On the edge of the woods, the small river, and in the dim atmosphere, there was only a single bit of light burning on the torches. The images of people around were dense and sparse. ○ An unknown number of skirmishers also quietly came over, listening to the man under the tree moving towards the east and finishing the situation in Qi County. Then, there was a slight silence for a moment.
"... Today's matter is right or wrong, it is difficult to summarize. In the final analysis, you are doing things for Zhuji, you are doing a job, and I didn't say that you would go to the battlefield. I brought you here, and sacrificed so many companions. , I have guilt in my heart, but guilt can't solve things."
In the light of the torch, Ning Yi's voice was not high, but as the night wind spread, it was enough for the people around him to hear clearly.
"Tonight, no one can solve this matter. An army of more than 100,000 and 200,000 people can't solve it. Leave it to you and me, look at the people around us, and we have done our best. However, I stand here to talk to you, yes I want to talk to you about indiscriminate thoughts."
"Fortify the walls and clear the fields." Ning Yi said a little tiredly, "This is what our Zhuji guys have done recently. Many people don't understand, and they are making noise. There are so many people around Bianliang, how can they be cleared? What's the point. In fact, it doesn't make sense to do it now. There are too many people around Bianliang. If someone is alive, there is food. Even if we remove ten of them, tens of thousands of Jurchens can still find food here. It doesn't make any sense at all."
"For some people who are accustomed to ambiguity and some officials, it is a very good achievement for one million people to leave 500,000, and it is even more gratifying to leave 600,000. But not for us. , from beginning to end. If people can't leave, we are zero. If one million people can't move 950,000 people, what we do will have no meaning at all." He waved his hand, and his tone became fierce, " From the beginning. What we did, this is one of the things!"
"I don't know how long this matter will take." Ning Yi's tone softened, "The army has suffered a defeat, what will happen to everyone, what will happen to the capital, I don't know, whether this battle will stop here or not. Now, the city has been destroyed, and the Wu Dynasty has perished. I don't know. But if the fight continues, I will do my own thing. But now that the Jurchen is attacking the camp, the people there may no longer have the heart to fight, they If we get food and grass, what we are doing now will be beaten back to its original shape.”
When he said this, he paused, also because he was injured. Tired of talking, I looked back. Find a rock and sit down. But someone in the crowd continued: "Master, what you want to do, you can just say it."
"That's not what I said, I'm a reasonable person." Ning Yi sat down and shook his head, "I want you to die, I have to tell you what I said. Otherwise, everyone will die, and you will blame me on the Huangquan Road... dead. Don't blame me, I'm very taboo about this."
He sighed: "Of course, there may be people who don't die. I want to choose some people who can still move. Those with high martial arts skills, go to Qixian County and see if the people in the camp have already burned all the food, grass and luggage. , we turn around and leave. If not, we have to do this. There are only 2,000 Jurchens, and there are still many people next to Qixian County. Maybe there's still a life left. It's... such a plan. If you can still move, who wants to be with me?"
After he finished speaking, Zhu Biao came over with a gun. In the crowd, the voice that had just made a sound also stood up with the tree, and a few other people stood up, all of them were former Liangshan people, and they were still able to move. Zhuji people still receive a lot of positive publicity on weekdays, but after all, this is the situation, how many people are not only injured, tired, but also worried, more or less hesitant. Ning Yi just sat on the stone to rest and watched all this quietly. His words just now were not without motivation and incitement, but it was enough here. He didn't want to force anyone to do this. thing.
One after another, someone stood up again, but someone next to him whispered: "Chen Tuozi, don't you want your wife and children?"
The figure in the darkness over there is a slightly hunchbacked warrior, being reminded by his companion who was seriously injured and lying on the ground. The Tuozi sneered: "I, Chen Tuozi, have never been a good person. When I was young, I killed people and sold goods. My mother-in-law also stole it, but after following me, I can't do anything about it. , but I can clearly tell the difference, what Zhuji has done in the past few years, how many people have been saved and how many lives have been saved, I can see clearly, Huozi, I have done a few good things in the past few years. . Today someone asked me to go to war with Jurchen, and I don't want to ignore him, but this life is sold here, I am happy."
