In this world, some things are immense.
The fall of dynasties, the redrawing of borders; at a certain point, these monumental historical events completely alter people's lives, determine the future trajectory of entire nations, and leave a significant mark on the pages of history.

Yet, in the smallest of places, it cannot truly interrupt the everyday lives of people. The greatest sorrow cannot change a person's physical needs, nor can the greatest humiliation make them forget to eat and drink.

In the first month of the year, in Lin'an, a fragile balance had naturally established itself in this city ravaged by war.

The Jurchen entered the city in May of the previous year. Following their entry, there had been sustained battles and suppression, as well as the breakout and escape of tens of thousands of people. A large number of artisans were captured by Jurchen soldiers and sent north, and countless rapes of women occurred; repeated resistance within the city was met with massacres.

After several months of chaos, the once-bustling city of over a million residents was reduced to about seven hundred thousand. Markets still had to open, goods still had to circulate, government offices had begun to function, and constables were investigating petty thefts, occasionally arresting individuals who disrupted social order. Several brothels had also reopened.

The guilds in the marketplaces had also gradually reorganized. After the local gangs that used to collect protection money were destroyed, burly men would fill the void. One could occasionally hear rumors of someone having connections or a patron among the Jurchens.

After Zhou Yong left, the small imperial court that took over in Lin'an continued the existence of the "Wu Dynasty." Their foundation was based on the several regents Zhou Yong left behind—Zhou Yong had taken trusted aides like Qin Hui with him when he fled, entrusting the regents to remain in Lin'an and conduct ongoing negotiations with the Jurchens. Of course, there were also staunch loyalists who refused to yield to Zong Fu and Zong Bi's power, but they were naturally all dead within three months.

Subsequently, the "Wu Dynasty" court gradually coalesced around figures such as Tie Yan and Wu Qimei, forming a faction.

This Wu Dynasty court had repeatedly issued surrender letters in Zhou Yong's name, demanding that Zhou Junwu abandon resistance, consider the interests of the people, and negotiate with the Jurchens. After Zhou Yong passed away at sea and Junwu ascended the throne in Jiangning, the court produced Zhou Yong's "blood edict," accusing Zhou Pei of murdering ministers to seize power and assassinating the emperor at sea, and accusing the Crown Prince of disobeying the emperor, thus stripping Junwu of his right to inherit the throne.

Thus, when Junwu ascended the throne in Jiangning, changing the regnal year to "Zhenxing" (振兴, Revitalization), the small court in Lin'an found a lost member of the imperial family who was rumored to have Zhou family blood, and, based on Zhou Yong's blood edict, enthroned him as emperor, establishing the regnal year as "Jiatai" (嘉泰, Auspicious Peace).

Compared to the "former Crown Prince" who engaged in aggressive warfare and abandoned Jiangning after ascending the throne, Emperor Jiatai was kind, benevolent, and mindful of the people. After taking the throne, he began to reflect on the mistakes of the past Wu Dynasty and actively engaged in negotiations with the Jin Dynasty, hoping to find appropriate methods to end the war and save the people from misery.

At this time, Jiangnan was already in dire straits, and although the people generally held no goodwill towards the Jin Dynasty, the small court in Lin'an chose a different direction for propaganda.

On the one hand, they publicly claimed to be actively negotiating with the Jin Dynasty. On the other hand, the small court in Lin'an released a large amount of previously suppressed negative information about the Wu Dynasty over the past decades, including the Wu Dynasty's corruption and incompetence, Cai Jing's manipulation of power, Tong Guan's redemption of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, military incompetence, generals' greed and fear of death, and even the lewd secrets of Emperor Jinghan Zhou Zhe and many emperors, as well as their arbitrary and reckless actions in important court matters... and so on.

Since the Jingping Humiliation, after the Jurchens captured Zhou Ji and took him back to the north, this negative information had been spreading south every year. However, when the Wu Dynasty was still legitimate, the court was able to completely suppress these comments. Even if there were occasional leaks, at least the Princess Royal's residence was still there, and the court still had unity. Someone would come forward to refute them.

