Winter has arrived, and heavy snow has fallen one after another north of the Yellow River.
In Wozhou City, an atmosphere of post-war strife is shrouding the place.
This is a city close to the front line on the northern edge of King Jin's territory. Ever since the Jurchens showed signs of heading south, the city defenses have been gradually reinforced in the past two or three months. During the preparations for the war, the female prime minister Shu Shu, who was under one person in King Jin's territory,
Wan has also visited Vaud canton twice. Now that the war has broken out, wounded soldiers who retreated from the front line and thousands of refugees have gathered here. In a short period of time, the situation near Vaud canton has become extremely chilling and terrifying.
Extremely chaotic.
There was once a petty official named Mu Yi who went on a rampage in the city because his family was murdered. In this current situation, not many people remember him.
Crossing Wozhou City to the north, the line from the ruins of Taiyuan to Yanmen Pass was once the battlefield where the Jurchens fought the most fiercely after they went south. Over the past ten years, the population has dropped sharply and the people are in dire straits. A leader named Wang Juyun came here with a similar approach.
In the past, the purpose of Manichaeism gathered the residents to oppose the Jurchens and equalize the rich and the poor. After overthrowing the remaining wealthy households, millions of righteous teachers were gathered. In the mouths of the Puppet Qi and Jurchens, they were called "rebellious teachers"
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Li Xizhi, together with the garrison near Yanmen Pass, launched two campaigns to exterminate the rebellious division. However, both times they failed, the elites under the "rebellion division" were brainwashed by religion. They chanted the divine cry and were not afraid of life and death, and they continued to fight one after another. But Wang Juyun
They used their troops well and made surprise attacks on the opponent's logistics during the two campaigns. Li Xizhi and others failed to destroy them, but instead lost a lot of supplies to the enemy. Later, the campaign was stopped.
This time when the Jurchen East Route Army went south, it was Wang Juyun's team of volunteers who bore the brunt. Later, Tian Shi in the south spread the word to the world, and in response, millions of troops came one after another, turning the north of Taiyuan into a shura.
Killing scene.
In just over a month, four major battles broke out in the Jedi from Yanmen Pass to the ruins of Taiyuan. Wanyan Zonghan, the Jurchen Army's divine soldier, marched like a mountain. With the assistance of Xi Yin, he commanded the Jin Kingdom's fierce general Yin Shuke.
, Shu Liesu, Ba Lisu, Wanyan Saba and others first defeated Wang Juyun's two invasions, and then defeated the vanguard of the Jin King's invasion. Soon after, they defeated the combined armies of Wang Juyun and Tian Shi.
Under Taiyuan City, which had been burned to rubble years ago, the blood and corpses of Han people once again covered the wilderness.
However, even after four major defeats, Wang Juyun's righteous army and Tian Shi's power of the Jin Dynasty still did not collapse. After several battles, a large number of wounded and broken troops gathered towards Wozhou and other places, to the north
The refugees who fled to the south also evacuated to the south. Waud and other places did not refuse the arrival of these people. In the chaotic situation, the government treated the wounded and arranged for the deserters to rejoin the army. Even those skinny refugees who evacuated to the south were equally prepared.
After getting at least enough free rice porridge to survive, they arranged for them to continue traveling south.
In the more than ten years since the Jurchens came south, the Han people have struggled to survive. No one has seen such selfless acts of righteousness for many years. In a short period of time, countless people were inspired by the righteous acts of King Jin. Some skinny people
They took up arms with tears in their eyes - they had already had enough of this inhumane life, and were unwilling to continue going south to suffer. With this kind of weather and this kind of world, even if people continue to have trouble escaping, what is waiting for them is probably just a road.
A dead end, or a torture more difficult than death, it is better to throw your life here and die together with the Jurchens. Feeling this atmosphere, some of the defeated soldiers who fled also picked up their swords and guns again and joined the original
in the team...
In war, there are scenes like this that bring tears to the eyes, but of course there are also all kinds of cowardice and despicability, terror and cruelty.
Within the Jin Dynasty, the high pressure and purges launched by Lou Shuwan are still going on with the cooperation of the Zhuji forces led by Zhan Wu. In every city from south to north, most of those suspected of surrendering to the enemy have been rounded up.
One day, there were house raids and beheadings taking place.
