The sun is about to end, and there is the last light in the western sky, on the other side of the mountain.

In the vicinity of the small village, the river meanders through the spring flood, the water in the river rises violently, and in the distant fields, the road winds through, the military horses walk on the road, and the farmers with hoes cross the road to go home.

Summer is coming, and the humidity in the air has faded a little, making it feel good both physically and mentally. Peaceful evening in the southwest.

Ning Yi was by the river, watching all this in the distance. After the sunset sank, a little light was lit in the distance, and I don't know when, someone came with a lantern, and the tall figure of a woman was Yunzhu.

She stood a distance of one zhang away from Ning Yi for a moment before approaching: "Xiao Ke told me that Daddy cried......"

Ning Yi took her hand and smiled slightly: "...... No. ”

"What's going on ahead?"

"Well, Zhu Biao's side...... Something happened. ”

"Zhu Biao, he ......" Yun Zhu's eyes trembled, she could realize the weight of this matter.

Ning Yi shook his head and looked into the distance in the dark night.

"I don't know......," he murmured, then added, "I don't know." ”

"Since I don't know, it's ......"

"Seventeenth Army...... Didn't come out, the losses were heavy, almost ...... Annihilated. I'm just wondering if some things are worth it......"

His calm tone was scattered in the air of late spring and early summer......

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In the Northland, the Daimyo's Mansion has become a deserted ruin.

After the war, the brutal massacres were over, and the corpses and mass graves that had been dumped here began to emit a foul smell, and the troops were withdrawn from here, but the search continued within a hundred miles of the Daimyo's mansion.

As for April 15, the last troops to withdraw escorted groups of prisoners to different places on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Beginning in late April, residents of the large cities of Hebei East Road and Jingdong East Road, which had been ruled by Li Xizhi, were shocked by the sights of killing. Since last year, all the bandits who defy the Dajin Tianwei and rebelled according to the Daimyo Mansion have been killed and captured, and together with the Black Flag bandits who came to their rescue, they have all been wiped out by Wan Yanchang, and thousands of prisoners have been divided into teams of death row prisoners, transported to various cities, and beheaded for public display.

In April, the summer rain had begun to fall, and in the prison cart were bodies that were almost inhuman. The Jurchen captives who were unwilling to surrender or were worthless and disabled had already been severely tortured at this time, and many of them were seriously injured on the battlefield.

The front of the Eastern Route Army has been pushed to Xuzhou at this time, and the process of taking over the Central Plains has already begun, in order to promote the war and the miscellaneous taxes and harsh taxes, the high pressure and killing of the officials have lasted for half a year, some people resisted, most of them died under the butcher's knife, and now, the most fierce resistance of the Guangwu Army and the myth of the Black Flag Army, the only one that can compete with the Jurchens, has finally been shattered in front of people's eyes.

In Luozhou, when the convoy transporting prisoners entered the city, the people on both sides of the road were either dazed or confused, but there were also a few who knew the situation and left tears on the side of the street. The tearful man was dragged out by the Jurchen soldiers on the side of the road and beheaded on the spot.

In Shenzhou City, light rain, a sudden attack on prisoners, these prisoners were dressed in rags, there were Jianghu people, there were also ordinary civilians, and a group of monks were mixed in. Due to the large-scale search and suppression carried out by Yan Chang after taking over Li Xizhi's territory, the knives and guns in the hands of these people were not neat, a big man with a thin face held a sharpened long bamboo pole, stabbed two soldiers to death in the brave fight, he was then cut to the ground by several knives, and in the surrounding fighting, the big man covered in blood and cut open his stomach stood up with the prisoner in his arms, and shouted in this fight.

"I'm also Huaxia Army! I'm also a Huaxia Army! I...... You shouldn't leave the Southwest. I...... Die with you......"

