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Chapter 766 Chapter 707 Lin Feng (1)

Chapter 766 Chapter [-] Rin Feng ([-])

At the end of August, at the end of autumn, the weather has gradually turned cooler. The deciduous trees have yellow leaves in large areas. In the long and deserted autumn wind, the mountains and rivers have changed their colors.

The rivers and mountains of the Wu Dynasty are indeed changing colors.

This is the year when heroes and heroes came into being. On both sides of the Yellow River, countless imperial troops and Wu Dynasty rebels participated in the battle against the Jurchen aggression one after another. Individuals, forces, heroes and chivalrous warriors made their own struggles and sacrifices in this chaotic tide.

After Zongfu and Zongbi's army broke Yingtian, the ancient city was slaughtered like a ghost town. Shortly after Zongze's death, Bianliang was broken again. The rebels in the north and south of the Yellow River lost control and chose to fight in their own way.Throughout the Central Plains, although rebels continued to emerge, the areas ruled by the Jurchens continued to expand.

More civilians chose to flee south. On the main road from north to south, every big city gradually began to become overcrowded.Such a wave of refugees is not the same thing as the occasional famine that breaks out in winter. The number and scale of the population are indescribable.One or two cities could not be digested, so people continued to travel south, and Jiangnan and other places that had been peaceful for a long time finally clearly felt the shadow of the war and the trembling of the turbulent world.

Yangzhou City was the temporary presence of Jianshuo Emperor Zhou Yong at this time.As the saying goes, fireworks fall in Yangzhou in March. At this time, Yangzhou City is the most prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. Famous families gather, wealthy businessmen gather, and brothels and Chu pavilions are everywhere.The only regret is that Yangzhou is the Jiangnan of culture, not the area of ​​Jiangnan. In fact, it is still located on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

When Zhou Yong left Yingtian, he originally wanted to cross the river and return to Jiangning, but the manpower around him blocked it, so Emperor Dao left Yingtian. , I chose Yangzhou, which is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Although this place was not the Jiang Ning he was familiar with, it was not unacceptable to Zhou Yong.He was an idle prince in Jiangning. When he was enthroned, he went to Yingtian. The position of the emperor made him boring to death. Every day he played with new concubines in the harem, and he had to be protested by the people in the city. After Chen Dong and Ouyang Che came to Yangzhou, no one dared to speak more, and he could fully experience the bustling brothel of the city every day.

By the end of August, Zhou Yong, who was elected to the top position, was having fun in the palace every day, and he also asked the small officials outside the palace to pay tribute to some folk women, and he had a lot of fun.For political affairs, most of them were handed over to Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Qin Hui and other people who had supported the establishment of the dynasty.This day, Junwu ran to the palace to make trouble, and hurriedly wanted to go back to Jiangning. He drove away the women around Zhou Yong with red eyes. Zhou Yong was also quite helpless. He pushed back and pulled his son aside to complain. .

"You want to go back to Jiangning, of course I know, why don't you want to go back to Jiangning as a father. You are the prince now, and I am the emperor. It was easier said than done when you crossed the river and now you want to go back. In this way, you can help the father come up with an idea and how to convince those Minister..."

"Father, you just want to go back to avoid the war!" Jun Wu red eyes, staring at his father in yellow robes in front of him, "I want to go back and continue to study objects! Yingtian didn't guard, my things are in Jiangning! That hot air balloon I'm about to study it, and now the world is in danger, I don't have time to wait! And the father, you, you...you only drink and have fun every day, do you know what it's like outside?"

"How can I not know? I want to go on a personal expedition, what do you think of Jun Wu?" Zhou Yong's eyes became serious. , but the next moment, the majesty collapsed, "But in fact, you can't beat it, Jun Wu, you said that I only know how to avoid war, I don't avoid war, take people out, and be caught immediately! What are those soldiers like? What about those ministers, do you think your father doesn't know? But compared to them, your father knows how to fight? Do you know how to play tricks with them?"

"..."

"Your father! When I was in Jiangning, I used a hammer to smash people's heads. After smashing it, it was very scary. I don't want to smash it a second time. I don't understand the affairs of the court. One day when things are messed up, you can even pick up a hammer and smash their heads! Jun Wu, you are smart since you were a child, you can play with them, just do it, support your father, your imperial sister will help you, you... Do you know how to do it?"

Jun Wu's eyes were red and he didn't speak. Zhou Yong patted him on the shoulder and pulled him to sit by the lake on the side of the garden. The emperor was plump and sat down like a bear with his hands drooping.

