Chapter 552: The Wave of Terror

When Yinli arrived in Danyang, Tan Xiaopei, Zhuo Mang and other core ministers were waiting for him in the airship mooring, and while Tan Xiaopei and Zhuo Mang were talking with Yinli and others, Ye Tao was directing and coordinating the airship brigade to make final preparations. This time, Danyang directly dispatched a total of forty-four airships, including Yunzhou No. 1, to send a large number of personnel directly to the hinterland of Xiling. The various arrangements along the way are quite complicated.

In order to facilitate contact, Yin Li and the two attachés boarded Yunzhou No. 1 directly, and after the airship took off, he found that Ye Tao was already so tired that he fell asleep. Yin Li didn't know much about Ye Tao, but he felt very good. Even the attendants around Ye Tao seem to have been influenced by Ye Tao's family for many years, and they always reveal a sincere taste when treating people, which makes people very comfortable. Some of their questions, Feng Wei, who accompanied them, was responsible for answering, and those things that were inconvenient to tell them, Feng Wei always explained why seriously and plainly, and he couldn't say it, but he didn't shirk it without Wang Gu talking about him left and right. After Feng Yan's explanation, Yinli had a certain understanding of the situation. In addition to sending an envoy to Dongping for talks, the Yin family naturally had to make various arrangements in Xiling to contact families that were close enough and reliable enough, and to divide and disintegrate all kinds of friends and enemies that might have an impact on their surrender. However, someone finally realized that Yinli, the prince, had disappeared for a long time, and there were still a large number of people in key and sensitive positions, and even Yinying. Yin Ying's appearance in Danyang may also be a flaw, some of Xiling's spies can recognize Her Royal Highness the princess, but these spies are not completely directly controlled by the Yin family.

There was no change in the situation of the court, but some families began to gather military forces, and there were more horizontal contacts. This kind of self-preservation posture does not make the Yin family too worried, afraid of being betrayed and afraid of becoming a bargaining chip in the transaction, it is understandable that these families make such a gesture. This situation is not unresolvable, and the lord of Xiling Country let his nephew visit several patriarchs to ease the atmosphere a little. But just five days ago, Yinzhi and his party were ambushed and the whole army was annihilated. Yinzhi's life and death are unknown. The one who did it to them seemed to be the Daoming Sect. The Daoming Sect then began to try to directly control the three states in which it had deep influence. The Daoming Sect can be said to be deeply rooted in Xiling, and its influence is still much stronger than the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, which has been established for a short time, especially the continuous penetration of several generations, that kind of loyalty and fanaticism, combined with the incitement of religion, is really a very terrifying force. Even the Daoming Sect began to take a series of assassinations, kidnappings and other measures, directly controlling the power of some families. Started with Yinzhi and his party, there was a lot of poor daggers, and finally saw the taste of the real chapter. The military strength under their direct control now exceeds 150,000, plus three times as many as the army of the Catholics who have undergone simple training and have a certain equipment base. Faintly, there is already a threat to Anqing.

Daomingzong seems to want to get rid of the Xiling royal family and establish himself as a country. They're not unconfident. Once religion is used as a call to launch an endless harassment war, Dongping may not be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of casualties to fight them, and the high-ranking members of the Daoming Sect believe that as long as they do not fight head-on with Dongping, they should still have a chance to rely on the tactics of all the people. They knew very well that once Dongping became the ruler of Xiling, Daoming Sect would face a comprehensive purge.

When Feng Wei chatted with Yinli, he told Yinli that there were already a lot of forces that had infiltrated the territory of Xiling. In addition to a small number of troops stationed in Yejiabao and guarding the members of the Ye family, Ye Tao's guard battalion had 1,400 people entering Xiling. The main combat team and reserve combat team of the special battalion totaled 4,000 people, all of whom entered the territory of Xiling. The secret camp established by the inner court guards and the Tan family, which is purely composed of experts from all walks of life, also has considerable strength in Xiling. Yinzhi's whereabouts are already in charge of investigating, and once it is confirmed that he is still alive and controlled by the Daoming Sect, there will be a corresponding rescue operation immediately. This kind of efficiency also made Yinli a little shocked. Being able to react so quickly shows that Xiling has a fast channel to communicate with Dongping directly in China, and he doesn't know that it was these intelligence officers who first started to use wireless telegraphy, how they can have such fast contact, in his opinion, it is a mystery.

