Chapter 717 Flowers bloom on the other side of the river (2)
When the darkness reaches its deepest level, the memories and emotions of the past surge in like a dam, bringing with it an oppressive touch that makes one unable to breathe.
Summer, hot image, the pond is dotted with lotuses.
In the autumn of the third year of Wu and Jianshuo, as a prelude to the defeat of the 200,000-strong army of the puppet Qi Ji Wenkang by the Chinese Black Flag Army, the combined armies of the Jin Kingdom and the puppet Qi launched a campaign against Luliang, Xiaocanghe, Yanzhou and other places for three consecutive years.
The long siege.
The war in the northwest has never stopped since then.
As the Jurchens' southern expedition had not yet ended, the initial offensive was basically led by the Liu Yu regime. Under the supervision of the Jurchen regime, the second round of attacks and blockades was quickly organized, with 200,000 people
After the defeat, an army of up to 600,000 troops marched step by step towards the border of Luliang.
This time, although they were nominally under Liu Yu's account, they were actually surrendering to the Jurchen. Tian Hu, Cao Xingnong, Lu Zheng and other powerful forces also sent troops accordingly. At the end of autumn, a large number of troops were pushed forward in a mighty manner under the supervision of the Jin people.
Going to Luliang, the northwest and other places, as the first wave of armies advanced, reinforcements were still gathering in various parts of the Central Plains to kill. In the northwest, under the initiative of the Jurchen generals, the Zhejia began to dispatch, and the rest were like Yan Zhenguo.
The surrender forces that had failed in the earlier expedition to the northwest also took advantage of this huge momentum to participate.
This mighty army was as powerful as heaven's punishment. Although the Central Plains was in the hands of the Jurchens at this time, there were still several resistance forces in the northwest. However, they either understood that the Jurchens were serious about revenge for Wanyan Lou's family, or they were taboo.
The Huaxia Army was a regicide and rebel. The only ones who really resisted under this mighty force were the Huaxia Army and the Zhong Family Army, which were less than 100,000 troops.
In the northwest, the Zhongjia army occupied the city to defend it, while in the mountains of Luliang, Xiaocanghe and other places, the Chinese army launched a fierce offensive against hundreds of thousands of troops.
Based on the steep mountains and complex terrain in these places, the Chinese army adopted flexible and changeable offensives, including ambushes, traps, hot air balloons flying in the sky, artillery arrays carefully arranged according to the terrain... Winter had not yet arrived.
, hundreds of thousands of troops entered the mountains in batches, and were often attacked head-on by the Black Flag Army. The Puppet Qi troops were blasted off the mountain road by fierce artillery arrays. The Black Flag Army rushed up the ridge and pushed down the kerosene, haystacks, hillsides, and valleys.
The huge crowds of people were pushing and running, and large areas were burned and scorched as the fire spread.
Violent fire attacks, night attacks, especially when the mountain road was difficult to travel, and fierce attacks on the troops entering the mountains for food and grass. In the first more than a month, tens of thousands of people died in the mountains almost like a funeral.
It was so tragic that it was impossible to look directly at it.
Although the Han troops participating in the attack at this time were all Han troops, the Black Flag Army did not show mercy and they could not show mercy. The Han troops were meaningless to the Jurchens. The Liu Yu regime continued to recruit troops in the Central Plains, and a small number of Jurchen troops
Guarding the rear of the mountainous area, supervising the advance of the troops entering the mountain, and due to the initial head-on attack, the expeditionary troops entering the mountain began a more steady way of advancement. They dug roads, cut down trees one mountain after another, and attacked one by ten.
Under such circumstances, stick together strictly and advance slowly.
In the spring of the fourth year of Jianshuo, the puppet Qi army first entered the outskirts of Qingmuzhai, and the attack and defense around Qingmuzhai began. In the autumn of this year, with the increase of Jurchen reinforcements, the attacking army approached the Xiaocang River. By winter, the attack on Qingmuzhai was completed.
