Twilight is gloomy.

Central Plains.

World.

In the first year of Jingping, in winter, when the north wind swept under the low canopy, Chengping for more than two hundred years, the northern half of the Wu Dynasty, which was once prosperous like a paradise, had declined like an epiphany. As the Jurchens moved south, great chaos was brewing, and a large area north of Bianliang had begun to shake the basic order, although it had not yet been affected by the military disaster.

The army was scattered, commerce came to a standstill, and the order of the city was at an impasse. After more than two hundred years of Wu Dynasty rule, Wang Hua has been deep, before this, no one thought that one day the hometown would suddenly change to another nation of barbarians as emperors, but at least at this moment, a small number of people may have seen some kind of dark outline coming, although they still don't know how deep that darkness will be.

At the beginning of this collapse, there were several things that had to be written down in the course of a few years if we were to record it. Wu Dynasty Lianjin anti-Liao, the disaster of Fangla, the Northern Expedition without achievements, the purchase of the city to invite merit, Jinghan thirteen winter, the Jin people went south for the first time, a year later, the second time to the south, breaking Bianliang City. Among them, Jing Han's fourteen-year murder of the monarch may not be fully qualified to be on the list of major events.

As for this winter, when Bianliang broke the city, there was another piece of the puzzle that formed the prelude to the collapse of the whole world, which happened in a place that most people didn't know.

Northwest.

The border between the Wu Dynasty and the Western Xia, the Hengshan area of two hundred miles, is sparsely populated.

This is the place of four wars since ancient times. Since the Tang Dynasty, after hundreds of years to the Wu Dynasty, the people in the northwest have been fierce and war-torn constantly. There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty, "Poor Wuding River bones, like a person in a deep dream", and the Wuding River in the poem is a river located in the Hengshan area. This is the northern edge of the loess high slope. The land is inhospitable and there is not much vegetation, so the river is often diverted, so the river is named "uncertain" because the land value here is not high and there are not many residents. Therefore, it became the place where the two countries were divided.

At the same time, the two hundred miles of Hengshan Mountain is also a natural barrier for the Wu Dynasty to enter the Western Xia, or the Western Xia to enter the Wu Dynasty.

Since a hundred years ago, Li Deming, a member of the party, established the Western Xia State, which had disputes with Liao, Wu, and Tubo. In the past hundred years, the existence of Western Xia has made the most warlike Western army in the whole country appear in the northwest of the Wu Dynasty, and then the most feared by the imperial court. A hundred years of war. There are exchanges, but what most people in the Wu Dynasty don't know is that over the years, with the efforts of many soldiers such as the Western Army, the Yang Family, and the Zhejia Family, by the middle of the Jinghan Dynasty, the Western Army had pushed the battle line through the entire Hengshan area.

Without the rise of the Jin Kingdom and its southward movement, in a few years, the Wu Dynasty army would have moved to the northwest. The entire Western Xia will have no danger to defend.

Of course. This can only be an afterthought-style lyricism and emotion.

In the first year of Jingping, the Jurchens attacked the military for the second time, and in the area north of Hengshan, which not many people noticed, on this day in November, the figure of the army appeared in this desolate world. The banner of the Li clan of Western Xia was raised high, and thousands of infantry and crossbowmen were figured. Appears on the horizon, stretches between the mountains, and kicks up dust. And the most astonishing thing was the 3,000 cavalry that was slowly marching near the main formation of the main army. This is the most powerful and world-famous heavy cavalry "Iron Harrier" in the Western Xia army, and the whole army has been dispatched.

Guarding the center by the "Iron Harrier" is the banner of the king of Western Xia hunting in the north wind. In the war with the Seed Brothers, after losing control of the Hengshan region a few years ago, Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, finally waved his army south again, forcing Sui and Yan Prefectures!

In addition to the general trend of the world, there are also small things that temporarily intersect with the general trend and are separated from each other.

Da-da-da-da.

It's getting late. On the winding mountain road, which is not too far from the Yokoyama area, the horse team is marching. It is difficult to walk at night in the mountains, but the people in front and behind each have weapons, bows and crossbows, etc., some horses, mules and mules have boxes, cloth bags and other things, the person at the front of the queue is missing a hand, carrying a single knife, but as the horse moves forward, he also has a leisurely atmosphere on his body, and this leisurely, with a little sharp, and the cold wind of winter melt together, it is the famous "towering knife" in the rebels of Badaozhuang.

In the queue in the rear, there are Chen Fan and his wife who have been in the ranks of the grandmasters of Badaozhuang, and there are Zhu Biao, Chen Huozi and others in the bamboo record. This team adds up to only about 100 people, but most of them are masters of the green forest, who have experienced the battle formation and know how to join forces to attack, even if they really want to confront the enemy head-on, it is enough to fight against hundreds or even thousands of people without falling behind, and the reason is also because the center of the queue, as the leader, has become the common enemy of the world.

Watermelon rode a horse and walked side by side with a scholar named Ning Yi in the center of the queue. The mountainous areas in the northwest, with low and rough vegetation, look rugged and somewhat desolate as a southerner, and it is getting late and the north wind is already cold. She didn't care about this, but along the way, she also had some worries, so her face was a little bad.

