To the east of Middle-earth, on the other side of the continental bridge, there are two civilizations.

The nomadic civilization led by the Cang Dynasty and the agricultural civilization led by the Daohuang Dynasty. The two sides are bounded by the Kowloon Mountains, which straddle the east and west, and live separately in the north and south of the Eastern Continent, and have been enemies for generations.

The nomads of the north relied on their iron cavalry to raid the southern frontiers, and in order to defend themselves against invasions from the north, the south also began to develop its own advantages - the heavily armored infantry soldiers and the firearm army, which used these two advantages against the more mobile Cang Dynasty iron cavalry.

Because there is more iron in the south and more copper in the north, the armaments of both sides are very different.

In the last years of the Daqing Dynasty before the Daohuang Dynasty, the defeated Emperor Qingyang, for his lustful heart, disregarded the death of the ministers and exchanged the land of the eighteen states of Yanyun for the peerless beauty in the north.

And after exchanging for a beautiful woman, he indulged in lust all day long, and lost all his favorite eunuchs for political affairs. In the end, the people who could not bear the politics of the Tang Dynasty unveiled the uprising, which opened the prelude to the demise of the Daqing Dynasty.

Because the Great Wei Dynasty was caught in a civil strife for the throne, it failed to take this opportunity to move south and conquer the Central Plains with hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen.

The Daohuang Dynasty, which was established later, was unable to organize an army to recapture the eighteen states of Yanyun because of years of war, which led to the withering of people's livelihood.

The current materials and manpower are barely able to rely on the border fortresses left over from the previous dynasty to resist the trampling of the iron cavalry. In the end, he relied on marriage and grain and grass to stabilize the Great Wei Dynasty in the north.

The Great Wei Dynasty also needed to stabilize its own internal tribal rebellions.

However, the Daohuang Dynasty, which had endured for a hundred years, took advantage of a civil strife in the Great Wei Dynasty to pour the country's troops and attack on a large scale, and fought for more than ten years, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and there was almost a great famine in Guannei, before finally recapturing the eighteen states of Yanyun.

At this point, the offensive and defensive trends of the north and south changed.

The south continued to form a northern army to conquer the north, encroaching on the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty, and nourishing the war with war, and a group of brave soldiers were tempered. The Great Wei Dynasty was powerless to resist and could only retreat again and again.

Until the Cang Dynasty overthrew the Great Wei Dynasty.

The Cang Dynasty did not hesitate to organize an army to fight against the Dynasty, and finally defeated the main force of the Army of the Dynasty in a major war, and drove the pioneering army of the Daohuang Dynasty out of the grassland.

Therefore, the grievances between the two sides began from the previous dynasty or even several generations ago, and have continued to the present.

Years of conflict have added to this hatred. Every year several skirmishes break out on both sides.

During the Taihuang period, Emperor Wuchang of Daowu tried to solve the situation at the border gates, which was getting worse by the betrayal of several traitors, and a grand vision that he could not articulate.

During his reign, starting from the third year of Taihuang, he ordered that on the northern border of the empire, the Feng Shui Division and the Ministry of War explored the geography, and began to build dozens of fortresses of all sizes such as Shanhaiguan, Yongchang Pass, and Yong'an Pass, and connected the entire border pass into a line with sections of tall and strong city walls.

This miracle, known to later generations as the "wall of insurmountability", was completed a year before the death of Emperor Wuchang. In the decades that followed, the Wuwei Wall did relieve the pressure on the border passes, and also weakened the ambitions of the Cang Dynasty to go south. Even when the border army is at its most rotten, it can stop the iron cavalry from the north.

However, in the first year of Emperor Daowen'an's Changwu, no minister could think of Emperor Wuchang's ambition - to use the Wuguan Wall as a base to completely eliminate the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states, and solve the enemies of the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years.

On the contrary, some civil officials took advantage of Emperor Wuchang's large-scale construction to persuade the emperor who succeeded him to reduce the cost of maintaining the wall of the border pass year after year.

Although they were also for the country, few civil officials could understand why the city walls needed to be maintained, and how the situation at the border gates was dire.

The increasingly lazy border guards rekindled the ambitions of the Cang Dynasty. However, thanks to the joint efforts of the Empire's Ministry of Industry and War, the ever-advancing technology of firearms has made it possible for even the poorly trained border defenders to hold the northern defense line of the Impenetrable Wall.

During the Changwu period, the increasingly mature firearm technology made up for the disadvantage that the cavalry of the Daohuang Dynasty was inferior to the cavalry of the Cang Dynasty and the poor mobility of the infantry armor.

Gradually, such advantages began to manifest themselves in the annual local wars between the two sides.

No matter how much the Cang Dynasty's iron cavalry spent to improve their armor, it seemed that they were gradually unable to compete with the fire guns of the Daohuang Dynasty's Fire Gun Legion.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, the high-level leaders of the Cang Dynasty began to introduce steam technology from Middle-earth, and after integrating with the local characteristics, the heavy cavalry began to change their clothes. However, before they could change their costumes, a great war began.

In his later years, Emperor Wen'an appointed Situ Yunqi, who was called the "Martial Saint" by later generations, as the general of the expedition to the north, and led a carefully selected army of 500,000 from Tai'an Pass to the north to fight against the Cang Dynasty.

