Prevailing.

Although the time entered autumn, the temperature in the air did not drop, after passing Xinzhou City, there were fewer pedestrians on the road and in the mountains, and there was occasionally a scorching smell in the wind, Shi Jin knew that it was the smell of corpses burned by flames.

The Jin people have not yet come, but this time, the forwards belonging to the Yisheng Army who returned to the Jurchens at Yanmen Pass have been wreaking havoc on the territory near Xinzhou City. When Shi Jin and the other seven people passed through Xinzhou City, the entire city had begun martial law, and half of the scattered Wusheng army and the nearby Wuwei army had already entered Xinzhou, preparing to defend the city and wait for an opportunity to attack. It's just that on the other side of the road, more people are still continuing to the south, hoping to enter a big city like Taiyuan.

As a person in the green forest, Shi Jin and others are not slow, set off in the evening of the same day, along the official road to the north, into the middle of the night, the road has been congested, they detoured some roads, in the middle of the night crossed Xinzhou City, a large number of officers and soldiers are entering from the city gate, torches stretch, illuminate the whole city, but also illuminate the ancient city wall, crying and disturbing chaos make such a night as noisy as day. However, after Xinzhou, the light gradually faded out, and the seven people seemed to have entered a wild ancient realm, carefully choosing the road and slowing down.

In the early hours of the morning, there was an unusually silent silence among the foothills, and occasionally one or two torches could be seen, presumably the villagers walking among the nearby mountains, who had been left behind by the large army, but were still fleeing to the south. They may not be safe, but at least, in the middle of the night, the big force won't move anymore.

Further on, one can occasionally smell charred corpses. It is a trace left around yesterday evening. In the early hours of the morning, fog has gradually risen in the mountains, and it is close to early morning. When the white mist met and stretched away, everyone led the horses and quietly walked down a hill. I saw a faint red glow in the fog ahead.

It was a sign of burning flames, but there was no human voice, and they were like ships in the sea moving forward in the fog, and the smell of burning became stronger. The first person who walked in front found the body lying in the small stream that surrounded the village, and in front of him there was a stone bridge that was not wide, and in front of the stone bridge, the dead were hanging from the giant trees. The scenery further ahead gradually became clearer, and the small half of the village was still burning. But more of them have been burned to embers.

Charred, uncharred corpses were shockingly displayed in front of the eyes, a mountain village that had been slaughtered and burned for most of the night.

There are no living people.

Some of the houses in front of them had collapsed, and the road through the village was blocked, and they walked silently around the village, floating in the mist, and the ruins of the village next to them burned with flames as they passed. There were also burned-out houses that collapsed, sending up white smoke, like huge ships that had been hijacked and were burning and sinking.

In the mist, seven men led the horses. In the process of moving forward, he surprisingly did not speak. The people who mingled in the green forest had more or less seen blood on their hands, like Shi Jin. There were people who had seen the massacre on Liangshan, and perhaps some of the other six people. But maybe there isn't any. To be able to give them the feeling of "sinking" so strongly. Compared with the destruction of the whole country, no single army or bandit can cause such a strong sense of destruction. Because you can understand that the same scene may be happening in many places around you at this time.

"This time the golden dog is going south, and the general who commands all the way to the west is sticky."

After passing through the village, walking in front, the lean Bao inquired so in a low voice, his name is Qian Fei, running around Yanmen Pass, he is also quite famous, and the so-called sticky Han is the Jurchen real name of Wanyan Zonghan.

"Grandmaster Zhou has been following this army all the way since he was in the north, just to find out their truth and truth. Sticky Han is one of the best in the Jin court, if we can kill him, the siege of the army along the way will be solved. ”

Among the seven people, except for Shi Jin and Qian Fei, the remaining five people were divided into two groups, and the three people were the first to go to the restaurant, and it seems that they have been mixed in the green forest for a long time, respectively called "Red Bronze Hand" Wei Bao, "Heavy Sword" Fang Ya and "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing. The other two are relatively young, the two have a sword and a sword, and it is said that they also have some secret kung fu, known as "Hebei Shuangying", one Chen opera, one Tang Zuhan, but it doesn't seem to be a big name. According to what they said, they listened to Zhuji's storytelling and felt that the great man should serve the country and the people, so after hearing the news of the Jurchens going south, he felt that he should come and block it and do something.

