Chapter 497: The Beacon Flames Chaos Party

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Regarding the construction of the cave, Luo Han had long known it through the team channel, but when he really saw the black demon standing at the entrance of the cave to welcome his return, Luo Han still had a strange feeling. He somewhat understood, why Huoyun was so indignant about being pressed in the cave and not being able to go out, these little things still felt a little cute after a few glances, and seeing too much would really affect his appetite.

It was a nightmare that stood up to greet Luo Han with a group of demons, Luo Han was a little surprised, and asked, "What about the dragons?" ”

Nightmare spread his hands and said, "They are busy brainwashing the ministers of the White Lion Country, and you didn't say anything about the time to come back, so I am the only one in the cave mansion to watch the door." ”

Luo Han followed the Nightmare towards the inside and asked, "How are they doing?" ”

"As you know, since the new king appointed Perak as the Thunderbolt Teacher, many ministers thought that Perak's origin was unknown, and they had a lot of complaints in private. It's just that no substantive action has been made yet. They also have a bit of a headache with the wild dragon, and if they use strong words, they may attract the attention of nearby monks, and if they use soft ones, they are afraid that these people will not eat them. ”

Luo Han smiled when he heard this: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" It's easy to solve. ”

Nightmare surprised: "Easy to solve?" Captain, are you kidding? ”

Luo Han opened the team channel and said directly: "Thunderbolt, you find a reason for the king to order and declare war on other small countries nearby. Once in a state of war, all internal contradictions will be easily resolved. ”

Meng Fei was confused for a moment by Luo Han's words, and asked, "Boss, what did you say?" ”

Luo Han explained: "War is the best means to divert domestic contradictions, as long as you control the army, win on the battlefield all the time, and constantly plunder the interests from other countries, even if those ministers are dissatisfied with you, they will not dare to attack you at such a time." Won't it be easy to clean them up when you're on your feet? ”

"This ...... Although I don't understand it very well, since it is the boss's idea, it should be right, then I will go to the king. ”

At this time, Qin Hu interjected in the team channel: "The United States? ”

"Pretty much." Luo Han replied.

Qin Hu said: "It's indeed a good way. However, the White Lion is a small country, and its military strength is not very sufficient. ”

"I remember that there is a Xuanqing Kingdom next to it? Smaller than a white lion. Besides, the cold weapon war of thousands of people, can't you still handle this little scene? We've led a futuristic mechanized infantry regiment and participated in a battle with millions of troops. ”

Luo Han is talking about the R Star War of the Fourth Trial, that storm was in the limelight on the battlefield, and Zhuang Zhou and others also knew Luo Han at that time.

Qin Hu said: "Captain, you still have to come to fight this kind of thing, we don't have that ability." ”

Meng Fei seconded: "I asked the king to appoint the boss and you as a general, you come over quickly." That Broken Cave Mansion is for Nightmare to look at. ”

"Okay, I'll go over it." Luo Han ended the call and said to Nightmare: "I have to go to the White Lion Country to do business, I will work hard for you here, the work of recruiting little demons must continue, and strive to bring all the little demons in the nearby mountains into the scope of management." ”

Nightmare smiled wryly: "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”

"Then I'm leaving."

Luo Han went straight to the White Lion Country and met the king under the recommendation of Meng Fei.

The old king and national teacher before the White Lion Kingdom have been secretly killed by Qin Hu and others, and the current new king is a fifteen-year-old boy, who was already young and vigorous, plus he was able to stand out from many princes and become the king, relying on Meng Fei's "assistance", so he was casually teased by Meng Fei and decided to raise his sword and establish great achievements to prove his ability to the people.

Although the king felt a little hasty about the generals recommended by Meng Fei, he felt that Meng Fei would not harm himself, so he gladly accepted and appointed Luo Han as the general to lead the army to the battle.

Luo Han deliberately hid his cultivation, relied on the martial arts he learned in the previous scene to suppress a few thorns in the army, and then used a little means to take down the military hearts of hundreds of soldiers under him.

That's right, there are 30,000 people in the White Lion Country, and there are only more than 1,000 troops in the army, and a part of the defense has to be left, and Luo Han can only lead six or seven hundred people. However, his enemy, Xuanqing Kingdom, is not much better, with a population of 15,000, he can only make up a thousand troops when he is full. This is a city-state war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the villagers are fighting.

Half an hour after Xuanqing Kingdom received the war letter, Luo Han led people to rush into the city of Xuanqing Kingdom, and this kingdom with only one city had no time to resist, and was surrounded by the palace. The king, who had also just taken office, reluctantly declared his submission to the White Lion Kingdom and became a vassal of the White Lion Kingdom. Immediately, Luo Han transferred half of the military strength from Xuanqing Kingdom to join his subordinates and drove to the next target.

