The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 338 Conquest
The next day, Wang Hou and his general guards regained their armor and weapons, and then, led by Ergou, they passed through the canyon gate under Fenghuang Ridge and arrived at Shenyang Realm.

But entering the Shenyang realm, all the scenery is completely different from the Song Dynasty realm.

I can't say that the air here is sweeter, but compared to the undulating mountains of Qinchuan, there is indeed a feeling of vastness here, with endless wilderness and flat rivers.

In front of a mound thirty miles away from the entrance to the canyon, countless civilians were busy building a semi-permanent military stronghold.

For the army and civilians in the northwest region, this work is as simple as eating and drinking.

There are many trees here, but there are few rocks. The people cut down the wood to make charcoal, built earth to make bricks, built kilns to bake bricks, and then used the fired bricks to build the walls of the walled city.

If there were no other options, many people would be reluctant to take soil and bake bricks here.

After all, everyone is basically a farmer by profession and has an extraordinary ability to judge the soil quality of the land.

Not to mention the black soil that oozes oil and water even when you grasp it, the soil on this higher mound is also extremely fertile, dark loam.

It is simply a sin to use such fertile soil to bake bricks!
But there is no way. If you want to build a military stronghold with reliable enough defense, you have to do some wasteful things.

Fortunately, the rebel leaders never thought of building a second such military stronghold.

Normally, just use some wood to build some regular camps.

Wang Hou came to the construction site, and after looking around for a while, he said to Ergou: "The person in charge of managing this place is a mediocre person, with no outstanding talents to speak of!"

Ergou naturally did not comment on this. After all, what Wang Hou said was true. The person responsible for coordinating the construction site here was a down-and-out clerk from Wugong County.

This person knows some words and has participated in the construction of many military camps on Qinfeng Road. It stands to reason that such experience will create an outstanding construction talent. Unfortunately, this person really has no talent, and in the end his life is somewhat unsatisfactory. But it just fell into the hands of the rebels.

But such a mediocre person is already a relatively rare professional talent among the rebels, so he has a place to use.

Of course, Ergou and the others are not without more outstanding talents. For example, Ergou can do better on his own, but there is no need to waste Ergou's talents in this kind of construction work. Just mediocre talents are enough.

At most, a relatively stable lieutenant-general can be arranged to be the backbone here, and it will be enough to ensure that no trouble occurs in the camp.

Therefore, Ergou and the group of people waiting behind him did not stay here longer, but continued to move in one direction along a certain sign.

Speaking of which, the canyon gateway connecting the Shenyang Realm and the Great Song Dynasty boundary is Qishan Mountain at one end of the Great Song Dynasty, but at the Shenyang Realm end it is a low hill with a depression in the middle, and the depression is the portal of the two realms.

The low hills are surrounded by endless plains on all sides. If there are no markings, the march can easily deviate from the direction.

By the way, in addition to the military stronghold that is being built, seven other military strongholds will be built in other directions centered on the short hill in the future. Eventually, these military strongholds will be connected together by tall city walls to form a city with a diameter of A huge city of approximately thirty kilometers, completely surrounding the gateways to both worlds.

Of course, this is just the long-term idea in Ergou's mind, and now he is not good enough to talk to outsiders.

In fact, building a military stronghold is not the most urgent thing. What is really fatal is that the land in Shenyangjie is too fertile, and everyone wants to quickly divide the land and start real farming.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with reclaiming land to grow crops, but now he and others have never even seen the appearance of the ghosts, let alone their habits and behavior. It is easy to do bad things if they rashly divide the land.

There is a saying that if the people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to lead the team.

If such a big thing as dividing the land is not handled properly, it will easily break people's hearts.

However, when Ergou, Wang Hou and others found Wang Huan, the rebel scouts who came forward brought good news. They discovered a village belonging to the Guifang people.

Guifang Village is about two hundred miles away from the canyon portal that connects the two worlds.

Militarily speaking, this is not a very long distance.

But for ordinary people in the classical era, this was already as far away as a natural chasm.

Because for a civilian, it is difficult to move more than thirty miles in a day under normal circumstances. Any further away will require additional consumption of materials and energy.

