After Lin Xiao learned the specific strategy of the alliance from Lu Leiyuan, he quickly returned to the Shenmu Sect and adopted countermeasures.
Lin Xiao only left 200,000 troops under the Shenmu Sect, but he left Zhuo Lin, Ma Langfei and other high-level monks behind. Although he had reached an agreement with Mu Wanqiu, it was hard to say whether the agreement had any effect.
, Mu Wanqiu could even avoid Dao Xin's oath, but Lin Xiao didn't dare to be careless.
Fortunately, there are not many people in Shenmu Sect's mountain sect. There are 600,000 people, half of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled. Among the high-level monks, other forces of the Immortal Alliance also account for a large share. They can barely protect themselves, let alone
It's an attack.
Lin Xiao completely gave up on the dilapidated Shenmu City. Shenmu City was completely destroyed and could not function normally at all, so Lin Xiao took away the damaged spiritual veins from Shenmu City and sent the spiritual veins back to Nanzhou. Shenmu City was originally
It is a seventh-grade high-grade spiritual vein. After it is broken, there is also a sixth-grade high-grade spiritual vein, which is of extraordinary value.
Lin Xiao hoarded 500,000 people in Lingmucheng, and sent a million people to the hinterland of the Immortal League. The Immortal League also took corresponding measures, led by Lin Xiao's old enemy Tianxuan Sect, draining all the potential, and also gathered more than 100 people.
Ten thousand people confronted Lin Xiao.
These more than one million people are Tianxuan Sect's last war potential. After mobilizing so many people, even the Tianxuan Sect's mountain gate is empty. In fact, these people are no match for the Nanzhou army, but Lin Xiao still refuses to fight with them.
, just go on the defensive and defend.
After all these arrangements, Lin Xiao only had 500,000 men and horses at his disposal. One hundred thousand men headed south to cooperate with Wenxian Sect to monitor Ziyun Temple. Wenxian Sect also suffered heavy losses and only dispatched about 100,000 men.
After entering Feixianling, there was no further progress.
However, Ziyun Temple now has too much time to take care of itself. Too many of their high-level monks died in battle, and they are unable to supervise the vassal forces. The strength of their rule has been greatly reduced. Coupled with the failure of the war, many of Ziyun Temple's vassals have had second thoughts. At this time
Those monks who became refugees led many casual cultivators to plunder, and most of the Ziyun Temple territory became a land of lawless melee.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about the group of casual cultivators. The number of casual cultivators has always been more than the number of sects and family monks. The major sects in Central Continent add up to 60 to 70 million people, but the number of casual cultivators is at least over 100 million.
It's just that there are very few monks above the Divine Void Stage among casual cultivators, because at this point, they must rely on a force to go further, or form their own force and transform into a member of the Central Continent force.
The huge army of casual cultivators used to be attached to major immortal cultivation cities, working for the shops and forces in the city, and obtaining some resources for cultivation. Now with the war, business roads have shrunk, or big cities have been directly destroyed by war. These small and medium-sized businesses have closed down one after another, and scattered cultivators have
He who has become a true casual cultivator is like a refugee.
The major cities in the war zone would not accept these casual cultivators, because it was easy for a large number of spies to sneak into them, so the rogue cultivators who had no food and clothing became refugees, and they poured into Nanzhou and Xizhou in large numbers.
In the relatively safe areas of Beizhou, the rest are wandering around. Many people also have the idea of heroes emerging from troubled times, and they rob others to strengthen themselves, forming a group of thieves and robbers, which makes the security of the vacuum in various places extremely rapid.
deterioration.
So Lin Xiao immediately carried out an attack on the robbers in the realm of Shenmu Sect. These robbers were in groups of only one or two thousand at most. They were an unorganized mob and were no match for the large army. In a short period of time,
They were swept away by the Nanzhou army.
After dealing with the robbers, Lin Xiao began to colonize and established hundreds of small and large markets in the realm of Shenmu Sect, basically using the basis of the previous markets, but changing the rule.
Lin Xiao still had hundreds of thousands of captives in his hands, all of whom were relegated to hard labor. He occupied a large number of spiritual mountains and began to operate. Lin Xiao did not think about long-term rule, so all he planted were spiritual rice or various kinds of spiritual rice that could be harvested in the short term.
Plant low-level elixirs.
Because he occupied too much territory and there were not enough prisoners, Lin Xiao recruited rogue cultivators aggressively, recruiting 200,000 people in one go. He disrupted the rogue cultivators and prisoners into formations and allowed them to restrict each other. The Nanzhou army
Responsible for supervision and safety matters.
After a month of rectification, the territory of Shenmu Sect began to stabilize. The Nanzhou army seemed to have replaced the rule of Shenmu Sect, and various places entered the stage of recuperation.
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"Head"
Lin Xiao came to inspect Lingmu City immediately after he had time to do so. As the person in charge of logistics, Si Qi was basically one of the elders in charge of Lingmu City.
"How are the supplies?"
"It's enough. Nanzhou has been sending them. Except for the spiritual rice, most of them come from the big factory of Wu State."
Si Qi replied that the Nanzhou army had fought all the way and destroyed many cities and towns. After several months of counting, the inventory had basically been completed. There was a large amount of materials, and Lin Xiao sent them to Wu Guo University according to their value.
