The voices are mixed, and the sound of cars and horses is urgent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoDaimyo's Mansion, the majestic ancient city wall stands in the autumn sun, and there is still the breath of war that was slaughtered a few days ago, and outside the south gate, there is a pale stone statue standing quietly in the shade of the trees, watching the crowd gather and disperse.

A great migration, in the late autumn of this year, began again.

A rich man driving a cart and a horse and dragging grain, a man with a panicked face and dragging his family, an old master who was staggered by the crowd, and a pot-bellied woman dragging an unknown child...... Occasionally, there are also public servants in official uniforms, darts and martial artists who drag swords, guns, swords and halberds on the carriage, and lightly armed green forest hawkers. On this day, people's status was relegated to the same position.

Their destination is either the affluent Jiangnan, or the surrounding mountains, or the nearby relatives who live in remote places. It was all a general panic, and the dense and chaotic procession stretched for dozens of miles before gradually dissipating. Most of the people crossed the Yellow River to the south, and some went north, disappearing into the mountains and forests without knowing where they disappeared.

The world is changing, and the scene in front of us is not the first time that it has happened in the past ten years. The Jurchen went south several times, and the harsh living environment forced people to leave their familiar hometown. However, the current situation is slightly different than usual. More than ten years have taught people about the experience of war, and also taught people the fear of Jurchen.

On July 24, as the "Guangwu Army" of the Wu Dynasty led by Wang Shanyue coincidentally took the Daimyo's mansion, a similar migration situation appeared out of control. In the war, no matter who is righteous or who is evil, it is difficult for the civilians who are involved in it to choose their own fate, and the southward march of the Jurchen army of 300,000 represents a monstrous catastrophe in which tens of millions of people will be crushed and to no avail.

Some go, others remain. The towering walls of the Daimyo's Mansion stretched for forty-eight miles, and at this moment, various objects such as artillery, bed crossbows, rolling logs, stones, and boiling oil were constantly being placed with the efforts of countless people. In the continuous banner guard, it is necessary to build the Daimyo's Mansion into a stronger fortress. In this busy scene, Xue Changgong carried a long knife at his waist and walked slowly, and what flashed in his mind was the battle that guarded Bianliang more than ten years ago.

More than ten years ago, Bianliang, looking north at the Yangtze River, under the leadership of Li Gang, the left minister, and Qin Siyuan, the right minister, experienced the baptism of the Jurchen soldiers for the first time. The Wu Dynasty, which undertook the national fortune of two hundred years, hundreds of thousands of Qinwang's army outside the city, including the Western Army, were beaten and scattered by the Jurchen army of no more than 100,000 people, and the forbidden army known as the strongest Wu Dynasty in the city went into battle repeatedly, with countless casualties and several times breaking the city. It was the first time that the Wu Dynasty faced the strength of the Jurchens and their own weakness head-on.

Xue Changgong emerged in the first battle to defend Bianliang, and later experienced the shame of Jingping, accompanied by the pace of the entire Wu Dynasty's southward flight, and experienced the later Jurchen search of mountains and seas. After that, Nanwu was initially decided, but he was disheartened and lived in seclusion with his wife He Leier in the south. After a few more years, He Leier was weak and critically ill, and Junwu, as the crown prince, came to invite him out of the mountain, and he only got up and went north after accompanying his wife on the last journey.

In the cruelty of the Bianliang Guard, his wife He Leier was injured by an arrow, although she was lucky to save her life, but the child she was pregnant with had been miscarried, and it was difficult to get pregnant again. In the first few years and the last few years of peace, He Leier has always been obsessed with this, and has persuaded Xue Changgong to take a concubine several times and leave an heir, but Xue Changgong has always refused.

In fact, looking back at the beginning of the two, there may not be any unswerving and indispensable love between each other. Xue Changgong was not a general in the army and went to Alum Tower, but in order to vent and comfort, He Leier chose Xue Changgong, I am afraid that he may not think that he is better than those scholars, but the soldiers are in danger and have a place to rely on. It was only later that He Leier had a miscarriage under the city wall, and Xue Changgong was in a sad mood, and the relationship between the two was realized.

