Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 171

On the morning of September 3013, 22 in the Tang Dynasty, the Prime Minister of the Tang Empire, Xu Haoming, personally held a press conference, denouncing the despicable tactics of the Sharad Empire for deliberately provoking a naval war, and then framing the Datang Empire. He also declared tit-for-tat that if If the Sharad Empire does not give an explanation to the Datang Empire as soon as possible and compensate the loss of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire, then the Datang Empire will not rule out the use of force to maintain the dignity of the Datang Empire.

Just two days after the Datang Empire made its own strong voice, that is, on September 3013, 24 in the Datang Calendar, Yingluoba, Sharad, Noomi, Monia, Jisk, Rielan, and Oren The seven countries of Sasha jointly issued an ultimatum to the Tang Empire.

It is required that the Datang Empire must make economic compensation for the warships and personnel lost in the naval battle near the port of Xingang City by the Salad Royal Navy. The compensation amount is set at 100 billion sand dollars, equivalent to 200 billion silver dollars. In addition, the Datang Empire Navy also needs Hand over the captains of all the warships involved in this naval battle, as well as the commander who commanded this naval battle, and accept the trial of the Sharad Empire.

The Seven Nations Alliance also required that the number of active capital ships of the Datang Empire Navy must be controlled within 400 ships, and the total strength of the Datang Empire Army was not allowed to exceed [-] million.

At the same time, the Seven Nations Alliance also required that the number of active capital ships of the Ziyue Empire Navy must be controlled within 250 ships, and the total strength of the Ziyue Empire Army was not allowed to exceed [-] million.

In the end, the Seven Nations Alliance gave the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire five days to consider. If the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire did not agree to the request of the Seven Nations Alliance after five days, all consequences would be borne by the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire.

Facing the unreasonable demands of the Seven Nations Alliance, the Tang Empire made a strong response on the same day. The Datang Empire will never agree to any shameless demands of the Seven Nations Alliance. You don't have to wait another five days. If you want to fight, you will fight! !
The Ziyue Empire immediately refuted the ultimatum issued by the Seven Nations Alliance to limit the size of the Ziyue Empire's navy and army, declaring that the Ziyue Empire would be the same as the Tang Empire and would not be threatened by any country. Not willing to join the war, but not afraid of war.

Seeing that the attitudes of the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire were so tough, the Seven Nations Alliance announced that all countries had entered a state of war readiness. The empire sent a declaration of war. At ten o'clock in the morning that day, the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire simultaneously announced that they would join forces with Yingluoba, Sharad, Noomi, Monia, Jisk, Rielan, and Orenza. The country has entered a state of war, and so far a war that has almost swept the entire world has begun.

On the night of September 29th, in a bedroom of the Imperial Palace in Chang’an City, Ouyang Xue, the Empress of the Great Tang Empire and Empress of the Ziyue Empire, was breastfeeding her son Su Huai and said to Su Yi worriedly: “Your Majesty, this time our Great Tang Empire The Empire and the Ziyue Empire will face seven world powers, can our Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire win?"

Su Yi looked at his son Su Huai who was breastfeeding, and comforted Ouyang Xue: "Queen, you can take care of our precious son at ease! The final victors of this war must be our Great Tang Empire and Ziyue Empire. I have prepared a lot of trump cards for the Seven Nations Alliance!"

Ouyang Xue hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, what is the trump card you are talking about?"

Su Yi smiled slightly, and introduced to Ouyang Xue one by one the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Great Tang Empire, the armored force of the Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire, and the secretly established Royal Air Force of the Great Tang Empire. Let’s take a look at the general situation of the land and sea armies of the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire.

Su Yi patted his chest and assured: "Queen, don't worry, at the beginning of next year, I can still provide a large number of warships, tanks and fighter planes for the armies of the two countries. After this war, the Liuyun Empire and the Tianxing Empire will also be brought under my rule." Under the circumstances, perhaps at the end of the war, our Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire will have more victories."

When Ouyang Xue heard this, the expression on her face couldn't help relaxing, and then Ouyang Xue rolled her eyes at Su Yi and said: "Your Majesty, it turns out that you have kept so many things from me, and made me worry for nothing for so long. "

Su Yi said with a smile: "I really blame you. There were too many things in the days before and after I became the throne. I was so busy that I forgot to tell the queen about these things."

Ouyang Xue suddenly asked Su Yi: "Your Majesty, when are you going to merge the Ziyue Empire into the Tang Empire?"

Su Yi immediately said: "If there is no alliance of seven nations to declare war on the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, then I plan to merge the Ziyue Empire into the Great Tang Empire by the end of this year, but now the Seven Nations Alliance has already declared war on the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire. The Ziyue Empire has declared war, in order to avoid possible confusion due to the Ziyue Empire being merged into the Tang Empire, I have no choice but to temporarily suppress this matter and wait until the war is over."

Ouyang Xue frowned and said, "Now that the military power of the Ziyue Empire's sea and land armies is firmly in the hands of the emperor, what kind of chaos will the Ziyue Empire merge into the Tang Empire?"

