Volume 1 In the Name of the Getian Clan Chapter 57 The Nineteenth Route Coalition Army Conquers the Li Rong Clan
Jiufeng returned to the Great Volcano at dawn and brought back accurate news that there was indeed an army marching towards the hinterland of the Grass Valley Land in Python River Bay at the southern foot of the Land of Grains!
Knowing that what Zhu Huocan said was true, Taihao Duo called the envoys with all the surnames, and everyone planned to wait for dawn to leave, but they were stopped by the brothers and sisters of the Fangfeng clan, and they thought something was wrong, but when they arrived at the council hall, they heard that there was an army of 5,000 people who were bypassing the Python River Bay and rushing to the hinterland of the Ji clan and the He clan, and it was really a big incident!
The terrain of the whole valley is like a pu fan, the richest oasis is the fan surface of the pu fan, and the tail of the fan on the south side is a thousand zhang high ridge, shaped like a huge dragon beast lurking here, so it is called the dragon mountain, up to hundreds of miles, a wide river surrounds the foot of the dragon mountain, the river water is turbid, a large amount of sediment is rolled, standing on the top of the dragon mountain to look down, as if a yellow python meanders at the foot of the mountain!
Due to the existence of Yulong Mountain and Python River Bay, the southern foot of the land of Hegu is sparsely populated, and the land is more barren.
Therefore, Jinlangchuan is also an important checkpoint for the surnames in the land of Hegu to defend against foreign enemies, and the main city of the Miao clan is in Jinlangchuan, which is the gateway to the land of Hegu!
Hearing this, Miao Sheng's face instantly turned pale as paper, and the envoys of the Ji family and the two surnames were even more earthy, and the two trembled, and said goodbye to Taihao Duo to go back immediately to report the matter.
Tai Jia scratched a small red bump growing on his arm and said leisurely, "Are you in a hurry to go back and die?"
"Even if you go back and have time to rearrange your defenses, can you defend against enemies on both sides? The army of the Li Rong clan has a size of 10,000 people, and this is not something that any of our clans can deal with alone! This is not the business of the Hegu surnames themselves, but the crisis that all the surnames within a radius of thousands of miles must face together, and we must unite!"
Nanshui Zhao then replied, "What Miss Tai said is extremely true, when the ghost king was still alive in the past, the Li Rong clan always had some scruples, and now that the Nine Yin Caves have been destroyed and the check and balance of the ghost king has been lost, the Li Rong clan will unscrupulously annex the surnames in the desolate Gobi, if I wait for different enemies, it will inevitably be broken by each of them!"
Everyone else nodded in agreement, whispering.
One of them sneered and said, "What Zhao Gongzi said is true, but before uniting, shouldn't we stop the infighting? If we still want to kill each other at this time, then don't mention any common hatred!"
The person who spoke was Tao Ying, the uncle of the Tao family, Tao and Zhao at the same time Nanshui generation of clans, the two clans were originally in-laws, Miss Zhao married the patriarch of the Tao family, gave birth to a son and two daughters, but because the Tao family abolished the elder and the young, the patriarch Tao Wang not only changed the son of the favored concubine, but also expelled the Zhao family aunt and grandmother and their children out of the city, Miss Zhao was angry, asked the mother family to send troops to attack the Tao family, the two clans turned against each other and fought hard, in the past half a year, with the help of the ghost king, the Tao family has been defeated and retreated, the three main cities are now only one, and the day of the final break of the city is not far away, after the ghost king's power was exterminated, Tao immediately sent the clan uncle to the big volcano, hoping to get the help of the newly rising Taihao Duo forces.
Regarding Tao Ying's remarks, Zhao Sui just smiled faintly and did not respond!
Taihao Duo, as the master and intermediary of this place, said out loud, "The two Zhao Tao families, originally close relatives, only because of some misunderstandings, they met each other, even if my big volcano is an outsider, I didn't regret it when I saw it, in my opinion, the dispute between the two Zhao Tao families, just stop it, how about the two sides stop fighting?"
Zhao Sui squinted at Tao Ying and said, "Why did my Zhao clan attack the Tao clan, I think the Tao clan knows it in his heart! If it weren't for Tao Wang's old husband who drove my aunt and cousin back to his parents' house and humiliated my Nanshui Zhao clan, the Zhao clan would not have used a big sword war! So far, it is completely Tao Wang's own fault, and the rights and wrongs of this are in the hearts of the people. ”
Tao Ying saw that his words were disrespectful, his face was gloomy, and he snorted heavily!
