On the night of the fourth day of the eighth lunar month, Shi Jin and others turned all the way back to Xinzhou and crossed the mountains. In the early hours of the morning, the Jurchen scouts passing by the mountains and wilderness gradually increased, which meant that they crossed the mountain range where tens of thousands of Jurchen troops were temporarily stationed, which was a mountain pass near the official road from Dai County to Xinzhou, and beyond the mountains that obscured their vision, they could faintly see the light of the bonfire rising into the sky, leaning over the ground, and they could feel the humming sound that tens of thousands of horses could still bring at night.

In the air, there was even a faint cry.

In the early morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month, they had already arrived in Xinzhou, at this time the north gate of Xinzhou City was closed, and the south gate was open, entering the soldiers and letting the civilians go. The news that the Jurchen army was coming south had also reached Xinzhou at this time, and Shi Jin and them entered Xinzhou almost at the last moment of the closing of the city, and the city was already in chaos at this time.

The sudden southward movement of the Jin army has set off huge waves in the entire Wu Dynasty, but for ordinary people, the information they can get is often varied and varied. Even if the Jurchens have broken through the Yanmen Pass and gone all the way south, most people still can't accurately understand the meaning, some are willing to go, and more are people who can't make the decision to flee with their families in a short period of time, waiting for the development of the situation with anxiety, and due to the influx of refugees, tens of thousands of troops, and the panic caused by the departure of some of the original residents, a large number of ecology in the city is rapidly tilting in the direction of disorder.

Refugees poured into the city and began to ask the government for food, and some of them, seeing the flight of the city's residents, began to occupy the vacant houses, and the friction in panic led to a large number of fights. The secret contradictions of several gangs in the city began to intensify. The army only cared about the chaos in the city, but did not pay attention to the details, they requisitioned a large number of houses in the north of the city, and began to demolish the houses near the city walls to make wooden stones, and many enthusiastic people participated in it, hoarding materials to defend the city on the city walls.

Qian Fei still had some connections in the vicinity, he quickly found an acquaintance in the official mansion, and arranged Shi Jin and Chen Xiuqing into the team of people guarding the city - as for the two "Hebei Shuangying", because Chen Xi's right hand was broken, they could not act quickly. Tang Zuhan had to take care of his companions. The two of them left the team with Shi Jin and others. The rivers and lakes are scattered like duckweed, and after this is gone, it should be difficult for everyone to see each other again.

didn't have time to do too much, Shi Jin and others helped demolish the house in the people's team. Fortify your defenses. And on the sixth day of the new year. The first batch of Jurchen troops arrived on the slopes of the northwest of Xinzhou, and thereafter. Horse teams, infantry teams, and groups of volunteers who pressed civilian prisoners gathered here in Xinzhou City from all directions in the north.

Looking at the past from the Xinzhou city wall, on the opposite field and hillside, groups of gathered figures gradually converged into the scale of tens of thousands of people, stretching all over the mountains. In front of the Jurchen army formation, a large number of Wu Dynasty civilians were gathered, and from time to time, a horse team in charge of guarding passed by, waving whips and even steel knives into the crowd, bringing flesh and blood to the men and women in the crowd. In the midst of the weeping, the black oppression was like a huge herd of cattle and sheep.

The bodies of old people who staggered, children with colorless faces, women with swaddling clothes, young men covered in blood, and even dead people were mostly led by ropes one by one. Wealthy merchants, officials, soldiers, and civilians, in the black and oppressive ranks, one by one ragged and let out low weeping sounds-because of the Jurchens' shouting and killing, there were not many people who dared to cry loudly, and occasionally one or two were killed by a nearby Jurchen archer with an arrow--Rao was so, and the large cries still converged into a miserable sound and spread to the Xinzhou city wall.

The defenders on the city wall could only watch this qiē silently, and in the afternoon, there was also a moment of commotion in this part of the outer city, and a young general wanted to lead the troops to attack, but was scolded back by the main general who defended the city. Shi Jin was preparing to roll wood in the corner of the city wall, and he was also silently watching this qiē.

The Jurchen army, the Liao people who originally formed the Yisheng Army, are still gathering, and the number of civilians who have been captured and driven over in the vicinity is also increasing. That night, the Jurchen army outside the city did not even set up tents on a large scale, they were preparing ladders for attacking the city in the mountains behind the army formation, and they were also waiting for the equipment to be transported by the follow-up army, while a large number of Jurchens slept in the fields and hillsides, waiting for the day.

