Chapter 758 Bloody Central Plains (Part 2)
On March 11th, Wanyan Zongbi led his army to attack Suzhou. Mu Cailiang of Suzhou led ten thousand people to resist for a day and night. Suzhou fell and the city was massacred. Three days later, Suzhou The state fire burned half the city to ashes.
On March 15th, Yin Shuke led his army to fight in Liaozhou. Huang Kaiqi, the former guard of Liaozhou, led the warriors to attack at night. However, the night attack was seen through by Yin Shuke and the army was defeated. Huang Kaiqi led his personal guards. He charged towards Yin Shuke and was hit by dozens of knives. He fought hard and died.
On March 26, Zongfu and Zongbi's armies captured Hejian Prefecture, and Shenzhou, Jingzhou, Cangzhou and other places surrendered.
From the 15th to the 27th, Luozhou, Jizhou, Wozhou, Cizhou and other places surrendered one after another.
On March 30, Cangzhou veteran Liu Dingwen led more than 10,000 rebel troops to attack Hejian. After a fierce battle with Zongbi's vanguard army for half a day, the army was defeated and Liu Dingwen was killed by a stray arrow. The rebels captured more than 3,000 people and suppressed them all outside Hejian City. They built a temple with their heads and corpses spread around. It is said that the stench did not disappear for a hundred days after that.
On the first day of April, Wang Yan and Zong Han's troops of the Eight-Character Army fought in Qinzhou and were defeated and retreated.
On the sixth day of April, Zong Han attacked Pingyang, but failed, so he moved eastward. On the tenth day of the lunar month, Xi Yin led his army to attack Pingyang again and took advantage of the weakness.
On the eighth day of April, Zongfu fell to Zizhou and troops forced Jinan.
On the tenth day of April, the general of the Central Army, Nian Liduo, attacked Xiangzhou, but failed to conquer it for five days. After that, Zonghan's army came. On the 21st, Xiangzhou fell. Due to the fierce resistance of the people in the city, the Jurchens massacred all the people in the city. .
On April 25, Liu Yu, the prefect of Jinan, left the city with a sling and surrendered to Zongfu. After that, he lured the Jurchen army to open the city gate. After the army entered the city, there were more than 8,000 generals, officials, their families, and clansmen in the city who were determined to resist. In the next month, they were massacred.
On April 27th, Ou Hongxi, a great scholar who went to the East Route Army camp to lobby Zongfu and Zongbi, made an impassioned speech and cursed in front of the tent of two Jurchen princes. After that, Zongbi was so angry that he became angry Killed with one sword, and the body was thrown out of the military camp. The news that the great Confucian denounced Zongbi became a good talk among scholars.
On April 29, the Great Guangming Sect gathered 170,000 people in the southern suburbs of Junzhou to encircle and annihilate Yin Shuke's vanguard army. 170,000 people were defeated, and tens of thousands of them were chased by Jurchen cavalry to the bank of the Yellow River. On the other side, crowds of people hugged each other. A few were massacred to death, while the majority were trampled and squeezed into the river. Countless people drowned.
In early May, the Eastern Route Army led by Zongfu Zongbi forced the surrender of Tokyo and other places.
On May 15th, Zongfu’s army crossed the Yellow River.
In mid-May, general Ma Kuo led nearly 200,000 people from Wuma Mountain to kill, and spent nearly a month dealing with Zong Fu and others.
On May 23rd, Zhou Yongnan hunted Yangzhou.
In June, Ma Kuo captured Qingping, a small town that had fallen into the hands of Zong Han and others. This was an important place on the march of the central and eastern armies.
In early June, Zong Han's attack on Qingping failed. On the tenth day of June, Zongfu's army attacked Qingping again. Qingping fell. Two hundred thousand people retreated. Tens of thousands of people were hunted and killed on the way. Ma Kuo led a small number of remaining troops to retreat south.
On June 22, Zonghan's Middle Route Army fought again with the Bianliang defenders, but to no avail.
At the end of June, Zongfu soldiers forced Yingtian...
The eighth day of July...
The thirteenth day of July...
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The wind in late summer will bring all kinds of smells, the smell is unspeakable, the weather is so hot, and the dead will soon emit a rancid smell. In addition to the stench of rotting corpses, the unpleasant smell also includes body odor caused by people who have not bathed for a long time, and the smell of defecation...
