Ming.
On the third day of the seventh month, all quarters stirred.
Army after army advanced westward, with Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting serving as supreme commanders, directing the western campaign to destroy Song.
Over a hundred thousand experts of the Embroidered Uniform Guard split into several groups. Some had already secretly infiltrated Great Song to lay their plans in advance, preparing to throw Great Song into chaos and coordinate with the Ming Army from within to destroy it.
Others secretly infiltrated the armies to safeguard them, preventing Great Song from sending experts to attack the troops and assassinate their commanders.
Such things had happened in previous wars.
When two armies clashed, the enemy would dispatch experts to assassinate the opposing commander to break the troops' morale, leaving them like dragons without a head and ultimately ending in a rout.
Now that Yu Huatian had personally called for the western expedition, he naturally would not allow such a thing to happen.
To protect the armies' commanders, Yu Huatian had even directly invited the two Heavenly Beings, Xu Ruowu and Zheng He, to remain by Sun Chengzong's and Sun Chuanting's sides at all times, ensuring that nothing could go wrong.
As for the Imperial Court, to prevent the enemy from abandoning martial honor and sending people to launch a surprise attack on the Capital, Yu Huatian had asked Bai Yujing and Xie Xuan to personally stand guard there and protect it.
He himself accompanied the army on its campaign to deal with enemy powerhouses whose strength exceeded the norm.
In addition, the major sects of the Jianghu had long since received word and set out to assemble at the western border.
At this moment.
At Ming's western border, experts from every sect had gathered, all waiting there for the Imperial Court's