Chapter 312 The half-dead and half-alive Chunyang Palace is the best
Just when Lu Yan was escaping, three hundred miles north of Xueyan Gate, Bai Zichen was leading a warship that was frantically sniping at tens of thousands of reinforcements from Chunyang Palace. The warships flew over the reinforcements, firing one hundred and twenty Xuanjing cannons.
Firing wildly, Bai Zichen and the other three Dao Gang monks tried their best to contain the other Dao Gang monks and prevent them from rushing up to destroy the battleship.
The monks from Chunyang Palace fought extremely bravely. Although they paid a huge price, they pushed the battle line from 800 miles to 300 miles. This distance is very short in the world of immortal cultivators. It may not take long.
Pushed to the gate of Xueyanmen Mountain to rescue Lu Yan.
However, just this three-hundred-mile journey made the monks of Chunyang Palace feel disheartened. It was not because of the bravery of the battleships, but because of the appearance of Lu Yan. Lu Yan, the god in the hearts of the monks of Chunyang Palace, actually fled.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of flying boats appeared. Daogang and Zifu were all running for their lives, like lost dogs. This was very difficult for the Chunyang Palace monks who had been the overlord of the Lu Kingdom for thousands of years to accept.
Immediately, their retreat caused a terrible scene. Even the reinforcements began to change direction and fled towards Jingzhou. Bai Zichen did not pursue him. It would be extremely disadvantageous to pursue him at this time. He just fired a few shots at will.
cannon, and then let the battleship land, and the monks on the battleship began to clean the battlefield.
An hour later, the last monk in the Xueyan Sect who fought bravely was killed. Everywhere he saw, there were either monks kneeling in surrender or monks lying in a pool of blood.
Lin Xiao ordered the battlefield to be cleaned, prisoners to be captured, and supplies to be counted. This task took three days. Although monks from the Danyang Sect and other sects urged Lin Xiao to attack Jingzhou and eat Chunyang Palace, it would be easier to go there.
After all, anyone who has been to Yujing City knows how prosperous it is, several times more prosperous than Gongming City, the strongest city in Tianyun State, but Lin Xiao refused.
The reason Lin Xiao gave was very simple. He was unable to fight. The casualties suffered by Tianyun Province in this battle were not small. Of course, Lin Xiao's real reason was that Chunyang Palace still needed to resist the invasion of Tianyun Kingdom and other forces. Once Tianyun State
The state annexed Chunyang Palace, let’s not talk about the price.
How, in the future Tianyun Prefecture will have to guard against the two great enemies of Cang State and Tian Eclipse State, and Xiang State to the east of Lu State will also have to guard against Tianyun Prefecture. This is extremely unfavorable for the rapid development of Tianyun Prefecture.
After all, just amassing an army at the border is a lot of waste.
In three days, the battlefield was cleared. After a decisive battle, most of the main force of Chunyang Palace was wiped out. There were about 60,000 monks from Chunyang Palace and Baiyan Prefecture, and only about 10,000 people escaped. Among them, Lu Yan and the others took them.
There must have been less than 7,000 people who left, and the remaining 3,000 people fled in all directions after them. Lin Xiao did not send anyone to chase them.
Of the remaining 50,000 monks, approximately 25,000 were killed in the battle, a few thousand were wounded and captured, and another 20,000 surrendered after laying down their weapons.
And Tianyun Prefecture also paid a huge price. More than 8,000 people died directly in the battle, and more than 15,000 were injured, of which more than 6,000 were seriously injured. With so many casualties, the medicine prepared by Tianyun Prefecture
It's simply not enough, and we don't know how many more people will die.
Coupled with the casualties from previous battles and the Western Front, the number of casualties in Tianyun Prefecture this time should be between 14,000 and 50,000, and the number of Tiansheng Sect casualties was more than 4,000, a full two-fifths of the death rate.
, countless genius disciples lost their lives in this battle.
Among them, five Daogang monks died in the battle, and the rest were all injured. Four of the five Daogang monks were from Tiansheng Sect, and the other one was a newly promoted Daogang from Hongshan Sect.
Senior officials like Lin Xiao were not idle. They personally sealed the Dantian of the Zifu monks among the captives, and then sent people to transport the captives and the seriously injured to Tianyun Prefecture.
Lin Xiao led 10,000 people north to the border of Baiyan State. Looking at the tense Chunyang Palace defense line, he did not take the initiative to attack. Instead, he began to clean up the remaining small forces, forcibly relocated mortals, and moved them away.
After migrating southward, after half a month of busy work, Lin Xiaocai led his troops to retreat five hundred miles and stationed themselves on a third-order spiritual mountain and several second-order spiritual mountains to build a defense line.
In the past half month, the remaining monks in Tianyun State have completed the cleanup work of the entire Baiyan State. The Xueyan Clan, the overlord sect of Baiyan State, was directly exterminated. Even though there were thousands of Xueyan Clan monks among the prisoners, Lin
Xiaoxiao is not ready to return Xueyanmen to them.
As for the remaining sects that assisted in the war, their gates were also breached one after another, all their wealth was plundered, and all the monks who surrendered became prisoners. Only a few forces surrendered before Tianyun State attacked and killed the main fighting faction, so they survived.
