Chapter 249 Long Fengding, Yang Shen Jie

Author: Traveling from the South

Chapter 249 Long Fengding, Yang Shen Jie

How many people can accept the consequences of the road being cut off, and really believe that the Qianlong they support can become the last true dragon?

Many weak Fulong sects, after supporting Qianlong until the founding of the country, would stop and withdraw after receiving a grant from Master Qi Luck.

A slightly stronger sect such as Houtu Sect, which is at the top of Dingzhou, has a preset goal of supporting Lu Ding to unify the state.

After that, depending on the situation, you can choose to harvest a fortune and close the mountain gate, or continue to support Lu Ding until he becomes king, so that you can get more luck in return.

But when the hidden dragon becomes king, it usually reaches its peak, and its dragon elephant has probably grown into a four-clawed dragon.

If the king goes up further, he will be crowned emperor. There will be no chance of regret, and the winner will be the true king.

There are few victors in the past who can tolerate the surrender of the king to survive. The king's luck is not over, and there are many variables.

Usually losers either die of illness or die suddenly. If they live for a long time, they will often be remembered in history because they are so rare.

In the same way, if the Fulong Sect continues to support Qianlong and compete in the True Dragon War, there will be absolutely no chance of regret.

Qianlong became the last true dragon, and the Fulong sect must have received unprecedented rewards. Many Taoist canons have recorded that the Venerable Dharma Master used the true dragon's great luck to successfully overcome the tribulation, and finally ascended to the Mahayana.

The rewards are great, but once it fails, the backlash is unprecedented.

Not only are the monks who are deeply involved in Fulong difficult to survive, but the entire sect will be implicated, the orthodoxy will be interrupted, and the whole sect will die. This is normal.

This is the revenge of the domineering dragon spirit. The true dragon is the only one who is supreme. In front of the founding dragon, even the gods and gods will bow their eyebrows.

From Zhou Bai's perspective now that he has peeped into many secrets, Heavenly Court's promotion of dynasty change is to seize the great fortune of the Ancestral Dragon in the era of spiritual energy recovery, in exchange for the opportunity for a Heavenly Emperor to attack the Taoist ancestors.

By then, even if you have not become a Taoist ancestor, the fortune of the new dynasty that has emerged in the great world will greatly replenish the heavenly court, and countless heavenly officials will benefit from this.

Zhou Bai wanted to use the system to run the dynasty and help him achieve enlightenment, so he worked hard to avoid inheriting the virtues of a certain emperor.

The one who supported the dragon was just using his small gain to take away the benefits he deserved, but the heavenly court was even worse off.

It is necessary to speed up the capture of Dingzhou, erect the state tripod, and gain more attention from the humane will, so that there will be a fairer environment to compete for the dragon.

In addition, after unifying Dingzhou, he can start to determine the order of yin and yang and win the support of heaven.

Zhenjun's threat made Zhou Bai's thoughts wander far away, but he was also using this to determine his direction.

"Zhenjun Shaoyuan has been stationed in Dingzhou for a long time. He protects one side, drives away evil spirits, and kills enemies outside the territory. He has made great contributions to humanity and is highly respected among the people."

"The general trend of the country's fortunes and the suppression of military power may not have much effect on such a true monarch with humane virtues." Zhou Bai analyzed while flipping through the files of True Lord Shao Yuan.

This True Lord Shaoyuan is different from ordinary monks. If he is willing to consume his humane merits, even if he takes action to resist the Anbei army, he will not immediately suffer any fate backlash.

The record of human merits and virtues has a rich and colorful chapter in Hunyuan Qiyun Dao Zang.

Li Yuan frowned: "Moreover, if he really supports Lei Haomiao and fights against our Taoist priests..."

When the general trend of the national destiny cannot be suppressed too much, the Anbei Taoist priests group without a true monarch will be useless against a top true monarch.

There are many cases of Central Domain sects, and neither the awake nor the future Fulong monks will directly participate in the national war.

It is impossible to suppress the mortal army, but this does not mean that extraordinary power cannot affect the situation of the war.

Detection, treatment, hindering marches, changing the environment, even beheading and assassination, etc. are all what monks can do.

In Dingzhou City, there is a miniature version of the Shenjing City’s defensive array. If Shao Yuan’s true lord were to hold it again.

It can even be expected that after the Shao Yuan True Lord expelled his own extraordinary power and settled in the city, it would be difficult for the state, city and country to capture it within a few years.

After Li Yuan expressed all his judgments and worries, Zhou Bai remained calm.

"From now on, you can communicate with Xuanyi Wei and test the attitude of True Lord Shao Yuan."

"Remember, this is not the Fulong Warlock."

"If he really wants to go against the trend, he will have to deal with it himself."

The sound of calm arrangements made Li Yuan feel confident, especially when he heard that Zhou Bai was going to deal with it personally, he seemed to realize something.

"You, are you ready to survive the tribulation and get promoted?!"

Few people know about Zhou Bai's true cultivation level. Li Yuan, the deputy leader of the Taoist priest corps, is the same. Even if he took action in the border town last time, many people only thought that he was in the early stage of Yin Shen.

The next day, noon.

Not a single defender could be seen in Longfeng City, and there was no trace of defensive weapons such as bed crossbows and honeycomb arrows. There was only the sound of people inside and outside the city.

Ordinary people are happy because the superiors voted in after all. There is no need to fight, and there is no need to involve them.

More importantly, the person who came to receive them was the famous Anbei King Zhou Bai.

