Before the provincial examination, literary cultivators often rush to the examination venue half a year in advance. In Huzhou City, there are not many martial arts cultivators preparing for the martial arts examination.
Song Zheng waved his hand: "Then let's follow the past arrangements and recruit some experienced brothers to take charge. If there is an occasion where I need to come forward, make arrangements in advance and I will go."
"Yes, sir."
Du Baihu just left, it wasn't a big deal. To be honest, Du Baihu didn't think much of those martial arts practitioners who were born in martial arts. He always felt that they were small sects, small aristocratic families, and casual cultivators who had no way to get ahead.
Only then will they come to the martial arts competition to fight for their birth status.
Nine days before the Hongwu Martial Arts Provincial Examination, Liequan, an important place in the northeast of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty, closed, and a ball of flames soared nine thousand feet into the sky! The huge explosion and roar could be heard hundreds of miles away, and the earth
It cracked and shattered in the violent shaking, and the mountain collapsed.
Liequan Pass, a strategic fortress of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty in the northeast, was bombed and collapsed by the Huaxu Ancient Kingdom with a "natural disaster-level" combat tool "Extraterrestrial Star". There were 150,000 soldiers guarding the pass, but no one survived!
The location of Liequan Pass is extremely important. It is surrounded by dozens of large-scale formations painstakingly arranged by the military geniuses of the Hongwu Dynasty, which can completely block the invasion of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom.
The last reinforcement of Liequan Pass was Helian Lie. After he and Yun Chijing had a small battle at Liequan Pass, they knew that the ancient Huaxu Kingdom would not give up, and Liequan Pass would become a battlefield sooner or later.
But now, Helian Lie is dead, and everyone in Hongwu Celestial Dynasty is in panic. I don’t know who else can resist the evil!
Fortunately, the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty and the Huaxu Ancient Kingdom had been fighting for tens of thousands of years, and they were well prepared for each other. The area behind Liequan Pass was not flat, and there were many strategic places such as Wuhou Pass, Jiangjun Pass, and Lianyundao that could be defended.
At the critical moment of life and death, the imperial court finally acted quickly. Within one day, they quickly dispatched the ancestors and Zhenguo, and sent the elite of the forbidden army to the front line, including the fighting beast Xiuqi, who were deployed along the defense line.
The army of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom stormed Wuhou Pass, and the battle was fierce.
But on the third day after the fall of Liequan Pass, another army from the Huaxu Ancient Kingdom, led by Tiansha Yun Chijing, suddenly crossed the Dalan River, passed through the Tianqing Gorge, and appeared in Beidi.
Jinzhou.
Jinzhou and Tongzhou are connected, and the capital is three thousand miles to the south. Moreover, there are almost no heavy guards along the way from Tianqing Gorge to the capital. The distance of three thousand miles can be reached almost instantly for the Xiu army!
The imperial court was in a panic. There were no generals in the court and no strong soldiers in the local area. They were also panicking and wanted to transfer the main force of the imperial army to Jinzhou. In such a panic, Yun Chijing had already brought his Hundred Battle King Cavalry and led three soldiers.
One hundred thousand Huaxu's elite troops marched through Jinzhou with overwhelming force, and in half a day they reached the Dingjie Bridge, five hundred miles north of the capital.
The capital is in danger, Hongwu is in danger!
Perhaps it was because the Hongwu dynasty still had the last bit of luck left, Yun Chijing and Baizhan Wangqi were actually blocked at the Dingjie Bridge. A guerrilla general, with a mob of five thousand, unexpectedly blocked them.
Yun Chi was shocked by his troops.
The name of this guerrilla general was Wei Taihe. He was a Jinshi in the martial arts examination twenty years ago. After twenty years, he was only a fifth-ranked man and was still not taken seriously. He was thrown to the Dingjie Bridge to fend for himself.
Although Dingjie Bridge is an important place in the north of the capital, no one thinks that the world has been peaceful for so long, and there will be enemies who can kill Dingjie Bridge. Guarding Dingjie Bridge will not gain any military merit, and it will not be promoted.
At such a close distance from the capital of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty, Yun Chijing no longer dared to use the stratagem of Da Xiu to launch a detour and sneak attack. Any courtyard around here might be the headquarter of an ancient family, and he might stoke a hornet's nest if he wasn't careful.
What he is going to fight this time is a war to destroy the country!
In the world of cultivation, it is extremely complicated to carry out a war to destroy a country. The Zhenguo, Ancestor, and Tianzun under his command must be concentrated within the scope of their own military formations, so that they can connect their forces into a rock-solid body and will not be separated by others.
Break.
In a country of cultivation, a powerful person who can control the country may decide the outcome of a war. Therefore, before starting the war to destroy the country, ensuring that the ancient families of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty will not interfere is also an important part of the entire war.
However, Wei Taihe relied on the large-scale spiritual formation in the capital, cultivated magical skills and had many ingenuity. Yun Chijing used the Hundred Battle King Cavalry as the vanguard. These arrogant generals did not originally pay attention to this small demarcation bridge.
Here, I thought I could defeat the enemy camp and level the fortress with just one charge.
Unexpectedly, this time, it was like a big wave hitting the rock hard, and his head was broken and bloody.
Six people of the extremely precious Hundred Wars King Cavalry were killed in this charge, almost all of them were killed by Wei Taihe alone! Yun Chi was shocked and heartbroken, restrained the Hundred Wars King Cavalry from acting without permission, and then personally mentioned it
The army comes to fight.
But he was stuck outside Dingjie Bridge for three whole days.
No matter what method he used, Wei Taihe always had a way to deal with it. Sometimes it was a very shameful method, but it was still able to stop the enemy.
