How to describe the beginning of a war?

Just like the ordinary and long life you have been living, on one day in that long and almost boring journey, you have almost adapted to the enjoyment of everything. You walk, chat, eat, drink water, cultivate the land, harvest, sleep, repair, talk, play, pass by the neighbors, and in the day after day of life, you see the same and seemingly unchanging scenery...

Someone suddenly pulled you out of this for granted.

Of course, it is something that you will not have in advance no matter how you build it in advance. You feel angry and angry... and then you see the head and scarlet blood of your neighbor. Your head and soul cannot accept and accommodate all this. In your long life that seems to carry the truth of heaven and earth, the most blood you have ever seen is just the consequences of pushing and shoving when the neighbor is fighting, or the execution of cheering when the county talks about bandit killers. Is there really such evil in the world? Why does it come on this day? Why does it meet yourself born in the world?

It will take a long time to think about all this...

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Zhou Yuanpu is a young official in the outskirts of Qingchuan County west of Jiange. The Zhou family lived in Qingchuan for many years. His ancestors had a juren and lived in this small place. There were hundreds of acres of fertile land in their homes. It can be regarded as a passing on poetry and books in the ten miles.

Although adjacent to the dangerous pass of Jiange, the southwest has not encountered any war for two hundred years. The terrain of Jiange Outer River is rugged, and there are occasional bandits in the mountains, but it has not been a big deal. In recent years, whether it is the interest groups that have trade with the southwest or the Si Zhongxian who guards Jiange, they have been deliberately maintaining the order on this road, and Qingchuan and other places are as safe as a paradise.

Zhou Yuanpu lived to the age of twenty-four, took over a wealthy family business, married a wife and a concubine, had a son and a daughter, a daughter at the age of six, and a son at the age of four. Along the way, he was safe and happy.

All this is not slowly lost.

In the past few days, people in nearby towns and counties occasionally talked about the seemingly distant war. Some people talked about the cruelty of the Jurchens and considered whether to leave. Some people also talked about whether to leave wherever the Jurchens occupied, wouldn’t they have to keep people to plant some food?

Such comments were just stark and did not cause most people to react excessively. Zhou Yuanpu only thought about it seriously in his mind a few times.

Late at night on October 17, he was suddenly dragged out of bed during his dazed sleep. Most of the bandits who rushed into the yard looked like Han soldiers, and only the leading people were wearing strange foreign clothes. At this time, the village outside was already crying. These people seemed to think that Zhou Yuanpu was a good-family official and brought the "adults" of the Jurchens to search.

Zhou Yuanpu and his wives, concubines, children and servants were pulled out of the room. A Han man in the lead asked him where the food was stored and where the money and goods were hidden in the family. Zhou Yuanpu was still in a daze, but the foreigners did not say much. They dragged a servant in the family and hung the man on a tree, and then cut the man's stomach with a knife. The bloody smell scared everyone.

Zhou Yuanpu then explained the place where the food was stored in his home, where the calligraphy, paintings, antiques, gold and silver were collected. He cried and said, "I will give you everything, don't kill anyone." When everyone went to plunder, foreigners dragged his wife into the room.

The wife cried and resisted. The foreigner slapped her on the head. The woman hit the stairs and vomited blood. Her eyes were dissipated at that time. Seeing that her mother had something to do with her daughter rushed up and hugged the other party's leg to bite. The foreigner slashed the little girl with one knife and dragged his concubine in.

The concubine did not dare to resist, and several foreigners went in one after another, and then others took turns to go in. The wife was lying on the ground and her body twitched, and her eyes seemed to have a reaction. Zhou Yuanpu wanted to go over and was knocked to the ground. He hugged his four-year-old son, but he had no reaction at all. He was thinking in his heart: Could this be a nightmare at night?

The night became darker and the cries and wails outside gradually became subtle. Zhou Yuanpu could not see the concubine in the room again. His wife, with blood on her head, was lying under the eaves of the courtyard, and his eyes seemed to be looking at him and at the young child. Zhou Yuanpu knelt down on the ground and cried, begging, not long after, he was dragged out of the bloody courtyard. He hugged his young son tightly in his arms, and the last time he saw was his wife lying under the cold eaves, and he had never seen the concubine in the room again.

