Recaps

Great Liang’s new steam-powered warship and expanding military force pushed Xinma toward submission and brought the Moses Empire under attack. Princess Dada left to seize Xinma’s throne, while Jiang Wei and Chen Dao pursued Alute’s defeated fleet and ordered a full assault.

• Amu’s negotiations with the Moses Empire collapsed after Great Liang’s assassins wounded Emperor Moshili and Luo Xiaohu’s men destroyed Kunsi’s statue, prompting Moshili to proceed with his plans.
• Wang Yue met Xinma Empress Mary An Da and presented Great Liang’s demands, while Mary weighed an alliance with Great Liang against the danger of Moses and secretly sought to learn Moses’s terms.
• Lin Yi ordered an all-out offensive against the Moses Empire as Great Liang seized its colonies, and the expeditionary forces advanced with more than a million auxiliary troops.
• Ma Jun demonstrated the ironclad Pangu, which smashed an old warship and destroyed targets with its cannons, and Lin Yi ordered the technology distributed for mass production.
• Princess Dada decided to return to Xinma, take the throne from her mother, and submit the empire to Great Liang, and Lin Yi promised to marry her.
• Lü Bu defeated Asang Quinton’s forces on Sangjie, accepted Xiao Yefu’s surrender after learning of the local mines, and ordered captives to build a Great Liang military base.
• Alute led more than 200,000 Moses troops toward Sangjie but withdrew after discovering Great Liang’s forces and fleet, while Jiang Wei and Chen Dao pursued him.
• Great Liang’s bomb-bearing ships devastated Alute’s fleet, forcing him to retreat, and Jiang Wei ordered the fleet to launch an all-out attack.

Lin Yi’s forces invaded the Moses Empire, while Princess Dada seized power in Xinma and allied with Great Liang. Great Liang destroyed and captured the Moses fleet, then prepared to march on the Moses homeland as Xinma submitted.

• Jiang Wei ordered a full assault, and Great Liang sank Alute’s ship before Ran Min, Guan Yu, and their allies defeated the Moses Empire’s reinforcements and sailed toward its homeland.
• Ran Min, Guo Xin, Guan Yu, and Lü Bu led Great Liang’s invasion, capturing cities as Emperor Char ordered Amu to gather two million troops against them.
• Lin Yi ordered more ironclad warships built and committed Great Liang to an all-out offensive, while the empire’s war order inspired widespread enlistment and support.
• Princess Dada warned Nancy that Xinma could not withstand Great Liang, then led a rebellion against Empress Mary An Da and took the palace after Wang Yue’s forces joined her.
• After Lu Kang’s navy breached Xinma’s defenses, Mary An Da surrendered, and Dada proclaimed herself empress and aligned Xinma with Great Liang.
• Second Elder Yize withdrew from Xinma, but Zheng Chenggong, Zhou Yu, Gan Ning, and other commanders trapped the Moses fleet and destroyed its ships, and Yize and Abide Xisi surrendered with their forces.
• Lin Yi arrived aboard the Pangu, accepted the surrendering troops as Great Liang subjects, and ordered Yize and the captives to serve in the coming campaign, while Asam attacked Lin Yi and was presumed dead.
• Xinier submitted Xinma to Lin Yi, who appointed Li Mu to command its army and ordered the march toward Moses, and the system rewarded him with Lu Xun, Lu Su, Bai Qi, and additional troops and items.