Chapter 197: Drive Out the Invaders, Restore Our Land (Please Subscribe to All Chapters)
Shanhai Pass lay in northeastern Ming and was one of its eight great passes.
Shanhai Pass and Jiayu Pass to the north stood in distant correspondence, both serving as the throats of Ming's frontier and the bulwarks of its capital, charged with the vital duty of defending Ming.
To the north lay the Great Yuan Dynasty, home to tens of millions of foreign peoples; beyond Shanhai Pass to the northeast lay the Great Qing Dynasty.
Once these two great passes fell, the Yuan Army and Qing Army could drive straight in, unhindered, reaching Shuntian Prefecture and storming Ming's capital.
Thus, the Great Yuan Dynasty and Great Qing Dynasty had chosen to attack Jiayu Pass and Shanhai Pass simultaneously to coordinate an assault on Ming's capital from within and without with the Green Dragon Society, Demon Mentor Palace, and others. The malice of their intentions was plain to see.
Although the operations of the Green Dragon Society, Demon Mentor Palace, and the other factions had failed, Great Yuan and Great Qing still had not abandoned their invasion of Ming.
Their cooperation with the Green Dragon Society and the other factions had merely been a matter of riding the tide.
Even those factions' failure did not affect their invasion of Ming.
After all, they had expended enormous resources on this operation. Even if they could not destroy Ming, they had to find a way to tear a chunk of flesh from it to offset their armies' losses. Otherwise, would they not have fought this war for nothing?
That was why the fighting had continued until now.
And now, Shanhai Pass had fallen. The Qing Army had entered the pass a second time, burning, killing, plundering, and committing every