In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 385 Savage in the Mountains
A Jurchen soldier appeared behind Li Liang. This man was originally a sergeant from the Eastern Xia Kingdom. He surrendered to the Song Army and took the Han name Chen Zhong. He was relatively familiar with the nearby area.

"We are now called Haisan Forest."

"..." Li Liang and others looked at each other.

Song Jun built Haisan City and called this area Haisan Forest, simple and straightforward.

Li Liang scratched his head, always feeling that this title was not domineering enough and not worthy of this endless jungle.

But his educational level is also low and he really can’t think of anything.

"Let's go, find a way down."

This is the place where the Song Army came, so the people in front drove out of the way. Everyone found a trail, all dismounted, then led the horses and went down carefully.

After going down, I saw a peeled tree with information about the Song Army recorded on it.

Someone also carved words below: "Brother Niu, the second capital of the third battalion of the Changchun Army of the Great Song Dynasty."

"tui." Zhou Yong laughed and scolded: "Niu Heizi, this piece of shit is so stinky and shameless."

There was laughter and curses all around.

Niu Dahei, Nadu and Li Liang have both played football before. The two sides are evenly matched, and no one is convinced by the other.

Haisan City is not as prosperous as other places in the Song Dynasty, and their activities are second only to billiards and football.

It is said that football was invented by His Majesty the Emperor.

Zheng Youcai immediately touched a knife and stepped forward to carve it.

"The Changchun Army of the Song Dynasty is the most powerful, and Brother Cai is here."

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed together.

Li Liang stared at the tree, feeling a little confused when he got here. It was true that the five hundred steps ahead were all jungle, and there was no way to mark them. Everyone was exploring the way at will.

Several marks were drawn on the tree, proving that each one went in a different direction.

Everyone asked where Li Liang was going?

Li Liang turned around and asked Chen Zhong: "Where have you been?"

Chen Zhong shook his head and pointed in the north direction: "I have followed him in before, mainly for hunting and catching people."

But almost all the people who were close were caught. Now if you want to catch anyone, you have to go deeper, or you may be lucky and encounter savages who come out to hunt.

"Let's go, we might as well kill a tiger." Li Liang rubbed his hands: "Sell it for a good price."

"Go kill the tiger." There were cheers from all around.

Because some Song troops had shot tigers before, and others had shot Amur leopards.

These things can be sold at a good price when brought to Changchun City, and whoever gets them belongs to them without having to hand them over.

Li Liang and the others were the second priority in arresting people. The imperial court had no specific tasks to arrest them. They mainly focused on exploring roads and hunting.

At that moment, he led his men forward, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The snow is thicker here, so walking is a bit slow.

They walked for more than 500 steps for a quarter of an hour and finally entered the jungle.

All I saw were towering trees in front of me. The forest was unusually quiet, and there was something indescribably weird about it.

The Song troops were naturally not afraid. They found a place to clear the snow and prepare to have lunch.

Everyone came out to bring dry food. Each person brought dry food for 20 days, but if he caught wild animals and fish, he could stay a few more days.

Others can even stay outside for a month or two, because there are many wild animals here, and there will be fish when they encounter the lake.

While eating dry food, suddenly a horse started neighing, and then seemed to be in a commotion.

"There are wild beasts." The Jurchen soldier Chen Zhong reacted quickly.

Swish, swish, the Song troops stood up one after another.

Sure enough, I felt something was wrong with the horses around me.

"Woo!" Suddenly, a roar came from not far away.

"Tiger?" Li Liang was surprised, happy, and a little scared.

Just because I'm afraid of hurting my brother.

"It doesn't look like a tiger." Chen Zhong said.

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps seemed to be heard in the distance.

"Gather." Li Liang shouted: "Get ready."

The Song soldiers took out their crossbows one after another and loaded the arrows directly.

The ten men with shields quickly took their shields from their horses and held them in front.

"Damn it." Li Liang went up and kicked one of them: "It's not a war. Go back and get the crossbow."

The ten people quickly turned around and changed guys.

The ten men had just taken out their crossbows when something came out in front of them, stepping on the snow.

When he appeared in front of everyone, hiss, everyone gasped again.

They saw a brown beast they had never seen before, two large and four small, appearing opposite them.

