"Deputy commander, look." A soldier standing next to Wanyan Yong pointed to the flashing red light in the night sky not far away, and hummed coldly towards Wan Yan Yong, "Probably the group of southern barbarians are here again. Let's celebrate with fireworks!"
Along the way, they have seen too many things like this!
I don’t know how these Han people, who were obviously detained in the vicinity of the city, passed the news, and why the news of their defeat with the Song Army was even more transmitted than they were riding horses all the way. Faster, spread more widely!
Just a few days ago, they had discovered that in these cities where Han people gathered, many Han people were celebrating their failures, and even the Jurchen guards and officials who often carried those cities on their backs gathered in groups. Cheers and celebrate.
When the heavy rains are continuous like today, there are still people running out, and there will be such behaviors. This is really making Wan Yan Yong and the surrounding Jurchen generals who are looking up at the flashing red light. An inexplicable and strange emotion came out of our hearts.
"Hmph, I have already said that the Nanbans are not familiar with how they are raised." A general seemed to be trying to break this kind of depressive mood, shaking his head and saying, "It should have been long ago. Kill them all, kill them, they should slaughter the city! Slaughter the city!"
"Yes, Tucheng!" The soldiers next to them all nodded in unison, some of them were still sticking out their scarlet tongues and licking their lips, as if they were covered with the blood of the Han people!
In such an era, even the former Great Master of Song Dynasty must use continuous victories, continuous kills, and the flesh and blood of the enemy to maintain the morale and bravery of the entire army during the battle. People can still move towards the same goal!
After all, what a real army needs most is the kind of wildness deep in the human heart, and under the long agitation of this kind of wildness, it is easy for people to tear off the kind that was originally guarded by the long-standing ethics and teachings. Behaving squarely, revealing a side more like a beast.
Human nature is evil, and all rituals and justices are not externalized. I believe that every commander who has been in the army for a long time has a deep understanding of this sage's words.
After all, the barbarity and impulse in people's hearts, when they are really stirred up, they can almost only rely on killing and blood to vent them completely. Other than that, any ritual education is powerless.
Therefore, in order to maintain the combat power of the army, the generals of the unified army have adopted a posture of indulgence and even active agitation for this kind of brutality deep in the hearts of the people. Even the famous generals of ancient and modern times have their own set of methods. When these barbarians were truly on the verge of combat, they were agitated to the wildest level. However, after that, in order to vent these barbarians that may not have been completely vented, there will be any true barbarians from ancient times to the present. The army has not been able to completely avoid the "slaughter of the city".
What's more, the Jurchen army led by Jin Wushu is just a group of Jurchen savages who have just walked out of the bitter cold land of Baishan and Blackwater but have been in a mere more than 20 years, especially since the establishment of the capital of Jurchen Kingdom. Rejecting the Han family’s clothes, and changing them to behave like hustle and bustle, at least now among the younger generation of Jurchen children in the army, most of them belong to those who do not know what education is. In their view, war is only Means one thing, that is to kill! Kill him bloody, kill him corpses everywhere, kill him heartily!
Especially this time with the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be said to be extremely depressing. Previously, under Shuzhou City, the situation was good all the way. The isolated city was besieged and the bloody battle lasted for dozens of days. When they finally broke through the gate of Shuzhou City. , Cheering and pouring into this legendary southern city full of children’s jade silk, thinking about burning, killing, and plundering, they found helplessly that there was only such a dilapidated empty city in front of them, Mo It is said that there is no property, jade silk, even every door panel has been dismantled as a bunker on the city wall. Not to mention that there are no children of the Song Dynasty who can rape, kill, and abduct. Moving creatures are hard to find.
This group of Jurchen sergeants, who were going crazy, began to follow their commander, rushing all the way, chasing all the way, and then they chased into the valley, and then they met Da Song’s army, and then , They were defeated in such a vague way, and even to this day, including these warriors who are now surrounded by Wanyan Yong, many people still haven’t figured out how they fell like this. After entering the siege of the Song army, how could it turn that great situation overnight and change the situation of victory or defeat!
It's just that, they have been motivated by their high fighting spirit and barbarism since their march with the army, but they have never found a chance to give vent from the beginning, and they are being besieged there. When I was in the valley, at the beginning of the retreat, the pressure of being besieged to a desperate situation, life-threatening, and unexpectedly coming to life from a desperate situation, it was so incredible to escape the joy of life. They all temporarily alleviated the bloodthirsty emotion that was surging in their hearts, and these Jurchen sergeants had no time to take care of the impulse deep in their hearts from top to bottom.
However, as the country has now withdrawn to the Central Plains, which has long been occupied by the Jurchen Kingdom, the crisis has gradually disappeared, so the irritability and impulse in my heart has gradually surging out, especially in these days. In the intermittent high-intensity march, the sense of boring and tiredness combined with the sense of boundless future brought about by the defeat made the hearts of each of these Jurchen sergeants almost suffocated. A fire can burst out at any time.
