In a panic, he kept running, fear came from a distant place, but for some reason, in such a run, he wanted to close his eyes and avoid everything that was happening.

“…Here’s coming…”

“……………”

In the noisy and chaotic environment, there were more and more people around him. He buried his head forward and gradually ran to the edge of the river. The bumpy waves lie in front and fear behind him chased him. He stood there, and someone pushed him forward.

The small fishing boat sailed off the shore. He stood on his head and heard people coming from behind, with huge waves shaking under him.

Don't look back - he told himself this in his heart, but the person in the picture finally turned around. In the mist, the Jurchens came to kill, and the crowd on the shore ran, cried, were chased and forced into the river, and then sank down, and blood poured into the river.

Zhou Junwu knelt on the boat.

Huge shame filled everything.

——He sat up from his dream.

...

There was also a faint smell of sandalwood in the dark tent, and the space was warm, but it also had some traces of wetness and coldness. When he sat up, his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

The consciousness was still in the dream just now. After a while, he got off the bed and lit the oil lamp with a fire slit. The light reflected a clearly contoured face. The face was thin and firm, and the beard that grew under the jaw increased its age at first glance, making it more stable. After the light was lit, the sound of a servant came from outside the tent, and he asked someone to bring the hot water.

It was still dawn, and there was a stretch of military camp outside the tent. After washing his face, he sorted out his clothes in the mirror to make himself look more energetic. When he walked out of the tent, a soldier saluted him, and he also replied with etiquette - this was something that had never happened in the Wu Dynasty before.

In the tenth year of Wu Jianshuo, Prince Zhou Junwu was twenty-seven years old. For those around him, he had grown into a steady and reliable adult.

He was decisive and majestic about the officials of all parties in the Wu Dynasty. He was humble and polite to his technicians and the people. He lived in the military camp and got up earlier than ordinary soldiers every day. He even replied to every soldier who saluted him with the same etiquette - this was an unprecedented thing he had learned from the Black Flag Army. If any literati advised or scolded him, he would apologize humbly and then do his own things. In any case, most of the military and civilians regarded him as the future lord of revival.

The strong and strict self-discipline made him lose weight and became more and more resolute. Especially in the spring of the tenth year of Jianshuo, the young man who once lived a pampered life also had a decisive spirit of war.

The spring cold in February is slightly turned, and the breath of war has been heard. At this time, the ice and snow have not yet disappeared. The changes in Jin area have sounded the first alarm bell after the opening of the New Year: the battlefield is a life-and-death Shura field, and no one will wait until the real spring is in full bloom before starting to take action.

After walking through the tents in the military camp and walking not far away, Jun Wu saw Yue Fei walking over. After saluting, the other party handed over the information waiting.

"Linzhou, the martial arts speed fight against the Black Flag Army, and the battle started..."

"Jiang is still old, and Zong Han and Xi Yin's methods are really ruthless." Jun Wu murmured in the intelligence and said, when the Jin Dynasty was at its peak, he killed Jin King Tian Shi and severely broke up the only promising resistance force in the Central Plains. As an enemy, when Xi Yin's attack was taking place, anyone would feel a chill on his back.

“…In addition, Xuzhou has changed.”

In Yue Fei's words, Jun Wu raised his head and looked north. In the darkness, there was a faint sound of icebergs collapsed and the sound of the earth awakening...

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Weisheng, Tianji Palace.

The massacre that Yuan Xiaoqiu was waiting for on the fourth day of the second month has never happened.

After that cold negotiation, both parties went back to their homes. Yuan Xiaoqiu originally thought that she would give everyone a good look. Shu Wan's eyes were always cold, but she didn't move too much.

After this day, the power struggle was like an anxious undercurrent, centered on victory. On the night of the fourth day of the second month, Lou Shuwan, An Xifu, Lin Zongwu and representatives of various anti-Jin forces allocated their respective areas and interests in the Tianji Palace. By the fifth day of the second month, Lou Shuwan had made appointments with local snakes from all over the country, including Lin Zongwu, to disclose the materials, military equipment, military forces, and general information in various cities and towns in Jin as much as possible.

When I met Lin Zongwu in private that morning, Lou Shuwan even openly discussed with him the issue of the belonging and division of the branches of the Great Light Cult. The "Xuan Nv" and "The Master of Light" divided the power in the form of not dragging back as much as possible. Lou Shuwan's side also made many concessions.

At this time, small-scale battles and fights had begun to appear in Weisheng City, but due to the restraint of all parties, there was no large-scale battle at this time.

With the death of King Jin, the coercion of the Jurchen army, and the turning against the forces of various aristocratic families has become a fact. However, due to the special situation on the King Jin territory, the coup-style swords and guns did not appear immediately.

