9th day of the seventh lunar month in the first year of Dalong Taiping.
The coffin of King Zhongwu Yunyang was transported to his hometown of Yunzhou for burial as scheduled.
Liu Mingzhi first wrote a letter to the officials of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites, instructing them to prepare a decree and tell the world to bury the Yunyang coffin in a royal manner.
As a junior, he accompanied Yun Xiaoxi, followed Yunchong and other members of the Yun family to see Yunyang off for the last time.
Looking at Yun Xiaoxi who was crying like a man in tears, Liu Mingzhi was also filled with sadness.
Although Yunyang would rather die than recognize his status as self-proclaimed emperor, he stood on the opposite side of himself.
But this cannot conceal Yunyang’s lifetime dedication to Dalong.
Joined the army as a young man, guarded the country's borders for decades, and at the age of seventy commanded the three armies to fight on the battlefield, just to unify the world and support the country and the country for thousands of generations.
Although he did not approve of Yunyang's behavior, Liu Mingzhi admired Yunyang's character very much.
Just like Wan Buhai who had died many years ago, in order to regain the lost territory of the Han family, he did not hesitate to carry a coffin and go into battle, and even let his youngest son Wan Shoujiang serve as the flag bearer and charge into the battle.
Just for the so-called loyalty.
The same is true for Yunyang. He knew that there was no hope of supporting the orthodoxy. He had failed the late emperor's entrustment on his deathbed, but he just wanted to die.
Throughout his life, he deserves to be loyal and martial.
Looking at the frame of the carriage escorting the coffin gradually turning into a black dot, Liu Mingzhi looked at Yun Xiaoxi, who was dressed in plain clothes and was choking, and silently held the beauty's hand.
“The fallen leaves return to their roots, and they die in their proper place.
For the old man, this is the result of his own choice.
Xiaoxi, my condolences and acceptance!”
A few days after the Yunyang coffin left Yingzhou and returned to its hometown.
As if in the blink of an eye, it’s July 15th.
July 15th of the first year of Dalong Taiping.
The Feiying Guard came out from Fuzhou, the Longwu Guard came out from Yingzhou, the Huben Army came out from Yunzhou, the Huxiang Guard came out from Suzhou, the Xiaoguo Guard came out from Ganzhou, and the Hubao Guard came out from Jezhou
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The soldiers and horses of the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang rushed out in full force for several days and rushed to Mamingpo in the west of Yingzhou City. On July 15th, they rushed to Mamingpo on time to join the new army's Six Guards Camp.
The soldiers and horses of the Protectorate of the Western Regions set out from Yingzhou and Yunzhou, and also rushed to Mamingpo outside Yingzhou City. At the same time, there were also soldiers and horses from the Western Regions headed by Gumo Wanggumo Rongrong.
In an instant.
When the wind and clouds meet, dragons and tigers gather together.
Liu Mingzhi's command eliminated 50,000 troops from the Imperial Army, An Gou'er's 50,000 naval brothers were eliminated, and there were only more than 289,000 soldiers in the Six Guards of the New Army.
The six guards in the northern Xinjiang were combined with a large number of square soldiers and more than 244,000 soldiers and horses.
Zhang Mo, the commander-in-chief of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, has more than 117,000 troops and horses, and the combined troops of the Western Regions countries have more than 153,000 troops.
There are more than 800,000 elite soldiers and horses under the Dalong court.
We gather here day and night, facing each other from the north to the south.
After three northern expeditions, more than 800,000 elite soldiers and horses could be gathered, which shows how powerful Dalong's country is.
Liu Mingzhi had deduced the military formations of the Song and Qing Dynasties more than once. If he had not faked his own death and used a trick to successfully raid the capital, he would have only raised troops to rebel with the two armies facing each other. He was afraid that after seizing the country, his soldiers and horses would be different from those of Marshal Yun.
All the troops and horses are in a state of disarray.
The collision between the elite and the elite has shown its tragic side to the world half a month ago.
More than 70,000 people were injured in three days, and more than 26,000 people were directly killed in battle.
800,000 soldiers and horses may seem like a large number of troops, but with such a fierce collision between elites, both sides will be injured in less than a month, and all will be killed or injured.