"The matter of abolishing the establishment is a matter of my Tao family, and the matter of my family, how can it be decided by my relatives! What's more, the matter between you and my two families can be solved behind closed doors, but you lure demons such as the Arakawa Ghost King into the room, is this the justice of your Zhao family?"
"So what, don't you also have the cheekiness to come here to ask for the assistance of the Taihao patriarch, it was me who fought the ghost king side by side in the Nine Yin Caves, where was the Tao clan at that time?"
"You...... Sharp-toothed boy!"
Seeing that the two sides were getting more and more arguing, Tai Hao Duo's face sank, and he said loudly, "Two, now our common enemy is the Li Rong clan, and the infighting is not beneficial to any of us, but the Li Rong clan has broken through the surnames, and we are all its fish and meat slaves, what are you talking about?" Brother Zhao, what do you think!"
Zhao Sui smiled slightly, "In fact, in the past half a year of fighting, my Zhao clan has also suffered heavy losses, especially the ghost king is insatiable and extorted, I have long been dissatisfied, and it is not impossible for the Zhao clan to stop attacking the Tao clan!"
"But Tao wants to promise me three conditions, first, immediately kill the concubine Tao Shou, and set up the eldest son Tao Zhang as the heir of the Tao family, second, cede the 100 acres of fertile land on the west bank of Nanshui, and third, since the Tao family respects my Zhao family, it pays tribute every year......"
Tao Ying slapped the table heavily before he finished speaking, "Such harsh conditions are simply humiliating, the Tao clan would rather die and be wiped out than agree to ......"
Tai Hao Duo said at this time, "Brother Zhao's conditions are indeed a bit harsh, in this way, the second article will be changed to 1,000 stone of grain, and the third will be cancelled!
Tao Ying's face was gloomy and he didn't speak, Zhao Sui was a little dissatisfied, "If you refuse, so what?"
Tai Hao Duo smiled slightly, "If you go outside, you must first settle inside, now in the autumn of critical survival, the surnames of the Great Gobi cannot tolerate internal fighting, and the Great Volcano is willing to eliminate some factors that are not conducive to unity with people with lofty ideals! ”
Zhao Sui laughed and said, "The Zhao family has been based on the bank of Nanshui for thousands of years, and there has never been a shortage of people of insight! Even if someone violates the yang and stabs the knife in the back, this person will never be a person of the Zhao family!"
He squinted at Tao Ying, "For the sake of the face of the Taihao patriarch, Tao Shou can not die, but he can't continue to stay in Tao, in addition, Tao took out two thousand stones of grain and five hundred taels of Tianxuan stone as compensation, and the dispute between the two families of Zhao and Tao can be put aside temporarily." ”
Tao Ying said sadly and indignantly, "The war has been fought for more than half a year, and two of the three main cities of the Tao clan have been occupied by you, how can we still have two thousand stones of grain, and there are not one or two Tianxuan stones!"
"Two thousand stones of grain, I will give you a thousand taels of Tianxuanshi, as long as the two of you return to the good of your in-laws!" Taihao Duo said calmly, after defeating the ghost queen, he found a lot of food in the Jiuyin Cave, and took the Tianxuan Stone of the owner of the Huangquan Inn.
Tao Ying was pleasantly surprised, "Is this true?"
Taihao Duo nodded, "I, Taihao Duo, say the same, Brother Zhao, can you be the master of the Zhao family?"
Zhao Sui smiled, "Although I am not talented, I can still speak in front of my father!"
"Well, today's witness, the Zhao Tao family will stop fighting each other from now on, and they will no longer attack each other! Heaven and earth can be learned, if there is a person who violates the contract, my great volcano Taihao Duo will not hesitate to recruit the person who has broken the contract. ”
At that moment, Zhao Sui and Tao Ying drank the wine mixed with the blood of the two in accordance with the ancient rites of the Great Wilderness, and the oath-breaker will be cursed by the ancestral spirits of both sides, and the two Zhao and Tao families will be reconciled, although it may not be the same as before, but at least they will not continue to attack each other.
The reason why Zhao Sui agreed to Taihao Duo's adjustment and Tao's peace is actually a deeper reason, not entirely because of Taihao Duo's threat, as the most powerful surname on the bank of Nanshui, the Zhao family naturally has no lack of backbone, how can it be so easy to threaten!
