In Dayao's history books, there are very few records involving Jianghu affairs. However, the incident that occurred in Jiangzhou in the autumn of the fourth year of Emperor Lie's reign was mentioned by historians with only a few figures. In private miscellaneous notes, they could only hint at the incident in a melodious way.
The tragedy in Jiangzhou in 1998.
In the autumn of the fourth year of Emperor Lie's reign, Jiangzhou was in chaos.————"History of Yao"
After Yanyulou, a sect of the Jianghu sect in Jiangzhou, failed to attack the mountain master of Songfeng Mountain together with the Zhang family's gun warriors, all five of them, including the owner, died in the fight. At the same time, the top combat power of Yanyulou was almost wiped out. At the same time, Song was severely injured.
Fengshan never fully recovered in the next ten years.
However, until the day before Yanyu Tower was exterminated, even though it received clues of information, it still failed to take any measures that could change its fate, which was widely criticized.
According to the analysis of later generations of Jianghu people, it was not that Wu Changbo, who was the acting owner of Yanyu Tower at that time, failed to take any action. Under his impetus, the letter sent to the governor's office of Jiangzhou, Wuhang County not only contained a request for mediation, but also contained ten pictures.
Yanyulou gathered together the thousand-tael banknotes they had just squeezed out from selling off their property.
According to the salary of the governor of the Yao court at that time, ten thousand taels of silver notes was really a bribe that many feudal officials could not refuse, even in the prosperous Jiangzhou, which was known as the "Land of Fish and Rice". What's more, this request was given to Zhengwei within the jurisdiction of the province.
The governor of Jiangzhou, who had lost control of his affairs and was troubled by the turmoil in the world, found a good way to kill two birds with one stone, so there was no reason to refuse.
After receiving this letter, the governor of Jiangzhou was overjoyed. As an official of Dayao's court, the possibility of visiting in person was very slim. After pocketing the ten silver notes, the governor of Jiangzhou ordered two senior masters from the governor's office to take them with him.
The two Yamen guards went to Songfeng Mountain and Yanyulou Sect respectively.
Due to his stingy nature, the governor did not allocate enough silver to the two masters in the government, so the carriage was delayed for a considerable time. In addition, the rain that had not happened in Jiangzhou in twenty years made the journey difficult.
The pace is far from reaching the speed it should reach.
Even so, the governor of Jiangzhou still had a few days left over, and he could even write those two letters with smooth handwriting in order to move them with emotion before the battle force at the top of Yanyu Tower attacked and killed the mountain master of Songfeng Mountain.
If they are sent to the locations of Songfeng Mountain and Yanyu Tower, perhaps this long-running feud can be put to an end.
However, the two masters were dissatisfied with the governor's reduction of expenses and his efforts to conceal the contents of the letter from them. The two men, who were not interested in this trip, traveled all the way to see the mountains and rivers, and brought their own family home to them.
The master's advice was completely forgotten.
An even weirder coincidence happened later. The two masters, who were originally walking on the mountain trails, met General Jiangzhou and his son Gaokan, who were out hunting with their private horses at very close times. The masters were very different in status.
Unexpectedly, they both received a warm invitation from these two people to travel with them. They lingered for several days before being released. By the time the two people hurried to Qihu Lake and Songfeng Mountain, what was supposed to happen had already happened.
I don’t know whether these rumors are true or not, but any martial artist in Jiangzhou who was lucky enough to meet the master of Songfeng Mountain, Gao Xu, and the general of Jiangzhou would be surprised to find that the two people were so similar. Moreover, the two masters became very different after this trip.
There was no sound. Even the sea arrest documents issued by Jiangzhou Governor's Office could not find any trace of these two people. They seemed to have disappeared from the world. Even the few government officials who were in charge of guarding never returned home.
All kinds of news gathered in one place, making many smart people in Jiangzhou and Jianghu frightened.
The story of the destruction of Yanyu Tower was gradually pieced together through the mouths of a few surviving former brothers and nearby villagers.
In the mutual fight between Yanyulou and Songfengshan that lasted for more than two years, the latter's strength was relatively intact due to the help of Huizhou's Gelutai. It also had three second-rate disciples of Jiangzhou's sects attached to it after the war for dispatch.
The strength was several times greater than that of the former who only had the Zhang family gun of Qishan County as a helping hand. However, due to the Zhang family gun, Zhang Wu's combat power was indeed beyond the expectations of the Songfeng Mountain Assembly Hall and Fenglutai, and he succeeded in the assassination around Qihu Lake.
Very rarely, the Kaolutai assassins who originally had the rule of "no killing unless they are above three floors" could only feed the lone disciples who stayed outside in Yanyu Tower for a long period of time.
Even though there are two six-story warriors in Qihu, Zhang Wu and Yu Cheng, the owner of Yanyu Building, they are still unable to guard against the endless attacks and killings in Gelutai. Since the war with Songfeng Mountain, although more than 70 assassins have been killed, the dead
There are nearly one-tenth of the children of Yanyu Tower, including three hall masters on the fifth floor, incense masters on the fourth floor, nine leaders, thirty-eight people on the third floor, and nearly 300 family members and relatives on the second floor.
There are more than 200 disabled people, the people in Yanyu Tower are in turmoil, and hundreds of their disciples have rebelled and escaped.
The Yanyu Tower originally boasted three thousand disciples in the building. On the day of its destruction, there were only 1,060 people stationed near Qihu Lake. These 1,060 people were divided into three groups to keep watch, and only one third of them were on duty.
Second, the three miles around Qihu Lake and the island in the center of the lake were divided into dozens of elites. Even though Wu Changbo, the acting building owner, was familiar with the art of arranging troops, his subordinates did not follow orders and were killed by the Kalutai assassins in their sleep.
