Chapter 861: A Different Sky

Someone in Jiangnan raised his head to look at the sky and muttered to himself that I want to be the emperor.

The foreigners of Muping in Eastern Xinjiang were rampant in the city, and the merchants of Eastern Chu were extinct.

These don't seem to have anything to do with Fang Jie, but if you look down from the sky, the big and small forces are all on a chessboard, and no one knows which one of the Lu Dao is the hair that pulls a hair and moves the whole body, so how can it not matter? After Chen Xiaoru reported that the merchants of Eastern Chu had disappeared in Muping, Fang Jie's heart was a little nervous, if this was as he speculated, the changes in the pattern of the Central Plains would no longer be led by the Han themselves.

He ordered the big boat to stop on the shore, saying that he was going to wait for someone.

And the person he was waiting for was rolling towards this side with 1,200 iron horsemen like the wind of the official road at this time. If someone else knows that the Taoist side has come to Dongjiang, I am afraid that the first reaction is four words, distant friendship and close attack...... The Black Flag Army and Mufu are one east and one west, if they are temporarily aligned, it will inevitably affect the world. But who would have thought that Fang Xie not only did not come to form an alliance, but to make enemies?

Not long after the big boat docked, Yiye Bianzhou caught up from behind and leaned on the side of the big boat, and Wu Yiyi, who had already changed back into a brocade robe, got on the big boat with a somewhat solemn face, and went straight to Fang Jie.

"The Lord"

Wu Yi bowed after entering the door.

"Hou Ye"

Fang Xie glanced at him: "You came up for me to order the ship to stop?" ”

Wu Yi nodded: "The subordinates can understand why the lord is deliberately angry with Mu Mansion, but they don't understand why they want to stop the boat and wait." After all, the safety of the lord is more important than anything else, and everything must be considered based on this. Mu Guangling's cultivation is very strong, and his subordinates have just learned that in order to deal with the great cultivators he will face on the battlefield in the future, Mu Guangling specially trained a group of very special cavalry. The subordinates still don't know what special means these cavalry have, but since the Mu Mansion is prepared, why did the lord stop the ship? ”

Fang Xie told the news of Chen Xiaoru's report, and Wu Yiyi's face also changed.

If so, he should have been left to warn him. If the foreigners move troops against the Central Plains, the people of Mufu will be restrained. When the time comes, it will also be of great benefit to the Black Flag Army to go out of the southwest. ”

Wu Yiyi could guess what Fang Xie was deliberately trying to provoke the Mu Mansion, no matter how far the Mu Mansion was from the southwest, sooner or later he would have to face the Black Flag Army. And once the people of Mufu enter the Central Plains, they will immediately become the common enemy of many powerful forces. It was precisely because Mu Guangling knew this that he did not raise troops for a long time. His son Mu Xianjun even secretly ridiculed his father for being cowardly, but where did he have such deep thoughts as his father?

If there is no complete preparation, even if Mu Mansion is powerful in the eastern frontier, how can he dare to enter the Central Plains and become the enemy of the whole world?

Mu Xianjun looked too shallow, and Mu Guangling was scheming.

At that time, once the forces of the Central Plains unite to fight against Mu Mansion, if it is rumored that Fang Xie had entered the Eastern Xinjiang and formed an alliance with Mu Mansion, it will not be beneficial to the Black Flag Army. Everyone has a regional view, and they are all Han people, but the people of the Central Plains themselves fought so fiercely that they could not allow the people of Eastern Xinjiang to intervene. Many powerful people in the Central Plains and Jiangnan will definitely not allow a force from the east to finally take away that chair.

For a long time, no matter how to fight, it has always been the Central Plains people who take turns to sit in the village, but once the people of Dongjiang intervene and succeed in the most reluctant, then the future of all parties is equivalent to reshuffling, how many benefits can these heroes have? Originally, the big cake of the Central Plains was eaten by them, but now that there is an extra outsider, they are afraid that they will have to eat more, and they will not agree.

