Summer is gradually approaching, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River, which was originally at war, is blazing, but in May, it seems to be under the hood of a sudden cold winter. The situation in the world is like a magical illusion. In a short period of time, everyone has been surprised, suspicious, shocked... and then gradually turned into despair that is cold to the bone.
On Danyang on the first day of May, Jun Wu woke up from a coma and felt an emotion similar to this. The sun was blazing that day. When he woke up, he was still injured, but he only felt that his whole body was boiling with blood. His wife came over and served him to wash and drink porridge. He then prepared to summon Yue Fei and other generals, but he came first. Yes, it was the inner palace envoy who arrived from Lin'an and had been waiting for a day.
At this time, the emperor Zhou Yong, sister Zhou Pei and others in the rear had already boarded the dragon boat on the Qiantang River. All matters in the capital were presided over by a group of ministers. Currently, they were negotiating peace with the Jurchen.
The order to notify the front-line armies to stop confrontation is also being sent to all parts of the front line one after another. The more than 100,000 troops led by General Chen Shao, which were previously sent from Changzhou to Zhenjiang, stopped advancing towards Xi Yin's troops. At this time, Tu Shanwei led by Xi Yin and the troops led by Shu Liebui put down the massacre of Zhenjiang and slowly turned to the road south.
Jun Wu, who still had pain in his abdomen, was stunned. He needed a lot of effort to gradually understand everything in front of him.
Just in Lin'an, the first round of negotiations was underway. Wushu's cavalry wanted to attack the city, but the emperor Zhou Yong had already reached the Qiantang River. The court officials proposed that the Jurchen army suspend its advance so that the two sides could continue the peace talks. Jurchen agreed to make peace. The minister Wanyan Qingjue exchanged requests for the armies of the Wu Dynasty to cease fighting and to provide food and grass supplies to the Jurchen army.
On the basis of such a peace discussion, the imperial court dispatched various envoys to issue truce orders to the Jiangnan armies. As for the Jurchen, Wushu kept the cavalry stationed outside the city and did not send them out, and also sent news to Zongfu in the Jiangning battlefield, but it seems that, Xi Yin was not willing to abide by such conditions.
The court’s peace talks continued. After explaining the situation to Jun Wu, the envoys from the inner palace began to persuade Jun Wu to return to Beijing. Jun Wu sat beside the bed for a long time, clutching his stomach, and stood up with difficulty. His wife came over and was pushed away by him.
He pulled out the sword hanging by the bed tremblingly, walked towards the official, and pressed the bright tip of the sword on the opponent's chest:
"Go on, I'll kill you." The inner official's persuasion stopped.
On the bright May day, in addition to the sunlight coming in through the window, there was a quiet humming sound like an illusion. Jun Wu put down his sword and sat down. After a long silence, he finally said softly: "Please come in, Mr. Wenren."
His wife went out and summoned Wenren Buer to come in. Jun Wu sat there and put his hand on his forehead. It took a long time to speak, his voice was weak and hoarse: "Senior Wenren, do you know everything?"
"… Yes."
"My brain... is a little confused, as if when I woke up, something was wrong..." Jun Wu said, "What should I do?"
"For today's plan, I can only persuade Your Majesty to take back your life. Your Highness's words may be of some use."
"Father, he... was so frightened that he had already gone to the dragon boat on the Qiantang River. How should I persuade him? If I can persuade, Huang sister, she..."
When he said this, Wen Ren Buer stepped forward and whispered a word in his ear, Jun Wu understood.
"Since Huangjie has already... I don't know how to convince the father, senior brother Wenren, I will trouble you to write a book for me later, and tell the father about the benefits and interests, and then leave it to this internal official to go later. Wenren Brother..." He felt pain in his stomach, stretched out his hand and pressed it for a moment, "At this point, if Lin'an negotiates peace, isn't it... Jiangnan will be over?"
Wen Ren Buer's lips moved slightly, and he considered it for a moment: "I'm afraid... the world is coming to an end."
Jun Wu stood up on his stomach, he walked towards the door in a lost spirit, and his wife came to support him.
What flashed before his eyes seemed to be the rush and blood just before the coma. He felt the arrow wound in his abdomen, and saw the soldiers and commoners rushing towards the Jurchen. That turbulent moment was the moment he had longed for the most in the past ten years, but after waking up from a dream, his father was there Turn around and run away.
