The snow melts and the ice disappears, the river is surging, and in the south of the Yangtze River, the poplar flowers have fallen, and countless corpses and bones are gradually rotting with the spring mud in the fields on both sides of the Yangtze River and beside the post road. After the Jin people came, the war was sleepless, but in the late spring and early summer of this year, the Jurchen army that failed to capture Zhou Yong and others as expected still had to withdraw its troops.

The Jurchen army on the eastern route to the south was about 100,000, and the Jin soldiers, who had crossed the Yangtze River for several months, were more than 18,000 people led by Jin Wushu and divided into three routes. Originally, with the view of the Golden Vulture Technique, the contempt for the Wu Dynasty: "Five thousand tiger and wolf soldiers, it is enough to destroy them." However, due to the fact that the royal family of the Wu Dynasty ran too decisively, the Jin people still sent troops south of the Yangtze River at the same time to attack the city.

At the beginning of April, the Third Route Army of the Hui Division assembled in the direction of Zhenjiang.

In the past half a year, the Jurchens have been devastated, whether it is south or north of the Yangtze River, the assembled army is basically difficult to be a Jurchen in frontal combat, and later, the Jurchen troops are frightened, and there are many people who kneel and surrender when they see the other side killing, and many cities are open to meet the enemy, and then suffer from the looting and burning of the Jurchens. At the moment when the Jurchens were preparing to return north, some troops quietly gathered from nearby.

Prince Junwu had quietly sneaked into the vicinity of Zhenjiang, and when he glimpsed the traces of the Jurchens from a distance on the way to the countryside, there was also fear and apprehension in his eyes.

But the so-called men, "only to die." This was a joke that Ning Yi had made in a playful manner a few years ago. Now, he can only hold on.

The Yangtze River is in the flood season, and every ferry port on the riverside has been destroyed and burned by the Wu Dynasty army led by Han Shizhong at this time, and the wooden boats that can be gathered have been destroyed in large numbers at the entrance of the canal to the Yangtze River, blocking the route back to the north. In the past six months, millions of people have died in Jiangnan under the ravages of Jin soldiers, but their only defeat is the dispatch of troops who drove large ships into the sea to try to capture Zhou Yong.

The northerners are not good at water stations, and for the people of the Wu Dynasty, this is the only weakness that can be found at present.

The army led by Han Shizhong had already been preparing more than ten large ships that had been assembled on the river, and on the banks of the Yangtze River, Yue Fei's subordinates who had expanded after the remnants, as well as some other troops that had been secretly supported by Jun Wu, had also been quietly prepared nearby. Soon after, the Battle of Zhenjiang began.

The big ships on the river blocked the Jurchen light boat fleet's attempt to cross the river, and the ambush in the Zhenjiang area caught the Jin soldiers off guard for a while, and they did not panic when they learned that the Jin Wushu who was ambushed by the ambush, but he was not willing to directly engage in a frontal battle with the Wu Dynasty army that was ambushed here, and the army and the fleet fought and retreated along the way, killing and wounding more than 200 people, and turned into the swamp puddle near Jiankang along the waterway.

This place, known as: Huang Tiandang.

In order to cross the river, it was impossible for the Jurchens to give up their fleet composed of light boats and gather in this puddle, and the big ships of the Wu Dynasty could not come in to attack, and then the southern troops held the exit of Huang Tiandang, and on the northern river, the Wu Dynasty fleet held the Yangtze River, and the two sides clashed several times, and the small boats of the Wushu could not break through the blockade of the big ships after all.

North of the Yangtze River, in order to respond to the return of Wushu to the north, Wan Yanchang ordered the East Route Army that was still north of the Yangtze River at this time to take Yangzhou again, and then transferred to Zhenzhou, and tried to cross the river after capturing the city, but after all, it was stopped on the river by the assembled Wu Dynasty sailors.

The Wushu army was trapped in Huang Tiandang for more than 40 days, almost running out of food, and during this period, he persuaded Han Shizhong to surrender several times, but was refused. It was not until late May that Jin was given the advice of two Wu Dynasty descendants to dig an old canal near Jiankang, and then rowed out on a windless day. At this time, the big ships on the river need to use the sails, and the small boats can use oars, and in the big battle, the rockets fired from the small boats will set the big ships on fire. The Wu Dynasty army was defeated, and those who were burned and drowned were not counted, and Han Shizhong fled back to Zhenjiang with only a small number of subordinates.

