The snow in the cold winter of the Jin Dynasty never lie. From the first day, there were sparse snowflakes floating, and by the time the army camped at night, it turned into heavy snow.

And by the morning of the next day, the whole world was covered in silver. Looking around, it looked like a world where only snow existed.

It took more than three days to arrive at the city of Huining Mansion. At this time, Huining Mansion was also covered with thick snow. The city walls, streets, eaves and other buildings were already covered with thick snow.

Fortunately, although there has not been a real sunny day in the past few days, the first snow this winter has been intermittently large and small for three days. Although it has not stopped for a long time, at least for the army led by Ye Qing, it is already very kind to the army.

In the afternoon, he arrived at the city of Huining Prefecture. Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Can and Yelu Yixue, Qishilie Baishan and Wanyan Chen had all led their troops to the city of Huining Prefecture to meet with Qishilie's god slaves.

Now, with some soldiers from the Hua Family Army led by Ye Qing, the soldiers led by Zhou Ping and Liu Jiansheng, the number of troops under Ningfu City at this moment was still far greater than the troops under Long'an City at that time.

Almost before Ye Qing arrived, Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Can and Qi Shilie God Nu and several generals had led their troops to surround Huining Mansion. The surrounding city gates were closed, making Huining Mansion an isolated city in a completely sense.

Li Shi'er and Qi Shilie's Gods Slave finally met again. In the central army tent, when the two looked at each other, they felt mixed feelings.

No one expected that when Qi Shilie's Gods Slaves left the palace, they met again, it was today several years later, and even... No one expected that when they met again, everything in the world would undergo earth-shaking changes.

However, the two of them have had a common purpose or obsession over the years, that is, one day they must lead their troops to the Ningfu city to avenge the late emperor.

As for the restoration of the country, with the changes in the situation over the past few years and the strength of the Song court, the reality has made Li Shier and the gods slaves of Qi Shilie no longer have any extravagant hopes in their hearts.

"I have seen the Empress." Qi Shilie's Gods Slave's eyes turned red, and in front of the other soldiers, Ye Qing and others, he knelt down in front of Li Shi'er with a thud.

Monk Wanyan Chen and Qi Shilie Baishan frowned. At this time, they were extremely conflicted in front of Ye Qing. For a moment, they didn't know whether they should follow Qi Shilie's god slaves to kneel down to Li Shier, or just stand and watch.

At this time, the atmosphere in the camp suddenly became subtle. Outside the tent was nearly 100,000 siege troops, and within the tent were there were no less than ten generals in the army. However, among them, whether it was the generals in the tent or the soldiers outside the tent, there was a delicate balance.

Nearly 100,000 troops outside the tent, except for the Hua Family Army and the Breaking Camp, all of them were the Jin soldiers who surrendered earlier, or were recruited in Danluo and Longan, and the number of them reached nearly 50,000.

This is even more true for the generals in the tent. With the arrival of the Gods Slaves of Qi Shilie, Monk Wanyan Chen and Qi Shilie Baishan were also generals of the Jin Kingdom. Now, because Li Shier is in the tent, although only the Gods Slaves of Qi Shilie are still loyal to Li Shier in front of Ye Qing, don’t forget that Monk Wanyan Chen and Qi Shilie Baishan are also loyal to Li Shier. If it weren’t for Li Shier’s order, they wouldn’t have surrendered to Ye Qing’s command.

It is not clear whether Ye Qing felt this subtle balance and even-match change. Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Can, Jia She, Yelu Yixue, when he looked around the central army's tent, he frowned involuntarily.

Monk Wanyan Chen, who had already reached the point of talking about everything on the battlefield, saw Mo Xiaobao frowning, and in just a moment, he instantly realized the subtle atmosphere in the central army tent.

Even when he began to analyze in his heart, a string suddenly seemed to be suddenly plucked in his heart. The thoughts that came to his mind frightened him, and he couldn't help but look at the many generals in the account again and calculate the distribution of troops outside the account.

At this time, Li Shi'er was still immersed in her mixed feelings. She did not notice the subtle atmosphere in the account. She did not immediately walk to Qi Shilie's Gods Slave to help him up. Instead, she quietly looked at Qi Shilie's Gods Slave who was kneeling in front of her and said slowly: "Thank you for your hard work in the past few years, and you have suffered."

