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

Chapter 512 The World Loses Order, Only One Way Out
Really.

It's...really?!

Many people were so shocked by the news that they almost stumbled and fell.

If the Ming emperor could quickly transform ordinary troops into warriors, making them feel immense pressure, and considering that the alliance of various countries had been formed, he might have the ability to fight with the full force of the nation.

The news that the Ming emperor could resurrect the dead, even those who had been dead for a thousand years, struck them like a bolt from the blue, leaving them almost dumbfounded, and the pressure felt like the sky was falling and the earth was cracking.

"The Great Qin General Wu'an leads the expedition against Japan?"

"The Martial King Ran Min and the Ming Dynasty's Prince of Kaiping Chang Yuchun served as deputy commanders and vanguard generals, along with strategists from the late Han Dynasty such as Jia Xu and Cheng Yu."

"Then... could more famous generals, strategists, and capable ministers from ancient times be resurrected by the Ming emperor and join the Ming dynasty to serve?

In the Northern Song Dynasty court, the Imperial Censor murmured very softly, almost inaudibly, yet the highly tense officials still heard it, and their faces turned deathly pale.

This was precisely what Yue Fei, Yang Ye, Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, and others were most worried and terrified about.

The Ming Dynasty is already formidable. If a leader with strategic brilliance and capable ministers could gather together from all over the world, even if all nations united and the entire world mobilized to fight the Ming Dynasty to the death, what chance would they have of winning?
No one is stupid.

This worst-case scenario surfaced in everyone's minds almost simultaneously as Zhao Ji nodded.

Everyone, including Yue Fei, couldn't help but ponder this.

If Zhu Jinzhen was able to resurrect Bai Qi, the Marquis of Wu'an of Qin, then what about other Marquises of Wu'an during the Warring States period? What about famous generals like Wang Jian, the Marquis of Wucheng? And what about other people from the late Han Dynasty, an era teeming with brilliant generals and exceptionally capable ministers?

Since the strategists Jia Xu and Cheng Yu have already been resurrected, who can guarantee that Zhu Jinzhen hasn't resurrected Zhuge Liang, the most famous strategist and capable minister of the Three Kingdoms period?
The Eight Trigrams Formation of Gods and Demons.

Something etched in history, something that no dynasty dared to underestimate.

If Zhuge Liang were alive today, and with his mastery of the Eight Trigrams Formation, and leading the Ming Dynasty's military army, how much chance of victory could they possibly have even if they mobilized the entire nation's forces to fight?
Yue Fei's military treatise was indeed powerful, even more so than the Eight Trigrams Formation, which was said to be able to spew water into a flood, sweep dust like falling meteorites, create a fierce wind on the battlefield with a single wave of a feather fan, cause the sky to collapse and the earth to split with a slight movement, and scatter beans to form an army.

No matter how fierce the generals of the Northern Song, Sui, Southern Song, and Liao dynasties were, none were as fierce as Lü Bu, the Flying General who single-handedly held off eighteen warlords with just a halberd and a horse before crossing Hulao Pass.

Once all those valiant generals and capable ministers who have passed away gather in the Ming Dynasty.

Let alone fighting, just the fact that they stand up will instantly shatter the little morale they've managed to build up.

Not to mention the fact that the Ming Dynasty's strength was already so great that it was despair-inducing.

……

The Great Sui Dynasty, Daxing Palace.

Upon receiving the secret report, Yang Guang abruptly stood up and roared, "Investigate again, report again! Such absurd remarks are utterly laughable! Even if the Heavenly Sword could truly bring the dead back to life, how could it possibly revive someone who has been dead for a thousand years?"

"What about the 20,000 troops of the capital's garrison? What about the 30,000 Ming soldiers who transform into warriors?"

"Our opponents are none other than the Ming Dynasty's Tian Ce and Cang Yun armies."

"Compared to them, who are all at the Vajra Realm and have all reached the Profound Realm, what is there to fear from the mere Imperial Guard and the hastily trained martial arts army of the Ming Dynasty?"

Yang Guang's furious roar echoed throughout the imperial court.

However, the heads of the four great clans, as well as the high-ranking officials in the court, could all hear the lack of confidence in Yang Guang's angry roar. After all... it wasn't fifty, it wasn't five hundred, but a full fifty thousand warriors.

