On the afternoon of January 6, Fox stood in front of Holke, the chief steward of the Nine Star Hotel, with a gloomy face, "Mr. Holke, do you have to give me an explanation?"

What about the guests who are staying in the rooms on the ninth floor of your hotel? ”

After receiving Zhou Rui's order, Hu Yi immediately mobilized hundreds of warriors of the "Ghost Shadow" in Ganyang City, and seconded 2 battalions of troops from the First Infantry Division of the Fengwu Army stationed in Ganyang City, preparing to capture 10 lion people, 9 tiger people and 8 wolf people living in the Nine Star Hotel.

However, when the Waiting Fox group surrounded the Nine Star Hotel, the 10 Leons, 9 Tigers, and 8 Werewolves, who were suspected of being assassins, mysteriously disappeared.

The personnel in charge of monitoring outside the Nine Star Hotel did not find the 10 leonins, 9 tigers, and 8 wolves leaving the hotel.

Holke, the chief steward of the Nine Star Hotel, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Mr. Fox, they are just guests of our hotel, and we have no right to restrict when they leave the hotel. ”

Fox Yi snorted coldly and said, "Then don't blame me for being rude."

Immediately search me room by room, and I don't believe that 27 big living people will disappear into thin air. ”

Holke frowned and said, "Mr. Fox, are you doing this a little too much?"

This will affect other guests in our hotel. ”

"If you can give me those 27 people, I'll take them out now."

"Mr. Fox, don't forget, this is a nine-star hotel! It is the industry of the Golden Lion Empire! ”

"Mr. Holke, this is Ganyang City, not the Golden Lion Empire.

If you want to do business in Ganyang City, you have to abide by the rules of the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion!

Start the search right away and don't let go of anything suspicious! ”

The people of the "Ghost Shadow" and the 2 battalions of the 1st Infantry Division of the Fengwu Army carefully searched the Jiuxing Hotel, but unfortunately they still did not find any trace of the 10 lion people, 9 tiger people and 8 wolf people.

In desperation, Hu Yi had to evacuate the nine-star hotel with people first, but he left a lot of people outside the nine-star hotel and continued to monitor the nine-star hotel.

Fox Yi had a hunch that the 10 lion people, 9 tiger people and 8 wolf people should still be in the nine-star hotel at this time.

Late that night, in a secret room under the Nine Star Hotel, the chief steward Holke said in a deep voice to the three leaders of the assassination hunting group: "You can only live here for the time being.

If you want to leave the hotel, I will arrange for someone to take you through the secret passages. ”

Matvey, the leader of the assassination hunting group from the Golden Lion Empire, immediately said: "Holke, thanks to your help, otherwise we people may not survive today. ”

Chief Steward Holke hesitated for a moment and then said, "Since your identity has been exposed, I think it's best for you to give up assassinating Zhou Rui and leave Ganyang City first."

The underground chambers here are hidden, but they are not necessarily foolproof, and today they searched the hotel, and I was scared to the death.

I'm afraid they won't give up and will come back to the hotel to search. ”

Hailuo, the leader of the assassination hunting group from the Silver Wolf Empire, said: "If I don't kill Zhou Rui, I won't leave." ”

Mu Si, the leader of the assassination hunting group from the Red Tiger Empire, followed and said: "Zhou Rui must be eliminated, no matter what the cost, he must also be eliminated." ”

Matvey then said to Holker, the chief steward, "Holke, we all have our own tasks on our shoulders, and it is impossible to leave without them.

I hope you will continue to provide us with some intelligence so that we can develop a specific assassination plan. ”

Holke, the chief steward, said helplessly: "Okay, I'll try to provide information as much as possible."

However, Zhou Rui is in Ganyang City, and he has always stayed in the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion, and if he wants to assassinate him, I am afraid it will be difficult to find any suitable opportunities. ”

A cold light flashed in Matvey's eyes and said: "If there is really no suitable opportunity, then you can only make a desperate bet and sneak into the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion to assassinate Zhou Rui." ”

When the chief steward Holke heard this, he hurriedly persuaded him: "The Five Towns Jiedu Mansion is heavily guarded, and it can be regarded as a tiger's den in Longtan, and it is difficult for even a fly to fly in.

If you choose to go to the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion to kill Zhou Rui, there should be no difference between sending him to death. ”

Before the masters of these three beast countries could be sent to death, someone tried to enter the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion to assassinate Zhou Rui before them.

Zhou Rui looked at the dozen or so corpses in the courtyard, and calmly asked Hu Yi, "Can you find out the identities of these assassins?" ”

Fox Yi shook his head, "I only know that among these dozen or so assassins, in addition to the two Great Grandmaster Martial Artists, the remaining Assassins are also Grandmaster Martial Artists.

