How should one describe the beginning of a war?
Just like how you have been living an ordinary and long life, on a certain day in that long and boring journey, you have almost adapted to everything that you have always enjoyed. You walked, chatted, ate, drank, plowed, harvested, slept, repaired, talked, played, and passed by your neighbors. In your daily life, you saw the same scenery that seemed to never change since time immemorial …
Someone had abruptly pulled you out of such a natural state of affairs.
One was not mentally prepared — of course, that was something that almost no matter how much time was spent. One felt angry and furious … and then saw the heads of neighbors and scarlet blood. One's head and soul could not accept and contain all of this. In one's long life that seemed to carry the principles of heaven and earth, the most blood one had seen was the result of a fight between neighbors, or the cheering execution of a bandit killer in the county. Was there really such evil in the world? Why did it come on this day? Why did he, who was born in this world, encounter it?
It would take a long time to figure all of this out …
…
Zhou Yuanpu was a small official in the suburbs of Qingchuan County in the west of Jiange. The Zhou family lived in Qingchuan County for generations. Their ancestors had been Imperial Scholars. They lived in this small place and had hundreds of acres of fertile land. They could be said to be a family of scholars.
Although it was adjacent to the dangerous pass of Jiange, there had not been a war in the southwest for two hundred years. Jiange's terrain was rugged, and there were occasional bandits in the mountains, but they did not cause much trouble. In recent years, whether it was the interest groups that had trade with the southwest or Si Zhongxian who guarded Jiange, they all deliberately maintained order on this road. Qingchuan County and other places were even more peaceful like a paradise.
Zhou Yuanpu lived to the age of twenty-four. He took over a relatively wealthy family business, married a wife and a concubine, and had a son and a daughter. The daughter was six years old, and the son was four years old. Along the way, everything was peaceful and happy.
All of this was not lost slowly.
In the first few days, people in the nearby counties would occasionally talk about the war that seemed to be very distant. Some people talked about the cruelty of the Female Zhenren and considered whether to leave. Others said that no matter where the Female Zhenren occupied, shouldn't there be some people left to grow food?
This kind of discussion was only sparse and did not cause the majority of people to overreact. Zhou Yuanpu only seriously thought about it a few times in her mind.
Late at night on the 17th of October, he was suddenly dragged out of bed in a daze. Most of the bandits who charged into the courtyard seemed to be Han soldiers. Only the few leaders were dressed in strange foreign clothing. At this time, the village outside was already in a state of crying. These people seemed to think that Zhou Yuanpu was a member of a relatively well-off family and had brought the female "adults" here to plunder.
Zhou Yuanpu, his wives, children, and servants were dragged out of the room. The leader of the group asked him where the grain was stored and where the money was hidden. Zhou Yuanpu was still muddle-headed, but the foreigners did not say much. They dragged one of the servants and hung him on a tree. Then, they took a knife and cut open his stomach. The smell of blood scared everyone.
Zhou Yuanpu told them where the grain was stored, the calligraphy, paintings, antiques, gold, and silver. He cried and said, "I'll give you everything, don't kill anyone." When the people went to plunder, the foreigners dragged his wife into the room.
The wife cried and resisted, but the foreigners slapped her on the head. The woman's head hit the stairs and she spat out blood. Her eyes became unfocused. Seeing that something had happened to her mother, the daughter rushed forward and hugged the foreigner's leg, wanting to bite him. The foreigner killed the little girl with a knife and then dragged his concubine into the room.
The concubine did not dare to resist. The foreigners entered one after another, and then the others followed. His wife was lying on the ground, her body twitching, but her eyes seemed to still have some reaction. Zhou Yuanpu wanted to go over, but he was knocked to the ground. He hugged his four-year-old son, but he was completely unresponsive. He thought, "Is this a nightmare?"
The night grew darker, and the cries and wails outside became softer. Zhou Yuanpu did not see the concubine in the room again. His wife, with blood on her head, was lying under the eaves of the courtyard. Her eyes seemed to be looking at him and the young child. Zhou Yuanpu knelt on the ground, crying and begging. Not long after, he was dragged out of the bloody courtyard. He hugged his young son tightly in his arms. The last thing he saw was his wife lying under the cold eaves. He never saw the concubine in the room again.
