The red sun in the evening turned into a sky of stars, and then turned into a churning cloud in the daytime.

The news of the great victory at the Wangyuan Bridge in the southwest and the panic of Zonghan's troops had spread in various places in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains in April.

A war that can be called the trend of the world, so far it has shown a trend that does not match most people's expectations, and the combat power and tenacity of the Huaxia Army have stunned the eyes of many people. Some people are stunned, some people are frightened, some people feel excited by such results, and some people are vigilant. But no matter what kind of attitude and mood you have, as long as you are slightly qualified to dance on the stage of the world, no one can be indifferent and indifferent to it, but it is impossible to refute it.

Even if they were thousands of miles away, the two troops on Liangshan Mountain were also excited, and the mountains and grasses came from all directions, and even between the Huaxia Army led by Zhu Biao and Liu Chengzong and the Guangwu Army led by Wang Shanyue and Xue Changgong, because of this big victory, there were two small-scale frictions and brawls, which made people laugh and cry.

Wanyanchang, who was far away in Baoding, strengthened the defense of the Central Plains because of the imminent movement on Liangshan, and was on guard against these people in Shandong who were inspired by the war situation in the southwest and took risks to make something big.

Farther afield, within the Jin Kingdom, large-scale influences are brewing. In the clouds, after the first round of news arrived, it was not made public, and it was only quietly circulated among some high-ranking families in the Jin Kingdom. After learning of the defeat of the Western Route Army, some of the founding clans of Dajin pulled out the Hannu from their families, killed a batch, and then went to the Yamen to pay the fine.

There is tragic news about the retreat of the Western Route Army, and it will take more time to come back from the southwest thousands of miles away, and at that time, a huge wave will appear within the Jin Kingdom.

Jindi.

When the horse team passed through the undulating hills and turned towards the small basin on the side of the mountain, Lou Shuwan lifted the curtain in the carriage in the middle and saw that there was still black smoke and embers faintly below.

Flames have ravaged villages and wheat fields, and nearby troops have arrived, salvaging what they can still save in a mess. The closer the team became, the more clearly audible the cries in the wind could be heard.

“…… Brute. ”

She clenched her fists and cursed.

This is a scene in March.

If it weren't for what began to happen this spring, Lou Shuwan might have been able to get more encouragement from the intelligence of the Great War in the Southwest. But at this moment, Jindi was plagued by a sudden attack, and he was anxious for a while.

The winter snow melted in the second lunar month, and the battle for Jin land led by Lou Shuwan's side and Liao Yiren's side started again. This time, Liao Yiren's sudden appearance of foreign reinforcements uprooted the two counties and towns on Lou Shuwan's side by one means or another, and the other party's methods were brutal and killed a lot, and after some investigation, it was confirmed that the people who participated in the attack were likely to be killed all the way from the Western Xia side.

This new alien mercenary army is agile in combat and has a strong desire to fight and slaughter, they broke the city twice, both pretending to be merchants, liaising with the defenders of the city, and after obtaining permission, seizing the city gates with a small number of elites, and then carrying out slaughter and burning. Judging only from the battle in which the other side seized the city gate, it can be determined that this army is indeed the elite of the battle that should not be underestimated in this year.

By the end of February, the other side's operations had been hampered, and after being spotted once, in early March, the army attacked two small counties and towns by means of sneak attacks on patrols and false news, and at the same time, they also launched even more brutal attacks on the civilian population in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Tiger King.

With small teams of horses and elite hunters with flexible combat power, they interspersed with villages and towns, taking advantage of the night to attack the villages, and most importantly, to burn down the houses and wheat fields. In previous wars, even Liao Yiren would never dare to use such a battle strategy, but in March, this side has encountered more than ten such frenzied attacks.

Winter wheat is often planted in August and September of the previous lunar calendar and harvested in May of the following year, which is the most critical harvest for Lou Shuwan to revive the Jin land. Liao Yiren is also a local clan, and the battlefield fights for life and death, but he always points to those who defeat the other party and can live a good life, and no one will set fire to the people's wheat fields, but the arrival of the grassland people has opened such a precedent.

