Smoke cage plains, tide moonlit night. Under the starlight, Sanmen County, Taizhou Prefecture, is located in the Longwan area on the coast of the East China Sea, accompanied by the sound of sea breeze and tides, a team of more than ten light horsemen wrapped in thick cloth covered with horses' hooves, quietly arrived.

In front is a city built near the East China Sea, the scale can barely accommodate 30,000 or 40,000 people, the city gate is the word "Gu Yun" written by Gu Li, it is a port city that has been built in the Tang Dynasty, because of the sea trade, it has also been prosperous for a while, and it has survived to this day. It was not until the founding of the current dynasty that the sea ban policy of "no piece of board can go to the sea" was issued, forcing all ports along the coast to be closed, so that merchants did not come, and this "Guyun City" was eclipsed and no longer prosperous in the past.

However, at the beginning of this year, with the withdrawal of Hengwang, who had been stationed in various coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the trend of the Dongying Japanese Bandits, which had been rampant, was even more out of control, and they invaded various cities and towns along the coast one after another. And the Gu Yun City near the sea in front of him has naturally fallen into the hands of the Dongying Woko, and has completely become the base of the Wako, or a base camp of the Wako.

Xie Yixiang was in the middle of the light cavalry tonight, looking at the seaside city in the starlight and moonlight, feeling the last trace of tranquility on the eve of the rainstorm and wind.

It is said that King Heng, who had already died in Bifu, suddenly "came back from the dead", openly led the garrison under his command to rise up, and tried to rebel in the name of "Qing Jun's side", and also stuck to Fujian on the whole line, and connived at the Dongying Japanese Invaders to disturb the entire land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In this way, in front of Jiayu Pass in the northwest of the imperial court, there were the allied forces of the five kingdoms of Turkic, Beshibali, Khanate, Persia, and Tibet, and in Mobei, there were remnants of the former dynasty in the vicinity of Datongwei and Ningxiawei.

After that, the Hengwang rebels besieged Ningyi City, a strategic place at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, with heavy troops, pursuing the tenet of "soldiers without blood", trying to force Ningyi to surrender in ironclad Kaicheng, and thus caused a tragedy of cannibalism in the city. It happened that the imperial court saw King Heng's withdrawal from Fujian, thinking that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were worry-free, so they transferred the garrisons that were stuck in Tongling, Xuancheng and Huzhou, and ordered the second-class military general "Guanlan Bo" Yang Fengbo Yang Lao General to personally take command and lead 5,000 elite soldiers to rescue Ningyi City.

Unexpectedly, seeing that the reinforcements of the imperial court and the rebels of King Heng were about to start a desperate struggle outside the city of Ningyi, suddenly a vision appeared in the sky, and a demonic wind blew for no reason, which directly caused the dust to cover the sun and fly sand and stones, forcing the warring parties to stop fighting for a while.

Immediately afterwards, the "No. 1 Wise Man in the World", who should have passed away seven years ago, was also Mr. Qingtian, who single-handedly laid the foundation of this dynasty, suddenly asked someone to send two Qingtian stone seals, which were handed over to the Guigu heir in Ningyi City, who had double eyes, and Yan Sidao, who was aliased as "Escape and Scattered Man" in King Heng's army, and invited the two of them to go to the prison village in Qingtian County to get together.

When Xie Yixiang, Deyizi and Yan Sidao were invited to come, the person who received them was a girl named "Xing'er", who claimed to be a disciple of Mr. Qingtian, and also set up a strange chess game according to Mr. Qingtian's instructions, and personally played against Yan Sidao and De Yizi, intending to make the two consume each other in the chess game, so that they were trapped and died by the magic power of "Huangliang Yimeng" in "Huangshi Heavenly Book".

Who knew that Yan Sidao and De Yizi, the two old enemies, actually joined forces at the last moment, not only breaking through the shackles of "Huangliang and a dream", but also forcing Xing'er all the way to a desperate situation in the chess game. But at the final decisive moment, Yan Sidao once again tore up the cooperation with Deichizi, and admitted defeat with a sunspot, deliberately allowing himself and Deichiko to lose the entire chess game.

In this way, according to the previous agreement between the three parties, Yan Sidao and Deyizi had to do one thing for Mr. Qingtian, that is, to quell the rebellion in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or to postpone this rebellion for one hundred and fifty years.