In fact, marching has always been the most difficult thing to bring about such newly defeated army. After all, even if the victorious division has won a tragic victory, even if it has not been captured, even if it has never been killed in a big way, but how can it be said? They also won a battle. How can they say that they will be rewarded more or less after they return to the imperial court. How can they be said that they will come back alive after all, and they can also add new ones to their military records. One stroke.
But this kind of defeated army, and this kind of inexplicably defeated army, although it seems that they have not suffered any humiliation, although it seems that they still maintain their dignity, but in fact, this kind of battle has been completely completed. Quandi destroyed their self-confidence, completely letting them not know what they will face after returning to the country, because when his other colleagues asked them about this battle, they could say that they really worked hard, really desperately. It's true that there have been bloody battles, but I really don't know how to answer why they lost so quickly and so badly so suddenly!
Since Jin Wushu became an army, even when he faced Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other tiger generals, the worst defeats had never been so embarrassing as today, so these Jurchen sergeants From officers to soldiers, everyone does not know what they will face after returning home.
Every time they think of these problems, they really want to pull out the knife, kill everything they can see, and chop it all away, until they exhaust the last force in their bodies.
And along the way, the situation that the Han people often see when they gather to celebrate, in fact, provides these Jurchen warriors with a good reason, and it also stimulates these Jurchen sergeants to a large extent. Our bloodthirsty impulse.
Because it was the army of these Han people that made them feel so embarrassed today, and now these Han people, who have been slaves and maids under the rule of the Jurchen Kings for more than ten years, dare to actually In places under their control, under their swords and guns, openly applauded and cheered for their failure. This is simply too deceptive!
kill! Kill him clean!
These Jurchen sergeants yelled these words privately, I don't know how many times!
"Okay, no need to yell here." The soldier closest to Wanyan Yong stood up at this moment and poured cold water on, and said coldly: "What's the use of talking here? , Have the ability to call in front of the marshal!"
"Oh", the other war commanders heard this guy's nonchalant words, but they didn't have any extreme reactions. They just sighed together and smiled bitterly: "If the commander would agree, I won't wait until today!"
These days, this idea of theirs is of course not just thinking about it in their hearts. On the way, someone has already made suggestions to Jin Wushu about killing the city, but they have all been rejected by Jin Wushu. Now, even when Alida, the closest confidant of Jin Wushu, was pushed by a group of generals to meet Jin Wushu and demanded to slaughter a group of Han people who were cheering in the city not far away. , Jin Wushu made a stern face, severely reprimanded, and issued a strict order, during this marching journey, no one is allowed to mention this matter, otherwise he will be engaged in military law!
These generals, including Alida, really don't understand what the Jin Wushu master is thinking!
These generals have been following Jin Wushu for a long time. They are different from those ordinary Jurchen soldiers who really went to the battlefield for the first time. Therefore, they thought that they still had a certain character for Jin Wushu. Understandable.
The Jin Wushu commander led the Jurchen army from the white mountains and black waters. In the past ten years, he has marched all the way and has broken countless cities. He has seen a lot of blood and blood. Walking along the road, he has killed himself and has never had anything. The benevolence of a woman is unnecessary, otherwise he would never be able to build the most direct line of the Jurchen clan into an iron cavalry master regardless of victory or defeat in such a battle.
It’s like this sort of act of plundering and slaughtering the city. Before that, Jin Wushu had done it many times. These generals really couldn’t understand why this commander of theirs suddenly happened. In the meantime, for this group of people who just caused them to endure such an inexplicable failure, and just let them return to the country in such a humiliating defeat, they have to face the completely unpredictable censure and punishment from the court. The group of Han people gave birth to such unreasonable benevolent thoughts.
"It won't be this defeat, the commander was too much stimulated", a war fighter said with a little sneer: "So my mind started to be a bit..."
"Shut up!" Wan Yan Yong, who had not spoken for a while, said, softly cursing, preventing the unobstructed guy from continuing to speak.
This time, the battle with the Song Dynasty, although the Jurchen army can be said to be a complete defeat, for the deputy commander of Wanyan Yong, it can be said that it is a stalemate and a blessing.
Before this battle, the prestige of Jin Wushu in this Jurchen army was so high that no one could look back. His influence in this hand-held Jurchen army, even today’s Jurchen. The Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, Jin Xizong, Wanyanquan, was still in the slightest unshakable.
However, just after this battle, the situation turned around too quickly and in a hurry, so that most of the sergeants, including generals, had not yet figured out what happened. Afterwards, All this can only be attributed to Jin Wushu’s improper command. After all, because of the mentality of blaming more than others in the depths of people’s hearts, they always feel that they are already fighting hard and bloody, and they are already moving forward together. Such an inexplicable fall into the siege of the Song Kingdom's army, but it can only really be Jin Wushu's oversight.
