Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 487 A Crowd with Complicated Feelings

"Your Majesty, we pay our respects. We are in good health."

Bai Qi, Chang Yuchun, Ran Min, Xu Ruowu, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, and others bowed deeply.

"I am at peace. Rise."

Zhu Jinzhen waved for them to rise and said, "I summoned you here to return to the world in a different way. You all know what I need you to do. I will not waste any more words."

"Three days later, we will hold a rally and set off for battle."

"Bai Qi."

"The end will be here."

"You will lead the army, Ran Min will be your deputy, Chang Yuchun will be the vanguard, Xu Ruo will coordinate, and Jia Xu and Cheng Yu will be your strategists and advisors. I do not need battle reports or the process of this battle, I only need the result."

"Is it possible?"

As Zhu Jinzhen finished speaking, he gazed indifferently at the group of people in front of him.

"Your Majesty, Bai Qi will certainly not fail in his mission." A cold and confident smile appeared on Bai Qi's face. He was Lord Wu'an, Bai Qi, known to the world as the butcher and the god of slaughter. He might not be good at other things, but when it came to fighting, he dared to say that he feared no one, past or future.

"what about you?"

Zhu Jinzhen's gaze swept over the crowd behind Bai Qi.

"This humble general has already drafted the order to kill the Japanese pirates, which will be even more severe than the order to kill the barbarians back then." A cruel smile appeared on the face of King Ran Min, the Martial Mourning King. His attitude towards foreigners was only one: those who are not of our race will surely have different hearts.

Since they are not of our race, they should be exterminated, with not a single one left alive!

Upon hearing this, the faces of the people present were immediately moved.

Order to Kill the Hu (barbarians).

The names Chang Yuchun and Xu Ruowu are naturally very familiar to everyone.

Although they were historical figures of the past in the Ming Dynasty, they all greatly admired Ran Min, the Martial King, who had carved out a formidable reputation in the chaotic lands of the Five Barbarian Invasions before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty in the north.

Bai Qi, Jia Xu, and Cheng Yu were not clear at first.

But they were all intelligent people, and naturally they were curious about what kind of person the deputy commander, Zhu Jinzhen, who would later become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

When Ran Min issued the order to kill the Hu people, more than 200,000 Hu people were killed in Ye City in just three days. Almost all the northernmost regions of the Five Barbarian Invasions responded to the order to kill the Hu people, and more than a million Hu people were slaughtered.

It's almost on par with Bai Qi's record of slaughtering gods.

After learning of Ran Min's "great achievements," Jia Xu and Cheng Yu had nothing to say about him as their deputy commander.

Seeing that Bai Qi and Ran Min had both expressed their opinions, Chang Yuchun, as the vanguard general, naturally couldn't remain silent. He grinned, revealing his bright white teeth, and said, "Surrendered soldiers? Wherever the vanguard army goes, nothing will grow. Let alone surrendered soldiers, you won't find a single survivor."

Kill those who surrender, massacre the city.

Chang Yuchun said that he is also very good at it.

He was even more skilled than Ran Min.

The only one who could surpass Chang Yuchun was Bai Qi, the Lord of Wu'an, known as the butcher and god of slaughter.

Upon seeing this, Jia Xu and Cheng Yu immediately bowed, indicating that they would "do their utmost".

Zhu Jinzhen smiled with satisfaction: "In this battle, Tian Ce and Cang Yun will each send eight large camps, the Five Armies Command will draw on the vanguard and the left and right wings, totaling 30,000 soldiers, and the Beijing Garrison will send 20,000 troops to cooperate with you to push through Japan as quickly as possible."

"At the same time, some secret guards will accompany the army to perform some scout work."

"We will provide you with the most refined intelligence from Japan." Upon hearing this, Bai Qi, Ran Min, Chang Yuchun, and the others' eyes lit up instantly.

Their time in the capital wasn't wasted.

They already knew about the two invincible armies of the Ming Dynasty, Tian Ce and Cang Yun, and had even encountered them dozens of times, so they were well aware of their strength and terror.

Eight large camps, that's at least four thousand people, and at most six thousand, eight thousand, or even tens of thousands.

