Chapter 966: Xizhou Recovered
Starting from Lin Xiao's order to counterattack, the forty-eight days of Xizhou counterattack ended the war with the Dragon Emperor leading the army to withdraw to the wilderness, and the Terrans achieved a major victory.
In this battle, the Terran monks only suffered more than 3 million casualties, and they killed at least 300 million demon beast armies, and more than 200 million demon beast corpses were snatched.
For Nanzhou, the casualties are even smaller, less than a million, and ninety percent of the results of the battle were fought by Nanzhou, and the proportion of battle losses is not the same as when expelling the Nanzhou demon clan, and the fierce combat effectiveness of the Nanzhou monks shocked the entire immortal cultivation world.
After the Xizhou demon clan retreated to the wilderness, the Nanzhou army did not pursue it again, the Dragon Emperor took the initiative to retreat, the strength of the demon clan was not small, the wilderness was their basic plate, Lin Xiao judged that it was not yet time to pioneer at this time.
The six countries of the grassland retreated from the depths of the wilderness, while the Nanzhou army left three million to monitor the Xizhou demon clan, five million returned to Nanzhou, and the remaining two million men and horses went to Zhongzhou for an expedition, led by Tan Mingzong.
After the recovery of Xizhou, the Xizhou Alliance, led by the five major powers, quickly began to resume production, their remaining more than 6 million horses, only two million people gathered on the front line, and the remaining 4 million people and horses were all deployed in a unified manner, such as clearing the remnants of demon beasts, restoring the capitals of various countries, repairing the buildings therein, reclaiming abandoned farmland, repairing water measures, planting spiritual rice, elixirs, etc., things are very complicated.
The countries of Xizhou have been in the fall for more than ten years, except for some areas controlled by the demon clan, the rest of the places have long been abandoned, and more than ten years have made these places no different from the wilderness.
However, the matter in Xizhou is extremely complicated, and the recovery plan of the five major powers is full of difficulties, the first point is that the desert monks led by the Heavenly Dao Sect occupy about half of the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and the strength of the Jin Kingdom is far inferior to the desert monks.
At this time, there was only one Golden Body Stage left in the Jin Kingdom and only one Golden Body Period and the other two Divine Void Periods, but there were already seven Desert Monks in the Golden Body Stage alone, and in terms of high-end combat power, they were stronger than the entire Xizhou, and the Jin Kingdom Monks were not able to regain the territory at all.
Jiang Zhiwen had no choice but to use the power of the Xizhou Alliance to put pressure on the desert monks, but ** Yu's attitude was extremely tough, he used the excuse that the desert monks did not integrate into the Xizhou Alliance, and did not follow the orders of the Xizhou Alliance, and these territories they claimed to have been taken from the hands of the demon beasts, and it was impossible to return them to the Xizhou, according to the rules of the human race, whoever grabbed the territory in the hands of the demon beasts was whoever owned.
Xizhou had to turn to Lin Xiao for help, Lin Xiao had promised Xizhou to stand up for them before, but at this time, things had changed, and Lin Xiao was anxious to go to Zhongzhou to command the battle, and he had no time to come out.
And at this time, the Xizhou monks were extremely war-weary, they had been fighting for so many years, they had long been tired of it, and now that they had recovered their territory, all they wanted was to recuperate, rather than continue to fight.
The monks of Xizhou were reluctant to participate in the war, and it was impossible for the fighters to come out of Nanzhou, and under the combination of various circumstances, the Jin State and the Great Desert divided the national border, and the Jin State made up for the losses by annexing the remaining territories left behind by the destruction of the country.
However, their difficulties are not over, Xizhou is recovered, and production will be resumed, and at this time, their population is insufficient, not lost in the battle, but can not be transferred back.
When the countries retreated, a large number of mortals were evacuated, taking the Xizhou Qin State as an example, when the young and strong were desperate on the battlefield, if even the women and children were not well protected, then how could those young and strong people be willing to fight to the death, so the Xizhou Qin State withdrew at least 30 million mortals that year.
However, at this time, there were only five or six million mortals left in the Qin State to bring back, why, the situation was very complicated, the people they evacuated back were mainly women, children and children, more than ten years have passed, sick, old age, accidents, famine, etc., and more are forced to marry mortals on the Kunlun territory for their livelihood, and they have already given birth to children.
Now that Xizhou has recovered, mortals want to be transferred back, those who have nothing to do with the local mortals will be counted, Kunlun doesn't care, but those mortals who marry or integrate into the local area, Kunlun is resolutely unwilling, the reason is very simple, they are already from Zhongzhou, and it is a great evil to separate people's flesh and blood, and Kunlun resolutely does not allow it.
In the face of the strong Kunlun, the five countries of Xizhou were helpless, there was no way at all, the total number of mortals brought back by the five countries was less than 20 million, even the rest of the small countries combined were less than 30 million, which was not as good as the number of mortals in the Qin country of Xizhou before the war.
This made the five countries of Xizhou extremely humiliated, just this mortal, if the five countries were to be restored to the pre-war level, even if they were under the rule of hard work, it would take more than a hundred years.
However, the five countries still tend to agree to reality, and it is not possible to disagree at all, they have to race against time to restore development, and they have no extra energy to do other things.
In order to restore development, Xizhou and Nanzhou have borrowed a large amount of money, in addition to various resources, there are also a large number of mortal materials, such as ploughing cattle, farm tools, rations, seeds, cloth, carriages, and craftsmen, etc., all of which must be settled according to Xuanjing, and will begin to be repaid in installments after ten years, including a large amount of resources provided by the previous counterattack war, and it will take three hundred years to pay off one billion Xuanjing every year.