For Shi Jin, among the six people, except for Qian Fei's light skills, the kung fu of the rest of the people is at most medium or middle or lower in the rivers and lakes, and even the two "Hebei Shuangying" are not very solid in their hearts. But at this point, it's hard to ask for more.

As the sun rose, they heard the sound of horses' hooves rattling and shaking the ground. Qian Fei, who inquired about the bag, said: "Dai County is about to arrive." The men left their horses in the woods for the time being, and as they reached the edge of the woods, they could faintly see the wall in the distance.

A golden horse's team galloped across the road outside, and the soldiers stationed on the city wall in the distance were already Jurchen soldiers.

Pillars of smoke rose from the city and rose into the sky, and in the county town over there, there were all kinds of small noises, as if there were countless people whispering, screaming and screaming. Several people lay in the grass and listened for a while, and Qian Fei's fist smashed on the ground: "The city is occupied......"

"Old Zhou senior...... How to get in touch. Tang Zuhan asked anxiously.

Qian Fei shook his head: "I don't know, when I went south, it was my master who had a connection with Senior Zhou, and now such a soldier is in danger, and I don't know where Senior Zhou is now, if he is in the city...... We may have to wait until it gets dark before we can go in and look for him......"

"The Jurchens are slaughtering the city." Chen Xiuqing gritted her teeth and said this, "What if you go in, can you find Senior Zhou?" ”

"Gotta take a look."

"Let's go around the city and see if there are any openings around that are good to enter......" Shi Jin lowered his voice and crawled back in the grass. Several people accepted his idea and retreated into the woods. Go around the past.

Maybe it's because after the Jurchens completely occupied the city, they rushed out and killed it all over the place. There were also signs of people running in the woods, and occasionally arrows were seen stuck in the ground. Occasionally, corpses were exposed in the grass, and the smell of blood pervaded. Occasionally, there seems to be a Jurchen squad walking around in the woods, but fortunately, several of them have kung fu, Qian Fei has a high attainment in light skills and concealment, and Shi Jin has deep internal skills, and it is not difficult to avoid these boring patrolmen. It was only when I saw the south gate of Dai County that an amazing scene appeared in front of me again.

At the entrance of the south gate, there were piles of civilian corpses, which seemed to be in the hundreds. The bloody gas has stained the roads red, and even pushed them into small bogs on the side of the road. Some were planted or hung on flagpoles or city gates. As soon as he saw such a scene, Tang Zuhan in "Hebei Shuangying" even covered his mouth and almost vomited, Qian Fei looked far away in the shadow of the tree, and after a while, everyone saw him kneeling down, shedding tears, and slowly kowtowing.

"...... at the gates It's my master......" he said simply. Among the several people, only Shi Jin had the highest skill and could see the corpses hanging on the city gate, but he didn't know either. The master in Qian Fei's mouth is the body of a dwarf who was almost cut in two on the city gate.

At this time, I heard a sound from the city wall. Then, the bodies of the two stripped white flowers were pushed down the city by the Jurchens on the city wall screaming. Fell to the bottom of the city and died.

Qian Fei gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Let's go again." See if there's a place to go in nearby......"

So there was another detour, but there was no place nearby to enter during the day, and they hid in the nearby woods. Occasionally, Qian Fei and the others would go to the city wall to watch the movement, and the massacre in the city became clearer and clearer as the daylight rose, and it could be heard from afar, like a sound separated from the wall of hell. I don't know how many people are being searched out of the city, killed, humiliated, and raped in the city after the city is broken. Even Shi Jin could only grit his teeth at this time, and at noon, he heard the "Hebei Shuangying" discussing going out to kill the Jurchens.

"They always get separated, I'm going to fight with them......"

"Killing one counts as one, killing two counts as a pair, I can't stand this ......"

Qian Fei clenched his hands into fists: "Does it make sense?" Does it make sense? ”

"Anyway, if it's like this, we can't find Sect Master Zhou, if he is in the city, maybe it will be ...... at this time."

Although a few people said this, they didn't really rush out and fight hard after all. In the afternoon, the sun shone down from the gaps in the trees, Shi Jin looked up, and suddenly felt a little dazed about his brain fever going north. Of course, he thought about the situation that he would die in the war, and he also thought about the possibility of turning around and running away, but now that Qian Fei and others came up, he couldn't find the Zhou Dong he wanted to see, which was really unexpected.

