When the darkness reaches its deepest depths, the memories and emotions of the past come rushing like a, with an unbreathable and oppressive touch.

In summer, the image of the heat, the pond is dotted with lotus lotuses.

In the autumn of the third year of Wu, Jianshuo, with the 200,000 troops of the puppet Qi Ji Wenkang being defeated by the Chinese Black Flag Army as the prelude, the combined army of the Jin State and the puppet Qi launched a long siege against Lüliang, Xiaocanghe, Yanzhou and other places for three consecutive years.

The war in the northwest has not stopped since then.

When the Jurchens' southern expedition was not long over, the initial offensive was basically dominated by the Liu Yu regime. Under the supervision of the Jurchen regime, the second round of offensive and blockade was quickly organized, and after the defeat of 200,000 men, as many as 600,000 troops, step by step, pushed towards the border of Lüliang.

This time, Tian Hu, Cao Xingnong, Lu Zheng and other major forces that nominally belonged to Liu Yu's account and were actually surrendered Jurchen have also sent troops. At the end of that autumn, a large number of troops were pushed to Luliang, Northwest and other places under the supervision of the Jin people, and with the advance of this first batch of troops, reinforcements were still gathered and killed in various parts of the Central Plains. In the northwest, under the mobilization of the Jurchen generals, the Zhejia began to move, and the rest of the surrendering forces such as Yan Zhenguo who had lost in the earlier invasion of the northwest also took advantage of this huge momentum to participate in it.

This mighty army is as powerful as heaven's punishment. At this time, although the Central Plains had fallen into the hands of the Jurchens, there were still several rebel forces in the northwest, but either they understood that the Jurchens were serious about avenging the Wanyan Lou family, or they were taboo about the identity of the Huaxia Army to kill the monarch and rebel, and only the Huaxia Army and the Seed Family Army, two troops of less than 100,000 people, really resisted under the power of this mighty army.

In the northwest, the Chongjia army held the city, and in the mountains of Luliang, Xiaocanghe and other places, the Huaxia army launched a fierce offensive against hundreds of thousands of troops.

According to the continuous and steep mountains and complex terrain of these places, the offensive adopted by the Huaxia army was flexible and changeable, with ambushes, traps, hot air balloons flying in the sky, and carefully arranged artillery arrays according to the terrain...... At that time, before the winter came, hundreds of thousands of troops entered the mountains in batches, often after being attacked by the Black Flag Army, the puppet Qi army was blown up by the fierce artillery array to cut off the mountain road, and the Black Flag Army that rushed up the ridge pushed down the fire oil and grass stacks, and the mountain slopes and valleys were pushed and fled by the crowds of people, and they were burned and scorched by a large area in the spread of the fire.

The fierce fire attacks and night attacks, especially when the mountain roads were difficult to travel, and the fierce blows against the grain and grass troops entering the mountains, in the first few months, tens of thousands of people died almost like funerals between the mountains, and the situation was so tragic that it was impossible to look at it directly.

Although the Han Chinese army participated in the attack at this time, the Black Flag Army showed no mercy - and neither could they. And the troops of the Han people did not mean anything to the Jurchens. Liu Yu's regime continued to recruit troops in the Central Plains, and a small number of Jurchen troops guarded the rear of the mountains, urging the advance of the troops entering the mountains, and because of the initial head-on attack, the expeditionary troops entering the mountains began to advance more steadily.

In the spring of the fourth year of Jianshuo, the puppet Qi army first entered the periphery of Qingmu Village, and the attack and defense around Qingmu Village began, in the autumn of this year, with the increase of Jurchen reinforcements, the attacking army approached Xiaocang River, and in winter, completed the encirclement and division of Qingmu Village and Xiaocang River. As for the several cities controlled by the Northwest Seed Army, they have been slaughtered into a bloody field, and the Seed Army has lost the control of Gyeongju, the Security Army, Huanju and other places, and only one place remains, Yanzhou, which is struggling to support.

This year, the progress of the Jinqi coalition army turned into a war report, perhaps simply. However, in the process of advancing between the Jin army and the puppet Qi army, the strength of the resistance shown by the Huaxia army was astonishing, even appalling, in the mountains near Qingmu Village and Xiaocang River, the advance of the attacking army was almost an inch of land and an inch of blood, and in the process of advancing, even because the main general was killed, the camp was attacked in the middle of the night, and the camp was bombed, resulting in several large-scale routs. If it weren't for the Jurchen army guarding the rear to supervise tens of thousands of deserters one after another, and the heads stood on the ground to build a continuous forest, this war is estimated to have been impossible to fight.

In March of the fourth year, the war had not yet surrounded Qingmu Village, and the pseudo-Qi was advancing inch by inch, the Huaxia Army suddenly highlighted the Xiaocang River, and attacked the Yan Zhenguo and Zhejia coalition forces in the northwest to kill the wolf ridge, and the battle Yan Zhenguo was extremely pro-guard troops, and at the same time defeated the Zhejia army, and the Zhe family fled for more than 30 miles, and several sons and nephews of the Zhe family were killed by the Black Flag Army in this battle.