Especially with the support of An Gouer's troops and the wealth brought back from the West.
Otherwise, the situation would be even less optimistic.
Above the boundless wilderness of Mamingpo.
The flags were so high that they blocked out the sky and the sun, and their whistling sound was like the howling of tigers and wolves.
Although the soldiers and horses of both sides did not engage in battle, the atmosphere of murder lingered in the wilderness.
The wild beasts fled and the forest birds flew away in fright.
The movement was as big as the military parade two years ago with a million troops ready to go.
“Hurry!”
“Hurry!”
With a distance of about 300 steps between the soldiers and horses of both sides, Liu Mingzhi, Zhang Kuang, and Nangong Ye tacitly raised the flags in their hands to pass on the order.
After a while, the messengers galloped forward, and the soldiers on both sides moved neatly and stopped in an orderly manner. They stood motionless and stared at the brothers opposite who had fought side by side in the past.
Although there is a slight difference in the strength of the troops and horses between the two sides, they can be said to be evenly matched.
Even Liu Mingzhi, who has always been a bit conceited, could not help but tighten his heartstrings at this moment.
If you don’t handle it well today, it will be a mistake.
In the wilderness of Yingzhou in northern Xinjiang, there were literally corpses everywhere and rivers of blood.
Liu Mingzhi, who was fully armored, silently looked at the six Zhang Kuang people on the opposite side who were also fully armored for a while, then dismounted and walked towards the center of the 300-step gap between the troops of both sides.
Cheng Kai's six generals, Han Peng's thirty battalion generals, Gu Mo Rongrong in soft armor, and the soldiers from the Western Regions followed closely behind.
An Gouer and Song Qing were guarding Liu Mingzhi on the left and right.
On the opposite side, Zhang Kuang, Wan Mingliang and the other six people saw this and dismounted their horses, leading their battalion generals and many generals from the Western Region Protectorate to come towards them.
Feeling that the distance was almost there, Liu Mingzhi stopped directly and raised his hand to signal a few times.
“Put out the wine!”
Thousands of soldiers in the rear saw the command flag in Liu Mingzhi's hand, and rushed over carrying the wine and meat that had been laid out on the table.
Within half a stick of incense, the open field was filled with the aroma of wine and meat. Hundreds of low tables were arranged in rows, filled with wine, meat and all kinds of food.
After the soldiers retreated, Liu Mingzhi calmly looked at the generals opposite and waved his hands.
"please!"
Zhang Kuang glanced at each other, and there was no politeness. He took the lead and sat on the low table that was only two steps away from Liu Mingzhi.
Liu Mingzhi took off the Heavenly Sword from his waist, thrust it into the sand with all his strength, and knelt down at the top of the table with the sword raised.
“Take a seat!”
“Get the order!”
Cheng Kai's dozens of generals knelt down one after another according to their rank.
Liu Mingzhi picked up the pot and poured wine, then silently raised his glass and looked around.
“I’d like to toast you all.”
Zhang Kuang and the others on the opposite side frowned slightly when they heard Liu Mingzhi’s self-proclaimed name. They looked at each other silently and hesitantly started to pour the wine from the pot.
“Everyone, let’s have a drink together!”
After Liu Mingzhi finished speaking, he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. He gestured to Zhang Kuang and the others opposite the glass before placing it on the table.
A meeting with a somewhat strange atmosphere began.
Since the death of King Zhongwu of Yunyang, the generals of the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang naturally respected Wan Mingliang, the King of North Vietnam.
Wan Mingliang put down the wine glass in his hand, raised his eyes with a complicated expression and glanced at Song Qing, who was sitting opposite Liu Mingzhi's left hand, and fixed his gaze on Liu Mingzhi.
“Give us a reason to bow to you!
The old commander would rather die to uphold orthodoxy, so naturally we will not tolerate humiliation and live in vain.
To put it in a slightly unpleasant tone, your success in rebellion is largely due to opportunism.
If it is obvious, under the leadership of the old commander, we may not have any chance of helping orthodoxy win.
However, your strategy is superb. After you proclaimed yourself emperor, it was too late for us to receive the military information and carry out the rescue operation.
