Winter is coming, and north of the Yellow River, heavy snow is falling one after another.

The city of Vaud, where the atmosphere of post-war slaughter is enveloping.

This is close to the Jin king's territory along the north of the front line of the city, since the Jurchen showed the hint of the south, two or three months, the city defense has been strengthened one after another, during the preparation for the war, in the Jin king's territory under the female minister Lou Shuwan also visited Vaud twice. Now that the war had broken out, the wounded soldiers who had retreated from the front line and the thousands of displaced people had gathered here, and for a short time the situation in the vicinity of Vaud had become extremely bitter and chaotic.

There was once a little official named Mu Yi who was murdered in the city because of the murder of his family, and in such a situation, not many people remember it.

Crossing the city of Vaud to the north, the ruins of Taiyuan to the line of Yanmen Pass, was once the most fierce battlefield after the Jurchens went south, for more than ten years, the population has decreased sharply, and the people have no livelihood. A leader named Wang Juyun came here, and gathered the inhabitants with a purpose similar to that of Manichaeism, anti-Jurchen, rich and poor, and after overthrowing the remaining rich families here, he gathered millions of righteous teachers, who were called "chaotic teachers" in the mouth of the pseudo-Qi and Jurchen.

Li Xizhi and the defenders near Yanmen Pass have exterminated this chaotic division twice, but both times they have returned in vain, and the elite under the command of the "chaotic division" has been brainwashed by religion, shouting the name of God, not afraid of life and death, and succeeding one after another. And Wang Juyun used his troops well, and in the response to the two exterminations, he attacked the other party's logistics, Li Xizhi and others could not be exterminated, but were robbed of a lot of materials by the other party, and then this extermination was done.

This time, the Jurchen East Route Army went south, and the first to bear the brunt was Wang Juyun's team of righteous teachers, and then, Tian Shi in the south spread the world, echoing and rising, and millions of troops came one after another, turning the north of Taiyuan into a Shura killing field.

In just over a month, in the Jedi from Yanmen Pass to the ruins of Taiyuan, four major wars broke out one after another. Wanyan Zonghan, the Jurchen army's divine soldiers, with the assistance of Xi Yin, commanded the Jin State fierce generals under his command, Yinshuke, Shuliesu, Balisu, Wanyan Saba and others to first defeat Wang Juyun's two attacks, and then defeated the vanguard of the Jin King's attack, and soon after, the combined army of Wang Juyun and Tian Shi was defeated. Under the city of Taiyuan, which was burned to ruins ten years ago, the blood and corpses of the Han people once again covered the field.

However, even after four major defeats, Wang Juyun's righteous teacher, Tian Shi's Jin royal power still never collapsed. After several battles, a large number of wounded and routed soldiers gathered in Vaud and other places, and the refugees who fled from the north also retreated south, and Vaud and other places did not refuse the arrival of these people, and the government treated the wounded in the chaotic situation, arranged for the deserters to return to the team, even for those who were skinned and bones retreated to the south, they also prepared at least enough porridge to survive, and arranged for them to continue to travel south.

For more than ten years since the Jurchen came to the south, the Han people struggled to survive, such selfless righteous deeds, no one has seen them for many years, in a short period of time, countless people were inspired by the righteous deeds of the King of Jin, and some skin-covered people took up arms with tears - they had already had enough of this unearthly life, and they were unwilling to continue to suffer in the south. In such weather and in such a world, even if people continue to be unable to escape, what awaits them is likely to be only a dead end, or a torment more difficult than death, so it is better to throw their lives here and die with the Jurchens. Feeling such an atmosphere, some of the routs who fled also picked up their swords and guns again and joined the original team......

In war, there are such tear-jerking situations, and of course there are also all kinds of cowardice and despicability, terror and ferocity.

Within the Jin Dynasty, the high pressure and purge launched by Lou Shuwan are still going on with the cooperation of the Zhuji force led by Zhan Wu, and every city from south to north, most of the suspected people who have defected to the enemy have been searched out, and every day, there are raids and beheadings.

