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And the wheel of history turns without stopping.

In the eleventh year of Jian Shuo in the Wu Dynasty, the three behemoths of this world finally collided. Millions of people fought and bled, and tiny creatures hurriedly and fiercely lived out their lives. The beginning of this tragic war originated from a certain day more than ten years ago. To delve into its causes, the threads of fate in this world are probably intertwined in the more profound distance.

Even the spiritual gods may not be able to understand everything in this world, and as ignorant as humans, we can only intercept a small fragment of the tangible in this world, hoping to gain insight into the truth or metaphor about heaven and earth. Although this small fragment is already an unimaginable behemoth for us...

In the spring of the eleventh year of Jian Shuo, the Liangshan Mountains in January were cold and barren. The stored grain had been eaten up in early winter last year. The men, women, and children on the mountain tried their best to catch fish to barely feed themselves. The hundreds of thousands of Han troops outside the mountain occasionally attacked or swept through. As the weather turned cold, the weak fishermen abandoned their small boats and jumped into the water, and many died. When encountering days of attacks from the outside, without fish, the people on the mountain needed to go hungry even more.

The elderly died in winter, and the young were skin and bones from hunger. Even children spent most of their time suffering from hunger. The less than ten thousand Huaxia Army and Guangwu Army relied on the terrain and the uneven quality of the troops outside the mountain to reach a stalemate with the opposite side. In fact, the situation outside the Shuibo was even worse at this time.

The Shandong area, known for its fierce folk customs and frequent banditry, was not a rich grain-producing area. The southward movement of the Jurchen East Route Army consumed a large amount of scarce materials, and there was no food outside the mountain long ago. The grain was "requisitioned" by the Jurchen army before it was harvested in the autumn. Before late autumn, large numbers of people had already begun to starve to death. In order not to starve to death, young people joined the army, but joining the army was just exploiting the villages. When there was nothing left in the villages, the lives of these Han troops also became particularly difficult.

The 200,000 troops driven by Wanyan Chang to attack Liangshan had been struggling in such difficult circumstances since late autumn. Too many people died outside the mountain. In late autumn, a plague broke out in Shandong, and entire villages were wiped out. It was difficult to see living people walking in the towns. Some troops were also infected with the plague. The infected soldiers were isolated and waited to die in the plague camp. After death, they were burned to ashes. During the attack on Liangshan, some of the infected corpses were even loaded onto large ships and rushed towards Liangshan, which had a certain impact on Liangshan for a time.

After entering winter, the plague temporarily stopped spreading, and the Han army had no military pay. Soldiers fished in the Shuibo. Occasionally, when two different troops met, they would start fighting. Every once in a while, the generals would direct the soldiers to row simple wooden rafts to attack Liangshan. This could maximize the reduction of personnel. It didn't matter if the soldiers died in the war or directly surrendered to the Black Flag and Guangwu armies of Liangshan.

Resources were exhausted, and cannibalism was common outside. No one could afford more mouths to feed. Zhu Biao, Wang Shanyue and others occasionally led soldiers out of the mountain to launch surprise attacks. These Han troops, who had no combat power, knelt down and begged for mercy in large numbers, even wanting to join the Liangshan army, just begging for a bite to eat. Zhu Biao and others, who were also hungry, could only let them disperse.

Soon after, they turned the surprise attacks into smaller-scale decapitation operations. All surprise attacks targeted only the high-level generals of the Han army. The lower-level soldiers were already starving to death. Only the middle and upper-level generals had some rations in their hands. As long as they kept an eye on them and caught them, they could often find some food. However, soon after, these generals became vigilant, and twice they deliberately set up ambushes, almost turning around and trapping Zhu Biao and others in the局.

Hunger, the most primitive and most tragic torture of mankind, turned the war in Liangshan into a desolate and ironic hell. When the old people who starved to death on Liangshan were carried out every day, Zhu Biao, who was watching from afar, felt an unresolvable sense of powerlessness and anger, a feeling of wanting to roar out with the greatest strength, but all the breath was blocked in his throat. Hundreds of thousands of "Han troops" outside the mountain were driven by Wanyan Chang to die here with them, and the lives of these "Han troops" themselves became worthless in the eyes of others or themselves. They knelt down in front of everyone, but dared not resist.

