No. 542 Zhao Di Fengyun (1)

Speaking of the reason why Shi Hu went crazy, in addition to the vague connection with Shi Le's disappearance, there is also the best answer on the bright side. According to information collected by the Jeho Gate through spies, when Shi Hu ambushed Shile in Yanzhou in 344, he was suspected to have received full support from the Zhuhou Gate.

When Shi Hu's personal soldiers deliberately killed young and strong men in Qizhou, there were war banners such as Liu Bei in the west and Sima Yi in the south, and there was little opposition from everyone, and there was no need for ideological work to appease. When Shi Hu began to slaughter the people of Qizhou unscrupulously, perhaps in order to strengthen the belief of his relatives and soldiers, or in order to attract fresh blood to join, Shi Hu suddenly raised the new banner of "blood sacrifice". When communicating with his relatives and soldiers, Shi Hu repeatedly mentioned the concept of blood sacrifice: "The Mandate of Heaven is ruthless, if you favor Jin, the Sima clan will prosper, and if you favor Zhao, you will have my Shi clan." It's a pity that Zhao Guo's fate is only three or four years left, and the Shi family has no future to speak of. The untouchables of the seven states are all longing for the birth of a new dragon, since they are disloyal and unfilial, why should I have mercy? Simply use the blood of the people of the seven states to build our eternal foundation. ”

The Eight Giants of the Absolute Holy Gate were all inclined to the Blood Sacrifice to explain, and believed that the Shile Blood Sacrifice was a conspiracy of the Zhuhou Gate.

It is said that Wei Dongsheng broke through Lu Youyu's religious rise route back then, and persuaded Liu Bei, Sima Yi, Sun Quan and other forces to jointly encircle and suppress the religious stronghold of Zhuhoumen, which effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of Zhuhoumen's unscrupulous hunting of immortals. However, perhaps the Mandate of Heaven has sheltered, or perhaps Lu Youyu is particularly shrewd, and he has escaped from pursuit again and again. To this day, Lu Youyu is still leading the core members of the Zhuhou Sect to hide in Tibet, and from time to time there is bad news in the land of Kyushu that a certain immortal family was slaughtered by the Zhuhou Gate.

The dark clouds of Zhuhoumen have been hovering inside and outside Kyushu.

The Zhuhou Sect hunted the Immortals unscrupulously, and the Immortals of the Neutral Order camp were disgusted with all of them. The bad nature of Zhuhoumen, coupled with the guidance of public opinion of the immortals in power, the reputation of Zhuhoumen's public opinion can be described as extremely poor, and what bad things happen in the world, everyone often thinks of Zhuhoumen first. This time Shi Hu went crazy was no exception, the Eight Giants of the Absolute Holy Gate got the secret information of the spy, so they subconsciously believed the Blood Sacrifice explanation, and speculated that the Zhuhou Gate and Shi Hu secretly colluded together.

Was it the conspiracy of Zhuhoumen, or did Shi Le's disappearance cause ripples?

Wei Dongsheng felt that the latter was the most suspicious.

But this matter has not been investigated, Shi Le has been missing for several years, and it is difficult for Wei Dongsheng to catch him for questioning in a short time.

Moreover, compared with tracking Shi Le's whereabouts, Shi Hu's frenzied killing in the territory of the Qihu Zhao Kingdom was more imminent. As an idealist who practiced the perfection of faith, Wei Dongsheng's tolerance of the Shile-style reign of terror was already the bottom line from which he could no longer retreat. Wei Dongsheng would never turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people in the seven states of Hebei, Qing, Yan, Henan, Si, He, and Yong in order to survive until 1930. Even if compromising the Mandate of Heaven can be exchanged for the inferior Tomorrow Ring's kindergarten admission qualifications, it is definitely not the result that Wei Dongsheng wants.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter why.

No matter why Shi Hu went crazy, Wei Dongsheng had to do everything in his power to stop his killing spree.

After the unification of the high-level thoughts was completed, the war machine of the Absolute Holy Gate slowly activated.