And just when they were besieged by the Song Kingdom’s army in that valley, under Zhao Kuangyin’s insightful approach to human nature, a large number of these Jurchen generals stood there out of the desire to survive. On this side of Wanyan Yong, he violated the meaning of Jin Wushu and wanted to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty for survival.
Although afterwards, things seemed to have had many repetitions that they could not understand, but after Jin Wushu talked with the messengers of Song State and returned, he still treated them as before, and did not show any dissatisfaction. However, These generals are always unavoidable to be suspicious of ghosts, and it is inevitable to look at everything and feel that the Jin Wushu commander already has a grudge against them, and has already saved their minds to clear them.
So deliberately or unintentionally, these few main leaders and the most powerful generals of the day, these days, on the contrary, they gradually started to get closer to Wanyan Yong. After all, they also understood that this Wanyan Yong deputy Shuai is actually the representative of the current Jurchen Jin Dynasty Emperor Jin Xizong Wanyanquan in this Jurchen army. Standing behind the Wanyan Yong deputy commander is the current emperor of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom.
No matter when, the current Emperor of the Great Golden Empire is still the supreme ruler of the Jurchen Kingdom in name, and he is also the person who holds the supreme power of the Jurchen Kingdom in name!
Moreover, this Jin Xizong is not a puppet emperor. Although he is still young, he still needs to respect the opinions and suggestions of the founding fathers of the family such as Jinwushu in many things, but the emperor himself of the Daijin Empire. , But also has the strength of the new generation of War God Wan Yanliang in the Jurchen Army as a backing. In recent years, in the overall political situation of the DPRK, it has become more and more arbitrary, and it can be said that it is on an upward trend.
What's more, they are completely defeated generals this time. Although these generals have not been too familiar with the government affairs of the court for a long time, even if they only rely on intuition, they know that after returning home this time, I am afraid In this Jurchen army, it is inevitable to purge a group of people.
After all, the emperor of the Jurchen Golden Kingdom has always wanted to infiltrate his power into this Jurchen lineage army that is completely controlled by Jin Wushu. It’s just that this army has always been from the top. To the next, there was a kind of blind worship and trust in Jin Wushu, so Jin Xizong's attempts to seize control of this Jurchen army had little effect.
Therefore, this time the Jurchen army was optimistic about the situation before the expedition, and suffered such a defeat. For this Jin Xizong, it is a godsend. Although this time the Song army only intercepted half of their horses, this The true strength of a Jurchen army has not been shaken by the roots, and Jin Wushu has such a reliance on it. The Jin Xizong should not dare to treat him, but they, middle-level and low-level generals, can be completely There is no such confidence.
In any case, someone must come out to be responsible for this failure. Since Jin Xizong can't shake Jin Wushu's commanding position, it is naturally possible that these middle-level and low-level officers may be caught and regarded as this time. The scapegoat of defeat, how can I depreciate a batch, kill a batch, and then use the opportunity of punishing this big defeat to squeeze into some of the direct lines of this great king emperor, even if it is Jin Wushu's dissatisfaction. In such an atmosphere, I am afraid it is hard to say anything.
Therefore, these middle and lower-level generals have gathered more and more blatantly around Wanyan Yong these days, but they also want to show their attitude to Wanyan Yong, the representative of Jin Xizong in this Jurchen army. , To show that he already had a position to turn to His Majesty the Daijin Emperor, so as to avoid being pulled out as a scapegoat in the next purge that is almost bound to come.
In fact, when they were besieged by the Song Army regiment, they wanted to live by peace, so they chose to stand on Wanyan Yong’s side. They were already more active-minded guys. They felt at a loss that they could not see the atmosphere of the future, so they chose to turn to Wanyan Yong's side, which was a matter of course.
Wan Yan Yong was naturally aware of these, but he didn't mean to reject them.
After all, he came forward to gradually take over Jin Wushu’s connections and powers in this Jurchen army. It is also the fundamental reason why Jin Xizong appointed him as the deputy commander of this army, and it was also the reason why Jin Xizong entrusted him to him. Task.
Now that these generals deliberately switched to his sect, and now that he finally has his own team, his own strength, and his own influence in this Jurchen army, it is naturally impossible for him to push these people out. .
It’s just that, regardless of the predecessors, Wan Yan Yong still did not allow anyone to mention Jin Wushu’s half-line no.
He has never forgotten what his four uncles said to him that day, and when he patted him on the shoulder, the smile that was absolutely sincere and gratifying.
"You are not allowed to talk about these words again", Wan Yanyong raised his head and looked at Jin Wushu's figure that stood straight under the rain, but could no longer hide his somewhat old figure, and sighed secretly: "Da Shuai, he will have his own reasons!"