In the interval between the beginning of the war, Ning Yi, who was a man of two lives, and his wife lamented the uncuteness of their children when they grew up - this was also a novel experience that he had never had before.

What is really thankful is that there are still many children who still have the possibility and space to grow up.

In order to fight for such space, the southwest has long been mobilized on all fronts. The first wave of the Huangming County Yamaguchi lasted four days, and the pull-out speed turned the tentative exchange into a round of targeted attacks.

In the three days after the twenty-fifth year, he subconsciously controlled the offensive and reduced casualties, and Pang Liuan's side no longer engaged in large-scale artillery fire when it was not facing the power of Allah. But even under such circumstances, the army of the Jurchen side that was driven forward still suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the loss of combat strength was approaching 15,000.

The vast majority of these casualties came from the elite of the surrendered Han army who rushed to the front line. Although they were mixed in with the large number of civilians who had been repeatedly driven into battle, although there was no longer a large-scale artillery bombardment of them from above the walls, although the walls ahead were no more than three feet high...... But even if it was just a white-bladed defensive battle, these soldiers who could not form a formation to reach the city could only rush forward to experience slaughter again and again when facing the black flag elite at the head of the city.

Siege warfare is not an equal battle, and the defenders have the upper hand in the position anyway. Even if you don't count the condescending iron cannons, which may gather fire at any time, you can also remove all kinds of defensive objects such as rolling wood, stones, bows and arrows, and gold juice, and you will decide the victory with hand-to-hand combat knives and guns. The three-zhang high city wall, relying on the ladder to climb up one by one, often fell to the ground when facing two or three Huaxia soldiers who cooperated tacitly.

Even the Jurchen elite, who are known for their fierceness and fearlessness and morale, and have killed the entire world, ascended to the city under such circumstances, and the ending was not the slightest different.

A vanguard general like the Uritan relied on the defense of his armor to hold on to a few moves, and the rest of the Jurchen soldiers could only see the same fierce iron shield crashing into them in the fierce charge. The iron shield was desperately coordinated, and the soldiers behind the iron shield had a firmness and fanaticism that was no less than that of the Jurchens, and their knives were just as bloodthirsty as they removed their shields.

As for the warm-up for the battle with the Jurchens, the internal Huaxia Army has started since ten years ago. After Xiaocanghe, all kinds of publicity and encouragement have become more solid, heavier and more mission-oriented. It can be said that at the moment when the Jurchens arrived in the southwest, what they were more looking forward to and hungry was the Huaxia army, which had been waiting in depression for several years.

However, the 1,500-meter city wall, the first to be arranged, is also the elite of the Huaxia army who had won the ranking in the various military competitions earlier, at the beginning of the war, the moment when the gods are full of energy, the ferocity of the Jurchens will only make these people feel the blood boiling - the fierceness and death of the enemy combined, in order to bring people the greatest pride.

The soldiers methodically slashed down the surging climbers, who were outnumbered and outnumbered in formation, and threw their corpses to the wall. The generals who led the army were also cherishing the pleasure of fighting with low casualties, and they all knew that with the Jurchens' repeated attacks, no matter how small the casualties were, they would gradually accumulate into wounds that could not be ignored, but the more blood they saw at this time, the higher the morale of their side in the next time, and the more likely they were to fight their way out of the opponent's sea of people.

On the afternoon of the third day of the battle, the Han soldiers who rushed to the edge of the city wall did not dare to enter the city. They weren't all fools, and this first round of attacks might not be able to knock through the seemingly low wall in front of them, and the casualties of rushing to the city were not low. But if you go up the ladder, it will be like a gluttonous mouth for two or three days, basically swallowing as much as you want. Except for some people who jumped down in fright when they landed in the city, the rest of the people who could come down were only corpses.

Twenty-eighth, he quickly beheaded several Han generals in front of the battle.

On this day, there were still fires burning from time to time in the nearby rugged mountain forests, black pillars of smoke raging in the sky between the forests, and the scorching atmosphere permeated the battlefields near and far.

