Chapter 34: Xin Qiji's tough life
What virtue and ability did Zhao Gou have? Before him, the veteran general Zong Ze defended Tokyo to the death, and on his deathbed he shouted three times: Cross the river! Cross the river! Cross the river!
Later on, Yue's army, which had never looked back and had put in ten years of effort to fight for every moment, was shattered.

And all of these were betrayed by the emperor of the Zhao family who was hiding in Lin'an and holding the throne.

……

On the sky screen, the picture changed again.

[At the age of 15, Xin Qiji was recommended by the government to take the imperial examination in Yanjing, but he unexpectedly failed.]

[When he was 18 years old, the government recommended Xin Qiji to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination again, and his close friend Dang Huaiying also went with him.]

[After the exam that day, Dang Huaiying patted his shoulder, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Do you think we can pass the exam and get our names on the gold list this time?"]

Xin Qiji said confidently: "You will pass the imperial examination and become a high-ranking official, but I will not pass it, so I deserve to be wandering around."

Dang Huaiying shook his head regretfully: "With your talent, it wouldn't be difficult for you to pass the exam. You just don't want to be an official of the Jin Kingdom, so you deliberately failed the exam, right?"

Xin Qiji smiled but said nothing.

On the way home, an old Taoist priest stopped them and wanted to tell their fortune.

Dang Huaiying gave the Taoist three copper coins and said: "Please calculate our future."

When the coin fell to the ground, Dang Huaiying got the "Kan Gua" and Xin Qiji got the "Li Gua".

"The auspicious phoenix flies north, and the wandering dragon returns south. Both of you will be extraordinary figures in the future. It's a pity that you can't serve in the same court."

The Taoist priest said this and floated away. 】

[Dang Huaiying looked at his friend: "Sooner or later you will go to the south and fight on the battlefield, right?"

Xin Qiji asked in return: "The shame of Jingkang has not yet been avenged. You and I are in our prime, how can we live in disgrace?"

"The destruction of the country is not our fault."

Dang Huaiying grabbed his wrist and said in a deep voice: "You are going to die!"

"If there are no young people to do these things, to fight for their lives, and to sacrifice, we will always be weak, and the people will always suffer and live in fear. One day, the barbarians' butcher knives will fall on you and me!"

Xin Qiji said this.

Dang Huaiying was silent.

Xin Qiji looked at his silent friend and patted his shoulder as he had done before: "Just send it here. You write poems while I go kill the enemies. When we meet again in the future, we will still be brothers."

[How can a young man not love romance? I don’t want to fight in wars, but I believe this is my mission.]

……

[Xin Qiji participated in the Jin Dynasty imperial examination this time, not for the Jin Dynasty's career path, but because his grandfather Xin Zan asked him to go deep into the Jin Dynasty capital, draw a topographic map of Sanchuan, record the Jin army's military strongholds, and the political situation of the Jin Dynasty.]

[Xin Qiji traveled northward, stopping and starting, filling his heart with the mountains and rivers of his homeland. He witnessed the morning and evening, faced the charming green mountains and the eastward flowing rivers, and truly filled his heart with half of the world, which gave him a sense of righteousness.]

[At the age of 20, Xin Qiji went to Yanjing again to take the imperial examination. ]

[But this time, when he returned home with a blueprint filled with densely drawn routes, Grandfather Xinzan didn't even have the energy to take a look.]

[Xin Zan spits out a few words from his throat: Start a rebellion! Start a rebellion! Start a rebellion!]

【He died after saying this.】

……

[After Xin Zan's death, an uprising army of 2,000 people gathered near Mount Tai and attacked the Jin army everywhere.]

Later, the rebel army was surrounded and suppressed by heavy troops, so the team headed southward, invincible, all the way to the border of the Southern Song Dynasty.

[One day in the 31st year of Shaoxing, the leader of the rebel army, Geng Jing, received this young team and met their commander.]

That day, the young man in white clothes dismounted from his horse, his sword-like brows and bright eyes could not conceal his heroic spirit.

[“I am Xin Qiji from Licheng. I am leading two thousand brave warriors to join General Geng and kill the enemy to serve our country.” said the young man in white.]

[Because of his outstanding literary talent and good strategy, Xin Qiji followed the commander-in-chief and kept the commander's seal.]

[Geng Jing was a rough man, but he respected scholars very much. He often practiced martial arts with this young man, drank all night, and discussed war.]

[This year, the Jin Dynasty Emperor Wanyan Liang led his army southward, shouting the slogan "Destroy the Song Dynasty in a Hundred Days", hoping to swallow up the beautiful Jiangnan region with its autumn osmanthus and ten-mile lotus described by Liu Yong in one fell swoop, and completely destroy the Song Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the empty rear of the Jin Dynasty, Geng Jing's rebel army expanded rapidly, with a number of more than 20 people, and attacked strategic locations in Shandong and Hebei.

The uprising army spread like wildfire, taking Yanzhou in the south, Dongping in the west, and capturing Jinan and Zibo.

[However, the turning points of history are often so unexpected. ]

[The rebel army, which had not received rigorous training, only lasted a few months before being defeated by the Jin cavalry and scattered in the mountainous areas on the border.

At the moment of life and death, Xin Qiji stood up and said what everyone wanted to say but dared not say.

