The winter snow is drifting, the cold wind is howling, the southwest continent is wrapped in white snow clothes, it was a good scenery, but at this moment no one has the heart to appreciate the great snow scene, Ruixue Zhaofeng year, this is the legend of the past years, but this year is not destined to be, countless displaced civilians are destined to be difficult to survive this winter, the howling cold wind does not know how many frozen bones have covered up, and the war has lasted for more than half a year without the slightest intention of stopping.

Night City has been revised to continue to launch the winter offensive, they now have Night City as a base, there is plenty of food and grass with a huge barrier, fighting in the winter has caused great pressure on several other countries, three hundred miles outside Night City are occupied by the Shadow Moon army, he is eating away at this ancient empire step by step. The general trend of the Tianyang Kingdom has gone, and it is difficult to resist the attack of the Danyang Empire, and it is only a matter of time before it is defeated.

The other three fronts were not too much different, and no country could block the attack of a large army alone, and many territories were lost in half a year.

In order to continue to maintain the advantage of the winter offensive, the Danyang Empire carried out a frenzied raid on the occupied area regardless of the lives of the people, so as to ensure the supply of the army.

This is simply a nightmare for countless civilians, there are no less than millions of people who starve to death in the four countries, even in Danyang, the life of the people in Danyang is not easy, and there are many people who starve to death and freeze to death, but Jiang Bingkun turns a blind eye, for his inflated ambition, he has no scruples, even if he pays the price of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he has to witness the unification of the Danyang Empire ten thousand years ago, and he wants to become an emperor through the ages.

In the fields, the snow is vast, but at this time countless people are still busy outside, they have no heart to go home to escape the cold, there is no food at home for a long time, if you want to survive, you can only dig some rhizomes that can be swallowed in the snow, and there are people busy everywhere in the wild fields, even if the five or six-year-old children are red from the cold, they are looking for wild vegetables in the snow.

This is the shadow behind a powerful empire, with internal pressure and external expansion, and the people of Dawn are hungry and freeze to death in the wilderness.

In the imperial city of Danyang, Jiang Bingkun and his minions are enjoying the glory and wealth, singing and dancing in the palace, prosperous and comfortable. Zhumen's wine and meat stinky road has frozen bones, witnessing his brutal rule, the people under his rule all miss the previous monarch, and all curse Jiang Bingkun's tyranny all the time, but under his iron-fisted rule, who dares to come forward to resist?

Although there are many complaints in China, I have to say that Jiang Bingkun's military operations have achieved remarkable results, and he has won a lot of achievements on four fronts, and he faintly has the momentum of competing in the Central Plains.

In the imperial city, Jiang Bingkun looked at the beautiful snow scene, and he had an idea: "The minister of the household department listens to my orders, this year's snow scene is very attractive, and the widow wants to build a high viewing pavilion, and it must be completed within thirty days", Jiang Bingkun stood in front of the main hall and said to the minister.

"Your Majesty, now that the Fourth Route Army continues to launch a winter offensive, a large amount of money is spent every day, and now the treasury is so empty that I am afraid that it will not be able to build it," said the Minister of the Household Department with a shudder.

"Bastard, you old puppet is against widows everywhere, won't you think of a way if you don't have money?

"Your Majesty is angry, it was levied once just ten days ago, and now in the winter, the occupied areas are no longer able to collect any money, grain, and grass, and there is nothing Weichen can do."

"If the occupied area can't be expropriated, what about the country? As a child of destiny, you will all push back a viewing platform, and if you can't see the viewing platform in a month, beware of the head on your head", Jiang Bingkun threatened angrily.

"Yes, Wechen will find a way", the Minister of Household retreated tremblingly.

The other ministers either didn't dare to intercede, or they were in the same boat, the full strength of the Danyang Empire had already been concentrated in Jiang Bingkun's hands, and the others were just his minions.

The Minister of Household had to collect taxes again in Danyang, and there were many complaints in various places, and there were civilian riots in the angry places to resist the state's forced expropriation.

