Winter.

As the horse-drawn carriage passed slowly down the street, the master lifted the curtain to see that there were not many angry shops on either side of the street, and the shopkeeper and a few customers were looking in a certain direction of the city. A few children with wooden sticks ran in the rain and ran to the other side of the road, and then they also stood and looked in the direction of the north. One of the children waved his fist and shouted, "Kill the golden dog!" Kill the Golden Dog! ”

The sound of war was faintly coming from there.

The sound of war shook the city wall, and then, like ripples, spread to the city, and the sound faded into the distance. But these days, most people in the city have been able to discern the meaning of that voice.

After the disastrous defeat of the Western Army's attack on the camp on September 24, Wanyan Zongwang's cavalry went out and broke through hundreds of thousands of troops in the field outside Bianliang City. For the residents of Bianliang City, the news felt almost hopeless, but it also evoked a huge sense of crisis. The day after the defeat of the Western Army, Taixue students and residents of the city went to petition outside the imperial city, asking the imperial court to reuse Li Gang, Chongshidao and others to eliminate traitors, and Chen Dong, a Taixue student, even included Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others in the list of "six thieves" and asked the imperial court to deal with them.

After this incident, the imperial court accepted the following part of the opinion, and at the same time gave the seed master Dao a promotion, ordering him to assist Li Gang and organize the battle of Bianliang to defend the city. After the cultivator appeared in front of the people outside the imperial city in a carriage, these petitioners were willing to disperse. After that, Li Gang and others launched propaganda in the city, and hundreds of thousands of people in Bianliang City responded, expressing their willingness to go to the city to fight and live and die with Bianliang. So. Up and down with one heart, the momentum of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat is unparalleled for a while.

Under such a momentum, the original Lord and faction no longer had any voice. Wang Xiao, the envoy of the Jin Kingdom, died in the riots that night, and the imperial court spared no effort to publicize the brutality of the Jurchens. After the city is broken, it is difficult to finish. Since then, the Jurchens have attacked the city several times, and the inhabitants of the city have actively joined in the war preparations, but they have also firmly held the city wall for more than a month.

In this process, prices in the city have also begun to rise.

The first thing to soar is naturally the price of food and vegetables. Bianliang City has always had abundant materials and stable prices, and most people would not have the expectation that the Jurchens would suddenly call. Before the siege, although a large amount of grain was transported in. But that is first of all the food of the imperial court, Li Gang and other court officials not only incite people to defend the city with righteousness, but also distribute rations and other materials to those who are powerful. Because of this reason, the upper echelons did not adopt a policy of stabilizing prices, and some people who were young and powerful and had access could participate in the reserve team defending the city, and could participate in the manufacture of rolling wood and stones and other items to defend the city, but in this process, most people would still be divided into three, six, nine and so on. A very small number of people in the city. Eventually, livelihoods will be jeopardized by such a situation.

Naturally, Alum Lou is not in the category of endangered livelihoods, because there was no large-scale grain stockpiling earlier. At this time, he has also begun to consider the problem of eating, and when the master went out today, he went to Zhuji to find Su Wenfang who stayed behind, and discussed the purchase of grain - when Ning Yi left the city and went north, Su Tan'er and other family members had already gone south, and Su Wenfang volunteered to stay in the city and continue to take care of Zhuji. also serves as an errand under the command of the Prime Minister, and the teacher comes forward, so there is naturally no problem in purchasing grain.

At this time, when the matter was negotiated, to the north of the city, the sound of the Jurchens attacking the city did not stop. See all the way. Most of the residents of the city are paying attention to that direction, and even if there are calm people, eating snacks and chatting with each other, they don't know what kind of apprehension they are in. For everyone, the city wall is high and thick, but at this time, it is like a thin piece of paper, and everyone can't help too much if they fight and fight like this, and once it is broken, the whole city will be slaughtered.

The teacher also let the carriage go in the direction of the north of the city, she was a woman, I was afraid that it would be difficult to help, and she would not be allowed to approach, but ...... I always want to see it up close.

