Chapter 286: Life and Death
Although they had already received the news, the official of the Elven Empire had pounced on their beheading. But this incident still deeply stimulated Lin Shui. He felt that he and the True God Cult had been challenged, and that it would be a sign of cowardice and incompetence to do nothing to respond to it.
Obviously, Lin Shui's thinking at the moment still has the color of a former general. Therefore, it is inevitable that he will be a little straightforward in his thinking.
So when the prime minister of the Elven Empire and their Imperial Council were arguing with each other, Lin Shui, who was the leader of the True God Sect in the Elven Empire, also summoned the heads of each city in a small city near Lando City.
"The true God has taught us that blood is paid in blood. If those so-called nobles provoke war against us without their own strength, then we will give them war. Command to equip all the warriors in the church.
It doesn't matter if you've been blessed or not. Then there is a plan to attack their armory and the castle lord's residence, and we must make these so-called nobles understand that we are not lambs to the slaughter!"
Lin Shui glared and said such a thing with indignation.
So the Cult of the True God, which had hundreds of thousands of official members, launched their war machine, and then on the third day after the city lords of Lando City and the city lords of Ored were dismissed, the Cult of the True God launched an operation across two-thirds of the territory of the Elven Empire.
And in this way, the incredible organizational power of the True God Cult was exposed to the public eye. Within the Elven Empire, one hundred and thirteen cities were attacked at the same time.
Some are hundreds, some are thousands. Among them, Lando City and Orred City are the leaders. Because the lords of these two cities have been deposed, and the new lords have not yet taken office.
There was a rare vacuum of supreme power in the city for a while. So in these two cities, the believers of the True God Cult directly rebelled against the city's city defense army. Then, in less than a day, the city defense army and the True God Cult joined forces to conquer the castle lord's residence and the armory factory where the armor and weapons were stored.
Even after that, the uptown districts of the two cities did not give up resistance. After all, there are a certain number of elven mages living in these two cities, and the combat power of these mages is still very strong.
But because they were outnumbered, Shangcheng only held out for two more days, and then fell one after another.
Then, the news of celebration came from far and wide. Under the sudden attack of the True God Cult, more than 80 of the 113 cities were controlled by the True God Cult.
To be honest, this is also something that Lin Shui never thought of beforehand. His original idea was just to plan a large-scale riot so that he could gain bargaining chips with the Elven Empire in the future. However, things went a little too smoothly than expected.
Therefore, new ambitions also grew in Lin Shui's heart. He felt that he might be able to overthrow the Elven Empire now.
But after their unexpected success, all kinds of ghosts, snakes, gods and careerists in the Elven Empire also took advantage of this wind to emerge.
Many of these people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and they yearn for blood and adventure in their bones. So don't look at most of these people who don't believe in the True God Cult at all, but after they raised a group of people to start a riot, they also pulled up the tiger skin of the True God Religion.
Just like when the White Lotus Sect rebelled at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, all the rebels in the world raised the banner of the White Lotus Sect.
So much so that in the days after successfully occupying most of the cities of the Elven Empire, Lin Shui received countless letters of willingness to surrender. One by one, the careerists whispered, and almost every elf expressed their desire to work with the True God Cult to overthrow their common enemy, the current Elven Emperor and his government.
But how could Lin Shui not understand what these people were thinking, "They did this just to attract the emperor's attention to us. After all, the emperor not only had the elite guards and the powerful royal mage regiment in his hands, but also thousands of naval soldiers and border soldiers waiting for him to mobilize. ”
"Mentor, you mean that we shouldn't pay attention to these rabble?"
Manu stood by Lin Shui's side, and he looked down on the careerists who had swarmed from all over the Elven Empire. After all, compared to the True God Cult, which has hundreds of thousands of official members, these scattered careerists with only a few hundred or thousands of troops in their hands are really not worth mentioning. In Manu's eyes, these people were no different from the gangs they had exterminated in the slums.
After all, Lin Shui is an "old guy" who has experienced many ups and downs, so compared with the young Manu, his way of seeing things is undoubtedly more comprehensive and long-term.
Therefore, after Manu said nothing, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Why don't you ignore it." These rabble who can't get on the table. They want to use us, can't we use them in reverse?
They want a name, so we give them a name. Then let them attack other cities for us, so that we can borrow these people to see if the nobles who rule the empire are so unbearable. ”
"But Mentor, will these guys obey our orders?"
"Ha, they dare to disobey!" Lin Shui's eyes flashed with a touch of killing intent directly, "Now, they have stood on the opposite side of the Elven Empire, do you think they have any other choice?"
If you don't obey, then let these guys die. Before the two male lions competed, how could there be hyenas next to them. ”
"Yes, I see. Lin Shui's words suddenly made Manu's eyes light up. Now he has to admit, "I'm really far behind my mentor." Whether it's the wrist or the heart. ”
So he later bowed his head and left to arrange and deal with this matter.
But after Manu left his side, Manu, who was now alone, was silent for a moment, and then he couldn't help but walk to a room further inside.
This room is very large, covering an area of about four or five hundred square meters. But the whole room was extremely empty, and outside the stone pillars inside, there was only a wooden statue that made it impossible to look at the face.
And who is this statue?
As a real being, Lin Shui's revenge was naturally approved of by him. Because he knew very well that even if the decapitation tactic failed, the upper echelons of the empire would not be able to rest on their laurels.
The war between the two sides began as early as the moment when the upper echelons of the Elven Empire decided to destroy the True God Cult by force. Therefore, instead of waiting passively and silently enduring, it is better to strike first.
