At the beginning, I became a county magistrate with greed of 500 million. The empress asked me to be

"Pass on my decree. Third-rank Minister Xu Miao has disregarded the laws of the court and disregarded the danger to the country. All of Xu Miao's official positions are to be dismissed immediately and he is to return home to reflect on his mistakes!"

In just a few words, the empress announced the punishment for Xu Miao.

Things have developed to this point, and there is no way Xu Miao can get away with it unscathed.

Although the empress did not explicitly state it in her edict, no matter which emperor it was, no one would be magnanimous enough to forgive Xu Miao for bringing people to force the emperor to abdicate.

Xu Jinsong, who was following behind the empress, showed a hint of relief in his eyes after hearing the empress's punishment for Xu Miao.

Fortunately, the empress only removed Xu Miao from his official position.

In a sense, this was a warning from the empress to him.

If something similar to what happened today happens again, what awaits Xu Miao will not just be the loss of his position!

"I thank your majesty for your grace! Long live your majesty, long live your majesty, long live your majesty!"

Xu Miao quickly knelt down to express his gratitude.

He also expected that the empress would punish him, but he did not expect that the empress would simply dismiss him from office.

The empress swept her cold gaze over everyone present.

Following Xu Miao at this moment were the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Revenue, the Left and Right Vice Ministers of the Ministry of Revenue, and so on.

She was too lazy to convict these people one by one herself, so she turned her attention to the Imperial Censor standing beside her.

"The rest of the people will be handed over to the Censorate for trial. Once they are convicted, they will be reported directly to me without going through the cabinet for trial."

Then, another voice came from the empress's mouth.

"The minister obeys the order."

The Imperial Censor immediately responded from the side!

……

The unpredictable and turbulent situation in the capital city could not be transmitted to the plains of the Hexi Corridor for the time being.

After a short rest overnight, Xia Yun led all his men to leave Shuoxi City.

This also included Chen Jingzhong and his troops, who had been stationed in Shuoxi City for a month.

Moreover, the army marched quickly on the road, and it took three days and three nights!

Early in the morning of this day, Xia Yun finally led the army back to the vicinity of Menghan City!

"Report to the commander-in-chief, multiple barbarian troops have appeared around Menghan City and are currently fighting with our army!"

"Reporting to the commander, our army has contacted General Li Taisui, and General Li requested that the army be dispatched immediately to form a siege with the defenders in Menghan City!"

"Report to the commander-in-chief, we have detected a barbarian force of about 10,000 to 20,000 people in front of us, and they are heading towards our central camp!"

"..."

As soon as Xia Yun led his troops into the vicinity of Menghan City, various intelligence information came in one after another.

In less than half an hour, Xia Yun had a thorough understanding of the current situation facing the Menghan site.

It turned out that after he led his army out of Menghan City that day, the 120,000 barbarian troops quickly surrounded Menghan City.

But the 60,000 troops in Menghan City were all elite troops with extremely strong combat power under his command.

Therefore, this battle in Menghan City was destined to be extremely complicated from the very beginning.

After the 120,000 barbarian troops completed the encirclement, they first launched a forced siege on the city.

Unexpectedly, after the troops in the city resisted for half a day, Li Taisui actually led 60,000 elite troops and broke out of the city.

As a result, the two sides were directly engaged in a ground offensive and defensive battle.

In the past nearly ten days, the troops of both sides have been fighting each other in the area of ​​Menghan City, from towns to forests, and from forests to the wilderness, as if they were stuck in a huge quagmire.

Neither the barbarian troops nor the Liang Dynasty's troops could escape from this quagmire.

"Pass on my order, the automated troops will attack immediately! Clear all obstacles along the way from here to Menghan City!"

Xia Yun acted decisively and immediately used the army's most powerful trump card!

In the previous battle of Shuoxi City, his elite division equipped with automatic rifles did not achieve the results he expected.

But the casualties of this elite division were almost zero!

Once the order was issued, Qin Tianye personally led 50,000 automated troops as the vanguard!

Just half an hour later, the vanguard troops engaged in battle with the approaching 20,000 barbarian troops on the outskirts of Menghan City.

For a moment, fierce gunfire resounded throughout the entire Mongolian Khan City!

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

At the same time, Li Taisui, who was leading a troop of thousands of people fighting against the barbarians in the mountains and forests outside the east gate, heard this fierce burst of gunfire.

"Haha! The Marshal has taken action! The end of these beasts has come!"

While Li Taisui was laughing, he raised his sword and chopped off the head of a barbarian soldier on the spot.

At this moment, looking from a distance, Li Taisui's armor was covered with blood and stains.

In the past ten days, except for the necessary sleep time, he fought with the barbarian troops almost every day.

To this day, the barbarian troops have still not captured the city of Menghan.

After learning that Xia Yun's army had returned, the Liang Dynasty troops on the entire Mongolian battlefield also burst out with amazing fighting spirit!

"Brothers, the Marshal is back, kill him!"

"It's time to make achievements!"

"Kill all these bastards!"

"..."

On the Mongolian battlefield, accompanied by fierce gunfire, the noisy sound of sofas rose one after another.

In every corner of the Menghan area, those small groups of Daliang troops that were originally fighting with the barbarians, all sounded the clarion call for a counterattack!

Time passed by minute by minute, and an hour passed quickly.

Under the personal leadership of Qin Tianye, the 50,000 elite troops advanced like a hot knife through butter and reached the city of Meng Khan.

Also arriving at the city gate along with these 50,000 elite troops was Xia Yun.

"The Imperial Court's Grand Marshal of the Northern Expedition is here. Open the city gates immediately!"

Qin Tianye sent out a soldier and shouted loudly below the city gate.

The soldiers defending the city, who had already received the news, used binoculars to check immediately.

When the general guarding the city clearly saw Xia Yun's figure among the crowd, he immediately gave an order to open the city gate!

It was at this time.

Li Taisui, who had been fighting in the direction of the East Gate, led thousands of troops and fought all the way to the South Gate, where he successfully joined forces with Xia Yun's army.

"The general will finally meet the commander-in-chief!"

The moment he saw Xia Yun, Li Taisui knelt down on the ground excitedly.

"I'm wearing armor, so there's no need to be polite."

Xia Yun, who had not yet had time to enter the city gate, hurriedly helped Li Taisui up from the ground.

In this battle of the Hexi Corridor, Li Taisui's mission seemed to be the simplest.

But in reality it is extremely difficult.

You must know that the task that Xia Yun assigned to Li Taisui was not simply to defend the Menghan City.

If it was just a matter of using 60,000 troops to defend against the attack of 120,000 barbarians, most of the generals under Xia Yun could do it.