In fact, even if they wanted to resist, neither the Huaxia Army nor the Guangwu Army could come up with any food. The once majestic Wu Dynasty and the vast Central Plains were now trampled and reduced to this. The lives of the Han people were as ridiculous as ants in front of the Jurchens. Such anger was suffocating.

Another battlefield was in Jin, where the situation was slightly better. Tian Hu's more than ten years of management left some surplus for Lou Shuwan and others who usurped the throne. After the destruction of Weisheng, Lou Shuwan and others turned to the Jinxi area, relying on dangerous passes and mountainous areas to maintain a base area. The offensive organized by the surrendered forces led by Liao Yiren has been continuing. Long-term wars and chaos in the occupied areas have killed many people. Tragedies like those in Shandong, where people were so hungry that they exchanged their children for food, have never occurred. People are mostly killed, not starved to death. In a sense, this is probably a kind of ironic mercy.

Since the beginning of winter, the food eaten by the people at the bottom

was often porridge made from moldy grain. Lou Shuwan was in charge of people's livelihood under Tian Hu, calculating the storage of the entire Jin area. This area was not considered rich or fertile. After Tian Hu died, Lou Shuwan vigorously developed people's livelihood, which lasted for more than a year. By the spring of the eleventh year, spring plowing would probably be difficult to resume due to the ongoing war.

I'm afraid cannibalism will begin before the autumn of the eleventh year... With such an estimate, Lou Shuwan has been using iron-fisted methods to reduce food expenditures for the army and government departments and practice thrift since last autumn. In order to lead by example, she often eats moldy or bran-filled food. In winter, she fell ill twice in her busy work, and recovered in just three days the first time. People around her advised her, but she shook her head and refused to listen. The second time, it lasted for ten days. During those ten days, she vomited and diarrhea, and could not eat anything. After recovering, her already bad stomach was severely damaged. When spring came, Lou Shuwan was skin and bones, her facial bones protruded like a skull, and her eyes were sharp and frightening - she seemed to have lost the pretty face and figure she still had in those years.

She wrote in her notes: "...I have become more afraid of the cold in winter, and gray hair has begun to appear. My body is tired day by day, and I am afraid that my life will not be long... Recently, I have not dared to look in the mirror and take a picture of myself. I often remember the time in Hangzhou in those years. Although I was shallow, I was full and beautiful. Men often praised me, and I was no different from Su Tan'er. Now it is not necessarily a bad thing... It's just that I don't know when the end of these torments will be..."

In addition to feeling sad about the times, she also wrote: "...When I die, the Liao clan must be at the front..." Such words of killing the whole family immediately brought a sense of iron and blood.

She often read the official documents or letters written by Ning Yi these years, and over time, her grammar was also messed up at will. Sometimes she threw it away after writing, and sometimes it was saved by others. When spring came, the spirit of Liao Yiren and other surrendered forces gradually disappeared. The core officials and generals in the forces paid more attention to the stability and enjoyment behind them. Yu Yulin, Wang Juyun and other forces took advantage of the situation to attack and won several victories, even seizing some materials from the other side. Lou Shuwan's pressure was slightly reduced, and her body gradually recovered.

In mid-January, the second Battle of Xuzhou, which began to expand, became one of the focuses of people's attention. Liu Chengzong, Luo Ye and others led more than 40,000 people to attack Xuzhou again, and successively defeated more than 60,000 puppet Qi Han troops along the way.

At this time, most of the East Route Army led by Zong Fu had crossed the Yangtze River, attacking the Wu Dynasty defenses in the Jiangning and Zhenjiang areas on the one hand, and eager to try the battle in Lin'an on the other. Liu Chengzong's troops resolutely cut back, tightening everyone's nerves. The Jurchen East Route Army generals Nie'er Bojin and others urgently mobilized nearly 150,000 troops from various places in Jiangnan to confront this Black Flag partial division in Xuzhou.