He went out in a trance. In the distance on one side of his vision was the city wall of Danyang, here was a huge military camp built with a few huts, and in the distance was a densely spread refugee camp. His wife said a few words beside him, Here is the Zhenjiang Army, there is the Beiwei Army, and so on. Jun Wu remembered the city of Bianliang more than ten years ago. After the first defense of the city, he witnessed Qin Siyuan being imprisoned. The teacher's mood, and even Wenren's mood, may be like this.
To bring this army back to Lin'an and keep the father emperor.
He thought of this in his mind, and then stopped. Outside Lin'an City, Wushu's army was already camping, and in the middle part, no one could get through.
Sending people back, lobbying all parties, rescuing his sister, leaving the dragon boat behind, doing his best and obeying the destiny... All kinds of thoughts flashed in his mind. So slowly walking to the soil slope on the side of the house, only then did he sit down under a sick tree. The branches of the tree had been split in half, casting uneven shade in the afternoon sun. Jun Wu sat on the stone. Look up and watch the summer sun shine on the earth in front of you.
After a while, his wife said, "General Yue is here."
Jun Wu straightened his body and asked him to come over. Yue Fei came over to meet Li in armor, Jun Wu smiled: "General Yue, what's next? This world... can't hold it anymore."
"That's what the last commander came for."
"General have an idea?"
"For today's plan, first of all, it is natural to take stabilizing the situation in Lin'an as the primary task, and dispatch a small number of people to contact everyone in the eldest princess' mansion to try to keep your majesty, or if it's not good, try to keep your majesty. First thing to do…”
When Yue Fei said this, he cupped his hands and paused: "However, since the eldest princess can't stabilize the situation in Lin'an, it may be difficult for her to make any achievements. Her highness has to consider the follow-up when she is powerless... In this situation, if Your Majesty flees, the hearts and minds of the army and the people in the world will be lost, and the gentry and the gentry from all over the world will hardly be able to fight against the Jurchen, and the fall of the world is imminent, but the only silver lining is still here with Your Highness."
"General Yue is hope..."
"If Your Majesty leaves, half of the princes in the world will kneel in front of the Jurchen, but there will also be half or even half of the loyal and righteous people who are fond of my court and are unwilling to switch to the Jurchen, but even so, the righteousness of my court has been lost. It will be difficult to face the Jurchen again. For example, the half-hearted people who appeared when His Highness was guarding Zhenjiang, may emerge one after another. The most important thing in today's plan is to clean up the interior so that His Highness can still hold a battleable soldier. As long as there is still one The power of war, even if Lin'an kneels down and the world falls, I am equal to the south of the Yangtze River, there is still the people's will, and there is still room for manoeuvre whether to fight or stay."
Yue Fei's words were sonorous and decisive: "In the past eight years, His Highness has cleaned up the military discipline in the world, but in fact, he still had to draw compromises among the officials, officials, and generals of all parties. There are millions of troops. Only Xiyin, who is in the south of the Yangtze River, came in. The old minister asked His Royal Highness to be the prince and convene all the officers who can be summoned at the moment, to withdraw military power, strictly monitor, and strictly enforce military discipline!"
"In extraordinary times, you should do extraordinary things." Jun Wu's eyes flashed light, and he stood up. "But if I do this, I am afraid that I will break with Lin'an, and the hearts of most nobles in the world."
"Reporting to Your Highness, if Your Majesty escapes, I'm afraid there will be no more trustworthy people in the world. The only person you can rely on is the few things you can hold in your hands."
When Yue Fei's words came to this point, he had already confessed to the extreme, and Jun Wu could naturally understand it. In the eight years, the front-line armies that have been painstakingly managed and built, in fact, Yue Fei's military law of the Beiwei Army is the most strict, and is often so severe that it is criticized by others, but when the war begins, the most capable warrior is this Beiwei army. military.
The rest, such as Han Shizhong's navy, were also isolated from many external influences by virtue of the prince's majesty and Han Shizhong's great name. This time, he led more than 100,000 troops guarding Zhenjiang. He was still an elite in the military of the Wu Dynasty, but he was only one or two spies. Later, he broke the front line of more than 100,000 people, and even destroyed the entire Wu Dynasty. The foundation of the dynasty is heartbreaking to think about.
In the past, he was the prince of the Wu Dynasty. Even if he had the courage to protect one or two armies, he still had to make various trade-offs and concessions in the face of a country with tens of millions of people. . In order to increase a little bit of winning chips, he killed his brother-in-law, almost making his wife sullen. But finally powerless.