The people of Longfeng have seen the development of Ruinan next door. Pingcang has achieved great success, and Bei'an has achieved great success. It is not an empty promise.

The most striking thing is the change in the past month.

They, Longfeng, did not have any extra luck, so in the cold winter of January, they could only stay at home and save money, while the earth was still lifeless.

But if you look at Ruinan County next door, everyone is healthy, diseases have subsided, and the earth is full of vitality. You can see that the summer harvest has been brought forward, and you can have three crops a year and abundant harvests.

Except for some powerful people who are worried about the change of power, ordinary people are only willing to join Anbei Kingdom.

The gates of Longfeng City were wide open, the soldiers discarded their swords and armor, and the people ate pots of pulp to welcome the king's troops.

Cai Feng, the left prime minister of Dingguo, took the lead, followed by the county governor Yang Ye, the county lieutenant Hong Anguo and other county civil and military officials. They begged for surrender with official seals, population yellow records, and land fish scale records.

Zhou Bai happily accepted it and ordered on the spot that Cai Feng be appointed as the minister of Dali Temple, one of the nine ministers. The governor of the county, Yang Ye, and the commander of the county, Hong Anguo, will remain in their original positions without any change.

This treatment was beyond the imagination of the three of them, and they were overjoyed. They had made the right bet.

Zhou Bai really needed the three of them as horse bones, and he told Yu Dingguo widely that he would never hesitate to trust and use those who sincerely surrendered.

Then the army entered the city to take over, collecting 30,000 old and weak soldiers and all kinds of ordnance.

Perhaps they were afraid that Yang Ye and the others would simply refuse to defend. The food was still enough to feed the 300,000 people in the city for a month, but the bank was nearly empty.

There are only ten thousand taels of silver, one thousand taels of gold, and various scattered items worth five thousand taels of silver. There are no spiritual stones or treasures left.

This was of course extremely rare for a county. It was not because the county officials were so bold as to intercept them all on the eve of surrender.

It was because everything was emptied when Lei Zhen evacuated it.

However, for Zhou Bai, the most precious and valuable things are land and population.

On February 18, in order to allow Li Dingguo, a handsome man, to be more integrated into Anbei Kingdom and accelerate the maturity of his life, Zhou Bai still took Li Dingguo's troops as the vanguard.

Three thousand cavalry were led and coordinated by Chu Kai to cover the movements of the vanguard and prevent the Dingguo cavalry from detecting more information.

On February 20th, Minister Li drove south and successively captured Shibi County and Zhenhua County to ensure that there would be no worries around Longfeng.

On February 22, the defenders of Jingde County surrendered, and Li Dingguo obtained relevant information about the southern border of Longfeng.

On February 23, Gutai County, the only county under the control of Dingguo General Lei Zhen, was raided by cavalry led by Chu Kai.

The two-foot-wide moat was jumped across by the dragon horses ridden by Chu Kai and his soldiers, and the north city gate could not be closed immediately.

Then Li Dingguo arrived in time, and after a fight, he successfully captured Gutai County.

On the 25th, support from the Chinese army arrived. Li Dingguo led the Forbidden Army and Chu Kai led 3,000 cavalry to sweep the Longfeng border.

At this time, Dingguo was still in shock at the surrender of Longfeng's "Big Three", especially the defection of left prime minister Cai Feng, which was said to have made Lei Haomiao so angry that he vomited blood.

He never expected that the dignified left prime minister of the country would betray him as a habitual means of balancing and suppressing him.

Do you really see the general trend clearly and think there is no hope for Dingguo?

There was a lot of discussion about this among the people and the court. They felt that the general was not a country, and the prime minister, governor and lieutenant had already surrendered, so there was no point in holding on stubbornly.

The morale of the people has fallen to the bottom. Originally, the destiny of the state and the country originated from the core, which occupied at least three points.

Looking back now, that point has been reduced with the fall of Longfeng County, and with the overall collapse of public opinion, Dingguo County still holds at most one and a half points of Dingzhou's luck.

With no other choice, Lei Haomiao could only order Cai Feng and the other three to be declared traitors, and a bounty on their heads would be placed on their heads as viscounts.

In addition, all parts of the country are prohibited from discussing them again, and they are not allowed to spread depressing and humiliating remarks about the country, otherwise they will be arrested and imprisoned.

The lightest case is to confiscate the home, the worst case is to behead someone in public.

Suddenly, in Dingzhou City, the capital of the country, the society was clean and upright, order was restored, and people's hearts seemed to be much more stable.

At the same time, the front line suffered successive losses. Seeing that the ban on talking was effective, the Dingguo government upgraded the ban to a ban on discussing war-related matters.

Under high pressure, the loss of Longfeng County and the prime minister's treason seemed to no longer exist, and Dingguo once again shifted its focus to the front line of defense.

Your care and support, such as food and weapons, are smoothly delivered to the front line.

But guarding against the people's mouth is better than guarding against the river.

No one knows when the flood will break through the embankment, maybe it will only take one more failure.

Of course, for now, the high-pressure ban is effective. At least people in the rear are no longer panic-stricken, and the frontline troops can feel more at ease.

In Fumin County, the first city on the border of Dingzhou County, the northernmost part of Dingzhou, Lei Zhen was listening to military reports from all sides on the front line.

"The roads such as Wufeng, Qingyang, and Hukou have all been opened by the Anbei Army, and a large number of sentinels have sneaked into the territory."

"According to reports from behind-the-scenes reports, it is suspected that the family members of Cai Feng and others were sent to the Anbei camp."
To be continued...