Chapter 742: Hometown Cowardice (Part II)
In the darkness of the night, figures and horses galloped through the woods, and there was a hill with a slightly wider view, and the dilapidated dirt road stretched down the hillside, and in the distance was a deserted village that had become a ghost. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The village has only recently been abandoned, and although it is no longer empty, there are still not many traces of the destruction of time. This place...... It's close to Dengzhou. The silver vase tied to the horse's back was identifiable - she had been here with the soldiers of the Beiwei army once more than a month ago.
There was the sound of wind in my ears, and a small commotion could be heard in the distance, it was a skirmish that was taking place. The girl tied to the horse's back held her breath, and someone in the horse team on this side cast an attentive glance into the darkness over there, and after a while, the fighting stopped.
The man on horseback came from a distance, with a torch in his hand, and when he got closer, he reached out and untied the two human heads hanging from his waist and were still in the mud ditch by the roadside. The silver bottle closed his eyes, and heard the man say, "Two people from the green forest." β
"Two?" Someone seemed to be glancing into the mud ditch.
"Dog man and woman, died together."
There was a whining and struggling sound on the horseback behind, followed by a "snap" slap, and there was another sound after the slap, and the man on horseback scolded: "Little rabbit cub!" "Probably because Yue Yun struggled hard, he was beaten again.
In the night wind, someone laughed contemptuously, and the horse team continued on its way.
The village is getting closer, and Dengzhou is getting closer and closer.
Approaching Dengzhou means that the possibility of her and her younger brother being rescued is getting smaller and smaller......
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Probably no one can describe in detail what war is like.
To sum it up, perhaps the closest sentence would be "do everything". Since the beginning of human beings, no matter what kind of means and things can happen, as long as they can happen, they can appear in war. The Wu Dynasty has been at war for several years.
Xiangyang, which changed hands again two months ago, has just become the front line of the war. Today, between Xiangyang, Dengzhou, and Xinye, it is still a chaotic and dangerous area.
The dispersion of the aborigines, the gathering of the displaced people, and the fighting of the Beiwei army, the Great Qi army, and the Jin army in this vicinity have turned this radius of hundreds of miles into a chaotic killing field.
Before the large forces gathered and counterattacked, the puppet Qi patrols focused on intercepting and killing the displaced people - the fugitives who had already made it to the area, for whom they were basically killed, and the Beiwei army sent out teams to pick up the displaced people as much as possible during the initial friction.
Last month, for a group of people, the army of the puppet Qi tried to fight a wave of ambushes by the Wei army, but after being recognized by Niu Gao and others, they carried out a counter-encirclement, and then surrounded the point to expand the results. The reinforcements of the puppet Qi cooperated with the Jin people to supervise the war and slaughtered the people to surround Wei to save Zhao, this small battle almost expanded, and then the Beiwei army had a slight upper hand and restrained the troops, and the displaced people were slaughtered by a small half.
Similar clashes have been common these days, but after large-scale clashes almost broke out, both sides have temporarily exercised restraint in the area. As soon as the Beiwei army had won a great victory, and the other side had already set up a defensive battle, what was needed was to digest the experience gained after this great victory and consolidate the confidence of the army.
The Great Qi army was timid and timid, and they were more willing to intercept and kill the displaced people who were heading south, killing them all and robbing them of their last possessions. And under the pressure of the Jin people's war, they had no choice but to stalemate here.
As for the Jin side, when they supported the Great Qi regime, they also left a few troops in the Central Plains - but these troops were not elite, even if they were supported by a small number of Jurchen founding strong troops, but in the Central Plains for several years, the local officials were bent to welcome, and no one dared to resist the other side head-on. When they arrived in Dengzhou and Xinye, the generals of the Jin army urged the Daqi army to go into battle, and the Daqi army kept asking for help and delaying.
In the general direction, the three forces are at a stalemate, and in the gap between the confrontations, the situation of the displaced people being slaughtered has not eased for a while. At the suggestion of his staff Sun Ge, the Beiwei Army sent a team of three to five hundred people to patrol in batches to pick up people from the north and south, and occasionally saw the tragic images of civilians after being slaughtered and looted in the woods and fields, the old people and children who were killed, and the women who were killed by ** Hou...... When these soldiers came back, when they talked about these things, they couldn't wait to rush to the battlefield immediately, drink the blood of the enemy, and eat their flesh and bones. These soldiers have become more capable of fighting.