At this time, if the father and emperor escaped from Lin'an, the whole world would collapse, the whole mess and the demands of all kinds of vested interests, he couldn't follow, it was nothing but a dead word, he didn't have to make compromises.
The sun gradually began to become cold in May, shining through the crooked trees, Jun Wu pressed the wound on his waist, his eyes gradually condensed and became firm.
"Okay." A murderous aura came out of him, "It's time to kill!"
He strode down the slope.
"General Yue, even if the mountains and rivers are in chaos... you and I will not surrender until we die."
Yue Fei surrendered: "The last general will lead the order."
The summer is getting deeper and deeper, and the atmosphere of the world has gradually begun to change.
On the second day of the fifth lunar month, Jun Wu summoned all the generals of the Zhenjiang defending army in Danyang. With the 30,000 elites of the Beiwei Army as the core, he began to consolidate military power and strict military discipline. At the same time, Xiu Shu lobbied the various armies in the south of the Yangtze River, analyzed the current situation, stated the interests and interests, and hoped that even in the face of this critical situation, all forces could still put the interests of the Wu Dynasty first, strictly adhere to the bottom line, and fight against the Jurchens.
The purging and reorganization of Danyang began in the most severe form. At the same time, Xi Yin and Yin Shuke's troops ignored the prerequisites for the peace talks and went south quickly. "For this reason, promising to send envoys to try to delay or stop the movement of the Gushen troops to the south, on a practical level, this is naturally an empty talk.
Zhou Yong had already boarded the dragon boat at this time, and he didn't care about the Jurchen coming from the south, and orders for a truce were sent to all directions. In the next few days, the forces of all parties centered on the Princess Mansion, the Prince's Mansion, the Huaxia Army, and the forces of the main battle factions in the city continued to make efforts to intercept and rescue Zhou Yong and Zhou Pei, and the situation in Beijing changed for a while. Chaos is endless, fighting is everywhere.
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, on the Dragon Boat Festival when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, Zhou Yong ordered the dragon boat fleet to set sail when it was determined that Xi Yin’s troops were gradually approaching the area of Lin’an, and they set sail for the sea. This prompted Qin Hui to be summoned by Zhou Yong to the dragon boat at this time and escaped from the capital. part of . The peace talks in Beijing were presided over by some ministers headed by Li Nanzhou, who was the main peace faction. Zhou Yong hoped that they could resist the persecution of the Jurchen without worrying about the future and strive for a satisfactory surrender for the Wu Dynasty. condition.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Xiyin's troops arrived in Lin'an and silently began to erect siege equipment. The negotiation situation was chaotic. Wanyan Qingjue forced Li Nanzhou, who was in charge of the emperor's seal at this time, to draw up a decree, and sent an envoy to summon Han Shizhong to leave Jiangning.
On the 11th of May, the envoy heading for Jiangning was halfway through, but was stopped by the manpower sent by Prince Junwu. At the same time, the army that had initially completed the reorganization of Danyang began to head towards Jiangning. After ten years of operation, Jiangning can be regarded as the real base of Junwu. Zongfu's army of hundreds of thousands of troops was on the way, and the two sides faced off in the south of Jiangning.
At the same time, the imperial court began to issue orders continuously, so that the prince Junwu could no longer lead the army rashly, and he could not start the war with the Jurchen lightly. Junwu left his decree and did not reply.
In the middle of the long May, when the Wu Dynasty stretched across the land for thousands of miles, countless people and countless wills were connected in private. When the news of the armistice reached Xiangfan, Liu Guangshi sighed and cried, but he had already done it. Ready to fight to the death. At this time, the news of the infighting and splitting of the Huaxia army from the southwest also more or less increased the chips in the hands of the Jurchen.
By the end of May, the nerves of all parties had been tensed to the extreme. On the evening of May 26, Wanyan Xiyin was fully prepared to attack the city. In the most desperate circumstances, a rebellion was launched.
At this time, various humiliating and traitorous regulations have been drawn up in the courtroom, the city gate of Lin'an is about to open, and the army of 100,000 Jurchens outside the city is ready to move. Ready to be sent out of Lin'an City, another most tragic Jingping shame is about to begin.
The rebels left the city, facing 100,000 Jurchens, there was a dead end, and they stayed in the city, and when the Jurchens entered the city in a dignified manner, everyone was also dead. The "rebels" in Lin'an City finally chose to deliver a desperate blow.
