Starting from Comprehensive Martial Arts: Bu Dao Lu

Chapter 222 Hongwu comes out of seclusion
Xiaokang's ninth year!
Zhu Qi, who was promoted to a land immortal and has been practicing the Seven Souls for two years, has once again achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation!

Zhu Qi's seven souls finally completed one soul!The training of the second soul has begun!

Zhu Qi did not make any publicity about his breakthrough in cultivation. No one knew that in just two years, Zhu Qi actually took a big step forward in the Land of Land Gods!

At the end of the eighth year of Emperor Xiaokang's reign, Emperor Xiaokang announced the end of retreat!

However, the emperor did not deprive the prince of his right to supervise the country and Zhu Qi's right to assist the government!

After leaving seclusion, the emperor was still obsessed with spiritual practice, and all matters in the court were decided by the prince!
The Ming court was not surprised by the emperor's strange behavior!
The Ming Empire has a tradition of emperors supporting princes in power. Back then, when Emperor Xiaokang was still the prince, Emperor Hongwu was the largest princeling!
Now, when the emperor delegates power to the prince, he is just repeating what Emperor Hongwu did!it's not a big deal!
Moreover, the prince has indeed done well over the past year!

The Song Empire in the ninth year of Xiaokang seemed to be even hotter!
It has been two and a half years since Fang La launched his army in May of the sixth year of Xiaokang!

The Song Empire dispatched three armies to suppress bandits last year. Although there was a lot of movement, the harvest was not great.

It might not be that easy for the Song Empire to completely wipe out the Rebel Alliance!According to the information from the Imperial City Division, Song Jiang and Chao Gai are the weakest among the five bandits!Now, although the imperial court has defeated Song Jiang Dazhai, Song Jiang led his remaining soldiers to Liangshan and joined forces with Chao Gai. Therefore, Liangshan is not so easy to destroy!

In addition, last year, the imperial army fought fiercely with Fang La for more than half a year, with almost no progress. The strength and resilience of Fang La's army far exceeded the Song Empire's expectations!As for Wang Qing and Tian Hu, another army of the imperial court also made a tentative attack, but the result was not ideal. The imperial court did not achieve much results!
So, nine years of Xiaokang!The Song Empire adjusted its strategy!

The imperial court is preparing to eliminate the remaining 24 rebel queens first, and then concentrate its troops to eliminate the four major bandits!
There are indeed many capable people in the Song Empire!
Although, the Imperial City Division has not yet found out that the Ming Empire is behind the rebel alliance.

But the strategic adjustment of the Song Empire was extremely pragmatic!The four major bandits have the support of the Ming Empire and are strong!But the 32nd anti-king doesn’t have the strength of the four great bandits!
Suppressing the small group of anti-kings can gain huge momentum for the Song Empire!A steady stream of victories is what the Song Empire needs most now!

In the ninth year of Xiaokang's reign, the Song Empire adjusted its strategy and began to wipe out the small group of anti-queen, and good news came frequently!
October of the ninth year of Xiaokang!

Except for the four major bandits, all the anti-king forces in the Song Empire were wiped out by the Song Empire!
These rebel kings were either defeated and captured; they led their remaining soldiers to join the four major bandits; or they fled and hid in the mountains and forests.

The suppression of dozens of rebels against the king greatly increased the prestige of the imperial court.After all, a Song Empire that had been in chaos for a long time would definitely breed many careerists!In the current Song Empire, except for the areas where the four major bandits are entrenched, all parts of the Song Empire are gradually settling down!

The imperial court's strategy not only quickly stabilized the domestic situation; it also used combat as training to enhance the combat effectiveness of the three armies!

The armies of the Song Empire were not incapable of fighting!

In recent years, in the western grasslands, the Song Empire still suppressed the Xixia Empire despite the lack of cavalry. From this, we can see the combat power of the Song border army!

The reason why the Xiang Army and the Forbidden Army of the Song Empire were weak was not actually the military’s fault; it was caused by the Song Empire’s national policy of using civility to control military force!
In the past few years of fighting against bandits, the Forbidden Army and the Xiang Army among the three armies have already transformed. Although their combat power is not as good as that of the frontier army that faced off against the prairie cavalry, they can still be considered an elite force!

