When the Meng army stopped charging at the col and started to retreat, Mo Qiong was unable to maintain such high efficiency.
Zhang Hongfan's main force shifted once more, and their morale dropped once more.
However, he had learned to use the Song family's son to threaten the three God Generals.
He ordered the heavy cavalry to stop bothering Master Gou and head straight for where Zhang Shijie and Jiang Cheng were.
This time, Master Gou, Mo Qiong, and the others had no other choice. The Meng army cavalry crushed the uprising army formation with an unstoppable momentum.
When the two armies clashed, the battle line stretched for thousands of meters. Mo Qiong and Master Gou's individual strength seemed really small.
Luckily, Zhang Shijie was a famous general and was able to command the troops well. Che Yun was also able to kill a few Meng army generals with her spear. Only then were they able to barely hold on.
In the end, one of the generals was chased around the battlefield, while the other was surrounded like a lone boat in the ocean.
Two hours later, Master Gou finally captured Zhang Hongfan alive.
Li Heng had already split up with Zhang Hongfan. When he saw Zhang Hongfan's commander flag fall, he thought back to how terrifying it was to be captured alive. He immediately retreated, not bothering about Zhang Hongfan and escaping alone.
Leaving behind an extremely tragic battlefield, Zhang Shijie gathered up the remaining soldiers and only managed to gather two thousand of them. On the other hand, the Meng army only left over a thousand corpses.
The battle loss ratio was one to eight.
This was even with the three God Generals. The Song army did not even kill many Meng soldiers. If not for Zhang Hongfan being captured alive and Li Heng being scared out of his wits, the Song army would only have one outcome, which was total annihilation.
It was an obvious result for the untrained village warriors to face off against the world's most elite cavalry.
This was also the reason why Mo Qiong did not want Zhang Shijie to take in so many people. Not only were they useless, but they were also sending themselves to death. However, this was a path that they had to choose, so Mo Qiong and the others could not do anything about it. They could not use supernatural powers to protect them.
That was because this was war, and the way for the members of the Blue and White Society to deal with war was to be like them. Their combat strength did not exceed the maximum strength that they could accept.
In the relatively peaceful 21st century, the Blue and White Society often faced such situations. For example, in Africa, where rebels were everywhere, even if they were doing business, they had to bring a group of security guards.
When they had to pass through the rebel army's sphere of influence, the Blue and White Society's escorts would often be attacked. It wasn't because they wanted to steal the anomaly, they didn't even know what the Blue White Society was, they just wanted to fight. Or it could be targeted at a certain peripheral member of the team, such as a tycoon or a media mouthpiece.
It was normal to eliminate important figures of the enemy country during war. Sometimes, it had nothing to do with what the person had done. Perhaps they had seen some peripheral personnel on TV, so they recognized the person when the escort team passed by. "Hey, isn't that the person from Tanzania?" He must die. He is one of the economic pillars of Tanzania.
Therefore, they ambushed, assassinated, poisoned, or simply surrounded and annihilated them.
Regarding this, the Blue and White Society used their disguised identities to eliminate the other party. For example, if the escort troops were wearing the uniform of the United Nations Army, then they could directly destroy them with the weapons of the United Nations. Because this wasn't an containment battle, they couldn't use space-based weapons or anomalies.
As long as the United Nations Army could not use the weapons, they could not use them. Among them, the combat skills and physical fitness of the members couldn't be suppressed, otherwise, they would definitely lose every time.
This was a battle of "equal weapons". It was impossible not to fight back, otherwise, if they ran away when they were involved in the war, they might as well not be armed as escorts and not go anywhere.
If the rebels lost, they could only admit that they were unlucky, and they only knew that they were defeated by the United Nations Army. Similarly, if the escort troops were defeated, they would also admit that they were unlucky, because they would be seen as the United Nations Army being wiped out by the rebels, not the Blue and White Society being attacked.
At this moment, Mo Qiong and the others were the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although they were particularly amazing, they were still in the category of bravery.
Even if they went a bit overboard, there was nothing they could do. Their background was different, and Dayuan was not something the African rebels could compare to. In the whole world, except for the Southern Song Dynasty, no other country had established cooperation with them.
Before Adams gained anything, they were protecting the only authoritative mouthpiece of the Blue and White Society in a vast 'non-treaty country' of more than ten million square kilometers.
There was no choice, as Mo Qiong could not directly shoot Zhang Shijie from Cliff Mountain to Fishing City. If there were no traces on the road, Dayuan would be even more shocked.