Originally, the Zhao family had an absolute advantage over the Tao family, and the last Tao family city was just around the corner, but after the ghost king of the Jiuyin Cave was exterminated, the ghost soldiers and ghost generals who assisted the Zhao family lost control, exposing their fierce nature among the Zhao family soldiers, killing and injuring many clansmen, so that the Zhao family's vitality was greatly damaged, and the Tao family faced the power of extermination, and the ancestors of the Tao family in the ancestral spirit ruins went down to the ancestral spirit ruins one after another, and wanted to fight to the death with the Zhao family.
Among the surnames in the Great Wilderness Kyushu, there is a rule of 'the temple of the dead society does not die, and the incense is not endless', all surnames have ancestral spirits in the ancestral spirit ruins, once they act too viciously and destroy the enemy's temple, kill the last inheritor, cut off the incense, and the ancestral spirit in the ancestral spirit ruins loses the sacrifice, which is equivalent to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, unless a new inheritor is obtained, otherwise it will become weaker and weaker, so for the enemy who has cut off his descendants, even if he turns into a ghost, the ancestral spirits will also go down to the ancestral spirit ruins to take revenge on the enemy.
This is also an important reason why thugs like the Wilderness Marauders who are prone to exterminate and slaughter cities are the public enemies of the Great Wilderness.
The two families of Zhao Tao are comparable, they both came to the desolate Gobi more than a thousand years ago to settle on the bank of Nanshui, the strength of the two families was comparable, so the strength of the ancestral spirit in the ancestral spirit ruins is also close, if the Zhao family really destroyed the Tao family, the revenge of the Tao ancestor spirit is not easy to bear!
Thinking about this, Zhao Tong, the head of the Zhao family, let his son come to the big volcano this time, one of the purposes is to try to make peace with the Tao family, of course, it is best to knock on a stroke.
Seeing that Taihao Duo had successfully mediated the dispute between the two families, the envoys generously took out two thousand stones of grain and one thousand two days of Xuanshi, and all praised the generosity and benevolence of the Taihao patriarch, praised his ancient ways, and at the same time admired this small clan that suddenly appeared and suddenly rose.
Immediately, all parties agreed to advance and retreat together against the invasion of the Li Rong clan and unite to resist the enemy, these envoys like Miao Kui, Zhao Sui and others can directly call the shots, and some who can't be the masters will also rush back to the family as soon as possible, so that the head of the family can make a decision as soon as possible.
After all, it would not take long to bypass Yulong Mountain and Python River Bay from the southern foot of the land of Hegu, and most of the armor soldiers of the Ji clan and the He clan were in the main city of the Miao clan in Jinlangchuan, and the defense of their own main city was empty.
The two asked about countermeasures, and Taihao Duo was silent, "I can take someone ......"
Before he finished speaking, he felt a heavy foot under the table, and Tai Jia glanced at him!
She scratched her neck and said, "With the current situation, even if Ji and the two surnamed troops return from the Miao clan's walled city, it will be too late, for now, it is to immediately let Ji and the two surnamed city clansmen migrate away, leaving two empty cities for the Li Rong clan, let them fight in the air, and we have time to hit the troops!"
Ji Luan, the envoy of the Ji clan, was embarrassed, "It took seven hundred years for the people of the Ji clan to build the main city here, and the ancestral tombs are all in the city, and the food and property accumulated over the years are all in the city, if you give up...... It's a shame......"
Tai Jia sneered, "I can't even save my life, I still think about property and food, I still haven't told you anything else, I have to follow my thoughts, first fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, take away all the food that can be taken away, and burn all the grain baggage that can't be taken away, and never leave a grain of grain for the Li Rong clan!"
"Elder Ji, in the Great Wilderness of Kyushu, the clansmen are the real property, and other things outside the body can be regained, if a person dies, he is really dead, if the clansmen of your two families all become slaves of the Li Rong clan, then the ancestral spirits in your ancestral spirit ruins will starve!"
After speaking, she stopped talking, lowered her head and looked at the cup in front of her and smiled silently.
Ji and the two envoys glanced at each other, gritted their teeth and said, "I'll go back and discuss this matter with the patriarch!"
Elder Kazumaru said, "If I really have to move out of the main city where I have lived for generations, I still hope that the Great Volcano can be temporarily taken in, and when the turmoil passes, I will wait to go back!"
Tai Jia smiled, "That's nature, I can call the shots, Boss Duo, what do you say!"
Taihao Duo smiled, "I have always supported your opinion. ”