Based on the briefing at the negotiation meeting and the tacit understanding formed by the last resort, all households are currently constantly attracting forces to take sides. During this period, the armies, arms and warehousing materials have become the primary targets of various forces to win over and occupy. While Lou Shuwan was negotiating with everyone, Yu Yulin had begun to stabilize several important locations in the southwest of Jindi as much as possible.

As for the several forces that still chose to oppose the anti-Jin Jin stance, Lou Shuwan chose to hand over his wealth and even let the people who were still standing on his side help them to occupy cities, passes, and divide warehouses in important places. Even if they formed a large and small separatist and swinging force, it would be better than these unattainable places to become the treasures of the Jurchens.

Politics, when losing an absolute controller, naturally becomes a game of taking on people's heads.

At the negotiation meeting, although what the old man named Liao Yiren said was either the five cities or the ten cities, it sounded absurd, but in fact it was slowly appearing in this form. All parties on the confrontation understood that in this situation where you have me and I have you, if all parties first control the territory they can control, there will be a little chance of fighting or surrendering in a few days, but if they turn against each other directly, Jin will be immediately beaten into a sea of ​​fire, and the Jurchens will push south on a ruin.

At that time, no one will have a way out.

And in this fierce but depressing confrontation, everyone was still waiting for a fight in the north.

On the eighth day of the second month, the siege of the city has been launched.

...

A "bang" roar sounded on the city wall, and the stones and blood were everywhere on the ground shook. On the morning of the eighth day of the second month, the second day after the siege of the city, the battle situation in Linzhou became fierce.

At noon on the sixth day of the second month, the Jurchen army arrived in Linzhou, and completed the siege on three sides on the seventh day of the second month, and launched an attack on the same day. As for a siege battle, such a development seemed extremely hasty, but Zhi Liesu still chose such a direct attack.

In the east, west and north directions of Linzhou City, the entire front launched an attack almost at the same time, with only bows, arrows, ladders and other objects. However, under a large-scale feint attack, Zhiliu chose two points as a breakthrough point. Relying on the strength of the Jurchen elite, the extremely fierce stormtrooper cleverly hid in the attack of the Han army. He chose a location on the city wall that was obviously not guarded by the Black Flag Army to attack. On the afternoon of the seventh day of the lunar month, it posed a huge threat to the Linzhou city wall.

This attack, which was like a wake-up call, was the first test of the Chinese army in front of him by Zhiliu, and he was unable to break the city. On the morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, more than 30 catapults were assembled overnight by the Jurchens, and they launched a position, and together with more than 80 ladders, they attacked the city walls in the west of Linzhou.

In addition to the 23,000 troops under the command of the Linzhou garrison Xu Chunyi, the total number of troops in Linzhou was more than 30,000. Although the Jurchens were in a formation of three missing one, it was impossible for the entire city to relax. In the sudden attack of the Jurchens, the pressure on the west side of the city reached its limit in an instant.

The Chinese soldiers stationed here began to move closer to this side, with cannons roaring on the city wall and arrows falling like rain. The Jurchen soldiers were like bees in their sight. They pushed sandbags and mud bags, carried cloud ladders, and filled the moat in a blink of an eye, placing the cloud ladder onto the city wall about two meters high.

The city walls of Linzhou are not high, with more than 80 cloud ladders filling every part of the city in the blink of an eye. The Jurchen soldiers who were fearless in death rushed up, but there were still Chinese soldiers defending like iron walls above the city wall. Even the brave Jurchen soldiers were unable to break through the tacit cooperation of the Chinese soldiers for a while. This made the western section of the city wall turn into a meat grinder in a blink of an eye.

The fierce siege and fighting reached its peak for about half an hour. It was when the defensive power on the city wall became saturated. On the battlefield to the north, a Jurchen team of thousands of people launched a surprise attack. The choice happened to separate the weak points of the manpower to defend against the siege points in the west. At the same time, the Han army launched a strong attack to the city wall two miles north.

Such a siege tactic is never surprising. Although the city guards have a good area, as a defense, it is like a tight rubber band. The siege army only needs to select a few places to apply repeated pressure, and the surrounding forces will be attracted, which will inevitably become a weak point, making it easier for the siege to attack and climb the city.

Of course, such tactics are only suitable for troops with extremely high combat power levels. For example, the direct line of generals such as Jurchen army, especially the elites. Facing ordinary Wu Dynasty teams, they can often quickly climb the city. Even if they are not broken for a while, the opponent will often have to pay several times the price to regain the city wall.

Above the city wall, Niu Baoting, the commander of Xu Chunyi's army, saw the Jurchens spreading, his hands and feet were a little cold. He was an old man who had been eating for many years and was already a soldier in the army. The army of King Jin was of varying quality, and Niu Baoting was just a commander who was promoted to life. He had the eyes but knew the danger. Seeing that the wall on his side became a place for the opponent to attack, he knew the danger was too good. And there were many fewer Chinese soldiers nearby.