Luckily, they won this battle and even captured the enemy general alive. Although it was difficult, defeating the Mongolian army in a field battle was still a shocking victory.
"Kill him!" Zhang Shijie stared at Zhang Hongfan.
Master Gou lay on the ground, and his breathing was heavy like a bellows. He was so tired that he crazily waved his hands.
Mo Qiong was the most energetic, and he carried Zhang Hongfan and said, "Leave him to us, you don't have to worry about him."
Zhang Hongfan was already terrified of Mo Qiong and the others, and he said in shock, "What do you want to do?"
"Nothing, just help you remember what happened at Cliff Mountain, and we will let you go," Mo Qiong said.
Zhang Hongfan's face was filled with disbelief. He knew that he was going to die, so he straightened his neck and said, "Don't think that I will betray the Imperial Court. Even if you kill me, I will not do anything for you!"
Fifty minutes later, Zhang Hongfan was released with a complicated expression on his face.
After thinking about it, he decided to cooperate with the Mo family.
So, in the next ten days, Zhang Hongfan reorganized his troops and fought several 'battles' with the Song army!
In every battle, the three Immortal Generals covered the rear.
On the way to Fishing City, the three Immortal Generals fought fiercely with Zhang Hongfan's troops at all the passes they passed.
However, the Mongolian army knew nothing about it and thought that the heads in the passes were all from the Song army. Because of these battles, Zhang Hongfan didn't fight anymore but used the archery skills of the Mongolian army.
Every time he defeated the three Immortal Generals, there would be a lot of corpses that were shot to death by arrows. In total, Zhang Hongfan collected more than three thousand heads.
"Are these the fake heads of the Mo family? Why do they look like real ones? "Zhang Hongfan checked his' gains' and couldn't tell the difference between them and real corpses.
It turned out that after the Blue and White Club made Zhang Hongfan an outsider, they could finally get rid of the fake matches.
When both sides were on the same side, they didn't have to fight with weapons anymore, and they directly sent a batch of bionic corpses to Zhang Hongfan as a reward.
Only in this way would they not have to worry about being outnumbered on the way to Fishing City.
Sure enough, when Ah Shu caught up with Zhang Hongfan, the imperial court in exile had already entered Fishing City safely.
Ah Shu had heard the news that Zhang Hongfan was defeated and captured. He said directly, "I heard that you have surrendered to the enemy?"
Zhang Hongfan hurriedly knelt down and said, "Commander! I'm loyal to Dayuan! "
Ah Shu said angrily, "Why did they let you come back?"
Zhang Hongfan said, "Commander, this is the Song bastard's plan to sow discord! I've been fighting battles all the way here and killed more than ten thousand people. Commander, please understand. "
Ah Shu sneered and asked again, "What's the matter with the demon sword?"
Zhang Hongfan said, "Commander, everything in the report of the defeat at Cliff Mountain is true. Twenty thousand soldiers saw it … "
"Well … Then why did the Song army spread the rumor that it was a tsunami … Where's the sword?" Ah Shu asked curiously. When he came here, he had already confirmed the authenticity of the divine sword. More than ten thousand people saw it clearly.
Mo Qiong and the others did not ask Zhang Hongfan to wash the divine sword, because even if he lied, the soldiers of the Meng army would tell Ah Shu the truth. It was impossible to hide the truth.
They could only ask the Song side to spread the rumor about the tsunami. Both sides had their own version of the story. In addition, unless the Meng army was willing to admit that the Song army had the mandate of heaven, it was very likely that they would not publicly admit the existence of the divine sword. They would only cling to it internally.
"Humph … You can't absolve yourself from the blame for the defeat of Cliff Mountain. Come, dismiss Zhang Hongfan from his position as commander of the military and take him to Dayuan for the Great Khan to deal with." Ah Shu's words were enough to push Zhang Hongfan to the very end.
But Zhang Hongfan was secretly relieved, knowing that he had survived.
If not for the hard work of the ten thousand people, he would not have been able to keep his life.
… …
When they arrived at Fishing City, the soldiers and civilians in the city were overjoyed.
They had defended the city for thirty-six years. The whole world had fallen, but they were the only ones who were still holding on.
The imperial court had never given them any help. They had held on to this day purely on their own.
Now that the 'imperial court' had come, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted.
Even if Ah Shu's forty thousand soldiers were not far away from the city, they were not afraid at all. What was this? Back then, the Great Khan Meng Ge rashly led an army of four hundred thousand and failed to take down Fishing City. Today, Ah Shu could only watch.
