Volume 1 The Turmoil Chapter 18 Miscellaneous Notes on Oriental Events (2)

However, with the accession of Emperor Shengwu to the throne and the stability of the court in just one year. The flames of war will once again be ignited on the steppe.

The death of the civil officials failed to stop Emperor Shengwu's determination to conquer the north to inherit his father's wishes.

He even threw the key to the treasury vault on the ground at a court meeting, and asked the civil officials who advised him how long my treasury could support the war. Do you need me to plough the fields myself, and my concubines to weave cloth?

Feeling the unshakable determination in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor, no one ever wrote to admonish him since, and even the officials who liked to impeach the Emperor's will the most were silent.

Emperor Shengwu personally began to lead his ministers to live frugally, and all the money saved was put into the north treasury of the town. Countless corrupt officials were raided by the secret service of the dynasty, and the huge amount of property hidden by these corrupt officials began to be included in the Zhenbei treasury.

The soldiers on the frontier did not let up, they stuck to the strongholds that had been carved out in the steppe, and constantly expanded and strengthened the fortifications and warehouses in preparation for the war that followed.

The elite iron cavalry also often engaged in local wars with the Cang Dynasty to temper themselves and test the new weapons of the Firearms Department of the Ministry of Industry, while monitoring the movements of the Cang Dynasty's army.

Of course, the Cang Dynasty did not relax, and they desperately introduced the technology of Middle-earth to upgrade their troops. Although the newly enthroned Emperor Cang was able to defy public opinion and put a lot of resources into changing clothes. However, after all, they could not withstand the Daohuang Dynasty, which had huge rear resources. The latter spared no effort in the production of weapons and equipment, trained the army without scruples, and actively prepared for war.

Everyone knows that this war will no longer be a little spark, but a fire that burns everything from the old era.

After ten years of recuperation, an army of 600,000 led by Situ Yunqi's son Situ Zhenbei and hundreds of thousands of people who accompanied him left for the grassland again.

Emperor Shengwu's ambition was no longer just to defeat the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states, he wanted to completely lock them up in the history books and dominate the Eastern Continent.

So the 600,000 army, under the leadership of Situ Zhenbei, began to camp step by step again, constantly encroaching on the territory of the Cang Dynasty. Under the orders of Emperor Shengwu, the border pass became a stronghold for immigrants, and a large number of civilians began to open up the wasteland and settle in the territory of the former Cang Dynasty under the protection of the border army.

This was a great war that related the fate of everyone in the two countries, and it was also the most tragic exchange between nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization.

The imperial court of the new Cang Dynasty, which understood Emperor Shengwu's intentions, immediately organized an attack force to attack the Wasteland Reclamation Brigade, while the Daohuang Dynasty relied on their superior gunpowder weapons technology and simple fortifications to resist with difficulty.

The heavy cavalry, which was formed by the combination of sweat and blood horses and steam technology, was no longer something that the Daohuang Dynasty could compete with. However, the Daohuang Dynasty has long given up on Burenjia. Armor-piercing firearms and various war firearms brought the dawn of victory to the Daohuang Dynasty.

The Cang army stabbed the latter with spears of steel and steam, while the national army formed an unshakable defensive line with flesh and gunpowder.

The continuous upgrading of the armor-piercing firearm also allowed the Daohuang Dynasty to deepen its research on thermal weapons, and developed a firearm technology that was different from the firearm technology inherited from the relics of the gods in Middle-earth.

The craftsmen of the dynasty even developed weapons known as rockets in later life, which were installed in the front-line troops, making it more difficult for the cavalry of the Cang Dynasty to fight on the battlefield.

They could only disrupt the rear of the Daohuang Dynasty by constantly attacking them, and the main force and the imperial court kept changing their stations, not fighting head-on duels with the main forces of the Daohuang Dynasty, in an attempt to drag down the dynasty by delaying.

The dynasty used Tuntian Daihatsu to deal with this war of attrition.

This time, the Daohuang Dynasty was determined to defeat the Cang Dynasty.

Such a war lasted for decades, going through three generations of emperors and three generations of Zhenbei generals. Several times he almost contributed to a decisive battle, but he was dodged by the Cang Dynasty army.

In the years of war, both sides have exerted incalculable pressure on their own people.

During the Longqing period, Emperor Anbei personally drove to conquer the Cang Dynasty, wearing golden armor, and left the words of benevolence if the battle was unsuccessful before leaving the national capital, and even arranged the aftermath, so that the loyal Han scholar collected the holy book of the edict, and was ready to let his eldest son inherit the throne and the mission of Zhenbei at any time.

After appointing Situ Shengbei, the great-grandson of Situ Zhenbei, as the right general, he led the 800,000 troops formed by the whole country to the north to go out of the pass, and marched towards the depths of the grassland, and launched the final decisive battle with the Cang Dynasty.

In order to deal with this roaring giant hammer from the south, the imperial court of the Cang Dynasty also took out the army at the bottom of the box, and because the Cang Dynasty could no longer afford to consume it, 500,000 cavalry began to rush to the battlefield.