There were no less than a hundred people with throats, and the disciples who watched the night failed to warn them in time, so the seeds of the destruction of Yanyu Tower were planted here.
When the warning fireworks and the disciples' shouts of killing were finally seen by the people on the island in the middle of Qihu Lake, the disciples who went to the island to report could barely get there, but they could only tell the news of the enemy attack. How many people were coming?
I don't even know what their strength is, or how many of their children were killed or injured.
Except for Wu Changbo, the deputy building owner, those in high positions in the Yanyu Building have always regarded intelligence gathering as a crooked way. On the day when the sect was destroyed, they jumped up and cursed at the disciples who delivered the news.
blood to make up for the mistakes of the bosses and prove their loyalty to Yanyu Tower.
Under the precarious situation, the decision of the acting building owner Wu Changbo was completely opposite to that of the misty and rain building hall masters and incense masters who had just discussed the matter. The deputy building master who was famous for his civil and military skills in the misty and rain building simply gave up his position on the water surface of dozens of feet.
The island in the middle of the lake served as a barrier, and he led his elite disciples to try to escape from the waterway by boat.
The Cutelutai assassins are extremely skilled in killing, but their numbers are a disadvantage. However, there are just dozens of assassins, but they are all on the fourth floor of martial arts, and the leader is on the sixth floor of Yanyu Tower, where no one can match them now.
, faced with the Yanyulou disciples who were only in groups of small and medium groups, with very few casualties, the tremendous pressure they had accumulated over the past three years in life and death made these brave young people fearful.
Since then, Yanyulou's previous resistance has turned into a one-sided massacre. The children of Yanyulou, who dropped their weapons and fled in all directions, became targets for the assassins to practice in the dark. The helpers who came after hearing the news were looking at each other.
Despite the darkness, he only managed to hold on for a moment before joining the fleeing people.
When the disciples of Yanyulou who had fled all night dragged their exhausted bodies to the nearest county government office to seek shelter, the assassins from Gelutai had already collected the few corpses of their companions and dumped the corpses of the disciples of Yanyulou on the lake.
At that time, the light blue water of Qihu Lake was actually dyed light red. The nearby villagers who had the courage to rush there were disgusted when they saw this scene, but they did not dare to salvage it. A few days later, Jiali County sent people
The swollen corpses were fished out and buried in mass graves outside the city.
After that, no one dared to drink the water of Qi Lake for one year, and no one dared to plant Qi Lake for three years.
In Huling, no one dared to eat Qihu fish for five years, which shows how miserable the situation was at that time.
The small number of Gelutai assassins did not pursue the people on the island in the middle of the lake who fled by boat. They only symbolically harassed them with short crossbows and concealed weapons.
It has to be said that Wu Changbo, the acting owner of Yanyu Tower, made what seemed to be the only correct judgment at the time. Although the disciples of Yanyu Tower were almost all lost in this battle, most of the fourth and fifth floor warriors were on these boats, just like trees being destroyed.
All the branches have been cut off, but the main trunk and root system are still there, and there is still a chance of full growth.
The people in Yanyulou who seemed to have escaped the disaster had two choices at this time. One was to leave Jiangzhou along the waterway and go to the prefectures and counties outside Huizhou to work hard. The other was to go to Wuhang City, where the governor's office was located, and seek asylum from Dayao.
Wu Changbo was in a dilemma at this time. Yanyu Tower had been rooted in Jiangzhou for a hundred years. It would be a pity to abandon the foundation and go to another state to start over. There would also be the risk of being annexed by local snakes. However, the governor of Jiangzhou accepted the 10,000 taels of silver.
Later, the mediation letter did not arrive for a long time, and Wu Changbo, who valued the word "letter" extremely highly, suddenly fell to the bottom of his impression of it.
Perhaps at that time, the misty and rain building's acting owner endured the humiliation and went to Wuhang City, so that he could directly receive protection from the Yao court, and maybe there would be a chance to make a comeback.
History cannot tolerate so many "maybes".
The people who took the boat and traveled through the starry night to Yanyulou on the wild river at the junction of Jiangzhou and Suzhou did not encounter any pursuers on the way. At this point, the boatman relaxed a little. The boat in front of him and one of the narrow rivers were covered with tarpaulin.
The barge collided with each other. The people in Yanyulou, who were exhausted physically and mentally, did not want to cause more trouble and wanted to spend money to eliminate the disaster. However, the boss of the boat was unwilling to give up and wanted to drag everyone in Yanyulou to the government. They were worried about Songfeng Mountain and Gelutai.
When the people in Yanyulou who were pursuing the army faced this unruly ship boss, even the Ni Bodhisattva became very angry and wanted to take him down by force.
The detailed situation at that time is unknown, and there are different opinions. The most circulated version is that the two sides who had already used the knife were actually evenly matched. As a Jiangzhou cavalry archer passing by for training saw, both sides were shot dead on the spot as rogues. Yanyu Tower
Everyone's heads were cut off by these passing tourists and they were taken back to collect the reward money.
The one who supported the Yanyu Tower until the last moment was Wu Changbo, the acting building owner. The rest of the people in the Yanyu Tower died under the bows and arrows that were obviously specially made to deal with martial arts warriors. Only Wu Changbo, who was dressed as a Confucian scholar, supported until the end.
When Wu Changbo was the only one left on the boat, the horsemen and archers on the shore put away their bows and arrows, made a way out of the middle, and one man rode out alone.
After listening to the man's sincere words of persuasion to surrender, Wu Changbo, the last owner of Yanyu Tower, pointed to the corpse next to him that was covered with arrows and said: