Chapter 16: No Man's Land

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At the beginning, the defenders of the Tianyu Sect in Yingqing City were not even very sure of self-protection due to the menacing coalition forces of the seven major sects of the Earth Alliance, but they just hoped that they could take advantage of the geographical advantages of Yingqing City to hold on for a while longer, and they could be rescued by the Heavenly Alliance army, and if the rescue was delayed, the defenders were also ready to give up Yingqing City. Because compared with an immovable state capital, the people of the Tianyu clan are the most important resources, a city and a state can be recaptured if they are lost, if the people of the clan are all dead, then the clan will be destroyed, and no matter how many cities and states there are, it is meaningless.

Therefore, the Tianyu Sect would rather have people than cities!

At the same time that the Earth Alliance Alliance was "divided into three", the Heavenly Alliance Alliance Army, which was composed of the defenders of the Tianyu Sect in the Jingzhou Region, the Zijin Pavilion army in the Zhongzhou Region and the Imperial Capital, and the Wujimen Army in the Xianzhou Region and the Yanzhou Region, also began to prepare to rush south from Jingzhou to aid the Yingzhou Region. When I heard that the Earth Alliance arranged for the second strongest Feather God Sect and the third strongest Tiejian Sect to form the Northern Army, and defend the various passes at the junction of the northern part of the Yingzhou Domain and the Jingzhou Domain.

Originally, the Heavenly Alliance coalition had already prepared and treated this as the first vicious battle to enter the Yingzhou region, and was also prepared to reduce a large number of troops. But I never thought that the so-called Northern Alliance of the Earth Alliance was a drill in addition to drills, and it was not at all like the feeling of fighting between the enemy and the enemy on both sides of the war. In the face of the attack of the Heavenly Alliance Alliance, the Feather God Sect and the Iron Sword Gate only symbolically resisted one or two, and they directly broke and left, and even sometimes they didn't even fight, and the Earth Alliance Alliance saw that the Heavenly Alliance Alliance was coming, so they fled far away.

In the face of such a performance of the Northern Army of the Earth Alliance, the Army of the Heavenly Alliance did not dare to go too far at first, thinking that this was another conspiracy. I know that I have experienced a lot, and I have gone all the way south from the southern part of the Jingzhou Domain to the various bayonet towns in the border area with the Yingzhou Domain, and I have not encountered any decent resistance, and many times it feels like I have entered a no-man's land.

Only then did the three major sects of the Heavenly Alliance understand more and more the "good intentions" of the Feather God Sect and the Iron Sword Sect, especially the powerful relationship between the seven major sects of the Earth Alliance from the side, as well as the "gap" between the six major sects of the Earth Alliance and Wan Fenglin.

It turns out that the so-called seven major sects of the Earth Alliance are not monolithic, and not all of them are willing to be tied to the chariot by Wan Fenglin and become the "cannon fodder" of the battle between the Heavenly Alliance and the Earth Alliance. In particular, these small sects of the Earth Alliance can slowly develop from a small clan to a large sect that occupies an entire state, which is not easy to come by. Moreover, according to their strength, one state is enough for them to "eat enough" and "eat well", and there is no need for them to fight the idea of the four major states of the Tianyu Sect again, and even if they take these states, according to the strength of the other six major sects of the Earth Alliance, it will be difficult to "keep". Therefore, instead of worrying about going to other sects every day to snatch the state territory, and worrying that it is necessary to do so so that the captured state can be kept, it is really better to keep one of the existing state domains stable, develop commerce and economy, and improve the living standards of the people of the state, which is the most important thing.

The same thing happened in the border area between the western part of the Yingzhou region and the Yunzhou region. Originally, the Tianyu Sect was worried that the Dingzhou Domain, which bordered the Qizhou Domain of the Lingyun Palace, and the Yunzhou Domain, which bordered the Shengzhou Domain of the Flower Sect, would be attacked by the Earth Alliance Alliance, so although the war in the Ying Zhou Region was tight, the gap between the number of the Tianyu Sect's Yingqing City defenders and the Earth Alliance Alliance was too large. In order to keep the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain, the Tianyu Sect still left most of the defenders.