The long mountain road was covered in fog. People were tied up by ropes and herded together. As they walked forward, more people were killed on the side of the road.
It all seemed so unreal.
In the following days of muddleheadedness, Zhou Yuanpu thought more than once, "Is my daughter dead?" Is my wife dead? " The scene of people being disemboweled flashed through his mind. "Is that a scene that should exist in the human world?
Didn't they agree that no matter where they occupied, they had to leave some people to grow food? "
He had given them food, toys, and all his savings. Why was it not enough?
The fog in the mountain came and went. He carried the child on the slippery mountain road, and in the middle of the road, there was porridge that looked like pig's intestines. The child seemed to be scared out of his wits. He did not cry too much.
They followed the army all the way forward. Then, at some unknown time, strange things appeared in front of their eyes. The low walls of the ancient county, the rows of ditches on the hills outside the county, and the long stretch of black military flags. They were surrounded and guarded for a day or two. Then, someone drove them forward.
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Huangming County.
Pang Liu 'an, who was standing on top of the city wall, put down his binoculars when he saw the enemy starting to move.
The entire Second Division of the Huaxia Fifth Army that had rushed over from Zizhou had already finished guarding this place. In the past few days, large groups of Jurchen soldiers had arrived one after another. From the many flags on the opposite side, it could be seen that the core group of Jurchen General Ba Li Su was responsible for holding the line at Huangming County.
The open space in front of Huangming County and the mountains could not accommodate too many troops. As the Jurchen troops arrived one after another, the trees on the surrounding mountains fell down and quickly turned into defensive fortifications and fences. Hot air balloons rose on both sides to observe the movements on the opposite side.
While Pang Liu 'an was observing from the city wall, he could also vaguely see the generals patrolling on the opposite slope. Both sides were mobilizing for the battlefield. The Huaxia soldiers in charge of defending the positions inside and outside Huangming County silently made their garrison preparations step by step. In the military camp opposite them, they could occasionally see groups of Valiant Spirit soldiers gathering and roaring.
Siege equipment and stone-throwing vehicles were also quickly assembled as far as the eye could see.
The head-on confrontation with the main force of the most powerful army of this era was officially within their field of vision.
On the morning of October 25th, Ba Li Su gave an order in the military camp.
"Try them."
The people who were used as cannon fodder were driven away.
Pang Liu 'an put down his binoculars and clenched his fists. "F * ck."
The cannons on the city wall adjusted their direction slightly, and the war drums sounded.
…
On the battlefield where the two armies were facing each other, people began to cry.
Zhou Yuanpu held his child in his arms. Unknowingly, he was pushed to the front by the crowd. Chilling voices rang out from both sides of his field of vision.
Zhou Yuanpu's mind became a little clearer.
"Let go of my child —"
He raised his four-year-old son and cried with all his might in front of the two armies. However, countless people were crying, and his voice was immediately drowned out.
Not long after, the four-year-old child was trampled to death in the rush of people.
In just a short period of time, the distance between life and death was like the distance between heaven and earth. In less than an hour after the battle in Huangming County began on October 25th, the entire family with Zhou Yuanpu as its pillar had completely disappeared from this world. They didn't stop there, nor did they give preferential treatment to women and children.
This was a microcosm of the experience of thousands of families and people in the vicinity of the Sword Garret. Even if some people were lucky enough to survive, this experience would completely change their lives.
However, no matter how great their anger was, it wouldn't cause any ripples on the battlefield in front of them. People with the interests, inclinations, and wills of countless families from all over the world were fighting under this sky.
*****
In the winter of the last year of the founding of the Wu dynasty, the war that broke out between the mountains in the southwest and determined the fate of the whole world was like an elegy for a great empire that had lasted for more than two hundred years, but it was also like the sound of a new era being born. It was like a great river coming from afar, surging, but steady and thick.
People knew that all the accumulation and silence would be uncovered here.
