I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

With her last breath, she uttered two words with difficulty: "Destroy...destruction."

She slowly raised her hand, paused in the air for a moment, and finally fell to the ground weakly, completely losing her breath.

Cui Jingming slowly closed his eyes, squatted on the ground, and did not get up for a long time.

His heart was like a turmoil, with mixed emotions.

The Cui family may really have shouldered too much sin and hatred.

The old woman's experience was just the tip of the iceberg. His mind kept resurfacing with the old woman's resentful eyes and desperate words, which were a tearful accusation against the Cui family.

The people’s hearts cannot be repaired!

He was wrong again!

He smiled helplessly and knelt down in front of the old woman's body.

He kowtowed three times slowly.

The distance from Chang'an to Beizhou is not far. At the normal marching speed, it takes about ten days.

Li Chengqian led an army of 100,000 on this expedition, carrying a large amount of baggage and supplies. These baggage and supplies greatly slowed down the pace of the march, causing the army's movement to become much slower.

As a result, the originally planned ten-day journey was extended. As of today, we have been walking for a full fourteen days, but we still have not arrived in Beizhou.

According to Mr. Qi's estimation, the army will be able to successfully meet up with Zhang Xianhuai's troops around noon tomorrow.

During this long march, Li Chengqian witnessed all kinds of scenes and felt mixed emotions.

War has always been a cruel thing, and the ones who suffer the most are the innocent civilians.

Along the way, in addition to the figures of the people who suffered from the war, he also found a steady stream of men with yellow scarves tied on their right arms, moving forward firmly towards Beizhou City.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian immediately sent people to stop the men.

When these men learned that the person in front of them was the current emperor, they were all very excited, with their faces filled with irrepressible excitement and joy.

They all actively explained to Li Chengqian the reasons why they came here.

After listening to the explanation of these so-called "begging troops", Li Chengqian suddenly understood.

It is very likely that these begging armies were planned and organized by Zhang Xianhuai.

After all, supporting a team of this size requires huge financial resources. Looking around, it seems that there is no other possibility except the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce that can possess such strong financial resources.

Although those wealthy families do have corresponding wealth, they have always been stingy. How could they be willing to spend so much money to give to these ordinary people?

Since the goal is the same, the beggar army simply follows His Majesty's army. With the addition of these beggar army, the original situation has undergone subtle changes.

After encountering the army led by His Majesty, the beggars no longer marched alone in twos and threes, but all spontaneously followed His Majesty's army.

As a result, the size of the army expanded rapidly. When Li Chengqian set out, he had only 100,000 troops, but now a rough estimate shows that the number of troops is probably more than 200,000.

Lin Dafu's behavior really amazed and surprised Li Chengqian and Mr. Qi.

Mr. Qi even did a careful calculation and found that after all this trouble, Qianyu Shang probably gave these people at least more than 30 million coins.

Li Chengqian listened quietly to Mr. Qi's analysis and feelings, his eyes revealing a thoughtful look.

In Beizhou City, Zhang Xianhuai received a secret report from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and learned that His Majesty's army would arrive at the foot of Beizhou City on time at noon tomorrow.

For a moment, everyone clearly realized that the decisive battle was about to come.