"Your father has been an idle prince since he was a child, a teacher in a school, and his family expects him to be a prince who can eat, drink, and have fun. Suddenly one day, he said that he wanted to be an emperor, so that's good? I... I don't If you are willing to intervene in anything, let them do it, let Junwu do it, otherwise what else can you do?"

He spread his hands: "I know what the world is like. The Jurchens are so powerful that no one can stop them. If they can't stop them, the Wu Dynasty is about to end. Junwu, they fought like this. It's also very difficult for the father... I'm afraid. You want to go forward for your father, who doesn't know how to lead an army. If the two armies fight, these ministers will all run away. I don't know when to run. Think about my father, anyway, I can't stop it , I can only run back, they chased me, and I went south for my father. My Wu Dynasty is weak now, but after all, with 200 years of experience, maybe sometime, there will be a real hero... There should be some."

Jun Wu lowered his head: "It's already overcrowded outside. I'm providing disaster relief and food every day. When I see them, I feel uncomfortable. The Jurchens have already occupied the front line of the Yellow River, and they can't defeat them. Sooner or later, they will come over."

"Yeah." Zhou Yong nodded.

"I'm in a hurry. I now know what kind of mood Grandpa Qin and the others were in when they were in Bianliang..."

"Well..." Zhou Yong nodded again, "Your master, for this matter, even Zhou Zhe killed..."

"he……"

"Hey, I'm just thinking about being a father. Being a father doesn't necessarily make me a good emperor. Will there be a day when someone like that comes and kills my father as well." Zhou Yong patted his son on the shoulder again. "Junwu, if you see such a person, you should first recruit him and reuse him. You were smart since you were young, and so was your sister. I originally thought, what's the use of you being smart, it will not be the life of an idle prince in the future. I wanted to make you a little stupid, but after thinking about it, I let you sister and brother go. In these years, my father has not cared about you, but in the future, you may be a good emperor. When I ascend the throne, it will be Think so."

The father and son had not communicated much for a long time. At this time, after listening to Zhou Yong's heartfelt remarks, Jun Wu's anger could not come up.After a while, Zhou Yong asked, "Is Hanwei okay?"

Jun Wu shook his head: "It's not good yet." The name of the main family he married was Li Hanwei, the daughter of a prominent family in Jiangning.It's just that Jun Wu went to Beijing all the way and came back to Yangzhou in a hurry. This kind of journey made the woman fall ill, and it has not improved until now. A large part of Jun Wu's troubles comes from this.

"Women are like clothes, you don't have to be too sad."

The emperor waved his hand and said something comforting, but it was an extra jerk.

After these conversations, Jun Wu could no longer say anything on his father's side.He left the palace all the way, and when he returned to the mansion, a group of monks, witch doctors and others were burning incense and lighting candles in the mansion. The car went out again, and passed through the streets of Yangzhou, which still looked prosperous and delicate. The autumn wind was rustling and passers-by were in a hurry. When they got to the city wall, they began to see refugees.

Climbing the tower, the dense crowds outside the city are all refugees.As the sun went down, the city and the rivers and mountains looked magnificent, but Jun Wu felt more and more uncomfortable.

Over the past few days, he has seen more and more things. If he was still in high spirits when his father took over the throne, many of his ideas have now been broken.As his father said, he knew what those ministers and troops were like.However, even if you come by yourself, you may not do better than these people.

After all, he is only a young man who has just seen this world. If he is a little stupid, he may be able to command blindly with high spirits. complex.He can support Yue Fei and other generals to train troops, but if he goes further, he will touch the entire huge system, and if he does one thing, he may screw up three or four things.Even if he is the prince, he does not dare to mess around.

A few years ago, when Grandpa Qin and his teacher were in Bianliang, this may have been the case.This seemingly peaceful city is actually crumbling.The sky is about to collapse, and the earth is like a skinny wife lying on the bed, trying to pull the sky but powerless, watching the arrival of bad luck.He stood at the head of the city and suddenly burst into tears.

Soon after, Jurchen broke through Xuzhou, the last line of defense leading to Yangzhou, and smashed in the direction of Yangzhou.

And at this time, they don't know yet.To the northwest, the confrontation between the Huaxia Army and the Jurchen West Route Army is still going on fiercely.

Fan Hongji rode a horse and ran on the rugged mountain road. Although he was busy, his envoys and official uniforms were not too messy.

After the Huaxia Army fought the Jurchen, this was his last mission to Xiaocanghe on behalf of the Jin Kingdom.

Although the war has started, the humility of the strong is not ashamed.Of course, on the other hand, it also means that the Huaxia Army's shot has indeed shown surprising strength.

