PS: When you listen to "Serving the Country with Loyalty" when you read this chapter, it may be a very peculiar feeling.

In the spring of the fourteenth year of Jinghan, in the middle of March, the gloomy spring rain fell on Longcheng Taiyuan.

Occasionally, lightning flashed by, revealing the crumbling and jagged body of the ruined city in the night, and even in the rain, its entire body still looked charred. In order to ensure that everyone in the city was found, the Jurchens still set fire to the whole city after a large-scale looting and looting, and the ruins were full of corpses, moats, squares, markets, wells, and houses everywhere, all of which were miserable deaths. The dead bodies gathered, and in the vicinity of Taiyuan, the water was also pitch black.

A huge stench of corpses filled the sky near Taiyuan.

If you are a sentimental poet and singer, you may say that the spring rain at this time seems to be unsightly and washes away the sins of this world.

But not really.

At Yanmen Pass, a large number of ragged slaves who were driven like pigs and dogs were passing through the pass, and occasionally someone fell, and was beaten by the approaching Jurchen soldiers with leather whips, scolded and beaten, or directly drawn knives.

After ten days of looting in Taiyuan, the number of prisoners that could be captured from that ruined city was not as many as expected. But it doesn't matter, since the order not to seal the sword for ten days was issued, Taiyuan was just a prop used to ease the morale of the army for Zong Han Zongwang. The details of the Wu Dynasty have been proven, Taiyuan has been destroyed, and he will come again in the future, so why worry about not many slaves.

After the 10-day massacre, not a single survivor of the city remained, but tens of thousands of people were driven north after suffering and being tortured and abused. Most of these people were women. When the young and beautiful were in the city, they had already suffered a lot of insults, and those who were in poor health had already died, and those who survived were either driven away by the soldiers, or tied to the oxen and sheep carts and horses returning to the north, all the way. Subjected to the wanton torture of the Jurchen soldiers, every day, there were humiliated corpses thrown on the road by the team.

Even if they are lucky enough to survive the Yanmen Pass, what awaits them is only endless torture and humiliation. Most of them died within a year after that, and after leaving Yanmen Pass, there are very few people who can still return to the land of the Wu Dynasty in this life.

The rain is still falling.

In the south, it is more than 100 miles away from Taiyuan. In a small town called Tongfu, the sky was dark in the light rain.

The arrival of the Jurchens plundered a large number of towns near Taiyuan, and when they arrived at the side of Tongfu Town, the intensity became slightly lower. When the snow closed the mountain, the townspeople hid in the city and shivered for a winter, when the weather had warmed, but there was still no business travel from the north to the south. Because the residents of the city still had to go out to farm and cut firewood, and harvest some spring fruits to satisfy their hunger, the town was still carefully opened in half of the city. The soldiers guarded the small number of people entering and leaving with anxiety.

The woman really slaughtered in Taiyuan, what she was afraid of was that they would not be willing to slaughter Taiyuan, and if they killed again, it would really be a disaster.

In the light rain, the soldiers defending the city saw several townspeople outside the city hurrying over, covering their mouths and noses as if they were hiding from something. The soldier was startled, and almost closed the city, until the townspeople were near, and then they heard them say, "Over there...... There's a weirdo ......"

"I don't know who it is, I'm afraid it's a hero in the green forest......"

"It stinks...... Carrying the corpse on his back......"

Walking with a corpse on your back on a rainy day? This is a madman. The soldier's heart trembled. But since it was only one person coming, he was a little relieved, picked up his spear and waited there, and after a while, sure enough, a figure came from the rain.

The figure rode a horse, and the pace was not fast, and immediately the man was wearing a black cloak, and his body was in rags, obviously wounded, and he carried a stick in his hand, and behind his back was a large black baggage, and he did not know what he was carrying. Sniff carefully, in the light rain, there is also a faint smell in the air. He couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, only vaguely felt like a ghost. When you have the courage to speak, you can speak.

"Who are you and where are you from?"

"Green forest people, from Taiyuan." The figure shook slightly on his horse, and only then did he say this.

"Tai, Taiyuan?" The soldier was shocked, "Taiyuan has already fallen, you, you are a Jurchen spy - you, what is behind you-"

"It's not a spy down there...... Taiyuan City, the Jurchen army has retreated, I, I escort things over......"

