Winter is here, and to the north of the Yellow River, heavy snow falls one after another.
In the city of Vaughan, the atmosphere of post-war chill is shrouded here.
This is the city near the northern front line of King Jin's territory. Since Jurchen showed signs of going south, the city's defenses have been reinforced one after another for two or three months. Wan also visited Vaud twice. Now that the war has broken out, the wounded soldiers who retreated from the front line and thousands of refugees have gathered here. In a short period of time, the situation around Vaud has become extremely chilling and extremely chaotic.
There was once a small official named Mu Yi, who was violent in the city because of the murder of his family. In such a situation, not many people remember it.
Crossing the city of Wozhou to the north, from the ruins of Taiyuan to Yanmenguan, it used to be the most intense battlefield after the Jurchen went south. A leader named Wang Juyun came here and gathered the residents with a purpose similar to that of Manichaeism in the past. He was against the Jurchens, even the rich and the poor. , In the mouth of Jurchen, it is called "chaotic teacher".
Li Xizhi, together with the defenders near Yanmen Pass, had carried out two annihilations against this chaotic division, but both times they returned home in vain. However, Wang Juyun used his troops well. In the two annihilation responses, he attacked the opponent's logistics by surprise. Li Xizhi and others failed to annihilate, but instead were taken away by the opponent, and the annihilation ended.
This time, when the Jurchen East Route Army marched south, it was Wang Juyun's team of righteous teachers who bore the brunt. Then, the Tian Shi Chuan in the south echoed the world, and millions of troops came one after another, turning the north of Taiyuan into a patch of Shura. Kill the field.
In just over a month, in the Jedi from Yanmen Pass to the ruins of Taiyuan, four major wars broke out one after another. Wanyan Zonghan, a goddess of the Jurchen army, traveled like a mountain. With the assistance of Xi Yin, he commanded the fierce generals Yin Shuke, Shu Lisu, Tu Lisu, Wanyan Saba and others to defeat Wang Juyun's two attacks first. They attacked, and then routed the vanguard of the attacking force of the King of Jin, and soon after, routed the combined forces of Wang Juyun and Tian Shi. Under the city of Taiyuan, which was burnt to ruins ten years ago, the blood and corpses of the Han people once again covered the field.
However, even after the four major defeats, Wang Juyun's righteous teacher, Tian Shi's Jin Wang line strength still did not collapse. After several wars, a large number of wounded and broken soldiers gathered towards Vaud and other places, and the refugees who fled from the north also retreated to the south. Vaud and other places did not reject the arrival of these people, and the government was in a chaotic situation The wounded were treated in the center, and deserters were arranged to return to the team. Even for those skinny refugees who had retreated south, they also prepared at least enough righteous porridge to survive, and arranged for them to continue their journey south.
In the more than ten years since Jurchen came to the south, the Han people have struggled to survive. Such selfless acts of righteousness have not been seen for many years. In a short period of time, countless people have been inspired by the righteous acts of the King of Jin, some skinny people. They took up their weapons with tears in their eyes. They had already had enough of this inhuman life, and they were unwilling to continue to suffer in the south. In such weather and in this world, even if people continue to have no escape, what awaits them is likely to be a dead end, or a torment that is more difficult than death. Feeling this kind of atmosphere, some of the soldiers who escaped took up their swords and guns again and joined the original team...
In war, there is such a tearful situation, of course, there are also all kinds of cowardice and despication, terror and brutality.
Inside the Jin King Department, Lou Shuwan's high-pressure and cleaning, with the cooperation of Zhuji's forces led by Zhan Wu, continued to be carried out. In every city from south to north, all those who were suspected of defecting to the enemy were mostly arrested. One day, there are house raids and beheadings happening.
There are naturally active spies and lobbyists sent by Wanyan Xiyin, and there have also been more than one unjust, false and wrongful conviction. If it is a normal regime, such a clean-up would be enough to shake the foundation of the entire regime. Now that an enemy like Yan Zonghan has no reinforcements behind him, only this ruthless high pressure can ensure the progress of the frontline battle.
