The broken half of the human head was packed in a bamboo basket and brought to the negotiating table in front of it.

Gao Qingyi's roar stopped, and it is said that after seeing the head of the slanted guard, he was silent for a long time, and then said to Lin Qiu: "Don't you think you should be afraid of deceiving people so far? ”

Lin Qiu replied: "In the past ten years, you have done countless such things, and when you see his fate, you should start to be afraid. ”

The negotiations were suspended for more than half an hour.

The sky gradually darkened, the torches were lit, the troops on the position were solemnly waiting, and the reconnaissance team went out one by one in the night.

Soon after, Gao Qingyi returned to the negotiating table and asked the Huaxia Army to return Wanyan Xiebao's body, but Lin Qiu still refused: "Mr. Ning only explained that I negotiated with General Gao for the exchange of prisoners, and I have no authority to negotiate if it has nothing to do with it." Or is General Gao still wasting his precious time on a corpse? ”

"Then ......" Gao Qingyi's eyes were cold, but he finally gritted his teeth and said, "When your people go back to report the news, please send this request to Mr. Ning by the way." ”

The whole negotiation began in this atmosphere of gnashing of teeth, and after more than an hour, the herald brought back Ning Yi's treatment of the corpse of Xianbao: "If the exchange of prisoners goes smoothly, the body of Xianbao will be sent back as a gift after the prisoner exchange to comfort the pain of the loss of the son of the handsome Han." ”

Gao Qingyi expressed his gratitude.

……

The night was silent.

In the seemingly peaceful negotiation atmosphere in front of Shiling, there are more staggered and fighting in the dark mountains and forests.

Before the time came, two medium-scale battles broke out in the mountains a few miles southwest of Shiling, and the scouts met in the forest, and launched the most risky and deadly battle in the dark night.

At that moment, the light flame of the "Emperor River" rose in the darkness in the distance, and it was faintly visible on the side of Shiling, and the rockets fired five shots at the hillside where Yu Yu and others gathered, and the flames lit up the woods, and the scout team led by Du Ji made a large-scale surprise attack on the Jurchen scouts.

The breakthrough and rescue in the direction of the Wangyuan Bridge were blocked again, and the negotiation process in Shiling was followed by a link of mutual accusation and shirking of responsibility.

In terms of the Jurchen military camp, more rescue and breakthrough plans organized by Wanyan Sheyema, Bali Su and others were also carried out at the same time.

Near midnight, in the camp of Li Rulai of the Han army in the mountains to the northeast, the light appeared low and gloomy, and only the light like beans was shining in the big tent, Li Rulai had received the information of the Huaxia army in the camp tent, and was waiting for the arrival of the negotiators of the Huaxia army.

Flames and chaos erupted in the camp outside the tent, and someone shouted, "Catch the spies!" In the cold wind and fire, mixed with the shouts of countless Jurchens, he opened the curtain of the big tent and went out, and the deputy general ran over: "Wanyan Saba is here......

"Over there, ......" Li Rulai frowned, looked at the chaotic end, and said: "There is a spy sneaking in, fortunately it was discovered, causing chaos, and the spy seems to have escaped by taking advantage of the chaos." ”

"Escaped?"

“…… Escaped. ”

"Seal the camp Dasuo, I want to investigate this matter thoroughly!"

He frowned and looked, the torches of the Wanyan Saba team had already reached the distance, and when the team rushed to the front, he saw the Wanyan Saba dressed in a big fashion get down from the warhorse: "General Li, the marshal is about to launch a large-scale attack in the direction of Shiling and Wangyuan Bridge, the Black Flag Army is already afraid, our detectives have detected that the other party is going to make a big move from tonight, and the marshal ordered me to come to assist General Li in attacking." ”

General Han saluted and knelt down: "Li Rulai obeys the order!" ”

Listen closely, the sound of fighting in the darkness turns into the sound of the wind and roars low.

*************

Wangyuan Bridge. The wind whined.

In the wee hours of the morning, he felt the cold.

He didn't know what time it was, he took a nap, and when he woke up, the sky was full of stars, and he felt the people around him tremble. His hands were shaking, too.