This evening, the two city gates to the west and south of Lin'an were opened. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians began to rush out of the city. Jurchen soldiers also chased after them. The city was on fire, and Niu Xingguo and other generals led the soldiers of the Imperial Army to try to block the Jurchen pursuit on the front line outside Lin'an City, but they were soon scattered by Wushu's cavalry, and some soldiers and people carried bombs and gunpowder at the women. Real people launch suicidal shocks.
People fled in all directions under the cover of the night, and a small number of soldiers and civilians survived. On the bank of Qiantang River south of Lin'an City, large swathes of people were chased into the water. Cabinets, wooden beams, and bamboo rafts floated on the water, and after that, one life was preserved, and tens of thousands of lives were swallowed by the water waves.
More people died in the massacre, and Xi Yinwushu's troops knocked into the city and officially took over the Wu Dynasty after Zhou Yong's departure. More tragic humiliation and massacre than Jingping's shame broke out in Lin'an City.
The bell of the huge collapse of the Jianshuo world rang.
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In the summer of that year, there was a tragedy that no one could describe in detail in the entire city of Lin'an.
The rebels were slaughtered on the streets, and the congress and ministers headed by Li Nanzhou collected curios, women, and craftsmen in the city and delivered them to the Jurchen army to pay for the "debt" of the war. This is a scene similar to Jingping's shame, but in Beijing There are not many royal relatives for Jurchen to humiliate and play.
People in Beijing lost their husbands, wives, mothers, and children in this war... After ten years of peace, this tragic and unspeakable scene is just the beginning of the tragedy that the whole world will experience.
Wanyan Xiyin walked into the messy Golden Palace, Wushu was sitting on the emperor's throne and was playing with a group of Hanchen who were kneeling on the ground. When he saw him coming, he waved his hands and sent the Hanchens away.
"The important affairs of the Wu Dynasty are over. It is time to do what was discussed earlier."
In front of Wanyan Xiyin, Wushu did not dare to sit on the chair and face him, so he came down from above: "The emperor of the Wu Dynasty has not died, the prince has not been removed, and the elder brother is still fighting in Jiangning. This place is three thousand miles to the southwest. How to do it?"
Wanyan Xiyin's eyes narrowed slightly, and her eyes became cold.
"Little Si, what are your thoughts... Say it again?"
Wu Shu spread out his hands and stepped back slightly: "Jiang Ning is still fighting, it's impossible for my brother's soldiers to withdraw here, the Emperor Wu Chao went to sea, and their navy is still recruiting to surrender, once they catch up, I will still be on land. Cut him off. Gu Shen, my brother and I said before that I will do my best to help you destroy the Southwest. You can do whatever you want. Now the world belongs to us, and the people of the Wu Dynasty are joining. This is all yours, as long as you can bring it along , the army, equipment, logistics, you have brought enough to fill the southwest."
Xi Yin stared at him, and Wushu was seen to be hairy: "My brother and I destroyed the Wu Dynasty, you and Nianhan destroyed the southwest, and all the soldiers in the world were given to you, so what else? Are you afraid that I will not make trouble behind my back? I swear in the name of the ancestors, this time, I will never make trouble behind your back!"
"... Tu Shanwei suffered losses in Zhenjiang, your cavalry, give me 30,000."
After Xi Yin finished speaking, he turned to leave, and Wu Shu stayed behind for a moment.
"...Okay. I wish Gushen the banner of victory, and the southwest thieves will fight to the end!"
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The world is falling.
The summer continued, and countless people chose their own line in such chaos. In June, under the betrayal of the traitor, Zong Han broke the Xiangfan line of defense, and Liu Guangshi led a large number of rout troops to the south to establish a small-scale resistance force. Changsha city head.
Jiangning, after more than ten days of confrontation, under the attack of the Beiwei Army and the Zhenhai Navy, Jun Wu broke the flank of the Zong auxiliary defense line, returned to Jiangning, and began another severe purge. At this time, the imperial court has been continuously issuing decrees to deprive the official power of the prince Junwu, but the troubled times have begun, and such decrees have no meaning.
Jurchen's will is sweeping the world.
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southwest.
The first wave to arrive was to accept Xi Yin's will and to negotiate and persuade envoys from Zong Han's army to surrender. They arrived at Zhangcun with a document with multiple requirements that may have been written by Xi Yin. In the document, there are various requirements for the Huaxia Army to declare itself as a minister to the Jurchen, hand over various technologies, hand over specific craftsmen, and order the Huaxia Army to perform self-castration in various technologies. In this era, such "civilized" letters of persuasion are rare.
