The wind blew from the valley with a biting coolness, and a lone pine on the cliff stood still in the cold wind, only the emerald green pine needles made a rustling sound in the wind.

Zhou Deming knelt on the cliff with a long knife and shouted to the valley: "Daddy, Grandma, I'm back!" Here today, I will avenge you by cutting off the heads of my enemies! ”

Facing the wind, the sound echoed in the valley and did not disperse for a long time.

In that year, Qiyuan Prefecture was attacked by Jiaozhi, Zhou Deming's father was killed, and his mother ran to the mountains with Zhou Deming to escape with his life. The Jiaozhi people retreated, and the mother wanted to contact her family to support Zhou Deming's reinstatement, but the Guangyuan Prefecture Nong family attacked again, and only Zhou Deming himself escaped with his life.

The bodies of both father and mother were thrown into the misty valley in front of them, washed away by the rushing river and nowhere to be found.

Now that Zhou Deming has returned to Qiyuan Prefecture with Sang Yi's army, the first thing he did was to avenge his parents.

Standing up, Zhou Deming came to the side and tied his whole body, knelt beside the person on the ground, and scolded: "You Nong's wolf ambitions, how many lives have been killed in the mountains in the past few years!" It fell into my hands today, avenging my parents and getting rid of a harm in the mountains! ”

Nong Cunkang took a sip: "If you want to kill, kill it, be happy!" It's not like our men in the mountains at all! You have been in the territory of the Han people for several years, and you have been infected with the diseases of the Han people all over your body! ”

"Phew! You brutalize women and children, and you still call them men! ”

"That's a lot of nonsense! In the mountains, for thousands of years, you killed you, and I killed you. Those who have the ability to occupy other people's territory. Sleep someone else's wife. A matter of course! If it falls into your hands today, you will simply cut me down a little, what nonsense! ”

"You're still very hard-mouthed when you're dying!"

"That's nature! You just killed me, and I look down on you! If you have the ability, you can bring your own family to recapture Qiyuan Prefecture, I have nothing to say. But you just borrowed the soldiers and horses of the Han people to recapture this place. What kind of heroes are colluding with the Han people to beat us barbarians! ”

Zhou Deming sneered, stepped forward and stepped on Nong Cunkang's shoulder: "Don't you accept it?" Then go underground and be a good man! Eat me with a knife! ”

After speaking. The knife fell, and he cut off Nong Cunkang's head with a knife.

After killing the enemy, Zhou Deming knelt on the ground and worshiped his parents, and raised his foot to kick Nong Cunkang's body down the valley.

The sky was overcast, and there was no sun to be seen, only the mountain wind was blowing in all directions, with a biting chill.

Zhou Deming looked at the mountains in the distance and looked lonely. With great revenge, he went to a stone in his heart, but he also felt a loss that he had never felt before.

Nong Cunkang was right. I am no longer a man in the mountains, and I have this on my mind. He started his new life outside the mountain.

Men in the mountains, are men in the mountains amazing? Or is it a noble thing not to treat human life as human life? There is already too much blood in this mountain, and if you leave, you will leave.

Facing the wind, Zhou Deming exhaled, shouted, turned to leave, and never looked back.

The state city of Qiyuan Prefecture is not in the valley, but on the slope of the mountain. Agriculture in this area is still very underdeveloped, and the valley is not more advantageous than the half-hillside.

At this time, the walled city of Qiyuanzhou was full of chaos, people shouted and horses neighed, chickens flew and dogs jumped.

Sang Yi's army did not enter the walled city, but camped in the valley, and Zhou Deming brought only more than 100 soldiers allocated to him by Sang Yi, just enough to watch the yamen and granaries.

It was not the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who were rampage in the walled city, but several other big clans that turned over, including the Zhou family to which Zhou Deming belonged. After suffering from a few years of wretchedness, they turned over one day, and all the grievances of these people broke out in the past few days, and all the people from Guangyuan Prefecture were arrested and searched for their homes.

