Summer has gradually arrived, and the flames of the land south of the Yangtze River, which was originally in the midst of the war, are 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, and in a short period of time, everyone has felt surprised, doubted, and shocked...... Then it gradually turned into despair that went cold to the bone marrow.

On the first day of the fifth month, in Danyang, Jun Wu woke up from a coma and felt emotions similar to this. The sun was blazing that day, when he woke up, he still had injuries on his body, but he only felt that there was boiling blood all over his body, his wife came over, served him to wash and drink porridge, and then he was ready to summon Yue Fei and other generals, but the first to come was the envoy of the inner palace who arrived from Lin'an and had been waiting for a day.

At this time, the emperor Zhou Yong, his sister Zhou Pei and others in the rear had already boarded the dragon boat on the Qiantang River, and all the affairs in Beijing were presided over by a group of ministers, and what was currently going on was the peace negotiation with the Jurchens.

The order to notify the armies on the front line to stop the confrontation was also being sent to all parts of the front line one after another, and the more than 100,000 troops led by General Chen Shao, which had been sent from Changzhou to Zhenjiang, stopped advancing towards Xiyin's troops at this time, and the troops led by Xi Yin Tushanwei and Shulie Speed led by Shulie put down the slaughter of Zhenjiang at this time and slowly turned to the road to the south.

Jun Wu, who still had pain in his abdomen, was dumbfounded, and it took a lot of effort for him to gradually understand everything in front of him.

In Lin'an, the first round of negotiations was underway, and the Wushu cavalry wanted to attack the city, but the emperor Zhou Yong had already arrived on the Qiantang River, and the court ministers proposed to let the Jurchen army pause forward, so that the two sides could continue peace talks.

On the basis of such peace, the imperial court sent envoys from all walks of life to issue a truce order to the armies in Jiangnan, and on the Jurchen side, Wushu stationed the cavalry outside the city to divert the fire, and also sent a message to Zongfu on the battlefield of Jiangning, but it seems that Xiyin was not willing to abide by such conditions.

And the peace of the court is still continuing, after explaining the situation to Jun Wu, the envoys of the inner palace began to persuade Jun Wu to return to Beijing, Jun Wu sat on the edge of the bed and sat in a daze for a long time, holding his stomach, standing up with difficulty, his wife came from the side, and was pushed away by him with a wave.

He trembled and pulled out the sword hanging beside the bed, walked towards the officer, and pressed the tip of the sword on the other party's chest:

"If you keep talking, I'll kill you." The persuasion of the internal officials stopped.

On a bright May day, in addition to the sunlight that came in through the window, there was also a buzzing sound that was so quiet as an illusion that Jun Wu put down his sword and sat down, and was silent for a long time, and finally said softly: "Please come in, Mr. Wenren." ”

The wife went out and summoned Wenren Fuji in, Jun Wu sat there and stretched out his hand to press his forehead, and only spoke for a long time, his voice was weak and hoarse: "Senior Brother Wenren, you know everything?" ”

“…… Be. ”

"My brain...... It's a little messy, it's like waking up, something is wrong...... "Jun Wudao," what should I do?" ”

"For the sake of today's plan, I can only persuade Your Majesty to withdraw your order, Your Highness's words may be of some use."

"Father, he ...... Frightened, I have already gone to the dragon boat on the Qiantang River, how to persuade him? If you can persuade her, the royal sister ......"

When he said this, Wen Ren Fuji stepped forward and whispered a word in his ear, and Jun Wu understood.

"Now that the royal sister has ...... I don't know how to convince my father, Senior Brother Wenren, I will bother you to repair a book for me later, and tell my father about the benefits, and then hand it over to this internal official to go later. Senior Brother Wenren ......" He felt pain in his abdomen, and stretched out his hand to press it for a moment, "At this point, if you negotiate peace, isn't it...... Gangnam is coming to an end? ”

Wen Ren's lips moved slightly, and he pondered for a moment: "I'm afraid it's ...... The world is coming to an end. ”

Junwu stood up against his abdomen, and he walked towards the door in despair, and his wife came to support him.

What flashed in front of him seemed to be the rush and blood of the moment before the coma. He felt the arrow wound in his abdomen, and saw the soldiers and civilians rushing towards the Jurchens, and the surging moment was the moment he longed for the most in the past ten years, but when he woke up from a dream, his father turned and fled behind his back.

