Chapter 18: The Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty

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  For your provided 《》 full text, please enjoy! ??? Last time it was said that Zhou Tong and Yue Fei, master and apprentice, came down from the mountain and went to Ma Rulong's camp.

  On the way, Yue Fei asked Zhou Tong: "Why didn't Master Fan go to Mount Hua to find you that year?"

  "Your several senior brothers and you have not been baptized by the elder of the sect, so they are not Huashan disciples, but only my apprentices. Even if you go to Huashan, you won't be able to find the mountain gate. My Huashan lineage is different from other Taoist schools. Only when you have cultivated the Golden Elixir can you enter the mountain gate and become a formal disciple. When you complete your foundation, Master will naturally help you condense the Golden Elixir and let you go to Huashan to receive the ceremony..."

  The master and apprentice chatted as they walked, before they knew it, they had already arrived at their barracks.

  Arrived at the barracks, it was already late, Ma Rulong was pacing outside the barracks, with a heavy heart.

  Ma Rulong saw Zhou Tong and his disciples, hurriedly invited them into the account, let others leave, then asked: "Mr. Zhou, Qilin Mountain"

  "How's it going?"

  Zhou Tong stroked his beard and said: "If you go up the mountain today, the only result will be total annihilation."

  Ma Rulong's heart was in a flurry of panic, and he asked: "What kind of powerful person is this, so fierce?"

  Zhou Tong raised his thumb at Ma Rulong and said: "In terms of martial arts or strategy, neither is weaker than my disciple Lin Chong."

  Ma Rulong's face turned earthy, and he muttered to himself: "How can this be good?"

  After a pause, Zhou Tong asked Ma Rulong: "How did the governor's mansion determine that there are bandits on Qilin Mountain?"

  "It was the robbers on the ship carrying Huashi Gang who put up a sign that read: 'Those who take Huashi Gang, are good men from Qilin Mountain in Daming Prefecture.' Ma Rulong replied: 'Furthermore, half a month ago, Chenjiazhuang under the jurisdiction of Daming Prefecture was borrowed grain by a group of robbers, and the bandits also claimed to be from Qilin Mountain.'"

  Zhou Teng seemed to be thinking, and said: "That is to say that the government also has no real evidence to confirm whether there are really bandits on Qilin Mountain? Even more so, it's not clear what the actual situation on Qilin Mountain is.

  What's wrong?

  Ma Rulong nodded repeatedly and said yes.

  Zhou Tong thought of a plan: "Why don't you, Long, return to the mansion and report that the bandits on Qilin Mountain have fled in fear after hearing the news? Then I'll go up the mountain with you again."

  Gentlemen, Zhou Tong's method is a Jianghu rule. In the past, when Chao Gai was captured by the birthday celebration, Song Jiang secretly released him, and Chao Gai repaid him with a large sum of gold and silver after his escape. This is the rule. However, heaven played tricks on people, and the letter Chao Gai wrote to Song Jiang was picked up by Yan Poxi, leading to all sorts of troubles. This is an old story.

  Ma Rulong saw that it was Zhou Tong who had come out, and he did not dare to disobey, so he could only follow the plan.

  That night, the master and apprentice rested in the army.

  The next day at dawn, Zhou Tong and his disciples bid farewell to Ma Rulong and climbed Mount Qilin again.

  Ma Rulong led a large team to the banks of the Dama River, causing trouble for several days before returning to Daming Prefecture to report back.

  ………

  Said Zhou Tong and his apprentice climbed up the mountain, saw Luan Tingyu and asked: "Why are you writing on the Huashi Gang ship, self-exploding hidden

  "Where is it?"

  Tingyu bowed his head and replied: "It's not like that, how can we bring Sun Li here?"

  Zhou Tong suddenly became angry: "How dare you"

  "Do you want brothers to kill each other?"

  Tianyu Lian said he didn't dare, of course, Master is in charge here.

  Zhou Tong hummed and then told Luan Tingyu about his agreement with Ma Rulong.

  There is a deputy commander of the mansion who secretly assists, and Yuan Tingyu naturally agrees. In those years, even a small Song Ya Si could take care of Xu Ge for a long time, let alone a dignified deputy commander. The most important thing is to communicate with the government.

  Zhou Tong asked Ruan Tingyu how to resist the official siege.