The beasts looked like a family, the big one was very big, just bending down on the ground like a calf, after seeing them.

"Wow!" One of them suddenly stood up and was able to stand on the ground with its first two feet. Once it stood up, it was taller than a human.

"What the hell is this?" someone exclaimed.

"Bear, bear - it's a bear -" Li Liang finally thought of something.

Of course Zhao Yurui knew that there were brown bears in the Far East, so he also reminded Song Jun.

Many Song soldiers have never seen a bear.

These are two big brown bears with four little brown bears.

In this winter, they are not hibernating, and they are out looking for food. It is estimated that they cannot feed the young ones.

Brown bears usually hibernate in October and November and don't come out until March or April.

They can also give birth to cubs during hibernation, which is very unique.

But during hibernation, they can easily wake up if they sense danger or something happens.

This family of brown bears woke up from hibernation for some reason, and then staggered to find Song Jun.

Of course, not all brown bears hibernate. If the food conditions are better, such as closer to the south, brown bears may not hibernate.

Although Li Liang and the others are in the Far East, they are considered to be south of the Far East. The food conditions are probably better, and these guys may not be hibernating.

Anyway, the two sides happened to meet each other.

Li Liang's mind was a little confused at this time. He recalled what he had heard in class. It seemed that these beasts had thick skin and were not easy to kill.

Everyone else was waiting for him to give the order, and Song Jun was a little quiet for a while.

The brown bear opposite was also sizing them up, probably looking for someone to start a meal, but there were a lot of Song troops and a lot of horses, so it was confused and didn't know who to eat.

Both sides stared at each other, seeing each other for the first time.

Li Liang hadn't reacted yet.

Sudden.

"Bang" there was a soft sound in the air, and Song Jun shot out an arrow.

"I'll go." The archer Song Jun held a crossbow in his hand. Because he was a little nervous when he saw a bear for the first time, he accidentally pulled the trigger.

He also aimed at a small bear.

Phew, the opposite side was only a dozen steps away from them. The arrow was accurate and hard, and it penetrated the little bear on the opposite side.

"Wow!" Father Bear was completely furious.

The two big bears roared at the same time and charged madly.

"Shoo, shoot, shoot!" Li Liang shouted quickly.

Swish, swish, arrows rained down from the scene, and the entire Song army was armed with crossbows and bows.

Before the two bears had even reached the halfway point, they were already shot with arrows.

But the big brown bear continued to charge forward, not caring at all.

"Disperse quickly." Before Li Liang could shout, the Song troops dispersed and fled in all directions.

The big brown bear actually chased the Song Army who was the first to shoot an arrow. The Song Army was so frightened that he lost his crossbow and ran away.

But the ground was covered with snow and he couldn't run fast. Seeing that the big brown bear was about to chase him, he saw a war horse not far away and bravely hid under the horse.

With a bang, I felt my eyes go dark. The brown bear pounced from behind, and the horse and people fell to the ground. The war horse also pressed on the Song army.

"Wow!" The brown bear went crazy and bit the horse's neck.

The poor war horse became a scapegoat, and its blood spurted out when it was taken advantage of by the brown bear.

Another big brown bear seemed to have been shot to the vital point. When it was about to catch up with a Song army, its feet suddenly weakened and fell to the ground.

At this time, other Song soldiers quickly loaded their arrows again.

Swish, swish, and shot again at the two brown bears.

After the second round of shooting, the other brown bear was not moving much, but the brown bear that bit the horse was still looking for someone.

The Song army was pinned under the horse, and the brown bear was gnashing its teeth again, and could not find him for a while.

In the third round, when the Song Army shot wildly at the brown bear's head, the brown bear fell suddenly. At this time, there were many arrows stuck in the bear's body, like a hedgehog.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty quickly pulled the Song Jun out from under the horse. Fortunately, his armor was thicker and he was not crushed to death, but his face turned pale with fear.

That day, Song Jun had a taste of bear meat, but unfortunately it was not very delicious and had no seasoning.

In the afternoon, Song Jun continued to explore the road, which was full of jungles. They walked for an hour and a half in the forest.

They also had to mark their steps as they walked, fearing they would get lost when they came back.

