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Chapter 776: Flowers Bloom on the Other Side, Lao Canghe (2)

Chapter 776 Flowers blooming on the other side of the old Cang River ([-])

When the darkness reaches its deepest depths, the memories and emotions of the past burst forth like a dyke, with an unbreathable and oppressive touch.

In summer, a hot image, dotted with lotus on the pond.

In the autumn of the third year of Wu Jianshuo, the 20 army of Ji Wenkang of the puppet Qi was defeated by the Chinese Black Banner Army as a prelude. The long siege.

The fighting in the northwest has never stopped since then.

When the Jurchen's Southern Expedition had not yet ended, the initial offensive was basically led by the Liu Yu regime.Under the urging of the Jurchen regime, the second round of offensive and blockade was quickly organized. After the failure of 20 people, an army of as many as 60 marched steadily towards the border of Luliang.

This time, they were nominally under Liu Yu's account, but they were actually surrendering to the Jurchen Tian Hu, Cao Xingnong, Lu Zheng and other major forces have also sent troops along with them.At the end of the autumn, a large number of troops under the supervision of the Jin people were pushed to Luliang, Northwest and other places.In the northwest, under the mobilization of the Jurchen general, Zhejia began to dispatch, and the rest of the surrendering forces, such as Yanzhenguo and others who had failed in the earlier invasion of the northwest, also participated in this huge momentum.

This mighty army is as powerful as punishment from heaven.At this time, although the Central Plains was under the control of the Jurchens, there were still a few resistance forces in the Northwest. However, they either knew that the Jurchens were serious about revenge for Wanyan Loushi, or they tabooed the identity of the Huaxia Army's regicide and rebellion. Only the Huaxia Army and the Zhongjia Army, two troops with less than 10 people, really resisted.

In the northwest, the Zhong family army held the city to defend, and in the mountains of Luliang, Xiaocanghe and other places, the Huaxia army launched a fierce offensive against hundreds of thousands of troops.

Based on the precipitous mountains and complex terrain in these places, the Huaxia Army’s offensives were flexible and changeable, such as ambushes, traps, hot air balloons flying in the sky, and artillery arrays carefully arranged for the terrain. , Hundreds of thousands of troops entered the mountain in batches, often after being attacked head-on by the Black Banner Army, the puppet Qi army was blown up by the fierce artillery array, and the mountain road was blown up. The crowds of people pushed and fled, and were scorched by a large number of fires in the spread of the fire.

Violent fire attacks and night attacks, especially when the mountain roads were difficult to travel, were the violent blows against the troops who entered the mountains for food and grass. In the first month or so, tens of thousands of people died in the mountains, almost like funerals. Terrible and unbelievable.

Although all Han troops were involved in the attack at this time, the Black Banner Army showed no mercy—and neither could they.For the Jurchen, the Han troops have no meaning.Liu Yu's regime continued to recruit troops in the Central Plains, and a small number of Jurchen troops stood behind the mountains, urging the advance of the troops entering the mountains. However, due to the initial head-on attack, the troops entering the mountains began to advance in a more stable way. The felled trees in the mountains, in the case of ten attacks and one, strictly form a group and advance slowly.

In the spring of the fourth year of Jianshuo, the puppet Qi army first entered the periphery of Qingmu Village, and the attack and defense around Qingmu Village began. In the autumn of this year, with the increase of Jurchen reinforcements, the attacking army approached Xiaocang River, and in winter, completed the battle. The encirclement and division of Qingmu Village and Xiaocang River.As for the several cities controlled by the Zhongjia Army in the northwest, they have been slaughtered to blood.

This year, the progress of the Jin Qi coalition was turned into a battle report, perhaps simple.However, during the advance of the Jin army and the puppet Qi army, the resistance displayed by the Huaxia army was astonishing and even appalling. In the mountains near Qingmu Village and Xiaocang River, the advance of the attacking army was almost an inch of land. Blood, in the process of advancing, even because the main general was beheaded, the battalion was attacked in the middle of the night, and the battalion was bombed, resulting in several large-scale routs.The Puppet Qi army is mostly a mob. If it wasn't for the Jurchen army guarding the rear to slaughter tens of thousands of deserters one after another, with their heads standing on the ground and building a long forest, this war would have been impossible to start.

In March of the fourth year, the war had not yet encircled Qingmu Village. During the advance of the pseudo-Qi, inch by inch, the Huaxia Army suddenly protruded from the Xiaocang River, and attacked the collapsed Yanzhenguo and Zhejia coalition forces in the northwest of Shalangling. At the same time, they defeated the Zhe family's army, and the general Zhe Keqiu fled for more than [-] li. Several of the Zhe family's sons and nephews were killed by the Black Flag Army in this battle.