For this battle, the Female Zhenren had made all the preparations.
Following Wanyan Zonghan's order, hundreds of thousands of troops began to move forward in an orderly manner. At this time, the first batch of engineering teams had already explored and built the roads, and the vanguard troops, with the Female Zhenren elites as the main force, had already occupied key positions along the way.
The two roads from the Sword Garret to Huangming County and Yu Yu Creek were each more than fifty kilometers long. The mountain roads that were neither long nor short had previously only been responsible for the passage of caravans. Faced with the mass of hundreds of thousands of troops, they immediately seemed extremely fragile.
Just three days after the army officially broke camp, the vanguard troops led by Ba Li Su and Xie Lili arrived at their predetermined battle positions and began to set up camp. Meanwhile, the countless armies formed a long dragon on the mountain path that was dozens of li long. The winter was cold and gloomy in the mountains, and the originally sturdy mountain path soon became muddy. However, Han Qixian, Gao Qingyi, and the other generals had already made preparations for this.
The engineering teams and the Han elites who had submitted to them quickly filled in the soil, built roads, and consolidated the foundations. The Female Zhenren troops set up camp at some of the more open points along the mountain roads, such as Shili Ji, Cang Huo Yi, and Huang Tou Yan, which were already inhabited. They then ordered the Han troops to cut down trees, level the ground, and set up checkpoints.
Even if the Hua Xia army was truly fierce and resolute, and the frontline could not win for a while, the checkpoints formed by the elites at the key points were enough to block the low-quality troops that were retreating in panic and avoid a huge defeat like a curtain of beads. And with the support of these nodes, some of the relatively elite Han troops in the rear could be pushed to the front and display their strength.
In the twenty years since the founding of the Female Zhenren Empire, Wanyan Zonghan had fought countless battles where he was outnumbered. The generals under him had long since become accustomed to the scene of the enemy retreating like the tide when they risked their lives in a fierce attack. Perhaps this was the first time that Wanyan Zonghan had displayed such a calm and steady attitude in an actual battle. But when they considered what had happened to Lou Shi and Ci Buxiu, not many people in the Female Zhenren army felt that this was unnecessary.
In a battle in the mountains, the number of troops that could be deployed was not many. The Hua Xia army had fortified several key points in the mountains, so that they would not encounter a huge disparity in strength in the short term. But as long as they maintained the road, there would be no major problems. The elite Female Zhenren troops were advancing in waves. This was a ferocious offensive that no one in the world would be able to withstand — at least for now, this was the consensus of the entire world.
Carriages rumbled and horses neighed. The silhouettes of the soldiers stretched out like ants in the foothills. All kinds of military flags fluttered in the wind like a dense forest. From time to time, huge hot air balloons would rise into the sky. Above the dense forest, there would occasionally be Haidongqing flying in circles. An army numbering in the hundreds of thousands was like a flood pouring into a narrow road. As long as they could break through the fortification point in front of them, there would be a vast expanse of flat land in front of them.
Or, at the very least, it would be half a victory.
At the end of October, the first wave of probing on the battlefield appeared at the mountain exit of Huangming County on the eastern front. This day was the 25th of October.
And as early as three days ago, in the rugged mountains extending from Huangming County and Yu Yu Creek to the direction of Sword Pavilion, the incomparably complicated battle of scouts had already begun to escalate at the same time.
*****
Since ancient times, no matter in which army, those who could serve as scouts were the most trustworthy confidants and elites in the army.
In the era when the modern army's consciousness had yet to awaken, this principle was extremely simple: those who worked for their pay were lowly and lowly. In a situation where they had no subjective initiative, even if they wanted to drive the soldiers forward on the battlefield, they would have to be restricted by extremely strict military laws. If they wanted to let the soldiers go out and complete their tasks without any restrictions, such soldiers could only be the most elite in the army.
As the personal guards of generals, the servants of aristocratic families, or the tigers and wolves raised by the army, they had to at least be able to benefit from the development of the war. Only those who could take the initiative to fight would have the thought of taking the initiative to fight.