Of course, in the rear of the Beiwei Army, because of these things, there are also some different voices fermenting. In order to prevent spies from the north from entering the city, the Beiwei army strictly controlled Xiangyang, and most of the displaced people were only rested for a while, and then they were shunted south, and there were also scholars and officials from the south, who heard many things, and keenly noticed that the Beiwei army did not have the ability to continue to advance north.
If the Beiwei army had pushed north with a more resolute attitude, instead of sending only three to five hundred people out of the city at a time, these people who died between Xiangyang, Dengzhou, and Xinye might have survived.
Of course, under the great victory, such a wave is not obvious. Yinhua, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, didn't know much about these things, but what she could understand was that her father would not and could not push the army out of Xiangyang to save her two children, and even her father himself could not put down Xiangyang at this time and chase after him from the rear. When he realized the strength of the team that grabbed himself and Yue Yun, the silver bottle vaguely sensed in his heart that the chances of his sister and brother surviving were slim.
The scar-faced giant who shot in Xiangyang City two days ago defeated her and Yue Yun in only three moves with his sister and brother, and when he woke up, he was already outside Xiangyang City. Waiting for them was a core team of about forty or fifty people, composed of Jin and Han, who caught their sister and brother and kept running around the road outside Xiangyang City.
The core of forty or fifty men, separated from them, apparently with more in the occasional news. At this time, the best players in the Beiwei army have been chased out of the city, and the army is estimated to have been heavily armed, as soon as the silver bottle wakes up, it is first calmly identifying the situation in front of him, however, with an encounter with the scout team of the Beiwei army, the silver bottle began to find out that something is wrong.
The leader of this team is a Jurchen in his thirties, and the dozens of people he leads are probably all first-class masters in the green forest, and the highest martial artist is the scarface man who entered the city before. This man had a fierce face and didn't say much, but the leader of the Jin people faced him and called him Lu Shi. The silver bottle has not much experience in the rivers and lakes, but I vaguely think of a person in my heart, that is the grandmaster-level master who once crisscrossed the northern land, the "fierce Hades" Lu Tuo.
At the beginning, Ning Yi, the heart demon, led the secret investigation department, and he once collected all kinds of information on the rivers and lakes. After Ning Yi's rebellion, the secret investigation department was dispersed, but many things were secretly retained by the princess's mansion of Chengguo, and then passed on to the prince Junwu, as the prince's henchman, Yue Fei, Wenren Fuji and others were naturally able to check it, Yue Fei In the process of forming the Beiwei army, he also got many green forest people to join, and the silver bottle flipped through the archived information, and he saw Lu Tuo's name.
Compared with the names of Fang La, Zhou Dong, and Lin Zongwu, the martial arts of the "Fierce Yama King" Lu Tuo are slightly inferior, and his sense of existence is much inferior, the main reason is that he is not a strong man who leads a party or has an independent identity, from beginning to end, he is just a lackey of the Qi family of the Hebei clan.
Among the several families in the Wu Dynasty at the beginning, the most disgraced reputation was probably the Qi family in Hebei. Before the Heishui Alliance, the big families in Hebei still had Wang Qisong's Wang family to balance them, and there was also the Zuo family of Zuo Duanyou echoing in Hedong. After the male members of the Wang Qisong clan were almost wiped out, the female dependents retreated south, and only the Qi family was left in Hebei.
Due to the geographical advantage, the Qi family is most enthusiastic about business dealings with the Liao State, and is a firm lord and faction. It is also for this reason that when the nobles of the Liao Kingdom fell into Jiangning, the Qi family sent Lu Tuo to rescue them, and by the way, they sent someone to assassinate Qin Siyuan, who was about to recover.
After the fall of the Liao State, the Qi family was still the main and faction, and the first to contact the Jin people, and later the Jin people occupied the Central Plains, the Qi family took refuge in the Jin State, and supported the Pingdong general Li Xizhi behind his back. In this process, Lu Tuo has always been dependent on the Qi family, and his martial arts may be a little inferior to the famous Lin Zongwu at the moment, but he is also a rare opponent in the green forest.
