After coming out of the prime minister's mansion, he ran to the two Zhuji stores. When he got home, it was still early, so Ning Yi walked around the courtyard. ,
Since Jinghan came to live in the capital ten years ago, it has been a hasty and long three years in the blink of an eye. In the three years, whether it is long or short, a family member has moved to two places in a row. , are all due to the increase in households caused by relocation.
Fortunately, young people are better able to adapt to the environment, and secondly, most of the original occupants have some background in the purchase of houses with the help of the people in the prime minister's residence. The house has been carefully arranged and taken care of in the hands of the original owner. After buying it, you can live in it, and you will soon be able to use it as a home.
At this time, the compound where everyone lived originally belonged to a Confucian master who was skilled in calligraphy and painting. The layout of the house and the courtyard was very particular, and there was a spirit of elegance and grace in it. After Ning Yi and others moved in , the appearance has not changed in general, but without the rules of the original owner, the atmosphere is more lively and natural.
Autumn is here, the leaves of the plane trees in the courtyard have begun to turn yellow, and the sun and shade are also warm. Wen Fang, Wending and others were mostly indifferent to such a scene, but Ning Yi liked this kind of atmosphere very much. Walking all the way back to the inner courtyard, I nodded slightly with some family members. Because I knew the recent tensions in the north and also knew that Ning Yi was working in the prime minister's mansion, these family servants or relatives such as younger siblings did not dare to disturb him too much. .
Back in the room where she lives with Tan'er now, as the hostess of the house, Tan'er is looking through some account books or business records. Seeing him coming back, he greeted him with a smile, and at the same time asked Juaner to pour tea: "Has the war in the north improved? Why did the Prime Minister let you back so early today."
Ning Yi said with a smile: "I have something to tell you, sit down first."
"Yeah." Tan'er sat down beside the bed. Ning Yi took the tea, looked outside, then went to close the door, and the room was slightly darkened.
"The news just came, and it came directly to Qin Xiang, so you haven't seen it yet. The war in the north has collapsed." Ning Yi poured down the tea. "Guo Yaoshi is defeated. The Yisheng Army at Yanmen Pass surrendered and opened the city gate. Jurchen has already killed the first line of defense."
After Ning Yi took over the matter of the Secret Investigation Division, in order to let Tan'er's power be brought into play. Also for an extra backbone in the family. A lot of information was passed to him at the same time. It will also spread to Tan'er's side. Right now, the information is too shocking and has not yet been released, so Ning Yi can only say it again. listened to him. Tan'er also frowned: "Then, what should I do? Does the court have any countermeasures?"
"From Yanmen Pass to the south, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops. It can't be said that there is no countermeasure. But there is one thing to do, Tan'er, you have to take your family to the south, you can go back to Jiangning or not. , We have money and live in the place where we have our house, but... I hope to try to evacuate to the south of the Yangtze River as much as possible. The things here are kept, and we can come back after the matter is over. "
Tan'er's eyes became serious, she looked at Ning Yi, and thought for a moment: "You... the Xiangfu's expectations... so bad?"
"In the worst case scenario." Ning Yi lowered his voice, "It's not that the capital is not without the possibility of being breached."
"Okay." Tan'er took a breath, "I see. What about you? And Wen Dingwenfang and the others? Go? If you stay in the capital, will you have a chance to run out?"
"I'm going north."
The room was quiet.
"… what?"
"Two aspects." Ning Yi pulled the stool and sat in front of Tan'er, bowing slightly forward, "I will be in charge of the plan to clear the north wall. This plan is very troublesome, but what needs to be done must be done. According to the current expectations , On the front lines of Yanmen Pass and Taiyuan, Jurchen still has infantry teams and baggage teams, and their cavalry is too powerful, but the infantry is our key target."
"...Attack the infantry, while slowing down their speed, the nearby residents retreated into the city or the mountains, and cooperated with the army to fight against the Jurchens in these places, but there are too many people in the north, and the effect of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields is limited, and they want to completely destroy their supplies. It's almost impossible. However, if you only consider the cavalry, if they fight on the move, they can only have rations for a few days at most, and they must constantly loot. They can't fight us in the war of attrition in the north, so it must be considered that they The possibility of a quick battle and a direct approach to the capital."
