On March 11th, Wanyan Zongbi led his army to attack Suzhou. Miao Cailiang of Suzhou led ten thousand people to resist for one day and night. Suzhou fell and the city was massacred. Three days later, a fire in Suzhou burned half of the city to the ground.
On March 15th, Yin Shuke led his army to battle in Liaozhou. Huang Kaiqi, the former guard of Liaozhou, led the warriors to attack at night. However, the night attack was seen through by Yin Shuke and the army was defeated. Huang Kaiqi led his bodyguard to charge towards Yin Shuke.
, with dozens of knives in his body, he fought unremittingly and died.
On March 26, Zongfu and Zongbi's armies captured Hejianfu, Shenzhou, Jingzhou, Cangzhou and other places and surrendered.
From the 15th to the 27th, Luozhou, Jizhou, Xiangzhou, Cizhou and other places surrendered one after another.
On March 30, Cangzhou veteran Liu Dingwen led more than 10,000 rebel troops to attack Hejian. After a fierce battle with Zongbi's vanguard army for half a day, the army was defeated and Liu Dingwen was killed by a stray arrow. More than 3,000 rebels were captured and suppressed all outside Hejian City.
After killing, a temple was built with the heads, the corpses spread, and the stench is said to have not disappeared for a hundred days.
On the first day of April, the Eight-Character Army Wang Yan and Zong Han's troops fought in Qinzhou, but were defeated and retreated.
On the sixth day of April, Zong Han attacked Pingyang, but failed, so he moved to the east. On the tenth day of the fourth month, Xi Yin led his army to attack Pingyang again, taking advantage of the weakness.
On the eighth day of April, Zongfu fell into Zizhou and forced troops to attack Jinan.
On the 10th day of April, the general of the Central Army, Yin Liduo, attacked Xiangzhou, but failed to defeat it for five days. After that, Zonghan's army came. On the 21st, Xiangzhou fell. Due to the fierce resistance of the people in the city, the Jurchens massacred all the people in the city.
On April 25, Liu Yu, the prefect of Jinan, left the city with a sling and surrendered to Zongfu. After that, he lured the Jurchen army to open the city gate. After the army entered the city, all the generals, officials and their families in the city who were determined to resist, totaling more than 8,000 people,
In the next month, they were massacred.
On April 27, when he went to the East Route Army camp to lobby Zongfu, Zongbi's great Confucian friend Hongxi made an impassioned speech and cursed in front of the tent of two Jurchen princes. After that, Zongbi became furious and killed him with a sword, leaving his body dead.
Throw him out of the military camp. The news that the great Confucian denounced Zongbi became a good talk among the scholars.
On April 29th, the Great Guangming Sect gathered a crowd of 170,000 people. They tried to encircle and annihilate Yin Shuke's vanguard army in the southern suburbs of Junzhou. 170,000 people were defeated, and tens of thousands of them were chased by Jurchen cavalry to the bank of the Yellow River.
A few were slaughtered to death, the majority were trampled and squeezed into the river, and countless people drowned.
In early May, the Eastern Route Army led by Zongfu Zongbi forced the surrender of Tokyo and other places.
On May 15th, Zongfu's army crossed the Yellow River.
In mid-May, general Ma Kuo led nearly 200,000 people to Wuma Mountain and killed them, and spent nearly a month dealing with Zong Fu and others.
On May 23rd, Zhou Yongnan hunted Yangzhou.
In June, Ma Kuo captured Qingping, a small town that had fallen into the hands of Zong Han and others. This was an important place on the way for the central and eastern armies.
In early June, Zong Han's attack on Qingping failed. On the tenth day of June, Zongfu's army attacked Qingping again, and Qingping fell. Two hundred thousand people retreated, and tens of thousands were hunted and killed on the way. Ma Kuo led a small number of remaining troops to retreat south.
On June 22, Zonghan's Middle Route Army fought again with the Bianliang defenders, but to no avail.
At the end of June, Zong Fubing forced Yingtian...
The eighth day of July...
July 13th...
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The wind in late summer will bring all kinds of smells. The stench is unspeakable. The weather is so hot that the dead will soon emit a putrid smell. In addition to the stench of rotting corpses, there are other unpleasant smells.
People have not had the body odor caused by bathing for a long time, and the smell of defecation...
Lin Zongwu was sitting on the stone platform and preaching. Sitting below him were countless believers in shabby and ragged clothes with pitiful but fanatical eyes. They were both men and women, all pitiful people.
