In autumn, the leaves begin to turn yellow.

In the ninth year of Tianhui, under the hard work of the second emperor Wu Qimai, the Jin State and the national strength were thriving, and as the strongest country in the world, the king came to the world.

Xijing Datong was the military center of the Jin Kingdom in the southwest at this time, and the Marshal Mansion of Wanyan Zonghan was located here. In a way, this is almost a ****** that can compete with the north.

However, although Wanyan Zonghan has a lofty status and is extremely powerful in the Jin Kingdom, after the death of Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the former Jin Kingdom, it is difficult for anyone to compete with him head-on among Ah Guta's sons-in-law, and there are often rumors in the outside world about the northern and southern courts. However, there was not much friction between the Jurchen court and the marshal's palace, and the reason for this was that there were still many Jurchen founding ministers in this court.

Especially the emperor who was sharp when he was under the command of Ah Guta, but after succeeding to the throne, he restrained his temperament, and was gentle internally and strong externally. This emperor, who can be a hundred on the battlefield and fight hard, is actually honest in front of his own people, and at the beginning of his succession, because he secretly drank fine wine, he was dragged down by a group of powerful courtiers and beat the 20th board, and he never resisted.

After succeeding to the throne, although the Jurchen army continued to march south, the Jurchen domestic governance was actually stable and peaceful. On the one hand, Wu Qimai encouraged agriculture and mulberry, and on the other hand, reformed the domestic system, and made many efforts to eliminate slavery and improve the economic system. During the Third Expedition, he had already begun to implement a slave redemption system in the country to protect the lives of slaves to a certain extent, and began to implement a policy of suppressing land annexation. Although the battle in the outside world was fierce and harsh, during this period of time, the territory of the Jin Kingdom did seem too peaceful and stable, as the lord of the guard, Wu Qimai was worthy of the position of emperor.

With him in charge, the Jurchen moves forward steadily, even if she is as unruly as Zong Han, she has enough respect and awe for her.

However, in the years since the country was pacified, there have indeed been brilliant Jurchen heroes who have fallen one after another in the continuous conquests.

The former Jurchen military god, the second prince Zongwang, died of illness during the Jurchen third war.

The god of war was killed in the battle of the northwest four years ago.

In the eighth year of Tianhui, Ban Bo Jilie (the crown prince in the Jurchen Bo Jilie system), and also the biological brother of Aguta and Wu Qimai, Wan Yan Xian, also died of illness, although Xian was not as famous as Zong Han and Lou Mur, who was almost victorious in a hundred battles, but he was also a famous general with a high status with a stable personality. In the first two wars of the Jin Kingdom, although Zong Han and Zong Wang were each marshals of the first army, they actually sat in the name of the commander-in-chief, but they were oblique. If he hadn't died, he would have been the next Emperor of Jin.

In the same year, the general resigned in the Battle of Yanzhou in the northwest, and was captured and beheaded after being a traitor.

The general died in a hundred battles, the strong man returned in ten years, the fall of a general did not stop the pace of the Jurchens, and in the Mongolian steppe on the northern front, the battle of thousands of cavalry led by Shulie to the rising Mongol tribes was slightly frustrated, and an army that participated in the expedition returned triumphantly from the south.

They entered from the south gate and presented the spoils to the generals, however, this time the return of the army, brought back not much spoils, after all, its scale is not as good as the war, however, in the four consecutive years to delay the pace of the Jurchen campaign, in the war in the Jurchen has lost two famous generals in the northwest battle, but also attracted the attention of many people with a heart.

The rebel who killed the king in the south, the demon in the northwest, and the powerful Black Flag army were finally crushed in the iron-blooded conquest of the Jurchens.

A worn-out blood-stained military flag was presented to the Jurchen army as a trophy in front of the Zong Han Throne, and the generals of the Marshal's Mansion announced the fact that the Ning bandits had been beheaded and the Black Flag Army had been annihilated. Cheers erupted from the nearby streets and squares. On the one hand, the two generals of the Jin State and the two generals died in the northwest, and some people were willing to admit that he was powerful, on the other hand, some Jurchens believed that such a record showed that the Jin State had problems and was no longer invincible in the past, of course, no matter which view, after the destruction of the Black Flag Army, it was temporarily diluted.

Chen Wenjun watched the scene of the return of the army in the crowd for a while, and the city was lively. Back in the house, Xi Yin was practicing calligraphy in the study, and when she saw her coming, she put down her pen and smiled: "You go to see the teacher?" It's a bit boring. ”

Chen Wenjun shook his head, and looked at the most conspicuous position in the study, most of the famous calligraphy and painting monuments in Xiyin's study were brought from the south.

