Although the imperial palace has experienced more than half a year of tribulation, there are really not many people who have died, less than Chang'an City and nearby counties, and even fewer than Lianghe.

Except for those who froze to death, poisoned some, and were killed by mistake, there were no deliberate executions, after all, those were all emperors. The Emperor would have gone back to the palace – if he could come back – and he would have been unhappy to see so many people dead.

All of my men survived, and most of them are still alive.

I thought they would be excited, but I found that their faces were different, obviously uncertain, and their moods were mixed.

Put yourself in their shoes, their interests are not the same as ours.

We are the core, we are already dead in the eyes of the outer dynasty, and they can actually survive under the rule of the outer dynasty.

After all, who doesn't know which side of the governor and the foreign court will win, personal interests are the most important.

Who will win?

The number of forbidden troops is only 200,000, and the territory controlled is the Great Chang'an region, with a ruling population of 20 million, while the emperor has 4 billion people in name and 23 provinces, and soldiers can be requisitioned at will. The emperor has a reputation and authority, but the strength of the forbidden army far exceeds that of the imperial army, and it is really difficult to say who will win on both sides.

It's as if there's a fog hanging in front of you, whether it's flat ground or a cliff, you don't know until you stand on it.

The flat ground is alive, and the cliff is dead.

A better analogy is dice.

There is no right or wrong, and your choices don't make sense. You throw a dice casually, or even someone else throws a dice for you, and your fate is decided.

Both sides didn't really know who was winning and who was winning, and both sides thought they were winning, and so the war came.

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Inner Court assembly.

Zhao Yuyang said: "Many people in the inner court in the palace have betrayed their lords, and they should all be killed!" ”

I said, "They're all forced, is there any other way they can do it?" Besides, they are blocked in the palace, what bad things can they do, but they just talk about it. ”

Liu Xingchao: "Well, it's no wonder they. ”

Zhao Yuyang continued: "I heard that many of them scolded adults in public, and some even wrote letters of allegiance to the prime minister. ”

Me: "These are originally part of the betrayal, and the adults just said that it doesn't count, what else are you talking about?" ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Those harem eunuchs and palace maids are useless, just kill them." ”

Me: "The palace maids and eunuchs are chosen by all over the world." If you kill hundreds of thousands of palace maids and eunuchs, you will be the enemy of the world. We have a conflict with the foreign courts, but others still have to fight for it. Now the emperor and the prime minister are only a few provinces with a population of hundreds of millions. If you kill the people in the harem, there are 4 billion people in the world, can we fight it? ”

Liu Xingchao: "Okay! Killing the Senate made me feel much better. Now prepare to deal with the army outside Tongguan! ”

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Let's talk about the Emperor's side.

Two months ago, Liu Xingchao took out his old book and blew Kaifeng City to the ground, with a million troops next to her.

But again, the world is inherently unfair, cannon fodder is always cannon fodder, and rulers are always rulers. It is said that the Kaifeng bombing killed more than a million, and the intelligence of the spies showed that none of the people I knew died.

It's disappointing, and I have to live with them in this world.

I would even dare to say that they did not fail last time, and that it was their goal to consume the Praetorian Army's ammunition with a million men.

The outer court can afford to consume it, but the inner court cannot afford it. Time is on the outer side, not on the inner court.

The Qicheng Imperial Court is slowly depleted with you, what can you do?

The Qicheng court reappointed all the officials. The new governor, the new Gyeonggi governor, the new ministers, the new commander of the forbidden army, that is, the new inner court has appeared in the imperial court. Of course, the new cabinet will definitely look to the prime minister.

In the sense of the Ming royal law, I shouldn't call Liu Xingchao the commander-in-chief, and his forbidden army is no longer called the forbidden army - because we are all a group of rebels now.

On the other hand, on our side, there is not even a county magistrate!

The officials of the inner court either died or surrendered to the prime minister, the taxes were gone, and the printing house was gone, but fortunately, the land of the Ming Dynasty was crazy with crops, so we did not starve to death.

The court won't give us a chance. The domestication of the Ming subjects was quite successful, and three months later, another army of millions came outside Tongguan.

The leader is still Prime Minister Li Guozhong.

The last time he broke his leg when he ran away, his leg was just right, and he came again.

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Prime Minister Li Guozhong came to Tongguan with two million troops.

Their army recruitment is quite simple, send someone to catch it directly, and then give a spear or machete, and it is a soldier. I think this is very reasonable, anyway, it is also a human shield, and it is a waste of high ability. For the bombs of the forbidden army, what is the difference between a veteran who has been practicing martial arts for 20 years and a recruit who is not tied to chickens?

I looked through the binoculars at the two million imperial troops, and they seemed to be beautiful flowers in a kaleidoscope.

Now, two million young people with childish faces but serious expressions are neatly lined up outside Tongguan.

