"The day has finally come."

On the banks of the surging Salween River, Sun Kewang looked north at Yunnan and muttered in a low voice.

Wang Ziqi beside him clenched the reins of the war horse and said through gritted teeth: "Your Majesty, Liu Wenxiu, a traitor, is willing to become Su Yan's lackey to crusade against you, and he must be given a cruel lesson, and the minister is willing to be the vanguard and capture Liu Wenxiu in front of you."

"I'm glad you have such a heart." Sun Kewang said, "However, Liu Wenxiu is my brother-in-law, so it stands to reason that I should personally lead my army to fight against him."

When Wang Ziqi heard this, he could only hold his fists and take his life.

Liu Wenxiu led the army all the way south along the Salween River, but the Tusi in the Mengnai area had already returned to Sun Kewang, so the army led by Liu Wenxiu was attacked by the local Tusi army from time to time along the way, and the speed of the march was greatly slowed down.

Therefore, before Liu Wenxiu went south, Sun Kewang had already led the army to cross the Salween River in advance, and before crossing the river, he also ordered the new Burmese king Mangbai to mobilize the Donghu army to help the war, but after the envoy he sent read the order in front of Mangbai, the new king who was supported by Sun Kewang directly ordered the Qin envoy to be taken down, and the five flowers were sent to Yunnan.

He showed to the Celestial Empire with an extremely humble attitude that he cooperated with Sun Rebellion in order to avoid the country's peril, and now the Celestial Empire is raising troops to crusade, he is unwilling to continue to be in the same stream with Sun Rebellion, and is willing to send troops to crusade against Sun Rebellion with the king's division.

Mang Bai's betrayal did not surprise Sun Kewang, he expected this person's betrayal in advance, so he just sneered, and then continued to lead the army towards Meng Gen.

Sun Kewang's plan was very simple, Persimmon had to pick a soft pinch, he had to first defeat Li Mingzhong, the general soldier of Yunnan who threatened Xingzai, contact the threat to Xingzai, and then turn to Liu Wenxiu.

Seeing that Sun Kewang led a large army to kill, Li Mingzhong, who was advancing towards Meng Gen, felt very bad, he knew that his strength was weak and could not compete with Sun Kewang, so he took the initiative to withdraw his troops to defend Meng Yang, and waited for an opportunity to fight in Meng Yang, and attacked Sun Kewang with Liu Wenxiu.

Seeing that Li Mingzhong led the army to retreat north, Sun Kewang ordered Wang Ziqi to lead 10,000 troops to attack Meng Yang, and surrounded Li Mingzhong in Meng Yang City, while he returned to Meng Gen, mobilized Meng Gen's army and people, and prepared to meet Liu Wenxiu from the Salween River.

Li Mingzhong was afraid of Sun Kewang's army, but he was not afraid of Wang Ziqi, seeing Wang Ziqi leading the army to kill, Li Mingzhong decisively stopped advancing, and instead took the initiative to engage Wang Ziqi, he used the same tactics as Sun Kewang, pretending to be defeated, and led the army to retreat to the ambush point, but Wang Ziqi did not fall for him.

Seeing this, Li Mingzhong had no choice but to reorganize the army and start a fierce battle with Wang Ziqi by virtue of the terrain.

Li Mingzhong had a total of 5,000 soldiers, of which 3,000 were the famous Guangxi wolf soldiers, 2,000 were Yunnan soldiers recruited and trained locally in Yunnan, and although Wang Ziqi's army had 10,000 troops, less than half of the Han army was mainly composed of Menggen's local aborigines, which were mixed with a huge elephant army.

The two sides started a fierce battle, Li Mingzhong personally led the Guangxi wolf soldiers to kill the Qin army, the wolf soldiers deserved to be a fierce force, after a fierce battle, they quickly tore apart the Qin army's formation, and the Qin army's foot soldiers were defeated and retreated.

But Wang Ziqi quickly transferred reinforcements, he opened the way with elephant soldiers, in the earth-shattering war elephant roar, more than ten war elephants roared and stepped on heavy steps to rush into the Xia army formation, even if they were as brave as wolf soldiers, they were still flesh and blood, and they could not fight against the elephant soldiers.