The fire continued, and the Jurchen army gathered in batches that night from beginning to end, and the cavalry scouts walked around the city with torches, simply preventing the attack of the Wu Dynasty army. The next morning, when there was still mist in the air, Wanyan Zonghan looked at the surrounding situation on the hillside, and then waved his hand.

"Attack." He said.

The Jurchens sounded the trumpet.

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The severe pain seemed to be gradually numb, the chill came to his body, as if he no longer felt it, and when the noisy sound sounded, he was dragged to his feet and squeezed forward. There was a mist in the air, and in the distance, it was the city wall of Xinzhou, and the voice of the Jurchens came from behind.

His name is Wu Cheng, a thirty-five-year-old farmer near Dai County, and not long ago, he had a wife and a daughter who was about to marry as an adult, but now he has no more.

He...... I've always felt that everything that happened in front of me was an illusion, and maybe when the time came, I would wake up......

Two days earlier, when the Victorious Army had stormed his village, they had been captured, and he had seen a group of men insulting his wife and daughter, killing them, breaking one of his hands and struck him on the head with a stone.

When he woke up, he had been tied and led in the team, and the severed right hand was pulled in unspeakable pain, and he staggered forward, trembling all over, and all that flashed in front of him was the scene of the death of his wife and daughter, and he kept thinking back to that moment, regretting why he didn't find a hoe or a rake at that time, or ...... There was a kitchen knife not far from him, but he didn't know why he didn't get it.

In front of him was a fat woman in her forties and fifties, whose clothes had been torn to shreds. Crying all the time. His severed hand was pulled, and the pain led him to keep falling, and the clothes and pants on his body were not very good, the belt of his pants was broken, and when the pants fell, he also tripped him to the ground, and the Jurchens came and beat him, and the team walking in front and back dragged him in the muddy water, and after that, he didn't even have pants on his lower body, and he was pulled in the team like that.

A middle-aged man. Just like that, no pants were pulled all the way. What it meant, he couldn't figure out. All the way forward, there was no stop, and many people in the crowd were pulling their and urine in their pants. The stench rises as you walk. There is nothing to eat. They were only allowed to drink water when passing through a stream. After two days of travel, they were gathered under the city of Xinzhou. And then the night passed. Wu Cheng was pulled up.

Why not fight hard...... He thought to himself, but there were crying people who had no choice but to move forward, and it seemed that someone had been killed in the rear, and the voice of the Jurchens became more and more fierce. In the muddy vision, Wu Cheng knew that the Jurchens were driving them in the direction of Xinzhou City. There were banners of the Wu Dynasty on the city walls, and there were dense officers and soldiers, and Wu Cheng thought that they might come down to save people. But a certain understanding and fear in his heart also became deeper and deeper, and surprisingly, he knew in his heart that there was going to be a war.

The force of the pull caused him to stagger a few steps, and the Jurchen voice came closer and closer, and then someone passed by him, slashing the rope with a sword, but it was also the Jurchen soldiers in strange clothes, who mixed in the crowd and raised their bows and arrows to the side of the wall.

Amid the cacophony of voices, someone shouted from behind: "Go!" Run! If you don't leave, you'll die! From time to time, there was also a screaming sound, the rope that tied Wu Cheng's arm was still there, but it was no longer connected to the people in front and behind, but Wu Cheng was still pushed and squeezed forward, in front of him, it was the Jurchen who was already short and walking forward with a bow and arrow, Wu Cheng wanted to go up and bite him, but as if some kind of repulsion prevented him from doing so, the picture of his wife and daughter being insulted shook in front of his eyes again, and his daughter was torn off her clothes and screamed in the crowd......

With a brush, the Jurchen soldiers in front released their bowstrings, and the arrows flew towards the city wall of Xinzhou, and not far from the side, there was a long ladder walking.

The forward formation suddenly became even more chaotic, countless voices noisy Wu Cheng's ears, he was pushed to the ground, someone stepped on him, and when his eyes regained his gaze, the fat woman who had walked in front of him was howling not far away, she was crawling on the ground, half covered in blood, crying frantically, one of her little legs was trampled off, twisted so badly, the blood flowed like a note to reveal Bai Sensen's broken bones, when a Jurchen rushed to this side, she desperately supported herself on the ground with her hands, Try to crawl to the side to avoid the other person.