The rain was still falling, and when I passed through a certain street, I suddenly noticed a figure in front of me. The figure hesitated under the eaves, but perhaps without an umbrella, and was almost wet and wolfish. The master hurriedly asked the carriage to stop, opened the curtain and waved: "Lei'er, Lei'er, come up." ”

This figure is also a woman in the alum building, named He Leier, neither the top brand nor the clear one, the two are quite different in fame, and there is no intersection on weekdays. The woman took a food box in her hand, turned her head, and saw that it was the teacher, she was really stunned for a moment, and then got into the car, and the teacher took a towel to her, frowning slightly.

"Sister Lei'er, where are you going in this kind of weather, the city is not peaceful, you come out alone like this, something is going to happen."

The Jurchens besieged the city, prices rose, martial law began to fall in the city at night, and law and order began to decline. The teacher is the top brand, and there are cars and guards when he goes out, but where does He Leier have these configurations. She wiped her head and face, bowed her head and thanked her, and then said a little embarrassed: "I, I want to go to the sour jujube gate to have a look, my ...... Okay, now that I'm guarding the city, I'm afraid that something will happen to him, and I want to go and see it...... Brought him something to eat too......"

"Oh......" Shishi nodded. In fact, He Leier is not a Qing person, and in the alum building, there is not much freedom to choose guests, if you want to say that you are good, there are not only one or two, but in the past, how can a soldier who guards the city be regarded as "good" by her, but these naturally do not need to be broken, and chatted a little, in He Leier's somewhat proud tone, the teacher also learned that her good is a general who led more than 500 people in the Japanese army, named Xue Changgong - this name has an impression in the teacher's heart, this period of time, There are several generals in the army who are known for their courage in killing the enemy, and this Xue Changgong is one of them, and I vaguely remember that I had seen and greeted him in the alum tower before.

In the past, the alum tower received either high-ranking officials or rich gentry talents, mostly based on literary style, money and status as the standard, at this time the war continued, the status of the military is rising, He Leier is obviously proud of having such a good look, at this time to talk to the teacher, it will be through a lot of news, and even Xue Changgong gave her a token, so that she can go to the city wall to visit him, and also show off. When he heard that the master wanted to see the city wall, he volunteered to take her there.

The teacher felt that it was inappropriate: "At this time, there is a war, I just take a look around, I really want to go over, can't I?" ”

He Leier said: "I'm not a woman who doesn't understand the importance of his barracks." I've been there once, it's still some distance from the wall, I'll put my things down and we'll go. She held the snack box in her arms, "There are not many things in the building now, I have saved a few pastries, which taste very good, and I am reluctant to eat them, but I will put them away." I'm afraid it's going to break......"

In the past, there were abundant materials, even if it was a person like He Leier, who did not have a high status in the alum building, he must not be so poor, but at this time, some of the previous pastries were tantamount to delicacies. He Lei'er thought about bringing it to Xue Changgong to eat, and the master was somewhat moved, and after a while. When the two of them arrived near the cordon in the north of the city, the sound of the siege had become more and more manic and noisy. Otherwise, ordinary people would not be able to go. After getting out of the car, He Leier took the token to show the soldiers guarding the street, and then the two of them held an umbrella and went to the new sour jujube gate.

This side is where it was originally close to the city gate. The towering walls in the distance are daunting at the end of the eye, and the scenery outside the city is not visible, but it seems to be being shaken by an unknown giant beast, with the occasional boom. It was probably the stones of the trebuchet that hit the outer wall, which made people's hearts tremble, and the crowd on the city wall came and went, the people carrying the stones below were busy, and the screams of the wounded were all coming from this side.

The two of them went to the barracks of nearby soldiers, and the figures around them came and went, and occasionally turned their heads to look at them, which made people feel uneasy. As soon as she entered this area, He Lei'er regretted it in her heart, she had been here once in the past, but it was impossible to compare it with the situation in wartime, not to mention that when there was a war, how could they be approached by women, it is estimated that it is possible to be dealt with by military law, and the master also felt that this decision was a little messed up, and he was regretting it, and in the chaos ahead, he suddenly saw a few people.

The general named Xue Changgong was stained with blood, and was talking to several pro-soldiers next to him, when he saw He Lei'er, he was suddenly stunned there, He Lei'er also saw him, and before he could speak, the other party rushed over with fierce eyes, knocked down the umbrella that the two of them were holding together, and suppressed his voice: "Why are you here, how dare you come over!" Who is she? You're not afraid of military law!? How dare you ......"

