"The white clouds outside Chang'an City are autumn, and the wind is bleak and the Ba River flows. Because I think of the chaos of the Han Dynasty, Zhong Xuan went to Jingzhou from then on..."

The old stage faces the rolling river water. On the stage is an old man with a thick voice but slightly hoarse voice, accompanied by a sonorous drum sound.

A round table had already been set up in front of the stage. Soon, several people wearing armor or in gorgeous clothes entered the venue. Some knew each other and bowed to say hello in the voice of the poem, while some just sat down quietly and watched the rest. There were nine people coming over, and half of them seemed a little dusty.

The drums on the stage stopped for a moment, and then they rang again. The old singer sang: "Looking back at Qin Pass, looking south to Jingzhou for a few days. Today, I only have tears when I climbed, and I don't know where the scenery is-"

The old man's singing style was extremely contagious. One of the people who sat down sighed: "Today I only have tears when I climbed, I don't know where the scenery is..."

A genius robe next to him smiled: "Xianshan looked back at Qin Pass, and it was a few days later to Jingzhou south... Sikong Shu wrote about Xianshan Pavilion. How many days will it take to leave here..." He patted his palm on the table, "I sang wrongly."

As he spoke, people in military uniforms came up on the steps beside him. As soon as the tenth person appeared, the nine people all stood up one after another: "Mr. Liu."

"General Liu."

"Uncle Ping."

The tenth man bowed and smiled: "Time is in a hurry, I'll be neglected." His words were majestic and steady. This man was Liu Guangshi, who held heavy troops in his hand and occupied Baling, Jiangling and other places after the turmoil of the Wu Dynasty.

The scholar who said and sang wrongly before said, "Uncle Liu, this person on stage, the singing is profound. You did it on purpose."

"To be honest, this old uncle sang songs different from the previous Wu Dynasty. They were tragic and generous, which was what Liu liked, so he asked him to sing a few songs for me in the army. Today's meeting, on the one hand, we had to keep the secret, and on the other hand, we were really hasty, so we called him out to sing one or two. I know the preferences of Pingbao's nephew. If you don't leave today, in Jiangling City, there have been two amazing singers, Chen Fu and Yan Jiuer... After the serious work, Uncle Shi will arrange for you." He smiled majestic and kind, "Sit down."

Everyone sat down. Liu Guangshi waved his hand and asked someone to send the old singer away. Another maid came up to make tea. After the maid went down, he looked around and spoke with a smile.

"The world is changing rapidly. At today's meeting, what we need to talk about is not simple. Some of you come from the acting family, and some come in person, and your identities are sensitive. I won't introduce them one by one. Anyway, I'll know what to do if I know it for now."

It was obviously a secret meeting at the moment. Liu Guangshi thought it through, but after he finished speaking, a man wearing half-body armor shook his head: "It's okay, with Lord Liu's inspection and selection, today all come to Han people, with great family and great business, I can trust you all here. I am Xia Zhongxin, I am not afraid of being known by you. As for whether you say it or not, it doesn't matter."

"I have long admired General Xia's reputation." The young scholar gave in.

Xia Zhongxin said: "I have been defeated repeatedly and repeatedly, but I have no reputation to say, I am just going to survive."

The young scholar stood up with a smile: "I am Xiao Pingbao, my father Xiao Zheng, I will pay my respects to all uncles and elders."

Liu Guangshi looked at these things with a smile. After a while, the rest of the people also expressed their opinions and stood up to tell themselves. The names in each person's words now represent a force in Jiangnan. Similar to Xia Zhongxin, he had already joined the Jurchens. Now he was commander of a Han army controlled by Wanyan Xiyin. The Xiao family behind Xiao Pingbao is a family near Hanyang.

Although such a gathering was held on Liu Guangshi's territory, it was equivalent to a gathering. If only Liu Guangshi knew everyone's identity clearly, he would become the leader who was the only one. Everyone also understood this truth, so Xia Zhongxin simply showed his side alone, and Xiao Pingbao followed him and slightly broke this asymmetric state.

