Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 179 Annexation of the Flowing Cloud Empire
At eight o'clock in the morning on October 3013, [-] in the Tang calendar, the main forces of the Third Fleet and the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Great Tang Empire escorted two Marine brigades and two infantry brigades of the Third Guards Infantry Division. With a heavy artillery regiment belonging to a division, they stationed in Huitong Port, the largest military port of the Liuyun Empire.

Immediately, Liu Huaizhong, Minister of the Navy of the Liuyun Empire, issued a telegram, announcing that the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire had changed its flag, and would leave the Liuyun Empire and join the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire.

Su Yi, who was far away in Chang'an City, received a system prompt, congratulations to him for capturing seven super dreadnought battleships and six dreadnought battleships from the enemy, and rewarded Su Yi with seven British Vengeance-class super dreadnought battleships and six American Florida-class dreadnought battleships. battleship.

Now the First Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire has four Vengeance-class super dreadnought battleships, and the Fourth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire has eleven Florida-class dreadnought battleships.

In addition to the capture of a battlecruiser from the Monia Navy and a battlecruiser from the Rielland Navy, and the two British Lion-class battlecruisers immediately rewarded by the system, now Su Yi will be able to serve as the Royal Guard of the Datang Empire under his command immediately. Navy, add seven super dreadnoughts, six dreadnoughts and two battlecruisers.

However, because Su Yi wants to manifest the warships in the system item warehouse, he must go to the military port that owns the port, so the seven super dreadnought battleships, six dreadnought battleships and two battlecruisers cannot be delivered to Datang for the time being. Used by the Imperial Royal Navy.

As for the seven super dreadnought battleships, six dreadnought battleships, and ten former dreadnought battleships captured by the Sharad Navy, as well as the two former dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire, they will all enter the ranks of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire. Because two marine brigades also came to Huitong Port this time, there is no shortage of officers and soldiers needed for these 23 battleships.

The other warships of the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire, as well as the six light cruisers, eight destroyers and 72 torpedo boats captured by the Sharad Navy, will join the garrison of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Ziyue Empire. fleet.

After learning that Liu Huaizhong, Minister of the Navy, led almost all the warships of the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire to surrender to the Tang Empire, Li Hong, the emperor of the Liuyun Empire, said angrily to Prime Minister Cao Ziliang, "Send someone to send Liu Huaizhong's family to us immediately. Grab it!"

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang immediately said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Liu Huaizhong's family members who were originally in Floating Cloud City and the families of senior Royal Navy officers have disappeared. It seems that before Liu Huaizhong attacked the Sharad Navy in Huitong Port, his Families have been removed, along with the families of senior Royal Navy officers."

Emperor Li Hong gritted his teeth and said: "It's in vain that I have always trusted Liu Huaizhong so much, but he abandoned me and the entire Liuyun Empire at such a critical time, and even put our Liuyun Empire on the sidelines before turning to the Tang Empire." , captured so many battleships of the Sharad Navy, and the Sharad Empire has sent several accountability telegrams to our Liuyun Empire because of this incident."

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the fact that the Royal Navy and the Fifth Infantry Corps of the Royal Army have defected to the Tang Empire is irreversible. I feel that we should not get entangled in this matter. The most important thing at present is Your Majesty and the rest of the royal family. Members, leave Floating Cloud City as soon as possible, or it may be too late if you don't leave, the speed of the Tang Empire's army advancing towards Floating Cloud City is much faster than we expected."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Li Hong sighed and said, "Then I will leave Floating Cloud City with all the members of the royal family tomorrow, or the prime minister should leave with me!"

Before that, Prime Minister Cao Ziliang had volunteered to stay in Liuyun City and command more than 300 million Liuyun Empire Royal Army to fight a battle to defend Liuyun City.

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang said decisively: "Your Majesty, I must stay in Floating Cloud City, otherwise I am worried that some of the Royal Army participating in the Floating Cloud City's defense battle will surrender to the Tang Empire's army, which will affect the entire Floating Cloud City defense battle. "

Emperor Li Hong said with some emotion: "Sure enough, a friend in need is a friend indeed. The Prime Minister is the most loyal minister of our Liuyun Empire!"

Early in the morning on October 3013th, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire left Floating Cloud City by train with all members of the royal family, planning to temporarily hide in Yilong Province in the north of the Liuyun Empire. Pan Wucheng, the provincial capital, has been designated by Emperor Li Hong as the accompanying capital of the Liuyun Empire.

In the next few days, many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Liuyun City also rushed to Panwu City, the accompanying capital, by railway or road. After all, Liuyun City was about to stage a cruel battle to defend the capital. If they stayed here, they would be cannon fodder.

On the evening of October [-]th, at the Prime Minister's Mansion in Liuyun City, Army Minister Yan Song told Prime Minister Cao Ziliang: "Prime Minister, almost everyone who should leave has left, and there should be no one who can stop us from surrendering to the Tang Empire." gone."