They were very neatly arranged, and their steps were also very neat, which showed that they had practiced very hard in the past two months, so their combat effectiveness must have been very amazing.

Their roar is a testament to their righteousness, their faith, their loyalty, their anger.

It is said that they are righteous because they are the people of the emperor and the court, and the emperor and the court are always righteous.

said that they were confident because the imperial army had always been invincible, and the forbidden army was all sick eunuchs, how could the forbidden army beat the imperial army?

They are so loyal, they can't believe that anyone dares to rebel!

Without the rule of the emperor in this world, what is the meaning of life?

They were very angry, because some people dared to say that the imperial army was completely wiped out in Kaifeng!

The forbidden army is so weak, the imperial army is so strong, how can the imperial army lose?

There must be someone who is jealous of the Imperial Army, so they will insult the reputation of the Imperial Army with such indiscriminate means, and today they are going to fight for the reputation of the Imperial Army!

Prime Minister Li Guozhong stood on the easternmost platform, put his mouth on the microphone, and spoke to the two million Royal Army, and his voice came from the loudspeaker:

"The eunuch party messes with power, and the world suffers! All the suffering in this world is caused by those people! They don't have kings, ministers, fathers, and sons, they don't take the emperor in their eyes, they don't put the court in their eyes, and they don't take you in their eyes! Now, justice on earth is coming, and righteous wrath will be inflicted on them. Soldiers of the Imperial Army, the Praetorian Army has no bombs and no diesel, and the plane is just a pile of scrap metal! The forbidden army has no weapons and ammunition, and they are now nothing more than a group of eunuchs! Are you afraid of a group of eunuchs? Grab them by the hair, beat them to the ground, and kick their dogs' heads! I declare that after attacking Chang'an, you can rob for three days, and the things of those traitors are all your spoils! Now, Imperial Army, attack! ”

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I was watching and listening attentively when I suddenly felt the sunlight above me be blocked.

Looking up, the Janissary bomber group set off again.

In the past, the Royal Arsenal was all petty and small, with no more than a few hundred people in each workshop.

Now I have expanded to tens of thousands, and each factory is tens of thousands!

A steady stream of fuel and ammunition was supplied to the Forbidden Army, and in less than two months, the Forbidden Army had fully regained its strength.

I saw that the prime minister immediately ran away, I don't know if he ran to the air raid bunker or somewhere, leaving behind two million stunned-looking recruits.

The recruits didn't seem to know what a bomber was, and they were pointing their fingers to the sky and talking—they must have been sent by God to assist the Emperor in eliminating the eunuchs.

The first bombs of the first plane were dropped.

After the ground shook, the flames erupted, and the smoke billowed out, a large pit more than ten meters wide appeared on the ground.

And so, the beautiful world in that kaleidoscope was immediately shattered.

The recruits immediately scattered and fled, like rabbits all over the hills.

Bombers arrived one after another, and more bombs fell from the sky.

What caused the death of millions of innocent soldiers?

Is it their ignorance?

What is the cause of their ignorance?

How can it be avoided?

Is that what fate is all about?

Those who know themselves will avoid it, and those who do not know it have no meaning in themselves, everything is fair.

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The forbidden army has not yet moved, and the imperial army has been dispersed.

Liu Xingchao, west of Tongguan, looked at all this coldly.

With a wave of his hand, the motorcycle behind him rushed out first, then cars, armored vehicles, trucks, and finally tanks.

100,000 forbidden troops stayed in Chang'an, and 100,000 forbidden troops marched east into the Central Plains.

The Eastern Crusade was invincible, and no city dared to resist.

But it doesn't work. There are more than 800 counties in the Central Plains, and even if there are 100 garrisons in each county, the 80,000 forbidden troops will be gone. It is taboo to disperse the army, so the forbidden army has always been kept together, and the garrison is the Chang'an army. The strength of the Chang'an army is extremely poor, and it can only stay in the county seat, and if it goes out of the city, it will be ended, and the tens of thousands of towns and villages in the Central Plains are still the territory of local tyrants and inferior gentry or bandit cults.

Liu Xingchao came to the outside of Luoyang City and looked at the Luoyang City Wall, which was half destroyed more than half a year ago.

He said: "It's time to clean up Luoyang. ”

I said, "What are you doing with it?" As if it didn't exist, the Luoyang Army wouldn't be able to come out anyway. Look at so many city walls, when will they be blown up? The battle of Tongguan has almost run out of explosives, so it's time to prepare for a while. ”

He said: "Do you think I really want to take Luoyang last year? Last year was just a joke. I'm going to take it down in just a few hours! ”

Bragging? That's Luoyang, which has never been breached! Could it be that when a person falls into a low ebb, he can only rely on self-deception to improve morale?

Two hours later, Luoyang fell.