"I am not suffering, I am ashamed of the Empress and the Last Emperor. If I had noticed the plan of the rebel Wanyan Xun earlier, I would not have let the Last Emperor..." Qi Shilie's Gods slave kneeled on the ground and said in a low voice.

"No need to say it, things have come to this point, and it will be futile to say it. Let's get up first." Li Shi'er said to Qi Shilie's Gods slave.

The slaves of Qi Shilie, who stood up as he spoke, looked at the queen Li Shier who did not pursue his guilt with gratitude again, and walked to the central case and bowed to Ye Qing, who was sitting behind the case and said, "I have something to ask for, and I hope the King of Yan can agree. As long as the King of Yan agrees, then the King of Yu will not frown if he lets Mo Jiang do anything."

Ye Qing had a smile on his lips, looking around the entire central military tent for a week, then staring at Li Shi'er, who looked at the doubtful look when he looked at the slaves of Qi Shilie, and said lightly: "You might as well talk about it first."

At this moment, Wanyan Congyi, Wang Zhi and Gao Hu, who were not qualified to speak, stood in an inconspicuous corner of the central army tent, quietly staring at everything in front of him. When the slaves of Qi Shilie knelt in front of Li Shi'er, the instantaneous discomfort and embarrassment of Wanyan Chen and Qi Shi'er Baishan were naturally fully visible. At the same time, he also captured the subtle atmosphere in the central army tent at that time, and even felt a little happy, thinking unconsciously that if at this time, the generals of the Jin army tent in the central army tent could unite with Li Shi'er's shouting, wouldn't the Song army... have the chance to be broken from the inside and disintegrated by them at the last moment?

After all, whether it is inside or outside the central army, the generals and troops of the Song and Jin armies are almost the same as the number of troops. The Jin people still have the advantage of geographical advantage, and Huining Mansion can be used as support in front of them. So as long as Li Shi'er is willing to leave the Song court at this time, then... I'm afraid it is the best time?

But when the slaves of the gods Qi Shilie solemnly walked to the desk and saluted Ye Qing, and then asked Ye Qing for something, Wanyan began to sink from Yi's heart. Ye Qing's smile that seemed to be with a hint of alert seemed to him to be confident.

As the saying goes, bystanders are clear about the authorities and are confused. He believes that Ye Qing must have noticed the subtle atmosphere just now, but the reason why Ye Qing was so old and not worried at all was that he had no idea that he did not know.

But it was also because of the request of Qi Shilie's god slaves that his heart began to sink continuously, and he once again realized that the demise of the Great Jin Kingdom could no longer be reversed.

"The General of the Monkey King asked the King of Yan to agree to the General of the Monkey King and the Monkey Chen of Wanyan, Qi Shi Lie Baishan to take the lead when attacking Huining Mansion." Qi Shi Lie's Gods slave said to Ye Qing solemnly.

Li Shi'er's originally puzzled expression instantly became extremely shocked, and there was also a hint of relief and emotion in the shock.

Before Ye Qing could speak, the monk Wanyan Chen, who escorted Li Shi'er to escape from Huining Mansion to Yuguan, took a step forward at this time and asked Ye Qing for his orders to take the lead with the Qi Shi'er's Gods slaves.

Li Shi'er's eyes were instantly moved and wandered around the three of them. She looked at the three of them from time to time, either looking at Ye Qing who was smiling but silent. At this time, her mood was quite contradictory. She wanted the slaves of Shilie to be the first to break through the gate of Huining Mansion, but she was also worried about their safety.

So at this moment, she wanted Ye Qing to agree, but she didn't want Ye Qing to agree.

The subtle atmosphere in the original camp disappeared in an instant at this time, but a strong fighting spirit of unity against the enemy became stronger in the camp, just like snowflakes that began to fall again outside, which made people feel its existence deeply.

At this moment, Wanyan Congyi finally became completely desperate. He stood in the corner and raised his head slightly, closing his eyes, and murmured: "This is the destruction of the Great Jin Kingdom."