This Chen Tuozi was originally a ruthless character with a bad reputation in the arena. At this time, he said generous words and laughed, but he also seemed a little sullen. The side already nodded and said, "Chen Tuozi is right." Someone else stood up. This Chen Tuozi said to Ning Yi: "By the way, the owner, let me tell you, others don't know about what you do, but we know it. People come to trouble you all year round. Last year, I was in my early years. A group of brothers who were righteous also came over and said they wanted to kill you to make a name for yourself. I, Chen Tuozi, had a bad reputation. I told them what you did. They didn’t believe me and thought I was bribed. I didn’t say anything. Kill them cleanly, and drag their bodies out of the city for burial."
When everyone heard him say this, they were a little silent, but someone said: "You didn't call me about this." Ning Yi sat on the stone and laughed: "Who is your boss and who feeds you? Why? , want me to thank you?"
He was not polite, but Chen Tuozi was originally a wicked figure, and he liked this the most. At this time, he said: "I'm not talking about this, my boss, you have done so many things and saved so many people, but I can't do it. I, Chen Tuozi, have no reputation. Brother Jieyi used to be very important. In the past few years in Zhuji In the future, I will look at their appearance, and I will feel nothing. Today's matter, if you say you want to do it, we will go and help you, but you don't have to go, you can rest here, and you can just wait for us to come back and announce the good news. I want to say That's it!"
After he finished saying this, the surroundings immediately rallied: "That's right, that's right, Chen Tuozi is right!"
"Master, you can't go, let's go!"
"You don't have to do this."
In the midst of the clamor, Yuwen Feidu actually stood up on the ground not far from where several seriously wounded people were. He was raising his hand: "I, I'm going..." Ning Yi looked carefully and pointed out: "Hurry up and hold him!" Someone supported the fallen boy and made him lie on the ground again. Ning Yi stood up with a serious look: "Okay! I'm not holding a conference here, and I'm not talking about democracy to you! While everyone has a sigh of relief, I wish Biao to pick someone! If the injury is too serious, leave it to me, don't make excuses! My blood-handed man is Tu Ning Liheng. When Zhou Tong saw me, he wanted three points of courtesy, and Lin Yechan didn't dare to speak loudly in front of me, do you want you to teach me how to do things?"
At this time, there were dozens of people who were willing to go to Qi County with Ning Yi. After he finished speaking, Zhu Biao went to further screen the personnel. At this time, someone on the outside raised their hand: "Can I, can I go? I'm not injured, and I have practiced some hand poses. I can help!"
It was a straggler next to him who was not a member of Zhuji, and the man finished speaking. Another person in the crowd stood up. Some people also said: "My brother just died, I think what you said is reasonable, I can go with you..."
The military of the Wu Dynasty was mixed from top to bottom, and it was difficult to trust each other during large-scale battles, but even so, among the troops. There are always some outstanding characters, and some bloody hard work. At this time, on the small river bank in the dark, one by one, one figure stood up hesitantly and walked out of the crowd. The night wind blew, Ning Yi looked at this scene, Zhu Biao looked at Ning Yi, Yue Fei's side. Some soldiers also began to sign up. After a while, Ning Yi said coldly: "It doesn't matter if you have blood, you can kill people and you can go."
Then he added: "Die there. Don't blame me."
His tone was cold and blunt, but when Zhu Biao went to pick people, he tried his skills one by one, and said with a smile, "I'll be my brother from now on." Many people felt their chests heat up.
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When the 70 or 80 people gathered on Ning Yi's side crossed the river and hills, dragging their tired bodies to Qixian County, in the capital, the farce of intrigue caused by the defeat of the Western Army was heading towards the capital.
Shishi went to the room outside the Fanlou, and through the window, watched the army rushing past the street, the city in the dark, faintly became noisy, and disturbed many people to fall asleep. For ordinary people, they wondered in their hearts whether the Jurchens had begun to attack the city again. On the solemn Royal Street, many courtiers who came over blocked the emperor's car and were begging the emperor to return to the palace.
Zhou Zhe had been out of temper for a long time, but the development of the situation at this time was beyond his expectations. He originally wanted to drive all the courtiers home in the name of curfew, but the order began to be given. The riots had begun to vaguely begin. Li Gang came to report, but said that someone leaked the news of the fiasco of the Western Army. Now many people in the city are about to start rioting, and the most important one is the gang of imperial students. They have to go out to the palace to petition under the curfew in the middle of the night - I don't know. How they connect privately.