And Fang Jie's purpose is to become the leader of all the powerful forces in the Central Plains in the future, and now it seems very unwise to anger Mu Fu, but it will be different later. It was precisely because Fang Xie saw through the mind of Zhongyuan Haoqiang that he did not plan to have a good relationship with Mu Fu from the beginning.

Now that the foreigners really seem to have the intention of invading the Central Plains, Wu Yiyi thought that Fang Jie's meaning was to tell Mu Guangling about this, so that Mu Guangling would not dare to leave easily, after all, Dongjiang was his foundation. Once he led his troops westward into the Central Plains, what did the eastern frontier rely on to resist the invasion of foreigners?

Involving the strength of Mu Mansion in Eastern Xinjiang is definitely beneficial to the development of the Black Flag Army.

"But ......"

Wu Yi was silent for a while and then said: "This matter is not risky for the lord, it is better to tell Mu Xianjun about this, and then leave him behind, he will naturally tell Mu Guangling." ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "You haven't seen Mu Xianjun's eyes...... Even if I told Mu Xianjun the news that the foreigners were going to invade, he wouldn't tell Mu Guangling. The ambition in Mu Xianjun's eyes is too big, in order to be able to sit on that chair in the future, he will not be reluctant to go to the east. Since ancient times, those who sit in the Central Plains are the orthodoxy of the world, and if the Mufu army can really enter the Central Plains when the time comes, what else does he need in the Eastern Frontier? ”

"This person ...... You can't be so stupid, right? ”

"He's not stupid, he's paranoid."

Fang Xie smiled: "Master Hou can rest assured, I won't let myself get into danger easily." It's just a good time that you're here, and I was going to send someone to invite you over. ”

"What does the lord command?"

Wu Yi asked.

"First, everyone on this ship is transferred to another ship, and you come and sit down, and continue westward and return. The ship is parked here, and I will leave it myself. Don't say anything more, it's much easier for me to get out of it myself than it is to get out with most of it. I will let Dao Venerable Xiang Qingniu support in secret, so you don't need to persuade again. ”

"The second thing is to inform the people and make every effort to investigate the affairs of Dongchu. No matter how quickly Dongchu is destroyed, there will be people who stay outside and do not go back, only the goods in the world have the strength to find these people. ”

"Whoa"

Wu Yi nodded: "The subordinates let Lian Dan and his wife go with another big ship, and the subordinates stay." ”

He bowed his head and leaned over: "After I go back, I will ask the lord to punish him for the crime of disrespecting military orders." ”

Fang Xie was silent for a while and did not refuse, and nodded: "Then let's arrange it like this." ”

After saying this, Fang Xie turned to look at Chen Xiaoru, who had been standing aside: "Send a secret letter to Zuo Mingciao, it is estimated that he will not be able to go back to the camp for a while." If the foreigners really invaded, the first stop would be Muping. Let him stay with his men, once the foreigner's army comes in, the people of Zuo Mingcia will be reduced to pieces and lurk, I need them to find out all the news about the foreigner's army. ”

"Whoa!"

Chen Xiaoru answered, turned around and went out to do things.

Fang Xie glanced out the window and seemed to say to himself: "I don't know how many people in Ludao will forget about the conflict of interests at that time...... I don't know how many good sons and daughters in Lu Dao will die from guns and cannons......"

Wu Yi didn't understand this, and he was stunned for a while.

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Dong Chu

Palace

The foreigner team wearing a completely different style of military uniform from the Han army passed by one by one, and there is no shadow of a Dongchu person in the entire Eastern Chu capital now. All the residents of Eastern Chu were ordered to stay in their homes, and all people from Eastern Chu who were found to have gone to the streets without permission were to be killed.

At least 100,000 troops of the Opru Empire marched into what was said to be the richest city in the world, and then crashed countless gold and silver fortunes into ships and transported them back across the ocean.

