The Empire had declared war. The filthy Kolo Halemi in the south had rejected the gracious terms of the Yellow Emperor and doomed his kingdom to fall. The Emperor raised the banners and called for the devoted followers of the Tàipíng Dào to join forces to destroy the faithless. A call to arms was spread by every town crier and every message board in the Kaiguo.

"We shall go our way into battle and we shall be accompanied by the spirit of millions of our martyrs, our ancestors tortured and burned for their faith, our murdered fathers and butchered mothers, our murdered brothers and strangled children. And in this battle we shall break the enemy and bring salvation to our people, tried in the furnace of persecution, thirsting only for freedom, for righteousness, and for justice.

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of the common people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave warriors and devoted priests, you will bring about the destruction of the foreign war machine, the eliminations of Halemi tyranny over oppressed people of Kaiguo, and the security for ourselves in a righteous world!"

This message was spread everywhere, and it was effective. Over 15,000 warriors were raised to help the subjugation of the Halemi. The army was organised into 'Banners' where they would be under autonomous leadership of certain Generals, ones with dubious loyalty...

Once the banners were organised, Emperor Huangdi declared the war would commence. He lead his Yellow Legion at the front of the United Banners, leading the warriors of the Tàipíng Dào into Halemi land. They first arrived at a small town, it's name now lost to history as the United Banners, primarily the Yellow Legion and the Minsheng Earthquake, completely eradicated the town. It was burnt to the ground, the people murdered or enslaved, women claimed as 'pleasure wives' for the warriors of the Emperor. Notably, the White Sun Banenr, the Righteous Fist, and the Holy Hammer did not participate, some reports even came in that General Sun Yat-sen struck down a raper who had attacked a young girl.

Surely, the massacre of this town would bring the army of the Halemi to them. It might be a hard fought battle as the Tàipíng Dào were radicalised in their faith to Huangdi, to the Yellow Sky, and to the destruction of the Halemi nation. However, some loyalties of certain generals were in question, only proven more by their lack of interest in the massacre of the Halemi town.