Even the head of a small deputy battalion under Zao Wou-Ki knew that the southern armament was in a hurry, so one can imagine how anxious Yan Yunxing was about this north-south war.

Due to the delay in the assembly of the Right Route Army, the weather had turned cold when the soldiers and horses of the Third Route Army of the Southern Army arrived at the designated position, Yan Yunxing saw that many people were thinly dressed, and urgently ordered the logistics troops to purchase cotton clothes and winter shoes, preparing to fight a protracted war of attrition.

The large-scale operation of the large army is not only the war wisdom of the commanders of both sides, but more importantly, the logistics supply, which Yan Yunxing is not very worried about, after more than ten years of development, all cities in the south have sufficient grain and grass, enough to support three or five years. What he was worried about was the enemy's sneak attack on grain and grass, after all, Zao Wou-ki's men were all regular sergeants, and most of them were cavalry, so if they ran long distances to attack their own grain and grass, it was indeed too late to rescue.

In order to prevent the northern army from sneaking up on the grain and grass, Yan Yunxing ordered the three army horses to line up, and the eight hundred miles of company camps formed several blockade lines, and the northern army must break through one by one to attack the grain and grass in the rear. It's just that the company camp is very unfavorable to the Southern Army, or because of Zao Wou-ki's cavalry, once the cavalry gallops and charges on the vast plain, the blow to the Southern Army, which is nearly 90 percent infantry, will undoubtedly be devastating.

Is it the choice to build a blockade and move slowly? Or do you concentrate superior forces to attack in three directions? It is obvious that Yan Yunxing chose the former, exchanging the inferiority of the infantry to the cavalry for the safety of the rear baggage troops, which is also a choice that has no choice. Second, the terrain of the Central Plains is like this, and it is impossible to climb the Netherworld Mountain by taking a long detour, or taking Xuhuai to attack Kaifeng East Road for a long time. You must know that the Netherworld Mountain and the 100,000 Mountains are both well-known places of death, inaccessible and full of dangers, except for the Demon God Palace who has lived in the mountains for a long time, few people will take the initiative to enter the mountains to seek death; And leaving Xu Huai is not in the scope of consideration, because the infantry is too slow, not to mention that most of the Right Route Army is the Supreme Alliance, except for the original Scourge Legion allies such as Alsace and Yunshui Yu, the enthusiasm of others for this war is not very high, let alone the heavy task of attacking Kaifeng from afar, so they are naturally lazy.

This war quickly rubbed sparks, while arranging the blockade line, on the third day of October, the 19th Army Corps, the vanguard of the right side of the Southern Army, encountered a unit of the Northern Army in Tuomu Village, and the two sides did not fight for too long in this encounter, only a stick of incense time, they chose to retreat when their respective reinforcements arrived, just testing each other.

The same skirmishes took place dozens of times in a row over several days, with soldiers on both sides being captured and the details being discovered. When the lords of the southern army first heard about the lineup of the northern army, they felt quite tricky, because Zao Wou-Ki also went south in three ways, Luoyang all the way, Qin Ren as the leader, Zhuang Diewu as the deputy, and under his command there were the Luoyang City Praetorian Guard, Qin Ren's three thousand protégés, the Crescent Sect, the Goldsmith Gate, the Piaoxiang Alliance, and other trialist alliances in Luoyang; Kaifeng has two roads, one way is headed by Lin Aotian, Su Bingyun is the deputy, and there are Burning Legion and Phoenix Dance Legion under his command; One route was led by Zao Wou-Ki himself, Dongfang Yuan was the deputy marshal, and there were the palace front army, the Kaifeng City Janissary Army, the Hagiyang Gate, the Xiangwang Mansion soldiers, and the Kaifeng Trialist forces.

The last thing Yan Yunxing wants to see is that Zao Wou-Ki first sent Su and Lin to lead the troops south to consume the strength of the Middle Route Army, but it is obvious that Zao Wou-Ki disdains this, and the regular army in front of the palace needs to be sent to deal with a group of rabble in the Southern Army, and he still needs to send miscellaneous soldiers to consume his combat power? It's a ridiculous joke!