Thirty-two-year-old Zou Hu was originally one of the scouts of the Wu dynasty army. He led a nine-man scout squadron and worked hard under the command of the Wu dynasty's general Hou Ji. At one point, he had also participated in the resistance of the Xiang-Fan defensive line. Later, Hou Ji's army violated too many military laws and suffered a lot in front of Yue Fei. He claimed that he was surrounded by enemies and under great pressure. In the end, he surrendered to the Female Zhenren.
Zou Hu had no objection to this.
He was born into a family of hunters in the mountains. When he was young, he was poor, but under his father's careful guidance, he developed the ability to pass through mountains and pass through ridges. He joined the army in his teens. His body was not bad, and he had seen blood before. In Hou Ji's army, he was trained as an elite of the Tiger Army.
Hou Ji was a general with a traditional temperament. In training soldiers, he emphasized fierceness. He believed that without the temperament of tigers and wolves, how could he go into battle and kill the enemy? Over the past decade or so, the Wu dynasty's resources began to tilt toward the army. A leader like Hou Ji also received the support of a portion of the officials. Under Hou Ji's command, it was not uncommon for the soldiers to be ostentatious and domineering, bullying and humiliating the villagers. In the beginning, Zou Hu's temperament could be considered simple and honest. After living in this kind of environment for more than ten years, his temperament had long since become savage.
Wolves travel a thousand li to eat meat, dogs travel a thousand li to eat feces. In this world, the weak are prey to the strong. People who can't pick up a sword should be bullied and humiliated.
They, the people who earned their wages, risked their lives to fight on the front lines, while others hid in the back and enjoyed their lives. Under such circumstances, if they still didn't get any benefits, then it would truly be unfair.
The elites under Hou Ji's command had always lived in this kind of voice. When it came to some friction or competition, these vicious and ruthless tigers and wolves under his command could more or less win some face. This made them even more determined in their convictions.
Later, when the army was transferred to the Xiang-Fan defense line, Yue Fei tightened up military discipline, and Hou Ji became one of the key targets. The war between Xiang-Fan was fierce, and the pressure on the front lines wasn't small. Zou Hu believed that every time he was sent out, although not many times, he was always putting his head on the line for survival. How could he tolerate people in the back dragging him down?
Later, as the war progressed, all the camps around Xiang-Fan were uprooted, and Hou Ji surrendered on the front lines. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Normally, when they talked about how they and their people were risking their lives on the front lines, and how the imperial court used Yue Fei and the other low-ranking officials to randomly give orders, they would add fuel to the fire. They would even say that Yue Fei had an affair with the lascivious Eldest Princess of the imperial court, which was why he was promoted — or that he had an unclear relationship with that bullshit Crown Prince …
The imperial court was so muddleheaded, how could it not fall!
After joining the Jurchen troops, their days became much better. Along the way from Xiang-Fan to Jiange, although the really rich big towns had been plundered by the Jurchen, as the elite scouts under Hou Ji's command, they were often able to get some benefits — and there were almost no enemies. Faced with the advance of the Jurchen Old Marshal Wanyan Zonghan, after the Xiang-Fan defense line was defeated, the rest of the way was easily crushed. Even if there were occasionally some who dared to resist, the resistance was actually very weak.
Men were born into the world, and fighting like this was the only way to appear refreshed!
Everyone talked about it every day, and said to each other that they had chosen a good master. Hou Ji didn't have much affection for the Wu dynasty. He had been poor since he was a child, and was always bullied by the landlords in the mountains. After joining the army, he bullied others. He had long convinced himself that this was the truth of heaven and earth.
After joining the Jurchen side for several months, when Hou Ji spoke to his subordinates, he gradually became able to speak more 'reasonable' words. For example, the decay of the Wu dynasty and its demise were preordained by heaven and earth, and the rise of the Great Jin was in accordance with the destiny of the world. If they followed the Great Jin this time, their descendants would be able to enjoy two or three hundred years of good fortune — one could understand this by comparing it with the Wu dynasty. If they chose a side in time and made contributions, they would be able to have a place in the world in the future.
In short, after this war, they would be able to enjoy good fortune!