In the past three days, the life of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty was renewed. Some of the elite soldiers of the Forbidden Army were transferred back. The troops of King Qin from various places also arrived one after another. Yun Chijing's strategic sneak attack was finally solved.
The two sides fell into a protracted and brutal positional battle.
After Song Zheng got the news, he suddenly understood why Yun Chijing seemed to be wandering around the Shenjin Mountain's extremity for so long with nothing to do.
Fighting all the way from Liequan Pass to the capital, this is the most convenient route for the ancient Huaxu Kingdom to march into Hongwu. It can avoid some dangerous and dangerous areas in the Hongwu Empire, but there are also many fortresses and obstacles on this road. If you really want to defeat them,
It is not easy to be in the capital.
But if we don’t take this route, other places will be more difficult. The two countries have been at war for many years. If there were other feasible routes, this route would have been abandoned long ago.
But Yun Chi was shocked in the extremity of Shenjin Mountain and found a detour key: Dalan River and Tianqing Gorge.
In the past, the famous generals of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom had never thought of taking a detour from the Shenjin Mountain to break into the Hongwu Dynasty. However, the Shenjin Mountain was too dangerous. Not to mention the wild beasts and insects on the land, there were many roads along the way.
The river stretches across the river, and the wild beasts in the water are even more terrifying. Even the sky above the river is a forbidden area. They can shoot special water arrows, or use their natal magical powers to collapse the void above the river.
The aquatic wild beasts are larger and more ferocious.
Yun Chijing originally wanted to see if there were any opportunities near Huangtai Castle under the sky fire, but he accidentally discovered the Tianqing Gorge, which was originally the home of a powerful wild beast, the "Taihuang Deinosuchus"
In their habitat, this desolate beast is as high as nine levels, and the king among them is probably a high-level spiritual beast, and they are desolate beasts that live in groups. There are estimated to be hundreds of Tai Desolate Crocodiles in the entire Tianqing Gorge.
But there will be a period of time every ten years when the Deinosuchus will go upstream along the Dalan River to mate and lay eggs in a special inlet, leaving the entire Tianqing Gorge empty.
After Yun Chijing determined this, he began to wander around the Shenjin Mountain, using Tianqing Gorge as a key node to find a relatively safe marching route in the extremity.
Having made all these preparations, he divided his troops into two groups. The main force of one million soldiers used the "extraterrestrial star" sneak attack to blow up Liequan Pass, attracting the main force of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty. And he took the real elite 300,000 soldiers and quickly passed through.
After passing Shenjin Mountain and appearing in Jinzhou, the Hongwu Empire was caught off guard and fell into chaos.
Song Zheng suddenly thought of Yanque: "Could the last incident also be Yun Chijing's handiwork? Do everything you can to gain a strategic advantage before the war.
If it succeeds, Huaxu Ancient Kingdom will have an internal agent at the level of a pavilion leader. If it fails, it will only lose a high-level secret agent and a dark moth.
Compared to the national war, such losses are negligible."
When he thought about it again, he really felt like Yun Chijing's style.
In the Yanque incident, the senior-level spy who was likely to be bribed has not yet been found, and even Xiao Zhen is at a loss to do anything about it.
But at the moment of the war, this possible "internal response" has become a shadow hanging over the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty.
Wei Taihe's stunning battle at Dingjie Bridge made the world's martial arts proud and proud. With the national crisis at the forefront, military affairs were the top priority, and the martial arts examination suddenly went from being ignored to being highly valued!
His Majesty the Emperor doesn't care about birthdays anymore. He will first pass the current hurdle.
Originally, the emperor was still a little concerned about money, but Xiao Zhen, the commander of the Longyi Guards, said: "I have Song Zheng, a capable official who has a holy heart and knows how to handle things, and the Ouye family is not the only one in this world."
The emperor "knew the elegance of the song after hearing it", understood it in his heart, and immediately waved his pen and poured out rewards in large quantities. He must let the non-commissioned officers compete first and the soldiers use their lives to drive the Huaxu enemy bandits out of our dynasty.
Xiao Zhen deceived his subordinates, and felt a little pleasure in schadenfreude: I am also helpless.
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Here in the south of the Yangtze River, several imperial edicts came one after another, strictly ordering Song Zheng, the inspector of the five states south of the Yangtze River from the Longyi Guard, to supervise the states and select martial cultivators to participate in the martial arts examinations. It was necessary to make the martial arts examinations comparable to the civil examinations.
In the face of a national crisis, doing so did not attract any criticism. On the contrary, various places responded positively. Originally, those big families and sects did not want their truly outstanding disciples to take the path of martial arts, but now with Wei Tai and Zhu Yu in front,
In addition, His Majesty's generous rewards for the martial arts examinations led them to change their attitude and order the first-class children in their families to sign up for the martial arts examinations.
Song Zheng suddenly became busy. The five-state martial arts provincial examination, the number of people was really big. In Huzhou alone, there were only 780 people participating, but this suddenly increased to more than 670 people!
All the inns in Huzhou City are full, and martial arts practitioners with good family backgrounds can stay at the homes of relatives and friends, and the conditions are far better than inns. Those who have no legs and come late can only squeeze into some ruined temples and Taoist temples.
Song Zheng had a solid foundation in Huzhou City. Pinghu Tower took the lead, and Bangong Clan, Lianxian Sect, Yushan Sect, etc. responded actively. Sixty-four arenas were quickly built near Taiji Lake, surrounded by strange formations, and used for martial arts competitions.
Selection.
Bai Hejiu and Chen Fulong worked together in Xizhou to arrange the military examination in an orderly manner. The big forces in the other three states who were interested in making good friends with Song Zheng also took this opportunity to help the inspector to keep a good relationship with him.
Chapter completed!