The cold wind roared at the top of the city, blowing against the human body like a knife. When he opened his mouth, the smell of blood like rust came out of his throat. The voice of killing was like thunder, boiling over the entire battlefield. The figures came pouring in,
The iron rod in his hand hit the man's head. The nearly two hundred kilogram body fell down like a wild boar galloping in the mountains. The sound of the skull hitting the bluestone was dull and permeating, mixed in with countless sounds.
Arrows were flying. In the ice and snow, there were smoke and fire on the city walls. Soldiers pushed huge rolling logs and threw them down the city. A stone flew across the sky and suddenly zoomed in on one side of the field of vision. He dragged a soldier to the side.
It rolled over, and the splashed stone fragments hurt people's faces, and their vision became shaken in the loud noise. Shi Jin shook his head, got up from the ground, grabbed a long spear in his hand, and ran
The two Jurchen soldiers rushed towards the city more than ten feet away.
Affected by the stone throw, his vision and balance had not yet been restored. He stabbed a Jurchen soldier several times with the spear in his hand before piercing the chest of a Jurchen soldier. The Jurchen soldier was tall and strong, as strong as a bison. He held on to the gun barrel and refused to let go.
Another Jurchen warrior had already rushed over from the side. Shi Jin shouted loudly and fired with all his strength. The gun barrel shattered into pieces of wood. He stepped over and struck the Jurchen on the head with his heavy hand.
The man's body suddenly collapsed onto the city wall.
The Jurchen warriors who were fighting from the side jumped into the air and slashed back with their swords. Just when they turned around, Shi Jin's body had already collided with him. He opened his bloody mouth and stabbed half of the gun shaft into his neck. Poof.
There was a loud sound and thick blood burst out. The Jurchen warrior retreated in the struggle. As Shi Jin pulled out the gun barrel, he fell into a pool of blood under the female wall, making no sound.
Shi Jin then turned back and retrieved his weapon. Not far away from his field of vision, at a corner of the city wall, dozens of Jurchen soldiers had already surged up. The city guarding sergeants kept retreating during the fight. Some generals were shouting loudly, Shi Jin.
Jin then tightened his grip on the iron rod in his hand and rushed towards it.
"Don't retreat—kill them—"
Countless hoarse roars merged into a tide of battle, and looking around, the siege soldiers were still divided into three groups in the snowfield below, running towards each other. In the snow in the distance, the siege army camp was rising.
, is the banner of the Jurchen generals' speed.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the traditional Laba Festival, this was already the second time Shu Lie's troops attacked Wozhou.
The city's defenses are in danger.
Not long before this, in the Fenzhou territory south of Taiyuan City, the army of the King of Jin experienced a huge defeat. More than 400,000 people were defeated, retreated south, and fled in rout. Amid the chaotic news, the Jin army, who was leading the expedition in person, suffered a huge defeat.
Wang Tianshi was washed away and his whereabouts are unknown.
…
Ice and snow.
Countless people were walking in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Tian Shi was wearing a black suit, and he and the soldiers around him supported each other and headed south. After a huge defeat, they fled all night.
At that time, he only felt cold and hot, but he had not told the people around him yet. From time to time, he would turn around and shout a few words loudly to the crowd behind him.
Naturally, he has a horse, but he is not riding at this time. It is said that a general who is good at fighting should share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers around him. During the war, he had never behaved like this, but now that he was defeated, he felt that as a prince,
I don't know if it will be useful at the time when I should set such an example.
He didn't know how many soldiers were following him, and there were many things he should think about, but his thoughts could no longer be condensed. At some point, Tian Shi felt his eyes go dark and fell down on the snow...
…
Wei Sheng, the atmosphere is chilling.
The procession of horse-drawn carriages drove through the long street to Tianji Palace at one end of the city.
Lou Shuwan was looking at a huge map in the car with lights on. The news of Prince Jin's disappearance had reached here as quickly as possible. She suppressed her thoughts, and there were already many signs on the map.