But even He didn't expect things to go so smoothly. After all, on the sea, the Elven Empire is not bad. Even in their empire, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the elves at the bottom and the elves at the top live in two worlds.
But the huge disparity between the rich and the poor is hard to avoid. Before the crossing, the same was true of the powerful technological countries on the Blue Star. Whoever calls selfishness and greed is human nature, unless man abandons this nature, or the productive forces progress to a point beyond imagination. Otherwise, polarization is inevitable.
However, judging from the situation at this time, it was obvious that he still underestimated the degree of division within the Elven Empire.
For example, before the True God Cult even took action, the Elven Empire was like a barrel of dynamite that exploded at the slightest point. And now Lin Shui and them just happened to be the sparks that ignited the explosive barrels.
That's why the situation will be smoother than expected. But with such an east wind, can the True God Cult really overthrow the rule of the Elven Empire?
Lin Shui was not so confident in this matter. So he went to the statue and got down on his knees, asking for an answer from the true God he believed in.
Although he has the power of almost omnipotent faith, he has never been an all-knowing and all-powerful being. He can only speculate about what will happen in the future. In this respect, the true God of Him is no different from ordinary people.
Because of this, Liang Tian couldn't give him a positive answer to the answer Lin Shui wanted to ask for. But after a lot of similar things, he has learned to make perfect. So he looked at Lin Shui in front of him, and said in his majestic voice: "The future has infinite variables and infinite possibilities. Now, my servant, do what you think is right. ”
To put it bluntly, he threw the decision-making power to Lin Shui again. And no matter what kind of decision Lin Shui made in the end, as long as it wasn't a stupid decision that was too outrageous, he wouldn't stop it. It's about deciding to change without changing.
In this way, he would not be held liable for a mistake in his decision, and he would not have made a mistake. There is no way, who calls Him, the true God, all-knowing and all-powerful in the eyes of believers, must always be right.
Then in order to be able to be right forever, He can only never make mistakes. After all, never making mistakes is similar to being always right on another level. It's just that he took pity on Lin Shui, even if he prayed, he couldn't completely eliminate the hesitation in his heart.
But by this time, it was already ready to be sent.
Now, no matter whether or not the Elven Empire can be overthrown in one go, it is necessary to fight a war with the Elven Empire. In the end, there is truth in the barrel of the gun, and as long as the war can be won, then almost ninety percent of the problems can be solved.
Therefore, in the next step, what Lin Shui and the True God Sect did was to take advantage of the current situation to reduce the existing strength of the Elven Empire as much as possible. After all, as a challenger who suddenly launched a riot, time would not be on the side of the True God Cult.
If the True God Sect and Lin Shui do not take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle now, then when the Elven Empire mobilizes their army and people, it will definitely be the True God Sect that will lose.
Therefore, the True God Cult must race against time. Inflict a blow on the Elven Empire by all means, so that the Elven Empire will not be able to mobilize his army to arm his people in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, in the following month, not only those careerists who feared that the world would not be chaotic were forced into battle by the True God Cult. The True God Cult itself has mobilized all the power they can muster.
Lin Shui first drew and gathered those loyal members of the church with strong faith from all over the country into one place, so that the church's fist could be clenched. Then he let the various places expand their armies with the wealth that once belonged to the Elven Empire.
And these enlarged elves, whether loyal or not, firm in faith or not. As long as they are willing to work for the True God Cult now, it is enough.
As a result, in this precious month, Lin Shui and the True God Cult swept away all the resistance forces in the area under their control. At the same time, he also conquered ten cities of the Elven Empire with elite forces in a row.
But these ten cities were not attacked at random, but with a very purposeful purpose. Now, Lin Shuizheng leads an elite legion with almost 50,000 troops. Among them, nearly 2,000 people were blessed, and they slaughtered from the coastal city of Landau to Jacqueland, the capital of the Elven Empire in the central region.
But in addition, there is an elite army in the south. This legion, with a strength of nearly 30,000 men and a blessing of almost 1,000 men, is attacking Valdés, the magical city of Valdés in the eastern part of the Elven Empire, from the south.
Because these two cities are currently the two most important cities that are still under the control of the Elven Empire. If the Cult of the True God can conquer these two cities in the shortest possible time, it may really be able to overthrow the current rule of the Elven Empire.
Therefore, the ten elven cities that were conquered in this month were all stumbling blocks blocking the advance of the two legions without exception.
However, it is precisely because of this that when Jacqueland, the capital of the Elven Empire, received the news. The Imperial Diet, the Imperial Prime Minister, and the Imperial Emperor, who have been bickering for a long time lately, have finally been united under strong external pressure.
"Now, there's no time for us to argue. We must put aside all preconceptions and stand together. Otherwise, at this rate, in another month, those mobs and rebels from Landau City will be under the city!"
It is rare for the old speaker of the parliament to shout loudly at this time. But what he said at this time was also agreed by almost everyone. So in the next step, the parliament accepted the emperor's orders in its entirety.
First, more elven civilians were recruited from the vicinity of the capital to join the army, and the wandering warriors who had difficulty surviving in the past have now become fragrant and sweet. As long as you are willing to come, there is nothing you don't want on the side of the Elf Empire.
Then the emperor ordered the northern border army to be mobilized to the south, and the southern border army to be mobilized to the north. Eventually, the emperor ordered all naval forces to assist the local army in controlling the coastal cities.
"It's imperative that these damned mob rebels be surrounded in the shortest possible time, and that these damned mob rebels must not be allowed to come to Jacqueland. The survival of the entire empire is fought here!"
The Emperor, who was no longer young, roared hoarsely. It's been a year since he was the emperor, and it's the first time he's been so nervous.