The monarch and the minister are willing to bend their knees, and the son is sad alone.

Go to the West Sichuan affair, the king of the northern land.

Hurt his body to reward his ancestors, scratching his head and crying the sky.

If the people are here, who Yunhan is dead!

This pair of words written by Ning Yi, Xi Yin has been hanging in the study since returning from the north, hanging in the corner at first, since the beginning of the Northwest War, he has been constantly changing seats, after resigning and dying in the war, Xi Yin once took it down, but then it was still hung in the center. Today, it has finally moved to the center.

"If the dignified people are there, who Yunhan is dead......" Chen Wenjun looked up at the word and read it softly. She had also seen this word in the past, and when she looked at it now, the complexity in her heart could no longer be humanized by outsiders.

Xi Yin leaned over: "Yes, Rin is here...... Ning Liheng, when the Wu Dynasty did not kill the king, was Qin Siyuan's friend, I look back on the events of the year, the Wu Dynasty Qin Siyuan Confucianism, the Qin family's son died in Taiyuan, Qin Siyuan died at the hands of traitors after being assigned, and the second son of the Qin family and Ning Liheng had an incident. In the past three years in the northwest, he deserves this sentence, I underestimated him, but unfortunately, I couldn't talk about it when he was alive. ”

Xi Yin sighed slightly, Chen Wenjun could understand more of the deep meaning of his words. In the three years of the northwest, the Jurchens were behind, and the puppet Qi army was in front, which was Xi Yin's idea, the reason was that because the black flag army was powerful, the Jurchens failed to find a good way to restrain themselves, so they first used the puppet Qi army as the vanguard to test the artillery, and the Jin State was constantly following the war to improve the artillery.

Who knew that this dragged on, the war was almost indefinite, and last year he was killed in the city of Yanzhou, and Xi Yin felt extremely guilty. Since then, the Jurchen army has strengthened its offensive even more, and although it has now mastered artillery technology and made a super crossbow specially made for shooting hot air balloons, Xi Yin has always felt that he has his own responsibility for not losing the manpower and material resources invested by the Jurchens in the past three years.

Chen Wenjun was silent for a moment, tilted his head and said, "I heard someone say that Ning Yi is full of tricks, and this time he may be cheating to death." Has the lord been to see his head? ”

There was no emotion on her face, Xi Yin looked at her, and then smiled with a complicated face: "Some people do think like this, in fact, the head of the person is not enough to rely on, the thing cut off on the battlefield is not difficult for people to recognize and send over, it is not difficult to fake, Fan Hongji, who has dealings with him, said that it is indeed Ning Yi's head, but there are mistakes." ”

He shook his head, looked at the words in front of him, and sighed: "It is not such a superficial thing to collect troops from the court, in fact, the Black Flag Army is not dead......"

Xi Yin paused when she said this, and saw a glimmer of light in Chen Wenjun's eyes - she was worried about the Southern Dynasty and was quite sympathetic to the Black Flag Army, Xi Yin knew that Chen Wenjun was not shy about it, so he looked at her and smiled: "The battle in the northwest was extremely chaotic, and Liu Yu was incapable of killing." Many things can only be clarified now, some of the Black Flag Army escaped from the northwest, and they have even done even more powerful things, and we are still investigating. The rest of the Black Flag Army has now turned to the southwest, and Ning Yi Jin Cicada has come out of its shell, which may have been arranged, however, there are always accidents. ”

"What?" Chen Wenjun looked back.

"The battlefield is changing rapidly, and he has led his army from the dead several times, and it is likely that ...... Fake death becomes real death, just like Lou Room, suddenly encountering an accident, no one expected. Wanyan Xiyin said this, his eyes were complicated, and he sighed: "Inside the Black Flag Army, I can't find him now...... If this is not confirmed, even if there is a battle on the northern front, how can I allow him to withdraw his troops. As soon as he dies, the Black Flag Army will have millions of soldiers, and it's just a thought, let's go......"

Chen Wenjun was stunned for a moment, but it was only after this moment that he smiled slightly bitterly.

"That'...... What is the more powerful thing that the master said? ”

"It was also my mistake, if Ning Liheng was still alive, it would be a little troublesome, but...... If it's dead, let Liu Yu and them in the south have a headache, this is the news that I only learned recently......"