In the competition between military formations, the meaning of the master is only to become a general and unite the hearts of the army, but the pursuit and escape of the two teams is another matter. In the first day, this team was intercepted twice by the scouts, and the scouts in the army were all elites, but in front of these masters, it was difficult to have a number of generals, Lu Tuo did not personally take action, and the people who rushed over chased and killed those scouts.
The silver bottle can be seen that the middle-aged Dao Gu who was riding with her at this time and was responsible for watching her was tall and thin, and her palms were as hard as fine iron, faintly cyan, which was a symbol of the claw power to the realm. The middle-aged man in charge of watching Yue Yun in the rear has a white beard, five short figures, a body like a ball, and when he gets off the horse and walks, he seems to have his feet not touching the ground, this is the performance of the Thirteen Taibao's soft kung fu, according to the information of the secret investigation department, it seems that it is the murderer Qiu Tianhai who once hid in Shandong, his white ape has extremely high skills, and his white ape has extremely high kung fu with arms, palms, and legs.
In addition to these two people, there are also outstanding light skills among these people, there are masters of Tang Shou and Wuzang Boxing, there are good sticks, and there are martial arts murderers who have been integrated into the gestures, even if they are among them, they are all agile and have excellent archery skills, obviously these people are the elite team that the Jurchens have worked hard to build.
Even if there are many masters in the back army, it is not easy to gather so many good players at one time.
On the first day, there was still luck in the heart of the silver bottle, but this group of men and horses twice killed all the scouts of the Beiwei army, and at night, Xu Shuang, the general of the Beiwei army who was chasing in the rear, was also ambushed by the other party, and the silver bottle's heart sank.
She has been taught by Yue Fei since she was a child, and at this time she can already see that this team is led by the Jurchen high-level, who obviously thinks very highly of herself and wants to disturb the situation in Xiangyang by herself. In such a large area, more than 100 masters are running around, not hundreds or thousands of soldiers can surround it, even if the elite can come up from behind, if there is no good hand to lead the team, it is difficult to please. And to dispatch a large army, it is an adventure, and no one knows whether the armies of Daqi and Jin are ready to attack Xiangyang.
The team ran around and finally turned in the direction of Dengzhou on the second day. Occasionally, he met the homeless, and then met several groups of rescuers, and was killed by the other party one after another, and the silver bottle knew from the conversation and laughter of these people that the abnormal movement in Xiangyang had alarmed the nearby green forest, and many people in the green forest in Dengzhou and Xinye had also been dispatched, wanting to rescue the two relatives for General Yue, but how could the ordinary rabble be able to compete with these first-class masters who had been specially trained and understood, and they were often only slightly closer, and they were detected and killed, and if they wanted to say the message, it would not be transmitted anyway.
There were also two times, the other party caught the captured green forest people in front of the silver bottle and Yue Yun, and killed them after some humiliation, Xiao Yue Yun scolded very angrily, and Qiu Tianhai, who was in charge of him, had a very bad temperament, so he laughed, and then beat him up, and used it as a pastime on the way.
Late at night, Lu Tuo and his party approached the deserted village, and they gradually approached Dengzhou. In fact, the distance between Xiangyang and Dengzhou, with the foot strength of these people, where can it take two days, but the leading Jurchen people think very highly of themselves, this team of people is obviously not controlled by Dengzhou or Xinye's army, Lu Tuo grabbed the silver bottle and Yue Yun just on a whim, and after they were caught, they turned around nearby, just to lure out the defenders of Xiangyang to attack, and then notify Dengzhou, Xinye and other places, waiting for an opportunity to attack.
The people were a little tired from the journey, and when they came to the vicinity of the village, they stopped to light a bonfire and eat some dry food. The silver bottle and Yue Yun were put down, and the cloth that was gagged was removed, a man came over and put two bowls of water in front of them, Yue Yun was beaten not lightly before, and now he is still recovering, Yue Yinhua looked at the man: "If you don't untie my hands, I can't drink." β
"Then drink it on your stomach."