"Now that things have come to this, the best way out is to send people to the Song State, surrender and seek their acceptance."

Geng Jing was silent for a moment, looked around the tent, and asked, "The road ahead is dangerous, who is willing to take the trip and save the lives of the 100,000 brothers?"

It was Xin Qiji again, who answered without hesitation: "I do."

Geng Jing slammed the table and stood up: "What a hero! I'll give you a thousand light cavalry. Go quickly and come back quickly!"

[The young man in white raised his spear: "One thousand is too much, five is enough."]

[In the 32nd year of Shaoxing, Xin Qiji was ordered to go south. He arrived in Nanjing on the 18th and met with Song Gaozong Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou gladly accepted it and wrote an imperial edict in front of him, appointing Geng Jing as the governor of Tianping Army, in charge of the northern uprising army, and promising to secretly supply them with food, grass and weapons. When Xin Qiji took the imperial edict, he looked up and saw that the emperor had a kind face and no threat at all.

However, it was he who personally suppressed the pro-war faction and personally ordered the killing of Yue Fei. 】

[Twelve days later, on the bank of the Yellow River, Xin Qiji ordered to set up camp and rest, and speed up the return journey tomorrow.

That night, a group of young people lit a bonfire, got drunk and celebrated, and slept on the ground.

[They all had smiles on their faces. With the help of the imperial court, they believed that the two sides would soon be able to work together and recover the lost territory in one fell swoop.]

[However, fate played another joke on Xin Qiji.

On the way back to the army the next day, everyone learned a piece of bad news. 】

Geng Jing was killed.

The traitors, led by Zhang Anguo, murdered the eldest brother Geng Jing for the sake of wealth and glory. 】

[When Xin Qiji heard the news, he did not have time to feel sad. He quietly asked about Zhang Anguo's whereabouts, tightly grasped his spear, and mounted his horse.]

[Two subordinates grabbed the reins: "What are you going to do?"]

[“Go kill Zhang Anguo, the traitor must die!”

"If you go alone, you will die!"

"Xin is not afraid of death. General Geng has been very kind to me. I will not be a human being if I don't avenge him."]

[Xin Qiji rode away, leaving a trail of dust in the distance. The others hesitated for a moment, then rode their horses to catch up.]

[This time, no one can guarantee that they can come back alive. ]

[But that's life, some things are hard to do, but you have to do them.

Otherwise, you will never forgive yourself in your life. 】

[At that time, Zhang Anguo had already fled to Jeju.

Jeju was an important border town of the Jin Dynasty, with 50,000 Jin troops stationed there.

Wanting to avenge Geng Jin by going to the garrison of 50,000 Jin troops to capture and kill a prefecture chief is nothing short of a fantasy.

[22-year-old Xin Qiji wiped the tip of his spear, and had already made up his mind.]

[Even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go. ]

……

"Did you make it?"

Huo Qubing looked at the sky nervously, eager to know what would happen next.

However, the sky curtain was like a storyteller, deliberately leaving the audience in suspense at the most critical moment, making everyone excited.

"To do something knowing it is impossible is a great person."

Zhuge Liang commented like this, with admiration in his eyes.

"Taking the enemy's heads among thousands of troops, I seem to see Zilong from another era." Liu, Guan and Zhang looked at the young general in white robe beside him.

That day, Zhao Yun faced Cao Cao's 800,000 troops at Changbanpo in Dangyang without any fear. He led A Dou in and out of the battles seven times. Thinking about it now, it still seems a little unbelievable.

This Xin Qiji of later generations actually dared to break into the camp of 50,000 Jin troops alone. This courage alone shows that he was definitely not an ordinary person.

"Why didn't Tianmu continue talking at such a crucial point? It makes me so anxious. I don't know whether this junior succeeded in his revenge!"

Zhang Fei was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks. He hated traitors the most. Seeing that Xin Qiji was a man of great loyalty and righteousness and dared to go alone to seek revenge, he respected him even more and naturally hoped that he could succeed in his revenge.

"General Zhang, rest assured. If my prediction is correct, Xin Qiji will be able to return safely."

Zhuge Liang smiled calmly, saying that the history books were too small to contain so many heroes.

If he had never returned, there would probably be no mention of him as Xin Qiji in history books.

……

[Xin Qiji led the team, pretending to be Jin soldiers returning to the camp, slowly entered the Jin camp, and calmly found Zhang Anguo's tent.

He walked straight forward, knocked Zhang Anguo unconscious with one punch, pulled him onto his horse's back, and disappeared into the night like a gust of wind.

By the time the enemy's followers reacted, Xin Qiji and others were nowhere to be found.

Fifty light cavalrymen penetrated eight hundred miles into enemy territory, risked their lives alone, and captured a traitor alive from fifty thousand enemies.

Since then, Xin Qiji became famous in one battle. 】

……

Huo Qubing, Liu Bei, Cao Cao and others were delighted to see Xin Qiji get his revenge.

For these people.

The level of blood-thirsty is no less than seeing Xiao Yan shout out the phrase "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west", and then go to the Yunlan Sect three times!
After the excitement, I still feel more regretful.

Brave, resourceful, chivalrous and courageous.

How wonderful it would be if such people were born in their time, and could be companions to each other and use each other for their own benefit.

(End of this chapter)