choke element

Wanyan led the horse obliquely and walked slowly, looking back from time to time to see if the soldiers were keeping up, and occasionally rushed up to the high ground beside the road, waving his hands to urge the rear team to speed up their pace.

In April, the weather in Huaidong region has started to be hot.The fields and mountains in Huainan are lush green with trees and bamboo forests.The warm wind blows the new green grass, which makes people feel refreshed.In the bamboo forest, the monkeys are jumping and jumping, and their calls can be heard clearly. There is a stream behind, which attracts water birds to circle and shuttle.

Still, nothing looks good on the battlefield.The monkeys fled away quickly, and the waterfowl also fluttered their wings and flew high.Not far behind Wanyan Xielie, a village among the bamboo forests in the depression has been doused with oil and set on fire.

According to the Song people guarding the stockade who were unwilling to surrender, they continued to climb the fence just now, trying to break through, but they were all shot to death by the Jin army's intensive bows and arrows.Their bodies were piled up on the fence, and when the spreading flames scorched the bodies, a strange smell and black smoke filled the air at the same time.

A small number of strong men who surrendered before the battle saw this scene and burst into tears.The captives from several other villages watched indifferently. Only when the smell of roasted human flesh and the smell of burnt meat was too strong, they slowed down a little. pace.

A strong man suddenly went crazy and jumped violently, wanting to run to the fire scene.

But each of them has a rope around their necks, a dozen or 20 people are connected to each other, and they cannot move freely.That's why he only took two steps, when the rope strangled his neck, he screamed and fell to the ground.

The rope was tied like a loose knot, and the more I struggled, the tighter it became.Seeing that his face was starting to turn blue, the rest of the strong men all stopped, bent down or squatted down, and the closest person tried to get closer and untie the rope for him a little.But a Golden Army cavalry rode over immediately, using the momentum of the horse to swing the long knife horizontally.

This knight's physical strength is extremely strong, and his sword skills are even more outstanding. The sharp blade stuck to the rope circle and cut off the head.At the same time as the head flew up, the lunatic's body fell to the ground, and the rope that was originally around his neck swayed loosely to the ground.

Amidst the exclamations of the captives, the knight wiped the long knife against his sleeve, wiped off the blood, and put the knife into the sheath.

"Don't delay, keep going." The knight said calmly.

This calm attitude is more frightening than violent.All the captives had no doubt that, if necessary, the general of the Golden Army would kill everyone, just like the decisive gesture of burning and killing them all the way south.

It seems that this golden army doesn't care about anything, doesn't care about anything, and doesn't even treat people as people.All of them are complete embryo killers!
The captives could hardly suppress the hatred in their hearts, but they were unarmed and could do nothing but bow their heads one after another, lest the knight see the anger in their eyes.

Monk Wanyan Chen steered his horse away from the group of captives, and continued to walk to the rear of the team. He casually issued short and forceful orders, urging the army to roll forward.

This army has a total of 6000 people, and it is the easternmost route among the four armies that Xijin suddenly attacked the Song Dynasty.Seven days ago, Captain Anping and Marshal Xingshousi's mansion were over, Yan Xilie sent people to secretly survey the Huai River, and at the same time drove the water thieves active on the Huai River to gather at Kipshi, declaring that they would cross the Huai River to plunder Shouchun.

The Huainan Song army reacted quickly, and immediately mobilized Shouchun to take precautions. Just in case, they gathered a lot of local tyrant militiamen and spearmen in the surrounding areas.

In fact, Shouchun City is the first-class fortress in Huaixi in the Song Dynasty. The city is thirteen miles around, two and five feet high, and there is a moat more than 20 feet wide outside.Why did you gather tens of thousands of people for the sake of a few water thieves on the Huai River?
At the same time that the Song army gathered, Wanyan Xilie led his troops across the river from Baldietan, captured Yingkou, and went down to Anfeng, Huoqiu and other places.Most of the Song army was shocked and collapsed, while the defenders in Shanshuizhai all over the country were eager to return to rescue their elders, and were successively intercepted and dispersed by the Jin army.

Immediately, the Jin army went south, and the soldiers headed straight into the heart of Huaixi, and went straight to Lu'an, breaking through many castles along the way.

In recent years, the defense of the Song State in the Lianghuai area has largely followed the arrangement of the famous minister Ye Shi in the Jianghuai system, relying on numerous cottages, water villages, Wubao and garrison fields.There are more than 94 water villages in Huaidong, and there are [-] mountain villages in Huaixi.

The place that the Jin army broke through just now is located in the south of Shaopi, a key place guarding the upper reaches of Lushui River.Interestingly, this cottage is also an important transit point for Song people to smuggle copper coins, tea, and medicines to the north. .

Wanyan Xilie originally thought that since these people were willing to do business with Dajin, they must be able to understand the current affairs, obediently respond to the needs of the army, and offer food and supplies.In the end, he didn't get what he wanted. He spent a long time and fought a vicious battle.

Counting after the war, although hundreds of people were killed and injured, and food and fodder enough to feed the soldiers and horses for five days were plundered, there were not a few casualties among our own soldiers.The army couldn't wait for them to recuperate slowly, so they had to deploy additional manpower to send them across Huaibei to return.

The resolute attitude of the Song people made Monk Wanyan Chen very wary.Therefore, he has extremely strict control over the captives accompanying the army, and he has shown a particularly fierce effort to suppress changes at any time.

But he had to admit that besides being on guard, he still had a little bit of fear.

The scenery in Huainan is naturally very different from the lofty and vast expanses in the north.But there is one thing, that is, Huainan and Monan or Hebei, which have suffered many wars and disasters, are equally populated and depressed.Monk Wanyan Chen went south for a few days, and what he saw was mostly desolate, with shrubs, bamboo forests, grassy fields, abandoned ditches, and ruined towns everywhere.It seems that nature has replaced human beings, and the countryside has become barren again.

The army walked on the official road, and the weeds on the side of the road stretched into patches. In some places, the road was almost covered, leaving only traces of old ruts.Occasionally, in some places, the soil was washed by the rain, revealing the dense white bones underneath.

According to Wanyan Xilie, such desolation should be the result of the war between Song and Jin during the Taihe period.At that time, Daikin's domestic finances were tight, and the supply of food and grass was completely insufficient.After the Nine Route Army invaded the territory of the Song Dynasty, they lived only by looting, and they still couldn't recover after ten years.Of course, as time went on, Dajin's soldiers and horses went south many times, and looting and massacres were the norm.

This situation is very similar to that of the Dajin Kingdom that was swept away by the Mongols.And those Song captives looked at Monk Wanyan Chen with the hatred that couldn't be hidden, just like the Jin people who were driven as slaves on the grassland looked at the Mongols.

Monk Wanyan Chen was once such a captive full of anger.Immediately, he and his elder brother fled all the way to the south with their mother in protection, and killed when they collided with Mongolia along the way, even ordinary herdsmen were not spared.

Now he has become the object of hatred, which makes him feel uncomfortable.So he told a Naiman knight with disheveled hair beside him: "These Song people can't be kept. Before arriving in Lu'an, we must find an opportunity to kill them all."

This Naiman was also a slave who escaped from the grassland, but because his tongue was cut off in half by the Mongols, he could not speak.But he understood what Monk Wanyan Chen meant, so he grinned and showed his waxy yellow teeth, and made a chopping motion.