Why not work hard...... Wu Cheng's mind sounded this thought again, but he was in severe pain, and his hand was broken, but he thought that he could still use his body to kill a person and bite him to death, thinking like this, he struggled to stand up, and suddenly, a greater thrust pushed him to the ground, and an arrow flying from the city wall shot into his neck.

Wu Cheng was nailed to the ground and died forever.

Around this corpse, countless people were screaming, running, and shouting, and the Jurchens drove away the civilian captives, shooting bows and arrows, carrying ladders, and rushing towards the three-zhang high city wall of Xinzhou City......

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Shi Jin poured a pot of boiling oil and stood there, looking at the Jurchens who rushed madly.

He studied under Wang Jin, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, and later joined Liangshan, and also fought against officers and soldiers, saw some of the world, and probably understood what it was like to attack and defend the city. At this time, although it is not clear how many officers and soldiers the Wu Dynasty has prepared in Xinzhou, based on his approximate visual observation, the preparation of defense should be said to be quite sufficient.

The Jurchens had little preparation in terms of siege equipment, and they gathered under the city of Xinzhou, but it took a day to transport them from Yanmen Pass and Dai County, or they were made of local materials, and they were just simple objects such as ladders. They didn't have any large instruments like catapults. But they went on the offensive anyway.

The arrows covered the top of the city wall, and the defenders of the Wu Dynasty immediately returned to color, and most of the surging crowds below were actually civilians who originally belonged to the Wu Dynasty. Yet in this moment, no one has the power to choose. When the Jurchens drove them over, their fate was almost decided.

Then the ladder came up, followed by the flying hook.

The Jurchens set up a ladder and pulled a rope. Then he climbed up bravely and frantically. The defenders above put down the rolling wood and stones, and put down the wolf tooth slap with barbed iron spikes and the yaksha to defend, and in Shi Jin's eyes, the Jurchens even had obvious dodging movements in the rapid climbing.

"What are you doing! Don't die! Go down! ”

Seeing that Shi Jin stood at that moment, the Wu Dynasty officer next to him suddenly rushed over and pulled Shi Jin, it was a young petty officer, Shi Jin hurriedly dodged to the rear, and was called down by him to move stones. Then the petty official took out a small iron pot-like heart guard from his arms. Throw it to Shi Jin.

The other party shrank behind the women's wall and shouted: "Wear it on your head!" Wear it on your head! Xu regarded Shi Jin as a stupid big man.

Shi Jin rushed down the city wall, and when he came up for the second time, he saw that the little officer had an arrow stuck in his head, and he had fallen in a pool of blood and was no longer moving. He untied the bow and arrow that the petty officer was carrying. He shot a few arrows under the walls. An arrow grazed his cheek. In the surging crowd, a Jurchen archer saw him, and Shi Jin also returned an arrow. This arrow missed the opponent, killing a civilian slightly ahead, and the opponent fired another arrow, Shi Jin dodged it, and when he pulled the bow with all his strength below, the small bow slammed off.

The Jurchens were climbing frantically up the entire city wall, dodging the sweeps of the wolf's tooth slap and the yaksha beating, and even cutting the ropes of these defensive equipment. Farther away, the Jurchen horsemen were rapidly spreading in two directions, and most of the knights on these horsemen were armed with bows and arrows and hooks, threatening the walls of Xinzhou in other directions.

In the past, Shi Jin had heard of the siege of the Jin people, and in the most powerful news, Wanyan Agu led the army to conquer the Liao State and went to Beijing, and it only took three hours, which was almost incredible. However, at the moment of witnessing the offensive of these Jurchens, he suddenly understood that this statement may not be strange.

When the arrows covered the city wall, the defenders of the Wu Dynasty almost did not dare to lift their heads, but under the city wall, those tall and fierce Jurchens came up directly along the ladder and rope, and some people's ropes were cut and fell into the moat, but the moat had already been filled with the blood and corpses of the civilians of the Wu Dynasty. With the city wall as the boundary, in the huge conflict and chaos, the first Jurchen soldier rushed to the wall in less than half an hour after the battle, and after being killed by the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty, the city wall of Xinzhou was repeatedly stepped on by the Jurchens.