They kept walking north in a straight line, and on the fourth day they encountered a small stream, which was an unknown number of miles long, crossing the jungle. After the Song army broke through the ice, they used bear meat to fish, and unexpectedly caught many big fish. Improved food.

Along the way, the Song army hunted and fished, and the dry food they brought with them was not much.

One day when it was getting dark, Song Jun, who was walking in front, saw something red behind the woods in front of him. He stared at it and walked forward.

Unexpectedly, I suddenly felt something tripping on my foot.

Hiss, Song Jun lowered his head to see.

Buzz, a buzz in the air.He quickly raised his head, and with a gasp, a rake-like mechanism made of wood hit him hard on the chest.

Song Jun flew out and landed hard.

"Ah" Song Jun's scream attracted the Song Jun brigade behind.

Chen Zhong immediately shouted, it was a trap, there were savages nearby.

This is made by savages to capture wild beasts.

This time the Song Army was lucky again. The mechanism was all made of wood. It was winter again and the Song Army had thick cotton armor with iron pieces inside. He was hit on the chest but his iron pieces were not punctured.

But the right chin was injured, but fortunately it was not serious.

Are there any savages nearby?
Li Liang immediately summoned people to discuss matters.

If the Song army comes in such a large force, the savages will run away if they see it, so they must be lured.

So the unlucky Song Army was selected. He was just being chased by a brown bear and threw away his crossbow. Li Liang wanted to punish him, but considering that he saw the bear for the first time, he gave him a chance, which made them responsible in the front. Seducing the savages.

Chen Zhong immediately taught him his experience. He cut a wooden stick in his hand and swept the floor as he walked, paying attention to the road and watching out for traps.

The mechanism just now was a trivial matter, the most annoying thing was the trap.

Savages often dig traps before it snows. After it snows, the traces of the traps are covered and almost invisible.

This Jurchen named Chen Zhong is still experienced. There are usually more savages living in the mountains.

They walked in for more than an hour and a half. They estimated that there would be mountains nearby, but because all the trees in front of them blocked their view.

Now he volunteered to find the tallest tree and climb to the top to see if there were any mountains nearby.

When it comes to climbing trees, Li Liang and his group of Song soldiers are proud of themselves.

Because Song Jun specially built tools for climbing trees.

The Far East is full of jungles, Zhao Yurui certainly knows that, and the trees here are tall and big, so the Song army brought tree climbing equipment here.

The tree-climbing equipment of the Song Army was invented by Zhao Yurui, and there were only three types.

One is directly the stepping piece, made of iron sheets, with an armrest in the middle, and nails on the left and right that are ten centimeters long. Each group of people in the Song army would bring two sets of iron sheets ([-] pieces each) and two hammers.

You can nail it to the tree along the way and then climb up by stepping on it.

One is the kind of people who climbed telegraph poles in later generations, with a noose around their waist and pedals on their feet.

There is also a relatively large triangular arrow that can be tied with a rope.

The three types can be used separately or cooperatively. Each person brings a set of the latter two.

Chen Zhong didn't even use the stepping iron. He looped the noose around the tree and put it on his waist. He took a relatively thick triangular arrow and tied it on the rope. Whoosh, he pointed it at the top with a strong crossbow and shot it. He tried it twice. After falling down, hang it between two branches.

He pulled hard, signaled to his companions, and slowly climbed up with the rope.

After two consecutive times, Chen Zhong climbed to a high place, and it was not easy for everyone to see him when they looked up from below.

Chen Zhong looked at it from a high place and could vaguely see a mountainous area in the northwest, about five or six miles away from them.

After Chen Zhong came down, he was basically sure that there might be savages in the mountains and forests to the northwest.

The Song army went in this direction towards the mountains.

I did encounter a trap on the road, but luckily I didn't fall into it.

When they got close to the mountain forest, it was almost dark. At this time, Song Jun considered sleeping outside the mountain for one night, otherwise he would be easily ambushed when he got to know the way in.

But there may be savages here, and safety when sleeping at night is very important.

Song Jun found a place and tied the horse to the surrounding trees to form a circle. Song Jun was inside the horse, and then tied it to the surrounding trees with ropes to form a circle. The rope was flush with the snow surface. , basically equivalent to a circle of mixed horse rope.