In addition, Tianyun Prefecture is still migrating mortals. There are approximately three to four million mortals in Baiyan Prefecture. After clearing out hundreds of thousands of mortals from the monks' immediate relatives, at least two million mortals are migrating south. This is a
It's a huge project, but it doesn't matter, Tianyun Prefecture has plenty of time.
Because at this time the Cang Kingdom's attack also retreated, because the Tianxiang Kingdom easily occupied the gate of Chenqing Valley and the remaining territory, the Cang Kingdom also had huge interests there, which forced Wu Muyang to make a choice.
, he defeated even the strongest Chunyang Palace, so naturally he did not dare to be hostile to Tianyun State anymore and took the initiative to propose reconciliation.
So Li Muxue left 10,000 people to guard the border, 5,000 people returned to the hinterland of Tianyun Prefecture to strengthen defense, and the remaining troops went north to Baiyan Prefecture.
Chunyang Palace in the north breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Tianyunzhou's actions, knowing that Tianyunzhou had no intention of destroying Chunyang Palace at once.
However, at this time, Lu Muyang was killed in the battle and Lu Yan was seriously injured. They were unable to stop the banditry of the Tianshi Kingdom. They could only continue to squeeze the war potential of Chunyang Palace, while adhering to Chunyang Palace's original territory of Chen State, and at the same time, adhering to the border of Baiyan Prefecture.
Paying a certain price and uniting with the Cang Kingdom to jointly curb the annexation of the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom, Chunyang Palace got a certain chance to breathe.
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Among the Xueyan Gate, Lin Xiao found Geng Yunlong from the Danyang Sect, Mo Youwei from the Hongshan Sect, Zhou Haozheng from the Shanhe Sect, and Wei Yunzhao from the Tianhai Sect. They were all Daogang monks of the Four Sects and the leaders of the Four Sects.
Together with Lin Xiao, these five people determine the fate of the entire Tianyun State.
"I came to you today to discuss post-war arrangements. This time we defeated the main force of Chunyang Palace. There will be no major war in a hundred years, and we also obtained the territory of almost two states. If the arrangement is a problem
ah"
"Headmaster Lin, have you encountered any difficulties?"
"Yunlong, it's not some difficulties, it's a big one. The territory as big as two states and counties makes people's minds wander, especially there are five fourth-level Lingshan Mountains. Even if the Changchun Gate doesn't move, there are still
Four, do you know how many people are interested in these spiritual mountains?"
"Headmaster Lin, if they want it, can't they just exchange it for military exploits?"
"It's not that simple. Let me put it bluntly. First, this time we went to war in Tianyun Prefecture. We killed and injured more than 20,000 monks and consumed more than 80 million resources. We now have neither the people nor the money to digest these territories.
, even if it is the original territory, many sects have not digested it completely and are still asking casual cultivators to run it. If they eat so much again, they will be exhausted.
As for the second point, it is still a matter of financial resources. Don’t forget, our Tianyun Prefecture has borrowed 50 million in usury, plus military merit rewards and death and injury pensions, our trophies alone are not enough."
"Please tell me, Master Lin, how to deal with it."
"Okay, then I will make it clear that we do not want any of the five sects in the two states, especially Baiyan State. Instead, we will place the last four sects among the nine sects in Tianyun State on four fourth-level spiritual mountains.
But in addition to asking them to offset their military exploits, they also have to give up their original territory."
"Moving again, will they be willing?"
"Yes, and some sects have several third-level spiritual mountains. If we change this, they will suffer a loss."
"We will make up for what we have suffered. We will use these four sects as the backbone of these two prefectures and counties to firmly occupy them, and then I am going to sell the rest of Lingshan."
"Sell, Mr. Lin, this..."
"Listen to me, there are many casual cultivator groups in Tianyun Prefecture that are already quite powerful, and they even have quite a few families. However, because they are not included in our Tianyun Prefecture system, they cannot get Lingshan Mountain.
development, and these people will also become our hidden dangers, it is better to help them and let them use their savings for many years to buy these spiritual mountains. We will provide them with shelter for ten or twenty years. They will definitely be willing.
In this case, we can get a large sum of Xuanjing, but this amount is probably only enough to repay the debt. Our rewards and pensions are still unavailable, so I decided to let Chunyang Palace redeem the remaining captives as we did before.
Go back so that we can have enough financial resources to provide rewards and compensation.
Ancestors, many people died in this battle. If there are no rewards and compensation, something big will happen. This is our first priority."
"But if you put the captives back, isn't this the same as letting the tiger return to the mountain?"
"This is not the case. Most of the truly brave monks either ran away or were killed. Those who can surrender are not considered brave people. They will not have much impact on our major events. Moreover, we also need Chunyang Palace to resist the natural eclipse for us.
pressure from the country.”
"What Chief Lin said actually makes sense. With our strength, we actually cannot control such a large territory. Our current territory is much larger than the original Lu State, but how many people we have, this battle has exposed it.
Well, if it weren’t for the fact that Leader Lin used the Dao Fruit Tree to lure the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom, we would be the losers. What we need is time to develop.”
"Tianhaimen agreed."
"Shanhe Sect agreed"
"Danyang Sect is fine too"
“The same goes for Hongshan Gate”
"Okay, you are indeed people with great vision."
Lin Xiao was overjoyed. All four people agreed, so the matter was settled.