At the end of August, at the end of autumn, the weather has gradually cooled, and the deciduous trees have large yellow leaves, and in the long desert autumn wind, the mountains and rivers have changed color.

The rivers and mountains of the Wu Dynasty are indeed changing color.

On both sides of the Yellow River, countless imperial army and Wu Dynasty rebels participated in the battle against the Jurchen invasion one after another...... One by one, people, forces, heroes and chivalrous warriors have made their own struggles and sacrifices in this chaotic tide.

After the army of Zongfu and Zongbi broke through Yingtian, this ancient city has been slaughtered like a ghost town, and soon after Zong Ze's death, Bianliang was also broken again, and the rebel army in the north and south of the Yellow River lost their control and chose to resist in their own ways. In all parts of the Central Plains, although rebels continued to emerge, the area ruled by the Jurchens continued to expand.

More civilians fled south, and every major city gradually began to become overcrowded on the main route from north to south. Such a wave of refugees is not the same thing as the occasional winter famine, and the sheer number and scale of the famine are indescribable. One or two cities could not digest it, so people continued to travel south, and places such as Jiangnan, which had been peaceful for a long time, finally clearly felt the shadow of the coming war and the trembling of the turmoil of heaven and earth.

Yangzhou City, at this time, was the temporary presence of Emperor Zhou Yong of Jianshuo. As the saying goes, fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, Yangzhou City at this time is the premier prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, famous families gather, rich businessmen gather, green buildings and Chu halls, abound. The only regret is that Yangzhou is the cultural Jiangnan, not the regional Jiangnan, in fact, it is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

When Zhou Yong left Yingtian. originally wanted to cross the river and return to Jiangning, but the manpower around him was blocked, and the Dao Emperor left Yingtian, if he crossed the Yangtze River again, he would inevitably lose morale, although Zhou Yong scoffed. But in the end, he couldn't resist these obstacles and chose Yangzhou, which is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Although this place is not the Jiangning that he has long been familiar with, it is not unacceptable to Zhou Yong. He was an idle prince in Jiangning, and when he ascended the throne and went to Yingtian, the emperor's position made him boring to death, and he played with the new concubine in the harem every day, and he had to be protested by the people in the city, and he ordered to kill Chen Dong and Ouyang Che, who incited public opinion. After coming to Yangzhou, no one dared to talk more, and he could fully experience the prosperity of the city's green buildings every day.

By the end of August, Zhou Yong, who was elected to the throne, was looking for joy in the palace every day, and asked the petty officials outside the palace to pay tribute to some folk women, and they had a lot of fun. For political affairs, most of them were handed over to Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, Qin Hui and others who had made meritorious contributions in the court. On this day, Jun Wu ran to the palace to make trouble. Anxiously about to return to Jiangning, he drove away the women around Zhou Yong with red eyes. Zhou Yong was also quite helpless, retreated left and right, and pulled his son aside to complain.

"You want to go back to Jiangning, of course I know, why don't I want to go back to Jiangning as a father. You are now the crown prince, and I am the emperor. I crossed the river at the beginning, but now I want to go back, how easy it is to say. So, you can help your father think of an idea of how to convince the ministers......"

"Father, you just want to go back and avoid the war!" Jun Wu's eyes were red. Staring at his father in a yellow robe in front of him, "I'm going back to continue my research!" Ying Tian didn't keep it, my things are in Jiangning! I'm going to study that hot air balloon, and if it's going to die today, I don't have time to wait! And you, Father, you, ...... You only know how to drink and have fun every day, do you know what has become of the outside? ”

"How can I not know? I want to go to the royal expedition in person, what do you think, Junwu? Zhou Yong's eyes became serious, his fat body, wearing a dragon robe, squinted his eyes, and there was a vague sense of majesty, but the next moment, the majesty collapsed, "But in fact, I can't fight, Jun Wu, you said that I only know how to avoid war, I don't avoid war, take people out, and be arrested immediately!" What are those soldiers like, what are those ministers, do you think your father doesn't know? But compared to them, the father knows how to fight? Do you know how to play those curves with them? ”

“……”

"Your daddy and me! When I was in Jiangning, I smashed people's heads with a hammer, and it was scary after smashing, and I didn't want to smash it a second time. I don't understand the affairs of the court, I don't interfere, so that one day things are messed up, and I can pick up a hammer and smash their heads! Junwu, you have been smart since you were a child, you can play with them, you can do it, support your father for you, your imperial sister also helps you, you ...... You know how to do it? ”

Jun Wu didn't speak with red eyes, Zhou Yong patted him on the shoulder, pulled him to the lake on the side of the garden and sat down, the emperor was fat and dunned, sitting down like a bear, holding his hands.

