From the Dagushan, Xiaogushan, and Chaoyangdong areas, continuing to the west, the disaster becomes more and more serious, and the places become more and more dilapidated. The towns along the way are full of desolation, with charred walls and demolished walls everywhere.
Doors and windows, piles of rubble, few pedestrians, no smoke, no one to bury the dead, and bones scattered among the dead grass in the village and on the roadside.
Among them, fifty-six out of ten were burned by the army when they were "suppressing bandits", and forty-five out of ten were burned by Pingfeng Village when they suppressed dissidents.
In some towns and cities, there are even weeds blocking the roads, with foxes and rabbits scurrying around. There are weeds and graves everywhere, and the vitality of Xiaohu Village is like two different worlds.
Li Jiyu saw a group of hungry people on the roadside fighting over a half-burnt ancient cypress. The bark had long been eaten away, but now they were fighting over sawdust.
The distance was gradually shrouded in the shadow of dusk, the faint green light in the eyes of the hungry people, and the phosphorus fire that gathered and dispersed among the graves made the atmosphere in this area look very gloomy, like a netherworld.
"Master of the Village, Yu Dazhong is really not a thing! The closer we get to his Pingfeng Village, the less and less this place looks like the human world!"
Li Jiyu's personal guards were wearing hoods, coats and cloaks. The weather was not hot, but they were all frightened into cold sweats by the gloomy and terrifying sight in front of them.
"Yu Dazhong won't show mercy to others when he is in power. Let's see how long he can be arrogant. I really want to see how long it will take for you to finish!" Li Jiyu sneered. He and Yu Dazhong had already formed a knot when they were competing for Yongning and various villages in the Song Dynasty.
After taking revenge, Yu Dazhong carried out extremely ruthless attacks on Li Jiyu's Yuzhai several times, causing him great losses.
"But Pingfeng Village is built on a high ground, and Yu Dazhong's miner army is so powerful. We have all suffered so much from him. Are these Shaanxi people who have just arrived in Henan really that capable and can they defeat Yu Dazhong?"
Li Jiyu's personal followers looked puzzled, and were still very suspicious of the recently rumored Qin invaders' defeat of Yu Dazhong.
Li Jiyu disagreed and said: "That's why we came to Song County to see the situation in person! I heard that Yu Dazhong was in Jiuxian Town and was eaten by the Shaanxi people in conjunction with Lijia Village and Chaoyang Village, and more than 400 people were killed.
.I see that we have gone so far into Song County and have not found any trace of the men and horses from Pingfeng Village. I am afraid that the matter is true. Yu Dazhong’s troops and horses have all been transferred to Xiong’er Mountain and cannot take care of this place.”
Jiuxian Town is a town forty-eight miles southwest of Song County. Yiyang County was established here in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the early Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols carried out mass killings, the population dropped sharply, and the county was abandoned as a town, so it was named Jiuxian Town.
Not long ago, the Chuangying Division that entered Henan from Shaanxi united with Lijiazhai and Chaoyang Village, the Tujia Village in the middle of Xiong'er Mountain, and gathered a thousand troops to conquer the small village in Xiong'er Mountain that was annexed to Pingfeng Village. Yu Dazhong sent out a thousand troops.
However, the leader of Lijiazhai, Li Hao, led the Qin invaders to set up an ambush and annihilated more than 400 soldiers of Pingfengzhai in Jiuxian Town. This shocked Xiong'er Mountain and made the reputation of Young Master Li of Xiaohuzhai spread far and wide.
"Yu Dazhong has no time for him to take care of us, so we are going to give him a double blow and catch him off guard." Li Jiyu waved his hand and said, "I think if we go deeper into Song County, we have to be careful about encountering soldiers and horses from Pingfeng Village. We
Let’s go back to Dengfeng. If the powerful dragon from Shaanxi can really overwhelm this local snake like Dazhong, we will also go and get a share of the pie.”
He thought for a while and then added: "When you go back, remember to remind me to prepare a gift. No matter whether Qin Kou can break the screen wall or not, it is necessary for me to have a good relationship with him. One more friend and one more road. This
There’s no harm in doing that.”
