Chapter 235: Flash of Light Before Death

Like a flash of light before death, the Hezheng Emperor, who moved the capital to Jinling in the Southern Frontier under the name of avoiding the summer heat to avoid the military edge of the Yuanshan Empire surrounding Yanjing.

Seemed to have been forced into a desperate situation, abandoned all fantasies in his heart, and instead achieved great enlightenment, recovering the courage he had when he first ascended the throne.

On the day Yanjing was broken, he issued a decree of self-reproach, blaming all the faults of the Ming Song national power's sudden turn for the worse on himself.

Saying that he was,

'Cool-virtued and small-bodied, heaven's blame, virtue-less and policy-losing, trapped in this difficulty.

Causing ten thousand surnames to be displaced, acting wildly and perversely, making the world sorrowful, and it cannot be regretted!'

He also evaluated the high-ranking officials in the court,

'Conscientious and diligent, not daring to be peaceful, not eating until the sun sets, sitting and waiting for dawn.

Therefore, the faults are all in my body, not the fault of the hundred officials!'

At once, the hearts of the people in the court, which were becoming more and more scattered, were gathered together again.

After all, the emperor had said that all the faults were his, and the ministers were good ministers.

Killing people is no more than pointing at the ground; the monarch and father's attitude is sincere to this point, what else can the ministers do.

And after the order of moving the capital was maintained, the Hezheng Emperor issued a second decree.

Appointing his eldest legitimate son, Prince Kui, who was inspecting in the Jinling Capital Region, as the Crown Prince.

'To rectify the foundation of the country and clarify the world.'

And at this cost, he successfully incorporated the power mastered by Prince Kui's 'Traveling Palace' into the orthodox system of the imperial court without bloodshed.

Then he used thunderous means, issued three decrees, and summoned his other sons who were inspecting on behalf of heaven in the Southern Kingdom to Jinling.

As a result, Prince Huai, who was inspecting in Minzhen, was slightly evasive, and was secretly captured by the eunuchs in his 'Traveling Palace' who took out the Eastern Depot waist token and the emperor's secret decree.

He was sent directly to the old man, and was 'circled' up, not knowing if he would ever be able to come out in this life.

After such a series of actions, the Northern Kingdom of Ming Song actually became much clearer politically.

Seeing that the Hezheng Emperor had issued such a ruthless decree of self-reproach, he would definitely stink for ten thousand years in the history books, and there was no point in wanting face anymore.

So he directly took out the silver from the national treasury and his own inner treasury, and openly bought the relatively cheap refined rice transported from the Yuanshan Empire.

Plus, after throwing away the burden of the Northern Frontier, the grain harvest in the Southern Kingdom of Ming Song came, and the grain famine was relieved by more than half on its own.

The imperial court had a massive surplus of grain to provide disaster relief, and the hearts of the people were also won back a lot.

In just two or three months.

In the one capital and five provinces of the Southern Frontier, except for the Western Yue Sea, which had been turbulent all year round since ancient times, the 'true refugees' in the other territories all consciously returned home.

The imperial court had room to scatter the last bit of elite soldiers and generals brought from the north to deter the local areas.

Digging out all the 'poisonous sores' that were wandering around under the name of refugees, burning, killing, and looting, and making a fortune from the fallen country.

Therefore, Zhang Gui, who knew what kind of goods he was, felt a shiver all over, and instantly came back to his senses.

He ordered sternly:

"It seems that the strong Ming Song army is approaching, you all go quickly to line up and welcome them!"

The generals of the "True Dragon Armor First Corps" behind him, although they didn't notice anything, dared not be negligent under the imperial order.

They bowed and responded in unison, calling "Yes."

Turned and dispersed.

One by one, they turned into gold and stone giants and ran wildly toward the soldiers they led.

After a short while, ten thousand horses galloped outside Dazhe Town.