Lin Zongwu was sitting on the stone platform and preaching. Sitting below him were countless believers in shabby clothes with pitiful but fanatical eyes. They were both men and women, all pitiful people.
People occasionally made cheering sounds.
After Lin Zongwu finished preaching, he turned around and went down. When he returned to the house at the back, his eyes fluctuated slightly. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes returned to calm.
Occasionally, he would think of what happened on the battlefield in Junzhou. People rushed towards the Jurchen army, fanatically and fearlessly. However, soon after, the army collapsed. The Jurchens came from every direction of sight and killed them, leaving mountains of corpses. , blood flowed into a river. These believers also started to turn around and run away, like headless flies, and he could no longer direct them.
He didn't care about dead people. In Lin Zongwu's life, he had already killed a mountain of people with his own hands. What he cared about more was the failure, and the only thing that made him feel better was that it was not his failure alone.
The whole world is in defeat. Whether it was the army in the court, the rebels, or the bandits who charged at the Jurchens, everyone was defeated and died throughout the summer. The roads where the Jurchens killed were littered with corpses and bones. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of people died, their homes were destroyed, the elderly and children starved to death, and their houses were burned to ashes. Those who have not been defeated have mostly announced their surrender to the Jurchens, those cowards.
The world is collapsing, and those believers are the most obvious manifestation of it. In the past, most people in this group of people still wore these decent clothes, and there were also many wealthy and wealthy people who now dared to wear those There are fewer and fewer people waiting for clothes to arrive. The Jurchen ravages have led to an increase in refugees. Famine and epidemics are said to have appeared north of the Yellow River. Even though he is still in the unoccupied area on the south bank of the Yellow River, people have become increasingly fearful and peaceful. Embarrassed. In Junzhou, he lost hundreds of thousands of people. After returning, many people soon gathered again.
The usually steady and dignified Leader Lin was a little confused at this time whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. Heroes all long for troubled times, because troubled times can build popularity. However, looking at the appearance of those followers, Lin Zongwu felt that that might not be a good thing.
The enemy is really... too powerful.
He thought for a moment in this quietness, and then breathed out: That's okay.
I will eventually find a way to save this world!
After a while, someone came this way. Lin Zongwu closed his eyes. The man was outside the door and reported the message in a low voice. Yingtian City was broken.
Hearing the news, he opened his eyes. For a moment, the people outside the door heard the leader sigh like a prophecy.
"The demons are dancing wildly, and the world... is going to perish..."
The world is peeling off, and the sky is in ancient times. Flames and blood fill the city. The massacres and plunder that once took place in Bianliang City , appeared again in this ancient city that briefly became the capital. The leaves of the tree were burnt, and plaques were falling. People were shouting, screaming, and begging for mercy. Women kept running, men were stabbed to death on the tips of spears, and children were thrown to the ground...< br>
There is resistance. From north to south, resistance, large and small, is constantly appearing and then being destroyed in collisions. Folk heroes organized themselves and set up a special team to hunt down lone golden soldiers. People whose families were destroyed or in danger of family destruction wanted to eat their flesh and sleep on their skins. However, this was the most intense conflict between the two countries. Hedge.
After Yingtian, the two armies went south again, and countless Jiangnan armies that came up were defeated.
Yangzhou, this graceful ancient city, also has an atmosphere of panic. The court moved here with Zhou Yong, but the Jurchens did not stop. At this time, Zhou Yong had already lowered his profile and sent several letters begging for mercy to the Jurchen army. He had already seen that this time, the Jurchens were determined to capture him and take him to the north. He had no intention of becoming emperor. Maybe I regretted it a little bit - but it didn't have any effect.
In the past, the Wu Dynasty court gathered all the elites in the world, those high-spirited adults who gave guidance to the country, and those adults who were active outside the court. This time, no one can turn the tide.
"I have prepared some people, several teams..." Looking at the palace over there from a distance, Jun Wu, standing on the palace wall, said to his sister next to him, "If the Jurchens come here, , can protect us.”
"Where to go?"
Zhou Pei's eyes were empty and he asked casually. Junwu was stunned: "How about going to the northwest?"
Zhou Pei closed his eyes, no. I want to see him when he's talking nonsense. Jun Wu then smiled: "You're kidding."
"Let's go south, and further south, and further south. Hundreds of thousands of people will chase us as long as we can. No matter what, we can save ourselves. Only in this way can we seek a chance of survival. Master did the same in the northwest." He paused, "This time in my Wu Dynasty...I'm afraid..."