Ye Tao personally went to Anqing to control the overall situation. What surprised Yinli even more was that Tan Weixin and Dai Yun also came with them. Dai Yun followed, it was normal, Ye Tao needed to have a completely reliable and comprehensive commander by his side, and he must also be a meritorious person who could serve the public, maybe he would have to temporarily command the Xiling troops to fight. In this regard, although Dai Yun is a woman, there are few people in the world who can compare with her in terms of military achievements over the years. But Tan Weixin also came, but he was a little confused.

The airship team rushed to Xunshan Pass at full speed, restocked, and also turned another airship team. The airships were all fully loaded, and the thirty airships were loaded with nearly 800 elite soldiers carrying only simple weapons. In this way, there are so many elite troops in Dongping that Ye Tao can directly command in Xiling that there are more than 7,000 people. It's also quite a strong army. What about the equipment of these 800 people? Yin Li didn't think to ask, the other party had sent thousands of people to infiltrate Xiling, what was the matter of getting hundreds of sets of equipment? Fortunately, he was cooperating with Dongping, otherwise, just knowing these things, he would have been angry. Thousands of people, what a storm and waves they can set off.

In fact, Ye Tao still concealed a little content. The people under his command have already started to move in Xiling, and since they know that Daoming Sect is starting to toss, they will naturally attack Daoming Sect. The Sect Demon Regiment took the squad as a unit, scattered into the controlled area of the Daoming Sect, and wreaked havoc, and those guys in the guard camp were even more afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they had already killed four bishops in the twelve major sects of the Daoming Sect in two days. Thanks to the sniper rifles, they can shoot from a distance of several hundred feet and then retreat calmly. After the death of four bishops, the Daoming Sect still didn't quite understand what was going on. But the death of so many high-ranking faculty members has greatly affected their strategy plan. The structure of the Daoming Sect is not the same as that of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, the Thunder Yin Demon Sect adopts a system of separating the teaching, military and government positions, and the name is the same, in fact, they do not belong to each other, each has its own specialization, and then it can coordinate with each other, which is also because the Thunder Yin Demon Sect has a strong bond of interests, which can make the sect follow, not completely with the help of religion and idolatry. But Daoming Sect is different, a bishop is a prince, although he has to obey the orders of the general altar, but the power under his hands is all up to him. A third of the bishops died at once, which caused a lot of turmoil within the Daoming Sect.

The airship team stayed at Xunshan Pass for a day, and then set off at night and flew directly to a Huangzhuang on the outskirts of Anqing. Yin Li was worried along the way, Xiling also has an airship team, but flying at night is very unsafe, the flight itself is not a big problem, but there is no ground reference, it is too easy to get lost. Now, in addition to Yunzhou, there is a hydrogen airship and a helium airship for technical verification, and the hot gas airship technology initiated by Ye Tao and continuously developed and perfected is actually just a hot air balloon in disguise, and the endurance is still limited by the fuel carried. And the trek has extremely serious consequences.

The inside of the airship can be passed, but it gives Yinli the opportunity to observe the demeanor of the Dongping ace pilots, and looking at it, he also sees a little way. In order to avoid being detected by ground observation, the airship team basically turned off the lights, and only carried out minimal communication with each other, and also used light box signals for directional isolation processing. But the direction of the airship has always been steady, because there is always guidance on the ground. Along the way, on many hills, you can see strobe light signals. Yin Li couldn't help but feel a little depressed again, Dongping was thinking about everything, everything was ready, if it really started, how would this be dealt with? However, many years ago, when the airship technology was not perfect, Ye Tao used Xiling to bomb it, and now, after so many years, it is really not difficult to achieve what it is now with Dongping's technical system.