Liu Guangshi didn't mind. Although he was a military general, he had been in the civil and officialdom all his life, so he didn't see such scenes missing. He no longer stuck to this level.

He smiled and said, "You are here, it's actually a statement. Now that you have already known each other, Liu no longer beat around the bush. You are already clear about the changes in the situation in the southwest."

Everyone looked serious and nodded. Someone said, "Previously, the situation in the battle in Tanzhou, now everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope."

"I never thought that Wanyan Zonghan's reputation would be a big loss in his lifetime and suffered such a huge loss."

"You can't say that, it's a good thing if the Jurchens lose."

"But Black Flag wins?"

After everyone said a few words, Liu Guangshi raised his hand: "What you said makes sense. In fact, the defeat of the Jurchens is not bad, but the Black Flag won both battles. This situation is unexpected. To be honest, Liu has seen many people in the past ten days. Ning Yi's move is so creepy."

He said this, after taking a sip of tea, everyone didn't say anything, and they could understand the shocks over the past few days. After four months of fierce fighting in the southwest, Wanyan Zonghan was still struggling to advance, but as Ning Yi led 7,000 people to attack, the Jurchens' 100,000 troops collapsed directly on the front line. Then the entire army was pushed back in the southwest mountains. Ning Yi's army still bitten up unyieldingly. Now in the mountains in the southwest, it was like two giant pythons intertwined, fighting bloodied. The originally weak was to bite the Jurchen Western Route Army, which was several times his strength, to death in the vast mountains in Jianmen Pass.

Such an attack was even more shocking than his anger at the time. More than ten years have passed, the demon has become so powerful that he can kill anyone in the world. Even Wanyan Zonghan, a military general who was almost recognized as the world's number one, was now slapped hard by him, and he was even about to be beaten to death.

Now the winner has not been decided in the southwest mountains, but there are countless people in private planning for future things.

After all, things became too fast and there were no plans before, so everyone seemed hasty in this round of activities.

"Let me tell me about the situation there." Xia Zhongxin said, "On the tenth day of March, there was a strange movement on Qin Lao Er's side. The young master Wanyan Xiyin was also very powerful. He had already dispatched troops early to guard against the other side. But as a result, Lao Yu was in trouble. 20,000 subordinates were attacked by Qin Lao Er, and they were killed and injured. They were all dead. Next, Wanyan Xiyin transferred troops almost three days, and this was playing chess, so I don't know who would be unlucky next time. We all say that they might attack Jiange next time, and there was a block on both ends, and Nian Han would really never go back."

"Last year... I heard that I had fought seventeen consecutive battles. General Qin had never hurt his vitality." Someone answered, "The combat power of the Chinese army is really so strong?"

"It was seven days, and I fought seventeen consecutive games." Xia Zhongxin expressionlessly, "What a powerful method? I can't tell you if you meet it. Wanyan Xiyin is powerful and doesn't treat us Han people as humans. He holds the strongest Tushanwei in Jurchens, and he doesn't dare to rush forward directly, just intending to waste it slowly. Speaking of which, Qin Lao Er is the one under the group of people from Xiao Canghe. Think about it, in three years, he has killed one million troops in the Central Plains, killed him and made the Jurchens dirty. He finally polished out 20,000 people. He has been in the place where birds do not lay eggs in the west for several years before he came out. Damn this is not a human, this is a life-threatening ghost."

He paused: "I'm going to hide it from you. Now everyone on the front line is afraid. When the Southwest wins, Lao Qin comes with the idea of ​​being a terrible family. He has a deep hatred for blood. Once the chess is finished, the picture will be revealed. Between the Black Flag and the Tushanwei, whoever touches will die."

Xiao Pingbao, who was standing beside him, twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I'm sorry, why not throw the black flag?"