Of course, this is undoubtedly good news for the humans on the Song side. At least ordinary people on the ghost side will not easily discover the portals of the two realms, let alone be prepared for the rebels.

However, the scouts also brought another piece of news that I don't know whether it was good or bad. The Guifang people were a little different from the humans of the Song Dynasty. They were more like beasts, at least they retained some characteristics of beasts.

At first, the leaders who had never seen the Onifa people thought that the so-called "beast characteristics" were just that the Onifa people looked more brutal and rough.

But when everyone came to hide outside the village of Onikata and saw the true face of Onikata, they realized that the scout's words were taken literally.

The appearance of Onikata people is really like that of certain beasts standing upright and walking.

For example, the Guifang people living in this village made of branches, mud, reeds, etc. are actually a group of half-human and half-beast monsters with minotaur or goat heads.

They have ferocious faces, reverse-jointed hoof feet, and two arms. One is a human-like arm and palm, and the other is a human arm combined with a weird existence like crab claws or octopus tentacles.

Looking at these guys, everyone couldn't help but think back to those big black goats that walked upright like humans and were hunted by them as food. Maybe they were also part of the Onifa people.

However, except for Ergou himself who felt slightly psychologically uncomfortable, the others didn't pay any attention to it.

It is true that Chinese civilization not only has a long history, but also the people's suffering experiences are also extremely diverse. Not to mention the records of those years of great disasters where people exchanged their children for food and people competed for food. Even though the Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a hundred years, those sects often turn people into livestock. method), sold to unscrupulous people, slaughtered, sold or even eaten by themselves.

Many Jianghu people and even ordinary people even know that the meat has wrong origins, but they still eat it without any scruples.

Not to mention the mysterious big black goats that are obviously not the same kind. Even if these big black goats are smart enough to solve the Gorbacher conjecture, I'm afraid they will still eat it.

Aspirations hungry for the Hulu meat, and laughed and thirst for the blood of the Huns.

It is by no means just a literary rhetorical exaggeration, but a real description of reality.

Ergou and others are hiding outside the Guifang village to spy on the real people of Guifang. We call them beastmen. But their whereabouts were soon exposed.

The reason is that an inexplicable draft brings the smell of humans into the village.

When those beastmen smelled the smell, they all fell into a state of uncontrollable restlessness.

They either waved their chelicerae and tentacles with their bare hands, or carried wooden sticks and stone hammers, and swarmed towards the place where Ergou and the others were hiding.

Ergou and the others, who understood that they had been exposed, did not hesitate, but they got on their horses and shouted at the same time: "Charge forward and kill all these monsters!"

However, Wang Hou, who came with him, was calmer. He immediately ordered: "Xue Ju, Xue Zong, you two each lead thirty people to surround them from the left and right to cut off the retreat of these beasts!"

Xue Ju and Xue Zong immediately followed the order.

Ergou, who was about to charge, couldn't help but look back at Wang Hou and thought to himself: If there is an old man in the family, it is like having a treasure. The ancients will not deceive me.

If it were another time, Wang Hou's order to Ergou would not have been unexpected. If he could prepare in advance, he could even make a more rigorous and effective arrangement.

But when it comes to adapting to emergencies, what we can really rely on is personal agility and rich experience.

The so-called flash of inspiration naturally means that sometimes it is effective but not effective at times, it is invincible when it is a super god, and it really stretches its hips when it is stretched.

However, rich experience can prevent people from failing miserably. This is the so-called guaranteed lower limit.

It's a lot to say, but the first real collision between the people of the Song Dynasty and the beastmen of Guifang took place in this inconspicuous little village.

Compared with ordinary humans, beastmen have a ferocious appearance, greater strength, faster running speed, and are born with extremely deadly natural weapons.

In this way, their individual basic combat power far exceeds that of humans.

But as the two sides engaged in battle, it was the Song Dynasty Rebels who really had the upper hand and even a crushing advantage.

The sharp metal weapons, armor with good defense, excellent martial arts, and the powerful impact brought by the galloping horses made the unprepared beastmen suffer big losses in just one encounter.

At least twenty strong beastmen were killed or seriously injured in the first wave of fighting between the two sides, while only three unlucky ones on the human side accidentally fell off their horses.

