When he received the news that Lingjing City had formed a joint army to jointly fight against the Western Shang Kingdom, General Cheng Lu was stunned on the spot.
No one expected that the Hanling Kingdom, which had lost its royal family and the protection of the Immortal Cultivating Sect, could actually form such a huge army, and they were united and ready to fight against the Western Shang Kingdom.
Who gave them the courage?
Cheng Lu was sitting in the Chinese army's tent, holding the news he had just received in his hand, which contained exactly the current situation in Lingjing City.
After reading it, Cheng Lu took a long breath, and then sighed: "It seems that this spiritual city will be a tough one!"
The 100,000-strong army in Lingjing City is not scary, but the people who can gather this 100,000-strong army are scary!
Although Hanling Kingdom is not big, it has more than fifty large cities with a population of hundreds of millions and a profound cultural heritage.
This person can now gather an army of 100,000 people. Even if he is defeated, he can still raise more people in the future.
The army of the Western Shang Kingdom is not unlimited. They can only choose one method of attack when they invade the Hanling Kingdom, which is to fight quickly and use the fastest speed to wipe out the resistance of the Hanling Kingdom, and then slowly eat away at it.
remaining cities.
Now that some people have organized resistance, once they taste the sweetness, more resistance will appear.
At that time, they will fall into the vast sea of people's war and fight with the people of the entire Hanling Kingdom.
There is only one consequence of this, and that is - lose!
Cheng Lu thought for a long time, slowly put down the letter in his hand, and then shouted at the top of his lungs: "Someone, call the messenger!"
"yes!"
Someone answered outside the door.
Not long after, the messenger from the army came to the central military tent and saw Cheng Lu closing his eyes.
"I've met the general!"
The messenger bowed and greeted in a low voice.
"Send a message to the country and tell the prime minister and monarch that I need support!"
General Cheng Lu got straight to the point and expressed his thoughts directly, and said bluntly: "Lingjing City must be taken, and it must be taken cleanly! Tell the Prime Minister, if there is no support, I will not fight, Old Cheng
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"This..." The messenger was a little embarrassed, and his face didn't look good.
Although he knew the general's temper very well, how could he say such things to the prime minister and the monarch?
Although the general has a certain degree of autonomy in leading troops outside, the decision to attack Hanling Kingdom is made by the monarch and the prime minister. How can the general decide not to attack without authorization?
And he also used this to threaten the prime minister and the monarch. The general must be too courageous.
The messenger was thinking when he suddenly saw Cheng Lu staring at him angrily and yelling: "What, you didn't hear? Just write as I said, don't worry about all the mess! The prime minister and the monarch are more knowledgeable than you.
They know my temper well, and they won’t care. What a waste of time for you to worry about here!”
After being scolded severely by Cheng Lu, the interrogator immediately became honest.
It was indeed as the other party said, he only needed to write it as he said it, and he didn't need to bear the consequences, so why should he worry about it in vain?
He is a general, but he is just a worthless messenger, not even a non-commissioned officer, and he still wants to worry about this and that.
It is simply: the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is!
After thinking about this, the messenger immediately became honest and quickly wrote a copy of Cheng Lu's original words, then handed it over to the other party for inspection. After confirming that it was correct, it was sent back to the country of Xishang.
Half an hour later, a reply came from the country. The prime minister and king of the West Shang Kingdom had agreed and immediately sent an army of 300,000 to support, and there were also masters from the Immortal Cultivation Sect, the Xianyuan Sect!
After receiving this news, Cheng Lu was immediately overjoyed and immediately had his troops stop their march and stationed themselves on a plain fifty miles away from Lingjing City.
His idea is very simple, wait until everyone is gathered, and then start another wave!
At the same time, in Lingjing City fifty miles away.
It has been a few days since Lu Xiaoyue came to Lingjing City.
In the past few days, under the leadership of Shopkeeper Hong, she carefully inspected the other party's work and carefully observed the "everyone becomes the city lord" reform to see if it could succeed.
After reading it again, Lu Xiaoyue was generally satisfied with it and felt that it had been done well.
However, Jian Zhen was not satisfied with this at all. He felt that these people were messing around. It was obviously an excellent reform, but they turned it into something completely different.
The current Lingjing City is actually not very similar to the legendary democracy, but more like elite management.
They seemed to have been taken to another realm by Spirit Realm City.
Although Jian Zhen could understand it, he couldn't give them any advice. He could only use Lu Xiaoyue's words to explain it bit by bit, so that Shopkeeper Hong and the elites of Lingjing City could slowly understand it.
However, regardless of the current system in Lingjing City, they have at least done a very good job in boosting morale.
The troops of the Western Shang Kingdom were publicized as heinous invaders. If they captured Lingjing City, they would bring serious disaster to this place.
So stop them no matter what!
The current situation in Lingjing City has also allowed armies from other cities to see their changes, and many armies are quite envious of them.
Most of them come from northern cities. Although they have joined the Northern Twenty-Seven Cities Alliance, the system is still the same as before and there is no change.
This is not Lu Xiaoyue's negligence, but the priority of the matter. The top priority now is to stop the invaders. As for integrating the cities of Hanling Kingdom and forming a new country, it has been arranged for later.
Donglian City also sent people to visit Lingjing City's model, and as a sample, they sent a message back to City Lord Liu of Meteor City, hoping that he could improve a better system in Donglian City.
City Lord Liu did not hesitate to do so and quickly agreed.
More than ten days have passed, and Lu Xiaoyue has a general understanding of the situation in Lingjing City, and has clearly given some new suggestions. However, she still did not accept the management herself, but continued to let Shopkeeper Hong take charge.
During this time, the troops gathered by Lu Xiaoyue also completed their assembly and preliminary alliance. Although they came from different cities and had different command systems, after this period of running-in, they finally found a tacit understanding.
At the same time, the Xishang Kingdom camp fifty miles outside Lingjing City also received their support.
An army of 300,000 people, which had been coming from the Western Shang Kingdom, had already joined them.
Accompanying this army were immortal cultivators from the Immortal Fate Sect, all of whom were powerful masters, making Cheng Lu smile from ear to ear.
As a general, he finally had the opportunity to personally command these immortal cultivators.