Later, they accompanied each other all the way, until He Leier was seriously ill and died, Xue Changgong hugged his wife and cried a lot, and buried her. In fact, he doesn't want to have an heir, is it just because of He Leier? Because he has seen the strength of the Jurchens, and he is a general who has nothing to do with the army, he knows the many shortcomings of the Wu Dynasty army, and he is irreversible. If the Jurchens are bound to fight all the way down and embezzle the entire Nanwu, they will have an heir, but they will just be born as slaves of the Jurchens.

Now that his wife has gone, he has no worries in his heart, and he went all the way north to Liangshan to partner with Wang Shanyue. Although Wang Shanyue has a weak face, he is a ruthless person who doesn't even care about cannibalism for victory, and the two hit it off, and in the next two years, a series of strategies around the Daimyo's Mansion were set.

At this time, the Daimyo's Mansion, located on the north bank of the Yellow River, was an important defensive town for the Jurchen Eastern Route Army on its way south, and it was also one of the checkpoints for the Jurchen Eastern Route Army to cross the Yellow River in the south. When the Liao State was still in existence, the Wu Dynasty set up a capital in the Daimyo Mansion, in order to show the determination to reject the southern Liao, at this time it was after the autumn harvest, the officials under Li Xizhi collected materials on a large scale, waiting for the Jurchens to go south to receive, the city changed hands, these materials all fell into the hands of Wang, Xue and others, and they could fight a big battle.

The autumn wind hunts, and the flag stretches. Along the way, Xue Changgong saw Wang Shanyue and other people who were looking north at the side of the city wall in front of him, surrounded by soldiers and workers who were erecting bed crossbows and artillery, Wang Shanyue was wearing a red cloak, and what he was holding in his hand was the eldest son of him and Hu Sanniang - Xiao Wang Fu, who was already four years old. The child who had been growing up in Shuibo was obviously curious about this majestic urban scene, and Wang Shanyue hugged him and pointed to a scene in front of him.

“…… From here to the north, it used to be our place, but now, there is a group of bad people who are coming from the other side you see, killing all the way, robbing people's things and burning people's houses...... Daddy, Mom, and these uncles and uncles are trying to stop these bad guys, and you say, what can you do for Daddy......"

"Fight the bad guys."

"That's right, but ah, we still have to grow up first, and when we grow up, we will be more powerful and smarter...... Of course, what my father and mother hope more is that when you grow up, there will be no more bad people, you have to study more, and tell your friends when the time comes, the fate of these bad people ......"

While he was talking to the child, Xue Changgong had already walked to the neighborhood and came through the entourage. Although he has no heirs, he can understand the preciousness of Wang Shanyue's child. The Wang family is loyal to the martyrs, before the alliance of the black water, the Liao people went south, Wang Qisong led the whole family of men to fight, and finally left a house of lonely widows, Wang Shanyue is the only male of the third generation, and now Xiao Wang Fu is the fourth generation of the single transmission. This family has sacrificed so much for the Wu Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to let them leave a child.

"I still think you shouldn't have brought Xiaofu here."

"Xiao Fu, look, Uncle Xue." Wang Shanyue smiled and sent the child to Xue Changgong's arms, slightly dispelling the slaughter on the general's face, and after a while, he looked at the scene outside the city and said, "It's not always a bad thing for children to be around. Today, the elders of the city came to see me and asked me if the Guangwu army had captured the Daimyo's Mansion and whether they wanted to defend the Daimyo's Mansion. The implication is that if you can't keep it, you will get out, and don't bother us...... I pointed to the little fu playing in the yard and showed them, and my children brought it. The Wu Dynasty will do its best to recover the Central Plains. ”

For the next battle of the Daimyo's Mansion, the two have deduced and discussed countless times, and in the worst-case scenario, the possibility of the "Guangwu Army" being nailed to the Daimyo's Mansion is not impossible, but it is by no means as sure as Wang Shanyue said. Xue Changgong shook his head.

"Send it away before the start of the war, it is inevitable that there will be variables, and it is better to leave early."

