How to describe the beginning of a war?

Just like the ordinary and long life you have been living, one day in that long and almost boring process, you have almost adapted to this place where you have everything. You walk, chat, eat, drink water, plow the land,

Harvesting, sleeping, repairing, talking, playing, passing by neighbors, and seeing the same scenery day after day, seemingly unchanged from time immemorial...

Someone suddenly pulls you out of this natural state of affairs.

There is no psychological preparation - of course, it is almost something that you will never have no matter how you build it in advance. You feel angry, angry... and then what you see is the neighbor's head and scarlet blood. Your head and soul cannot accept it yet.

To accommodate all of this, in your long life that seems to be guided by the principles of heaven and earth, the most blood you have ever seen is just the result of pushing and shoving between neighbors during fights, or from the county talking about bandit killers.

Execution with cheers. Is there really such evil in the world? Why did it come on this day? Why did it happen to myself who was born in the world?

It will take a long time to figure all this out...

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Zhou Yuanpu is a young official from the outskirts of Qingchuan County, west of Jiange. The Zhou family has lived in Qingchuan for a long time, and his ancestors have been elected. They live in this small place, with hundreds of acres of fertile land in their family, and they can be regarded as heirlooms of poetry and calligraphy.

Although it is adjacent to the dangerous pass of Jiange, the southwest has not experienced war for two hundred years. The terrain of Jiange Chuchuan is rugged, and there are occasional bandits in the mountains, but they are not serious. In recent years, whether it is the interests of trade with the southwest

Both the group and Si Zhongxian, who was guarding Jiange, were deliberately maintaining order on this road. Qingchuan and other places were as safe as a paradise.

Zhou Yuanpu lived to the age of twenty-four, inherited a relatively wealthy family business, married a wife and a concubine, and had a son and a daughter. His daughter was six years old and his son was four years old. He came here safely and happily.

All this was not lost slowly.

In the past few days, people in nearby villages and counties occasionally talked about the war that seemed extremely far away. Some people talked about the Jurchens' brutality and considered whether to leave. Others said that no matter where the Jurchens occupied, it would not matter.

Don’t we have to leave some people to grow some food?

Such comments were just sporadic and did not cause excessive reactions from most people. Zhou Yuanpu only thought about it seriously in his mind a few times.

Late at night on October 17th, he was suddenly dragged out of bed while he was in a dazed sleep. Most of the bandits who rushed into the yard looked like Han soldiers, only the leading ones were wearing strange foreign clothes.

At that time, the village outside was already crying and shouting. These people seemed to think that Zhou Yuanpu was a member of the Communist Party of China from a better-off family, so they brought the "adults" of the Jurchens over to search.

Zhou Yuanpu, his wife, concubines, children, and servants were pulled out of the room. A Han leader asked him where he kept the grain and where the family's money and belongings were hidden. Zhou Yuanpu was still confused, but the foreigners didn't say much. They dragged him away from home.

One of his servants hung the man on a tree and cut open his stomach with a knife. The smell of blood frightened everyone.

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

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The wife cried and resisted, and the foreigner slapped her on the head. The woman hit her head on the steps, vomited blood in her mouth, and her eyes became distracted. The daughter who saw her mother's accident rushed up, hugged her mother's legs and wanted to bite her.

The foreigner killed the little girl with one knife and then dragged his concubine inside.

The concubine did not dare to resist. Several foreigners went in one after another, and then others took turns. The wife was lying on the ground twitching, and her eyes seemed to be responsive. Zhou Yuanpu wanted to go over, but was knocked to the ground. He hugged the four-year-old

My son was completely unresponsive, and he was just thinking: Could this be a nightmare at night?

The night became darker and darker, and the cries and howls outside gradually became fainter. Zhou Yuanpu could not see the concubine in the room again. His wife with blood on her head was lying under the eaves in the courtyard, her eyes seemed to be watching

He also looked at the young child. Zhou Yuanpu knelt on the ground, crying and pleading. Soon after, he was dragged out of the bloody courtyard. He held his young son tightly in his arms, and the last thing he saw was,

He never saw his wife lying under the cold roof, and the concubine in the room again.

Fog rose in the long mountain road, and people were tied up with ropes and driven together. As they walked forward, some people were killed on the side of the road.

It all seems so unreal.

In the next few days of confusion, Zhou Yuanpu thought more than once, is his daughter dead? Is his wife dead? The scene of people being disemboweled flashed through his mind - how could that be what should happen in this world?

What about the situation?

Didn't we agree that no matter where we occupy, we must leave people to grow some food?

I gave you food, treasures, and all your savings. Why is it not enough?

The fog in the mountains came and went. As he walked along the slippery mountain road with his child in his arms, he was handed some gruel like a pig's dumpling in the middle. The child seemed to be frightened and did not cry too much.

They followed the army forward, and then, at some point, strange things appeared in front of people's eyes. The low walls of the old county town, the rows of ditches on the hills outside the county town, and the black stretching military flags. They

They were surrounded and guarded for a day or two, and then someone drove them forward.