Naturally, spies and lobbyists sent by Wanyan Xiyin were also active in this process, and there were also more than one unjust, false, and wrongful cases. If it were a normal regime, such a cleanup would be enough to shake the foundation of the entire regime. However, in the face of a complete
With a formidable enemy like Yan Zonghan and no reinforcements behind him, only this kind of ruthless high pressure can ensure the progress of the frontline battle.
Some soldiers were unwilling to fight anymore and fled into the mountains. At the same time, there were also people who were greedy for life or wanted to take advantage of the troubled times to gain wealth and wealth. They were waiting for the arrival of the Jurchen "King Banner" in the chaotic situation. Near Wozhou
, this situation is particularly serious.
In the mountains and forests north of Wo Prefecture, in more than a month, five or six groups of bandits gathered together to declare their surrender to the Jurchens and wait for the arrival of the king's master. Their momentum varied, but they took advantage of the chaos.
Here, these people looted homes, destroyed villages and burned forests. Some people even intercepted and killed the defeated soldiers fleeing south on the road. They blocked the road and threatened small groups of defeated soldiers to join. If they did not agree, they would be killed immediately, and their bodies were stripped and hung.
On the flagpole, there was also a team that intercepted and killed the Jin King's army baggage coming from the south on the road. After the failure, they destroyed the road and even threatened to sneak into Wozhou City and kill people at will. When the Jurchens came, they opened the city gate for them, which made people nearby
Panic.
The heavy snow had stopped that day, and smoke pillars rose from a village dozens of miles east of Waud. A team of bandits had already looted the place. The team consisted of about five to six hundred people.
The words "Dajin Wo Prefecture Zhenfu Army" were written nondescriptly on the banner raised. After the village was looted, all the strong men in the village were massacred, and most of the women were raped and then arrested and taken away.
The leaving team formed a long queue. The man at the front was a tall man on a horse, wearing strong armor and carrying a long sword. He had a woman tied to the horse and was struggling. As the man rode forward, he waved to her.
After giving the woman a few slaps, she no longer dared to resist. He laughed, feeling very proud.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The leader of this man is named Wang Gan. He was previously a bandit tyrant who gathered near Wozhou. His martial arts are powerful and he has a high self-esteem.
After the Jurchens came, he was recruited privately, and he wanted to repay the favor and earn some fame. During these days, he looted all around, and even followed the plan of the Jurchen envoys who went south to the city of Wozhou.
He released all kinds of false news and made people panic. At this time, he also carried out massacres of villages, killing young people and leaving behind the elderly and children, which continued to cause panic and burden to Wozhou City.
When the Jurchens went south, the combination of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin was considered invincible in the world. In a head-on battle, no one thought they could win. With this understanding, whether it was Wang Juyun, Tian Shi, or Yu Yulin, they were thinking
What I think about is not to defeat the enemy on the battlefield at once. Although defeat can be defeated, there is no harm in escaping. As long as the enemy can be harassed to the maximum extent and hold back the army on the east road, the battle situation north of the Yellow River will be achieved.
purpose, and the two Jurchen armies were eager to go south to attack the Wu Dynasty. Even if all the altars and pots in the King of Jin's territory were destroyed and they withdrew their people into the mountains, Zong Han and Xi Yin would not have the leisure to come.
Kill them all.
Even if we gather all the power of the world and defeat the Jurchens, as long as the world still belongs to the Han people, there will definitely be a position for the King of Jin north of the Yellow River. Even with the passage of time, with such a reputation in the future, it is not impossible to aspire to the world.
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It was also because of such psychological preparation that several major defeats on the front battlefield failed to completely break down the command system of the two groups of armies. Wang Juyun continued to gather the defeated troops after the defeat, and the King of Jin's side was already prepared for defeat.
Then preparations for the war. However, in such a situation, the control of these chaotic areas became slow. Wang Gan committed crimes several times, and in this world after the snow, he focused on the city and the garrison forces around the city.
, were unable to rescue the surrounding areas in time.
It was the same this time. The team that slaughtered the village quickly left along the path with the looted materials and women, and returned to the mountains. Wang Gan was in high spirits, boasting to his deputies about their achievements this time and their future wealth.