But in the power vacuum after Zhou Yong's departure, all public opinion was truly controlled by the Lin'an court.

"Speaking of these things, although the Jurchens are brutal, the Wu Dynasty has come to this point...it's really a case of reaping what you sow..."

"The civil officials form factions, the emperors are immoral, and the generals are greedy and afraid of death..."

As this year transitioned from old to new, such sighs could often be heard from the surviving literati in Lin'an.

As for those with higher status and more access to information, they certainly knew more. In order to maintain Emperor Jiatai's legitimacy, the court's negative information did not involve Zhou Yong, but the ugliness of Zhou Yong abandoning the city and fleeing when the Jurchen army approached was clear to everyone in the major families.

When the elders of these major families no longer suppressed public opinion, people talked about Zhou Yong's fleeing farce, the stupid things that had happened over the years, and even the "former Crown Prince" who ascended the throne in Jiangning and then fled. They could not help but shake their heads. Strangely enough, people did not notice when they were in the midst of it, but when they were able to freely discuss these things, most people could not help but feel that it would be strange if such a country did not perish.

More than half a year had passed since the fall of the Wu Dynasty. The massacres suffered by the resisters, the internal struggles of those who wavered, the conflicts and struggles between those who surrendered and those who resisted, the blood that flowed on the execution grounds and in the cities, were too numerous to describe in detail. As the year came to an end, after most of the fierce resisters had been eliminated, the court, led by Wu Qimei and others, temporarily stabilized.

On the fifth day of the New Year, Li Shan, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, rode in a carriage through the streets of Lin'an, preparing to go to Wu Qimei's home for a gathering.

Lifting the curtain of the carriage, the streets outside still appeared deserted. Few shops were open, snow piled up on the sides of the road, and the passersby with their hands in their sleeves seemed to cast gloomy and hostile glances at everything in the market, especially the figures of the "powerful." Li Shan could always detect a sense of suppressed anger and resentment from them.

To be born in an era of great upheaval is the misfortune of the world. But to have survived, be content.

Thinking this in his heart, he lowered the curtain.

No one is born evil, of course, and few are born ready to die for a cause. Sometimes one must feign compliance, sometimes one must advance indirectly, and sometimes... for example, when the Wu Dynasty is extremely corrupt, one can only let go. This is Li Shan's current view.

Li Shan's mentor is the current Right Chancellor, Wu Qimei. The Wu family had been a prominent family in Jiangnan for a long time. During the Jinghan era, the political center of the Wu Dynasty was still in the Central Plains, and the Jiangnan forces were in a marginal position. Although Wu Qimei was academically renowned at a young age, he had long been tired of the infighting in the officialdom. After setbacks in several political struggles, he returned to Jiangnan, living in seclusion and cultivating his reputation. His talent was similar to that of Qian Xiwwen of Hangzhou, covering one area and difficult to enter the central government.

After the fall of the Central Plains, the southward-moving court had to rely on the power of the Jiangnan families, and the Wu family thus became a pivotal family in Jiangnan. Wu Qimei aspired to the position of chancellor—he often compared himself to Qin Siyuan, the Duke of Qin, who had experienced the Blackwater Alliance when he was frustrated. At that time, Qin Siyuan had not been rehabilitated, but as the leader of a large family, he could see the internal situation clearly. Qin Siyuan's many actions after his reinstatement, including disaster relief, the Northern Expedition, and the defense of Taiyuan and Bianliang, Qin Siyuan had worked too hard and paid too much, but in the end he fell due to the balance of power in the officialdom. These things made Wu Qimei feel sympathetic.

However, even though he possessed the talent to manage the world, and the southward-moving court had given the southern families status and power, several positions involving the central government were still controlled by several veteran officials of the court—Zhou Yong knew he had limited abilities, and only sought stability in the appointment of officials. The promotion of new people and the support of new forces were not very strong.