"Since you were a child, your father has been an idle prince, taught by the master of the school, and the family is counting on him, that is, a prince who can eat, drink and have fun. Suddenly, one day, he said that he wanted to be the emperor, so he should be good? I...... I don't want to meddle in anything, let them do it, let Junwu do it, otherwise what else can I do? ”

He spread his hands: "What is the world like, I know, the Jurchens are so powerful, no one can stop them, they can't stop it, the Wu Dynasty is about to end." Jun Wu, they fought like this, for the father...... It's also very scary. You have to go to the front for your father, and your father doesn't know how to lead the troops, in case the two armies fight, and these ministers run away, I don't know when to run. Thinking for my father, I can't stop it anyway, I can only run back, they chase after me, and my father will go south. My Wu Dynasty is weak now, but after all, after two hundred years, maybe when, there will really be heroes coming out...... There should be. ”

Jun Wu lowered his head: "It's already overcrowded outside, I give disaster relief and release food every day, and I feel uncomfortable when I see them." The Jurchens have already occupied the first line of the Yellow River, and they cannot defeat them, and sooner or later, they will come over. ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yong nodded.

"I'm anxious, I know now what kind of mood Grandpa Qin was in when they were in Bianliang......

"Hmm......" Zhou Yong nodded again, "Your master, for this matter, even Zhou Zhe killed ......"

"He ......"

"Alas, I just want to be a father, and I may not be a good emperor for my father, will there be a day when someone like that comes and kills my father." Zhou Yong patted his son on the shoulder again, "Junwu, if you see someone like that, you should first win him over and reuse him." You were smart from a young age. Your sister too, I originally thought, what's the use of you being smart, won't it be the life of an idle prince in the future, I wanted to make you stupid, but then I thought about it. Let your sister and brother go. Over the years, my father has not taken care of you, but in the future, you may be able to be a good emperor. That's what I thought when I ascended the throne. ”

The father and son have not communicated much for a long time, and at this time, after hearing Zhou Yong's heart-wrenching words, Jun Wu's anger couldn't come up. After a while, Zhou Yong asked, "Hanwei's illness is okay." ”

Jun Wu shook his head: "It's not good yet." The main room he married was named Li Hanwei, the daughter of Jiangning's wang family. is beautiful, well-read, and after the two got married, they can be regarded as respectful of each other. It's just that with Junwu all the way to Beijing and back to Yangzhou in a hurry, such a journey made the woman fall ill, and now it is not good, Junwu's troubles. A large part of it also comes from this.

"Women are like clothes, you don't have to be too sad."

The Emperor waved his hand. Saying a word of comfort, but it is a bastard.

With these conversations, Jun Wu couldn't say anything on his father's side. He went all the way out of the palace, and when he returned to the mansion, a group of monks, witch doctors and others were mooing incense and candles in the mansion, and the demons were dancing wildly, thinking of his skinny wife. Jun Wu became more and more upset, so he ordered the car to go out again, and passed through the streets of Yangzhou, which still looked prosperous and exquisite, the autumn wind was blowing, and passers-by were in a hurry. When you get to the city walls, you start to see refugees.

When you climb the tower, the outside of the city is densely packed with refugees. As the sun sets, the city, rivers and mountains are magnificent, but Jun Wu's heart is becoming more and more uncomfortable.

He has seen more and more things over the years, and if he was still in high spirits when his father took over the throne, many of his thoughts have now been shattered. As his father said, he knows what those ministers and the army are like. However, even if you come on your own, you don't necessarily do better than these people.

After all, he is just a young man who has just seen this world, if he is a little stupid, he may be able to command blindly with high spirits, and it is precisely because of how much he can understand that he knows how complicated the intertwined relationship is to really take things into his hands. He can support Yue Fei and other generals to train troops, but if he goes further, he will have to touch the entire huge system, and if he does one thing, he may have to mess up three or four things. Even if he is the prince, he doesn't dare to mess around.

A few years ago, Grandpa Qin and his teacher were in Bianliang, and this may be the kind of thing they encountered. This seemingly peaceful city is actually crumbling. The sky is about to fall and the earth is about to collapse, and this land is like a skinny wife lying on the bed, trying to save the sky but powerless, watching the arrival of bad luck. As he stood at the head of the city, he suddenly burst into tears.

Soon after, the Jurchens broke through Xuzhou, the last line of defense to Yangzhou, and crushed in the direction of Yangzhou.

And at this time, they don't know yet. In the northwest direction, the confrontation between the Huaxia Army and the Jurchen Western Route Army was still raging.

Fan Hongji rode a horse and galloped on the rugged mountain road, although he was dusty, but the official uniform on his body was not too messy.

After the war between the Huaxia army and the Jurchens, this was the last time he represented the Jin State as an envoy to Xiaocanghe.

