In the evening, the sunset on Jiumu Ridge changed, and in the mountains in the distance, the lush forests were being swallowed up by the darkness. When the birds flew out from the trees, Lin Chong stood on the mountain road and turned back.
Jiumu Ridge is still the same, a small mountain ridge, the vicinity looks barren and sinister. Several houses and an inn were also newly settled by people who escaped and escaped later. Lin Chong and his wife Xu Jinhua have lived here for more than a year, and they are usually nothing major. Only in the past few days, There were more and more people who passed by inadvertently when escaping.
"someone is coming."
Back in the inn, Lin Chong said in a low voice. There are already two families in the lobby of the inn. They are not very wealthy people. Their clothes are outdated and they have patches. However, because they brought their families with them, they came to the inn to buy hot water for food. Fortunately, the couple who opened the store did not Charge too much food. After Lin Chong finished saying this, the two families were silent, showing a vigilant look.
"Don't light the lights." Lin Chong said in a low voice, and walked towards the small room next to him. In the side room, his wife Xu Jinhua was packing her luggage. There were a lot of things on the bed. A little flustered: "Just, let's go?"
"No, I'll go take a look." He turned around, lifted the wooden stick in the corner that was obviously not used for a long time, and looked a little crooked, and then brought a knife to his wife, "You have to be careful..." His eyes turned out. Head gestured.
"I know, I know... they don't look like bad people, and they have kids."
Xu Jinhua took the knife and put it aside. Lin Chong could actually see that the two outsiders were not bad people, so he nodded and went out with a stick. Before going out, she looked back at his wife's belly, Xu Jinhua. At this time, she was already pregnant.
As the sky gradually darkened, he went to the other households on Jiumu Ridge to pat the door, so that those who were still here would not turn on the lights, and then crossed the road and walked forward. When you get to a corner of the rock, go forward, there is almost no good road in the mountains. A group of people came out one after another, about twenty deserters, carrying torches, knives and guns, and walked listlessly forward.
The voice of speaking came occasionally. It's nothing more than where to go, not moving too much, and finding a place to rest. Etc., etc.
Lin Chong didn't know what was going on in front of him, but from the mouths of the refugees who passed by in the past two days, he also knew that there was already a fight in front of him. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fled were not a small number, and he didn't know if there would be a new imperial army to meet them. But even if you go up to it. It must be unbeatable anyway.
After the Jurchen invaded the south for the second time, bandits from the north of the Yellow River started together, each leading tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, occupying the land as the king. Compared with the Liangshan period in Shandong, the momentum was unbelievably huge, and after the weakening of the imperial court's rule, for them, they could only be appeased but not crusade. The existence of many hills became justifiable. Lin Chong lives in this small hill. I only occasionally go to nearby villages and towns with my wife, and I also know the names of many people:
The robber Wang Shan, who is known as the 700,000-strong army, Yang Jin, the "hornless cow", Tian Hu, the "King of Jin", the Eight-character Army "Wang Yan", Wang Zaixing, Li Gui, Wang Dalang, and the heroes of the Wuma Mountains, as for the small ones. hilltop. There are countless more, even the former brother Shi Jin, now under the name of the "Eight-armed Dragon King" of Chifeng Mountain, once again gathered a crowd to revolt. Fight against gold.
And the more than 20 people who escaped with their lives on the battlefield were planning to go all the way south to join the King of Jin Tian Hu. This is not because they are deserters who want to avoid the guilt, but because Tian Hu's site is mostly in the mountains and mountains. In the middle, the terrain is dangerous, even if the Jurchen goes south. First of all, they will only be treated in a tender manner. As long as this Tiger King is not in a hurry and wants to be a chariot, they will be able to live a good life for a while.
Looking back on the scene when I was in Bianliang, it was still a good day for singing and dancing, but in recent years, the current situation has become more and more chaotic, and people can't see clearly. It's just that Lin Chong's heart has long since become numb, and he can't get up whether he is sighing at the chaos or gloating at the world's schadenfreude.
After listening to these people's words, and watching them walk straight ahead, Lin Chong quietly turned back after making sure that they would not go up to Jiumu Ridge.
The wife was packing, and some items in the inn that could not be taken away had been dragged by Lin Chong into the woods in the mountains and then buried. This night passed without any danger. In the early morning of the next day, Xu Jinhua got up to steam the wotou and prepared the dry food. The two of them set off with the other two families in the inn. They were going to take refuge in the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that there is no As for fighting.
