In the middle of the first month of the twenty-first year of Heaven-Answering Kingdom, the Divine Martial Marquis returned to the capital by imperial decree. Zhao Cheng personally led the civil and military officials out of the city to greet him, bestowing upon him the highest courtesies.
This led many to speculate that the Divine Martial Marquis might soon be made a king.
By court law, none could be granted a kingship without the merit of reshaping heaven and earth.
Yet over the past decade, the Divine Martial Marquis had campaigned north and south. Among the hundreds of nations, large and small, that had been beaten into submission, he had taken part in many battles and played a crucial role.
In particular, the special force personally selected and trained by the Divine Martial Marquis—the Divine Martial Guard—had become renowned throughout the land.
This force numbered only three hundred men, yet even the weakest among them could fight ten men alone.
Most formidable of all was the small-unit coordinated combat doctrine created by the Divine Martial Marquis.
Three hundred men, divided into teams of five, made sixty squads.
With five men fighting in concert, their exceptional skills paired with advanced equipment made them unstoppable when carrying out decapitation strikes.
Especially when dealing with small nations, marching an army to their borders came at too great a cost and made too obvious a target. With the small-unit combat model, merely three to five squads working together could, in a very short time, completely decapitate the upper ranks of a small nation.
It could be said that Great New's trade had gone so smoothly largely because of this force.
In truth, calls for the Divine Martial Marquis to be made a duke had arisen years ago. But Zhao Cheng had been in seclusion