Jun Wu said this and did not continue. . Zhou Pei closed her eyes and let the evening breeze blow through her hair. This was the first time in a long time that she did not refute Jun Wu when he said the title "Master". Before that, she had learned in detail what happened to the noble ladies who were captured and sent to the north in the Jingping Shame.
She was raped and abused, and when she arrived in the north, she was demoted as a slave and a prostitute, with no escape for her whole life. Next, if she encounters the fate of being captured, the only way out may be to commit suicide.
If I don’t speak first when spring comes, no insect will dare to speak.
This time, be prepared, the Jurchens who come all the way will overwhelm the entire world head-on!
In the northwest, in this place where not many people pay attention, the overall situation is not much better than the Central Plains, which has been reduced to hell.
In May, taking advantage of the Jurchen Middle and East Route Army's overwhelming power to attract the attention of the world, Wanyan Lou led the main force of more than 10,000 Jin soldiers to cross the Yellow River, and soon defeated Fan Zhixu in Chaoyi. The 60,000-strong army later defeated Tonghua, and again defeated tens of thousands of heavy troops at Tongguan.
In June, they trapped Jingzhao Prefecture, surrounded the points and called for reinforcements. They defeated and annihilated the tens of thousands of troops who were supporting Jingzhao in Changlepo and other places, and then calmly captured Jingzhao Prefecture. Captured Jingzhi envoy Fu Liang alive, and then surrendered Fengxiang and Longzhou. The pressure has really been pushed to the northwest.
In July, preparations for war were actively underway in Yanzhou and other places. Not long ago, Zhong Lie rejected the Jurchen envoy's persuasion to surrender, and the Zhong family lived in the northwest. Now, although the ancestral graves have been dug up, for Zhong Lie, who has a strong personality, surrendering money is still not an option.
Since returning to Yanzhou and other places, he has not been given much time to develop. Not long ago, he once wrote a book in Xiaocanghe, hoping to join forces with the Chinese army, which claimed not to surrender to foreign countries, to fight against the enemy, but the other party frankly refused.
The Chinese Army is a regicide and rebellion force. Although the enemies are the same, their positions are still different. We have no experience in cooperation. Who knows whether you will suddenly switch sides - before you see the situation clearly, or It is better not to join forces.
The other party's rejection has its own reasons, which are unimaginable. On July 23rd, in Yanzhou City, he was waiting for news from the south.
Not long ago, he sent 30,000 troops to support Feng Xiang.
The war that may have broken out in Fengxiang may be the largest attack launched by the entire western force of the Wu Dynasty in the face of the Jurchen West Route Army, which numbered no more than 10,000. This was the result of discussions among various parties after hearing the news that Fengxiang, who had fallen into the hands of the Jurchens, was about to defect. Among them, the Wuwei Army sent 150,000 troops, the Jinning Army 100,000, the Western Army 30,000, and several rebel armies will also send troops respectively. A time was agreed upon to launch an attack on Fengxiang at the same time.
In the afternoon, the news came.
The moment he got the news and read it, Zhong Lie felt dizzy in his seat. He put down the message, knowing it was redundant but still asked with difficulty: "Is the news true?"
< br>The dusty and injured knight gave him the answer.
On July 21st, Wanyanlou's family encircled Fengxiang City for reinforcements, defeated Jinning's army of 100,000, and then turned back to capture Fengxiang City. On July 22nd, more than 10,000 Nuzhen troops were divided into several groups. In the early morning, they defeated 30,000 Western troops in martial arts. Thousands of mighty troops arrived in Weinan.
——Wugong and Weinan are nearly two hundred miles apart.
Zhong Lie walked out the door.
At this time, various war preparations should still be in progress in Yanzhou City, but from the City Lord's Mansion, there was no work scene outside. The autumn air was crisp outside the courtyard, but he only felt a little hard to breathe, and it was dark. Pressed over.
"This world...is it going to end..."
Xiaocang River, the sun shone slantly into the house, and light and dust were flying in the air. After receiving the news, a group of officers also fell silent.
"...your mother." Someone sighed softly, "...what's the use of having so many people."
In August, the main army of Wanyan Lou's family pushed towards Yan State... It’s the last three days of this month. Does anyone still have a monthly ticket? ^_^
(End of this chapter)