The siege and division of Qingmuzhai and Xiaocang River. As for the several cities controlled by the Zhongjia Army in the northwest, they have been reduced to a bloody battlefield. The Zhongjia Army has successively lost control of Qingzhou, Baoan Army, Huanzhou and other places, leaving only Yanzhou.
One place, struggling to support itself.
This year, the progress of the Jin-Qi coalition forces was turned into battle reports, which may be simple. However, during the advancement of the Jin army and the puppet Qi army, the resistance displayed by the Chinese army was astonishing, even appalling. In Qingmuzhai
, in the mountains near Xiaocang River, the attacking army advanced almost every inch of land and blood. During the advance, the main general was even killed, and the camp was attacked and bombed late at night, resulting in several large-scale routs. The Puppet Qi's
The army was mostly a mob. If it weren't for the Jurchen army who stayed behind to supervise and kill tens of thousands of deserters one after another, leaving their heads on the ground to build a long stretch of forest, this war would probably have been impossible to start.
In March of the fourth year, before the flames of war surrounded Qingmuzhai, the puppet Qi forces were advancing inch by inch. The Chinese army suddenly protruded out of the Xiaocang River and made a surprise attack at Shalangling in the northwest to defeat Yan Zhenguo.
They defeated the Zhe family's army at the same time, and killed Zhe Kexu, who fled for more than thirty miles. Several nephews of the Zhe family were killed by the black flag army in this battle.
In June, a special team of about a thousand people sneaked north into the Kingdom of Jin and broke into Zhongling of Shuozhou. These more than a thousand people captured the county seat, conquered a nearby horse farm guarded by Jin soldiers, and robbed hundreds of war horses.
After lighting the fire, they marched away. When the Jurchen army arrived, the racecourse and the county government office had been burned to the ground in the raging fire. All the Jurchen officials were beheaded at the top of the city and their heads hung in public display.
The troops left large Jurchen characters on the boulders on the mountain road back to Luliang: Do not expect to survive.
No need to think about coming back alive.
This is so fierce that no one has imagined. For several years, the Jurchens have swept across the world without encountering an opponent. During the army's attack on Xiaocanghe and the northwest, although there was supervision from the Jurchen army, when it came to the Jurchen country, they were still
After digesting the results of the third march south, he was still like a lazy snake at this time. No one was willing to face the full deployment of the Jurchen army, but the Black Flag Army actually took action like this, giving the opponent a hard blow.
Such an attack would not cause any pain to the Jurchens, but the loss of face was something they had not felt for a long time.
Following this action, more Jurchen troops began to move south one after another.
However, facing the fierce artillery attack of the Black Flag Army, the Jurchen troops at this time still did not come forward to the front line. They only used a large number of Han troops as cannon fodder to test the power of artillery and gunpowder, and gradually sought ways to restrain themselves.
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However, in September, the same army took advantage of an attack by the Black Flag Army to tear open the blockade, rush out of the mountains on the eastern front, and stir up a back and forth between the Jurchen garrison camps. If it were not for the Jurchens guarding the eastern front this time,
General Na Gu survived the attack, and the forward offensive was probably going to be dispersed by this surprise attack. However, with the rapid response of the Jurchen army, these thousand people suffered a fierce pursuit and interception on their way back to Xiaocang River, and suffered heavy losses.
In the spring of the fifth year of Jianshuo, the Jurchen generals led 30,000 Jurchen troops to the south and northwest without missing a word. They stepped on the monument of "Don't hope to survive" and led 30,000 troops into the Central Plains at a high speed. In February, after hearing the news, Xiaocanghe
Half of the troops broke out brazenly and began a bloody battle that lasted for nearly a month. They disrupted the besieging troops in the mountains and temporarily opened up the siege. This was a fierce battle after the army advanced step by step.