Some soldiers did not want to fight anymore and fled into the mountains. At the same time, there are also people who are greedy for life and fear of death, or who want to make a fortune by taking advantage of the troubled times, and they are waiting for the arrival of the Jurchen "king flag" in the chaotic situation. This situation is particularly acute around the canton of Vaud.
In the mountains and forests in the north of Vau State, in a period of more than a month, five or six groups of bandits gathered in succession announced their surrender to the Jurchen and waited for the arrival of Master Wang. Their momentum varies, but taking advantage of the chaotic time, these people robbed their homes, destroyed villages and burned forests, and some even intercepted the routed soldiers who fled south. They blocked the road and threatened a small group of routed soldiers to join in. If you don't agree, you will kill them immediately. The body will be stripped and hung on the flagpole. There is also a team on the road to intercept the baggage of the King Jin army that came from the south. , When the Jurchen came, he opened the city gate for the other party, which made people in the neighborhood panic.
The heavy snow had stopped that day, and smoke pillars rose from a village dozens of miles east of Vaud. A team of bandits had looted the place. The team consisted of about 500 or 600 people, and the flags erected were nondescript with the words "Dajinwo Prefecture Town Fujun". After the village was looted, all the middle-aged men in the village were slaughtered, and most of the women were slaughtered. to **, and then was caught and taken away.
The team that left formed a long line, and the man in front was a tall horse, wearing a strong armor and carrying a long knife. As the man rode his horse forward, he waved and slapped the woman a few times, and the woman no longer dared to resist, he laughed, very proud.
The man at the head is named Wang Gan. He used to be a bandit in the mountains near Wozhou. His martial arts are arrogant and he has a high self-esteem. After the Jurchen came, he was recruited in private, and he wanted to repay the service. , earned a lot of fame, these days, he looted everywhere, and even released all kinds of false news into the city of Wozhou according to the strategy of the Jurchen envoys who went south, making people panic. At this time, the village slaughtered again, killing the young and strong, leaving the elderly and children behind, causing panic and burden to the city of Vauzhou.
Jurchen goes south, the combination of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin is called invincible in the world, fighting head-on, no one thinks they can win. With this understanding, now whether it is Wang Juyun, Tian Shi, or Yu Yulin, what they are thinking about is not to defeat the enemy on the battlefield at one time. , The army holding the East Road, the battle situation north of the Yellow River, even if it achieved its goal, and the two armies of Jurchen are eager to attack the Wu Dynasty south, even if all the pots and jars in the Jinwang site are finished, they will kill the people by themselves. After retreating into the mountains, Zong Han and Xi Yin would not have the leisure to kill them all.
Even if you gather the power of the whole world and defeat the Jurchen, as long as the world still belongs to the Han people, there will definitely be a position of King Jin in the north of the Yellow River, and even if the world changes, with such a reputation in the future, it is not impossible to win the world. .
It is also because of such psychological preparations that several major defeats on the battlefield ahead have failed to completely overwhelm the command system of the two groups of troops. After Wang Juyun's defeat, he continued to gather up the defeated troops, and the King of Jin's side had already prepared for the defeat and then the battle. In such a situation, however, control over these chaotic areas becomes sluggish. Wang Gan committed crimes several times. In this snowy world, he focused on the city and the garrison forces around the city, but failed to rescue the surrounding area in time.
It was the same this time. The team of Tu Village took the looted materials and women along the path and left quickly, and returned to the mountain. Wang Gan was in high spirits. The woman's clothes were kneaded at will. Although the northern part of Vaud is a battlefield where the real army is fighting, but at the moment, he is not afraid of being intercepted by the army near Vaud, because the Jurchen messenger from the south has made a definite objection to him before. Jin, there is a dead end, even if the woman in charge of the court is ruthless and kills countless people, the spies who will choose to secretly report the news to the Jin people will still be killed incessantly.
