At the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties when heroes emerged in large numbers, Meng Jiong could only be regarded as an inconspicuous wave. When later generations mention Meng Jiong, the most impressive ones are his three wives in "Suo Tang", Ma Saifei who became a monk with Xie Yingdeng's uncle Xie Hong, and Mrs. Hei and Bai who were robbed as wives by Yuchi Gong.
Of course, Meng Jiong may have had many wives in history, but he certainly did not have these three.
"The whole world is in chaos, but I am the only one who is safe," it should be Meng Jiong who said it. In the eighth year of Daye, Meng Jiong rebelled in Zhouqiao (now southeast of Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province) and occupied Jiyin County. He claimed to be a recorder and had a tribe of 30,000 people.
In the past few years, even when Li Mi was at his peak, he could not make Meng Jiong succumb. Although the world was in chaos, Meng Jiong guarded one-third of an acre of Jiyin County and worked hard to manage it. Jiyin was far more stable than the surrounding areas.
Meng Jiigong should be regarded as a typical person with a small farmer's consciousness, and he is content with being rich. In the past few years, the biggest thing he has done is to build his lair. His lair, Zhouqiao City, has been run by him into a typical oriental-style fortress.
Because Zhouqiao is located in a plain area, there is no terrain defense. Meng Jiigong burned the soil into bricks and raised the city wall to four feet, which was higher than the Luoyang city wall.
Meng Jiong found a famous city builder somewhere and built the entire city into a hexagon. The section of the city wall was a right-angled trapezoid, with an angle of 75 degrees on the outside. An arrow tower was also built at the junction of each side, forming an angle with each other. The city only had four gates on four sides, each with an urn inside, and even a barrier inside the urn.
And Meng Jiong also dug a canal on the periphery, leading directly to Heshui (today's Wanfu River in Shandong) in the north. The entire city is surrounded by canals, with only four pontoons connected to the outside.
A city like this is truly a place that cannot be conquered.
After Huang Mingyuan defeated Li Mi, he sent people to Zhouqiao and asked Meng Haigong to send out his army and Zhouqiao City and surrender to the Sui army.
Perhaps Meng Jiong¡¯s confidence was greatly increased by defeating the encircling and suppressing army several times. Anyway, when the situation returned to the Sui Dynasty, Meng Jiong became so excited that he ordered the killing of the Sui army¡¯s envoys and refused to surrender.
"I have Zhouqiao City and it will never fall!"
Meng Jiong didn¡¯t know that the last person who was so arrogant had his bones rotten.
¡°Perhaps Meng Jiong can also be considered a hero, but his eyes were completely trapped by the small Zhouqiao City, and he became a frog sitting in a well looking at the sky.
Huang Mingyuan has not encountered this kind of provocation for a long time.
So Huang Mingyuan gave an order, and Huang Qing led the main force of Zou Shanwei all the way south along Heshui River, bypassing the cities along the line, and led Zou Shanwei directly towards Zhouqiao.
The Sui army's longest route was to encircle a point for reinforcements. Since Meng Jiugong could not escape, the Sui army aimed directly at his throat and attacked the place where he must save him. At the same time, Li Fengyang and Zhang Wenxun each led an army to attack various counties in Jiyin.
Duke Meng Ji had 30,000 troops, half of whom were in Zhouqiao City.
His eldest uncle, Ma Tong, led a force of 4,000 men in Shanfu (now Shanxian County, Heze City, Shandong Province) and two counties in the west; General Jiang Shan jointly led a force of 3,000 men in Chengshi (now in the urban area of ??Heze City, Shandong Province). His son Mengyi led a force of 5,000 people in Waihuang (now in Minquan County, Shangqiu, Henan Province) and commanded two counties to the east; his younger brother Meng Zhigui led a force of 4,000 people in Jiujun, Jiyin County to govern Jiyin County ( Sixty miles northwest of today's Cao County, Shandong Province), covering three counties in the central part of the country.
It can be said that Meng Jiong basically gave all his territory to his relatives and confidants, and only looked after Zhou Qiao.
Huang Qing led the main force and more than 20,000 people from Xu Yuanlang's tribe to surround Zhouqiao City. Meng Jiigong did not engage in field battles, but put up a full posture to defend.
