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Chapter 29, the third new Tokyo

Overhead, the sunny sky is clear, and at your feet are small floating islands formed by condensed clouds.

Facing the howling wind, the mysterious fantasy floating castle "Third New Tokyo" is slowly moving forward in the vast sea of clouds.

——Because the "New Tokyo" and the "Second New Tokyo" had been built in Bianliang at the request of Emperor Zhao Huan of the Great Song Dynasty, the newly built castle in the clouds by Doraemon was given a name that Wang Qiu wanted to complain about according to the order: The Third New Tokyo!

Compared to the "New Tokyo" in the clouds that was built over Bianliang and the "Second New Tokyo" that was built underground as a royal special prison, the "Third New Tokyo" that Doraemon created for himself is much smaller in scale. The entire floating island condensed by clouds is only a dozen acres of land. But if it is about the majesty of the momentum, the magnificence of the building, and the majesty of the martial wind, it is still on it, basically how to pull the wind and how to come, all kinds of thick and colorful whitewashed walls and bright glazed tiles, which can simply make people dazzled and dizzy.

What is particularly impressive is that it can also replace transportation and has the ability to travel long distances...... The only thing that made Wang Qiu want to complain was: why didn't he build the kind of fairy tale European castle on the clouds, but chose a Japanese-style castle with a castle tower and cornices!

——Standing on the castle tower of the "Third New Tokyo", looking at Doraemon who had just put on the helmet of the Japanese warring states, waving the baton called "Caipei" a few times from time to time, and Nobita who was wearing a samurai suit, Wang Qiu couldn't help but say so much.

And several soldiers in heavy thermal suits are on the back door platform of the castle, taking turns shaking Doraemon's magical prop: the [Fengshen Fan], which is comparable to the banana fan of the Iron Fan Princess, thus creating a strong jet of air, pushing the floating castle across the Yellow River and slowly moving north.

- Well, I have to admit that the power system of the "Third New Tokyo" is indeed a bit low-end rustic and tasteless, and I can't see the sci-fi style.

In fact, most of Doraemon's magical props seem to be in such an awkward and embarrassing tone......

At this time, it was a cold day when the sky was freezing and dripping into ice, and it was already shivering with cold on the ground. Now in the sky, although the sun is even brighter, the temperature has plummeted all the way, and even the moat that Doraemon made as a decoration has been frozen into an ice rink. And the howling cold wind on the castle tower can't be carried by anyone except for Doraemon's machine...... Therefore, after barely accompanying Doraemon to blow the wind for a while, Wang Qiu escaped from the castle tower that leaked on all sides and shrank to the floor below to warm himself by fire.

Speaking of which, the entire "Third New Tokyo" castle may look magnificent, but the inside is bare, with no decoration, furniture or furnishings, like the cement castle in some third-rate children's parks. The three hundred soldiers and their mounts could only find a place to sit on the ground, and while warming themselves with the brazier they carried, they drank and bragged and farted. Qin Hui, Zong Ze and Guo Jing, the more responsible guys, gathered at the lowest floor of the castle, looking down on the wilderness below through the huge circular observation window on the floor, barely reconnoitring the enemy.

——The North China Plain in winter, silent and bleak, with almost no pedestrians and cooking smoke, made Wang Qiu frown.

He knew that the vast sedimentary plain under his feet had been one of the most well-developed and densely populated lands in China since ancient times. The cottages face each other and are connected to each other...... But now it's as uninhabited as a wilderness. Even if you see a few market towns once in a while, a closer look has long since become purgatory on earth—the narrow streets are littered with corpses, ruins and ruins are everywhere, and the occasional wild dog can be seen gnawing on roadside corpses. Some of the houses were still smoking, adding to the desolation of the ruined ruins.

