Chapter 16

Ding! Detected that the momentum of an Emperor Star is surpassing the host, currently being probed!

Just as Su Ye was inspecting his departing army, the system's urgent alert suddenly sounded in his ear.

"System, what's the situation?"

Ding! Originally, due to the host's starting point and the summoned Four Spirits of Heaven, the host's momentum stands out among all Emperor Stars on today's Martial Continent.

And now the system has detected that the momentum of the Emperor Star on the northern grasslands is rising in a straight line, so.

Before the system could finish speaking, Su Ye already understood a bit.

Now the entire grassland is affected by the disaster, suffering heavy losses.

And since that Emperor Star on the northern grasslands could become an Emperor Star, it must have gathered a large number of talents around it.

At this critical moment of survival for the great grassland, a heroic leader has risen with a call to arms, and naturally many tribes are willing to submit and pledge allegiance.

"In other words, if I don't do anything, the future will be facing a unified grassland led by a heroic lord?"

Just imagining that scene makes Su Ye's scalp go numb.

Ding! Yes, detected that the northern Emperor Star has deviated from its original trajectory, rising faster than originally expected, likely due to some missing data from the system.

The system's alert sounded, leaving Su Ye speechless.

"System, summon, I want balance!"

At this moment, Su Ye desires balance more intensely than any protagonist in a summoning story.

It would be best to balance out figures like Genghis Khan and Nurhaci.

To the Central Plains, only a unified grassland is the most terrifying.

If the grassland splits into multiple tribes, their attitude toward other tribes is no different from their attitude toward the Central Plains.

They are all foreign races, existences that need to be exterminated; they can cooperate only because they share a common goal.

Furthermore, summoning foreign emperors through balance can not only serve as a troublemaker in the grasslands to duel with that Emperor Star,

It can also distribute those random individuals that balance brings to the grasslands.

You should know that balance is randomly split; if there were only one Emperor Star on the grasslands,

Just thinking about the future, not only will I have to face a unified grassland, but that heroic lord's command will also gather the original local talents plus all the foreign individuals balanced onto the grassland.

Su Ye went numb all over.

"Balance! Must balance! Must balance fiercely! Best to balance out Genghis Khan!"

Su Ye thought viciously.

"System, use that Saint Rank Commander-in-Chief summon card!"

Su Ye's reliance, Meng Zhang, a base stat 104 big shot, went to the Taiping Sect to stir up trouble.

So for this expedition, Su Ye still felt he needed to be a bit more steady, and then another Saint Rank Commander-in-Chief.

Ding! Summoned first person, Empire Pillar Wang Jian, Commander-in-Chief 102, Martial 90, Intellect 91, Politics 92.

Wang Jian was an outstanding military strategist of Qin, and after Bai Qi, a rare great general talent. Using most of Qin's forces, he destroyed Chu, and together with his son Wang Ben became the greatest contributor to Qin Shi Huang's unification and the destruction of the six states.

His outstanding military command ability places him alongside Bai Qi, Li Mu, and Lian Po as one of the Four Great Generals of the Warring States.

Wang Jian waged countless battles in his life; he was wise but not violent, brave yet strategic, which was extremely precious in the slaughter-filled Warring States era.

In 221 BC, the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, Qin annexed all the feudal states and unified the world; Wang Jian and Meng Tian's achievements were the greatest.

After unification, Wang Jian retired swiftly, not assisting Qin Shi Huang in establishing virtuous governance or consolidating the nation's foundation. Compared to Bai Qi, it could be said that each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Moreover, Wang Jian not only has a Commander-in-Chief rating over 100 himself, but his sons and grandsons are also top-tier Commander-in-Chiefs.

His son Wang Ben was a chief general when Qin Shi Huang unified the six states; he once flooded Daliang to destroy Wei, then marched straight to Linzi to destroy Qi. Enfeoffed as Marquis Tongwu for his merits, he later accompanied Qin Shi Huang on his eastern tour to Langya.

His grandson Wang Li, courtesy name Ming, succeeded his father as a Qin general, leading troops to garrison the border against the Xiongnu. At the end of the Qin dynasty, peasant uprisings broke out; he led his forces southward, only to be killed by Xiang Yu.

