Chapter 921: The Discussion of Borrowing Troops (3)
As soon as Chen Hai had a preliminary understanding of the changes in the situation in the Demon Zhangling and the Northwest Regions in the four or five months after he left, Jiang Jin, who was in Yantai Pass, directly sent him a message to ask him to go to the Yantai Pass Metropolitan Protector's Mansion to inquire about crossing the sea and borrowing troops.
Chen Hai asked the others to stay in Yunmen Sai, and he took Zhou Yunshan and Sha Tianhe and flew directly to Yantai Pass.
Yunmen Plug is located in the inner perimeter of the Yanguantai defense line to the east, in the past, the peaks and valleys here are beautiful, the forest is deep and the streams are clear, and there are many waterfalls, but at this time it is also scorched earth everywhere, and the landslides are cracked, it can be seen that the demon clan has more than once, and directly cut the soldiers into the inner line between Yunmen Plug and Yantai Pass.
Chen Hai withstood the cold wind, flew towards Yantai Pass, and could also see the situation of the mountains in the north, the Qianshan, Quanlin, and Jintai Sansai, which were originally subordinate to Yantai Pass, had fallen into the hands of the demons, and the demons had built a larger-scale demon city there, densely packed with demon soldiers and generals, as if they were completely operated by the demons as a bridgehead for infiltrating attacks to the south, and they could also perceive that the demons had deployed a rather not weak magic array.
These three key places fell into the demons, which made the pressure on the defensive line north and east of Yantai Pass no worse than that of Yunmen Block......
Chen Hai, Zhou Yunshan, and Sha Tianhe flew into Yantai Pass.
Yantai Pass has built a parapet wall on the periphery, and there are traces of repeated repairs after the cautery collapse, which makes the main city of Yantai Pass more prominent, so that in wartime troops can be sent to reinforce Zhusai, the innermost southwest city, at this time there are many more mortals, the intermission of the war, the streets and alleys are still quite lively.
Chen Hai's divine sense swept the past, and he knew that most of the ordinary people who had regathered in the southwest city were the families of the grassroots generals, and he guessed that it should be Ji Jiangye, Jiang Jin, and Yuan Zhou who forcibly moved their families over in order to ensure that the grassroots military attaches could have the belief of co-existence with the city.
At this moment, the Northwest Domain is not only facing the Tiancheng Mountain Demon Clan, but also the monsters that are constantly surging south from Tiancheng Mountain to the north for millions or even millions of miles, at this moment, it seems that the entire Demon Domain that has been sleeping for tens of thousands of years has been activated, and it is no longer realistic to retreat to the Pingma Mountain defense line at this time.
The defense line of Pingma Mountain stretches for seventy or eighty thousand miles, and the number of passes that must be defended is too many, too scattered, and it was okay to only defend the Tiancheng Mountain Demon Clan in the past, but now even if there are tens of millions of soldiers and horses, it is very easy to be leaked, and at the same time, it cannot prevent a large number of monsters from directly crossing the high-risk Pingma Mountain, infiltrating the south of Pingma Mountain, the most elite Nuchuan River platform in the northwest region, wantonly slaughtering civilians......
Demon Deer Ridge has become a place that must be defended, and the use of the dual defense line structure of Demon Deer Ridge and Pingma Mountain can minimize the bloody massacre of hundreds of millions of monsters to the human race in the hinterland of the Northwest Regions.
Sometimes it is necessary to be iron-blooded and cruel, Chen Hai took Zhou Yunshan and Sha Tianhe to the general's mansion.
There were already people waiting for the Imperial Protector's Mansion, and when they saw Chen Hai coming, they led him directly to the council hall.
In the main hall, Ji Jiangye sat in the center, Yuan Zhou, Jiang Jin and the generals sat in columns, waiting for Chen Hai with a serious expression to state the harvest of his trip across the sea.
At this time, the pressure faced by the Northwest Regions is becoming increasingly huge, and even the pressure on the General Mansion of the Northern Tingzhu State is much smaller than that of the Northwest Regions, and a large number of elite demon soldiers over there have been attracted by the gap in the Gulan Mountains - in order to facilitate the three sects of the Northwest Regions to better resist the Demon Tribulation, the Fierce King Qin Ran has no time to take care of the war in the Northwest Regions for the time being, and Yongjing issued an order that Ji Jiangye will oversee the military and political affairs of the General Mansion of the Pillar State.