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang sighed and said: "Actually, in my heart, I am absolutely unwilling to betray the emperor, but for the sake of more than 300 million officers and soldiers of the Royal Army and tens of millions of civilians gathered in the entire Liuyun City area, I have no choice but to bear this infamy. gone."

Army Minister Yan Song couldn't help but said: "The emperor is really too stubborn. According to the current situation of our Liuyun Empire, the emperor should have followed the example of the former emperor of the Cangyu Empire."

Before the Royal Navy of the Liuyun Empire surrendered to the Tang Empire, a minister suggested surrender to Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire, but Emperor Li Hong immediately had the minister pulled out of the hall and shot.

Prime Minister Cao Ziliang sighed again and said: "This is the end of the matter, there is no point in talking about other things, please contact the Tang Empire as soon as possible!"

On October 3013, 26 in the Great Tang Calendar, after the troops of the Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire arrived in the Liuyun City area, Cao Ziliang, the Prime Minister of the Liuyun Empire, Yan Song, the Minister of Army, and hundreds of military and political ministers of the Liuyun Empire jointly announced the The empire surrendered, and then the more than 300 million Liuyun Empire Royal Army gathered in the Liuyun City area began to disarm the Datang Empire Royal Army.

The Minister of Army Yan Song immediately sent a telegram to the remaining Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire in the whole country, ordering the Royal Army of the Liuyun Empire to stand by and stop any resistance to the army of the Datang Empire, and was ready to accept the inclusion of the Army of the Datang Empire.

Li Hong, the emperor of the Liuyun Empire who was accompanying the capital Panwucheng, learned that the Prime Minister Cao Ziliang had surrendered to the Tang Empire with more than 300 million soldiers of the Liuyun Empire Royal Army without firing a single shot. and never woke up again.

At two o'clock in the morning on October 3013th, 28 in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Hong of the Liuyun Empire suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and died due to ineffective rescue.

Two days later, Prince Li Chen announced on behalf of the royal family of the Liuyun Empire that he had unconditionally surrendered to the Tang Empire, ordering all the troops of the Liuyun Empire to lay down their weapons and wait for the army of the Tang Empire to be recruited.

By mid-December, all 42 provinces of the Liuyun Empire were occupied by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire. The four infantry divisions of the Sharad Empire surrounded by the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, after nearly a month of tenacious resistance, , 10,000+ people who were almost out of ammunition and food, surrendered to the Royal Army of the Tang Empire in early November.

On December 3013, 42 in the Datang calendar, Su Yi announced that all the 400 provinces of the original Liuyun Empire would be merged into the Datang Empire, expanding the land area of ​​the Datang Empire to [-] million square kilometers, with [-] Six provinces, Liuyun City, the former capital of the Liuyun Empire, was renamed Luoyang City by Su Yi, and became the first companion capital of the Tang Empire.

In the process of annexing the Liuyun Empire, the number of the Liuyun Empire's royal army and noble troops included and captured was as high as 800 million. Many of them were recruits who had just been conscripted. Since they were still at war with the Seven Kingdoms, so These 800 million people were all absorbed into the Royal Army of the Tang Empire.

According to Su Yi's order, based on these 800 million people, plus a large number of backbones drawn from the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, and a group of recruits recruited from the 42 provinces of the original Liuyun Empire, the formation Three hundred temporary infantry divisions of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire.

Because the 42 provinces of the original Liuyun Empire had just been annexed by the Tang Empire, Su Yi did not temporarily form militia troops in these 42 provinces, but each province formed an independent infantry brigade for defense.

So far, the entire Royal Army of the Tang Empire has a huge establishment of ten guard infantry divisions, one armored division, 130 field infantry divisions, [-] temporary infantry divisions, and [-] independent garrison infantry brigades.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people in the 42 provinces of the original Liuyun Empire, although the Tang Empire is currently at war, Su Yi still raised a large amount of funds and materials, and began to invest heavily in these 42 provinces. At the same time, the newly built large-scale There are thousands of factories. In addition, a lot of money has been invested in water conservancy projects, transportation facilities, urban facilities, port construction, and urban housing construction, which immediately solved the serious unemployment problem of the original Liuyun Empire.

In terms of land, Su Yi still followed the model of the original Cangyu Empire, distributing the confiscated land of the nobles to the poor peasants who had no land or only a small amount of land, and planned to capture the hearts of hundreds of millions of poor peasants.

After the Seven Nations Alliance declared war, they were ready for the fall of the Liuyun Empire, but none of the countries in the Seven Nations Alliance thought that the Liuyun Empire would be defeated so quickly.

Counting from the time when the army of the Tang Empire launched an attack on the Liuyun Empire, to the time when the Tang Empire announced the formal annexation of the 42 provinces of the Liuyun Empire, in less than three months, an empire with an area of ​​2000 million square kilometers fell apart. This shocked the countries of the seven-nation alliance, and at the same time, they couldn't help speeding up the mobilization of their own troops, and one after another increased the scale of their army expansion.

(End of this chapter)