Chapter 169: Seeking the Skin of the Tiger
Since the Youzhou army went south to fight for Jizhou, it has attracted the attention of all forces in the Central Plains.
In the past, although Chen was strong and rich, his territory was either overseas, or in a "bitter cold land" such as Youzhou in eastern Liaodong, and if you don't count foreign slaves, the total population is less than five million.
But if Chen Defeat can take the entire Jizhou this time, not only will the population break through to more than 10 million, but the entire land of Hebei will become his bag!
And in today's era, the only place that can be called the foundation of hegemony is about neutralization and Hebei!
Even the densely populated Central Plains is not favored by the world's families because of its geographical location.
Therefore, once Chen defeated Jizhou, he would immediately become the top prince on a par with Dong Zhuo.
No matter how much the families around the world reject his identity as the Yellow Turban Army, they have to pinch their noses and send the talents of the clan to Jicheng.
After all, compared to the cruel and tyrannical Dong Zhuo, Chen Zhuo will play according to the rules of the game at least most of the time.
Especially after Yingchuan Xun's investment in Zhao Kong, he is now making a lot of money, not only getting a large copper mountain in Dongying, but also getting a big island in Ryukyu.
As the imperial court's control over the local area became weaker and weaker, more than half of the ordinary clansmen of the Xun clan had moved overseas.
Even the families that were close to the Xun clan sent some of their clansmen to the big island to which the Xun clan belonged out of consideration for the continuation of the bloodline.
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Now the situation in the Central Plains is treacherous, even the family with a rich background does not dare to say that it will definitely survive, and at this time, the remote overseas has become a safe haven.
However, Zhao Kong's next move made everyone incomprehensible.
After taking the five and a half counties in the northern part of Jizhou, he suddenly turned from offensive to defensive, and no longer attacked the elite areas in the southern part of Jizhou.
On the contrary, a large number of troops were transferred to the Western Front, as if they wanted to take the impoverished annexed states first.
But if the state is not counted as the Black Mountain Army, the population of the whole state is less than one million, and there are a large number of difficult to discipline the Southern Huns, which is simply a hard bone that is neither fleshy nor difficult to gnaw.
Especially under Zhao Kong's rule, there is no shortage of war horses, and Bingzhou is not even a chicken rib for the current Youzhou army.
But even so, Zhao Kong still ignored the dissuasion of Tian Feng, Xun Zhan and other strategists, and personally led an army of 80,000 to enter the state.
In just two months, the Youzhou army took Taiyuan, captured the Shangdang, and the soldiers were in Sili, and Luoyang City, which was occupied by the Xiliang army, was only separated by a narrow Hanoi County!
The Youzhou Army is not Shangdang Zhang Yang, although Zhang Yang is one of the princes' coalition forces, but his own strength is limited, Dong Zhuo keeps him still, and he can become a buffer between the Xiliang Army and the Hebei princes.
And now that Zhao Kong led an army of nearly 100,000 to the vicinity of Hanoi County, it was like putting the long knife in his hand on Dong Zhuo's neck, and the Xiliang army couldn't bear it no matter what.
Just when everyone thought that the two strongest forces in the world, the Xiliang Army and the Youzhou Army, were about to go to war, Zhao Kong and Dong Zhuo were actually alone and came to a hill by the Yellow River.
In early autumn, the nameless hill is still green and green.
There is a tall pine tree growing on the top of the mountain, and I don't know how many years it has lived, and the main trunk that can only be hugged by several people is full of annual rings of time.
The ground under the pine trees was quite flat, and Zhao Kong sat casually on a futon, with a low table in front of him, and two bowls and a jar of wine on the table.
A rich aroma of wine diffused from the wine jar, and many animals around were drunk to the ground in an instant after smelling the aroma of wine, and their mouths were pricked, as if they were dreaming about something.
There was a sound of heavy footsteps, and Zhao Kong didn't look back, but picked up the wine jar in front of him, poured himself a bowl of amber wine, and drank it to himself.
"You're going to enjoy it!"
Dong Zhuo walked to the opposite side of the low table, sat down very casually, picked up the wine jar and filled himself with a bowl.
"Huh? You're a lot of fun! Picking up the wine bowl and observing for a moment, Dong Zhuo sighed roughly.
This jar of wine was just bought by Zhao Kong from the Wanjie Mall, it is a real sixth-order immortal brew, the wine is called "Penglai Drunken Immortal", if anyone drinks all this jar of wine, even if he has a true immortal cultivation, he will instantly get drunk and fall to the ground.
As a sixth-order immortal brew, "Penglai Drunken Immortal" can not only make immortals drunk, but also have the effect of nourishing the body and increasing longevity.