Misty rose in the long mountain road, and people were tied up by ropes and driven together. As they walked forward, someone was killed on the side of the road.

All of this seems so unreal.

In the haze of the following few days, Zhou Yuanpu thought more than once in his mind, was his daughter dead? Was his wife dead? The scene of people being smuggled into his mind? Isn’t that the scene that should be found in the world?

Didn’t it be agreed that no matter where you occupy, people must be kept to plant some food?

I gave myself food, treasure, and everything I saved. Why isn't it enough?

The fog in the mountains came and went. He carried the child in his arms and walked forward in the slippery mountain road, with some porridge like a pig in the middle. The child seemed to be frightened and did not cry too much.

They followed the army all the way forward, and then at some point strange things appeared in front of people, the low walls of the old county town, rows of ditches on the hills outside the county town, and the long black military flags. They were surrounded and looked after for a day or two, and then someone drove them forward.

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Huangming County Town.

Seeing that the opposite position began to move, Pang Lu'an, who was standing above the city wall, put down his telescope.

The entire 2nd Division of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Fifth Army who came from Zizhou has now been garrisoned here. In the past few days, the Jurchen brigade has come one after another. You can see from the numerous flags opposite that the core team responsible for the battle field of Huangming County was the Jurchen Sue General Pi Lisu.

The open space in front of Huangming County could not accommodate too many troops. As the Jurchen army arrived one after another, the trees on the surrounding mountains fell and quickly turned into defensive fortifications and fences. Hot air balloons on both sides rose, watching the movements on the opposite side.

While Pang Lu'an was watching the city wall, he could also vaguely see the generals patrolling the slopes opposite. Both sides were doing the mobilization of the battlefield. The Chinese soldiers responsible for defense in the positions inside and outside Huangming County made their own garrison preparations step by step in silence. In the opposite barracks, they could occasionally see a group of tiger soldiers gathered and roared.

The equipment that sieges and the vehicles that cast stones were quickly assembled within their sight.

A head-on confrontation with the main force of the military with the strongest record in this era has been officially included in the scope of vision.

On the morning of October 25, Balisu issued an order in the military camp.

"Try them."

People who were cannon fodder were driven away.

Pang Liuan put down his telescope and clenched his fists: "Fuck."

The muzzle on the city wall fine-tuned the direction and the war drum sounded.

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On the battlefield where the two armies confronted each other, people started to cry.

Zhou Yuanpu held the child, and before he knew it, he was squeezed to the front by the crowded crowd. There were solemn sounds on both sides of his vision.

Zhou Yuanpu's head woke up slightly.

"Let my child go"

He raised his four-year-old son and cried out with all his strength in front of the two armies. However, countless people were crying, and his voice was immediately drowned.

Soon after, the four-year-old was trampled to death while crowded and running.

In the short period of time that suddenly passed, the experiences of life were the distance between the sky and the earth. Less than half an hour after the war in Huangming County began on October 25, the entire family, which once had Zhou Yuanpu as the pillar, had completely disappeared into this world. There was no point at the end, nor was there preferential treatment for women and children.

This is a microcosm of the experiences of thousands of families and people near Jiange. Even if someone is lucky enough to survive, this experience will completely change their lives.

However, no matter how huge anger is, it will not cause any turmoil in the battlefield in front of you. People with countless family interests, tendencies and wills are hedging under this sky.

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The winter of the last year of the Wu Dynasty Jianshuo Dynasty broke out among the mountains in the southwest, and the battle that determined the trend of the whole world was both like an elegy for a great empire that lasted for more than two hundred years, and like a sound of a new era nurturing the outbreak. It was like a river coming from afar, surging, but steady and thick.

People know that all accumulation and silence will be revealed here.

For this battle, the Jurchens were ready for everything.

With the issuance of Wanyan Zonghan's order, hundreds of thousands of troops began to move forward in an orderly manner. At this time, the first batch of engineers had explored and built the road, and the vanguard troops with the elite Jurchens as the main force had occupied a key position on the way.