He had the intention of asking questions knowingly, but when everyone sat together, the steps to unify the meaning in his words were necessary, so he was not angry, but said with a expressionless face: "How did the Southwest surrender to Li Ruta? Now everyone knows that if you vote for the Jurchens, you will be sent to beat Lao Qin, if you vote for Lao Qin, you will be sent to beat Tushanwei, it is all a word "death."

He paused: "Actually, death is not something that everyone is afraid of, but the words of the old boys in the capital are not unreasonable. Since ancient times, you have to surrender, first of all, you have to have chips, be valued by others, and only if you are surrendered can you get a seat. Now, surrendering to the Black Flag is just a matter of perseverance. After living for a few years, who knows what it will look like? Secondly... General Liu has a better idea, which may be a good road. A real man should not have power for a day. If he still has a road, Xia would not want to enter the Black Flag and be a fire-headed army."

In such words, everyone naturally turned their attention to Liu Guangshi. Liu Guangshi laughed: "General Xia has been underestimated. The situation in Wu Dynasty is often not a crime of war. The country has been more than 200 years of emphasis on culture and over military affairs, and it is difficult to return. It is also helpless to have the current dilemma. In fact, General Xia is so brave on the battlefield and is superb in military planning. Liu admires him, but to put it bluntly, General Xia is born in a fabric art and commands the army for many years. One day, the civil servants and men are pointing fingers and fighting the autumn wind, coming and going. To be honest, Liu can have a few war-making soldiers left on his hands, but the remaining shade of his ancestors."

Liu Guangshi's words were said to Xia Zhongxin. The middle-aged man with a cold face bowed his hand and could not speak. Liu Guangshi said again: "The situation is different now. To be honest, there is no possibility of success in several clowns in Lin'an City. Guangshi has a saying here. If everything goes smoothly, within five years, if the troops in Fuzhou are sent to you, Lin'an will definitely be recaptured."

When he talked about this, he bowed his hand and looked at each other, and obviously understood the meaning of Liu Guangshi's words. Liu Guangshi stood up and pushed a map up: "Actually, Guangshi invited you here this time to push the situation forward with everyone, please see."

His fingers clicked on the map: "The world has changed. The situation today is completely different from half a year ago. But to put it bluntly, there are only two unexpected things. Chen Fan occupied Tanzhou, Ning Yi stabilized the southwest, and the Jurchen army... The best situation is to escape back to the north along Jingxiang and other places. Next, the Chinese army has actually lost some vitality. Of course, they will recover their strength within a few years. At that time, both sides will join one after another. To be honest, the territory that Liu occupied now is just at the angle that the Chinese army clamped. "

Liu Guangshi said this and just smiled: "It is not impossible to defeat the Jurchens and the reputation of the Chinese army will be greatly improved. In the future, it is not impossible to sweep the world. But first, General Xia is right. If you want to surrender and become a hot-headed soldier, they may not be able to accept it. Second, the Chinese army has strict governance, which is indeed true. Once the victory is great, it may be too much or too much. Liu also feels that some problems will inevitably arise. Of course, we will wait and see for the time being about this matter."

"Anyway, we have it in a few years." Liu Guangshi reached out and drew a circle between Tanzhou and the southwest, "but it was only a few years. This place would sooner or later have to rub against the black flag. Where we go, we have to consider what to do."

"Liu has some considerations about the response to this situation." Liu Guangshi smiled, "First, you will never be wrong to strengthen yourself. Whether you want to fight or to make peace, you must have strength. Everyone here today may not be able to fight with forces like Black Flag and Jurchen. However, if you join forces, taking advantage of the Chinese army's vitality, you will have some advantages in this local area for the time being. Secondly, we will go to the civil servants to constrain us. We may learn from our mistakes and may not have no chance of development."

