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Although the time has entered autumn, the temperature in the air has not dropped. After Xinzhou City, fewer pedestrians can be seen on the road and in the mountains and fields, and there is an occasional smell of burnt smell in the wind. Shi Jin knows that it is. The smell of corpses burned by the flames.
The Jinren hadn't come yet, but this time, the vanguard of the Yisheng Army who had surrendered to the Jurchen at Yanmen Pass had already ravaged the territory near Xinzhou City in waves. When Shi Jin and the other seven passed through Xinzhou City, martial law had already begun in the entire city. The disbanded Wusheng Army and half of the nearby Wuwei Army had already entered Xinzhou, ready to stand by the city defense and wait for an opportunity to attack. It's just that on the other side of the road, more people continue to go south, hoping to enter a big city like Taiyuan.
As people in the green forest, Shi Jin and others were not slow. They set off in the evening and went north along the official road. When it entered the middle of the night, the road was already congested. They took some detours and crossed Xinzhou City at midnight. A large number of officers and soldiers were Entering from the city gate, the torches stretched out, illuminating the whole city and the ancient city walls, the cries and the chaos of the tumult made such a night as noisy as the day. However, after passing Xinzhou, the light gradually disappeared, and the seven people seemed to have entered a wild ancient realm, carefully choosing the road and slowing down.
In the process of going to dawn in the early morning, the foothills of the mountain were extremely silent. Occasionally, I could see the light of one or two torches. It was probably the villagers who were walking among the nearby mountains. They had been dropped by the large army, but they were still fleeing south. . They may not be safe, but at least, in such a late night, the large force will not move anymore.
Going further, you can occasionally smell the charred corpse, the traces left around yesterday evening. In the early morning, the mountains have gradually swelled with fog. As the morning approached, the white fog met and stretched out. When everyone led their horses down a hill, they saw a faint red glow in the fog ahead.
It was a sign of the flames burning, but there was no human voice. As they moved forward in the fog like ships in the sea, the smell of burning became stronger. The person walking in front found the body first, and fell into the small stream that surrounded the village. There was a stone bridge that was not wide in front of it. The stone bridge went forward, and the dead people were hung on the giant tree. The scene further ahead became clearer. A small half of the village is still burning, but many more have been burned to ashes.
The charred, uncharred corpse appeared shockingly in front of me. This was a mountain village that had been massacred and then burned for most of the night.
There are no living people.
Some houses ahead have collapsed. The road through the village was also blocked. They walked around the village silently. In the floating fog, the ruins of the village next to it were burning with flames. Smoke, like a huge ship that is burning and sinking after being hijacked on the sea.
in the mist. The seven people led the horse, and they didn't say a word in the process of moving forward. People who are mixed in the green forest have seen blood more or less on their hands. Like Shi Jin, who had seen massacres on Mount Liang, perhaps among the other six. But perhaps no vision can give them the feeling of "sinking" so strongly. Compared with the destructive force coming from the whole country, no single army or bandit can cause such a strong sense of destruction, because everyone can understand. The same scene may still be happening in many places around at this time.
"This time the golden dog is heading south. The general commanding all the way to the west is Nianhan."
After the village. Walking in front, the lean bag asked in such a low voice. His name was Qian Fei, and he was quite famous for running around Yanmen Pass. The so-called Nianhan was the real name of Wanyan Zonghan's Jurchen.
"Zhou Zongshi has followed the army all the way since he was in the north, just to find out their realities. Nianhan is one of the most powerful in the court of the Jin Kingdom. If we can kill him, the siege of this army will be as well. I can figure it out."
Among the seven people, except Shi Jin and Qian Fei, the other five were divided into two groups. The group of three was the first to go to the restaurant, and it seemed that they had spent a lot of time in the green forest. "Wei Bao, "Epee" Fang Ya and "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing. The other two are relatively young. They have a knife and a sword. It is said that they have some hidden weapon skills. They are called "Hebei Shuangying". One is Chen Xi and the other is Tang Zuhan, but they don't seem to be very famous people. . According to what they said, after listening to Zhu Ji's storytelling, they felt that the great chivalrous person should serve the country and the people, so after hearing the news of the Jurchen going south, they felt that they should stand in the way and do something.