  Lu Tingyu replied with a smile: "Master's abilities are boundless, of course he can cross the river. Ordinary people have to take the ferry, and I've already set up ballistae, blade carts, and battering rams at the crossing point. Unless they use a large ship, they won't even be able to get past the riverbank. By the time they build a large ship, we'll have long since escaped. Moreover, when the imperial court wanted to launch a large-scale crackdown on Mount Liang, it took them five or six years to prepare. After five or six years, this world will likely change."

  Ladies and gentlemen: In the past, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin went through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was very worried that the vassals and military generals would rebel. Therefore, after the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, local officials were mainly civil servants, and even slightly larger troop movements had to be reported to the imperial court, with complicated procedures. The weakness of the Song Dynasty is related to this.

  "Change of weather?" Zhou Tong's heart tightened.

  Tianyu nodded and said, "Teacher, you don't know. The Liao people have occupied our central plains for over a hundred years. They learned the Han people's language, clothing, etiquette, and even entertainment, making the customs become more gentle. They also learned the Song dynasty's management system, officials became more corrupt, and the military's strength became weaker, even worse than within the Song dynasty itself."

  The Jurchen people lived in the harsh and cold lands beyond the Great Wall, with a rough environment and fierce customs, where every man was a soldier. The leader of the Jurchen people, Wanyan Aguda, was wise and brave, not only excelling in martial prowess but also attaching great importance to the use of equipment, specially hiring or even abducting craftsmen and blacksmiths from the Central Plains. For many years, they had been accumulating strength and biding their time, with ambitions that went far beyond the Great Liao.

  "When I left, Wanyan Aguda had already begun to attack the Liao State. In my estimation, within three years, the Jurchen people will be able to destroy the Liao and come to attack our Song Dynasty's rivers and mountains. At that time, the court will have no leisure to look for me to vent their anger."

  "It's only been three years, how time flies?" Zhou Tong muttered to himself.

  "Teacher, what's wrong?"

  Zhou Dang sighed: "I, Mount Hua, have long calculated that the Song dynasty will face a great calamity, when the time comes, the people will be slaughtered, and my Han people will suffer a great disaster."

  The situation may be even more severe than that of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly, it seems our arrangements also need to speed up."

  Zhou Tong thought for a moment and asked Wan Tingyu: "You have been in the Jin State for a long time, where is the strong point of the Jurchen people?"

  Lü Tingtai invited Zhou Tong and Yue Fei into the grand tent. The three of them gathered around a desk, and Lü Tingtai took out a stack of paintings from somewhere and spread them flat on the desk, saying: "First, look at this first painting: outside the pass, there are many tall horses, and the Jurchen people rely mainly on cavalry; outside the pass, iron ore is abundant, and

  The people are skilled in ironwork, their weapons mainly consisting of long knives, large axes and wolf-toothed clubs with long handles, every Jurchen person

  "Very powerful and extremely brave."

  "This is the second painting: In the Jurchen army, there were two special vanguard troops. This is one of them, called 'Iron Floating Pavilion'. The soldiers in the Iron Floating Pavilion camp were selected from the strongest, and the horses were top-notch. Both the soldiers and the big horses had to

  Wearing heavy armor, all the weapons were forged by first-class craftsmen. This soldier and horse stood still like a small iron Buddha tower, so it was called "Iron Floating Pagoda". The Iron Floating Pagoda is best at breaking cavalry and heavy shield defense.

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  "Yuan Tingyu took out another painting and continued, 'This is the third painting. The painting depicts another special vanguard of the Jurchen people, called "Guai Zi Ma". This Guai Zi Ma actually originated from one of the five tiger generals of Liangshan, Huo Yan's double whip, Huo Yan's ring horse. At that time, when Liangshan returned from the southern expedition against Fang La, many leaders had died, and only a dozen or so were left who were good at fighting. Huo Yan was appointed as the commander of the imperial guard, but less than half a year later, he was framed by Gao Qiu and demoted to a commoner. His younger brother, Huo Yan Zhuo, was also killed. Huo Yan Zhuo's son, Huo Yan Hong, was furious and fled to the outside of the pass, joining the Jurchen people and teaching them the training methods of the ring horse.'"

  The horses of the Song Dynasty were both thin and slow. In those days, Huyan Zhuo's linked horses were thirty horses in a row, while the Jurchen people had tall and large horses with fast speed, only three horses could be lined up together. From a distance, it looked like the two characters "拐子" (crutch) connected together, so they were called "crutch horses".

  Colt and Cavalry

  They are all wrapped in soft armor, although the impact force is not as good as Tie Fu Tu, but they win in flexibility and speed, and are most skilled at dealing with infantry.

  To know what happens next, see the next episode.