The heavy rain fell loudly, and He Lei'er's arm was suddenly twisted by the other party, and her brows frowned in pain: "I...... I'll send you something, you...... You're hurt......"

"You're messing around!" Xue Changgong gritted his teeth and said this, turned his head to look around, and suddenly raised his hand to the side: "Even if you are women, go and help!" Go to the wounded barracks! Over there! Go and save people - Hou Jing, bring them over to help! ”

He Lei'er nodded desperately, she still hesitated about the food box in her hand, and the teacher also took her hand: "Go!" "With the personal soldier named Hou Jing to the wounded barracks - in fact, this man named Hou Jing is Xue Changgong's brother-in-law, and he has also met with Shishi, but Shishi is in no mood to pay attention to these at this time. The two followed each other to the wounded barracks, Hou Jing picked up the umbrella from the ground and covered the two, but they also trotted all the way to the wounded barracks, all kinds of screams, bloody gas, and the smell of medicine diffused, and even the heavy rain could not be stopped. They entered through the door of the shack, and an even more miserable scene appeared in front of them, Hou Jing called someone to come and take them, and said a few words of greetings to the side, but the two teachers and teachers couldn't listen to them at all.

Corpses, blood, severed limbs, and heart-wrenching screams, the teacher was a little better, and Herrell was almost stunned, and when she was called over to bandage a soldier who had been wounded by an arrow, she vomited "wow" next to her......

The day's fighting came to an end at noon due to the heavy rain that was not conducive to the siege, but the wounded soldiers in the camp never stopped, and most of the wounded soldiers who were sent were wounded by arrows, and some were injured by stones from trebuchets. Wrapped in the chaotic atmosphere, the teacher who knew a little about bandaging skills also helped a little, but as soon as she stopped slightly, her body almost seemed to collapse, and her whole brain was buzzing with all kinds of screams and wounds.

The man named Hou Jing came here to see her several times, and even helped to treat the wounds of a few people, he was a little clumsy next to Shishi, and even sweated when he spoke, but in a few simple exchanges, Shishi also knew that the intensity of today's battle was not high at all.

“…… The Jurchens did not seriously attack the city. They've been testing rock-throwing machines lately, and it's raining heavily today. These injuries are nothing, and if they were allowed to go up the wall, it would be miserable......"

Even if it is a "nothing" injury, the arrow is shot into the body and then pulled out. It is also the most unbearable pain that is given to people......

After staying in such an environment for a whole afternoon, half of the teacher's body was bloody. Hou Jing brought her steamed buns, but she naturally couldn't eat them, but her body was shaky, as if she had no strength. Occasionally, when I talked to Hou Jing a few words, Hou Jing told her about the scene of the siege of the city in the early days, the tragedy of the battle, and when the master went to see the city wall again, it was towering. The boxy walls have become paper-thin again.

More than a million people, just like that, were surrounded by the walls of the four directions, and once the walls were crossed, all of them could have such a fate......

Even in today's war, many people have died. In the old days, there were naturally more. And outside the city walls, the dead in that field. And so much more.

During these days, the teacher occasionally fantasized about the fate of these people. also remembered the last time the two met when Ning Yi left. She is in the city, and she has seen such a scene today, and what kind of situation has the other party experienced outside the city?

For more than a month, news of reinforcements and King Qin's army also came several times outside the city. The Jurchens attacked continuously, mercilessly, and during this time, they defeated all these Qinwang armies one by one.

“…… Outside the city, hundreds of thousands of armies were defeated by the Jurchens. Those Jurchens, I heard that they have been swept several times in the north of Bianliang now, and many people have died, I'm afraid the corpses are still there...... There is no place to bury it...... Those Jurchens are not familiar with the siege of the city, but their cavalry is invincible on the flat ground, and they can't run......"

Hou Jing told her about the war that he could understand, hundreds of thousands of troops came over one after another, and they were defeated one after another, and no one could count on it in Bianliang City......

Chichito Chirito ......

Shi Shi looked at the city wall, imagining that countless people had been killed in the place outside the city, Ning Yi didn't know if it was inside, but hundreds of thousands of rescues had either been defeated or killed. In this city in this wilderness, there are a million lonely people, and I am afraid that no one can save them.