Considering that the Black Flag Army led by Ning Yi had a record of killing Ci Bushi by trapping the city through secret passages in the Northwest War, the Jurchen army searched Xuzhou repeatedly again. Before the year, some places that had been turned into ruins by the war and had not been cleaned up were quickly cleaned up again, and then they felt relieved. The Huaxia Army troops were stationed outside the city, and even launched two fierce attacks in mid-to-late January, threatening Xuzhou like cobras.

At this time, Lin'an was encountering the same situation as Xuzhou for a period of time. On the eighth day of the first month, Wushu attacked outside the city, and only retreated on the tenth day. Afterwards, he continued to maneuver outside Lin'an City. Although Wushu lacked in overall strategy, he still had his own methods of using troops on the battlefield. The various King-Protecting armies outside Lin'an City failed to gain any advantage in his flexible and resolute attacks, suffering two minor defeats and one major defeat in January.

Pressure was gathering in Lin'an City. In the city of millions, officials, gentry, soldiers, and people were fighting for their lives. More than ten officials were dismissed and imprisoned in the court. Various assassinations and fights also occurred in the city. Compared with the unity of the Wu Dynasty during the first Battle of Bianliang more than ten years ago, this time, more complex thoughts and connections were intertwined and surging in secret.

In any case, during this January, more than 100,000 Imperial troops surrounded the entire Lin'an City, and the people who defended the city suppressed the restless thoughts in the city. In the Jiangning direction, Zong Fu ordered the army to attack Jiangning fiercely on the one hand, and divided his troops on the other, trying to go south several times to echo Wushu in Lin'an. The team led by Han Shizhong firmly guarded the route to the south, and even achieved considerable victories several times.

In mid-January, Yue Fei led the Beiwei Army eastward along the Yangtze River, inserting into the Jiangning battlefield at high speed. In late January, the Xiyin and Yinshu Ke troops, whose actions were slightly slower, used the shipping capacity that had been mobilized last winter to advance to the Jiangning and Zhenjiang battle circles along the Huaihe River and the Grand Canal.

An even larger chaotic situation was breaking out in various parts of the Wu Dynasty. In Fujian Road, the uprisings led by Guan Tianxia, Wu Heilong and others captured several prefectures and counties; in Xuanzhou, the Central Plains refugees led by Cao Jinlu rebelled and broke through the state city; in Dingzhou, Hu Yuner again launched an uprising in the name of the Manichaean sect... While anti-Jin uprisings were gradually emerging in the Central Plains, various contradictions that had been suppressed in the Wu Dynasty during these ten years, and the oppression of the Southern people by the Northern people, also began to concentrate and erupt at this time when the Jurchens arrived.

Against this background, in late January, small teams of the Huaxia Army from various places also began their tasks one after another. Wuan, Changsha, Qimen, Xiazhou, Guangnan... Organized assassinations with evidence and anti-traitor books appeared in various places one after another. Planned resistance to these kinds of things, as well as various events of impersonating murders, also broke out one after another. Some Huaxia Army teams roamed in secret, privately colluding and warning

the forces and large families that were wavering.

During this period, a team of 120 Huaxia Army soldiers led by Zhuo Yongqing set out from the Shu area and traveled from place to place along relatively safe routes, lobbying and visiting forces that had previously had business dealings with the Huaxia Army. During this period, two unorganized battles broke out. Some gentry forces who hated the Huaxia Army gathered "righteous men" and "militia" to block them. One scale was about 500 people, and the other reached 1,000 people. Both were defeated by the other team secretly following Zhuo Yongqing with a decapitation strategy after they were gathered.

In order to support the actions of these special teams who left their hometowns, in mid-January, the 30,000 Huaxia Army in the Chengdu Plain set off from Zhang Village and advanced to the boundary lines of the forces in the east and north, entering a state of war preparation.

The expansion of various things and the spread of news still need time to ferment. In this world where everything was boiling, in mid-January, a message was gradually spread to the green forests and marketplaces of the Wu Dynasty through the tongues of merchants and storytellers traveling around.

An old man named Fulu, carrying the last clothes of his former master, reappeared in the green forest, heading east along the Yangtze River to the Jiangning and Zhenjiang directions, which were caught in a major war.