Hee-yin looked at the words again and chatted casually with his wife......

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To the south, there is news about the destruction of the Black Flag Army and the beheading of Ning Liheng, a rebel and thief, which is gradually spreading throughout the world.

In the Central Plains, although the war has stopped, the fruits of the war in this land are still bitter and difficult to swallow.

Some information gradually appeared after the chaos of the war, and after some people became aware of it, it became an even more chaotic situation.

In the palace of the Daimyo's Mansion, in the autumn after the end of the war, Liu Yu began to become suspicious and panicked, and in the past few days, he has killed more than ten palace guards in a row.

Rumors from the bottom are spreading and expanding from mouth to mouth.

According to legend, in the three-year Northwest War, the Black Flag Army forced down many prisoners in the Great War, and this forced surrender is not just as simple as a general surrender, it is rumored that before the start of the Great War in the Northwest, after the Black Flag Army killed Lou Room, the devil Ning Yi has been actively arranged, he sent a large number of Black Flag soldiers, scattered throughout the Central Plains, where the crowd gathers.

When the Northwest War began, the Jurchens forced Daqi to send troops, and Liu Yu's forced conscription was launched in these places. At this time, the Central Plains had been baptized by three major wars, the original order had long been chaotic, and the officials could no longer judge who was a good citizen and who was a local from the household registration.

These people collude with the people around them, choose those who are strong and inclined to the Black Flag Army, surrender to the Black Flag Army on the battlefield, and pass information to the Black Flag Army in every major war, in that big war, a large number of people disappeared into the battlefield silently, becoming the nourishment for the growth of the Black Flag Army.

And that's not even the scariest of all.

The most terrifying thing is that in today's Great Qi army, I don't know how many people are still lurking in it, some of them have become high-level generals, some are still developing members of the Black Flag Army, and some may even have been exceptionally promoted to become the palace guards around Liu Yu.

These days, every soldier Liu Yu sees is like a lurking member of the Black Flag.

Over the days, his spirit weakened.

The night breeze was blowing, rolling up the leaves, and there seemed to be water dripping under the eaves.

Tick, tick, tick...... The sound of small fragments.

Liu Yu woke up from his sleep, his back was covered in cold sweat, he felt as if he saw a dark shadow beside the bed, and then ...... There was really a dark shadow next to the bed.

The man in black leaned over, one hand like an iron hoop, firmly clamping his mouth, and those eyes were looking at him, face to face.

"The Emperor's ......"

The voice sounded, and the man drew a dagger, pointed it up to his neck, gestured, and began to point the tip of the dagger to his eyes, and slowly pierced it.

“…… Kill one more emperor......"

Liu Yu struggled up, but the strength on that hand was still increasing, his cheek bones were gurgling, and there was a damp and hot feeling coming from under the futon, he was already frightened and incontinent, and his eyes were tightly closed.

The hand that was clamping on the side of his mouth suddenly let go, and then with a heavy blow, Liu Yu fainted.

When he woke up the next morning, the red marks on Liu Yu's face had not faded, and a huge chaos had appeared in the palace.

There are rumors about inner demons and black flags, which are circulating among the people......

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The repercussions continue. Jiangnan, the news of Ning Yi's death and the fall of the Black Flag Army have been spread in people's mouths, except for a few scholars who began to pay tribute to the dead Zhou Zhe and lamented "setting things right", this time, the voice of folk discussion seemed quiet.

In the southern suburbs of Jiangning City, a large courtyard was built in the originally beautiful hills, and the troops of the Wulie Battalion were also stationed nearby. A large number of elm cannons and iron cannons are now manufactured from here and distributed to various armies, and the prince himself often sits here.

In late autumn, a man with a severed hand knocked on the wooden door of a courtyard, a tall, steady man with several scars on his face, and a battle-hardened veteran. After reporting some codes, it was Lu Agui, the current chief administrator of the Prince's Mansion, who came out to receive him. What this veteran brought back was news about Xiaocanghe and the three-year war in the northwest, and he was Lu Agui's internal response to the Xiaocanghe army.

This person's name is Lin Guanglie, in Xiaocanghe for a few years, he joined the Black Flag Army to fight bravely, and once rose to the side of the rebel Ning Liheng, he was captured in the last few chaotic battles in the northwest, and was brutally tortured, and in custody, he escaped with several soldiers of the Black Flag Army, cut off his arm with his own hands, and escaped with nine deaths, and then went south to report the news.