As a result, Wu Qimei could not directly reach the peak of the officialdom. However, his reputation was high, his family's power was great, and if he could not be a chancellor, other small officials would be meaningless. For this reason, after the Jianshuo court settled in Lin'an, Wu Qimei established the "Jun Society," taking the meaning of "reason weighing ten thousand jun," secretly supporting many people and building a small circle in the officialdom. This can be regarded as a political detour. If he could not be a chancellor, it would be good to make his position more detached and become the mastermind behind the Wu Dynasty court.

In fact, the "Jun Society" established by Wu Qimei once hoped to become the "Jun Society." This idea was similar to Qin Hui's. Zhou Yong could only be said to be a symbol in his administration, and many people initially wanted to place their bets on Zhou Junwu. Wu Qimei himself had vast connections, strong strength, and many capable disciples—no matter how you looked at it, he seemed like a second Qin Siyuan, but in the end, the hothead named Zhou Junwu did not recognize him, which also made Wu Qimei feel resentment and shame.

Sure enough, this world is not short of capable ministers like Qin Siyuan, but this world is already corrupt and cannot accommodate one or two Qin Siyuan.

—Li Shan was not very clear about this situation. He had originally studied at Wu Qimei's home, and was promoted to the position of Jinshi by Wu Qimei in the third year of Jianshuo. Since then, his official career had been smooth. When the Jurchens came, Li Shan also called for resistance, and even thought about fighting the Jurchens to the death. However, when these ideas were not in front of him, he could be passionate and generous. When things came to a head, everyone was still somewhat hesitant.

Afterwards, with Zhou Yong's escape, the mentor was heartbroken and cried out that the Wu Dynasty was about to perish, but what was the fault of the common people? When the Jurchens entered the city, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Some people chose to resist generously, and were then massacred. Tie Yan, Wu Qimei, and others stood up and tried to save the innocent people, and the small court was thus established.

These things are certainly humiliating, and may leave a bad name in future history. But if no one did this, more people in the world would die.

What can the ant-like people understand?

The carriage moved forward all the way, and after arriving at Wu Qimei's Right Chancellor's residence, many people had already arrived. These people were either Li Shan's fellow students or Wu's party members and friends in the court. Many people exchanged New Year's greetings after meeting. When Li Shan met several familiar fellow students, what he heard them talking about was mostly the expansion and training of the new army by Wu's capable generals Chen Wei, Dou Qingfeng, and others.

Since the fall of Lin'an, there have been three battles being fought in the outside world: one is the former Crown Prince, who is still being chased by Zong Bi with troops; the second is the bloody battle near Tanzhou by Yin Shuke; and the third is the contest between the southwestern bandits and Zong Han and Xiyin, which has not yet ended.

But for the people in the Lin'an court, in addition to the existence of Zhou Junwu being an immediate threat, as for the Black Flag—after all, the other party has not been near Jiangnan for more than ten years. Speaking of the regicide more than ten years ago, the heinousness of the act, but the real feeling of something not seen for more than ten years is ultimately not enough.

The army is what all factions in today's Lin'an court care about.

As for why they surrendered and why the Wu Dynasty perished, they can come up with a whole flower of reasons. But the surrender faction is not naive—or rather, only the surrender faction understands reality especially well. Ten thousand reasons cannot protect one's life. Once the Jurchens withdraw, the only thing that can be relied on is the army.

Fortunately, the rule of the Wu Dynasty has collapsed, and the various forces and groups that make up the small court often have their own "bases" in many places, with their own spheres of influence. After the surrender, the first thing that the major families, led by Tie Yan and Wu Qimei, promoted was conscription—Zong Fu and Zong Bi were not disgusted by such behavior, or rather, it was with their encouragement that the forces in various places took such actions.