For Shi Jin, apart from Qian Fei's Qinggong, the rest of the people's kung fu is at most average, or middle-low, even in the "Hebei" "Shuangying" both of them were not very solid in nature. After passing through Xinzhou City, their emotions became obviously a little nervous. But at this time, it is difficult to ask for more.
As the sun rose, they heard the sound of hooves rattling and shaking the ground. The bag asked Qian Fei: "Dai County is coming soon." The few people left their horses temporarily in the woods and walked all the way. When they touched the edge of the woods, they could vaguely see the city wall in the distance.
A golden horse team galloped past the road outside, and the soldiers stationed on the city wall in the distance were already Jurchen soldiers.
Pillars of smoke emerged from the city and rose into the sky. In the county town over there, there were all kinds of small noises, as if there were countless people whispering among them, screaming and screaming. Several people lay in the grass and listened for a while, Qian Fei's fist hit the ground: "The city is occupied..."
"Senior Zhou... How should I get in touch?" Tang Zuhan asked anxiously.
Qian Fei shook his head: "I don't know either, when I went south, it was my master who had contact with Senior Zhou, and now such a soldier is fighting in danger, I don't know where Senior Zhou is now, if he is in the city... We may have to wait until dark before we can go in and find him..."
"The Jurchen is in the massacre." Chen Xiuqing gritted her teeth and said this sentence, "What if you go in, can you find Senior Zhou?"
"You gotta try it."
"Let's go around the city to see if there are any openings around..." Shi Jin lowered his voice and crawled back in the grass. Several people accepted his idea, retreated into the woods, and circled the past.
Perhaps it was because the Jurchen completely occupied the city. He also rushed out and killed him again. There were traces of people running past in the woods. Occasionally, arrows were seen on the ground, and occasionally corpses were exposed in the grass, and the bloody atmosphere permeated. Occasionally there seems to be a Jurchen squad walking around in the woods. Fortunately, several of them have kung fu. Qian Fei has high attainments in light kung fu and concealment, while Shi Jin has deep internal kung fu. It is not difficult to avoid these boring patrollers. It was only when I saw the south gate of Dai County that a surprising scene appeared in front of me again.
On the opening of the south gate, there are piles of civilian corpses. It seems that there are hundreds of them, and the bloody smell has dyed the road red, and even pushed it into a small quagmire on the side of the road. Some were also inserted or hung on flagpoles or city gates. Seeing such a scene, Tang Zuhan in "Hebei Shuangying" even covered his mouth and almost spit it out. Qian Fei watched from afar in the shadow of the tree, and after a while, everyone saw him kneeling down, crying and kowtow slowly.
"The one on the city gate...is my master..." He simply said this, among the few, only Shi Jin had the highest skill and could clearly see the corpses hanging on the city gate. But he didn't know that the master that Qian Fei was talking about was the dwarf's corpse that was almost chopped into two pieces on the city gate.
Also at this time. Then I heard the sound from the city wall, and then, the bodies of the two stripped white flowers were pushed down the city by the screaming Jurchen on the city wall, and fell to the bottom of the city and fell to their death.
Qian Fei gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "Let's go again and see if there is a place to go in nearby..."
So it was another round of detours. But they couldn't find a place to go in during the day, and they hid in the nearby woods. Occasionally, Qian Fei and others would go to the nearby city wall to watch the movement. The carnage going on in the city became clearer as the sun rose, farther away. Like the sound of a wall separated from hell. I don't know how many people are being searched out in the city after the city was broken, killed, abused and raped. Even Shi Jin could only grit his teeth at this time. At noon, he heard the "Hebei Shuangying" discussing going out to kill Jurchen.
"They always get separated. I went to fight with them..."
"Kill one counts as one, kill two count as one pair, I can't stand this..."
Qian Fei clenched his fists: "Does it make sense? Does it make sense?"
"Anyway, we won't be able to find Zhou Zongshi. If he is in the city, maybe at this time..."