Especially outside a burning village, Wang Qiu also saw a scene of looting in progress: thatched huts on fire, corpses scattered all over the place, pools of blood, women and children wailing and fleeing...... Armed with large knives and hideous-looking mobs, carrying large bags and small bags, they wantonly killed and looted in the burning villages, kicked open door after door, hacked men who dared to resist, pulled out women hiding inside, stripped them of their clothes, and hung crying children from trees outside the courtyard...... It wasn't until a minion stumbled into the sky that the bloodthirsty and murderous thugs rioted, and then a whistle quickly dispersed, leaving only a few numb survivors looking at their homes drowning in the firelight.

“…… Could this be...... A small group of Jurchen cavalry is 'fighting in the grass valley'? Wang Qiu pointed to the crime scene below and asked suspiciously.

“…… No, they are all wearing Song clothes, and there are very few horses, they should be rebels! Zong Ze, who had just come from Hebei, replied with a sigh.

“…… Rebel? How can it be? Looking at their style, it is clear whether the bandits are good or not?!! Wang Qiu shouted.

“…… Alas, what can be done? Soldiers, soldiers, and there are soldiers. That's how these vulgar warriors do this! Not to mention these so-called rebels who raise their own food and salary, even if they are regular forbidden troops who eat the imperial court, once they are on the battlefield, they are also the style of such robbers and bandits! ”

Qin Hui, the overseer, didn't know when he came over, and interjected, "...... In the past, Tong Guan led the Guanxi Forbidden Army to the south of the Yangtze River to pacify Fangla, and the group of vicious Shaanxi Red Guys had not seen the thieves, and they had already killed people all the way. Everything he did was planted on Fang La, who could he deceive? In the end, he actually reported to the court that he had killed millions of thieves, and I don't know how many died in vain!

Not to mention that they also robbed the people's daughters all the way, wantonly raped them, and after getting tired of it, they directly hung them on the roadside trees to kill people, so that the bodies of all kinds of bare-ass daughters-in-law hung for nearly a hundred miles on the official road from Hangzhou to Muzhou...... Even the Jin people are probably not as cruel as them! ”

Hearing Qin Hui's sigh, Wang Qiu suddenly felt that the Song Dynasty's practice of suppressing the martial artists in every possible way did not seem to be completely unreasonable.

-- Since the Jin soldiers went south twice and tossed the land north of the Yellow River in the Great Song Dynasty, the fleeing refugees, defeated soldiers and local wealthy families in Hebei have pulled the pole to recruit troops and horses, and under the banner of "protecting the family and defending the country", they have formed all kinds of righteous armies - among them, there are loyal and loyal people such as Wang Yan's "Eight-Character Army", but there are also many villains and scum who are not disciplined and brutalize the people.

In fact, many so-called "righteous army" are not worthy of the name "righteous army" at all! After stripping off the seemingly righteous and awe-inspiring gold-lettered signboard of the "Patriotic Volunteer Army", they said that it was a group of mobs and rogues who bullied the weak and feared the hard! They often did not have the courage to provoke the Jin soldiers, but they swept through the place like locusts, and the large families were killed and robbed by them, the women were all raped, and the poor people were robbed of food, burned down houses, and finally acted together with these poor people who had lost a qiē, acting as coolies and cannon fodder. In peacetime, the soldiers of the rebel army used whips to order them to make cattle and horses, and to carry things to cook for fire. When it was time to fight, they were driven like cattle and sheep to block the swords and guns of the officials and the Jinren, while the so-called backbone of the rebel army was to supervise the battle in the back.

Of course, the official army of the Song Dynasty was also a group of bandits in many cases, and military discipline was very lax, especially when supplies were scarce, and things such as killing, robbing, and forcibly abducting women were often done...... As a result, under the repeated conquests and repeated ravages of the Jin army, the Song army, and the "righteous army", the once prosperous and rich land of Hebei became a ruined ruin with no one for thousands of miles, tossing the people of Li into misery.

-- In the face of such a miserable situation in which it is difficult to distinguish between soldiers and bandits, and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, the people in the "Third New Tokyo" can only express their helplessness.

Then, the first leg of their journey north was coming.