Traces of various armies are found on the drawn map, summarizing various possibilities for the current situation.
As soon as a war occurs, military information will be transmitted to the centers of various forces as quickly as possible. When she can receive the message, it means that others have also received the message. At this time, she must stabilize the situation of the entire center.
.
The surroundings of the carriage were sealed. In the light of candles, the eyes of the woman who had not rested since yesterday were red, but she still opened her eyes wide. Suddenly, the body of the carriage jolted, and the floor
Shu Wan stretched out her hand to hold the lamp, and heard shouts coming from outside: "Kill...that bitch..."
"The hen Si Chen brings disaster to the country and the people..."
"Traitor, bitch——"
"Open your eyes..."
"Being used——"
"Crime deserves death——"
…
Chaotic shouts intertwined together. You Hongzhuo held his breath, drew his long knife, and walked toward the front of the room, faster and faster...
What came through the vibration of the floor was a burst of footsteps in the next room. The light in the window became brighter and brighter, and You Hongzhuo jumped out. Someone also rushed out of the window next door, with a red gun in his hand aimed at the person below.
In the motorcade, You Hongzhuo raised his long sword and flew into the air. The other party even looked at him in surprise.
brush.
The white-haired and long-bearded head flew into the sky. You Hongzhuo fell towards the ground. The crowd who rushed out shouted, and he swung his blade and rushed towards the green forest assassins.
"Protect the female prime minister!"
"You idiot should be damned——"
"You don't even listen to what the Dragon King says!"
Murderous aura——
…
"What's going on?" Lou Shuwan asked, but he probably knew it in his heart.
"Some people are assassinating you, and others are here to protect you. Mr. Lou, we..."
"..." Lou Shuwan listened quietly to the mixed sounds outside. Perhaps her eyes were slightly warm because she had been exposed to the firelight for too long. Then she reached out and wiped her mouth and nose vigorously, "Leave a team of people to catch the assassin.
Let’s continue to the Imperial City.”
"yes."
The carriage started to move again, leaving the whole long street where the fighting was still going on.
…
In Linzhou City, another round of siege battle is going on. The attacking party is the most elite Ming army under Wang Juyun. Due to the hasty attack, the siege equipment is quite insufficient. However, with Wang Juyun himself taking the lead, the entire battle situation remains the same.
It seemed extremely tragic.
Linzhou originally belonged to Zhangde. Like Wozhou, it was also one of the cities on the fringes of the Jin Dynasty's northeastern power. The general defending Linzhou, Li Chengzhong, led more than 37,000 troops. Four days ago, he announced a change of flag and joined the army.
King Jin's division was defeated all the way, and Wang Juyun, who led his elite troops to the nearby area, desperately attacked the city by force, hoping to destroy Linzhou before the Jurchen reinforcements arrived, as a warning to others.
The loss is huge.
The garrison of Linzhou City is not having an easy time either. Although the Jurchen power has been hanging over everyone's heads for more than ten years, now that the army is coming, the surrender has not encountered too much resistance, but of course it cannot inspire too high morale. Both sides
During the back-and-forth attack and defense, Li Chengzhong also ran up to the city and constantly cheered up the defenders.
"Hold the city wall! The Jin army will be coming soon..."
"Admiral Wanyan Saba, the great general of the Jin Dynasty, is here with his army. He only needs to hold on for one more day! Guard for one more day——"
Wanyan Saba's army was indeed on the way. Wang Juyun's army attacked for three days but failed to capture the city defense. The morale of both the attacking and defending sides gradually waxed and waned. By the afternoon of this day, the southeast side of the city
, a flag appeared there.
Saba's army must have come from the north, so should the troops coming from the south be reinforcements from the Jin Dynasty's forces, or the Jurchen East Route Army had already decided on their names and sent reinforcements? Li Chengzhong ran towards the east of the city wall, and then saw an army
The army appeared in the field of vision. On the snowy ground, the color of the flag was extremely bright...
