The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Zhao Tong led the Chinese army to stop at Huanglong Mansion, while Li Yanxian and others led the front army to Huining.

He stayed in Huanglong City for one night. It was surrounded by plains and very few mountains, making it a rare fertile wilderness.

From here going north to Huining, large tracts of land have such landforms.

The mountains of Baishan and Heishui are mostly concentrated in the northeast and southeast. There are not many mountains in the middle, especially the west side is close to the grassland.

Zhao Tong led Huo Xuanji and Xiao Lizhi out to see the scenery. It was autumn when the grass and trees turned yellow, the wild geese were heading south, and the wind was blowing.

Zhao Tong rode on the horse and said with emotion: "What a wonderful black land. If we cultivate it, we will have a bumper harvest and abundant grains."

Xiao Lizi's expression was even uglier than the withering vegetation. He looked here and there without saying a word, sobbing in his heart.

Lost, all lost, Huanglong Mansion was lost, Huining was lost, the emperor went to the northwest to join the tribe, is the Great Jin Kingdom gone?
Huining was lost, what happened to my mother? If my mother is gone, my family will no longer be able to survive. I am afraid that revenge will be wishful thinking. Even the Immortal Zhi cannot defeat Zhao Tong, and my family will not have any chance.

What about rhubarb? Are you still in the courtyard? You won't let the Qin army capture him and eat him, right? If so... Xiao Lizhi couldn't bear it anymore, and tears fell down.

"Why is Miss Xiao crying?" Zhao Tong wondered, wondering why Wanyan Xiyin chose her to come undercover and be an assassin. How could she be an assassin with such a temperament? It seems that people are really impatient and have no sense. Wanyan Xiyin lost his head at that time.

"I, I miss Dahuang..." Xiao Lizhi sobbed.

"It turns out I was thinking about Rhubarb..." Zhao Tong nodded. He knew Rhubarb was a dog. Huo Xuanji had said before that Xiao Lizhi said Rhubarb when he was fine. It seemed that the two had a deep relationship. He said, "Rhubarb is good." , isn’t it as the saying goes: one yellow, two black, three flowers and four white, the smell of this yellow dog is..."

Xiao Lizhi blinked his eyes after hearing this, and couldn't help it anymore, and burst into tears "Wow".

Zhao Tong saw her crying sadly, touched her chin and smiled: "I thought Miss Xiao was missing her childhood sweetheart and was worried about the accident and couldn't help herself."

"What, what friend?" Xiao Lizhi said casually, and then he realized his own identity, and became more sad, thinking that Gu Shen really killed someone.

"Isn't he Miss Xiao's childhood sweetheart? Huanglong Mansion is missing, maybe in Huining. People with such big heads are easy to find. When I go to Huining, I will ask my men to search carefully. As long as I am alive, I will not find him." Zhao Tamarind said with a smile.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm gone..." Xiao Lizhi whined. At this time, he could only follow what Zhao Tong said, but what he was thinking about was clearly his mother and Dahuang. They were not some childhood sweethearts who were nothing at all.

"If he is really gone, Miss Xiao doesn't have to be too sad. There are still many such big-headed people in the world."

Xiao Lizhi wiped his tears, what are you talking about? My "best friend" is my childhood sweetheart, what does it have to do with anyone else...

"When the war is over, Miss Xiao and I will go to Tokyo. It is more prosperous and lively and suitable for life there."

Xiao Lizhi was stunned when he heard this. Going to Tokyo? To what Tokyo? She didn't want to live anymore. If her mother and Dahuang died, she would die in Huining instead of going to Tokyo!

"I, I'll go..." Xiao Lizhi looked pitiful. At this moment, she had to stabilize the other party and respond to everything she said. Otherwise, she wouldn't know how to reply when the other party said, "I advise you not to be disrespectful."

"That's good." Zhao Tong smiled slightly and said nothing. Instead, he rode south. The people behind him hurriedly followed, and the big-bellied Grasshopper ran wildly like crazy. He drove around the fertile plain for more than an hour before returning. Inside the city.

The next day, Zhao Tong led the Chinese army to set off north to Huining. The army did not move very fast. After all, the important matter had been decided and there was no need to march in a hurry.

After spending the night on the road like this, he arrived at Huining the next day. From a distance, Zhao Tong saw the newly built city. The villages where he came when he came were all wrapped up in the city and were no longer seen outside.

He galloped around the city with great interest, and then entered the city under the guidance of Li Yanxian.

General Lu did not come to greet him, but took the armor and continued to kill the Jurchen Jianyin tribe in the northwest. When he left Huining, he left a message asking for more troops to support him. Li Yanxian divided 80% of the former soldiers and horses, Liu Qi, Yue Fei and others went to chase General Lu.

This Huining City is not completely completed. Although the surrounding outline is formed, some defenses and fine work are only half done. It looks relatively rough and rudimentary. If it is to be truly completed, I am afraid it will take another year or two.

The layout of the city was roughly modeled on that of Shangjing, divided into north and south. The north was naturally where the Jin Dynasty emperor and nobles lived, while the south city was where the common people lived.

