Chapter 2140: Chapter 218: The Opening Must Be Like a Dragon’s Advance
"Our vast and magnificent Summer Country, stretching for ten thousand miles, has a glorious history spanning a millennium! Using the mountains and rivers as paper and the great army as the brush, we inscribe this proclamation of counterattack, but this is merely the beginning. Comrades, when there is such a majestic article, every opening must be as a dragon in flight! Whether this article will be renowned throughout the ages, our beginning is crucial! Defeating Shuofang Marquis’s son Bao Bozhao of Qi Country and slaughtering twenty thousand Qi soldiers is only the starting point. The success or failure that follows concerns our mark in the history books of Da Xia!"
Gu Yong, Xu Can, have both arrived at Qi.
Chuming, Wei Guangyao, Yisheng Feng, all present on-site.
On the parade ground, Tai Yin was delivering the final words of motivation.
A dense crowd of soldiers from Summer Country gathered, forming a sea of humanity. The faces were flushed with the courage that this nation still endured.
"Now, the two people we have to deal with: one named Jiang Wang, Jinguo would go so far as to invoke the Demon-Slaying Pact to erase him. Qi Country fights Jingguo to protect him! Killing him is like folding the Jingwei Flag! Another named Zhongxuan Sheng, the personal nephew of Zhongxuan Chuliang, who has no wife or children, and regards him as his own son! Killing him avenges Snow Country’s shame and fulfills old grudges, letting that murderer know our Summer people’s pain!"
"For the entire Hui Ming Fu, and even for the entire eastern front battlefield, killing these two is of utmost importance!"
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
Tai Yin bowed deeply: "Please strive hard!"
The soldiers present did not loudly shout slogans because they needed to keep their strength within their bodies and their anger sharp upon their blades.
Though it is said that in this era of great contention, conflicts among the nations are frequent.
Today Qin attacks Chu, tomorrow Mu subdues Sheng, Qi Country marches south, Jingguo expands westward, one nation rises, another falls, it is merely a commonplace occurrence.
Summer Country’s present vast lands and its former thriving state across the two southeastern regions were also the result of waging war and destroying countless small nations. The former Liang Country, the former Li Country, all witnessed bygone times...
But people have private interests since birth, wherever they stand becomes their stance. The ground where one stands reveals one’s true heart. The nation one supports becomes justice.
To the soldiers of Summer Country, today’s Qi Army is the aggressor, the most evil demon in the world.
The land is lost, the former emperor humiliated.
This deep-seated hatred, they will devour their flesh, drink their blood, gnaw their bones!
The twenty thousand Qi soldiers trapped in Noon Sun City, many were smashed to death by the fists of the Xia Army. On Summer Country’s land, the people of Summer Country do not take prisoners!
At this moment, the parade ground became silent.
This is the... silent determination of the Xia Army soldiers.
...
Tai Yin led an army of ten thousand, heading into the mountains.
Chuming commanded five hundred thousand soldiers, alongside Gu Yong, Xu Can, Wei Guangyao, Yisheng Feng, rushing to Min Xi Corridor.
The entire nest is emptied, one could say.
Perhaps no one could have imagined that the crucially significant Noon Sun City in the current situation was already an empty city.
This is undoubtedly a risky move, but risk also implies ’unusual.’
Given the clear disparity in soldier quality, with the Xia Army being inferior to the Qi Army, to abandon the heavy equipment of Xiong City and willingly seek a decisive battle with the Qi Army outside the city, is almost striking with short against long, undoubtedly requiring extraordinary courage.
Those fighting today possess the courage to devote themselves to the national crisis, hence their determination!
...
Unlike Chuming, Wei Guangyao, and others, Yisheng Feng held no personal grudge or preference towards the Qi Army. If anything, it was only because Jiang Wang served Qi.
How bravely Summer Country fights, he cares little. The number of dead in Summer Country means nothing to him.
He even cares not about Southern Dipper Palace’s support for Summer, nor the meaning of it.
He came here with only one goal – to kill Jiang Wang.
When Jiang Wang made his name known at the Yellow River Gathering, his first reaction was surprise, assuming it was a namesake. When it matched with the shadow of his childhood, he found it absurd. Unexpectedly, the village boy, long forgotten, could catch up after losing his celestial fortune years ago.
And then a thought of murder emerged.
Once the thought of murder arose, it never ceased.
He knows well that he is a stubborn person, as a child he clashed swords with Jiang Wang, it was mere childish play, yet he lost and wanted to fight again, lost again and fought again, determined to win, transforming play into struggle.
But, the Jiang Wang in his memory was also, how should he say, full of a competitive spirit and a heart steadfast as iron?
At that time, Jiang Wang never once gave him an easy pass!
Of course, he does not think Jiang Wang did anything wrong, nor does he believe Jiang Wang owes him anything.
He simply understands that since he did not drown Jiang Wang that one time, as Jiang Wang grew, he would inevitably repay him.
So he wants to kill Jiang Wang.
It is just as simple as that.
Of course, the process is not simple...
The first concern is identity.
When he heard Jiang Wang’s name once more, he was already a genius from an overlord country in the Eastern Region. Not like the small Zhuang Country, where he could barge in without fearing retaliation.
One could even say that if ever Jiang Wang came to kill him, he doubted the Southern Dipper Palace would stand up for him.
He initially thought of assassination, sneaking in quietly, finishing with one sword.
Although at that time Jiang Wang had already achieved the rank of Yellow River Leader in the Inner Mansion Realm, he was Perfect in the four towers, and proficient in swordsmanship, divine skills, and techniques. He thought to himself, killing Jiang Wang was not hard.
But after winning the Yellow River leader, Jiang Wang was surrounded by the Qi Country ceremonial delegation and returned to Qi, and thus could not find an opportunity.
Finally, when Jiang Wang was forced to leave the region, immediately it was the Mirror World Platform’s worldwide demon hunt, even Zhao Xuenyang personally took action... it simply had no place for him.
That was fine too. As long as Jiang Wang dies, it does not have to be by his hands.
What he did not expect was that, under such circumstances, Jiang Wang not only survived but also slashed four great human demons at Broken Soul Gorge, achieving the unparalleled achievements verified by Yu Beidou, cementing his name as the top Inner Mansion in history!
It was when Jiang Wang was cleared of the demon-communicating crime, and Du Ruhui was punished at Jade Capital Mountain, that he noticed the conflict between Zhuang Ting and Jiang Wang.
