From the end of the eighth year of Chongzhen to February of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

The Ming army continued to deploy troops in the interior to increase the number of troops to suppress, and the Liukou were almost defeated repeatedly along the way, but the bandit was not weakened, but became stronger.

A large number of rogues were active in Henan, Shaanxi, and Huguang provinces, and only some of them remained in the Nanzhili area.

In fact, the rogue is already divided into two major forces.

The first major force was the Shaanxi peasant army headed by Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang, which mainly operated in Yan'an and Xi'an Mansions.

Although they briefly joined forces with the peasant army in Henan, they all returned to Shaanxi soon after.

The commander of the Ming army in charge of the attack was Hong Chengchou.

The second force was the peasant armies with King Gao Yingxiang as the main force, and fought in Henan, Nanzhili, Huguang and other places.

The commander of the Ming army in charge of the attack was Lu Xiangsheng.

After returning to Henan from Nanzhili, Gao Yingxiang was able to control hundreds of thousands of Liukou, and when they met in Henan, they often camped for hundreds of miles.

In the three areas of Henan, Nanzhili, and Huguang, among the rogues who belonged to Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong's power was the largest.

Zhang Xianzhong now has 100,000 troops and has entered Nanyang Mansion in Henan Province as a pioneer.

The terrain of Nanyang is flat and extends in all directions, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of rogues, the defenders from all over Nanyang Mansion do not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle.

Zhang Xianzhong went all the way to the south without hindrance, and the south of Nanyang Mansion was Xiangyang Mansion and Xunyang Mansion in Huguang.

And Gao Yingxiang's plan is to invade the Huguang area all the way through Nanyang, and he will eat in Huguang with a group of thieves in the Huguang area.

"Chu is the old Zeguo, and the cultivation is very rich. At the age of one year, he won Chaisang again, and Wu Yang gave it to Yan. ”

"As the saying goes, 'The lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full.'"

Shaanxi has been running out of food for many years due to frequent natural disasters, and Henan, Shanxi and other places have experienced several years of looting, and there is not much oil and water to be scraped.

At present, the rich squires in Henan and Shanxi either huddle together to keep warm and repair the villages to protect themselves, and many villages are even more difficult to attack than some towns, and the gains from the defeat far outweigh the losses.

Either they stayed in the city and did not leave the gates, or even some fled to the south.

Although Nanzhili is rich, but after all, it is the Zhili area, and every time you enter Nanzhili, the Ming court will gather soldiers from all directions to encircle and suppress it like crazy.

Compared with Henan and other places, Huguang is now much richer, and there is much more food, and because of the terrain and many other reasons, there are not so many soldiers.

So Huguang has naturally become the best place to go.

Zhang Xianzhong went south first, and Gao Yingxiang divided his troops and went south.

And Lu Xiangsheng also encountered the problem that Hong Chengchou encountered at the beginning at this time - the troops were stretched.

Huguang only has 11,000 battalion soldiers in his body, and excluding those soldiers who are attacking in various places, there are only more than 5,000 battalions left who can be sent out to block Zhang Xianzhong.

How can more than 5,000 people be able to stop hundreds of thousands of rogues, and if all of them go to war, don't Xiangyang City want it?

As soon as Xiangyang is broken, then the entire weak central and southern parts of Huguang will be exposed to the front of the Liukou, and if the Liukou enter the south, then the entire south will become as full of holes as Shaanxi, and then everything will really be over.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of Xiangyang City, more than 5,000 battalions were basically concentrated in the Xiangyang area to defend Xiangyang City.

And in doing so, it is undoubtedly announcing the direct abandonment of Xunyang Mansion in the west.

Hearing that the rogue was coming, people in Xunyang Mansion were panicked for a while.

It is difficult to count the number of people who fled overnight, and the convoy of refugees was crowded for more than ten miles, and it was even difficult to travel.

The Liukou were not good at attacking the city, and most of the people in Xunyang Mansion flocked to the city.

But the number of people that can be accommodated in the city is always limited, and those who cannot enter the city can only embark on the road of escape.

There are mountains in the north and south, and although there are people who hide in the deep mountains and old forests, more people flee to the Hanzhong Mansion in the west with their wives and children.

It's not that Liukou hasn't been to Xunyang Mansion before, and what he did last time he came to Xunyang Mansion is vividly remembered by everyone.

Because of this, they want to flee to Hanzhong Mansion.