In this way, Xuchang has become a strategic town that must be seized in the middle of the Southern Army. On the fifth day of October, Yan Yunxing led the army of the middle road to slowly advance to thirty miles outside the city of Xuchang, and camped in Zhengli.

The vanguard corps in the middle of the northern army is the most elite first van army of the Praetorian Guard, and the owner Zhao Jien led the troops to the periphery of Zheng Li, but saw that the southern army was in good shape and calm, and seemed to have guessed that the northern army would do this.

I didn't see the southern army camped, but Zhao Jien was reluctant to withdraw his troops, this opportunity to defeat the first merit of the southern army was fleeting, how could he give up hastily because the enemy was prepared?

Yes, Zhao Jien single-handedly sent the second battalion to fight in front of the battle, and the commander of the 10th Army of the Southern Army's mid-lane pioneer Chen Xing saw it, and was furious, and immediately ordered the strongest swordsman in the army "Greasy Uncle" to go out to meet the battle, and the two sides fought hundreds of rounds in front of the battle, and the greasy uncle was really worthy of his ID, and the experienced man saw that he had been invincible for a long time, that is, he shook dozens of moves, Shi Chuang gradually relaxed his vigilance, but the greasy uncle suddenly rose up at this time, and slashed Shi Chuang under the horse with a knife!

When Zhao Jien saw this, he scolded Shi Chuang for being useless, and immediately went out to kill the greasy uncle in person, the greasy uncle was sleepy, how could he be his opponent? After only receiving one move, he hurriedly returned to his horse and rushed to his phalanx, Zhao Jien chased after him, and from time to time there was a morning star who personally went out to fight, and he jumped on the horse to meet Zhao Jien!

This Zhao Jien was originally a distant relative of Xiangwangfu, under the tutelage of the famous Sun Wuya, good use of a gold-backed big flower knife, at this time saw the morning star fighting, not to mention the chopping knife came to the horse, the morning star first broke out the internal force circle, and then flew a shot, straight into Zhao Jien's heart. Zhao Jien looked disdainful, waved his knife and swept away the spear, and at the same time swung his left fist and smashed the back of the morning star, the morning star had no time to block the horse, so he could only jump and abandon the horse to avoid the blow. Zhao Jien swung this punch into the air, and slashed off the horse with another knife in his hand, Chenxing raised his gun to block, but felt that the opponent's knife was strong and heavy, like Mount Tai pressing on the top, so he hurriedly flew back and retreated, so as to calm the blood in his chest.

Zhao Jien turned around, sneered with a knife, and killed again, Morning Star knew that the other party was condescending, it was really difficult to fight, and he had to let him abandon his horse and fight on foot, so as to have the strength to fight.

He immediately concentrated his internal force on his right arm, raised the spear above his head, suddenly thundered with his tongue, shouted, threw the spear hard, and pointed at Zhao Jien's horse like wind and rain! Zhao Jien felt that the other party's move was not simple, held his breath and concentrated, he also shouted, jumped up, took a step ahead of the war horse and hit the spear in the air with a big flower knife, only to hear the sound of "bang", the moment the two soldiers intersected, sparks were everywhere, and the spear was directly shot down by volley, Morning Star caught the spear, pointed at the tip of the spear, and volleyed up with the help of the elastic force of the gun body, and swooped down towards Zhao Jien who fell on horseback like a cannonball!

Zhao Jien looked up at the opponent, did not panic at all, when the tip of the spear was about to stab the head of the head, suddenly a bent down, crouched on the horse's back, and the big flower knife in his hand hit the lower half of the morning star's body, and the morning star had to resist back, and the moment he landed, his left hand only touched the belly of the war horse, and that's it.

"Hmph, you want to kill Ben General's war horse and force Ben General to fight with you? Think beautifully! Zhao Jien returned to the horse and pointed at the morning star with the tip of his knife, his tone full of disdain.

Chenxing gasped and stared at Zhao Jien without answering, just as Zhao Jien was about to make another move with patience, Chenxing suddenly laughed and read a word in his mouth: "Pour!" Zhao Jien sat down and the war horse was like a middle talisman, foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground!

