Eleven years ago, in Liang Jianchang's tenth year, Zhou Wucheng's second year, and Qi Tianbao's first year, a battle erupted between Zhou and Liang at Jingxiang on the border between the two kingdoms. Yaoshi Mo Ke had just risen to power and mobilized the Twenty-Four Army Prefectures southward to attack Liang. There were a hundred thousand combat troops, several thousand heralds, and an uncountable number of auxiliary soldiers—an army reputed to number half a million.
At the time, the Liang Kingdom Emperor Shao Hu was in the prime of his life. He personally led an army of a hundred and fifty thousand to campaign against Yaoshi Mo Ke. The battle raged from autumn to spring. When the weather grew hot, both armies withdrew. The only proof that the battle had ever taken place was the hundreds of thousands of corpses stretching across Jingxiang, along with the tens of thousands of refugees whose families had been destroyed by conscription.
According to the records of both kingdoms, they had both won the battle. Yaoshi Mo Ke had crushed Liang's arrogance, while Shao Hu had thwarted the northern invaders' ambitions... During the more than century-long standoff between the three kingdoms, there had been far too many minor skirmishes like this. Two years later, the spirited and ambitious young empress Ying Le would beat both Zhou and Liang senseless, without even sparing her homeland in the north, forging the illustrious reputation of the "Phoenix Majesty Emperor."
Nowadays, whenever the Battle of Jingxiang was mentioned, people would still have to ask which year's Battle of Jingxiang one meant. Even after the specific year was given, most people would only react with, "I vaguely remember something like that happening."
A war that could not change the world had no right to anyone's attention.
Yet it had