However, this momentum was almost gone as the Northern Wei and Nanyue armies approached.
Facing the 3 million-strong combined forces of Northern Wei and Nanyue, Xiliang was practically powerless to fight back. The physical fitness of Xiliang soldiers was not as good as that of Northern Wei soldiers to begin with, and Jingen had previously lost a full 500,000 troops to assist Qian Yeyao. Furthermore, they were faced with…those completely insurmountable and insane weapons.
In a month and a half, the coalition forces were unstoppable and captured 12 cities in the five continents east of Xiliang, and directly reached Youzhou, which was only two cities away from the capital.
Every time they captured a city, Qian Yeming and Baili Yi would send a letter to Yelu Boyang, urging him to surrender. They even shamelessly said that if he didn't surrender, the people would suffer. "Are you really that selfish? You're not a good emperor! Your people love you for nothing!"
One of the two emperors is a super black-bellied king, and the other is a thousand-year-old fox. How could Yelu Boyan, who is a little cruel in his heart but a gentleman overall, afford to offend them?
Not to mention that you attacked Xiliang without any justification, but now I am leading the soldiers of Xiliang to resist and defend my homeland, and you actually accuse me of not caring about the lives of the people.
At the beginning, the people would scold Qian Yeming and Bailiyi for being shameless, but every time the coalition forces captured a city, the people of that city could be away from the war from then on. Even the 500,000 captured soldiers were taken home one by one by the local people. Then the other people who were hoping to return home also became agitated.
By now, more than 100,000 captives had returned to their homes, leaving more than 300,000 in the enemy camp. In order to see their sons sooner, the people besieged the government office and put pressure on it, demanding that it open the city and let the coalition forces in.
The officials of the yamen could not bear the siege and pressure from the people and could only write to the court.
Yelu Boyan really was... He was so depressed that he cried several times just in the main hall.
Just think about it, a man who is as tall as a pillar of heaven was bullied and cried loudly in front of his own subjects. What kind of oppression must he have experienced to do such a shameful thing?
But Yelu Boyan just cried! And none of the ministers below felt the slightest bit of disobedience.
The reason is simple, it’s because Qian Yeming, Baili Yi, Baili Han, Baili Feng and Baili Xiao have joined forces and are really... bullying!
Baili Feng was responsible for wreaking havoc within the capital, leaving it in a state of chaos and disarray, leaving all officials completely uninterested in politics. As for the rest, Baili Han led the offensive, Baili Xiao was responsible for those bizarre and extraordinary weaponry, and Qian Yeming and Baili Yi, two hardcore troublemakers, were responsible for turning black into white, shamelessness into good intentions, and invasion into salvation after Baili Han and Baili Xiao committed heinous acts... In short, they were responsible for deceiving people. And they were deceiving people completely!
However, these two men looked so approachable that the common people, especially the women, would have red eyes just by seeing them. In addition, they were always treacherous and could call a black cat a white cat. Over the past month and a half, they had fooled the entire Xiliang people into following them in rebellion.
Knowing that the situation was hopeless, when the coalition forces finally arrived at the gates of Xijing after a month and a half of hard work,
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