Huangzhuang's side naturally made preparations early, but Ye Tao's people really made a deep impression on Xiling Yin's family. To receive such a large team, it is natural to be quite prepared to moor a large number of airships. It was impossible for Huangzhuang, which was originally only used for leisure to avoid the summer, to have this kind of preparation, and to recruit some of the airship troops to come over, it was easy to startle the snake. Originally, the guy in charge of this was a headache. Unexpectedly, three days ago, at the gate of Huangzhuang, a team of nearly 300 people appeared, entered Huangzhuang with the agreed code, and then identified themselves: the special battalion service brigade directly under the Northern Xinjiang Jingluo Mansion...... What's even more depressing is that while revealing his identity, Dai Mi, who led this army, also indicated that in order to prevent people in the Huangzhuang from leaking the news, someone else has controlled the periphery of the entire Huangzhuang.

Although there will still be secret envoys to pass on this situation to the Xiling Lord, this deployment has already allowed the Yin family to see Dongping's ability.

Naturally, the airship team landed on time and did not attract anyone's attention. Ye Tao must be low-key, he is here to solve the problem, not to put himself in a trap. And in this Huangzhuang in Xiling, in fact, he is already surrounded by forces from all walks of life who do not know their positions.

"Airdrop streams are really not so fun," Ye Tao just commented on this. From the look on his lips, he knew that he didn't really feel too much danger. The fact is also the same, if there is really a big risk, how could Tan Xiaopei let him come to Xiling with Tan Weixin and Dai Yun? This account is very easy to calculate, as long as Ye Tao and Tan Weixin are here, no matter what, it is only a matter of time to attack Chunnan and Xiling, but without these two people, even if Dongping continues to rely on the huge combat advantage and the inertia of national strategy, he still conquers Chunnan and Xiling, but there will be no such genius to guide and assist Dongping to take a stable development path for decades. In the end, how much Dongping now relies on Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's various ideas, only a few people in this country know.

Huangzhuang had become Ye Tao's temporary headquarters, and wind turbines and wireless telegraphs were quickly erected. Another early morning came, and the troops from all walks of life sent contacts one after another according to the scheduled time, and this method of communication made the generals of Xiling, including Yinli, so shocked that they didn't know how to react. But what shocked them was not only that, an airship from the hinterland of Xiling also arrived in Huangzhuang, and the airship with only three crew members was loaded with huge wooden boxes, and these wooden boxes were opened, and the contents were taken out and spliced together, forming a total of four sets of sand table models: Xiling and the surrounding borders, Xiling North, Xiling South, Anqing and the surrounding areas...... Dongping's detailed mapping of the terrain of Xiling made those high-ranking military officials who were loyal to the Xiling royal family all silent after seeing it. You must know that in the sand table in Anqing and the surrounding areas, even the Xiling Palace has a relatively rough and accurate plot...... If it weren't for Dongping's spy who was proficient in surveying and mapping to infiltrate the palace, he would have been seen from the air...... Either way, it's not something to be pleasant to do.

Fortunately, Dongping is at least not the enemy of these people now, and seeing these things, the generals of the forbidden army loyal to the royal family have no doubt that they began to accept the dual command of Dai Yun and Yinli. Moreover, it is basically based on Dai Yun.

"Niutouzhai is already in the hands of our army." On the evening of that day, a telegram arrived at the Imperial Village.

Yin Li asked strangely: "Niutou Mountain?" Where is that? ”

"The third highest peak in the Sky Ridge." Dai Yun replied succinctly: "The distance between here is three hundred and forty-four miles, and the road distance is five hundred and ninety-two miles. ”

"Where is that?" Yin Li still didn't understand. But the two generals of the forbidden army on the side already looked ugly.

