As soon as the rain fell after a long absence, the heat of the hot day suddenly disappeared. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Shen and the others were taken aback and raised their heads at the same time.

There was already a white curtain of rain in front of him, and the violent columns of water hit the helmets and iron armor, causing layers of water to splash.

The fires in the city snorted as the rain poured them, and even larger white clouds rose into the air, enveloping the entire city in a boundless mist.

"Military envoy, go down!" Hu Yantong and others shouted repeatedly.

Wang Shen nodded: "Let's go, enter the city." ”

They were all wrapped in iron armor, and standing on a high place were undoubtedly humanoid lightning rods, and they were hacked if they couldn't say it.

After getting off the city wall, someone brought an umbrella to cover Wang Shen's head. But the wind is so strong that it blows people crookedly, and how can it be covered.

Wang Shen pushed him away and shouted: "The soldiers are all drenched in the rain, and a certain Bodhisattva who is not in the temple is afraid of being drenched, go away!" He softened his tone again and said with a smile: "It's been hot for so many days, and today is cooler and more comfortable." ”

All the generals laughed, and one of the officers sighed and said loudly: "Envoy, it's a pity that this rain came late. The crops in the field have already died of drought, and it would have been better if it had been half a month earlier. ”

As he spoke, there was another thunderclap, and the whole city trembled slightly in the thunder.

Wang Shen shook his head: "It's not late, it's not late, it's just right." You think, if this rain had come down an hour earlier, and the Qi River would have risen, it would not have been so easy for us to enter Qichun City. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Feng Changqing responded: "This rain doesn't fall early or late, and it falls as soon as the military envoy enters the city, doesn't this mean that the general is a person favored by God." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Everyone nodded their heads.

Wang Shen's heart sank: Yes, this rain is really a coincidence! I heard that there has been a great plague in the city, this rain washes the streets, and the weather is cooler, which can greatly alleviate the epidemic.

He was originally a materialist, but even this kind of thing fell on him, but he believed in his heart that there was a so-called God in the dark.

The materialist beliefs in the hearts of a modern man are still shaken by the power of nature, let alone the ancients.

He laughed loudly: "After two months of drought, the crops in the field have died of drought, and the people have fled. When Kong Yanzhou is solved, I will take you to a good place to spend a few days on your birthday. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they asked in unison: "The military envoy wants to go west?" ”

Seeing him nod, the crowd cheered loudly.

The same shouts of joy rang out all over the city, and one after another shouted in the wind, rain, and thunder: "Take the treasury!" ”

"Take the state office!"

"My Sizhou Army - mighty!"

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Groups of Kong Yanzhou's troops were driven out by the soldiers and knelt neatly on the side of the street.

The murderous soldiers of the Sizhou Army carried the barrels of their guns and drew the prisoners to scream again and again, and when they saw someone who couldn't walk, they directly stabbed down with a spear and stabbed them to death on the spot.

Thanks to the ancient backward urban drainage system, the stagnant water on the street has reached people's ankles, and there is blood rippling in the water, which is torn into wisps by the current.

The ragged captives threw their bodies deep in the murky water, trembling.

Seeing their skinny appearance, Wang Shen felt pity in his heart, sighed, and said: "Pass on my military order, take prisoners and refugees, give food, clothing, and medicine, and do not kill, injure and abuse." Kong Yanzhou, beasts, we are not. ”

The ancient army did not have the so-called humanitarian morality of modern people, and in these days, the abuse of prisoners, robbery and slaughter of civilians were the norm. Not only did the Jurchens and thieves do this, but the officials and soldiers of the imperial court also ate with the army.

After two months of siege and countless bloody battles, once the city is broken, it is difficult to guarantee that they will burst out at this moment to burst out the beast behavior that has been held for so many days, which is understandable. Wang Shen didn't want to pursue too much, but he couldn't go too far, he didn't want his troops to completely collapse into a violent army.

There is no suspense about the outcome of the battle, and now it is time to restore order.

Compared with seeing Kong Yanzhou's head, he was more concerned about the military discipline of the troops in the city.

Dripping with water, he walked slowly down the street with his guards.

The rain was still falling, and the water was pouring down the streets. Suddenly, a nearby hut was washed away by water, and countless decomposing corpses were scattered everywhere.

A layer of large white tail maggots instantly spread out on the surface of the water, wriggling rapidly and expanding in all directions.

Seeing this, everyone got goosebumps, and felt a chill in their hearts rush to the top of their heads.

This was the first time that Wang Shen had taken a fortified city heavily guarded, and after this battle, the troops were already thoroughly familiar with the methods of attacking fortifications. The first time was always good, and he was happy in his heart, feeling as if he had won a big city like Luoyang and Kaifeng.

But at this moment, his expression was gloomy, and he couldn't help but sigh.

When Kong Yanzhou was defending Qichun City, he had four or five thousand men and horses, plus the people who entered the city under duress, how could there be forty thousand. And now, there are only one or two thousand captives kneeling on the side of the street.

The city was completely ruined, and so was Qizhou.

The Huang, Ma and Qi areas are mountainous and poor, the population is small, the people are fierce, and it is the traffic artery connecting the two Huai and Jianghan, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.