Wanting to see Zhou Tong is a concern for Brother Lin's righteousness, but even if he really sees it, he may not be able to say anything. He can accept it desperately or run away, but he just stays here and doesn't know what to do, which seems a little stupid, especially in the surrounding environment, where the Jurchens are slaughtering the city, and many people are dying every moment, and he doesn't know what to do, so he looks especially stupid.

Otherwise, if you don't look for Zhou Tong, get rid of these people. When the time comes, whether you turn around or fight hard, or sneak into the city, it will be much simpler. This thought came to my mind. At this time, Qian Fei, Wei Bao, Fang Ya, and Chen Xiuqing had already gone to explore the reality on the other side of the city wall, and they heard the shaking of the earth gradually coming.

Shi Jin and "Hebei Shuangying" hurriedly rushed to the edge of the woods, but only found Qian Fei alone, on the side of the vision, the Jurchen banner came out from the south gate of Dai County, and the formation of the cavalry team spread, like a huge torrent of war horses and banners. Shi Jin asked Qian Fei about the whereabouts of the three of them, and Qian Fei said: "The Jurchens are out of the city, this is going to fight Xinzhou, and the three of them will go around to other places to see if there is a place where the Jurchens have withdrawn the city defense." ”

"The city defense has not been withdrawn." Shi Jin looked at the patrolling soldiers on the city wall and said in a low voice, "Only some people came out, and the people inside were still killing people until night...... I'm afraid I still can't get in. ”

Qian Fei nodded silently. Several of them hid in the shadows, not far from the Jurchen brigade that went out of the city to the south, and after watching it for a long time, they saw that there were people driven out of the rear. Most of these men were bound with long ropes, men, women, and children, and they were connected one by one, and the Jurchen cavalry drove them away desperately with whips, and the sound of crying filled the air. The bleak scene makes people really want to rush out.

Shi Jin watched for a while and gritted his teeth. He pressed his hands on the shoulders of "Hebei Shuangying" and said in a low voice: "Let's go." Go back ......."

Back where they had taken refuge before, several people were still shivering. However, the other three have not returned. After a while, I heard the sound of commotion coming from not far away, and someone was shouting, "Go! Walk! Ahh

They rushed over there with their weapons, but the other side was also the edge of the woods, but it was a rugged dirt slope, and when a few people rushed over, they saw the "heavy sword" Fang Ya and the "iron hook" Chen Xiuqing, who were running upwards with the other two people. The two men were a man and a woman. It seems that they are all civilians, the men are covered in blood, and the women are ragged and will only be able to cover their bodies. The rear rushed up to surround them, but there were five Jurchen cavalrymen, one of whom had a human head in his hand.

The head of the "red bronze hand" Wei Leopard.

Arriving in Dai County, before even entering, one of the companions had already died. Although I know that these people's martial arts may not be very strong, in people's hearts, there is inevitably a sense of frustration that the teacher has failed to achieve.

"Hebei Shuangying" shouted and rushed out in unison. Shi Jinyi gritted his teeth. In a few steps, he had already leapt in front of the two of them, and he was running downward. The five Jurchen cavalrymen saw that there was help, and one of them suddenly released a ringing arrow. Fly into the sky and explode. At that time, the "heavy sword" Fang Cliff was struck by a cavalryman who was rushing straight at him. Spitting blood flew up in mid-air, on the other side. Shi Jin had also rushed from the hillside, a Jurchen cavalry swung out with a spear, Shi Jin flew in mid-air, his body shrunk into a ball like an ape, and then exploded suddenly!

With a bang, the Jurchen cavalry was stabbed out by him with a huge momentum, and all his internal organs should have been shattered. The warhorse, which had been standing sideways, was driven by the power of this stick, and it couldn't stand still, and it staggered down the hillside, splashing countless dust and gravel.

"Quick Fix!"

Knowing that the other party fired an arrow, the surrounding Jurchen patrols could immediately come over, Shi Jin shouted lowly, waved a long stick in the dust, and rushed straight up, Qian Fei and "Hebei Shuangying" had also rushed over, together with the "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing and the rest of the four horsemen fought abruptly.