Even if Dong Zhuo is no longer the Xiliang man he was at the beginning, when he saw this grade of good wine, he still showed a look of admiration on his face.
Zhao Kong put down the wine bowl in his hand and said, "I don't know if I should call Your Excellency Master Dong now?" Or is it His Highness Sauron? ”
Dong Zhuo was slightly stunned, and then looked up to the sky and laughed: "Interesting, interesting, I didn't expect that in such a small world, there are still others staring at it." "There was no nervousness in the words, but curiosity." I am both Dong Zhuo and Sauron, and with your cultivation, I should understand the state of soul fusion. ”
After listening to the explanation, Zhao Kong immediately knew why the other party could be so unscrupulous, and now Dong Zhuo's state was similar to Zhao Kong's situation in the Shenzhou Realm.
After the fusion of the soul of the Earth Star Zhao Kong and the Divine Realm Zhao Kong, he naturally obtained the identity of the indigenous of the Divine State Realm, and he will not be targeted by the plane consciousness (Heavenly Dao), and there will definitely be a lot less restraint in doing things.
However, Dong Zhuo is different from Zhao Kong in the Shenzhou Realm at the beginning, after all, one is a living person with strong luck, and the other is that his soul is almost dissipated, leaving only some obsession and killing intent.
Even if Sauron has an immortal soul, if he wants to obtain the identity of the native of this realm, he must let go of his soul defense and carry out a deep integration with Dong Zhuo.
The new soul body formed under this circumstance can indeed be called both Dong Zhuo and Sauron.
"It doesn't matter if you're Dong Zhuo or Soren, it's not a big difference for me."
"However, although this world is only a small world, there are some hidden things that are far beyond your imagination, and I am determined to achieve this!"
Zhao Kong stared at Dong Zhuo with both eyes, and did not hide his purpose.
He invited the other party to meet this time to see if he could scare Dong Zhuo or Soren.
No matter how strong Sauron was in the past, but now his strength is only in the middle of the fourth order, and at most he is stronger in soul defense.
And the world behind him is only a middle thousand worlds, and even because of the serious loss of the world's origin, it seems so laborious to even devour a small thousand worlds.
In this embarrassing situation, the other world also has to worry about whether the traces will be exposed.
Once some powerful worlds are discovered, a middle thousand worlds with a lack of origin and greatly reduced protection capabilities are simply fat meat sent to the mouth.
It was for this reason that Zhao Kong was willing to spend a lot of money to buy the sixth-order immortal brew "Penglai Drunken Immortal", implying that there was a powerful world behind Sauron.
However, Sauron is not a person who is easy to fool, and even from some things, he is the ancestor of the real fool.
"Since the value of this world is so great, then the world behind you sent such a little guy as you?" Sauron took a sip of "Penglai Drunken Immortal" and asked with squinted eyes.
Zhao Kong smiled and said: "The interests of individuals and the interests of the whole world sometimes cannot be equated, I believe this simple truth, Your Highness knows better than me." ”
As Zhao Kong's words fell, Sauron laughed.
Because he found out that Zhao Kong was actually a person from the same as him, and he would not take the interests of his own plane to heart.
"Tell us your purpose, if you and I don't have conflicting goals, we can indeed have some cooperation." Sauronmo swiped the bowl in his hand and said lightly with squinted eyes.
"In fact, it is not the best choice for Your Highness to quickly take this plane, once your world recovers from the predicament, I'm afraid your situation may not be very good?"
Zhao Kong smiled slightly, and what he said was a bit incorrect, but it did touch Sauron's sore spot, causing the smile on his face to fade away.
"Your Highness, don't worry, you and I are in a similar situation, if I convey the information from here, I won't get much benefit either." Zhao Kong waved his hand and said. "On the contrary, it is the two of us who cooperate to delay the war in this world, so that we can continue to reap the benefits."
Sauron's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was pondering the feasibility of the matter, and only after half a sound did he suddenly speak:
"I see that you seem to know our world quite well, could it be that the world behind you has dealt with us before?"
casually poured another bowl of wine for Sauron, and Zhao Kong said with a smile:
"Your Highness misunderstood, what my sect is best at is calculating, especially now that the two worlds are deeply entangled, it is not very difficult for me to calculate some information about your world."
Sauron nodded noncommittally, he just listened to Zhao Kong's words, and he didn't even believe half of it.
However, prolonging the war is indeed beneficial to both of them, especially the death of a large number of intelligent creatures, which can bring him additional benefits.
