The video takes us to ancient times; Li Er transforms into the Tongtian Emperor of Shu Han.

Zhang Xianzhong made a decision that no one had expected.

Instead of taking advantage of Li Zicheng's misfortune and trying to take advantage of his impending defeat, he planned to send troops to reinforce him!

"It's Zhang Xianzhong again! I don't understand what my Great Qing has done to make him despise me so much!"

"In the past, he was the obstacle to the unification of our Great Qing, and now, under the heavens, he has made the same decision again!"

"Has he gone mad? It's obvious that Li Zicheng's demise would be entirely beneficial to him, yet he's actually sending troops to aid his enemy!"

The person who reacted the most strongly upon seeing Zhang Xianzhong make this decision was Emperor Qianlong.

He had victory firmly in his grasp and didn't know how he could have lost, but then this unexpected turn of events occurred.

Zhang Xianzhong's army was not many, but it was certainly not small either.

Furthermore, he had not yet experienced the chaos that followed Li Zicheng's conquest of the Central Plains, so it can be said that the morale of his soldiers was still at its peak.

In some ways, once his troops left Sichuan, the threat they posed to the Qing army might even be greater than that posed by Li Zicheng's Shun army!

"Crazy? He's not crazy."

"Or rather, we suddenly have a different opinion of this little traitor."

"Being able to distinguish between righteousness and personal grudges, and also clearly knowing who the greatest enemy is."

"This Zhang Xianzhong has really given us quite a surprise."

Old Zhu, on the other hand, was all smiles.

"Like a moth drawn to a flame, though it may be no match for the flame, it is still worthy of respect."

Li Er nodded silently.

He knew that in the original history, Zhang Xianzhong and his soldiers would certainly not have a good ending.

After all, it was the Manchu Qing dynasty that unified the country.

It's possible that not only the ending, but also the historical record and the reputation in later generations will be extremely poor.

Given Emperor Qianlong's penchant for distorting historical records, expecting him to give Zhang Xianzhong a fair assessment was nothing short of wishful thinking.

Given Zhang Xianzhong's personality, he must have caused considerable trouble for the Qing army.

The greater the threat he poses, the more negatively he will be portrayed in history books!

Fortunately, most things will not turn out the way they are recorded in history books during this challenge.

"Zhang Xianzhong was unlikely to be a match for the Qing army, but don't forget, there was also Emperor Gaozu."

"Perhaps one Zhang Xianzhong could not turn the tide and would ultimately meet his demise, but what if there was another Gaozu?"

"His decision, at least in this challenge, will certainly not be a wasted sacrifice!"

Watching Zhang Xianzhong's figure deploying troops in the sky, everyone except Emperor Qianlong was extremely excited.

Although most of them had great confidence in Liu Bang, it would still be quite difficult for Liu Bang to reverse everything on his own, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

However, now it seems that the situation has become clear again.

It didn't matter if Zhang Xianzhong didn't make it to the end of the Shun army. As long as he could engage the Qing army before Liu Bang arrived at the battlefield, Liu Bang could naturally replan and reconsider everything that followed!

"Hmph, it's just a desperate struggle. What difference does it make if there's another Zhang Xianzhong?"

"You probably don't know, do you? After his crushing defeat, the so-called King of the Great Western Kingdom couldn't accept the outcome, yet he dared not face the warriors of our Great Qing Dynasty. So he slaughtered the people in Sichuan to vent his anger."

“He slaughtered millions of people in Sichuan, that’s several million people.”

"Do you care? It doesn't seem like you care."

"You are just prejudiced in your own hearts, thinking that it must be a bad thing for my Great Qing to suppress those slaves, while others who resist my Great Qing must be good people."

"In reality? Hmph."

Faced with the group's sudden excitement, Qianlong sneered.

He tried to dampen the spirits of these people.

But as soon as he said that, some people sensed something was wrong.

"Wait? He was dissatisfied with your Qing Dynasty, so he turned around and slaughtered his own homeland?"

"You mean, after his defeat, he slaughtered millions of people in his own stronghold in a fit of rage?"

"Wait a minute, does our Sichuan province have a population of one million households?"

And this is only after Zhang Xianzhong suffered a major defeat and lost countless soldiers on the battlefield, leaving behind a population of one million households.

If so many people could still be slaughtered under such circumstances, how many people would there have been in Sichuan originally?

Another point is, could it be that Zhang Xianzhong lost his mind after suffering a defeat?

After suffering a defeat, instead of recruiting soldiers and fighting again upon returning to his stronghold, he slaughtered his own men to vent his anger.

No one with a normal mind would do such a thing, right?

"Hehe, that's why Zhang Xianzhong is a fool. It's not surprising that a fool would do anything."

"Just wait and see! All those who resist my Great Qing Dynasty will meet a dead end!"

Emperor Qianlong laughed heartily, completely unaware of the look in Fuheng's eyes beside him.

Your Majesty, you revised the history yourself, don't you even remember it?

If Zhang Xianzhong really killed millions of people in Sichuan, leaving only 90,000, then were the Manchu cavalry useless, held back by those 90,000 people for thirteen years?

It's fine to alter history books to deceive others, but Your Majesty, please don't deceive yourself too!

Fu Heng wanted to offer a reminder, but Qianlong was engrossed in his speech, and he didn't know how to start the conversation.

It seems that His Majesty revised the history books so much that he eventually came to believe it himself.

But the problem is, this isn't real!

Your Majesty, don't you want to listen to what you're saying?

"Even if Zhang Xianzhong ultimately lost, you must tell me, would someone who was willing to put aside his long-standing grudges with Li Zicheng for the greater good of the Central Plains really slaughter civilians to vent his personal anger?"

"You might as well tell me that the sun rises in the west, then I might even glance westward."

"The most important point is that if these rebel armies are really as incompetent and absurd as you say, then please give me an explanation."

"Just how incompetent was your Qing Dynasty, which took over a century to truly achieve unification in the face of such an incompetent rebel army?"

"I have seen through Li Zicheng's abilities. If Zhang Xianzhong is as you say, coupled with the cowardly Southern Ming and your tyrannical Manchu Qing,..."

"If I had raised an army in that era, I would have been able to sweep across the land in no more than three years."

"Compared to this, a hundred years?"

"Qianlong, you have forgotten one thing: respecting your opponent is the same as respecting yourself."

"Do you know why Emperor Gaozu never smeared Xiang Yu in the history books, and why I never belittle Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, and others in the history books?"

"If the opponent is trash, then what are you, who fight to a standstill against trash, anyway?"