The head of the city of Vaud.
The cold wind roared at the top of the city, slashing at the person's body like a knife, opening his mouth, and the rust-like smell of blood gushing from his throat, the sound of shouting and killing was like thunder, boiling on the entire battlefield. Figures rushed in, the iron rod in his hand hit the head of the person, and the body approaching 200 pounds was like a wild boar rushing in the mountains, crashing down, the sound of the skull hitting the bluestone was dull and permeating, mixed with countless sounds.
Arrows fluttered. In the snow and ice world, there was smoke and fire on the city wall. The soldier pushed a huge log and threw it down the city. A stone flew across the sky and suddenly zoomed in on one side of the field of vision. He dragged a soldier to the side. Flying over, the splashed stone chips hit people's faces, and their vision became shaky with the loud noise. Shi Jin shook his head, got up from the ground, grabbed a long spear in his hand, and ran towards the two Jurchen soldiers who rushed towards the city.
Affected by the stone throw, his vision and balance had not yet recovered, and he stabbed the spear several times before piercing the chest of a Jurchen soldier. The Jurchen was burly, as strong as a bison. He held the gun tightly and refused to let go. Another Jurchen warrior had already rushed over. Shi Jin shouted, and with a powerful shot in his hand, the gun smashed into pieces of wood. , One stepped over and slashed at Jurchen's forehead with a heavy hand, and the man's body fell softly on the city wall.
The Jurchen warrior who came to the side jumped in the air, held the knife and slashed back, and just turned around, Shi Jin's body had already slammed up, opened the bloody mouth, and half of the gun in his hand slammed into his neck, puff. With a bang, thick blood burst out. The Jurchen warrior retreated while struggling, and as Shi Jin pulled out the barrel of his gun, he fell into the pool of blood under the parapet, silent.
Only then did Shi Jin turn around and retrieve his weapon. Not far from his field of vision, at the corner of the city wall, dozens of Jurchen soldiers had already rushed up. Shin then clenched the iron rod in his hand and rushed over there.
"Don't back down and kill them"
Countless hoarse roars merged into a tidal wave of fighting, and as far as the eye could see, the soldiers who were attacking the city were still divided into three groups in the snowfield below, rushing continuously. In the snow in the distance, raised in the siege barracks, is the banner of the speed of the Jurchen generals.
On the eighth day of the December lunar month, the traditional Laba Festival, this is the second time that Shulie speed troops attacked Vaud.
The city is in danger.
And not long before that. In the boundary of Fenzhou, south of Taiyuan City, the army of King Jin experienced a huge defeat. More than 400,000 people were broken, retreated south, and fled. In the chaotic message, Jin Wang Tianshi, who was on his expedition, was washed away and his whereabouts are unknown.
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Snow and ice.
Countless people walked in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Tian Shi, dressed in a black fashion, supported each other with the soldiers beside him, and headed south. After a huge defeat, he fled overnight. At this time, he only felt cold and hot for a while, but he hadn't told the people around him. From time to time, he would turn around and shout a few words to the crowd behind him.
Of course he had a horse, but he was not riding at this time. It is said that a general who is good at fighting should share weal and woe with the soldiers around him. During the war, he never acted like this, but now that he was defeated, he felt that as a prince, he should set such an example. use.
He didn't know how many soldiers were following him. There were still many things that he should think about, but his thoughts couldn't gather together. At some point, Tian Shi felt dark in front of his eyes and fell to the snow...
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Wasion, the atmosphere is chilling.
The procession of carriages drove across the long street to the Tianji Temple at one end of the city.
Lou Shuwan flipped through a huge map in the lit carriage, and the news of King Jin's disappearance had already reached here as quickly as possible. She restrained her mind and searched for the traces of various armies on the map that already had many markings and drawings, summarizing the various possibilities of the current situation.
As soon as the war occurs, the military information will be transmitted to the centers of various forces at the fastest speed. When she can receive the news, it means that other people have also received the information. At this time, she must stabilize the situation of the entire center. .
The surroundings of the carriage were closed, and in the light of the candles, the eyes of the woman who hadn't rested since yesterday were red with smoke, but she still stared wide. Suddenly, the body of the carriage jolted, Lou Shuwan stretched out her hand to hold the lamp, and heard a shouting voice from outside: "Kill... that bitch..."
"The hen, Sichen, will bring disaster to the country and bring disaster to the people..."
"Traitor, Slut"
"Open your eyes..."
"Used"
"Kill to Kill"
…
The chaotic shouts were intertwined, You Hongzhuo held his breath, drew his long knife, and walked towards the front of the room, the speed getting faster and faster...
Through the vibration of the floor, there was a burst of footsteps in the next room. The light of the window became brighter and brighter, You Hongzhuo leaped out, and someone rushed out of the window next door, and a red gun in his hand was aimed at the team below. You Hongzhuo raised his long sword and swiped it into the air, and the other party gave him a surprised look.
brush.