"Lord Wang, that's what the Qi family let out. They are kings of the mountains...... However, although that place is not far from here, it is still relatively remote, and there is only one road in the deep mountains, and the Qi family has operated in Anqing for a while, so we don't care. The general, surnamed Li, explained in a low voice.

"Then why did you take it there?"

"Thirty airships will stop at Niutou Village tomorrow. If all our deployments are not successful, we can finally let everyone withdraw there and fly directly to Dongping, and there is a way out. No matter what, these hundreds of miles of land are passable. Dai Yun said indifferently.

"This ......" Although he also wanted to praise him for not thinking about victory and defeat, Yin Li couldn't say anything.

"The prince doesn't have to take it too seriously. The generals released by the Qi family were vacated by our people three years ago. Slowly infiltrating and replaced, Niutouzhai originally had more than 3,000 people, plus more than 10,000 mountain people who were attached to the cottage. Of the more than 3,000 people, 2,000 have been replaced by our people, and this kind of small battle is not worth mentioning. Liu Yong added with a smile on the side. The boss who first ran over to be the second-in-command and set up the Niutou Village, but his closed disciple Shen Luoying is only in his early thirties now, and his future is immeasurable. Moreover, Ye Tao's friend Guan Huan was there to assist. As for those mountain people, they are now loyal to Shen Luoying, Shen Luoying taught them mountain forest planting techniques, organized them to reclaim terraced fields, and established a fairly fair distribution system, so that everyone lived a lot better. The mountain people are already poorly informed, and their recognition of Xiling is very low, and now they don't pay attention to the imperial decrees. And Niutouzhai has become the most ideal way out.

As Dongping's various arrangements gradually put in place, arrangements that had been foreshadowed for many years surfaced, and the situation became more and more controllable. The Yin family continued to guide the court quietly, but the palace was more than one notch higher than before, and the control of Anqing's garrison was also tightened.

"If you want to keep in touch with those you trust, who else can come in handy?" Ye Tao asked.

"Yinzhi is now ...... Alas, if he was there, he would be the most suitable. Intelligent, young, and courageous...... It's a pity......" Yin Li thought about it, still a little embarrassed. "Now, is he missing?"

"It's not ......" Ye Tao held the latest telegram in his hand, and there were two lines of words under the dot painting, one line was the directly translated characters, and the other line was the message that decoded the code according to the characters. My people have rescued Yinzhi. However, he was broken by the Daoming Sect...... I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate to let him run around again, right? ”

"What?" Yin Li snatched the telegram and read it carefully.

Rescuing Yinzhi can be described as a stroke of genius, and it is the result of the cooperation of the guard battalion, the inner court guards, the special battalion and the sect demon group. Although Yinzhi and his entourage were attacked, a character like Yinzhi was a strange thing, and after being caught, he was locked up in an industry controlled by Daoming Sect. Originally, the Daoming Sect was on guard, but after the four bishops were assassinated, the General Altar ordered Yinzhi to be handed over to the General Altar, which made the Sect Demon Group, who was already familiar with the style of the Daoming Sect, find the clues. The Sect Demon Group quickly worked out a plan of action with several parties.

The Lei Yin Demon Sect has never lacked extremely incitative people, and it is no problem to attract the sect members on his side, but occasionally dress up as a priest of the Daoming Sect, and he is also very familiar with inciting places. The six soldiers changed their clothes and moved separately, and in less than a day, five or six thousand people from the neighboring towns and towns were brought in, armed with simple weapons, and went to "support" the main altar. It happened to collide with the team escorting Yinzhi and blocked the road. It seemed that these were all genuine people, and the escort team did not recognize the people of the Sect Demon Regiment among the thousands of people, but was attracted by the various rewards offered by the friendly sect members, and camped and rested together. And on this night, the people of the Sect Demon Regiment, together with the help of other parties, concentrated the attack with three times the more elite troops. On average, every two people stared at one to start, and eighty percent of the entire team was solved in just a split second. After a very brief battle, he took Yinzhi away. However, it was naturally impossible for the team to travel with a telegraph, and they ran more than 200 miles with Yinzhi before they arrived at the contact point and sent out this telegram. They also called the airship at the same time, but they had to wait for the airship to arrive and bring Yinzhi to Huangzhuang, and it was estimated that they would have to wait. Mainly on this road, the night light guide has to be rearranged again.