He has 15,000 elite soldiers, and there is enough food in the city to last for five years, which he can afford to use with the Sui army.
Although Huang Qing has been away from Fengzhou for a long time, he was often by Huang Mingyuan's side and was familiar with the hexagonal pyramid castle designed by Huang Mingyuan.
Today, Huang Qing arrived at the foot of Zhouqiao City and took a closer look. This city was just a replica of the Fengzhou Hexagonal Pyramid Fort, but it was bigger and had a moat. At this time bxwx.co Zhang Si
Huang Qing was a little surprised. Could it be that there was a spy in Fengzhou.
Huang Qing knew the power of the Hexagonal Pyramid Castle and did not dare to attack the city easily. Instead, he sent another army to take the two counties of Waihuang to the east.
If you want to completely defeat Meng Jiong, you must clean up the surrounding counties and counties.
Of course, Huang Qing is not worried about Meng Hai Guild taking the initiative. In other words, he hopes that the other party will take the initiative so that he can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Li Fengyang and Zhang Wenxun attacked in separate directions, and Li Fengyang's troops were approaching Chengshi. 强牺 bxwx.co 读牺
Li Fengyang was originally worried about Li Yuan's rebellion, and even surrendered military power and imprisoned himself at home. Later Huang Mingyuan made it publicIt is said that the Li family is the Li family and Li Fengyang is Li Fengyang, so Li Fengyang can be saved.
Later, the army in Huang Qing's hands established Zou Shanwei, and Huang Mingyuan appointed him as deputy general manager to show his trust.
At this time, Li Fengyang has been full of energy since he was appointed. The Li family has fallen into ruin. She dare not expect the Li family to be preserved intact, but at least she can leave her bloodline with her own little skill.
Jiang Shanhe, the guard of Chengshi City, was an old subordinate of Meng Jiigong and a confidant. Originally, its guard Chengshi was relatively safe. However, Meng Jiong still used his old feelings to win over his generals, but he didn't know that the general trend was now in the Sui Dynasty and people's minds had changed.
Jiang Shanhe is not a fool. He does not think that Meng Jiong can stop the Sui army with just one county.
Even the famous Li Mi was defeated, let alone Meng Jiong.
Jiang Shanhe had always believed that Meng Jiong's best choice was to surrender Jiyin County to the Sui army in exchange for a way out. Moreover, Meng Jiong had a good reputation. If they followed Meng Jiong and surrendered, they could get riches and honors from the Sui army if they could not survive.
But then Meng Jiigong killed the Sui envoys, completely cutting off the road to surrender.
Jiang Shanhe was greatly disappointed. With Meng Jiong's move, they would inevitably incur massive revenge from the Sui army. As a core figure, the consequences can be imagined.
In the end, Jiang Shanhe decided not to care about the idiot Meng Jiigong and surrendered to the Sui army.
When Li Fengyang's army arrived at Chengshi, Jiang Shanhe opened the door to welcome him and presented him with a list of land and population.
Li Fengyang regained the Cheng family and ordered Jiang Shanhe to lead his troops south with him to attack Jiyin County.
After Jiang Shanhe surrendered, he was very active.
Jiang Shanhe knew very well that after surrendering, there would be no way out, and his past feelings with the Meng family would not count. So he took the initiative to ask for help, pretended to be a defeated soldier, and entered Jiyin County, thinking that he was inside.
Li Fengyang followed.
Jiang Shanhe pretended to be defeated and fled to Meng Zhigui in Jiyin County. He and Meng Zhigui were good friends, and Meng Zhigui had no doubts about their friendship in beheading chickens and worshiping them.
So Jiang Shanhe suddenly rose up, killed Meng Zhigui, and opened the gate of Jiyin City.
The Sui army invaded in large numbers and Jiyin City was destroyed. Zhida z.com Zhixiao
At the same time, Zhang Wenxun defeated Ma Tong in Liangqiu City in the northeast of Chengwu (now in Chengwu County, Shandong Province) and recovered Shanfu and Chengwu counties. At this point, all the strongholds around Zhouqiao City fell, and Zhou Qiaocheng became an isolated city