Zhao Jien was unguarded, hurriedly jumped up, took more than ten steps back, and saw the mount fall to the ground, feeling remorseful in his heart. Before, the city lord told him to be careful of the poisonous methods of the southern army, but he didn't expect that he would be hit by a thousand precautions, and he was still hit, and the five poisons in the southwest were really infinitely harmful!

What caused the war horse to fall to the ground was the "Ten Thousand Chisel Black Gold", which ranked eighth in the Five Poisons Sect. No matter what means Morning Star does, no matter what moves he makes, he has only one purpose, that is, Zhao Jien sits down on his war horse. Jumping down from each other's volleys, Zhao Jien could have retreated slightly, but he wanted to show his skills, so that Morning Star had a chance to apply poison, and while touching the horse's belly, the blade in his sleeve cut through the horse's skin, and the black gold of ten thousand chisels entered the flesh and blood of the war horse.

Imagine that back then, ten thousand chisels of black gold were only swayed in the air, and they could wipe out the entire Jia army, and now they are deep in the flesh and blood, how can the war horses fight? He died of poison in an instant, and holding on for a while was just a temporary stiffness after death.

Of course, Morning Star had taken the Five Poisons Sect's most precious "poison avoidance pill" beforehand, so he couldn't hurt himself with the poison powder in his hand, but it was absolutely impossible to apply poison on a large scale like the Battle of Black Gold Mountain. First, the wind is not in the right direction; second, there are not so many antidotes to help their own soldiers; After decades of research and development by Heijintang, the toxicity has been strengthened by a hundred times, and the poisoning is death, and there is no time to take the antidote, that is, the poison pill can be prevented in advance, but the raw materials required for the development of the poison pill are extremely precious, so they cannot be taken on a large scale.

At this time, Zhao Jien's war horse had been lost, and in anger, he was holding a knife forward to fight with Morning Star, and Morning Star was about to fight with him, but the war drums suddenly sounded in his own army formation, and he saw that the right side rushed out of the Eleventh Army of Dark Star and killed the first army of the Northern Army Praetorian Guard! Morning Star had to order the whole army of the Tenth Army to attack, and the Eleventh Army Corps jointly charged, Zhao Jien saw that the southern army was strong, and ordered the first army to retreat and fight, and when it retreated to ten miles away, the southern army did not pursue, and the two sides gave up for the time being.

The Southern Army won a small victory, and the news was conveyed to the big tent of the Central Army of the Northern Army, and Zao Wou-Ki surrendered to Zhao Jien, beat the fifty military sticks, removed him from his position as the vanguard envoy, and ordered the second compartment of the Praetorian Guard Army to be the vanguard corps, and he himself led the whole army to the front of the Southern Army.

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The autumn wind was bleak, blowing Yan Yunxing's chills, raising his eyes to look at the north, under the round white jade umbrella, inside the golden gauze tent, it was the enemy of his life - Zao Wou-ki.

Riding his horse and whipping, Yan Yunxing came to the front of the battle under the protection of purple clothes and Huo'er, and Zhao Wouji also went out of the tent to meet Yan Yunxing under the support of the three protectors of Hayangmen.

The largest newspaper in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan Wenyuan Society, once printed a 10,000-word report on this meeting, which said: "This is the beginning of the war between the north and the south, and it is also a historic moment in the world, from this moment on, the fate of Yan and Zhao, and the fate of the northern and southern armies will irreversibly change, and the power of the Song Dynasty and the pattern of the rivers and lakes have also undergone earth-shaking changes, and a new era is coming......."

Of course, Yan Yunxing and Zao Wou-Ki at that time didn't know how future generations would evaluate this battle, and they wouldn't think so far-reaching, just meeting for the first time, the deep impression left by each other was enough to recall a lifetime.

Although he had known for a long time that Yan Yunxing had become ugly due to the deterioration of his bloody eyes, Zhao Wouji still felt a little disgusted when he watched it up close today, this trialist who ruined his plans everywhere was actually like this, which couldn't help but make him quite disappointed.

The man in front of him has entered middle age, because of heavy thoughts, too much planning, the white hair on the temples has been born, although the years have left traces of vicissitudes on his face, but the sharp eagle eyes have always been the same, whether it is ten years or twenty years, the eyes reveal always the confidence to control everything and the pride above everything.