The head with white hair and long beard flew into the sky. You Hongzhuo fell to the ground, and the crowd who rushed out were shouting. With a horizontal blade, he rushed towards the green forest assassins.
"Protect the lady!"
"Damn the muddleheads"
"You don't listen to what the Dragon King says!"
murderous
…
"What's going on?" Lou Shuwan asked, but she probably knew it in her heart.
"Someone is assassinating, and someone else is here to protect you. Lord Lou, we..."
"..." Lou Shuwan quietly listened to the mixed voices outside, perhaps because of the firelight for too long, her eyes were slightly warm, she then reached out and wiped her nose and mouth, "Leave a group of people to catch the assassin, we Continue to the Imperial City."
"Yes."
The carriage began to move again, leaving the entire long street to be fought over.
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Linzhou City, another round of siege battle is going on. The siege party is the most elite Ming Wang army under Wang Juyun. Due to the hasty attack, the siege equipment is quite insufficient. However, with Wang Juyun himself leading the way, the whole battle situation is still Appears extremely tragic.
Linzhou belongs to Zhangde. Similar to Wozhou, it is also one of the cities on the edge of the northeast of King Jin. Li Chengzhong, the general defending Linzhou, led more than 37,000 troops. Four days ago, it was announced that it would change its flag and take refuge with the Great. Master Jin. Destroyed all the way, Wang Juyun, who led his elites to the vicinity, desperately attacked the city, trying to smash Linzhou before the arrival of the Jurchen reinforcements, in order to set an example.
Great loss.
The defending army of Linzhou City was also not doing well. Although the Jurchen lewdness has been hanging over everyone's heads for more than ten years, and now that the army is overwhelmed, the surrender did not encounter too much resistance, but of course it cannot inspire too high morale. During the offense and defense between the two sides, Li Chengzhong also ran up to the city, constantly cheering for the defending army.
"Defend the city wall! The army of the Jin Kingdom is coming soon..."
"Admiral Wanyan Saba led the army to come here, just one more day of defense! One more day of defense"
Wanyan Saba's army was indeed on its way. Wang Juyun's army attacked for three days, but the city defenses were not captured, and the morale of both the offensive and defensive sides gradually increased. In the afternoon of this day, a flag appeared in the southeast of the city.
Saba's army must have come from the north, so from the south, should it be reinforcements from the forces of the King of Jin, or the Jurchen East Route Army has already decided on a name and sent reinforcements? Li Chengzhong ran to the east of the city wall, and then saw an army appear in his field of vision. On the snow-covered ground, the color of the flag was exceptionally bright...
"Who... how could... how could be black... "
The black flag is spreading towards this side...
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The winter of Wu Jianshuo's ninth year. The heavy snow gradually froze the land north of the Yangtze River, but the war on the north side of the Yellow River did not stop for a moment from the beginning.
In September and October, the two armies of the Jurchen East and West fought against the enemies in front of them one after another. The East Route Army quickly condensed the battle situation in the Daming Mansion area, but the stubborn resistance of the West Route had just begun.
From Yanmen Pass to the ruins of Taiyuan, the resistance of Wang Juyun and Tian Shi came one after another. After being dispersed, they continued to gather. Millions of troops gathered or scattered, as if they were constantly consuming the Jurchen army with water grinding. will. However, as the most outstanding veterans of the founding generation of Dajin, Zong Han and Xi Yin continued to defeat this wave of attacks, and by the end of October, the Shulei Speed led the partial division into Wozhou. With the cooperation of the generals such as , Saba and others, there were problems one after another for the attacking force.
Zhu Lixu's first attack on Wozhou, under the stubborn resistance of the defenders of Wozhou and many civilian forces such as Lin Zongwu and Shi Jin, finally delayed until Yu Yulin's army came south to relieve the siege. In November, the fighting in the ice and snow was only slightly slower than in other seasons. The successive defeats of Wang Juyun, Tian Shi, Yu Yulin and others made the front-line troops continue to decrease. The number of defeated soldiers retreating south, surrendering, and even freezing to death in the snow with a large army while fleeing, is too numerous to mention.
Although at the beginning of the war, the leaders of both Wang Juyun and King Jin had determined that this was a war of attrition that continued to lose, but after more than a month of attrition, despite having prepared for the worst, the two armies Military morale and strength still fell to a low point.
On the third day of December, Li Chengzhong and Lin Zhoucheng announced the surrender of Jurchen, which triggered a sudden change in the whole situation. The 400,000 army led by Tian Shi was defeated and fled in the face of Xi Yin's attack. In order to kill Tian Shi, the army of Jurchen chased the number of defeated soldiers Ten miles away, countless defeated soldiers were slaughtered, and it was announced that Jin Wang Tianshi had already given the news. However, Wang Juyun, who was constantly defeated and fled south, could only gather more than 30,000 elites at a time, and immediately used his forces to attack Linzhou, hoping to suppress the raised deck before the whole ship sank.