Jiang Bingkun ordered a brutal crackdown, and in this way, within a month, a majestic observation deck appeared in the imperial city, and he took his beauty to enjoy it all day long.

In Danyang, at this time, a force was quietly formed with the support of some patriotic elements, who secretly worried about many old people of the previous dynasty under the slogan of reviving the former emperor, and attracted a lot of people with lofty ideals, and began to secretly resist Jiang Bingkun's tyranny.

They began to assassinate and rebel against Jiang Bingkun in any form in the situation of the killer group, and for a time many high-ranking officials were assassinated, which shocked the Danyang Empire.

"Your Majesty, in the past month forty-eight officials of our dynasty have been assassinated by the rebels, including the Empress's younger brother," he reported.

"Who are these people, and who are they instructed by?"

"They have a tight organization, our intelligence department has not gained anything for the time being, they specially selected me to assassinate important people, and we have to guard against it."

"Pass my order and let the leader of the Shadow Tiger Assassin Regiment come to meet me," Jiang Bingkun said.

"Yes".

The Shadow Tiger Assassin Regiment is a team of killers organized by Jiang Bing more than 20 years ago, and the assassination of his brother was done by relying on the Shadow Tiger Assassins, who are specifically responsible for assassinating those who dare to resist Jiang Bingkun, and are the emperor's secret guards, and their leader is Shadow Tiger Yao Jingcheng, who has followed Jiang Bingkun for many years of loyalty, has performed many tasks, and has cleared a lot of thorns for his rule.

In a secret room, a figure appeared in front of Jiang Bingkun, "What is Your Majesty's order to summon the old man to come?"

"You are cultivated by a widow, you have worked hard all these years, and the widow will not forget your credit, and now there is an assassin group against us again among the supermasters, and I need you to find them out for me", Jiang Bingkun said.

"My knife, I haven't drunk blood for several years, it's time to go out, they're all about to forget the existence of the old man, right?" Yao Jingcheng sighed.

In Danyang, the two forces are quietly carried out in secret, the two assassination groups have launched a new competition, a nightmare that has been missing for many years has returned to the territory of the Danyang Empire again, and the reappearance of the Shadow Tiger Assassin Group has shocked the whole country.

Order in Night City is now gradually restored, and it has become a bridgehead for the Shadow Moon King to return to the Sea of Clouds to attack the Tianyang Empire, and the next core city of the Tianyang Empire, Chiye City, is in danger, but the Shadow Moon King has suddenly slowed down his attack.

"Your Majesty, the Shadow Moon King has captured Night City for a long time, but he has not launched an offensive against Ye City until now", Overseer Liang Ming once again impeached the Shadow Moon King for his inaction.

"It stands to reason that Yecheng is in no danger to defend, shouldn't he delay it like this?" Jiang Bingkun was puzzled.

"Prior to this, he had repeatedly told me about the lack of troops and food, the difficulty of the winter march, the stubborn resistance of the enemy, and so on, which had repeatedly delayed His Majesty's plan for unification," said the Overseer.

"Send another 100,000 elite soldiers to the front line to mobilize grain and grass support, what do I think he can say?" Jiang Bingkun clenched his fists.

"Your Majesty's words are forgiven, there are more soldiers on the four major fronts, and he is so well supplied with food and grass, he is supporting the army and respecting himself, I don't think he takes His Majesty in his eyes", Liang Ming said bluntly.

"That being said, the great cause of the empire has not yet been accomplished, is there anyone else in the court who can take his place?" Jiang Bingkun asked.

"This, although no one can replace him, but it can't make him so arrogant, Your Majesty also has to treat him, otherwise the other generals of the three fronts will follow suit in turn, and it won't be a second," Liang Ming said.

"Now is not the time, the bird is not finished with a good bow and cannot be hidden, there will be opportunities in the future, and now is not the time to punish him", Jiang Bingkun has his own plans.