In the world of the tenth reincarnation, Wei Dongsheng learned and mastered many hot weapons and military tactics, and his development and utilization of gunpowder far exceeded that of his contemporaries. However, the Millennial Killing World has another unfamiliar Immortal Seed System, and even if the power of the firearm is still the same, the military tactics must be constantly modified according to the actual situation. For example, in order to curb the mobile harassment of hostile immortals, the Wu Wushu phalanx must be equipped with a certain number of immortals to maintain vigilance.

If there were no immortals to enhance the ability of the Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx to resist harassment, even if the Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx could sweep away all the non-immortal troops of the Qi Hu Zhao Kingdom, the Wu Wu Pawn Phalanx would most likely be defeated due to the lack of logistics. And if he faced Shi Hu, who was protecting the purple dragon qi body, Shi Hu would even be able to ignore the fire salvo and attack the dense phalanx, defeating the Wu Wushu phalanx head-on.

Unconsciously, the elite of the immortals has become the mainstay of military confrontation.

Not only could Wei Dongsheng not be able to ignore the immortals, but the military operations of the Absolute Holy Gate also had to be deployed around high-level immortals.

Murong Hao and Tuoba Shiyiqian's dragon qi transfer experiment went smoothly, but the two experimenters, Lu Xun and Tang Xueguang, never broke through the level 5 threshold. For the immortals above level 5, there are still only two people in the Absolute Holy Gate, Wei Dongsheng, a level 10 immortal, and Ran Min, a level 7 immortal. Therefore, the military action against Shi Hu was simply cut into two parts: Wei Dongsheng and Ran Min.

Considering that Ran Min should respond to Ran Wei in the future, Wei Dongsheng ordered him to lead more than 30 rank 5 immortals to infiltrate Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and gather local rebels to resist the killing of Shi Hu's relatives.

Wei Dongsheng himself led the Wu Wu army phalanx, and killed Changshan County to protect Youjun. Although the Mandate of Heaven is in Zhao, the people of the Jizhou clan are eager for the Absolute Holy Gate to restore order as soon as possible. Baoyou County to Changshan County County Zhending City, along the way all over the county government looked at the wind and fell, there was no need to kill the Holy Gate, and a small number of loyal Shi Hu's irons were slashed and killed by the world's heroes. Wherever the Pingyou army went, the banner of the Absolute Holy Gate was hung.

Perhaps Shi Hu knew that he had lost all the people's hearts, and he took the initiative to give up the counties and counties in the plain geography, and successively shrank the main force of Jizhou to the two major gathering points of Xiangguo City and Yecheng.

Since the collapse of Liu Bei's Ji Han, the Mandate of Heaven mechanism has gradually become a lingering shadow for the heroes. Shi Hu's dragon qi has not yet escaped, and the national fortunes of Zhao have not yet been severed, if the Absolute Holy Gate rashly annexes his country, the heavens will inevitably descend on natural disasters and man-made disasters. To circumvent the punishment of the Mandate of Heaven, Wei Dongsheng must follow Liu Bei's example of stealing the Xiongnu Han state and nominally recognize the actual rule of the Zhao state.

After stepping into the territory of the Zhao Kingdom, Wei Dongsheng ordered the Pingyou army to hang the banner of Jingnan, hypocritically saying that the Absolute Holy Gate was only a reinforcement invited by the people of the Zhao Kingdom. For example, in the southern counties of Changshan County, Wei Dongsheng all retained the lives of the county commanders and taishou appointed by the state of Zhao, and after the puppets took control, they used the decree of the state of Zhao to eliminate the maladministration.

In the final analysis, this southern expedition was not to destroy the state of Qianhu and Zhao, but purely to curb Shi Hu's crazy killing.

Wei Dongsheng forced Shi Hu's descendants and cronies to Xiangguo, Yecheng and other strongholds, and the rebel armies in each county could reduce the pressure and relieve their breath, and then launch a counterattack against the few local forces left behind by Shi Hu. If the Mandate of Heaven is completely severed in the Kingdom of Qihu and Zhao, the people of Hebei, Qing, Yan, Henan, Si, He, Yong and other prefectures will be able to escape this catastrophe.

With all these evasive measures, the intensity of the Mandate of Heaven punishment has been greatly reduced.

However, Wei Dongsheng knew that the Mandate of Heaven mechanism was the best at depriving luck, and he budgeted for the worst outcome, and continued to steadily advance his troops towards Xiangguo.

