"Liu, Liu."

Liu Huai looked tremblingly at the fact that behind him, a military general in a fur coat with dozens of personal soldiers was standing behind him in the wind and snow.

This is their reign rule.

Born as a local tyrant, he was deeply valued by Huaidong Xuanfu Chen Yu.

"Now that the wind and snow are blowing, how can you know if there are northern soldiers sneaking across, you will go out of the city to investigate as soon as possible, and if there are thieves, you can release their guns to warn."

Liu Wei said.

Liu Huai let out a long breath.

Obviously, Liu Wei didn't hear what they said, and it was normal in such a snowstorm.

He immediately beckoned to Yang Yi and the others, and the latter hurriedly kicked and woke up those sleeping soldiers on the city wall, their team of soldiers was originally on duty here, and the city wall of Xuyi Linhuai was actually directly by the river, and the city was basically the river under the city, and even the city wall was the river embankment during the flood. And later, starting from the first mountain, the whole Qida Mountain, Xiangshan and a bunch of small hills in Xuyi, all of which are surrounded by the city wall, and here is the only way to cross the Huai south, which can be said to be a vital throat.

Heading south from Sizhou to the pontoon bridge can only shake this strong fortress.

The commander of the capital here is Fu Xuan, the original general of the forbidden army in Jiangxi, and he commanded a total of 30,000 troops including Liu Wei's department to garrison Xuyi.

And in the back of the day is the Huaidong Xuanfu Division station.

There were also 40,000 troops, including 10,000 cavalry.

This cavalry is also the number one trump card of the Southern Song Dynasty, commanded by Liu Guangshi personally, with the 3,000 cavalry of the Liu family as the core, plus a large number of Hanzhong people recruited from Lizhou Road.

Horses were also smuggled from Shaanxi.

It is said that it is smuggling, in fact, it is open trade, although Wang Yue prohibits selling horses to the south, but he has never really managed it, since this is the case, the civil officials and gentry and even the generals in Shaanxi, of course, are happy and make a fortune, Wang Dawang does not care about such trivial things, even he himself smuggles arms to the south! As long as the great painter was willing to pay for it, all the thunderbolts and three-eyed guns were sold, and even the drawings of the counterweight trebuchet were sold to the great painter by a profiteer under him for a high price of 100,000 yuan.

The greed of the capitalists is outrageous!

As for the three-eyed gun or something, it is a steady stream of smuggling to the south.

And under his threat, the southern gentry also did their best, in the development of firearms by leaps and bounds, what rockets, firearms, grenades are available, it is said that the bowl mouth gun is also equipped, in short, the Southern Song Dynasty's force value relied on firearms to greatly increase, which is also the reason why the great painter is very confident. According to their design, the Xuyi defenders defended with a large number of firearms, and when the victorious army was exhausted after a long attack, Liu Guangshi's cavalry corps gave another fatal blow outside, winning the decisive battle between the north and the south in one fell swoop.

They are always so optimistic.

Liu Huai carried a three-eyed gun in his hand, and quickly went down the city wall with his subordinates, in fact, nothing can be seen outside at such a night, if someone really sneaks across the Huai River, they don't know if they don't reach the root of the city wall, and there is a possibility of hitting the city patrol when they go out of the city. However, they didn't think that anyone would come, because a section of ice had been carved out of the Huai River during the day, and their main defense work these days was to dig ice.

There is no need to chisel too much, as long as there is a few zhang wide, the entire Huaihe River defense line is chiseling ice, but the chiseled ice cannot flow away, and it will definitely be frozen again tonight.

But the ice is so fragile that people can't walk and can't come by boat.

He took fifty soldiers of his team, wrapped his sheepskin jackets tightly, opened the city gate and walked out, the outside was directly covered by ice and snow on the river beach, and now he didn't have to worry about anything when he went out of the city, Liu Huai told Yang Yi and others about what happened in the north while walking. Then his soldiers also came to him and listened to him tell about the happy days of fighting local tyrants in the north and dividing the land, and several well-informed people had also heard about it......

In fact, there are some people like him in Xuyi City, not to mention that it is still a major commercial passage, and those business travelers who come and go can also say the same.

What is the use of banning?

Can those officials still keep an eye on every soldier and every vendor passing by?

What's more, in Sizhou and other places on the other side, the land of those fleeing gentry was also divided by Yang Zaixing, and the fishermen on the Huai River would also pass the news over.

It's just that I don't dare to discuss it openly on weekdays.

But at this time, on the ice of the Huai River, there is nothing to scruple about.

A group of people chatted while walking on the frozen Huai River.

I forgot about the cold, and I chatted with excitement.

They are not interested in going deeper, they just come out to fool around, there was originally a special patrol, but they were just looking for a place to hide and be lazy, Liu Wei is purely looking for trouble, reflecting his responsibility, but it may also be really responsible. His family is a local tyrant in Xuyi, in Xuyi, Tianchang has a lot of land, and the real interests are at stake, so everyone else is hiding from the wind and snow in the city, but he came out to inspect the city wall in the wind and snow, but the problem is that Liu Huai has no land here......