So arrogantly walking through a mountain bend, a "boulder" lying quietly in the snow beside the mountain road suddenly lifted up, an iron rod danced and roared under the "boulder", and a man walking beside the team. The soldier didn't respond, his whole body seemed to be pulled up by half by being dragged by his neck suddenly, and his flesh and blood splashed into the sky.
"I... fuck"
The "megalith" was originally a disguise, and the place it lifted was no more than ten feet away from Wang Gan, and there were only two soldiers in the middle. Wang Gan was the first to react to the sudden movement in the white snow of the mountains. He shouted, pulled the reins suddenly, and immediately waved his knife. Another soldier on the side was already lazy and slammed into the front. The horse's hip of a lieutenant walking in front. The figure's ferocious rushing finger collided with a distance of more than ten feet. As Wang Gan swung the sword, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. He turned sideways in a hurry, the whistling shadow of the stick swept across his forehead, and hit the back of the warhorse's head with a loud bang, as if it had broken a Only a stone drum, and then the war horse was knocked out.
The collapse of the warhorse was like a landslide, hitting two soldiers on the other side at the same time. Wang Gan followed the warhorse to the ground and rolled to the ground. He made a defensive roll in embarrassment. It was the woman on the back of the war horse who was thrown away by the people who came, Wang Gan rolled from the ground and got up, shoveled the snow with one hand and threw it to the back, her body was already running towards the rear team he was facing at this time, and she shouted: "Stop him! Kill him kill him"
The figure running and chasing was also fast, almost following the tumbling corpse of the war horse to draw a small circle. A blooming lotus. At the back of the queue, there was an infantry formation of six or seven people, one row after another, with long spears like a forest. Wang Gan shouted and rushed over there. The assassins chased after him fiercely. Approaching, are fierce eyes like fire.
The assassination came so suddenly, like a tsunami and landslide, he didn't have time to measure how high the opponent's martial arts was. He only defended with a round shield and a long knife in the other, and the soldiers in the rear had already reacted. The side stabbed past, the rushing assassin, the iron rod flying in his hand, drove the snow to roar and hit the surrounding, like a huge tornado. Most of the more than ten long spears were not made of iron. It swayed around, and the gun bodies of several white wax rods flew in the sky.
It was too late, it was fast, the figure approached, and the iron rod banged up, hitting Wang Gan's long sword and round shield, and at the same time pushing him to the soldiers behind.
"Roar"
With the violent impact, the man who rushed up shouted violently. Wang Gan's body couldn't stop stepping back. How could the more than ten people in the back hold their bodies in a hurry, some people staggered back, some people rolled over Falling to the ground, Wang Gan flew back several steps, the iron rod retracted, and then the rod shadow whistled and swept over. He blocked his shield, and his arms were numb, and the dancing rod shadow came from the other side. The bang hit him on the shoulder, and then he was swallowed up by the attack of the dance.
At this time, it was only the front of the team that passed the curve, and the rear ear heard the screams suddenly, but before they could react, I saw that the human wall in front of the road was suddenly pushed away, and a figure waving an iron rod, pushed away in a blink of an eye. In the crowd, the general Wang Gan also kept flying back to the side of the hillside in the frantic shouting. Some people tried to intercept them, and some tried to attack from the rear. In the chaos of the dancing iron bars, some people suddenly fell to the side, but their heads were blocked by iron. The stick was brought over. In just a short moment, the stick shadow waved, and the ping ping ping ping ping ping bang was like hammering iron, Wang Gan was pushed through the chaotic crowd, and almost flew back up the hillside by eight or nine feet, and the people behind him were all thrown away. The shadow of the stick suddenly stopped, crossed the sky, and inserted it towards the rear. With a bang, a large rock in the snow cracked, and the iron rod was inserted there. The assassin kept approaching Wang Gan, who was like a drunk in front of him, grabbed the knife with one hand, pulled his helmet off with the other, grabbed the head, and pressed the blade on it.