Although a few people said this, they didn't really rush out and try their best. In the afternoon, when the sun shines through the tree gap, Shi Jin looks up, suddenly feeling a little dazed at Beishang's feverish brain at the moment. Although he had thought about the situation that he would die in the war, and the possibility of turning around and running away, but now that Qian Fei and others came up, he could not find the Zhou Tong he wanted to see, which was really unexpected. thing.
Wanting to see Zhou Tong was out of concern for Brother Lin's loyalty, but even if he did see him, he might not be able to say anything. He can accept desperately or running away, but staying here doesn't know what to do, it seems a bit silly, especially in the surrounding environment, Jurchen is massaging the city, and many people are dying every moment, I don't know. What to do, especially stupid.
Otherwise, don't look for Zhou Tong and get rid of these people. At that time, it would be much easier to turn around, try desperately, or sneak into the city. This thought popped into my mind. At this time, Qian Fei, Wei Bao, Fang Ya, and Chen Xiuqing had already gone to explore the reality on the other side of the city wall, and they heard the shaking of the earth gradually.
Shi Jin and "Hebei Shuangying" hurried to the edge of the woods, but only Qian Fei was found. On the side of the field of vision, the Jurchen flags came out from the south gate of Dai County, and the cavalry formation spread like a huge torrent of war horses and flags. . Shi Jin asked Qian Fei about the whereabouts of the three, and Qian Fei said, "The Jurchen is out of the city, this is going to fight Xinzhou. The three of them go around to other places to see if there is any place where the Jurchen has withdrawn from the city defense."
"The city defense has not been withdrawn." Shi Jin looked at the patrolling soldiers on the city wall, and said in a low voice, "Only a few people came out, and the people inside are still killing people. Until night... I'm afraid they won't be able to get in."
Qian Fei nodded silently. A few of them hid in the shadows, not far from the Jurchen brigade that went out of the city to the south. Most of these people were bound with long ropes by their hands, men and women, young and old. They were connected by strings. The Jurchen cavalry tried their best to drive them away with whips, and the sound of weeping hummed through the air. The desolate sight makes one really want to rush out.
Shi Jin watched for a while, gritted his teeth, and put his hands on the shoulders of "Hebei Shuangying". Whispered: "Let's go, go back..."
Returning to the place where they had been hiding, several people were still shaking all over. However, the other three hadn't come back. After a while, they heard the sound of commotion coming from not far away. Someone was shouting, "Go! Go! Yah-" Shi Jin heard it, but it was Fang Ya, the "epee sword" among the three.
They rushed over there with their weapons, but the other side was also the edge of the woods, but it was a rugged soil slope. . He was running upstairs with two other people. The two men, a man and a woman, seemed to be both civilians. The man was covered in blood, and the woman was in ragged clothes, so they would only be able to cover their bodies. The rear rushed up around them. It was five Jurchen cavalrymen, and one of them had a head in his hand.
"Bronze Hand" Wei Bao's head.
Arriving in Dai County, before even going in, one of his companions had died. Although he knew that these people's martial arts might not be very strong, in people's hearts, it was inevitable to feel a sense of frustration.
"Hebei Shuangying" shouted. Qi Qi rushed out. As soon as Shi Jin gritted his teeth, he had already leaped in front of the two in a few steps, running towards the bottom. The five Jurchen cavalry saw help coming. One of them suddenly released a loud arrow, which flew into the sky and exploded. At that time, Fang Ya, the "epee sword", was hit by a cavalryman who rushed forward with a spear. He vomited blood and flew into the air. On the other side, Shi Jin had also rushed from the hillside. A Jurchen cavalry shot out, and Shi Jin leaped in midair. The figure shrunk into a ball like an ape, and then suddenly exploded!
bang. The Jurchen cavalry was stabbed and flew out by his stick with a huge momentum, and his internal organs should have been shattered. The warhorse, which was originally standing horizontally, was driven by the power of this stick, and it was unsteady.
"Quick fight!"
Knowing that the other party had fired a loud arrow, the surrounding Jurchen patrols could immediately come over. Shi Jin gave a low drink, waved his long stick in the dust, and rushed forward. Qian Fei and "Hebei Shuangying" had also rushed over, together with "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing and the other four cavalry suddenly fought.
