readx;? Chapter 7: Jincao (4)

The north wind whipped up the snow particles and clanged on the frozen bare sheets of sheepskin. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the shearling jacket, several faces covered with chilblains slowly poked out, looked around, and then quickly shrank back. The owner of the face pulled out his legs from the snow with difficulty, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and moved in the direction of Lijiazhai. One by one, they were exhausted, but they didn't dare to delay in the snow.

It's coming, it's not far, and it's guaranteed to be there before dark.

It's almost safe, and it's safe to get to Lijiazhai. There was a big hero there, one foot two tall, nine feet eight with a waist circumference, holding a hundred and forty pounds of iron whip, and he beat it down with a whip, smashing the Khitan robbers into meat sauce with even men and horses......

"Poof!" a woman in a sheepskin jacket rolled over on the snow, like a bale of wheat straw after autumn, blown away by the wind.

"it!" "Mother, mother......" Several men in sheepskin jackets cried and pounced, picked up the fallen man, dragged him, and continued to move slowly behind the other sheepskin jackets.

To the west, to the west, there is not only a towering Taihang in the west, but also a towering Taihang, which can block the iron hooves of the Khitans.

There is also a Lijiazhai in the west, and there is a patrol inspection department yamen in Lijiazhai, and there is a heroic man named Zheng Ziming in the yamen......

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo

The white-haired wind howled, engulfing strings of figures wearing bare sheepskin jackets.

The bare plate is facing outward, the wool is facing inward, and the sheepskin jacket without a piece of cloth is a typical dress of the people outside the Saiwai. However, in recent decades, as the Khitans continued to invade south, they completely annexed the sixteen states of Yanyun. The costumes of some foreign ethnic groups have gradually spread in Hebei, Hedong and other places.

Rather than anything left and right, the common people care more about ease, cheapness and practicality. Just as they don't care whether the name of the court is Tang or Han, or whether the emperor's luggage is still surnamed Zhu Xie, what they care more about is whether the court can let the big guys farm, weave, and raise children with peace of mind, and they don't have to worry about disasters falling from the sky all the time. (Note 1)

However, the reality is always as cold as the white-haired wind in the sky.

Fifty years ago, it is said that when the heroes of the Central Plains glared, the ancestor of the Khitan people, Yelu Abaoji, would be so frightened that he couldn't sleep for a few days and nights.

Forty years ago, it is said that Lu Longjiedu made Liu Rengong resist the Khitan country with the land of three counties, and fought fiercely for many years without falling behind.

Thirty years ago, the Khitans invaded southward, and Li Cunqiao met the enemy with 5,000 soldiers and horses.

Twenty years ago, the Khitan war horse killed the Great Wall again, and the Great Wall is still there, but there is no Central Plains hero.

In the past ten years, five years, and even now, it has become common for the Khitans to go south to fight grass valleys. Not only are the sixteen states of Yanyun completely stained, but the Juma River, the Zhanghe River, and even the Yellow River are gradually unable to stop the horses' hooves of the grassland people.

The days are becoming more and more precarious, and of course, the common people are becoming more and more distrustful of the court and the government. On the contrary, he has more respect for the local heroes. Regardless of whether the latter is a green forest thief who occupies the mountain as the king, or a rough embryo in the countryside who has formed a village to protect himself, they have eaten the offerings of the common people, and when the Khitan people came to fight the grass valley, they had no face and pretended to turn a blind eye. Although, the protection they can provide is also very limited, or even just a person to rely on, in reality it is often vulnerable.

In this case, a group of heroes who dared to stand in front of the Khitan bandits' war horses and had the ability to stop them suddenly appeared could not help but attract the attention of everyone. Therefore, the news of the defeat of the Khitans in Lijiazhai Township spread throughout Dingzhou in a blink of an eye at a speed faster than that of Baimaofeng.

The most direct consequence of the spread of the news was that on the morning of the third day after the end of the battle, the messenger of Sun Fangji, the envoy of the Yiwu Army, arrived in the snow and strongly invited the Yamen of the Inspection Department to move to Dingxian City on a certain day, and together with the Second Army of the Left Wing of the Yiwu Army in the city, "protect the territory and the people, and jointly resist foreign humiliation!"

With the messenger came five hundred treasures, a thousand stones of grain, and twenty thousand arrows of carved feathers. It fully reflects the sincerity of the festival to make Lord Sun and the heart of the gentry and celebrities living in Dingxian County.

Another not-so-direct consequence of the spread of the news was that within a radius of more than 200 miles, all the ordinary people who were not qualified to be protected by the Yiwu Army, or who had completely lost confidence in the Yiwu Army, quickly helped the old and the young to flee to Lijiazhai. In the first two days, there were only twenty or thirty households per day, and there were 100 people, but on the third day, it became 70 or 80 households and 3,500 people per day, and it quickly approached 12 households and 6,700 people per day. If God doesn't continue to snow, it is estimated that it will not take ten days to fill Lijiazhai with nowhere to stand!

