The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 449: Zhonglanruo Temple in Jinhua Mansion
In order not to stimulate the Ming Dynasty, but also to leave the vortex around the imperial capital, so as not to let myself go deep into it and be completely swallowed.
Zhong Yu's expansion this time did not move toward the northern provinces of Ming Dynasty, or the central and western provinces, but toward the six southern provinces.
The six southern provinces of Daming are bordered by the two empires of Dawei and Dahan. Only one of the six provinces is inland, and the rest are border areas. The war has invaded the south for a long time.
However, the six provinces have been much peaceful in recent years. The reason is that behind the two empires of Dawei and Dahan, there is a great Tang empire which is expanding violently.
In the past 30 years, in order to resist the aggression of the Tang Empire, the five surrounding countries of the Da Han, Da Wei, Da Qi, Da Wu, and Da Yue have formed an offensive and defensive alliance to contain the expansion of the Tang Empire.
However, although the strength of the offensive and defensive alliance is three times that of the Tang Empire, they are at odds with each other.
Especially in recent years, as the Tang Empire has become more powerful, its attacks on neighboring countries have become more powerful.
Han and Wei were the first to bear the brunt. They were regarded as the main targets of the Tang Empire. In recent years, they have lost two or three provinces, and their strength has been greatly lost.
Under this situation, they are too busy to take care of themselves. How can Han and Wei have spare capacity to invade the seemingly unified and powerful Ming empire in the north?
Therefore, in the past 30 years, the six southern provinces of the Ming Empire have rarely encountered wars. The economy and people's livelihood have developed rapidly, and there is almost a trend of catching up and surpassing the five eastern provinces.
These six southern provinces are the largest source of money and food for the Ming Empire except the five eastern provinces. As long as Zhong Yu takes these six provinces, the power of the Ming court will be weakened by half.
At that time, Daming will really have to deal with the Dajin Empire in the seven northern provinces, and there will be no more power to go south to pacify Zhongyu, the biggest traitor.
Because the Ming court did not have the money to organize soldiers and horses to go south to quell the rebellion, at the same time the two battle lines were opened.
The 400,000 army is mighty, divided into three directions, each attacking the areas bordering the six southern provinces and the five eastern provinces, trying to quickly take the six southern provinces with the fastest speed and the strongest attack strength. Down.
The smoke of gunpowder ignited once again in the six southern provinces that had been peaceful for 30 years.
This time, all the six southern provinces have a combined army of only 300,000, and the army has been neglected for a long time, and I don't know whether it can stop Zhong Yu's aggressive attack.
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Northern Jiangxi Province, as a province bordering Dongjiang Province, home of Zhong Yu’s home, was his main target this time.
Zhong Yu's relatives rate the main force of 200,000 people, ready to pacify the northern province of Jiangxi in one fell swoop.
Things went very smoothly. He linked the three state capitals along the way, until he came to a place in Jinhua Mansion, Guobei County, and stopped for a while.
To be honest, since Zhong Yu came to the world of Liaozhai, in addition to the Huangshan Demon King he first encountered, in the following days, he fought successively in all directions, and the army was invincible wherever he went all the way.
However, no matter how many enemies he encounters, no matter how many opponents he defeats, he unexpectedly never encountered a monster. This gives Zhong Yu the illusion that he is not in a world where monsters and monsters are rampant. .
In fact, it's normal to think about it. Ever since he came to this world, Zhong Yu has been leading an army in battle, surrounded by tens of thousands of troops. Even when dealing with government affairs in peacetime, there are thousands of Tier 4 soldiers guarding the whole body.
With such a strong strength, even a Tier 6 powerhouse dare not say that it can be won, and retreats completely. This is naturally not to mention the low-powered monsters in the world of Liao Zhai.
It is an army that encounters such a powerful force, and if it is a ghost, it will immediately disappear after being charged by this evil spirit. Even demons would be restrained by magical powers, and were immediately besieged by soldiers.
Under this situation, where are there any unopened demons and ghosts who dare to stand in the way of the army? Runway Zhong Yu, who once killed the Huangshan Demon King, died in front of him.
So it's no wonder that Zhong Yu has such a dreamy feeling.
When the previous demons heard the news of Zhong Yu, they either avoided far away, or found a secret place to hide, and refused to show up.
In the face of these monsters, Zhong Li, who was eager to attack the city, naturally ignored it subconsciously and didn't care about it as long as he didn't have to come out to find death.
After all, after Huangshan Demon King’s demon warfare in the Ming Dynasty, more than ninety-nine percent of the low-level monsters of the Ming Dynasty went to Dongjiang Province to follow the emperor’s demon king’s banner and rebelled together.
The remaining demons in the Ming Dynasty were all powerful in their own right, with the cultivation base of Tier 5 or even Tier 6, and at worst, Tier 4 strength.
These people don't even bother to go to Huangshan Demon King to be his dog's legs. They still understand the principle of preferring a chicken head to a phoenix tail.
So I stayed where I was and watched it change.
However, this has also created a status quo, that is, the demons remaining in various places in the Ming Dynasty are basically powerful, and ordinary people can't suppress it, even the local state guards can't do anything.
Most people want to slay demons and kill demons.
I don't know how many outstanding children of the famous sect and aristocratic families who wanted to show the limelight because of their youth, they went to kill the demons and exterminate the demons and lost their lives.
And Guobei County, Jinhua Mansion, where Zhong Yu's army is now, is entrenched with a powerful demon, the tree demon grandma.
This tree demon grandma was transformed from a thousand-year-old locust tree. It has been cultivated for thousands of years. His root system is endless, forming a large forest with a radius of tens of miles in Guobei County.
There is a temple in the woods called Lanruo Temple, which was a famous temple in northern Jiangxi hundreds of years ago. The monks in the temple have great virtues like clouds, and the Buddhism is widely promoted and won the respect of the believers around.
However, this incense-rich temple was destroyed by the rise of the tree demon grandma.
When the tree demon grandma had just become the climate and had a little mana, the monks in the temple had already discovered it.
However, in line with the Buddha's idea of compassion, they did not directly kill demons, but chant the sutras day and night~IndoMTL.com~ in an attempt to influence the tree demon grandma.
Who expects that a demon is a demon, and the nature of killing is difficult to change, especially when the tree demon grandma found that eating human essence and blood can greatly increase her mana and speed up the speed of cultivation, she will swallow it rampantly. Passersby.
Especially when he couldn't help but swallowed a little novice monk with a little magic power, and his strength had improved for several years, the tree demon grandma even regarded the monk in the temple as fat.
Then the angry monk fought a battle with the Dryad, but unfortunately lost. The monks in the temple fled to death, completely deserted.
And Lanruo Temple's reputation for being a monster also spread, and was jealous by the entire Jinhua Mansion, and they never dared to travel dozens of miles around.
The dozens of miles of forest transformed by the tree demon's grandmother has become a forbidden place, and the locals will change its color when it comes to mentioning it.
Only some outsiders who don't know the situation will stupidly run into the woods and be confused by the female ghosts raised by the dryad grandmother. Lost his life in the midst of confusion, and the essence of his soul was swallowed by the tree demon grandma, turning it into a nourishment for cultivation.
(End of this chapter)