Factory, and then use the corresponding alchemy weapon array resources from the Wu Kingdom Factory to make up for it. Over and over again, the Wu Kingdom Factory made a lot of money. This is also the point where Lin Xiao uses his power for personal gain.
However, none of the countries in Southern Continent have any opinions on this. The consumption of war is very large. In order to ensure the needs of the war, there must be transactions. Now, no country in Southern Continent can compare with large factories, and the prices of low-end resources are also
There is no comparison. In their opinion, they still made a profit.
“How are the prices in Nanzhou?”
"The alchemy weapon array has not increased much, but the price of spiritual rice has increased by one-third."
"There is no war in Nanzhou. It is normal that the alchemy weapon array does not increase. How is the supply of spiritual rice in Nanzhou?"
Lin Xiao nodded. Food needs to be grown, and the proportion of planting in each sect will not be too high. Basically, it mainly meets their own needs. Now that millions of people have entered Central Continent for more than half a year, consumption has increased and output has not increased.
, price increases are normal.
"It's enough. The spiritual rice from Borderlands was harvested last month and the price has stabilized. However, it will continue to be consumed for up to half a month. Now Nanzhou is also supplying the forces in northern Central Continent."
Si Qi replied that the Five Continents Alliance headed by Kunlun Penglai had also squeezed its own war potential. Most of the monks were gathered on the front line, resulting in insufficient management manpower and reduced production of spiritual rice. Therefore, supplies from Nanzhou, Xizhou, and Beizhou were needed, among which supply
The one with the greatest ability is Nanzhou.
"That's okay. Remember, our people must ensure the supply. If necessary, we can send a message to Ye Nanyu and ask him to reduce the supply to Kunlun Penglai and make Xizhou make some money."
"I have already sent the letter. The Qin State of Xizhou has made a fortune this time."
Si Qi said that after the reform of Princess Mingyue and the relaxation of the external environment in the Qin State, the total amount of food has increased a lot. The spiritual rice that used to be of extremely low value can now be exchanged for some mid-to-high-level resources, making the entire Qin State extremely
The joy also made Princess Mingyue's rule more stable.
"I understand, let Ah Qing come over."
"Yes, leader"
Not long after, Lin Xiao met Ah Qing in the main hall of Lingmu City. After Lin Xiao came back from Kunlun, he asked Ah Qing to continue to be responsible for Ye Xiao, and the first task he gave Ye Xiao was to investigate the prices of goods in the Immortal Alliance.
"Following the instructions of the leader, we have investigated the prices in the Fairy League for more than a month. Because of the preparations for the war for more than a hundred years, they have sufficient reserves of strategic materials, such as ore, and they still have a lot of them.
, and there are enough men and horses to refine the magic weapon.
However, storage is not enough for basic resources, not only spiritual rice, but also talismans, spiritual blood, spiritual flesh, low-level elixirs, spiritual herbs, etc.
Among them, the gap in spiritual rice is the largest. Not counting Ziyun Temple and Shenmu Sect, the Immortal League now has more than 20 million monks hoarding on the front lines. According to the average consumption of one kilogram per person per day, it takes more than 40 million kilograms every day, and they
The production capacity has been greatly reduced. Only the old, weak, sick and disabled are planting Lingmi. They do not put enough thought into planting, and the output has dropped sharply.
Not long ago, Kunlun implemented the leader's strategy. This strategy has been passed to the hands of the Immortal League. The Immortal League began to reduce the supply of spiritual rice, increase planting efforts, and transfer some disabled monks back to the rear for planting. At the same time, they asked Dong Dong
Dongzhou provides supplies, and Dongzhou can import a large amount.”
"Strategic exposure, what are the reactions of the various sects in the Immortal Alliance?"
"As expected from the strategy, each sect is hoarding various low-level resources, causing the price to skyrocket. The price has already doubled. The Immortal Alliance tried its best to suppress it, but it is still unable to suppress it. Even casual cultivators are hoarding it. It has already doubled.
Caused great panic.”
"Haha, the conspiracy can't be stopped, the Immortal Alliance is about to die."
Lin Xiao laughed and said that Lin Xiao took the initiative to ask Lu Leiyuan to reveal this strategy in order to use his conspiracy to panic the monks in the Immortal Alliance and raise prices.
The theories on various issues in the world of immortality are not enough. They don’t know what is a rigid need. Eating is a rigid need that is needed at all times. Monks below Daogang cannot get rid of the problem of eating. During wars, magic weapons and spiritual talismans are also rigid needs.
They realize this, but it is not enough and they cannot control it at all.
"Master, now the sects of the Immortal League have very strong control over bulk resources. We can't destroy them. What should we do?"
"It doesn't matter, it's not yet time. The resources of the Immortal Alliance are quite sufficient now, so you have no chance. If you delay for a few more months, when this year's food is almost consumed, they will cause trouble. Your main thing now is to win over
Some casual cultivators, when prices rise, they can use them to do things, so don't do it yourself."
"Yes, I understand, but when the time comes, we will still need support from the army."
"There will be. I have prepared 30,000 people and are training them. When the time comes, these people will obey the Night Owl's instructions and enter the hinterland of the Immortal Alliance to carry out destruction."
"Yes, leader"
"Okay, there's nothing going on. You go down and do some work. We don't have enough manpower to ask Ye Nanyu to support us. Nanzhou can bring in another group of people."
"good"
Ah Qing bowed his hand and left. Now that the war situation has changed, his tasks have become much greater and things have become busier.