The beginning of the "Hundred Years War" was at this time, three years of Changwu.

Situ Yunqi was born in the Situ family that has been in the army for generations, his command ability is not inferior to the famous generals in history, and his martial arts are the top of the dynasty, and he is the martial champion in the first year of Changwu.

In the early days, if the 500,000 army was the same turtle, slowly moving forward, step by step, while slowly compressing the room for maneuver of the Cang Dynasty army, it was also allowing his troops to gradually adapt to the combat environment of the grassland. After all, most of the soldiers set foot on the grassland battlefield for the first time.

When he was fifty years old, the "Battle of Hunting Kita" began. The Daohuang army, which had already been reborn in the war, had the demeanor of their ancestors, the will to fight without fear of death, and the unshakable military spirit.

This also prompted General Situ to also embark on the biggest gamble of his life.

He ordered 300,000 infantry troops equipped with the newly developed armor-piercing firearms of the Ministry of Industry to take the initiative to attack, attack the Cangchao front, and contain the enemy's main force.

He led more than 10,000 of the most elite cavalry deep into the grassland. The grassland is boundless, and if you want to inflict heavy damage on the Cang Dynasty, you must attack their camp or the location of the imperial court.

No one knows how he did it, but he found the court of the Cang Dynasty, which was briefly separated from the front-line troops. The most elite Zhenguan Iron Cavalry followed Situ Yunqi to launch a fierce attack on the imperial court.

The Zhenguan Iron Cavalry was the only unit of the Daohuang Dynasty that could confront the elite cavalry of the Cang Dynasty head-on, and they were armed with armor-piercing three-eyed spears, half-plate armor and half-chain armor. In several years of battles with the plundering troops of the Cang Dynasty, it became the strongest cavalry unit of the Dynasty.

As the ace cavalry of both sides, the Zhenguan Iron Cavalry and the Cangchao Blue Wolf Iron Cavalry, which they had always been enemies, finally came to the battlefield to decide who was stronger.

There are no city walls, no foot soldiers on both sides, only the grassland of Pingchuan and the tents of the imperial court.

Situ Yunqi gambled everything. Tens of thousands of cavalry fought fiercely on this steppe. The Zhenguan Iron Rider has an armor-piercing three-eyed gun, while the Blue Wolf Iron Rider has a heavy cavalry that incorporates Middle-earth technology.

Situ Yunqi became famous in this battle.

Instead of using the armor-piercing three-eyed gun, he used a large knife weighing eighteen kilograms, and within a few rounds, he slashed the famous general of the Cang Dynasty, Maida Allah, which shocked the Cang Dynasty's army, and the Daohuang army began a fierce charge with extremely high morale.

For a while, I didn't know who was the people who grew up on horseback. However, the early advantage was quickly smoothed out, and the Blue Wolf Iron Riders, who had been re-stopped, also showed their blood-colored fangs. After all, this is the descendant of the army that had defeated the Tiefutu of the Great Wei Dynasty. They also have their own pride.

The severity of the battle can be seen from the wounded Situ Yunqi and only about 500 wounded cavalrymen escorted back.

Tens of thousands of corpses lay across that grassland, and the blood gathered into a lake, and even left the legend of the "Scarlet Lake" on the grassland.

No one knows the details of this war, because Situ Yunqi died of illness in the second year after his return, and the five hundred cavalrymen also died in the next series of battles.

It is strange that there is no official history book that records this incident, but it is a little small compared to the subsequent war.

Of course, there may be no records in the wild history, but later generations still fail to depict that bloody battle. Of course, perhaps there will be the truth hidden in the archives of the Privy Council of the Nation in the deepest places.

However, this surprise attack seems to have exhausted the luck of the Daohuang army. After the defeat of the imperial court, the Cang Dynasty's army rioted, lost its unified command and became independent, and dragged each other's enemies back.

The Daohuang army, which wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue, immediately took the opportunity to divide its troops into multiple ways in an attempt to annihilate the main force of the coalition army formed by the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states. However, this did not work out.

Because a heavy cavalry-based unit of the Cang Dynasty, I don't know if it was lucky or betrayed by spies, they attacked the supply line of the Daohuang army.

Even the desperate resistance of the Shenji Battalion and the Yulin Army could not prevent the death-defying Cang Dynasty Iron Cavalry from destroying most of the grain and grass.

The loss of grain and grass forced the army of the Daohuang Dynasty to stop the attack, repair in place, hold on, and wait for the next batch of grain and grass to arrive.

With the death of Emperor Wen'an and the death of General Situ Yunqi, the huge fluctuations from the imperial court made the Zhenbei army have to retreat back for a while and reach a safe place to rectify.

Due to the huge amount of resources consumed by the Zhenbei War for several years, no military attache can say that he is qualified for the position of commander of the Zhenbei War. Of course, at this time, General Situ, who was guarding filial piety at home, seemed to be the next candidate. He has the teachings of General Situ, and he also has the prestige to be able to convince the public in the Northern Army.

The military attachés began to discuss the matter of seizing the love, and wanted General Situ to take office, inherit the last wishes of the old general and the former emperor, continue the northern expedition, and completely eliminate the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states.

However, as the clique led by the civil officials began to promote the marriage between the two sides, and the military attachés did not understand the imperial court struggle too well, it seemed that the Zhenbei War had come to an end at this time.