Chapter 856: Situation in the Northern Regions

Lin Xuanzhong was not worried about who would fall into those cities, it was the Desolate Wolf Organization that took the opportunity to grow, and when he understood that one person's strength could not shake an army no matter what, Lin Xuanzhong was very worried that even if he went back, he would not be able to do anything. Of course, after experiencing so many things, Lin Xuanzhong also understands that some difficulties are difficult to deal with if they are faced directly, but if they are considered in a different way, or in a different direction, the original problems may become simpler. No matter what, Lin Xuanzhong wanted to wait for the matter here to be over, and then go to the Night Country near Beiling as soon as possible to inquire about the situation on Beiling.

While Lin Xuanzhong continued to think about it, Ziyun Country, the Five Nations Alliance was over, and Lan Ce had returned to China with his ministers to prepare for the issue of moving the capital. In terms of supporting Lin Xuanzhong and them, Lan Ce had already done everything he could, and in the end he could only hold the idea of losing 60,000 elites of the Night Army at worst. In addition, Lan Ze went back for another purpose.

After many perfunctory attempts to reach out to them, the anti-Luo alliance finally stretched out its minions. The Tianyu Kingdom, the Mongolian Kingdom, and the Hong Kingdom, which had previously lost to the Night Kingdom, did not even give them a chance to join the alliance when they were originally subordinated to the Luo Tian Nation, and directly sent troops to the Three Kingdoms in order to strengthen the strength of the Alliance, and wantonly attacked the territories of the Three Kingdoms, and the methods were extremely cruel, and all the local leaders were killed by them.

In order to ensure that their interests are maximized, the three countries did not give the three countries a chance to surrender at all, and in such a situation, the three countries could only fight back, but unfortunately because of the deprivation of them by the night country and the Lai country before, their strength was far from enough, and they saw that the three countries were about to be completely annexed by the alliance.

With the Hong Kingdom and the Mongolian Kingdom on the verge of extinction, the Lai Kingdom bordering the two countries has been pushed to the cusp, and the same is true of the local situation of the Night Kingdom. Since the people of the alliance will come at any time, while the Lai Kingdom sent a request for help to the Night Country, the Lai Emperor has already deployed three armies on the border of the Lai Kingdom to prepare for the attack at any time, but the Lai Emperor knows that it is impossible to stop the alliance with the strength of their own country, and the Night Country is the same.

This time back, Lan Ce not only wanted to let Emperor Lai join the alliance, but also let Zhao Wu personally lead the army to the border between the two countries to deal with the attack of the anti-Luo alliance at any time. Now that the Five-Power Alliance has been reached, Lan Ce will not let the Big Blue Country join such a bandit organization, otherwise their hard work for more than a year will be in vain.

Not only has the situation faced by the Night Kingdom changed again, but with the infinite spread of war in the vast southern region of the Northern Regions, whether it is those remote border countries, or the major sects and families that have been living in seclusion in the mountains, all places have been swept away by the war, and the situation is even more turbulent, and few people can stay away from the war. Of course, living in troubled times does not mean suffering sin, and many people of large countries can live as freely as they used to, and even live more nourishing than before.

The situation in the south as a whole has not changed much from before, except that more and more people are involved in the war. It is worth mentioning that the original Daqi Principality, after just a few months, was finally overwhelmed and fragmented due to internal and external troubles. Members of the royal family continued to compete for power and profit, external princes rebelled, and a large country was divided into more than a dozen countries from the inside out.

Somewhat similar to the division of the Duchy of Daqi, some medium-sized countries also collapsed due to overwhelm, so not long after the harsh winter passed, the number of countries in the Northern Regions did not shrink as many people imagined, but because of the demise of some countries, more countries were born, and various new country names sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Some countries were short-lived and swallowed up by other countries soon after their founding, while others finally grew stronger after experiencing various challenges like the night country now.

Speaking of which, at first, some countries fought to protect their own interests, while others fought to obtain benefits, and now, regardless of the original intentions of those participating countries, when they realize that the war brings them only losses, they are helpless to find that no one can stop the war.

As the impact of the war continued to expand, attracting more profit-seeking traders, the caravans of the three major empires near the northern regions continued to enter and leave the war-torn areas, sending war items needed by various countries again and again, and transporting large quantities of jade treasures again and again. The amount of jade that those caravans can get in a single transaction can make any small country lord jealous, and what they send will only make the situation more chaotic.

