9. Beasts

Is Zhu Wu cruel?

The Han army rarely killed prisoners, and there were almost no bad habits of the army in troubled times, such as looting, JY, and indiscriminate killing.

And Zhu Wu himself has not launched a large-scale destructive war to turn the occupied area into white land, and the places he occupied cannot be said to have no destruction at all, but they can recover quickly.

But the people of the world, especially the people of the northern Yuan Court, always deliberately emphasize the word brutality when mentioning Zhu Wudi.

"I'm only going to be cruel to outsiders!"

That night, Zhu Wu wrote in his diary.

"As long as you identify with Chinese culture and regard yourself as a member of China, you are your own people. Huaxia is a kind of civilization, which has embraced all over the world since its birth, has a broad heart, and accommodates the civilization of all rivers.

All dynasties, whether they were powerful or prosperous, were civilized countries, and this form of civilized country will continue.

China, in the form of a state, stands on the top of the world's civilization. Therefore, even if there are ups and downs, hardships and tribulations, our civilization has not faded in the slightest.

On the contrary, after the tempering of hardships and hardships and the torment of suffering, this kind of civilization that penetrates into the blood of every Chinese person, this kind of civilization that every Chinese person is born with, will be even more brilliant.

However, for the sake of future generations, in order to reduce those sufferings a little, and to make our civilization more brilliant, I have decided to change this civilization slightly.

Tear off the veil of gentleness and elegance, revealing the fierceness and bravery of our ancestors when they came out of the Yellow River Valley.

Our ancestors are too powerful, their feats hidden in the years, the conquest of nature, and the cry of fighting to defeat this thousand-year-old territory, so that we, the descendants, while enjoying the blessings, are too comfortable, proud and tired and lose their enterprising spirit.

The Meng Yuan will soon dissipate in the long river of history, and I am confident that I will achieve the final victory, no matter who my enemies are, they can only be the stepping stones of a new country and a new civilization.

The new China and the new civilization will always forge ahead and will never rest on its laurels. Our descendants will no longer lie on the merits of our ancestors and be complacent.

Where the rivers go, the sun and the moon shine, they will all be the land of China. ”

After writing, Zhu Wu carefully dried the ink and slowly packed the diary in a blue wooden box.

His diary is different from others in that it is written in a horizontal row from left to right, and his pen is not a brush, but a quill that can write quickly.

In the blue wooden box, in addition to his diary, there were three inconspicuous things, a small knife with a broken palm, a small bag of blackened millet with the size of a fist, and a sachet.

No one knew about this box, and the shadow of death hung over him in the precarious years of the previous years.

These things are the funeral items that Zhu Wu chose for himself.

Some of the Han courtiers have already written a book and asked Zhu Wu to repair his grave.

The kind of thing that costs the people and money in the mausoleum, Zhu Wu doesn't want to get it, everyone is dead, and it is used to build a White House for birds. But these things that are very important to him in this life, he still wants to carry.

In this life, there will always be a lingering bond, that is, fate.

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It's snowing again, and it's heavy.

Large snowflakes fell on the cavalry's armor, gradually merging with the ice and blood on it, turning into a cloud.

Zhu Chongba exhaled a breath of hot air, looking at the Yuan army camp that stretched for dozens of miles in the distance, his face was unwilling, but he was helpless.

In five days, he led the cavalry to repeatedly bite the army of the North King of Jinan Town for fifteen days, wanting to tear off a piece of fat on the other party's behemoth.

But the other party was like a hedgehog, covered in thorns, and did not give him a chance to sweep Hiraoka at all.

Moreover, Zhenbei Wang Zhibing, just yesterday also set a trap for Zhu Chongba, after he led the cavalry to break through the two fences of the opponent's camp, he found that he was surrounded by the enemy.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yuan army had too few cavalry, he would be dangerous. Ironically, the Mengyuan army that dominated the world back then, everyone came and went like the wind, but now in the last days of this dynasty, they can only rely on the two-legged Han army.

And these rebellious men, under the oppression of a hundred years, awakened the desire for horseback in their blood, and they came and went like dragons and whistling like hurricanes.

Hum........

The war horse under the crotch neighed, and it was tired. After five days of tearing, both men and horses were tired.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Xu Dazema came to Zhu Chongba's side, "Otherwise, I'll take someone around and rush from behind them!" ”

Zhu Chongba still looked at the Yuan army camp with no end in sight, and said in a deep voice, "How many people have died under your command in the past few days?" ”

Xu Da's face showed some sadness, "More than five hundred!" ”

You're biting people, they're not beating you. The huge numerical advantage of 150,000 people, kill dozens of you today, and slaughter hundreds tomorrow.