However, it is not possible for us to save you, and we deserve death, but this does not mean that we will become slaves to the subjugation of the country.
Our generals here are all veterans of the three dynasties, and all of them are veterans of Ruizhong.
Let us casually become a general who is responsible for the country and the country, and who is responsible for the late emperor's final trust. We cannot do it.
I know that our military strength is slightly inferior to yours at the moment.
However, I and the generals under my command are not afraid of fighting, even if the entire army is annihilated.
This is not only the wish of the old man, but also the wish of many generals and more than 300,000 living and dead brothers.
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Fighting for our country, our country, and our country, we shall die in a worthy place.
And I will never regret it even if I die.”
Liu Mingzhi looked at the solemn expressions of the generals who were so confident and willing to die generously without fear. He frowned for a moment, nodded and chuckled a few times.
“No hurry, no hurry!”
“Jiang Lei, Han Zhong!”
“The end is here!”
“How can a meeting with colleagues be so peaceful? Fire cannons to cheer up!”
“Get the order!”
Cheng Kai and Jiang Lei immediately stood up and ran towards the wilderness on the east and west sides respectively with their command flags in hand.
With the command flags of the two men waving, thousands of soldiers and horses came out pushing infantry cannons one after another from a deep area about 300 paces wide with no edge visible.
Fifty artillery pieces on each side were divided into two columns and aligned, aiming at the deserted wilderness.
The two communicated with the command flag, and then waved the command flag in their hands in unison.
Hundred infantry cannons emitted a muffled sound that was distinctive from the artillery under the command of various troops, and the shells fired in the distance.
The rumble came one after another.
The open space in the middle of the eight hundred or a thousand steps has been completely covered by a wave of artillery fire. Smoke billows and dust flies up, obscuring the sky.
Threads of smoke filled the air, and the thick smoke on the fields on both sides took a stick of incense to completely dissipate.
Wan Mingliang followed behind him, including the hundreds of generals from the Northern Territory and the Western Region Protectorate. They stared dumbfounded at the smoke and dust covering the fields on the east and west sides, unable to regain their consciousness for a long time.
They also have artillery, and there are a lot of them.
However, their artillery is nothing compared to the hundred artillery arrayed dozens of steps away on both sides.
With the position covered by the artillery just now, if it bombards the infantry phalanx, and our troops are slightly denser, several phalanxes combined will have a strength of tens of thousands of people.
Liu Mingzhi clapped his hands gently to signal Zhang Kuang and others opposite him to come back to their senses.
“Rebellion! Why should I be opportunistic?”
“Frankly speaking, you know why I have reached this point, and I also know it. In front of all the brothers, I will not go into details.
Furthermore, although I haven’t read the content of the letter the old man left you, I can make a general guess.
It is nothing more than to prevent our two armies from killing each other, benefiting the two countries of Jin and Tu, and causing the Dalong Mountains and Rivers to fall into the hands of foreign countries. Seniors, don't you refute this?"
Wan Mingliang glanced at the five old brothers on both sides and nodded hesitantly.
“No refutation!”
“Just don’t refute! Then, here comes the reason for you to bow your head.
Empress Wanyan of Jin said politely that she was my real and unknown first wife, and the only person who inherited the kingdom of Jin was my daughter Liu Luoyue.
Let’s fight to the death and both sides will suffer. What’s there for me to worry about? After all, the one who benefits from this is my own flesh and blood, Liu Luoyue.
Come and go, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are still mine and the descendants of future generations.
In a word, when I have reached this point, I am not afraid that the two countries, Kim and Turkmenistan, will benefit from the situation when we both lose.
But what about you, seniors? Do you dare to say you are not afraid?
Whoever dares to say that he is not afraid of such a result without violating morality, I will kill myself with a knife and take my own head for you and others to watch.
Of course, these are just unpleasant words that were said out of necessity."
Liu Mingzhi stood up straight away, took out a thick stack of rice paper from his sleeve and placed them one by one in front of Wan Mingliang and other generals opposite him.
“Everyone, please read it. After reading the above content, you still insist on fighting with me. Although I am sad, I am willing to accompany you to the end!”