Ning Yi waved his hand and gestured: "If the cavalry team really arrives here, they can start camping again, and the food they loot can also start preparing for the siege and hoarding it, so the most important thing is not to let them in Bian Liangcheng robbed enough rations to support the siege of the city. The strong wall in the north to clear the field is ultimately to increase the efficiency of their advance and buy time for the clearing around Bianliang City."
"I told Prime Minister Qin that in order not to be politically passive, I will consider the order from north to south, but in fact, it must be a two-pronged approach, and Prime Minister Qin also understands this. The north is racing against time, and the surrounding Bianliang City is not moving. Grid, but all preparations will start immediately. The whole thing is very big, and I have to stay in the center so that I can have the fastest response and the highest efficiency. Tan’er, you can understand.”
The two have been husband and wife for many years. Since they have gained mutual understanding, they have been able to discuss many things together. Ning Yi's remarks are both an explanation and an inquiry. When doing such a major event, he hopes to get the support of his family. However, when he raised his head at this time, Tan'er had already straightened up and looked at him. After a while, he suddenly shook his head.
Ning Yi rubbed his fingers a few times: "Tan'er, this is... must be done."
"But this is a war." Tan'er said hurriedly. Since the two became husband and wife, in the initial period of time, Tan'er did have a strong side, but after the imperial business incident, at least in front of Ning Yi, Tan'er no longer showed the attitude of a strong woman , sat there just now, and just listened with the expression of his wife, until now, blinking his eyes, his eyes were anxious, and then he showed some of the previous expressions, "I don't agree this time. You can't... At least stay in the capital?"
"It's not necessarily different from Fang La and Liang Shan."
"Of course it's different. That's Jurchen, and the Liao Kingdom has been beaten by them."
"How do you..."
In Ning Yi's mind, the many things he has experienced all the time are really no different. He didn't expect Tan'er to object at this time, so he stood up. At the same time, Tan'er by the bed also stood up almost agitatedly, grabbing Ning Yi's sleeves with both hands, as if she was grabbing him subconsciously. Don't let him go away.
The sound of family members walking around could be heard vaguely outside the window. In the room, Ning Yi sighed: "The matter has been decided." Tan'er grabbed his right hand, stretched out his left, and hugged her body. Tan'er took two steps. hugged by him. His eyes blinked, but they were already wet.
"I'm not going to die, the Jurchen invaded the south this time. The number of troops is at most ten or two hundred thousand. They pay attention to speed, and there are definitely not many places that can be swept. I am so well-informed, and there is a lot of room to deal with outside the city. safe."
Tan'er just shook her head in his arms.
"Also, the matter of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields may not have much effect, the scale is too large. But there must be a part of the effect, and it will not be completely meaningless. On the one hand, the battlefield is on the one hand, on the other hand, there are hundreds of people in Zhuji. Thousands of people can participate in this operation. They have received preliminary training to act according to the rules and regulations. I will simplify the steps and formulate rules for them. You can think about it, as long as these people participate in the promotion of an operation under the dispatch. No matter what the outcome of the large migration of millions or even millions of people, Zhuji will have a large number of talents who can be used. I know the household registration, terrain, and crowd conditions in the north. They, let alone doing business, can do anything in the future. No family force in the north can hold us down... Our enemy is not only the Jurchen this time, it is not enough to defeat them, compared to the Jurchen who defeated the Liao Kingdom. Seriously, their attitude this time is just a joke..."
Speaking of the second half, Ning Yi had lowered his voice. He hugged his wife and comforted him, while he pulled out his right hand and went up along her body. Holding her tightly, rubbing her back, and then gradually kneading it to her chest, and then unbuttoning her clothes, Tan'er naturally didn't resist his movements, she just listened to him and shook her head silently occasionally. After most of the shirt was undone and her husband stretched his hand into his chest for a while, he struggled abruptly, stepped back a few steps to the side, and escaped from Ning Yi's embrace.