Later, although the Heavenly Alliance Alliance was established, and gathered from all over the states of the Heavenly Alliance to the Jingzhou Region, preparing to go south and fight the Earth Alliance Alliance. Since the overall number of the Heavenly Alliance Alliance is actually only one-third of the Earth Alliance Alliance, in order to ensure that the probability of victory can be increased, and Yingqing City is surrounded by the Earth Alliance army, Tianyu Sect still took a huge risk and pulled out sixty percent of the defenders of the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain, preparing to enter Yingzhou from the border pass between the east of the Yunzhou Domain and the west of the Yingzhou Domain, and rush to the aid of Yingqing City.

When I heard that the Earth Alliance sent Lingyun Palace, which was the third strongest, and Hua Zong, who was the fourth strongest, to form the Western Army of the Earth Alliance to garrison in the western part of Yingzhou Domain. If it is in a normal state, the army of the Heavenly Feather Sect in one state should be able to compete with the combined forces of Lingyun Hall and Huazong, even if it can't win, but it can only be a draw. However, due to the fierce battle between Tianyu Sect and Wanfeng Forest in the battlefield of Yingzhou Domain for many years, originally forty percent of the military strength of Tianyu Sect was in Yingzhou Domain, and then Yunzhou Domain, Dingzhou Domain, and Jingzhou Domain each had two percent of military strength. Later, the seven major sects of the Earth Alliance established the Earth Alliance Alliance, and they went to Yingzhou Domain. Since the Jingzhou Domain is the backing of the Yingzhou Domain, and it is also another barrier between the Zhongzhou Domain and the Imperial Capital, the Tianyu Sect is ready to build a second line of defense in the Jingzhou Domain after the loss of the Yingzhou Domain to prevent the allied forces from going north, so the two percent of the military strength of the Jingzhou Domain did not move. Tianyu Sect also transferred one percent of the military strength from Yunzhou and Dingzhou to Yingzhou, and finally the distribution of Tianyu Sect's military strength became sixty percent of Yingzhou, two percent of Jingzhou, one percent of Yunzhou, and one percent of Dingzhou, that is to say, Tianyu Sect has put eighty percent of the military strength of the sect on the battlefield with the Earth Alliance, of which sixty percent is on the front line and two percent is in the rear. This is also the reason why the Tianyu Sect must pull the Heavenly Alliance composed of the Purple Gold Pavilion and the Wuji Sect, because if it is only one sect of the Tianyu Sect, even if it is the largest sect in the empire, it is still too small compared to the Earth Alliance Alliance formed by the seven major sects of the Southern Empire.

After the Tianyu Sect adjusted the defenders of the four major states, it created a situation, that is, the number of defenders outside the Yingzhou domain was reduced, especially the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain only had less than half of the defenders in normal times, and they could barely deal with one of the sects in the Lingyun Hall or the Flower Sect. And the most important thing is that in order to achieve a situation of encirclement with the army of the Heavenly Alliance that rushed south to aid the Yingzhou Domain, the Tianyu Sect drew one-third of the troops from the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain to form a coalition army in the eastern part of the Dingzhou Domain, preparing to enter the aid of Yingqing City from the western part of the Yingzhou Domain.

Since the new Tianyu Sect's army did not have an advantage in numbers with the Lingyun Hall and the Huazong in terms of numbers, like the army of the Heavenly Alliance that went south to Yingzhou, the encounter between the army of the Tianyu Sect and the Western Army of the Earth Alliance was also regarded as a "bloody battle". But what the Heavenly Feather Sect's army never expected was that this was not an evenly matched encounter at all, but more like a battle between an adult man and a baby waiting to be fed. Because when he saw that the army of the Tianyu Sect entered the western pass of the Yingzhou Domain from the Yunzhou Domain, and was still far away, the Western Army of the Earth Alliance began to run and began to withdraw, at first the Tianyu Sect also thought it was a trap, and slowed down and did not dare to go too deep, until it was later discovered that the troops of the Lingyun Hall and the Flower Sect had withdrawn far away, and even seemed to have set aside a road for the army of the Tianyu Sect, so that the Tianyu Sect could enter the Yingzhou Domain. Due to the tight time of the task of rushing to the aid of Yingqing City, the Tianyu Sect army from the Yunzhou Domain did not think too much about it, and went directly in the direction of Yingqing City.

It's like entering a "no man's land"!