At eight o'clock in the morning of October 11, 3013 in the Tang calendar, the main forces of the Third Fleet and the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, escorting two marine brigades and two infantry brigades of the Third Guards Infantry Division and a divisional heavy artillery regiment, stationed in Huitong Port, the largest military port in the Liuyun Empire.

Immediately, Liu Huaizhong, the Minister of the Navy of the Liuyun Empire, issued a telegram, announcing that the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire had changed its flag and changed its banner, and from then on it would break away from the Liuyun Empire and join the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire.

Su Yi, who was far away in Chang'an City, received a prompt from the system, congratulating him on capturing seven super dreadnoughts and six dreadnoughts of the enemy, and rewarding Su Yi with seven British revenge-class super dreadnoughts and six American Florida-class dreadnoughts.

Today, the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire has four Revenge-class super dreadnought battleships, and the Fourth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire has eleven Florida-class dreadnought battleships.

Coupled with the two British Lion-class battlecruisers that were previously captured by the Monia Navy and a battlecruiser of the Ruierland Navy, Su Yi can now immediately add seven super dreadnought battleships, six dreadnought battleships and two battle cruisers to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire under his command.

However, because Su Yi wanted to show the warships in the system item warehouse, he had to go to the military port that owned the port, so these seven super dreadnought battleships, six dreadnought battleships and two battle cruisers could not be delivered to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire for the time being.

As for the seven super dreadnought battleships, six dreadnought battleships and ten former dreadnought battleships captured by the Sharad Navy, as well as the two former dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the original Liuyun Empire, they will all enter the sequence of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, because two marine brigades have also come to Huitong Port this time, so there is no shortage of officers and soldiers required on these twenty-three battleships.

The other warships of the Royal Navy of the original Liuyun Empire, as well as the six light cruisers, eight destroyers and seventy-two torpedo boats of the captured Salad Navy, will join the garrison fleets of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, respectively.

After learning that the Minister of the Navy Liu Huaizhong led almost all the warships of the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire to surrender to the Tang Empire, Li Hong, the emperor of the Liuyun Empire, said to Prime Minister Cao Ziliang with an angry face: "Send someone to arrest Liu Huaizhong's family immediately!" ”

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang then said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Liu Huaizhong's family and the families of the high-ranking officers of the Royal Navy who were originally in Liuyun City have disappeared, and it seems that Liu Huaizhong transferred his family and the families of the high-ranking officers of the Royal Navy before he made a move on the Sharad Navy in Huitong Port. ”

Emperor Li Hong gritted his teeth and said: "In vain, Fei Fei has always trusted Liu Huaizhong so much, but at such a time of crisis, he abandoned me and the entire Liuyun Empire, and before he took refuge in the Tang Empire, he put our Liuyun Empire together and captured so many battleships of the Sharad Navy, and the Sharad Empire has sent us several telegrams of accountability for this matter." ”

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, now that the Royal Navy and the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Royal Army have defected to the Tang Empire, the minister feels that we should not bother with this matter, the most important thing at present is Your Majesty and other members of the royal family, leave Liuyun City quickly, it may be too late if you don't leave, the speed of the Tang Empire's army advancing to Liuyun City is much faster than we expected." ”

When Emperor Li Hong heard this, he sighed and said, "Then I will leave Liuyun City tomorrow with all the members of the royal family, or the prime minister will leave with me!" ”

Previously, Prime Minister Cao Ziliang had already taken the initiative to ask Ying to stay in Liuyun City, command more than three million Liuyun Empire Royal Army, and fight a battle to defend Liuyun City.

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang said categorically: "Your Majesty, the minister must stay in Liuyun City, otherwise the minister is worried that the royal army participating in the defense of Liuyun City will have someone surrender to the army of the Tang Empire, which will affect the entire defense of Liuyun City." ”

Emperor Li Hong said with some emotion: "Sure enough, it is the truth in adversity, and the prime minister is the biggest loyal minister of our Liuyun Empire!" ”

Early in the morning of October 14, 3013 in the Tang calendar, Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire took all the royal family members and left Liuyun City by train, preparing to temporarily hide in Panwucheng, the capital of Yilong Province in the north of the Liuyun Empire.

In the next few days, many dignitaries and nobles in Liuyun City also rushed to Panwu City, the capital of Liuyun City, from the railway or highway, after all, a cruel battle to defend the capital was about to be staged here in Liuyun City, and if they didn't stay well, they would become cannon fodder.