He went out in a trance, and there was the city wall of Danyang in the distance on one side of his vision, a huge military camp built on a few huts on this side, and a refugee camp stretched out densely in the distance. Jun Wu thought of Bianliang City more than ten years ago, after the first defense of the city, after witnessing Qin Siyuan being imprisoned, the teacher's mood, and even the mood of hearing people, maybe this is the case.

I want to take this army back to Lin'an and keep my father.

He thought of this, and then froze. Outside Lin'an City, the army of Wushu is already encamped, and in the middle section, in fact, no one can get by.

Send people back, lobby all parties, rescue my sister, leave the dragon boat, and do my best to obey the destiny of heaven...... All sorts of thoughts crossed his mind. Walking slowly to the dirt slope on the side of the house, he sat down under a sickly tree, whose branches had been cut in half, casting jagged shade in the afternoon sun, and Junwu sat on the stone, watching the summer sun shine on the ground in front of him.

Not long after, his wife said beside him, "General Yue is here." ”

Jun Wu straightened up and asked him to come over. Yue Fei came over in armor to salute, and Jun Wu smiled: "General Yue, what is next?" This world ...... I can't hold it anymore. ”

"That's what the last general is here for."

"The general has an idea?"

"For today's plan, first of all, it is natural to stabilize the situation in Lin'an as the primary task, send a small number of people, contact the people in the eldest princess's mansion, try to keep Your Majesty, or if it is not good, try to keep Her Royal Highness, the crown prince Xiushu to persuade Your Majesty to change his mind, it is also the first thing to do......"

When Yue Fei said this, he arched his hand and paused: "However, since Her Royal Highness the eldest princess can't stabilize the situation in Lin'an, it may be difficult for Her Royal Highness to make a move." His Highness had to think about what would happen when he was unable to return to heaven...... With the current situation of our dynasty, if Your Majesty flees, the hearts of the army and the people of the world will probably be lost, and the gentry and gentry from all over the country will hardly have the strength to fight in the face of the Jurchens, and the fall of the world is imminent, but the only glimmer of hope is still here with His Royal Highness. ”

"General Yue is the ...... of hope"

"If Your Majesty leaves, half of the princes in the world will kneel in front of the Jurchens, but there must also be half or even half of the loyal and righteous people, who remember my old goodness and do not want to switch to the Jurchens, but even so, our court has lost its righteousness, and it will be difficult to fight in the face of the Jurchens. If His Royal Highness guarded Zhenjiang when there were half-hearted people, I am afraid that there will be an endless stream, and the most important thing in today's plan is to clean up the interior, so that His Highness can still have a fighting army in his hands. As long as we still have the strength to fight, even if Lin'an kneels down and the world falls, I am equal to the south of the Yangtze River, and there is still the will of the people, and there is still room for maneuver whether to fight or stay. ”

Yue Fei's words were sonorous and categorical: "In the past eight years, His Royal Highness has purged the military discipline of the world, but in fact, he still has to pull and compromise between the officials, ministers, and generals of all parties. Therefore, the minister asked His Royal Highness, as the crown prince, to convene all the leaders of all parties who can be summoned at the moment, collect military power, strictly supervise, and enforce military discipline! ”

"In extraordinary times, we should do extraordinary things." Jun Wu's eyes flashed, and he had already stood up, "But if I do this, I'm afraid I will break with Lin'an and the hearts of most of the scholars in the world." ”

"Back to Your Highness, if Your Majesty escapes, I am afraid that there will be no one who can be completely relied on in this world. The only thing Your Highness can afford to fear is the few things you can hold in your hands. ”

Yue Fei's words have been confessed to the extreme, and Jun Wu can naturally understand. In the past eight years, the front-line armies that have been painstakingly managed and built are actually the most stringent in Yue Fei's military law, and many times they are so strict that they are criticized, but at the beginning of the war, the most capable person was this backing army.

The rest, such as Han Shizhong's Zhen Navy, also used the prestige of the crown prince to isolate Han Shizhong's name from many external influences. This time, he led more than 100,000 troops guarding Zhenjiang, and he was still the elite in the army of the Wu Dynasty, but he was only a spy or two, and later he broke the front of more than 100,000 people, and even destroyed the foundation of the entire Wu Dynasty, which is heart-wrenching to think about.

In the past, he was the crown prince of the Wu Dynasty, even if he could withstand the huge military spirit of protecting one or two armies, but in the face of a country with tens of millions of people, the forces of all parties had to weigh and retreat in various ways. In order to increase the stakes of victory, he killed his brother-in-law, almost causing his wife to die of depression. But in the end, there was no way back.

