"Although the Southern Dynasty has a large land and abundant resources, and the total number of soldiers and civilians is dozens of times that of me, the upper and lower levels are indulged in leisure and leisure, and they are not well armed. It was not an easy task to promote the Southern Dynasty to conquer Liao. Originally, Emperor Zhao You of the Song Dynasty was still a little bold, but after the defeat, he shrank back and refused to send troops to attack Liao. The voice paused, as if it was a pity for the Southern Dynasty, and said, "Fortunately, Zhao You died, and the new emperor used Zhao Zhifu as the prime minister, Shao Wu as the privy envoy, and it is rumored that Chen Dong will be reused." Among these three people, Zhao Zhifu first flattered Cai Jing Xingjin, and after he had to participate in the governor's affairs, he realized his intentions and was embarrassed by Cai Jing, but he was able to meet the time and go up and down, and he was actually known as Zhongzhi, so there is no need to worry. Shao Wu is expected by the Qingliu of the Southern Dynasty and is good at the battle of will, while Chen Dong is stubborn and negative, easy to discuss, and acts informally, both of them have many henchmen, and they are good at talking about soldiers, saying that if they move the Southern Dynasty to attack Liao, they will start from these two people. Zhao Qianfu and the Great Khan have an old relationship, if the general trend in the Song Dynasty is formed, and our dynasty is tempted by profits, and now the success is in front, Zhao Zhifu will definitely promote the Song State Northern Expedition to Liao. ”

This Mr. Han knew the important ministers of the Southern Dynasty like a few treasures, so that the Jin State took a lot of advantage in dealing with the Great Song Dynasty. Wanyan Zongbi nodded and said, "Thank you, sir, I will make arrangements for the courtiers of the Song Kingdom." To contact the Han Army, please ask Mr. to bother more. ”

Wanyan Zongbi stood up and respectfully said goodbye and left. He had seen Han Ningshuang several times a few years ago, and he couldn't forget this woman since then. In the past month, the Han army has been coercing the people everywhere, and the momentum has risen sharply, and there is a discussion of an alliance. Hearing that Miss Han was going to return to Liaodong, Mr. Han persuaded the four princes to marry the Han family, which not only collected the Han army for the Jin State, but also served as a powerful weight for the four princes to compete for the throne of Khan. The Jurchen nobles could be at both ends of the line between the princes, and once the Han military camp was loyal to him, there were not many options.

Xu Detai and others went out of Taibai Mountain, pretending to be smuggling merchants, staying overnight all the way, and heading north along the Mingtong River. On this day, they came to a village, and the Han army stayed in a private house separately. That night, Liu Zheng was on duty, and suddenly heard a slight sound, his heart moved, gently pulled out the horizontal knife, and followed the sound to the courtyard. But I saw a rope hanging from the branches of an old elm tree, and a woman in plain clothes was stepping on a bench and putting the rope around her neck.

Liu Zheng secretly said that it was not good, and shouted: "I can't help it! In a panic, the woman stepped into the air and fell off the bench, but her neck was hanging in the rope loop, and she was suddenly out of breath, like a swing. Liu Zheng hurriedly stepped forward, ignoring the suspicion of men and women, hugged the woman's waist and legs, and lifted it up. The woman struggled desperately, and the two fell to the ground together.

At this time, I only heard someone whispering, "What's the matter? ”

Liu Zheng looked up and saw that Zhao Xingde, Du Fujiao and others were already standing at the door, and hurriedly pointed to the rope hanging on the beam of the room and said, "She wants to kill herself," and looked at the owner who poked his head out of the hall, and said, "I also came just now and saved her." At this time, Liu Zhengcai looked down at the woman who was looking for death, her face was pale, a red mark appeared on her neck, and her clothes were quite neat, not like a slave.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Xingde hadn't spoken yet, but he heard someone behind him scolding: "The slut who is unscrupulous has lost the face of my Zhang family." He frowned slightly, and turned his head to look, but it was the master who came out in his clothes, and the old man in his fifties had gray hair. Zhao Xingde and the others stood around with swords in hand, but the old man didn't dare to step forward, looking at the woman with a gloomy face, and only kept cursing. The woman who was rescued by Liu Zheng froze on the ground, looking lost and depressed.

The old man scolded for a while and asked the woman to go back to the house by herself, but the woman didn't respond, so she arched her hand to Zhao Xingde and said, "My daughter-in-law here is suffering from madness, so please ask the guest officer to take her back to the room." After speaking, without waiting for Zhao Xingde to agree, the old woman beside him took a few slaves and maids to rush up and twist the woman's hands and feet, but the woman seemed to wake up suddenly, and while struggling desperately, she cried: "Let go, let me die." As if she was crazy, she cried loudly, struggled desperately, and made a lot of noise in the yard.

Several sergeants stood in the courtyard looking at each other, Liu Zhengyu couldn't bear it, walked up to Zhao Xingde, and said in a low voice: "Boss, this woman hanged herself in the middle of the night, there must be something strange, since we met, can't we take care of it?" At this time, the old woman suddenly raised her hand, slapped her hand quite hard, and actually pulled blood out of the corner of the woman's mouth. Zhao Xingde's face sank, and he shouted: "Stop!" ”

The old woman was directing a few servants to drag the woman into the room, not paying attention to Zhao Xingde's shout. Liu Zheng got permission, and came out in response, and the scabbard slapped on the arms of the servants again and again, saving the people. The woman was panting and leaning against the old elm tree, and the old woman looked at Liu Zheng with an angry face, and then saw that the unsheathed knife in his hand did not dare to scold, but the old man next to him said: "Guest officer, this is my Zhang family's family matter, why are you doing this?" ”

When Xu Detai heard the movement, he also rushed over with someone, and when he saw the chaos in the courtyard, he also asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhao Xingde pointed to the woman and said in a deep voice: "This woman wanted to commit suicide, but was saved by my brother. He said it easily, but Xu Detai smiled bitterly in his heart, and said secretly, I am waiting for Wanjun to have a heavy burden on my shoulders, but you have the leisure to meddle in things, the Han army opened mountains and built villages, and in addition to robbing homes and houses, occasionally did something for the heavens, the current situation, Zhao Xingde wanted to be nosy, and he was not good at dissuading, so he could only stand by and watch.