Fighting on the battlefield, the victory or defeat is only a few breaths, and it is divided in an instant. Qian Fei and Chen Xiuqing shot almost at the same time, killing a cavalryman, and Chen Xi and Tang Zuhan also knocked a Jurchen off their horses. Shi Jin fought alone, he poked one of them off his horse, and the other cavalry rushed at high speed, Shi Jin and his spear staggered, and the wooden stick smashed into pieces on the opponent's body, smashing the opponent into the air several times before it rumbled to the ground. Shi Jin snatched the spear, turned around and stabbed another cavalryman who had been dismounted to the ground.

When he turned his head to look, he saw Chen Xi in "Hebei Shuangying" standing not far away. He and Tang Zuhan beat a Jurchen cavalry, but the other party was also extremely brave, drew a knife and rushed, the two joined forces to make Tang Zuhan cut off the other party's head with a knife, at this time the big knife was still embedded in the head of the dead Jurchen, and the other party handed out a knife cut off Chen Xi's right hand, at this time blood spurted out of the broken mouth, Tang Zuhan next to him was at a loss, Chen Xi also stood dumbfounded, looked at his shoulder, looked at the arm holding the sword on the ground, the sun shone down, he stumbled a little, sat back.

Shi Jin rushed up, slammed several acupuncture points near his broken arm, and then tore out strips of cloth from his clothes and tied him with the broken wound on his shoulder. Chen Xi was still sluggish and couldn't react. Not far away, "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing was gasping for breath and talking to Qian Fei and Shi Jin here: "I, I, I...... Let's go see the city walls...... Seeing these Jurchens doing evil...... There were only six of them, and we thought we would be able to win, we thought ......"

The three of them came together, but by this time, Wei Bao and Fang Ya were already dead, leaving him alone. Shi Jin turned around and shouted, "Horseback riding!" Come on! Qian Fei had already turned over on a war horse, Chen Xiuqing was nervous, and also turned over and rode a horse, Chen Xi pointed to the broken arm on the ground with his left hand: "My hand, my hand ......"

"Your hands are gone!" Shi Jin snorted, and said to Tang Zuhan again, "Wait for him to run!" "In the distance, arrows are whizzing this way! About a dozen Jurchen patrolmen had already rushed in.

Shi Jin grabbed the spear he snatched and turned over on the horse, Tang Zuhan also hurriedly took Chen Xi on the horse, Chen Xi cried, and his words were hurried: "My hands, my hands......" As if he didn't know that the bleeding from the broken arm had soaked half of his body.

Qian Fei rode out of his horse and grabbed the ragged woman on the dirt slope and put her on the horse, and Shi Jin also rushed over. He reached out to grab another man covered in blood, but suddenly he was empty. When he looked closely, the man was shot in the back with an arrow. He had fallen to the ground and was not moving.

Shi Jin pulled his war horse, looked at the more than ten horsemen rushing from the Jurchens, the other party opened his bow and shot arrows, Shi Jin danced his spear, knocked the arrows off with a bang, shouted a few times at the foreplay and others, made a few looks, and waited until they ran away. Only then did he turn the horse's head and run away in another direction with a slight change.

After a short time, the Jurchen patrol team divided into two teams, and the larger team followed in the direction of Shi Jin's escape.

War horses chase, flee, fight, and run into the mountains. And on the road parallel to them, a terrifying Jurchen army was heading south in the direction of Xinzhou City. A large number of civilians of the Wu Dynasty were engulfed in it, and every moment, someone died in whipping and crying.

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Night. The sun has sunset in the sky. In the glimmer of the stars, the Jurchen knight stood in the mountains, holding a steel sword. Quietly listen to the movement around you, for a moment. He abruptly pointed in a certain direction, waving his hand and bending his bow. The sound of horses' hooves galloped in, and the figure of the war horse rushed out, colliding with the war horse under his crotch. The two horses crashed into the darkness with a dull sound, and the arrows flew out with bloody light into the night sky. The knights on both horses were also knocked out of the way, rolled on the ground several times, and stood up.

The Jurchen warrior held a steel knife in his hand, and the man opposite stood up, but he moved his arm, he was strong, tall, and well-proportioned, and he also had wounds on his body, and there was blood at the corners of his mouth, but he walked towards this side with his bare hands. The Jurchen warrior shouted "wow", rushed with a knife, and the two figures collided together in the starlight, just two fierce exchanges, the steel knife changed hands, and the tall Han man who was originally bare-handed slammed and slammed five or six knives in a row, and each knife was directly swung on the other party's body.

