March was supposed to be the season of mixed peanut trees and warblers, but in the last ten years, the weather has been cold and not quite right, even in the so-called spring March, it is still very cold. The willow trees on the sunny shore at the water's edge had just spit out sprouts the size of half a grain of rice, while the trees on Snake Hill were as bare as they were in winter, as if spring would never come.

"Strategist, do you think this spring really won't come?" Huang Zide, the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, stood on the Turtle Mountain, looked down at the surging Yangtze River, sighed, and said to a person dressed as a Taoist priest beside him.

"Your Majesty, winter goes to spring, it is the inevitability of the reincarnation of heaven, although the north wind is quite strong at the moment, but spring will definitely come. Although my Great Jin Dynasty has encountered some troubles for the time being, there must be a time for revival. The Taoist priest replied with a smile.

"I don't know how the queen and Yigong are doing, and whether they can come over in time." Huang Zide was still frowning, without the slightest smile on his face.

This is also a very normal thing, because now, the situation in Dajin is too dangerous. Speaking of which, just a year ago, it was a situation of flowers and cooking oil, but now it has become like this.

"Your Majesty, I am destined to return to the Great Jin Dynasty, I have the blessing of God, the queen is wise and decisive, and she will definitely be able to arrive in time with the army." Huang Zide's military advisor Xuan Yi replied.

"Alas, last time in Tongguan, it was also the queen who led the troops to attract the pursuers and help me break through, I hope this time can be like last time." Huang Zide sighed again, the Jin army had already chased after him by land and water. Although in fact the enemy was far outnumbered by themselves, their morale was extremely high because they had hardly been defeated since the battle of the previous year; On the contrary, the army on Huang Zide's side was constantly defeated by the enemy, and now its morale is low, it has almost no will to fight, and many times it does not even have to fight, as long as it sees the opponent's military flag, the army will collapse on its own. After the Battle of Tongguan, the main force of Huang Zide's army was divided into two parts by the enemy, one part was led by the queen and the general Shang Yigong, and withdrew to Bashu; The other part of Huang Zide took it with him and retreated all the way from Xiangyang to Wuchang. At that time, Huang Zide planned to go east from Wuchang and seize Jiangnan, which was still under the control of the Jokhang Dynasty. If Jiangnan is captured, there may be a lot to be done in the world. However, Jin Jun's actions were faster than he could have imagined. When he left Xiangyang, he left some troops in Xiangyang. He originally thought that this army was relatively capable of fighting, and relying on a heroic city like Xiangyang, it could hold off the enemy army for at least ten days, and he didn't want to ...... Now that the enemy army has caught up, the eastward advance has completely come to naught. And with the continuous advance of the enemy army, the Great Jin Dynasty has reached a state of collapse from top to bottom. Many civilian and military generals disappeared in the process of going south from Tongguan. Some of them were killed or captured in the battle with the Jin army, and some of them, I am afraid that when they saw that the situation was not good, they abandoned the Great Jin and ran away by themselves.

In order to boost morale, Xuanyi Taoist people artificially created some so-called "auspicious" offerings; The general Liu Jiexuan also claimed that he had made contact with the queen and Shang Yigong, who had been out of contact all along, and the queen was on the way with an army of 100,000. Once this army joins the current battlefield, the whole situation on the battlefield is completely different.

These two pieces of news did boost morale at first, and there seemed to be a smile on the faces of the soldiers. However, early this morning, a piece of news gave Huang Zide Xuanyi and Liu Jiexuan a blow to the head - Niu Juming, the prime minister of the Great Jin Dynasty, suddenly took his son and said goodbye. After the news spread, the morale of the army was turbulent, and the entire army almost collapsed directly.

Huang Zide looked in all directions, and saw that except for Xuanyi Daoren, the other people around him were a little far away, so he lowered his voice and said: "Military advisor, speaking of which, if I had listened to your advice and controlled Ganshan, I would have consolidated it first, and don't be in a hurry to forge ahead, if I was in Beijing, I would ...... Now, I'm afraid that the general trend has gone, and Niu Juming is a smart person...... Strategist, now, we can really only hope that the queen can come over with the army tomorrow, if there is no news of the queen tomorrow, we can only continue to run. It is impossible to advance eastward, and now we can only retreat to the southwest, first retreating into Hunan...... Military advisor, you know that retreating in front of the enemy has always been the most dangerous thing, if this is the case, now that the remaining 100,000 people have really arrived in Hunan, I am afraid that it will not be easy to leave 10,000 people. Unless...... Dao Chief, if there is no news of the queen the day after tomorrow, it means that God is really going to kill me. Don't follow me anymore and run away on your own. Hehe......" said this, Huang Zide smiled bitterly: "Daoist, you have helped me so loyally, but I have nothing to repay Daoist." Now I can only persuade him like this. ”