When she returned to the alum tower, she fell ill that night. After being sick for five days, after getting better, I consulted the doctor in the alum tower for a way to treat the wounded, and then went to the wounded barracks to help.

Sometimes Yu Hezhong, Chen Sifeng and others would come to her and talk about the war. She often thinks of Ning Yi, someone she knows has gone to the battlefield, and she doesn't know what happened to him, whether he is still alive, and what he is doing. If he was alive, whether he was afraid or escaped in that environment, she didn't know whether she wanted him to escape, live, or die bravely, and the time in Bianliang City passed day by day in such an atmosphere.

In the Mutuogang, in the Jurchen barracks, the soldiers did not start to rest because of the cold weather, and many siege equipment were being built in full swing. The Jurchens are good at horse warfare, the method of attacking the city, although it has accumulated in the process of destroying the Liao State, but after all, it is a short board, taking advantage of the opportunity of besieging the city, Zongwang is ready to train it, after all, in the future, the Jin State will take all the Wu Dynasty, all the way south, there are still a lot of cities that need to be conquered.

During this time, the cavalry under his command also showed almost invincible combat power in this field, except for this city is the only target that needs to be conquered, the rest of the aspects, there is basically no need to worry.

The combat effectiveness of the Wu Dynasty, after a few battles, he had the bottom in his heart, the strength of a country, weak to this kind of Cheng dù, to be honest, it was also beyond his expectations.

In addition to being stationed here with the mentality of training soldiers, for the Jurchen army, another purpose in these days is to hunt for curiosity. In the process of sweeping around, the Jurchens looted a lot of good things, and also arrested a lot of people, delicious and fun are now popular in the barracks, fortunately, Zongwang is now very prestigious, and while relaxing a little, all the generals also let the soldiers under their command maintain enough training and tension.

In November, seeing that it was about to snow, on this uneventful day, when Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army, and the general were inspecting the barracks, they casually mentioned one thing.

"There are fewer and fewer Han people around here."

"Huh?" Liu Yanzong frowned.

"Yesterday 3,000 men were sent out to patrol the surrounding area for fifty miles, but they found nothing." "Returning empty-handed." ”

Liu Yanzong smiled: "I have been here for so long with the army, and the people around me should leave." They are all gone, what's so to blame. ”

Huo Lichang shook his head: "In the past, the surrounding water and soil were fertile, even if the army came, there were many people hiding in the mountains, but now even if they search in the mountains, they can't find anyone." The last general didn't worry about them being scared away or killed. It's just that some people who have been arrested say that among the officials of the Wu Dynasty, there are still people evacuating the surrounding people and grain at this time, and the scope may have been expanded to more than a hundred miles within a radius of more than 100 miles, the purpose of which is to clear the wilderness for the fortified wall and cut off the source of food and grass for our army. If it's true, maybe it's time to pay attention to it. ”

Liu Yanzong frowned and thought about it, and then laughed easily: "The matter of clearing the wilderness is something that the people of the Wu Dynasty must do. Now our army's food and grass is still enough for several months, and sending people out to move around is just to move the muscles and bones, and now there is no need to worry about this food and grass matter. He immediately lowered his voice, "The Wu Dynasty is southern, and it is cold and bone-chilling in winter, although it is different from my Liaodong land. But after all, it is not a big problem, until this siege machine is sufficient. The army then attacked the city. The army of the Wu Dynasty had no morale at all, and only relied on the fortified city to resist, just like the Liao State went to Beijing, if it were not for the use of these weapons, it would have been broken long ago. Now let's wait. ”

When the Jurchens attacked the Liao State and went to Beijing, regardless of the cost, Shangjing was also an important fortified city, and it was broken in half a day. Of course, there are many complicated reasons for this, but after hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated under Bianliang City. Most of the Jurchens have such self-confidence. If it weren't for the fact that the commander wanted to train the use of siege equipment, and it was also a siege at any cost, Bianliang might not be able to last for a few days, in this case, naturally there was no need to take any jumping clowns to heart.

This is just a small episode, no one remembered it for a while, although he said it in his heart, he was not too worried in his heart, and it was just out of cautious habits. After that, they no longer took it seriously, and when this matter was brought up again, it was already some time later, and the Jurchens had to take it seriously......

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The north bank of the Yellow River.

A team of horses is crossing the river.