In the City Lord's Mansion in Dark Night City, the military advisor Zhang Zicheng said to the Shadow Moon King: "According to the eyeliner of the court, the old thief Liang Ming impeached you for your inaction in front of Your Majesty, but Your Majesty still insisted on sending grain, grass and military horses, what do you think about this matter, General?"

"The empire still needs me to make a bigger deal for him, and before it's time to punish me, he's still calculating his dream of unification?"

"It seems that there is not much time left for you, and when the Fourth Route Army succeeds in triumphing, we will not make any moves at that time, and it will be difficult to reverse the plan, we need to plan well in advance," said the military advisor.

"Believe me, the four-way front is not so easy to win, you underestimate their behind-the-scenes sect master, they will definitely not let the empire occupy the four countries easily, when the time comes, he Jiang Bingkun will have to ask me Shadow Moon King to wipe his ass for him, he wants to calculate me, who calculates who is not necessarily?"

"Now that there is plenty of food and grass, and the horses are almost trimmed, our offensive plan has to be launched," said the strategist.

"I heard that the attack of the three empires of Xingyue, Taiwei, and Tianheng did not go so smoothly, they fell into a bitter battle, winter is a nightmare of war, before we quickly captured Night City, this speed is far beyond Tianhua Sect's expectations, this time Yecheng is waiting for us is not a simple army?" said the Shadow Moon King.

"Are you saying that the Tianhua Sect is officially involved in the secular war?" asked Zhang Tiancheng.

"The fall of Night City caught them by surprise, Yecheng is losing, Tianyang is gone, Tianhua Sect is not a fool", the Shadow Moon King has already seen through it.

"So that's why you didn't attack Yecheng for a long time?"

"It's not exactly, on the one hand, our losses are unpredictable when we storm Yecheng, and secondly, I want to have more chips, only by minimizing the losses, we retain more advantages, and we will have a greater chance of winning in the future, otherwise I don't care about Yecheng, if you want to achieve great things, you must have enough patience", the Shadow Moon King is scheming.

"Although I am a military advisor, I am ashamed to compare myself with the Shadow Moon King now, and the Shadow Moon King really has a better plan", Zhang Zicheng said flatteringly.

"If you want to fight with Jiang Bingkun, an old fox, if you don't open a few hearts, you will die so much that you don't even have scum left," said the Shadow Moon King.

"I will deliberately expose flaws in this attack, deliberately defeat, and then delay the attack plan until after next spring, so that we can guarantee the smallest losses, the winter attack is too great for us to bear, even if we successfully destroy the Tianyang Empire, how many soldiers will be left in our Shadow Moon Army?

"But if the attack fails, the Overseers will be impeached again, and the pressure will be great," the advisor worried.

"There will definitely be punishments, but for the sake of the great cause in the future, I don't care about the punishments. ”

"I tried my best to minimize the actual casualties in this attack, just to hide from Jiang Bingkun," the military advisor planned.

"By the way, how is that kid doing?" asked the Shadow Moon King.

"After being worthy of being the emperor, I have been using both soft and hard for several months, this kid is really not easy to deal with, the condition he gave is that now let us give up attacking the Tianyang Empire, and immediately rebel against Jiang Bingkun, he will help us complete the plan, this kid still can't see the situation clearly", Zhang Tiancheng said helplessly.

"It seems that now is not the time, when we capture Tianyang, let's have a good talk with him, I will talk to him personally when the time comes, you stabilize him first", the Shadow Moon King had a plan.

"Three days later, an army of 50,000 will attack Yecheng, and your report to the Overseers says that we have launched an attack of 300,000," said the Shadow Moon King.

"Understood," Zhang Tiancheng said.

In order to show his determination to attack, on the third day, the Shadow Moon King sent an army of 50,000 to attack Yecheng, claiming to be 300,000, and the overseer Liang Ming had nothing to say.

Yecheng was in a tight position at the moment, and the Tianhua Sect had already sent a large number of spirit masters to infiltrate the Tianyang army, ready to deal a heavy blow to them.