Zhao Xingde frowned, and whispered to the woman: "This sister-in-law, you are looking for death and life, you must have suffered some grievances, since you asked my brother to save you, you might as well tell the grievances." You have also seen that we are all outlaw thieves, paying attention to the way of heaven, if there is really a grievance, we will help you seek justice. Although he was determined to reach out and take care of this idle matter, he still slightly concealed his identity between his words.

The owner of this house stood in the courtyard, secretly regretting that he was greedy for money to let these wicked guests stay overnight, he didn't dare to scold Zhao Xingde, but only scolded the woman: "Slut, you don't have a face for yourself, and my family still needs a face." Liu Zheng's face sank, he pulled out half of the horizontal knife, and shouted, "Shut up." The old man only felt that his heart jumped suddenly, and he suddenly stopped speaking, and said secretly: "This group of people can't really be murderous Jiangyang thieves." ”

Seeing this, the woman who was looking for death was silent for a long time, and suddenly fell to the ground, kowtowing desperately to Zhao Xingde, her voice was clanging, and the onlookers all showed compassion on their faces, and Xu Detai also sighed in her heart.

Zhao Xingde hurriedly asked Liu Zheng to help her up, but saw that the woman's forehead was already blurred with blood. Liu Zhengnai is a person who pities fragrant and cherishes jade, and immediately patted his chest and said: "Say, if there is a grievance, we will avenge you." The woman thanked him, sobbed, and recounted that her husband had died young, and that her husband had forced her to remain a widow. Just three days ago, a group of Khitan soldiers and horses passed by, and when the leader saw this widowed woman, he forcibly insulted her, and put down his words, and this woman was his slave, and three days later he finished his military affairs and came back to take her away. The family did not dare to disobey, and several servants watched her all day long, for fear of getting lost, so when the Khitan soldiers returned, they offered the widowed daughter-in-law with both hands.

The woman sobbed and cried, and the sergeants only heard their eyes split, and Liu Zheng slammed his fist on the trunk of the tree and scolded: "Bastard! Zhao Xingde's face was cold, he glanced at the old man coldly, and said in a deep voice: "How many Khitans are there in that team, but they will come back tomorrow?" The old man was stunned, immediately knelt down, and shouted loudly: "Uncle spare your life, spare your life!" The head of the house knelt down, and the old woman and the men and women who had been standing in the courtyard knelt down together, crying and crying out like a mother, and the voice was ten times more miserable than the woman just now, as if there was a knife right on his neck.

Seeing that the sky had not yet dawned, the family made such a big fuss, and the neighbors had moved, Zhong Twelve next door did not dare to come to visit, but eavesdropped through the wall, and said secretly in his heart: "It shouldn't be that the old Zhang family was robbed, right?" Tsk, is it possible that the horse wants to rape his daughter-in-law again? Unconsciously, I swallowed my saliva, my ears pressed against the wall, and I felt that my heart was itching. His wife asked in the back, "What's the matter?" Zhong Twelve waved his hands vigorously behind him, signaling the ugly monster not to disturb.

Du Fujiao smiled: "I'll kill the Khitan soldiers and avenge your daughter-in-law, what do you old man ask for?" ”

It doesn't matter if he doesn't speak, this opening, the old man is even more like a mourner, and cries loudly: "My mother! He knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Xingde and said, "Uncle spare your life, spare your life!" Zhong Twelve, who was eavesdropping next door, also fell to the ground with a pale face, and muttered: "It's over, it's going to die, it's going to die." He stood up against the wall, his hands and feet shaking unconsciously.

Looking at the chicken-featherlike chaos in this place, Zhao Xingde felt slightly strange and was about to ask, but he heard Xu Detai sigh and said: "Mr. Zhao, do you know that the Khitan court has already established a rule in Liaodong, as long as there are Khitan soldiers killed, they will slaughter the nearby villages, so that our Han army has to throw a mouse bogey." "It must be said that this trick of the Liao court was extremely vicious, and the Han people in many villages did not dare to help the Han army, and even desperately prevented the Han army from killing the Khitans near the village.

"Hero, this killed a Khitan, our whole village father and elder have to pay for their lives, if you kill him, you will kill more than 300 people in Hecun." I don't know when the people gathered outside the courtyard of Zhang's house, the old man with white hair, the woman with the baby in his arms, and the man in the prime of life, all began to beg for mercy from the ringing horse guest officer in the courtyard.

It was the darkest time before dawn, and the dreary night covered the land like a trail of dried blood, not even in the eastern sky. The voices of the people begging for mercy were particularly harsh, Xu Detai's face was gloomy, the sergeants looked at each other, Zhao Xingde stood in the courtyard, the old man's family in front of him was still kowtowing, the face of the woman looking for death was like ashes, and a trace of desolate despair flashed in her eyes.