The eighth day of the fifth month in the sixth year of Daxia.

The Daxia Army Expeditionary Force arrived at the city of Bamor, a key throat town on the Eurasian continent.

On the ninth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Daxia, at dawn, the First Division Air Force launched a bombing of more than ten strategic fortresses in the city of Bamor.

The bombing lasted for an hour. At noon, the four generals in Bamor City gathered the remaining 600,000 troops and rushed out of the city to the Great Xia Army Expeditionary Force.

The 3rd and 4th divisions stationed on the Golden Plains pretended to be defeated and retreated, luring more than 600,000 enemy troops into the ambush of the Bilsi Mountains Expeditionary Force.

The deafening flames of war rang out again.

When it comes to mountain warfare, this is the battlefield that the Daxia Army is best at. With an army of 400,000 against Franky's army of 600,000, the outcome of this battle will naturally not be surprising.

In order to avoid more casualties, Guan Xiaoxi adopted his previous guerrilla tactics and dragged 600,000 enemy troops into the Bilis Mountains. It took a full half month and at the cost of 30,000 lives, he completely buried these 600,000 enemy troops in the Bilis Mountains.

On May 25, the sixth year of Daxia, the Battle of Bamor was declared over.

The First Army reorganized its troops and entered this undefended city between Europe and Asia on May 27, the sixth year of Daxia.

When the residents of Bamor City saw the mighty army in silver armor marching into the city, their hearts were filled with despair.

As in the past, Guan Xiaoxi dispatched several forces to maintain public order, but they did not disturb the residents, nor did they commit the burning, killing and looting that the residents believed they would.

If it weren't for the collapsed city wall and the ruins of the arsenal where a few wisps of smoke still lingered, everything seemed to be the same as before.

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There was not much joy of victory on the faces of Guan Xiaoxi and the generals standing in the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

Grand Duke Leiden and Marshal Mishaul, who were kneeling on the ground, were extremely nervous.

They witnessed the entire battle with their own eyes.

That night, they were taken out of the city by Daxia soldiers in an airship and landed at the Daxia army camp in the Bilis Mountains.

They thought they would be executed, but they did not expect that the two soldiers would take them through the jungles of the Bilis Mountains and let them see unimaginable battle scenes.

The entire Bilis Mountains is a huge cemetery. The soldiers of Daxia set up one pocket after another. They watched their own soldiers get in and never get out again.

It was not until then that they truly understood the strength of this army from the Far East, and they felt a huge sense of powerlessness in their hearts.

Now I am back to this familiar Grand Marshal's Mansion, but the owner of this Grand Marshal's Mansion has changed.

They knew that they had actually become prisoners and should have been beheaded long ago. The fact that they were able to survive to this day was probably because the other party wanted them to die with a clear mind.

However, Guan Xiaoxi and others didn't even look at them, as if they had forgotten the two captives.

Guan Xiaoxi looked at the two brothers Yu Dingshan and Yu Dinghe.

"General Peng is not only your mother, in my heart, she is also my mother!"

"I joined the Southern Frontier Army at the age of sixteen, and was transferred to the Scout Battalion at seventeen, where I served under General Peng."

"After that, I followed General Peng until... until the Battle of Qipan Pass. It was also with General Peng's encouragement that I joined the Divine Sword Army."

"More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, but in my heart, Guan Xiaoxi, she will always be General Peng and my mother, Guan Xiaoxi!"

"General Peng spoke to me a lot before we set off for the Battle of Bamole. It boils down to this: you two brothers must survive until this battle is over. Then... then you can retire and go to Green Banner Prefecture in Chilechuan, where there's a house left by General Peng... Each of you can find a wife and start a family, whether in the Wanyan tribe or in Chang'an... and carry on the Yu family's bloodline. This is the general's last wish!"

The tears of Yuding Mountain and Yuding River have long dried up.

The two brothers stood with their heads down. After a long while, Yu Dingshan finally raised his head. "Back when we decided to leave the Wanyan tribe and join the Great Xia Army, our mother had already told us a lot."

"I know that deep down, my mother didn't want us to join the army. But she didn't stop us, and we know she was always worried about us."

"Mother said that if you want to be a soldier, you must be prepared to die on the battlefield... We have been with you all these years and have experienced several major battles. In our hearts, we have already seen through life and death. That's why my brother and I have not yet married, just like you, Commander Guan."

"I promise you, and I also promised my mother, that after this expedition is over, we will retire... and return to the Wanyan tribe, where we can herd sheep, live out the rest of our lives in that small courtyard, marry, have children, and spend the rest of our lives!"

"Alright! Rest well for a few days. Five days later, the army will set out again. You...you go down!"

The two brothers bowed and retreated, walked out of the Marshal's Mansion, looked at the sky of this foreign country, and tears finally fell again.

Discharge... This is a word that I have never thought about before, but now it is time to face this word.

"Brother, what should we do with Mom's body?"

"... Let's burn it. We'll take Mom's ashes back and bury them next to Dad on the Cangxi Plain... This was her wish."

"...Brother, are you really going to retire?"

"Well, retire. Or we brothers can consider settling down in Border Town. After all, Border Town is right next to the Cangxi Plain, so we'll be closer to our parents."

"good."

Biancheng, once a small town on the southern border of the Yu Dynasty, has now become a prosperous city.

The road to Qishan has been opened, not only the official road, but even the railway has been laid. The border town has become a hub connecting the Cangxi Plain and the Huazhong Plain.

It also became a distribution center for goods from the east and west of Daxia.

"After we return to Daxia and bury Mother, we must go visit my sister..."

Speaking of his younger sister Yu Ruoxing, Yu Dingshan lifted his sleeves, wiped his eyes and smiled, "Two years have passed in the blink of an eye. I wonder if she and Xiaozhuang have another child."

"Brother, I heard that Xiaozhuang's father and many villagers also went out to sea with the Emperor this time on his expedition... Do you think the Emperor really wants to establish another kingdom in that faraway place?"

Yu Dingshan thought for a moment and shook his head. "Mother said the Emperor is lazy, and his ideal is to become a big landlord... Xiaozhuang's father and his family were originally tenants of the Emperor's family. They followed him out to sea to other continents, probably just to open up wasteland and cultivate land to realize his ideal of becoming a big landlord."

"That's right, brother. After we retire, we'll have some free time. How about going out to sea and seeing the world?"

Yu Dingshan looked up at the setting sun in the sky. "Okay, I guess navigation will be open by then. I just don't know where the emperor's fleet is now."