Even if the intelligence says that such a well-organized army only has the highest level of cultivation (top three ranks),

If the chosen generals are capable enough, they could overthrow the entire Sui Dynasty.

What's terrifying is that this was something the Ming emperor had cultivated rapidly in just a few days.

This means that as long as the Ming emperor is willing, and as long as the Ming soldiers are not all dead, the Ming emperor can continuously replenish this fighting force of warriors.

Even if it's impossible to make it infinite, surely there are at least several hundred thousand?
In addition to the Tian Ce and Cang Yun armies that they originally expected to have to deal with, they also had to deal with the Ming army composed of at least hundreds of thousands of third-rank martial artists. The Sui court officials in Daxing Palace felt that the future was bleak and hopeless just thinking about it.

Not to mention the outrageous intelligence content.

The Ming Dynasty's army, tasked with conquering Japan, was led by Bai Qi, the Martial Lord of Qin, with Ran Min, the Martial King of Heaven, as his deputy, and Chang Yuchun, the Prince of Kaiping of the Ming Dynasty, as the vanguard general.

And the news that Jia Xu and Cheng Yu had also returned to the world.

The impact on the officials and powerful families of the Sui Dynasty was enormous, even devastating.

What the Northern Song Dynasty could think of, they could naturally think of as well.

The thought that they would be going to war with the Ming Dynasty and would likely be facing figures like the legendary Zhuge Liang, Lü Bu, and even Xiang Yu and Huo Qubing, who were once renowned generals and capable ministers who had dominated the world, made everyone extremely uneasy.

If it weren't clear that these powerful clans couldn't escape, the Ming Dynasty most likely wouldn't have accepted them.

The four major clans would switch allegiance to a wise ruler without hesitation.

These four powerful clans of the ruined Sui Dynasty, let whoever wants to be one of them take their place.

But now, they can only swallow their pride and try to survive for the sake of the Sui Dynasty, otherwise, once the Sui Dynasty falls, their end will be near.

……

News of the campaign against Japan spread rapidly throughout the land.

Every time the news reached a country or region, it caused gasps of alarm and despair in the imperial court, grief, and all sorts of unbelievable and inconceivable voices from the common people, as well as... a flood of rumors.

Seeing that public opinion and the situation were getting out of control.

Countries can only intensify their efforts to smear the Ming Dynasty, spreading all sorts of smears, slanders, and rumors as if they were free.

The various rumors surrounding the Ming Dynasty have become increasingly demonized.

"We can only hope that the worst-case scenario we've anticipated doesn't happen."

"otherwise……"

"Our opponents are the Three Heroes of the early Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Chu, and even Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, the Twin Pillars of the Han Dynasty, unparalleled capable ministers and fierce generals of the late Han Dynasty. Then... we have no chance of survival."

"Heaven is truly against me!"

"The matter of the Heavenly Sword is indeed true, but I never expected that even ancient people who died a thousand years ago could be resurrected."

"We must hurry up and find the whereabouts of the First Emperor's Mausoleum. That... may be our only way out and a way to break this deadlock."

All the officials in the Sui Dynasty court, and even the Northern and Southern Song courts, deeply understood one thing: it was no longer realistic to simply rely on the alliance of the world, mobilize the armies of the world, and gather the strength of all the countries to remove the Ming Dynasty, this major threat.

They might be able to put up a fight for a while, but a prolonged war will inevitably end in defeat.

The only way to break the deadlock is to find the true location of the First Emperor's Mausoleum before Zhu Jinzhen and the Ming Dynasty, find the celestial star inside, and the hundreds of thousands of Qin terracotta warriors who are said to be on land and at the level of immortals.

Otherwise, as things develop, in the end there will be absolutely no way to save them!

For the first time, whether it was the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, or even small countries like the Jin Dynasty and Dali, or even barbarian countries like the Turks and the Tibetans, they all reached an unprecedented consensus.

To break this deadlock, we must first find the First Emperor's Mausoleum!
If the country is to be saved from its current predicament, finding the First Emperor's mausoleum is the only way out.

Or……

Whoever obtains everything within the First Emperor's mausoleum will rule the world!
(End of this chapter)