The endless reeds and swamps, the pattering of light rain and the rustling wind; occasionally there are water birds that are frightened to fly up by the puff, and the ducks and birds hovering in the sky are chirping urgently. All of this is like the sound of cranes and wind.
Generally, it stimulated more than a dozen figures who were running away with their lives.
Then, people kept tripping and falling one after another, and some lost their feet and fell into puddles; they fell unconscious and passed out. Finally, only one person was left. When he stopped and tried to take a few breaths, he only felt nausea and discomfort.
It was as if he wanted to vomit out all his internal organs.
Previously, he was a member of the enviable Jingzhou navy, with his own warship and the status of a naval officer. But now he is just a fish that escaped from the tragic Shuizhu battlefield; those who
The screams of the captured comrades and the abandoned wounded could still be heard.
He was so devastated and so heartbroken that he regarded every slight movement behind him as the monsters that were chasing after him. Yes, they were monsters. The monsters and giant beasts that roamed freely in the water and attacked day and night, became
The biggest nightmare for these soldiers of the crusade.
The ships responsible for carrying officers and soldiers from various states often moored at night, or were traveling in narrow waterways. At some point, the bottom of the ship was secretly dug open by aliens in the water, or the bottom of the ship was suddenly appeared.
The pig dragon (crocodile) overturned and smashed the ship.
Then, they fell into the water with the officers and soldiers on the ship, or were forced to jump into the quagmire of unknown depth; they were torn into pieces by the hidden aliens or dragged away screaming. Then more rebels arrived in small boats from all directions.
Come and completely defeat the officers and soldiers who are fighting each other and are trapped in the quagmire.
Even the warships from the Jingzhou navy were still not immune; the overly large hulls galloping in the rivers and lakes could easily be intercepted by hidden obstacles in the water and be temporarily separated; they could only watch with helpless eyes.
There was an endless clamor of friendly forces in the distance being besieged.
The bed crossbows and stone cannons fired from the ship were also unable to keep up with the elusive monsters and giant beasts that came and went in the reeds like the wind. The boats were put down to support, but were quickly overturned by the lurking aliens.
In the waterway, there was only a rolling patch of turbid mud and blood.
At least this sailor was on his warship, fighting fiercely with the endless stream of aliens and thieves with swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and did not abandon the ship until the last moment. But he still couldn't understand that under the peaceful conditions of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years,
How did things get so corrupted?
Yunmeng Daze in the contemporary traditional sense is a wetland spanning Jingnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Huainan; it covers both sides of the river and the Jianghan Plain, including lakes, swamps, tidal flats, woodlands, mountains, and residential farmland, etc., and a variety of wetlands.
and large areas including dryland types.
Although it is dotted with many densely populated cities named Dayi, it is also mixed with large and small waterways as dense as a spider web, and contiguous swamps and reeds, which have become all kinds of lawless people, escaped slaves, bankrupt and landless refugees, and even desperate people.
A place where smugglers gather.
In particular, the hundreds of miles of water between Jiangling, Gong'an, Shishou, Jianli, Mianyang, and Jingling have become a hiding place for these alienated people. There are complex waterways like a maze.
and hidden river islands, which change with the annual rise and fall of water.
Therefore, although the officers and soldiers of the past dynasties carried out raids from time to time and captured hundreds or thousands of heads, they were never able to completely wipe them out. Instead, they allowed these alienated people to unite together, block the shipping routes along the river, and plunder passing merchants.
He is one of the Seven Great Bandits in the World with the name of Yunmeng Thief.
During the Yuanping period, they even approached the city of Jingzhou, revealing the situation that the local government had been trying to keep secret. This led to the attack missions sent by the imperial court, which also became the beginning of the reconstruction of the Jingzhou navy in addition to the patrol and waterproof camps on the river.
In the end, several states joined forces to plow the court and sweep the holes.
The results of the victory over the water stronghold, dozens of settlements, beheading of tens of thousands, and the capture of tens of thousands of people made the Yunmeng Thieves become a legendary historical term in the following decades. However, as time passed, some people spontaneously gathered again
, one after another filled the gaps in this vast swamp.
It's just that they no longer easily take actions such as cutting off waterways, robbing merchants, and even attacking villages and towns, openly provoking the authority and order of the government; instead, they take advantage of the chaos of jurisdiction at the intersection of Jingnan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Huainan.
Due to the favorable geographical location, they engaged in smuggling and smuggling.
Eventually, a considerable underground industry and illegal livelihood groups were formed in the surrounding areas; even wealthy families and low-level officials in some places were secretly involved. Therefore, when the officers and soldiers somewhere decided to suppress, the Yunmeng thieves would
Abandon some strongholds and quickly move away.
After this long-term cat-and-mouse tug-of-war, the two sides even formed a kind of tacit understanding that can never be overcome. However, after this tacit understanding lasted for decades, it was suddenly broken in the past two years. For some reason, the strength of
The large number of Yunmeng thieves actually took the initiative to attack several counties.
