The sea is just water, but the sea is different from the sea.

You can enter the sea by walking about a hundred miles southwest from Saints City, and then you have to sail for 12 or 3 days to reach the battleground in the southern border of Tiaoguo. The 20 or so days on the road knew nothing about the situation of the war. No one could send the news in time. It was useless to see how urgent the battle situation there was. But Chen Leng had to come again when he went to Saints City. Even if he was not sure whether the letter from the monk Chengsheng Temple would be useful, he would come. If there was a letter, he might retreat without fighting.

Of course, Chen Leng didn't plan to not fight, and he didn't plan to not fight from the beginning.

Daning has always been like this. If you don’t hit me, I may not hit you. If you hit me, I will definitely hit you.

Few people take this sea route from Qiuli to Tiaoguo, and the sea still looks the same as it was, which is awesome.

The more than ten days of voyage is a torment for the soldiers, but fortunately, time will not really slow down or faster. Time ignores people's hearts, perhaps the most ruthless is the fairest.

After entering the waters of Tiaoguo, the atmosphere became even more strange. After seeking a position to stand up and be hostile to Tiaoguo for many years, it is understandable that few people walk on that sea route. However, Tiaoguo is a major maritime trade country, and shipping is one of the pillars of the economy. Now, there are no big ships along the way, and merchants make money, so they would rather take a detour or simply stop the flight than go to the battlefield to find it boring.

The Rilang Kingdom believes in Zen Buddhism. It is rumored that every generation of emperors is a sincere believer in Zen Buddhism. Otherwise, the old emperor would not have run to the Saints City. Because of this, the combat power of the Rilang Kingdom army was actually somewhat exaggerated. It can withstand the Anji army for ten years. It is not that the soldiers of the Rilang Kingdom can be fought, but that Anji has pulled the front line too long and could not take care of it. When Anji fought to the Rilang Kingdom in the Eastern Expedition, he thought that he was like the small countries he had conquered before. He could send tens of thousands of people to the corner of history books by sending tens of thousands of people, and he would be forgotten in a few hundred years.

Countries like Rilang and Tiao Kingdom have one thing in common. The geographical location determines the diversity of cultures between the two countries. The culture of Rilang goes west is very different from the Central Plains. Rilang has been in contact with Tiao Kingdom for a long time, and Tiao Kingdom has long admired the Central Plains culture. Therefore, these two countries are very chaotic in both folk customs and architectural styles, especially in commercial cities. Oriental wooden buildings and Western square stone tower buildings are not uncommon. As the economy becomes more and more developed, the original architectural style of Tiao Kingdom has been forgotten.

Someone once said that countries with more developed business tend not to be strong in military terms, which does not mean that such countries have weak military strength. It is just that under the influence of merchants' thinking for a long time, the army often cannot maintain strong fighting spirit while putting it to death. Strong military power does not mean that they have strong combat power.

Chen Leng didn't think that this sentence was correct, but it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Tiaoguo army and the Qiuli army were not on the same level. Of course, compared with Daning, the combat effectiveness of the Qiuli army did not need to be praised.

After dozens of naval warships sailed into the waters of Tiaoguo, they could see from afar that some places on the land were ignited. That was the place of war, and there should be killing.

The soldiers in Daning were used to killing and were not used to being killed.

In fact, the soldiers of Daning have never been able to truly protect themselves for places like Tiaoguo and Qiuli. Perhaps it will take at least ten or twenty years or even longer to really treat the people here as their own. However, the mentality of the soldiers of Daning has always been that wherever I beat them, the place I have beaten must be my territory, so no one on my territory can beat me up except me.

"Why didn't you see the scout ship of Hiroku?"

Chen Ran was still confused when he came down from the mast watchtower. The soldiers on the watchtower did not warn him so much that Chen Ran suspected that he was asleep. He climbed up and looked forward to the front, back and left and right for a while, but he actually didn't find a warship from the Rilang Kingdom. Judging from the map, this place is less than fifty miles away from the place where the 200,000 troops of the Rilang Kingdom landed and set up camp. It can't be that he forgot to arrange the scout ship, right?

"Don't worry about him, keep moving forward."

Chen Leng gave an order, but the formation of the warship still changed. As the collision ships one by one reached the front, the speed of the fleet had to be reduced.

I walked about thirty miles of water. There was nothing unusual on the land except for the occasional black smoke. I had already entered the enemy camp within fifteen miles. In theory, enemy ships should be seen everywhere, but when I got here, I still didn't find any warships from the Riro Kingdom.

"What's wrong."

Chen Ran approached Chen Leng: "Can we be the soldiers and brothers of our coastal defense have been defeated? So the army of Rilang Kingdom rushed in, so that there were no people near the coast."

"We have more than 10,000 soldiers on our side, who only defend but not attack. Even if the Rilang Kingdom really has 200,000 troops attacked, it will definitely not break through the defense line so quickly."

At this moment, we cannot continue to move forward like this. Chen Leng ordered the navy warship to get off the anchor and send scouts to the shore.

