I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

Chapter 74

three days later.

On the second day after the family members evacuated from Qingfeng Mansion, Wei Tu heard the news that 13 members of the Li family had stood in cages at Caishikou, Qingshan County, and died while they were in the mansion.

Wei Tu regretted this news, and at the same time wrote down the ups and downs of the Li family for more than a hundred years, and sent someone to give it to his children——Wei Yan and Wei Xiuwen.

Let the two learn from each other.

More than a hundred years ago, the Li family made their fortune from traveling merchants, gradually accumulating foundations, and thus achieved the prosperity of the past, but only because of the recklessness of Li Xingye, an unscrupulous descendant, all of this great foundation has been wiped out, and generations of generations have lost their fortune. Once the efforts are exhausted, it is almost extinct.

This is a good negative teaching material.

Wei Tu didn't want his descendants to have people like Li Xingye appear - even though he knew that such a situation was unavoidable, and it was not a lie to be rich for only three generations, but as long as the second generation of Wei's descendants did not have such scum, he would be satisfied.

Sent someone to send a letter to Xiaoyi Mansion's family, and there was a reply soon.

Wei Yan, who was sixteen, replied: "Remember your father's teachings and stick to your family business."

Regarding the content of Wei Yan's reply, Wei Tu had already expected that under Xing Hua's guidance, this eldest daughter became a serious lady, and her words and deeds were extremely well-bred.

After collecting Wei Yan's letter, Wei Tu opened the letter from Wei Xiuwen, the Erlang 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 because he is an anti-king aide, but because he doesn't know how to deal with things meticulously. My son should abide by his father's teachings, act carefully, and avoid future troubles."

Seeing this, Wei Tu frowned secretly, his face was full of worry, not appreciation for Wei Xiuwen's reply.

After all, Li Xingye was born as a scholar, so he didn't understand the disadvantages of acting indiscreetly, but he still had such consequences.

He guessed that this was not done intentionally by Li Xingye, but because of his "high vision but low power", he was not down-to-earth in his conduct and work.

Wei Xiuwen's reply to the letter like this made Weitu feel that he had the hope of becoming the second "Li Xingye" and bringing disaster to the family.

With this in mind, Wei Tu wrote a letter again, and wrote several pages of warning letters to Wei Xiuwen, admonishing him not to be too ambitious, but to be down-to-earth and take one step at a time.

However, this time, after six or seven days passed, Weitu still did not receive a reply to the letter sent by Wei Tu.

See here.

Wei Tu, who had been a military officer for a long time, instantly understood that this was the communication channel of Fucheng, which had been cut off by the rebels, which led to Wei Xiuwen's reply, which he had not received for a long time.

……

Things did not go as Wei Tu expected.

The next day, as the "Ximen garrison" of Qingfeng Prefecture, he received an urgent military order to defend the city.

The governor's mansion issued a military order: order him to prepare to roll trees and rocks, mobilize civilians, guard the west gate, and never let a rebel enter the city.

At the same time, the governor's mansion also parachuted a fifth-rank military officer as the chief officer guarding the west gate.

And he, as the lieutenant general, assists in defending the city.

Wei Tu knew this fifth-rank military officer, and he was the "Deng Zhijun" of the Governor's Mansion.

The next morning.

Standing on the top of Ximen City, Wei Tu could see the rebels of Guangyuan Mansion densely packed with banners of various colors five miles away.

He fixed his eyes and saw that the word "green" was rusted on the flag of the former army, and he immediately understood that the leader of the rebel army who attacked the west gate of Fucheng this time should be the 32nd anti-king——the Qinghu king Lin Quancheng.

After looking at the main flag, Wei Tu saw a yellow sub-flag with "Ming" embroidered on it.

"King of Mingzhou?"

Wei Tu narrowed his eyes.

He remembered that Li Xingye took refuge in King Mingzhou and became his staff.

This time King Mingzhou teamed up with King Qinghu to attack the west gate of Fucheng. He intuitively felt that there might be Li Xingye's factor in this.

Otherwise, in the 32nd road against the king, why did it happen that the king of Mingzhou came to Ximen.

"Can understand the semaphore to command the soldiers under his command, it seems...the anti-kings in Guangyuan Mansion have really become popular..."

Standing on the city, Wei Tu saw the two groups of anti-king soldiers and horses following the command of the command flag soldiers and began to slowly form their formations, and this idea came to his mind.

After a while, Wei Tu entered the camp, and began to discuss with Deng Zhijun the specific matters of defending the city according to the formation of the anti-king rebels, and divided the defending areas of the military officers at all levels...

Deng Zhijun did not "bully", he readily accepted Wei Tu's arrangement, and praised Wei Tu with a sentence of "a martial arts strategy".

from noon to noon.

The west gate of Fucheng ushered in the first tentative siege of the anti-king rebels.

Under Wei Tu's arrangement, after the anti-king rebels threw hundreds of corpses, they left in a hurry without even touching the edge of the city wall.

"The rebel army is a rebel army, it is not worth mentioning, it is far inferior to the elite of the official army."

Seeing Dasheng, Deng Zhijun laughed loudly, and said to the military officers in the camp.

When the military officers heard the words, the fear of fighting in their hearts was instantly swept away, and they despised and ignored the rebels in Guangyuan Mansion.

Zheng Guocheng has been in peace for hundreds of years. Although there are occasional small thieves rebelling in the local area, such rebels who blatantly besieged the city are still rare, and it is rare to encounter a case in decades.

Hearing this, Wei Tu, who was in the second seat, had a smile on his face like all the military officers, but he couldn't help feeling some hidden worries in his heart.

Half a month ago, he and Fu Zhizhou had deduced that in this war between the government and the anti-king, the key to victory was not the two armies, but the duel between the Immortal Family and the innate martial master behind it.

Therefore, whether these military officers can hold the city in the subsequent war has little effect on the key to victory.

……

The next day.

The anti-king rebels attacked again.

Unlike the previous tentative attack, this time the anti-king rebels prepared siege equipment such as ladders, well rails, and siege vehicles.

The attack was orderly, and the officers and soldiers were almost overwhelmed with just a few charges, and were almost taken over by the rebels at the head of the city.

The counterattack killed the anti-king rebels who attacked the city. It was not someone else, but Wei Tu who hid behind the guard camp and took time to shoot cold arrows from time to time.

Each of his arrows was aimed at the little leader who commanded the elite anti-king vanguards, and almost every time the string was shot or the arrow fell, one person could be killed.

Without the command of the leader, the already loosely disciplined anti-king rebel army has no support, how can they survive the counterattack of the official army.

"Don't make it public, just kill a few people and keep Ximen intact."

After shooting seven or eight people, Wei Tu stopped his hand. He pretended that his right hand was disabled. After wrapping white gauze to stop the bleeding, he retreated and hid in the barracks.

He still remembers the scene when he was ordered by County Captain Xu to shoot and kill "Xie Qing" because he showed his ability as a sharpshooter during the battle in Siyang Town, and almost died.

at this point.

You can't help it.

"Responsiveness, Qingfeng Mansion is not Guangyuan Mansion, this is the capital of Shannan Road, the court will never tolerate it being captured by rebels!"

"There must be a congenital martial artist to save the field and confront the forces behind the anti-king rebel army."

(End of this chapter)