Fleeing to Hanzhong Mansion, fleeing to Xunyang, fleeing to Xing'an, as long as they escape into the big city, the Liukou will not be able to break it, and they will be able to save their lives, and many people have survived in this way before.

It's just that......

These people on the road don't know a thing.

That is, today's Hanzhong Mansion is actually not peaceful.

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Hanyin County is located in the hinterland of Qinba, with Qinling Mountains in the north and Bashan Mountain in the south.

Phoenix Mountain lies from east to west, the Han River and the Moon River are diverted, except for the flat terrain on both sides of the Moon River Road, most of them are shallow hills and hills, which are quite rugged areas, and it is difficult to walk.

The name of Hanyin County, which began in the second year of the Tang Dynasty to Germany, was set up on the south bank of the Han River, the south of the mountain is yang, and the south of the water is yin, so it is called Hanyin.

During the Song Dynasty, the county seat of Hanyin was moved to the north bank of the Moon River, although it was located in the yang land, it was still called Hanyin, meaning the harmony of yin and yang.

Hanyin City is located in the middle of the river of two mountains, with Phoenix Mountain in the south, Wollongong in the north, Qilin Ditch in the east, and Guanyin River in the west.

There is a meaning: "Looking at the phoenix flying for nine days, leaning on Longgang as a backer, the left unicorn is auspicious, and the right arm Guanyin protects peace." ”

It's just that no matter how beautiful the implication is, it can't resist the invasion of natural and man-made disasters.

Not long ago, a large number of rogues passed through the territory of Hanyin, and the surrounding towns and villages were plundered to varying degrees.

Despite the advance warning, except for a few towns that were breached, most of the villagers escaped the catastrophe and saved their lives.

But there was no way to save their houses and farmland, and the rogues who crossed the border burned everything they could destroy and took everything they could.

Seventeen miles east of Hanyin City, on the south side of the official road, Chen Wang rode a war horse and stood in front of a town that had been burned to ruins.

The air was filled with the stench of corruption, the low walls of the town had been destroyed, and most of the land inside and outside the town was charred black.

A group of soldiers stood on the official road, their eyes looking in the direction of the town like Chen Wang.

No one spoke, no one moved, everyone was silent, standing still.

Not far in front of them, on top of the trees outside the town, there hung one rotting corpse after another, like willow hanging from a willow tree.

Chen Wang turned his head, and his gaze flashed over the faces of the people beside him.

Most of the armored horsemen who followed him were young and strong of the Chen and Hu clans, and some of them were good players among the original Liao horses.

Whether it was the former or the latter, there was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in their eyes.

These things could not stir up any waves in their hearts at all, and they had seen scenes that were ten times more cruel than this in Liaodong and on the battlefield, or even a hundred times more cruel.

Chen Wang's gaze swept over the group of armored horsemen beside him and looked at the official road.

All the soldiers on the official road had stopped under his orders.

Chen Wang's gaze slowly swept over the faces of the soldiers above the official road, carefully observing the expressions on everyone's faces.

Time passed quietly, Chen Wang withdrew his gaze and turned his head again.

The faces of the soldiers on the official road were different, some were fearful, some were disgusting, some were unbearable, and some were sympathetic.

But more than that, it is indifference and numbness......

There are many beings and emotions, but none of them have resentment and sadness on their faces.

Their faces should have been filled with indignation.

When they see these scenes, they should be indignant and angry.

Chen Wang had no words, he knew very well why.

It's none of your business, you naturally hang high, and other people's pain is just other people's pain after all.

Most of the soldiers under his command are hungry among the rogues, and they are also villagers who are coerced.

They don't really want to be soldiers, they don't want to fight.

They want to go home, they want to go back to their hometown, they want to continue farming, they want to continue working.

Most of them don't have much ambition, they just want to pay less taxes, harvest more, support their families, and reunite with their families.

The reason why they are still in the army is simply because they have no choice.

Even if they returned, their houses would have been burned down, their fields would not be able to grow crops, and they would not be able to find a way to pay off the taxes owed to the government.

Serving as soldiers and fighting is not for the noble goal of defending the country and relieving the people, they are just because they can't survive, for military salaries, and for a full meal.

What is the ideal of protecting the family and defending the country, what is relieving the people, and what is the ideal of self-cultivation and governing the country and the world, is too far away from them, and that is something that people in the other world should think.