In August and September, the army arrived at Jiange one after another. Naturally, the Han soldiers were afraid. Jiange's impregnable pass was easy to defend, but difficult to attack. Once the battle began, the Han soldiers would most likely be the first to go into battle. But not long after, Jiange actually opened its doors and surrendered. Didn't this further prove that the destiny of the Great Jin Kingdom was with them?
Without Jiange, the southwest war was already half a success.
In October, the army passed through one after another. Hou Ji's main force was sent to the rear of Jiange to hold the line and transport rations, while Zou Hu and the other elite scouts were sent in first. On the 12th of October, the civil officials in the army registered and reviewed everyone's names and information. Zou Hu understood that this was in preparation to prevent them from defecting or defecting to the enemy. Then, the scouts of the various armies were gathered together.
More than ten thousand elite scouts were mobilized, and there were more than two thousand elite old soldiers among the Jurchen. The one in charge of the scouts was the veteran general of the Jin Kingdom, Yu Yu.
"… Just the scouts alone have more than ten thousand people … This is a war of annihilation. They've really set up the framework …"
When talking to the brothers beside him, Zou Hu imitated the tone of a person who was watching a play in a poetry anthology. His tone was rather frivolous, but he couldn't help but feel shocked and honored.
"… The black flag ahead is not to be trifled with."
When someone in the army said this, Zou Hu nodded and used his catchphrase, "A wolf travels a thousand li to eat meat, a dog travels a thousand li to eat shit. Haven't we all seen enough of the principles of this world? The Marshal has raised us for so many years and has taken responsibility for everything. Why? If you're fierce enough, you'll have food to eat … The Wu dynasty has long been over. That Ning fellow is indeed fierce. He killed the emperor. Didn't we rebel because we couldn't stand that bunch of people? All of you are surrounded by the fiercest people in the world … In the future, whether you eat meat or shit, no one can say anything after we win this war in the southwest. "
"… Why are we the ones who came in? The others were arranged to transport rations outside the sword garret? Because … this is a place where only the fiercest people can enter! "
Zou Hu encouraged the soldiers under his command, feeling both fear and excitement in his heart. After defecting to the Jurchen side, he still rather minded being called a traitor. He wasn't a traitor, nor was he a coward. He was a warrior as fierce as the Jurchen. The imperial court was muddle-headed, which was why they had been forced to rebel! Just like that inner demon Ning Yi!
Now that everyone was gathered in the southwest, this was the battlefield of the world's fiercest people. After winning this war and earning great fame, the people of the world would naturally look at him in a new light. Of course, at that time, he wouldn't have to explain anything. The world would belong to the Great Jin, and there would naturally be riches and honor waiting for him.
The moment the scouts assembled and the Jurchen general Yu Yu patrolled the high platform, Zou Hu was certain of this. On the drill ground that was being patrolled, there were elite soldiers everywhere. The scouts belonging to the Jurchen were obviously the toughest veterans who had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood — this was one of the troops that Wanyan Zonghan relied on the most.
In addition, the Bohai people, the Liao people, and the Han people of Liaodong were also the most elite scouts in the world at this time. Even the troops chosen from the various subordinate armies were all elites among elites whose hands were stained with the blood of countless elites. The slightly worse ones were only fit to loot and guard rations in the rear. They couldn't even enter the sword garret because it was too damn crowded here.
With this kind of lineup, how could his side lose?
The Jurchen announced the details of killing the enemy and establishing meritorious service to the scouts, and the scouts were soon sent out in batches. In the vicinity of the several dozen li long mountain road, the scouts first had to establish a line of defense that was over a hundred zhang long — this was to prevent the Black Flag Army's scouts from sneak attacking the Jurchen generals and destroying the road. The most elite group of people were sent out into the rugged mountains to find a small path that they could pass through.
The vicinity of the sword garret was surrounded by mountains, making it difficult for carriages and horses to travel. However, after passing the most rugged mountain pass of Big Sword Mountain and Small Sword Mountain, although there were also steep cliffs, it wasn't completely impassable. The Jurchen troops had sufficient manpower. If they could find a narrow path and then let the insignificant Han army pass through — regardless of whether or not the losses were great — it would completely destroy the Black Flag Army's plan to stop them.
