In the early spring when Yingfei and grass grow, the war-torn land.
Time is the thirteenth year since Jurchen went south for the first time, and the eleventh year after the Wu Dynasty crossed south. The imperial court of the Wu Dynasty, which was once magnificent and splendid in history and dominated for more than two hundred years, exists in name only at this moment. .
The team that maintained the last bloodline of the Wu Dynasty named this year as the first year of revitalization. In these years of war, Zhou Junwu, the new emperor of the Wu Dynasty, who had the ambition to revitalize, has not become the focus of the times for the time being.
In the first month, the long princess team that docked in Fujian took the important town of Fuzhou lightly with the help of Cheng Zhouhai and others. By the middle of January, the mighty dragon boat fleet went north along the coast, and the main force of the Junwu team boarded the ship and assisted. When it ran to Lampang, the fleet once entered the mouth of Qiantang, approaching and deterring Lin'an.
Considering that the plan to hunt down Zhou Junwu was difficult to achieve in the short term, Zongfu Zongbi announced the victory of the southern expedition when the snow melted and the ice disappeared in early February. return.
Considering the goal of this southern expedition, as the Eastern Route Army, Zongfu Zongbi was already able to triumph. At this time, under the operation of the Lin'an Small Court and the Jurchen team for more than half a year, the Wu Dynasty had already been torn apart. Not arresting Zhou Junwu and completely destroying Zhou's bloodline is just a small flaw. It is a pity to abandon it, but if you continue to eat it, there is not much taste.
On the other hand, for Zongfu Zongbi, the West Route Army, which was aggressively preparing to destroy the southwest, fell into the quagmire of war. It was also good news for Zongfu Zongbi. It is true that as a kin, Zongfu Zongbi still hopes that Zonghan and others will win and they will win, but before winning, the worse the fight, the better.
The war in the southwest has now become the core target of the entire world. Some people are gloating at the misfortune, and some people are anxious about it. During this period, the corresponding battle of Changsha also attracted the attention of many people. Considering the comparison of the combat power of the two sides near Changsha, when it first came to an end at the end of February this year, many people His eyes were stunned by the reported results.
The soldiers who participated in the entire Changsha campaign stood on the side of the Jin Kingdom, numbering hundreds of thousands. Among them, there were more than 30,000 elite troops of the Jin Kingdom led by the Jurchen veteran Yin Shuke. More than half of them were cavalry troops that Xi Yin asked for from Zongbi. In addition to the Yinshuke army, the surrendering Han army that came one after another numbered more than 300,000.
In the Huaxia Army, the Miaojiang troops led by Chen Fan are only more than 10,000 people, even with the addition of more than 2,000 strong special operations troops, plus the miscellaneous army led by generals such as Zhu Jing and other hot-blooded generals , Xiangyong, in the overall number, has never exceeded 40,000.
Although at the beginning of the war last year, Chen Fan made a long-distance attack with 7,000 elites and quickly defeated more than 100,000 Han troops led by Li Touhe, Yu Gusheng and others in a short period of less than a month. With the arrival of the main force of Yinshuke, the battle of Changsha, which lasted for about half a year, was extremely difficult for the Huaxia Army.
Chen Fan once gave up on Changsha, and later broke through Changsha with a carbine, and then gave up on Changsha... During the entire combat process, Chen Fan's troops carried out mobile operations based on terrain. Zhu Jing's Juling was once broken by Jurchen and then slaughtered. , and since then it is also constantly fleeing and shifting.
If you look from the back to the front, the overall situation of the entire Changsha battle, even within the Huaxia Army, is not optimistic as a whole. Chen Fan's combat principle is to rely on silver art, but he is not familiar with the constant guerrilla attacks in the southern mountains. He seizes an opportunity to quickly defeat an opponent's army. His tactics and ability to lead the army are brought out by Fang Qifo, plus After so many years of his own precipitation, his combat style is stable and resolute. It shows that he is extremely fast when rushing, he is extremely keen to seize opportunities, and his attack is extremely fierce when attacking.
Even under the pressure of Yin Shuke's pursuit, Chen Fan scored several dazzling victories in the cracks surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops. One of them even defeated Yin Shuke's partial division and swallowed nearly 600 gold. After the elite soldiers walked away.
But no matter how good a commander is, it is only at this level. If all the troops facing the surrendered Wu Dynasty, Chen Fan and 10,000 people may be able to kill seven in and seven out from Jiangnan, but in the face of silver art, this is not the case. A Jurchen veteran of all levels, being able to take advantage of it occasionally is already the limit of the art of warfare.
Inside the Huaxia Army, the prediction of the overall trend is also that Chen Fan gradually entered the mountains of Miaojiang and insisted on resisting after constant negotiation. Not being annihilated is a great victory.
No one expected that the battle of Changsha would end with Yin Shuke's defeat and death.