In February and March, Yu Yulin gathered his army and recovered two more towns, but the outskirts of the army, near the plains, were also harassed by the grassland troops. With their superb salvo shooting skills, they attacked the weaker army, turned around and ran after one round of shooting, and after opening the distance, they only pinched soft persimmons, and never gnawed hard bones, which caused a certain degree of trouble to Yu Yulin.

As a general who has led the army for many years, Yu Yulin and many people can see that the combat effectiveness of the grassland people is not weak, and they are just used to adopting such tactics. Perhaps because the survival of Jin Land had nothing to do with them, Liao Yiren invited them over, and they kept stabbing them according to everyone's weakness. For them, this is a relatively simple and easy battle, but for Yu Yulin, Lou Shuwan and others, there is only a feeling of resentment.

The only thing that can comfort this side is that due to the lack of help, Liao Yiren's forces are completely unable to defeat Yulin's attack on the frontal battlefield. But the other party is on the defensive, even if everything goes well, it will take nearly half a year to defeat Liao Yiren and recover the entire Jindi. But no one knows how many crazy things these grassland people will do in half a year, and it is difficult to fully confirm what will happen if these guys are determined to attack Jindi.

In the friction and investigation after the contact between the two sides, the situation of the battle in the southwest was transmitted one by one. Zhan Wu, who was in charge of this affairs, once reminded Lou Shuwan that although not much people paid attention to the situation in Western Xia and other places after the Northwest was killed in Baidi, Mr. Ning once took people to Western Xia before coming to Jindi to investigate the movements of this group of grassland people.

The forces that will make Ning Yi secretly pay attention to this is itself a signal and hint. Lou Shuwan also paid more attention to it, she asked Zhan Wu Ning Yi what he thought of these people, and whether he had any countermeasures and back-ups, but Zhan Wu was a little embarrassed.

“…… When Mr. Ning came over, he only arranged the matter of the Tiger King, perhaps he did not expect that these people would reach out to the Central Plains, and he did not mention it to anyone in his sights and hearings in Western Xia......"

Lou Shuwan was in a depressed mood, and when she heard such an answer, her brows were fierce: "Get out, your Black Flag Army is the same as Ning Yi, you eat and drink to support you, and it is useless at all!" ”

When she encounters something about Ning Yi, she has to scold a few words, sometimes it is vulgar, and Zhan Wu is helpless. Especially after taking the other party's assistance last year, everyone in the Huaxia Army was short-mouthed and soft-handed in front of her, so they could only leave in disgrace. It doesn't matter what the face is, it's long gone.

Ning Yi had no way of knowing what the grassland people thought of, so Zhan Wu had to write a temporary letter to report back the situation here. Lou Shuwan's side summoned Yu Yulin and others to ask them to be vigilant and ready to fight a tough battle. As for Liao Yiren, try to plan to solve it as quickly as possible, although the grassland people's tactics are slippery for the time being, they must also have the psychological expectation of fighting a tough battle with the other side, and all methods to check and balance the opponent's guerrilla strategy must be done now.

So the fist was withdrawn, and the scheduled time for the Liao family's overall battle was postponed to April. During this period, Lou Shuwan and others carried out a conservative defense on the periphery of the territory, but the scene of the village being attacked was still reported from time to time.

Every burned wheat field and village is like a knife in Lou Shuwan's heart. In such a situation, she even took her subordinates' personal guards to press the center of governance towards the front line. There was still some time to prepare for the attack, and the persuasion and lobbying of Liao Yiren's side in private were also in full swing, and the smoke of the Jin land was drumming, and by the beginning of April, the atmosphere was solemn, because people suddenly found that the interspersed attacks of the steppe people had stopped for some reason since the end of March.