Gao Hu and Wang Zhi remained silent, but they were just slower than Wanyan's response from Yi. So at this moment, they all saw the current situation clearly, but unfortunately, their defenders in Longan had been completely disbanded by Ye Qing, either being incorporated into the army of Wanyan Monk Chen and others, or under the guard of Wanyan Xielie, they are still in Longan.

So at this moment, even if they wanted to work hard in front of Ye Qing, they had no soldiers in their hands, so they could only watch that after surrendering, they were still marginalized by the Song people, or deliberately marginalized by the monk Wanyan Chen and others.

"Okay, I promise you." Ye Qing thought for a while, then nodded and said, "When you attack the city tomorrow, you three will be the vanguard, Mo Xiaobao, Zhong Can and Yelu Yixue will assist you three and obey you three."

It seems that Ye Qing made up his mind to bet this, so that the three of Qi Shilie's Gods Slave, Wanyan Chen, and Qi Shilie Baishan could serve him wholeheartedly, rather than just because of his loyalty to Li Shi'er.

Li Shi'er obviously didn't think so much. After the relationship between her and Ye Qing became complicated, she would no longer deliberately think about Ye Qing's every move from the bottom of her heart. So when Ye Qing transferred the three most trusted generals around her to the Qi Shilie's Gods slaves, Li Shi'er was more moved by Ye Qing at this moment.

So when Ye Qing and others began to discuss plans to attack the city tomorrow, Li Shi'er unconsciously turned around and walked out of the camp, followed by the palace maids and eunuchs who had been following her.

The palace maid carefully put on the thick fur for Li Shi'er who walked out of the tent. The snowflakes fell silently on the top of his head, face, shoulders, and the white palms that Li Shi'er stretched out, and then slowly melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, slowly becoming cold.

After sucking for a while, his nose, which was somewhat blocked, was aimlessly paced around the Central Army tent, leaving a series of footprints behind him instantly. At this time, Li Shi'er looked around unconsciously and finally turned her eyes to the Huining Mansion wall in the distance.

This place was so familiar and friendly to her at the beginning, but now after coming again, everything has become so strange and far away. Even in her mind, she could still easily see what the streets of Huining Mansion look like, where is the restaurant in Huining Mansion tastes good, that street is the quietest, and that road is the most suitable for walking in the snow.

Even if she could not see it with her own eyes even if she could not see it with her own eyes at the palace gate when snowflakes were flying all over the sky, she could clearly outline the situation in the palace. I believe... The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace are busy cleaning up the snow in the palace, so as to ensure that the emperor still has her. When walking in the palace, her feet are clean, without even a thin layer of snow.

However, Li Shi'er did not realize that the situation in Huining Mansion Palace at this time was completely different from the situation she remembered and the situation she imagined at the moment.

Passing through the walls of Huining City, lanterns cruising like ghost fires under the snowy night, passing through countless houses, restaurants, streets, the palace of Huining Mansion is in front of you.

At this time, there were no palace maids in Huining Mansion Palace, and the eunuchs were cleaning up the snow. The entire palace seemed very quiet, even with a hint of lifelessness. Occasionally, the imperial guards who were still in power patrolled by, but the sound of scattered footsteps and the sound of armor colliding, for some reason, gave people a feeling of loneliness and desolation.

The halls that should be lit up in the entire palace are still on as usual, and there are even more lights tonight than usual. Almost every hall and every row of houses are lit up, but there are few people walking in front of the window, let alone someone will come out in the night to enjoy the snow with the cold.

But Wanyan Xun, who had sent away those ministers, suddenly had the urge to enjoy the snow in the night. Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie were already as restless as ants on a hot pan. Especially when they thought of the rewards on the city wall, they both felt a chill on the back of their necks.

The Song army arrived at the second group this afternoon. If expected, the second group was the army led by Ye Qing. After appeased Long'an, he arrived at the city of Huining Prefecture today.

The siege army of 100,000, and there are a large number of rebels who are very familiar with the defense of Huining Mansion. This makes Huining Mansion, which has a very weak defense force, seem even more precarious and thin on this snowy night.

But these are not the reasons why Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie felt a chill on the back of his neck. The only reason was that in the reward of the general on the city tower, he mentioned the skeleton of Wanyan Tuoda who was thrown in front of the gate of Huining Mansion.