Demon Deer Ridge is a matter of life and death in the Northwest Regions, and Ji Jiangye naturally has no mood to shrink back.
"Chen Hai has seen the real person in charge," Chen Hai saluted Ji Jiangye and the others, and introduced Zhou Yunshan to Ji Jiangye and the others, "The demon calamity is raging, and the disciple sees that there is a shortage of people and materials in the Northwest Regions, so he thinks that he still has a little incense with the Zhou clan, so he crosses the sea and rushes to the Nine Counties to borrow troops and materials to resist the Demon Tribulation-this is Zhou Yunshan, the privy deputy envoy of the Nine Counties in the Fusang Sea Area, and the Protector Elder of the Secret Sect of the Jade Palace, and he specially crossed the sea with his disciples to meet the real people in charge of the Sect to discuss the affairs ......of the Fusang Three Islands to borrow aid from the Northwest Regions."
Chen Hai said goodbye without saying goodbye, when the war was most fierce here, he ran to Fusanghai to stir up the wind and rain, and at this time, he directly brought the envoy of the Zhou clan of the Nine Counties into Yantai Pass, which was a serious unruly at any moment, but now no one knows how long the demon robbery will last, and the role played by Beiling Town is not something that any town can replace, and at this time, even if it is borrowed from Fusanghai, it is good, everyone can only pinch their noses and not ask Chen Hai about the crime of leaving his post without permission.
Ji Jiangye nodded, showed Chen Hai, Zhou Yunshan, and Sha Tianhe the three of them, and asked Zhou Yunshan quite politely: "The demon tribulation is raging, the Fusanghai Zhou clan can understand the righteousness and understand the overall situation, Ji is grateful, but I don't know how many people the Zhou clan can lend to fight the demon tribulation?"
Zhou Yunshan said: "It's easy to say how many people and horses have materials, but over the years, we have worked together with Lord Chen, and my Zhou clan has benefited a lot, even if it is to reinforce the Demon Deer Ridge to fight the Demon Tribulation, we still hope to cooperate with Lord Chen and Beiling Town, after all, we are not familiar with other people, please forgive me......
Ji Jiangye narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Hai, it was obvious that Chen Hai and the Zhou clan had reached a secret agreement, but Beiling Town had not flinched in the previous several bloody battles against demons, and the battle achievements were far above the towns, and the Zhou clan designated to merge the borrowed materials and men and horses into Beiling Town for use, although Beiling Town would continue to grow and strengthen Chen Hai's power, but under the circumstances at that time, what other better choice could there be?
Of course, Chen Hai really had the ability to support the past of the Demon Tribulation, and when he stepped into the Heavenly Realm, Wanxian Mountain opened a new vein, and there was nothing that could not be done.
Ji Jiangye glanced at Yuan Zhou, and saw that he was also a promise, so he nodded to Zhou Yunshan and said: "Beiling Town has made outstanding achievements in the demon war, and the Zhou clan lent me the materials, men and horses of the three sects in the Northwest Regions, which are mainly deployed and used by Beiling Town, there is nothing wrong with this......
Zhou Yunshan listened to this, nodded with satisfaction, and presented the list of borrowings that he and Chen Hai had drawn up in advance.
Ji Jiangye took it and took a look, and his pupils suddenly lit up.
Jiang Jin and Yuan Zhou swept over the clouds, and they all gasped.
The first batch of elite military attachés from the Spirit Clearing Realm and the Enlightenment Realm who came with Zhou Yunshan and other secret sect protector elders of the Jade Palace were as many as 7,000, and it is estimated that the total number of elite military attaches who can be transported will be almost three to four times this number;
This can almost fully meet Beiling Town's demand for high-end combat power, and even restore the soldiers and horses to the 500,000 personnel that King Lie gave at the beginning.
Ji Jiangye They also have some understanding of the situation in Fusanghai, their divine sense is extremely powerful, Yunmen Fortress is less than two hundred miles away from here, and the more than 1,000 elite generals brought into Yunmen Fortress by Chen Hai are mostly generals and captured generals obtained by the Zhou clan after the capture of Silu Island, and they are also clear at a glance.
The Nine Counties had just occupied a corner of Silu Island, and in order to prevent them from ruling Silu Island in the future, it was not difficult for them to imagine that they would send their prisoners to Chen Hai for consumption; after all, the Zhou clan had put down the Xiao rebellion and sold a large number of prisoners of war to Chen Hai, which was a precedent.