He hadn't felt the cold in years.

The coldest winter in the world is in the Northlands, where the snow howls for months and the family huddles around the fire. There was often not enough food in the winter, and when he was a teenager, many people froze and starved to death in such winters.

After joining the army, there are few days like this.

He was in his early twenties at the end of Pingliao, and he did not catch up with the first round of major military exploits, but because of the identity of the Jurchens, he dared to fight, and after joining the army, as the backbone of the army, he still fought a lot of battles, killed a lot of people, and reaped a lot of benefits.

In the eleventh year of Tianhui, he entered Yanshanwei as an elite and was promoted to Mouke (centurion). There are few Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom, and as long as the general Jurchen soldiers are clear-minded, they are promoted quickly, but the scattered Mouke is different from other armies, and most of his subordinates are elite soldiers with Jurchens as the backbone. This is the elite combat power that has always existed in order to maintain the name of the Jurchen "invincible", and it is put in the general army of the Jin State, and the commander of a thousand commanders also deserves it, if he is in front of the Han army, he is equivalent to the general of the head of ten thousand husbands.

Although Yan Shanwei experienced the death of Lou Mur, but the quality of its own soldiers is extremely high, Zong Han Xiyin and others for the southwest battle in advance layout, with Xianbao personally commanding this army, as a strong army second only to Tu Shanwei to build, showing great attention, such a backbone of the army, naturally also received a lot of preferential treatment.

Glory and wealth, fiefdom mansions, beautiful women and money, for the Jurchens at this moment, this kind of enjoyment is not a problem. In fact, just like many first-generation entrepreneurs who have been killed, their success has been truly tested, and what can really make them feel obsessed is the sense of strength that has gradually become a human being in a situation where they have no clothes to wear for more than ten years.

After killing countless people, the money beauty will naturally come, and after fighting one battle after another, the compliments and respect of others will be presented as a matter of course. They love the feeling of battle, and they love the reputation of being "invincible", which will bring them all the good and solve all the problems.

After joining the "stigma" of the defeated Yanshan Guard, the army has been preparing for the conquest of the Black Flag, and the upper echelons are also shouting to be ashamed of Lou Muro, and the servants do not feel much about it. Occasional defeats don't mean anything, and Marshal Lou died in an ambush by the Black Flag Army, which doesn't mean that there is a problem with the army. At that time, the Yanshan Guard had put down several minor rebellions under the command of the Obaro, and had fought against a cunning enemy on the steppe—the other side fled in despair—and all battles were invincible. The Jurchens are still invincible.

Veterans of the Battle of the Northwest would occasionally talk about the enemies they encountered in that battle, and on rare occasions, some soldiers would think that Black Flag was powerful. Servant Sanhun scoffs at such a statement, the enemy is strong, so what? Even if it's an evenly matched opponent, it's just a matter of crushing it head-on! Is the rise of Daikin just because the enemy is too weak?

After losing the battle, he fought another battle, and when he had a blood debt, he demanded it from the enemy. The Jurchens have grasped their own destiny in the shadow of swords and swords, and over the years, they have always felt such power.

With the beginning of the Fourth Southern Expedition, it was more like the beginning of a large-scale tour of the mountains and rivers for Fu Sanhun. The Western Route Army went all the way south, stopped in Jindi and Xiangyang, and encountered several opponents in the war, but for elites like Yanshanwei, the enemy was tenacious or fragile, and the final result was actually similar.

Even if the advance behind the Sword Pavilion was slow, the resistance of the Huaxia army was fierce and tenacious, and the servants who followed Yanshanwei forward always maintained a strong fighting spirit and determination to fight.

All this up to the Wangyuan Bridge.

When the 30,000-strong army came out of the mountains, he learned that he was facing the Mr. Ning in the southwest. There are many theories about this person, and even in the Dajin army, it is often admitted that this person is a difficult opponent, the emperor who killed the Han people, and a madman who confronted the people of the world.

This man met 30,000 men with thousands of troops, and everyone in the army could only think that he had such and such intrigues, such as ambushes, such as mines, such as the so-called shipwreck. Of course, there is not much time for them to think, and they can't get a concrete result, the war has been fought so far, the total number of Huaxia troops is only fifty or sixty thousand, even if there are any ambushes and strange soldiers, 30,000 Yanshan guards are enough to fight with them.