On the evening of October 19, at the Prime Minister's Mansion in Liuyun City, Minister of War Yan Song told Prime Minister Cao Ziliang: "Prime Minister, almost all the people who should leave are gone, and there should be no one who can stop us from surrendering to the Tang Empire." ”

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang sighed and said: "In fact, the old man is absolutely unwilling to turn his back on the emperor, but in order to gather more than three million officers and soldiers of the Royal Army in the entire Liuyun City area, as well as tens of millions of ordinary people, the old man has no choice but to bear this infamy. ”

Minister of War Yan Song couldn't help but say: "It's really that the emperor is too stubborn, according to the current situation of our Liuyun Empire, the emperor should have followed the example of the former Cangyu Empire Emperor a long time ago." ”

Before the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire surrendered to the Tang Empire, a minister proposed surrender to Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire, but Emperor Li Hong immediately had the minister pulled out of the hall and shot him.

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang sighed again and said: "The matter has come to this point, there is no intention to say anything else, contact the Tang Empire as soon as possible!" ”

On October 26, 3013 in the Tang calendar, after the troops of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire arrived in the Liuyun City area, Cao Ziliang, the prime minister of the Liuyun Empire, Yan Song, the Minister of War, and hundreds of military and political ministers of the Liuyun Empire jointly announced their surrender to the Tang Empire.

The Minister of War Yan Song immediately sent a telegram to the remaining Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire across the country, ordering these Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire to stand by and not to put up any resistance to the troops of the Tang Empire, and to prepare to accept the incorporation of the army of the Tang Empire.

Li Hong, the emperor of the Liuyun Empire, who was accompanying the capital of Panwu City, learned that Prime Minister Cao Ziliang had surrendered to the Tang Empire with more than three million Liuyun Empire's Royal Army without firing a shot, and he was immediately furious, and fell to the ground as soon as it was dark, and never woke up again.

At about two o'clock in the morning on October 28, 3013 in the Tang calendar, Li Hong, the emperor of the Liuyun Empire, who had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, died due to ineffective rescue.

Two days later, on behalf of the royal family of the Liuyun Empire, the crown prince Li Chen announced that he would surrender unconditionally to the Tang Empire, ordering all the troops of the Liuyun Empire to lay down their arms and wait for the absorption of the Tang Empire's army.

By mid-December, all the forty-two provinces of the Liuyun Empire were occupied by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, and the four infantry divisions of the Sharad Empire, surrounded by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, surrendered to the Royal Army of the Tang Empire in early November after nearly a month of stubborn resistance.

On December 20, 3013 in the Tang calendar, Su Yi announced that all the forty-two provinces of the original Liuyun Empire were merged into the Tang Empire, expanding the land area of the Tang Empire to 54 million square kilometers and having one hundred and six provinces.

In the process of annexing the Liuyun Empire, the Royal Army and aristocratic armies of the Liuyun Empire alone were as high as 18 million, many of which were newly drafted recruits, and because they were still at war with the Seven Nations Alliance, all these 18 million people were absorbed into the Royal Army of the Tang Empire.

According to Su Yi's order, based on these 18 million people, plus a large number of backbones drawn from the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, and a group of recruits recruited from the 42 provinces of the original Liuyun Empire, the provisional infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire will be formed.

Because the forty-two provinces of the original Liuyun Empire had just been annexed by the Tang Empire, Su Yi did not temporarily form militia units in these forty-two provinces, but each province did form a garrison independent infantry brigade.

So far, the entire Royal Army of the Tang Empire has a huge establishment of ten Guards Infantry Divisions, one Armored Division, one hundred and thirty field infantry divisions, seven hundred provisional infantry divisions, and one hundred and six garrison independent infantry brigades.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people in the forty-two provinces of the original Liuyun Empire, although the Tang Empire is currently in the midst of a war, Su Yi still raised a lot of funds and materials, and began to invest heavily in these forty-two provinces, and at the same time built thousands of large-scale factories, in addition to water conservancy projects, transportation facilities, urban facilities, port construction, urban housing construction, etc., a lot of money has also been invested, which immediately solved the serious problem of unemployment in the original Liuyun Empire.

In terms of land, Su Yi still followed the model of the original Cangyu Empire, and distributed the confiscated land of the nobles to poor peasants who had no land or only a small amount of land, and was ready to collect the hearts of hundreds of millions of poor peasants.

After the Seven Nations Alliance declared war, it was ready for the loss of the Flowing Cloud Empire, but none of the countries of the Seven Nations Alliance expected that the Flowing Cloud Empire would be defeated so quickly.

From the time the Tang Empire's army launched an attack on the Liuyun Empire to the Tang Empire's announcement of the formal annexation of the forty-two provinces of the Liuyun Empire, it took less than three months to add up, and an empire with an area of up to 20 million square kilometers collapsed, which shocked the countries of the Seven Nations Alliance at the same time, they couldn't help but speed up the mobilization of their own armies, and increased the scale of their own army expansion.