is Qianmu and the other is Zhaobo. After Wei Xuangong's death, the doctors hated Wei Huigong and missed the prince, so they created the incident of expelling Wei Huigong and changing it to Qianmu.
Later, Wei Huigong was restored with the help of Qi Xiang Gongwei, and sat firmly until death. After Duke Yi inherited the throne, the situation in the country was in turmoil, and the sons of Zhaobo fled to the state of Qi. With the death of Wei Yigong in battle, the Weiguo people finally got rid of the rule of Wei Huigong's party. The doctors hoped to find a monarch among the descendants of Zhaobo, so they abolished the crown prince of Wei Yigong and established Wei Daigong as the monarch.
However, Wei Daigong died two months later due to excessive grief. The people of Qi destroyed Dai Gong's younger brother to Caoyi, and the people of the country set up Gongsun Rui as the king, and Gongsun Rui was the Duke of Wei Wen.
Wei Wengong moved 5,000 people from the two cities of Teng and Gong to Caoyi, so that Wei Guo finally had a new generation of citizens.
Wei Wengong's sister, Mrs. Xu Mu, rushed to Cao Du despite her husband's opposition and brought a lot of property with her. But Xu Mugong's old stubborn letter said that if his wife insisted on staying in Weiguo, he would not go back.
Mrs. Xu Mu said goodbye to her brothers and doctors, and composed a song "Ride" to express her attachment to her homeland and her dislike for the people of Xu Guo. This poem is now included in the Book of Songs? The Wind.
The Duke of Qi Huan sent his son Wu Wu (Meng Wu) to lead 3,000 soldiers and 300 chariots to defend Caoyi, and the people of Qi sent 300 cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and chickens. Wei Wengong gathered all the remaining chariots of the country and finally made up thirty times. These were all the things he had when he returned to China.
Wei Wengong was a wise and diligent monarch, who appointed the wise, encouraged farming, taught and persuaded learning, and benefited workers through trade. In the great cause of building a new nation, he was often seen dressed in the same coarse cloth as ordinary people, doing the same work as the laborers, and eating the same simple working meals as the workers. Duke Wei Wengong reigned for a total of twenty-five years, and by the time of his death, Wei Guo already had three hundred chariots.
Wei Wengong has created a miracle. What is the concept of 300 times? In the third year after the death of Duke Wei Wen, the Jin army defeated the Chu army at Chengpu and became the overlord of China; The total number of chariots owned by the Jin State at that time was seven hundred times.
It is easy to make a chariot, but each chariot needs to be equipped with three armor soldiers, four war horses, seventy-five infantry, and a corresponding number of weapons and armor, and the corresponding baggage and miscellaneous labor are required. The levy of the above military endowments requires a large amount of population and land; Overall, it's a huge project.
Chidi's thunder tactics also scared Zheng Guoren a lot. Zheng Wengong ordered the doctor Gao Ke to take a team to Qingyi on the south bank of the Yellow River to garrison an important ferry port.
Soon, the danger was gone, and the Chidi army had moved away from the Yellow River, but Zheng Wengong still did not call the army back, and the officers and non-commissioned officers wandered around boredly, killing time by wielding guns and sticks. Over time, the morale of the army began to waver; The soldiers talked about the story of Qi Xianggong banishing Lian Cheng and Guan Zhi's father to the border of Kwai Qiu, and they all felt that they were dragged down by Gao Ke, and they didn't want to be used by Zheng Wengong anymore, so they mutinied and fled back to China.
Gao Ke did not dare to return to China to resume his life, so he fled to the state of Chen. It turned out that Gao Ke was a little crooked, and he competed with Zheng Wengong everywhere for the limelight; He also wrote an obscene poem to allude to Zheng Wengong's stupidity and ignorance. Zheng Wengong was exposed by him, so he was particularly disgusted with Gao Ke, and wanted to get rid of him but couldn't find a handle, so he played such a bad trick to force him away. Later, Zheng Guoren composed a poem "Qing People" to satirize this pair of unreliable monarchs and ministers.