Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty-Seven

The army retreated for the first time, and the city of Ying revived a little.The people are running around in a hurry, most of them are packing their luggage and preparing to move to a place far away from the flames of war.Smoke rose one after another, and people still had fear and panic on their faces, but no despair. Wu Qingwei and Dugu Jian walked through the street supporting each other. Not many people knew them, and no one regarded them as life-saving benefactors, but Dugu Jian didn't care. What he cares about is being able to see how these people live. The children don't know fear, and they still play in the street in twos and threes, yelling and running around, playing games.When Dugu Jian was not careful, he was hit hard by a seven or eight year old child.He hurriedly helped the child up, and said in a gentle voice, "Slow down."

The child ignored him and ran away after his partner.Dugu Jian couldn't help showing a smile on his face, this is what he tried his best to protect. Wu Qingwei was also infected by his joy, and the two briskly crossed the long street and walked into Father Wang's house.There was still a trace of sadness shrouded in this family, when Father Wang saw Dugu Jian, he was overjoyed and said: "Young Master Dugu, you are back!" Ren Changfeng rushed out when he heard the sound, and said with a long smile, "I never thought your life would be so long, even 20,000 gold soldiers can't kill you!"

He slapped Dugu Jian on the shoulder, and Dugu Jian bared his teeth, but in his heart he was very pleased with Ren Changfeng's boldness.He entered the house hand in hand with Ren Changfeng, Jianglong still couldn't move, when he saw him, he raised his eyebrows a few times to greet him.Long Ba's hands and feet were injured, but he refused to lie down, sat upright on the chair, smiled and said, "Brother Dugu, it's great that you're back." Dugu Jian rushed forward, tears streaming down his face.Both Jianglong and Longba almost donated their lives to the people of Yingcheng.What are they asking for?Long Ba's eyes are more vicissitudes, although the pride is still there, it is obviously much older.Even the sideburns were dyed star-white hair.

Whitehead overnight. Seeing that Dugu Jian was silent, Long Ba didn't want everyone to feel sorry for him, and said with a smile: "Brother Ren, I have always wanted to ask you a question." Ren Changfeng said: "Just talk if you have something to say, but don't call him Brother Ren." Long Badao: "Why does General Li's army obey you so much? If you say you want them to come to Ying City, then come to Ying City; Ren Changfeng laughed and said, "I only said one word to them." Everyone couldn't help being curious, what words have such power?Ren Changfeng said: "I asked them: Do you want to join the Yue Family Army?"

Yue Family Army?Long Ba's heart trembled, the Yue family's army was as disciplined as a mountain and had never been defeated?The Yue Family Army led by Yue Fei, the new Qingyuan Army Jiedu Envoy? In the fourth year of Song Gaozong Shaoxing, Yue Fei conquered Dengzhou City and the six counties of Xianghan and Han. Hubei Road, Jing, Xiang, and Tanzhou were appointed envoys, and they were under the control of the former Shenwu army and the later army. "Jing" refers to Jingnan Prefecture, and "Xiang" refers to Xiangyang Prefecture. The Song court ordered Yue Fei to "establish" Tanzhou and Jingnan Prefecture, the capitals of Jingnan South and North Roads, and Jingbei Road.

It was the time when the Jin and Song Dynasties were at war, and only the commander of the Yue family was undefeated. The soldiers were all proud of being in the Yue family army. This place belonged to Yue Fei's rule. No wonder Li Qiong's army did not resist and obeyed orders enthusiastically. Ren Changfeng said with a smile: "Although Yue Shuai visited Jingxiang, the Feather Festival was first established and the decree was not clear, which led to today's event. Although Mr. Dugu retreated the Jin army for thirty miles with his own strength, the Jin army regrouped and came back again. It won't take much time. This city can no longer be defended. I will lead them to relocate to Yue Shuai's garrison. You just need to rest assured, Mr. Dugu. This is the time to employ people, so Mr. Dugu might as well stay in the army , Yue Shuai must like talents like you very much."

Dugu Jian remained silent and didn't answer. With the lessons learned from General Li, he really didn't trust the ranks. Long Ba looked at his face, and said: "I am the devil of the rivers and lakes. Even though I want to serve, I am unable to do so. Let's leave now, and this city will have to work harder for Mr. Ren in the future." He stood up from the chair and walked out.Ren Changfeng frowned and said, "Even if you don't want to stay, why leave now? You're hurt so badly." Long Ba said sadly: "Now I have lost all my martial arts, and I have many enemies in the world. I am afraid that I will not live for three days if I live here. If Mr. Ren thinks about me, he should let me go earlier."