Standing at the highest point of the Imperial Palace of Ruyi City, the capital of Eastern Chu, you can see the warships of the Opru Empire swimming back and forth on the sea. The fierce beasts covered in iron skin look very different from the warships of the Eastern Chu people, and the warships of the Oplu Empire do not look flashy or even a little ugly, but they are undoubtedly the real war machines.

From time to time, you can see the fire on the warship, which is the ship's artillery power. Some Eastern Chu fishermen set up small boats and tried to escape from the Oplu Empire's warships, but they were ruthlessly shattered by artillery. There are fires on the sea, but there is no fireworks.

Yes, just a cold killing aura.

The scale of Ruyi City is certainly not as large as that of Chang'an, but it seems to be more magnificent here. Because Ruyi Castle is built according to the mountain, the whole castle extends from the mountainside near the sea and then extends to the shore. Unlike Chang'an City, Ruyi City has no city walls, except for the magnificent palace built on the mountainside. Along the coast, without walls, the heart of the country was thus exposed to the artillery of the enemy's warships.

The people of Eastern Chu have always thought that they are the rulers of the sea, so they have never worried about the safety of the capital. On the contrary, they always thought that the ultimate enemy would be the empire called the Great Sui in the Central Plains rather than the foreigners overseas, so they deployed their forces on the Western Front. Although Ruyi City has a Praetorian Guard that is known to be armed to the teeth, in the face of sudden disasters, it is obvious that the fighting will of the Eastern Chu people is far inferior to that of the Han people in the Central Plains.

When disaster struck, only half of the mighty Praetorian Guards chose to take up arms and besiege Ruyi City. And the Dongchu fleet, which is known as invincible in the world, was destroyed without holding on for even a day. When the coiling rope of the ballista on the Eastern Chu warship was not tightened, the enemy's shells had already fallen on the bow of the ship.

This is a war where the contrast in strength is too great, the enemy is prepared, and the Eastern Chu people have no defense at all.

"These black-haired, black-eyed people are amazing."

Standing in front of the main hall of the imperial palace, the Emperor of the Oplu Empire, revered as Lyman the Great, stood with his hands in his hands, overlooking the entire Ruyi City, watching his fleet continue to besiege and kill the remaining Eastern Chu sailors on the sea.

"They had such a prosperous economy, such magnificent buildings, such lavish palaces, such wealthy aristocrats, but they did not have an army that kept up with the times. Moreover, their will to resist did not seem to be as strong as I thought, and most of them quickly accepted the fact of defeat...... However, there is a group of wonderful people who have some kind of natural power and are loyal to the royal family, and can rescue the Eastern Chu Emperor from Lu surrounded by a large army. ”

He didn't seem to understand: "Those people, what is the personal ability so strong?" Could it be that the sky above us on the other side of the sea is really different from the sky above this land? ”

"Your Majesty, my Honor."

Archduke Thurence, who had gray hair and a hunched back, said respectfully: "Those are just a few, relatively speaking, the people of this land are weak sheep, and those powerful people are just lions who take care of these sheep, this is a very strange composition, but there is no doubt that the number of lions is far from being able to protect sheep...... Moreover, if the sky here is really different from ours before, it will be fine, because you are already standing on this land, and the sky will change. ”

Lyman the Great smiled, looked at Thurence and said, "Do I like to take you with me?" ”

Grand Duke Thurence bowed his head: "Because I am loyal enough." ”

"That's just one of the reasons, but the other is...... You can always say something that makes me happy. I know how high my achievements are, so I need someone around me to sing the praises of virtue. Otherwise, how boring life is. ”

Thurence smiled humbly, revealing the yellowed teeth in his mouth.

"Your Majesty, my Majesty, are we going to continue the attack immediately?"

"Of course"

Emperor Lyman turned his head to look at the Central Plains: "I heard that there is a city called Chang'an over there, which is ten times larger than the Ruyi City in Eastern Chu, and even several times larger than the capital of the Opru Empire. I want to go there, kill all the lions, shut all the sheep in my fold, and produce wool for me. ”

"Ha Lu Ha"

Thurence laughed, as if he admired Lyman the Great's humor.