This is very different from the war in the Central Plains. The losing side of the Central Plains War is often the end of annihilation, and even if it retains its life, it will lose power. But here, surrendering if you can't beat it is the norm, and it is not uncommon to betray when you have the opportunity. The biggest reason for this phenomenon is the low degree of assimilation, just like the tribes on the grassland, they have different beliefs and cognitions with each other, and it is difficult to identify with each other in a short period of time. Even if the White Lion Kingdom destroys the Xuanqing Kingdom, the people of the Xuanqing Kingdom will still think that they are Xuanqing people, and it is difficult to obey the management of the White Lion Kingdom, so it is better to let the King of the Xuanqing Kingdom manage, and the White Lion Kingdom will give orders to the King of the Xuanqing Kingdom.

Luo Han used "Blitzkrieg". Wherever the war book went, the soldiers came one after another, caught the opponent by surprise, and then drew the opponent's forces to join him and rushed to the next target. In the shortest possible time, let your troops snowball, and after reaching a certain size, as soon as you stop at the gate of those small countries, the other side will surrender directly.

In five days, Luo Han raised an army of 5,000 men and conquered seven small nearby countries. It is undeniable that there are reasons why these countries are negligent in war and cannot take precautions, but more importantly, no one dares to go out with such a mixed army like Luo Han. You must know that most of these 5,000 people are soldiers of conquered countries, and they may mutiniate at any time when Luo Han's own troops are at an absolute disadvantage.

How to control such a force? Luo Han's approach is to divide. He divided his subordinates according to their origins, and those of the White Lion Kingdom were considered to be descendants with the highest status, and the spoils harvested after each victory were distributed first. The troops of the Xuanqing State and the small country that were subdued next followed, and then the troops that were subdued later, arranged in batches according to the time of incorporation, forming a pyramid structure, using the power of the entire upper layer to suppress the lower layer. If there is a single unit in the middle to make trouble, you can also mobilize the lower troops to replace it. Human nature is like this, individuals may have a strong sense of autonomy, but when it is enlarged to the group, they will only think of resisting when they are forced to do so.

This is like a nest of bandits, the leader may not be able to fight ten at a time, and he may not be wise and far-sighted, but the thieves at the bottom dare not resist the leader.

With this army, which was already considerable in number, Luo Han became the most powerful "mortal" force in this area. But to maintain this team, Luo Han can't stop, once stopped, there is no loot income, these patchwork troops will scatter in a hurry.

Therefore, Luo Han proposed a crazy plan to the king of the White Lion Kingdom.

On the way to the west, there will be a large country with a population of hundreds of thousands every thousand miles, and this area is no exception. Three hundred miles west of the White Lion Kingdom, there is a large country called the Shengke Kingdom, with more than 500,000 subjects, even if it is placed within a radius of 5,000 miles, it is also a top power. Qi Tao had tried to assassinate the king of the Shengke Kingdom before, but the palace was heavily guarded, and Qi Tao had not penetrated deeply, and his stealth was almost broken, so he could only return in vain.

What Luo Han proposed was to capture the Kingdom of Shengke and replace it as the real overlord of this side. One of the advantages of this kind of large kingdom is that it is composed of many city-states, and it is far less exclusive than these small states with only one or two cities, and it is easier to rule as long as they are strong enough.

If it was a normal king, he would definitely think that Luo Han was crazy, but now the little king was still intoxicated by the excitement of Luo Han's rapid dominance of this area, coupled with Meng Fei's bewitchment on the side, the star queen secretly had a spiritual influence on him, and the little king agreed to Luo Han's plan without hesitation.

The kingdom of Shengke had eight cities with a total of 15,000 troops, and except for the 5,000 troops guarding the royal capital, the rest of the cities had garrisons ranging from 1,000 to 2,000. The king of the Shengke country has heard about the White Lion Country's sudden large-scale use of troops against the surrounding countries, but the whole country is not worried at all, in fact, as the overlord of this side, the Shengke country has to collect tribute from these small countries every year, as long as the tribute is a lot, it doesn't matter how they toss. It would be great if any country could be bullied too badly and voluntarily give up its sovereignty and become a part of the kingdom of Shengke. As for those thousands of miscellaneous troops, the Saint Ke Kingdom didn't pay attention to them at all.

On this day, the king of Shengke received a letter of help from the eastern kingdom of Brown, and the king of Browne hoped that Shengke would send an army to help them repel the attack of the White Lion Kingdom, and was willing to pay double the tribute for this and marry the princess to the prince of Shengke. The king of the kingdom of Saint Ke gathered his ministers to discuss it, and decided to send 5,000 troops to help in the war and defend the hegemony of the kingdom of Saint Ke in this area.