"That's what he made." Wang Shanyue looked at her son and smiled, and the smile disappeared again: "The Wu Dynasty is weak, even if it has to be changed, it is not the work of a generation." The Jurchens are strong, just because they have dared to fight and rob since they were children, and they are tenacious in fighting. If our generation hadn't defeated them, I'd rather my children have been used to seeing knives and guns since they were young! The Wang family has no soft bones, but there are no generals, and I hope that starting from him will be a little different. ”

Wang Shanyue's words were calm, Wang Fu was difficult to understand, and asked in a daze, "What's the difference?" ”

Xue Changgong said: "Your father wants you to be a general in the future." ”

This expectation is not the first time that he has heard it in the process of the child's growth, so he understood, and then nodded heavily: "Hmm." ”

Xue Changgong smiled, and Wang Shanyue also laughed, at this time, the city wall was in full swing, but the afternoon sun still seemed cold and indifferent. To the north of the Daimyo's Mansion, under the vast sky, Li Xizhi's 170,000 troops were divided into three roads, and had already crossed the criminal state a hundred miles away, and the mighty banners filled every inch of the field of vision, and the dust raised covered the sky and the sun. More than ten miles to the west, a Jurchen army of more than 10,000 people was also rushing to the banks of the Yellow River at the highest speed.

Li Xizhi, the "Pingdong General" of the Great Qi Dynasty, is forty-three years old this year, with a long face, broad eyes and a high nose, he is the general who surrendered with the Qi family when the Jurchens went south for the second time, and was also valued by Liu Yu, and later became the spokesperson of the Qi and Liu forces in the northeast of the Yellow River. The Central Plains north of the Yellow River has fallen for ten years, and the thinking of the original heavenly martial arts has gradually loosened. Li Xizhi can see the rise of an empire - it is time for a change of dynasty.

The rise of Jurchen is the general trend of the world, the trend of the times, and it cannot be resisted. But even so, it is not his ambition to be a lackey, especially after Liu Yu moved south to Bianliang, Li Xizhi's power swelled, and the territory under his jurisdiction was close to a quarter of that of the puppet Qi, which was larger than the sum of Tian Hu and Wang Juyun, and he was already a real prince.

To maintain the status of a prince, it is Liu Yu, and he can no longer respect it, but only the will of the Jurchens cannot be disobeyed.

This time the Jurchens went south, no longer the slapstick of the past, after all these years of recuperation, this new empire will officially annex the land in the south. The Wu Dynasty is already the sunset, and only those who follow the trend can survive this war.

Out of this consideration, before the Jurchens went south, Li Xizhi had sent his cronies everywhere to carry out a purge - since the three-year war of Xiaocanghe, this kind of purge has become almost the norm within the various forces of the puppet Qi. It's a pity that after that, the news that the Daimyo's Mansion was quickly changed hands by the inside and outside still came. After Li Xizhi was furious, he could only quickly raise troops to save him according to the plan.

Time is a terrible weapon that swallows like water, and is enough to crush everything, when the Jurchens first went south, there were countless resistors in the Central Plains, and the second time they went south, Jingping was ashamed, and there were still many rebels in the Central Plains struggling and active. However, by the end of the Jurchens' ravaging of the mountains and seas in the south of the Yangtze River, there were not many large-scale rebels in the Central Plains, although every group of bandits who went up the mountains and fell into the grass had to be called an anti-Jin rebel army, in fact, they were still living by drugging, robbing the road, killing people, and abducting, as for who was killed, it was nothing more than the more defenseless Han people, and when the Jurchens were furious, these righteous people actually did not dare to move.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, this is the truth of the world, and there are very few people who can jump out. Therefore, when the Jurchen went south, Li Xizhi didn't care about the many grass fallen around, but he knew that on his territory, there were two forces that he had been guarding against, Wang Shanyue's troubles in the Daimyo's Mansion did not surprise him, and the power of the "Guangwu Army" made him vigilant, but in addition, there was a force that had always made him vigilant and even afraid, that is, the shadow black flag army that had been shrouded behind everyone.