Naturally, there are spies and lobbyists sent by Wanyan Xiyin who are active in the middle, and there are also more than one unjust, false and wrongful case, if it is a normal regime, such a cleanup is enough to shake the foundation of the entire regime, but in the face of a great enemy like Wanyan Zonghan, and there are no reinforcements behind him, only this kind of cold and high pressure can ensure the progress of the front-line battle.

Some of the soldiers were reluctant to fight anymore and fled into the mountains. At the same time, there are also people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, or who want to seek wealth through the troubled times, and wait for the arrival of the Jurchen "royal flag" in the chaotic situation. This is particularly true near the canton of Vaud.

In the mountains and forests north of Vaud, in the space of more than a month, five or six bandits who gathered together announced their submission to the Jurchens and waited for the arrival of the king. Their momentum is big and small, but taking advantage of the chaotic time of the situation, these people robbed houses, destroyed villages and burned forests, and even some people specially intercepted and killed the rout soldiers fleeing south on the road, they blocked the road, threatened a small group of rout soldiers to join, if they did not agree, they were killed immediately, the body was stripped naked and hung on the flagpole, and there was also a team on the road to intercept and kill the army of the king of Jin from the south, and after the defeat, the road was destroyed, and even threatened to mix into the city of Vaud to kill people at will, and when the Jurchens came, they opened the city gate for the other party, which made the people nearby panic.

The heavy snow had ceased that day, and a column of smoke had risen in a village dozens of miles east of Vaud, where a team of bandits had ransacked. The composition of this team is about five or six hundred people, and the big banner erected is indecently written with the words "Dajin Wozhou Zhenfu Army", after the village was ransacked, all the middle-aged men in the village were slaughtered, and most of the women were **, and then they were arrested and taken away.

The departing procession was lined up, and the man in front of him was a tall horse, with a strong armor and a long sword, a burly figure, and a woman tied to his horse's back, struggling. The man rode forward, waved his hand and slapped the woman a few times, and the woman didn't dare to resist anymore, he laughed, very proud.

This headed man's name is Wang Kang, he was a mountain bandit who gathered in the vicinity of Vaud, his martial arts are strong, and he thinks highly of himself, after the Jurchens came, he was recruited in private, and he wanted to serve well and earn a lot of fame, these days, he plundered around, and even according to the strategy of the Jurchen envoys who went south, he released all kinds of false news to the city of Vaud, which made people panic. At this time, he slaughtered the village, killed the young and strong, left the old people and children, and continued to cause panic and burden to the city of Vaud.

The Jurchens went south, and the combination of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin was invincible in the world, fighting head-on, and no one felt that they could win. With such a cognition, at the moment, whether it is Wang Juyun or Tian Shi or Yu Yulin, all they think about is not to defeat the enemy on the battlefield at one time, defeat can be defeated, and it is okay to escape, as long as the army that can be attacked and dragged on the east road to the greatest extent, the battle situation north of the Yellow River is even if the goal is achieved, and the two armies of the Jurchen are eager to attack the Wu Dynasty in the south, even if all the altars and jars in the territory of the King of Jin are finished, and they will withdraw people into the mountains, Zong Han and Xiyin will not have the leisure to kill them all.

Even if the power of the whole world is gathered and the Jurchens are defeated, as long as the world still belongs to the Han people, there will definitely be a position of the king of Jin north of the Yellow River, and even the time of the change of time, with such a reputation in the future, it is not impossible to win the world.

It is also because of this psychological preparation that several major defeats on the battlefield ahead have failed to completely defeat the command system of the two groups of armies. Wang Juyun continued to collect the rout after the defeat, and the Jin king's side was already ready to fight after defeat. In such a situation, however, the control of these chaotic areas becomes sluggish. Wang Dare committed several crimes, and in this world after the snow, he focused on the city and the garrison forces around the city, but failed to rescue the surrounding area in time.

This time was the same, the team of Tu Village left along the path with the looted materials and the woman, and returned to the mountains, Wang Dare was in high spirits, while boasting about the achievements and future wealth with the deputies next to him, while reaching into the woman's clothes and kneading them at will. Although the north of Vaud is a battlefield where the real army fights, at the moment, he is not afraid of being intercepted by the troops near Vaud, just because the Jurchen envoy from the south has already made a determination to him before-Tian Shi is against Jin, and there is a dead end, even if the female minister who sits in the court is ruthless and kills countless people, and will choose to secretly report to the Jin people, it is still endless.