About two hours later, the scouts on the coast returned on horseback, and the local general Li Wenshan, who came back together. Now one third of the soldiers who were left behind in the country of Tiao were veterans who had originally attacked Tiao, and two thirds were new recruits trained in the arsenal of the southern Xinjiang. Li Wenshan was originally a fifth-rank general of the Hujiandao warrior. After staying in Tiao, he was promoted to the fourth-rank general for accumulating military merits. He once fought a battle with Chen Leng.

The war horse stayed on the shore, and Li Wenshan boarded the boat and arrived at Chen Leng's flagship. This warship was Zhuang Yong's flagship magic and was temporarily lent to Chen Leng.

After Li Wenshan got on the warship, he walked a few steps to Chen Leng and clasped his fists: "Greetings to the general."

Chen Leng quickly reached out to help him: "Where do we get so many etiquettes? We don't need this."

Li Wenshan said: "The rules cannot be broken, thank you for your hard work on the general along the way."

Chen Leng shook his head: "Thank you hard but not hard, just an impatient thing. I'll ask you something, why did I still not see the army of Rilang Country when I got here?"

Li Wenshan couldn't help but burst into laughter: "The general has never seen the fighting style of the Rilang Army. If he saw it, he would understand... I heard that the 200,000 troops of Rilang Country were attacking the coast. When I brought the troops over, I was a little nervous. I didn't know that these soldiers in Rilang Country were veritable monk soldiers. Many people were afraid of blood. They said they were here to fight, but it would be better to say that they were here to scare people."

"ah?"

Chen Leng was stunned: "Monk soldiers? Are they all monks?"

"No, they dare not kill like monks. When they were fighting, there were many people shouting and rushing forward. Once the people in front died, they started running back..."

Chen Leng asked: "I see that there are many wars on the shore. Could it be that the troops of Rilang Kingdom are dividing their troops to attack?"

"yes."

Li Wenshan explained: "But I can't stand their fighting style. Really, sometimes I can't help but want to go over and have a good chat with them. Let's not keep making fun of it all the time... Not long ago, the army of the 20,000 Rilang Kingdom besieged Xuyu County. Do you know how they attacked the city? They first spent seven days outside the city to build a large barracks, but they didn't live in it. The general led the army to ride a horse outside the city gate and said... Look at the people in the city, the camp outside is like your city. If you don't open the city gate and surrender, your fate will be exactly the same as these barracks. Then he ordered a torch to burn the barracks they built with great effort. Those people still looked like you were afraid..."

Chen Ran: "Is it so cute..."

Li Wenshan sighed: "Really, I couldn't help but think about going over and talking to them. Just fight and beat me. Don't build a house at any time and then burn it to scare people."

Chen Leng: "How did they resist ten years of rest?"

Li Wenshan said: "I was curious and asked, and captured some prisoners of the Rilang Kingdom. They asked them that in order to resist the fierce attack of the Anxi Army, they built a city wall of more than 600 miles in the western border. Anyway, their Rilang Kingdom was quite rich... As a result, the Anxi Army rushed into the city wall defense, and they even scolded that they did not follow the rules, so they could not go around and fight. In that battle, Anxi Kingdom captured 15 cities of the Rilang Kingdom in a row. The Rilang Kingdom mobilized 300,000 troops to surround the 40,000 Anxi Army who broke into the country. Every day, they took turns to send people to the outside of their camps to reason, and they were bothered. I even felt that Anxi had not been fighting for ten years because they were not upset by reasoning... "

Li Wenshan continued: "I also heard that the five hundred soldiers of Anxi can chase the soldiers of the seven or eight thousand Rilang Kingdom, chasing them all the way, and they dare not even fight. For ten years, the Anxi people had to retreat because of insufficient troops and unable to keep up with logistics supplies. It was also ten years before the Rilang Kingdom had been building city walls on their western borders, saying that they had built nearly two thousand miles, and the money was really high."

Chen Leng felt that the anxiety on the way he was when he came was a little unnecessary...

Li Wenshan said: "General, it's good that you're here, otherwise I'm afraid I can't handle it."

Chen Leng: "Isn't the war not fierce?"

"It's not intense. Every day, a group of people coming from outside to reason, I can't hold on anymore. There were more than 30 monks coming the day before yesterday, saying that as long as I am willing to surrender, I can choose any of these 30 monks to worship him as their teacher. In their country, these great monks are all respected people. It's difficult for ordinary people to worship them as their teachers. Maybe they think this opportunity is rare and want me to seize it..."

Chen Leng now felt that it was a bit unnecessary for him to go to Saints City on purpose.

"Go and see the situation first."

Chen Leng suddenly remembered something: "How did you come out smoothly? The 200,000 troops of Rilang Country were not sealed?"

Li Wenshan said: "It's sealed, it's sealed very seriously. Yesterday they sent someone to reason with me and said, "Look, we have surrounded your city and left a special intersection that allows the people to enter and exit, and it's convenient for others and yourself... The general's battle is really not easy to fight. Take it seriously and he is having fun with you. I have been in the army for many years. It's the first time I have seen such an opponent."
Chapter completed!