He has no land in his hometown of Xuanzhou, and the customer has a wool field.

Since that's all it takes, it's okay.

The group walked on the ice near the shore like this, shaking the lanterns in their hands from time to time, so that Liu Wei on the city wall could see their location.

Of course, Liu Tongzhi may not really blow snow on the city wall.

"Ma, why should we suffer this sin, find a place to hide first."

Seeing that the light on the city wall in the distance was so dim that it was impossible to see, Liu Huai immediately stopped and said.

"There's no hiding here."

Yang Yi looked around and said.

As he spoke, he held up the lantern and shook it, and the wind and snow were all around him, and the light of the lantern could only illuminate his companions beside him.

But at this moment, the lantern he was holding suddenly stopped......

"What's that?"

He said blankly.

Liu Huai hurriedly looked in the direction he was pointing.

There seemed to be something strange in the snowstorm, but it was vaguely as if it were just a snowstorm, and he gestured behind him, and the soldiers raised their lanterns, and then it was a little clearer that they could be sure that something was there, and they could hear a strange sound, which came to their ears with the wind. They continued to watch, and in the blink of an eye, countless shadows appeared in the background of the wind and snow, and these shadows came straight at them, and they were very fast, not even like people walking.

"Monster, monster."

Wang Chao said tremblingly.

"No, it's people, a lot of people."

Yang Yi exclaimed.

At the same time as he said this, the shadow finally became clear, it was indeed people, countless people, but they were extremely fast, as if they were flying straight on the ice.

"There's a light over there!"

One soldier exclaimed.

In the wind and snow far away from them, there were also a few faint lights on.

The people on the other side could already see that they were stopping, one by one, obviously confused, looking at them and then at the lights in the distance......

"Holy shit, make a mistake, get on!"

There was a clear angry shout from the other side.

A soldier beside Liu Huai was so frightened that he hurriedly raised the three-eyed gun, and Liu Huai kicked him without hesitation......

"Throw the guys, all squat, the opposite side is the victorious army? The little Liu Huai was captured in Jinan before. ”

Liu Huai threw the three-eyed gun and squatted down as fast as he could, saying in the northern dialect he had learned in Jinan.

Almost at the same time, countless figures swarmed in, like a torrent quickly surrounded them, the first one with a wooden staff in both hands, floated directly to Liu Huai, Liu Huai only then noticed that they were all stepping on the plank, a very long and narrow plank, they were actually sliding.

The man looked down at him.

Liu Huai hurriedly raised the lantern and looked at him with a smile.

"Have I seen you?"

The man said.

Only then did Liu Huai notice that this face was a little familiar......

"Captain Lin?"

He said uncertainly.

"Ha, I said I had seen you, but I couldn't remember where I saw you for a while!"

The latter said with a smile.

Well, this is the officer of the Changsheng Army who was in charge of guarding them in Jinan.

"Captain Lin, I'm looking forward to you."

Liu Huai said excitedly.

"Didn't you get the money to go back to your hometown? Why did you run to Xuyi again? I almost missed our big event, I thought you were the brothers who answered here! ”

Captain Lin said.

And at this time, the soldiers who also stepped on skis arrived in a steady stream, as if endless in the wind and snow, most of these were brought back by Wang Yue from Liaodong, such weather is not worth mentioning for them who live in minus ten or twenty degrees, and skiing is also a necessary skill. Although the Huai River is frozen because of this year's special cold wave, it is still very dangerous to say that the cavalry passes, after all, this is not the north, and in previous years, there was only some thin ice on the shore occasionally.

This year was a special circumstance, that is, the extremely strong cold wave that swept through the north from the winter of 1126 to the spring of 1127.

This cold spell also marked the beginning of the cold climate of the twelfth century.

In the following decades, it snowed frequently even in Lingnan, and there was a freeze in the area of Taihu Lake and Hangzhou, and in 1132, there was even a severe cold with a foot of ice along the Yangtze River.

However, this is not the north after all, and the freezing of the Huai River is only for people to walk through.

But the cavalry really didn't dare to take risks.

So the ski infantry appeared on the Huai River, and the two skis were also passed on the ice cut by the Xuyi defenders.

So Yang Zaixing organized a whole brigade to cross the river and raid Xuyi.

Their original goal was to capture the West Gate and hold on to it, with a whole corps of infantry waiting behind them, all of them sled soldiers, who could quickly cross the river for reinforcements, and even use plows to transport supplies. In order to be able to reach the raid point directly, they also arranged a light response on the south bank, but they didn't expect that Liu Huai's patrol soldiers actually appeared on the shore, and Captain Lin, who mistakenly thought it was the answer, went straight to this side.

"It's hard to say, Captain Lin, come with me, I'll trick you into opening the city gate, and the brothers are looking forward to your coming!"

Liu Huai took Captain Lin's hand and said excitedly.