However, seeing the follow-up list of borrowed materials, Ji Jiangye was quite shocked.
Every year, 100 million catties of Xuanyang Refined Iron, 5,000 catties of Refined Xuanjin Gold, Dendrobium, Purple Leaf Vine, Blood Grass, Blood Sturgeon Lipid and other medium and low-grade spiritual herbs and elixirs are 10 million catties, as well as a large number of materials used to trade with the Northwest Regions before, everyone secretly estimated in their hearts that the Zhou clan would almost lend all the output of Silu Island and one island to Beiling Town.
In the past, the Nine Counties conducted large-scale fair trade with the Northwest Regions through Tianying City, and the total amount of materials traded each year was less than one-third of this amount.
Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou looked at each other, only to know that what they had just agreed was a little too abrupt, at present, the materials needed in the Northwest Regions on the two main defense lines of Pingma Mountain and Demon Deer Ridge are only seven or eight times that of this amount, and now in the name of the three sects of the Northwest Regions, they will borrow these materials from the Zhou clan, and then supply them all to Beiling Town, whether it will make other military towns unfair, this is something that Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou need to consider.
With the infiltration of a large number of monsters into the hinterland, as well as the predatory exploitation of existing resources, the follow-up supply of materials in the Northwest Regions will only decrease and be difficult to increase.
Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou communicated through Shen Nian for a while, and thought that it might be more appropriate to find Chen Hai to let Beiling Town give up some benefits after a while, so he and Yuan Zhou took out the strip of Chen at Zhou Yunshan at the same time.
Zhou Yunshan said: "Thousands of miles of sea, the wind and waves are slim, since I have the permission of the true monarch, I will send a message back to send the materials to Dongdu Mountain as soon as possible," and then the conversation changed again, and said, "In order to strengthen the belief of the disciples to assist the true monarchs in resisting the demon calamity, this time, in addition to the elite military attachés who borrowed help, their wives and children, old and young, also crossed the sea together and entered the temporary residence in Dongdu Mountain-Zhou had a reluctant request, and asked Ji Zhenren to approve ......"
The Zhou clan is so generous, even if he makes some excessive requests, Ji Jiangye can respond to it, and said: "Zhou Zhenren is polite, what else do you want, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"
"This time, I will send the family of the military attache to the sea, but also to strengthen the belief of the military attache to resist the demons, of course, I will discuss with Lord Chen to temporarily resettle the military attaché's family to Dongdu Mountain, and I will do everything possible to solve all their worries for them," Zhou Yunshan said," The Zhou family also has a reluctant request, that is, they want to open a school palace Taoist academy in Dongdu Mountain, and teach the children of these borrowed military attachés to practice, once the demon tribulation is over, or maybe Ji Zhenjun feels that there is no need to borrow Fusonghai's soldiers and horses to resist demons, and we will even borrow reinforcements and horses to take the academy to withdraw to Fusanghai to ......"
The Northwest Territory is the place of the three sects, even if the Xuanyuan Upper Hall wanted to add a Taoist academy in the Northwest Domain, it was blocked back by the three sects back then, and Wu Chengsi and Wu Yunhu were originally the indigenous forces of the Northwest Regions, and in order to gain the support of the Lie King, they wanted to open a new sect in the Northwest Regions, and see how much they have paid now.
At other moments, Ji Jiangye would not hesitate to block Zhou Yunshan's request, but now that he thinks about Zhou Yunshan's request, there is nothing excessive.
Although the military attachés on loan are all generals and captured generals of Silu Island, they and their sons and nephews are still the children of the three islands of Fusang Sea, and they still have to be counted as the soldiers and horses lent by the Zhou clan, no matter what they are consumed in the end, it is not strange that the Zhou clan will take these people into their own hands with the help of Taoist and other means.
Of course, Ji Jiangye was not worried that the Zhou clan would dare to have any ambitions in the Northwest Regions, after all, compared to the three sects with more than thirty Heavenly True Monarchs, it was not something that the small Zhou clan could covet.
As long as it is agreed at this time, as soon as the demon tribulation is over, the new Taoist academy established by the Zhou clan in Dongdu Mountain must be withdrawn, and such an expedient measure does not seem to have any consequences.