No one expected that in the army of the Wu Dynasty, there would be an "abnormal number" as determined and fierce as Yu Mingzhou.
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The Battle of Changsha ended on February 24 of this year.
Wanyan Qingjue was captured on the evening of February 21st. He remembered that the smoke was full of gunpowder and the sunset was red. In the southeast of Changsha, near Liuyang County, a big battle had actually started. This was a siege and interception of the troops led by Zhu Jing, and the fundamental purpose was to swallow the troops of Chen Fan who came to rescue.
In the setting sun, the young general of the Wu Dynasty, who was violent but he liked him, suddenly knocked him down with a punch.
Wanyan Qingjue wasn't even mentally prepared. He fainted for a moment, and when the buzzing in his head became clear, he turned around and reacted. The scene of massacres had already unfolded in front of him. , his face was bloody and ferocious, and then he drew his sword out.
This was Wanyan Qingjue's last memory of that day. After that, someone knocked him out completely and stuffed him into a sack.
This is the second time Wanyan Qingjue has been captured by the Huaxia Army.
When he woke up, he was locked in a rudimentary camp, and everything around was still in chaos. At that time, he was still in the war, and someone was watching him, but he didn't seem to care. This indifference meant that if he escaped from prison, the other party would choose to kill him instead of knocking him out.
Wanyan Qingjue couldn't find a chance to escape, and he didn't know the development of the outside world in a short period of time, except on the evening of February 24th, he heard someone cheering and saying "victory" outside. On February 25, he was escorted to Changsha City before he fainted. Changsha City was still owned by his side, but obviously, the Huaxia Army killed another carbine and took Changsha for the third time.
The soldiers escorting the captives on the way seem to have forgotten the threat of Jinbing, as if they have won a complete victory. This is something that should not have happened. It is impossible to lose all of this, after all, winning or losing is a matter of the military.
He remained silent all the way, and did not open his mouth to ask about the matter. Until the sunset on the twenty-fifth day, he approached Changsha City. The sunset poured down his field of vision like orange blood. He saw that on the flagpole in Changsha City, the armor of the great commander Yinshu Ke was hanging. Next to the armor hangs the head of a man with silver skills.
There were other pedestrians on the road, as well as soldiers coming and going. Wanyan Qingjue's steps were shaky, and she knelt down on the side of the road: "What, what's going on..."
He asked in a hoarse and weak voice, but the hilt of the knife hit him in the back, urging him to go forward. Wanyan Qingjue's eyes were red. He pointed to the head on the flagpole and looked back at the soldier under custody, with a terrifying expression on his face. The soldier raised his foot and slammed him in the face, kicking him into the mud.
No one explained anything to him, and he was detained in the Changsha prison. Victory and defeat, regime change, even in prison, you can occasionally detect the turmoil in the outside world, from the mouths of the guards who pass by, from the shouts of the criminals who are escorting coming and going, from the whispers of the wounded... Piece together the whole picture. Until the afternoon of February 27, he was escorted out.
Leaving the prison, walked through the long corridor, and then came to a courtyard behind the prison. A lot of soldiers can already be seen here, and it is also possible that prisoners under centralized custody are digging the ground to do things. Two men who should be members of the Huaxia Army are talking in the corridor. The young man with oily head and pink noodles both had serious expressions on their faces. The young man with oily head and pink noodles slightly clasped his fists towards each other and glanced at it. Wanyan Qingjue felt familiar, but then she was escorted to the empty room next to her.
The empty room was simple and spacious, with windows open to see soldiers standing guard. After a while, the slightly familiar young man walked in, Wanyan Qingjue squinted her eyes, and then remembered: This is the entourage of the traitor Yu Mingzhou, not the left and right hand that Yu Mingzhou relies on the most. , and also because of this, Wanyan Qingjue has only vaguely seen it once or twice in the past.
The young man is very good looking, like an actor, recalling his past impressions, he would even think that this person was raised by Yu Mingzhou. It's not surprising that this is the case, but Yan Qingjue couldn't see much from the young man's face at this moment. The young man's eyes were calm and gloomy.
He came over, Wanyan Qingjue's hand was tied to the table, unable to move, raised his head and struggled slightly, then gritted his teeth and said, "Where's the little dog? It's not polite to send someone down to support me at this time, right? …”
At the moment of the confrontation, considering Yin Shuke's death and the great defeat of the Changsha battle, Wanyan Qingjue, who had been a proud disciple of Xiyin for half a lifetime, had already completely sacrificed herself, putting her life and death aside, and was about to say a few ironic swear words. , a fierce light flashed in the eyes of the young man standing in front of him overlooking him.
A violent punch hit Wanyan Qingjue's face and fell.
With a buzzing sound, Wanyan Qingjue's whole head rang out, her body twisted to one side, and when she realized it, her mouth was full of blood, two teeth were knocked out and fell out of her mouth, and half of the teeth in her mouth were loose. Wanyan Qingjue spat out the blood in her mouth with difficulty.