No one thought it would be such a battle.

In less than an hour, thousands of Black Flag troops smashed the 30,000 Yanshan Guards, who were at the peak of their will and determination to fight, to the ground.

Thousands died on the battlefield, and more than 20,000 were captured. At this moment, on the tidal flats by the river near the Wangyuan Bridge, there were all black figures huddled together, and small boats were cruising on the riverbed with lights on. In the trembling of his arms, what came to his mind was the situation when some of the soldiers in Yanshan Weizhong mentioned the Black Flag and the Northwest War in the past few years.

The black flag is strong......

Don't fight to death......

That Ning Yi is very good at fighting in desperate situations......

Who would have imagined that in a few years, the strength of the Black Flag would be so strong?

After the defeat on the afternoon of the day before, all the captives did not eat, even the veterans, half an hour of fighting in the war consumed a person's physical strength, and in the time of several hours after the defeat, the captives were driven and divided in the chaos, one could not accept the fact of defeat, and the other was shocked by everything that happened on the battlefield, and even thought that they had encountered a demon law in their minds. On the first day of junior high school, hunger gradually returned, and reason gradually returned.

What happened......

What will happen to the world......

What will happen to Daikin......

Some people will start to think: Black Flag has a demon method, the god of grains and shamans, when will they come, and is there a way for the marshal to deal with it......

Or even ...... How to resist?

The Chinese army had confiscated all the swords, guns and baggage, and the prisoners were divided into open spaces beside the river, and all day on the first day of the first month of March, the servants were looking at the small river not far away. Yan Shanwei are all northerners, and there are not many people who know how to water, but after all, the river is not wide, if you can venture into the water, maybe it is possible to escape to the other side? Or maybe you run down the river and escape the chase?

Even on the other side of the river, it was still the territory of the Huaxia Army at this time, and the horse team walked along the field, and the fugitives did not have much chance. But there is not much chance, it is better than no chance at all.

On the night of the defeat, everyone was frightened, most of them did not sleep, and throughout the day of the first day of the new year, the thoughts in the minds of the servants were fluttering, their stomachs were hungry, and their spirits were always nervous. What comes to mind is the treasures that I have snatched and looted along the way. When Jin Jun won the battle, he didn't feel that these things were very precious, but when he thought about it at this time, what came to his mind was that he might not be able to bring back these good things.

There are also women and children in the family, and I don't know if I can see them again.

These thoughts gradually turned into the last courage, and he wanted to do something. This went on until late at night, when he involuntarily took a nap, and when he woke up, it was already early in the morning. His gaze looked over the riverbed, and he felt the tremor of his arm, which was born of hunger, cold, and fear.

He was about to make a move, when suddenly, a sharp voice sounded in the night!

In the early morning of the second day of the first month of March, while the fighting on the front line of Shiling and Xiukou became fierce, chaos also began near Wangyuan Bridge.

It was an unexpected turn of events that turned into an irremediable tragedy in the time that followed.

……

At two o'clock, in the middle of the long night, the Jurchen scouts, who were hiding in the mountains a few miles north of Wangyuan Bridge, saw the light rising in the dark night. In the direction of the Wangyuan Bridge, the flames of the explosion were particularly bright in the dark night.

The scouts rushed forward, confirming the chaos on the other side of the river with telescopes in the best possible view: a massacre was breaking out in view, and at the end of the Wangyuan Bridge, the rioting captives tried to storm the positions of the Huaxia army, or ran into the river to try to escape, the Huaxia army first met them with a gun array, and then organized a long gun and shield array to keep the rushing Jurchen captives out of the bloodline of the slaughter.

One by one, the corpses floated up the creek and piled up on the banks.

For the Jurchen scouts who had experienced years of fighting and fighting, such a scene had been seen countless times, but it may be the first time in many years that it happened to the Jurchens.

The Huaxia army dared to slaughter the Jurchen captives!

After killing the King of Baoshan in front of everyone, they dared to slaughter the prisoners of Yanshan who had already surrendered!