His last sentence was probably spoken to the prisoners in the prisoner car, and in the nearest place in front of him, a former Huaxia Army soldier had his hands broken at this time, and his tongue was also twisted, and he shouted a few times "Ho Ho", trying to stretch out his already broken half of his arm.

The soldiers who rushed over had already raised their steel knives behind the man's back......

In Hejian Mansion, when the beheading began, it was already pouring rain, and outside the Dharma field, people stood in the dark, watching the steel knives fall one by one, and some people were crying silently in the rain. In such a heavy rain, they at least don't have to worry about being seen in tears......

On March 28, the tenth year of Wu Jianshuo, outside the Daimyo Mansion, the rescue of the Guangwu Army by the Huaxia Army was officially launched, and in the case that Yanchang had been prepared, the Huaxia Army still launched a surprise attack on the battlefield in two ways, and within half an hour after realizing the chaos, the breakthrough of the Guangwu Army was also officially launched.

In the streets and alleys of the Daimyo's mansion, the desperate struggle of more than 10,000 Guangwu troops once made the puppet army unable to retreat, and the deaths caused by the stampede were even several times that of the frontline confrontation. And Zhu Biao, shortly after the start of the war, led 4,000 troops, together with 3,000 people who remained on the periphery, to launch the most fierce surprise attack on Wanyanchang.

Wan Yanchang was calm, he responded to the attack of Zhu Biao and others with more than 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, and blocked all enemies who wanted to leave the Daimyo's Mansion with more than 10,000 troops and thousands of cavalry. Zhu Biao made several feints to break through during the attack, and then counterattacked, but Wan Yanchang was never fooled.

The 200,000 puppet army, even if it is defeated on the front line, the endless stream of new troops is still like a huge quagmire, dragging everyone and making it difficult to escape. And the thousands of cavalry led by Wan Yanchang originally grasped the greatest initiative on the battlefield, and every surprise attack they made on the periphery could cause huge casualties to the breakthrough troops.

During this period, the rebel team led by Yan Qing was still active on the battlefield, and they lobbied several puppet army teams to let them release water in private, or plead for mercy, or threaten, and then they also got a blind eye from some puppet army troops, and even the news that Wan Yanchang was dead that continued to spread caused a lot of confusion on the battlefield.

But all this still can't make up for the too slim power gap in the cruel balance of war.

On the night of the 28th, in the early morning of the 29th, in the battle between the Huaxia Army and the Guangwu Army, the entire huge battlefield was violently torn apart. Zhu Biao's team, which was advancing eastward, and Wang Shanyue's team, which was breaking through to the south, attracted the most intense firepower, and the reserve cadre regiment went to the battlefield that night, boosting morale and fighting to the ground. By the twenty-ninth day, when the sun had risen, the entire battlefield had been torn apart, spreading for more than ten miles, and the raiders had stepped into the surrounding mountains and woodlands at great cost.

By this time, a large number of soldiers had been taken prisoner, either seriously wounded or out of courage. The whole war still did not stop, Wan Yanchang sat in the center to organize a large-scale pursuit and search, and at the same time continued to order and transfer troops to the surrounding Jurchen-controlled cities, organizing a huge siege network.

March 30, April 1...... Battles of all sizes broke out in the dense forests, waters, mountains, and rivers near the Daimyo's Mansion, and the entire encirclement network and search and arrest operations continued until the middle of April, when Wanyan Chang announced the end of the war.

In a short period of time, not many people can know how many soldiers and generals of the Huaxia Army and the Guangwu Army died in this extremely tragic raid and breakthrough, and the captured including the wounded, more than 4,000, most of them were transported to various cities by Wanyan Chang within two months after being tortured, and they were slaughtered.

There is also some information that can be determined, in the early morning of the 29th, in the process of raiding and transferring, a group of Chinese soldiers were deeply surrounded, a general who made a double whip led the team to constantly rush and kill, every time his steel whip fell, he had to smash open the head of an enemy, the general kept clashing, and the blood was like a god of war, which was terrifying. But in the continuous fighting, the soldiers around him became fewer and fewer, and finally the general exhausted the last trace of strength and shed the last drop of blood in the endless encirclement.

