Chapter 565: Battle—The Beginning: Thinking about the Battle
If any possible outcome was deliberately arranged by Zao Wou-ki, then is Yan Yunxing walking towards the abyss step by step?
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With the help of Yao Shuang and Mi Hua's disguise technique, Yan Yunxing successfully mixed up the Black Wood Cliff and returned to the Five Poisons Sect, and was also ordered by the imperial court to disband the demon army because of rumors, and the result could only be a piece of paper full of anger and unyielding will, and a war that was said to be fought, and almost the entire Southern Song Dynasty was in the dilemma of being the enemy.
If you carefully brush it from the beginning, Yan Yunxing may even feel cold.
Zao Wou-Ki had only one purpose from beginning to end, and that was to destroy the Five Poisons Sect. At the beginning, he didn't show up at all, and only used Tang Nianyu and Li Batian to almost overthrow the entire Five Poisons Sect, but fortunately, Yan Yunxing turned the tide and saved the Five Poisons from fire and water; Immediately after Qin Ren because of Li Yulan, he sent the "Thirteen Eagles" to make it difficult with the Five Poisons, and Zao Wou-Ki turned to peaceful means and sent the Great Sage of Financial Management to support the Jia Chamber of Commerce to fight an economic war with the Five Poisons Sect, hoping that the Five Poisons Sect would lose itself without a fight, and the result was that Yan Yunxing conquered Dali with tough means and dominated the southwest.
If the power of the imperial court can also be subdivided, there should be four sides. One is the Taizu lineage, the emperor of the dynasty; the second is a lineage of Taizong, a descendant of Gaozong; the third is the military attache force, the border army and the forbidden army; Fourth, it is a civilian force, and hundreds of officials from the government and the opposition. These four forces are not in the midst of open and secret struggles at all times, and they are also one of the driving forces for the continuous development of the Southern Song Dynasty.
As long as you inquire a little, it is not difficult to know that the Qin family has been the head of the hundred officials for generations-Tongping Zhangshi. Forty-four years ago, it was Qin Zhi, and after Qin Zhi fell into the thirteenth tomb was his younger brother Qin Shi, and after Qin Shi's death, he was his nephew Qin Xiao, that is, Qin Zhi's youngest son and Qin Ren's cousin. The protégés of the Qin family are all over the government and the opposition, and provoking Qin Ren also means provoking the civil forces.
After that, Zhao Wou-Ki temporarily let go of the Five Poisons Sect and planned for many years to prepare to unify the Jiangnan martial arts, but who knew that it was Yan Yunxing who completely disrupted his entire plan, and he may have lost Zhao Yun's trust in him and was silent for more than ten years.
If you can't dominate the rivers and lakes, then you will destroy the entire rivers and lakes! In the past ten years, he has carefully planned and laid out in Guyan Mountain, gathered all the descendants of the heroes of the rivers and lakes who were in trouble with his adoptive father Zhao Tuo and biological father Zhao Kuo forty-four years ago, and summoned the Yueshi Meng army in a vain attempt to destroy it in one fell swoop.
At this time, the ending seems to be a little lucky, Zao Wou-Ki used conspiracy methods, and Yan Yunxing saw the move, and they all turned the danger into a disaster, but if you consider it from another angle, things are far from being as simple as imagined.
You must know that before coming to Guyan Mountain, Yan Yunxing's main opponent was never Zao Wou-ki. The battle of the Five Poison Mountains was Tang Nianyu; The battle of the Black Gold Mountain was the Great Sage of Finance, Qin Ren, and Jia's; The battle of southern Jiangsu is the Qiushui Alliance, the Mercenary Alliance, the Egret Academy, and the Fenglin Alliance, at most one Dongfang Yuan, but when he arrived at Guyan Mountain and was trapped, it was Zao Wou-Ki who personally planned for more than ten years, no matter how big or small, extremely meticulous, almost leaky!
From Zao's point of view, everything becomes reasonable. He may have guessed that Dongfang, Wan Linglong, and Ji Yue Sisters would be involved, so he sent the Hagiyang Sect's superior protectors and elders to stabilize them; He also expected that there would be people who would report the arrival of the sea of pity and pure Taoists, so he chose to retreat as advance; He also took into account that Li Jintian's son, Li Yufo, would lead the troops to help in the battle, so the Yueshi Meng's army retreated at the first touch; Based on the situation at that time, he most likely calculated that Yan Yunxing would stay to take care of the injured people, so he made the Yi corpse puppet tempted; He even thought that Yan Yunxing would not necessarily be poisoned and fall asleep, and he would definitely have a life-saving trick to escape, so when he killed Liu Fanfei and others, he secretly did things and used the poisoning methods of the Five Poisons Sect to frame Yan Yunxing!