The attendant nodded repeatedly, with a fascination on his face, and mentioned to Li Jiyu the legend of the Longsha Prophecy that has become popular in Henan recently, and said: "Master, you said that this Longsha Prophecy is related to becoming an immortal.
.When I was listening to people’s stories in Dengfeng, they said that Longsha’s prophecy said that our Henan province would have 108 generals from Tiangang Disha. Half of these 108 generals were from Shaanxi and half were from Henan. Then
Are they the one hundred and eight generals who defeated Yu Dazhong's Qin bandits?"
"Go, these market rumors are all false. I think it is most likely made up by those Qin bandits."
Li Jiyu spat. He didn't believe in Longsha's prophecies, but he couldn't stop the rapid spread of this rumor. Li Jiyu started his career by extorting money and ransacking the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng. Henan was in chaos and local bandits swarmed in.
The Shaolin Temple also formed a stronghold to protect itself and became the strongest armed force in Dengfeng.
At that time, Li Jiyu pretended to be worshiping Buddha and took people to the Shaolin Temple to burn incense and worship every day. After becoming familiar with him, he took advantage of the Shaolin Temple's unpreparedness and brought weapons into the temple. He cooperated inside and outside to attack the Shaolin Temple, and in one fell swoop he became the strongest civilian armed force in Dengfeng.
The Shaolin Temple is still controlled by him to help his Yuzhai make money. How could he be fooled by Long Sha's prophecy?
But among the soldiers below, there are quite a few who believe this.
Not only Li Jiyu's soldiers in Yuzhai, many people believed Li Laiheng's version of the legend of Longsha Prophecy. Even the soldiers in Dazhong Pingfeng Village, many people believed the rumors and really believed that their
The enemy's opponent is the human magic weapon full of earth immortals and Tiangang earth evil spirits.
The wall of Pingfeng Village is extremely high, and it is built close to mountains and rivers. It is built in two layers. One layer is an earth wall mixed with a wooden wall, and the other layer is a pure earth wall. It rises high and the situation is dangerous. Where can the county magistrate and the scholar Qian
When General Liu Yinyue built the stronghold, the defense was almost as good as that of Songxian County.
After it was occupied by Yu Dazhong, he built many fortifications, inside and outside, one after another, with watchtowers and arrow towers standing like a forest. From a distance, it almost looks like a nine-sided castle.
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However, the dangerous mountain stronghold could not stop the increasingly chaotic people in Pingfeng Village. After the battle in Jiuxian Town was defeated by the Qin invaders deliberately and unintentionally, the morale in the village became even lower. Everyone said that the reason for this battle was
The tragic defeat was because King Yu did not believe in the truth and Longsha's prophecy, which angered the mortal stars. How could we, mortal bodies, be the opponents of Tiangang and Earthly Evil?
Yu Dazhong even killed more than a dozen people, but he could not stop the spread of this rumor. On the contrary, it made people believe that Pingfeng Village was in bad luck and the situation was not good.
On the towering watchtowers of Pingfeng Village, there are now two or three human heads hanging on the roof of each building. The hair is so thick that, looking from a distance, one might have thought that it was not a tower but a pine and cypress tree in Pingfeng Village.
One-third of these bloody heads were soldiers of the village who were killed by Yu Dazhong, and were used to warn the villagers not to spread rumors. The other two-thirds were "reportedly" to have had contact with the Qin invaders.
People from other villages.
In order to suppress the two-sided walling style of other mountain strongholds in Xiong'er Mountain, Yu Dazhong was desperate. As long as he found the slightest clue that people from other strongholds were communicating with the Qin invaders, he would ask for hostages from these strongholds, or kill them directly to show the public, or
He was imprisoned in the prison of Pingfeng Village for the purpose of threatening him.
His skills are so cruel that he has aroused the wrath of the Thirty-Six Villages in Xiong'er Mountain, but he still doesn't know it and is still dreaming of being the hegemon in Pingfeng Village.
Yu Dazhong is strong and tall, with straight bones, very prominent jaw angles on both sides of his chin, and a square face that is very oppressive. He was upset because of the Qin Kou incident. He drank a lot of wine today, and his eyes
It is covered with bloodshot eyes and looks rosy, giving people a stronger sense of oppression.