Su Yi shook his head and said: "Queen, don't forget, we haven't found any clues about the mysterious force hidden in the Ziyue Empire so far. Now that the war is imminent, I don't want the backyard to catch fire. Everything should be stable first." .”

In a newly built mansion in Ziyue City, the capital of the Ziyue Empire, a middle-aged officer wearing a gray-green military uniform said to a young man with some excitement: "Master, the Seven Nations Alliance is now formally attacking the Tang Empire and the Great Tang Empire." The Purple Moon Empire has declared war!"

The young man looked at the middle-aged officer with a strange look, "The Seven Nations Alliance declared war on the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire. What are you excited about?"

The middle-aged officer hurriedly said: "Master, after the outbreak of war, we will have a chance to fish in troubled waters!"

The young man waved his hand, sighed and said: "Those who told us, be honest, do what you should do, don't make any fools in this war, and strive to make more military exploits and control more military power."

The middle-aged officer asked with some puzzlement: "Master, maybe this war with the Seven Nations Alliance is a good opportunity for us to capture the entire Ziyue Empire."

The young man said calmly: "If the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire are defeated in this war, then the Great Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire will definitely be divided up by the Seven Kingdoms Alliance. At that time, even if I become the emperor of the Ziyue Empire , it’s just a puppet of the seven-nation alliance, that’s not what I want.”

At nine o'clock in the morning on October 3013st, [-] in the Great Tang calendar, Su Yi made a public speech to the soldiers and civilians of the entire Great Tang Empire and Ziyue Empire through the radio.

In this speech, Su Yi first disclosed the unreasonable demands of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance on the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire, and then Su Yi announced that the Datang Empire and the Ziyue Empire would never yield to bandits like the Seven Nations Alliance. Yi will lead the soldiers and civilians of the two countries to fight to the end with these bandit countries, and Su Yi calls on all Tang people, regardless of age, regardless of the north and south, to join in this war against the aggression of the Tang people.

In the end Su Yi said: "I firmly believe that justice will surely defeat evil, and light will surely defeat darkness. In the end, the victory of this war must belong to our Great Tang Empire and Ziyue Empire! It must belong to all our Tang people!"

In the open space of a village in Changyang County, Pingfu County, Jinan Province, Tang Empire, two to 3000 people stood densely, some old and some young, but they were all men. They listened quietly to the big iron horn on the long wooden pole. The voice came out, and this voice belonged to Su Yi.

After Su Yi's half-hour-long speech ended, an old man stepped onto a wooden platform, holding a horn made of iron sheets in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Old and young men of Gejia Village, Thanks to the great blessing of the current emperor, our Gejia Village has finally lived a good life for a few days. Families who had no land before have now distributed the land, and each family has a little extra money in their hands. I can go to the school in the town to study for free, but everyone has heard the emperor say that there are now seven bandit countries united, and they don’t want us to continue to live a good life. They want to invade our homeland and rob us. Property, harm our sisters, young and old in Gejia Village, tell me! Can we agree?"

"Can't—can't—" two or 3000 people shouted in unison.

The old man waved his fist and shouted: "Okay! Since the big guys don't want to be subjugated slaves, then we must respond to His Majesty's call, regardless of age, no distinction between north and south, and fight those bandit countries to the end!"

"To the end—to the end—" two or three thousand people echoed in unison.

The old man went on to say: "There are some of you who have joined the reserve service. Tomorrow you will go to the county to gather. I, Ge Laoliu, hereby promise to all the young and old who joined our Tang Empire army, if you are honored on the battlefield, your family will Wife and children, old and young, our entire Gejia Village will help you raise them, and all the old and young men who sacrificed their lives for the country can enter the ancestral hall of our Gejia Village, and be worshiped and supported by our descendants for generations!"

After a pause, the old man continued: "The males who have not joined our Tang Empire army, all the men over 16 and under 50 years old, all join the militia company of Gejia Village. Starting tomorrow, they will have to participate in training in the morning and evening. Those bandit country's troops dare to come to our Gejia Village, the old and young men of our Gejia Village, as long as there is one person alive, we will fight them to the end!"

After the crowd disbanded, a strong man in his 40s walked up to the old man and sighed, "Father, you let me be the company commander of the militia company, but get me some weapons! If the enemy comes, I will bring you some weapons." Look at the old and young men of our Gejia Village, how about you do it with your bare hands?"

The old man pondered for a while and said: "I asked for my father, the county can only issue a small number of breech-loading single-shot rifles and a few boxes of grenades to the militia companies in each village in a short period of time, and we have to figure out other weapons Well, don’t we have a lot of shotguns in our village? First equip the militia companies, and then ask the blacksmith to make some big knives and spear heads. According to the county’s opinion, after the reserve troops in various places are equipped with weapons, they will be given to the militiamen everywhere. Troops, with more weapons."

The brawny man nodded and said, "I have no choice but to set up the militia company and teach them how to shoot. Dad, when will we be able to fire those rifles and grenades?"

The old man said: "Tomorrow, I will take a few young people and go to the county town with the seventy or so people who joined the reserve service, and bring back the rifles and grenades."

(End of this chapter)