On the twenty-ninth day, a light rain gradually fell in the sky. The pull-out speed stopped the attack in front of the mountain pass in Huangming County, and began the first round of statistics and rest - it must also start to rest, the capacity of the rear road is limited, even if most of the casualties are cannon fodder, it always takes a certain amount of time to replenish.

On the first day of November, the weather turned clear, and the Battle of Yushuixi began, and on the fourth day of the first month, the Jurchen craftsmen who followed all the way from the Dazaoyuan assembled four huge siege vehicles with sandbags and iron plates in front of them and could overcome the undulating terrain to a certain extent, and the soldiers pushed them towards the county seat of Huangming.

Until the eleventh year of Jianshuo, the fighting in the southwest never stopped.

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The war in the world has also never stopped.

In mid-November, on the surface of the East China Sea, the wind was blowing and the waves were blowing, and two huge fleets encountered each other on the hazy sea. Hu Sunming, the general who had led the Taihu fleet and had already taken refuge in the Jurchens, witnessed the scene of the dragon boat fleet rushing towards this side.

"Defeat those old soldiers! Capture alive the princess Zhou Pei of the former dynasty, they are all greedy for life and afraid of death! Seeing Dajin killed, he abandoned the country and fled without any damage! The Mandate of Heaven is no longer in the Wu Dynasty—"

At the battle mobilization meeting, Hu Sunming said hysterically that for the huge dragon ship that seemed to be huge and unscrupulous, but was actually clumsy, he thought that it was the biggest weakness of the opponent's entire fleet - once this ship was defeated, the rest would lose morale and surrender without a fight.

But the dragon fleet did not use the palace-like ship as the main ship at this time. Princess Zhou Pei, dressed in pure white mourning clothes, ascended to the top of the central warship so that everyone could see her, and then waved her drumsticks and beat the drums to fight.

Hu Sunming once thought that this was a stand-in or a bait, before that, the army of the Wu Dynasty was accustomed to the use of various military techniques, and the truth was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. But in fact, at this moment, what appeared was not an illusion, for this moment of battle, Zhou Pei practiced wielding the mallet every day on the boat for two months, and every day on the surrounding boats, the faint sound of drums could be heard from afar, and after two months, Zhou Pei's arms seemed to be thickened.

When she learned that she was going into battle, some officials once came to persuade Zhou Pei that her appearance may boost morale, but it will inevitably become the biggest flaw in the entire fleet. Zhou Pei dismissed these views one by one.

No matter how big the world is, there is no way to retreat. At this moment when her father died and her brother's life and death were uncertain, she didn't think too much.

The drums continued on the sea for more than an hour, and all the warships guarded Zhou Pei all the way to attack, after which, the Taihu fleet mutinied and collapsed, and Hu Sunming was forced into the sea by the mutinous soldiers, and was later fished up, waiting for him to be executed by Ling Chi soon after.

While Zhou Pei fought a bloody way on the southeast sea, Jun Wu, with the assistance of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, killed Jiangning and began his escape journey to the southeast.

Along the way, Zong Fu and Zong Bi chased and killed, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei organized several major battles one after the other. At the end of November, they recaptured Suzhou, rested for a while, dealt with a number of officials who had defected to the enemy, and released a group of people who had been persecuted.

When he came out of the prison, the snow had already fallen, and He Wen hugged his body tightly, his ragged clothes and skinny like a beggar, and the scene of the city was depressed and chaotic in front of him. No one paid any attention to him.

He used to be a Confucian man with both civil and military skills, and when the Wu Dynasty was in danger, he also used to run for the country with blood. He Wen once went to the southwest and wanted to assassinate Mr. Ning, but later joined the Huaxia Army by chance, and even had a relationship with Lin Jingmei, who Ning Yi regarded as his daughter.

He watched the development of the Huaxia Army, but did not trust the concept of the Huaxia Army, and finally his contact with the outside world was found out, Ning Yi persuaded him to stay in vain, and finally had to let him go home.

After He Wen returned to his home in Suzhou, Suzhou officials found out that he had something to do with the Huaxia Army and sent him to prison again. He Wen defended himself, but after the local officials knew that his family was quite wealthy, they tortured He Wen, and then extorted money and real estate from He's family. This is a matter of Wu Jianshuo's nine years.