The forest was full of trees, and Song Jun brought a lot of ropes, which were tied everywhere. There were layers of mixed ropes on the ground, all level with the snow. If there was not enough snow, they could not be seen at all if they were covered with more snow.

The Song army cleared the snow in the middle and pushed it to the outside to form a snow wall. It was not easy for people outside to see what was inside. They would only see a large number of war horses and high snow.

Then they pushed the equipment and materials between the trees to form obstacles, and then Song Jun used sleeping bags to sleep behind the trees.

A huge fire was burned in the middle, and then eight more people were sent to climb the tree from four directions. They chose the largest and thickest tree where they could sleep where the thick branches intersected. After climbing up, they used ropes to hold them down. Tie yourself tightly to the tree.

This time Chen Zhong volunteered to sleep in a tree again.

Chen Zhong and Wang Xiaoyong slept under a tree. After searching for a long time, they found a tree so big that neither of them could hold it in their arms. Then they nailed the pedals, looped the ropes, and slowly stepped up the tree.

When it reaches about five meters high, there are two thick forks, and the space is large enough for people to sleep.

The two of them slept on each side. They first put on sleeping bags and then tied them to the tree starting from the feet. The rope was wound around and around until it reached the chest.

Finally, I put my head in the sleeping bag and felt much safer.

In addition, a nail was nailed to the side, and the crossbow was hung on it so that it could be reached by hand, as was the quiver.

The two prepared for a while, and finally felt a touch of warmth after falling asleep.

The temperature here exceeded minus [-] degrees at night. Fortunately, they were in the jungle and the wind was relatively light. It would have been even colder outside.

Fortunately, the Song army did a good job of keeping warm. They wore thick clothes and everyone also brought blankets and sleeping bags with them.

This sleeping bag is made of wool and cowhide, with thick cotton sandwiched in the middle. It is twice as heavy as the sleeping bags of the Song Army elsewhere.

The inside is plush and warm.

They first wrapped themselves in blankets, then got into sleeping bags, and finally covered their faces with short cotton towels. Only their eyes and noses were exposed. They were still a little cold when they first fell asleep, but they started to warm up after a while.

The two chatted for a while first, then Wang Xiaoyong asked, "Do you sleep in the middle of the night or the second half of the night?"

"It's up to me." Chen Zhong thought for a moment and then added, "You choose first."

"Then I'll go to sleep first. Call me later."

"Yes." Chen Zhong responded and stopped talking to Wang Xiaoyong.

He slowly turned his head and looked left and right.

At this time, they were about forty steps away from the Song Army's camp. The surroundings were quiet and it was pitch black below, but the faint light of fire could be seen in the Song Army's camp forty steps away.

There was a fire burning there, and Song Jun had two people on duty who didn't sleep, and they would take turns every two hours.

In addition to the eight of them who are forty steps away, the Song army has more than 20 people on duty every night. The rest can sleep until dawn to ensure combat effectiveness.

Chen Zhong is on duty today, but he won't be on duty in the next few days. It will take at least five days for his turn.

Not bad, he thought to himself, quite satisfied with his current situation.

He was originally from the Jin Kingdom. After the Mongols invaded the Jin Kingdom, a large number of Jin people fled to Liaodong and later joined the Dongxia Kingdom.

Then the Dongxia Kingdom was destroyed by the Song Army and the Goryeo Allied Forces. He surrendered to the Song people and was forced to change his surname to Chinese and speak Chinese.

Chen Zhong didn't care whether he was with Mongolia or Jin or Song. What he said when the Song army surrendered in the defeated camp flashed in his mind.

"Don't worry about which country you were from before. You have to see who treats you as human beings in the future."

"In our Song Dynasty, the officers and soldiers were treated as the same people. They were all brothers. They shared the land together, took the money together, and ate the meat together."

It was these two sentences when Chen Zhong decided to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

Although he was a Jurchen when he was in the Jin Kingdom, sinicization was serious in the later period of the Jin Kingdom. He was just an ordinary Jurchen, and his family was even less wealthy. The domestic situation was the same as that of the Southern Song Dynasty, with serious land annexation. In the Hebei area where he lived, there were more powerful Han landlords. , a large amount of land is still concentrated in the hands of the powerful and powerful.