Naturally, he also received heroic treatment, and after listening to relatively important information, Lu Agui settled him down, and at the same time sent someone to report the prince who was still in the capital at this time.

Lin Guanglie was arranged in the best house and received the best treatment, on this day, Lin Guanglie went out to Jiangning to go shopping, got rid of the two guards who were arranged to protect him, walked along the path behind the city, walked not far, and saw Lu Agui and a team of soldiers waiting in front.

Lu Agui's eyes were puzzled, the person in front of him was a talent he had carefully selected, he was strong in martial arts and had a loyal personality, his mother was still in the south, and he even saved his life...... On this day, Lin Guanglie knelt down, kowtowed to him and apologized, and then told him about his last thing in the northwest.

In the three-year war in the northwest, the enemy came in a steady stream, even though Ning Yi had already made many arrangements to withstand it, the battle situation was still extremely tragic. In the last year, the Jurchen offensive intensified, everyone ran around, Ning Yi and his direct troops also entered the battle, and Lin Guanglie was already a member of this team at that time.

The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, although there is everyone's protection, but Ning Yi has also been injured a few times, in a desperate environment, he and everyone rushed to kill together, and he also said that he may one day, it will also be the end of the Yan Lou room. In those times, Ning Yi liked to talk to people, many ideas, and did not avoid people, when it came to his views on war and the world, everyone may not be able to understand them, but over time, he knew what kind of heart he had.

“…… I...... The day before the battle, I remember, it was very hot, and we all hid in the mountains, and when it was almost dark, we sat on the side of the mountain to cool off. I remember, the sun was as red as blood, Mr. Ning went to see the wounded and came back, and told us who was dead......" Lin Guanglie said this, already standing up, "He sat with us for a while, and I ......will remember it for the rest of my life."

He said...... I've been nagging you all day long, and some people have said to my face, 'I'm annoyed,' I know it...... He said, in fact, I am a person who is afraid of death, I don't want to die and I don't want to be in pain, it's not comfortable...... He said, I don't want to say why we have to die and have to suffer today, but I feel very honored to be able to fight and rush together with you, because you are human beings, you have noble and noble things, not some messy garbage, and you have done your best for the best...... So, if something happens one day, I'm really, not in vain......"

The man stood there, tears already in his eyes.

"I was caught by them, and not long after, they said that Mr. Ning was dead, and because of that, I was not killed. That night I broke my hand, killed three people, and rushed out with the rest of me. I don't know if Mr. Ning is really dead, but when he said those words, I really felt that I was a person, no less than anyone else, not even the emperor......"

"Presumptuous!" Hearing the other party say this, Lu Agui's eyes were cold, and he roared out, and a team of soldiers around him drew their swords at the same time, and for a while, the sword light was chilling in this mountain road. Lin Guanglie took a breath and pulled out the steel knife on his waist with his only remaining right hand.

"Steward Lu, I promise you to save your life, and I respect you, I cut off my hand, I just think, even before I die, I want to return this life to you. I brought you back the news of Xiaocanghe. Xiao Canghe is upright, there is nothing that can't be told to others! But after I finished the news, Mr. Lu, I want to send this life back to the Huaxia Army, you want to stop me, you can leave my life today. But there is one thing, let me make it clear to you, after three years of fighting, I only have one hand, I can still kill, you beware. ”

His figure lowered slightly, and he stood sideways, his eyes narrowed. At such a distance, he was only one person, and if he rushed out, he would probably be shot on the spot, but even so, the sense of oppression he gave people at this moment did not decrease in the slightest, this is a tiger returning from the hell in the northwest.

Lu Agui was silent for a moment: "If it is...... Ning Liheng is really dead, what good is it for you to go back? ”

"Mr. Ning told us those words...... Lin Guanglie said, "if he really dies, the Huaxia Army will pass him down." Steward Lu, relying on you, you can't save the world. ”

The autumn leaves are yellow, falling to the trees in the wind, and in the sky, the geese flying south are shooting in rows. In the confrontation between the two sides on the mountain road, Lu Agui raised his head and sighed silently.

It was also the scholar's hometown.

Now that the wild goose has returned, many people will not come back. Or the person is absent, or the heart is absent......

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Southwest Dali, Buddhism flourishes, this is a quiet and peaceful country.

Duan Xiaoqing, the daughter of Lian Yi Hou Duan Baosheng, is thirteen years old this year, although she has not yet reached the age of Xuan, but Duan Xiaoqing has been familiar with reading poetry and books since she was a child, Xi Nu Hong, and Tongyin Law, and has become a famous talented woman in Dali City at a young age.