The huge debt on his body has made the pressure on the lords of the five countries extremely heavy, and it is even more necessary to accelerate the development, so the Moon Emperor is resident in the front line, sharing weal and woe with the low-level monks and even mortals, and working together.
The Moon Emperor adopted the mode of collective labor, first restored the production of spiritual mountains in various places, and all kinds of spiritual fields were restored regardless of grade, and then planted low-level spiritual rice and elixirs, while high-level spiritual fields were restored into elixir gardens and planted high-level precious elixirs.
For low-level monks, the Moon Emperor also learned to set up a preaching platform in Nanzhou, and every month he had to choose a time to preach for low-level disciples in person, and relax his control over the exercises.
As for mortals, the Moon Emperor was even more concerned, she understood that the decisive factor in the mortal population was food, so she sent a large number of monks to reclaim farmland, build water measures, develop agriculture, and eliminate the remaining monsters and beasts, while also streamlining mortal taxes.
The key is to encourage marriage and childbearing, she forced mortal men and women to marry before the age of fifteen, those who do not marry are severely punished, and if they are not married after three punishments, they will be confiscated from the government, and the government will designate a marriage match, and even require widows under the age of forty to remarry, and after giving birth to children, there will be a large number of rewards, including fertile land, farm tools, ploughing cattle, money, etc., in short, just one, do everything possible to increase the number of people.
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When the news came that the monks of the South Continent had repelled the demon clan of the West Continent, the monks of the Central Continent were all excited, and for the demon clan of the three regions, it was to accelerate their withdrawal thoughts.
The Dongzhou Demon Clan led by King Kui Niu of the Three Lands retreated, quickly retreated the terrestrial demon beasts to the eastern part of the Central Continent, and at the same time attacked the Qingyang Sect, the reason why they still have to attack the Qingyang Sect is that there is only one book of heaven, and there are nine Supreme Demon Kings.
At this time, in addition to the demon beast army in their hands, the demon clan of the three places also had four or five hundred thousand monks captive, all of whom were enslaved by the high-level demon kings, working for them, making the defense line of the Qingyang Sect extremely dangerous.
Qingyang Sect urgently asked Lin Xiao for help, and in the face of his own apprentice's request for help, Lin Xiao naturally did not ignore the reason, and immediately let Bai Zichen's men and horses in the area of Big and Small Peng Mountain set off first.
Bai Zichen entered Zhongzhou for nearly two months, and with the 100,000 monks transferred from the five new armies as the backbone, he reorganized the Zhongzhou Legion with a total of 2 million people.
However, these armies have not been trained, firstly, because the training time is too short, and the changes in various tactical battle formations are not proficient enough, and secondly, the equipment is not yet in place.
Lin Xiao's new army is extremely dependent on equipment, and the cost of each monk's equipment is the cost of five monks in the previous army, plus a swarm of consumable weapons, the overall consumption is more than ten times that of the past, Nanzhou has no spare strength to equip so many people, and the monks who really have the level of the new army are only armed with about 300,000 horses.
But Bai Zichen still set off without hesitation, he collected the flying boat, and let the elite people and horses take the flying boat to quickly reach the north of the demon beast army, launch an attack, and contain the power of the demon clan, while the rest of the army hurried day and night to the battlefield.
At the same time, Nanzhou's side raised a large number of combat materials, including a swarm of bees and other new weapons, packed them in a large number of storage bags, and then entered the Qingyang Sect Mountain Gate through the teleportation arrays in various places to support Li Muxue.
After Lin Xiao dealt with the affairs of Xizhou, he quickly caught up with the army that entered the Central Continent, this time the elite of the new army was transferred, and the five new armies each transferred 500,000 horses, a total of 2.5 million, and brought a large number of Xuanjing cannons, god-destroying crossbows, swarms of bees and warships and other resources.
The marching speed of the army is too slow, according to Lin Xiao's estimate, if the two million troops rely on the march to reach the southeast of Central Continent, it will take two or three months, and the daylily will be cold by then.
Therefore, Lin Xiao could only transfer Nanzhou's flying boat again, first lead 100,000 cavalry to take the first step, and then prepare to use the flying boat to continuously transfer.
It's just that Lin Xiao hasn't started to act yet, Su Yuzong's Tang Shuwen sent a message that Su Yuzong is willing to help, they are willing to let the Nanzhou army enter Tiansu City, through the teleportation array of Tiansu City, and enter the Seven Star City, and the Seven Star City is less than three thousand miles away from the battlefield, and the teleportation fee is only cost, not profitable.
This help made Lin Xiao overjoyed, and immediately let the army turn to Tiansu City, and then dispatch the army through the teleportation array, the teleportation array of Tiansu City is a large teleportation array that can teleport three hundred people at a time, day and night, and can teleport more than ten thousand people in one day.
In order to speed up the scheduling, Lin Xiao took out six sets of teleportation arrays in one go, and found the formation mages of Tianxiao Sect and Yunxiao Sect to build teleportation arrays, and Lin Xiao had already promised that after the war, these teleportation arrays would be given to Su Yuzong and Qixing Pavilion as borrowing expenses.
Seven days later, Lin Xiao appeared outside the Seven Star Pavilion, and behind him were 100,000 cavalry, as of today, three teleportation arrays had been built, and a large number of reinforcements would arrive every day, so Lin Xiao couldn't wait to attack.