Chen Wang refocused his gaze on the corpses outside the town, and his heart became hard little by little.

Now a lot of things in the army need to be changed, and in essence, the army under his command is still an army of the old era, a completely feudal army.

If he continues to go like this, after continuous tempering, the army under his command can become a strong army, enough to support the division of one side after the turmoil in the world.

If you can continue to expand, keep growing.

He used the prophet of the history of the later generations and the familiarity with the weapons and tactics of the later generations.

Even if you dominate the world, it's not a vain thing.

But if he just goes on like this and keeps going, then even if he is finally defeated, the army under his command will still be a feudal army in essence.

Chen Wang raised his head and looked into the distance, and in the distance were rolling mountains, which stretched to the sky, like a sleeping dragon.

There is the death of the country, and the death of the world.

Tell the difference between the dead country and the dead world?

Said: The surname of Yi was changed, and it was called the death of the country.

Benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for leading beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the death of the world.

Now, the world is going to die......

Chen Wang's eyes were deep and he spoke slowly.

"I'll teach you to sing a song."

It is still the ninth year of Chongzhen, and there are still eight years before the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, everything is still in time, everything is still in time.

Hearing Chen Wang's sudden opening, all the armored horsemen who followed Chen Wang's side turned their eyes to Chen Wang.

They were all a little surprised, why Chen Wang suddenly wanted to teach them to sing at this time.

However, Chen Wang is their main general, their general, and they should obey the order unconditionally as a family member.

Chen Wang raised his hand, clenched his fists, and sang the first line of the song.

"All of you are united, the mountains are ...... Shocking! ”

In the forty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the Qi army conquered Hengyu and returned to the division in triumph.

At that time, there was no alcohol in the army, so Qi Jiguang improvised and dictated a song "Triumphant Song", taught the officers and soldiers of the whole army to sing together, and used songs instead of wine to stimulate morale.

"Triumph Song" was adapted by some people in later generations, but the adapted tune made it lose its original flavor.

The people he was going to teach were singing the original tune of the song.

It is the tune sung by the Qi family army after the victory against the Japanese in the southeast.

It is also the tune sung by the Qi family army when they faced the Mongols in Jizhou Town.

It is also the tune sung by those Zhejiang soldiers in the last moments of the Battle of Hunhe.

"Crowd ...... Single-minded, mountains...... Shaken. ”

All the armored horsemen looked at each other, most of them actually knew a thing or two about this song, this is the military song of the Qi family's army

Although there were contradictions between the Southern Army and the Liao Army, all contradictions and prejudices disappeared after the Battle of the Hunhe River.

In the first battle of the Hunhe River, the Sichuan soldiers and the Zhejiang troops were overturned, and the blood stained the Hunhe River.

"Only loyal and righteous, angry...... Bullfight! ”

Chen Wang didn't care about everyone's expressions and continued to sing.

After the initial discomfort, everyone has come back to their senses and continues to sing.

"Only loyalty and righteousness, angry bullfighting......"

"The Lord will kiss me better than my parents."

Chen Wang raised his voice and sang in a loud voice.

The change of atmosphere and the change of thinking are not achieved overnight, nor can they be achieved overnight.

The initial grievances will gradually bring everyone together, and the same miserable experience will unite everyone.

When they were in Chunhua City at that time, Chen Wang had already told them something and planted a seed in their hearts.

Only with a sword in his hand can he defeat the jackal and not be bullied......

In the face of injustice, we should fight and raise our weapons instead of bowing our heads and bending our knees......

"The Lord will kiss me as much as ...... Parents!

”

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The wind is blowing, and the spring breeze blowing from the southeast blows through the hills and across the forest sea,

The trees are swaying, and the leaves are swaying, bringing countless rustling sounds.

"Woo——————"

The sound of the marching horn spread throughout the official road, and all the soldiers on the official road turned to the east.

They looked ahead, spears on their shoulders, straightened their backs, held their heads high, and strode forward.

Only this time it was not only the sound of heavy footsteps that sounded on the official road, but also a high singing.

The high singing voice spread from the official road to the four directions, constantly echoing among the mountains.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken."

"Only loyalty and righteousness, angry bullfighting."

"The Lord will kiss me better than my parents."

"Committing a violation of military law is not free."

"The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written."

"Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late!"

"Report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of Qian."

"Kill all the thieves and find a marquis!"