If he had been plotting for more than ten years just to frame Yan Yunxing, then he succeeded, although he spent countless manpower and material resources, he also regained Zhao Yun's trust with this, and became the head of the forbidden army in the military attache force - the commander of the palace front division.
From Zao Wou-ki's point of view, it seems that a little bit of gain outweighs the loss, after all, Yan Yunxing is not dead, and the official position he got is only the lord of Kaifeng City and the head of the forbidden army, but sometimes killing a person is not the best way to solve the problem, and it will not achieve a better result, leaving him with a life can force him and use him to achieve more goals, this is the concern of a wise man!
So what is his ultimate goal? It is obviously the rumor that has been circulating in the rivers and lakes, Zhao Yun's throne. He was only one step away from that position.
Yan Yunxing carefully considered Zao Wou-Ki's plan, which was nothing more than two steps.
First, build momentum. If you want to get to that position, you have to create a grand scene that thousands of people admire and follow, and through all the previous calculations, it is clear that he has succeeded. After forcing the Demon Legion to take the lead in the war, the enemies of the Demon Legion took him as the leader and moved closer to him, and at present, he has many forces in the Southern Song Dynasty. First, the northern rivers and lakes forces; Second, the power of Taizong of the original Xiangwang Mansion; third, some of the Taizu forces that know the truth; Fourth, the civil and official forces of the government and the opposition headed by Qin Ren; Fifth, the forbidden army forces among the military attaché forces; Sixth, their own forces and alliance forces, such as Hagiyangmen, Yi Corpse Puppet, Tangmen, and so on.
Second, Liwei. That is what he will do next, five hundred years ago, the grievances between the Five Poisons Sect, the Goldsmith Sect, the Ghost Valley Vertical and Horizontal, the Sun and Moon God Sect and the imperial court were passed on by word of mouth, and it was no longer a secret, although the specific process was not known, but the two sides obviously had deep grievances, and only a spark was needed to ignite a war, and this fuse was that the Five Poisons Sect was framed for "creating and spreading rumors", and the imperial court ordered the disbandment of the demon army. The Five Poisons Sect therefore went to war, and what Zao Wou-Ki had to do was to integrate the forces of the six parties and destroy the demon legion in one fell swoop, so as to achieve the goal of establishing power, completely gain Zhao Yun's trust, and inherit his throne!
Zao Wou-Ki may have cared about the Five Poisons Sect in the past, but now that his horizons are wider, the more he yearns for that position, the Lord of the Southern Song Dynasty!
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Fate is like a big chessboard, and Yan Yunxing has unknowingly fallen into it and become a pawn. This time, Zao Wou-Ki has become the operator of fate, and Yan Yunxing must once again take back the fate of himself and the demon army in his own hands!
On the surface, this is a crazy conquest of the Demon Legion, but in fact, it is a revolt struggle of the Demon Legion in desperation, but Yan Yunxing has never let himself fall into passivity, and it is necessary to strike first, which makes Zao Wou-Ki seem to be so famous and dominant.
Zao Wou-Ki has not only people, but also geographical advantages. Because the Demon Legion went north to fight far away from its homeland, the geographical advantage became much disadvantaged, in addition to the uncontrollable time, the only decisive factor for the Demon Legion to win was Yan Yunxing's strategic foresight and war wisdom!
This was a tough battle, a tough battle that he had never encountered since taking over the Five Poisons Sect, and Yan Yunxing felt struggling for the first time. Recalling the previous wars, the Five Poison Mountains had a geographical advantage; The Black Gold Mountain is fortunate to have a blood moon day; The battle of Nara in the east, with hundreds of thousands of people, besieging the lonely city, has an advantage; Southern Jiangsu has been in southern Jiangsu for more than four years and has won the hearts of the people. Which time is not full of confidence and has a lot of confidence in his chest, but this time, Yan Yunxing really feels a hundred times more difficult, Zao Wou-Ki claims to have a million people, waiting for work, how can he be an enemy?
Yan Yunxing sometimes wondered if this preemptive strike would be the most wrong decision he had ever made, and he also wanted to wait for Zao Wou-Ki to attack, but time did not allow it, as soon as the deterioration of the crimson ghost eye had reached the last moment, he had to get rid of Zao Wou-ki, the biggest enemy, when he was sober; Second, he bears the notoriety of "poisoning fellow martial artists", and the longer the time, the more people will recruit him, and it is even possible that he will deviate from morality and betray his relatives. Therefore, only by fighting as soon as possible and defeating Zao Wou-Ki can we prove my innocence!
