The warbler flies and the grass grows in the early spring, and the land is in turmoil.

Time, it is the thirteenth year after the Jurchens went south for the first time, and the eleventh year after the Wu Dynasty crossed to the south.

Maintain the team of the last bloodline of the Wu Dynasty, and name this year the first year of revitalization. In these years of war, Zhou Junwu, the new emperor of the Wu Dynasty, who was burdened with the ambition of rejuvenation, did not become the focus of attention of the times for the time being.

In the first month, the eldest princess team on the shore of Fujian Province took the important town of Fuzhou with the assistance of Cheng Zhouhai and others, and in the middle of January, the mighty dragon boat fleet went north along the coast, receiving the main force of the Junwu team on the ship, assisting it to run south, and the fleet once entered the Qiantang estuary, approaching and deterring Lin'an.

Considering that the plan to hunt down Zhou Junwu was difficult to realize in the short term, when the snow melted and the ice melted in early February, Zongfu Zongbi announced the victory of the southern expedition, and after leaving part of the team to sit in Lin'an, he led the mighty brigade to return to the north.

Considering the goal of this southern expedition, as the Eastern Route Army, Zongfu Zongbi could already triumph in victory, and at this time, the Wu Dynasty had been divided under the operation of the small court of Lin'an and the Jurchen team for more than half a year. It is only a small flaw that Zhou Junwu has not been arrested and completely destroyed the Zhou bloodline, and it is a pity to abandon it, but if you continue to eat it, there is not much taste left.

On the other hand, the Western Route Army, which was violently preparing to annihilate the southwest, was mired in the quagmire of war, which could be regarded as good news for Zongfu Zongbi. It is true that as a fellow clan, Zongfu Zongbi still hopes that Zong Han and the others can win—and will inevitably win—but before winning, the worse the fight, the better.

The war in the southwest has now become the core target of the whole world's attention, and some people gloat and some people are anxious about it. During this period, the corresponding Battle of Changsha was also noticed by many people, considering the comparison of the combat power of the two sides near Changsha, by the end of February of this year when it first came to an end, many people were stunned by the results of the battle.

The soldiers who participated in the entire Changsha Campaign, on the side of the Jin State, amounted to hundreds of thousands of people, including more than 30,000 elite troops of the Jin State led by the Jurchen veteran Yinshuke, and half of these 30,000 people were the cavalry team that Xi Yin asked for from Zong Bi. In addition to the Yinshuke troops, the surrendered Han troops who came one after another had more than 300,000 figures.

In the Huaxia Army, the Miao Xinjiang troops led by Chen Fan are only more than 10,000 people, even if you add more than 2,000 special operations troops with strong combat strength, plus the miscellaneous army and Xiangyong led by hot-blooded generals such as Zhu Jing, the overall number has never exceeded 40,000.

Although at the beginning of the war last year, Chen Fan made a long-distance attack with 7,000 elites, and quickly defeated more than 100,000 Han troops led by Li Touhe, Yu Gusheng and others in a short period of less than a month, but with the arrival of the main force of Yinshuke, the Battle of Changsha, which lasted for about half a year, was extremely difficult for the Huaxia army.

Chen Fan gave up Changsha for a time, and later attacked Changsha with a horse gun, and then gave up Changsha again...... Throughout the battle, Chen Fan's troops always carried out movement operations based on the terrain, and Zhu Jing's Juling was once slaughtered by the Jurchens after being breached, and since then it has been constantly fleeing and transferring.

If we look at it from the back to the front, the overall situation of the entire Changsha Battle, even within the Huaxia Army, is not optimistic as a whole. Chen Fan's combat principle is to rely on silver arts, but he is not familiar with the southern mountains to constantly guerrilla, seize an opportunity to quickly defeat one of the opponent's troops - his art of war and ability to lead the army was brought out by Fang Qifo back then, coupled with his own precipitation for so many years, his combat style is stable and resolute, showing that he is extremely fast when he attacks, extremely keen when seizing opportunities, and extremely fierce when attacking, and once something fails, he will never drag mud and water when retreating.

Even under the pressure of Yinshuke's pursuit, Chen Fan also won several dazzling victories in the cracks surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops, one of which even defeated Yinshuke's partial division, swallowing nearly six hundred elite Jinbing and leaving.

But no matter how good the command is, it is only to this extent, if all the troops of the Wu Dynasty after surrender are faced, Chen Fan may be able to lead 10,000 people from Jiangnan to kill seven in and seven out, but in the face of Jurchen veterans of this level of silver, being able to occasionally take advantage is already the limit of the art of war.

Within the Huaxia Army, the prediction of the overall trend is also that Chen Fan gradually entered the deep mountains of Miao Xinjiang to resist after continuous maneuvering. If it is not destroyed, it is a great victory.

No one expected that the Battle of Changsha would end with Yinshuke's defeat and death.

No one expected that in the army of the Wu Dynasty, there would also be an "outlier" as resolute and fierce as Yu Mingzhou.

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The Battle of Changsha ended on February 24 of that year.