People occasionally cheered.
After Lin Zongwu finished preaching, he turned around and went down. He returned to the house at the back. His eyes fluctuated slightly. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes returned to calm.
Occasionally, he would still think of what happened on the battlefield in Junzhou. People rushed towards the Jurchen army, fanatically and fearlessly. However, the army collapsed soon after, and the Jurchens came from every direction of sight, killing them from every direction, with mountains of bones and rivers of blood. These
The believers also started to turn around and run away, like headless flies, and he could no longer direct them.
He didn't care about dead people. In Lin Zongwu's life, he had killed a lot of people with his own hands. What he cared about most was the failure, and the only thing that made people feel better was that he was not the only one.
s failure.
The whole world is being defeated. Whether it is the army in the court, the rebels, or the bandits who are charging towards the Jurchens, during this whole summer, everyone is losing and dying, and the Jurchens have killed them.
There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of corpses on the road. People are dead, homes are broken, old people and children are starving to death, and houses are burned to ashes. Most of those who have not been defeated have declared their surrender to the Jurchens, those cowards.
The world is collapsing, and those believers are the most obvious manifestation. In the past, most of the people in this group of people still wore these decent clothes, and there were also many wealthy and wealthy people. Nowadays, more and more people dare to wear such clothes.
He is coming less and less, and the raging Jurchens have led to an increase in refugees. Famine and epidemics are said to have appeared north of the Yellow River. Even though he is still in the unoccupied area on the south bank of the Yellow River, people have become increasingly frightened and embarrassed. In Junzhou,
He lost hundreds of thousands of people. After he came back, many more people soon gathered.
Leader Lin, who had always been steady and dignified, was a little confused about whether this was a good thing or not. Heroes all yearned for troubled times, because troubled times can only accumulate popularity. However, looking at the appearance of those followers, Lin Zongwu felt that that was not the case.
Not necessarily a good thing.
The enemy is really... too powerful.
He thought for a moment in this quietness, and then breathed out: That's fine.
I will eventually find a way to save this world!
After a while, someone came towards this side. Lin Zongwu closed his eyes. The man was outside the door and reported the news in a low voice. Yingtian City was broken.
After hearing the news, he opened his eyes. For a moment, the people outside the door heard the leader sigh as if he was prophesying.
"The demons are dancing wildly, and the world... is going to perish..."
The world is peeling off, the sky is in ancient times, the city is filled with flames and blood, the massacre and plunder that happened in Bianliang City once again appeared in this ancient city that briefly became the capital. The leaves of the trees were burned to the point of beeping.
Damn, plaques are falling one after another, people are shouting in fear, screaming, begging for mercy, women are running, men are stabbed to death on the tip of a gun, children are thrown to the ground...
There is resistance. Along the way from north to south, large and small resistances are constantly appearing. And then they are constantly destroyed in collisions. Folk heroes organized themselves and set up a team specifically to hunt down lone golden soldiers.
People whose families have been destroyed or who are in danger of being destroyed, want to eat the flesh and sleep on the skin of the Jin people. However, this is the most intense conflict between the two countries.
After Yingtian, the two armies went south again, and the countless Jiangnan troops that came up were defeated.
Yangzhou, this graceful ancient city, also had an atmosphere of panic. The court moved here with Zhou Yong, but the Jurchens did not stop. At this time, Zhou Yong had successively lowered his profile and went to the Jurchen army.
He sent several letters begging for mercy - he had already seen that this time, the Jurchens were determined to take him to the north, and he might have regretted becoming the emperor - but there was no
Effect.
In the past, the Wu Dynasty court gathered all the elites in the world, those high-spirited adults who guided the country, and those adults who were active outside the court. This time, no one can turn the tide.
"I have prepared some people, several teams..." Looking at the palace over there from a distance, Jun Wu, standing on the palace wall, said to his sister next to him, "If the Jurchens come over, they can protect us."
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"Where to go?"
Zhou Pei's eyes were empty and he asked casually. Jun Wu was stunned: "How about going to the northwest?"
Zhou Pei closed his eyes, not wanting to see him talking nonsense. Jun Wu smiled and said, "I'm just kidding."
"We go south, then south, and further south. How long can we catch him with hundreds of thousands of people? No matter what, only by preserving ourselves can we have a chance of survival. Master is doing the same thing in the northwest." He
After a pause, "This time in my Wu Dynasty...I'm afraid..."
