The Jade Pivot's Mystic Diagram

In the first year of the Xiangxing era, Zhang Hongfan, a Han Chinese general serving the Mongol Yuan, launched an all-out assault on Yashan. More than eight hundred members of the Zhao imperial clan leaped into the sea and took their own lives. Many loyal ministers followed them, and one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians drowned themselves for their country. With that, the Southern Song was utterly destroyed. In Ganzhou, over a thousand peasants rose in rebellion under the leadership of Cai Wujiu. The Yuan court appointed Qizhu as commander and sent him to suppress the uprising with five hundred crack cavalrymen. Zhang Cai Wujiu was defeated, captured, and beheaded. When Ye Fengzhou heard the news, he hurried to the scene, rescued Liu Jingzhou and Cai Wujiu's son, and renamed the boy Ye Linzhi before planning to retire to the mountains. On the way, he saw Yuan soldiers looting young women and taking them to military camps on the frontier to serve as entertainers. Ye Fengzhou then called on the heroes of the martial world to help rescue them. They were met with successive attacks by the Imperial Secretariat's guards, commanded by the young princess Murong Siye, and by factions that had surrendered to the Yuan. At the time, rumors spread through the martial world that the Mysterious Diagram of Firearms, written by Chen Gui, a Hanlin Academician of the Song dynasty, was circulating. The Yuan court secretly ordered the young princess Murong Siye to lead the Imperial Secretariat's guards in an attempt to seize it. To protect the diagram left behind by the former dynasty, Ye Fengzhou and the others were willing to risk their lives.

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