The woman kneaded it casually in her clothes. Although the north of Wozhou was the battlefield where real armies were fighting, at the moment, he had no fear of being intercepted by the army near Wozhou, because the Jurchen envoy from the south had already
It was confirmed to him that if Tian Shi rebelled against the Jin, he would be dead. Even if the female prime minister sitting in the court was ruthless and ruthless and killed countless people, the spies who would choose to secretly report to the Jin would still be killed.
As we were walking through a mountain bend with such arrogance, a "big boulder" lying quietly in the snow beside the mountain road suddenly lifted up. An iron rod danced under the "boulder" and roared into the air. A man walking next to the team was
The soldier showed no reaction. It was as if someone had suddenly dragged him by the neck and raised half of his body, with blood and flesh flying into the sky.
"I...fuck-"
The "boulder" was originally a disguise. The place it was raised was no more than ten feet away from Wang Gan. There were only two soldiers in the middle. Wang Gan was the first to react to the sudden movement in the white snow on the mountain. He shouted
, pulled the reins suddenly, and immediately swung his sword. Another soldier on the side had already lazily hit the front with his stick, hitting the buttocks of a deputy walking in front. The figure's fierce running fingers crossed a distance of more than ten feet.
Wang Gan felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up as he swung the sword. He turned sideways in a hurry, and the whistling shadow of the stick passed by his forehead, hitting the back of the horse's head with a loud bang, as if it was broken.
A stone drum was thrown, and then the war horse was knocked out with a bang.
The fall of the war horse was like a landslide, and it hit the two soldiers on the other side at the same time. Wang Gan followed the war horse and rolled to the ground. He rolled awkwardly defensively, only to feel something flying over his head -
- That was the woman on the horseback who was thrown away - Wang Gan rolled up from the ground and got up. He shoveled the snow with one hand and threw it back. His body was already running towards the rear team he was facing at this time.
Shouting: "Stop him! Kill him, kill him -"
The figure who was running and chasing was also very fast, almost drawing a small circle with the tumbling corpse of the war horse. The snow on the ground was splashed by his steps. The one behind had not yet fallen, but it had exploded in front, like a flower.
A blooming lotus. Behind the queue is an infantry formation of six or seven people. One row after another, there is a forest of spears. Wang Gan yells and rushes over there. The assassins chase after him. Faced with the forest of spears, Wang Gan turns around.
Retreating inside, what is approaching from the front are eyes as fierce as fire.
The assassination came suddenly, like a tsunami and landslide. He had no time to measure the opponent's martial arts skills. He only defended himself with a round shield and a long knife in one hand. The soldiers at the rear had also reacted, and spears shot out from his body like a forest.
Stabbing the side, the iron rod in the running assassin's hand flew, driving the snow to roar around, like a huge tornado. Most of the more than ten spears were not made of iron. When they touched the shadow of the rod,
It swung around with a clatter, and several gun barrels of white wax rods flew in the sky.
It was too late, but soon, the figure was approaching, and the iron bar came up with a bang, hitting Wang Gan's long sword and buckler, and at the same time pushing him to the soldiers behind.
"Roar--"
Following the violent impact, the man who rushed up shouted loudly. Wang Gan's body couldn't stop stepping backwards. The more than ten people behind him couldn't hold their bodies in a hurry. Some people staggered away, and some rolled over.
Falling to the ground, Wang Gan flew back several steps. The iron rod was retracted and the shadow of the rod whizzed across. He blocked it with his round shield and his arms were numb from the shock. The dancing shadow of the rod came from the other side.
It hit him hard on the shoulder, and then Kuangwu's attack swallowed him up.
At this time, just the front line of the team passed the bend, and the people behind heard the shouts. Before they could react, they saw the human wall in front of the road suddenly being pushed away, and a figure waving an iron rod pushed away in the blink of an eye.
The crowd and General Wang Gan also kept flying back to the hillside while shouting wildly. Some people tried to intercept and some tried to attack from behind. In the chaos of the wildly dancing iron rods, someone suddenly fell to the side, but his head was hit by the iron rod.
The stick was carried over. In just a short moment, the shadow of the stick was swung, and the bang was like a hammer. Wang Gan was pushed through the chaotic crowd and almost flew back eight or nine feet up the hillside. Everyone behind him had been thrown away.