Although the city of Yecheng is not as strong as Night City, it has almost exhausted the core strength of the Tianyang Empire, and with the help of the Tianhua Sect, the 50,000 army has been wiped out.

The news of the defeat of the Shadow Moon King reached the ears of the Overseer, and he angrily broke into the military tent, "Gui Yunhai, you bastard, the 300,000 army attacked Yecheng and lost more than 200,000, how did you fight, even one person can drown them with a mouthful of spittle, I will definitely ask Your Majesty to join you, you are ashamed of your trust in Your Majesty, wait for the emperor's anger", Liang Ming left angrily.

"Does the general have a countermeasure?"

"In two days, I will personally write to Your Majesty to explain that we must delay the attack until after the spring, although this attack has lost 50,000 people, but it has also tested their defensive strength, and there are indeed many spirit masters mixed in it, if we rashly launch a front attack, it will only lose our troops, even if we win, our losses are unimaginable", said the Shadow Moon King, who had already dealt with the solution.

Not only the Shadow Moon King, but the other three armies attacking Tianheng, Taiwei, and Xingyue had a record but suffered huge losses, and their attacks were all met with stubborn resistance, and fighting in the cold winter was a huge loss for both sides.

The Shadow Moon King personally wrote a letter to explain: This winter offensive was met with stubborn resistance from the Tianyang Empire, a large number of spirit divisions participated in the battle, the winter supply was difficult, the morale of the marching army was low, and Yecheng was waiting for work, although our soldiers were not afraid to fight to the death, but the other party was extremely tenacious, and our army suffered heavy losses, in order to ensure the great cause of the empire, after a long period of thought, the ministers decided to postpone the plan of a full-scale attack until after the spring, when our losses can be minimized, and we are bound to capture Yecheng in one fell swoop and complete Your Majesty's wish. This attack is unfavorable, and the culprit has an unshirkable responsibility, and his majesty is asked to punish him.

Jiang Bingkun looked at the letter, extremely angry, but he also received a report from the other three fronts, the attack was all blocked, and the losses were huge, and finally he had to order to suspend the pace of the attack, turn to repair, and wait for the cold winter to carry out the attack plan.

The Shadow Moon King's huge losses were fruitless, and he was also punished, temporarily depriving the Shadow Moon King of his royal title, fining him for one year, and continuing to be in charge of the Shadow Moon army for meritorious service, if he could not capture Yecheng after the spring, he would be permanently deprived of his title and removed from his position as a general.

Seeing Jiang Bingkun's holy decree, the Shadow Moon King smiled, completely in control.

"During these days, you will be of great use if you send a few capable people to my fiefdom to secretly recruit troops and organize secret training", the Shadow Moon King decided to expand his power.

"Leave this matter to me", Zhang Zicheng went to supervise.

With the weakening of the winter offensive, the two sides were given a brief truce, and the people were able to breathe a little, and the major empires were making a lot of preparations one after another, knowing that the pace of war would not stop and that they must be deployed in advance.

The whole country of Tianyang is busy preparing for war, resettling refugees, training soldiers, and the second line of defense is related to the safety of the country, and they must be prepared for the worst.

At this moment, the Tianhua Sect is gloomy, the previous successive blows are big enough, such as today, the Yang Kingdom may overturn at any time, once Jiang Bingkun's ambition succeeds, Tianhua Sect and Shenjian Valley will face a direct threat from the Danyang Empire, and the Tianhua Sect will be in danger of destroying the sect at that time.

Now, Tianhua Sect is urgently training disciples, this year has sent five groups of disciples to various countries to carry out tasks, although it is said that the pace of the attack has been successfully delayed, but the huge losses are still irreparable, the important city of Night City, Tiange Fortress and many other important allies of the major cities have fallen one after another, and all countries have fallen into a bitter battle.

In the main hall of Tianhua Sect, many elders came to discuss the front-line war, Xie Tianxing said to Dai Tiande: "Our fifth batch of elite disciples have arrived and started to carry out the task, and great achievements have been made in the past half a year, successfully delaying the attack of the Danyang Empire, and news came from the front line that the four fronts have entered the stage of recuperation, and the offensive can be delayed at least until after the spring, and this time can finally take a breath."