Because their own strength wasn't trusted, Zou Hu and the people around him were initially arranged to a fixed guard post in the rear. They squatted on the high ground between the rugged mountains, and there were still plenty of people who could respond to them. This arrangement wasn't very dangerous. As the friction at the front continued to intensify, some people in the troops rejoiced, while others were restless. They were all elites in the army, and most of them had unique skills to survive in the mountains. Many of them couldn't wait to show off and make a dazzling achievement.
On the battlefield, the Han troops were far inferior to the Jurchen Zhenrens. They were all a bunch of oily and useless soldiers. However, when it came to individual skills, there were still a lot of ambitious people among the scouts. Some could run for a day in the mountains without getting tired, some could pass through the mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, some were good at hiding, some were so murderous that even fierce beasts would tremble at the sight of them, and some had elaborate traps that were difficult for ordinary people to avoid. In the past, they had also been valued. Now that they had surrendered, they naturally wanted to show off their skills and shock those arrogant Jurchen Zhenrens.
Ten miles from the Sword Garret to Huangming County Town, there was a relatively open settlement called Shiliji. At this time, it had been expanded into a military camp. The place that Zou Hu's team was guarding was in the nearby mountains. Every day, he saw densely packed soldiers chopping down trees. Every day, the trees changed, as if they had the power to move the mountains and fill the seas.
Every night, he would rest in the military camp near Shiliji. Not far away was another camp where another group of elites lived. It was a gathering place for Jianghu people who had submitted to the Jurchen Zhenrens. There were about eight hundred of them, and all of them were Lulin experts who had successively submitted to Zong Han over the years. Some of them had a grudge against Black Flag, and some had even participated in the Little Canghe War. The group of people who led them had made great contributions in the war.
This group of Lulin people were mostly Han people. Both sides would occasionally interact with each other. Many of the Lulin people had unique martial arts skills, so they were originally arrogant. Zou Hu and the other elite scouts also had unique skills. When they showed off their skills to each other, there was a sense of respect. One of the leaders of the Lulin people was called Ren Hengchong. His nickname was' Bloody Fist '. He got along well with Zou Hu. When they chatted about the Hua Xia army in front of them, he said, "That Ning Yi is not that great. Back in Bianliang, he was forced to live like a grandson. Even if it was Little Canghe, I have also killed many of his little bastards."
Only then did Zou Hu know that Ren Hengchong knew Ning Yi back in Bianliang. He also had a battle record in the Little Canghe Battle. Ren Hengchong then carefully asked for advice. Ren Hengchong told him about the battle with the Hua Xia army at the Little Canghe Battle. He also told him that he had a grudge with Ning Yi in the capital city. Later, he swore to kill Ning Yi as his goal.
Before this, many people from the Lulin people had died in the hands of Ning Yi. Ren Hengchong summed up the lesson and did not recklessly face Ning Yi. During the battle of Little Canghe Battle, he led a group of disciples into the mountains and killed many members of the Hua Xia army. His original nickname was' Red Fist ', which was later changed to' Bloody Fist 'to show off his aggressiveness.
After the battle of Little Canghe Battle, Ren Hengchong was recognized by the Female Zhenren. She secretly funded him and specially researched on how to go against the Hua Xia army. After the Hua Xia army moved to the southwest, Ren Hengchong came to cause trouble a few times but was not caught. Last year, the Hua Xia army issued a list of traitors. Ren Hengchong was on the list and his value soared. This time, he was brought over as an elite for the southern punitive expedition.
Ren Hengchong was a man of ambition. He had achieved success in martial arts and was proud of himself for half of his life. That year, the situation in Bianliang changed. The Cult Leader of the Great Radiant Sect mobilized the heroes of the world to enter the capital. Ren Hengchong went to the capital as the leader of the Lulin people from Huainan. At that time, he had been famous for more than ten years and was known as a legend of the Lulin people. In fact, he was only in his early thirties. It could be said that he was high-spirited and had a bright future ahead of him. At that time, some of the people who entered the capital were old and old. Even if their martial arts were better than his, he did not care about them.