Time went back to the night of August 25th. The Huaxia Black Banner Army and the Jurchen cavalry led by Wanyan Loushi started a confrontation. Under the frontal impact of tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry, the same number of black banner infantry was submerged. However, they were never crushed head-on.A large number of military formations still maintained their formations during the intense confrontation, and part of the defensive formations were pushed away. However, after a while, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army began to move closer to their companions while shouting and fighting. Formation, forming a solid defensive formation again.

When the gunshots began to sound one after another, the defensive formation even began to advance, actively cutting and squeezing the advancing route of the Jurchen cavalry.And the Jurchen—or Wanyan Loushi—a keen sense of the battlefield was revealed at this time. The three cavalry detachments were almost next to the ranks of the Black Flag Army, using them as the background and heading straight for the cannon. The black flag was in the middle, and under Qin Shaoqian's command, the middle formation formed a stubborn resistance. The weak spot was once opened up by the Jurchen cavalry, but it was finally filled up.

The Jurchen cavalry, who could not succeed in one blow, began to rush and chisel quickly and left the battlefield. Under the command of Wanyan Loushi, there was an extremely fierce fight on the east side of the battlefield, like the collision of two huge stone mills, but as the artillery advanced Up to now, Wanyan Loushi had also twisted the Jurchen cavalry into a single force as much as possible, leaving the battlefield while maintaining the deterrent force of the huge arrows, and then threw a rain of arrows around the battlefield, forcing Han Jing back, and heading towards Yanzhou. The north side of the city rushed over.

This is just a round of fighting, the hedging is fierce and fierce, and the intensity of the battle is staggering.In a short period of time, the Black Flag Army showed the peak-level formation coordination ability, while the Jurchen side showed Wanyan Loushi's high sensitivity to the battlefield and his ability to control the cavalry. At that time, he quickly gathered up the brigade, while suppressing the Black Flag Army, he ordered the entire army to withdraw from the sticky area during the rush.The Black Flag Army's artillery did not even cause large-scale casualties when dealing with these seemingly loose cavalry with the same goal - at least, the casualties were much less than the dead in the hedging battle.

What really affected the Jurchen cavalry was, first of all, the frontal conflict, and the second was the strong crossbow that was equipped on a large scale with the support of the assembly line. It definitely made Wanyan Loushi feel the pain.

After this short-lived and fierce collision, the Jurchen cavalry, who had originally assumed the attitude of destroying the Black Flag Army in the first battle, did not hesitate to fight, and rushed straight to Yanzhou City.At this time, in the northwest of Yanzhou City, the army formation composed of the evacuated infantry and baggage soldiers arranged by Wanyan Loushi had already begun to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city.

Soon after, the army led by Hongti also arrived, and 5000 people went into the battlefield to intercept the Jurchen infantry.After Wanyan Loushi's cavalry arrived, they fought with Hongti's army and covered the infantry's escape. The cavalry led by Han Jing chased after them. Not long after, the Huaxia Army Brigade also chased them and joined Hongti's army.

The Jurchen elite cavalry that had joined the infantry could not evacuate quickly, and the Huaxia Army pursued without a single step. This night, the chase and bite that lasted for most of the night began.On the rugged journey of more than [-] miles, the two sides kept chasing and fleeing in the form of forced marching. , the cavalry stands out, trying to pull the Jurchen cavalry or infantry into the quagmire of fierce battle in any form.

When marching and fighting in such a dark night, accidents happened on both sides.Wanyan Loushi's use of troops is imaginative, and occasionally several cavalry will tear up the Black Flag Army's team at a long distance, causing casualties a little bit here, but the aggressiveness of the Black Flag Army and the coordination of the cavalry will also make the Jurchen side appear. The situation of the left and the right is clumsy, and several small-scale killings have left the Jurchen behind dozens of corpses.

After chasing like this for most of the night, the two sides were exhausted and laid down fortifications to rest at a place two or three miles away from a yellow green in the northwest of Yanzhou.The next morning, before I could sleep well, I saw the Black Flag Army push the artillery array forward again. When the Jurchens lined up, the Black Flag Army team had already pushed over again.Wanyan Loushi commanded the army to detour, and then fought a battle with the opponent with large-scale cavalry.

In the next two days, there was friction between them, and conflicts continued. One possessed amazing discipline and collaboration capabilities, while the other possessed a keen control of the battlefield and the ability to command troops in the realm of transformation.The two troops collided wildly on this piece of land, like a heavy hammer and an iron felt, each fiercely trying to swallow the other.

Facing the most powerful army in the world, the number one general in the world, the Black Flag Army's response was so fierce.This is something no one expected.

Recalling the experience of several missions to Xiao Canghe, Fan Hongji never thought of this. After all, it was Wanyan Loushi.

When it was about to reach the Xiaocang River, in the sky, it started to rain...

(End of this chapter)