After Junwu said this, he stopped talking. Zhou Pei closed her eyes and let the evening breeze blow from her hair. This was the first time in a long time that she did not say "Master" to Junwu.
She refuted this title. Before that, she had already learned in detail what happened to the noble ladies who were captured and sent to the north in the Jingping Shame.
She was raped and abused, and when she arrived in the north, she was demoted as a slave and a prostitute, with no escape for the rest of her life. Next, if she encountered the fate of being captured, the only way out would be to commit suicide.
If I don't speak first when spring comes, no insect will dare to speak.
This time, be prepared, the Jurchens who come all the way will overwhelm the entire world head-on!
In the northwest, in this place where not many people pay attention, the overall situation is not much better than the Central Plains, which has been reduced to hell.
In May, taking advantage of the Jurchens, the Eastern Route Army attracted the attention of the world with its overwhelming force. Wanyan Loushi led the main force of more than 10,000 Jin troops across the Yellow River. Soon, they defeated Fan Zhixu's 160,000-strong army in Chaoyi.
Defeated Tonghua and defeated tens of thousands of heavy troops at Tongguan.
In June, he trapped Jingzhao Prefecture, surrounded the points and called for reinforcements. In Changlepo and other places, he defeated and annihilated the tens of thousands of troops who were supporting Jingzhao Prefecture, and then calmly captured Jingzhao Prefecture. He captured the economic envoy Fu Liang alive, and then surrendered to Fengxiang and Long.
The state has really pushed the pressure to the northwest.
In July, preparations for the war were actively underway in Yanzhou and other places. Not long ago, Zhong Lie had rejected the Jurchen envoy's persuasion to surrender.
In other words, lowering the price is still not an option for him.
After taking back Yanzhou and other places, he was not given much time to develop. Not long ago, he once wrote a book on Xiaocanghe, hoping to join forces with the Chinese army, which claimed not to surrender to foreign countries, to fight against the enemy, but the other party frankly refused.
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The Chinese Army is a regicide and rebellion force. Although the enemies are the same, their positions are still different. We have no experience in cooperation. Who knows whether you will suddenly switch sides? It is better not to join forces before you have a clear understanding of the situation.
There was a reason for the other party's rejection, and Zhong Lie couldn't imagine it. On July 23, in Yanzhou City, he was waiting for news from the south.
Not long ago, he sent 30,000 troops to support Fengxiang.
The war that may have broken out in Fengxiang may be the largest attack launched by the entire western force of the Wu Dynasty in the face of the Jurchen West Route Army, which numbered no more than 10,000. This is what I heard not long ago and fell into the hands of the Jurchens.
After the news that Fengxiang was about to defect, various parties discussed the results. Among them, the Wuwei Army sent 150,000 troops, the Jinning Army 100,000, the Western Army 30,000, and a few more rebel armies would also send troops each. A time was agreed upon to fight against
Fengxiang launched an attack at the same time.
In the afternoon, the news came.
The moment he got the news and read it, Zhong Lie felt dizzy in his seat. He put down the message, knowing it was redundant but still asked with difficulty: "Is the news true?"
The dusty and injured knight gave him the answer.
On July 21st, Wanyanlou's family encircled Fengxiang City for reinforcements, defeated Jinning's army of 100,000, and then turned back to capture Fengxiang City. On July 22nd, the Nuzhen force of more than 10,000 was divided into several groups, and in the early morning, 30,000 were defeated.
The Western Army used martial arts and defeated 30,000 rebel troops in the vicinity at noon. At night, Wanyan Loushi personally led thousands of troops under his command and defeated 150,000 Wuwei troops in Weinan.
——Wugong and Weinan are nearly two hundred miles apart.
Zhonglie walked out the door.
At this time, various war preparations were still going on in Yanzhou City, but from the city lord's mansion, there was no work outside. The autumn air was crisp outside the courtyard, but he just felt a little hard to breathe, and the darkness was pressing over him.
"This world...is it going to end..."
Xiaocang River, the sun shone slantly into the house, and light and dust were flying in the air. After receiving the news, a group of officers also fell silent.
"...Your mother." Someone sighed softly, "...What's the use of having so many people?"
In August, Wanyan Lou's main army pushed towards Yanzhou... (To be continued.)
ps: It’s the last three days of this month, does anyone still have a monthly ticket? ^_^