“…… In this kind of place, it is difficult to get in and out, six or seven thousand people, if you want to fight, you have to eat meat, sooner or later you will starve, you will always eat good food, see what you do. ”

Because of her heart, while moving forward, she still looks like a girl, and she is still chattering and picking, surrounded by many masters, although the voice is not high, but everyone can still hear it, each of them tensed their faces, and they dare not laugh more. After nearly half a year of getting along, even the people in the team who don't belong to the Badao Battalion already know that she is not easy to mess with.

It's not easy to provoke and not appear in too many places, I have been managing Badaozhuang for many years, even if I am a woman, some behaviors are more special, and I have already practiced the aura of joy and anger, and I don't anger others because of trivial things. But only in front of Ning Yi, these cultivations had no effect. Among them, some people know the reason and won't say more, and some people don't know and don't dare to say more.

Since Hangzhou and Ning Yi met, to now, the age of watermelon has reached the age of twenty-three. Theoretically speaking, she has been married, and even had a "cave room" with Ning Yi, but in a series of later events, this marriage was in name only, because of things such as breaking Hangzhou and killing Fang Qifo, the grievances between the two sides were entangled, and it was difficult to solve.

Half a year ago, Ning Yi summoned the Badao people into Beijing to kill the emperor and rebel, and Watermelon led everyone to come. After making trouble in the capital, a group of people gathered to go west, and then went north, looking for a place to settle down all the way, and repaired in Luliang Mountain for a period of time. In the early days, there was always a small gap between her and Ning Yi who wanted to get close but couldn't.

The matter of killing Fang Qifo is too big, even if you think about it in retrospect, you can now understand what Ning Yi did at that time - but Watermelon is a girl who loves face, and she is already emotional in her heart. But she was also afraid that others would say that she was forgetting her official duties and pointing behind her back, she thought about these things in her heart, and when she saw Ning Yi, she always had to draw a clear line and clear up.

These things fall in the eyes of Chen Fan, Ji Qian'er and other people who have already started a family, which is naturally quite ridiculous. But in front of the watermelon, he didn't dare to show it - otherwise he would have to turn his face. However, during that time, Ning Yi also had a lot of things, and he killed the emperor hastily. The world was shocked. But what to do next, where to go, how to go in the future, whether it will have a future, all kinds of problems need to be solved, and short-, medium-, and long-term goals must be delineated and convincing.

On the other hand, Ning Yi also has Tan'er and other family members to take care of, so that there is not much time for communication between the two. It was often Ning Yi who came over to say hello and say a word. The watermelon shook his face coldly, and he was afraid that Ning Yi would leave, so he often had to "hum" twice to show his disdain for Ning Yi. Everyone was amused to it, but Ning Yi would not be annoyed, he was already used to the thin skin of watermelon.

It's good to get along without talking. But there are still some of them. After killing the emperor, the court must kill Ning Yi with the greatest strength, so no matter where he goes, Ning Yi's side must be followed by one or two big masters. Or red grapes, or watermelon. Or Chen Fan and Zhu Biao - since returning to Luliang, Hongti also has some things to deal with, so watermelon has followed the most.

She followed her father to practice martial arts since she was a child, and later followed Fang La's rebellion, and she did not feel tired and bored in the busyness and all kinds of tossing and turning. On the issue of leading Badaozhuang, the watermelon is thick and fine, but it is not a woman who can be arranged in an orderly manner, at this point, Badaozhuang is still thanks to the general manager Liu Tiannan. In the following days, he followed Ning Yi to run, and the watermelon was a character who liked the talents of others, sometimes Ning Yi was in the room talking to people about things, making arrangements, or telling a group of officers about his future plans, and the watermelon sat next to him or sat on the roof holding his chin, and he could also listen to it with relish.

After more than two months, she noticed that others didn't seem to care much about the relationship between her and Ning Yi, so Watermelon and Ning Yi continued to talk. Transferred from Luliang to Xiaocanghe, arranging and planning for the future, during which Ning Yi also went out to the mountain twice to do errands, and the chatting between the two of them, either during dinner, or by the campfire, or on the road, chatted mostly about things related to the rebellion and future plans, even so, every time they got along and chatted, in her heart, they were also very satisfied.

Her grievances came from somewhere else.

In order to make a big fuss in Beijing, about 2,000 people came up one after another in Badaozhuang, and after the matter was completed, another 1,000 people went back in several batches. Now that the winter is getting deeper, although there is Liu Tiannan in the south, but after the killing of the king, there will not only be the suppression of Baidao, but also the expansion of fame, people from afar to vote, or the problem of confusion in the village, as the owner of the village, although everyone did not say it clearly, but in any case, she has to go back.

As for the news I heard and the various problems I encountered on this trip, it was nothing.

It was dark, torches were lit in front of the queue, and the sound of wolves came from afar, occasionally listening to the women around him complain, Ning Yi didn't refute much, if the watermelon was quiet, he would have nothing to do to chat with her. At this time, it is not far from the destination, the riverbed of the Xiaocang River appears in the field of vision, stretching upstream along the river, and in the distance, there is a mountain pass that has been faintly lit with fire.