The longer the war lasts, the poorer the countries that go to war, but for the traders, they want the war to last longer so that they can gain more. Knowing that what the traders brought would only exacerbate the war, the owners of the small countries continued to trade with the vendors in order to protect their own interests. In particular, some medium-sized countries, in order to be able to improve their own strength as soon as possible and compete with the big powers, they will accept as many caravans as they come, and it can be said that there is no room for refusal.

In times of war, those countries need bargaining chips to protect themselves, so those things that are valuable but not commonly used can be used as currency to trade with traders, and some countries even empty their entire treasury in order to increase their own strength, and increase their military power at all costs. For those countries that frequently trade with inbound traders, their lords have a similar idea. This war may be just a farce, and it will naturally subside after a while, so they must do everything they can to ensure that their country can survive until the war is over.

As long as they can keep their country alive, when the war is over, everything can return to the original state, this kind of expectation of the end of the war forced the lords of those medium-sized countries to even take the initiative to send people to the three empires to negotiate with some large chambers of commerce, hoping that those chambers of commerce can continue to send them what they need.

Their practices further intensified the economic ties between the countries and the Imperial Chambers of Commerce, which were now allowed to provide any wartime goods to customers in need, except for the Golden Scale Arrow, which was considered a forbidden item and many of them did not dare to sell it openly. As for the economic exchanges between the countries of the Northern Regions and those chambers of commerce, except for the Principality of Daqi, the other four major powers in the south can only turn a blind eye to this, because of the background of some chambers of commerce, they also can't afford to offend, or they can't afford to offend in the era of war.

Of course, because the war is not only about abnormal business dealings, but also about many other things, among which the emergence of intelligence organizations and killer organizations has a great impact on the war situation.

The personnel of those intelligence organizations have infiltrated almost every corner of the Northern Regions, often selling some important information to some hostile countries, and the content of the information covers all sides, so that the outstanding generals of many countries have been assassinated, and many countries have fallen into crisis.

The Northern Regions are so large that it is obviously impossible to have only one intelligence organization, and it can be said that those intelligence organizations have a lot of backgrounds that cannot be described in detail, but one thing is certain that the competing relationship between various intelligence organizations has contributed to the intensification of the war.

Those who sell intelligence are usually mixed in some underground black market, only certain people can access the place, usually the value of the information is determined by the price, sometimes, a simple word has enough value to buy a prosperous city, huge profits create many people who are good at obtaining information. While some countries explicitly prohibit those individuals from entering or leaving their borders, others are increasingly unable to extricate themselves from the sweetness of buying and selling information.

The war does not stop, there will be more and more underground intelligence, and the killer organization is derived from the emergence of the intelligence organization, some life-saving people, for personal interests, desperate to assassinate those excellent generals who control the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people, and even some small country lords can become their targets.

Usually some countries will have the idea of buying murderers because they can't beat other countries, and some of those killers are people from the Northern Regions, and some are people from other large regions. Regardless of their origins, their purpose is for profit. This is not common in the fringe areas, but in the most chaotic areas of the central part is a long sword, and every now and then some army commander is assassinated in a heavily guarded army. The methods of the Assassins were endless, and it was impossible to guard against them.

Similar to the influence of intelligence organizations on the situation of the war, because of the existence of the killer organization, many battles have changed as a result, and it can be said that the impact of the existence of the two organizations on the entire Northern Region is unimaginable. Of course, good and evil in the world are always opposites, and when those intelligence and assassin organizations surfaced, some swordsmen with chivalrous names were born.

As if given the mission of eradicating rape and evil by God, those people frequently appear in war-torn areas, constantly rescuing those civilians who have been humiliated. At first, they only wanted to deal with the bandit groups and rescue those who might be attacked by the beasts, but when they realized that the assassins with bad intentions or ruthless killings had a greater impact on the situation of the war, their goals gradually changed to not only the bandits and the infested beasts, but also the members of the two dark organizations.

Over time, those who have the same purpose also form some organizations, as long as they are like-minded, regardless of their origins, they can join the organization, and the word "swordsman" is a general term for this kind of people, not that those people only use swords as weapons.

Compared with those factors that exacerbated the war, the swordsman organization naturally became an anti-war factor, and its influence on the current situation was no small amount. All in all, the current situation of war is affecting many people, and many people are also affecting the current situation.