The reeds are swinging and the river is long. As the corpses and shipwrecks floated by on the river, Jun Wu sat on the shore of the Zhenjiang River, stunned for a long time. In the past forty days, there was a moment when he vaguely felt that he could comfort his dead grandfather with a victory, but all this ultimately fell short.

But soon after, the morale of the army in the south was invigorated, and the Jurchens' bold words of searching the mountains and picking up the sea were finally not realized in this half-year delay, although the places where the Jurchens passed were almost full of blood, but they could not substantially occupy this place after all, and soon after, Zhou Yong was able to return to take charge, not to mention that in the tragedy and humiliation of several years, people finally gave the Jurchens an embarrassment of being besieged for more than 40 days.

The people of the Wu Dynasty, who had slightly recovered their mood, began to spread the word to the world and hyped up this "great victory in the yellow sky". The sorrow in Jun Wu's heart is irrepressible, but in fact, since last year, the pressure of the destruction of the Wu Dynasty, which has always been shrouded in the south of the Yangtze River, has finally been able to breathe at this time, and for the future, it can only start at this time and start from scratch.

At the same time that the south began to intensively publicize the "Great Victory of the Yellow Sky", north of the Yangtze River, a large number of slaves, gold and silver captured by the Jurchens were still being transported to the territory of the Jin Kingdom at this time, and the turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River was fading with the departure of the Jurchens, and in the Central Plains, the tentacles of the Jurchens had begun to densely detain this large area.

The revolt still exists, but the large-scale rebel army has begun to be continuously squeezed into the living space by the various armed forces that have surrendered, and small-scale revolts are carried out everywhere, but with nearly a year of uninterrupted repression and killing, the rolling blood and human heads have begun to slowly teach people the reality that the situation is stronger than people.

This summer, Liu Yu, the prefect who took the initiative to betray Jinan, ascended the throne in the Daimyo Mansion, and under the name of Zhou Ji's "orthodoxy", he became the "Great Qi" emperor who guarded the south for the Jin State, and all the forces south of Yanmen Pass were under his control. In the Central Plains, a large number of forces, including Tian Hu, submitted their vassals to it.

For the northwest place where Lou Mu was killed and the Jurchen Western Route Army was defeated, the Jurchen court did not speak too much except for a few simple speeches, such as asking Zhou Ji to write a holy decree to denounce it. But in the Central Plains, the will of the Jin Kingdom is holding and detaining this place day by day......

In the Central Plains, the Great Qi regime, with the assistance of the Jurchens, continued to attack and wipe out the resistance forces in the territory, and at the same time, with the determination to kill a thousand mistakes and not let go of one, the search for the still surviving Wu Dynasty clan, a large number of conscription began, Liu Yu's edict, all the adult men in the "Great Qi" territory, all conscripted as soldiers, and at the same time, the tax was several times higher than before was suppressed. In order to seek money, the army, under the instruction of Liu Yu, began to excavate the tombs of the ancestors of the Wu Dynasty, from Henan to Bianliang, the tombs of the emperors of the Wu Dynasty and the tombs of their ancestors were all excavated......

In the south of the Yangtze River, the regime of the Wu Dynasty got a respite, and in the process of perverse actions in the north, desperately began to stabilize its position.

In the northwest, the peaceful situation continues, spring goes and summer comes again, and then summer gradually passes. In the valley of the Xiaocang River, in the afternoon, Qu Qing wrote the slightly stiff word "war" on the blackboard in the classroom: "...... To discuss war, we must first discuss what the word man is! ”

"Since ancient times, why are people human, and what is the difference between them and animals? The difference is that people are smart and wise, people can farm the land, people can herd sheep, people can weave cloth, people will make what they want, but animals can't, sheep will eat grass when they see it, and tigers will hunt it when they see sheep. There is no way. This is the difference between humans and animals, and people will ...... Create. ”

"What is that war, two people, each with a knife, put their lives at risk, put their lives at risk, put their lives on the next few decades, put them on this knife, you live and die, the dead have a steamed bun on him, there is a bag of rice, and the living person takes it. Just for this bag of rice, this one steamed bun, kill someone, rob! Is there any creation in between? ”