Leading his men, Niu Baoting shot a few arrows under the city wall. In a blink of an eye, the ladders had already been put up one after another. The Jurchen soldiers raised their shields and held swords, and rushed onto the ground fiercely. The battlefield was the best touchstone. Just looking at their calm appearance on the ladder, they knew that they were all elite soldiers who killed countless people on the battle formation - this kind of momentum was impossible for veterans to do it.

There were cannons roaring in the nearby city walls and stones were thrown down, but not long after, there were still Jurchen soldiers climbing the city. Niu Baoting and his brothers around him killed one, and another soldier who came up to defend for a while, and then waited for a Jurchen soldier to climb the city. Two fierce Jurchens forced Niu Baoting and other five people to retreat continuously. One brother was chopped in a pool of blood, and Niu Baoting was almost chopped on the head. He was afraid in his heart and retreated repeatedly, and saw that the Jurchens there were so powerful that they came over.

I'm going to die, I'm going to die-

The veteran Yuzi thought in panic that on the one hand, the Jurchens in front of him were fierce, and on the other hand, once the Jurchens broke through the city, everyone in the city would die. In this chaos, a soldier under his shoulder was chopped down and frightened, running towards the other end of the city wall.

Niu Baoting and others also dodged in panic. In just a short moment, some Jurchens climbed the city from different directions, fighting in their sight. For example, Niu Baoting and other soldiers under Xu Chunyi began to become panic and defeated, but only a dozen Chinese soldiers formed two formations to fight with the Jurchen soldiers who climbed the city, and did not retreat for a long time.

After a while, Chinese soldiers rushed over from both sides. Niu Baoting and others were not in time to run out of chaos. Two Jurchen generals came over. He and two subordinates tried hard to resist. Later, four Chinese soldiers rushed past him with shields or swords and guns, and poked the two Jurchen soldiers to death under the spear. The gunman was obviously an officer in the Chinese army and patted Niu Baoting on the shoulder: "Good thing, let me kill these golden dogs." Niu Baoting and others subconsciously followed.

In a blink of an eye, the city that had just been opened by the Jurchens was taken back by the Chinese soldiers. The Chinese military officers rushed forward and commanded everyone to throw the Jurchen corpses on the ladder. The crisis was resolved a little. Niu Baoting saw a Chinese soldier sitting among the corpses all over the ground and bandage the wound on his body, and laughed: "Haha, please feel free, I'll give me a quick guide, my mother--"

A few days ago, when the Chinese Army organized a conference, Niu Baoting was also touched, he still felt only fearful when facing the real Jurchen elite. However, at this moment, he suddenly realized that the current army, this black flag, was the only Han army in the world that could fight the Jurchens head-on but was not inferior to the one. The battle in front of him was a confrontation between the two top armies in the world.

I'm dying...

The veteran Youzi didn't feel much passionate in his heart. After realizing this, he had already clearly realized that the current battle would inevitably be so fierce that it was unsurpassed. He was caught in these two armies, even if he did not die now, he would probably be dead next...

On the fierce battlefield, between life and death, all kinds of intense thoughts will gather. In the position northwest of Linzhou City, the telescope held by Shu Liesu was put down and sighed at the failure of a team of thousands of people. But on the other hand, this was something he had expected.

After all, it is not the first time he has fought with the Black Flag Army.

The battle of Xiao Canghe several years ago was when he led a large army. After besieging Xiao Canghe for nearly half a year, he finally broke through the city wall, forcing the defensive army in Xiao Canghe to break the dike and break through. He had already knew the calmness and tenacity of the elite Chinese army when defending. The fierce attack from yesterday to today only made him sure of something.

The army in front of us is not a partial division placed by the Black Flag Army in Shandong. Many of them are probably old opponents of that time.

His eyes were calm and blood was burning in his heart.

As a famous Jurchen general who followed Aguda's uprising, Shu Liesu, who is now 49 years old, can detect the corruption of the new generation of Jurchens over the years. Young soldiers are no longer as brave as they were back then, and officials and generals are becoming weak and incompetent. The invincible momentum of Aguda's uprising back then and Wu Qimai's heroic spirit of fighting against Wu Qimai's attack on Wu's army is gradually dissipating.

The series of setbacks that attacked Xiaocang River and the northwest a few years ago were a wake-up call for many Jurchen generals. To some extent, it dispelled the peaceful thinking of many Jurchen generals and retained the sharpness of many Jurchen generals and the army. Therefore, when facing this black flag team again, Zhi Liesu was not discouraged by the temporary setback, and such setback made him feel excited.

If he faced the Black Flag army at other times, he would have to make more preparations before launching an attack. But the current situation is different.