"Um... you..."
"Yu Mingzhou said a long time ago that sooner or later, he will punch your smug face and make you never smile."
"Cough... let him come..." Wanyan Qingjue spoke with difficulty.
"He can't come, so I'll take a look at you after I'm done."
"Beast!" Wanyan Qingjue raised her head, "He even sold his own father..."
"He only sold all his belongings, and Yu Shibo didn't die..." The young man sat down opposite, "These things are also forced by you."
"Let him come to see me and tell me face-to-face. He is a big man now, it's amazing... He is a dog in front of me." Wanyan Qingjue said, "He has no face to come to see me, for fear of being brought up by me, he It's a dog!"
The young man put his hands on the table and slowly rolled up his sleeves, not looking at Yan Qingjue: "He's not a dog..." He was silent for a moment, "You've seen me, but you don't know who I am, get to know me, my name is Zuo Wenhuai, Zijiazhen, do you have any impression of this surname, Young Master Wanyan?"
"Go! You! Mother! Oh! Kill me!" Wanyan Qingjue struggled.
A look of sadness flashed in the eyes of the young man named Zuo Wenhuai: "Compared to Ling Shiwan Yan Xiyin, you are indeed just a worthless dude, compared to Mingzhou, you are too far behind. Zuo Jiyun is my uncle, and one of my uncles in the Zuo clan is called Zuo Duanyou, and in order to kill him, you also paid a big bounty."
Wanyan Qingjue reacted.
Zuojia, a big clan of the Wu Dynasty, followed the Jianshuo court to Jiangnan after the Wu Dynasty moved to the south. It is said that Zuo Duanyou, a great scholar, had been to Xiaocang River several times. He sat down with Ning Yi and quarreled without success. He's Huaxia Army, the Zuo family has always had a good impression, and there was even information that the Zuo family had a private connection with the Huaxia Army.
Such rumors may be true, but it has never been conclusive. First, Zuo Duanyou was well-known in the Confucian circle of the Wu Dynasty, and his family had deep roots. Second, after the southern crossing of Jianshuo, the crown prince and the eldest princess also had a good impression of the Huaxia Army. Zhou Zhe's voice for revenge gradually diminished, and some families even started trade with the Huaxia Army, hoping to "learn the skills of the barbarians to control the Jurchen". The rumors about who and who have a good relationship with the Huaxia Army have always been just rumors.
Only Jurchen once offered Zuo Duanyou a bounty, not only because he had indeed been to Xiaocanghe and received courtesy from Ning Yi, but also because Zuo Duanyou had a good relationship with Qin Siyuan before. There is a reason to kill him.
Zuo Duanyou never died in the hands of the Jurchen. He died naturally in Jiangnan, but during the whole process, the Zuo family did establish an inextricable connection with the Huaxia army. Of course, how deep this connection is, it is naturally still to be seen. unclear.
After Zongfu Zongbi teamed up with Xi Yin to break the Jiangnan line of defense, Xi Yin paid attention to the Zuo family for a time, but at that time, the entire Zuo clan had quietly disappeared in front of people's eyes, and Xi Yin only thought that this was a big family Wisdom to avoid disaster. But right now, there is such a Zuo clan's disciple walking in front of Wanyan Qingjue.
Wanyan Qingjue recalled for a moment, and said, "I am one move away from winning the king or defeating the bandit. Now you can say whatever you want..."
What he aimed at was Zuo Wenhuai's evaluation of his "playful boy", Zuo Wenhuai looked at him for a moment, and then said, "I am a soldier of the Huaxia Army."
"... The puppies you wait are naturally Chinese soldiers. Hey, do you know what Yu Mingzhou has done..."
Zuo Wenhuai shook his head: "I came to see you today, just to tell you this. I am a soldier of the Huaxia Army. I studied in Xiaocanghe and taught by Mr. Dening. But I give you this fiasco. Yu Mingzhou, who was from the beginning to the end, was not a member of the Huaxia Army. From beginning to end, he was a soldier of the Wu Dynasty. His heart was attached to the Wu Dynasty and the thousands of Li people who were loyal to the Wu Dynasty. Heartbroken for the situation of the Wu Dynasty...”
Zuo Wenhuai stared at him and said word by word: "You remember you and Yin Shuke, you were defeated by such people."
Wanyan Qingjue tilted her head, the previous punch made his thinking extremely slow, but at this moment, in the words of the other party, he finally realized something...
"Haha... Yu Mingzhou... how's it going?"
What flashed in his mind were the violent eyes that Yu Mingzhou looked down from his horse on the evening of February 21st.
The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the setting sun was like fire. There is some hatred in some years, and people will never be able to report it.
So certain emotions will become clear in such emotions...