Chapter 871 Hero
Zhou Yu is a very strange person, that is, as a descendant of the public clan, he is proficient in all military strategies, and is familiar with all bows, horses, riding and shooting.
Anyone in Jiangdong can do this, but it is extremely difficult for the descendants of the public clan.
The reason is very simple. The public clan has long been out of the stage of advancement through martial arts. For them, they have their own promotion plan.
He studied scriptures when he was young, and later his elders made him famous, and then he was promoted to filial and honest by the state, and then he started his own journey to become a man in Kyoto.
After that, after Weilang accumulated connections in Kyoto for several years, he was posted as the county magistrate of Sengoku.
For the vast majority of officials in the empire, becoming the county magistrate of Qianshi was already the highest point they could reach in their lifetime, but for them, the sons of the public clan, it was just the beginning of their official career.
From then on, as long as you achieve a little success in the local area, you will be famous among the scholars. Then the emperor will hear your name, change your policy three times a day, drive to the court, and then become a minister.
From now on, as long as you don't make any more mistakes, you will step by step from the prefect of two thousand stones to the rank of Jiu Qing and the Third Duke, and then make the family name more stable.
In the future, your son will be like this, and your grandson will also follow this path.
As long as the Han Dynasty reigns, the wealth of your descendants will be endless.
And you don’t even have to worry about others competing with you, because this climb to the dragon has never been a secret, and you don’t have to worry about others following suit, because some things are there when you are born, but if they are not, that means they will never be there again.
But it was precisely this kind of good thing that everyone envied and wished they could replace it with their own bodies, but Zhou Yu didn't like it.
He is indeed good at writing, but he has had great ambitions since he was a child and does not want to be a pure Confucian.
If a man can't be Huo Guanjun, he must also be far away from the class. How can he see the vastness of the mountains and seas if he works hard for power all day long?
Therefore, Zhou Yu, a young man from a well-known family, read the classics at the age of five and was proficient in the Five Classics at the age of ten. Later, he found a civilian teacher in the capital, mastered swords, swords, swords and halberds, and mastered archery in one year, and achieved success in three years.
In his weak years, he learned from his predecessors and traveled all over the world. Going to Jingxing alone, I can see the vast mountains and rivers; I can see the Great Wall like a belt by jumping on my horse; I can see the suffering of the common people while driving in the Central Plains.
When he was crowned, he followed his father into Hangu Pass and headed towards Zhouyuan Longshang. In the majestic and vast northwest, Zhou Yu and his friends rode horses to chase eagles, leaping horses and bending bows.
At night, he stayed in the wild again, lit a few bonfires, used the sky as his quilt and the earth as his bed, and got up in a mood, singing to his heart's content all night long.
Such a carefree life lasted until his father returned to the court after completing his term of office. After that, Zhou Yu was no longer restrained and began his days of visiting mountains and rivers.
In the next five or six years, I traveled 80,000 miles from both sides of the river to the east and west of the Yangtze River. I saw the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Han Dynasty, and also saw how the people lived in the darkness where the light of the empire could not shine. days.
At that time, Taipingdao's missionary activities were already very extensive.
When Zhou Yu was in Yuzhou, he encountered Taiping Road dispensing medicinal herbs; when he arrived in Jingzhou, he saw Taiping Road rescuing victims; when he arrived in Yangzhou, he still saw Taiping Road dispensing rice.
Until this time, Zhou Yu began to worry. He ran from Yangzhou for seven days and nights, regardless of the cold and fatigue, and galloped 1,600 miles.
When Zhou Yu finally arrived in Kyoto, his legs had been torn by the saddle, and his crotch was dyed red with blood.
But Zhou Yu didn't care about these things. For the survival of the Han Dynasty, what was this hardship?
But when he told his father everything he saw along the road, he hoped that his father would inform the court to pay attention to the existence of Taiping Road.
But Zhou Yu didn't expect that his father said lightly:
"Got it."
Zhou Yu didn't understand. What do you know? Do you know that Taiping Dao has different intentions? Or do you know that Taipingdao is going to rebel?
But his father said nothing.
Later, Zhou Yu understood what his father meant. It turned out that Taiping Taoism was practiced in the palace, and even many ministers in Kyoto openly invited Taiping Taoists into the hall and asked him to explain the meaning of Huang Tian.
It was precisely this incident on Taiping Road that Zhou Yu truly grew up and knew what politics was.
The ministers in Kyoto not only knew about Taiping Dao's missionary activities, but even consciously promoted them.
At first, Zhou Yu just thought that this was using the Taiping Road to provide grassroots relief. After all, the empire was too big, and no matter how willing the court was, there were many places beyond its reach.
But it wasn't until Zhou Yu came into contact with some party members in Kyoto that he realized that this was not the case at all.
Taipingdao has been able to grow to this point with the help of both party members and eunuchs, but no matter which party helps Taipingdao, the reason has nothing to do with epidemic relief.
