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Chapter 424 Long Sword

September [-]th, noon is approaching.

Guo Ning rode his horse and took [-] riders across Gaoyuan County in Zizhou, and then across Jinling and Yinling in the north of the county.

The terrain in this area runs through the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain in the southwest, and it is generally in the form of low hills, gentle slopes, and shallow depressions. It is inevitable for outsiders who are not familiar with it to come here.Fortunately, Dong Jin acted as the township guide at the front, and Guo Ning and others followed in a single file, walking very fast.

Occasionally climbing up a high slope, Guo Ning watched from far and near, only to feel the north wind whistling from time to time.

In the past few days, the weather has become colder and colder.When the horseshoes stepped on the ground, the sound became clearer. This is because the surface soil layer dries up in autumn and loses water a little. In the winter cold wave, the soil is frozen hard, and the sound of the horseshoes will be different.

This place was originally a rich place, with farmland and villages dotted all over the roadside.It can be seen that there are ditches and ridges between the farmlands, which have been carefully repaired.By this time, however, the ditches were all collapsed and abandoned.Most of the mulberry trees on the field ridges were also cut down. About once, an army passed by and collected materials for building the camp.

The farmland itself is already full of weeds, and only a small part is planted with wheat, millet and the like.Guo Ning urged the horse to take a closer look. The whole dry field had been neglected for a while, and the wheat was a little wilted.

Just as he was about to steer his horse and continue on his way, Ni Yi raised his hand to signal: "Jie Shuai, look!"

I saw several corpses piled up in the corner of a gully behind.The corpse had just begun to decompose, and a large area of ​​exposed skin had turned purple-black.Inside the corpses, there were old men, children, and women, most of whom were horribly wounded by swords and guns.

Guo Ning reined in his horse and turned back to the road.

A warrior living in this world has long been as hard as a stone, so he wouldn't want to lament over a few corpses.

He said to Ni Dao: "When the war is over, we have to send people to patrol these abandoned villages, put up a sign to collect the corpses, and bury them deeply. Otherwise, after the beginning of spring, there will be no disease. Well, we have to pass all the news about the burial Summarize it in time and release it to the three prefectures of Denglai. The soldiers and civilians who are farming there may have local origin, and they can use it.”

Ni Yi nodded repeatedly, took out a book from the leather pouch hanging beside the saddle, and wrote two lines on it with charcoal.

Seeing Ni Yi's writing like flying, Guo Ning poked his head to look at his books.

Ni Yi was concentrating on writing, fearing that someone would bump into it, he subconsciously withdrew his arm, seeing that Guo Ning was looking sideways, he grinned, and stretched out the booklet in front of Guo Ning.

Guo Ning reached out and gestured in the air: "Epidemic. There are two dots on the left, not two horizontal lines."

"Yes, yes, it will be changed."

Ni rode to the side of the road, spread the book on the front saddle bridge, painted the original typo into a black circle, and neatly wrote the correct word beside it.

After finishing writing, Guo Ning had already walked dozens of steps forward. Ni stuffed the book back into his leather bag and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

There was a chuckle from the side, it was Zhao Jue leading someone to catch up from behind.Ni Yi made a face at Zhao Jue, urged the horse to speed up, and followed Guo Ning's figure.

Zhao Jue shook his head, and said with a smile to his deputy, Chen Ran: "This guy Ni Yi, he doesn't know how to be lucky when he is in the midst of blessings. How many people would like to have such an opportunity like him."

After Chen Ran was injured in the fight in Zhongdu, he never fully recovered.At this moment, the left hand can only barely rein in the rein.So on weekdays, among the personal guards, he is responsible for ushering in and delivering some documents and books.

Now he is also traveling with Guo Ning, with his usual double knives hanging beside the saddle.

Hearing Zhao Jue's words, Chen Ran nodded, but his mouth was still firm: "I was studying in the military academy at the beginning of the year, and Shuai Jie taught me too!"

The cavalry continued to move forward without hindrance, and in a blink of an eye, the last highland called Tieling was in sight on the south bank of the Beiqing River.And along the way, I passed two villages, all of which were abandoned and uninhabited.

Zouping and Changshan in Zizhou were first affected by the massacre by the Mongolian army last year, and then the Ding Navy continued to send people here to gather Dingkou and take them to the three states of Denglai, so the remaining population is probably less than [-]% of the prime time.