Ding! Summoned second person, Yue Fei, who serves the country with loyalty, Commander-in-Chief 103, Martial 103, Intellect 90, Politics 58.

Martial Lord Yue Wangye!

During the Southern Song, he was a famed general resisting the Jin, a military expert, strategist, calligrapher, and poet, ranking first among the Southern Song's 'Four Generals of the Restoration'.

Yue Fei was an outstanding commander of the Southern Song; he valued the people's resistance to the Jin, devised the 'linking Hebei' strategy, advocated that civilian anti-Jin militias north of the Yellow River cooperate with the Song army to recover lost lands; he enforced clear rewards and punishments, strict discipline, yet cared for his subordinates, leading by example, and his 'Yue Family Army' was famed as 'would rather freeze to death than dismantle houses, would rather starve than loot'.

The Jin forces had the saying 'It is easy to shake mountains, hard to shake the Yue Family Army,' showing their sincere admiration for the Yue Family Army.

It can be said that Yue Fei not only possessed outstanding ability, but his personal conduct is also etched in history!

Ding! Summoned third person, Wu Qi, the lesser sage of the military, Commander-in-Chief 104, Martial 81, Intellect 96, Politics 101.

Wu Qi was a military strategist, politician, and reformer of the early Warring States period, one of the representatives of the military school.

Wu Qi studied Confucianism under Zeng Shen in his youth, later abandoning Confucianism for military studies.

He commanded the Wei army to repeatedly defeat Qin, seizing the Hexi region, becoming the first governor of Xihe Commandery; simultaneously he reformed the military system, creating the Wei Wu troops, 'engaging the feudal lords in seventy-six battles, winning sixty-four'.

Later, due to suspicions of the Wei Wu Hou, he defected to Chu, initially serving as governor of Wan; a year later, Chu's Emperor Dao appointed him as Lingyin, to carry out reforms striking at and limiting the old aristocracy while strengthening military construction.

After sweeping reforms, his efforts quickly strengthened Chu's national power, leading to the situation 'subjugating the southern Baiyue, aligning the northern Chen and Cai, yet overcoming the three Jin, attacking Qin in the west,' once heavily defeating Wei, with the powerful scene of 'horses drinking from the great river'.

Wu Qi served the states of Lu, Wei, and Chu, mastering the thoughts of military, law, and Confucianism, achieving high accomplishments in both domestic affairs and military affairs, and is paired with Sun Wu as 'Sun-Wu'.

During the reign of Tang Emperor Suzong, he became one of the Ten Sages of the Martial Temple.

He is a big shot who is Saint Rank in both commander-in-chief and politics!

Ding! Summoned fourth person, Li Jing, Commander-in-Chief 103, Martial 85, Intellect 97, Politics 82.

This Li Jing is not the Heavenly King Li Jing who holds the pagoda, but the Great Tang's military god Li Jing, Li Yaoshi!

Historically, Li Jing is a genuine Tang dynasty general, ranking alongside Sun-Wu, Bai Qi, Han Xin, and Huo Qubing, and is also listed among the Ten Sages of the Martial Temple.

Li Jing followed Li Shimin on southern and northern campaigns, gradually emerging into prominence; at that time Li Jing was already fifty years old, having just unlocked the achievement of first entering the martial world.

From then on, Li Jing pacified the southern Liang, destroyed the northern Turks, and settled the western Tuyuhun.

Han Xin's strength lies in having reversed the offensive-defensive situation of the Chu-Han war; Huo Qubing's fame comes from having reversed the Han dynasty's stance toward the Xiongnu.

Li Jing's lack of fame compared to them is because he never encountered an opponent worthy of his match, and thus easily swept away his foes.

Li Jing pacified Southern Liang in two months, destroyed the Eastern Turks in three months, settled Tuyuhun in four months; some battlefield strategies devised on the spot are so profound that even Monday-morning Zhuge Liang could not fathom them—this is precisely the charm of Li Jing, the top general of the Great Tang.

At the end of the Sui dynasty, if Li Jing had really come to the River Capital, it would still be uncertain whether the Tang could achieve unification!

(End of chapter)