165. The world of decay
The battle flag was like a sharp blade, easily breaking through the Dahua soldiers to form a defensive line in a hurry, and the Western Xia cavalry "Iron Harrier" holding the battle flag roared past, and the waving war knife sprinkled silver light in the setting sun, followed by blood and screams bursting out. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When the Dahua West Route Army, which was guarding the northwest, received the will of King Qin, 200,000 troops left the western Xinjiang and marched towards the capital, and the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, who had been secretly ready to move, immediately sent 100,000 troops to invade Dahua, and the troops crossed the border and swept the entire northwest.
Within a month, the Western Xia army broke through the four cities of Lanzhou City, Xizhou City, Weizhou City, and Qingzhou City, and the Western Xia army, which thought it was invincible, encountered unexpected stubborn resistance in Qinzhou City, and there was still no progress after ten days of siege, and at this time the Jin soldiers had besieged Bianliang in Tokyo for three months.
When the report of the Western Route Army's defeat by the Jin soldiers outside Bianliang City and the negotiation between the Jin State and Dahua was presented to Li Qianshun, he was keenly aware that the Western Route Army would return soon, and Li Qianshun, who had never suffered a loss in strategy, decided to expand the current results before the Western Route Army returned, so the three teams that had originally participated in the siege were separated separately to do the business of taking advantage of the fire to rob.
Ding Yueming and Liu Niang's refugee team encountered one of them.
The number of this Western Xia army was about 2,000 people, and it was composed of Iron Harriers, Bubazi, Poxi and other troops. The Dahua army, which accompanied the refugees, numbered more than 5,000 men, but after suffering numerous defeats, this army lost almost all its combat effectiveness, and only put up a slight resistance under the charge of the other side, and then broke up like a dam washed away by a flood.
Breaking through this almost non-existent line of defense, the "Iron Harriers" were like bamboos, and they ploughed a bloody ditch in this army of hundreds of thousands of refugees, and behind them were the Western Xia infantry named "Bu Bazi", who fiercely rushed into the crowd and forcibly seized everything they could, and those who resisted were chopped into flesh with knives.
No one had any hope for Dahua's army anymore, all the refugees screamed and fled in all directions, most of the Western Xia army did not stop, and continued to rush forward, these poor refugees were not their target, the richer Fengxiang Mansion City in front was their destination.
When the cavalry of the Western Xia rushed over, Ding Yueming and Liu Niang hurriedly hid behind a broken wall, and when the sound of the cavalry's hooves became farther and farther away, Ding Yueming pulled Liu Niang, who wanted to go out, because she heard a sound in the distance, which was the shouting and scolding of the Western Xia infantry and the cry of the Dahua refugees.
A small group of footmen rushed into the crowd, a well-dressed man was holding a cloth bag on his chest, and the soldiers didn't say much and hacked him to death with a knife, and then snatched the cloth bag from the corpse, opened it and saw that it was full of land deeds and account books, and they cursed a few words in Tangut before rushing to the next target.
Liu Niang carefully retracted her head, the man who was hacked to death was a rich and powerful merchant in Jinju City, and his father and brother had worked in his trading house, and he was quite kind. Now he is dead under the butcher's knife of the Tangut people like those poor refugees, like a worm trampled to death on the ground, humble and pitiful.
The kingdom is dying, and its people mourn. Under the enemy's iron cavalry and butcher's knife, the people are like fish and meat on the chopping board to be slaughtered, such a tragedy is staged every day in the trampled land of Dahua, no one can save them, they can only run for their lives in all directions, if they can't escape, they will wait for death, waiting for the enemy to harvest their lives like cutting wheat fields, and they stand numbly waiting for the last knife on their heads to come.
Ding Yueming clenched the wooden stick in his hand tightly, remembering what Wu Zheng had said a long time ago.
"This world is too rotten, people's hearts have been corroded into rotten apples, I don't want to live in such a world, I want to change the world, I want to turn this world into a sharp axe to smash and smash, I want everyone to have food, clothing, and housing, for this goal, even if I want to be the enemy of the whole world, I will not hesitate!"
"Xianggong...... Destroy the world and save the people here! She muttered.
The plunder did not last long, and after the horn of the Tangut assembly sounded, the soldiers quickly followed the front team, leaving behind the torn and scattered ranks of refugees and marched away.
In the face of those who died, no one showed any special emotions, they silently packed up their things, dragged their families and continued to move west, as if nothing had happened just now, numb and terrible.
For these people, life and death no longer matter, let alone the fate of their family and country?
Ding Yueming had nowhere else to go, so she had to continue with Liu Niang and the team. Five months ago, when the Jin soldiers entered Hexi Town, the imperial army fled, but several local gangs and trading houses recruited people to resist, and the Jin soldiers did not pay attention to this militia organization, and this is indeed the case.
After the cavalry of the Jin State rushed over, the people scattered, and with the several charges of the follow-up infantry, more than 1,000 people suddenly dispersed. Among them, the most tenacious resistance of the Supreme Gang was also helpless in the face of the fierce and fierce Jin soldiers, although they had the fire guns left by Wu Zheng, but they lacked effective command, and the final result was still killed by the Jin soldiers to lose their armor and suffer countless casualties.
For such those who dare to openly resist, the principle of the Jin soldiers is to kill them all. In the battle with the Jin soldiers, the Supreme Gang was divided into two teams, one with a team of more than 50 people led by Lan Xiangyu and Liu Banxian, and the other was a team of 80 people led by Ding Yueming and Ma Shan Hu Meng.
The two teams lost contact under the encirclement and interception of the Jin soldiers, when Ding Yueming led people to kill out of the encirclement, there were less than twenty people left around her, she looked at these scarred gangs around her, her heart was dripping blood, she felt sorry for Xianggong, Wu Zheng worked hard to cultivate the Supreme Gang elite almost died and injured in this battle.
Ma San and Hu Meng took the remaining twenty people to resist desperately, hoping to win a chance to escape for Ding Yueming, but Ding Yueming insisted on "going to go together, to die together". So after a brutal fight, Ding Yueming, who was seriously injured, miraculously broke out of the encirclement and fainted on the way west for refugees.
After this attack by the Western Xia soldiers, a lot of food was taken away, the life of the refugees was even more difficult, and the internal division of the Dahua army was also divided about the current situation, and after three days, the army was divided and most of the food was divided. In order to ensure the food rations of the soldiers, the refugees' already scarce food was once again cut.
From the original bowl of gruel a day, to the fact that there is not necessarily porridge to drink for three days, many people have starved to death, and those who did not starve to death have become skinny and bones. So they started eating whatever they could, bark, snow, sand, and even ...... Corpse.
That night, Ding Yueming, who woke up from her sleep, found that Liu Niang next to her was gone, she stood up worriedly and looked around, but found that there was a vague figure in the distance who was kneeling on the ground digging something, she looked carefully and found that the person was Liu Niang, and in front of her was a corpse that had just died!