Gu Yun was at a loss for words. He wanted to open his arms and hug him, but he pulled twice without success. He could only sit aside silently, not daring to say a word, waiting for Chang Geng to cry out all the grievances he had suffered for more than ten years in one breath.

However, the new emperor was probably unlucky. He couldn't cry to his heart's content. Before he cried until he was exhausted, a cannon shot was heard outside, and the entire general's tent shook violently.

Then came the shrill cry of a huge eagle's wings flying across the sky, coming closer and closer. Chang Geng only had time to turn his back before an eagle-armored messenger rushed in: "Marshal, the iron fence has been broken, and the Westerners have been surrounded!"

Gu Yun's fingertips were still stained with Chang Geng's tears. He calmly tightened the finger in his palm and nodded calmly: "I know, just suppress it according to the plan."

The messenger's toes just touched the ground for a moment, then turned around and flew away.

Chang Geng then turned around and looked at him, tears still stained on his face, looking aggrieved no matter how he looked at him. Gu Yun couldn't stand this expression the most, so he rolled on the ground and surrendered, coaxing softly, "Come here, Chang Geng, I'll wipe your tears."

Chang Geng: "Where are your sweet words?"

Gu Yun sighed calmly, and lowered his voice a little: "My dear, come here and lick your tears clean."

Chang Geng: “…”

He was a little confused for a moment and didn't respond.

But in such a moment of distraction, Gu Yun actually climbed up with the help of the bed. His waist was almost unable to bear the strength. When he stood up, the steel plate between his legs hit the edge of the small couch heavily. The muscles in his neck stood up abruptly from the bandage on his collar. His loose hair passed over his shoulders and passed through the long chain of the glass mirror.

Chang Geng: "What are you doing!"

He took a step forward and tried to hold Gu Yun down, but Gu Yun took the opportunity to hug him tightly.

Gu Yun's forehead was already covered with cold sweat after he moved. Most of his body weight was on Chang Geng, and his breathing was a little rapid. The steel plates on his body were particularly obstructive and stood between the two of them. He breathed a sigh of relief, gently closed his eyes, stroked Geng's tense back, and whispered, "Hold me for a while, I miss you so much. And don't fight back when I hit you, and don't talk back when I scold you, okay?"

Chang Geng's nose, which had just calmed down, felt a little sour again. He uncontrollably hugged Gu Yun's waist, feeling that the remaining length of his clothes was definitely more than the short section in the letter: "I..."

He had just said a word when his voice was quickly drowned out by a burst of frenzied gunfire and was interrupted again.

Gu Yun turned his face slightly and kissed him on the cheek. He actually kept his word and lingered along the traces of his tears, finally stopping on his lips which tasted slightly of tears. Chang Geng's lips had been trembling the whole time, and it was unclear whether it was because of pain, anger or excitement. Gu Yun paused and pried open his lips with the tip of his tongue.

Chang Geng's hand supporting his waist suddenly tightened——

...Unfortunately, before he could taste the sweetness, there was another eagle's cry outside, so shrill that even the half-deaf could hear it.

Chang Geng: “…”

Will this ever end?

There are so many elite soldiers and generals in front of the two armies, and almost all the famous generals of the new generation in Daliang are gathered in this battle. Do these bastards have to come to the general's tent to ask for instructions on everything?

At this time, His Majesty did not consider at all that there was nothing wrong with him dragging the commanders of the four regions and crying and making a fuss about having an affair amidst the roar of gunfire.

Black Eagle rushed in: "General, Xiyangjun saw that the situation was not right and was about to escape! General Shen intercepted the enemy's main ship with sea squids. General He asked when a large number of Black Eagles would be dispatched?"

Gu Yun gently wiped the corner of his mouth: "Wait a little longer, until their main ship releases its trump card."

Xuan Ying responded quickly, turned around and rushed away.

The remaining two looked at each other awkwardly. Chang Geng's heartbeat hadn't yet calmed down. He was extremely helpless and could only smile half-bitterly.

He half-carried and half-supported Gu Yun to the couch, pulled the blanket over him, took out a small piece of cloth that Gu Yun had sent him, and fished out needle and thread from his purse - the colors of the threads were all matched with the blue cloth, showing that he had come prepared. He pulled Gu Yun's belt and turned it over carefully, and sure enough, one end had been roughly removed, with the thread ends flying around, making it look particularly tattered.

Chang Geng said helplessly: "Does the Marshal walk around in these tattered clothes every day?"

"No," Gu Yun narrowed his eyes and carefully identified his lip language, and laughed softly, "I happened to wear this today. Maybe I had a telepathic connection in my dream and knew that His Majesty would come to sew clothes for me today."

Chang Geng paused, but before he could look up at Gu Yun's expression, a hand fell on his face, and the fingers gently slid along his jaw towards his ear: "Is it bitter?"

Geng blinked quickly, feeling that the pain just now was too intense, and his eyes might burst today. The man almost squeezed out his tears after saying three words: "Does it hurt?"

He thought Gu Yun would not answer, but after a moment of silence, Gu Yun actually said frankly: "It hurts so much that I often can't sleep."

Chang Geng's hand trembled and was pricked by the needle.

Gu Yun added: "If I hadn't seen the pain you felt when you cried, I would have nightmares for the rest of my life."

Chang Geng: “…”

Since he was a child, he couldn't tell which words were sincere and which were just to coax him, so he had to take them all seriously, and was completely softened by a few words.