Shi Jin gritted his teeth, ran down the city wall, and rushed to a nearby demolished blacksmith shop, the blacksmith had been called by the army to make weapons, but there were also those in the army who didn't want it, it was an iron rod hidden in the ruins, Shi Jin pulled it out, and rushed up to the city again. A huge chaos was resounding on the other side of the city wall, and on Shi Jin's side, a Jurchen climbed the wall and was slammed on the top of his head by Shi Jin, and the whole human head exploded like a watermelon and fell.

Around, there were flying arrows and countless surging shouts of fighting, Shi Jin hid by the female wall, when another Jurchen soldier rushed up, he rushed over and killed the other party, and on the other side not far away, the sound of fighting sounded, a tall Jurchen man rushed up, brandished a steel knife and killed two Wu Dynasty soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, Shi Jin rushed over, handed the iron rod, smashed the man's knee, the Jurchen man fell to the ground, the steel knife swung horizontally, and cut off a soldier's calf, and then was stabbed to death on the ground.

More Jurchens rushed towards the city wall......

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First one, two, three, then five, six, seven, eight, nine...... When the fifth person was killed, the "iron hook" Chen Xiuqing also rushed up and signaled to Shi Jin, and when he killed the seventh person, Shi Jin replaced the iron rod with a spear.

The qi and blood on his body were rolling, and his palms had become hot. In such a battlefield, the spirit of a person has been condensed to the peak, and the flying arrows may take his life every moment, and in this case, he still needs to kill the enemy unmistakably, the power contained in each blow has reached the limit, and many previous combat experiences are not applicable here.

The reason why there is a virtual and real is because you make a move to the other party, and the other party will dodge it when he sees it. In the past, many moves in kung fu had to be pre-calculated for the opponent's dodge, you made a false move, pretending to attack him, he dodged, and your more powerful move beckoned to the past, but there is no longer a difference between virtual and real here. Every move you use must go all out. The other party will hardly care about your false moves, he pounces on him with a knife, you can't kill someone, you die.

In the past, the enemy Shi Jin faced, whether it was an officer or a bandit, he waved an iron rod and ran, beating people to break their hands and feet, and the other party fell to the ground and wailed, and then lost his combat effectiveness, and more people were even scared away by his bravery. And this moment. Break the other person's knee. The other party may slash you with a more fatal slash. It's like if you stab someone in the stomach and don't smash their intestines with a knife, they can slash you in the head. Such a life-and-death scene, every moment. All happened on the city walls......

An hour after the battle was going on. The battle line on the walls was like a waterline that fluctuated violently. The Jurchen offensive was simple and direct, and their strong will to fight and personal fighting skills were turned into entities, and they were directly pushed up the city wall. Shi Jin had never seen such a solid battle, even in the heyday of Liangshan, it was impossible to fight like this.

He could only use a spear or steel knife to hit the opponent's vital point with every blow, and when he killed about ten people, Chen Xiuqing was killed in a pool of blood by the Jurchen soldiers. And Shi Jin was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and he was stabbed twice, fortunately, his martial arts are strong, and these are also minor injuries, but the pressure brought by the fierce and crazy battle is directly reflected on the body of everyone on the city wall, and every time Shi Jin kills a person, he can feel the violent consumption of mental energy. The Jurchen offensive was almost endless, constantly slapping into this reef, and the city walls were washed up from time to time, and even broke through the obstacles, and then the Wu Dynasty defenders mobilized soldiers to force them down from the city. But the whole situation is still declining at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.

For the generals of the Wu Dynasty, whether it was Yanmen Pass, Shuozhou, Daixian, or Xinzhou, each batch of guards may have heard rumors about the Jurchens before, but most of them were also the first time to confront the Jin people. In the battle to defend the city, they were more or less rational and confident at the beginning, but perhaps every time, their self-confidence was quickly shattered in the madness of the Jurchens.

In the battle of Xinzhou, the Wu Dynasty gathered 48,000 defenders, against the Jurchen infantry of 32,000 and more than 10,000 righteous victorious troops commanded by Yan Zonghan, the Jurchens began to drive the civilians to fight in the early morning, and around noon, the first place to be broken was the south gate of Xinzhou.

In this battle, the real Jurchen frenzied attack was the city wall in the northwest of Xinzhou, more than 10,000 Jurchen soldiers, as well as the original Liao Yisheng army, drove the same number of civilians to attack this place almost continuously, and at the same time, two groups of Jurchen cavalry walked around the city.