"Who...how could...how could he be black..."
The black flag is spreading towards this side...
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In the winter of the ninth year of Wu Jianshuo's reign, heavy snow gradually froze the land north of the Yangtze River. However, the war north of the Yellow River never stopped for a moment from the beginning.
In September and October, the Jurchens' eastern and western armies fought one after another against the enemies blocking the front. The East Route Army quickly compressed the battle in the Damingfu area, but the West Route's tenacious resistance had only just opened up at this time.
Curtain.
From Yanmen Pass to the ruins of Taiyuan, Wang Juyun and Tian Shi resisted one after another. After being dispersed, they continued to gather together. Millions of troops gathered or dispersed, as if they were constantly consuming the Jurchen army.
However, as the most outstanding veterans among the founding generation of the Jin Dynasty, Zong Han and Xi Yin continued to defeat the waves of attacks. By the end of October, Shu Lie led the partial division across Wozhou, and in Yin Shu Ke,
With the cooperation of generals such as Ba Lisu and Sa Ba, the oncoming force created one problem after another.
Shu Liesu's first attack on Wozhou was finally delayed until Yu Yulin's army came south to relieve the siege under the stubborn resistance of the Wozhou defenders and many civilian forces such as Lin Zongwu and Shi Jin. In November, the ice and snow
The battle that unfolded here was only slightly slower than in other seasons. The successive defeats of Wang Juyun, Tian Shi, Yu Yulin and others led to the continuous reduction of the number of troops on the front line. The defeated soldiers retreated south, surrendered, and even fought with large troops during their escape.
There are countless people who have frozen to death in the snow.
Although at the beginning of the war, the leaders of Wang Juyun and King Jin had determined that this was a war of attrition with constant defeats, but after more than a month of attrition, despite the worst preparations, the two groups of armies
Military morale and strength still dropped to a low point.
On the third day of December, Li Chengzhong and Linzhou City announced the surrender of the Jurchens, triggering a sudden change in the entire situation. The 400,000-strong army led by Tian Shi was defeated and fled in the face of Xi Yin's attack. In order to kill Tian Shi, the Jurchen army chased the defeated soldiers.
For ten miles, countless defeated troops were massacred, and the news was announced to the outside world that King Tian Shi of Jin had accepted the offer. Wang Juyun, who was constantly defeated and fled south, and could only gather more than 30,000 elite troops at one time, immediately mobilized all his troops to attack Linzhou, hoping that in the whole
Before the ship sank, suppress this warped cabin board.
At the same time, Shu Liesu's army turned back and attacked Wozhou again. However, a small army led by Sa Ba headed towards Linzhou. Yin Shu was able to pull away from Su Liesu's army and rush to the middle, intending to attack the hinterland of the King of Jin's territory.
In the short period of time when Tian Shi was suspected to be dead, the entire Jinwang territory was about to collapse. On the afternoon of the eighth day of the lunar month, the Chinese army led by Zhu Biao intervened in the crisis of Zhan Wu and others on Wei Sheng's side.
After a distance of hundreds of miles, I took eight steps to finish Yansha and arrived at the foot of Linzhou City.
On the same day, Linzhou was captured.
The leader of the rebellion, Li Chengzhong, committed suicide before the city was captured. The other generals who participated in the rebellion, along with their families, were dragged up the city wall and beheaded.
However, the whole situation continued to collapse. That night, the city defense of Wozhou was breached. Shi Jin kept fighting on the city wall and almost died of exhaustion. Then the army defending the city opened the city gate and filled the city with firewood.
The people in the city fled south. Xiao Yuan, the governor of Wo Prefecture, ordered the army to block the Jurchen offensive in front, and carried out street fighting for a period of time as much as possible, thinking that the people fleeing south would delay. However, the morale of the army was close to the bottom line. Yu Xiaoyuan wanted to boost morale.