What the eunuchs care about is whether regular recitation of the Taiping Sutra can help them cut off their roots and be reborn. The party members seemed to intend to promote Taipingdao collective action to petition the imperial court, or more directly, to rebel.
It is precisely because of this that the imperial court will lift their party shackles and regain power.
When these interest calculations were so nakedly placed in front of Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu finally saw clearly who the princes in the court were.
If the princes only have private agendas in their eyes, how can there be such a world? And this Sheji?
It was this incident that changed Zhou Yu's thinking, turning him from a son of a noble family who wanted to revive the Han Dynasty to a desperate person.
Since traveling around the world, what Zhou Yu has seen is that farmland is desolate, markets are depressed, Guizhou is suffering from hunger and cold, and nine people are dead but no one is alive.
What kind of destiny does such a big man have?
But even then, Zhou Yu was just desperate for the big man and just wanted to return to his hometown in Shu County and wander around the mountains and rivers.
But when he walked to Rencheng, he met someone who changed his life.
That's He Xiu.
When Zhou Yu first listened to He Xiu's "Three Worlds Theory" he got from "Gongyang Chunqiu" outside the wall, he was enlightened.
He finally understood what he should do in this moral apocalypse.
Since the world is going from "decline and chaos" to "prosperity" and then to "peace", and each stage requires a holy king to promote it, why can't he be Zhou Yu?
And even if he couldn't do it, it wouldn't prevent Zhou Yu from finding such a holy king, and then assisting him to end the decline and bring peace step by step.
It can be said that since childhood, Zhou Yu has met countless teachers, including Dr. Hongru, but only He Xiu, this teacher who is not a teacher, has taught Zhou Yu the most.
After that, after Zhou Yu returned to Shu County, he kept making friends with heroes and friends in Jianghuai, and he considered himself a disciple of He Xiu.
He lamented more than once to his friends, including Sun Ce and Lu Su:
"In the four hundred years since the Han Dynasty, I am the only one who can truly understand the heavens and the earth."
But Zhou Yu had not saved up in Jianghuai for a few years before he had to go north because his family members died in groups in Zhongrenting.
There was a shortage of people in the capital, so Zhou Yu's father and uncle had no choice but to ask Zhou Yu to come to the capital to help them.
Zhou Yu couldn't refuse, because his family raised him, and he didn't want to see his eldest uncle die in battle, or hear that his father and others died in Kyoto.
So Zhou Yu went all the way north and entered Beijing again with his overall thinking on the situation.
In this way, there is a series of stories behind.
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At this time, Zhou Yu looked at Shouchun, who was very close at hand, and understood that if he wanted to make the Yangtze River his career, he must keep Shouchun, so that all his ideals could be realized.
He would never allow Shouchun to be occupied by Taishan's army.
Zhou Yu pulled out a sword-like but curved weapon. This was a Wu Hook.
When Wu Gou flashed and disappeared from his eyes, Zhou Yu yelled:
"When we meet on a narrow road, the one who dares to die will win! I, the descendants of Lujiang, who is willing to go to hell with me?" The Lujiang soldiers around me have long been suffocating. They are people who are willing to fight and die. At this moment, their blood is stirring and they are raising their troops. Roar:
"I am willing to follow Zhou Lang to the underworld together!"
Then Zhou Yu didn't say anything anymore, and directly launched a general attack before the two battalions of Taishan Army on the opposite side formed a military formation.
Zhou Yu knew very well that once the Taishan troops were allowed to form a formation, his Lujiang disciples who only had blood and bravery would definitely not be able to defeat them.
In this way, Zhou Yu's only chance is to fight quickly and fight in a chaotic manner.
For this reason, he made no preparations at all, and launched a full-scale attack with the entire army.
This time, Zhou Yu did not let others rush in front of him. When the whole army suffered a slight setback, Zhou Yu needed to rely on his own bravery to boost his morale.
Holding the Wu Gou in his hand, Zhou Yu sprinted forward with both feet. He immediately spotted a tall Taishan general and used this man to sacrifice his Wu Gou.
General Taishan on the other side was still cleaning up the queue, but when he saw the other side directly launching an attack, he knew it was too late.
Therefore, it was immediately decided to let the swordsmen in the army hedge against the skirmishers first, and then let the infantrymen behind them continue to form the formation.
This general believed that once their Taishan Army's infantry arrayed across the world, the mob on the opposite side could only wait to be killed.
And when this man saw the enemy general rushing towards him, he hesitated for a moment and gave his subordinates the order:
"You stay here and continue to be in charge of the formation. A certain family will kill that young general first and then come back."
The subordinates looked at the general's back, hesitating to speak, but ultimately unable to do anything.
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This person will each draw a ring-headed sword from his waist. He is a general with a pair of swords. Every time he goes into battle, he often carries two iron swords and fights left and right. They serve as both shields and blades. They are invincible to all enemies they encounter.
He also rushed towards Zhou Yu at the same speed. Both of them were very fast, and they had already met each other in a few breaths.