In the viscous blood, the head was cut off with a knife, and Wang Gan's body seemed to have no bones. As the armor fell to the ground, the viscous blood was seeping out from the middle.
"Han'er shouldn't be a slave! You should be damned!"
The voice full of anger was sent out under the force of internal force, passing through the snowy ridge like thunder. The assassin turned around with the man's head in his hand, and the iron rod stood in the stone beside him. After a while, no one of the hundreds of bandits dared to step forward. Just listen to him say: "Don't kneel down yet"
Naturally, no one would kneel, but with this violent shout, a bugle sounded suddenly in the nearby forest, followed by the sound of the army killing through the woods. The hundreds of people before and after Wang Gan's command were nothing but a mob. Seeing that the assassin killed the leader in front of hundreds of people, they fled in an uproar.
The assassin pulled out the iron rod and chased down, knocking down the nearby bandits one by one into the snow, and seeing someone in the distance robbing the gold and silver, kidnapping the woman who was about to flee, he chased after him with all his strength. At this time, a crowd of people rushed out of the woods, some of the bandits knelt down and surrendered, and some threw heavy objects and ran away to the distance.
When two or three hundred bandits threw their weapons and knelt in the snow, the people in the woods had almost come out, but they saw that there were only more than 30 people in total, and some people secretly wanted to escape. , was chased by the man with the stick who rushed out first and beat his brains to pieces. For a time, more than 30 people tied up nearly 300 prisoners, and rescued a group of captured women. On the road between the mountains, all begged with cries.
The man with the stick looked at the captive women from a distance, his eyes were sad, but he didn't come close. Seeing that most of the prisoners were tied up in a string, he turned his eyes to the direction where the bandits fled, wondering what he was thinking. At this time, a woman in uniform with a scar on her face came over and asked him about the next step. The man with a stick said: "You send the women back to the village, take the people who are still alive, and take these beasts to Vaud Canton. City... I'll go after those who ran away."
He paused: "Jurchen has a messenger heading south, I'm going to find it."
This man is naturally Shi Jin, the nine-patterned dragon who returned to Wozhou. Since he reunited with Lin Chong, and later confirmed that Lin Chong died because of sending letters, he was disheartened, and the only thing he cared about was the whereabouts of Lin Chong's son, Mu Anping. It's just that the only thing he knows about this matter is the name Tan Lu.
After Shi Jin returned to Vaud, he conducted several investigations and asked for the cooperation of the government, but he still could not find out Tan Lu's whereabouts. At this time, the situation around him was getting tense, and Shi Jin was very anxious. He summoned some guys who were still willing to follow him after the disintegration of Chifeng Mountain. Although the first priority was still to find the children, he saw the situation in chaos. , is ultimately difficult to ignore.
With the lessons learned from Chifeng Mountain, what Shi Jin was willing to do was to secretly carry out a small number of assassinations. Now that Wang Gan was killed, Shi Jin didn't take much rest and chased the woods ahead. His martial arts have reached the realm of transformation, and this time he chased behind a deputy Wang Gan. On the third day, he finally found the clue of a messenger sent by Jurchen.
This is a Han Chinese from Liaodong, under the command of Wanyan Xiyin. Shi Jin took this person and tortured him for a long time, but he didn't get much information. He was all over the world, and he was upright all his life. Although he was facing the enemy at this time, he was a little disgusted by this kind of brutal torture and endless torture. In the middle of the night, the spy committed suicide. Shi Jin sighed and dug the man's body and buried it.
The next day, when he returned to Wozhou, a righteous man killed Wang Gan, rescued the villagers, and the story of the captive mountain bandits had spread in the city. Shi Jin didn't want to be famous, and silently returned to the inn where he stayed. An unexpected news came from his companions. Some people claimed to know the whereabouts of Mu Yi's son and hoped to meet him.
He also knew this person: the leader of the Great Bright Sect, Lin Zongwu.