Chapter 450: Shocking Appearance
Chrysanthemum Island. Reading
Old man Yu was chopping wood on the rocky mountain on the island.
He was skinny and his eyes were dull.
Ningjindusi was captured by the Northern Di, and Chrysanthemum Island, a small island originally isolated in the east of Jin County, could not escape the bullying of the Northern Di people.
Two months before the occupation, a team of 20 Northern Di soldiers boarded Chrysanthemum Island in a small boat.
Chrysanthemum Island is very small, only about 18 miles from south to north, and less than 10 miles from east to west at its widest point.
Most of the island is mountainous, with only a small amount of arable land, which can only support a village with less than 200 households.
Originally, the people on the island had to pay taxes every year like the people in Dasong.
But life was still going on.
But after the Northern Di soldiers came, everything changed.
Because Chrysanthemum Island was too inconspicuous, there was no money to be made.
The Northern Di people seemed to have forgotten this place, and only handed everything over to the jurisdiction of the Northern Di chieftain who landed on the island.
Over the years, the Northern Di chieftain has treated Chrysanthemum Island as his own private property.
In addition to imposing heavy taxes on the people on the island and reselling grain, they killed people at will and wantonly humiliated the women on the island.
In recent years, if a daughter was born on the island, the people would cry and scream.
Some people even strangled their daughters to death at birth, rather than let the Beidi people abuse them.
And they lived like this for ten years.
During these ten years, his son was killed for saving his daughter-in-law who was humiliated by the Beidi people.
His wife died of excessive grief.
He was the only one left in a broken thatched house.
Even so, the Beidi people did not let him go.
It was cold in winter, and the Beidi people on the island wanted to warm themselves by the fire, so they asked him to go up the mountain to chop wood.
Otherwise, they would kill his grandson who was just ten years old.
Thinking of the sad things, two lines of hot tears rolled out of his eyes.
At this time, he suddenly caught a glimpse of twelve huge ships slowly approaching Chrysanthemum Island.
Stopping his work, Old Man Yu looked carefully. He had never seen such a big ship.
When the ship got closer, he saw that there seemed to be a lot of people on it.
The big ship did not stop at the foot of the stone mountain, but went straight to Juhua Village.
"The Beidi can't build such a ship." Old Man Yu muttered and continued to chop wood.
He didn't care who these ships belonged to.
Because no matter who it belonged to, they would definitely not dare to be enemies with Beidi.
After an hour, after chopping wood, Old Man Yu carried the wood down the mountain.
As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he suddenly saw his grandson running towards him with sweat on his forehead, holding a white flour bun in his hand.
"Grandpa, the Beidi people were killed, and the army of King Yan came to rescue us." The child showed the bun in his hand, "Look, this is what they gave me."
Old Man Yu was stunned, and the dry wood slipped from his hand and hit the ground with a "clang" sound.
For ten years, he was ashamed.
But when he heard that the Dasong army was coming, he couldn't help but feel a strong throbbing, and tears rolled down.
As if he was ten years younger in an instant, Old Man Yu didn't even care about his grandson, and rushed to Juhua Village.
When he arrived, he found that the villagers had all come out.
At this time, everyone had a smile on their faces.
Some people carried buckets to fetch water for the soldiers in silver armor.
Some people carried baskets with the only black steamed buns in their homes.
The silver-armored soldiers had kind faces, like villagers who had just returned home after years of traveling.
"You are finally here!" Old Man Yu stared blankly for a while, and suddenly sat down on the ground and burst into tears.
Bai Shang's face was full of pride at this moment, enjoying the cheers of the people.
Hearing the crying, he looked at the old man sitting on the ground.
The villagers immediately introduced Old Man Yu to him, and did not forget to tell him about the miserable situation of his family.
"These damn Beidi people are simply beasts." Bai Shang said angrily, and then he said to the soldiers, "Tie up that little Beidi leader and hand him over to the people for disposal!"
When the warship arrived at the sea near Juhua Village, Zhou Yi put down three small boats that could accommodate 20 people.
He was the first to board the ship and led 60 soldiers from the royal palace to Juhua Island.
At this time, the Beidi soldiers on the island came upon hearing the news.
They killed twenty Beidi soldiers and captured the Beidi leader who led them.
Soon, the people on the island learned that it was the Dasong army that came, and they immediately swarmed over, extremely enthusiastic.
The soldiers received the order, tied up the Beidi leader who was stabbed in the thigh, and threw him to the ground.
The people were extremely jealous when they met their enemies, and picked up stones on the ground and threw them at the Beidi leader.
The Beidi leader immediately screamed.
But he did not beg for mercy, but cursed loudly.
"You all wait to die, the Beidi people will definitely retaliate against you, none of you can run away."
"King Yan, he is so brave that he dared to come to Jin County. When my Beidi army enters Yanguan, I must crush him to ashes, hahaha..."
"..."
The Beidi man's face was already covered with blood, but he was still arrogant.
In the eyes of every Beidi man, the Dasong people were so humble that they were not even as good as the cattle and sheep on the grassland.
There is no difference between slaughtering the Dasong people and slaughtering cattle and sheep.
How could he beg for mercy from these cattle and sheep?
In his wild laughter, he suddenly felt that the sunlight above his eyes was blocked.
At this time, he saw a face, which was the face of Old Man Yu.
Old Man Yu held a stone as big as his head in his hand.
When the leader of Beidi was stunned, he raised it high and smashed it down.
"Go to hell! Go to hell! Go to hell..." Once, twice, Old Man Yu smashed the head of the leader of Beidi like a madman.
Until the Beidi general was dead and bloody, he slowly stood up.
Coming to Bai Shang, Old Man Yu said, "General, we killed the Beidi people. If you abandon us, we will all jump into the sea and die. The Beidi people will not let us go."
Bai Shang nodded solemnly. The people on the island were all pale and thin, almost skinny.
In such a cold winter, they only wore single clothes and stuffed straw inside to keep warm.
This miserable appearance reminded him of the miserable life of the people before the King of Yan came to Yan County.
The deep hatred shown by the people on the island when they smashed the little leader of the Beidi to death made him even more frightened.
At the same time, there was a deep sense of guilt.
The country was in danger and the people were miserable. It was the dereliction of duty of their army.
"Don't worry, we will not leave this time. In the future, Chrysanthemum Island will be the fortress of the King of Yan inserted into the hinterland of Beidi." Bai Shang said.
This time, they only harassed the rear of Beidi and cooperated with the soldiers of Yanguan to create the illusion that they were going to attack Ningjindusi.
There was no plan to really take Ningjindusi.
After all, the Northern Expedition Army lost miserably, and Dasong might not be able to take the offensive against Beidi for a long time in the future.
If they occupied Ningjindusi at this time, they would really fall into the quagmire of war with Beidi.
Unlike Yanzhou, Ningjindusi has no strategic location to defend, and the cities stand on the vast plains.
Moreover, Beidi ruled Ningjindusi for ten years.
The people here were enslaved, some died, some escaped, and the remaining people of Dasong were probably less than 500,000.
Even if they took this place, such a vast place, so few people.
At that time, the defense would cost a huge cost, but there would be no large output at all.
In short, taking this place now would be a burden for Yanzhou.
Unless one day, they have a lot of spare power, they can consider taking it back.
He was thinking, when someone suddenly patted him on the back.
Turning around, Bai Shang was so shocked that he almost jumped up.