Although it was a tough battle, the Demon Legion was not alone, the allies of the Guinong Faction, the Mingshan Alliance, and the Supreme Alliance, who had made friends in the battle of southern Jiangsu, chose to stand with the Demon Legion at this moment, not only because they were bound to the interests of the Demon Legion, but also because they tasted the sweetness of the "Southern Jiangsu Development Model", the cultivators truly realized Yan Yunxing's good intentions, and the trialists also felt the fun and warmth of the cultivation world. They never want to go back to that noisy and impetuous era.
The support of allies is the only good news that Yan Yunxing feels happy about, but there are also many friends who can't fight side by side with him for various reasons, the irritable Xiao Wu who has retired from traveling, the amorous and hateful couple who gradually faded out of the game because of taking care of Xiao Wang Yi, the ruthless Xiao Mo who has not been online for more than ten years, and the girlfriend Gong Xiyue and her best friend Zhao Meng who make Yan Yunxing unpredictable.
The journey of life is like a time train, no one can accompany him forever, for these, Yan Yunxing, who has lived in the cultivation world for twenty-seven years, has already seen it.
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Therefore, this was an expedition in which preparations were hastily prepared. In late July, it was the hot season, and after the pledge meeting, the Demon Legion and its allies marched north to cross the river in three routes, and by the end of September, they had all arrived at their designated positions.
Left Route Army, Tun Nanyang, Bai Xiaobi is the main commander, and Lou Peng is the deputy commander. The seven legions under his command are only ranked, namely: Bai Xiaobi's scorpion legion is the first legion; The Completed Viper Legion is the Second Legion; The Spider Legion is the Third Legion; Lin Zhiyuan, Cheng Siying, and Yanwu are the Fourth Army; Xing Jie and Lu Xiaoba's Wugu and Feiyu are the Fifth Army; Lu Duoqing is in charge of the mountain hunting and descending the dragon for the sixth legion; Lin Zhiqiu, a branch of saffron and black gold, and two prophets are the seventh legion. There are nearly 200,000 trialists and cultivators.
The Middle Route Army, stationed in Runan, Yan Yunxing is the commander, Yan Ziyi and Yan Huo'er are the protectors, and Cheng Zhiwen is the deputy marshal. The eleven legions under his command are: Yan Yunxing is in charge of the Fantasy Legion, and the Netherworld Legion is the eighth legion; Xiang Lingkong's Poison Toad Legion is the Ninth Legion; The Morning Star Legion is the Tenth Legion; The Dark Star Legion is the Eleventh Legion; The Seven Legions of the Raging Lion are the Twelve; Boss Xiao's Divine and Ghost Legion is the Thirteenth Legion; The Beidou Legion of the Hongguang Dao people is the Fourteenth Legion; Xiao Xiaoan's Nandou Legion is the Fifteenth Legion; The Sixteenth Army of the Royal Road Command; Cheng Zhiwen is in charge of the Seventeenth Army. 400,000 people in total.
The Right Army, taking Bozhou, Xiao Xiao is the main commander, and Alsace is the deputy commander. The seven legions under his command are: Xiao Lonely's sentient and ruthless legions are the nineteenth legions; The Legion of True Affection is the Twenty Legions; The Supreme Boss is in charge of the 21st Legion; Liu Yu was in charge of the 22nd Army Corps; Nao Zu was in charge of the Twenty-third Legion; Gianna was in charge of the Twenty-Four Legion; Yunshui Ballad Commands the Twenty-fifth Legion; 200,000 in total.
In addition, the corps that provided food and grass for logistics were: the Luoyatang of Feng XVII of the Left Route Army was the 26th Corps; the 27th Army Corps of Liao Xiaoxiao of the Middle Route Army; the twenty-eighth army of the domineering president of the Right Army; There are also the Poison Centipede Legion of the scout force Yao Shuang and the Shenbing Hall of Nanhuaxin as the 29th Legion; Use the holy worm to transmit information in the three ways, and the Washing Shocking Hung Spiritual Hall is the Thirty Legions.
Finally, the one who stayed behind to watch the family and purchased grain and grass, Chengqiyun of the Hangzhou Mingshan Alliance; Kilgardan, Supreme Second, Domineering Secretary of Yangzhou Supreme Alliance, etc.; Li Yuqing, Gongsun Heyuan of the Five Poisons Sect of Dali, as well as Qian Changkong, Qian Shuangtian, Lin Xiao, Long Qingqing, Xiang Nancheng, Li Xixia and other young children.
This battle of the rivers and lakes has finally kicked off!