"In the last two or three years, we've won a few battles, and some people, young people, are very proud, thinking that winning a war is the most powerful thing, and that's nothing. However, they measure everything by fighting, and when they talk about the Jurchens, they say that they are heroes and heroes, sympathize with each other, and feel that they are also heroes and heroes. Recently, Mr. Ning specially talked about this matter, and you are very wrong! ”

"The Jurchens killed the whole world, they went to the Central Plains, to the south of the Yangtze River, to rob everything they could, to kill people, to take people into slavery, in this matter, did they create anything? Farming? Weaving? No, it's just that others have done these things, they go and grab them, they are used to the sharpness of knives and guns, they want everything to be robbed, one day they rob the world, kill the world, what else is left in this world? ”

"When they only remember the knife in their hand, they are not human. Risking one's life with beasts to keep what we have created is heroic. Only creating things, but not having the strength to defend them, is like a person who encounters a tiger in the wilderness, and you can't beat it, and tells God that you are a kind-hearted person, it is useless, it is more than innocent. And people who only know how to kill people and steal other people's steamed buns are beasts! Do you want to be in the same league as the beasts!? ”

The voices in the room, occasionally come out generously. Qu Qing was originally a general, and later he was basically used as a staff officer and political commissar. In the first battle of Xuanjiaao, he went to three fingers in his left hand, and he was also stabbed in the leg, and it was a little inconvenient to run. Recently, the ideological edification of the difference between Xiaocanghe and the Jurchens has been going on, mainly among some young soldiers or new recruits in the army.

Ning Yi said that it was naturally the most inflammatory, but after participating for a while, Qu Qing had also become proficient.

After the lecture, it was evening, he went out of the room, in the valley, some training had just ended, the soldiers all over the mountains, the star flag on a black background was fluttering not far away, the smoke had risen in the sky, when Qu Qing saluted and said goodbye to the soldiers, Mao Yishan and Zhuo Yongqing came from not far away, waiting for him to say goodbye to everyone.

"You're done training, go eat." Qu Qing said to the two.

"Hou Wu asked us to call you, his daughter-in-law made a good meal today, go to his place to eat." Mao Yishan said with a smile, "Crazy Luo will also go over later." ”

"Hah, that's fine."

"This lesson...... How's it going? Mao Yishan looked at the class, for this, he was a little worried, and the coarse people couldn't stand the ideological education class.

"Almost, take your time."

"Actually, I think Mr. Ning is right." Zhuo Yongqing, who has become a combat hero due to the killing of Yan Lou's room, has now been promoted to squad leader, but most of the time, he still looks a little shy, "When I first killed someone, I also thought that maybe the Jurchens were real heroes like that." But when you think about it, it's different after all. ”

"When they first got into trouble, they said that they were heroes and heroes, and it was true, but now they ...... They dare to come, and kill them! Qu Qing's gaze was cold. In the past few days, the situation in the northwest has been eerily quiet, and all kinds of fortifications are being built around the Xiaocang River, craftsmen are constantly making weapons, and trained soldiers are constantly interspersed with the mountains near the Xiaocang River and stretching all the way to Luliang Mountain. Everything is preparing for the next collision.

On the eve of darkness, many people in this lonely corner also have a high and unyielding will, and have heroic and great dreams. In this kind of chat, they went to Hou Wu's home, although it is said that everyone in the valley is a brother, but after the experience of Xuanjiaao, these five people have also become extremely close friends, occasionally have dinner together, enhance feelings, Luo Ye is Hou Wu's son Hou Yuanqi as a disciple, teach him writing, martial arts.

The rays of the setting sun dyed the valley yellow, and the soldiers in groups had their own noise in the valley. On the hillside, Ning Yi walked to the courtyard, the evening wind was strong, the sheets drying in the yard were blown to hunt, Yunzhu, who was wearing a white dress, was collecting the quilt while smiling with Xiao Ning Ji running around, and the laughter seemed warm in the sunset.

Since defeating Yan Lou last year, Hongti and Jin'er have become pregnant, and now everyone lives here-except for the watermelon who has been leading the Badao Battalion to run errands somewhere--After things in the valley have been in order, Ning Yi does not seem too busy, he can often come back, accompany his family and children, chat, say some idle words, in this summer, on a starlit night, they will also spread out mats in the foothills, while enjoying the shade, while leisurely frolicking.