The fiasco of the Western Army was already a major event. In addition, problems began to occur in the city. Once it was known that the emperor left overnight, I really don't know what would happen. Li Gang kowtowed and said that the army had been mobilized to maintain order. Zhou Zhe saw that the veins on his forehead were bulging. Then Li Gang said, the envoy of the Jin Kingdom is still in the city. The army must bypass Bianliang and chase it south.
All of a sudden, Zhou Zhe also felt that there was no way to recover.
In the Nanxun gate tower, the scolding from the uncle Liang Feng resounded in the night sky. In a small room on the side of the tower, the general guard Cao Yan was walking around in an uneasy mood, with a look of sorrow on his face. He had wanted it several times. Go out, but the reason why he didn't do it was because of a figure in the corner of the room.
"Go out and open the door, the general is a sinner through the ages."
In the darkness, the figure was holding a Buddha bead and slowly moving it, and vaguely, it was the aide of the Right Prime Minister's residence, who was also a relative of the royal family, Monk Jue Ming...
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Half an hour later, in the palace, Zhou Zhe broke a huge vase.
"How unreasonable! How unreasonable! These civil servants, this gang of traitors... They are forcing the palace! This is without a ruler! They don't see me as an emperor—"
The queen knelt on the ground, facing Zhou Zhe, who was almost mad. But Zhou Zhe ran over, pulled her up, sat aside, and came to her again after a while: "You are confused! You are also confused! Queen, you... "
He shook his finger for a long time, and finally waved it down: "Oh, I'm confused too! Empress, look, what's disturbing in the city, what's the noise, these are all things they made! Those who are the main battle, the main peace, they are all They are united, and they want to slander me as the emperor, Li Gang! No, Qin Siyuan! Qin Siyuan only has such means. He thinks that if he doesn't show up today and calls other people to block me, I don't know! Zhen, Zhen, I know... "
When he said this, he was stunned for a while, and then shook his head: "No, no, no, maybe it's not just him... Cai Jing! Humph, old thing, Cai Jing, I don't know yet, he rushed over and put on a pair of words to meet him. It looks like I'm going south together. In fact, he... He secretly manipulated me to keep my eyes on other people. I still don't know the means of this old dog, it's amazing, or he just leaves, leaves He can also suppress all the guys who are not on his side, no matter what, he makes money. These things, zhen, zhen... "
He said this for a long time, and even stuttered in his tone: "Once, as soon as the situation stabilizes, these guys, I will beat them one by one, beat them all again, let them... know how powerful I am... It's the Son of Heaven!"
"I am the Son of Heaven..." he said, "the most urgent task is to negotiate, negotiate, no, no, no... There is no way to negotiate, the Jurchen has taken advantage of it, it is difficult to negotiate, but we have to negotiate anyway... Send someone immediately. , summoned the golden envoy to discuss the matter..."
Before these words were finished, someone came into the palace and reported to him: "...there was a riot in the city, some imperial students and people rushed into the residence of the golden envoy Wang Rui, and in the chaos, Wang Rui was beaten to death. ."
"You..." Zhou Zhe stood in front of the throne, clenched his fists with both hands, looked at the eunuch who reported the news, and after a while, his body swayed, he sat on the seat, his fists were pressed against his knees, his lips were pursed, trembling slightly with anger...
"Okay..." he said through gritted teeth. "Okay...let them go..."
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In Bianliang City, Qingluo Garden is a small garden. Occasionally Qin Siyuan would rest here. It was late at night. In the darkness, Qin Siyuan was sitting in the pavilion, his eyes seemed to cross the surrounding courtyards and the city wall. , to see the place hundreds of miles outside the city.
Some people are already nearby, and some people are coming too, including Yao Zunian, Jue Ming, and even Tang Ke who came here.
"I don't want to do this unless I have to, but I can't imagine it anymore." He closed his eyes, and after a while, he sighed tiredly, "Mr. Nian, after this incident, I'm afraid it will be rare for you and me to end well... "
The voice was low, and no one spoke.
Outside the city, in the east and north directions, within a range of nearly a hundred miles, the diffuse smoke began to dissipate, and hundreds of thousands of routed, wounded, and dead soldiers scattered over this vast area, scattered and fled. On this night, Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, completed his strategy, urging almost all threats near Bianliang in one fell swoop. The late autumn is gradually dying, and then, the cold winter is coming... (Please search for astronomy, better and faster!