For the Jurchens who were beyond their reach, a chaotic and divided Jiangnan "Wu Dynasty" that generally leaned towards the Jin Dynasty was most in line with the Jin Dynasty's interests. And for the various forces who had chosen to surrender in order to save their lives, the fastest way to destroy the orthodoxy of the Wu Dynasty and prevent it from turning over by relying on "righteousness" was the best way to ensure their own safety.

Due to this tacit understanding, in the past few months, Zong Fu and Zong Bi were chasing Junwu and plundering spoils, while the people in the Lin'an court were busy smearing the Wu Dynasty while carrying out a land-grabbing movement. Wu Qimei was in charge of the central government, and several of his generals had more than 300,000 troops in various places. Li Shan and other civil officials were trying to transport the remaining resources of the Lin'an court to these troops, in the hope that they could quickly transform into elites and become the basic strength of the new Wu Dynasty in the future.

Because Wu Qimei compared himself to Qin Siyuan, the Wu faction and the Qin faction of that year have many similarities. For example, after Wu Qimei became the chancellor, he quickly established the new Wu Dynasty Secret Intelligence Division, which was presided over by his most trusted disciple, Gan Fenglin, who collected various Jianghu people to work for him. Among his disciples, there were also those who were engaged in commercial affairs, and they were highly valued by Wu Qimei.

When everyone gathered, they occasionally talked about the affairs of the Qin faction in the past. They mentioned Monk Jueming, saying that he had imperial blood after all, but he achieved success because of relationships. Although his reputation was high, he was actually unworthy of it; they talked about Ji Kun, saying that he was from a servant background, and he was capable of handling detailed matters, but he lacked the overall atmosphere; they talked about Cheng Zhouhai, saying that he assisted Zhou Pei and could not prevent the imperial family's infighting in advance, so that Zhou Yong fled and the power of the Princess Royal's residence quickly collapsed, and he was also difficult to use; as for Wenren Buer, he was just an ordinary person, not worth mentioning.

There was also Ning Liheng. The act of assassinating the emperor was too reckless. If he had done it slowly, the world would not have reached this point today... When everyone discussed it, all kinds of things were mentioned.

Naturally, there were hidden comparisons in the evaluations. Now that Zhou Pei had gone to sea, Zhou Junwu was running around, and the war in the southwest was even more distant. When Wu Qimei, Gan Fenglin, and others occasionally talked about it, few dared to question the strength of Zong Han and Xiyin. Moreover, the Black Flag Army acted perversely and lost the hearts of the people. In the two months that the Jurchens marched to the southwest, not only did Jiange turn to the Jin Dynasty, but also various rebellions of all sizes emerged in the southwest.

According to the news from the southwest, as of mid-December alone, there were more than 30 rebellions in the areas controlled by the Black Flag Army in the process of fighting against the Jin people. These rebellions, some with dozens of people and some with hundreds of people, took advantage of the opportunity when the Jurchens attacked and the Black Flag Army could not take care of both ends, destroying roads and leading troops into the mountains behind the Black Flag Army.

Now the most pressing thing in front of Li Shan and others is not the Black Flag Army. When Wu Qimei and others occasionally talk about it, they are quite clear-headed as bystanders: The internal chaos in the southwest is the result of Ning Yi using veterans to go to the countryside and compete with the local gentry for power.

—Ning Yi used veterans, patrol teams, storytelling teams, and military medical teams to go to remote villages, and the scholars in these villages secretly said that the Black Flag Army was a great disaster that did not care about the principles of heaven, and that it was a demon without a ruler or father.

"The people who break the rules, the rules will turn around and eat him."

The war in the distant southwest already had a direction in the eyes of the people of Lin'an. Occasionally, some interesting anecdotes from the past were mentioned: More than ten years ago, Fang La raised an army and occupied Hangzhou. The inner demon Ning Yi was trapped in this place. The site of the Badao Camp where he was stationed at that time is now two streets away from the Prime Minister's Mansion, but the scenery of the past has long been different. As for the Right Chancellor's residence today, it was once a more famous place. It was originally the old residence of the family of the great scholar Qian Xiwwen. When Fang La broke the city, Qian Xiwwen led his family to resist. Later, the house was burned down. After Fang La was destroyed, someone bought this place. It was renovated several times in more than ten years, and finally became the residence of the Right Chancellor.