"But I still don't agree this time." Tan'er's eyes were filled with tears, just like when Ning Yi used to go out for dangerous things, but in the past, although she was worried, she didn't stop her. This time it was different. It's just an attitude, "I'm your woman, you obviously don't have to go to the battlefield, you must go, what do you want me to nod for?"
"I'm not going to the battlefield."
"You just want to go to the north, don't lie to me, the efficiency is a little bit worse, the more people die, the more people die, I know you can stay in the capital. If you have to do things, I will support you, and it's just for nothing. There is such a great danger, I don't want you to go."
As she said this, she ran towards the door abruptly, and while buttoning her coat, she opened the door, and shouted from the outside: "Yunzhu, Jin'er, Xiaochan, come on, Xianggong is going to the battlefield. now-"
Ning Yi didn't expect this hand at all, he also walked over there, Tan'er turned around, looked at him, wiped his tears with his left hand and right hand, and watched Ning Yi come over, and suddenly knelt on Ning Yi's knees. In front of Yi, at this time Ning Xi was also appearing staggeringly in the courtyard. Ning Yi picked Tan'er up and said, "What are you doing?"
"I'll stay with you in the capital to do things. I don't want you to go."
While his wife was choking, Ning Yi looked outside, the whole yard was already in chaos, Yun Zhu and the others had been disturbed and ran over.
Before heading north, such a scene actually appeared. This was definitely something he didn't expect...
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north.
From Yanmenguan to Taiyuan, a huge chaos is spreading.
After the Yanmen Pass was broken, the scattered troops of the Wu Dynasty fled in all directions, and along the way, groups of soldiers and generals began to form a battle, either stationed waiting for orders, or concentrating on the nearby big city. The Jurchen did not stop, and the army's edge quickly expanded to the surrounding counties, towns, and cities. On the third day of the eighth lunar month, Xinzhou City, twenty miles away from Yanmen Pass, was just destroyed.
The slaughter spread across the city like a flood that covered the past. The defeated army and some residents of the original city organized sporadic resistance, and then they were crushed without a trace in this disaster.
This is a big city after passing through Yanmen Pass - of course, if compared with a city like Taiyuanfu, it can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized city. Since it is close to Yanmen Pass, its city defense is still relatively tight, and business from south to north has prospered here, so that there are tens of thousands of permanent residents here. In any case, it can be regarded as a piece of fat.
At the north gate, Wanyan Xiyin pressed the hilt of the sword. Leading the team of personal soldiers into the streets of Xinzhou. The sound of murder and arson all around continued to spread.
A pair of eyes, in a collapsed two-story building by the road, quietly staring at him...
…
South of Xinzhou City. Soldiers and civilians crowded the city roads. He rushed out of the city frantically. The street in the back. The Jurchen had already advanced and started a destructive fight in the streets, in an alley that was crowded with people. The three Jurchen knights blocked the back road, holding long spears, stabbed towards the front frantically.
Blood spurted out, and the screams of men, women, and children merged into one. Some people tried to hide below, and immediately their arms and heads were crushed by horse hooves. Others were stepping on them. The bodies of the others climbed to the other side of the wall. Among them, there were also defeated soldiers, holding steel knives. Seeing that the crowd squeezed past too slowly, they raised the steel knives and started killing people. However, the spears from the rear stabbed them and pierced them. .
When the corpse and blood stretched halfway down the alley, a figure suddenly descended from the wall, slapped one of the Jurchens in the head, and a Jurchen cavalry next to him responded very quickly, with the spear first. Time swept over, the man who descended and waved smoothly, the spear landed in his hand, turned in a different direction, and then simply swiped two shots. The heads of the two cavalrymen were instantly pierced, and their brains and blood were splattered. shot on the wall.
When everyone in the alley saw clearly that the person coming was an elderly man, the old man was already holding a long spear and pulling the reins, rushing towards the other end of the alley, and a small team of Jurchen soldiers appeared at the crossroads over there. The man strangled the war horse, and the war horse kicked out with its hooves and stomped a Jurchen soldier into mud. stand up.