At that time, Ren Hengchong thought that he would become a great master of the Wulin world like Zhou Dong, Fang La, and Lin Zongwu. At that time, the powerful Qin Siyuan stepped down and the Nüzhen people were beaten back. There were many things waiting to be done. The capital could be said to be a vast land, waiting for him to perform on stage. But later, a group of people chased after Qin Siyuan, and everything was buried in that massacre.
That day, in the wilderness outside of Bianliang, Ren Hengchong and the others saw the inner demon, Ning Yi, standing on the soil slope in the distance, looking at them with a pale face and resentment. Lin Zongwu and the others went up to him and laughed at him. Ren Hengchong wanted to go over and challenge this great demon who was rumored to be a "great master". All he wanted was to be in the limelight. However, the next moment, countless cavalries jumped out from behind.
Even Lin Zongwu, the world's number one, turned around and ran. Ren Hengchong's nickname was "Red Fist", but when faced with the collision of the cavalries, his fist technique was really useless. He was hit by the horses and fell to the ground, breaking one of his teeth and filling his mouth with blood. Later, he was dragged on the ground and rubbed against it. His pants were rubbed off and his body was covered with wounds. A group of people from the Green Forest were chased by the cavalries until night. He pretended to be dead in the pile of corpses and didn't dare to move even when he was shot in the butt. That was how he survived.
For Ren Hengchong, who had lived like a prince since he was young, this was the most humiliating moment of his life. No one knew, but since then, he became more and more proud. He racked his brains to oppose the Huaxia army. Unlike the reckless people of the Greenwood Forest, after that massacre, Ren Hengchong understood the importance of an army and organization. He trained his disciples and grand-disciples to cooperate with each other and waited for opportunities to kill in secret, using this method to weaken the power of the Huaxia army. It was also because of this that he was once received by Wanyan Xiyin.
Even when facing the arrogant Nüzhen, Ren Hengchong believed that he would not be at a disadvantage. The army finally killed their way to the southwest. In his heart, he wanted to kill a group of people from the Huaxia army like Little Canghe did in the past. His heart was already boiling. He talked to Zou Hu and the others about this matter and encouraged the group of Nüzhen to see, "What is called killing".
In the past few days, the elite Nüzhen scouts who went forward to scout were all injured and carried back. Some were injured by landmines, and some were ambushed by the Huaxia army. People gradually felt the fierceness of the Huaxia army.
Not long after, they got a chance to advance.
On the 19th of October, the vanguard troops had already set up camp and built fortifications on the confrontation line. Yu Yu ordered more scouts to start advancing towards the direction of the border. They wanted to use their advantage in numbers to kill the Huaxia scouts and break the defense line of the Huaxia army in the mountains with brute force.
Ren Hengchong led more than a hundred disciples and disciples under his command and set off on the same day.
Zou Hu was in the last batch. At this time, he hadn't felt too much. As the scouts who were already lagging behind, in theory, even if they rushed to the front, there wouldn't be many chances left for them. The terrain of Sichuan was complicated, and there were only so many paths that could be traveled. Thousands of people plowed forward in hundreds of batches, and there wasn't much left for the rear.
The mountain roads were difficult to travel, and the pressure of the elite scouts pushing forward only reached the frontline after two days.
At this time, the person in charge of the Huaxia army's scouts was Fang Shuchang, who used to be a Tyrant Blade. On the afternoon of the 20th, when he met with the 4th Division's chief of staff, Chen Tian, he received the order to attack. Ning Yi and Qu Zhengyan said, "We're going to fight. Blind their eyes."
At this time, Fang Shuchang was assigned a total of more than four thousand scouts. Half of them were from the 4th Division's special operations team, which was specially trained for infiltration, hunting, and decapitation. The mountain roads and terrain near Jiange had been explored repeatedly for half a year, and the 4th Division's staff had planned almost every key battle and coordination plan. On the 20th, everything was completely confirmed.
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