Under the rush of the elephant soldiers, the Xia army was quickly dispersed, the two sides fought fiercely for several hours, the Xia army was defeated, Li Mingzhong could only hurriedly gather the rout and withdraw into Mengyang City, and ask for help in the direction of Yunnan.

Sun Kewang was overjoyed with the victory in the first battle, and he ordered to give Wang Ziqi a rich reward, and canonized Wang Ziqi as the Duke of Qi, promising to marry his daughter to the prince after the war, and the two families would marry.

Wang Ziqi's victory also inspired the Qin army, which alleviated the fear of the courtiers and civilians who had always been worried about the behemoth in the north, and they had confidence in defeating the Xia army.

Sun Kewang also took advantage of this opportunity and decided to send troops to meet Liu Wenxiu to consolidate the impact of the great victory, and Liu Wenxiu heard that Li Mingzhong was defeated

After the news, he did not dare to continue south, but instead set up camp on the banks of the Salween River, devoting himself to cutting off the connection between Menggong and Mengnai.

When the battle on the front line was in full swing, Jiangning City, Lin Meiren, who was pregnant for ten months, also entered the state of production, and the entire imperial city began to get nervous.

Lin Meiren suddenly had a stomachache in the early morning, and when she began to prepare for childbirth, Su Yan was still in the front court, and when Su Yan was in the court, she hurried to the harem as soon as possible, and waited anxiously outside the palace for Lin Meiren's birth.

Empress Zheng took the first step to wait outside the palace after learning the news, although she didn't like Lin Meiren, who was competing with her husband, but she also knew that this matter was related to the country, and calmly commanded the palace maid and eunuch to do things after arriving outside the palace.

Su Yan waited outside the hall for more than an hour, during which he listened to Lin Meiren's heart-rending cry and Wen Po's encouragement, after more than an hour, he finally heard a loud baby cry in the hall, and it didn't take long for Wen Po, who was sweating profusely, to walk out with the baby still in swaddling clothes, her face was full of joy, and she walked to Su Yan and Empress Zheng and bowed, and then said:

"Your Majesty, Mother, mother and daughter are safe! She's a healthy little princess!"

As soon as she heard that it was the princess, Queen Zheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she showed joy on her face, and after Su Yan took the swaddling clothes, she held the little princess in her arms and followed up, and gently looked at the baby girl in the swaddling clothes with Su Yan.

Although the baby girl had just come out of her mother's body, and her body was full of wrinkles that had not been stretched, she could still vaguely see Lin Meiren's delicate appearance on her eyebrows and eyes.

"Good!"

Su Yan laughed, and then said to the eunuch standing aside, "Spread my word, the Wen Po, the palace maid and the eunuch present today will all be rewarded, and she will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver."

In the end, Su Yan glanced at the complimentary Wen Po, who quickly knelt on the ground and couldn't stop saying hello.

Su Yan also knew that the newborn baby could not be held outside all the time, and then he reluctantly returned his little daughter to the Wen Po, and let the Wen Po carry it back to the palace, and he also walked in with the queen, and saw Lin Meiren, who was lying on the bed very weak.

Lin Meiren was also sweating profusely at this time, her delicate face was pale, and her hair was also wet with sweat on her skin, when she saw Su Yan and Empress Zheng coming, she barely pulled out a smile on her face, and said:

"Your Majesty, Niangniang, the concubine is weak, please forgive the concubine for inconvenience in getting up and saluting."

"It doesn't matter." Su Yan said with a smile, "Concubine Ai gave birth to a lovely little princess for me, and I am very happy to fulfill the wish of both my children and daughters."

Hearing Su Yan say this, Lin Meiren breathed a sigh of relief, she was also worried that Su Yan was patriarchal, because she gave birth to a daughter and didn't like it.

Empress Zheng also said some comforting words, and finally walked out of the palace with Su Yan, and after walking out, Su Yan said to the eunuch who was close to her: "Spread the word that Lin Meiren has a meritorious daughter, and she will be rewarded with five hundred taels of gold and canonized Jieyu."

"Yes."