Generations of people who have been loyal to the Zhi family have so decisively abandoned the old lord and the Zhi family in the arrival of the pirates, and also betrayed the land that gave birth to him and raised him.

It seems to be supported, has extremely high loyalty, and is almost monolithic for several generations of rule, but it is so fragile, which is something that I never expected. Although there was a collective defection of soldiers and civilians not long ago, but at that time it was only a small number of people and a small proportion of betrayal, it was a small matter, and the impact was not great, and the Zhe family also took other generals to rectify it in a timely and strict manner, during which no major problems were found and there would be big hidden dangers, at the time I thought it was an accidental event, it was caused by a little adverse impact of the immigration frenzy to the northwest, it was over, it will pass forever, and it will not happen again in the future, who knows, the last time was just a small rehearsal of the major defection.......

The pirate spies lurking here, and the generals of the Zhejia Army who have slowly influenced and attracted the empire over the years who are willing to accept them, including Zheke, never expected that the final effect would be so good and smooth when planning the great defection......

At this time, the decisive battle of the pirate army led by Zhao Yue to destroy the northern part of Helan Mountain in Western Xia had not yet happened.

Whether the pirates can really completely eradicate the world's most famous and tenacious little power, the Western Xia Kingdom, is still a big question. Although the generals who had taken refuge in the pirate country knew that the super era combat power possessed by the pirate army was definitely not something that Xiao Xia could resist, they had no doubts about the destruction of Western Xia, and they were 100% convinced that they would succeed. But without this incredible record, the power of the pirate state is unparalleled, and the charm is infinite, and the persuasive power to tempt the soldiers of the Western Army to defect en masse is bound to be minimal.

Including the spies who planned this, everyone is actually worried about what the effect can be, but they just believe that the power of the borrowed pirate army will always succeed. Who knew that even if the amazing record of destroying Xia was not established, the effect of sedition was still so good. It's surprisingly good. All of them made the planners themselves stunned and not quite convinced.

From this, we can also see how high the war-weariness of the soldiers in the northwest has become, and how tired and tired the people of the northwest are of life in this bitter cold and barren hometown where there are constant disasters and disasters.

How tired of this homeland, which is always in danger and turmoil...... In the past, I was loyal here, nostalgic for the mountains and rivers of my hometown, and nostalgic for the grass and trees in my hometown...... knew that there was a beautiful country ruled by the Han people overseas, but he was never willing to leave his homeland, just because he was not sure that the pirate country was really that good, and he really defected...... Deep in the northwest, the road is too far and difficult, and there are too many uncertainties on the way to defect...... Dangerous, unexpected....... It makes the person who thinks about it afraid to move forward, it's not that it's hard to run away if you can't stand it, it's also the inertia of living here for generations, and the atmosphere of defection has not been formed, thinking that you didn't escape, and he didn't escape...... Familiar with the villagers, no one escaped, so I didn't run away...... This time, all the difficulties are gone, and the atmosphere of defection has formed, even if there are still doubts and concerns, and the heart is not steady, I don't know what will happen when I defect to the pirates, but ...... Caught in the wind, then ...... Let's go......

There's me, and there's someone else..... If you are unlucky, you will be unlucky; Be lucky, be lucky...... Then there's nothing you can't bear......

This is a typical common people's herd mentality, and it is a profound social psychological problem.

.............

The pirates came and went quickly, and they swept through the three states of Hedong and the adjacent Hebei West Road before quickly disappearing and continuing to pounce further inland to other areas in the northwest..........

Trapped in Fuzhou's residence, Zhi Keqiu didn't know what was going on outside the city, but in desperation, he was honestly trapped in the house and silently waited for the ending, and he also knew that his home, including the Zhe Manchu clan, must have undergone great changes. All the things and people that the pirates have their eye on are gone, cooks, grooms, maidservants........ Those of the clan who are promising, of good character...... Even the beautiful concubines and maids he owned and enjoyed, his sons who were still young or young, all the girls, and all the children who did not know anything were forcibly taken away by the pirates who entered the city, and only the right wife and the son born to the wife or concubine who the pirates looked down on were left by him...... The thriving home is in decline in a blink of an eye.

The pirate was gone, and he was naturally free, and when his frightened wife came to let him out of the house, he was so angry that he only felt that his eyes were full of gold stars, and his chest was suffocated, and he only wanted to vomit blood.......

An empty piece of ....... Not to mention the gold and silver treasures, even the curtains that were first raised by the Cangzhao family were also torn away.......

The former master, the slave, the soldier....... The family of hundreds of thousands of people is now only the men and women who have gathered in front of him with a bitter face and call the master, and at a glance, the maids are all old and men over forty years old, and men ........ Anyway, it's all so-called bad character, and pirates don't like it...... Bad apple.

Zhe Keqiu looked at the big butler who was standing at the front with a sad look on his face, and a thought involuntarily popped up in his heart: It turns out that this old thing is also a bad guy......

The loyal old butler is also a villain who pirates dislike, and it is probably clear what is going on.