Hearing that he lost all his martial arts skills, Dugu Jian couldn't help feeling tense, he rushed to support him, and said: "Let's give Brother Long a ride." Jianglong lying on the bed let out a babbling cry immediately, Dugu Jian turned his head and smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you down!" Seeing that they insisted on leaving, Ren Changfeng sighed and said, "Okay, I'll prepare a carriage to take you off." He sent someone to put Long Ba and Jiang Long in a carriage, and said with a bundle, "I don't have anything to give you, so don't be disgusted with it." He pulled the reins and reluctantly drove them away sent far away.

Dugu Jian said: "Send you thousands of miles, and there will be a farewell. Mr. Ren, go back!" Wu Qingwei got into the carriage to take care of Jianglong and Longba, Ren Changfeng sighed: "If you stay for a few more days, you will find that Yue Shuai is completely different from other soldiers... Everyone has their own ambitions, and I can't compete with each other Just go to Dongting, be careful!" He glanced at Long Ba intentionally or unintentionally, then waved his hands and strode back. Dugu Jian didn't pay much attention to it, holding the rein in his hand, he walked towards Dongting with confidence.

Wu Qingwei suddenly exclaimed, "So many?" Dugu Jian poked his head into the carriage, and saw Wu Qingwei spread out the burden given by Ren Changfeng in front of Wu Qingwei. It was filled with all kinds of jade bottles, which were obviously the secret wound medicines of various sects.Some elixirs are priceless, but Ren Changfeng gave them such a precious gift casually! Dugu Jian said: "Put it away, this Mr. Ren is a good man." Long Ba struggled to sit leaning against the window, his eyes fixed on the north gate of Ying City, and his eyes gradually filled with tears.Both Dugu Jian and Wu Qingwei turned their heads away, leaving Long Ba a space to grieve alone.