When Guo Ning and his party crossed Shangshan in the morning, they could see that the once prosperous Jinling Town was in ruins, and many villages to the west of Shangshan were empty.

Before Li Quan controlled this place, he always maintained the basic order and had a little popularity.

However, in the past few days, the Qingqi of Guo Ning's department and the sentry cavalry of Hebei Pusan ​​Anzhen's department and Binzhou Li Quan's department rushed back and forth, and small-scale fights broke out from time to time.This is the impact of the fight.

In this situation, it is impossible to judge which side made the move.It doesn't make sense to judge.At a time like this, if you tie your own hands and feet, you will kill yourself.Before Guo Ning dispatched fine cavalry to raid, he personally ordered that anyone who resists the Ding Navy, regardless of the military or civilians, will be killed without mercy.

The style of the Jin Army is ten times worse than that of the Ding Navy; Li Quan's troops may be better, but some of his troops are brutal and unscrupulous, that's not certain.

Fortunately, this sudden war is coming to an end.

Pu San Anzhen suddenly proposed to negotiate, which was beyond Guo Ning's expectation, but after careful consideration, it was reasonable.

Now that the weather in Shandong is getting colder, so is Hebei.

Now that Yang An'er is dead, the territory of the Red Coat Army will inevitably be divided by all parties.But all parties involved in the split paid a considerable price at the same time.

Take the Ding Navy as an example: this time the army was dispatched, and the Ding Navy used the same number of civilians as support for the logistics supply.This of course affects the autumn harvest.As far as the current situation is concerned, it has also begun to extract Dinghai's family property, which has affected the trade with the Southern Song Dynasty and Zhongdu.

Considering the sorting out and pacification of the newly acquired land and population after the war, a large amount of food and materials will be used at a turnover price, and the family property of the Ding Navy is actually far from being rich.

So Guo Ning has been saying that he will sweep Shandong with a thunderous force.All because the action is fast enough, the price paid is small enough.

Hebei Jinjun is also facing a similar situation.

The east and west roads in Hebei that Pusan ​​Anzhen was in charge of were the areas most thoroughly destroyed by the Mongolian army.Since the third year of Da'an, there have been floods, droughts, and military disasters almost every year, and the degree of devastation is beyond imagination.Of the originally hundreds of cities, less than one-third are still inhabited, and less than one-fifth of the original tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land remain.

Everyone understands that if there is a slight problem with this year's autumn harvest, a large-scale famine that will spread to the whole of Hebei is inevitable.

And under the famine, servant San Anzhen tried his best to entangle the soldiers and civilians in Jingzhou, and I am afraid it would be difficult to maintain it for a long time.

Of course, with the identity and status of servant San Anzhen, he probably didn't mind what happened to the grass people, and most of the Jurchens' high-ranking officials and generals under him probably did the same.But think about it from another angle: once there is a famine in Hebei, the support for Zhongdu will become a problem again.

Since Mu Huali led his troops to capture Dading Mansion in Beijing and cut off the Liaohai passage, Daxing Mansion, the central capital of the Great Jin Kingdom, faced the threat of the Mongols on both the east and north sides.After late autumn, the Mongolian army will definitely come again, and this time, they don't even need to pass through natural dangers such as Juyong Pass and Zijing Pass. They only need to enter Dading Mansion first, and they will naturally form a pincer offensive and go straight to Zhongdu.

If the main force of the Mongolian army goes to the front line of Dadingfu, all parties in Liaodong will be overwhelmed immediately.In terms of military affairs, only Hebei can be directly relied on by China.If Pu San Anzhen lost the chain at that time, I'm afraid that the monarch and his ministers will tear the face, which is not good.

In Yidu Mansion, the knives of the two families have been exposed, they have seen blood, and they have distinguished themselves.

The two families still bark their teeth and claws to intimidate, but each other understands their respective scruples.Especially Pu San Anzhen, who directly faced the threat of the Mongols, had more scruples than Guo Ning.

Therefore, it became inevitable for Pu San Anzhen to end the military confrontation as soon as possible.No matter what kind of plots Pu San Anzhen has, whether he is reluctant or unwilling, he must give an answer that satisfies Guo Ning.

(End of this chapter)