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Chapter 892 Grabbing the Land (4)

Chapter 892 Swept the Ground ([-])

The flames continued to burn, the drums roared, and the explosion sounded like thunder, shaking the city.In Tianchang County, north of Yangzhou, with the arrows flying, countless stone bullets are being thrown towards the distant city head with sparks.

The towers above the city wall had collapsed in the explosion, the parapet collapsed, and the flags fell. In front of them was the vanguard of the Jurchen attack. More than [-] troops gathered under the city, and hundreds of slings were stuffed with gunpowder. The hollow stone bullets were thrown towards the city wall like raindrops.

In Tianchang County, there is a [-]-strong army led by Han Shizhong's subordinate General Xie Yuan. Tianchang County is located on the front line to the north of Yangzhou. It is located in the first position on the way of Jurchen's south. Although the city is small, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The garrison, supplemented by more than [-] iron cannons, was quite a sufficient defensive battle. However, with the arrival of the Jurchen striker led by Wanyan Zongbi, the first round of the attack was far more violent than everyone imagined.

It has been more than ten years since Ning Yi implemented the way of checking things and made the artillery shine in the process of Jurchen's first southward journey.In the past ten years, the Huaxia Army is the originator of the way of measuring things. With the advancement of Ning Yi, the technology has accumulated the most.The Wu Dynasty has Junwu, and the Jurchen has a large-scale production institute chaired by Wanyan Xiyin. Both research and manufacturing are parallel. However, on the whole scale, the technical force of the Jurchen side is the largest.

In ten years, the Jurchen invaded the south three times successively, abducting millions of Han people in the Central Plains. Among them, the Jurchen regarded ordinary Han people as slaves and women as livestock. What they valued most were actually various craftsmen among the Han people.The 200-year accumulation of the Wu Dynasty was originally the most prosperous and developed in the Central Plains. These craftsmen were taken captive to the Northland and divided among various forces. Even if they lost their creative vitality, it is no problem to do ordinary handicrafts.

On the other hand, in the Wu Dynasty, although the power of the way of examining things has been partially proved, in the face of Ning Yi's slaughter of the monarch, all kinds of scholars and scholars still shy away from it, only saying that it was a small way that worked for a while. If you work hard, you will at most turn a blind eye, and there will be no support from public opinion after all.Public opinion does not encourage it, and Jun Wu cannot forcefully requisition the craftsmen from all over the world to work in preparation for the war. Although the research vigor is higher than that of the Jin Kingdom, in terms of scale, the wealth that Jun Wu has saved in Jiangning is not comparable to the whole country of Jurchen. Power.

The rudimentary hollow bullet blasting technology was already available in the Huaxia Army a few years ago, and naturally it is also sold. This is used in artillery.However, Wanyan Xiyin was more radical. In the past few years, he has used the craftsmen to precisely control the burning speed of the lead wire, using hollow stone bullets with fixed lead wires, every ten rounds in a bundle, and projecting them with slings with a longer range. Strictly calculate and control the launch distance and steps, ignite before launching, and strive to explode after landing.

The first time he arrived at Tianchang, Zong Bi used the cannonball on the battlefield.

After the first three rounds of test firing for calculation were completed, half of the hundreds of catapults began to throw "Tiannu scattered flowers", and thousands of stone bullets flew down at the same time. Because the method of controlling the leads was still too primitive, half of the In the air, the flames have been extinguished or exploded, and only one-seventh or eighth of the ones that actually landed on the city head and exploded. The power of the small stone bullets is not too great, but it still caused many soldiers defending the city to attack the first time. Injured and fell to the ground.

The stumps and the broken legs were scattered, and the breath of blood and gunpowder smoke spread out in an instant.Zong Bi stood in the battle formation, watching the explosion at the front of the city really like a flower, smoke and mourning enveloped the entire city wall.

The corners of his fierce eyes widened slightly.

Among Aguda's sons, Wanyan Zongbi, who is ranked fourth, also known as Wushu, is the most brave and aggressive. He was young. When he first started fighting, the Jurchen had almost destroyed the entire Liao Kingdom. Wushu was more than brave and lacked in strategy. , In the eyes of some veterans who have lived in the military and horses in the world, they are just ordinary princes.

Wushu was unwilling to be an ordinary prince. After the second brother Zong looked away, the third brother Zongfu was too safe and gentle to maintain the prestige of the Aguda clan, and could not compete with Zonghan and Xiyin who controlled the "Western Court". Wu Shu, who has always regarded Zong Wang as a role model, stood up.

The Jurchen has been fighting martial arts for more than ten years, and Wushu is the most enthusiastic. He inherited the bravery of the Wanyan clan. He took the lead in every battle and went south for the third time, and has become the dominant person in the royal family.Throughout the search of the mountains and the sea, Wushu fought vertically and horizontally in the south of the Yangtze River, and there was hardly a single general, but Zhou Yong hid in the sea and did not dare to return. If he did not withdraw his troops and returned to the north, this time, he suffered a little setback in Huang Tiandang.