Humiliation and anger exploded in the scout's mind, and after reconfirming the scene in front of him, he rushed back in the direction of Shiling, and soon, the Jurchen high-level who had not rested in the long night learned of the cruel and even inhumane news.

Wan Yan Sheyema, who failed to storm Wangyuan Bridge, rushed into the camp wearing armor that was half covered in blood, his eyes were red with blood and his teeth were cracking: "The deception is too great, the surname Ning is too deceitful, I will kill his whole family and punish his nine clans!" If not, I would be ashamed of the Jurchen ancestors—"

Insults and shouts were the main voices in the Jurchen camp, and even Han Qixian, who had always been calm and indifferent, smashed the teacup on the table, and some people shouted: "In this situation, you can only fight to the death with the Huaxia army!" You don't have to go back! ”

There are also people who ask themselves to be the vanguard, and if they do not break the Huaxia army, they will die on the battlefield. Wanyan Zonghan, who had just experienced the pain of losing his son, clenched his fists, and slammed his fist on the table amid everyone's discussion and shouting: "Is it useful!?" What are you shouting about! Ning Yi made this move to force me to wait for a decisive battle with him at this time! You don't know the importance of it, and you become a general in vain!! ”

In the midst of Zong Han's fury, everyone's righteous indignation stopped. In fact, which of the generals of the Jin Army who can follow Zong Han to this moment is not a hero with outstanding strategic vision? It's just that up to now, they can only say words to boost morale, and the decision to retreat can only be made by Zong Han himself.

It is indeed indignant and uncomfortable that the massacre after the defeat fell on their own heads, but in the past, how many more than 100,000 million people were killed? The northwest was killed into white land, the Central Plains ten rooms and nine emptiness, these are all things they have done, to the present, Ning Yi is also so ferocious, on the one hand, it is clear that after the victory, the villain will to vent his murder, on the other hand, it is obviously to provoke all the Jurchen troops, stay here, and conduct a general battle.

Behind everyone's fury is such speculation and calculation, but in the Huaxia Army Shiling Command, it presents a different situation.

Ning Yi, who had only been asleep for less than an hour, was woken up from his sleep and reported the outbreak in the area of Wangyuan Bridge. Ning Yi's face was gloomy, and he slapped the table in the same way: "What are you doing!" Grabbing the information, he walked out.

Many fierce reactions from the Jurchens on this night were expected, and various countermeasures had already been arranged at the front, so it was not surprising what kind of conflict broke out. But the oversights of the Wangyuan Bridge were indeed unexpected.

In fact, this is also a problem caused by the insufficient number of troops in the Huaxia Army. After the battle of Wangyuan Bridge, the soldiers who could be transferred to the front line had already moved to the front, and more troops had even begun to prepare for further attacks, staying near the Wangyuan Bridge to guard the prisoners, and by the night of the first day of the new year, there were only nearly 3,000 or so Chinese soldiers left.

The 3,000 soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were fully armed did not have any psychological fear in the face of the more than 20,000 disarmed Yanshanwei, but under the high-intensity combat rhythm, it was actually difficult to become meticulous in the care of the prisoners in a short period of time. The large-scale troop movements around the first day of the new year made it difficult to immediately transfer ten times the number of prisoners, not to mention the many wounded soldiers who needed to be placed.

After a whole day of hunger on the first day of the first month of March, the stomachs of the Jurchen captives were empty, but the thoughts that had been stunned the day before finally began to come alive at this time.

In the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, some Jurchen soldiers chose to take risks and escaped from the humble prisoner camp and tried to escape through the river. The fleeing was immediately discovered, and the soldiers in charge of the patrol stabbed the fugitives to death in the river with spears, while in the camp, there were hidden Jurchen generals who spoke out, trying to take advantage of the darkness of the night to take advantage of the lack of Chinese troops and incite a mass escape.

This was the first defeat of Yan Shanwei in several years, and although it was tragic, after a day, he was still able to pick up some of his courage.