Gu Yun: "A lot of Wuergu have gone, right? Miss Chen took good care of you - there will be no accidents in this battle. The enemy will go all out this time and enter our ambush circle. Once they enter, there will be a large number of sea squids targeting their main ship. The main ship has a fatal weakness, which is that it cannot keep up with the mobility in times of crisis. If the Western Pope is pushed to the extreme, he will..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a ground-shaking roar. Although Gu Yun could not hear it clearly, he felt the vibration of the bed. Gu Yun smiled calmly and waited quietly for a full moment. The tremor gradually subsided. He then added his words: "He will move out all the heavy artillery hidden under the tortoise shell of his main ship and try to force a breakthrough. The Western main ship carries a large amount of purple gold and ammunition, but rarely reveals its true appearance when facing the battle. We analyzed it from many angles for a long time and guessed that it was because they could not afford the consumption, and secondly, once the main ship was put into battle, it would immediately be unable to rely on its entire Sea Dragon Battle Fleet——"

Black Eagle landed and presented the third battle report: "Marshal, the Western flagship does have that problem. General Shen has taken advantage of the chaos to outflank it. The Western navy lost order in the chaos and nearly half of them sank! Black Eagle is ready to pursue..."

Before he could finish his words, a nearly deafening eagle cry came across the sky. It was the sound of tens of thousands of sky killers flapping their wings against the wind.

Gu Yun turned to Chang Geng: "Your Majesty, do you want to see... how our army recaptured Jiangnan?"

When he spoke in detail, he seemed not to be a wounded patient lying on the sickbed, but a general who had single-handedly attacked the rebel army of King Wei, suppressed the bandits in the southwest, pacified the west and the north, and settled in the south of the Yangtze River.

Chang Geng replied sternly: "My general's words are as good as gold, and he is invincible in battle."

The Liangjiang garrison actually had a Red Head Kite with a very high level of defense. Chang Geng helped Gu Yun get on it. The Red Head Kite slowly rose from the commander's tent. Its clairvoyance could take in the entire battlefield - the blue sea was full of waves, the iron ships were like dragons, running rampant in the sea, and fireworks were set off in all directions -

The Western Sea fought stubbornly for more than two hours, but finally could not continue. The battered main ship picked up the shattered warships and fled in panic towards the East Sea.

The three Daliang naval forces pursued relentlessly, ignoring the rumors that "the Daliang navy cannot fight a high-sea battle", and brazenly broke into the waters of the Japanese Ocean for a whole night.

Gu Yun, who had been through the entire show, smiled.

Japan is the last stop.

While retreating, the Western army sent four letters to Japan requesting support, but all of them fell on deaf ears. Just when they were chased into Japanese waters by the relentless Daliang navy, the Westerners were shocked to find a team of well-organized Japanese sea dragon warships blocking their way - those sea dragons were the ones they brought to the pirates back then!

The two sides quickly approached each other, and the Western army was almost capsized in the water with flag signals, but the "friendly army" did not respond at all, only a hoarse and long command was heard -

The Japanese warships pointed their guns at the allies they once supported.

"boom"--

A blood-red sunset appeared over the sea, as if it was the end of a chaotic world.

Gu Yun laughed softly amid the sparks from the distant sea. He had held on throughout the whole process, and his body was a little exhausted. He was so tired that he felt like he could fall asleep as soon as he lay down. But Chang Geng suddenly leaned over, tilted his chin, and asked, "You said you had a private wish, and you couldn't write it in the last letter. Tell me next time. What is it?"

Gu Yun laughed.

Chang Geng insisted, "What on earth is it?"

Pulling him over, he whispered in her ear, "Give it to you... for the rest of my life."

Chang Geng took a deep breath and recovered after a while: "You said it, the general's words are as good as gold..."

Gu Yun continued: "Invincible."

On the fourth day of March in the tenth year of Long'an, the battle lasted a whole day and a night, from mutual probing to decisive battles to the final defection of Japan. The Western navy that had occupied the entire East China Sea for several years was completely defeated.

Gu Yun completed his mission and was forcibly taken back to the capital by the new emperor to recuperate.

Sixteen days later, the railway line was officially connected, and the major lifeline running from north to south was completed. A large number of steel armor, lighters and purple gold were able to move south as soon as possible. The garrisons in Liangjiang quickly established a water base, and the army, under the overall command of Shen Yi, swept across the Western garrisons occupying the mountains in the southern half of the river.

Without a strong navy and domestic support, the Western garrison was like fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind. The fragile battle line collapsed. The land war lasted only two months. In early May of that year, the Western coalition forces formally surrendered, and a large number of prisoners were detained in Daliang, including the Pope himself.

For the sake of face, the Holy Land had to send people to negotiate for peace, which ended with a compensation agreement, with one hand handing over the other hand handing over the money.

At this point, the clouds over the southern half of the country have dissipated, and year after year, the fragrance of newly planted osmanthus flowers will waft through the southern part of the Yangtze River.

It is said that the old pope died on the way back to his homeland. It is not known whether it was a natural death or assassination - but it doesn't matter anymore.

The former Prince Yan, Li Min, officially ascended the throne and planned to change the era name to "Tai Shi" the following year.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the new emperor issued an edict that the children of the previous emperor did not have to move out of the palace, and that there would be no new crown prince and no military power would be taken away. The Black Iron Tiger Talisman was still in Gu Yun's hands, and he was in charge of the capital and had the power to deploy the four borders at any time. At the same time, the three former Black Iron tribes were disbanded and incorporated into various garrisons. A group of brave generals who grew up in the smoke of war took over the teachings of their ancestors and garrisoned in all directions.

Emperor Taishi reigned for eighteen years and always regarded himself as the "Acting Emperor". He personally issued a series of constitutional decrees, restricting everything from himself as the "Acting Emperor" to all civil and military officials and even the people of the world. This was a system of rights and responsibilities that treated everyone equally so that he could reflect on himself at all times.

A vigorous reform slowly pushed away thousands of years of illness and fog.

The end of one era is always the beginning of another.