The Emperor's Village no longer exists, and was replaced by a huge imperial city. However, many of the villages where those ministers lived in those days are still there. Some Jurchen ministers were nostalgic for the rough life before, so they did not move into the new mansion and still slept on the grass in the house. The house has an adobe kang and feels solid.

Zhao Tong walked around the city and found that there were almost no Jurchens left in the city. He did not know whether General Lu was so jealous that he slaughtered all the Jurchens, or whether most of the Jurchens in Huining had fled, or they had gone to Jianyin with Wu's begging. Department, or missing.

At this time, Zhao Tong looked back at Xiao Lizhi, who remained sluggish and silent, just walking with the team.

He thought about it and called the four brothers of the Lu family and asked them to lead troops and go with Huo Xuanji on a walk with Xiao Lizhi, nominally to find Xiao Lizhi's childhood sweetheart, but actually to see if Xiao Lizhi wanted to come back. Home, if she wants to go back, let her go back, just follow others and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Huo Xuanji naturally knew what Zhao Tong was thinking, so she agreed and called Xiao Li, who was still feeling sad, to leave the team.

After another long while, Zhao Tong finally arrived at the Jin Kingdom Palace.

Later, Jiang Si came back to report the news. Zhao Tong couldn't help but smile after hearing this. Xiao Lizhi's mother was still there, and the dog Dahuang was also safe and sound. In fact, this was all because Zhao Tong sent a horse over in advance to inform General Lu. , regardless of anything else, this person and the dog must stay.

A large group of people acted with Xiao Lizhi, pretending not to see or understand, nodding at Xiao Lizhi's lame excuses, and letting the other party covertly recognize each other in Xiao Lizhi's confused and stupid expression. Then give the mother and daughter a chance to be alone and ask them to discuss how to hide it.

All in all, it was a quite funny scene. Everyone could see that it was too fake. Even Xiao Lizhi's mother found something wrong, but Xiao Lizhi didn't know it.

After Zhao Tong gave Jiang Si a few words, he sent him back to continue his acting, and then called the generals to discuss military affairs.

In the evening, Xiao Lizhi came back. She really didn't want to come back here, but she had no choice but to go to the Jinguo Palace for fear of being found weird by Zhao Tong.

Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes and asked her: "Miss Xiao, can you find that big-headed friend?"

When Xiao Lizhi saw his mother before, his heart dropped. He was happy and happy at the same time, but he pretended to be heartbroken: "If I didn't find her, I'm afraid she would have been killed by the Jurchens long ago."

Zhao Tong nodded seriously, and then Xiao Li said, "But, I found a dog that looks very similar to Dahuang." "A dog that looks very similar?" Zhao Tong looked surprised.

"It's very similar, almost exactly the same!" Xiao Lizhi glanced at Zhao Tong secretly, thinking that he didn't find any flaws, and then said: "The family that raises dogs, and, and..."

"What else?" Zhao Tong asked.

"There is also an aunt who looks just like my mother in my impression..." Xiao Lizhi gritted his teeth and said it, then lowered his head, but this time he didn't even dare to take a peek at Zhao Tong.

Zhao Tong secretly smiled in his heart, but still looked surprised: "There are such coincidences in the world? Isn't this the legendary fate? In this case, Miss Xiao might as well get close to him, even that dog... can also play and cultivate feelings. ”

"Really?" Xiao Lizhi raised his head after hearing this, unable to suppress the ecstasy in his heart. He felt that Zhao Tong was too easy to deceive. Unfortunately, she had thought so much before and was so flustered and uneasy.

"Of course it's true. When have I ever lied about anything I said?" Zhao Tong said.

"Then I understand. I'm going to see my aunt tomorrow and play with her rhubarb." Xiao Lizhi smiled so excitedly that he almost jumped up.

Zhao Tong also smiled, and then said a few more words before sending Xiao Lizhi to rest. Watching her go out and leave, he couldn't help but rub his temples and shook his head.

After two days passed, Huang Jue received a letter and had already wiped out the southern and eastern parts of the Jin Kingdom. Zhao Tao ordered him to temporarily guard the mouth of the Beihai Bay and pay close attention to the movements on the Goryeo side.

At this point, the entire Jin Kingdom, except for a few tribes further north in the west, was captured.

Among the several tribes, only the Jianyin tribe is the largest, and the others are all small tribes, relying on the Jianyin tribe to exist.

Then one day later, Zhao Tong ordered his army horses, led his generals, and headed straight for Jian Yin's tribe.

The Jianyin tribe is not close to Huining. It is already close to the bitter cold land in the north. There is no city here. It is an ancient village lifestyle. Logically speaking, General Lu will bring heavy armored cavalry, followed by Yue Fei, Liu Qi and others. With human support, it should have been eliminated long ago, but for some reason there has been no news.

Only when we got there did we realize that the Jianyin tribe and the villages that were attached to the small tribe had already been reduced to pieces. It was just that there were too many martial arts masters in the Jianyin tribe, and they joined up with the remnant soldiers of Wanyan Zonghan who came over, and actually protected Wu Qimai. He broke out of the siege and fled westward.