In June, a special team of about [-] people sneaked north into the Jin Kingdom and broke into the Zhongling Tomb in Shuozhou. These more than [-] people took the county seat, conquered a nearby horse farm guarded by Jin soldiers, and snatched hundreds of war horses. After lighting the fire, they walked away. When the Jurchen army arrived, the horse farm and the county government had been burnt to the ground in the raging fire.

On the boulders on the mountain road that the troops returned to Luliang, they left a large Jurchen character: Don't expect to survive.

- Don't think about being able to come back alive.

This is a fierceness that no one has imagined. Over the past few years, Jurchen has swept the world without encountering an opponent. During the army's attack on Xiaocanghe and the northwest, although there was supervision by the Jurchen army, when it comes to Jurchen domestically, they are still there. After digesting the results of the third southward movement, it was still like a lazy snake. No one was willing to face the full-scale deployment of the female real army. However, the Black Flag Army made such a brazen attack and slashed the opponent.

Such an attack would not cause Jurchen pain, but the loss of face was a feeling that had not been felt for a long time.

With this action, more Jurchen troops began to move south one after another.

However, in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Black Flag Army, the Jurchen troops at this time have not yet stepped forward, but only used a large number of Han troops as cannon fodder, using them to test the power of cannons and gunpowder, and gradually seek restraint. .

However, in September, the same army took advantage of an attack by the Black Banner Army to tear through the blockade, broke out of the mountains on the eastern front, and made a back and forth between the Jurchen camps stationed. General Nagu survived the attack, and the offensive in front might be scattered by this surprise attack.However, following the quick response of the Jurchen army, these 1000 people were brutally chased and intercepted on the way back to Xiaocang River, and suffered heavy losses.

In the spring of the fifth year of Jianshuo, the Jurchen general resigned and led an army of [-] Jurchens to the northwest.In February, when they heard the news, half of Xiao Canghe's troops broke out of the siege and began a bloody battle for nearly a month. They stirred up chaos among the besieging troops among the mountains, and then temporarily opened the situation.This was a tragic battle after the army advanced step by step. During this period, the top leaders such as Ji Wenkang, the pseudo-Qi general, and Liu Yi, the younger brother of Liu Yu, were all killed by the Black Flag Army.

The blood flowed into rivers, and the corpses filled the valley.

In March, Yanzhou fell, Zhong Lie resisted to the end in Yanzhou City, and died in the battle. Since then, there has been no Zhong family army.

In June, with the participation of the Shulei Speed ​​troop, the Xiaocang River burst its dam after more than half a year of siege, and the troops from Qingmu Village and Xiaocang River broke through the siege, causing chaos in the mountains.Ning Yi led a force of more than [-] troops to attack Yanzhou, but he did not hesitate to lead the army to confront him, while the Black Banner Army sneaked into Yanzhou City through the secret road dug by the Chong Family Army, and the inside and outside cooperated to break the city. Lost in the chaotic battle, he was captured, and then beheaded by the Black Banner Army at the head of the city.

Qin Shaoqian led another black flag army to the south and east for a while, and penetrated into the Central Plains.It is said that Qin Shaoqian paid homage to his deceased brother under the city of Taiyuan, and soon afterward, he suddenly returned to the west.

After taking back Yanzhou, the Black Banner Army went straight to the border of Zhejia, feigned to attack Fuzhou, encircled the point and attacked the Zhejia reinforcements, they should break through the city to take Linzhou, and then they went back to the mountains to the east. Get rid of the ensuing Jurchen chase...

At this time, the western and northwestern parts of the Central Plains, where the black flags came and went, had completely turned into a chaotic killing field.

Whether it is west, south, or north, people are watching this war, and they may not have spent much thought at the beginning, but at this stage, its emergence and progress, no one can ignore.In the second year of the war, the Central Plains had mobilized almost all of its forces into it. The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Liu Yu regime soared, the Han people fled south, the people were struggling, and the uprising troops rose again.

The Jurchen also spent a lot of troops to suppress. In the direction of the Central Plains to the Xiaocang River, Liu Yu's army and Tian Hu's army blocked all the routes. This blockade was only briefly broken until Qin Shaoqian led his team out.

No one knows how desperate the people involved in the war are. The black flag soldiers captured on the battlefield will be brutally tortured to death, and the Han troops who are forced to the front have already broken their nerves, and sometimes there are even cowards. The phenomenon of kneeling in front of the army and begging the Black Flag Army to surrender and begging the Black Flag Army to die quickly - they can't see the possibility of the Black Flag Army surviving, so they don't dare to throw themselves into the dead - Black Flag The army also showed no mercy to them.

In the second half of the fifth year of Jianshuo, Jurchen's artillery has also begun to be gradually put into use in the army. The elite Jurchen troops mixed into the army will raid the Black Flag Army after the artillery stops - at this time, the Black Flag The army's gunpowder is running out, and the Jurchen can still have a lot of gunpowder to squander on the constant supply.