Looking back at the dilapidated inn on Jiumu Ridge again, the couple were reluctant to part with it. Of course, this is not a good place, but they are almost used to it.
On the way, I talked about life in the south. At noon this day, I met a family of people who were fleeing. In the afternoon, I got on the official road, and there were even more people. There was a bustling crowd with their families and their families, cattle and horses, vehicles, and soldiers. During this period, he moved forward fiercely.
The pregnant Xu Jinhua did not walk fast, and separated from the two families at noon. In the afternoon, she remembered that the same jewelry she liked when she was in Lingshang had not been taken away. After searching for a while, she was in a daze. When I found it in the package, the decoration of the jewelry was nothing but polished from a beautiful stone. Xu Jinhua had found it, and he was not too happy.
Occasionally, officials will pass through the crowd. At this time, Xu Jinhua hugs Lin Chong's arms even tighter, and pulls his body to the point where he almost bends down. Although the tattoo on Lin Chong's face has been torn away by the knife marks , but if you are really suspicious, you can still see some clues.
This evening, the couple rested on a hillside. They squatted on the dirt slope, chewing on the already cold wotou, and looked at the refugees all over the mountains and roads, and their eyes were a little dazed. At a certain moment, Xu Jinhua said, "Actually, when we go to the south, no one can defect."
Lin Chong did not speak.
"So many people go south, no land, no food, how to feed them, go begging in the past..."
The woman's eyes became more and more anxious, and Lin Chong nibbled at the wofutou: "It's good for the child..."
"There are so many people left in the north. Even if the Jurchen kills them, they won't kill all the people in the mountains."
Lin Chong was silent for a moment: "If you want to hide... Of course you can, but... "
"I am pregnant with a child, and I have walked so far. I don't know if the child can be protected. I... I can't bear to part with Jiumuling, and I can't bear to bear the small shop."
Xu Jinhua touched the scar on Lin Chong's face. Lin Chong tucked his nest into the nearest place, and after a long time, he stretched out his arms and hugged the woman beside him.
"Then we'll go back," he said, "then we won't go..."
The two figures blended in among the refugees in this area. Passing a little warmth to each other. Finally decided not to leave.
Jurchen goes south, some choose to stay, some choose to leave. There are also many more people whose lives have been changed in the past. Hedong. The robber Wang Shan's generals have already claimed to have 700,000 soldiers, the chariots are known as tens of thousands, the "hornless ox" Yang Jin has 300,000 soldiers, and the "Jin King" Tian Hu is known as 500,000. There are 180,000 troops, the "Eight-character Army", and more than 200,000 people in the Wuma Mountains, but these people add up to nearly 2 million people. also. In the frantic expansion and confrontation of the many armies of the imperial court, the number of people north of the Yellow River has grown to over one million. However, the north of the Yellow River was originally the territory of these armies. After they continued to expand, they could not even suppress the soaring number of "rebels", which could explain a simple truth.
However that was of no use.
People are just trying to survive in their own way.
And a few people are doing their own thing in their own way.
in Bianliang. An old man named Zong Ze who was activated in danger is doing his work with all his strength. Half a year after taking the task, he calmed down the order around Bianliang. Reconstructed a defensive line near Bianliang, and at the same time, for the rebels north of the Yellow River, they tried their best to recruit and surrender, and gave them names.
However, when the Jurchen really pressed south. The pressure from these "rebels" has also been increasing. Wang Shan, Yang Jin, Tian Hu, Wang Zaixing, Li Gui and other leaders of the army all gathered here, asking the court for a large amount of food, grass, ordnance, and even the truly recognized territories, titles, and names. Just like the reason why Guo Jing took the initiative to open the gate of Bianliang City, the crooks themselves are the most sober. As leaders, they know better than anyone how much power the army of hundreds of thousands and millions under their command actually has, and they have more ideas. To fight the Jurchen, but in the past, there is no meaning in itself.
Faced with this helpless and powerless situation, Zong Ze comforted these forces every day. At the same time, he kept writing to Ying Tianfu, hoping that Zhou Yong would return to the town of Bianliang, so as to strengthen the morale of the army and firm resistance.
This year, the sixty-eight-year-old Zong Ze had white hair and beard. Yue Fei, a famous soldier, was recruited here from the very first moment when Jurchen went south to follow the old man. Regarding the pacification of the Bianliang order, Yue Fei knew that the old man was very efficient, but for the rebels in the north, the old man was powerless. At most, there is some fame, and the background is different from that of Qin Siyuan and others back then, not to mention millions, even 10,000 old people can't support it.