A long round of silence may be preparing for the next round of attack, Lou Shuwan, who realized this, ordered the army to strengthen vigilance, and at the same time let the people in front inquire about the news. Not long after, extremely strange news came from the army on the Liao family's side......

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North of Fenyang, in Hui County, where Liao Yiren's hometown ancestral home is located, chaos still continues.

The steppe people were suddenly attacked.

On the evening of March 28, a dinner party led by the Liao family was held in the mansion, and soon after, the Mongol cavalry launched an attack on the nearby military camp, capturing the general of the army and seizing the commanding heights of the inner courtyard of the Liao family. After that, the Mongols controlled the Liao family for four days, and due to the previous arrangement, the nearby armaments were looted, and a large number of steppe people came and dragged away the gunpowder, iron cannons, ammunition and other items that they valued most at this time.

Although it seems premeditated, the Mongols still showed a lot of haste throughout the operation, and it was difficult to determine why they chose such a point in time to attack the Liao family. But in any case, in the next four days, all kinds of inhumane things were staged in the Liao family's mansion, and Liao Yiren had not died at that time, and no one sympathized with him in later generations. However, in early April, he and part of the Liao family disappeared for a time, and because the Liao family's power was in chaos, no one paid attention to the whereabouts of the Mongols after they plundered the Liao family.

On the second day of the fourth month, the Mongolian cavalry left Liao's house, and the nearby military camp suffered a massacre, and on the third day of the first month, the first group of people found the corpses of the Liao family. At the time, people were still in confusion and did not understand why all this was happening, and they still couldn't see the impact it would have on what would happen later. Where did the Mongols go? The conscious pursuit only began after the fifth day of the first month, and the shocking feedback came after the tenth day of the first month.

It will take many years for people to sort out a rough outline of the things in Jindi from the mouths of the survivors......

No one knows that on the afternoon of March 27, when two Mongol generals named Zamuhe and Chilaowen were discussing matters in their rooms in Jindi, it was a bird flying by or a relative of the Liao family who had accidentally passed by that they were alarmed by the outer window. In any case, the order to prepare for action was given shortly after.

In the three months since they arrived in Jindi, the Mongols were fighting and at the same time learning about the situation of the whole world at this time, and at this time they already knew that there was a more powerful enemy in the southwest that had defeated Yan Zonghan. What Zamuhe discussed with Chi Lao Wen was what they were going to do next, and things were advanced because of the movement outside.

By the time the Mongol army marched north with a group of livestock-like Liao, they had already tortured enough information.

The key to the action lies in the several stewards and direct relatives who were involved in the Liao family's business in the past. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, a caravan horse team carrying the banner of the Liao family arrived at the northernmost ...... of the Central Plains Yanmen Pass.

After the Jurchens controlled the Yanmen Pass and actually controlled the Central Plains, due to the decay of the Central Plains, there were not many business trips between the two sides. But there always is. The Liao family is one of the forces with trade qualifications, and after a resolute confrontation with Lou Shuwan, Yu Yulin and others, the Liao family's status has become very high among the local warlords.

This is a large team of more than 200 people, and there are a lot of goods and goods, which also means that the army stationed at the checkpoint will have more oil and water. So the two sides had a friendly consultation: the Jurchen team at the garrison checkpoint made some trouble, and the Liao family, who led the team, couldn't wait to throw out a lot of treasures to bribe the other party - such eagerness was originally unusual, but the Jurchen generals guarding the Yanmen Pass had been soaked in the filial piety and oil of all parties for a long time, and did not find anything abnormal for a while.

More than 200 people entered through the gate of Yanmen Pass, and among the 200 or so people were accompanied by many Mongols who would make a name for themselves in the future: Zamuhe, Chilaowen, Muhuali, Jebe, Borshu, Torre, Hesar, and Erjin-Temujin......

More cavalry were waiting quietly in the mountains south of Yanmen Pass......

This was the moment when the Jurchens were in the air defense.

The tiger bared its fangs. The Mongol army will soon run through the entire sixteen states of Yanyun and reach Yunzhong......