And those who are sentry in the distance have already seen the light here.

The horses marched forward, and entered from the mountain pass of the Xiaocang River, it was dinner time at night, and in the valley on the first floor, the light of the bonfire stretched in the open space between the riverbed and the mountain wall on the east side, and the fire that spread out along the mountain was mottled where more than 7,000 people gathered. From the scene when I came out of the mountain more than ten days ago, there are many things in the valley at this time, but it still looks desolate. However, there are already children in the crowd.

The huge shacks used as canteens had been built beforehand, and at this time the soldiers of the valley were lining up to enter and exit, and the outlines of the stables were set up in the distance—from Bianliang, except for the original horses of Lüliang, the two thousand horses that had been plundered by hand, which are now the most important property in the mountain—so these buildings were built first. In addition, before Ning Yi left, Xiaocanghe Village had already built an iron-striking workshop and an earthen blast furnace on the mountainside—these were craftsmen from Luliang Mountain, in order to be able to build some construction tools on the spot. To do it in large quantities. Regardless of the raw materials, it had to be shipped from Aoki Village.

The cave on the mountain wall to prepare for winter and store supplies was still under construction, but there were more than a dozen eyes at this time, but it was not inhabited for the time being, and it may not have been completely built inside. There are a lot more wooden houses on the side of the valley, and it looks like the thickness is okay. Tinkering can also be used for winter, but this winter, half of the people may have to stay in felt tents.

Fortunately, the Su family was originally a cloth merchant, and after Lu Liangshan was used for smuggling, this business was almost monopolized by Ning Yi, and there was a lot of hoarding. Before killing Zhou Zhe, Ning Yi also had a plan for more than a month, even if it was in a hurry. These things are not scarce.

Standing at the mountain pass and watching for a while, I saw the horse team coming in, and the people in the mountain looked over here, although they did not shout, but the emotions of the people were enthusiastic. Ning Yi thought about it, and it was expected that the first batch of Wurui Battalion's families had already arrived, so the people's hearts were high. In the firelight over there. Someone has already come first, it is the general Sun Ye. Ning Yi got off the horse and greeted each other: "How many people have come, have they all been arranged?" Is there enough space to live? ”

"Seven hundred and thirty-six people came, originally lieutenant generals of the Wurui Battalion, and those who did not follow us, one hundred and ninety-three. The rest are their families. It's all arranged. Sun Ye said, lowering his voice, "Some of them have been instructed by the imperial court, and they have been honest with us in private, and there is ...... in between."

Ning Yi listened to him. Then he nodded, and then smiled: "It's no wonder that all of a sudden the morale is so high." ”

"Morale...... It's because of another thing. ”

"Huh?"

"It's because of the fall of Bianliang......"

While walking, Sun Ye whispered, and in the light of the torch, Ning Yi's expression was slightly stunned, and then stopped. He tilted his head and took a breath, the night wind blowing a chill.

Since coming to this Wu Dynasty, from the indifference at the beginning, to the concern of the heart later, to the ability to do it, and then to the later, almost put his life on the line and defended the city, in order not to have such an ending. When he decided to kill Zhou Zhe, he knew that this ending was doomed, but in his mind, he may not have thought about it, but now, it is finally clear.

After going around and around for so long, everything is finally coming to an end. The heavens and the earth have fallen, and the small points of light in the valley do not know what kind of future they will lead.

But in any case, the reason for the high morale of Tanaka is finally clear.

He sighed and walked forward.

Ahead of the valley, and further on, the river and the winding road stretched, and in the few caves in the foothills, the light was shining, and the garrison in the vicinity was self-contained, and in one of the rooms, a woman was reconciling accounts and materials. A female soldier from Aoki Village came in and whispered a word in her ear, and the woman raised her head and stopped the tip of her pen as she was writing. She said something to the female soldier, and after the female soldier went out, the woman named Su Tan'er gently stroked her hair and sideburns, she calmed down, continued to check the things on this page, and then dotted a small black dot.

The wolf howl is long, the night wind is cold, and thin points of light spread among the mountains. The gathering of people is the only warm thing in this world that does not know the future...... (To be continued......)

PS: ps1: I like the farming text, to write in the cold world, write the feeling of huddle for warmth and squirrel nuts for winter, basically set a direction, let's take our time from the details.

ps2: Double monthly pass, four days to change a chapter, everyone voted me to the sixth place, when the change was broken, there was a book friend called "Ancient Road West Wind 1" and frantically rewarded the alliance leader, to be honest, I wrote a book for so many years, and I felt a little guilty for the first time in the past two days. However, there is no laziness, and I hope everyone can understand.

ps3: I saw a book a few days ago.,It's called "Perfect Life".,And some of the things I wanted to write before.,There's a similar feeling.,Reborn in the city to write songs and mix entertainment or something.,But the author has a strong foundation.,Many plots show a sense of warmth.,Recommend it to everyone.,You can try it.。

Well, that's all.