However, the rescue of Yinzhi made the Xiling royal family breathe a sigh of relief. This is not only because Yinzhi is a member of the royal family, or the capable and promising kind, but also because they can't let the Yin family's contact with Dongping be exposed. If Yinzhi was not saved, they would rather Yinzhi die in that attack. Under the heavy punishment, anything can be asked.

However, after this, the situation in the north of Xiling became further entangled. Daoming Sect was aggressive, and suffered a lot of losses all of a sudden, and suddenly like a wounded beast, everything around it had to bite into it, and it began to continuously launch attacks on the family manor, constantly carrying more and more sectarians and civilians who had not been converted, accumulating strength. They also launched a large number of terrorist offensives of assassination, kidnapping, and attack, and their targets were not only the Thunder Yin Demon Sect and the families loyal to the royal family, but also those who were just dissatisfied with the strategy of the Daoming Sect, and there could only be one voice in the entire area under their control!

And in the face of the aggressive pressure of the Daoming Sect, the Thunder Yin Demon Sect finally made a direct response. They formally took over all the military power of the local government, and moved the cathars southward with all their might, forming a strong defensive barrier in the control area that was intertwined with the dogs of the Dominion Sect, and advancing steadily and steadily. The Sect Demon Regiment continued to seek opportunities to assassinate and attack, constantly causing increasing pressure on the Daoming Sect. The entire Xiling North is no longer something that the Yin family can control.

The situation developed in a worse direction, and several ministers and generals who were close to Daomingzong made a desperate bet, and finally threw themselves over there under all kinds of coercion and temptation of Daomingzong. The more than 200,000 troops who were originally undergoing combat readiness training were under the guidance and cooperation of Daoming Sect, and the chassis of the two states fell in an instant, and those who were loyal to the Yin family, located in the dangerous areas of the mountains, had strong forces, and were able to hold on to the village, and those who were not strong could only be carried in order to save their lives. In this bad situation, several ambush troops in Dongping were unable to contact Huangzhuang's side on time. But at this time, Dai Yun thought about it and decided that he could mobilize all his forces to solve the problem at once. Daomingism has exposed all its bad faces, from the original persuasion of people to be gentle and good to make people believe in karma to now embark on the path of religious terror, even those who were previously wavering in strength, now should understand who can live and live well.

The lord of Xiling was "furious", and in the court, he imprisoned all the ministers who supported Daomingzong, and then ordered the whole army to conquer Daomingzong. The power he could muster in his hands wasn't enough. The army that the Xiling royal family can directly and indirectly control adds up to less than 200,000, although its combat strength is not bad, but it can't compete with the opposing regular army and the auxiliary cult mob combined, with a total of 1.5 million people. Even if the garrisons scattered all over the place are loyal to the Xiling royal family, it is unlikely that they will be assembled now. Fu Sinian led the army to King Qin, and the army of 30,000 blocked the north of Anqing, firmly resisting the infiltration and invasion of Daoming Sect. The palace treasury was opened, and the rewards for the high-level leaders of the Daoming Sect at all levels and the rewards for military merits were clearly marked, and they would never shirk it. The forbidden army and the garrison of Anqing spent four days cleaning the city of Anqing, driving all the believers of the Daoming sect out of the city, enclosing the land, and controlling it. In the case of fully grasping Anqing, ensuring the complete security of the national capital and not leaking news, Ye Tao and his party moved the headquarters to Anqing.