Fighting on the battlefield, the victory or defeat is only a few breaths, and the difference is instantaneous. Qian Fei and Chen Xiuqing shot at almost the same time, killing a cavalryman, and Chen Xi and Tang Zuhan also knocked down a Jurchen. Shi Jin fought the two of them alone. He stabbed one person off the horse, and the other cavalry charged at high speed. Shi Jin and his spear passed by by mistake, and the wooden stick slammed into the opponent and smashed it to pieces. The opponent smashed into the air a few times before landing with a rumble. Shi Jin grabbed the spear, turned around and stabbed the other dismounted cavalry to death on the ground.
When he turned to look, he saw Chen Xi in "Hebei Shuangying" standing blankly not far away. He and Tang Zuhan shot down a Jurchen cavalry, but the other party was also very brave, and they rushed after drawing their swords. The two joined forces to make Tang Zuhan slash the other's head with a knife. At this time, the big sword was still embedded in the dead Jurchen's head. The knife handed out by the other party cut off Chen Xi's right hand. At this time, blood spurted out of the cut. Tang Zuhan, who was next to him, was at a loss, and Chen Xi also stood blankly, looking at his shoulders and the ground. Holding the arm of the sword, the sun shone down, and he stumbled and sat back.
Shi Jin rushed up, tapped a few acupuncture points near his broken arm, and then tore a piece of cloth from his clothes and tyed him to the cut in his shoulder. Chen Xi was still sluggish and unable to react. Not far away, "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing was breathing heavily and talking to Qian Fei and Shi Jin here: "I, I, I... Let's go to see the city wall... I saw these Jurchens doing evil... There are only six of them, we thought we would definitely be able to do it. We won, we thought…”
The three of them came together, but by this time, Wei Bao and Fang Ya were already dead, leaving him alone. Shi Jin turned his head and shouted, "Ride on a horse! Go!" Qian Fei had already turned over on a war horse, Chen Xiuqing was nervous, but also turned over and rode on a horse, Chen Xi pointed at the broken arm on the ground with his left finger: "My hand, my hand… "
"Your hand is gone!" Shi Jin shouted, and said to Tang Zuhan again, "Wait for him to run!" In the distance, arrows flew towards this side! A dozen or so Jurchen patrols had already rushed over.
Shi Jin grabbed the snatched spear and got on his horse. Tang Zuhan also quickly mounted Chen Xi. Chen Xi was crying, and his words were hurried: "My hand, my hand..." As if he didn't know that the blood of the severed arm had soaked through half body.
Qian Fei rode out on his horse and grabbed the ragged woman on the dirt slope and placed it on the horse. Shi Jin also rushed over, reaching out to grab another man covered in blood. But he suddenly grabbed the air, and when he looked closely, an arrow was shot in the back of the man, and he fell to the ground without moving.
Shi Jin strangled his horse. Looking at the dozen or so cavalry that Jurchen rushed towards, the other party held a bow to shoot arrows, Shi Jin danced his spear, knocked out the arrows with a rush, snorted a few times at the foreplay and others, and winked a few times. After they ran away, they turned the horse's head and ran in a slightly different direction.
Not long after, the Jurchen patrol team was divided into two teams, the larger team. Followed in the direction of Shi Jin's escape.
The horses chased, fled, fought, and ran into the mountains. On the road parallel to them, a terrifying army of Jurchens was heading southward in the direction of Xinzhou City, and a large number of civilians of the Wu Dynasty were surrounded by them, every moment. All died in whipping and crying.
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At night, the sun has set in the sky. In the glimmer of the stars, the Jurchen knight stands in the mountains. Holding the steel knife, he quietly listened to the surrounding movement. At a certain moment, he suddenly moved in a certain direction, waved his bow, and the sound of horse hooves galloped. The figure of the war horse rushed out and collided fiercely with the war horse under his crotch. The two war horses made a dull sound in the dark. The arrow flew out with a bloody light and flew into the night sky. The knights on the two horses were also knocked out. Rolled several times on the ground and stood up.
The Jurchen warrior held a steel knife. The man opposite stood up, but moved his arms. He was strong, tall, and well-proportioned. The Jurchen warrior shouted "Wow" and charged with a knife. The two figures collided under the starlight. It was just two violent fights. The steel knife changed hands. After five or six knives, each knife was directly swiped on the opponent's body.