When the imperial court was annihilating all kinds of rebels against the king, it was not that the four major bandits could not see the intentions of the Song Empire!However, the Song Empire had many soldiers and generals!While the three armies were annihilating the rebels, the imperial court also deployed the Xiang Army and the Forbidden Army to station themselves in dangerous places around the Four Bandits, firmly restricting the Four Bandits to their current territory!
Although the soldiers and horses besieging the four major bandits were not as elite as the border troops, they only defended and did not attack, and it was not a big problem to defend the city!
In the ninth year of Xiaokang's reign, no war broke out between the imperial court and the four major bandits!The three armies fought continuously, which consumed a lot of money and food in the Song Empire. Moreover, the soldiers who fought were already exhausted!Therefore, after wiping out the small group of rebels, the imperial court chose to rest!Let’s fight again next year!
Even though the imperial army did not come to conquer, the four major bandits also tacitly agreed to accumulate strength for the future war!
Ten years of Xiaokang!

At the beginning of the new year, a war broke out in Shuibo Liangshan!

Obviously, among the remaining four bandits, the court chose Chao Gai!

The Song Empire, which had been in truce for several months, was not idle!Instead, they secretly mobilized troops and horses to launch a surprise attack on Liangshanbo on New Year's Eve!If the imperial army had not been accidentally discovered by Liangshan, I am afraid that the imperial court would have destroyed Liangshan in this battle!
Although the Song Empire was noble and military, this does not mean that the Song Empire did not have outstanding generals!
Although the imperial army's sneak attack on New Year's Eve did not completely capture Liang Shanshuibo!But it also holds the important place of Liangshanshuibo.

Afterwards, the supporting imperial army divided its forces to attack, and in just half a month, all the forces outside Liang Shanshuibo were wiped out!

The Song Empire has sounded its death knell!
May of the tenth year of Xiaokang!

Liangshan, which had been besieged for half a year, was finally breached by the imperial army!

Chao Gai committed suicide in Liangshan, and the leaders of Liangshan either surrendered, fled, or died in the rebellion!

Only Song Jiang, who made the Imperial City Secretary itch with hatred, once again escaped early!
Choose one of the four major bandits.

In mid-May of the tenth year of Xiaokang, when the Song Empire was celebrating its victory in the annihilation of Liangshan;
In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu came out of seclusion!
Emperor Hongwu's talent was extremely extraordinary, and with Emperor Yu's inheritance in hand, his martial arts foundation was extremely solid!With the "Dragon Martial Sutra" deduced by Zhu Qi using the "Martial Arts Record" in hand, after nearly three years of retreat, Emperor Hongwu finally turned his cocoon into a butterfly and was promoted to the land of gods!
The Imperial Palace of the Ming Empire.

In a remote hall: Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Xiaokang, the prince, Zhu Qi, King Qin, King Jin, King Yan, and King Zhou were all present!

"Congratulations to my father for being promoted to Land God!"

"Congratulations to Grandpa Huang for being promoted to Land God!"

Emperor Hongwu looked at several people with a smile on his face and said: "Okay! Okay! Let's take our cultivation further and be promoted to land immortal. From now on, the Ming Empire will no longer be afraid of any threats!" After Emperor Hongwu finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Qi and said : "Lao Jiu, this time we can achieve a breakthrough in cultivation, thanks to your "Dragon Martial Scripture"!"

Zhu Qi said with a smile: "That was my father's great blessing, and the "Dragon Martial Sutra" came to my father through the hands of my son!"

Emperor Hongwu broke through the land gods, and the future of the Ming Empire was brighter; therefore, the atmosphere in the palace was extremely relaxed!
Everyone is having a laugh!
Emperor Hongwu asked: "Lao Jiu, what is the current situation in the Song Empire!"

Zhu Qi touched his nose and said: "The prince has been presiding over the affairs of the Song Dynasty for the past two years. It is better for the prince to explain it to his father!"

(End of this chapter)