At the same time, the army of Shuleisu turned back and attacked Wozhou again. And a small army led by Saba moved towards Linzhou.
In the short period of time when Tian Shi was suspected of being dead, the entire Jinwang site was about to collapse. On the afternoon of the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Huaxia Army team led by Zhu Biao, in the midst of the emergency of Zhan Wu and others on Wasion's side, crossed a distance of hundreds of miles, and arrived at the foot of Linzhou City.
Linzhou was captured on the same day.
The leader of the rebellion, Li Chengzhong, committed suicide before the city was destroyed. The rest of the generals who participated in the rebellion, along with their families, were dragged up the city wall and beheaded.
However, the whole situation continues to disintegrate. That night, the city defense of Vaud was breached, and Shi Jin kept fighting on the city wall until he almost died of exhaustion. Afterwards, the army defending the city opened the city gate and let the people of the city flee south. The defender of Vauzhou, Xiaoyuan, ordered the army to block the Jurchen offensive in the front, and tried to start a street fight for a period of time, thinking that the people who fled south were delaying time, but the military heart was already close to the bottom line. In order to boost morale, Yu Xiaoyuan led his own soldiers twice. He rushed forward, fought himself, and was shot by Jurchen Fei Ya.
The defenders of Vauzhou fled in chaos, the Jurchen massacred, and Shi Jin and his comrades were also wrapped around and fought and retreated. On this night, the people who escaped and survived turned back to the direction of Vaud, the whole sky was already lit by a piece of fire, and the massacre was going on.
Shi Jin stood on the foothills in the dark, with a moist breath falling from his face.
If the man does not cry easily, it may be the blood shed on his body. In this icy world, the temperature will be lost in a moment.
There are many people around him, and there are even more people than after the dissolution of Chifeng Mountain.
Although he knew that he did not have the ability to control the army, the reputation of the eight-armed dragon king was still useful after all. After the first guard battle in Vau State, he still ran around, beheading those Jurchen spies and Han scum. During the end of the war, Lou Shuwan, who was far away from Wasion, had suffered many assassinations. She killed too many people, and she was also a woman. The outside world portrayed her as cruel and vicious. The poisonous woman who destroyed the foundation of the King of Jin and wanted to make the people suffer.
Shi Jin also spoke out in the green forest to rectify Lou Shuwan's name. After these messages were circulated for a month, many people were finally persuaded. In Wasion, they spontaneously started to rectify Lou Shuwan's name, and even broke out. During the assassination operation, she stood opposite the assassin to protect Lou Shuwan's safety.
Shi Jin, who was running and fighting in Vau State, had no way of knowing the situation of Wasion. As the city of Vau State was destroyed, what he saw in his eyes was the most tragic scene of the massacre. In the past ten years, he fought all the way, but also lost all the way. The defeats seemed endless, but again, he still did not die. He just thought: Wozhou City is gone, Brother Lin has been here for more than ten years, and he is gone. Mu Anping could not find it. When the little child who lost his parents came back here, he would see nothing. .
He went to the city to the south and continued to fight.
The snow sometimes fell and sometimes stopped, and the fire of war continued to spread in the heavy snow. South of the Yellow River, the wandering hungry ghosts were also surging in the snow, causing some trouble for the Jurchen army going south. Some small-scale grain transport teams were swallowed up by the hungry ghosts. Also dying piece by piece. Only the large group of hungry ghosts near Xuzhou was caught in the wind and snow, still breathing a little.
Daming House. The soldiers defending the city also gradually decreased in the cold weather. The most intense Jurchen siege occurred in the first month, and a large number of attrition occurred during that time, and some seriously wounded people could not survive this winter. . The 30,000 Jurchen elites led by Wanyan Chang and the 200,000 Han army also wear away the life and spirit of the defending soldiers every day. By December, after careful calculation, there were about 30,000 of the 50,000 defending sabers at the beginning, and most of them were wounded.
Bingxue finally suppressed the strength of the Jurchen siege. Wang Shanyue and Xue Changgong still guarded the city wall every day, cheering for the soldiers every day. For the few residents in the city, Wang Shanyue occasionally sent people to send food relief. , and also promote the spirit of resistance to people, but because of the deep snow, it is impossible to vigorously expand such a thing.
The besieged tents outside the city form an ocean. They are waiting for the arrival of spring. Spring is the season of growth and life, but whether it is Wang Shanyue, Xue Changgong, Shi Jin, Lou Shuwan, Tian Shi, Zhu Biao, or Ning Yi in the far southwest, they all know that Wu Jianshuo ten The spring of the thirteenth year of Nian and Jintianhui is not a season of life.
It was the season to bury everything, and it came day by day amid the whistling snow.