No useful clues have been found on them, and their identities cannot be determined for the time being. ”

Zhou Rui waved his hand, "Forget it, there are too many people who want to kill me."

It's best if you can find out, and it doesn't matter if you can't.

The 10 lions, 9 tigers, and 8 werewolves in the nine-star hotel haven't been found yet? ”

"Commander Qiqi, I still haven't found it, I suspect they are probably still in the Nine Star Hotel.

Maybe there are some secret rooms in the Nine Star Hotel, which were not discovered by us during the search. ”

"Then you continue to investigate, dig three feet into the ground and find out those orcs, don't have any scruples just because the nine-star hotel is opened by the lion people."

"Yes, Marshal."

In the Prime Minister's Mansion in Linle City, the capital of the Bajin Empire, a thin middle-aged man reported to Prime Minister Zheng Tong'an: "Prime Minister, news has come back from Ganyang City that the assassination has failed. ”

Prime Minister Zheng Tongan said in a deep voice: "If Zhou Rui was so easy to assassinate, he would have died a long time ago."

It doesn't matter if they fail once, let them find an opportunity to continue the assassination until they can kill Zhou Rui. ”

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and said: "Prime Minister, this assassination, 2 Great Grandmaster Martial Artists and 12 Grandmaster Martial Artists were dispatched, it can be said that the elite is exhausted, and then the assassination will be carried out, I'm afraid it will ...... The odds of success are smaller. ”

"No matter how small the chance of success, the assassination can't be stopped, only by killing Zhou Rui can our Zheng family turn the corner this time."

Zhou Rui didn't know that the assassin this time was sent by the Linle Zheng family of the Bajin Empire.

The Linle Zheng family had already intended to get rid of Zhou Rui, and after another war broke out between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, this idea of the Linle Zheng family became even more urgent.

Without the support of the Silver Wolf Empire behind them, the Linle Zheng family knew that with their own strength, they would not be able to resist the Zhou family's attempt to annex Kyoto Province.

So the Linle Zheng family spent a high price and invited a group of masters, plus some masters of the Linle Zheng family, to form an assassination team, hoping to assassinate Zhou Rui and disrupt the existing situation of the Zhou family.

However, even if Zhou Rui didn't know that the Linle Zheng family had sent a killer to assassinate him, Zhou Rui didn't plan to let go of the Linle Zheng family, who let the Linle Zheng family occupy most of the Kyoto provinces of the Bajin Empire!

On January 10, 1540, when the world's attention was still attracted by the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, the Jin Eastern Army, the Jin Southern Army and the Jin Western Army, which belonged to the Five Towns Jiedu Mansion of the Han and Tang Empires, suddenly invaded the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Ba Jin Empire.

Obviously, the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires wanted to completely annex the entire 5 provinces of the Bajin Empire.

Although the armies of the various families in the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire resisted desperately, their weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness were too different from the Eastern Jin Army, the Southern Jin Army, and the Western Jin Army.

As a result, the Eastern Jin Army, the Southern Jin Army, and the Western Jin Army were in the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire, which can be said to be all the way like a bamboo, and the armies of the major families in Kyoto Province and Northern Province even defected one after another.

By the end of February 1540, the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire had been completely controlled by the Zhou family, and even the Linle Zheng family, the strongest in the Bajin Empire, finally chose to surrender to the Zhou family.

So far, the five provinces of the Bajin Empire have all become the Zhou family's own reserves, and the Kyoto Province was renamed Jinzhong Town by Zhou Rui, and the northern province was renamed Jinbei Town by Zhou Rui.

Jinzhong Town and Jinbei Town, in the future, will also form two new front armies according to the usual practice, namely the Jinzhong Army and the Jinbei Army.

The establishment of the Jinzhong Army and the Jinbei Army will be the same as that of the other five town armies, with 15 infantry divisions under each front army, and each division will have 3 infantry brigades, 1 baggage brigade, 1 heavy artillery brigade and 1 guard regiment, with a total strength of about 40,000 people.

In addition, a number of garrison regiments will be set up in Jinzhong Town and Jinbei Town, each with a strength of about 2,000 people, to maintain law and order in various places and clear out the fierce beasts that appear in various places.

In a palace in the imperial palace of Tiansheng City, the capital of the Han and Tang Empires, after Emperor Ouyang Hui yawned, he asked Zhao Rongguang, the governor of the forbidden army: "Zhou Rui has just been on the table, and asked the imperial court to appoint him as the envoy of Jinzhong Town and Jinbei Town, I wonder what Governor Zhao thinks about this?" ”

Zhao Rongguang said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can agree to Zhou Rui's request.