A day later, Archido, the general of the kingdom of Saint Co, led an army of 5,000 drawn from various cities, and swaggered out of the kingdom of Saint and Co, and marched towards Brown. According to the news of the spies sent in advance, the general of the White Lion Kingdom, Han Feng, was surrounding the city of Brown with a motley army of 5,000 patchwork, so Archido didn't think too much about it at all, and rushed forward with the army.

But as he passed through a valley, Archido paid the price for his rashness. Luo Han had been in ambush for a long time, and after a burst of rolling stones and a rain of arrows, the Shengke army was in a mess, and was killed by the morale of the white lion army, but they were trapped in the valley and couldn't even escape. In the end, most of Shengke's army was annihilated, and a small part surrendered.

It turned out that the country of Brown Le had already been broken by Luo Han, and the letter of state was sent by Luo Han, who mobilized some people to put on simple armor to besiege the city, cut off the connection between Brown and the outside world, and induced the reinforcements of the Holy Ke Kingdom to rush forward and annihilate them in one fell swoop with the help of ambushes.

However, this is only one-third of the strength of the Shengke Kingdom, and if the Shengke Kingdom is given time to breathe, the Shengke Kingdom can also levy more troops, so Luo Han must also play some conspiracy.

A day later, the king of the kingdom of Saint Ke received a letter from Archido, saying that the White Lion coalition had been defeated and that he was returning with the princess and tribute from Brown.

No one doubted the letter, because it was what they expected.

The five thousand soldiers wearing the armor of the kingdom of Saint Ke did not stop in other cities under the leadership of Archido, and went straight back to the capital of King Saint Ke.

The Manchu civil and military forces of the Shengke Kingdom and the monarch met the triumphant army at the city gate, but what awaited them was the betrayal of Archido. This general, who was born in the famous family of Shengke, had already surrendered to the White Lion Country, and with the disguised army of the White Lion Country, he launched a direct attack on the king.

The unsuspecting Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces were taken down without any decent resistance, and the national teacher of the Shengke Kingdom, Shangyuan Zhenren, wanted to make a move, but Archido said loudly: "The national teacher is a cultivator, and he dares to meddle in the mortal war?" ”

Shangyuan Zhenren took a pause, the duty of the national teacher is to ensure the peace and stability of the country, if he is a cultivator, if he participates in mortal wars and fights with mortals, he will be bad. Unless there are monks or demons on the other side, Shangyuan Zhenren can't make a move, which is why Luo Han wants to hide his cultivation and only rely on his body and moves to fight.

Shangyuan Zhenren was unable to make a move, so Luo Han immediately hijacked the officials and kings of the Shengke Kingdom and entered the city. Because of the nominal Archido rebellion, and the king and many ministers had been held hostage, the soldiers in the city had no reason to fight to the death, and they quickly lost their ability to resist in the face of the imposing White Lion Alliance.

Before the capture of the royal capital was over, Luo Han issued an edict in the name of the king of Shengke Kingdom, asking the remaining garrisons of the seven cities to come to support the royal capital as soon as possible to fight against Archido, who led the troops into rebellion, but set up an ambush on the road, defeated the garrisons one by one, took the seven cities one by one, and finally completed the incredible war of destroying the country.

This kind of thing may seem exaggerated, but it is not uncommon for history to be more exaggerated. The reasons for this are, first, that Shengke is careless, second, that Luo Han firmly blocks the news, resulting in information asymmetry, and secondly, the importance of morale in the era of cold weapons is far more important than that in the era of hot weapons.

As for how to rule this sudden increase in population, that is not a matter, the Jurchens have long been demonstrated. The soldiers who participated in this war were made nobles, and the land and property slaves were rewarded, so that they could firmly stand for the sake of profit. Then he won over the prominent families and celebrities of the Shengke Kingdom, exchanged their power for their support, and stabilized his rule. Then there is a large number of conscriptions, and the young and strong are included in the supervision, so that those who want to rebel cannot get manpower, and the surplus soldiers can also be used to settle fields and build projects. Then, of course, it is to reduce taxes to win the hearts of the people, and after a long time, these people who don't care who is the king will forget who was the ruler here and be the people of the White Lion Country with peace of mind.

When the news of the destruction of the Shengke Kingdom reached the White Lion Kingdom, the whole country was shaken, and no one thought that there was anything wrong with the little king trusting the Thunderbolt National Master, and everyone happily packed up their bags and prepared to continue to be an official until the Shengke King.