Although the war has begun, there is no shame in the humility of the strong. Of course, on the other hand, it also means that the Huaxia Army's shot did show surprising toughness.

Back on the night of August 25, the Chinese Black Flag Army fought against the Jurchen elite cavalry led by Wanyan Lou's family, and under the frontal impact of tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry, the same number of Black Flag infantry was submerged, however, they were not pushed down head-on. A large number of military formations still maintained their formation in the strong hedge, and part of the defensive formation was pushed away, but after a while, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army began to move closer to their comrades next to them in the shouting and fighting, and formed a solid defensive formation with battalions and companies as formations.

When the sound of artillery began to sound one after another, the defensive formation even began to advance, actively cutting and squeezing the advance route of the Jurchen cavalry. And the Jurchens—or Wanyan Lou Room—showed their sensitivity to the battlefield at this time, and the three cavalry detachments were almost attached to the military columns of the Black Flag Army, using them as the background, and rushed straight to the Black Flag Center with cannons, and the middle formation formed a formation under the command of Qin Shaoqian and made a stubborn resistance, and the weak point was once chiseled by the Jurchen cavalry, but it was finally made up.

Under the command of Wanyan Lou Room, there was a fierce battle on the east side of the battlefield to the extreme, like the collision of two huge stones, but before the artillery advanced to the front, Wan Yan Lou Room had also twisted the Jurchen cavalry into a force as much as possible, leaving the battlefield while maintaining the deterrent power of huge arrows, and then threw a rain of arrows around the battlefield, forcing Han Jing to retreat, and rushed towards the north of Yanzhou City.

This is just one round of fighting, and the intensity of the hedge is staggering. In a short period of time, the Black Flag Army showed the pinnacle level of formation coordination ability, while the Jurchen side showed Wanyan Lou's high sensitivity to the battlefield and the ability to control the cavalry. The Black Flag's artillery emplacements didn't even inflict massive casualties against these seemingly loose but coherent cavalry—at least, the casualties were far fewer than they had been in the hedge.

When the Black Flag Army began to hold the formation and shoot at the cavalry with crossbows at close range, the results of the battle were definitely painful for Wanyan Lou Room.

And after this short-lasting, fierce collision, the Jurchen cavalry, which had originally put on the posture of destroying the Black Flag Army in a battle, did not have the slightest love for battle, and rushed straight to Yanzhou City. At this time, in the northwest of Yanzhou City, the military formation composed of infantry and baggage soldiers who had already evacuated arranged by Wanyan Lou's room had begun to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city.

Soon after, the army led by Hongti also arrived, and 5,000 men were thrown into the battlefield to intercept and kill the Jurchen infantry. After the cavalry of Yan Lou's room arrived, they fought with Hongti's army, covering the infantry to flee, and the cavalry led by Han Jing chased after him, and not long after, the Huaxia army brigade also chased over and joined Hongti's army.

The Jurchen elite cavalry that had converged with the infantry could not evacuate quickly, and the pursuit of the Huaxia army was not slow, and this night, the chase and bite that lasted for most of the night began. On the rugged road of more than 30 miles, the two sides continued to chase and flee in the form of forced marches, and the Jurchen cavalry continued to disperse, harassing the Huaxia army with speed, and the Huaxia army's array efficiency was staggering, and the cavalry stood out, trying to pull the Jurchen cavalry or infantry into the quagmire of fierce battle in any form.

Marching and fighting in such a dark night, accidents happened on both sides. Wanyan Lou's troops were unrestrained, occasionally tearing apart the ranks of the Black Flag Army with several cavalry from a distance, causing casualties to this side little by little, but the aggressiveness of the Black Flag Army and the cooperation of the infantry and cavalry would also cause the Jurchen side to appear left and right, and several small-scale killings caused the Jurchens to leave dozens of corpses.

After such a chase for most of the night, the two sides were exhausted and set up fortifications two or three miles apart from each other in a yellow green ridge in the northwest of Yanzhou to rest. On the morning of the next day, before I had slept well, I saw that the Black Flag Army had pushed the artillery array forward again, and when the Jurchens lined up, the team of the Black Flag Army had already pushed over again. Wanyan Lou commanded the army to go around, and then fought a battle with the opponent with a large number of cavalry.

Over the next two days, friction and conflict ensued, with one possessing astonishing discipline and coordination, and the other possessing a keen grip on the battlefield and the ability to command troops in a variety of situations. The two armies collided wildly across the land, like hammers and felts, each ferociously trying to swallow the other.

Facing almost the world's number one army, the world's number one general, the Black Flag Army's response is so fierce. This is something that no one expected.

Recalling the experience of several envoys to Xiaocanghe, Fan Hongji never thought of this, after all, it was Wanyan Lou's room.

When we were about to reach Xiaocang River, it began to rain in the sky...... (To be continued.) )