Poor Li Jiazhai, originally there were only more than 200 households, a thousand Dingkou, for a while, where could accept such a huge crowd? All the empty houses, including half of the inspection department's yamen, were vacated, and it was still not enough for all the people who fled to have roofs to shelter from the cold wind. All the stoves were fired irregularly throughout the day, but it was still not enough for the evacuees to have a full meal every day. In the end, even Fengjiazhuang, Panjiazhai, Zhangjiazhai and other villages, which were originally affiliated with the Lianzhuang Association and located relatively close to Taihang Mountain, also opened their doors and began to accept refugees, which reluctantly resolved the urgent need. But the distance is completely out of trouble, but there is still a distance of 108,000 miles.

"You deserve it, let you have the kindness of a woman! Let you think of yourself as a living bodhisattva!" As if longing to see Zheng Ziming's joke, Pan Mei muttered quietly while busy with her feet on the ground.

Although he couldn't be ruthless and abandoned his hometown and the robes of the inspection department, he always thought that his accusation against Zheng Ziming that day was right. Those who achieve great things must be decisive and hard-hearted. Be ruthless to your enemies and ruthless to your own people. When considering anything, we must focus on the pros and cons, and we must not be trapped by good and evil, or the feelings in our hearts.

And feelings are the most unreliable. Since ancient times, for the sake of power or money, fathers and sons have turned against each other, brothers have become enemies, and examples of husbands and wives meeting each other abound. Who has ever heard of a hero who has been with relatives and friends and women at home all his life.

"Actually, in fact, I think it's good for him to be like this!" Li Shun'er has made more contributions recently, and her courage is getting bigger and bigger, listening to Pan Mei's resentment in her stomach, she stepped forward and lowered her voice to explain, "He can't even bear to kill those two Khitan dog thieves, so naturally he won't be ruthless to the brothers around him." Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will be pushed out to hit the board, or your head will be cut off with a knife. Even if he becomes a general and holds Jinwu, our people are not sure!"

"Get out, stay where it's cool, Lao Tzu can't tell you that I understand!" Pan Mei raised her foot and sent Li Shun'er more than half a foot away. "Lao Tzu needs you to reason? This is not a different thing at all! Don't follow Lao Tzu anymore, bother!"

"This, why isn't this the same thing?" Li Shun'er rubbed her ass a few times, her face full of disbelief. However, in the end, he didn't dare to argue with Pan Mei anymore, so as not to be laughed at by outsiders.

When the latter kicked him in the ass, the force on his feet was tightened, and he could feel it clearly. Besides, through the armor and cotton clothes, no matter how hard you kick, it won't hurt too much.

"Long-winded! If you don't do serious things all day long, you know that you are looking for someone everywhere!" After kicking, Pan Mei also felt excited, spit on the ground, and muttered.

It was so cold that as soon as the saliva hit the ground, it was frozen into ice. The bubble in the middle didn't have time to burst, and it was round and swollen, reflecting a circle of sunlight without any temperature.

Slightly stunned, he quickly raised his head and looked around with his feet crossed. Before and after the village, there are busy figures all around. After spending the first night, the people who fled were quickly organized by Zheng Ziming, either carrying stones to strengthen the wall, or carrying wood and thatch to build shacks, and working for relief, all of them were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground.

The owners, village owners, and castle owners who joined the Lianzhuang Association in the early days all became foremen. Their ability to agitate and organize the people has been brought into full play. With their full mobilization, rows of shacks that temporarily sheltered them from the wind and snow showed their outlines at a speed visible to the naked eye. The rammed earth wall, which was only two feet high and three feet thick, was raised to two feet on the east and west sides of the valley, and the thickness changed from three feet to five feet.

Even busier than ordinary people are teams of heavily armed villagers. I saw that under the leadership of the capital head and the ten generals, they shouted the trumpet and kept walking up and down the three slopes on the north and south sides of the stockade. The snow, which was originally more than a foot deep, had been trampled to a thickness of two inches on several key paths leading to the wall. The hard surface shines like white in the sun, and it is beautiful from a distance. But whoever walks a little faster on it will definitely be thrown on his heels. Even if you keep breaking your arm and leg, for a while, you don't want to get up again with your own strength!

"This surnamed Zheng, although there are some women's kindness, is not useless. Pan Mei smiled and quietly praised in her heart. It is a kind of ability to be able to settle the fleeing people who are surging in and not make any trouble; knowing how to take advantage of the right time and place, instead of blindly lying in the nest and waiting for the enemy to come to retaliate, is another kind of ability; coupled with his own bravery, he also has a rough understanding of the doorway of commanding the battle, even if he can't be a big hero in the future, he will not be mediocre in this life. It's that Sister Xiaochun may have an unfinished heart in the future, but Sister Xiaochun herself is not a fine ......

"Military division, military division......" Li Shun'er's gong-like voice came to her ears again, shattering Pan Mei's thoughts.

"What's the matter, let go of the fart quickly, don't babble!" Pan Mei glared at her, ready to fight.

This time, Li Shun'er did not dodge immediately, but held a blue flag and shouted loudly: "Military advisor, my lord orders you to take five hundred people to the northern hillside and build another low wall. It only needs to be chest-high and two feet wide. Within two days, it had to be done!"

Note 1: Li Keyong, whose original surname is Zhu Xie, and his father's name is Zhu Xie Chixin, Shatuo clan. However, during the reign of Li Keyong and Li Cunmiao, their rule was relatively stable, and they won more and lost fewer foreign wars. Especially against the Khitan, it was basically a pressing beating. Several times the fight made Yelu Abaoji flee.

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