In fact, Ah Shu camped outside Fishing City and had no desire to attack at all …
In this era, the Fishing City was the most solid city in the world, and nobody could compare to it.
The city was surrounded by rugged terrain. The Meng army had too few angles to attack from.
Ah Shu did not even bother to launch a probing attack. He just waited outside and waited for instructions from Dayuan.
On the other hand, Mo Qiong and the others could finally establish a point of public opinion here.
The imperial court in Fishing City was like a needle in Dayuan. Don't underestimate the Emperor's identity. The things he announced to the world here occupied almost half of the public opinion.
Zhang Shijie and some of the scholars in the city quickly formed a new imperial court.
Some minor officials were instantly promoted to the level of important officials in the central government.
Jiang Cheng planned to officially ascend the throne and announce it to the world according to the Blue and White Society's request.
All the people of the old Song Dynasty would believe the imperial court.
But before that, Jiang Cheng was annoyed by the pretentious scholars. Even though he wanted to keep it simple, it was still quite troublesome. The change of the dynasty's name took a long time.
"There's no need to be so troublesome. We are weak. We can just stay in Fishing City and watch the changes in the world." Jiang Cheng knew that Mo Qiong and the others would not help him restore the country. So, after he arrived in Fishing City, he would just stay in Dayuan as a nail.
Watching the changes in the world meant that they wouldn't have any hope until eighty years later when the flames of war rose everywhere in Dayuan.
But out of his expectation, a scholar immediately said, "How can the Emperor do that … Alas …"
"In that case, let's take the twentieth hexagram of the Book of Changes. The Emperor says, 'The Grand View is above. Go down to Xun. Observe the world from Zhongzheng!'
"Let's call it Zhongzheng!"
Hearing that, Mo Qiong and Lord Gou, who were eating at the banquet, spat out a mouthful of wine.
Jiang Cheng was also embarrassed. What the f * ck is this Zhongzheng?
"No, no, this is not good. Let's change it!"
The scholars looked at each other. They also felt that this was not good. It was too unambitious.
So, a scholar said, "Watching the changes in the world and not thinking about making progress will be a disappointment to all! The Emperor should have great ambition. Try small things to big things and restore our country! "
"That's right!" Another person said, "This is the eleventh hexagram of the Book of Changes. The Emperor says, 'Tai, small things go to big things. It's the intersection of Heaven and Earth. All things are connected! '"
The scholars all nodded and said, "Yes, yes. Let's call it Wanda!"
"…" Mo Qiong and the others shook their heads and continued eating. Who cared about the emperor? Even if Jiang Cheng was the emperor, he was still a D-level person.
Jiang Cheng was speechless. He shook his head and said, "What Wanda! No, no, change it again! "
The scholars were a little embarrassed. They just said anything, but why were they so picky now? Wanda was a great name. It would restore the country one day.
But since the Emperor said to change it, then let's change it.
"How about the second hexagram, Kun: Yuan, Heng, Li, Ma's Zhen. A gentleman has a friend, first bewildered, then obtained. Li, southwest friend, northeast friend. Anzhen, Ji. "
"This is good! This is good. Isn't the southwest part of our Shu state? And the capital of Meng Yuan is in the northeast … This hexagram is very auspicious! "
So, a scholar immediately said, "The Emperor says, 'Kun is the origin of the world. All things are born in accordance with Heaven. Kun is thick and carries things. Virtue is boundless. It contains Hongguang! "
Jiang Cheng was confused and did not know what was going on.
He said, "So? What's the era name? "
The scholar said, "Hongguang!"
"…" Mo Qiong shook his head and lowered his head to eat.
This was indeed a good era name. A few hundred years later, someone still used it. It was the Hongguang Emperor of Southern Ming after Chong Zhen hanged himself.
In less than a year, he was killed by the Great Qing army. Originally, Southern Ming had the chance to rule with Qing, but the Hongguang Emperor played his cards to pieces.
Jiang Cheng did not know about this. Although he felt that the era name Hongguang was very familiar, he could not remember it.
He felt that it was okay. It was much better than anything else. He was afraid that if he changed it again, this group of scholars would give him a bad name. So, Jiang Cheng quickly agreed.
Mo Qiong and the others did not mind. So what if it was unlucky? After some time, they would build some framework and find a few more Zhao orphans … Then, Jiang Cheng could do the work of a D-level person normally.
He might not be able to rule longer than the Hongguang Emperor …
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