As soon as he heard this, Xuan Yi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat all over his body. It's not because he thinks Huang Zide is testing him by telling him to run for his life. He knows that Huang Zide has a lot of problems, but he is not a hypocritical person, and he must be sincere when he says this. But it was this sincerity that made Xuan Yi shudder more and more. He also made a clear judgment: Dajin is probably indeed going to end. This judgment is not all due to repeated failures over time. It's because of the state that Huang Zide is showing now. Back then, Huang Zide didn't suffer defeats, and even had even worse defeats, the worst time, there were even seventeen people left around him, when even at that time, he never behaved as depressed as today, he was still full of spirits and full of expectations for the future. It is precisely because even under such circumstances that Huang Zide can maintain an optimistic mental state that the seventeen people who follow him will always be loyal and unwavering. But now, Huang Zide has collapsed mentally.

"Your Majesty, don't say such things." Xuanyi Taoist knelt down and cried, "I think at the beginning, when the emperor was in Shangluo Mountain, there were only seventeen horsemen, didn't he also come over?" Although the form is poor today, it is also stronger than then, and the emperor ......"

Huang Zide also shed tears, he stretched out his hand to help Xuanyi Taoist up, and said: "I know the loyalty and friendship of the Taoist chief, but it is not free to transport heroes...... This is no longer the case. In the past, I always felt that my destiny was mine, and it was very clear what my destiny was today......"

After saying this, Huang Zide seemed to have lost the meaning of continuing to talk to Xuanyi Daoist, and directly turned around and walked down the mountain, leaving Xuanyi alone on Snake Mountain.

"If you can go, it's not a bad way to go, but now, where can you go?" Looking at Huang Zide's bleak back, Xuan Yi couldn't help but think.

If Xuanyi Daoist is a mortal like Niu Juming, then leaving is indeed a way to protect himself. Yet he was a monastic. He joined Huang Zide's camp to enter the world and support the dragon, and with the help of the dragon qi of the new dynasty to achieve the path of immortality. Compared with the general cultivation method, which requires the accumulation of one lifetime after another to achieve a little success, joining the WTO Fulong is a shortcut, and once successful, you can achieve the immortal path. But just like buying and selling, if a business has a high profit, it often means that the threshold is either high or very risky. Joining the WTO and Fulong belongs to the latter kind.

Since he entered the WTO Fulong and became Huang Zide's military advisor, Xuan Yi's own luck, as well as the luck of his entire division, have been connected with Huang Zide. If Huang Zide really became the Son of Heaven, then whether it was Xuanyi or the master behind him, he could use the luck of the new dynasty to get a lot of benefits. He can achieve immortal karma immediately, and his master can also be protected by the dragon qi of the new dynasty, and other people in the sect, whether it is a person who is still cultivating, or a senior who has died and taken refuge in the blessed land of the underworld, or even those ancestors who have achieved immortal karma and entered and exited the green underworld, can also get a lot of benefits from it. But if they fail, they also have to pay a huge price. Xuanyi, as the main culprit of the thief, is naturally going to be knocked down from the Nine Shadows, and he will not be able to be reborn for eternity; And the division where he is located, of course, will also be implicated, and if it is not done well, just like the Taiping Dao in the late Han Dynasty, it will be characterized as a cult organization and will be severely cracked down. The blessed land in the underworld will collapse, and those seniors there will be demoted to the Nine Shadows, and even the ancestors who have achieved immortal karma may not be able to get rid of it.

He looked up again and looked at the sky. Relying on the secret spell of the master's sect, he could clearly see the luck of the current Great Jin army, which could still condense into a yellow dragon, but the form of this yellow dragon was already very vague - Xuan Yi knew that this was not a good sign, which meant that the luck had been escaping, and it was even on the verge of collapse. However, as long as this dragon form is still there, there is still some hope. Perhaps, perhaps, tomorrow morning, the queen will really come back with the army?

However, in the end, this is just a good expectation. Huang Zide and his Great Jin did not wait for the queen and the 100,000 army under her command, but instead waited for the enemy's pursuers.

The next day, just after dawn, the fog on the river had just lifted, and from the city of Hanyang on the other side of the river, there was a commotion. Then someone came to report that the Jin army had approached Hanyang.

Huang Zide hurriedly took some of the remaining civil and military officials to climb Snake Mountain and look at Hanyang City on the north side of the river. Outside the city of Hanyang, a group of cavalry could be seen approaching.

Huang Zide also left behind an army of 5,000 men in Hanyang City. Although the walls of Hanyang Fortress cannot be compared to those of Gyeongshi, they are also quite complete. It is impossible for a cavalry with no siege equipment to threaten such a city, they are merely scouts on reconnaissance missions. However, Huang Zide's face was still gloomy, because the appearance of this cavalry also marked that the main force of the Jin army was not far away.