Wan Yan Qingjue was captured on the evening of February 21. He remembered that the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the sunset was red, and in the southeast of Changsha, near Liuyang County, a big battle had actually begun. This was an encirclement and interception of the troops led by Zhu Jing, and the fundamental purpose was to swallow Chen Fan's troops who came to the rescue.

In the middle of that sunset, the young general of the Wu Dynasty, who had a violent personality but was quite fond of him, suddenly knocked him off his horse with a sudden punch.

Wanyan Qingjue was not even mentally prepared, he fainted for a moment, and the buzzing in his head became clear, he turned around and reacted, and it was already a scene of slaughter in front of him, Yu Mingzhou on the war horse was condescending, his face was bloody and hideous, and then he pulled out his knife.

This is Wan Yan Qingjue's last memory of that day, and then someone completely knocked him out and stuffed him into a sack.

This is the second time Wanyan Qingjue has been captured by the Huaxia Army.

When he woke up, he was locked up in a rudimentary camp, and everything around him was still in chaos. He was still in the midst of the war, and he was watched, but he didn't appear to be cared for - this indifference meant that if he escaped from prison, the other party would choose to kill him rather than knock him unconscious.

Wan Yan Qingjue failed to find a chance to escape, and he did not know the development of events in the outside world for a short time, except for the evening of February 24, when he heard people cheering outside and saying "victory". On February 25, he was escorted in the direction of Changsha City, which was still owned by his own side before fainting, but apparently, the Huaxia army killed again and took Changsha for the third time.

The soldiers who escorted the captives along the way seemed to have forgotten the threat of the Jin soldiers—as if they had won a complete victory—this should not happen, even if the Huaxia army won another victory, the elite led by the commander of Yinshu Ke would not be able to lose it cleanly, after all, victory and defeat are the norm of soldiers.

He remained silent all the way and did not ask about it. Until the sunset on the twenty-fifth day, he approached Changsha City, the sunset poured down in his vision like orange blood, and he saw the flagpole in Changsha City, hanging with the armor of the handsome silver. Hanging beside the armor was a hideous human head with silver magic.

There were other pedestrians on the road, and soldiers coming and going. Wanyan Qingjue's pace staggered, and he knelt down on the side of the road: "What, what's going on......"

He asked in a hoarse and weak voice, but the hilt of the knife struck him on the back, urging him to move forward. Wanyan Qingjue's eyes were red, and he pointed to the heads on the flagpole and looked back at the soldiers in custody, his expression was terrifying. The soldier lifted up and kicked him hard in the face, knocking him over into the mud.

No one explained anything to him, and he was detained in a prison in Changsha. Victory and defeat, regime change, even in prison, can occasionally perceive the turmoil in the outside world, from the mouth of the jailer who walks by, from the shouts of the criminals escorting to and fro, from the murmur of the wounded...... But it is impossible to piece together the whole picture. It was not until the afternoon of February 27 that he was escorted out.

Leaving the prison, he walked through a long corridor and came to a compound at the back of the cell. There are already a lot of soldiers here, and it may be that the prisoners in centralized custody are digging the ground to do things, two men who should be members of the Huaxia Army are talking under the corridor, the one wearing a military uniform is a middle-aged man, and the one wearing a robe is a young man with oily hair and powder, the expressions of both of them look serious, the young man with oily hair and powder face clenched his fist slightly at each other, and after looking at it, Wanyan Qingjue felt familiar, but then he was escorted to the empty room next to him.

The empty room was simple and spacious, and the windows were opened to allow for a view of the soldiers standing guard in front of and behind. After a while, the slightly familiar young man walked in, Wan Yan Qingjue squinted his eyes, and then remembered: This is an entourage under the traitor Yu Mingzhou, not Yu Mingzhou's most relied on right and left hand, and because of this, in the past time, Wan Yan Qingjue has only vaguely seen it once or twice.

The young man looks very good, like a play, recalling his past impressions, he will even think that this person is raised by Yu Mingzhou**-Yu Mingzhou has an anxious temperament, violent temperament, and the habit of having fun, so it is not surprising that this is the case - but at this moment in front of him, Yan Qingjue couldn't see too much from the young man's face, the young man's eyes were calm, with a little gloomy, and he closed the door after opening the door.

He walked over, Wan Yan Qingjue's hands were chained to the table, unable to move, raised his head and struggled slightly, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Where is Yu Xiaopu?" At this time, send a subordinate to support me, there is no politeness, he ......"

At this moment of the confrontation, considering the death of Yinshuke and the defeat of the Battle of Changsha, Wanyan Qingjue, who was a disciple of Xiyin who had been proud for half his life, had also completely let go, putting aside life and death, and was about to say a few sarcastic swear words, when a fierce light flashed in the eyes of the young man standing in front of him and looking down on him.

A fierce punch hit Wan Yan Qingjue's face and fell.

With a buzz, Wan Yan Qingjue's whole brain rang, his body twisted to the side, and when he reacted, his mouth was already full of blood, two teeth were knocked out and fell out of his mouth, and the teeth of half of his mouth were loose. Wan Yan Qingjue spit out the blood in his mouth with difficulty.