During the gathering, these anecdotes spanning more than ten years were told by Gan Fenglin, the originally steady "senior brother" among the crowd. Li Shan looked outside and saw that the snow and plum blossoms in the courtyard were in harmony, and guests came and went. Thinking of the past ten years, he only felt that although Lin'an was still in the hands of the Jurchens, it might not be impossible to feel proud and elated in the future. A feeling of pride arose in his chest.

After the anecdotes were chatted about, after a while, their topic turned to the most urgent conscription and training of troops.

At this time, it was the first year of the Zhenxing era of the Wu Dynasty—or the first year of the Jiatai era—the fifth day of the first month. Not many people realized how turbulent and overwhelming the coming year would be. But on this afternoon, the war report from the southwest reached Lin'an, and the intense earthquake shocked everyone in Lin'an at this time.

That was the news that the Huaxia Army had broken through Yushuixi on December 19 and killed Elili in battle. This news was like a thunderbolt, and even made Li Shan and others horrified for a time. He could clearly remember the faces of Wu Qimei, Gan Fenglin, and others on this day. When he gathered privately that night, he heard Wu Qimei say after much deliberation, with a gloomy face, "The things in hand are one's own. From now on, the new army is the top priority."

Wu Qimei did not emphasize too much, but everyone understood clearly: In fact, whether Zhou Junwu made a comeback or the southwest really resisted the attack of Zong Han's army, the only thing that could save them would be the army in their hands. The war report from the southwest only sounded a more severe alarm for them.

This gloom lasted for seven days. On the evening of the twelfth day of the first month, Li Shan was quickly summoned to the Right Chancellor's Mansion. This time, Wu Qimei was calm but joyful: "I said long ago that those who break the rules will not end well."

The second war report from the southwest was transmitted to Lin'an at the fastest speed.

In recent days, the war situation in the southwest has changed rapidly.

The Battle of Yushuixi on December 19 not only brought great confidence and benefits to the Huaxia Army, but also detonated the determination of some local forces that were still watching in the rear of the Huaxia Army. Starting from the 24th, several riots organized by local gentry and landlords broke out in various places in the southwest. Although these riots did not directly affect the overall situation, they indirectly divided the already strained troop deployment of the Huaxia Army. On the night of the 30th of the Lunar New Year, in Huangming County, Balisu launched another tidal wave of attacks on the Huaxia Army.

Looking like it was stimulated by the defeat at Yushuixi, the attack on Huangming County was unusually fierce. For the next three consecutive days, Balisu personally led the battle and launched wave after wave of fierce attacks. The Huaxia Army's resistance on the Huangming defense line was also extremely tenacious, but it still suffered huge casualties.

During this attack, Balisu gathered a large number of Han troops that had been stockpiled on the front line, and even drove a portion of the Han wounded, ordering them to launch a frantic attack on a part of the city wall. Huangming County had experienced two months of tenacious defense and suffered a lot of casualties. The staff prepared to use the reality that the Han troops in front were not strong and launch a counterattack.

The offensive and defensive situation of Huangming County did not give the Second Division of Pang Liuan much choice. Compared to the intricate terrain of Yushuixi, the Huangming County side was just a city wall. In front of the city wall was the battlefield, and beyond that were the Jurchen's camp and the narrow mountain road. Once the Jurchens ordered their troops to launch an attack, even the cowardly Han troops had no room to retreat. If the Black Flag Army did not accept the surrender, the troops could only continue to launch attacks on the city wall, or wait weakly to die on the battlefield.

The Second Division's defense was extremely tenacious, and the number of artillery was the largest in the Black Flag Army. In the two months since then, the battlefield exchange ratio of Huangming County was more brilliant than that of Yushuixi, but no matter what, their losses were also heavy—although this was already the best result in the defensive battle.