Seeing that Ji Jiangye and Yuan Zhou fell into his trap without noticing, Chen Hai breathed a sigh of relief.
After taking the Leiyang Sect, Beiling Town is expected to be able to obtain more than 20,000 elite military attaches from Silu Island, which can make Beiling Town a real elite in Chen Hai's mind, but for Beiling Town's energy source to be continuously replenished by reserve military attachés, and it is a thing that Chen Hai must do immediately to allow more than 20,000 military attachés to take root in Dongdu Mountain and set up a Taoist academy to teach his children.
And in the end, to ensure that this part of the people is always under his control, the affairs of the Daoist Academy cannot be allowed to interfere with Wanxian Mountain.
After Zhou Yunshan put forward the conditions, Chen Hai began to put forward his conditions: "When the demon robbery broke out, the disciple was ordered to lead the city soldiers to defend Xinyan City. The battalion soldiers include the prisoners of war ransomed from the Zhou people, although they are all elites, but there are only a million of them, 300,000 dead and 100,000 remnants of the new Yancheng, and the remaining 600,000 usable soldiers, and then the disciples made up the four major camps of Beiling Town, a total of 260,000 horses, and Xu 340,000 generals moved to Dongdu Mountain to settle down, thinking that they were reserve soldiers. Who would have thought that the demon catastrophe was raging, the cloud gate was fiercely guarded, the real people in charge of the sect could see it, Tianying City was also repeatedly attacked, the casualties were extremely heavy, and the loss of soldiers and horses exceeded 200,000, at this time Beiling Town still had 260,000 elites, but the reserve soldiers were actually less than 140,000. Although the Zhou clan is generous, and some elite soldiers will be sent over in the future, but my Beiling Town is a military town in the northwest region of Chongguo, if the soldiers use more reinforcements, the disciples don't know whether they are the generals of Chongguo or the Zhou people......"
Everyone is aware of Chen Hai's question.
Although the shortage of reserve soldiers in Beiling Town is far less miserable than Chen Hai said, after all, Chen Hai had previously moved the three or four million exiled prisoners north of the Demon Deer Ridge to Dongdu Mountain, where ten or two hundred thousand qualified soldiers were selected, and the problem should not be big, but thousands of miles around Dongdu Mountain, counting the pulse of Jiang Zhen of the Eastern Capital Jiang Clan, the qualified soldiers who can play a role on the battlefield of the Demon Suppression are even limited.
If Beiling Town continues to consume at such a high intensity, or if they expect Chen Hai to continue to lead Beiling Town to dare to fight tough battles in the future, they do not agree to solve the problem of reserve soldiers, and the war potential in Chen Hai's hands at this time is only enough to consume three or five months at most.
The reason why the demon clan, led by Tiancheng Mountain, kept attacking before the Demon Deer Ridge was to fight the most tragic war of attrition with the human race.
At present, it seems that it is an extremely wide range of demon domains in the northern realm, and the large and small demon clans have been activated, and the elite demon soldiers that the Tiancheng Mountain Demon Clan can replenish are even more than the reserve soldiers of Chongguo.
At present, the passive defensive line of the Terrans can still have some advantages, and they can only grit their teeth and persevere.
"Okay, we'll think about it. Zhou Yunshan came with sincerity, and Ji Jiangye would agree to his request on the spot as much as possible, but there was no need for Chen Hai to be so neat, just to say that he knew about it.
Jiang Jin glanced at Chen Hai softly, but didn't say anything.
Zhaoquan County was the inherent sphere of influence of the Wu clan of Wanxian Mountain, and after the fetal theft case, it was annexed by the Jiang clan of Wanxian Mountain.
At present, Beiling Town is monolithic, Jiang Jin can't interfere at all, Chen Hai intends to get involved in Zhaoquan County, how could he agree?
Chen Hai is not in a hurry to ask Ji Jiangye, Jiang Jin, and Yuan Zhou to give him a clear answer now, and whether he agrees or not in the end depends on the development of the situation.
This is the matter, Chen Hai left Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei in Yunmen Sai, helping Sha Tianhe, Zhu Tianhe, Jiang He, and Yang Yin to defend the city, he took Ji Jiangye to leave, and took Zhou Yunshan, Ning Chan'er, and Cangyi to return to Dongdu Mountain.