This horse team was about 2,000 people, the phalanx by the river was neat, the queue was quiet and solemn, and some things were pulled by carts in the rear.

The fleet responsible for transporting them was arranged by the nearby county commander, because it was located at the crossing of the Yellow River, and it was wartime, and in recent times, the captain of the fleet has not known how many people have been transported over, and how many people have been transported back, but it is the entire army that has passed, and the people who have come back are often routed, wounded and corpses.

After transporting so many troops, the ship boss can basically recognize the plain of these soldiers, but the horse team in front of him is a little strange. The soldiers among them seem to be veterans who have been weathered and killed, in the army of the Wu Dynasty, such are often elite and pro-soldiers, but they are always such elite soldiers, and it is easy to produce those ruffians who are hanging and don't care about anything, and those who remain strict and trembling are often those recruits, although they look obedient and neat, but such soldiers often collapse after the whole team collapses after going to the battlefield, and some even run away without rules, and the casualties are often the highest.

This team has both qualities, on the one hand, their team is as neat as if it was painted, and on the other hand, it looks like each of their components does not look like a mediocre hand.

After seeing their formation, the captain of the ship knew that this was the rebel army that returned to the north when recruiting peace—but to be honest, this is even more strange - the so-called rebel army is often composed of mountain bandits and bandits, and these teams are even worse disciplined. According to Ning Yi, those people are all models of "at least patriotism", but if you put it harshly: how many people who have done bad things will be "at least patriotic"?

But in any case, his fleet still carried this team over in an orderly manner, and when he parted, he also told the other party in detail about the situation of the Jurchens, and asked them to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the army in front.

"We're different." When a few ingots of silver as the capital of the ferry were put into the hands of the captain of the fleet, the lieutenant general named Han Jing in the army said so, and the captain said in his heart that it was best, so he naturally did not refute it, but also remembered this team that was said to come from Luliang Mountain. He secretly looked at the front of the queue, and the cloaked leader looked like a woman.

He glanced at the other party when he was on the side of the Yellow River before, and when he looked at the gaze under the cloak, he felt that his eyes were startled as if they had been pricked by needles, and the murderous aura on the female general's body made him dare not look at it for a long time......

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This is a valley on the south bank of the Yellow River, where the woods and valleys stretch, and at this time, it has become a temporary place for soldiers, and on the periphery of the valley, the horses and moats stretch out one by one, turning this place into the most unsuitable place for horse warfare.

Since the Jurchens launched their offensive on the night of September 24, hundreds of thousands of troops have been crushed in the fields north of Bianliang until now. The bodies of many are now in that field, and many of the rout have fled and lost their traces. But there are always a few forces that can temporarily rein in the crowd.

The place in front of him was originally a branch of the Wurui Battalion, and in the name of this, it collected many other routs, and finally stationed here, and now, it is training all day long.

It's a little hard to bite here, it's not very far from Mu Huogang and Bianliang City, and the Jurchens know about their existence, but after seeing the overlapping ditches and horses outside, they don't bother to storm in for the time being.

Ning Yi stood on the bank of the river, his face was a little pale, he coughed slightly, and beside him were several people who belonged to Zhuji - not martial artists, but mostly accounts and staff officers.

“…… I asked, it's the dry season, so the water level is so low, and after the beginning of spring, it will rise. Ning Yi turned his head and pointed to the guide surface, "If this guard is excavated when the water level is at its highest, the Yellow River will be diverted, and the water will rush straight to Bianliang City, and it will ...... at that time."

He paused, took a breath, and waved his hand: "When the time comes, the water will reced, and the fertile fields will be thousands of miles...... can feed a lot of people. ”

Several people were looking towards the river, only Ning Yi was facing the direction of the valley, the ditches and horses in the distance, the fortifications, and the people in the entire valley, his face was pale, and his eyes were a little pale, which was the color of death.

Although he claimed to be ruthless and had dominated the lives of many people, in the past month or so, he had seen far more deaths than in the past combined. Including himself, he has also walked through it several times in the face of life and death.

That night in Qixian, the injuries he suffered were not even fully healed until now, and many more people no longer even had a chance to recover from their injuries...... (To be continued......)

PS: Well, 7,000 words, the entire Battle of Bianliang should be placed under ^_^ this title