People can afford to be consumed, and these cavalry are Zhu Chongba's heart, and he can't afford to consume them.

"Let's go back!" Zhu Chongba grinned and sneered, "Go back first, let the brothers rest!" As he spoke, looking at the banner of the king of Zhenbei fluttering in the Yuan army, his scarlet tongue licked his lips, "Sooner or later, I slaughtered this old thing!" ”

After saying that, he turned his horse's head, and thousands of cavalry followed him and disappeared into the vast world, gradually turning into black spots, and they could no longer be seen.

But as soon as he returned to Juzhou, he had just entered the warm room, and as soon as he lit the flames, he received news from Yidu that the Yuan court captain Blanxi led the Liaodong soldiers and horses, and the vanguard had entered Shandong.

The soldiers and horses of Liaodong also came across the sea, and under the repeated urging of Emperor Yuan Shun, they gave up the original plan to enter Shandong from Hebei, and instead took a sea ship and landed in Dengzhou.

They came so quickly that there was a big loophole in Zhu Chongba's original strategic deployment.

For the soldiers and horses of Liaodong, who were more adept at field warfare, crossing the sea was dangerous, although it was only more than 100 kilometers from the coast of Liaodong to Shandong, but at the same time the opportunities were also huge.

Once the Yuan army all went ashore in Dengzhou, with Dengzhou as the logistics operation base, it would directly threaten the flank of Yidudi, which was equivalent to a handful of Emei times and topped the temples of Zhu Chongbadi.

Zhu Chongba, who received the battle report, looked out the window, and his eyes flickered brightly under the firelight.

The brothers around him, whether it was Tang He or Xu Da, couldn't guess what he was thinking.

After a while, Zhu Chongba suddenly laughed at himself, and said to the people around him, "Brothers, you say, if we can't beat him, beg him Zhu Xiaowu, is it a shame?" ”

Everyone was silent, only Tang He said angrily, "He Zhu Xiaowu can't wait for us to die!" ”

"He wished we were dead!" Under the firelight, Zhu Chongba smiled lowly, and then raised his head, with some pride on his face, "However, he and we have a personal grudge." Putting aside personal grievances, he, Zhu Xiaowu, like us, is anti-yuan for the land! ”

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Dengzhou, which began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Jin, Song and Yuan dynasties. It has four counties under its jurisdiction, with a dense population and developed maritime trade and fisheries.

But in this troubled world, there is no happy land where the people can live in peace. Dengzhou City has been exhausted under years of taxes.

It's just that there is a good official in Dengzhou Mansion, Huang Wenyi, the prefect of Dengzhou, who has no way to deal with people's livelihood, natural disasters, and taxes, but he knows the chaos of the army entering the city.

Therefore, in the face of thousands of Liaodong soldiers and horses who landed in Dengzhou, even if the other party took out the place name of Emperor Yuan Shun, he still did not open the city gate.

The soldiers and horses of Liaodong, where they landed, could only be stationed on the seashore twenty miles outside the city in winter. Moreover, there are not many real Liaodong people in these vanguard soldiers and horses of landing, most of them are Goryeo people who speak foreign dialects.

Your own land is used to cherish and inherit, and other people's land is used to conquer and wreak havoc.

What used to be a quiet fishing village by the sea has now become a hell on earth. If you look down from the sky, the night is full of burning villages, corpses crisscrossing the sky.

“&……%$!!”

"Siba, %?? #@, Barry! ”

The camp of the vanguard of the Yuan army was full of foreign words that sounded like heavenly books, chattering and crackling, as if eating gunpowder, far less pleasant and hearty than the tone of Shandong boys when they spoke.

They are wanton, they are ostentatious, they are manic, they are cruel.

In the burning villages, the cattle were dragged by them, and the people's rations were carried on their backs.

In the raging firelight, the man's body was twisted and lying on the ground, and the child was naked, crying helplessly in the cold wind.

Young women, with their hands tied, led like cattle, into the camp.

Since the woman, these gurgling Korean soldiers, their smiles have become more hideous and more brutal.

This scene made Dengzhou City send two Shandong men to send wine and meat to the imperial army, and they were suddenly like falling into an ice cave, and their eyes were open