However, although it seemed useless in Yue Fei's eyes, the old man was still resolutely and even violently doing what he promised to Wang Shan and others that there would be a turnaround, and he kept sending messages to Yingtian. It was only when Zong Ze privately summoned him to issue an order that Yue Fei asked.
"There are millions of people in the north, even if the food, grass and supplies are complete, if they meet the Jurchen, I am afraid that they will not be able to fight, and they will not be able to solve the problem. What's the benefit?"
The old man glanced at him, his temperament was a little hot recently, and he said directly: "Then you said that when you meet a Jurchen, how can you fight!?"
Yue Fei was stunned for a moment. He wanted to speak, but the white-haired and white-bearded old man waved his hand: "These millions of people can't fight, so why don't I know that? However, in this world, how many people have the guts to say they can fight when they meet a Jurchen! How to defeat the Jurchen, I am not sure, but the old man knows that if there is a possibility of defeating the Jurchen, the Wu Dynasty must have the intention to give up everything! With this idea, these millions of people dare to fight against the Jurchen, and they dare to fight against the Jurchen. Only among the millions of people can they kill a group of heroes and find a way to defeat the Jurchen! If you can't do this, then you will die without life!"
"The old man just saw this and did what he should do."
Yue Fei was silent for a long time, and then he handed over and went out. At this moment, he seemed to see an old man he had seen before, doing something or something with little hope in the surging torrent of the world. And his master, Zhou Tong, was actually like this.
It's not that you can do it this way, you just have to do it if you want to do it.
Ying Tianfu.
Intense discussions take place every day in the Golden Throne Hall, but Zong Ze's memorial has long been buried in many papers. Even Li Gang, who was a hard-line fighting faction, did not agree with Zong Ze's proposal to keep asking the emperor to return to Bianliang.
The ruined city that the Jurchen has stepped on once, really shouldn't go back.
"... The real thing that can make a fuss is inside the Jinren!"
"...Although the army of the Jin people was almost invincible after the Agu fight, the interior of the Jin Kingdom is now not monolithic. According to the Northern Business Traveler, since the early years, the Jin Dynasty has been divided into two parts. In the Privy Council, Wanyan Zongwang is in charge of the military and political affairs in the east, and Wanyan Zonghan is in charge of the court in the west. It is said that within the Jin Kingdom, only the imperial court in the east is under the control of Wu Qimai. And Wanyan Zonghan, who is known to be a disobedient minister, has When Zonghan went south for the first time, there were rumors that Zongwang urged Zonghan, but Zonghan did not move to Taiyuan..."
"… Until last year, the privy envoy Liu Yanzong of the East Privy Council passed away, Wanyan Zongwang was also seriously ill due to many years of fighting, and the Jurchen East Privy Council was no longer in name. At this time, Wanyan Zonghan was on a par with Wu Qimai. There was a struggle for power and profit. In the east, the princes such as Wanyan Zongfu and Zongbi wanted to establish a prestige, and Zonghan had to cooperate, but he used Wanyan Lou's family to conquer the west, and it was reported that he wanted to pacify the north of the Yellow River, which just proved his In an attempt, he wants to expand his private land..."
"... From my point of view, there are a lot of provocative strategies in the middle, you can think of it!"
The adults in the courtroom were clamoring and expressing their opinions. Apart from the military, the only thing the scholars could provide was the political and vertical and horizontal wisdom accumulated over thousands of years. Soon, Hongxi, an old Confucian puppet who came out of Chenzhou, asked for an envoy to go to the Jurchen prince Zongfu army to tell his interests and interests in order to stop the army, and everyone in the court praised his high righteousness.
Zhou Yong, the king of Kang, had no knowledge, so he let them go. He hung out with Xinna's concubine in the harem every day. Not long after, the news came out, and the scholar Ouyang Che posted a big-character poster in the city to denounce...
Xiaocanghe, this is a quiet time. With the departure of spring and the arrival of summer, Gu Zhong has stopped frequent exchanges with the outside world, and only the spies sent from time to time send back news from the outside world. In the summer of the second year of Jianshuo, the whole world is pale. of.
If it is said that the death of Emperor Jinghan and the capture of Emperor Jingping symbolize the sunset of the Wu Dynasty, until now the third time the Jurchen is heading south, the night of the Wu Dynasty has finally come... (~^~)