The information sent to the south always seems simple, but every conflict in these mountains may be too tragic to breathe.There are also small-scale confrontations in large-scale killings. There are black flag troops in small groups who are besieged in the mountains until they starve to death, and those who are ambushed by the army and fight to the last person in the Jedi. People will pile up in mountains. The black flag that was still standing was found among the corpses. In the harshest environment, in the most desperate place of death, every charge of the black flag soldiers was terrifying...

How can anyone who has never experienced it imagine it?

In such a time, Jiangnan stabilized the situation and continued to develop. The refugees who fled from the north, large and small workshops had sufficient manpower, they had no permanent income, and they wanted to eat a full meal. Merchants in the Jiangnan area have a large number of low-cost labor.Officials began to sing praises in the courtroom, thinking that it was the reason for their pain and suffering, and it was a symbol of the rise of the Wu Dynasty.As for the war in the north, no one said, no one dared to say, no one could say.

Just like Emperor Jingping's annual edicts and praises to Emperor Jin, who are locked up in the north like pigs and dogs, the royal family is constantly blocking the news of the war in the northwest.The high-level people who knew these things couldn't speak, and Zhou Pei couldn't say or think about it. She just received one after another cruel information about the north, scolding her younger brother Jun Wu's happiness and anger.For the news that made her heart palpitate, she tried to suppress it as quietly as possible.

These feelings have been suppressed for a long time, and it has become a natural reaction, so she is no longer shocked by those tragic news - anyway, every one is tragic - in the calm and prosperous atmosphere of Jiangnan, Sometimes she will suddenly feel that those are fake.She finished reading them quietly, filed them quietly, quietly... Only at the most relaxing moment of dreaming back in the middle of the night, the nightmare would suddenly come, reminding her of the mountain-like corpse, like a river Ordinary blood, the waving flag and the fiercest struggle and cry.

In the background of the Jurchen going south, tens of millions or even millions of people could not resist, but it was the rebel who killed the king indignantly. Facing the overwhelming attack, he firmly choked the throat of the almost invincible powerful enemy, and he remained unshakable during the three years of tragic fighting.

No one has ever achieved this level in this dangerous situation.

In three years, Zhou Pei was able to understand her brother's feelings, and she could even imagine that after receiving those messages, she would not lose the remarks when she received the death of the seed in Yanzhou and the beheading of the Black Flag Army in Chengtou. After the news of Qin Shaoqian rushing across Taiyuan, what kind of mood would generals like Yue Fei who had dealt with the devil be in.

Not only these high-level officials, but also many scholars who have access to high-level information, the news about the Northwest War will also be a high-level discussion point for people to exchange. , there are very subtle emotions in my heart.Zhou Pei doesn't understand these things, she just... can't be shaken.

In the sixth year of Jianshuo, the war continued, and the Jurchen army came one after another. The northwest was an increasingly tragic battle.The people on the land were almost emptied, the people in the Central Plains became more and more destitute, and the losses of the Black Flag Army were increasing. Zhou Pei had a hard time knowing how they survived on that land.But... maybe it's him, there will be more ways.

After all, the monarch who killed the king... was the real terrifying one.

Jiangnan became more and more stable, and she almost got used to these things.

When will you fall?She also thought about it, and every time, she couldn't think about it.

In the sixth year of the establishment of the Wu Dynasty, on the eighth day of the sixth lunar month, the coalition forces of the Jin Kingdom and Puppet Qi besieged the main force of the Black Banner Army at Huangtoupo in the northwest. On the thirteenth, they killed Ning Yi, the leader of the Black Banner Army, and countless bandits. His corpse was cut into tens of thousands of pieces, and his head was offered northward in front of the Emperor Jin's seat.

It was a sight that hadn't appeared in even her deepest nightmares for many, many years...

That giant rose from the humble beginnings, and she grew up gradually while watching him, seeing his elegance, his wit, his tenacity, and his ferocity...they There is no fate, she still remembers the goodbye in the courtyard when she was 15 years old, the night of stars and the wind of the night, she thought that she had grown up suddenly in that night, but for some reason, even though she had never met him, he always Will appear in her life, so that she can't look at it.

She had too many emotions and too many fantasies in her heart, but she never thought that one day, he would fall.

How is it possible, he killed the emperor, he even killed the emperor, didn't he want to save the world...

In the courtyard, the heat is like a prison, and all the prosperity and serenity are like hallucinations.

Fake... she thought.

In the northwest, the chaotic war is still burning at the end.Not long before this, the devil who provoked huge chaos, dragged every place it affected into hell, and made every opponent taste the bitter fruit, seemed... finally down...

(End of this chapter)