The de facto overlord of Hedong, the big housekeeper of the Zhe family, in the past, he was bound to be domineering and arrogant....... Accept bribes, extort those who ask for them, and take them to the streets....... Protecting or even conniving at their children's misdeeds...... It's all inevitable and normal, and it's not normal to do it..... It's a bad guy.

"The slave is unbearable, and my master is also a villain! And it's the culprit. ”

Zhe Keqiu shouted frantically in his heart, and then glanced at the empty mansion, his eyes were blood-red, and he looked up to the sky and roared angrily: "Fold, can, save-"

How can he be resentful, and he hates that he can't be strangled to death with his own hands. It is naturally impossible to know if it can be stored far away.

And this hatred was stored in my heart.

Before Zhe Kecun, he was angry and disappointed at the bound Zhe Keqiu, accusing and accusing the Jiangmen, and he didn't listen to it, and he was full of hatred.

"That's fine. The pirates can only rely on me to survive and live well, so the rest of them are loyal and reliable people, and they are the loyal and usable core strength of my house...... There are no more pirates around....... "Folded Keqiu, thinking about this in the center of resentment.

This is a little bit of a benefit from the disaster.

In the living room, Zhi Keqiu was surprised to see the armor and sword weapons that he had confiscated before, and they were neatly placed on the table.

Of course, the official seal is also there.

Under the official seal is pressed a note.

Zhe Keqiu picked it up with a fierce gaze and took a look, "As a general guarding the border of the town, I want so many gold, silver, treasures, wine, and beauty......... What do you do to corrode the will of body and mind? Instead of piling up the money and rotting in your house, it is better for me to share it with the people of the world who should benefit. Rather than waste years with you, I might as well have taken it for its mission. If you want a good horse to play a dignified manner, in the future, you can rob the alien race with your ability, and enjoy the many benefits of the war horse brought to the Song Kingdom by the Cangzhao family, who is loyal to the Song King, for nothing? As a general, you can't steal a foreign BMW from the battlefield yourself, isn't it a shame? Western Xia, I pirate shoveled it. From then on, there would be no worries brought by the party in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, and there would be no great troubles brought by Tibet. Qingtang Tubo, our pirates swept away the Xia this time, and the Uighur kingdom further west could not threaten it, but the Liao Emperor would move west to occupy that blank land. And the Liao State is divided, and it is not far from destruction, and it will be destroyed under the sword of the fierce tiger beast Jurchen. Then there was the corrupt and cowardly Song Dynasty...... The catastrophe of heaven and earth, the catastrophe of the heavens and the bloodbath will come again, and the historical tragedy of the 'Five Hu Chaos' will surely be staged again in the land of China. General Zhe, as an important minister and an important general of the country, how can you and the Western Army be comfortable and indulge in power, selfish interests, pleasures, and mislead the country and harm the people? Let's live a simple life, work hard to build up strength and combat effectiveness, and prepare for the bloody disaster that may come at any time......"

Zhe Keqiu quickly finished reading it, with a resentful look on his face, and the note in his hand floated to the ground...... He froze for a moment, trembling all over, not knowing whether he was angry or frightened, and then quickly put on his armor, grabbed his weapon, turned around and ran out of the hall, found some of the horses that the pirates had specially left for him, and ordered the rest of his soldiers to quickly take the weapons left by the pirates and go out with him to inspect the situation in the city.......

Hurrying to the street, he almost blink to the other main people who came to look for him in a hurry.

It's not uncommon for pirates to want...... Bad apple.

To be precise: in the eyes of pirates, they are all corrupt generals who only care about power and private interests, and only care about gangs and gangs to monopolize the interests of Hedong.

When the two sides met after the robbery, they both understood why the other party was not robbed by pirates and still stayed..... The scene is a little embarrassing, but these people are greedy for profit, and their hearts are black and they are killing talents on the battlefield with hob meat, all of them are very old and spicy, their faces are also thick, and their acting skills are not ordinarily strong, this embarrassment is naturally not a matter, and they can immediately turn to business.

A veteran also rode the horse that the pirate had specially left for the generals to ride here, and approached the fold, and there was some excitement in his voice, and he said in a low voice: "Yes, oh no, it's the general, the pirates didn't snatch all our food...... There are also a lot of weapons left, enough swords, guns, bows and arrows to fit 10,000 people, all of which are deliberately locked by pirates in the arsenal. The last general has already sent men to look at the granaries and arsenals. Oh, and the soldiers didn't take them all. I'm afraid that there will be three or two thousand warriors or even more in the city......"

When he heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at the other major generals, and saw that these people also showed some excited and hopeful looks on their faces, and his heart couldn't help but be greatly relieved, and he blurted out: "Okay." ....... Belch...... It's not as bad as it seems. We can still rebuild our army....... ：

If there is an army, there will be power, and the power will continue to be entrenched in the east of the river to enjoy.

As the ancestors, these generals who started with military power naturally understand this truth.

Another veteran goalkeeper also said with some excitement: "The situation is indeed much better than expected. I thought I would run away and rob it all, but who knew that the pirates were still left with us......"

"Yes! I thought it would fall into the hands of these murderous and domineering pirates, but this time it was planted, and it was all over. The incident was so unexpected, I was completely caught off guard....."