"Heart fist Li Gangyang! You are also Han, why ......"
The silver bottle raised his head, and called out the person's name, before he finished speaking, he heard a snap sound in the night, and the Dao Gu next to him swung out a slap and slapped Yue Yinhua in the face. The martial arts cultivation and foundation of the silver bottle are good, but in the face of this slap, he didn't even notice it, and his mouth was sweet, and his mind was buzzing. The Dao Gu said coldly: "The woman wants to be quiet, and if she wants to talk more, learn from your brother, I pulled out your tongue." β
Yinhua's eyes were bloodshot, and he turned his head to look at Dao Gu, and his face gradually swollen. Some people around laughed: "Li Gangyang, you can be recognized, you are really famous." β
"This little girl is also well-informed."
"Who else do you know? Do you know the old man, do you know him, what about him...... Haha, you say, don't be afraid of this female Taoist. β
"Mianzhang Qiu Tianhai, Zheng San, Taishi Dao Pan Dahe...... That is Lin Qigongzi, Buddha Hand Lei Qing...... Lu Tuo, the fierce king of Yama over there...... "The silver bottle also has a ruthless bone, she stared at that Daogu, and said the person who recognized her identity word by word, Lu Tuo sat in the distance on the other side of the bonfire, just listening to the Jurchen who took the lead, and heard the silver bottle say his name from a distance, and he just glanced at this side, without saying too much.
The rest of the people listened to the roll call of the silver bottle, some looked silent, some looked uncertain, and some laughed. After all, most of these people are Han Chinese, no matter what reason they do with the Jin people, after all, there are many people who don't want to be pointed out. The Taoist girl listened to the silver bottle and was silent, but after she finished speaking, the palm of her hand brushed out, and only heard a clear sound of "ping" in the air, and then jingled several times in a row, and the man who had said on the other side "Don't be afraid of this female Taoist" suddenly made a move and blocked the attack for the silver bottle.
The fight between the two was as fast as lightning, and it was difficult to see clearly in the silver bottle. After the fight, the man next to him put away the short knife in his sleeve and laughed: "Little girl, you are miserable, do you know that this aunt around you is ruthless, and she has always done what she says." She was let down by a man when she was young, and then she came to the door, and she always killed more than 50 people in her family, and the chickens and dogs were not left, and the man who failed her almost tore her whole body apart. You dare to offend Li Wanlian, I can't save you a second time. β
Not far away, Xiao Yueyun struggled to sit up: "You people have ugly nicknames......
During the conversation here, there was a sound of fighting in the distance, and the closer they got to Dengzhou, the more Green Forest people came to stop them. This time the battle in the distance sounded quite small, and although the peripheral personnel who were released were also masters, there were still several figures running towards this side, obviously attracted by the bonfire that had been lit. Everyone here was unmoved, and Qiu Tianhai, who was not tall and chubby, stood up, waved his hands and feet, and said, "I'm going to live and live." In the blink of an eye, he passed through the crowd and met several figures rushing in the night.
The silhouette of the fight shook like a ghost in the distance, Qiu Tianhai's back fist and Tan legs, and Mianzhang kung fu were as light as a weight, and in a blink of an eye, three of the four people who rushed towards him were killed, and the remaining one person brandished a long knife, like a mad demon, chasing Qiu Tianhai and slashing but couldn't cut him.
This playful chase came to the side of the bonfire, and in the conversation and laughter of everyone, they saw that the knife dancer who was played by Qiu Tianhai was covered in blood, and his knife skills may be good in one city and one place, but in front of Qiu Tianhai and others, it is not enough to see at all. When he got close, he was panting like a cow, but suddenly he saw the silver bottle and Yue Yun on this side of the venue, the man was stunned for a moment, and shouted loudly: "But General Yue's young lady and son!" Butβ"
The silver bottle and Yue Yun shouted, "Be carefulβ"
Behind the man, Qiu Tianhai's body suddenly skyrocketed, he originally looked round and short, but at this moment in the darkness it looked as if it had doubled, the strength of the fist started from the left, towards the right, and walked through the whole body, and the strength of the limbs gathered into a bundle through the back, this is the white ape through the back of the fist of the absolute "Moyun Hit the Sky", he is strong in martial arts, this punch out, the fierceness and wonder, even the silver bottle, Yue Yun and others, can be seen clearly.
