More than two hundred years ago, Taizu of the Great Qi Kingdom conquered the world in troubled times, established the country as "Qi", and divided the country into nineteen states.

Except for Qizhou, where the imperial capital of Daqi is located, the other nine lands are all two states.

The throne has been passed down for more than two hundred years, and he is now the seventeenth emperor, with the reign name Xuanwu.

Emperor Xuanwu was fond of martial arts since childhood and had a brave and enterprising character. After ascending to the throne, he tried to carry out reforms and reverse the old diseases that had accumulated in Daqi for more than two hundred years.

However, several reforms ended in failure.

As a result, Emperor Xuanwu was unable to recover. From then on, he became obsessed with hard training and martial arts and no longer managed the government.

From the 31st to the 36th year of Xuanwu, disasters occurred for five consecutive years, resulting in the displacement of countless people.

In the winter of thirty-sixth year, the people who suffered a disaster rose up and declared rebellion.

Within half a month, countless rebel flags were raised across the country, especially in Jiangzhou, Yuzhou, Dongzhou, and Qingzhou, where the response was the strongest. All the state capitals had been occupied by the rebels.

There are also large and small rebel armies in other states.

Looking at the 19 states across the country, anti-military figures can be seen in 13 states!

The situation was so great that Emperor Xuanwu went to court again after seven years to make a decision on the matter and decided on two strategies: recruitment and reward.

The so-called recruitment means recruiting those who rebel against the king. If they agree, they will reward them generously, give high officials generous salaries, and at the same time order them to attack those who disagree with the king.

The so-called bounty is to use money, martial arts and other rewards to reward those powerful rebels, so as to induce the masters of the world to take action.

tread!tread!tread!

The heavy tread of the war horse sounded on the official road. Zhou Ming, wearing battle armor, sat high on the war horse, holding a long-handled sword in his hand, silently following the war horse forward.

Behind him were nearly three thousand broadsword infantry.

Every soldier is tall and strong. No one would have imagined that half a month ago, they were all skinny refugees.

During the march, a town appeared in front of the army.

On the city wall of the small town, a big flag with the word 'Lin' was flying.

Seeing the arrival of three thousand troops, a strong man stood on the top of the city and shouted: "How dare you dare to offend King Lin's land!"

Zhou Ming snorted coldly and said: "You are just a small player who occupies one city and two towns. How dare you claim to be the king? Kill!"

With an order, three thousand soldiers rushed out like tigers and wolves. Zhou Ming took the lead, throwing many soldiers behind him ten meters away.

When they reached the moat, the war horses stopped and did not dare to wade forward. However, Zhou Ming jumped up and jumped directly over the moat, which was only three or four meters wide, and came to the city gate.

The city gate is naturally closed.

Zhou Ming stuck his sword aside, fought with his arms, and slammed it on the city gate.

The thick city gate suddenly trembled when he slapped it.

"Open it for me!"

Infinite divine power surged out from his arms, and he pushed the closed city gate open just a crack.

From behind the gap, you can clearly see dozens or hundreds of soldiers desperately blocking the city gate.

But it was obvious that even a hundred people could not compare to Zhou Ming's arms.

After all, the city gate was pushed open by him.

He grabbed the big knife and slashed at will, killing dozens of people on the spot!

"Don't be afraid! He's only one person!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! He is just a person, what are you afraid of?"

"Kill him! Whoever beheads him will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"

An officer shouted loudly from behind the crowd.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Besides, Zhou Ming is really the only one here.

The soldiers came like a tidal wave, but in an instant, endless blood was shed under the light of the sword.

At this time, three thousand soldiers from the rear had already arrived and crossed the moat directly to the city gate.

For a moment, the blades met and blood flowed like a river!

Half an hour later, Zhou Ming's vanguard army occupied the entire town.

"It's getting late today, so we'll rest here overnight and march again tomorrow."

Zhou Ming ordered.

"General, why don't you march at night and capture Lincheng directly? With the general's ability to defeat three cities and fourteen towns in two days, Lincheng can be captured with a wave of his hand!"

Zhou Ming glanced at the sergeant and asked, "What's your name?"

"Su Xian is a humble person."

Zhou Ming naturally knew that his name was Su Xian, but he didn't know the identity of this 'Han Li', so he had to ask.

"It has been five days since Lincheng accepted the imperial court's invitation. The imperial court's support must have been sent. Besides, King Lin himself is not that easy to deal with. Have you seen the moat? Where can there be moats in other towns? It was obviously dug up recently.”

"On this point alone, King Lin is stronger than the two idiots I killed before!"

"I understand, I understand." Su Xian said hurriedly.

"Well, it's good to understand. Go and invite some of the military followers to discuss with me."

"Yes."

Lin City is neither big nor small, and should be considered a medium-sized city.

Ma Fei, who occupied this place, had 10,000 soldiers and was known as the King of Lin.

"Your Majesty, we have already made arrangements for the things sent by the court. However, they are about half less than what was promised."

A scribe wearing a green robe under Ma Fei said.

"Hey, don't call me your king anymore. I'm the magistrate of Lincheng County now. Just call me your lord!"

"Yes, Lord Magistrate."

There was a hint of sarcasm in the scribe's eyes, but he concealed it very well.

"Don't worry about the few ones." Ma Fei waved his hand and said.

"Yes."

The scribe naturally knew where the missing things had gone, so he just mentioned them as usual.

"Master Magistrate, if we accept the imperial court's invitation, we will definitely attract the army of the King of Jiangzhou. We need to do it early..."

"Hey, it's freezing cold now. Who would send troops to march? Even the imperial court doesn't send troops to suppress the rebellion! Even if the King of Jiangzhou wants to send troops, he will probably have to wait until spring, several months later..."

"Report! Something bad has happened, Your Majesty!"

A messenger suddenly broke in and shouted loudly.

"Don't call me the king, call me the magistrate!"

"Yes, Lord Magistrate!"

"What's all the fuss about?"

"The King of Jiangzhou sent three thousand vanguard troops to march all the way. In two days, they attacked three cities and fourteen towns! In the evening, they had already reached Xiaolin Town!"

"what?!"

Ma Fei was unsteady and almost fell off the chair.

"The King of Jiangzhou actually sent troops at such a time? And even attacked Xiaolin Town? Aren't they going to Lincheng soon?!"

There was a strong look of disappointment in the scribe's eyes, and he said: "Master magistrate, please don't panic. It's better to ask clearly about the situation first. Who is leading the vanguard army? How many people are there now? What is their combat strength? What is the strength of the enshrined soldiers?" How about it?"

"This..." The messenger was immediately embarrassed.

How can an army built by a grassroots team like them have such powerful intelligence capabilities?

The scribe also knew this. Seeing that he couldn't answer, he said, "Go and find out immediately!"

"Yes!"

Ma Fei sat up and said in panic: "Military...strategist, what should we do now? Do you think the King of Jiangzhou will spare us if we declare rebellion again?"

"Master Magistrate, stop thinking about those impossible things. The most urgent task now is to gather the power in the city to resist the vanguard army of King Jiangzhou!"

"Okay, okay...I'll go find some families in the city for help..."

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