This is a horse, although he once returned to Liangshan, but finally returned to the right path, the "double whip" Hu Yanzhuo.

Near dawn on the 29th, Xu Ning, the "Golden Gunner", died on the edge of the forest near the Daimyo's Mansion in the process of blocking the Jurchen cavalry and covering the retreat of friendly troops.

Nie Shan, the commander of the Huaxia Army, led hundreds of death squads to counterattack Yan Chang's main formation when the sky was clear, and these hundreds of people continued to break in like steel knives, which frightened the Jurchen generals who had to defend, and also attracted the attention of many armies on the entire battlefield. Eventually, none of these hundreds surrendered. Before the death of the regiment commander Nie Shan, there was no intact place in his body, covered in blood, and he completed his ascetic path, and also fought for a trace of life for the friendly troops behind him.

More than fifty percent of the people who broke through were left on the battlefield on the first night, and this number continued to expand after that, as for the preliminary end of the entire battle situation announced by Yan Chang in mid-April, almost all the establishments of the Huaxia Army and the Guangwu Army had been dispersed, although some people would survive from that huge net, but in a certain period of time, the two armies had also been wiped out......

In the message of the Jurchens, Zhu Biao, Guan Sheng, and Wang Shanyue ...... and many other generals have been rumored to have died, and their heads are hanging high.

***************

The carriage drove slowly through the night.

"I sometimes think that maybe we picked the wrong color flag......"

"Didn't Xiang Gong say before that black is the firmest."

"But after every war, it's dyed red."

The carriage came to a quiet stop on the side of the road. Not far away is the entrance of the village, Ning Yi took Yun Zhu's hand down, Yun Zhu looked around, a little confused.

"I think a lot of times if it's worth it...... Bold words, I used to always say it very big, but the more I watched, the more I felt that there was a breathless weight, Zhu Biao...... Wang Shanyue...... Tian Shi...... There are many more who have died. Maybe everyone is just pursuing a three-hundred-year cycle, maybe it's already very good, maybe it's ...... The dead just want to live, and they are all the ones who deserve to live......"

In the darkness, Ning Yi's words were calm and slow, like a whisper, he led Yunzhu through the path of this nameless village, and when he passed the dim stream, he also picked up Yunzhu in his hand, and walked over with each stone accurately—this was not the first time he had come here—Du Kill followed silently.

Ning Yi's words, Yun Zhu did not answer, she knew that Ning Yi's murmur did not need to answer, she just followed her husband, holding hands and walking slowly in the village, not far away there were a few earthen houses, with lights on, they approached from the darkness, gently stepped up the stairs, and walked up to a dirt roof compartment. The tiles of this earthen house have been broken, and the night sky can be seen on the partition, Ning Yi pulled her and sat down on the side of the earthen wall, on the other side of this wall, the houses below were brightly lit, some people were talking, these people were talking about the "four people", about some things about the three counties of Hedeng.

Ning Yi sat there quietly, gestured his fingers to Yunzhu, and silently "shh

"Innovation and Enlightenment...... Thousands of years of process, the so-called freedom...... In fact, not many people care...... People are such strange things, what we want is always a little more than the status quo, a little better, more than a hundred years of history, people can't understand it...... A slave who is a little better will feel like he has gone to heaven...... A person with a good brain, a little better, he still won't be satisfied......"

His words came softly from his throat, with a slight sigh. Yun Zhu listened, and also listened to the words and discussions in the house on the other side, but in fact, there was nothing surprising on the other side, in the three counties of Hedeng, there were also many people who would gather at night to discuss some new ideas and opinions, many of whom might still be Ning Yi's students.

“…… Innovation, freedom, heh, just like most people exercise their bodies, exercise when the body is bad, when the body is good, everything will be forgotten, thousands of years of cycles...... When people eat, they will feel that they have reached the limit, as for reading more books, why...... How many people can understand? Too little ......"