Zhou Deming walked along the avenue of the village, and from time to time there were local soldiers on the street who greeted him, and his words were full of cordiality and admiration. can lead the clansmen to rise again, he is a man respected by the mountain people, not to mention that he is also the next governor.

With the support of the Great Song Dynasty government and the support of their own clansmen, Qiyuan Prefecture will be Zhou Deming's Qiyuan Prefecture in the future, whether it is surnamed Zhou or not, the local clans that have turned over again also recognize this.

Only Zhou Deming himself knew that the Great Song Dynasty would no longer allow the emperor to be unearthed in such a critical place, and having seen the life outside the mountain, Zhou Deming had no interest in being the emperor here.

Back at the yamen, several principals with big surnames were waiting in the official hall.

Seeing Zhou Deming come back and looking at the blood on the steel knife in his hand, an old man with a white beard asked excitedly: "Zhou family, has that thief been killed by you?" ”

Zhou Deming said: "Yes, I cut off the head of the dog thief of the Nong family and sacrifice the spirit of my parents in the sky!" ”

"Good, good, the state family killed well!" The old man nodded again and again, "The revenge has been avenged, the power of the Nong family here has been swept away, from now on, Qiyuan Prefecture will still be my Zhou family!" ”

The old man's face was red with excitement, and his eyes even glistened with tears.

Zhou Deming had made a military order to Xu Ping, asking the forces of these mountain clans to serve the Song army, which was also an opportunity for him to prove his worth. Skipping the arrangements for the future, he said loudly: "Now there is a large army of the imperial court stationed outside the mountain, and we are going all the way to Guangyuan Prefecture, which is the time for us to serve the imperial court!" ”

"What good are we barbarians doing to serve the imperial court?"

A rough man shouted loudly, it was the head of the Li family.

Opening his mouth is a benefit, and he doesn't have the consciousness of being a courtier, and he is really still a mountain man in his memory. But I don't know, as long as there are benefits, why should the court give you benefits for nothing? There are thousands of soldiers and horses, and their combat power is strong, and they can fight any battle by themselves, and they don't need to rely on these native soldiers.

After settling down, Zhou Deming said: "As soon as the official army arrives, the Nong family in Guangyuan Prefecture will inevitably be captured. Before I came, the inspection told me that the official army would only attack Guangyuan Prefecture, and the rest would be handed over to us. You all know that what Gu Fu Mountain, Don't Evil Mountain, and even Wanya Prefecture, Silang Prefecture, etc., all rely on the power of the Nong family to gain a firm foothold in the state, and as soon as the Nong family falls, these places will become borderless lands! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, many of these states have accumulated countless wealth, and if you take it, you can also make up for the losses of being oppressed by the Nong family in the past few years. Whether you take it or not depends on your ideas, whether you are willing to contribute or not. I have wasted a lot of effort to win this opportunity for you from the official army, but don't waste it! ”

When the head of the Li family heard this, they said angrily: "It's not that the official army has let us go to war, and it hasn't been good for us!" As for the money and food of the population of the defeated place, it was originally ours, when will it be counted as a reward from the imperial court! Yanei, what you said is a bit deceitful, it is obvious that the officials and soldiers are begging us to help fight the war, but you say that it is the grace of the officials and soldiers, and the heart is still not on the side of the barbarians in our mountains! ”

Zhou Deming sneered: "Why should the officials and soldiers beg you!" Once the Nong family is defeated, will these places still dare to oppose the imperial court? They will naturally pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, and the officials and soldiers don't need to spend a knife or a shot! ”

Looking at everyone, Zhou Deming raised his voice and said: "I asked for this opportunity for you, are you willing to grasp it!" The inspection asked me to say it in advance, but as long as there are other states that accept land from the imperial court, they are not allowed to invade again, and the offender Guangyuan Prefecture is an example! Think for yourselves! ”

(I have a very bad cold today, so I can only go here, forgive me.) (To be continued.) )