On a cold winter and snowy night, among the villages north of the Wen River, the newly cast tall city wall separates the entire north and south area of the Wen River. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the Northern and Southern Zhou dynasties were divided, this was originally a quiet and peaceful village, and the people in the village had lived on the Wen River for generations, but now the Northern and Southern Zhou armies faced off outside the Wen River, and no one dared to easily approach the Wen River for half a step.

In the village land temple, two small soldiers huddled in the corner of the wall to keep warm, and the flames from the small pyre drove away the cold air from their skulls.

One of the young men poured a sip of soju hard, and after feeling the numbness on his body eased a little, he muttered: "This general is really, we have set a trap by the river, and we have been guarding outside for a month in vain, frozen like a sieve, but there is no movement at all on the Nanzhou side." Are you not going to fight over there, if you really don't fight, it is better to let us go back and have a good New Year. ”

Thinking of the delicate body of his daughter-in-law and the hot meal, he became more and more resentful.

"Isn't it good not to have a fight? Who rarely fights in this cold winter, not to mention the war, let alone going home for the New Year, it would be good to have the life to leave here alive. An old soldier next to him sneered.

He was older than the soldier in front of him, and he had also been on the battlefield himself, and he had seen the scene of the two armies fighting on the battlefield. The people above have an order, and the people below have to fight with their lives, even if they know that they can't fight, they must continue, otherwise the desertion will cause trouble to the whole family. The cruelty on the battlefield must be something that everyone who has been on the battlefield will never forget, the sea of blood is monstrous, the corpses are piled up, and the battles that have been won or lost are filled with thousands of lives.

In this situation, he would rather shrink into this remote village, although there is a lack of food and clothing, and the cold wind is in the bones, but he can finally save his life, right?

After the beginning of spring, if the two armies do not fight, the battle may not be fought, and then His Majesty will order a group of people to be sent home for spring ploughing, and he will have the opportunity to leave the barracks.

"Uncle Li, is it really that scary to fight?"

"It's either life or death, and every day you tie your head to your belt, and you may lose it one day, don't you say it's terrifying?"

When the soldier heard the old soldier's words, he couldn't help but fall silent.

A big hole was broken in the corner of the earthen wall in the temple, and a cold wind blew in, and the sparks flew everywhere, and several people shivered with cold.

The veteran stood up, walked to the hole with a large ball of straw, leaned over to mend the hole to block the wind blowing in from outside, and said: "It's getting colder and colder these days, and when the guard changes tomorrow night, let's take advantage of the time to go to the village to defend outside, go to the river to dig a hole and get some fish, and I will make soup for you, so that you can also taste my ...... Belch. ”

The words came to an abrupt end, and the little soldier heard half of the silence, and looked over there in surprise, and saw the old soldier holding the straw in his hand, and fell straight to the ground.

"Bang!!"

With a loud bang, the earthen wall collapsed along the hole, burying the corpse of the veteran, and at the same time revealing the white snow outside the earthen wall, the soldier wearing armor and holding the giant tree in his hands.

The little soldier woke up in an instant, opened his mouth and shouted, "Enemy ......"

Before the word enemy attack was over, a sword light passed directly through his neck and nailed him to the rotten pillar of the Earth Temple behind him.

The sturdy Hogg stepped forward in a few steps, drew his long sword, didn't look at the little soldier's round eyes at all, just flicked the white snow on his body, and said in a deep voice to the people behind: "It's the ugly time, act separately, before the end of the day, grab the person who leads the troops, and clear the strong bows and crossbows and archers on the city wall, do you understand?" ”

"Yes, General!"

More than 200 people quickly dispersed, running towards all parts of the village in the snowy moonlit night, like a god of death covered in flying snow, quickly harvesting the lives of those who belonged to the Northern Zhou army in the village. As the hour approached, more than a dozen strong bows and crossbows were piled up together, and together with the bows and arrows that had broken the strings, they were poured with fire oil, and a fire burst into flames.

At the same time, the army of the Southern Zhou on the opposite side saw the flames on the city wall in the distance, as if they had received an order, the war drums protruded, and all the people roared and attacked the edge of the city wall.

"Kill!"

"Kill!!"

In the dark night, the sound of killing was everywhere, and the people in the whole village woke up, and when they were about to go to the battlefield with their swords, they found that their generals were hanging on the wall, and the eyes that seemed to be terrified suddenly widened made the Northern Zhou army scattered, and the people of the Southern Zhou Dynasty broke through the first checkpoint of the Northern Zhou Dynasty without much effort, and led the army to cross the Wen River and enter the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Hogg took advantage of the night to take advantage of the path to leave the village, and when the people of the Southern Zhou led the troops into the city to take over, they found that most of the remaining grain and grass and military supplies in the Northern Zhou had already been burned, and the things left behind were not enough to maintain their army's long-distance march.

When Huo Jingrui heard the news, he immediately ordered to take advantage of the night to attack the nearest Pinglin City, and be sure to take Pinglin before dawn.

The war between the Northern and Southern Zhou Dynasties officially began, and under the situation that the winter snow was thick and the armies of Beirong and Southern Chu were completely unable to intervene, the war between the two dynasties did not end as quickly as Emperor Zhengde wanted, but gradually fell into a stalemate from the initial fierceness.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty had strong troops and sufficient grain and grass, and whenever the Southern Zhou was in trouble, they wanted to completely crush the army when they wanted to crush it, but they could get out of danger at a critical moment. Not only that, because of the lack of food and grass in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, the grain and grass obtained from the repeated sieges were only enough for the soldiers to eat half full, hunger and winter snow and ice, the Southern Zhou army, which was not originally a strong force, was stimulated to be ferocious, and several failures made it have the anger of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, and gradually, the mourning soldiers of the Southern Zhou Dynasty were more cohesive and comparable to the Northern Zhou army.

Approaching the New Year's Festival, there is no New Year's atmosphere in the palace of Zhou Kingdom.

The concubines didn't dare to dress up anymore and dangled in front of Emperor Zhengde, and the ministers in the court clamped their tails one after another, for fear that they would become cannon fodder who was pulled to vent their anger under Emperor Zhengde's anger.

Emperor Zhengde sat on the dragon chair in the imperial study, his face was much older than a year ago, his face seemed to be a furrow of withered bark and gray white hair between his hair, letting people know that he was no longer the emperor who was ambitious and domineering and delusional about the world, but just a dying man who was angry and angry.

He threw the song to the ground and said angrily: "Wu Zhengzhi is dead, Huo Jingrui's subordinates have long been without generals, they have no food and grass, no military supplies, why are they still fighting like this?!" It's been two months, and that group of wastes not only didn't take Huo Jingrui, but was beaten all the way to Yuezhou by him! (To be continued.) )