At this time, if his father flees from Lin'an, the whole world will collapse, the whole mess, the demands of all kinds of vested interests, he can't take it, it is nothing more than a dead word - he doesn't have to compromise anymore.

The May sun began to shine through the crooked trees, and Jun Wu pressed the wound on his waist, his gaze gradually condensed and became resolute.

"Okay." There was a murderous aura coming out of his body, "It's time to kill!" ”

He strode down the dirt slope.

"General Yue, even if this mountain and river are in chaos...... You and I will not surrender until death. ”

Yue Fei arched his hand: "The last general will take the order." ”

Summer is getting deeper, and the atmosphere of the world is gradually changing.

On the second day of the first month of May, Junwu summoned the generals of the Zhenjiang garrison army in Danyang, with the 30,000 elites of the Beiwei army as the core, and began to collect military power and strictly enforce military discipline. At the same time, he revised the book and lobbied the armies in the south of the Yangtze River, analyzed the current situation, Chen talked about the interests and disadvantages, and hoped that even in the face of this dangerous situation, all forces could still put the interests of the Wu Dynasty first, strictly abide by the bottom line, and resist the Jurchens together.

The purge and reorganization of Danyang began in the most severe form. At the same time, Xi Yin and Yinshuke's troops ignored the prerequisites for peace talks and quickly went south, and in the court of Lin'an, Wanyan Qingjue promised to send envoys on the grounds that "the peacemakers are the two marshals of Zongfu and Zongbi, and they cannot restrain Xiyin's troops", and promised to send envoys to delay or stop the southward pace of the Ceres troops as much as possible.

Zhou Yong had already boarded the dragon boat at this time, and he didn't care about the Jurchens coming south, and the order for an armistice was sent in all directions. In the following few days, the forces with the Princess's Mansion, the Prince's Mansion, the Huaxia Army, and the main battle factions in the city as the core continued to make efforts to intercept and rescue Zhou Yong and Zhou Pei, and the situation in Beijing was chaotic for a while, and fighting was everywhere.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Qu Yuan's Dragon Boat Festival in the river, when it was determined that Xiyin's troops were gradually approaching the Lin'an range, Zhou Yong ordered the dragon boat fleet to set sail and sail away, which contributed to Qin Hui being called on the dragon boat by Zhou Yong at this time and becoming a part of the escape from the capital. The peace talks in Beijing were presided over by some ministers headed by Li Nanzhou, who hoped that they would resist the persecution of the Jurchens and obtain satisfactory terms of surrender for the Wu Dynasty under the condition of "no worries".

On the eighth day of the first month, Xiyin's troops arrived in Lin'an, silently began to set up siege equipment, and the negotiation situation was chaotic, Wanyan Qingjue forced Li Nanzhou, who was in charge of the seal of the Son of Heaven at this time, to draft an edict, and sent an envoy to summon Han Shizhong to leave Jiangning.

On 11 May, the envoys heading out of Jiangning were stopped by the men sent by the prince Junwu, and at the same time, the army that had initially completed the reorganization of Danyang began to move in the direction of Jiangning. After ten years of operation, Jiangning can be regarded as the real base camp of Junwu, and hundreds of thousands of troops of Zongfu are on the way, and the two sides face each other in the south of Jiangning.

At the same time, the court began to issue orders continuously, ordering the crown prince Junwu to no longer lead the army to act rashly, and not to start a war with the Jurchens.

In the long middle of May, at this time, the Wu Dynasty was thousands of miles across the land, countless people, countless wills in private in tandem, when the news of the truce reached Xiangfan, Liu Guangshi looked up to the sky and sighed, old tears, but he was ready to fight to the death. At this time, the news of the infighting and splitting of the Huaxia army from the southwest also increased the bargaining chips in the hands of the Jurchens to a greater or lesser extent.

By the end of May, the nerves of all parties had been tensed to the extreme, and on the evening of May 26, in Lin'an City, Wanyan Xiyin had made complete preparations for the siege of the city, and Niu Xingguo, the general of the forbidden army, and others launched a rebellion under the most desperate circumstances.

At this time, the humiliating traitorous regulations in the court have been drawn up, the city gate of Lin'an is about to be opened, the Jurchen army of 100,000 outside the city is ready to move, and the first batch of "labor army" women who have been collected under the urging of the Jurchens have been ready to be sent out of Lin'an City, and the most tragic Jingping shame is about to begin.

Rebel out of the city, facing 100,000 Jurchens, a dead end, stay in the city, and wait until the Jurchens enter the city in a dignified manner, and everyone is also a dead end. The "rebels" in Lin'an City finally chose to strike a desperate blow.

