Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 711 - 342: [Kill the Traitors! Kill the Traitors! Kill the Traitors!!!]

"Poor white-haired!",

The scene is silent.

Yet, all the Blue Star viewers seem to hear a heavy sigh.

The scene continues to flow.

Ten years have swiftly passed, and whether it's sorrow or something else, Xin Qiji's white hair has multiplied.

He is now 52 years old.

Finally remembered by the Southern Song court, Xin Qiji was briefly reinstated.

This made Xin Qiji overjoyed.

He thought returning to the officialdom meant there was still a chance for the Northern Expedition.

Looking at the naive Xin Qiji, viewers in the live stream found it hard to continue watching.

He's too naive, too pure.

Only thinking about the Northern Expedition, only about restoring China, reclaiming lost lands, believing that as long as he could continue to serve as an official, the court would eventually decide on the Northern Expedition.

But so many years have passed.

It should be clear that everyone in the court, including the emperor, has no intention of launching a Northern Expedition...

But he always held on to that little bit of hope.

Now being reinstated, that hope expanded immensely.

Only...

The scene shows Xin Qiji full of ambition returning to the officialdom.

Only to be impeached the following year for reorganizing local finances, and dismissed again from office.

This brief one-year service.

Although it ignited Xin Qiji's fighting spirit, it dealt him a severe blow a year later.

The court remained the same...

Xin Qiji became disheartened.

In the scene.

Another ten years have swiftly passed, and Xin Qiji is now fully white-haired and past his sixtieth year.

Xin Qiji at this time.

Is already 64 years old.

But fortunately, he received news of the court's Northern Expedition.

The current Southern Song court, with the foreign minister Han Tuozhou in power, whose niece is the Song Ningzong Empress.

Cooperating with the royal Zhao Ruyu to unite Ningzong on the throne, Zhao Ruyu held exclusive power, causing Han Tuozhou to be marginalized, thus he harbored discontent.

Exploiting Song Ningzong's dissatisfaction with Zhao Ruyu, he took the opportunity to eliminate political enemies.

While also diverting domestic contradictions, establishing himself as a 'restoration minister'.

Thus hastily preparing for the Northern Expedition.

This was a power show, only Xin Qiji took it seriously...

Due to his continued support for the Northern Expedition as a pro-war official.

Therefore, even Xin Qiji, a senior official who had been sidelined for over 20 years, was found and reinstated.

Though Xin Qiji supported the Northern Expedition and was reinstated.

He was suspicious of Han Tuozhou's rush, believing he lacked military experience, arbitrarily promoting frivolous talkers as generals, fearing a repeat of the Longxing Northern Expedition disaster.

Meanwhile.

Xin Qiji advocated 'twenty years of preparation' to ensure the success of the Northern Expedition.

This instantaneously.

Made him ostracized by all pro-war officials.

He was transferred to serve as the governor of Longxing.

Promoted in name, demoted in actuality.

But soon, he was falsely accused by a censor of "lust and greed, gathering illicit wealth," thus he was dismissed before he could assume his role as Longxing governor and returned to Qianshan to be a carefree recluse.

In the scene.

Upon receiving the order, Xin Qiji said little.

Just let out a deep sigh.

The person seemed to age significantly, turning back to Qianshan.

Soon.

The grandiose Kaixi Northern Expedition began.

But Han Tuozhou misjudged the situation of Jin state.

While Jin state was threatened by the Mongolians at this time, when it came to war, they were evidently stronger than the Song side.

Thus, the grandiose Kaixi Northern Expedition began grandly but ended in shambles.

Due to Han Tuozhou's blind faith in swift victory, appointing the self-proclaimed 'Zhuge Liang of the age' Guo Ni, the Eastern Front (Lianghuai battlefield) collapsed due to chaotic command and insufficient logistics post-launch.

Then, the Central Front (Jingxiang battlefield) attacked Tangzhou and Dengzhou, encountered Jin Army's counterattack, and quickly collapsed again.

Finally, the Western Front (Chuanshan battlefield) saw the main general defect to Jin, leading to the complete collapse of the Southern Song's western defenses.

In just over a month, the grandiose Northern Expedition battlefield neared a full collapse.

This scene.

Left Blue Star viewers in the live stream speechless.

Aware of Song Dynasty's weakness.

But not this kind of weakness?

What is this?

After three years of preparation, the war was launched, taking the initiative to attack. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

In the end, within a short span of a month.