In June, a special team of about 1,000 people sneaked north into the territory of the Jin Kingdom, broke into the Zhongling of Shuozhou, these more than 1,000 people took the county seat, conquered a nearby horse farm guarded by Jin soldiers, snatched hundreds of horses, lit a fire and then went away, when the Jurchen army arrived, the horse farm, the county government had been burned in the raging fire, all the Jurchen officials were all beheaded at the head of the city, hanging their heads to show the public.

The troops left Jurchen characters on the boulders on the mountain road returning to Luliang: Don't hope to survive.

――I don't have to think that I can come back alive.

This is no one thought of the fierceness, for several years, the Jurchens swept the world without encountering opponents, in the process of the army attacking Xiaocanghe and attacking the northwest, although there is the supervision of the Jurchen army, but when it comes to the Jurchen country, they are still digesting the results of the third southward march, at this time it is just like a lazy snake, no one wants to face the full dispatch of the Jurchen army, but the Black Flag Army actually made a brazen attack like this, scraping a fierce knife on the other party.

Such an attack did not cause pain to the Jurchens, but the loss of face was a feeling that had not been felt for a long time.

With this action, more Jurchen troops began to move south one after another.

However, in the face of the fierce artillery attack of the Black Flag Army, the Jurchen troops at this time did not stand on the front line, but only used a large number of Han troops as cannon fodder, using them to test the power of artillery and gunpowder, and gradually seek a way of restraint.

However, in September, the same army, taking advantage of an attack by the Black Flag Army, tore through the blockade line, fought out of the mountains of the eastern front, and stirred up a back and forth between the camps of the Jurchen garrison. However, with the rapid response of the Jurchen army, these 1,000 people suffered a tragic encirclement and interception on the way back to Xiaocanghe, and suffered heavy losses.

In the spring of the fifth year of Jianshuo, the Jurchen general led 30,000 Jurchen troops to the south and northwest, stepped on the stele of "don't hope to survive", and led 30,000 troops into the Central Plains. In February, upon learning of this news, half of Xiaocanghe's troops brazenly broke through the siege and began a bloody battle for nearly a month. This was a tragic battle after the army advanced step by step, during which the puppet Qi general Ji Wenkang, Liu Yu's younger brother Liu Yi and other high-level leaders were all killed by the Black Flag Army.

Rivers of blood flowed and corpses piled up in valleys.

In March, Yanzhou fell, and Chong Yan resisted to the end in the city of Yanzhou and died in the battle, and since then there has been no more seed army.

In June, with the participation of the Shuliesu troops, after more than half a year of siege, Xiaocanghe broke the dam, and the troops of Qingmu Village and Xiaocanghe broke through the siege, and the mountains were in chaos. Ning Yi led a force of more than 20,000 to attack Yanzhou, and led the army to confront it, while the Black Flag Army infiltrated the city of Yanzhou through the secret passage dug by the Seed Army earlier, and broke the city inside and outside, and the Jurchen general was captured in the chaotic battle, and then beheaded by the Black Flag Army at the head of the city.

Qin Shaoqian led another Black Flag Army to the south and east for a time, entering the Central Plains, and after capturing several cities in a row, it broke through to the vicinity of Taiyuan. It is said that Qin Shaoqian paid tribute to his deceased brother under the city of Taiyuan, and soon after, he rushed back to the west.

After retrieving Yanzhou, the Black Flag Army went straight to the boundary of Zhejia, feinted to attack Fuzhou, surrounded the point to send reinforcements to break the Zhejia reinforcements, and then broke the city to take Linzhou, and then returned to the mountains in the east to get rid of the ensuing Jurchen elite cavalry pursuit......

At this time, the western and northwest parts of the Central Plains, where the black flags came and went, had completely turned into a chaotic killing field.

Whether it is the west, the south, or the north, people may not have put much thought into this big war at the beginning, but at this point, its emergence and progress are no longer anyone's ability to ignore. In the second year of the war, the Central Plains had mobilized almost all of its forces into it, and the exorbitant taxes of the Liu Yu regime soared, the Han people fled south, the people were struggling to make a living, and the revolting troops rose again.

The Jurchens also spent a large number of troops to suppress it, and in the direction of the Central Plains to the Xiaocang River, Liu Yu's army and Tian Hu's army blocked all the routes, and it was not until Qin Shaoqian led his troops to kill that this blockade was briefly broken.

No one knows how desperate the people involved in the war were, that the Black Flag soldiers captured on the battlefield would be brutally abused to death, that the Han troops who were forced to go to the front line had already broken their courage, and that sometimes there were even cowards kneeling in front of the army and begging the Black Flag Army to surrender and begging the Black Flag Army to die quickly - they could not see that the Black Flag Army still had any possibility of survival, so they did not dare to throw themselves to death - the Black Flag Army also did not show mercy to them.

