Chapter 246: The Emperor's Embarrassment
The punishment given to You Yuzhen by Yun Ze Daoren, the head of the Kunlun faction, is actually very intriguing. If You Yuzhen can learn from the pain and repent, then after You Yuzhen recovers from her injury, she can go down the mountain again soon.
After all, when he was in Dengzhou City at that time, everyone heard the last roar before You Yuzhen passed out - the must-kill Qu Zhaolin. This is actually enough to show that You Yuzhen had already repented at that time.
However, if the head of the Kunlun faction, Yun Ze Daoist, or the more influential Xuanzhen Daoist, thinks that You Yuzhen has not repented, then You Yuzhen is likely to be imprisoned by the Kunlun faction for the rest of his life.
Of course, the same is true for Nie Qi, who is facing a similar situation, although due to the intercession of the three princes of the Dayu Kingdom, the final joint council did not designate Nie Qi as a devil and a spy, but the big mistake made by Nie Qi must be punished, so Nie Qi was also locked in the deepest dungeon of the Taiyue faction by Nie Zhengxiong, the head of the Taiyue faction, for reflection.
In today's ever-changing Middle Continent, it seems that no matter what shocks the world, something else will happen soon to attract the world's attention again. As soon as the dust settled on the Kunlun faction's deacon ordering the elders to fornicate with the holy daughter of the Sacred Heart Sect, the entire Cangqi country on the other side began to set off an unprecedented bloody storm.
The Qu family, which has been rooted in the Cangqi Kingdom for hundreds of years, was uprooted because of this secret demon surrender by Zhenwu Hou. From the officials of the low-level government to the concubines in the inner courtyard of the palace, there are as many as 100,000 people implicated. This is still the number of the core forces of the vast majority of the Qu family after being secretly transferred to the Sacred Heart Sect by the Marquis of Zhenwu.
All the ministers of the DPRK and China who went to the court when Xu Zilan led the army to the south, saying that Xu Zilan had a heart of disobedience, were all investigated and punished in this purge, and were sentenced to demotion, dismissal, death and other punishments depending on the severity of the circumstances. The people who had previously spread rumors unfavorable to Xu Zilan in the Cangqi State were also arrested by the order of the emperor of the Cangqi Kingdom, and more than 2,000 main culprits were arrested.
In order to express his apologies to Xu Zilan, and also to commend Xu Zilan's achievements in the battle of Dengzhou City, Jiang Ceye, the emperor of Cangqi, hereby promulgated a holy decree to announce to the world that Xu Zilan, the prince of Cangqi, was established as the prince of Cangqi.
But what embarrassed the emperor of Cangqi was that Xu Zilan actually resigned directly. Moreover, Xu Zilan did not return to the capital of Cangqi at all, he just gave the emperor a recital and dismissed the matter.
Xu Zilan said in the recital that he did not do these things for fame and fortune, he did it completely for the sake of countless innocent people. Now that the situation in Dengzhou City is unstable, it is very likely that the Demon Dao will attack Dengzhou City again. If Dengzhou City is lost, then Dengzhou, which has eleven prefecture cities and thirty-two county seats, will soon all fall into the hands of the Demon Dao, so he will not return to China and resign in person.
Xu Zilan also said in his recital that this time, the 300,000 army led by Xu Zilan suffered more than 50,000 casualties in the battle with the army of Zhenwuhou. In the battle with the Giant Devourer, only more than 40,000 soldiers survived. In order to be able to hold the strategic location of Dengzhou City, I hope that His Majesty the Emperor can send troops to support.
As for the results obtained in this battle, there is not a word mentioned in Xu Zilan's recital. However, Xu Zilan was not the only one who reported to the imperial court. The battle of Dengzhou City ended with the retreat of the Demon Dao, and the army led by the traitor Zhenwuhou of Cangqi State only escaped with more than 100,000 people, and the 30,000 Giant Devourers were also killed by the Black Armor Army of the Tianguo Mansion, and the corpses of all the Giant Devourers have now been transported back to China for study. The people of Cangqi who were rescued this time were as many as 8.7 million people.
In the first confrontation of the Second Demon Rebellion, Xu Zilan achieved such a proud record, and since then Xu Zilan's image in the minds of the people of Cangqi has been completely established. Therefore, when this son, who has not seen each other for more than 20 years, refused directly to give the greatest reward that the emperor of Cangqi could give without any affection, the lord of a country looking down on the world could only smile bitterly.
If he knew that his son could be so good, Jiang Ceye, the emperor of Cangqi State, would have coaxed Empress Xu to stay in the national capital no matter what, but at this point, he could only try to compensate for it. Immediately, the emperor of Cangqi ordered the mobilization of elite troops to Dengzhou City, and all matters in Dengzhou City were decided by Xu Zilan alone.
In this way, the first frontal war between the forces of Central Continent and the Sacred Heart Sect was in full swing, and Dengzhou City was the front line of the battle against the Sacred Heart Sect, and after some redeployment, the elite army of Dengzhou City still garrisoned by Xu Zilan totaled 360,000 people.
In terms of the Shenxiao faction, after bringing more than 2,000 dead and wounded disciples back to the Shenxiao faction, with the full support of Xu Zilan's master, Jiang Lingsu, the head of the Shenxiao faction, he sent a total of 33,000 disciples to help Xu Zilan defend Dengzhou City.
Not only that, the Cangqi State also sent an army of 1.4 million to form three group armies to march to the previous four prefectures that were ostensibly stalemate with the Demon Dao army, but were actually occupied by the Demon Dao, preparing to regain the lost territory. To this end, the Shenxiao Sect also sent 60,000 disciples led by the four elders to support.
Surprisingly, the Sacred Heart Sect did not start a big battle with the incoming army in the territory of Cangqi Country, but was unusually calm and completely on the defensive, and the nearly 500,000 troops of the Sacred Heart Sect all retreated in the occupied city.
And in every city occupied by the Sacred Heart Sect, there was an old demon with extraordinary strength to guard it, and at this time, everyone had to mention the genius warlock who fornicated with the Holy Maiden of the Sacred Heart Sect again. Because, according to the information that this person had found in the mountains at the risk of death before, everyone could now confirm that these four old demons were the four who were brought out of the ice field ruins by the Sacred Heart Sect.
In the next two months, the three groups of Cangqi organized four large-scale siege battles, but the capital city located on the border of Cangqi was already more focused on military role. The fortified city, the army of more than 100,000 in the city, and most importantly, the bottomless old devil guarded it, so that the four attacks of the three army groups were all in vain.
Not only that, but in the siege battle, there was also a Shenxiao Sect elder who almost died at the hands of an old demon, and the entire front of Cangqi Kingdom entered a stalemate.
Just when everyone was speculating about what the Sacred Heart Sect intended next, there was a sudden upheaval in the territory of Wu on the other side of the border. The 550,000 Sacred Heart Sect army landed in the East China Sea at the junction of the Cangqi State and the Wu State, and quietly and suddenly launched an attack on the Wu State.
First of all, the coastal city, the second largest port in the state of Wu and second only to the county town in scale, fell into the hands of the Sacred Heart Sect overnight. Immediately afterwards, the army of the Sacred Heart Sect went all the way to the west, and in only one month, it connected the two capital cities of Wu State.