Chen Zhong's family didn't have much land, and the imperial court wanted to recruit him to serve as a soldier, but they couldn't pay him in the end.

After Hebei was occupied by Mongolia, because all his family members were killed in the massacre by the Mongolian army, he was unwilling to surrender to Mongolia and fled to the northeast.

This is also an important reason why most of the people and the army of Dongxia Kingdom come from the same source.

The Jurchens of the Eastern Xia Kingdom refused to surrender, and most of their family members were killed by the Mongols.

As a result, their lives were even more miserable in Dongxia. In Dongxia, the country was not like a country. It was just a small local power. It did not have complete agriculture and commerce, and its survival depended on fighting and robbery.

Until the Song and Korean people came over and easily destroyed Dongxia.

After Chen Zhong surrendered immediately, he was immediately given ten acres of land, and then was given a Jurchen woman. This woman was the wife of a general in Dongxia. The general refused to surrender and was killed, and all the women in the family were assigned.

Chen Zhong unexpectedly got one. Now he felt that his whole life had changed and that good days were about to begin again.

The Song army divided the fields, paid them, and gave them back to the women. What could be better than this?

I am from the Song Dynasty, and I am Chen Zhong. Chen Zhong's mind flashed through his previous miserable life scene by scene, and he found that living until now, following the Song Army is the most human-like and the best life.

Although it was hard to sleep in the tree today, it only happened once every five days, and everyone had headaches just like him. Li Liang and the others also had to be on duty.

Moreover, dozens of Changchun troops come out in turns, and their turn comes only once every half a year.

This is the life of man.

Although Chen Zhong was sleeping in a tree and even felt a little cold, his heart was hot and he was very energetic.

He and Wang Xiaoyong slept in separate parts of the night, but they didn't have watches this time, so they could only make rough estimates.

Chen Zhong tried his best not to sleep and walked around on it from time to time.

Because they were tied into the sleeping bag, the others could not move and could only turn their heads this way and that.

At first it was fresh because of his random thoughts, but as time went on and the warmth in the sleeping bag grew, he slowly became a little drowsy.

Every time he was about to fall asleep, he would pinch himself hard with his hands in his sleeping bag.

But today they were still very tired after walking all day. They persisted until about two or three o'clock in the middle of the night. In fact, they could wake up Wang Xiaoyong, but he didn't have a watch and planned to wait. Unexpectedly, his eyelids became heavier and heavier. It got heavier and heavier, and soon I fell asleep.

Almost at the same time as he fell asleep, rustling, rustling, from the direction to his left, to the west of the Song Army, a rustling sound slowly approached.

The rustling sound did not wake up Chen Zhong at first. After a while, a dozen shadows quietly passed under Chen Zhong.

The savages are coming.

The savages here had long known that the Song Army was nearby, and they had secretly observed the Song Army during the day, but there were so many Song soldiers that they did not dare to move.

Now wait until night, when the savages finally come out.

If Chen Zhong was not asleep at this time, you could see that the savages had almost no clothes on them, and they were all wrapped in various animal furs.

This kind of protection from the cold is far inferior to that of the Song Army, but they have been here all year round and have become accustomed to it. Many people have not bathed for several years or even more than ten years, and their bodies have a layer of old dirt, which is more protective against the cold than their clothes.

The savages bent down and cautiously approached the Song army. Most of them held wooden sticks and spears in their hands, and only one of them had a long knife in his hand.

This long knife was probably obtained from the previous killings with the Dongxia people.

There are two other people holding bows and arrows in their hands. They are all simple bows made by themselves. The arrows are basically animal bones. In the summer when there are few clothes, these things have lethality. Now they have no effect on the Song Army unless they shoot it in the face. Lethality.

But the savages were not there to kill people, they mainly wanted to get some horses back.

They took a fancy to the Song people's horses and wanted to approach quietly and take the horses away.

Of course, the savages hate these outsiders, just because they know that they can't defeat them with a small number of people, so they try to avoid fighting with outsiders. Unless they make up the majority, the savages will not be polite and will definitely ambush the enemy.

Just when the last savage passed under Chen Zhong, all the savages did not expect that there was Song Jun sleeping in the tree above them.

Seeing the war horse getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)