After the new emperor ascended the throne, he employed numerous methods to elevate the status of the military, whether it was the execution of various traitorous, greedy officials, the significant employment of Liu Fa and Zhong Pingyuan, or the abolition of officials' hereditary entitlements...
All these measures exhibited the new emperor's high regard for the military.
If not for such an emperor, then for whom should one wait?
Should the Jin people win, the likely next scenario is that the new emperor would be deposed and the former emperor taken to the Jin Camp would be reinstated. By then, these soldiers would quickly become the lowest of the low, trodden underfoot by those civil officials.
Thus, for these warriors, this battle must be won!
This was a resolute understanding shared by everyone from generals to soldiers.
Even if it meant infantry resisting cavalry, they still believed they could fight.
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