Because the harm of the Dongying Japanese Invaders has long been well known, Yan Sidao also guessed Mr. Aota's intentions in advance, so he readily agreed on the spot. Although De Yizi was extremely reluctant and was humiliated and teased by Yan Sidao, he was forced by the threats of Yan Sidao and Mr. Qingtian, and Xie Yixiang's many persuasions, and finally agreed, willing to stop the war with Yan Sidao for the time being, join hands to eradicate the Dongying Japanese invaders, and fulfill the promise made with Mr. Qingtian.

So after the "Huimeng Nunnery" outside the prison Tiancun, the two sides left the territory of Qingtian County, and they reorganized their troops and horses, and assembled a "Pingwei Coalition Army" outside Ningyi City. For the side of Ningyi City, which represents the imperial court, the extermination of the Japanese invaders was originally one of the purposes of General Yang's trip to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but in view of the fact that King Heng's side is a rebel army that is plotting rebellion, and Ningyi City has been eyeing Ningyi City, so Ningyi City is still guarded by the Taishou Fang Tieyi and General Yang Lao who came to help, in order to prevent the Hengwang rebels from secretly deceiving and taking advantage of the situation, only 2,000 men and horses and Chen and Zhu two deputy generals were allocated to participate in this "Pingyi Alliance" for Xie Yixiang and Deyizi to drive.

On the side of King Heng's rebels, although he was in the position of military advisor in the name of "fleeing the void and scattered", and this time he also accompanied the army, but he had been sneaky and rarely showed his face, and nominally he was led by General Sun Xin, who was known as the "White Armor Angry Horse", and was one of the famous generals known as the "Twelve Heavenly Kings" under the command of King Heng Tang Xiankai led and continued to garrison dozens of miles south of Ningyi City.

When the "Pingwu Alliance" of the two sides was formed, the court side did not come forward because Lord Taishou Fang and General Yang did not come forward, and Xie Yixiang held the sword seal of Ningyi Taishou, plus the identity of the daughter of the late general Xie Fengxuan, so the two deputy generals Chen and Zhu, who led the troops, privately took her as the head of Miss Xie San, so that Xie Yixiang faintly became the commander of the two thousand people on the court side.

As for the son who traveled with the army, after the battle of Prison Heaven Village, his hatred for Yan Sidao added fuel to the fire, and even the title changed from "that guy" to the word "dog thief", he refused to talk to Yan Sidao at all, and just hid himself in a carriage all day long, except for Xie Yixiang, almost no one else was seen. Fortunately, Xie Yixiang knew the temper of this little Taoist priest, and even more so the ability of this Guigu heir, seeing him arrange it like this, he didn't force it.

After that, this coalition of 4,000 people set out from Ningyi City, and was jointly led by Xie Yixiang on the imperial court side and General Sun Xinfu Sun on the rebel side. At the beginning, one of the two disliked each other's ignorant women who only relied on their family background, and the other looked down on each other's rebellious behavior of aiding and abusive, and there were some conflicts and frictions, but fortunately it did not cause any major disasters.

After this "Pingyu coalition army" passed through Qingtian, fought in Wenzhou, swept Yandang Mountain, and entered Taizhou, after more than 30 battles of all sizes along the way, and only in half a month, more than a dozen Japanese forces were eliminated, Xie Yixiang and this General Sun gradually admired each other and were barely able to live in peace.

You must know that in Xie Yixiang's view, although this general Sun in his early thirties is a thief, it is undeniable that this person is indeed a good leader of the troops, especially the origin, habits, tactics and martial arts of the Japanese Invaders, etc., all of which are well understood, and it is obvious that he has accumulated experience in fighting against the Japanese Invaders under the command of King Heng for many years;

In General Sun's opinion, although this Miss Xie San on the side of the court is a daughter, and she is young and knowledgeable, her martial arts are terrifyingly high, with only a crimson short knife, looking at the whole army, I am afraid that she is invincible. What's more, whether it is the military division in his own army who has always seen the head and the end of the dragon, or the unfathomable Guigu heir in the opponent's army, he has to give this Miss Xie San a little thin face, and even rely on her to pass the word between the two, which makes General Sun, one of the "Twelve Heavenly Kings" under the command of King Heng, amazed.

In this way, this team of 4,000 people traveled more than 600 miles, all the way like a bamboo, and successively broke through the Japanese pirates along the way, and at this time they had come to the Longwan area near the sea in Sanmen County, Taizhou Prefecture, and camped in the west of Guyun City, which had long been occupied by the Japanese pirates. And tonight, it was Xie Yixiang and General Sun who took more than ten light horsemen to take advantage of the moonlight to explore this Guyun City on the coast of the East China Sea and discuss tomorrow's thief strategy.