Bianliang Elegy

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the building was about to collapse. The iron hooves of Mongolia trampled Xiangyang, and the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River could not hide the sorrow of the country's subjugation. Lin Yifeng was born in an old clan of the Northern Song Dynasty. His family history of experiencing the humiliation of Jingkang was engraved in his bones. He learned the art of meritorious service and determined to take running the world and benefiting the people as his own responsibility. He started as a small county magistrate in Lin'an Prefecture, took over his land, quelled bandit troubles, and resisted the powerful. He struggled to move forward in the decadent officialdom with his lonesome courage. In the battle of Dingjiazhou, the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty was wiped out. He gathered the remaining soldiers in the defeated army, retreated to the Huaihe River, and acted as a general as a scholar. However, the court is divided and God's will cannot be violated. The city of Lin'an will eventually be destroyed, and the cliffs and mountains will eventually become blue. In the end, he retreated to Bianliang - this old city was dilapidated, but it was his spiritual homeland that could never be lost again. He led more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians to defend the isolated city, with continuous artillery fire and no food or support. When the city wall was blown down for the third time, he made the most difficult decision in his life: to follow Jiang Wei's example, pretend to surrender, sacrifice himself for the livelihood of the people, and plant the final fire for recovery in the name of fake surrender. He has never used a system or developed a golden finger in his life. He only relied on the backbone of a scholar to support the last dignity of an isolated city. This is a story about "knowing that you can't do something but doing it". There is no prophecy of the time-travelers, only the real struggles of human nature in troubled times; there is no sense of satisfaction in changing one's fate against the will of heaven, only every difficult decision made by the scholar-officials in desperate situations. Lin Yifeng spent his life answering a question: When the country has died, what are you still guarding? ——What we keep is the steelyard in our hearts, and what we keep is our original intention of "making a living for the people."