The riots at the end of the year tightened the Huaxia Army's line of troops. Although Huangming County could still be defended, the constantly increasing casualties were always worrying. Considering that the defeat at Yushuixi was only ten days ago, the Jurchens had not adjusted their attitude towards the Han army in reality. The Huangming County position launched a surrender offer to some of the Han troops.

The counterattack broke out on the evening of the third day of the first month. After hearing that the Huaxia Army had opened the door to surrender, the Han army on the battlefield began to riot. Pang Liuan gathered the strength of an elite regiment and drove them from the rear. A Han army unit that had decided to surrender cut into the Jurchen's position from the middle of the battlefield, and the riot spread instantly.

The entire chaos lasted for nearly half an hour on the battlefield. The chaos continued to expand. An elite Xi Ren unit was cut off in front of the battlefield and was almost completely wiped out. The Jurchen commander Balisu once rushed to the front to suppress the battle and resisted the Black Flag elite assault regiment that was rushing forward in the chaos. In the rear of the Jurchen camp, a Han general took the opportunity to rebel and detonated half of the arsenal. Flames burned across the sky.

The situation was realistic and delicate. Pang Liuan and Chief of Staff Guo Chen finally decided to invest two more regiments of troops and attack with maximum force to stabilize the battle situation in Huangming County.

When 3,000 people were thrown into the battle and continued to push forward, a Han army unit, carrying the head of a Xi Ren general, was chased by the Jurchens and rushed towards the city wall. On the other side, another elite Han army launched an attack on the Black Flag team that rushed out of the city wall.

After waiting peacefully for more than two months in the repeated attacks, the defenders of Huangming County entered into the calculations of Balisu—the Jurchen veteran whose status was second only to Xiyin, Yin Shuke, and Shuliesu. On this day, whether it was defeat or chaos, everything on the battlefield was performed extremely realistically, and it was this realism that gave Pang Liuan and others just the right temptation, causing them to involuntarily choose to attack when they most needed to make a decision—only because if they did not attack, the huge results would be fleeting, and Huangming County would continue to be caught in a tragic offensive and defensive battle day after day.

The time on the third day of the first month also happened to be a psychological key point: After the defeat at Yushuixi, the distrust of the Han army in the Jurchen army had been rising. The Huaxia Army responded to this by issuing leaflets, shouting for surrender... These means made the position of the surrendered Han army more embarrassing.

The Huaxia Army's staff members often talked about these means, and they were actually somewhat proud. But this pride and complacency blinded people's eyes to a certain extent.

On the night of December 28, Zong Han summoned everyone and made a heroic mobilization, which was essentially an attempt to stabilize the position of the Han people in the army. The Huaxia Army could see the embarrassment: There were too many Han troops on the front line, and the roads in the rear were narrow. These Han troops could not be withdrawn or killed for a while. If they could not stabilize their morale, the Jurchen's southwest battle could basically be abandoned.

Balisu, who was stationed in front, did not participate in the Shili Collection meeting on the 28th. He launched an attack on the evening of the 30th. In theory, the Jurchens could not have made proper arrangements for the Han army on this day... This factor deepened the reality of the Jurchen's chaos.

On the fourth day of the first month, the Second Division of the Fifth Army of the Huaxia Army was defeated in Huangming County.

In horizontal correspondence with the Battle of Huangming County, there was actually another round of battle.

Starting from the first day of the first month, the Jurchens launched a secret and high-intensity round of troop transfers to the front line. In the early morning of the second day of the first month, the Yushuixi position, which had just completed the change of defense, was attacked by the Jurchens, and a rebellion broke out in the prisoner-of-war camp in the rear that had not been completely disbanded and reorganized. On the Yushuixi front line, Wanyan Zonghan, the commander of the West Route Army, once arrived on the battlefield and launched an attack.