In order to ensure that there is no possibility of leakage of Yanzhou's secrets, Tianying City's independent camp, second line camp, and third line camp, in addition to sending Xie Jueyuan and Huang Qiwei to assist in the command, are mainly strengthened by the generals of Silu Island, and the people secretly transferred from Yanzhou, in addition to mainly strengthening Chen Hai personally leading the personal soldiers and the first line of the camp, Chen Hai also has to send Chen Jun, Ge Xuanqiao, Wu Meng and others out to assist Zuo Er in the name of the guardian elder of the secret sect of the Jade Palace, presiding over the Tianying School Palace.
More than 6,000 captives, more than 90,000 people from their relatives moved into Tianying City for resettlement, among which there are more than 20,000 children who are suitable for cultivation, have good roots and bones, and can be called the choice of thousands of people - although these children are cultivated and young, they are actually the essence of the younger generation of Silu Island, and they are incorporated into the Tianying Academy, on the one hand, it can strengthen the garrison of Tianying City and train reserve military attaches for Beiling Town. Craftsman, on the one hand, he can let the generals who have been sent over one after another finally melt Beiling Town, and this is the first solid nail that Yanzhou really planted in the Xingheng Domain, Chen Hai naturally wants to use all the teachings from Yanzhou!
At this moment, Chen Hai had the feeling that he really had some foundation in the Xingheng Domain, of course, the premise of everything was to be able to withstand this catastrophe......
The war in the Demon Deer Ridge and the demonic calamities that permeated the entire central and northern regions of Chongguo continued until the summer of the thirty-fourth year of Jianxing - at this time, the Zhou clan had completely taken Silu Island, and in addition to sending 20,000 generals who had cultivated to the Mingqi Realm and the Spirit Clearing Realm to Dongdu Mountain, they also sent 200,000 prisoners over to supplement the consumption of soldiers here.
However, with the import of a large number of elite military attachés, although the morale of these generals was very poor at the beginning, and the combat was also very lazy, the proportion of elite military attaches of 260,000 soldiers and horses in Beiling Town was already higher than that of other military towns of the three sects, and the equipment level of Tianji weapons was much higher than that of other military towns, and the proportion of previous tragic casualties was also greatly reduced.
Even so, in the past year, Beiling Town has not killed nearly 100,000 people.
On September 9, the 34th year of Jianxing, Zhou Yunshan personally escorted the last group of generals and their families to Tianying City, half of whom were relatives of Lei Yangzi and others.
Lei Yangzi gave birth to four sons and three daughters in his life, but none of the four sons and three daughters failed to cultivate the Dao Fetus, and they all passed away at this time, and because there were not enough people in the clan, Lei Yangzi never established a kingdom on Silu Island, and has always ruled Silu Island with Lei Yang Sect.
Among the heirs left by Lei Yangzi's four sons and three daughters, excluding the clansmen who were estranged in blood and had no roots and resources, Zhou Bin, the king of martial arts, finally sent the 1,600 relatives left by Lei Yangzi on Silu Island, as well as the wives and children of Liu Yafu and Wei Zhe, to Tianying City, Dongdu Mountain.
By this time, Lei Yangzi, Liu Yafu, and Wei Zhe had been imprisoned in the underground palace of the Heaven and Earth Camp for more than a year.
Chen Hai personally went to the underground palace to escort them out, they didn't know what was going on, they were disheartened, and they had no intention of perceiving the complicated atmosphere in Tianying City, Chen Hai walked in front, and they followed behind.
Seeing that Chen Hai was surrounded by Hu Wei and walked to the mouth of an alley and stopped, they looked up and saw that the archway had the words "Tianzifang" written on it - from the architectural point of view, there was no difference between this and other neighborhoods in the city, but there may not be a little more soldiers and horses secretly staring at this side.
Lei Yangzi didn't know what Chen Hai meant, at this time, a girl in red came out with a bamboo basket of raccoon yarn, she had a clear understanding realm cultivation at a young age, and it could be said that she was not weak, but when she saw a team of tiger and wolf generals standing at the entrance of the alley, her face turned pale with fright, like a frightened little white rabbit about to hide back, and suddenly saw Lei Yangzi beside Chen Li, standing there and exclaiming: "Grandpa......
Lei Yangzi was hard-hearted, and his heart was also painful, and he said to Chen Hai with his hand: "The old man has long been your prisoner, what do you want the old man to do, why bother so much?"