A soldier who was delivering the order cautiously walked into the house. He hesitated to speak. He really didn't dare to report the bad news that would add fuel to the fire when the village leader was in a very bad mood.
Yu Dazhong drank another large bowl of wine, then stared at the trembling orderly in front of him, his eyes as wide as copper bells, and asked: "Say quickly! Is there any good news? I gave the order,
There are more than ten cottages that have asked to be gathered together to attack the Shaanxi people, and how many have already come!"
The messenger was trembling all over and did not dare to speak. His whole body went limp. He knelt half on the ground and kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic. He said: "The village...the village master, this is not the news...yes, yes, it is the northern foot of Xiong'er Mountain."
The three cottages also killed our envoys!"
With a bang!, Yu Dazhong suddenly slapped the back of the table, swept all the food and wine on the table to the ground with his arms, and then kicked the table over. He stood up and lifted the chair on his butt with one hand.
He hit the ordering soldier on the head, smashing the soldier's head so badly that he fell to the ground bleeding.
Since Pingfeng Village was manipulated by the Qin invaders in Jiuxian Town, his control over the various cottages in Xiong'er Mountain has become increasingly weakened. Originally, more than a dozen of the thirty-six cottages in Xiong'er Mountain obeyed the orders of Pingfeng Village.
He is considered his vassal and younger brother.
But this time Yu Dazhong issued an order to assemble various soldiers and horses to attack the Qin invaders, but almost no one responded. Not only that, as Yu Dazhong's temper became more and more violent, he was not strict with the vassal fortresses, and there were actually several
Shanzhai killed the envoy sent by Dazhong to ask for the hostages, openly raised a banner, united with the Qin invaders, and resisted Pingfengzhai.
Of course, a large part of this was also due to Li Laiheng's skill. Li Laiheng knew that the terrain of Pingfeng Village was steep and difficult to attack, so he decided to "reduce its branches and leaves first, and then cut down its main trunk."
On the one hand, he took advantage of Yu Dazhong's violent personality and the influence of the legend of Longsha Prophecy, and adopted gentle methods to win over various copycat families, giving them gifts, and persuading them to reject Yu Dazhong's orders.
Li Laiheng focused on attacking some of the copycat villages that were die-hardly loyal to Pingfeng Village. Anyway, at this stage, he believed that the dangerous Pingfeng Village could not be conquered yet, and after Yu Dazhong's battle in Jiuxian Town, he did not dare to rashly send troops out to fight in the field.
The troops of the Little Tiger Team were simply used to attack the small cottages that were attached to Pingfeng Village.
Moreover, Li Laiheng not only directly used force to deal with them, but also intercepted and killed the messengers from Pingfeng Village and created false news. Yu Dazhong, who did not analyze the news carefully, became furious and separated from the villagers who were loyal to him.
With such a multi-pronged approach, Pingfengzhai's violent rule in Xiong'er Mountain soon tended to completely collapse.
On the contrary, more and more cottages are willing to follow the Little Tigers and share the heritage of Pingfeng Village. In addition to the two families, Lijiazhai and Chaoyang Village, who initially fought with the Little Tigers, there are one or two more cottages at the north and south foothills of Xiong'er Mountain.
Jia Shanzhai took the initiative to join the coalition forces.
The coalition forces were so powerful that other strongholds in the thirty-six strongholds in Xiong'er Mountain, even if they were unwilling to ally with the Shaanxi people, no longer obeyed Dazhong's orders, refused to provide supplies to the intruders, and attacked the intruders when they were alone, as they had done in the past.
Soldier.
Li Laiheng estimated that there were still more than a thousand people in Pingfeng Village's direct miner army. Coupled with the dangerous terrain of Pingfeng Village, two or three thousand soldiers and horses might not be able to break through.
But now the coalition army, led by Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong, and Bai Wang of the Chuang army, supplemented by Li Hao and Puxiang Zhenren of Xiong'ershan, also has about 2,000 troops.
If the chaos in Pingfengzhai's military morale can be successfully utilized and the fighting power of the Chuang army is stronger than that of the Henan bandits, then the day of directly attacking Pingfengzhai should not be far away.