After a long time, Long Ba let out a long sigh, and said: "When I came out of Shimen Mountain, I joined a few more troops, intending to fight against the gold again, and return to the Song Dynasty. Who knows that the world is as black as crows, and every army is the same. It's anti-gold, but just preserve your strength and strengthen your strength, don't care about the broken mountains and rivers? I was discouraged, so I went to the Dongting Devil's Cave alone, hoping to do something for the people of the world with my own courage. Who knew when I went, It happened that Yang Yao was fighting against the twelve masters of the puppet Qi. In the eyes of Zhengdao, the Dongting Demon Cave was a heretic evil spirit. He knew the righteousness of the nation and would rather die in battle than surrender to the enemy. Shocked, I helped Yang Yao repel the Qi soldiers. So he stayed. The longer he lived, the more he found that most of the people in Dongting were from poor backgrounds. They were all people who were cold-hearted towards the Song army. Righteous way is a hundred times better. Yang Yao is even more ambitious, wishing the people in the world to support themselves and never be under the control of the government. Hehe, don’t let the government control you, won’t you become the devil in everyone’s mouth? I live in it and serve the world The common people tried their best, but the rumors in the world are getting worse and worse, Jiuyin has always refused to forgive, and in the end, I couldn't explain it clearly to her." He clenched his fist tightly, and Dugu Jian and Wu Qingwei looked at each other, neither knowing how to persuade him.Wu Qingwei forced a smile and said: "Brother Long, Sister Gong must have understood your painstaking efforts when she reached the sky." Long Ba choked up for a while, tears fell like rain, he wiped his tears vigorously, and said with a big laugh: "I'm a hero in my life, but I can't avoid my mother-in-law!" Dugu Jian said solemnly: "Ruthless may not be a real hero, Brother Long is a man of temperament, how can he be called a mother-in-law?" A person outside the carriage smiled and said: "What my disciple said makes sense. A man can cry when he wants to, and laugh when he wants to laugh. Why do you have to restrain yourself?" Dugu Jian was overjoyed and said: "Master!" There was a sound of horse hooves, Gui Yinzi rode on Hong'er, and said with a smile on his face: "Good disciple, good disciple, you are my teacher." Dugu Jian asked anxiously: "Master, where did you go? Didn't you get hurt?" Before Gui Yinzi answered, Wu Qingwei curled her lips and said, "Master, you can still be injured? I think you've run away long ago, and you won't come back until the fighting subsides!" Gui Yinzi chuckled, stroked his long beard, and said, "Run? Without me, old man, could you have won this war?" Wu Qingwei said: "That's right, it's because of the apprentices you taught that the people in this city were saved." Gui Yinzi squinted his eyes and nodded, "Your words make sense. But do you really think that Ren Changfeng and Chen Suiyun just happened to appear in Li Qiong's army?" Long Ba was startled, and said: "Could it be you..." The appearance of Chen Suiyun and others was indeed a bit of a coincidence, and Long Ba was not without doubts afterward. Hearing Gui Yinzi's mention at this time, he couldn't help but feel a little admiration for the old man . Gui Yinzi raised Xuan Chang's eyebrows in an unfathomable manner, and without answering his words, he drew two swords from his body, handed them to Dugu Jian and said, "Although the sword I gave you is not a good one, it was given by the elder after all. Would you throw it away? Fortunately, Master saw it and picked it up again. This time, you must take good care of it and never lose it again." That is Qiushui and Songwen.Gui Yinzi murmured: "Qiu Shui Song Wen was originally a pair, but I didn't expect them to come together on this battlefield. It's easy for my apprentice." He stared at Wu Qingwei and said, "People like Chen Suiyun are ignored by the whole world, so why would they negotiate terms with you, a fluffy girl?" Wu Qingwei couldn't help but tremble, and Gui Yinzi said leisurely: "There are too many secrets in this world that you don't know. Don't underestimate me, old man!" He rode forward, Hong'er grew stronger again, Gui Yinzi had a fluttering beard, and he was sitting on the ancient fire unicorn, he really looked like a fairy.Before chanting his whip, he pointed: "I don't like to think about Yueyang today, and I want to fly and be sick in bed... Dongting, don't I treat you?" Everyone is unpredictable for a while, but they can only look up to Gao Xian and follow suit. The horse is walking, the misty rain in Dongting has almost sprinkled on the body. Jiang Long and Long Ba were seriously injured, and the carriage couldn't move very fast.After walking for more than half a month, I arrived in Tanzhou.With the package of pills sent by Ren Changfeng, the two of them recovered very quickly.Jianglong's zhenqi was stronger, and when he used the mad magic wand again, he was full of vigor, and his martial arts became more refined.Except that Long Ba's right palm was broken and could not be found, other injuries remained the same.It's just that his true energy showed no signs of recovery at all, it seemed that his martial arts were really useless. Dugu Jianxin sighed, but he couldn't think about it.Long Ba's temperament is extremely open-minded, and after trying a few times to no avail, he no longer cares about it.Ma Xing was leisurely, he told several people about Yang Yao's various deeds in Dongting, and everyone was fascinated by it leisurely. When Yang Yao was young, he received great kindness from Prime Minister Zhong. When Xiang Xiang raised his army to cause chaos, although Yang Yao didn't think so, he served him loyally and made great contributions to it.When Zhongxiang was defeated, Yang Yao led part of the troops and moved to Longyang County, where he reunited with many remaining tribes to form a larger force, and elected Zhongziyi, the only son of Zhongxiang, as the crown prince. In June of the fourth year of Jianyan, the Song court appointed Cheng Changyu as the governor of Ding and Lizhou and the magistrate of Dingzhou to crusade against Yang Yao.He led his entourage to Dingzhou to take up his post