Ning Yi's words continued, it was just a sigh, a slight sigh, Yun Zhu listened, but he also knew that his husband was not confused by these things in his mouth. At this time, there was already a different person in the room at the other end of the room, and at a certain moment, Yun Zhu heard the man say:

“…… The matter of our Huaxia Army has made a truth clear, all people in the world are the same! Why are those who farm the land inferior? Why do the landlords and gentry have to be high, they give a little something, and they say that they are a benevolent family. Why are they kind? They have more than others, their children can go to school, they can take exams and become officials, and peasants will always be peasants! The farmer's son was born, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the inferior ways of the world. It's inherently unfair! Mr. Ning explained a lot of things, but I don't think Mr. Ning's speech was thorough enough......"

“…… Because Mr. Ning's family is a businessman, although he is rich but the family is very rich, as far as I know, Mr. Ning eats well and dresses well, and is quite particular about food and clothing...... I'm not here to say bad things about Mr. Ning, I'm saying, is it because of this that Mr. Ning didn't clearly say that everyone is equal! ”

“…… It's not fair to look at those farmers, especially those who don't even have land, who live the worst and hardest life and get the least...... We have to think about this, Mr. Ning said a lot of things that are not wrong, but it can be more right, what is more right. Everyone in this world is equal, we even killed the emperor, we want to have the most equal world, we should let everyone know that they! There is no difference from others, and if our Huaxia Army wants to succeed, it must evenly balance the rich and the poor! Tree Equality—"

Many of these words were used by Ning Yi, but now that they are spoken, the meaning is quite radical, and there is a lot of noise below, Yun Zhu lost his mind for a moment, because by her side, Ning Yi's words also stopped. She turned her head to look at her husband leaning against the earthen wall, with a quiet, mysterious smile on his face, as if he had seen something indescribable, and as if there was a little bitterness and sadness, and it was complicated.

“…… I sometimes wonder if it's worth it...... Still not worth it......"

He finally muttered and didn't continue to speak. The sound of the next room continued to come, and Ning Yi and Yun Zhu's eyes looked at it, there were hundreds of millions of stars rotating in the night sky, and the Milky Way was immense, and it was cast into the small hole in the roof tiles......

Beyond the rooftop, there is a vast land, and countless creatures are colliding together.

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Wu Jianshuo 10 years, March 27.

The Huaxia army rushing to the Daimyo's Mansion bypassed the long road, and in the evening, Zhu Biao stood on the top of the hill and looked in the direction, and the team with banners waving passed from under the road.

Guan Sheng came from below: "What are you looking at?" ”

Zhu Biao looked into the distance, his eyes hesitated, and after a while, he put away his posture of looking at the map and said, "I'm wondering if there is a better way." ”

"Got it?"

“…… No. ”

"You pig braincase, I don't think you can think of it. Hey, but then again, you burn the city gun Zhu Biao, a character who is not afraid of heaven and earth, today my mother-in-law and mother are up. ”

“…… I don't really want to run headfirst into a turtle like Wan Yanchang. ”

"......" Guan Sheng was silent for a moment, "I don't want to either." ”

Zhu Biao smiled: "So I'm thinking, if the guy surnamed Ning is here, can I think of a better way to defeat Yan Chang and save Wang Shanyue, after all, that guy ...... In addition to not being able to pick up girls, the brain is really easy to use. ”

"I only know that the person surnamed Ning will not fail to save Wang Shanyue."

"yes......"

The two stood there, looking into the distance for a moment, Guan Sheng said, "Did you think of it?" ”

"Nope."

"Let's go, then."

Some of the two figures laughed, some nodded, and then, they were all in the rolling torrent.

……

Above the ruins, there were still broken flags waving, blood and black dissolved together.

……

In May, Wasion fell.

Soon after, Xuzhou fell.