The pale skeleton, which was intact and blood-teared, was deliberately made by the Qi Shilie Gods slaves kneeling towards the city gate.

The reason why the city gate has been closed tightly these days has also caused the pale skeleton to kneel at the city gate so gloomy. After the heavy snow of the past three days, the pale skeleton turned into a snowman, and the reward of the city wall is described as: like a intact Wanyan Tuoda kneeling at the city gate and apologizing to Huining Mansion.

But everyone knows that Wanyan Tuoda, who was kneeling there, was not apologizing to Wanyan Xun, but obviously apologizing to the late emperor Wanyan Jing.

Wanyan Xun, who walked out of the imperial study, blew a mouthful of white mist, unconsciously rubbed his hands to drive away the cold. Through the palace lanterns in the garden on the snowy night, he looked at the slowly falling snowflakes, and said in a very calm and relaxed manner: "This first snow this year is really not disappointing. It seems that it will take a few days to stop."

Wanyan Cong, who followed Wanyan Xun out of the imperial study room, faced the sudden coldness, first shrank his neck unconsciously, and then after hearing Wanyan Xun's words, he was stunned unconsciously, and then sighed deeply in his heart.

It’s not that they had thought of abandoning Wanyan Xun to find a way out at this time, but because they had no way out to find a way out.

When they rebelled, they made great efforts to reuse them after Wanyan Xun succeeded to the throne.

But who would have thought that this good life was just a few years before, and it was about to collapse.

At that time, they had personally pursued Li Shi'er under the order of Wanyan Xun, but Wanyan Jing seemed to have been prepared at that time. The soldiers guarding him were soon defeated by Wanyan Tuoda. However, the army with a smaller number of people escorting Queen Li Shi'er out of the city to escape were actually brave and good at fighting, and were both loyal to Li Shi'er, which made them unable to pursue them all the way.

When we chased Long'an, the weather was like today, and heavy snow began to float in the sky.

Even now, they have never figured it out. When they chased Long'an, it was the best time for them to defeat Li Shi'er, but after Li Shi'er and the army escorted her entered Long'an, they were like stones sinking into the sea. Over the past night, they couldn't find anyone.

But in the early morning of the next day, I learned that before dawn, Li Shi'er had already left the city again.

So Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie continued to go out of the city and continued to chase the footprints that were not covered with snowflakes, but no matter how hard they chased them on the road, they never caught up.

Even after they realized that Li Shi'er was in Yuguan and wanted to seek asylum in the Song court, they immediately divided a small group of people and wanted to enter Liaoyang Mansion first, hoping to intercept Li Shi'er and others from the necessary path to Liaoyang.

But in the end, the effort failed. When their people arrived in Liaoyang, Li Shi'er had already left Liaoyang. Even if he added the new force sent by Wanyan Fuxing, he would only catch up when Li Shi'er was about to reach Yuguan.

I thought I could take down all the less than ten people left who had been hunted by them before Li Shi'er and his friends arrived at Yuguan, but the gods were not good, and the Song defenders who occupied Yuguan killed them from the pass and then rescued Li Shi'er and others.

"It's no longer important." A deep loneliness and sorrow flashed in Wanyan Xun's eyes, and then he smiled and said, "Actually, when you missed it in Longan, I already felt that it would be difficult for you to catch her."

Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie looked at each other, not sure what it meant to mention at this time.

"Maybe it was too hasty at that time that Longan did not expect that Li Shi'er would actually dare to enter Longan to rest." Wanyan Cong said after thinking for a while.

Wanyan Xun let out a long breath in the dark night sky. The heat from his mouth quickly dissipated with the wind. He lowered his head and smiled: "It was already foolproof at that time. Can you tell me... why am I still unwilling to reuse the two brothers of Wanyan Congyi?"

Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie were both stunned and unconsciously recalled the past in their minds.