By the second half of the fifth year of the establishment of the Shuo, the Jurchen artillery had also begun to be gradually put into use in the army, and the elite Jurchen troops mixed into the army would raid the Black Flag Army after the artillery stopped - at this time, the gunpowder of the Black Flag Army was running out, and the Jurchens still had a large amount of gunpowder to squander.

The information sent to the south always seems simple, but every clash in the mountains can be breathlessly violent. There are also small-scale confrontations in large-scale battles, some of the Black Flag soldiers of small squads are besieged in the mountains until they starve to death, some are ambushed by the army and fight to the last person in the Jedi, people will find the black flags still standing in the mountains of corpses, in the harshest environment, in the most desperate death, every rush of the Black Flag soldiers is terrifying......

How can people who have never experienced it imagine it?

In such a time, the situation in Jiangnan stabilized and continued to develop, and the large and small workshops had abundant manpower through the displaced people who fled from the north, and they had no permanent production, begging to be able to eat a full meal, and the merchants in the Jiangnan area had a large number of low-cost labor. Officials began to sing praises in the court, believing that it was the reason for their painful experience and a symbol of the rise of the Wu Dynasty. As for the war in the north, no one said anything, no one dared to say it, and no one could say anything about it.

Just like the annual edict of Emperor Jingping, who was imprisoned in the north like a pig and dog, and the praise of Emperor Jin, the imperial family was constantly blocking the news of the war situation in the northwest. The high-level who knew these things couldn't speak, and Zhou Pei couldn't say or think about it, she just received cruel messages about the north, and the joy and anger of reprimanding her younger brother Junwu were outward. For the news that made her heart palpitate, she tried to press it down as quietly as possible.

These feelings have been suppressed for a long time, and they have become natural reactions, so that she no longer has too many shocks at those tragic news--every one is tragic anyway--in the calm and prosperous atmosphere of Jiangnan, sometimes she will suddenly feel that those are all fake. She quietly read them, quietly filed them, and quietly ...... Only in the most relaxing moments of midnight dreams would nightmares come and remind her of the corpses like mountains, the blood like rivers, the fluttering flags and the fiercest protests and shouts.

In the context of the Jurchen's southward march and the inability of tens of millions or even tens of millions of people to resist, it was the traitor who angrily killed the king, in the most difficult environment, nailed to the Jedi that could never stand on it, and in the face of overwhelming attacks, firmly choked the throat of the almost invincible strong enemy, and never wavered in the three years of tragic fighting.

No one has ever done this in this world-shattering crisis.

In three years, Zhou Pei can understand her younger brother's feelings, and she can even imagine what kind of mood it will be when she receives the messages one by one, when she receives the news that Yan was martyred in Yanzhou, the Black Flag Army was killed in the city, and Qin Shaoqian rampaged Taiyuan, generals like Yue Fei who had dealt with that demon would be like.

Not only these high-level officials, but also many scholars who can come into contact with high-level information, there is news about the war in the northwest, and it will also be a high-level conversation point for people to communicate. Zhou Pei didn't understand these in her heart, she just ...... Unshakable.

In the sixth year of Jianshuo, the war continued continuously, and the Jurchen army came one after another, and the northwest was becoming more and more tragic. The people on the land were almost emptied, the people of the Central Plains were becoming more and more miserable, and the losses of the Black Flag Army were getting bigger and bigger—how they survived on that land, it was difficult for Zhou Pei to know. But...... Maybe it's him, there will be more ways.

After all, the demon who killed the king...... It's a real chilling demon.

Jiangnan is becoming more and more stable, and she is almost about to adapt to these things.

When will you fall? She also thought about it, every time, she couldn't think about it.

In the sixth year of the founding of the Wu Dynasty, on the eighth day of June, the Jin State and the puppet Qi coalition army besieged the main force of the Black Flag Army in the northwest Huangtoupo, thirteen, beheaded Ning Yi, the leader of the Black Flag Army, and countless bandits, and the soldiers confirmed that Ning Yi's body was broken into ten thousand pieces, and the head went north to be dedicated to the emperor of the Jin State.

It was a sight not seen in years, even in her deepest nightmares......

The giant, rising from the end of Ping, she gradually grew up in the time she watched him, and saw his elegance, his humor, his tenacity, and his fierceness...... They had no fate, she remembered when she was fifteen years old, goodbye in the courtyard, the stars and the wind that night, she thought she had suddenly grown up that night, but for some reason, even if she never met, he would always appear in her life, so that her eyes could not look elsewhere.

She had too many emotions and too many fantasies in her heart, but she never imagined that one day, he would fall.

How is it possible, he killed the emperor, he even killed the emperor, didn't he want to save the world......

In the courtyard, the heat is like a prison, and all the prosperity and tranquility are like illusions.

Fake ...... She thought.

In the northwest, the chaotic war is still in the final burning. Not long before this, the demon who had stirred up great chaos, dragged every part of his influence into hell, and made every adversary taste the great bitter fruit, seemed to ...... Finally fell...... (To be continued.) )