"But just joining forces is not strong enough. In fact, to put it bluntly, even if you repeat the old view of the Wu Dynasty, between the Jin Dynasty and the Black Flag, the Wu Dynasty is the weakest side, but you don't have the qualification to win, and there will always be a qualification to discuss. Please look at the situation. The Black Flag wants to restore its vitality, stabilize the situation, and keep the troops still. The Jin army retreats north, and now confronts Lin'an to the east. Look at how many places there are, and now they are vacant."

Liu Guangshi slapped his palm on the map, and his eyes were already bright: "Everyone, Central Plains! As long as the southwest battle stops and the Jurchens go north, we join forces, and then break the Yangtze River and take the Central Plains, attack Bianliang back, and repeat the old view of my Wu Dynasty. You guys, this is an invincible achievement! For my Wu Dynasty, for my Han people, for my China——"

His voice fell, and someone stood up at the table, slapped the folding fan on his palm: "Indeed, if the Jurchens were defeated, they would fall to the lowest point under the control of the Central Plains and would have no influence anymore. In Lin'an, a group of jumping clowns could not take care of the Central Plains for a while."

Someone also said: "Zong Han was beaten to pieces in the southwest. Regardless of whether he could withdraw or not, those who defended Bianliang would no longer be the Jurchen army. If there were a few people on the scene, we might be able to easily restore the old capital without any effort."

Liu Guangshi smiled and said, "Besides, if the name is not right, the words are not right. Last year, my Wu Dynasty was declining and defeated. Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others went to the east, but even the late emperor could not defend them. Liu could not blame them for these things. Later, the Jurchens were in great power, and some people - traitors! They really surrendered, and there were many people who still had loyalty and righteousness, like General Xia. Although they had to be fooled with the Jurchens, they were always loyal to our Wu Dynasty in their hearts, waiting for the opportunity anyway. Everyone, Liu is also waiting for the arrival of this opportunity. We are under the will of heaven to accept the emperor, keep the fire for our Wu Dynasty and restore the old view of the Central Plains. No matter who we are to the future, we can explain it."

While saying these words, he took out a charcoal pen and circled the places one by one on the map. The large area that encompasses Bianliang and other places seemed to be one of the largest forces in the world. Someone slapped his fist on his palm.

Liu Guangshi stopped laughing and knocked the charcoal pen on the head with a serious look.

"Everyone, everything may happen in this place for several years. If we learn from our pain, innovate and learn from the southwest, what will happen? If the situation changes in a few years, and there is really a problem in the southwest, what will happen? And even if it is really as people say, my country's destiny in the Wu Dynasty will eventually decline. You guys, we will protect the people in one place, which will be a great merit. We can live up to the world and China."

The wind was so cool that Liu Guangshi's words were loud and loud. Everyone stood there, and after a moment of seriousness and silence for the picture, someone spoke.

"The southwest defeated the Jurchens and their vitality was damaged, and they would definitely be unable to make the Northern Expedition again. The millions of people in the Central Plains have suffered for more than ten years. If we have this opportunity, what if we sit down and watch again? Everyone, General Liu is right. In fact, no matter what plans and interests, the people in the Central Plains are now in need of everyone to abandon their past grudges and save them from water and fire, and they cannot be delayed. Today, General Liu takes the lead in today's affairs. In fact, in the entire Han world, only General Liu is highly respected and can serve as the leader of the alliance in this matter. From now on, our Chen family in Jiangdong will all listen to General Liu's arrangements! Send!"

In the scenery where the river goes east, there are many carnivorous people who have made difficult choices for the future of this country.

The king flag changes on the top of the city. How many people will remember them?

This was at the end of March. Before Zonghan had left Jiange, Qin Shaoqian and Wanyan Xiyin were constantly dispatching troops to confront each other north of Jiange. On March 27, Qi Xinhan, the general under Qin Shaoqian, led 3,000 people, appeared near Fancheng nearly a thousand miles away, trying to attack the Xiangfan Ferry. Wanyan Xiyin was prepared.
Chapter completed!