Ning Yi always thinks of the small terrace in Jiangning Bamboo Building, Tan'er has never experienced such a time, in those times, she is always busy, busy taking care of the family's business, dealing with the relationship with the second and third rooms, occasionally chatting with Ning Yi in the courtyard at night, is her only moment of relaxation, at this time listening to Ning Yi talk about this, she is a little jealous, Yunzhu continued to play the piano on the side for everyone to hear, but Jin'er is pregnant and can no longer dance.

The moonlight is clear, and under the moonlight, the sound of Yunzhu's piano has become softer and warmer than back then, which makes people feel relaxed. He talked to them about the past, about the future, and about many things. Since the news of the destruction of Jiangning City, several people with common memories have inevitably had some regrets, the testimony of a certain memory, after all, has passed, the world has changed greatly, and life has changed greatly, even though they are still with each other, but ...... Separation, perhaps, will not be long before it comes.

After pregnancy, the red grape occasionally seems anxious, Ning Yi often walks outside with her, talking about the former Lu Liang, talking about Grandpa Liang, talking about Fu Duanyun, talking about such and such a past, their acquaintance in Jiangning, Yun Zhu went to assassinate the general and was seriously injured, talking about that night, Ning Yi left Hong Tiqiang behind, and said to her: "What you want, I'll go get it, tie the bow, and send it to your hand......"

"Before I came here, I wanted to do it slowly. But now it seems that it will be a long time before the world is peaceful, and ...... Lu Liang will probably suffer too. ”

"We are husband and wife, and when we give birth to a child, I can accompany you to ......"

"There is a turnaround, I said that...... This time there will be no broken promises. ”

Just like every time he faced a predicament before, Ning Yi would also be nervous and worried, he just knew better than others how to struggle out a possible path with the most rational attitude and choice, but he was not an all-powerful immortal.

He occasionally thinks of the floating city that seemed to be built on water, Tang Mingyuan, whose memory has gradually blurred, and Qingyi, Akang, and Ruoping. Now in front of him, there is a clearer face and family.

Tan'er would make a strong appearance in front of him, clenching her teeth and trembling slightly behind her back.

Yunzhu would bury the love in her heart in peace, hugging him, smiling but quietly leaving tears, that was her worry.

Xiaochan will clench her fists and keep cheering him on, with tears.

Jin'er would cry unscrupulously and frankly until he felt that it was an unredeemable sin to not be able to go back.

Red will be by his side and face life and death with him.

As for the watermelon in the distance, the childish round face will probably smile heroically, saying that life is not happy, and death is not bitter.

And the children, will ask him what war is, he will tell them the difference between protection and destruction, and in the child's seemingly understanding nod, he will promise them inevitable victory......

He thought of the dead people, Qian Xiwen, Lao Qin and Kang Xian, and those warriors who awakened in ignorance in Bianliang City and in the northwest. He used to not care about anyone in this era, but he was stained with red dust and finally lost his weight.

Alas, this era......

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In Jiangnan, the new court has gradually become orderly, and groups of people of insight are working hard to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan, taking advantage of the Jurchen digestion of the Central Plains to breathe hard and make painful innovations. A large number of refugees are still pouring in from the Central Plains. In the second month after the arrival of autumn, Zhou Pei, Jun Wu and others received news from the Central Plains that could not be hyped up.

On the seventh day of the eighth month of the third year of Wu Jianshuo, the Great Qi State gathered more than 200,000 troops, led by the general Ji Wenkang, and advanced to Luliang Mountain under the drive of the Jurchens.

This is something that all the forces have long anticipated, and its final occurrence has made everyone on the bystanders have complex feelings, and the subsequent development of events has really shocked everyone in the world since then, stunned, amazed and palpitated, so that many people have since mentioned it and feel excited and generous, and they can not suppress their sorrow for it......

On the evening of the 10th day of August of this year, before the 200,000 troops approached the edge of Luliang Mountain and Xiaocanghe, a brazen battle suddenly came. The Chinese Black Flag Army, which had come from far away from the Xiaocang River, launched a surprise attack on 200,000 people. In the night, Ji Wenkang's army bombed the camp, more than 200,000 wolves rushed to the ground, were chased and killed by the Chinese military ranks, killed more than 10,000 enemies, and the head was stacked on the field outside the mountain to make a Beijing view. This extremely fierce conflict kicked off the three-year-long tragic offensive and defensive prelude in the Xiaocanghe area...... (To be continued.) )