Duan Baosheng has always been very proud of having such a good daughter, but of course he also knows that the main reason why his daughter can be so eye-catching is not only that her daughter has been beautiful since she was a child, but also that she was found a few years ago. For this matter, Duan Baosheng has always been grateful.

For this female layman with outstanding appearance, temperament, and knowledge, Duan Baosheng often admired him in his heart, and once he also thought about accepting the other party as the side room of the Hou Mansion, and asked someone to ask for marriage, but the other party politely refused, so there was no way. Buddhism in Dali is prosperous, and although Duan Baosheng likes each other, he doesn't have to marry him. In order to give the other party a good impression, he has always maintained a sense of proportion, for several years, except for the occasional meeting when the other party was teaching his daughter, the rest of the time, Duan Baosheng and this Wang Jushi have not met much.

In the past few years, the external situation has been surging, the Wu Dynasty has been suddenly knocked to the bottom from the original **** Shangguo, the Central Plains and the Northwest have been fighting, and Dali has gradually become nervous. On this day, Duan Baosheng saw off a guest from the courtyard where he was meeting, and on the way he met Wang Jingmei, who was walking around the garden with his daughter.

His eyes were on the Ito, his steps slowing down, and his mouth was still talking. The Wang monk didn't look at this side, Duan Baosheng just looked at her side face, and at a certain moment, she turned her head to look this way, and Duan Baosheng saw that the other party's face was already white.

What's wrong......

Duan Baosheng didn't understand.

On this day, a woman who used to be named Li Shishi and is now known as Wang Jingmei heard the news of Ning Yi's death in the southwest corner.

Before that, the army in the small valley where she once lived, confronted the murderous Jurchens, dragged them down, and fought a great battle for three whole years......

She had thought that the battle would go on endlessly, and even then, the pain would not come up so instantly.

There are a lot of things, and suddenly they surged up again, that figure, a simple fragment of childhood, the reunion in Jiangning, she was always full of misunderstandings about him, that person killed tens of thousands of people in Liangshan, the pursuit of interests during disaster relief, the manipulation of human nature, the Jurchens came, he resisted outside the city, when the Right Prime Minister's Mansion fell, he kept running, he killed the emperor, took her to the mountains in the northwest, and asked her to sort out those words.

At a certain moment she thought of him, remembering that she used to like him, but after killing the emperor, she could no longer like him, and he would not deliberately give in to their arguments. Then, she went to Tiannan, and he stood in the way......

A person who is so hard, stubborn, and unyielding, she is almost ...... I'm going to forget him......

On this day, Duan Xiaoqing saw that her intellectually beautiful female gentleman didn't know why she lost her temper, she hid in the small room on the side of her boudoir, and cried for a long, long time......

The next day, Wang Jingmei asked Duan Baosheng for her resignation.

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The wild geese returning to the south flew over the sky of the Wu Dynasty.

In the Central Plains, Liu Yu's regime began to prepare to move the capital to Bianliang.

Yue Fei led his army towards the battlefield on the northern front, and after defeating two armies and recovering a prefecture and county, he was reprimanded by the capital. The Black Flag Army has gone, and the Jurchens no longer have any obstacles to the south, and they can no longer provoke the border.

Prince Junwu returned to Jiangning, listened to Lu Agui finish talking about Lin Guanglie, sighed slightly, outside, a piece of iron cannon and gunpowder were transported out of the workshop, and the improvement of various firearms was in full swing.

To the south, Master Li cut off his hair, left Dali, and began his journey north.

Lin Guanglie walked on the road to the west, just like his journey to the south, passing through the rugged and steep Mandao Xiongguan.

In Western Xia, after the defeat of Xiaocanghe and the fall of the Huaxia army, Li Qianshun began to reorganize the trade routes, and when he was ready for the beginning of spring, he began to show his strength. Then spring begins......

The black iron cavalry roared like the wind, and in the powerful offensive like a hurricane, it smashed the vast plains of the black water of Western Xia, and soon after, stepped along the Helan Mountain. The smoke burned, and this was the beginning that no one knew about.

- Mongolia, Genghis Khan Temujin, stepped on a huge stage.

At the southern end of Tibet, a small tribal settlement called Dayang had gradually developed and began to look like a Han settlement. A force that once shocked the world is gathering and waiting here. Waiting for the time to come, waiting for someone to return......

The peaks are like gathering, and the waves are like fury. It's time to chase the deer. (To be continued.) )