Thousands of cavalry riding strange beasts with snake tails on their buttocks and dragon heads on their heads stopped their charge and stood outside the town.

In the town.

Zhang Gui, who operated various Divine Cong in his body and exerted the incomplete original ability "Black God Explosive Warlord All Methods," turned into a golden man twenty zhang tall and five zhang wide at the waist.

He scanned back and forth for a while, and thought in his heart,

"The one who came is actually the Ming Song national defense troop 'Flower Dragon Cavalry'!

And this quantity, my god, the largest establishment of 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry' is only two thousand four hundred and one.

But this group of cavalry is more than two thousand, it feels like a coalition of three 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry.'

That is seven thousand two hundred and three.

Hmph hmph, back then the Yuanshan army broke through the Yanhan Pass and committed crimes against the Ming Song Yanjing Capital Region, and they only wiped out nine 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry.'

And this scale of military confrontation is already a 'decisive battle of national war.'

Now there are three 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry' coming to suppress me.

It seems that the Hezheng Emperor of Ming Song has realized the importance of this fish-dragon mechanism giant warship as a deterrent weapon after realizing that the national destiny is tied to the Southern Frontier."

In that case, this battle is not an optional encounter, but a battle of luck that must be fought!

So he said to Sang Gui who was accompanying him:

"Old Sang Gui, this battle is no small matter.

Due to the limitation of my extraordinary power, you are only a Thousand-Stone Corpse Soldier now, and can only deploy the 'Gold Soldier Line' of the thousand-man battle array.

So I will take command of the overall situation."

"Yes," Sang Gui answered respectfully.

Zhang Gui didn't talk nonsense, his mind turned, and he naturally took over the command of the "True Dragon Armor First Corps" in the mysterious domain.

Instantly, the ten thousand-man "Gold Soldier Line" battle arrays, which were originally ten thousand-man arrays, merged into one and became a "Ten Thousand-Man Array"!

And as a special battle array naturally brought by the Stone Corpse Soldier, its function is,

"When activated, many Stone Corpse Soldiers connect their minds, their power becomes one, killing enemies and trapping formations, invincible in a hundred battles, extremely powerful."

And how can the power of a thousand people becoming one compare to ten thousand people becoming one, the momentum suddenly increased several times!

The Flower Dragon Cavalry opposite seemed to have a sense, the strange beasts in the front array neighed, and actually had a tendency to retreat.

Fortunately, the knights were well-trained, lightly pulling the reins and stroking the dragon necks, and soon calmed their mounts.

But even so, it made the commander of these three 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry,' Miao Wushang, frown slightly.

You know, the so-called 'Commander' position is actually not a permanent position.

It is a position set up temporarily to manage multiple top-tier establishment troops in a unified manner in order to complete a certain important strategic goal.

So it sounds awesome, 'Commander' is greater than 'General.'

But in fact, he didn't know the elite level of the troops under his command at all, except for his own troops, let alone commanding them like an arm.

For example, Miao Wushang, his main job was just the Dragon Cavalry General of the 'Thousand General Flower Dragon Cavalry,' managing his two thousand four hundred and one Flower Dragon cavalrymen.

It was just because his seniority in the army was old, his experience in commanding troops was sufficient, and his ancestors were the founding brave soldiers who were registered in the Ming Song 'Capital Soldier Yellow Register,' and he was red and upright.

So he hung the 'Commander' position to go out this time.

So he never felt that he was promoted, but was wearing a big vat!

Very cautious.

But the young and energetic Left General He Hongzhen, who assisted Old Miao and was deeply disgusted by the thief soldiers who looted wildly under the name of disaster victims, was quite dissatisfied with the commander's inaction,

"Commander Miao, those thieves seem to be afraid of our cavalry formation.

It is impossible to come out of the town and compete with us in the open, pfft, how could these thief soldiers be the opponents of the Flower Dragon Cavalry.

Even if they hide in the town, they will inevitably be killed clean in one go."

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