Historically, the region has experienced many brutal wars. Every time there is a war, the population here is depleted. In fact, most of the people in the Huang and Ma areas of modern society are the descendants of immigrants from other places, the earliest aborigines

Walking further on, the terrain was higher, it was a small high ground in the city, and there was finally no water on the ground, and it was much easier to walk, but the situation in front of me was even more chilling.

It turns out that there were a few small hills here, and there were still grass and trees growing on the hills in the past. During the siege of the city for two months, the vegetation was cut down by the defenders as fuel, revealing the yellow dirt below. When the rain came, there were no trees to bind the soil, and the yellow soup went down the river and turned out the bones buried underneath.

Tens of thousands of people died in the city, but everywhere the earth could be seen, corpses were buried in layers of corpses until they could no longer be buried, and only a shallow layer of earth was covered with it.

As soon as the dirt was washed away, there were human bones in front of Bai Sensen, and this was simply a mountain of white bones.

The bones are exposed in the wilderness, and hell on earth is about the same situation in front of you!

Wang Shen let out a long sigh and raised his head to meet the cold rain.

Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.

My generation of martial artists is to wield the sword in his hand to end this troubled world!

After a long time, he shook his head: "Give orders to all subordinates to solve Kong Yanzhou as soon as possible, enough, enough!" ”

As he was talking, a group of fast horses suddenly rushed towards him, shouting from afar: "Where is the military envoy, where is the military envoy?" There is an urgent military intelligence report! ”

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At the mouth of the Yangtze River and Qishui, which is about 20 miles away from Qichun City, the turbidity waves are emptied.

The two big official ships had already lowered their sails, and a few soldiers quickly threw the big iron anchor into the water.

The big ship paused and stopped.

On the ship, the deck was full of rainwater, and someone was carrying a wooden basin to scoop up the water.

"This rain can be regarded as stopping, and it is so big that it scares people to death!"

"Yes, yes, our boat is traveling in the middle of the river, and suddenly there is such a big storm, if it weren't for our action and the sails were lowered, I can't say that we would really capsize today to feed Wang Ba."

"The rain seems to be moving north, let's rest here for a while, and then we can leave."

"Walk, walk, walk, what? Zhang Xianggong said that he was going to Qichun, and it looks like we have to stay here for a while. ”

Hearing this, some soldiers complained: "Go to Qichun, I heard that this Qishui has been dry for a while, although today's rain is heavy, it rains for a short time, so naturally you can't sail." I heard that Wang Daosi and Kong Yanzhou over there have dog brains in their brains, how many people are we here, and we will not be killed by the chaotic army when we walk over like this. ”

"They dare, who is our Zhang Xiang, who dares to make a mistake?" sneered: "You probably don't know, Wang Shen is originally from Zhang Xiangmen, and Kong Yanzhou has already sent someone to bring a letter over to accept the imperial court's recruitment through Zhang Xianggong." As soon as we pass, whether it is Wang Shen or Kong Yanzhou, we will be treated as guests, so ah, you can put one hundred and twenty hearts. ”

As he was talking, someone shouted, "What are you lowly soldiers chewing on your tongues, do you want to do things quickly?" ”

Hearing this voice, everyone was shocked in their hearts, and said continuously: "Yes, Xianggong." They all bowed their heads.

The person who spoke was an official in his early fifties in a red robe, who had the shape of a national character and a gloomy face, and it was Li Heng, the new prefect of Xiangyang in the imperial court.

Li Heng looked at the soldiers on the deck with a look of disdain: "You are comfortable to sit on the ship all day." Why, you asked you to walk dozens of miles but refused? A certain person who received the holy decree through the Jianghan Dynasty came to fight, that is, to recover the six counties of Xiangyang that fell into the hands of the Jurchen Tatars. If you are slacking, you will blame the old man for being ruthless in military law. ”

Li Heng, the word Yanping, Jiangdu, that is, the Yangzhou people's family, was born in Jinshi. A few days ago, he got the holy decree, hung up a Privy Council with the same signature, served as the prefect of Xiangyang, and controlled the soldiers and horses of Jianghan and Ezhou.

However, now Xiangyang has been taken away by the Jurchens, and Jianghan's side is occupied by 100,000 thieves, and the situation is rotten. This time he came to Jianghan, but the imperial court did not allocate a penny or a grain of rice, and only sent two official ships to transfer more than 100 sick and disabled veterans, and sent him on the road.

Yes, on the road, there are no soldiers and no money, this is a messenger to death.

Li Heng was unwilling in his heart, so he kept dragging it. Until Zhang Jun came to make an appointment, saying that he was going to pass through Shaanxi, everyone could go all the way up the river and travel together, but it was not lonely.

was urged by Zhang Jun, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet, walked on the road for a month, and finally arrived at the ground.

In the past month, Li Heng has been in a bad mood, he is a person who likes to be quiet, and when he hears the commotion on the deck, he wants to have a seizure.

Seeing that he said harshly, it seemed that he was going to be unlucky today, and a military man boldly raised his head and was asking for mercy. Suddenly shouted: "Xianggong, over there...... Qi Chun's side seems to have started fighting. ”

Li Heng snorted coldly: "Fighting?" Wang Shen and Kong Yanzhou have been fighting for more than two months, and there is nothing strange about seeing that people are dying every day. ”

"No, no, no, Xianggong, today's movement seems to be very big, and it is not good to say that Qichun City will be taken down by Wang Daosi's Sizhou army."