In the autumn of the fourteenth year of Longqing, the scout troops of the two sides clashed.

A tragic war began. Millions of soldiers fought across the vast grasslands, full of enemies and their own people, and red-eyed soldiers no longer distinguished between friend and foe. Commanders on both sides had to keep an eye on the movements of their armies and coordinate them.

The two sides fought here for a day and night, until only the soldiers of one side were left standing in the Shura field.

It is said that in later generations, it was called the red grassland of the sea of flowers on the other side of the world, and it is said that it was the grassland that was dyed red by the blood of soldiers on both sides. Because of too much blood and souls again, the underworld has a piece of land in the world.

This is a war that determines survival, and all men over the age of sixteen in the Cang Dynasty have been drafted into the army, and the Daohuang Dynasty has emptied the country's supplies

How tragic is it? It is said that even Emperor Anbei, who was under the protection of the Praetorian Guards and the Ouchi Imperial Guard, lost his left arm due to an arrow in the battlefield, and the imperial flag behind him was stained with blood. If it weren't for Situ Shengbei's desperate protection, the emperor might have died.

General Situ was also wounded by several arrows in the war, and his legs were severely injured, and he was eventually disabled.

It's over, it's all over. The allied forces of the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states were defeated in the decisive battle, the main force was routed, and the imperial court of the Cang Dynasty was once again severely damaged, unable to reassemble its army. The tribes began to play their own little calculations again, some continued to fight, some fled, and some surrendered. The once-united Cang Dynasty fell apart.

So the last monarch led a large fleeing army of troops, ministers, and civilians to Middle-earth in the west.

Because of the last decisive charge of the Cang Dynasty army, the Daohuang army was unable to chase the enemy army, and they surrounded the last big city of the Cang Dynasty in the east, Wanghai City, and there was no further action.

Is it to let go of the sworn enemy of this millennium? Emperor Anbei once thought about whether to organize an attack to capture Wanghai City. However, the heavy walls, the increasingly cold weather, and the unbearable consumption of the treasury made him abandon the idea.

With the flight of the last forces of the Cang Dynasty and its vassal states, and the surrender of Wanghai City, the entire Eastern Continent ushered in its ultimate ruler, the Daohuang Dynasty.

The Daohuang Dynasty, which had acquired the vast majority of the land of the Cang Dynasty, began to assimilate the people of the Cang Dynasty, explored the geography, and sent troops to continue to exterminate the tribes hidden in the depths of the grassland and suppress the rebellious tribes. The big battle is over, but it will take time to return to the peaceful and prosperous times. But at least, peace is not far away. The people who have lived in the war can finally return to their hometowns in fine clothes, but I don't know how many people are still in the family in the past?

They are the chosen ones of this age, and they are also the forsaken of God.

No historian in history would make a subjective comment on the Hundred Years' War. Throughout the countless years, no matter how talented poets and scholars are, there is not the slightest subjective assumption about the Hundred Years' War. Of course, poems or articles written after a drunken madness do not count.

In the face of such a great war, any words seem too fragile. So much so that the historians barely wrote down the course of the Hundred Years' War objectively.

Even so, there were still a number of historians who began to repair it, and there were dozens of historians who were raided for this purpose. Naturally, the reason goes without saying.

Those princesses who kept marrying the Cang Dynasty in order to give the Daohuang Dynasty time for the final victory made the successive emperors have to be as objective as possible in the writing of history.

Whenever there is a slight deviation or tendency, after the judgment of the scholars, the historians in charge of the records have to be punished.

Of course, whether it was really raided, we descendants don't know, after all, if it was so easy to be raided, where would there be a historian? Who wants to be a historian? But the record had to be added a few more times.

The Hundred Years' War, more than a hundred years, lasted a total of one hundred and thirteen years. No one can count how much blood, how many joys and sorrows, and how many stories are carried. But it is an inevitable war.

As the Cang Dynasty in the north was accepting the slow progress of steam technology, the emperor in the south wanted to introduce steam technology but it was difficult, and the death of countless ministers made the emperors very annoyed, even Emperor Shengwu failed to persuade those old ministers to accept the new technology.

They sighed and waited for their stiff minds to come alive or for young people to take their place.

Therefore, as a last resort, for the succession of their own children and grandchildren, and for the descendants of the people of the world, several generations of emperors persevered in this tragic war, no matter how hard it was. In the end, he won the victory, and completely eliminated this great trouble at an immeasurable cost, so that future generations could live and work in peace and contentment.

So the Hundred Years' War began and ended, leaving behind a dusty history and past waiting to be discovered or forgotten forever.

However, the effects of the Hundred Years' War in the East were far from over, and it shook Middle-earth as well.

As the Cang Dynasty and its vassal forces fled to Middle-earth, a war for survival inevitably involved the countries of Middle-earth.

The first large-scale exchange between the Eastern civilization and the Middle-earth civilization began by relying on the most direct means of communication between civilizations - war.