Wanyan Xun heard a voice of loneliness: "After the inside and outside the army broke through Huining Mansion, the Goryeo army led by Cui Zhongxian needed to help me stabilize my position in Huining Mansion. At that time, only you two could help me stabilize other royal families in Huining Mansion, including some officials in the court, forcing them not to still want to support the late emperor or to assassinate others at this time. After all, you two were already familiar with some officials in the court at that time and had always had a good relationship, so you can naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"At that time, although Wanyan Congyi and Wanyan Congxian had agreed to support me, Wanyan Congyi... How to say that, in fact, he was extremely cunning, and in the hearts of the royal family and the officials of the court, he also had prestige and influence no less than mine. So I was really worried at that time that once you two could not convince the other royal family and those officials of the court, then after Wanyan Jing was killed by me, they would support Wanyan Cong.

Yi was the emperor. With no choice, without offending Wanyan Congyi, I had to let Wanyan Congyi go to Long'an for me in the name of letting him go to Long'an for me. As soon as he could keep him away from Huining Mansion, he would not remind the clan of him, and thus support him as the emperor. After all, after I killed Wanyan Jing, it would be impossible for anyone in the clan to disagree, so after I led him away, I was less worried that the throne was the thing in my pocket."

Wanyan Xun, who said this, sighed heavily again, with a little regret in his expression and tone.

Wanyan Cong and Wanyan Jie were stunned when they heard this. In the past few days, they not only noticed that Wanyan Xun no longer wore a dragon robe as he had liked, but even in terms of claiming that he no longer used my self-proclaiming, but began to call him by me.

"The second is... After taking down Huining Mansion, the first thing must be to be the first to appease Long'an Mansion. After all, Long'an Mansion is the gateway to Huining Mansion. Only after appease Long'an can I barely be able to sit firmly. Long'an Mansion also has a large number of my Dajin defenders. Although we faked the imperial edict and allowed Cui Zhongxian's Goryeo army to come over, once the incident in Huining Mansion happened, no one knew which side the attitude of the Longan Mansion would stand on." "Although many defending generals of Long'an Mansion had been bribed by me at that time, we had never won over the position of the prefect, and Wanyan Congyi and the prefect at that time were also

There have been intersections, so I think that it would be safer to be able to convince him than to issue an order at that time. Of course, the reason why he acted so carefully at that time..." When he said this, Wanyan Xun lowered his head and laughed at himself, and then continued: "As the saying goes, barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes. When he has not sat in this position, he will not think so much, nor will he look forward to it. Anyway, there is nothing to lose. If he loses, he will lose, and if he wins, he will win. He can afford to lose and win. But when he really sits in this position, or if he is within his touch, he will find that his thoughts will become more conservative and secure."

"So... the emperor means... When Li Shi'er fled to Long'an, was it Li Shi'er who was protected by Wanyan from Yi?" Wanyan Jie asked carefully in shock.

Wanyan Xun took a deep breath again, stared at the snowflakes dancing in front of him and said, "It's a pity that there is no evidence, and the prefect at that time also had a good relationship with Wanyan Congyi. If the two of them colluded, even if I wanted to offend Wanyan Congyi, I would have no idea how to start. What's more, I had already served as the throne at that time, and I would have luckily thought that it was just a Li Shier. Wanyan Jing was dead. She was a woman holding the child, and she could make a big wave? Could it be that she could threaten my throne?"

"Then... you didn't consider the relationship between Song Ting Ye Qing and Wanyan Jing and his wife?" Wanyan Cong also asked curiously.

Over the years, they have actually been unable to understand why the two of Wanyan Congyi brothers have always been unwelcome to the emperor Wanyan Xun. When they heard these today, they suddenly realized that there were so many secrets in it that they did not know about it.

"I thought about it, but the purpose of our sitting on the dragon throne is to regain the lost territory seized by Ye Qing from Wanyan Jing and restore the strength of our Great Jin Kingdom when it attacked the Song court? So, I thought, after I firmly took the throne, I would start a war with the Song court as soon as possible. Since Li Shi'er fled to the Song court for asylum, wouldn't this give me a reason to send troops to the Song court? But in the end, I overestimated myself and misjudged Ye Qing. Similarly, I didn't realize that the jade seal was actually taken out by Li Shi'er." Wanyan Xun's eyes became extremely deep.

"Li Shi'er took away the jade seal from the Great Jin Kingdom, probably because of Wanyan Jing's instructions. The reason for taking away the jade seal is probably to escape. Once we chase it, we hope to exchange the jade seal for a way out, right?" Wanyan Jie said thinking.
To be continued...