The two roads from Jiange to Huangming County and to Yushui River are more than fifty miles each. The mountain roads, which are both long and short, only bear the responsibility of caravans, and immediately appear fragile under the size of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Just the third day after the army officially set off the camp, the vanguard troops led by Balisu and Olili arrived at the pre-determined battle locations and began to choose places to camp. Countless troops spread across the mountain paths that lasted dozens of miles long. The mountains were cold in winter, and the originally solid mountain path became muddy soon after, but the Korean Qixian, Gao Qingyi and other generals had already prepared for these things.

The engineers and elite Han troops with better support quickly filled the soil, built roads, and laid the foundation. At some relatively open nodes extending forward with dozens of miles of mountain roads, such as the Jurchen troops in Shiliji, Canghuoyi, Huangtouyan, etc., where people had already lived, they set up military camps, and then drove the Han troops to cut down trees, level the ground, and set up levels.

Even if the Chinese army is really fierce and brave, and the front line is unbeatable, the levels composed of elites at these key nodes are enough to block the retreating army with low quality and avoid a downward-rolling bead curtain-like defeat. With the support of these nodes, some relatively elite Han troops in the rear can be pushed forward and exert the power they can exert.

After more than 20 years of the founding of the Jurchen country, Wanyan Zonghan had won the record of winning with less and more countless times. The generals below him had already been accustomed to the scene of giving up their lives and retreating like a tide on the other side. It may be the first time for Zonghan to show such a steady attitude in actual combat, but considering Lou Shi and the experience of sacrificing the Blessed Sweet, not many people in the Jurchen army felt redundant about this.

When fighting in the mountains, there are not many troops that can be deployed for a while. The Chinese army's plugging at several key nodes in the mountains will prevent them from encountering a huge disparity in the army in a short period of time. However, as long as the access is maintained, there will be no major problems. The elite Jurchen troops will be on the ground one by one. This is a fierce offensive that no one in the world can withstand at least at present, and this idea is still a consensus in the whole world.

The figures of the soldiers extend like an ant colony, and various military flags roar like dense forests. Huge hot air balloons rise in the sky from time to time. Above the dense forest, there may be a spiral of the sea. The army of hundreds of thousands is like flooding into a narrow road. As long as they break through the plug points in front, there will be a flat horse in front of them.

Or, at least half of the victory.

At the end of October, the first wave of temptations on the front battlefield appeared at the exit of Huangming County on the East Road Front. This day was October 25.

As early as three days ago, in the rugged mountains extending towards Jiange from Huangming County, the Yushui Creek confrontation line, the extremely complex scout war began to escalate.

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Throughout history, no matter which unit you are in, those who can serve as scouts are the most trusted confidants and elites in the army.

In the era when modern military consciousness has not yet awakened, this principle is extremely simple: people who pay wages and work hard are humble and lowly, and without subjective initiative, even if they want to drive soldiers forward on the battlefield, they can be subject to extremely strict military law constraints. If they want to release soldiers, they can complete tasks without being subject to restraint. Such soldiers can only be the most elite group in the army.

Only for the close guard of the general, the servants of the aristocratic families or the tiger and wolf men raised, can the people who can gain benefits as the situation develops, can such a proactive battle mind be born.

Zou Hu, 32 years old this year, was one of the scouts of the Wu Dynasty army. He led a nine-person scout squadron, who worked under the command of the Wu Dynasty general Hou Ji. He once participated in the resistance of the Xiangfan defense line. Later, Hou Ji's army violated too much military law and regained a lot of anger in front of Yue Fei. He claimed that he was under enemy from both sides and under great pressure, so he finally surrendered to the Jurchens.

Zou Hu had no objection to this.

He was a hunter in the mountains and was poor when he was young, but under the careful guidance of his father, he developed the ability to cross mountains and rivers. He joined the army in his ten years, and he was in good health and had long seen blood. Yu Hou Ji's army was trained as a tiger elite.