Who can lead the army to win a hundred battles?Jurchen has been in battle for a long time, even if A Gu Da, Wu Qimai, Zong Han Zongwang and others have occasional setbacks, no one takes Huang Tiandang seriously.It's just that the people of the Wu Dynasty were very excited about this. For several years, Huang Tiandang was often promoted as a great victory, and the Jurchen was not invincible.This kind of situation has been going on for a long time, and it has spread to the north, and people who know the inside story will not know whether to laugh or cry. For Zong Bi, it is a bit depressing.

Big victory over your mother, big victory!After being surrounded for more than 40 days, few people died. Finally, he fought back with a fire attack and chased and killed Han Shizhong for more than [-] miles. The southerners dared to say victory without shame!

Although Zong Bi thought so in his heart, he couldn't stop the boasting of the people of the Wu Dynasty.So on the fourth time he went south, there was a simmering anger in his heart, and the battle of Tianchang finally broke out.Just because Xie Yuan was also a vanguard general under Han Shizhong's command, with the arrival of the Jurchen army, he was still trying his best to publicize the so-called "record" that Huang Tiandang had defeated his side, and Wushu's anger could not be suppressed at that time.

In his heart, both Xie Yuan and Han Shizhong on the opposite side are nothing more than chickens. This time, going south, it is necessary to defeat this group of people as quickly as possible to deter the nearly one million troops of the Wu Dynasty in the Jiangnan area. , the bottom is sure to win.

The shells bombed the city wall for three rounds, and more than [-] stone bullets had been consumed in the attack on this small city. With the bombardment of half of the solid boulders, it seemed that the entire city and the earth were shaking. The flag was raised and the order to attack was announced.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the Jurchen flags began to spread to the city wall.

The Jurchen slashed Wu for the fourth time. This was the war that decided the national fortune of the Jin Kingdom. The tide-goers who rose in this era rushed to the land of the Wu Dynasty with their bravery that was still in their prime. With a sound, Xie Yuan led the team to the head of the city and began to fight back.

On the second day after the start of the Battle of Tianchang, under the extremely strong offensive of the Jurchens, Xie Yuan led his army to abandon the city and retreat to the south. A brutal fight.On June 27, Sun Peizhi, the former puppet Qi general, led 10 people to besiege Gaoyou. To the north of the Yangtze River, fierce fighting spread across the vast land.

On June 27th, on the same day that Sun Peizhi besieged Gaoyou, the attack of more than [-] troops also began at Liangshanshuibo, which was more than a thousand miles north from here, and thus opened the prelude to the long and difficult battle of Liangshan.

More than [-] miles west of Yangzhou, the Jurchen general Ali Gu, who originally guarded Bianliang, led [-] elites to Nanyang, ready to cooperate with more than [-] Han troops originally from Nanyang, Dengzhou, and Xinye to advance to Xiangyang.This was an order issued by Wanyan Xiyin to cooperate with the East Route Army's attack, and the main force of the West Route Army led by Zong Han had already crossed the Yellow River and approached Bianliang. The direction is not far away.

And on the day when Ali's army arrived in Nanyang, Yue Fei led his Beiwei army to attack Xiangyang and storm Dengzhou. The 29 Jurchen elites, including Qian Zhongqi, came into contact with the Beiwei Army under Yue Fei, who was waiting to surround the point for reinforcements, [-] miles north of Dengzhou.

The chilling autumn is coming. The Jiangnan, the Central Plains... the rolling land stretches for thousands of miles, and the war is raging.

At the same time, the North is not peaceful.

The place where the Western court of the Jin Kingdom is located, Yunzhongfu, the turn of summer and autumn, the hottest weather will come to an end.

A tragedy that not many people noticed is brewing in the dark.

In the Gaoyue Tea House, Zou Wenhu, a Han Chinese from Liaodong in Chinese clothes, walked up the stairs and met the person he was dating in the private room at the end of the second floor.

The one who met him was a woman who was dressed plainly, but her eyes were rebellious, and there was a tear-like scar on the left corner of her eye.The woman's surname is Xiao, Xiao of the "Empress Dowager Xiao" of the Liao Kingdom. "Red Lady" Xiao Shuqing is one of the famous bandits in Yunzhong.

After the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom suppressed and enslaved the Khitan people for a period of time, and massacres were also carried out several times.However, the Khitan people were brave, and the Jin people could not rely on massacres to govern such a large area, and soon began to use Huairou methods.After all, the golden man also had a more suitable object for slavery at this time.More than ten years after the fall of the Liao Kingdom, some Khitan people have entered the upper levels of the Jin Dynasty, and the Khitan people at the bottom have accepted the fact that they are ruled by the Jurchen.But even if it is the vast majority, after the disaster of the country, there are always a small number of Khitan members who still stand in the position of resistance, either do not intend to escape, or cannot escape.

