The cannon fodder just wants to survive until the end

The general of the Da Qi Dynasty this time is Li Che. In fact, Mingyuan knew long ago when he refused Li Che's cooperation with Da Qi that there would be a war between them and Da Qi, but he didn't expect it to come so early.

When two armies fight, the first battle is a test of the situation, but it is also the most important. If the first battle is won, the morale of the soldiers will be greatly boosted. If they fail, then unless there is a perfect victory in the later stage, the scattered morale will be difficult to gather again.

Usually in the first battle both sides will keep their trump cards and will not use all their strength, so this time the battle between Mingyuan and Li Che ended in a draw.

Both sides suffered casualties, which was expected by the generals on both sides, and most of them had some understanding of the other side's situation.

Da Qi is stronger than Mingyuan expected, and Li Che did not expect that the frontier army would still have such strong combat power after the war.

Then the two sides started some small-scale probing, and the second war began. This time, both sides did not hold back and tried their best to deal with this confrontation.

The battlefield was filled with smoke. The vanguards whipped their horses and took the lead in attacking. Ming Haoran, as the vanguard leader, was at the forefront this time.

Then the armies behind both sides moved, and golden spears collided with each other. The battlefield was full of sounds, including the metallic sound of swords colliding in the hands of soldiers, the wailing of soldiers on both sides before their death, and the sound of cold spears piercing flesh.

It was too chaotic and too noisy, but a special sense of order was revealed in the chaotic and noisy battlefield. At this moment, Ming Haoran took the head of a young general of Da Qi. The soldiers of Xi State were instantly encouraged and the situation was in favor of Xi State.

At this time, the Da Qi rear launched their new crossbow, which had a range of hundreds of meters. The crossbow was aimed directly at Mingyuan.

Ming Huaixi had known about Da Qi's new crossbow, and had asked Mingyuan to be careful and on guard before he went to the battlefield. When the crossbow came out, Mingyuan was prepared. The arrow did not hurt Mingyuan at all, and Da Qi lost the initiative.

At this time, the Xi State also played its biggest trump card, an early cannon, and pointed the barrel in the direction of the Da Qi army. Then there was a loud "bang", and the place where the cannonball fell was filled with the corpses of Da Qi soldiers.

Li Che did not expect that the Xi Kingdom had such a magical weapon, so he hurriedly ordered his troops to withdraw to avoid greater losses.

The cannon was made using the same method as the cannonballs that Ming Huaixi had obtained from other countries overseas when he had his caravans sail out to sea. The original method naturally did not have such great power, and this was the one that Ming Huaixi had improved upon.

The physics knowledge learned in high school is still very useful, at least Ming Huaixi used it now. Ming Huaixi decided to go back and practice a few more physics questions.

After Da Qi withdrew its troops, Mingyuan also ordered his troops to withdraw, leaving a team of soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and then returned to the camp.

"Congratulations, father, on the successful battle." Ming Huaixi ran out of the camp to greet Ming Yuan, took the sword from Ming Yuan, and followed Ming Yuan back to the meeting tent.

While everyone was discussing, Ming Yuan suddenly asked Ming Huaixi's opinion, "Xi'er, what do you think will happen to Da Qi next?"

"Your son thought that Da Qi would come to negotiate peace. Now that we have magical weapons like cannons, as long as the Emperor of Da Qi has any brains, he will not fight us to the death." Ming Huaixi expressed his opinion calmly.

"My son is right." Mingyuan nodded.

Then he said to everyone, "If Da Qi sends people to negotiate peace, what do you think? Will you accept it or fight to the end?"

Other generals expressed their opinions one after another, some advocated fighting, some advocated alliance, and finally Mingyuan decided to stay in the alliance. Now that Xi State had just been established, there was not much time to waste here.

Maintaining the alliance is the best option for the current Xi Kingdom. Mingyuan can also consolidate the new regime through this victory and gain the support of the people.

This time Li Che did not come as an envoy, but a middle-aged minister came instead.

This time, Da Qi actually proposed that the princess of Xi should marry the emperor of Da Qi and become the queen of Da Qi. This outrageous request was rejected outright by an official who was accompanying the Xi Kingdom in the peace talks. This official was someone Ming Huaixi knew, and his name was Yang Qing.

When Xi State was first established, he was appreciated by Ming Hao Ning for his talent. In addition, he had also made contributions by helping General Zuo's family to leave Beijing smoothly. This time he was sent here to broaden his horizons. Who would have thought that the Da Qi State was so ambitious that it actually wanted to touch the pearl of Xi State. It was simply outrageous.

The officials of Da Qi did not expect that the proposal of marriage would cause such a big reaction from the officials of Xi State.

He followed the general negotiation process, insisting on his own opinion when he first made a request, then taking a step back and suspending the talks if the request was not agreed.

After the Xi State official who was in charge of peace talks reported Da Qi's conditions to Mingyuan, Mingyuan asked the official to tell the envoy that if they did not want to negotiate peace, Xi State would fight to the end.

The envoy did not expect that he would be almost trapped here, so he hurriedly sent a message back to his country. The Emperor of Da Qi did not expect that he could not even marry the widowed Princess for the position of Queen of Da Qi, so he did not insist on it. He only stated some bottom lines and let the negotiating official handle the rest.

The official was still traumatized by the last peace talk and did not dare to propose any excessive conditions this time. He just tried his best to go a little higher than the bottom line of the Emperor of Da Qi.

When the officials of Xi State saw the new contract, they had no problem with the terms. They thought that the terms were what they should be, and they estimated that this was the maximum that the other party could accept. They thought that Da Qi seemed to be very sincere in this peace talk.

Afterwards, the new contract was presented to Mingyuan for review.

Mingyuan read the contents of the new contract and knew that this was Da Qi's bottom line, so he nodded in agreement. Da Qi and Xi Kingdom signed a ten-year non-war agreement.

Afterwards, he left behind a few generals to guard the border, and Ming Yuan returned to the capital with Ming Huaixi and other trusted ministers.

This war lasted for a full year and a half. During this year and a half, Ming Hao Ning was trained from a novice prince who was forced to take over the government affairs to an experienced person who was able to handle the government affairs proficiently.

Over the past year, Ming Hao Ning has gotten up earlier than the chickens, slept later than the dogs, worked harder than the cows, and faced trivial inquiries from people from all over the place every day. He has aged a lot.

When Ming Huaixi came back, he didn't dare to recognize his elder brother for a while. In modern terms, Ming Hao Ning's eyes were dull and full of vicissitudes.

After Mingyuan came back, Ming Hao Ning returned the board rights and asked for a few days off. Mingyuan naturally couldn't let his boss rest for so long, so he only allowed him three days off.

It is worth mentioning that Ming Hao Ning’s wife gave birth to a boy last year. This boy is Mingyuan’s first grandchild. Mingyuan named him Ming Chengyan to show his importance to him.

The two brothers of the Ming family were both born late in life. Ming Haoran had been away from home before, so the couple had no children after many years of marriage. It is estimated that he will not leave after returning this time.