Ten years after the establishment of Shuo, He Wen was in prison, and his family was gradually stripped clean, and his parents died of depression in the first half of this year. He Wen also thought about escaping from prison, but one of his hands was broken, and he had several serious illnesses in prison, and he had no martial arts after all - in fact, he was not the only one in the prison at this time.

He was in prison and gradually learned about the demise of the Wu Dynasty, but all this seemed to have nothing to do with him. On this day, he was released, and looking at all this decadence, it seemed that the world no longer needed him.

He followed his memories back to his old house, which had probably been burned to the ground by someone not long ago—perhaps by the rebels. He Wen went around to inquire about the status of the rest of the family, but found nothing. The white snow was falling, and it was about to cover up the black ruins.

He Wen knelt in the snow, making a sad, unpleasant sound—his throat was hoarse, but at this time he couldn't even cry normally.

In the past year, the Jurchens ravaged the south of the Yangtze River, and whether the wife and children survived or not under the bullying of the evil officials, I am afraid it would be difficult to escape this greater man-made disaster......

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In the north, the snow is getting heavier day by day, and the sky and the earth are gradually covered with ice and snow.

Yunzhong Mansion is still some popular.

Tang Minjie hugged the chopped firewood, trembled into the hut that seemed to have not been inhabited for a long time, and began to squat by the stove to make a fire. He has been here for several years, and he has become accustomed to life here, and his every move at this time is like the most rustic old peasant. When the fire was lit in the stove, he rolled up his sleeves and trembled as he danced like a toad around the stove.

The weather, after all, is too cold.

The people who can survive in this kind of ice and snow are really a little scary.

Hey, hey, hey...... I'm not afraid of the cold......

He simulated this unreal, perverted thought in his mind, and then there was a regular knock on the door outside.

Tang Minjie exhaled a breath of white air and stood up, he was still holding his sleeves and leaning his back, and when he opened the door, the cold wind was howling!

"Hmm......"

The wind and snow rolled wildly, Tang Minjie's footsteps couldn't help but retreat towards the rear, the person who rushed in had already grabbed his clothes, Tang Minjie's hand went up, the man's hand shrank, and he entered again, pressed Tang Minjie's throat, and pressed him against the wall behind him with a bang.

The cold wind was still blowing in from outside the door, Tang Minjie was pressed there, and slapped the other party's arm a few times with both hands, and his face gradually turned red.

What appeared in the room at this time was a woman with a knife at her waist and horizontal eyebrows, she pinched Tang Minjie's neck, gritted her teeth, and looked fierce. Tang Minjie couldn't breathe, waved his hands, pointed to the door, pointed to the stove, and then pointed everywhere, the woman said: "You remember it for me, I ......"

"Vomit, vomit......"

Tang Minjie's tongue gradually stretched out, stretched out for a long time, and the wet saliva was about to drip down from the tip of the tongue and onto the other party's hand, and the woman's hand was released: "...... You remember, I'm going to kill you......" Tang Minjie's throat was released, his body was already bent down, coughing desperately, and the fingers of his right hand stretched forward at will, about to point to the woman's chest.

"You-"

"Ahem—ahem, ahem, ahem! cough-cough-coughcough-" In the room, the steel knife in the woman's hand had been pulled out, Tang Minjie was unconscious, bent down and covered his throat a few times, ran straight to close the door, and then ran to the fire to see the fire that had just been lit but extinguished. He sat on the ground and looked at him accusingly: "You are insane! ”

"Are you really looking for death—" The woman raised her knife to him, her eyes still trembling with anger.

"I'm looking for your mother! cough cough a few times, although he sat on the ground, his words were more fierce, "Dead broken shoes!" Pretend to be pure! I was sold to be a maid for a few years, and I forgot who I was, right? ”

Tang Minjie's words were vicious, the woman's eyes were bloodshot when she heard it, and she raised her knife and came over, but she heard the man sitting on the ground scolding all the time: "-You are killing people!" You mother-in-law and mother-in-law's slut! Even saliva feels dirty! Touching your chest will make you retreat! Do! I wasn't wheeled by a man when I was caught! Forgot about it, didn't you? cough cough cough cough ......"