There were two separate captive camps, about 6,000 people who participated in the gradually expanding escape. Due to the limitations of the river's topography, they are not able to choose many directions. They were met by a musket corps of about 500 men, and after three warnings at each camp, the musketeers did not hesitate to start firing, and after two rounds of firing, the soldiers changed their swords, shields, and spears, and advanced forward in formation.

As one of the most elite troops of the Jurchens, the ferocity of the Yanshan guards is known in the world, even if there are no blades, they are deadly weapons and violent beasts for ordinary people with their bare hands. But in this regard, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army are not necessarily inferior in the slightest. Faced with a thin wall of shields, the soldiers of the Yanshanwei risked their lives and tried to break a path with the ferocity that they had managed to gather, and then they slammed into the firm reef like a howling tide.

The assembled shield wall withstood the huge impact, and the spear immediately stabbed out, piercing the Jurchen soldiers in the front in a pool of blood, and then the shield wall turned over, and the sword light slashed, slashing the first wave of Jurchen warriors rushing in front of him. The shield then flipped back, forming a shield wall again for the next wave of impact.

The light of the Emperor River also shot out in the direction of the river at the end of the camp.

"Death to the fugitives—" The cold shout resounded through the night sky, and at this moment, the guards of the Huaxia Army did not actually show the slightest mercy to these Jurchen captives who dared to resist.

Nearly 2,000 people died in the night's chaos. The will of more than 20,000 people in Yanshanwei to resist was also extinguished.

Ning Yi quietly listened to the process of suppressing the rebellion by the Wangyuan Bridge in the command headquarters, and his face was gloomy: "The person in charge of guarding the Wangyuan Bridge is Chen Wei of the Second Division, right?" ”

Pang Liuan nodded: "Yes." His talent was withdrawn from the front, and he was supposed to rest for a while......"

"Remove the brigade commander and explain the problem immediately, why do you want to do this? Whether it was intentional negligence or unintentional negligence. I know that some of his family members died at the hands of the Jurchens, and some of his comrades-in-arms died at the hands of the Jurchens, but if this continues, he doesn't have to lead the troops anymore! ”

The atmosphere in the headquarters suddenly became solemn. Ning Yi knocked on the table: "You think this is very happy?" More than 20,000 people have put down their swords and guns, and what is the big deal about killing them all! But you are soldiers! The task given to you is to make this group of monkeys obedient, not for revenge and killing! Everyone is tired these days, if it is an unintentional negligence, I demote him, if it is intentional, he is not worthy of being a soldier! Fool around! ”

Pang Liu'an nodded: "I want to withdraw this matter." ”

The whole thing was set at that, and Lin Qiu, who was in charge of negotiations, stood up and said: "This matter, now it is estimated that the other side also knows about it, after dawn, maybe we will use the topic to play, how should we deal with it?" ”

Everyone looked at Ning Yi, and Ning Yi waved his hand: "What if you know?" Pull out the rockets, shoot a few rounds from Zhao Zonghan's side, and blow up those bastards! In addition, how many people died tonight, and tomorrow they will drag the heads over to them and give them to them, you tell Gao Qingyi that their people secretly came over and instigated the captives to flee, and there is no need to talk about this kind of thing again! Hit it now! ”

……

In the Jurchen camp, Gao Qingyi said: "After dawn, I will question the Huaxia Army with this matter!" ”

……

The technical team of the Huaxia Army dragged rockets and leaned forward to retaliate against the Jurchens for inciting the prisoners of Wangyuan Bridge to flee.

……

At the end of the night, the Lion Ridge position. Lin Qiu walked towards Gao Qingyi, and before the other party could speak, he scolded him, and the angry scolding began.

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At the beginning of March, in the southwest, hidden in the peaceful atmosphere of the Shiling negotiations, a large-scale battle opened the curtain of fighting in the mountains and forests, and hundreds of thousands of people fled and chased on the mountain road between Jiange and Zizhou. Black pillars of smoke and flames spread, and the blood and bones of countless people fertilized this already dense jungle.

This was the beginning of a reversal of the situation in the whole world.

A few days later, the news of this lie spread across the land of Jiangnan, some people were shocked, some questioned, some were angry, some were at a loss, some were in tears, some were happy, some were mixed, and some were at a loss......

The world seems to have changed in a dream......