The news that Dong Lai and Li Gong broke into the void in front of the Xuanwu Gate was immediately spread all over the world by the martial arts people who were watching the battle. The departure of these two people will bring varying degrees of consequences to the country and the world.
Shock.
First of all, at the national level, those foreign races that were afraid of Ling Donglai's power and did not dare to invade the final, such as the Eastern Turks and Goguryeo, began to prepare for action and took frequent actions after receiving the news that Ling Donglai shattered into the void.
Secondly, in terms of martial arts, the current situation in which the Holy Church is the dominant family will change with the departure of Li Gong.
Just because everything in the Holy Religion is based on his absolute strength, his victorious power allows Li Gong to ignore the opposition within the sect and forcefully carry out reforms.
But with the departure of Li Gong, it is unclear whether his previous efforts will be in vain. Although Zhu Yuyan, the deputy leader of the Holy Cult, was appointed to take over the position of leader before Li Gong ascended to the throne, he will eventually be replaced because he is not as successful as his predecessor.
With the same strength as the sect leader, he cannot suppress the wave of opposition within the church.
It is almost foreseeable that this wave will split the Demon Sect, which is not easy to unify.
And this is something that Buddhism is happy to see happen. If the Holy Religion is divided and internal strife arises, then the opportunity for Buddhism to flourish will reappear.
What happened next was as expected by everyone. The Holy Religion, which had been sweeping the martial arts world, finally became divided.
First, the Butian Pavilion, which was the most intact, was the first to withdraw from the Holy Cult under the leadership of Yang Xuyan, the descendant of this generation.
Later, within the holy sect, the parts belonging to the Demonic Sect and the True Evangelist also experienced different levels of splits, with some backbones of the sect leaving with some of their disciples.
Fortunately, the three sects of Lianhua Sect, Mieqingdao and Shengji Sect were unable to split due to the death of their sect leader, and Li Gong took the opportunity to break up their followers. The Huajian Sect was completely destroyed due to the death of their sect leader and successors.
Destroy the faction
Naturally, these news made Buddhism, which was suppressed by the Holy Religion, very happy. They believed that Buddhism would be like the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Sun En, the heavenly master, swept across the south. Although Buddhism suffered heavy losses, it gained a chance to breathe due to Sun En's ascension.
, and flourished again.
The only regret that the Buddhist sect felt was that the "Evil King" Shi Zhixuan, who they thought would take up the banner of splitting the Holy Religion and compete with Zhu Yuyan, did not take advantage of this opportunity to appear, thus completely ending the Holy Religion that was already divided.
Could it be that they were dealt with early before the battle between Li Gong and Ling Donglai.
Different from the optimistic attitude that dominates Buddhism, Fan Qinghui holds a different view.
She believes that today’s holy religion is the greatest enemy of Buddhism.
Just because the Holy Religion is different from the Tianshi Dao, only Ling Donglai takes the lead.
The original Yin Kui sect was an evil leader no less inferior to Cihang Jingzhai. There were many masters in his sect, so he needed to be treated seriously by Buddhism.
Now, although Li Gong, the master who dominated the whole world, has been lost, the foundation of the holy religion has not been lost. Although the number of masters in the sect is scattered, they are still numerically superior to Buddhism.
On the other hand, the Buddhist sect lost all its masters such as the Four Holy Monks and Liao Kong due to the bloodbath of Li Gong. Many Buddhist temples that were its foundation were also cut off by Li Gong, and a large number of middle and low-level talents were lost.
But her voice was no longer taken seriously by Buddhism because of Li Gong's heart-breaking tactics.
And even if the affairs of the Jianghu are turbulent, they cannot affect the progress of the war on the front line and the general trend of unification of the world.
Just when something happened to the Holy Cult, Li Tang's army had also completed the encirclement of Koo Zhong's young commander's army.
Li Yuanji took the lead in leading the troops to join Li Shimin, making the balance of victory begin to tilt towards Li Tang.
When Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) arrived with the troops going to Hebei, Kou Zhong knew that there was no hope of victory, but he relied on his unwillingness to admit defeat to withstand the attacks of Li and Tang armies from all directions.
As for Li Tang, in order to accumulate military merits for Li Jiancheng (Chengqian) and suppress Li Shimin, Li Yuan issued an imperial edict that Li Jiancheng (Chengqian) should succeed Li Shimin as commander-in-chief and lead the army.
After Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) saw that the Marshal's army had withstood the first round of Tang Army's attack and still maintained high morale, he ordered the force to change the attack to a siege instead of a fight.
Just because Li Jiancheng knew that although he had an absolute advantage, as a son of this world, who knew whether Koo Zhong would cheat and make a comeback.
Even if he could not make a comeback, Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) was afraid of forcing the enemy to hurt others, which made him sink the boat and cause huge damage to his own army.
Therefore, they rejected the idea that Li Shimin and Li Yuanji had accomplished their feats in one battle, and began to build a stronghold and beat the sticks.
They surrounded Kou Zhong's young marshal's legions and sent cavalry to cut off their food routes.
No matter how provocative he was, he would not send troops.
When Kou Zhong saw that Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) refused to send troops to fight him, knowing that he was running out of food and grass, he thought of leading his army to break out of the encirclement and launched a series of fierce attacks on the Tang army's camp.
However, they were all resisted by Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian). Instead, he suffered heavy losses by attacking the well-equipped Tang army.
There were also some minor episodes in the middle. The Turks and Goguryeo invaded together, but they were repulsed by Luo Shixin and other generals from the prince's palace, beheading a total of 70,000 people.
With the pacification of areas such as Hebei and Jiangnan, more and more troops from Li Tang arrived, making Kou Zhong's hope of breaking out of the encirclement even slimmer.
At this moment, the arrival of two visitors from Li Jiancheng's Chinese army camp brought life to Koo Zhong.
The visitors were none other than Xu Ziling and Ba Fenghan.
The purpose of their coming to the camp was not to kidnap Li Jiancheng, but to seek a chance of survival for Kou Zhong.
Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) saw that the two men were so loyal, so he asked them to join the Young Marshal's Army to send a message to Kou Zhong. If he was willing to surrender, he would let the Young Marshal's Army under his command have a way out.
And he himself can survive, but the price is to accept Li Tang's imprisonment, and he can only be released when the world is stable.
After Kou Zhong received the letter of persuasion to surrender from the two men and went out of the tent to inspect the camp, he accepted the advice of Xu Ziling and Ba Fenghan and surrendered to the Tang army.
I also accepted the house arrest of the Tang army and was sent to Chang'an.
The world now belongs to Li Tang.
Li Shimin and Li Yuanji returned to Chang'an with the troops escorting Kou Zhong, and Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) had to arrange for the troops to withdraw to their original territories in batches, and then lead Lin Jun, the commander of his direct army, to rendezvous with the general Wen Chen under the Prince's Mansion.
Return to Chang'an.
But when Li Jiancheng returned to the court, he continued to receive secret reports from secret spies he arranged in Chang'an City.
After Li Shimin returned to the dynasty, he was first granted the title of General Tiance, leading the Situ, and the Shangshu Ling of Daxingtai of Shaanxi Province. He was placed on the throne of the princes and the number of households increased to 30,000.
But then, a group of civil servants and generals under his command in Tiance Mansion were transferred and dismissed by Li Yuan using various excuses.
Just when Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) led the Changlin Army and the officials and generals under his command were about to approach Chang'an, they received an obituary notice about Liu Wenjing's death from Li Yuan.