by land and water. The water fleet was fully loaded with looted people's fat and people's anointing. The land entourage displayed their power along the way, asking for wine and food, catching pigs and sheep, and robbing chickens and ducks, arousing the public indignation of the villagers.The troops led by Yang Yao wiped out the entire fleet, and Cheng Changyu only escaped with his own life.Yang Yao distributed the looted property to the surrounding people, and when Zhong Ziyi, the prince of Shuizhai, saw Cheng Changyu's beloved concubine Careful Slave from Kaifeng, he gave him his soul.Cheng Changyu became angry with embarrassment, and vowed to be an enemy of Yang Yao. In the mountains of Dingzhou and Lizhou, Yang Yaojun cut down tens of thousands of trees such as pine, fir, camphor, and nan to build boats such as loaches and oars, and soon established a navy.Cheng Changyu's troops were all from the north and were not familiar with water. Seeing the enemy's light boats and fast ships infesting the heavy lake, they had no choice but to attack and plunder.Yang Yaojun occupied the two counties of Longyang and Yuanjiang in Dingzhou, and set up more than 30 water villages away from the city of Zhouzhou, "only thirty or twenty miles away, and the distance is only fifty or sixty miles away." In the first month of the first year of Shaoxing, Cheng Changyu obtained the drawings of chariots and boats from Gao Xuanjin, the "carpenter's capital", as if he had found a treasure, thinking that he could use the chariots and boats to put Yang Yaojun to death.He was eager to win, and immediately put two eight-chariot boats into battle to attack Xia Cheng's water village.As a result, the vehicles and boats could not navigate in the shallow water, and ran aground on the Zhijiang River. They were captured by Yang Yao's army, and Gao Xuan, the master craftsman, was also taken prisoner.Cheng Changyu regretted it too much. After Yang Yaojun captured the official army's vehicles and ships, he also built a large number of vehicles and ships.A total of more than ten chariots and boats were built, and the large ones can carry more than a thousand troops.Later it was increased to twenty-nine ships.They installed poles on the carts and boats, which were more than ten feet long, with huge stones on the top and pulleys on the bottom. When they met the warships of the army, they could be smashed with the poles.Hundreds of brisk loach warships, like the stars and the moon, surrounded and cooperated with the large chariots and ships to fight.As a result, the army became stronger and stronger, criss-crossing the Dongting, wantonly attacking the Huhan, and the momentum grew stronger. The Song court also sent Wang Xie to serve as envoys for Jingnanfu, Tan, Ding, Li, Yue, E and other prefectures to command all the troops, totaling more than 50,000 soldiers, to encircle and suppress Yang Yao's rebel army.This person is cowardly and unscrupulous, loves money like his life, and the treasures he has accumulated can "be rich for countless generations".Because he arbitrarily deducted military salaries, "soldiers eat half a grain of rice", the military discipline is particularly corrupt, and his subordinates "plunder and kill, it is impossible to know how many".The people of Jinghu hated Wang Xie to the bone, "willing to eat his flesh but not get it", and the Dongting rebel army often helped the people and did not plunder, so the people aspired to him. Wang Xie used troops many times, but they were all defeated. stronger. Yang Yao's learning is the same as that of Long Ba, it is also the martial arts of the Beggar Clan, and what he is good at is also the palm technique.He is simple in nature, doesn't care about dressing up at ordinary times, is friendly to people, and has great prestige in Dongting.Yang Yao's palm technique is heavy and fierce, mixed with the vast mist of Dongting, his palm strikes are like wind, sea and rain, and his skill is even higher than that of Long Ba.Cheng Changyu and Wang Xie sent people to assassinate them many times, and they all died under the palms of Yang Yao.Therefore, the Dongting Rebel Army was headed by Yang Yao, and Yang Yao did not forget his old favor, and insisted on worshiping Zhong Ziyi as the prince and serving him as his own minister. Hearing this, Dugu Jian couldn't help interjecting: "Why doesn't Yang Yao serve the country and make contributions?" Long Ba shook his head and said: "Yang Yao was also a small official in his early years. The higher-ups forced him to pay taxes and ordered him to kill a few scoundrels who refused to pay taxes. He knew that those people were not scoundrels at all, but they were poor to the end. He had no money to pay taxes, so he released them secretly. Unexpectedly, the imperial court punished him for a felony, and sent troops to capture the escaped people and hang them in Wuling City. Zhong Xiang saw that he had a strange appearance, so he took the money He bribed the officials and released him. He was disheartened and vowed not to serve the court again. He hid in Dongting Lake and became a fisherman with nothing to worry about. Later, Zhong Xiang sent troops to find him. He was grateful to Zhong Xiang Grace, swear allegiance. Although these years are called rebellion, except for killing a few corrupt officials, they have never done any evil. He is a daring iron man." When Dugu Jian thought of Ying City, he nodded and said: "In troubled times, officials and bandits can't help themselves. However, there is no way to gather together in the rivers and lakes. Sooner or later, they will be breached. Now that the country is in trouble, why can't we afford to fight against the disaster together?" Woolen cloth?" Long Badao: "Yang Yao once said that if he surrendered to me, he would not be able to do so without the presence of Commander Yue. Although there were many powerful generals in the Song court, Yue Fei, the general of Baisheng, was the only one who wanted to destroy Dongting. Yang Yao couldn’t help hesitating when the local people re-entered the government’s mouth of tigers and wolves after recruiting security. But he was extremely firm in the grand scheme of things, and the puppet Qi Liu Yu sent people to win him over several times, but he severely rebuked them.” Several people talked about it, and they came to Dongting Lake within a day.