Although these are just a few small towns that have been in peace for a long time and the city defenses are in disrepair; but for the officials of the nearby Jing, Fu, Yue, and Li states, it is an unprecedented responsibility for losing their land/a blow to the head. Therefore, the court has not yet waited to investigate.
and accountability, they organized several troops to attack and suppress the officials.
Then, as they scrambled to attack, they were defeated (each was defeated) without any surprise. This incident also greatly shocked Jiangling City, the capital of Jingnan Road, just around the corner; as the local Jingnan Governor's Office, he ordered
Sent out the directly affiliated garrison troops and state united troops to fight against the rebellion.
And this is the first time that Yunmeng has been quelled by the imperial court newspaper. Yes, it is a quelling of the rebellion. In the local reports, it is still regarded as a civil uprising/riot where thieves coerce the masses. As a result, this journey
Tens of thousands of crusaders marched by land and water and easily recaptured Liyang and Anxiang counties.
Then, when approaching the garrison at Ouchi Town near Shishou, the Chinese army was attacked at night by the Yunmeng thieves Liyingwaihe. The leading guard, Wan Shouyi, and dozens of generals, Bendan, were killed on the spot, and the army was leaderless and in chaos.
They collapsed, trampling on each other before seeing the enemy, and racing to escape...
At this time, the special envoys sent by the imperial court had just arrived in Jiangling. They severely punished a group of local generals who had deserted before the battle, and dismissed a number of officials who failed to defend the territory. Only then were they frightened for a while, and Yuezhou, Lizhou, and Fuzhou were assembled.
Four groups of people from Jiangzhou and Jiangling Prefecture coordinated to suppress the enemy.
But what people didn't expect was that this time it seemed to be a four-way attack strategy that was carried out steadily and step by step; after successfully regaining the surrounding towns and villages, uprooting and burning more than a dozen strongholds outside Yunmengze,
However, he suffered serious setbacks when he continued to penetrate deep into Yunmeng Daze.
First, the Jiangling army, which was reorganizing nearby, encountered a sudden heavy fog and a strange attack that came with the fog; after the fog that was fighting and running away dissipated, it had lost less than half and was temporarily unable to fight anymore. Followed by Yuezhou and Li
The state's soldiers and horses were all ambushed and raided by the Yunmeng thieves.
The weakest Lizhou Army was defeated first, and then attacked the Yuezhou Army that had just arrived nearby. As a result, the Yuezhou Army failed to fire a single arrow and was swept away. Then it stayed in place.
The Jiangling Army was first attacked by a herd of beasts, and then was defeated by the Yunmeng bandits.
The Fuzhou Army, which was the furthest away, actually got lost in Yunmeng Ze. Until several other routes were defeated, they were unable to reach the meeting point in time. Finally, after encountering a rout and hearing about their defeat, they retreated to the original route relatively intact.
Okay. This is all the news Jiang Tian can get when he goes south.
But among the messy news, what concerned him the most was the confession of several soldiers who had escaped back, who were treated as if they were talking in their sleep: Yunmeng Daze seemed to be alive, with mud traps and obstacles everywhere.
It didn't take long for the places I walked through to become unfamiliar.
In addition, there are also some aliens who have escaped from Yunmeng Daze, claiming that the Yunmeng thieves are no longer the same people in the past, or that they are suspected of being occupied by human birds; not only do they have a large number of breeding
and methods to drive aliens, and also used a large number of people as blood food and sacrifices.
Therefore, this statement also became an opportunity for Jiang Tian to temporarily put down the affairs at hand and personally lead the team south to explore. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but go out of the window of the waterwheel boat and saw Dalu accompanying the advancing team with bare hands.
Those were reinforcements from Shannan East Road.
Five thousand soldiers were mobilized in Dengzhou, Shangzhou, Junzhou, and Fangzhou, and the 1st Battalion of the Left-Leading Army Guards (1,000 members) stationed in Nanyang was also included, which was attached to Shangluo County near Wuguan, as Jingnan
and Shannan Liangdao Mobile Team, the fifth battalion of laymen affiliated to Xijinglixingyuan.
But for Jiang Tian, the more reinforcements that follow him south, the better. In other words, facing an unprecedented situation like Yunmeng Daze, an army that is unfamiliar to each other lacks trust and may have inconvenient command.
A large army is not as useful as the fifth battalion of amateurs who know the basics.
With this in mind, Jiang Tian took a car and boat along the Danshui River, the Han River, all the way down the river. He didn't stop and rest for a while until he arrived at Xiangyang Prefecture, the capital of Shannan East Road. Because here he still
We have to wait for the reinforcements coming from Shannan West Road to join us.
Therefore, he declined most of the invitations from the local area. Even the welcome banquet held by the local Xiangyang Prefecture Shaoyin and various envoys and officials only showed his face symbolically and stayed behind closed doors;
I devoted myself to studying all kinds of news and reports collected from the south...
It was not until the morning of the third day that the reinforcements from Shannan West Road arrived; Jiang Tian also saw a familiar face again. After the Battle of Xingyuan Mansion and the assassination of Hanwangtai, he had not seen his deputy general Pang Xun for more than a year. It was just that he was there
After narrowly escaping from death, he has now been officially worshiped as the envoy of Nanzheng Shou.