, during this period, the puppet Qi general Ji Wenkang, Liu Yu's younger brother Liu Yi and other high-level officials were all targeted and killed by the Black Flag Army.
Rivers of blood flowed, and valleys were filled with corpses.
In March, Yanzhou fell. Zhong Lie resisted to the end in Yanzhou City and died in the battle. Since then, there has been no Zhong family army.
In June, with the participation of Shu Liesu troops, Xiaocanghe broke its dam after more than half a year of siege. The troops from Qingmuzhai and Xiaocanghe broke out brazenly, causing chaos in the mountains. Ning Yi led a two-man army
More than 10,000 troops rushed to Yanzhou, and Ci Buhuo led his army to confront him. The Black Flag Army sneaked into Yanzhou City through the secret tunnel previously dug by the Zhong Family Army, and cooperated with the outside to break the city. Jurchen General Ci Buhuo was captured in the chaos.
He was captured and then beheaded at the top of the city by the Black Flag Army.
Qin Shaoqian led another black flag army to go south and east, and entered the Central Plains. After seizing several cities, he broke into the vicinity of Taiyuan. It is said that Qin Shaoqian paid homage to his deceased brother at the foot of Taiyuan City, and soon after, he broke back to the west.
After taking back Yanzhou, the Black Banner Army went straight to the boundary of Zhejia's territory, pretended to attack Fuzhou, surrounded the point to attack the Zhejia reinforcements, and then broke through the city to capture Linzhou. After that, they fought back to the mountains to the east.
Get rid of the ensuing Jurchen Jingqi pursuit...
At this time, the western and northwest areas of the Central Plains, where black flags were flying across the country, had completely turned into a chaotic killing field.
No matter it is in the west, south or north, people are watching this war. They may not have paid much attention to it at the beginning, but at this point, its emergence and progress can no longer be ignored by anyone. In the war,
In the second year after the incident, the Central Plains had mobilized almost all its forces to invest in it. The excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by Liu Yu's regime soared, the Han people fled south, the people were in dire straits, and the uprising troops rose again.
The Jurchens also spent a large number of troops to suppress it. In the direction of the Central Plains towards the Xiaocang River, Liu Yu's army and Tian Hu's army blocked all routes. It was not until Qin Shaoqian led his troops to fight out that the blockade was briefly broken.
No one knows how desperate the people participating in the war are. The Black Flag soldiers captured on the battlefield will be brutally tortured to death. The Han troops who are forced to go to the front line have already lost their courage. Sometimes there are even cowards.
Kneeling in front of the military formation and begging the Black Flag Army to surrender, begging the Black Flag Army to die quickly, they can't see the possibility of the Black Flag Army surviving, so they don't dare to throw themselves into death. The Black Flag Army is also wrong.
They showed mercy.
By the second half of the fifth year of Jianshuo, the Jurchen cannons had gradually begun to be used in the army. The elite Jurchen troops who had mixed into the army would raid the Black Flag Army after the cannons stopped. At this time, the Black Flag Army's
There was not much gunpowder left, but the Jurchens relied on a steady supply and could still have a large amount of gunpowder to squander.
The intelligence sent to the south always seems simple, but every conflict in these mountains may be so tragic that you can't breathe. There are also small-scale confrontations among the large-scale fighting, and small groups of Black Flag troops are besieged.
Some stayed in the mountains until they starved to death, some were ambushed by the army and fought to the last man in the Jedi. People will find black flags still erected among the piles of corpses. In the harshest environment, the most desperate
In the dead place, every charge of the black flag soldiers is terrifying...
How can those who have never experienced it imagine it?
During this time, Jiangnan stabilized the situation and continued to develop. Thanks to the refugees who fled from the north, workshops large and small had sufficient manpower. They had no permanent output and were looking for a full meal.
The merchants in the Jiangnan area had a large amount of low-cost labor. Officials began to sing praises in the court, thinking that it was the cause of their painful experience and a symbol of the rise of the Wu Dynasty. As for the war in the north, no one said anything.