Ergou was still the one who performed most brilliantly among the people. At the moment of the battle, he stabbed with his sword and killed five beastmen in an instant. Later, Zhang Kai, Wang Huan, Jia Gan and others Although his martial arts skills are strong, his performance can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

They also each killed a beastman, but it didn't feel very good.

Beastmen are difficult to kill. Not only are they as strong as bears, but their bodies are also much tougher than humans. To kill them with ordinary swords, you need to exert a lot of force to do so.

Just like in the first round of this battle, everyone relied on the impact of the war horses to achieve an almost devastating killing effect.

After the first round of fighting between the two sides, both Ergou and Wang Huan and other generals on the front line realized that something was wrong, but only Wang Huan and Ergou were able to make the right decision.

The biggest blessing in Wang Huan's heart at this time was that they were cautious enough this time, so the number of enemies they faced was not many, only about twenty in total, and they defeated most of them in one encounter, only four or five. None have been traumatized.

While Wang Huan was relieving the numbness in his arms caused by excessive impact, he shouted: "Keep the distance! Keep the distance! Switch to Ma Chai (this does not refer to the real traditional Ma Chai, but a simplified version). The spear shaft is easier to break, and the effect is similar to that of later Western lances)! Charge again! Do not fight with the enemy!"

Ergou shouted: "Everyone, get away! Get away! I'll save people myself!"

Ergou had to save people, because in this wave of charge, almost all the people dispatched on their side were elites. On the rebel side were the generals and leaders of each battalion, as well as some of the brave generals around Wang Hou. There were more than thirty people in total, all of whom were highly skilled in martial arts.

However, there are still three unlucky ones who unfortunately fell off the horse.

Although it is normal for people to die on the battlefield, it is just the first small-scale collision to destroy three leaders. It cannot be justified no matter what!

In fact, Wang Huan also wanted to save people, but he was worried that the fight would cause more serious casualties, so he had to give up reluctantly.

Only Ergou, an expert in martial arts, was brave and dared to turn his horse around and charge into the beastmen again.

The vitality of the beastmen is also extremely tenacious. Even among the individuals who were knocked down, only a dozen or so were actually killed on the spot. The rest were still getting up. Some wanted to continue chasing the retreating human knights, and some wanted to continue chasing the retreating human knights. Then he rushed manically towards the fallen soldiers, intending to tear them to pieces and devour them.

By the way, Jia Gan was one of the unlucky ones. His martial arts skills were among the best among them all. However, he was a little careless when he charged for the kill. He sat on the saddle and played a trick, but he did not completely remove the impact. feedback, and then he fell off the horse.

Jia Gan, who was feeling dizzy, got up from the ground, but two beastmen had already rushed in front of him. He subconsciously pulled out his waist knife and swiped it. The blade struck the beastman's body, just like a dull knife cutting an old cowhide. , the lethality is really insufficient.

Then something happened that made Jia Gan both happy and horrified.

One of the beastmen with tentacle arms suddenly gave another companion with crab claw arms a sneak attack (refer to the green fat man who flew away the hammer boy fighting side by side), and knocked him away. Then, regardless of Jia Gan's counterattack, the tentacle arm rolled up like a roll. of haunted him.

The beastman opened his big mouth and bit Jia Gan directly on the shoulder, tearing his shoulder armor to pieces, then tore off a large piece of shoulder meat and chewed it in two bites.

But Jia Gan, who was being eaten alive, let out a shrill scream, but couldn't struggle. The despair in his heart covered his consciousness like a cloud.

At this moment, a flying horse came and killed the beastman who was about to bite Jia Gan with just one shot, and then pulled the desperate Jia Gan back on the horse again.

Jia Gan has never been so grateful to a person in his life. Even if the other person saved him once, it has never touched Jia Gan's heartstrings so much.

But Jia Gan couldn't say anything. The tear on his shoulder was so painful that his face was distorted and he couldn't speak.

The other two people who fell from the horse were luckier, because they fell relatively far back, surrounded by beastmen who had suffered heavy trauma, and most of the beastmen with better mobility were attracted by Jia Gan and Ergou. Because of his strength, he did not suffer disaster immediately.

Ergou led Jia Gan to fight closer, but he asked the three of them to form an array, but he picked and killed the beastmen who were approaching one by one.

(End of this chapter)