The pair of swords chopped with the right-hand sword first, but suddenly withdrew their strength, and then used the left-hand sword as a slash to chop off Zhou Yu's head.
This combination of virtual and real moves is his ultimate move, and everyone he encounters will die.
Every fighting general in the army actually has one or two killing moves. These killing moves are not sophisticated techniques, but focus on surprise.
For example, some people suddenly swing their swords during a fight, and some people will pretend to retreat, and then turn around and slash after hearing the enemy's footsteps.
This kind of killing move is not difficult to defeat, but those who encounter it are unprepared and die in the hands of this killing move.
It is obviously inappropriate for this pair of swordsmen to use their killing move at the very beginning, because the enemy general's attention must be the most concentrated at the beginning, and this killing move cannot achieve the unexpected effect.
But in order to end the battle quickly, this pair of sword generals can only do this.
But when his two swords slashed at the left-hand sword, it suddenly missed. He quickly put the sword away to protect his left side.
But it's too late.
Zhou Yu rushed all the way, and when he was about to reach the double sword general, he jumped directly, and then his body turned around in the air contrary to common sense.
Then in the air, Zhou Yu's Wu hook was suddenly inserted into the narrow gap of the double-sword general's basin armor. Because the blow was pierced diagonally from top to bottom, the basin armor had no blocking effect at all.
Wu Gou stabbed deeply into the double sword general's neck. The moment Zhou Yu landed, he knelt on the ground helplessly, and then fell to the ground.
Zhou Yu just glanced at the sword generals and shouted to the following steps:
"Behead!"
Several members of the Zhou clan quickly drew out their short blades and chopped off the heads of the sword generals, and then handed them to Zhou Yu, while another picked up Wu Gou and handed it over.
Zhou Yu held the bloody head with his left hand, Wu Gou pointed diagonally at the horrified Taishan Army opposite him with his right hand, and roared:
"Remember, the one who kills you and others is Lujiang Zhou Yu!"
After saying that, Zhou Yu threw the head in his hand hard into the crowd of Taishan soldiers opposite.
Zhou Yu didn't know that what he killed was the only two 500-man generals in the two battalions of Taishan soldiers.
So after seeing their own generals being killed, all the Taishan troops present were horrified!
At this time, their military formation had not yet been set up. Seeing the enemy rushing towards them like this, they had no choice but to charge towards them with their weapons raised.
In this way, in the western suburbs of Shouchun, thousands of Taishan troops fought in chaos with Lujiang soldiers who were three times their size.
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Zhou Yu is invincible.
Even though the Taishan Army in Western Zhejiang on the opposite side were veterans of the battlefield and elite elites, no one could stop Zhou Yu from joining forces.
Wu Gou was like lightning in his hand, harvesting human lives raging.
Beach fighting has always resulted in heavy casualties for the attacking side.
Often a hundred people rush to the beach, and by the end of the war, the casualties will be at least 30% to 40%, or even more. This is still in a situation where you may not necessarily encounter the opponent's elite.
In order to strengthen the reputation of the Lujiang disciples, Zhou Yu shouted out every time he killed a person, and killed more than ten people in a row, even cutting off the blade of Wu Gou Bao Ren.
Zhou Yu used the Wu hook to stab an enemy to death, leaving the knife on the man's stomach, and then shouted:
"Knife!"
Buqu, who had been guarding Zhou Yu, quickly handed the fine iron sword he was carrying to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu wrapped a cloth in his hand, and then wrapped the other end of the cloth in the ring of the Huanshou knife so that the knife would not slip off.
There was another loud roar, and the ring-headed sword directly cut an enemy's belly in half, and the hot semen was spread all over the floor.
Strong blood sprayed on Zhou Yu's face, and a fishy smell hit his face.
But Zhou Yu didn't even wipe it. He stepped forward again, yelled again, and another life was withered.
Zhou Yu's bravery shocked these Taishan troops, but no one was afraid to back down. If Paoze died in front, they would die in the back. They truly went forward and fought without fear of death.
Finally, Zhou Yu also received a knife. Fortunately, he dodged quickly, otherwise he would have been hit on the head by the knife. However, his head was saved, but Zhou Yu's hair, which had been tied up for more than 20 years, was chopped off.
The messy hair covered Zhou Yu's face, mixed with blood and serum, and he didn't even look like Zhou Yu at all.
But it was Zhou Yu's bravery in fighting for his life that shocked the Taishan troops present.
When a handsome general, covered in blood, looks at you with murderous intent, the pressure is stronger than any fierce-looking general.
I don’t know how long the two sides fought for, but I only know that suddenly from the north of Shouchun, in the direction of Bagong Mountain, there was a sound of ringing gold.
Of course, the Taishan Army, which was still fighting in a melee, knew that this was the camp that wanted them to retreat, so they cooperated with each other and tried their best to retreat to the north.
Looking at the remaining Taishan Army retreating, Zhou Yu stopped and frowned at the north:
"Why does the enemy general want to pay gold?"