The Jurchen cavalry was extremely fast, but the defenders on the city wall might not be so fast, and near noon, they made a feint attack on the eastern city wall. Then he quickly concentrated near the south gate, and carried out an extremely fierce attack with bows and arrows and hooks, and the whole city was broken in less than a cup of tea. The Jurchens who stormed into the city opened the city gates, and the south of Xinzhou fell into street fighting, and at the same time, cut off the possibility of the Wu Dynasty defenders and residents from escaping.

About an hour and a half later, the north gate was stormed, the defense of Xinzhou was brutally broken, and the crazy and tragic street fighting in the city began......

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The setting sun spread in the sky, the pillar of smoke rose with the flames, countless screams and screams rang in his ears, and when the war horse rushed over, the man put the end of his spear against the ground and sank his footsteps.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the corpse of the war horse pushed him, and the Jurchen rider fell to the end of the alley, and then smashed a wooden frame. In the dust, the Jurchen rider staggered to his feet, he recognized something in the dust, and then slammed the tip of a spear through his neck. After he fell, another swaying figure came out of the dust, holding on to the wall.

He was also half covered in blood, his ragged shirt revealing his abrased chest and back, and above the figure, the dragon's tattoo was clearly revealed.

Finished...... It's over......

Looking at this city that seemed to be restless in the destruction, this thought flashed through Shi Jin's heart, in this day, he participated in the whole process of the battle, and also really saw what it means to be overwhelmingly powerful. In front of the Jin soldiers, even if they defend the city, they can only fight this way, let alone what kind of scene it will be like to fight in the field.

Outcome...... I forgot what I was doing when I came up......

He was watching the fleeing people in the county town at that time, and he originally wanted to run, but when he heard Qian Fei's discussion, he also wanted to come up and take a look. As a result, at this time, several people died and scattered, and now they may be dying......

He took out a piece of dry food from his body, took only a small bite, and breathed as evenly as he could. When the footsteps of another group of soldiers came, he climbed over the wall, and then ran in a direction.

Several key places out of the city are said to have been mastered by the Jurchens, at this time tens of thousands of troops and the same tens of thousands of civilians are divided in the city, resistance and fighting are still fierce, but most of the resistance and fighting occur in a state of collapse, sooner or later will be annihilated, Xinzhou is really finished, he doesn't know if he can survive. When he rushed to a courtyard like this, he climbed over the wall and there was blood, and he suddenly met with the five Jurchen soldiers who had just finished killing.

The two sides were stunned, and the opposite side raised their knives to kill, Shi Jin turned around and ran, passed through the hall, and when he rushed to the front, he collided with another Jurchen soldier, the other party slashed at the other party, and was hit by Shi Jin against the wall with a slam, Shi Jin pulled out his knife with his backhand and slashed, cutting the man's throat, and the blood line flew out, and the rest of the people had already surrounded him.

In the light of the waving knife, Shi Jin slashed a person's throat, and he was also stabbed in the arm, and at this time, the sound of breaking wind came howling, and someone also rushed into the room, and a big knife was swung and slashed at the remaining four Jurchen soldiers. Shi Jin took the opportunity to kill one person, and the big knife killed one person, but the other two Jurchen soldiers were hit by darts in the back and fell directly.

The one wielding the big knife was a burly tall man, and the one throwing darts outside was a middle-aged woman, and the two had also experienced fierce fighting, and there were a lot of blood stains on their bodies. The three of them looked at each other for a moment, and the big man said, "Are you brothers on the road?" You're good, do you want to come with us? ”

Shi Jin just looked at them, and the woman raised her head: "You have good martial arts, if you want to come, follow along." "Turn around and go. The tall man raised his hand: "Let's go, everyone, it's better than you alone." ”

Shi Jin nodded, and followed suspiciously, the woman in front of him was extremely fast, and the big man also quickly followed, Shi Jin exerted his strength, but the speed was not lower than the two. The woman's kung fu in front of her was obviously very high, and she was afraid that she would not be inferior to Shi Jin's thoughts, and her qi was long, and she still had spare strength, every time she moved forward for a while, she noticed that there were Jurchen soldiers in front of her, so she quickly changed her route. Seeing that Shi Jin's martial arts were really strong, the big man with a knife in the rear arched his hand and said in a low voice: "Peng Dahu in Xia Shuanglian Mountain, what is the number of brothers?" ”

"Mountain savage, Shi Jin." At this time, there was no need for him to hide his identity, running and returning the salute, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go see Grandmaster Zhou." Peng Dahu said. (To be continued......)

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