, led his troops to the front twice and fought in person, but was later shot dead by Jurchen flying arrows.
The defenders of Wo Prefecture fled in chaos, and the Jurchens massacred them. Shi Jin and his comrades were also trapped and fought and retreated. That night, when the people who had escaped and survived looked back in the direction of Wo Prefecture, the entire sky had been covered with a cloud.
Fires were lit and the massacre was continuing.
Shi Jin stood at the foot of the mountain in the darkness, with a moist breath falling from his face.
The man didn't shed tears lightly, maybe it was because the hot blood flowing from his body lost its temperature in a moment in this ice and snow.
There were many people around him, even more than after the disbandment of Chifeng Mountain.
Although he knew that he had no ability to lead an army, his reputation as the Eight-Armed Dragon King was still of some use. After the first battle of the Wo Prefecture Guards, he still ran around killing those Jurchen spies and the scum of the Han people. During this period of the war,
, Lou Shuwan, who was far away in Weisheng, had suffered many assassinations. She had killed too many people, and she was a woman. The outside world portrayed her as cruel and vicious. Some people with good intentions called her a traitor because she wanted to help the Jurchens to bring down the King of Jin.
Jiye is a poisonous woman who wants to make people miserable.
Shi Jin then also spoke out in the green forest to rectify Lou Shuwan's name. After these messages spread for a month, many people were finally persuaded and spontaneously began to campaign for Lou Shuwan's name in Washeng, and even broke out
During the assassination operation, he stood opposite the assassin to protect Lou Shuwan's safety.
Shi Jin, who was running around and fighting in Wozhou, had no way of knowing the situation of Weisheng. As the city of Wozhou was broken, what he saw was the most brutal scene of massacre again. For more than ten years, he had been fighting all the way.
However, he was defeated along the way. The defeats seemed endless, but once again, he still did not die. He just thought: Wozhou City is gone. Brother Lin has been here for more than ten years and is gone. Mu Anping failed to find him.
, that little child who lost his parents couldn’t see anything when he came back here.
He went to the southern city and continued fighting.
The snow sometimes falls and sometimes stops, and the war continues to spread in the heavy snow. South of the Yellow River, wandering hungry ghosts are also surging in the snow, causing certain troubles to the Jurchen army going south. Some small-scale food transport teams
They were swallowed whole by the hungry ghosts. However, as the cold deepened, the hungry ghosts also died one by one. Only the large group of hungry ghosts near Xuzhou survived the wind and snow and still managed to breathe.
Daming Prefecture. The number of soldiers defending the city also gradually decreased in the cold weather. The most intense Jurchen siege was in the first month. A large number of attrition occurred at that time. Some seriously injured soldiers did not survive.
Through this winter, the 30,000 Jurchen elites and 200,000 Han troops led by Wan Yanchang were also wearing down the lives and spirits of the defenders every day. By December, after careful calculation, the original nearly 50,000 defenders
There are probably more than 30,000 swordsmen in the city, and most of them are injured.
The ice and snow finally suppressed the Jurchens' attack on the city. Wang Shanyue and Xue Changgong still guarded the city wall every day, cheering for the soldiers every day. For the few residents in the city, Wang Shanyue occasionally sent people to bring food and relief.
, and also propagate the spirit of resistance to people, but because the snow is deep, it is impossible to carry out such a thing vigorously.
The siege tents outside the city formed a sea. They were waiting for the arrival of spring. Spring is the season of life when all things grow. However, whether it is Wang Shanyue, Xue Changgong, Shi Jin, Lou Shuwan, Tian Shi, Zhu
Biao, or Ning Yi who was far away in the southwest, could all know that the spring in the tenth year of Wu Jianshuo and the thirteenth year of Jin Tianhui was not the season of life.
It was the season of burying everything, and it came day by day amid the roaring of heavy snow.