Xiao Shuqing is a descendant of the original Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom. When she was young, her husband was killed by the Jin people. Later, she was also humiliated and enslaved. Later, she was rescued by the remaining resistance forces of the Khitan.Compared with the Han people who were inconvenient to do things in the north, even if the Liao Kingdom died, there were always many survivors who missed the benefits of that time. Therefore, Xiao Shuqing and others were active near Yunzhong, and they were not wiped out for a long time. It was also suspected that they were still being sheltered by some Khitan officials in high positions at the time.

Seeing Zou Wenhu coming over, the always ruthless female bandit looked indifferent: "How is it? Your son-in-law, have you made up your mind?"

"My master, I'm a little moved." Zou Wenhu moved a chair and sat down. "But this matter is too involved. Have you ever thought about the consequences? Have you ever thought about the possibility that the entire court above will be shaken?"

A look of disdain flashed in Xiao Shuqing's eyes: "Hmph, coward, your son is, so are you."

"Hey, Concubine Xiao, don't say that, just talk about what you say, it's not authentic to ruin someone's reputation. Over the years, no one with the surname Zou has ever been said to be timid, but don't provoke me like that, I'm not a fool. "The Xiao family was originally the mother of the world. After Xiao Shuqing became famous, they gradually became known as Concubine Xiao. In the face of the other party's disdain, Zou Wenhu buttoned his nose, but he didn't care.

"I know you're not timid, but you're poor."

"Look at what Concubine Xiao said." Zou Wenhu looked at each other, passed a moment, and said with a smile, "...It's really on point."

Xiao Shuqing glanced at him, "I told you about this long ago, the Qi family went to the Jurchen place, and they made such a big deal, what kind of scholarly family's century-old family, those Jurchens, who has any face? It doesn't matter if he plays, it's not a big deal to see him unlucky, not to mention the Qi family's savings in the Wu Dynasty for a hundred years, this time the whole family goes north, who doesn't get jealous? I didn't leave anything behind, and he couldn't fight again. This time, people with backbone went to the south. In the future, they will get a group of people who will be rewarded for meritorious deeds. Your son, and you, Zou Wenhu, will stand aside in the future... "

As she spoke, she played with her fingers: "This time, it's good for everyone. And to be honest, it's very dangerous for me to move the family. Those who play with my life are very dangerous. Your son is the brand of Guo Gong, don't Saying that we are pointing at you to ship the goods, we will definitely not let you have an accident. Even if it happens, you can’t afford it? There will be no wars after the south side! In the future, you will live in disgrace?"

Hearing her talk, Zou Wenhu had a smile on his face, but he gradually became fierce, Xiao Shuqing licked his tongue: "Okay, I won't say more nonsense, this matter is very big, and the Qi family is also very big, I I can't eat it, and we can't eat it together. There are a lot of nods, you know the rules, if you can nod on your behalf, if you can give you something, I will give it to you, so that you can feel at ease. To protect you. Of course, if you shake your head, that's it... don't say it."

Speaking of the last sentence, a real fierce light flashed in Xiao Shuqing's eyes, Zou Wenhu tilted his head to look at his fingers, and thought for a moment: "It's such a big thing, are you sure that all the participants are clean?"

"Clean? Let's see what you say." Xiao Shuqing smiled, "Anyway, you nod your head, and I will give you a few names to ensure that you have a good face. In addition, I have also said that when something happens to the Qi family, everyone will only be happy to see it. Cheng, as for after the accident, even if it happens, what can happen to your son? By that time, the Qi family has already collapsed, and a group of hungry wolves in Yunzhong Mansion will only pounce on them. It is only us who want to catch them and kill them. This gang of life-threatening... Zou Wenhu, people say that the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous, you are like this, I really regret inviting you over."

The opposite side was quiet for a moment, and then laughed: "Okay, okay... Actually, Concubine Xiao, you can guess. Since I can come to see you today, before I came out, my son has already nodded, I will deal with it..." He spread his hands, "I can't be careful, you are right, even if something happens, what is my son afraid of, but can my son still protect me?"

"Okay, the little girl understands the embarrassment of Duke Zou." At this time, Xiao Shuqing finally laughed, "You and I are both desperadoes, take care of them in the future, Duke Zou knows how to do things, and it has nothing to do with Yunzhongfu. In fact, there are many things in the middle, and I have to ask Duke Zou to take care of it."

Zou Wenhu also laughed.

"I did my best... I blame the Qi family for being too flamboyant, offending a bunch of rich young masters, offending a poor ghost like me, offending a traitor like Concubine Xiao, and offending the lifeless one. Black flag bandits, who will die if he doesn't die? Anyway, if he is going to die, his belongings must belong to others, and now it belongs to you and me, so it can be considered a good deed, hahahaha..."

In the room, both of them laughed, and after a while, another sentence came out.

"By the way, as for the one who started, it was the black flag that didn't kill you, right. The emperor in the south dared to kill him and help him take the blame. I don't think he would mind. Concubine Xiao, don't you think? Ha ha ha ha……"

Autumn has come……

(End of this chapter)