No one wants to be beaten in the palace in the middle of the night like Liu Yu.

If it is said that after the battle of Xiaocanghe, everyone can comfort themselves, it is still the head of the demon Ning Yi. It was only last year that after Tian Hu's forces suddenly changed, the people in the Central Plains really experienced the oppression of the Black Flag Army, and later, the news that Ning Yi was not dead was more like a high-profile mockery of everyone in the world: You are all fools.

Liu Yu was frightened crazy in the palace, and the Jurchen received a heavy slap because of this, but the Jin Kingdom was in the north of the sky, and the black flag was in the southwest, and it was unspeakable to be angry, and he pressed his temper on the surface, and he didn't know how many people's sins were cured inside.

In Zhending, Hebei, the old lady of the Qi family, Qi Yan, was frightened to wake up several times in the night, and shouted again and again, "The black flag wants to kill me", but secretly he offered a reward of millions of dollars to take Ning Yi's head, so the green forest guest who went to the southwest to seek wealth was instigated by Qi Yan to go to the Wu Dynasty to lobby the Confucian students, and I don't know how much.

As the saying goes, what a thousand people refer to will end without a disease, but only this Ning Yi, from the very beginning, took the risk of the world's disapproval, and killed Zhou Zhe like a chicken in the Jinluan Palace, and then recruited danger, offended the Wu Dynasty, offended the Jin State, offended the Central Plains, offended the Western Xia, and offended Dali...... After he offended the whole world, people such as Li Xizhi and others had to admit that once they were targeted by such a murderer, no matter who they were in the world, they would have to peel off their skins if they didn't die.

The old lady Qi of Hebei was on the list of traitors in China, and in the years of governing Jingdong and Hebei, Li Xizhi knew that near Liangshan, there was a black flag force, which was reserved for him and the Jurchens. In a few years of small-scale friction, the message of this force gradually became clear, its leader, known as the "Burning City Gun" Zhu Biao, has followed Ning Yi since he slaughtered the Liangshan Song Jiang line, and he has always been Ning Yi's most relied on right-hand man, with strong martial arts and ruthlessness, which is the true inheritance of the heart demon.

With such a group of people buried around, something will happen sooner or later, but Li Xizhi didn't dare to really put his forces on the matter of exterminating the black flag. Time has changed, the powerful Liao State has been destroyed, the Wu Dynasty is in decline, relying on the last struggle of two hundred years, the Jin State was born out of thin air, and the heroes have emerged, but it is the real pride of the sky and the trend of the times, as for Ning Yi's so-called Huaxia Army, it is the weirdest demon bred in this chaotic world.

The gods fought and the little ghosts suffered, and it was inevitable that the so-called "Guangwu Army" led by Wang Shanyue would cross the road to the south of the Jurchens, even if they took the Daimyo Mansion, after all, the entire Yellow River is now in their own hands, and there is always a solution. But there is only this black flag, Li Xizhi can only look forward to them being separated from the Guangwu army, or the Huaxia army living in Tiannan is still afraid of the Jurchens, seeing that the Jurchens are taking Jiangnan this time, don't make a mistake in advance, as long as the Jurchens transition safely, this trouble will no longer be their own.

“…… The two princes of Dajin raised troops to the south, and Wang Shanyue's so-called Guangwu army took the Daimyo's mansion, which seemed to be brave, but in fact it was brave and unscrupulous! Regarding the matter of this Guangwu army, Ben Shuai had already discussed with Lord Dajin Wanyan Chang. These 30,000 or 40,000 people are from Liangshan and Shui to defend it, and we want to encircle and suppress it, but it will be half the effort, and it is difficult to compete for it. But he dared to come out, and now he has taken the great name, which is the time for us to destroy it, so this battle should be delayed rather than rushed! I'll wait for the first step, slowly figure it out, drag all its troops to the Daimyo, and gather around it! If it is really powerful, I will surround the daimyo into another Taiyuan Mansion, and I would rather kill it in the white ground than give it an inch. Cut the grass and eradicate the roots! Never again! ”

In the Central Plains for 14 years of Jinghan, Qin Shaohe, the eldest son of the Qin family, led the army and people of Mancheng to defend Taiyuan for a year, and finally the city was broken due to isolation, the city was slaughtered, Qin Shaohe was killed on the way to escape, and his body was chopped up by the Jurchens, which became one of the most tragic events in the Jurchen's first southward journey. The original Jiancheng Taiyuan is still in ruins more than ten years later.