"In this case, there is no need for you and me to decide the winner so early, you will let the Youzhou Army withdraw from Shangdang County when you go back, and I will also move the Xiliang Army of Hedong County to the Sanfu region." Sauron said, picking up the bowl.
Zhao Kong thought for a moment, then raised the wine bowl and touched Sauron:
"Then come as you say, the party and the two counties of Hedong are the buffer areas, you occupy Guanzhong, I occupy Hebei, and the rest of the places are seized by their own ability."
Sauron took a sip of the wine in the bowl, then stood up and said with a smile:
"This wine is very beautiful, but you should not drink too much, and if you have the opportunity to go to Mordor one day, I will invite you to drink really good wine."
After all, it is an old monster who has lived for tens of thousands of years, and he has eaten more salt than Zhao Kong has eaten, and after a few bowls of "Penglai Drunken Immortal", he quickly noticed the characteristics of this wine.
"Hahaha, Your Highness Sauron said it was funny, I don't have the luck to go to Mordor."
Seeing that Sauron discovered the special effects of "Penglai Drunken Immortal", Zhao Kong was not embarrassed, the two of them were not good at stubble, even if they reached a cooperation intention, it was almost inevitable to calculate each other.
However, now the benefits of cooperation are greater than the turn of face, so the agreed agreement is still seriously implemented by both parties.
In the following days, the Youzhou Army withdrew from Shangdang County, and the Xiliang Army also withdrew from Hedong County.
Zhao Kong, who withdrew from the army and returned to the north, hugged the grass and beat the rabbits, and took the Huangtian Iron Horse and the Dark Candle Dragon Horse to enter Xihe County, where the Southern Xiongnu were entrenched, and swept the Xiongnu tribes in the county from south to north.
Including Meiji City, where the Xiongnu royal court was located, was broken by Zhao Kong's spell, and all the people and livestock were pressed to Jicheng.
For these nomads, at least within the Great Wall, Zhao Kong's methods have always been simple and crude.
Those who can be integrated are integrated as much as possible, after all, after several years of war, the population of the Central Plains really needs to be replenished.
All that can't be fused will be sent to Honshu Island, and as for whether there will be a "five chaotic war" in Dongying, it's none of his business.
Xihe County, which had the largest number of Huns, was taken, and the prefectures basically fell into the hands of Zhao Kong.
Although there are still Shangjun, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang that have not been won, these five counties are all small counties with a population of 10,000 or 20,000, and they are not even as good as a small county town in the mainland.
Instead of Zhao Kong wasting time to take them one by one, it was better to let Gao Shun and Zhang Yan clean up slowly.
In mid-August, tens of thousands of Youzhou troops returned to Jicheng, but Zhao Kong did not leave Bingzhou with the army, but entered the Taihang Mountains alone, and stayed in the mountains for nearly two months before reappearing in everyone's sight.
Fortunately, Zhao Kong has Tian Feng such a capable, loyal and upright subordinate.
Otherwise, as the lord of one party, he has disappeared for two months, and it is estimated that the forces under his command have already been carved up.
Even so, when Zhao Kong returned to Jicheng, Tian Feng's spit and stars were sprayed on his face, and people brought a few baskets of paperwork, forcing Zhao Kong to deal with it quickly.
Although Tian Feng's internal affairs ability is very strong, he is not the master of one party after all, and many things must be decided by Zhao Kong himself.
As a minister, Tian Feng can postpone these matters, but he must not overstep his responsibilities and handle them for Zhao Kong.
Zhao Kong is not an unreasonable person, but this time he has no choice, although he has reached a cooperation agreement with Sauron, but the magic tower built by the other party in Luoyang has not been stopped because of this.
With Sauron's cunning and changeable character, if Zhao Kong can't come up with a means to match it, the other party can tear it up at any time.
The wizard contract of the Wanjie Mall can make the two parties unable to renege.
But Sauron has an immortal soul, and wizard contracts that can restrain the immortal soul will cost at least millions of points.
If he could take down Sauron for millions of points, then Zhao Kong would definitely pay it without hesitation, but this demon king, who is known for his treachery, is really not so easy to coax.
Even if there is even the slightest mistake in the contract, Sauron will definitely not sign it, and it would be a waste to buy a wizard contract in this case.
Therefore, in order to deal with the magic tower in Luoyang, Zhao Kong could only go to the Taihang Mountains and arrange the Zhuxian Sword Array first.
Anyway, if Sauron wants to open the magic tower, he must first drag the plane consciousness, and when Zhao Kong uses the Zhuxian Sword Array, it will also not cause a catastrophe.
In the absence of external interference, how could the fifth-order peak Immortal Sword Formation be afraid of an epic magic tower?
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