Cheng Mei (Fighting For The Motherland)

Cheng Mei is the villainess in the 2020 Chinese historical fantasy movie Fighting For the Motherland (original tital Xin Qiji 1162, or 辛弃疾1162). 
==Story==
===Summary===
Fighting For the Motherland takes place in 1161, during the Jin Dynasty's military invasions of the Song Dynasty. Cheng Mei (played by Jiajia Chen 陈佳佳), plays a Jurchen Princess leading an invasion of the Southern Song Dynasty along with her father the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Liang in 1161. She's seen with her head held high as a commanding officer, a noble, and usually wearing a beautifully gold-embroidered fur-trimmed cloak, along with gorgeous, gold-encrusted plate, with leather accents and elegant robes underneath.
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===Introductions===
The story starts off with a general under Wanyan Liang named "Hu Er" inflicting a Pyrrhic victory against a city guarded by Song General Xin Qiji. He returns back as the sole survivor of 2000 soldiers. Cheng Mei eagerly takes this as an opportunity to grant herself favor in front of her father, asking to avenge "Hu Er" by assaulting Xin Qiji's army in his stead, due to his failure to achieve complete victory with superior odds of. His father disagrees - he has larger ambitions to conquer China, and doesn't want to waste resources on a small outpost. He praises her for her loyalty, but warns her not to act out of line.
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===Planting a spy===
Unfortunately, the Jin army is unable to ignore our dastardly hero Xi Qiji and his newfound girlfriend - their supply lines get ambushed and various patrols get destroyed by Xi Qiji's small but motivated group of survivors, who are now growing to greater numbers due to an alliance with nearby Song general "Geng Jing". Cheng Mei takes great offense to this, as they are clearly the superior army with better cavalry, armor, weapons and numbers, and shows frustration at her fathers words to not take direct action. She devises a ploy to undermine Xi Qiji's relationship with Geng Jing instead - seducing a nearby monk named "Yiduan" that mentioned that he was one of his childhood friends to become a spy and to sow distrust among Xi Qiji's camp, and report back to her with his movements. She asks him to steal Xi Qiji's imperial seal, the only way he is able to request supplies from the Imperial Song Government, and to sabotage the camp defenses.
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===Ambushing the Song===
Yiduan is successful at first, stealing the imperial seal and causing Xi Qiji's camp to fracture and mistrust each other. He even sabotages the camp gate so that it's unable to close. Xi Qiji however intercepts the spy on his way to the Jin camp, defeating him and retrieving the seal. Cheng Mei is furious at the spy's failure to return, and sets off with thousands of the armies most elite cavalry, ignoring her fathers warning.
Cheng Mei arrives with "Hu Er", another trusted general, and a group of the elite Jin soldiers. She sees the gate to still be open, and what seems to be the spy Yiduan waving to them to come in. She leaves half of her army outside with her trusted general in reserve and eagerly storms the base herself with the other half along with "Hu Er", eagerly wanting to berate the spy for his partial failure. Shocked, she soon realizes too late that the spy is actually Xi Qiji in disguise. He reveals that he has played her. Song troops surround and slaughter the both Jin forces, and as Cheng Mei's panic turns to desperation. She releases a signal for rescue, only for Xi Qiji's follwer to throw the head of her trusted general at her feet. Desperate for her life, Cheng Mei bargains to her opponents, promising riches, fame and a lucrative lifestyle to any soldier who stands down, only to be laughed at. Xi Qiji's kind heart takes over to her surprise, letting her go as long as she leads to Jin army away. He has only one condition however - that he be allowed to duel "Hu Er", which he promptly does and kills. Defeated, and with her two best generals dead, Cheng Mei accepts, but of course, with no intention to fulfill that promise.
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===Sowing Discord=== 
As Cheng Mei returns to camp defeated once again, she is surprised to see her father show no signs of anger. In fact, he is intrigued by Xi Qiji, and wants to destroy him more than ever. He notices the first spy's success, and devises a ploy to further fracture Xi Qiji's camp and lure Xi Qiji's followers to join the Jurchen Army with the promises of gold and riches. No followers joined when Cheng Mei beckoned during her invasion, but she does mention that she felt many of the men were considering leaving the Song army, but simply needed to be asked more often. Zhang Angguo, a prominent deputy in the Song army obliges, assassinating Geng Jing and defecting to the Jin army. Zhang Angguo is initiated into the army in front of the Jin Emperor and his fine dancers, as Cheng Mei plots their next move.
===Preparing for All Out Assault ===
The Jin army deploys for their next major attack. Seeing this and furious at Geng Jing's assassination, Xi Qiji sallys out to attack. Wanyan Liang, the Jin Emperor beings a bold speech to bolster the morale of his troops while Cheng Mei smugly watches from the side. He defers to her to finish the speech, proudly displaying the loyalty of their newly defected deputy. Zhang Angguo publicly denounces the Song and praises his initiation into the Jin army, as Cheng Mei and the Jin Emperor let out their evil laughs.
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===Xi Qiji's attack ===
Xi Qiji's attack reaches the camp, catching the Jin Emperor and Cheng Mei off guard with a sudden fire attack on their supplies. A heavy attack ensues, with Cheng Mei eager to finish off her nemesis. The Jin Emperor holds her back once again, mentioning the importance of leaving an escape route. As usual, Cheng Mei agrees exuberantly, but with intent to finish the hero off. A fight ensues, in which she easily overpowers Xi Qiji. (Her choreography and stunt work is quite amazing - I'd recommend this film if you are a martial arts fan). Things change when the hero's girlfriend joins the fight. Xi Qiji sets off to slay the Jin Emperor while his girlfriend fights the head villainess. The heroine shows much less honor in a fight than the hero, surprising Cheng Mei with a flurry of kicks and a low blow. Full fight sequence here 
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== Full Gallery==
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (1).png|Plotting with the emperor
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (2).png|Accepting her orders
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (6).png|Ordering her generals to sneak out with her to attack
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (10).png|On way to ambush the Song
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (11).png|Sneak attack at night
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (12).png|Leaving half of her army outside
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (15).png|Berating her spy, Yi Duan for his failure
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (17).png|Her ploy is foiled, Jin army ambushed and surrounded
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (18).png|Trying to flee one way...
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (20).png|Trying to flee the other way...
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (23).png|Turns out our hero, Xi Qiji was masquerading as her spy
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (25).png|Desperate, Cheng Mei tries to convince her enemy to lay down their arms
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (29).png|Head held high, even in defeat
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (34).png|Given a choice to retreat
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (45).png|Initiating a defector to the Jin army
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (48).png|Epic entrance to give a bold speech
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (54).png|Showing off as the 2nd in command of the army
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (56).png|Smug while the Emperor declares their certain victory
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (58).png|Her men cheer
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (63).png|Domination over the defector
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (65).png|Shock at being attacked
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (67).png|Ordering her men to defend her
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (68).png|Final orders
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (70).png|In combat with the hero
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (71).png|Overpowering the hero
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (77).png|Showing off fine swordsmanship until.. 
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (79).png|Heroine butts in and saves the hero
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (83).png|Heroine relieves the hero and tells him she can handle Cheng Mei all by herself. Cheng Mei is not pleased
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (88).png|Heroine is way too fast, way too agile for Cheng Mei
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (93).png|Oh dear..
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (95).png|Defeat
1162 Fighting For the Motherland (96).png|Final scene
==Trivia==
Jiajia Chen also starred as a villainess female mercenary named "Kualo" in the 2005 wuxia film "Seven Swords" * Wiki
==External links==
*IMDB
*Wiki
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