Ning Yi met with the envoy, and it was interesting to see one by one: "Tsk, Xi Yin from your side has learned well from me, and he is becoming more and more imaginative."
"Among the heroes in the world today, only Gu Shen and Mr. Xing sympathize with each other. Gu Shen often mentions Mr. Ning in the southwest. If Dao is in one country, both parties must be confidants. Now our Jin Kingdom has destroyed the Wu Dynasty and ruled the world. The black flag of the southwest is difficult to support by a single tree. I heard that there is another civil strife. Today, the army of one million troops of the Wu Dynasty and the West Route Army of the commander of Nianhan have already fought hard and are ready to go. I hope Mr. Wang can make the right decision."
"A few years ago in Xiaocanghe, your messenger named Fan Hongji was not as good as you." Ning Yi smiled and looked at the messenger in front of him, then wrote a few words on the thick document and threw it away. Go back: "Do you know why?"
The messenger took the text, flipped through it, and said, "Mr. Ning..." Having said that, when he saw the words written by Ning Yi, his words stopped.
Behind the script are nine random characters.
If you don't agree with everything, take it back and change it.
Ning Yi had already walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "That's because the Huaxia army is no longer the Huaxia army it was in Xiaocanghe. Wanyan Xiyin sent you here, just to see my will, you don't care at all. It's not important, what you can't get on the battlefield, can't be negotiated on the table... I originally hoped that the Wu Dynasty would be able to support a little more, but now it seems, forget it, I'll do it myself, what a million army, go back and call Nianhan and Xi Yindu is here, your army on the west road has entered the Chengdu Plain, and I will bury you."
After he finished speaking indifferently, he had already left the room, and the late summer light came in from the window.
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In the sea, the time is already at the end of summer. With Zhou Yong's softening, Zhou Pei was able to come out and walk on the deck of the dragon boat to relax. At first, the surrounding guards were still watching closely, but gradually, facing the silent eldest princess, everyone gradually felt relieved.
On June 24th, the seagulls were flying in the sky, Zhou Pei looked up, and the sea was blue.
Zhou Yong came from not far away, and when he came to Zhou Pei's side, he stretched out his hand to open the guards beside him, and sighed softly, as if he wanted to say something.
Zhou Pei stood up and ran to the side of the ship abruptly.
She jumped high, seagulls flew past her eyes, and her body fell into the blue sea.
A tear falls from the sky...
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In the cloud, Tang Minjie read all the information sent from the south, and then closed his eyes, a ray of light flashed on his resolute and indifferent face.
"Second Jingping..."
He clenched the paper in his hand, gritted his teeth, and took every word.
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Xuzhou.
With the collapse of the Jiangnan line of defense, Liu Chengzong's troops no longer had to threaten the Jurchen retreat, and the troops that had been fighting for months were heading towards Shandong, north of the Yangtze River.
Jindi.
Lou Shuwan and Yu Yulin's army made several counterattacks under extremely difficult circumstances. When the fighting spirit of the various forces in Jin was fading, they expanded their territory a little and got a little respite. But by this time, the savings of Tian Hu and Tian Ji have been gradually exhausted, and a more difficult time will come.
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At the end of June, in a small corner that no one in the world has noticed, something is happening.
In the northwest, since the Battle of Xiaocanghe, the Jurchens carried out a brutal massacre here, so that the plague ran rampant in a few years, and the land was thousands of miles away.
This situation is about to be forgotten by people.
In Fuzhou, under Zhekeqiu's rule, after the Huaxia Army and Jurchen went, the largest settlement of people in the northwest, in the background of the fierce war in the world, the situation here gradually turned into a relatively quiet place of paradise.
On this day, the sky-swallowing rays of light were about to fall. Wushugang, a post house in the west of Fuzhou, the veteran guards appeared from the room. An ominous vibration was felt.
The old soldier lay on the ground and listened, gradually revealing his confused eyes. For a moment, he saw the surging cavalry coming from the other side of the earth!
He was about to turn around and walk towards the rear. On the figure behind him, a figure who had arrived earlier jumped high in the air and waved his saber.
The blood surges and blooms
(Episode 9 *The Vast Land*End)
(Welcome to the tenth episode of "The Son-in-law" *Long Night Over Spring)