Lu General Yue Fei and others left their heavy cavalry and infantry behind, and pursued them on the grassland with 30,000 light cavalry.

Zhao Tong thought for a moment, then put down his infantry to garrison where he was, and led only his light cavalry, also chasing westward.

It took a full day and night before he saw the Qin army's scouts ahead. When the scouts saw the flag, they immediately came over to meet the commander. Zhao Tong inquired and learned that General Lu and others were stationed dozens of miles away with their troops.

There is a large mountain in the northern part of the prairie. In fact, there are several mountain ranges in the northern part of the prairie, running east-west and north-south. In front of it is a large mountain called Sayan Kentiya.

The Sayan Kentiya Mountain runs east to west and stretches for seven or eight miles. It is mostly covered with coniferous forests and unique large green grass, and there is a small river on the edge.

The scouts reported that the escaped Jurchen Jianyin tribe, as well as Wu Qimai, Zongqian Zonghan and others took the remnant army up the mountain, totaling seven or eight thousand. However, Shanzhou was relatively large, and the Qin army was somewhat insufficient in number, making it impossible to carry out the expedition. To search the mountain, we had to surround the mountain with patrolling soldiers to monitor the situation on the mountain and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Zhao Tong nodded. There shouldn't be only a few thousand Jurchens left. They should have been hunted down and killed many people along the way. The mountain was not too small. The more than 30,000 soldiers led by General Lu and others would definitely not be enough to search the mountain.

He asked: "Why didn't you use fire attack?"

The scout said: "Several generals have also discussed that although the fire attack is good, it is terrible that the mountain fire will start and spread ragingly. By then, the Jurchens will be burnt to pieces and will be difficult to identify, and it will be impossible to judge whether Wu Qimai and others are there. The identity of a person is unknown even if he dies, and even if he escapes by chance, it’s hard to determine who is gone.”

Zhao Tong thought: "It doesn't matter. With this kind of mountain, no one can escape if there is a big fire. People coming down from the mountain will be trapped and helpless. Since they are surrounded, no one can escape. Most of them will be able to escape." After discovering it, General Lu and the others should be..."

He smiled when he said this, but the rest of the words were not spoken, but what he was thinking about was that he was afraid that General Lu and the others would try to kill the Golden Chieftain, and they would be burned to the point where they would not be able to see their appearance. Even if all these Jurchens were destroyed, This credit is also hard to remember.

After all, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom wanted to see people while he was alive and his body when he died. He couldn't tell which one was which, so what's going on?
But Zhao Tong didn't care about this, and he expected that there were experts around Wu Qimai, so where could he just burn him to death on the mountain? Most likely they will come down to break out.

He immediately asked the scouts to lead the way. After a while, the army arrived at the foot of Sayan Kentya Mountain. General Lu and others got the news and hurried over to pay their respects.

Zhao Tong's gaze swept across the crowd, and finally landed on General Lu's face. The originally fair complexion of the scholar had turned extremely dark, and his usually bald chin had grown a messy beard. The grassland was exposed to the wind and sun, and he had been marching and fighting in the past few months. General Lu has been tempered into not being like himself.

Zhao Tong looked at him and smiled: "General Lu's name will go down in history."

General Lu hurriedly bowed again: "How can I be so virtuous and capable as to be praised by Your Majesty? To destroy Xixia and defeat the Jurchens is entirely up to Your Majesty to strategize and win a thousand-mile victory. I am just following His Majesty's orders."

Zhao Tong smiled and didn't say much. He looked at the mountains ahead and rode around, followed by all the generals. After a while, he finally looked over them and returned to the original place.

Zhao Tong said: "This place is dangerous. Searching the mountain is definitely not a good strategy. If there are people hiding in the cracks in the trees and rocks, the enemy will set up a trap and ambush, which will inevitably cause heavy losses. It's better to burn it!"

Everyone looked at each other in shock. Now that Zhao Tong had arrived, they had no more ideas and agreed together.

Zhao Tong pulled the corner of a piece of cloth and raised his hand to identify the direction of the downwind. It was autumn now, the west wind had risen, and it was moving northward, so he decided to lay heavy troops in the southeast.

The mountain fire is huge and the smoke is billowing. No matter how strong your martial arts skills are, it is impossible to run against the fire. That is not something human beings can do.

Therefore, when the other party fled down the mountain, they would definitely go to the southeast. However, the east side was steep and narrow, and it was a roundabout way. Zhao Tong expected that it was unlikely, and it was more likely to go to the long and wide place in the south.

However, there is still a heavy ambush in the east, especially the densely packed crossbowmen. It is impossible for any bird to fly out from here.

Then he personally supervised the army due to the south, and ordered the northwest sides to set fires.

At this time, the autumn weather is dry and the mountain wind is strong. It doesn’t take long for a fire to be lit and it will burn into a prairie fire. The fire is raging and the black smoke is billowing, burning the front like a mountain of flames...

(End of this chapter)