In the evening, the two city gates west and south of Lin'an were opened, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians began to surge out of the city, the Jurchen soldiers also chased and killed, the sky gradually darkened, the raging fire burned in the city of Lin'an, Niu Xingguo and other generals led the soldiers of the forbidden army, tried to block the pursuit of the Jurchens on the front outside the city of Lin'an, but soon they were scattered by the cavalry of the Wushu, and some soldiers and people carried bombs and gunpowder to launch a suicidal impact on the Jurchens.

On the bank of the Qiantang River in the south of Lin'an City, a large number of people were chased into the water, and some of the fugitives who had been prepared for a long time carried wooden boxes, cabinets, wooden beams, and bamboo rafts to float on the water, and then saved a life, and tens of thousands of lives were swallowed up by the waves.

More people died in the massacre, and the troops of Xi Yin Wushu knocked into the city and officially took over the Wu Dynasty after Zhou Yong's departure. The humiliation and massacre, which were even more tragic than the shame of Jingping, broke out in Lin'an City.

The bell of the collapse of the huge Jianshuo world rang here.

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In the summer of that year, a tragedy occurred in the entire city of Lin'an that no one could describe in detail.

The rebels were killed in the streets, and the ministers led by Li Nanzhou collected the treasures, women, and craftsmen in the city and delivered them to the Jurchen army to compensate for the "debt" of the war.

The people of Kyoto lost their husbands, their wives, their mothers, and their children in this war...... After ten years of calm, this tragic and unspeakable scene is only a small beginning of the tragedy that the whole world will experience.

Wanyan Xiyin walked into the messy Jinluan Palace, Wushu sat on the emperor's throne, and was playing with a group of Hanchen who were kneeling on the ground.

"The affairs of the Wu Dynasty have been completed, and the things that were discussed before should be done."

In front of Wanyan Xiyin, Wushu didn't dare to sit on the chair to face him, so he came down from above: "The emperor of the Wu Dynasty is not dead, the crown prince is not removed, and my brother is still fighting in Jiangning." This place is three thousand miles to the southwest, how to do it? ”

Wanyan Xiyin's gaze froze slightly, and his eyes began to become cold.

"Little Four, what do you think...... Say it again? ”

Wushu spread his hands and retreated slightly: "Jiang Ning is still fighting, it is impossible for my brother's soldiers to withdraw just now, the emperor of the Wu Dynasty went to the sea, their sailors are still recruiting to surrender, once they chase him, I will intercept him on land." Ceres, I said to my brother before, I will do my best to help you destroy the southwest, you can do whatever you want, such as today, it is all ours, and the people of the Wu Dynasty are attached. In this way—it's all yours, as long as you can bring it, the army, the equipment, the logistics, you bring it—it's enough for you to fill in the southwest. ”

Xi Yin stared at him, and his Wushu was furious: "My brother and I destroyed the Wu Dynasty, you and Mu Han destroyed the southwest, and the soldiers of the world were given to you, what else?" Are you afraid that I won't be able to make trouble behind my back? In the name of my ancestors, I swear that this time, I will never mess around behind your back! ”

“…… Tu Shanwei has a loss in Zhenjiang, your cavalry, give me 30,000. ”

After Xi Yin finished speaking, he turned to leave, and the Wushu stayed behind him for a moment.

“…… Good. I wish the Cereals Banner a victory, and the southwest thieves will draw in a fight! ”

……

The world is falling.

Summer continues, and countless people choose their side in this chaos. In June, under the betrayal of the traitors, Zong Han broke through the Xiangfan defense line, Liu Guangshi led a large number of rout troops to the south, the establishment of a small range of resistance forces, in the same month, Chen Fan white horse silver spear, broke Changsha City, the black flag, planted in Changsha City.

Jiangning, after more than ten days of confrontation, under the attack of the Beiwei army and the Zhen navy, Junwu broke through the flank of the Zongfu defense line, returned to Jiangning, and began another severe purge. At this time, the imperial court had continuously issued decrees to deprive the crown prince of the official power, but the troubled times had already begun, and such a decree had no meaning.

The will of the Jurchens is sweeping the world.

……

Southwest.

The first wave came to accept Xi Yin's will and send out negotiations and persuasions from Zong Han's army. They arrived at Zhangcun with a document written with multiple requests, perhaps written by Xi Yin. In the documents, there are various requirements such as the Huaxia army to the Jurchens as vassals, the transfer of various technologies, the transfer of specific craftsmen, and the order of the Huaxia army to self-castrate in various technologies. In this day and age, such "civilized" letters of persuasion are rare.