So arrogantly walking through a mountain bend, a "boulder" lying in the snow next to the mountain road suddenly lifted, and an iron rod under the "boulder" danced and roared, and a soldier walking next to the team did not react, and the whole person seemed to be suddenly dragged by the neck and raised half of his body, and the flesh and blood splashed into the sky.

"I ...... -"

The "boulder" was originally camouflaged, and the place where it was lifted was no more than a foot away from Wang Kang, and there were only two soldiers in the middle. Wang Dang was the first to react to the sudden movement in the snow in the mountains, he shouted, pulled the reins suddenly, and immediately swung his knife, and the other soldier on the side was already lazy and hit the front with a stick, hitting the buttocks of a deputy walking in front. The fierce rushing fingers of the figure slammed into the distance of Zhang Yu. Wang Dare stood on the back of his neck in the swing of the knife, he turned sideways in a hurry, the whistling shadow of the stick swept past his forehead, and a loud bang hit the back of the horse's head, like breaking a stone drum, and then the horse was knocked out with a bang.

The fall of the war horse was like a landslide, and at the same time it crashed into the two soldiers on the other side, Wang Dare rolled down with the war horse to the ground, he made a defensive roll in embarrassment, only to feel that something flew over his head - it was the woman on the back of the war horse who was thrown by someone - Wang Dare got up from the ground as soon as he rolled on the ground, shoveled up the snow with one hand and threw it to the rear, his body had already run to the rear team he was facing at this time, and shouted: "Stop him!" Kill him, kill him—"

The figure that ran and chased was also fast, almost following the tumbling corpse of the war horse in a small circle, the snow on the ground was splashed by his steps, the rear had not yet fallen, and the front had exploded, like a blooming lotus. The rear of the queue was more than six or seven infantry formations, one column after another, spears like a forest, Wang dared to shout and ran to that side, the assassins chased after him, facing the spear forest Wang dared to turn around and retreat inside, approaching in front of him, is fierce as fire eyes.

This assassination came suddenly, like a tsunami landslide, he didn't have time to measure how high the opponent's martial arts were, just a round shield in one hand, a long knife in the other hand to defend, the soldiers in the rear have also reacted, the spear stabbed from his side like a forest, the assassin who rushed wildly, the iron rod in his hand flew, driving the snow to whistling and hitting the surroundings, like a huge tornado, most of the more than ten spears are not made of iron, and the shadow of the rod touched, and the spear body of several ash rods flew in the sky.

It was too late, it was too soon, the figure approached, and the iron rod slammed up, hitting Wang Kang's long knife and round shield, and at the same time pushing him towards the soldiers in the rear.

"Roar—"

With the violent impact, the man who rushed up shouted, Wang Kang's body couldn't stop stepping back, and more than ten people in the rear could not hold the figure in a hurry, some people staggered away, some people rolled and fell to the ground, Wang Dang's whole person flew back several steps, the iron rod was retracted and then the stick shadow swept away, his round shield was blocked, his arms were numb, and the dancing stick shadow came from the other side, hitting his shoulder, and then he saw the attack of the wild dance engulf him.

At this time, it was only the front of the team that crossed the corner, and the rear ears listened to the shouts suddenly, and before they could react, they saw that the human wall in front of the road was suddenly pushed away, and a figure brandished an iron rod, pushing away the crowd in a blink of an eye, and the general Wang Dang was also constantly flying back to the side of the hill in the crazy shout, some people tried to intercept, some people tried to attack from the rear, only to see that in the chaos of the iron rod dancing wildly, someone suddenly fell to the side, but the head was taken by the iron rod. In a short moment, the shadow of the stick waved, the ping pong slammed like iron, and Wang Dare was pushed through the chaotic crowd, almost flying back eight or nine feet up the hillside, and the people behind had been thrown aside. The shadow of the rod suddenly stopped, streaked across the sky, and thrust backwards, and with a bang, a large rock in the snow cracked, and the iron rod was stuck there. The assassin kept approaching Wang Kang in front of him, snatching the knife in one hand, pulling his helmet open with the other, grabbing the man's head and pressing the blade up.