In December 467, the Pingyou army conquered Changshan County.

In February 467, the Pingyou army advanced to the city of Xiangguo.

Unlike Changshan County and other places, Xiangguo City gathered many immortals, and the difficulty of attacking suddenly increased.

Outside the city of Xiangguo, the war is underway.

The soldiers of the Pingyou army erected bayonets and firearms, and formed a number of dense phalanxes according to military tactics, facing the guards of Xiangguo City from afar; The artillery positions hidden behind the dense phalanx took the trouble to bombard the tower of Xiangguo City and the camp in front of the city gate, and relieved the opposite fire in order; Once it is discovered that the hostile immortals rely on supernatural forces to attack, these five-person captains will quickly directional sniper and cooperate with Wu Wu's phalanx to complete the firepower output.

These elite immortals in a team of five people are the biggest difference between the military tactics of this world and the military tactics of the real world.

How to integrate the supernatural power of the immortals with the military tactics of the traditional Wu Wushu phalanx was a deep test of the wisdom of the Absolute Holy Gate. Wei Dongsheng lacked experience in this regard, and there were no examples to refer to, so he could only practice and summarize the laws and advance military tactics with the characteristics of immortal seeds little by little.

Lu Xun and Tang Xueguang stayed in Jidu to continue the dragon qi transfer experiment, and today they accompanied Wei Dongsheng on the expedition were Lu Kang, Ding Feng, Xiao Qunqi and other giants of the Absolute Holy Gate.

Lu Kang is Lu Xun's second son, who has studied with Wei Dongsheng since he was a child, and has been gradually transformed into a comrade by Wei Dongsheng's thoughts for more than a hundred years. Compared with Lu Kang in real-world history, his values and ideals are completely different. Wei Dong was born to be virtuous and did not avoid relatives, and also praised Lu Kang as one of the nine giants of the Absolute Holy Gate.

During the war, Wei Dongsheng exchanged views with Lu Kang, Ding Feng, Xiao Qunqi and others in a timely manner.

Wei Dongsheng looked at the sky of Xiangguo from afar: "The dragon qi rushed straight into the sky of Xiangguo County, and Shi Hu was very likely to hide in the city of Xiangguo." Shi Hu personally guarded Xiangguo, and gathered countless immortals' subordinates, obviously intending to divide the victory and defeat with us in Xiangguo. Shi Hu can't defend at the moment, what do you think he thinks? ”

Lu Kang speculated: "The spy reported that Shi Hu sent 300 immortals to reinforce Xiangguo, and there was no non-immortal foot rider to help. Since Shi Hu personally suppressed Xiangguo, the Taishou of Xiangguo County gathered 10,000 county soldiers in the city, and he scattered more than 7,000 people; The local residents of Xiangguo City, except for a few laborers, were also expelled by Shi Hu. At this time, there are at most 5,000 people in Xiangguo, and the surplus grain can support at least half a year. ”

It is indeed possible.

Perhaps because the exponential power growth of the total number of long-lived seeds cannot keep up with the exponential growth of the effective range, since the unveiling of the expansion of the long-life seed system in Lujiang County, the birth density of immortals per unit area has become lower and lower. The Immortal Seed System has expanded rapidly in the past few years, and the number of new human immortals and new non-human immortals in Kyushu has repeatedly set new records in history. And because of wars for various reasons, the number of immortals in some areas even showed a negative growth.

Despite this, after deducting the accumulation of historical heritage, the number of immortals of each faction is still tied to the territory of their rule.

Since Shi Le founded the Zhao Kingdom, there were more than 800 immortals who pledged allegiance to Shihu in their heyday, called 800 horsemen. Of course, many of these immortals are wall-to-wall grass, and the reason why they took refuge in the Karma Zhao Kingdom is entirely because their families and their foundations are within the territory of the Karma Zhao Kingdom. When Shi Hu began to kill like crazy, these wall grasses hated and feared, and they looked for new allegiances. To this day, there will never be more than four hundred immortals who are willing to serve Shi Hu sincerely.

Shi Hu was shocked to gather 300 immortals in Xiangguo, which was enough to show his determination.