Ning Yi met with the envoys, and looked at them one by one: "Tsk, your Xiyin over there has learned well from me, and he is becoming more and more imaginative." ”

"Among today's heroes, only the god of the valley and Mr. sympathy for each other, the god of the valley often mentions Mr. Ning in the southwest, if he is in a country, both sides will be confidants. Now my Jin country has destroyed the Wu Dynasty and unified the world, leaving only the black flag in the southwest, which is difficult to support alone, and I heard that there is civil strife again. Today, the million-strong army of the Wu Dynasty and the Western Route Army of the Sticky Han Marshal have been vigorously armed, ready to go, and the god of grains thinks of the world, so there is room for him, and I hope that Mr. can make the right decision. ”

"A few years ago in Xiaocanghe, your envoy named Fan Hongji was not as good as you." Ning Yi looked at the messenger in front of him with a smile, then wrote a few words on the thick paperwork and threw it back: "Do you know why?" ”

The messenger took the text, flipped through it with his hand, and said, "Mr. Ning......" Speaking of this, when he saw the words written by Ning Yi, his words stopped.

At the back of the text were nine random words.

- I don't agree with all of them, take them back and change them.

Ning Yi had already walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "That's because the Huaxia Army is no longer the Huaxia Army of Xiaocanghe, Wanyan Xiyin sent you over, just to see my will, you are not important at all, you can't get it on the battlefield, and you can't talk about it on the table...... I originally hoped that the Wu Dynasty would be able to hold on a little more, but now it seems, forget it, I'll do it myself, what a million army of horses, go back and call Muhan and Xiyin to come over, your Western Road army has entered the Chengdu Plain, and I buried you. ”

After his words were said indifferently, he had already left the room, and the late summer light shone in through the window.

……

The sea, the time is already the end of summer, and under the softness of Zhou Yong's heart, Zhou Pei was able to come out and walk around on the deck of the dragon ship to relax. At first, the surrounding guards were still tight, and gradually, in the face of the silent eldest princess, everyone gradually relaxed.

On June 24, seagulls were flying in the sky, Zhou Pei looked up, and the sea was as blue as a wash.

Zhou Yong walked over from not far away, and when he arrived at 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 suddenly ran to the side of the boat.

She jumped high, the seagull flew past her eyes, and her body fell into the blue sea.

A tear fell from the sky......

……

In the clouds, Tang Minjie finished reading all the information from the south, and then closed his eyes, and there was a flash of light on his resolute and indifferent face.

"Second Jingping ......"

He clenched the paper in his hand, gritted his teeth, and paused word by word.

……

Xuzhou.

Due to the collapse of the Jiangnan defensive line, Liu Chengzong's troops no longer had to threaten the Jurchens' retreat, and the troops that had been fighting for months were turning in the direction of Shandong, north of the Yangtze River.

Jindi.

The armies of Lou Shuwan and Yu Yulin carried out several counterattacks under extremely difficult circumstances, and when the fighting spirit of the various forces in the Jin region faded, they expanded their territory a little and got a little respite. But by this time, the savings of Tian Hu and Tian Shi have gradually been exhausted, and a more difficult time is coming.

……

At the end of June, in a small corner that no one in the world noticed, something was happening.

In the northwest, since the Battle of Xiaocanghe, the Jurchens carried out a brutal massacre here, so that for several years, the plague was rampant, and the land was thousands of miles away.

This situation is about to be forgotten by people.

Fuzhou, under the rule of Zhekeqiu, after the Huaxia Army and the Jurchens went, the largest settlement of people in the northwest, in the context of the fierce war in the world, the situation here gradually became a relatively quiet place.

On this day, the glow of the sky-swallowing sun was about to fall, Wushugang, a post house in the west of Fuzhou, the veteran of the guard appeared from the room, and the warm wind of the evening was rolling up the barren sand and walking, and he suddenly felt an ominous vibration.

The veteran lay on the ground and listened, gradually revealing a confused gaze, and in a moment, he saw a surging cavalry coming from the ground at the other end of the earth!

He was about to turn and walk towards the rear, and on the figure behind him, a figure that had arrived early jumped high in the air and waved his saber.

The blood wave is surging, blooming-

(End of Episode 9 * The Vast Land)

(Welcome to the tenth episode of "Son-in-law" * When the long night is in spring)