In the process of exclaiming and exchanging while rushing to inspect the specific situation in the city, he quickly figured out the family background after the disaster.

There are more than 4,000 soldiers who have not been swept away, most of them are in the past to please filial piety and follow the generals tightly, hugging their thighs in the army to bully people and even be evil, all of them belong to the evil and unbearable in the eyes of pirates, but at this moment, it is the most trustworthy and reliable core force to protect the position of power and reorganize the army, and it has truly become a combination of life and death, honor and disgrace, plus the remnants of the general's own private soldiers to guard the courtyard or something, can make up a serious army of 5,000, and it is enough to deter and manage the capital at this time.

In terms of weapons, it is indeed as the veteran reported, which can assemble a team of 10,000 people.

It's just that iron and other metals are used for weapons that are much more used, such as iron hammers, copper whips, and large axes with steel clips...... It's gone, and even the iron chains used to lock up and fix the prisoners in the yamen cell...... They were all taken away, and I don't know why the pirates looted everywhere and almost ransacked the world, but why they were still so short of iron that they looted to such an extent....... But there are still a lot of war knives, the Song army is accustomed to using the most spears, and there are also some iron armor, and there are even more armor that other pirates don't want.

Most of the weapons and armor used by the guards were also generously left behind by the pirates.

It's just that the most powerful weapon relied on by the Song army, the Divine Arm Crossbow, no matter how good or bad, is gone. The large and bulky bed crossbow guarding the city, the pirates were not afraid of the trouble to move the cart and took it away, leaving only a few corpses available on the city, which was considered a thought.

There are three or four hundred horses in total, and they are naturally all bad horses, and the best ones are only the so-called war horses raised by the ridiculous horse government in this dynasty, and the others are those that pull carts and plough the land......

But that's already the case.

After all, there are still horses available, and they can be used to form a cavalry team or a ranger sentry. Otherwise, if the pirates are swept away, the horses will not be left, and you still have teeth to gnaw?

The most gratifying thing is food.

When the summer harvest was in trouble, the Western Army saw the opportunity to harvest a lot of wheat and accumulate the grain from the summer harvest. But it still didn't take it all. Especially the autumn grains that have just been harvested before, such as corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes...... There is a lot left, plus the cabbage, radish and all kinds of dried vegetables stored in the kiln, a total of 200,000 people can save some food and last a year, and there are seeds available, and they can be planted again next year...... In short, if you have food in your hands and don't panic in your heart, at least the winter that will come in the blink of an eye will not be hungry and cold. At this time, all of them were controlled by the army in the warehouse, and except for the Jiangmen family, the private families in the city had no private food to eat, which was also conducive to controlling people with food......

If you dare not listen to the greeting, the punishment is very simple - not to give you a grain of food.

They wanted to get food from outside to survive or leave, but there was nothing outside but the ownerless house and what the pirates didn't want to eat, but starved to death.

The most surprising thing is that there are still more than 100,000 people in the city.

Mainly young and old men, women are rare and basically bad women who are old and have not behaved well in the past, and the younger ones who are rare must be ugly and unworthy of character, and even if the young and beautiful women are unbearable, they are still held hostage by pirates, and they don't know what to use them for......

There are so many people in the city, of course, it is not that the aborigines are reluctant to leave their hometowns, loyal to the army, and would rather die under the threat of pirate butcher knives.

It's embarrassing: it's all ...... Pirates are not uncommon to all kinds of people.

Among them, there are large and small bureaucrats and officials in the three prefectures of Hedong and the adjacent Hebei West Road; There are old and unusable monks who can only recite sutras; There are bullies and unscrupulous businessmen, ruffians, gangsters, gangsters and gangsters who secretly gang up to do evil, as well as martial arts characters of boxing gyms, guns and sticks, or they are simply green forest characters in the cities...... This is the scourge of the city tyrants. The so-called high morality and high prestige in the countryside are actually landlords and gentry, village elders, village elders, and the gates of big clans who are full of outdated Confucianism, feudal privileges, and poisonous ideas....... In fact, it is all the scourge of the township tyrants who endanger the countryside....... Those who only have the ability to harm their own clan, but who do not dare to resist the pirates and are lucky not to die under the ruthless wielding knives of the pirates and rebels, are also unlucky people who have been robbed of everything...... Money, food, cloth, wine, and beauty...... There is nothing left, even the good clothes at home and on the body are cleaned, all wearing old clothes or ragged shirts from somewhere, empty-handed, like beggars, who were specially searched and arrested by pirates and rebels, beaten and driven to be escorted to Fuzhou City, and the private people have no food, so they can only starve this group of people and honestly huddle in the convenient detention place where the pirates forced them to live and tremble, at this moment the pirates retreated, and they were free to probe their brains out, shaking their bodies that were so hungry that their eyes were dizzy and went out from the locked place, or dazed and frightened, or ghostly. Seeing the opportunity, the vicious and difficult to change still wants to preemptively pick up the benefits from the chaos and lack of governance after the disaster, and even simply rely on the force of the people to seize the benefits......