"What...... Wait, don't go any further! ”

"Human heads." The man replied weakly, and the soldier shouted, and he stopped the lean horse under his crotch, and then dismounted from the horse. He stopped there with a black burden on his back, his figure was a head taller than the soldier, quite burly, but his body was in rags, the ragged clothes were injured by sharp weapons, and his body was also covered with filthy bandages.

At this time, many people poked their heads out to see him, and they were all shocked when they heard him say the word "head". They were on the edge of the Jurchens, and they were already frightened, and then they saw the man slowly put down the package.

"When the Jurchens slaughtered Taiyuan, they hung on the head of the city gate. The Jurchen army retreated north, and I went to fetch it, all the way south. It's just that although there are few Jurchens left near Taiyuan, I was still found by a few people, and I fought all the way......"

He was weak enough to explain his injuries, but as soon as he said this, everyone was in an uproar, and everyone was looking into the distance, and the spear in the soldier's hand was also clenched a little, forcing the man in black to take a step back. He paused slightly, and the package was gently lowered.

"The Jurchen scouts have been killed by me a long time ago, if you are afraid, I will not enter the city, but these people ......"

He put down his stick, fell to his knees, opened the package in front of him, reached over, picked up a mass of what seemed to be not only slime, but also filthy, and slowly placed it in front of the city gate, and then picked up another and put it down gently.

These people have long been killed, their heads hanging on the gate of Taiyuan, and they have already begun to rot in the wind and sun. His black package was slightly isolated, and when it was opened, the stench was indescribable, but the hideous human heads were placed there, as if they had a terrifying magical power. The soldier took a step back, watching the scene in disbelief.

“…… These people are all loyal ministers and righteous men who died defending Taiyuan, and my injuries are not light, and I can't send them anymore, so I will bother you. Loyal ministers are hot-blooded. But let them not be turned into ...... Wild ghosts and lonely ghosts. ”

After the man finished speaking slowly, he finally stood up, hugged his fists, and then took a few steps, got on his horse and left.

In front of Tongfu Town, the light of spring thunder lit up. There were seven heads in total, and the flesh on their faces had been eroded by the long decay, and most of their eyes had disappeared, and no one could recognize who they were, except for the hollow and terrible eye sockets, facing the city gate, only to the south.

After a long time, someone took the order of the Shangguan and went out of the city to find the righteous man who sent him head.

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Military camp outside Bianliang City. Cloudy.

In a place in the camp, hundreds of soldiers are practicing martial arts, and the sword light is splitting out, neatly as one, accompanied by this tiger and tiger sword light, is to listen to a rather alternative singing.

“…… The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north! The dragon flag rolls, and the horse neighses. The sword aura is like frost! The heart is like the water of the Yellow River! Twenty years of vertical and horizontal, who can resist ......"

“…… Hatefulness. Where the long knife goes......"

In this alternative singing, Ning Yi stood in front of the wooden platform, looking at this piece of drill calmly, around the training ground, many soldiers also came around, and everyone was following the singing. Ning Yi hasn't been here for a long time. Everyone was excited.

He never imagined that such a song would spread in the barracks. And, at this time, it sounds like a mixed feeling.

When they were in Xia Village, they had considered finding a few generous military songs, which were Ning Yi's tiyì. Later, I chose this one. But naturally, this kind of casual singing is really a bit niche at the moment, he just heard it to some people around him, and then it spread to high-level officers, but he didn't expect it, and then this relatively popular singing spread in the barracks.

Everyone sang and danced with knives, and when the song was finished, all teams stopped in unison and looked at Ning Yi. Ning Yi also looked at them quietly, and after a while, a small school in the queue of onlookers next to him couldn't help it, raised his hand and said, "Report!" Mr. Ning, I have something to ask! ”

Ning Yi glanced at him and thought for a moment: "Ask." ”

"Sir, has General Qin been framed by traitors and can't come back!?"

As soon as he asked, the soldiers all buzzed, and seeing that Ning Yi didn't answer, someone plucked up the courage to say: "Mr. Ning, we haven't been able to go to Taiyuan, is there someone in Beijing who is obstructing!" ”

Then someone said: "It must be Cai Jing's ......"