He was not angry and arrogant, with a hint of ruthlessness in his face, his eagle eyes looked down at Yan Yunxing, and said in a deep voice: "Holy Grace, let you go of the Five Poisons Sect, and only let you disband the Southern Army, why did you raise an army and cause chaos and leave a disaster to the people?" ”

Yan Yunxing felt quite funny, sneered, and said: "Ming people don't say dark words, you Zhao Wuji always have to be embarrassed by my five poisons, if you don't strike first, when you lead the troops to attack, I'm afraid it's too late." ”

"Even if it's like you said, I'm going to embarrass you, then the phoenix dance, burning, incense, etc., you people in the rivers and lakes, really surrender to me, can't you obey my orders?" When Zao Wou-Ki said this, he paused, and said: "It's still your demon army that has done a lot of evil, which has caused public anger, you don't reflect on yourself, but take the opportunity to cover up your mistakes, and you are full of strong words, worthy of your name as a sharp tooth and sharp mouth." ”

Yan Yunxing heard Zhao Wuji's slanderous words, he didn't laugh angrily, and said: "The situation in Guyan Mountain at that time, what happened in the Qin Palace, you and I both know it, Lord Zhao is using this to ridicule and ridicule me, I'm afraid that I will lose your identity." ”

Zao Wou-Ki didn't respond, just looked at Yan Yunxing with an indifferent expression, as if he wanted to see through his deep thoughts.

"It doesn't matter if you don't explain, wait for the battle, no matter who wins or loses, everything will eventually be revealed, right?" Yan Yunxing continued.

Zao Wou-Ki did not answer this, but instead asked, "What is the intention of raising troops to the north this time?" ”

"Break through Luoyang, Kaifeng, capture Qin Ren, Dongfang Yuan, and you Zao Wou-Ki alive." Yan Yunxing was outspoken and not afraid at all.

"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, how dare you break the city?"

"In front of the saints, how dare you deceive?"

Zhao Wuji heard Yan Yunxing so-for-tat, and finally no longer underestimated him because of his appearance, and said: "The following words, Ben Shuai only said once, your Five Poisons Sect and my Taizu have no grudges, if you can surrender sincerely, Ben Shuai will personally persuade the Holy Lord to avoid the sins of the Five Poison Sect five hundred years ago." After that, you and I join forces and share the world, how about it? ”

"Foolish dreams!" Yan Yunxing knew that Zao Wou-ki's words were a temptation, and there was no possibility of reconciliation between the two families, how could he talk about surrendering?

"Going to fight?" Zao Wou-Ki asked again.

Yan Yunxing was annoyed when he saw him covering it up like this, so he directly shook his face and shouted: "Why bother to be cowardly, do you really regard yourself as the righteous teacher of the imperial court?" Do you have to pretend to persuade you to surrender in order to show your majesty, and I can't be obscene and vicious? But there is no one else here, you don't have to be like this, I don't know what kind of character you are? Go back and take a good bath, wash your dog's head and wait for me to collect it! ”

"Huh...... The same words are given back to you. Zao Wou-Ki sneered.

"That's the attitude you should have!" Yan Yunxing said, "Regardless of the victory or defeat of this battle, twenty-seven years of grievances, forty-four years of hatred, and even five hundred years of grudges, it will finally come to an end, and at that time, either you will die or I will die, I hope you will do it yourself!" ”

Yan Yunxing said that, then turned around and left, Zhao Wouji stared at Yan Yunxing's back farther and farther away, and his gloomy face finally showed a hint of fierceness.

"Door master, this person is a ruthless person." Zao Wou-Ki said a Dharma protector in front of him.

"Humph!" Zhao Wuji snorted disdainfully, clenched his fists and said: "No matter what kind of genius he is, how to dominate in the south, he can't escape the palm of his hand!" ”

Seeing Zhao Wouji's expression like this, the other Dharma Protector gritted his teeth and echoed, "Yan Yunxing, your end is coming!" ”

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The autumn breeze is cool, rolling up pieces of fallen leaves, just like the northern and southern soldiers who are about to fall in front of Zheng Li's array, where does the soul go?