Chapter 1240: Yang Changed Hands
Cao Hong or the people of the world only saw the Shang Ji violently attack the wealthy families, and thought that all the wealthy families were the targets of the Shang family, but they ignored one point, all the wealthy families targeted by the Shang Ji have a common feature - occupy a large amount of land resources!
In feudal times, land was the greatest wealth. However, the beacon fire is not a feudal era in the true sense, although the background of the beacon family is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there are extremely prosperous commercial activities.
Before the player entered the Beacon, a super business family like the Zhen family had already done business to all corners of the world. And with the influx of players into the Beacon, the commercial trade in the Beacon is rising.
Once the aborigines are not stupid, those children of families who have been educated by the elite since childhood are even generally wiser than players, inspired by players, many families began to change careers, invested heavily in business and trade, and achieved quite brilliant achievements.
The Fu family, Xun family, and Yang family, who dare to invest in Luoyang City, are among the best, and these people can be regarded as new families.
Although they also occupy a large amount of land, the main source of family wealth is not land, but all kinds of commercial trade and high-end manufacturing (high-end equipment building, high-level elixir refining, etc.).
And in the whole of China, the most successful commercial trade is the merchants!
With the solid foundation laid by Zhen's, and a large number of top talents such as Liu's, Gong's class, Hephaestus, Nonghe, etc., Shangji has a strong influence on important industries such as wine, equipment, grain, pills, war horses, shipping, and fur.
These industries also happen to be the most lucrative industries in Beacon.
If the new families of Yang, Fu, and Xun want to meddle in these industries, they are destined to be restricted by business.
Compared to the huge commercial interests, the output of land becomes a trivial part. It is not unacceptable for the Yang family to give up the land resources they occupy and fully transform into a new type of business family.
On the contrary, they blindly resisted to the end, and Luoyang City was completely blocked, and commerce and trade were basically stopped, and the interests of the Yang family and others would be seriously damaged.
Cao Hong thought that the Yang family and others were from a family, and their interests were the same as Cao Cao's, but in fact it was the opposite!
As for sending money to Cao Hong after the ambush, it was just to paralyze Cao Hong and provide cover for the operation.
In addition to the big families such as the Yang family and the Xun family, there are countless small families in Luoyang City, and the influence of these small families is far less than that of the three major families, but there are many of them, and they are also an extremely huge force when united.
And Luoyang was once completely controlled by Diao Chan, with Diao Chan's cunning nature, how could he not arrange a shadow in Luoyang City? Even Fu Wan himself didn't know that his good daughter Fu Shou, that is, the historical Queen Fu Chan, had a very close relationship with Diao Chan.
That night, Diao Chan's fine work and the Yang family, Xun family, and Fu family united, took advantage of the situation to launch a coup d'état, opened the city gate and let Diao Chan's army enter the city.
Cao Hong was caught off guard, and was defeated by the Diao Chan army, which should be combined inside and outside, and finally led only a small part of the personal guards out of the city gate and defected to Cao Cao, and the imperial city of Luoyang changed hands overnight.
By the way, Xun's Xun You is loyal to Cao Cao, but unfortunately the Xun family is not Xun You's final say, and even in order to prevent Xun You from leaking secrets, Xun's plans directly excluded Xun You, poor Xun You is still trying his best to give Cao Cao advice on the Yanzhou front line to resist the Shang attack, but he doesn't know that his family stabbed Cao Cao hard.
After pulling out the nail, the area controlled by Diao Chan and the Shangji control area are directly and comprehensively bordered. The Diao Chan army reorganized a little, and then sent troops south, and the troops pointed directly at Yingchuan County!
The three-way army besieging Cao Cao became four-way, and Cao's army, which was already struggling to support, suddenly had an even more difficult life, which can be described as stormy and embattled everywhere.
And at this critical juncture, two more pieces of news came out that were very unfortunate for Cao Cao.
In the confrontation between Xu Zhu, the general of the Cao Cao Army, and Dian Wei, the general of the Shang Army, both of them broke through to the SS level, and Xu Zhu also became the third SS-level general of the non-Shang army after Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
If it was just that, it would still be a good thing for Cao Cao. Although Shang Ji also had Dian Wei break through to the SS level, the ratio of SS-level generals on the battlefield on both sides changed from 3:4 to 4:5, and relatively speaking, the gap between Cao Cao's side and Shang Ji in terms of top generals narrowed.
However, not long after Xu Zhu's breakthrough, news came from the Wa Kingdom that Liu Yi, the general of the Shang Army, broke through and was also promoted to an SS-level general, and there was even news that Liu Yi broke through earlier than Xu Zhu and Dian Wei!
If this is the case, forget it, after all, Liu Yi is now in the Wa Kingdom, no matter how strong he is, he will not be able to affect the Central Plains battlefield in a short period of time.
However, what made Cao Cao a little devastated was that the battle plan called [Imperial Glory] organized by the Wa Kingdom with Osaka Castle as the core ended in failure!
In this great war, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, and the three most powerful indigenous princes of Tokugawa Ieyasu acted together, as well as more than a dozen other princes, large and small.
The number of Inhumans in the Wakoku region participating in this war is even more unprecedented, reaching 3 million, and it can be said that almost all the battle players in the Wakoku region are here!
Players plus aborigines, the Japanese side has dispatched hundreds of millions of troops to fight fiercely around Osaka Castle and the expeditionary force led by Liu Yi.
In this battle, Wang Shu and his Shura legion showed their fangs, leaving a terrifying impression on the world.
At least 100,000 Inhumans died at the hands of Wang Shu and the Shura Wei generals with soul-destroying characteristics, which means that 100,000 Wa Kingdom players died in this battle in a real sense!
When the news came out, all the Inhumans panicked, and many Inhumans fled the battlefield directly. Even the players of the Wa Kingdom who continue to fight on the battlefield will flee as long as they encounter Shurawei, and later even develop to the point that the army that meets the red armor will collapse immediately, just because all the Shurawei are in blood-red armor.
The player's army collapsed, and the native army didn't get any better.
The general fourth-order army (the army of this rank accounts for more than 70% of the entire army of the Japanese State) can't afford to resist in the face of Shurawei's murderous aura against the sky, and if you add a deterrent legion skill such as a sea of blood, except for a few special troops, almost no army can resist.
Moreover, the Shura Legion is not the only ace army in the Wa Expeditionary Force, the Sun Legion, the Star Legion, the Sun Shooting Legion, the Ice Legion, the Crazy Knife Legion, the Shenwu Legion, and the War Tiger Legion can be rampant in the Wa Kingdom area.
So many ace armies gathered to start a decisive battle with the Wa Guo District, and Liu Yi, the commander, broke through to the SS level before the battle, how could the Wa Guo District be undefeated?
The three top princes of the Wakoku region, Oda Nobunaga was killed in battle, Takeda Shingen was captured, Tokugawa Ieyasu was diehard, and there were more than a dozen other Wakoku daimyo who were killed or captured, so it can be said that the essence of the Wakoku region was wiped out!
At this point, the failure of the [Imperial Glory] plan announced that the Wa Kingdom Region had completely lost its frontal resistance in the face of the expeditionary force!
And after being killed by the Shura Legion, it is difficult for the players of the Wa Kingdom to raise the will to resist.
The end of the battle of Osaka Castle also indicates that the expeditionary corps finally has the ability to withdraw troops to return to the Central Plains battlefield, which is shocking news for Cao Cao!