After all, the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire have actually been controlled by the Zhou family, and the country of the Bajin Empire has disappeared, and our Han and Tang Empires have two more feudal towns. ”

Emperor Ouyang Hui snorted coldly, "Now the majesty of the imperial court is getting weaker and weaker, the Bajin Empire is a subject of my Han and Tang Empire for many years, but that Zhou Rui said that it was annexed, and he only said hello to the imperial court after it was over."

There are really more and more ambitious people in our Han and Tang Empires. ”

Emperor Ouyang Hui's last sentence obviously included Zhao Rongguang.

However, Zhao Rongguang didn't seem to understand the meaning of Emperor Ouyang Hui's words, "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, so only by strengthening the strength of our imperial court itself can we make the feudal towns below more honest." ”

"To strengthen the strength of the imperial court, what is the plan of the Governor of Zhao?"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, you will find out soon."

Hearing Zhao Rongguang's words, Emperor Ouyang Hui's nostrils suddenly became angry, you are really using me, the emperor, as an ornament!

"Okay, I'm waiting for the good news from Governor Zhao!"

As soon as the Zhou family annexed the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire, the Han and Tang Empires were in turmoil again.

On March 3, 1540, the imperial court of the Han and Tang Empires suddenly gathered more than 400,000 troops and launched an attack on Pushan Town, one of the six towns in the northeast.

There are a total of 20 cities in Pushan Town, and the last time the court of the Han and Tang Empires annexed 8 cities in Pushan Town.

This time, the army of the imperial court took less than half a month to capture all the other 12 cities, including Yanshun City, the capital of Pushan Town.

Of course, the reason why the imperial army was able to capture all 12 cities in Pushan Town in such a short period of time should be attributed to the embroidery table.

It is precisely because the embroidery desk used money to buy a large number of generals of the Pushan Army that the Pushan Army in various places defected one after another.

Originally, under the tandem of Shuodong Town, the six towns in the Northeast had secretly formed a military alliance against the imperial court, but unfortunately the imperial court moved too fast, and the Pushan army was too uncompetitive.

The other five feudal towns among the six towns in the northeast have not yet reacted, and the entire Pushan town has already fallen into the hands of the imperial court.

In the Shuodong Jiedu Mansion in Puqiao City, the capital of Shuodong Town, Xue Daoquan, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu, asked his eldest son Xue Tingwu: "Tingwu, do you think our Shuodong Army still needs to send troops?" ”

Xue Tingwu said with a wry smile: "Father, now that Pushan Town has completely fallen into the hands of the imperial court, I am afraid it is of little significance to send troops at this time."

Moreover, the imperial court has almost completely absorbed the Pushan Army this time, and its strength is already incomparable, so I suggest that it is better to wait and see first.

What's more, the Barbarian Empire has been moving frequently along the border recently, and even if our Shuodong Army wants to send troops, it can't gather too many troops. ”

Xue Daoquan, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu, sighed and said: "Letting the imperial court occupy Pushan Town is not good news for all the Jiedu envoys of the Han and Tang Empires. ”

After Zhou Rui captured Pushan Town with the imperial army, he brought Hu Yi over.

"You 'ghosts' will next strengthen your power on the side of the imperial court, after Pushan Town returned to the imperial court, the strength of the imperial court soared, and some newspapers even called for an end to the current situation of separating feudal towns."

The fox nodded, "Don't worry, our 'ghost' has already strengthened the manpower of the imperial court, and some people have even broken into the imperial court. ”

"How many troops does the imperial court have now?"

"It's about 600,000 or more, and next, Zhao Rongguang, the governor of the forbidden army, will carry out a new round of reorganization of the imperial army, and recruit some new soldiers."

"Do you know how to do it?"

"The Pushan Army will all be incorporated into the Imperial Forbidden Army, and according to the plan of Zhao Rongguang, the Governor of the Imperial Army, the Imperial Forbidden Army will have 30 infantry divisions under its jurisdiction, and the establishment of each infantry division is about 30,000 people."

"900,000 imperial forbidden troops, the scale is not small, Pushan Town is not a rich feudal town, can the financial resources of the imperial court support so many troops?

I wondered, where did the Governor of the Forbidden Army get so much military spending? ”

"Dashuai, our 'ghost' has also been investigating, but we haven't found any clues yet."

"Have you found the 10 Leon, 9 Tiger and 8 Werewolf Clans from the Nine Star Hotel?"

"No, we have carried out three large-scale searches of the Nine Star Hotel these days, and we still haven't found those orcs, nor have we found that the Nine Star Hotel has a secret room."