The Jurchen's body exploded as if he had been chopped out of blood, and when he fell to the ground, the opponent's speed of swinging the knife slowed down, and he swung a few more knives at the corpse on the ground before stopping.
"Nine-patterned dragon" Shi Jin. He wiped the blood on the steel knife between the mountains and put it on his body. When he went to look at the two war horses, he found that the two horses after the violent collision were both injured and fell in a pool of blood and could not walk. He sighed, turned his head to identify the direction, and then walked in the direction of Xinzhou.
In the process of fleeing just now, he killed all the Jurchen cavalry behind him one by one, including two new Jurchen scouts who joined the pursuit. Although they were also injured, they were not serious after all. Going all the way down, in the outline of the mountains not far away, you can vaguely see the place below the side, the ruins of the burning village that I saw in the morning, now it has no fire, and in the darkness, it looks like a tomb. .
Shi Jin went all the way through the mountains, and met two Jurchen scouts on the way. When he got to a woodland, he suddenly noticed something, he pulled his horse and stopped, a figure jumped down from a tree not far away, and it was actually Qian Fei, who was in charge of inquiring.
The two looked at each other and said nothing, Qian Fei led the way, and Shi Jin followed. In a place in the woods, Shi Jin saw a few people who were running away. Chen Xiuqing huddled into a ball in the darkness, looking at a corpse in front of her, but the corpse belonged to the woman who was rescued. She stabbed a knife into her chest, apparently committing suicide. Not far away, Chen Xi with a broken arm in "Hebei Shuangying" was lying under a tree, and Tang Zuhan sat beside him.
Seeing Shi Jin, who is highly skilled in martial arts, come quietly, Chen Xiuqing and Tang Zuhan seemed to be a little more sober. Shi Jin looked at the corpse of the woman who committed suicide, Chen Xiuqing looked at him in the dark: "We, none of us were rescued... none of us were rescued..."
Qian Fei whispered a few words beside him. In fact, he could think of Shi Jin without explaining it. The woman was naked before, and even though she was insulted like that, she was still trying to escape, but when she ran here, she was able to calm down and think clearly, but committed suicide. Jian" Fang Ya, it seems that they are worthless when they die.
Shi Jin couldn't say anything, so he went to Chen Xi and Tang Zuhan. Chen Xi's arm was broken, but it seemed that he had already been bandaged, and he still breathed a sigh of relief. Shi Jin looked at it for a moment, but he woke up in a daze again, looked at the people around him, and said in a weak and hoarse voice: "I'm useless, kill me... I'm useless..."
Shi Jin backed the steel knife on his back, picked up a long spear, stood up, took a deep breath, and said, "This is fighting."
Seven people came up last night, and nothing was done. Only five people were left alive, and one of them had a broken arm. But in any case, this is the battlefield, and Shi Jin, who still felt empty in the afternoon and didn't know what to do, was now clear. This is the war. The Jurchen army is still moving south like a torrent, scattered in pieces, surrounded by countless scouts, countless people want to resist, and countless people will be crushed like this. In such a situation , The power of one person or several people is really insignificant.
"You may be useful in the future. This is fighting." Shi Jin clenched the spear in his hand, "I'm going to Xinzhou."
Qian Fei looked at him: "Go and defend the city?"
"Dai County is already broken, and it's not big enough. Xinzhou City is big enough. After the city is broken, there must be street fighting. At this time, the situation is the most chaotic. If Nianhan enters the city, we will have the possibility to assassinate him." Shi Jin said. , "If Zhou Zongshi is not dead, if he wants the best chance, he may also be there. Anyway, I want to see him."
Chen Xiuqing and Tang Zu Han Dynasty looked over here, Qian Fei was silent for a while, took a breath, and looked at Shi Jin: "I wanted to go back to Dai County and find a way to save Master's body and bury it, but what you said makes sense... I go with you."
Under the starlight, the little thoughts that converged in the bloody torrent were decided like this... ()
ps: Christmas Eve, it's now, I'm really too *sidy...
In any case, this chapter is nearly 6,700 words. Well, Merry Christmas everyone ^_^