On the first day of the eighth month, after the army passed through the prefecture, Li Xizhi set the tone in the army's deliberations to nail Wang Shanyue and his party to the Daimyo's mansion. And just moments after this discussion had passed, a spy came four hundred miles and brought the news that there was no room for maneuver.

"The black flag takes over the city, from Zengtou City!"

Li Xizhi sat in the camp for a long time: "So, Wang Jiya's 20,000 people are gone?" ”

Since the Wu Dynasty, many places on Jingdong Road have been insecure and strong. Most of the time, Zengtou City is a mixed group of fish and dragons, and it is self-governing, but theoretically speaking, there are of course officials and garrisons.

From Li Xizhi to take over Jingdong Road, in order to guard against the attack of the black flag, he garrisoned 20,000 troops in the area of Zengtou City, and the commander of the army was Wang Jiya, a fierce general under his command, who was strong in martial arts, meticulous in heart and brutal in temperament. In his early years, he participated in the battle of Xiaocanghe and had a deep hatred with the Huaxia Army. Since he guarded Zengtou City, echoing with the garrison of Jinan Prefecture, he also suppressed many surrounding mountains for a period of time, so that most bandits did not dare to make a mistake. Who knew that this time the gathering of the black flag, first of all, it still took Zengtou City.

On July 28, 11,000 Black Flag Army raided Zengtou City, first took the city wall of Dongcheng, and fell into street fighting after the city chaos, Wang Jiya gathered the army to stick to the south of the city, and even personally led the team to kill three times, and was raided by the Black Flag Army when he led the team to capture the city for the third time, and was beheaded by a knife after fighting several moves with the "big knife" Guan Sheng. The leader of this black flag is none other than the black flag general Zhu Biao.

And after defeating Wang Jiya and taking Zengtou City lightly, the Black Flag Army has already released the news that it will directly kill Li Xizhi and the Daimyo's Mansion. The messenger cringed a little when he talked about this, and Li Xizhi asked a few words, only to see the flyer brought by the spy and shot into the city on the way.

The message of the leaflet is crooked, it is like this: Li Xiaozhi, adults want to fight, children get out!

"Too much deception!"

With a loud bang, Li Xizhi slapped his palm on the table and stood up, he was tall, and after standing up, his beard was all open, and the entire big tent was already filled with murderous aura.

But then, there was no more to be left to chance. Facing the southward movement of the Jurchen army of 300,000, the more than 10,000 Black Flag troops have never been obscure, and have been directly at the forefront. For Li Xizhi, this kind of behavior is the most unconstrained and the most terrifying. The gods fight, and the little ghost has no place to hide after all.

There is no place for anyone to hide.

It is also strange to say that with the unveiling of the prelude to the southward movement of the Jurchens, the fierce battle situation in the world is still unfolded by the black flag of the southwest of "Bi'an". The Jurchen's army of 300,000 had not yet crossed the Yellow River at this time, Liangshan in the southwest, and on July 21, Luqiaoshan negotiated with Ning Yi. On the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 100,000 troops entered the Liangshan area one after another, first echoing the Mangshan Ni tribe and others, and launched a deterrent and persuasion against many surrounding Ni tribes.

For this battle, countless people are waiting with bated breath, including the forces of the Gao clan in Dali in the south, the resentful army in Tubo in the west, Long Qifei and other Confucian scholars in Zizhou City, the warlords of the Wu Dynasty at this time, and even Wanyan Xiyin of the Jin State who is thousands of miles away, all sent secret agents and meticulous works, waiting for the first cannon to fire.

On July 26, at the pass of Xiufeng in Liangshan, the main force of the black flag of the three counties of Hedeng, which had been silent for several years, swung the first knife at the 100,000 troops who entered the mountain.