Dare to say it, but no one can say it.
Just like Emperor Jingping, who was imprisoned in the north like a pig or dog, issued annual edicts and praised Emperor Jin, the royal family also continued to block news about the war situation in the northwest. The higher-ups who knew these things could not speak out, and Zhou Pei had no way to talk about it.
She thought that she just received one cruel message about the north, and scolded her brother Junwu for showing his anger and anger. She tried her best to calmly suppress the news that made her heart palpitate.
After suppressing these emotions for a long time, they became a natural reaction, so she was no longer too shocked by the tragic news. Every one of them was tragic anyway. In the calm and prosperous atmosphere of Jiangnan, sometimes she would
Suddenly, she felt that those were all fake. She read them quietly, filed them away quietly... Only at the most relaxing moment when she dreamed back at midnight, the nightmare would suddenly come, making her
Thinking of the mountains of corpses, the rivers of blood, the fluttering flags and the most violent struggles and shouts.
As the Jurchens marched south, tens of millions or even tens of millions of people were unable to resist, but the traitors who angrily killed the king, under the most difficult environment, were firmly nailed to the impossible ground.
Facing the overwhelming attack, he firmly grabbed the throat of the almost invincible enemy and never wavered during the three years of brutal fighting.
In three years, Zhou Pei was able to understand her brother's mood. She could even imagine that after receiving those messages one after another, when Zhong Lie died for his country in Yanzhou, and the Black Flag Army killed him at the top of the city without missing a beat.
, after the news of Qin Shaoqian's rampage in Taiyuan, how would generals like Yue Fei who had dealt with the devil feel.
Not only these high-level officials, but also many scholars who have access to high-level information, the news about the war in the northwest will also be a high-level topic for people to communicate. People talk about these things while cursing the regicide demon.
, there are extremely subtle emotions in her heart. Zhou Pei doesn't understand these in her heart, she just...can't shake them.
In the sixth year of Jianshuo, the war continued, and Jurchen armies came one after another. The war situation in the northwest became increasingly fierce. The people on the land were almost emptied out. The people in the Central Plains were becoming more and more desperate, and the losses of the Black Flag Army were also getting worse.
It's hard for Zhou Pei to know how they managed to sustain themselves on that piece of land. But... maybe he would have more ideas.
After all, the regicide demon... is a truly terrifying demon.
Jiangnan is becoming more and more stable, and she is almost ready to adapt to these things.
When will you fall? She also thought about it, but she couldn't stop thinking about it every time.
On the eighth day of the sixth lunar month in the sixth year of the founding of the Wu Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom and puppet Qi coalition forces besieged the main force of the Black Flag Army at Huangtoupo in the northwest. On the 13th, they killed the leader of the Black Flag Army, Ning Yi, and numerous bandits. The body of Ning Yi was confirmed by the soldiers.
His body was cut into thousands of pieces, and his head was presented northward in front of the throne of the Jin Dynasty emperor.
That was a scene that had never appeared even in her deepest nightmares for many, many years...
That giant rose from a humble beginning. She gradually grew up while watching him. She saw his elegance, his humor, his tenacity, and his ferocity... They
There was no fate. She still remembered the goodbye in the courtyard when she was fifteen, the stars and the wind that night. She thought she suddenly grew up that night. However, she didn't know why, even though they had never met, he always
It will appear in her life and prevent her from looking anywhere else.
She had too many emotions and fantasies in her heart, but she never thought that one day, he would fall.
How is it possible? He killed the emperor. He even killed the emperor. Didn’t he want to save the world...
In the courtyard, the heat is like a prison, and all prosperity and tranquility are like illusions.
Fake...she thought.
In the northwest, the chaotic war is still burning. Not long before, the devil who provoked huge chaos and dragged every place affected into hell, causing every opponent to taste the huge bitter consequences,
It seems... he has finally fallen... (To be continued.)