This information caused a certain degree of misleading to the Huaxia Army's staff, believing that the attack on Huangming County, where the battle situation had been very stable, was actually to cover the attack on Yushuixi—this kind of taking risks had always been the style of the Jurchens, so they failed to make the best response.

A mistake on the battlefield will then make people pay a heartbreaking price.

The Battle of Yushuixi and the Battle of Huangming County were half a month apart, but the news arrived in Lin'an only seven days apart. Once the city wall of Huangming County was broken, this war report was quickly sent back to Lin'an, more than 3,000 miles away, by an eight-hundred-mile urgent report, so that the officials in Lin'an could make a decision as quickly as possible.

After receiving the war report, Wu Qimei's face was flushed, but he had already put his heart down.

The Jurchens' defeat of the Huaxia Army showed that the situation in the world was still within their grasp and prediction range. If one day, people like Wanyan Zonghan were defeated by the Huaxia Army, it might mean that the direction of the world had completely deviated from their predictions and from the scope of "common sense." This was the most terrible thing for them.

"Train troops... Hurry up and train troops."

That night, Wu Qimei briefly and powerfully repeated this sentence, which was full of profound meaning and had the demeanor of a great man.

After everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they nodded in agreement with the power of this sentence.

At this moment, the big figures in Lin'an had not realized that this turbulent spring had just begun, and their awareness, speed, and strength could not even keep up with the changes in the following information. Just after the Jurchens broke through the Huangming defense line, the war situation in the southwest quickly plunged into a white-hot and fierce battle.

Scouts were running at high speed in the mountains and forests, and Qu Zhengyan, Han Jing, and others led horse teams, repeatedly trying to cut into the flanks and rear of the enemy's army along the rugged mountain roads. This was the adjustment period when the battlefield was changing rapidly. Both sides were trying to seize a glimmer of a flaw and expand the chaotic situation before the other side had re-established itself.

And on this day, the twelfth day of the first month, when Wu Qimei received the first Huangming war report in Lin'an, the Seventh Army of the Huaxia Army, which had once stationed troops north of the Jianmen Pass and was eyeing the Jurchen's rear defense, launched the first strike against the Jurchen's rear defense line in the south under the leadership of Qin Shaoqian.

Facing this Huaxia Army unit with the most aggressive momentum, which had always threatened the Jurchen's rear, Wanyan Xiyin, who was stationed in the rear, made a move in no hurry. From the fourteenth day of the first month to the twentieth day, a total of seven days, this 20,000-strong unit successively encountered the interception of 17 Han army units of equal size and defeated the interception of 17 units.

Fierce and ferocious changes were still brewing in more places. In the first month, in Fujian, Cheng Zhouhai, who was evaluated as "difficult to use" by Wu Qimei, Gan Fenglin, and others, quietly entered Fuzhou City, which was being controlled by Tie Sanwu, the cousin of Tie Yan, the Left Chancellor of the Jiatai Court. On the ninth day of the first month, a rebellion broke out in Fuzhou City. The army bloodbathed Fuzhou Prefecture. On the tenth day, Tie Sanwu's head was hung on the city wall.

On the same day, Princess Zhou Pei, wearing a bright yellow coat, stepped onto the Fuzhou city wall, which still had a head hanging on it, under the protection of the crowd. Through the cold wind, she looked at the snowy field in the north. In that direction, Junwu and the teams of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were still being pursued by the Jurchen army.

Near Tanzhou (Changsha), Yin Shuke defeated Zhu Jing's troops and slaughtered Juling County in this snowy weather. Chen Fan and others built a defense line near Tanzhou, but they were also fighting and retreating. But in the army commanded by Yin Shuke, a huge conspiracy was quietly brewing:

A young Han army general named Yu Mingzhou, after ravaging his home twice and losing three fingers in the war, gradually gained the trust of Wanyan Qingjue because of his brutal and paranoid personality. Soon after, this young general will show his ferocious face behind Wanyan Qingjue and Yin Shuke...

Spring has not yet arrived, but the earth is already thundering.

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