On this side of the long street, the crowded crowd pushed forward even more frantically, and in the streets and alleys adjacent to them, the Jurchens had already caught up. In some places, small-scale resistance was occasionally formed, but except for the elderly. This kind of master who can fight, kill and escape, the resistance is usually crushed shortly after, and the body of the person is lying on the side of the road, or is impaled on the spear...
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Shi Jin and a few younger brothers sat in the restaurant, watching the occasional unfamiliar pedestrians, carts passing through the county, or residents of the county packing up in twos and threes to leave for a big city like Taiyuan.
The crowds scattered from north to south have become more and more, and among them are also the soldiers of the original Wu Shengjun, bringing bad news. The Jurchen broke the Yanmen Pass and slaughtered the city of Shuozhou. Now Xinzhou is probably almost gone. The Yisheng Army surrendered to the Jurchen. These original Liao people, together with the Jurchen, were defeated. None of the surrounding Wu Dynasty troops could fight. Wu Shengjun and Dong Panger were all unreliable. It is said that the Duke of Chu was in Taiyuan, so everyone was fleeing towards Taiyuan.
The restaurant is no longer in business, and the boss is also cleaning up and planning to leave. Shi Jin doesn't care, he shouldn't be afraid. While watching all this in the restaurant, someone came up from below, dressed in Jianghu clothes and hats, there were three in total, all of whom seemed to be from the Green Forest.
"We don't sell alcohol here, the boss is closed." The younger brother said to the three.
The three of them looked at this side, and then cupped their hands: "Brother only knows this place. I made an appointment to meet someone and borrow a place to rest."
The younger brother glanced at Shi Jin, Shi Jin turned his head to look down, he didn't care, and the younger brother stopped talking. Not long after, two more people from the Green Forest came over and greeted the other three. After a while, another person came.
The six of them whispered and spoke in a low voice. The last person who came was obviously a well-informed Bao Qun, who was agile and had a good footing skills. He was probably the one who spread the news and told the other five about the situation of the war in the north. Shi Jin pretended not to care, but his ears were listening.
After a while, something caught his attention.
"...The golden man came in a rage and broke through the city of Shuozhou without any effort... When Tu Shuozhou was slaughtered, the old man was there... Calling all heroes and helpers... Master Zhou is already in his 80s, he can still be like this, I am waiting for a good time..."
The rest asked, "Where is Master Zhou now..."
"Being able to contribute to Zhou Zongshi is a blessing in my life..."
Shi Jin stood up, and several younger brothers also stood up, and Shi Jin waved his hand to signal them to sit down. He walked towards the six people and cupped his hands: "Several brothers, they are talking about the master Zhou Dong Zhou, who is known as the iron arm."
The six looked at him, then stood up and cupped their hands: "This brother is..."
"The humble name is disgraceful, but if you want to go north to help Grandmaster Zhou, can you bring them along?"
Several people looked at each other, and one of them said: "Brother, I'm waiting to go north, but to die, it's not something that can be done in a moment of brainstorming."
"Let's join hands."
Shi Jin stretched out his right hand, and the man on the other side stretched out his hand too. When the two touched their hands, the man exerted force, and when he turned his wrist, the eagle claws grabbed Shi Jin's vein gate, and Shi Jin was also a palm. Turn it over, let him grab it, but the sleeves go out, obscuring everyone's vision. After a moment, the man withdrew his hand: "This brother is a master. The person who can be called Master Zhou in the world is naturally Senior Zhou Tong Zhou. It's just that the brother is so strong in martial arts, and he doesn't want to tell his identity. Could it be the enemy of Master Zhou?"
"I'm also a Han Chinese." Shi Jin cupped his hands and said for a moment, "I'm a guilty person, but I'm a close brother who is a direct disciple of Zhou Zongshi. His mentor is here, so I can go down here."
Several people laughed: "It's hard to be innocent if you are mixed on the road."
The light-hearted man next to him said, "It's enough to say that there are brothers who are Han Chinese."
The seven people said a few more words here. Not long after, the sky was approaching dusk, and the seven figures left the small county town and rode their horses all the way to the north. On the nearby official road, there were many pedestrians fleeing from the military disaster. Depressed, endless... (Please search Piao astronomy, better and faster!