The Eastern Front was defeated, the central front was defeated, and on the Western Front the main general surrendered to the Jin, leading to a total defeat.

It seemed like they were delivering themselves to Jin for military accomplishments.

The defeat was too outrageous, too swift.

It's as if a random child could command, and this would be the worst case.

Could there be a result worse than this?

Blue Star's netizens couldn't think of one, nor did they want to; it was simply too rotten.

The defeat on China's side shocked the entire court.

In an attempt to remedy.

They finally remembered the old General, Xin Qiji.

However, when the scene switched over.

It made the Blue Star netizens in the livestream hold their breath.

At this moment.

In the scene, Xin Qiji was already lying back on his sickbed, his breath as weak as a thread.

The man who once dared to charge into enemy camps with only fifty riders now had a face as drained and pale, each breath seemed as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Suddenly.

Urgent footsteps rang out from outside, and an old servant quickly stepped into the room, looking at Xin Qiji on the sickbed and approached quietly:

"Master, the imperial decree has arrived, they need you to depart immediately, to oversee the Northern Expedition military affairs...."

Upon hearing this.

Xin Qiji's frail chest, which barely moved, suddenly started to tremble.

Originally shut eyes opened but without determination in them, he struggled to raise his hand and waved it towards the old servant, a sign of refusal.

In reality.

In this state, he didn't have much longer to live.

Now this way, even standing would require assistance, how could he still have the strength to fight the enemy.

This scene.

Made the livestream's Blue Star netizens feel unusually distressed.

Stifled.

Too stifled.

The highlight of Xin Qiji's life was a military feat of capturing Zhang Anguo with fifty riders, but it remained the only achievement, afterward he drifted upon the tides of officialdom for dozens of years.

Never once obtaining military command.

Jiang Wei persevered for 19 years to finally obtain military command, but Xin Qiji persevered for 19 years only to have all his positions stripped and to live as a carefree wanderer.

Nearly twenty more years passed.

And now he was finally about to hold power, but he wasn't the young General he once was, only a struggling old man lying on his bed waiting for death.

Even if the chance was right before him, he no longer had the ability to seize it.

Inside the room.

Xin Qiji's thoughts flickered with countless imagined scenes of war flames and iron horses crossing frozen rivers, dreaming of restoring the Central Plains, reclaiming the Northern Land, yet ultimately the chance never came.

Suddenly.

Xin Qiji stirred, his cracked lips trembling, squeezing out a hoarse shout from his throat:

"Kill the enemy!"

His voice tore fabric, startling the old servant outside to rush back.

Seeing Xin Qiji grasping his bedding, with veins bulging, joints turning white, struggling to sit up:

"Kill the enemy!!"

The voice grew fiercer, more resolute.

Xin Qiji desperately lifted his head, the veins on his neck visible and trembling, the voice echoing fiercely, with resentment:

"Kill the enemy!!!!"

Tears streamed down from the corner of his eye.

The aged Xin Qiji gazed northward, shouting several times to kill the enemy, ultimately collapsing exhausted back onto the bed, but the fingers grasping the bedding gradually released, and his pupils began to disperse.

Until.

The arm upon the bed fell weakly downward.

The scene slowly came to an end.

The Blue Star netizens in the livestream remained silent for a long time, Fang Ming took a moment to calm down and looked at the quiet stream, feeling puzzled.

After all, after those previous tragedies, they typically calmed down and started discussing, why is there no movement this time.

And as Fang Ming spoke, the Blue Star netizens in the livestream began to stir, but each was sighing:

[Damn, broken defense, Xin Qiji's life is too stifling.]

[If only the Northern Expedition decree had come five years earlier...No, three years would have been fine...what a pity that he turned white-haired in vain.]

['Complete the emperor's grand affairs' ultimately became a joke, the emperor simply never gave him the chance.]

[History's cruelest blade: giving you dreams, giving you talent, giving you long life, and then making you watch everything turn to nothing.]

[He's not shouting 'kill the enemy', he's shouting his sixty years of obsession, it's the breath he couldn't swallow for sixty years!]

[Too suffocating, I need some time to recover.]

[The impact is too strong, can't bear to watch, host quickly find some {Huaxia} historical figures of joyous novels, I can't bear to watch this type anymore.]

Indeed, Fang Ming also had this intention.

Truly this Xin Qiji's life was too stifling, he dared not watch that scene a second time.