But no one dared to answer this, everyone just looked at the man, and then said: "Mr. Ning, if there is any difficulty, you can speak!" ”

"Yes, although we are lowly in status, we also want to know-"

"We will die and will not be with the traitor—"

Although the Wurui battalion has been prescribed to practice every day in the barracks and is not allowed to go out, most of the high-level, middle-level and even low-level officers have held private meetings to discuss the news in Beijing. At this time, although the high-ranking officers felt that it was inappropriate, they all stood proudly and did not care about it. Ning Yi stood there silent for a long, long time, and everyone stopped asking, and the atmosphere was also suppressed. It was only at this time that Ning Yi waved his hand to call someone and took a piece of paper to him.

"It's ...... The news of Taiyuan City, you go and read it to everyone. ”

The people in Beijing already knew the news of the fall of Taiyuan City and then the massacre, and of course they also knew it in the military camp, the man was slightly stunned, and then stood there, bowed his head and read it aloud.

"On February 25, the city of Taiyuan was broken, and Zong Han ordered that the city of Taiyuan should not be sealed for ten days, and then, a brutal massacre began, and the Jurchens closed the gates of the city from all sides and ...... from all sides."

The news of the Secret Investigation Division is more detailed than ordinary informants, in which the sequence of the massacre in Taiyuan City, the various murder incidents, can be recorded, more or less recorded, how the people who died in it, how the women who were raped, how the pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep were driven to the north in general, and what the scene after the massacre was recorded as calmly and indifferently as possible. The crowd stood there, and their scalps tingled when they heard it, and some of them had gnashed their teeth.

"How is the song sung?" Ning Yi suddenly interjected, "The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north!" The dragon flag rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost! The heart is like the water of the Yellow River! Hey, in twenty years, who can fight - sing! ”

Everyone was stunned, and Ning Yi suddenly shouted: "Sing-" Here are all trained soldiers, and then they opened their mouths to sing: "The wolf smoke rises-" It's just that the tone is clearly much lower, and when it is sung for twenty years, the voice is even more obvious. Ning Yi pressed his palm: "Stop." ”

He took a breath, turned around and walked to the wooden platform behind him waiting for the generals to inspect, and stretched out his hand to wipe his mouth and nose: "This song is informal. When I first said I wanted to use it, I didn't like it, but I didn't think you liked it, and that's a good thing. But military songs must have a military soul and be reasonable. Who can fight in 20 years...... Hey, now it's only Hate, worthy of you. But I hope you remember this feeling, and I hope that twenty years from now, you will all be able to sing this song with dignity. ”

Ning Yi paused: "As for General Qin, he won't come back for the time being, there are other people who will take over you, and I will also go back, I haven't been happy to see the news from Taiyuan recently, but I am very relieved to see you today." ”

His gaze swept over the men in front of him, then walked away. There was an uproar among the crowd. An officer beside Ning Yi shouted: "All stand up—" Those soldiers stood in horror. It's just that when Ning Yi walked forward, more people gathered again, as if they were going to block the way.

Someone shouted: "Is there a traitor in the court?" Someone shouted: "The traitor is in charge, and His Majesty will not be ignorant!" "Mr. Ning, you can't leave us behind!" "Tell General Qin to come back-" "Whoever is the obstruction will kill who-" The voice came loudly, Ning Yi stopped and shouted abruptly: "Enough-"

The voice came out with the internal force, and the Quartet gradually calmed down.

"I have my business, and you have yours. Now I'll do my thing, and you do yours. He said, "That's the right thing, don't follow the example of your little daughter here, get out of the way of me!" ”

In the barracks, everyone slowly moved out of the way. When he reached the edge of the camp and saw the still neat team and the woman on the side not far away, he nodded slightly.

Hongti also nodded.

The weather is cloudy and rainy.

As the news of the Jurchens' evacuation of Taiyuan and their return to the north was finally implemented, a large number of changes finally began in Bianliang City.

The next day, Luo Shengzhou, the martial champion under Tan Shu, officially took over Qin Siyuan's position and was transferred to Wu Shengjun, which was just a trivial matter that no one knew. On the same day, Emperor Zhou Zhe issued an edict to the world, and at the same time ordered a strict investigation and purging of the official system at this time, and the people in Beijing were excited.

Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, this is the beginning of cheering up...... (To be continued......)