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Huangming County.

When he saw the position on the opposite side beginning to move, Pang Liu'an, who was standing on top of the city wall, put down his telescope.

The entire Second Division of the Chinese Fifth Army, which came from Zizhou, has now completed its garrison here. In the past few days, Jurchen brigades have been arriving one after another. They can be seen among the many banners on the opposite side, responsible for Huangming County.

The main force on the battlefield is the core team of Jurchen veteran General Ba Lisu.

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

Watching the movement on the other side.

While Pang Liu'an was watching on the city wall, he could also vaguely see the generals patrolling on the opposite slope. Regarding the mobilization of the battlefield, both sides were doing it. The soldiers of the Chinese Army who were responsible for defending the positions inside and outside Huangming County were doing their job step by step in silence.

The garrison is being prepared. In the military camp opposite, you can occasionally see groups of fierce warriors gathering and roaring.

Siege equipment and stone-throwing vehicles were quickly assembled within sight.

A head-on confrontation with the main force of the army with the strongest record in this era is officially included in the field of vision.

On the morning of October 25th, Ba Lisu issued an order in the military camp.

"Try them."

The people who were used as cannon fodder were driven away.

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

The cannon muzzle on the city head adjusted its direction slightly, and the war drums sounded.

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On the battlefield where the two armies faced each other, people cried and shouted.

Zhou Yuanpu held the child in his arms and was unknowingly pushed to the front by the crowded crowd. There were sounds of murder on both sides of the field of vision.

Zhou Yuanpu's head came to his senses a little.

"Let my child go—"

He raised his four-year-old son and cried 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 child was trampled to death in the crowd and running.

In the short time that passed by suddenly, life's experiences were separated by the distance between heaven and earth. In less than half an hour after the war in Huangming County began on October 25, the entire family that once had Zhou Yuanpu as its pillar had already

Completely disappeared from this world. No care was given, and no preferential treatment was given to women and children.

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

However, no matter how great the anger is, it will not stir up any ripples in the battlefield in front of us. People with countless family interests, tendencies, and wills from all over the world are hedging under this sky.

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In the winter of the last year of Jian Shuo of the Wu Dynasty, the great war that broke out among the mountains in the southwest and determined the trend of the entire world was like an elegy for a great empire that lasted for more than two hundred years, and like a new era.

The era is nurtured by the sound of explosions. It is like a great river coming from afar, surging, yet steady and solid.

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

For this battle, the Jurchens made all 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 roads, and the vanguard troops, mainly composed of Jurchen elites, had also

Occupying a key position along the way.

The two roads from Jiange to Huangming County and to Yuyuxi are more than fifty miles each. The mountain road, which is neither long nor short, used to be only responsible for the passage of caravans. With the size of hundreds of thousands of troops, it was immediately

It seems fragile.

Only on the third day after the army officially broke camp, the forward troops led by Ba Lisu and Nianlili each arrived at the scheduled fighting position and began to choose places to camp. And countless troops were on the mountain road that was dozens of miles long.

It spread like a dragon, the mountains were cold in winter, and the originally solid mountain roads soon became muddy, but Han Qixian, Gao Qingyi and other generals were already prepared for these things.

The engineering team and the elite Han troops who had surrendered well quickly filled in the soil, built roads, and laid solid foundations at some relatively open nodes where the mountain road extended for dozens of miles - such as Shiliji and Canghuoyi where people originally lived.

, Huangtouyan and other places - the Jurchen troops set up military camps, and then drove the Han troops to cut down trees, level the ground, and set up checkpoints.

Even if the Chinese army is really fierce and brave, and the front line is invincible for a while, the checkpoints composed of elites at these key nodes are enough to stop the hastily retreating troops of low quality and avoid a bead-curtain-like defeat. And

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.

In the more than 20 years since the founding of the Jurchen Kingdom, Wanyan Zonghan had won countless victories with less. The generals below him had long been accustomed to risking their lives in a fierce attack, and the opposite side retreated like a tide. In actual combat, this was shown

This calm attitude may be an unprecedented first for Zong Han, but considering what happened to Lou Shi, not a lot of people in the Jurchen army felt this was unnecessary.

When fighting in the mountains, there are not many troops that can be deployed at one time. The Chinese army has blocked several key nodes in the mountains, so that they will not be overwhelmed by disparity in strength in a short period of time. However, as long as they maintain access, there will be no major problems.

, Jurchen elite troops are on the ground in waves. This is a ferocious offensive that no one in the world can withstand - at least for now, this idea is still the consensus of the whole world.

Chariots and horses rustled, and the silhouettes of soldiers stretched like ant colonies in the foothills. Various military flags fluttered like dense forests. Huge hot air balloons rose in the sky from time to time. Above the dense forests, there were occasional sea greens flying.

An army numbering in the hundreds of thousands is like a flood pouring into a narrow road. As long as they break through the blocking point in front, there will be a flat river in front of them.

Or, at least half the victory.
To be continued...