Hou Ji is a general with a traditional temperament, and he pays attention to a fierce nature in training. He believes that without a tiger or wolf, how can he go to fight to kill the enemy? Over the past ten years, the resources of the Wu Dynasty have begun to tilt towards the army. Leaders like Hou Ji have also been supported by some officials. Under Hou Ji's command, it is not rare for soldiers to be arrogant and bully the villagers. Zou Hu's temperament was still simple at first. After more than ten years in such an environment, his temperament had already become cruel.

Wolves eat meat when traveling thousands of miles away, and dogs eat shit when traveling thousands of miles away. People in this world who are prey on the weak and cannot take up a knife should have been bullied.

Those who are paying their wages will sacrifice their lives to fight in front of others, while others hide behind to enjoy happiness. In this case, if you still cannot get benefits, it will be really unfair.

The elites under Hou Ji's command have always lived in such voices. When it comes to some friction and competition, the brutal tiger and wolf men under his command can earn some face. This makes them even stronger and stronger.

Later, the army allocated Xiangfan defense line, and Yue Fei's relatives disregarded the military discipline, and Hou Ji became one of the key points of targeting. The battle in Xiangfan was fierce and the front line was under great pressure. Zou Hu believed that although he was sent out every time he was not often tied his head to his belt to survive, how could he be able to withstand someone behind him to hold him back.

Later, the situation of the war developed, and the coefficients of various camps around Xiangfan were pulled out, and Hou Ji surrendered on the front line, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. On weekdays, the court was even more fussy about the behavior of his own people working on the front line and the court reusing Yue Fei and other small officials with white teeth commands. It was even said that Yue Fei's child was mostly with the lewd eldest princess in the court, so he was promoted or had a unclear relationship with the bullshit prince...

How could the court not perish if it is so stupid?

After participating in the Jurchen army, life was much better. On the way from Xiangfan to Jiange, although the truly wealthy big towns were plundered by the Jurchens, as the elite scouts under Hou Ji, many times everyone could always get some oil and water and almost no enemies. Faced with the advance of the Jurchen old general Wanyan Zonghan, after the Xiangfan defense line was defeated, the next step was to destroy it. Even if someone dared to resist occasionally, the resistance was actually extremely weak.

A man is born in the world, and only when fighting in this way can he look good!

Everyone talked about it every day and said that this was a good boss. Hou Ji didn't have much emotion about the Wu Dynasty. He was poor since he was a child and was always bullied by landlords in the mountains. After joining the army, he bullied others. He had already convinced himself that this was the ultimate truth of heaven and earth.

After a few months of resignation to the Jurchens, when Hou Ji talked to his brothers, he gradually could say some more "reasonable" words, such as the decay of the Wu Dynasty and the demise of the heaven and earth, and the rise of the Great Jin Dynasty was in line with the fixed number of the world. This time after following the Great Jin Dynasty, his descendants would have two or three hundred years of blessings to compare with the Wu Dynasty. Everyone chose the side in time and made achievements, and they would have a place in the world in the future.

Anyway, after fighting this battle, you have to enjoy your happiness!

In August and September, the army arrived at Jiange one after another, and the Han army was naturally afraid. Jiange's heroic pass was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Once the battle started, the Han army that they surrendered would most likely be regarded as the first to enter the battle. But soon after, Jiange actually opened the door and surrendered. Doesn't this further prove the destiny of our Great Jin Kingdom?

Without Jiange, the battle in the southwest was half successful.

In October, the army passed one after another. Hou Ji's main force was arranged to transport grain behind Jiange, and Zou Hu and other elite scouts were sent in first. On October 12, the Chinese military officials registered and reviewed the list and information of each person. Zou Hu understood that this was a preparation to prevent them from defecting in front of the formation or surrendering to the enemy. Then, the scouts of each army were gathered.

There were as many elite scouts mobilized as 10,000, and the elite soldiers among the Jurchens were more than 2,000. The one responsible for commanding the scouts was the rest of the Jin Dynasty.

"...There are more than 10,000 scouts alone... In the battle to destroy the country, this airs are set up..."

When talking to the brothers around him, Zou Hu imitated the tone he heard when watching the plays of the collection of poems, and his words were quite frivolous, but he couldn't help but be shocked and honored in his heart.
To be continued...