In addition, there were their military talents.

It really can sweep across the entire Japanese mainland at top speed.

Even Bai Qi, the Lord of Wu'an, a figure from the pre-Qin period, changed his expression.

"An army of at least five thousand Finger Profound Realm experts, plus sixty thousand troops, could take over the tiny island of Japan in less than a month!" Bai Qi said with a smile. The Qin army of that time was extraordinary, far superior to the armies of the various countries in later generations.

However, it wasn't exaggerated to the point that everyone would identify it as a mystery.

Even when Bai Qi was first resurrected and Zhu Jinzhen asked him about the Qin Dynasty's later rulers, the First Emperor Ying Zheng, who was hailed as the greatest emperor of all time, leading the Qin state in a world-wide campaign against Heaven, Bai Qi himself was completely bewildered.

He lived not long after Qin Shi Huang's time, less than a century ago.

The Qin Dynasty seemed to sprout wings and, under the leadership of the First Emperor of Qin, soared into the heavens.
In any case, Bai Qi pondered for several days but still couldn't figure it out, and couldn't give Zhu Jinzhen any answer he wanted. He could only attribute everything to the earth-shattering changes that occurred in Qin after his death, which allowed Qin's national strength to advance by leaps and bounds to such a level.

Even now, leading an army of thousands of soldiers, the worst of whom were at least Grandmasters of the Profound Realm, Lord Wu'an Bai Qi couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. He thought to himself, "Back then, if Qin had such an army, the mere six states could have been wiped out in the blink of an eye. When besieging Zhao, there wouldn't have been any massacre of Zhao soldiers."

The Qin elite soldiers were already a fierce and powerful force, and then there were grandmasters like Tian Ce and Cang Yun, who were at the Zhi Xuan realm.

Bai Qi felt that he could easily sweep through any one of the six kingdoms of yesteryear, even with the current lineup given to him by Zhu Jinzhen, and he could even easily overtake any of the five kingdoms that formed an alliance.

Ran Min had a similar idea.

An army composed of five thousand Finger Realm experts!

If he had had such resources back then, the order to exterminate the Hu people would not have been to slaughter millions of Hu people, but to wipe them out completely, or even to launch an attack from the far north and wipe out the Turkic, Liao and Mongol dynasties that later split off!
Chang Yuchun also had a big smile on his face, secretly thinking to himself, "If Zhu Chongba knew that I had been reborn and could still lead troops into battle, and with such an army at that, he would be so envious he'd jump out of his tomb!"

An army of five thousand Zhixuan warriors.

When he followed Zhu Yuanzhang in his campaigns across the north and south, established the Hongwu era, and founded the Ming Dynasty, if he had had such an army, the Northern Yuan and later the Mongol Yuan would never have been able to establish themselves. Chang Yuchun would definitely have led his troops directly to fight against them.

Let them experience what it means to be the army of the Celestial Empire.

Thinking of this, Chang Yuchun's feelings became increasingly complicated. He still felt as if he were in a dream, unable to believe that the Ming Dynasty had become so powerful under Zhu Jinzhen's rule.

Based on his understanding of the strength of the Cangyun Army and the Tiance Mansion.

If it were in their time, they would have been able to sweep across the land, erasing all those so-called unparalleled rulers and restoring the glory of the Qin and Han dynasties. The current situation of fragmentation and the coexistence of various states would never have occurred.

"However, it will be soon."

"Conquering Japan is just the beginning; the next step should be the other nations of the world, who are already eager to make their move."

"It's a pity that you, Zhu Chongba, your elder sister, and all of our old brothers won't be able to see this."

"Otherwise, I really wish you could see the Ming Dynasty in later generations, when it completely ended the wars and conflicts, unified the world, and was the most glorious moment in the world, in the heavens and the earth." Chang Yuchun's feelings were complicated, both happy and sad.

As for the various countries' restless intentions, Chang Yuchun never took them to heart.

He had heard about the Battle of Beijing and naturally understood just how terrifying the trump card Zhu Jinzhen held was. It was not something that could be shaken by a desperate struggle between nations.

That's not right either. The fish will definitely die, but the net can't possibly break!

(End of this chapter)