In the viscous blood, the human head was cut off with a knife, and Wang Kang's body seemed to be boneless, and as the armor fell to the ground, the viscous blood was oozing out of the middle.

"Han'er shouldn't be a slave! Wait for it! ”

The angry voice came out under the pressure of internal force, and it was like thunder through the snowy ridge. The Assassin turned around with his head in his hand, and the iron rod stood in the stone beside him, and for a moment none of the hundreds of bandits dared to step forward. I only heard him say, "Don't kneel down yet-"

Naturally, no one will kneel, but with this loud shout, a military horn suddenly sounded in the nearby woods, followed by the sound of the army killing through the woods. The hundreds of people under Wang Kang's command were nothing more than a rabble, and when they saw that the assassin had killed the leader in front of hundreds of people, they fled in an uproar.

The assassin drew his iron rod and chased after him, knocking down the nearby bandits in the snow one by one, and when he saw someone in the distance robbing gold and silver and kidnapping a woman who wanted to escape, he chased after him with all his might. At this time, a crowd of people came out of the woods, some of the bandits knelt down and surrendered, and some of them threw heavy objects and ran away for their lives.

When two or three hundred bandits threw their weapons and knelt in the snow, the people in the woods had almost come out, but they saw that these people added up to only more than 30 people, and some people secretly wanted to escape, and were chased by the man with a stick who rushed out first and beat their brains to burst, and for a time, more than 30 people tied up nearly 300 prisoners, and rescued a group of captive women, and the mountain road was full of pleading and crying.

The man with the rod looked at the captive women from afar, his eyes were sad, but he did not come closer, and seeing that most of the captives were tied together, he looked in the direction of the bandits' flight, and did not know what he was thinking. At this time, a woman in military uniform with a scar on her face came to the rear and asked him about the next step, and the man with the stick said: "You send the woman back to the village, take the people who are still alive, and escort these beasts to the city of Vaud...... I'm going to chase these runaways. ”

He paused: "The Jurchen has a messenger going south, and I will find it." ”

This man is naturally Shi Jin, the nine-patterned dragon who turned back to Vaud. He reunited with Lin Chong, and later confirmed that Lin Chong died because of delivering a letter, and he was disheartened, and the only thing he was concerned about was the whereabouts of Lin Chong's son Mu Anping. It's just that the only thing he knows about this matter is the name Tan Lu.

After Shi Jin returned to Vaud, he investigated several times, and asked for the cooperation of the government, but he still did not find out the whereabouts of Tan Lu. At this time, the surrounding situation gradually became tense, Shi Jin was anxious in his heart, and gathered some friends who were still willing to follow him after the disintegration of Chifeng Mountain, although the first priority was still to find the child, but seeing that the situation was chaotic, it was difficult for him to ignore such a disaster after all.

It's just that with the experience of Chifeng Mountain, what Shi Jin is willing to do is only secretly carry out a small assassination operation. At present, he ambushed and killed Wang Kang, Shi Jin did not rest much, and chased towards the woods in front of him. His martial arts had been perfected, and this time he chased after a deputy of Wang Kang, and on the third day, he finally found a hint of a messenger sent by the Jurchens.

This is a Liaodong Han man, under the command of Wanyan Xiyin, Shi Jin took down this person, tortured him for half a night, and got not much news. Although he is facing the enemy at this time, he is a little disgusted by this kind of beating and torture, and the endless torture is a little disgusted after all, and in the middle of the night, the spy kills himself. Shi Jin sighed and dug the man's body and buried it.

The next day, when he returned to Vaud, a righteous man killed Wang Kang, saved the villagers, and the news of capturing the mountain bandits had spread in the city. Shi Jin didn't want to be famous, so he silently returned to the inn where he stayed, and there was an unexpected news from his companions, someone claimed to know the whereabouts of Mu Yi's son, and hoped to meet him.

He also knew this person: the leader of the Great Light Sect, Lin Zongwu.