"How many disciples has our Tianhua Sect lost these days?" Dai Tiande asked.

"Since the beginning of the war, we have lost no less than 600 disciples so far, all of whom are elite disciples," Xie Tianxing lamented.

"It seems that after the end of the war, our new recruits must lower the standard, this time the mainland is turbulent, I don't know how many people have died in the war, it will be extremely difficult to receive excellent disciples in the future, I heard that the number of people in various countries who starved to death or died in the war is not less than a million, this is only less than a year's effort", Dai Tiande worried.

"Fortunately, this year's disciples have made rapid progress, and many disciples have improved by leaps and bounds after the previous Great Secret Realm, and a large number of elite disciples will be born in a year or two, and their growth can be regarded as a solution to our urgent needs," Ji Xinyi said.

"I heard that Su Cheng of your Tianhua Peak has gained a lot in the secret realm, and now his strength has increased greatly, and he has reached the fifth order of the Ning Yuan Realm to catch up with other disciples, his talent is really gratifying," said an elder.

"But we have lost too much, the eldest disciple Jiang Heng, as well as Shi Xuan, Zhong Ling and many other extremely talented disciples have fallen one after another, and my Tianhua Sect has not had such a painful blow for many years," Dai Tiande said with a heartache.

"I heard that the situation in the Valley of the Excalibur is not optimistic, their operational losses are also huge, and the cost of this war is too expensive," an elder sighed.

"There is intelligence that many of the minions of the Moon Worship Sect are active in the occupied areas these days, even in the military camps of the Danyang Empire, there are also many shadows in the military camps of the Danyang Empire, and there will be disciples everywhere they pass to spread the teachings of the Moon Worship Sect, so that those villagers worship the gods they believe in, most of the villagers are ignorant and listen to their lies, and many people send their children to the Moon Worship Sect, which is also the reason for their rapid rise over the years, they have a huge mass advantage", Xie Tianxing said.

"I heard that it is very difficult for ordinary disciples of the Moon Worship Sect to see Yi Zhouyang himself, the affairs of the Moon Worship Sect have been in charge of the Deputy Sect Master all these years, and he has been in retreat for more than ten years, and I don't know what level he has broken through over the years?" Ji Xinyi said.

"The Moon Worship Sect is mysterious and peculiar, it must be guarded against, since this person has such a huge ambition, he is not an ordinary person, more than ten years ago, the old master had fought with him for a short time, and at that time he had already stepped into the ninth order of the Spirit Realm, and his strength was unfathomable", Dai Tiande said.

"Then Senior Brother, do you know what the gods that their entire sect believes in?" asked Ji Xinyi.

"The Moon Worship Sect was born for more than 10,000 years, mysterious, due to the disaster thousands of years ago, many ancient books disappeared, records about them are extremely rare, they disappeared for thousands of years, few people understand their existence, but about the gods is not a lie, in ancient times, the continent has more than once born real gods, they have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, but also have eternal life, is the real peak of human practice, but I don't know what happened 10,000 years ago caused these gods to disappear one after another, since then there is no more legend of them on the continentDai Tiande handed over some ancient secrets.

"Could it be that the Moon Worship Sect has survived from the gods believed in ancient times to the present?" an elder wondered.

"It's hard to say, after all, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but if it's really gods, why don't they appear in this world, or maybe they don't exist in this world at all," Dai Tiande said.

"Could it be that beyond our vast universe, there are extraterrestrial worlds, and these gods have entered other worlds?" someone speculated.

"The ancient inheritance of the Moon Worship Sect must know the secrets of the Reason Period, otherwise they would not have been able to believe in the ethereal gods?" Xie Tianxing guessed.

"In the future, we may be able to find out some secrets from them, but for now, we should do a good job on the front lines of the war," Dai Tiande said.