I only heard a muffled bang, and before the man finished speaking, blood spurted out of his mouth, and the whole person was knocked out two feet away, and he died.
"Good!" Immediately, some people cheered loudly.
As the saying goes, the layman looks at the liveliness, and the insiders look at the doorway. Everyone is also full of unique skills, and at this time they can't help but comment and praise a few words, and there are humanitarians: "The old enemy's skills have been improved." β
Someone said: "This hand is a back fist, the force walks the whole body, and it is really amazing." Old enemy, you have a good way of doing this, let's find time to help? β
Qiu Tianhai showed this unique skill, and came back proudly in the endless praise, on the ground here, the silver bottle and Yue Yun looked at the dead man, and gritted their teeth. Yue Yun suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha, what's the big deal!" β
The twelve-year-old child's voice changed in a childish voice, and what he said at this time was particularly harsh in a bunch of comments, but everyone did not want to drop the price, and they would not really argue with him at this time. The old man who practiced the stick method glanced at Yue Yun and said loudly: "Your father naturally has more amazing skills, and if he has the opportunity, the old man also wants to ask for advice." β
Yue Fei is a disciple of Zhou Dong with an iron arm, and there have long been rumors on the rivers and lakes of his strong martial arts, and when the old man said this, everyone also nodded. Yue Yun still smiled: "What's the big deal, fighting in battle formations, how many of you masters are worth it?" Among my back army, the one I can afford the most is not you clowns, but men who rush to kill in battle formations and are not afraid of death or losing their heads in the face of the enemy. You're punching beautifully, and you're a dog to the golden manβ"
As soon as he said this, everyone's faces changed sharply. In fact, if these Han people who have taken refuge in the Jin Kingdom have anything to be proud of, it is nothing more than their own skills. If Yue Yun said that their martial arts were not as good as Yue Pengju and Zhou Tong, they would not have the slightest refutation in their hearts, but this time scolding their skills to the point of uselessness was a real slap in the face. Someone slapped Yue Yun to the ground: "Ignorant child, if you dare to talk nonsense, Lao Tzu will kill you!" β
Yue Yun's mouth was full of blood, and he laughed underground: "Hahahaha, quack, quack...... See, the master is not afraid to lose his head against you cheap dogs. Slipped me? Your grandfather Yue Yun is twelve years old this year, you come to chop, I have a sentence begging for mercy and crying pain, he is not a man! Otherwise I'm your grandfather. Do you want to come! Come---......- The mud drum is more like a drum, hmm...... Drum ......"
Everyone captured the silver bottle and Yue Yun, it was impossible to kill them at this time, whether it was used to threaten Yue Fei in the future, or to sacrifice the flag on the battle array, it would be of great use. Qiu Tianhai came over with a gloomy face, and stuffed the cloth ball into Yue Yun's closest, but the child still struggled, repeating to Qiu Tianhai over and over again, "You are a dog for the golden man...... Dog, dog, dog ......" Even though the voice changed, everyone could distinguish it, and they felt embarrassed for a while.
At this moment, at the other end of the bonfire, Lu Tuo's body soared, and the wind pressure brought up made the bonfire fall down suddenly, and someone in the air shouted: "Who-" There was also a sudden voice on the other side, and the sound was like thunder: "Haha!" You are a dog for the golden manβ"
Suddenly rushing out of the darkness was a fierce and domineering dark red spear, which appeared from the side of the camp, and had quietly sneaked closer, and only when it was discovered, did it suddenly attack. Lin Qi, a master nearby, noticed it in time, and in a hurry, his whole body curled up and was knocked out. The spear was like a chopping wave, piercing through people, and swooping straight into Yue Yin's position and Yue Yun's position, and at the same time, Lu Tuo's figure rushed through the bonfire, pounced like a demon god, and waved his hand to bring up the serrated heavy blade behind his back.
The two figures collided together, one knife and one gun, and the confrontation in the night burst out with a thunderous heavy fire.
Gao Pet, the number one master in the Beiwei Army, finally killed at this time-(To be continued.) )