After meeting Ye Tao, the lord of Xiling State expressed his hope that Dongping could march as soon as possible, sweep away the chaotic people, and restore peace to the world. Although the current situation is much more chaotic than originally expected, Ye Tao, Tan Weixin and Dai Yun are all characters with strong nerves and a hundred steps. Ye Tao asked Ming's attitude towards the Xiling Lord, and after he had no scruples, he immediately ordered the border army, tribal cavalry, and various recruit brigades stationed in Zhenzhou in Yunzhou to assemble and go south. And a fast airship, carrying the secret envoy of the lord of the country, will cooperate with the will of the Dongping army to fight directly to Lei Huang, let him coordinate the relationship between the Lei Yin Demon Sect and the Zhenzhou army, don't make another storm at this time.

After receiving such a "reasonable" will, Lei Huang and his brothers who had been lurking for many years laughed, and finally waited for this day. Originally, the Lei Yin Demon Sect's control over the local sect was not at the same level as the Daoming Sect, but now that it has a justifiable will that can dispel the doubts of some sect members, what else is there to say? The two high-ranking priests immediately communicated with the liaison officer of the Zhenzhou Army who was waiting at the main altar about the battle strategy, and Lei Huang immediately went to deploy the general mobilization of the Lei Yin Demon Sect.

The alarm bells of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect distributed in various villages and towns were sounded at the same time, and the pious sect members and the people in the township took out the weapons and armor they were hiding one after another, or gathered with simple food and drinking water, and rushed to the nearest Thunder Yin Demon Sect altar. A large number of weapons were distributed, and teams were formed. Although the Thunder Yin Demon Sect only has one state, Taizhou, their mobilization efficiency and the combat effectiveness of the sect are far superior to those of the Daoming Sect. Within five days, 290,000 members of the sect were organized into a Guardian Army and rushed to the front. And in the past few days, the Wolf Yuan cavalry, which is the vanguard of the Zhenzhou army, has also rushed to the southern border of Taizhou and directly connected with Daomingzong. Ye Tao arrived in Xiling for half a month, and finally let Dongping grasp the initiative in the process of controlling the entire Xiling situation.

Two days later, just after assembling to deal with the Dongping army, more than 300,000 troops were bombed by airships. Although Daomingzong has a fairly large regular army and an airship force, there is no way to compare with the elite of Yunzhou in terms of airship tactics. With air power, Daoming Sect was almost on the verge of collapse, but the results of the bombing on the Dongping side were also quite limited. After all, this is already the hinterland of Xiling, and the Zhenzhou army has not been able to repair the airship mooring ground to the front line, nor can it supply the airship with fuel and ammunition nearby, so it can only rely on a limited number of long-range airships to bomb, the intensity is quite limited, and the morale of the Daoming Sect is far more than the actual killing.

However, in terms of ground operations, the first cooperation between the Lei Yin Demon Sect and the Zhenzhou army was quite coordinated. The two armies covered each other, retreated one after another, and seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack, rushing Daomingzong's army more and more scattered. They ate the scattered enemy troops in small pieces...... The battle lasted from early morning to near midnight, and both sides were exhausted......

At the same time, Dai Yun personally led an army of 3,000 Dongping guards and Fu Sinian's 30,000 troops to attack all the way to the north. And Yinli followed Dai Yun as Xiling's envoy. Dai Yun didn't want to defeat the Daoming Sect at once, but just to disperse and break through the blockade of the Daoming Sect and combine all the forces that supported the Yin family in tandem. Only by gathering enough combat power can they carry out a frontal assault to the north, so as not to go too far from the combat power of Daoming Sect's army. After thinking about it, the lord of Xiling also simply put his mind at ease, and squeezed out 8,000 elite forbidden troops from Anqing's small military strength to support Dai Yun. You must know that Dai Yun's military strength is too small, even if he opens up the family villas and farms, it is impossible to gather too many troops, and they will always divide troops to garrison. This made her combat power even more stretched. With these 8,000 forbidden troops, you can be much more calm.