.The shadow of the stick suddenly stopped, crossed the sky, and thrust down towards the rear. With a loud noise, a big rock in the snow cracked, and the iron rod was inserted there. The assassin kept approaching Wang Gan who was in front of him like he was drunk.
, seizing the knife with one hand, pulling open his helmet with the other hand, grabbing the person's head, and pressing the blade forward.
In the thick blood, the human head was cut off with a knife. Wang Gan's body seemed to have no bones. As the armor fell to the ground, thick blood was seeping out from the middle.
"Han'er shouldn't be a slave! You deserve to die!"
The angry voice was forced by internal force and passed through the snowy ridge like thunder. The assassin turned around with the head in hand, and the iron rod stood in the stone beside him. For a while, no one in the hundreds of bandits dared to
Step forward and hear him say: "If you still don't kneel down -"
Naturally, no one would kneel down, but with this loud shout, military bugles suddenly sounded in the nearby forest, followed by the sound of an army marching through the woods. The hundreds of people behind and under Wang Gan's command were no more than a mob.
Seeing the assassin kill the leader in front of hundreds of people, he fled in an uproar.
The assassin pulled out his iron bar and chased him, knocking down the nearby bandits one by one in the snow. He also saw someone in the distance snatching gold and silver and kidnapping the woman who was trying to escape, so he chased him with all his strength. At this time,
A crowd of people fought out of the woods. Some of the bandits knelt down and surrendered, while others threw heavy objects and ran away lifelessly.
When the two or three hundred bandits threw away their weapons and knelt down in the snow, most of the people in the woods had come out. However, they saw that these people totaled no more than thirty, and some of them secretly wanted to escape.
, the man with the stick who rushed out first chased him and beat him until his brains burst. In one moment, more than 30 people tied up nearly 300 prisoners, and rescued a group of captive women. On the mountain road, everyone was begging for help.
and the sound of crying.
The man holding the stick looked at the captured women from a distance, his eyes sad, but he didn't get close. Seeing that most of the prisoners were tied up in a bunch, he looked towards the direction where the bandits were fleeing, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
At that time, a woman in military uniform with a scarred face came over from behind and asked him about the next step. The man with a stick said: "You send the woman back to the village, take the people who are still alive, and take these beasts to Wozhou City.
...I'm going to chase these ones who ran away."
He paused: "The Jurchens have envoys going south, and I want to find them."
This man is naturally Jiu Wenlong Shi Jin who returned to Wozhou. Since he reunited with Lin Chong, and later confirmed that Lin Chong died for delivering a letter, he was disheartened. The only thing he cared about was the death of Lin Chong's son Mu Anping.
Whereabouts. But the only thing he knew about this matter was the name Tan Lu.
After Shi Jin returned to Wo Prefecture, he conducted several investigations and asked for the cooperation of the government, but still could not find out the whereabouts of Tan Lu. At this time, the situation around him gradually became tense, and Shi Jin was anxious, so he summoned the people behind the disintegration of Chifeng Mountain.
For those who were still willing to follow him, although the first priority was still to find the child, seeing the situation becoming chaotic, it was difficult for him to ignore such a disaster.
But with the lessons learned from Chifeng Mountain, what Shi Jin was willing to do was to secretly carry out small assassination operations. Now that Wang Gan was ambushed, Shi Jin did not take much rest and chased towards the woods ahead. His martial arts skills
Having reached the realm of transformation, he now chased behind one of Wang Gan's lieutenants. On the third day, he finally found clues about a messenger sent by the Jurchens.
This was a Han Chinese from Liaodong, who was under the command of Wanyan Xiyin. Shi Jin captured this man and tortured him for a long time, but he didn't get much information. He ruled the world and lived an upright life. Although he was facing the enemy at this time,
After all, he was a little disgusted with this kind of beating and interrogation, and the endless torture. In the middle of the night, the spy committed suicide and died. Shi Jin sighed, dug a hole and buried the man's body.
Returning to Wo Prefecture the next day, a righteous man killed Wang Gan and saved the villagers, and the story of capturing the bandits had spread in the city. Shi Jin did not want to be famous, so he silently returned to the inn where he stayed.
An unexpected news, someone claimed to know the whereabouts of Mu Yi's son and hoped to meet him.
He also knew this person: Lin Zongwu, the leader of the Great Light Sect.