He rubbed his neck and coughed a few more times, got up from the ground, faced the tip of the other party's knife, walked straight over, put his neck there, and looked directly into the woman's eyes: "Come on, broken shoes!" Now it looks a little bit like this, so poke it here. ”

Tang Minjie continued to walk forward, the woman's hand shook twice, and finally withdrew the tip of the knife: "The madman of the Black Flag Army......"

Tang Minjie rubbed his neck and twisted his head, and then snapped his fingers: "I won!" ”

He turned around and walked back to the stove, continued to light the fire, and said: "It's none of your business whether you're crazy or not, in this kind of place, there are people who have no tomorrow today, and every time you see me, you have to threaten me twice, I don't know what you want to do." What, you're a dog? Every time, you have to help bark by the master's side, otherwise you don't feel comfortable, right? What do you want to threaten me? Cut me with a thousand cuts? Am I bullying your master again? ”

The woman's arm trembled, but the person calmed down and gritted her teeth: "...... After the last time Madame saw you, the situation was very wrong, and even had a serious illness recently, you ...... Madame has a grace to me and my whole family, what did you say......"

She no longer threatened, Tang Minjie turned around and got up: "It's your business!" What the hell is your wife calling me out, you just have to do it. Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, can you afford to delay something? ”

The woman nodded, but at this time she was no longer angry, took out a few pieces of paper from the mezzanine of her sleeves, Tang Minjie took it, sat on the ground by the fire and looked at it: "Well, what's the dissatisfaction, the threat, you can talk about it now...... Oh, your wife is ruthless enough, this is asking me to kill the whole family? These are all Jurchen officials......"

The woman stood in the center of the room and looked down at him, but at this time she had nothing to say, after a while, Tang Minjie read the information, confirmed it and threw it directly into the fire next to him, and raised her head: "What is your wife's idea?" Didn't I tell you? ”

"Madame asked me to convey that she has no way to make decisions about what you told her, this is the only thing she can give you, how to use it, it's up to you...... She did her best. ”

“……”

Tang Minjie was silent for a moment.

“…… Understandable. He said.

Then he said, "Thank you, I admire her." ”

The woman seemed to want to say something, but eventually turned to leave, and when she was about to open the door, a voice sounded behind her.

"In the past ten years, there have been millions of people living here who are not as good as pigs and dogs, and there are millions of women who have been prostitutes and dogs here, and you have also been here. If you have the opportunity to leave, no one blames you, but if you want to stay and learn to fight, then don't forget that you were a dog. ”

The woman's hand was on the deadbolt and she paused: "I know you are heroes...... But don't forget, there are still more ordinary people in the world. ”

“…… yes, but ...... That's sad. ”

This sentence was like a sigh, coming from the rear, the woman pushed the door out, and when she turned her head to close the door, she saw the man from the Black Flag Army codenamed "Clown" curled up by the fireside to roast the fire.

It was snowing heavily, and in the past period, due to the five hundred Han captives sent from the south, the situation in Yunzhong Mansion had not been peaceful, and these five hundred captives were all family members of the anti-Jin officials in the south, and they had been tortured on the way. Because of them, there have been several incidents of prisoner robbery and assassination in Yunzhong Mansion, and in the past ten days, it is rumored that people with black flags have thrown animal carcasses and even poison into the wells of Yunzhong Mansion on a large scale, and there are frequent cases in the panic of the people.

The woman didn't know how many incidents were really related to the man in the room, but it was certain that the other party must not have stayed out of it.

In the past year or so, the man in the room has done something that has scared both sides of the world. After the five hundred captives arrived in the clouds, Madame saved two hundred, but for some reason, Madame fell ill for a while because of some of the man's heart-wrenching words, and when she woke up, she asked her to send these materials. It was the information of some officials in charge of Hannu's subsequent disposal, including their families, handles, and weaknesses, which had been collected over the years and had been sent.

She stepped onto the long snow-white street and headed back to Ceres' Mansion. I knew in my heart that the next Yunzhong Mansion would be another bloody storm.

But the white snow muffled the noise, and she let out a breath of steam. Taken captive here, many years in the blink of an eye. Gradually, she is almost getting used to the wind and snow here......