The snow melts and the ice disappears, and the God of Ceres has begun to attack Jin, kill Tian Shi, divide Jin, and break the black flag. This series of plans have been eliminated and fought. Once successful, the obstacles of the entire Jin area, known as a million troops, collapse. Thirty thousand Jurchen elites fight against the 10,000 Black Flag Army. Even if they pay some price, they must quickly settle the most intense and critical battle underground.

On the other hand, Lord Ceres' calculations are like a net of heaven and earth, and the backup plan he prepared is not just about killing a field. If he cannot take down Linzhou City under such circumstances, he will have no need to fight against the Black Flag in the future.

Thinking of this, Shu Liesu narrowed his eyes and for a moment, summoned another general under his command and issued an order to attack him...

On the eighth day of the second month, Linzhou's offensive was thunderous. The command of the siege of the city was almost at the top of the city for several times, but they were then driven down by the fierce attacks of the Chinese army. The city was covered with blood, and the damage was not a small number of on both sides.

However, the intensity of the attack was still increasing. It seemed to be to defeat the Chinese army in one blow and defeat the hearts of the entire Jin area. Shu Liesu never cared about the casualties of the soldiers. After many battles this day, many Chinese soldiers had fallen into a pool of blood forever, and most of the remaining soldiers were red-eyed.

In the evening, when the setting sun shone a warm yellow light from one side of the sky, Hu Yanzhuo stood in a corner of the city and watched the troops siege below retreat briefly. There were still traces of snow on the ground in the distance, while there were smoke and blood nearby.

The rockets that had just been shot on this corner of the city ignited several shells. The Linzhou defenders, who were originally under Xu Chunyi, were in chaos. Hu Yanzhuo led his team to suppress the formation and killed a group of Jurchens. At this time, the city was covered with charred traces, bodies and weapons fell to the ground in a mess, and some soldiers had begun to clean up. The Chinese soldiers first took care of the seriously injured, and some of the slightly injured or tired people hid in the safe place behind the female wall, adjusted their breathing, and rested quickly. There was a bloody and excited expression in their eyes.

"Xiao Cang River was much more lively than here..."

The voices of nearby veterans came from their ears, and they were breathing with a show-off tone, which was actually cheering up the people around them. Looking around at both ends of the city wall, you can see teams of Chinese troops at the fluttering of the black flags.

Hu Yanzhuo knew many of these figures. The soldiers who participated in the Battle of Xiao Canghe and then survived often had unignorable qualities. They were both nervous, serious or indifferent on weekdays, but on the battlefield, these people were more like stones. They were not noticeable in the fight, but they were often able to make the most appropriate response at the most appropriate time.

Most of these people can lead the army and the ones who are a little introverted can lead several people to form a small circle on the battlefield. At this time, they were scattered everywhere in the city walls. After the fierce fighting, many people probably recalled the fierce battle in Xiao Canghe.

On the wilderness outside the city, the Jurchens' battle flags stretched out, symbolizing the most fierce army in the world. When their eyes swept over the figures on the city wall, Hu Yanzhuo's eyes seemed to see a city wall that never fell. Back then in Liangshan, Song Jiang gathered many heroes in the world and tried to rank the positions of 108 great heroes of Tiangang and Earth Demon. Today, they may not be able to take the attack of this army.

After a day of siege, the Jurchen soldiers were retreating on the entire line for the first time and suspended the fatigue offensive. Most of the people looking up and down on the city were confused. Beside Hu Yanzhuo, the Black Flag Army Staff Li Nian came over and whispered to him some things.

"The news just came. The Ming Wang army led by Wang Juyun was already within 20 miles. It was difficult to walk on the road. It would be arriving tomorrow at the latest. In addition, Boss Zhu has already met with the three thousand troops outside... Shu Liesu would not know about these things. After fighting a day of fatigue offensive, he would not want to rest. "

Hu Yanzhuo nodded and summoned the officers around him: "Let everyone cheer up. The speed of the art is not that lazy, and the attack will continue at any time." Then he picked up the telescope and looked at the opposite position. The people and horses were running around in the dark camp, which was extremely lively.

Then something was slowly rising from behind the Jurchen camp.

"I... fuck!" Hu Yanzhuo cursed. The voices of the people on the city wall started to buzz.

That is the expanding hot air balloon.

Since the Chinese Army mastered the technology of hot air balloons, it is said that the Wu Dynasty has also developed a finished product recently. The Jurchens were led by Wanyan Xiyin to study and study the research on things. It is not surprising that they can master the technology, but they are just taken out on the battlefield. This is the first time.

But it is enough to prove that Zong Han, Xiyin and others attach great importance to this battle and are determined.

The atmosphere on the city wall suddenly became solemn, and people ran around and brought fireworks for air defense. Soon after, the direction of the Jurchen military camp launched an attacking formation again.
To be continued...