As the news of the old man's appearance spread, people in various places heard about it, first in silence and then in whispers. As the sun rose and set, gradually, some people packed their bags, some arranged their families, and began to go north. Among them were old people who had already become famous but took the opportunity to come down, middle-aged people who performed arts on the streets and wandered around, and beggars who were in the crowd of refugees and were muddleheaded...

In Yizhang County, Jin Chenghu, a notorious underworld thug, held a strange running banquet.

Jin Chenghu was in his forties, with a fierce face and a body like an iron tower. He was a powerful figure in the underworld who made a fortune by his ruthlessness after the Wu Dynasty moved south. After ten years of hard work, he managed to save a lot of savings. In the eyes of others, he was really at the peak of his career. In the next ten years, the Yizhang area would probably be his territory.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, there was neither a wedding nor a new house moving. Jin Chenghu insisted on holding this running banquet. The reason really made many people unable to figure it out. His former opponents even feared that this guy would take the opportunity to make trouble because of something, such as "It's past the Lantern Festival, so you can start killing people" and the like.

The running banquet was held on the small school field in Yizhang County for three days. At noon this day, it suddenly started snowing. Jin Chenghu drank some wine, stood on the high platform, looked up at the snow. He began to speak.

"Everyone... folks, brothers, I, Jin Chenghu, was not originally called Jin Chenghu. My name is Jin Cheng. When I was in the north, I was a... bandit!"

He raised his wine bowl: "The village I was in was the Dahu Village in Hedong Road! My head was called Peng Dahu! He was not a good person, but he was a man! He did two things that I will remember for the rest of my life! In the eleventh year of Jinghan, there was a famine in Hedong. Zhou Tong, Grandmaster Zhou, came to Dahu Village to ask for grain. He left the rations in the village and asked for 216 shi of grain. The village chief gave it without saying anything! We told the village chief that Zhou Tong was just three masters and servants. We are more than a hundred men, what are we afraid of him! The village chief said at the time that Zhou Tong was robbing us for the sake of the world, not for himself! The village chief led us to hand over 216 shi of grain without playing any tricks!"

"The second thing!" He paused, snowflakes falling on his head, face, and wine bowl, "Jinghan! Autumn of the thirteenth year! The Jin dogs went south! Zhou Tong, Grandmaster Zhou, without saying a word, assassinated Nianhan! Many people followed him, and my village chief Peng Dahu was one of them! I remember that day, he was very happy to tell us that Grandmaster Zhou's martial arts were unparalleled. The last time he came to our village, he asked Grandmaster Zhou to teach him martial arts. Grandmaster Zhou said, I will teach you when you are no longer a bandit one day. The village chief said, Grandmaster Zhou will definitely teach me this time!"

"My village chief was one of the righteous men who followed Zhou Tong to assassinate Nianhan!" He almost shouted this sentence, with tears in his eyes, "He disbanded the village that year and said that he was going to follow Grandmaster Zhou, so you guys disperse. I was afraid, I was afraid when the Jurchens came! After the village was disbanded, I came to the south. My name is Jin Cheng! Changed to Jin Chenghu, not because the word Tiger makes me look fierce! I have been thinking about the meaning of this name for more than ten years... Almost all of those righteous men who followed Zhou Tong to assassinate Nianhan died. This time, Senior Fulu came out, and I understand."

In the falling snowflakes, Jin Chenghu swept his gaze over the gang members following him under the stage, the several concubines he had married over the years, and then raised the wine bowl in his hands high: "Folks, brothers! The time has come——"

"——Disperse!"

His muscles are knotted all over his body, and his body is like an iron tower. He usually has a fierce face and is quite scary, but at this time he is standing straight, but he can't show any handsomeness at all. There is heavy snow falling in the world.

Time travels through the distance of more than ten years. The influence brought by a figure in the long years has not dissipated for a long time. His life and death have left a huge mark in people's hearts. His spirit is still running through and changing the lives of many people for several years or more than ten years after his death...

Zhou Tong. Zhou Tong.

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