"Hmm...... You ......"

"Yu Mingzhou said a long time ago that sooner or later, he will punch your smug face with his own hands, so that you will never laugh."

"Ahem...... Let him come......" Wan Yan Qingjue spoke with difficulty.

"He can't come, so I'll come and see you when I'm done."

"Brute!" Wan Yan Qingjue raised his head, "He even sells his own father ......"

"He only sold all his belongings, and Yu Shibo didn't die...... "The young man sat down opposite, "These things are also forced by you." ”

"Let him come to me and tell me face to face. He's a big guy now, and he's amazing...... He's a dog in front of me. Wanyan Qingjue said, "He doesn't have the face to come to see me, I'm afraid of being brought up by me, he's a dog!" ”

The young man's hands were placed on the table, slowly rolling up his sleeves, and his eyes did not finish Yan Qingjue: "He is not a dog...... He was silent for a moment, "You have seen me, but you don't know who I am, get to know me, my name is Zuo Wenhuai, Zijiazhen, do you have any impression of this surname, Wanyan Gongzi?" ”

"Go! You! Mother! Target! Kill me! Wan Yan Qingjue struggled.

A sad look flashed in the eyes of the young man named Zuo Wenhuai in front of him: "Compared to Lingshi Wanyan Xiyin, you are indeed just a gentleman who is not worth mentioning, and you are too far behind Mingzhou." Zuo Jiyun is my clan uncle, one of my uncles and grandfathers in the Zuo clan, called Zuo Duanyou, in order to kill him back then, you also gave a big bounty. ”

Wan Yan Qingjue reacted.

The Wu Dynasty's big clan Zuo family, after the Wu Dynasty moved south, followed the Jianshuo court to the south of the Yangtze River, the great Confucian Zuo Duanyou is said to have been to Xiaocanghe several times, and Ning Yi sat down to discuss, quarreled unsuccessfully, and later although based on the Jiangnan Wu Dynasty, but for the Huaxia army of Xiaocanghe, the Zuo family has always had a good impression, and even once spread the information that the Zuo family and the Huaxia army had private collusion.

Such rumors may be true, but they have never been conclusive, firstly, because Zuo Duanyou has a good reputation in the Confucian circle of the Wu Dynasty and has deep family roots, and secondly, after Jianshuo crossed to the south, the eldest princess of the crown prince also had a good impression of the Huaxia army, and the call for revenge for Zhou Zhe gradually decreased, and even some families started trade with the Huaxia army, hoping to "master the skills of the Jurchen", and the rumors about who has a good relationship with the Huaxia army have always been just rumors.

Only the Jurchen side once offered a head bounty to Zuo Duanyou, not only because he had indeed been to Xiaocanghe and received Ning Yi's courtesy, but also because Zuo Duanyou had a good relationship with Qin Siyuan before, and the two reasons added up, and there was a reason to kill him.

Zuo Duanyou never died at the hands of the Jurchens in the end, he died naturally in Jiangnan, but in the whole process, the Zuo family did establish an inextricable connection with the Huaxia Army, of course, how deep this connection is, it is naturally not clear at the moment.

After Zongfu Zongbi teamed up with Xi Yin to break through the Jiangnan defense line, Xi Yin once paid attention to the Zuo family, but at that time, the entire Zuo clan had quietly disappeared in front of people's eyes, and Xi Yin only felt that this was the wisdom of everyone's big clan to avoid trouble. But now, there is such a Zuo disciple who has come to Wan Yan Qingjue's eyes.

After Yan Qingjue recalled for a moment, he said: "Becoming a king or defeating a king, I am one move short of chess, and now you can naturally say whatever you want......"

He aimed at Zuo Wenhuai's evaluation of his "gentleman", Zuo Wenhuai looked at him for a moment, and said: "I am a soldier of the Huaxia Army. ”

“…… Naturally, the puppies are all soldiers of the Chinese Army. Hehe, do you know what Yu Mingzhou has done......"

Zuo Wenhuai shook his head: "I came to see you today, just to tell you about this matter, I am a soldier of the Huaxia Army, I once studied in Xiaocanghe, and Mr. Dening taught. But Yu Mingzhou, who gave you this fiasco, was not a member of the Huaxia Army from beginning to end, from beginning to end, he was a soldier of the Wu Dynasty, and tens of millions of Li people who cared about the Wu Dynasty and were loyal to the Wu Dynasty. Heartbroken for the plight of the Wu Dynasty......"

Zuo Wenhuai stared at him and paused word by word: "You remember-you and Yinshuke were defeated by such a person." ”

Wan Yan Qingjue tilted his head, the previous punch made his thinking turn extremely slowly, but at this moment, in the other party's words, he finally realized something......

"Haha...... Yu Mingzhou...... How's it going? ”

What flashed in his mind was the violent eyes of Yu Mingzhou looking down from his war horse on the evening of February 21.

The smoke of gunpowder fills the air, and the sunset is like fire. There are some years of hatred, and people will never be able to repay it.

As a result, certain moods will become clear in such emotions......

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