Great Song
After the Jingkang Incident (1125-1127), the Great Song moved its capital south to Lin'an. The reigning Emperor is Song Ningzong (1168—1224).
Bordering the Great Jin and Western Xia, its territory has repeatedly suffered Jin invasion. General Zhao Fang and Danxiazi hold the Xiangyang Front, and twenty years ago Western Xia also conspired with the Supreme Bliss Cult to attack the Hexi Corridor.
Its relations with the Wulin are poor. After the Tang Clan raided the execution ground, secret orders went out to the Shangguan Family to weaken the Tang Clan, with the intent of destroying it.
Wulin Alliance Leader
According to what Nangong Heng said at his birthday banquet, in his hundred years of life there were three general mobilizations of the Wulin.
In the first alliance, the Alliance Leader was Nangong Zhi, who led the assembled forces to Bianliang to hold off the Jin Army together, and fought for two full years. Emperor Qinzong and Emperor Huizong were taken captive, Bianliang fell, and seeing that all was lost, he apologized to his Wulin comrades, resigned, and disbanded the alliance. After Emperor Gaozong proclaimed himself emperor at Yingtian Prefecture, he intended to incorporate the Wulin folk, and so ordered the Alliance Leader to reorganize his troops and rendezvous under Liu Guangshi, Military Commissioner of the Fengguo Army. If he defied the decree, troops would be sent to attack and wipe out his household, and so the Jianghu and the Imperial Court fell out.
In the second alliance, King Yue burst onto the scene and petitioned for a northern expedition. He drank cloudy wine on the river with the Wulin's strategist Mr. Zeng Wen, asking him to leave seclusion and enter the world to recover the lost lands. With Mr. Zeng Wen and the Red Canopy King at their head, one as the civil alliance leader of the Western Thirteen States, the other as the Martial Overlord of the Eastern Thirteen States, they each held up half the sky, civil and martial, and followed King Yue recovering lost territory all the way. Until the Twelve Golden Plaques came, and a famous general loyal to his lord and devoted to his country was killed. Mr. Zeng Wen pursued the King to remonstrate and vanished halfway; the Red Canopy King took refuge in the Buddhist order, with the dharma name Chunmian. The Jianghu swore once more never to trust the Imperial Court again.
In the third alliance, twenty years ago. The Supreme Bliss Cult rose in the Central Plains, intending to coordinate with Western Xia from within and without, pincer the Hexi Corridor, open the north-south route, and seize the throat of the Great Song and the Jin Kingdom. Alliance Leader Long Yuan led the Wulin to besiege the Supreme Bliss Cult. See the relevant entry for details.
Secret Manuals
- Yang Family Military Drill Manual
- Strategy for Breaking the Jin