The Jurchen's body exploded as if it had been cut out of a wave of blood, and when he fell to the ground, the speed of the other party's knife slowed down, and he swung a few more knives at the corpse on the ground before stopping.

"Nine-patterned Dragon" Shi Jin. He wiped the blood from the steel knife in the mountains, collected it on his body, and when he went to look at the two war horses, he found that both horses were injured after the violent collision, and they could not walk in a pool of blood. He sighed, turned his head to make the direction, and then walked in the direction of Xinzhou.

In the process of escaping, he killed all the Jurchen cavalry who followed him one by one, including two Jurchen scouts who had newly joined the pursuit, although they were also injured, but they were not strict after all. Thus descending all the way, in the outline of the mountain not far away, faintly visible on the side below, the burning ruins of the village that I had seen in the morning, now it had no fire, and in the darkness, it looked like a tomb.

Shi Jin crossed the mountains all the way, and met two Jurchen scouts on the way, but he was killed again, and he snatched a horse to walk in the mountains. When he arrived at a woodland, he suddenly noticed something, he stopped his horse, and on a tree not far away, a figure jumped down, and it was Qian Fei, who was in charge of inquiring.

The two looked at each other for a while, but didn't say anything, Qian Fei led the way in front, and Shi Jin followed in. In a place in the woods, Shi Jin saw several people who had escaped. Chen Xiuqing curled up in the darkness, looking at a corpse in front of her, but the corpse belonged to the woman who had been rescued, and she stabbed a knife into her chest, apparently committing suicide. Not far away, Chen Xi, whose arm had been broken in "Hebei Shuangying", was lying under the tree, and Tang Zuhan was sitting next to him in a daze.

Seeing Shi Jin, who was strong in martial arts, quietly coming, Chen Xiuqing and Tang Zuhan's feelings seemed to be a little sober. Shi Jin looked at the woman's suicide body, and Chen Xiuqing looked at him in the dark: "We, none of us have been saved...... None of them were saved......"

Qian Fei whispered a few words beside him, in fact, he could think of it without explaining Shi Jin. The woman was unclothed before, even if she was humiliated like that, she was still desperately trying to escape, but when she ran here, she was able to calm down and think clearly, but she committed suicide, and in the end, the two people of "Red Bronze Hand" Wei Bao and "Heavy Sword" Fang Ya seemed to have died worthless.

Shi Jin didn't know what to say, so he went over to Chen Xi and Tang Zuhan. Chen Xi's arm was broken, but it seemed that it had been bandaged and he still had a breath. Shi Jin looked at it for a while, he woke up in a daze again, looked at the people around him, and said in a weak and hoarse voice: "I'm useless, kill me...... I'm useless......"

Shi Jin put the steel knife on his back, picked up a spear, stood up, took a deep breath, and said, "This is war." ”

Last night, seven people came up, and nothing had been done, only five people were left, and one of them had a broken arm. But in any case, this is the battlefield, and Shi Jin, who still felt empty in the afternoon and didn't know what he was doing, was already clear by this time. This is a war, the Jurchen army is still moving south like a torrent, scattered, surrounded by countless scouts, there are countless people who want to resist, there are countless people who will be crushed like this, in such a situation, the strength of one or several people is really insignificant.

"You live, and you may be useful in the future. This is war. Shi Jin clenched the spear in his hand, "I'm going to Xinzhou." ”

Qian Fei looked at him: "Go and help defend the city?" ”

"Dai County has been broken, and it is not big enough, Xinzhou City is big enough. After the city is broken, there will be street fighting, and the situation is the most chaotic at this time, and if Mu Han enters the city, we will have the possibility of assassinating him. Shi Jin said, "If Sect Master Zhou hadn't died, he might have been there if he wanted to have the best opportunity." Anyway, I want to meet him. ”

Chen Xiuqing and Tang Zuhan looked over here, Qian Fei was silent for a long time, took a breath, and looked at Shi Jin: "I originally wanted to go back to Dai County and find a way to save Master's body and bury it, but what you said makes sense...... I'll go with you. ”

Under the starlight, the little idea that converged in the torrent of blood was decided in this way...... (To be continued......)

PS: Christmas Eve, it's now, I'm really too dick......

In any case, this chapter is almost six thousand seven hundred words. Well, Merry ^_^ Christmas everyone