No. 485 There is a great terror between life and death (2)

After the capture of Wancheng, Sun Ce urgently relocated the population of Wancheng to destroy the possibility of Liu Xun's resurgence; On the one hand, he led the main force up the river, joined up with another route army, and completely defeated Liu Xun. As a result, just like real-world history, Sun Ce won a great victory in Anhui City, and took advantage of the victory to attack Jiangxia County in Jingzhou.

Sun Ce rampaged in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and good news was frequent; Liu Xun's remnants left in Lujiang County were terrified and looked for another way out. Those who were willing to surrender successively bowed their heads to Zhou Yu, the Taishou of Lujiang, and stood in Sun Ce's camp; Those who were unwilling to surrender rushed to Yangzhou to assassinate Shi Yanxiang. However, Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, was at the lowest point since his uprising, Yuan Shao led a large army to press Xu Du, and Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to raise troops to occupy Xiapi, and was about to be defeated. Cao Cao was too busy to take care of himself at this time, and worked hard to marry Sun Ce, how could he have the spare strength to support Yan Xiang to resist Sun Ce's troops. Realizing that Yan Xiang might not be able to fight against Sun Ce, some of Liu Xun's old troops and Yuan Shu's old troops simply crossed the Huai River and fled to Yuzhou and other hinterlands.

Liu Ye did not flee.

Liu Xun's fiasco ended as early as Liu Ye's expectations, and at the beginning of Liu Xun's decision to wave his army to conquer Liu Xun's relics, Liu Ye quietly thought of a way out. Liu Ye had no intention of serving Sun Ce, if there was no accident at the Absolute Holy Gate of Black Rock City, Liu Ye would definitely flee to the hinterland of Yuzhou with the flow, or serve Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, or served Yuan Shao, who defeated Cao Cao. However, with the Absolute Holy Gate accident and the Immortal Seed accident, Liu Ye suddenly had the idea of staying in Black Rock City for a while.

Lu Kang, who had an old grudge against Sun Ce, dared to stay in Black Rock City, so what did Liu Ye worry about?

During Liu Ye's stay in Blackstone City, he deliberately observed how Blackstone City managed the fleeing routs and displaced people. To Liu Ye's surprise, there was a set of foreign population containment system in Black Rock City that he could not fully understand, whether it was a malicious rout or an ordinary person who had no future, Black Rock City could arrange it in an orderly manner to the greatest extent. Liu Ye nodded secretly, just with this detail, the person in charge of each hall of the Absolute Holy Gate can praise a capable official.

The Absolute Holy Gate has an inclusive mentality to recruit elites from all over the world, but it is particularly voluntary, and never forces a certain person to join the Absolute Holy Gate. Liu Ye had a cautious personality, and had no intention of recklessly tying up the Absolute Holy Gate with an unknown purpose, and simply observed the drastic changes in Lujiang County from the time of Liu Xun to the era of Zhou Yu or the era of Sun Ce from a distance as a civilian.

Sha Xian defeated Huang Zu, saying that Yu Zhang was too guarded by Huaxin, and all the counties in the south of the Yangtze River belonged to Sun Ce; Returning to Lujiang County, Sun Ce joined forces with Zhou Yu and easily defeated Yan Xiang, the assassin of Yangzhou, who died in the chaos. In just two or three months, Sun Ce became the overlord of Yangzhou, and his control over the Yangzhou counties was ten times stronger than in the Yuan Shu era.

It was at this time that Blackstone City ushered in its first challenge.

As mentioned earlier, the political power is the tool of the ruling class to distribute the cake, and if the charlatan wants to compete with a certain regime for de facto control of the locality, the two will definitely break out into a fierce conflict.

When Yuan Shu dominated Yangzhou, the focus was always on Huaibei and the hinterland of the Central Plains, as long as Black Rock City did not take the initiative to provoke Yuan Shu, he was tolerant of allowing Black Rock City to exist semi-independently, or he was too lazy to waste his troops to crusade against Black Rock City. In Liu Xun's eyes, before Yuan Shu died of illness, the crusade against Black Rock City, which had limited interests, was purely a matter of trouble; After Yuan Shu died of illness, Liu Xun was busy receiving Yuan Shu's inheritance and had no time to pay attention to the little Black Stone City.

Sun Ce was completely different from warlords such as Yuan Shu and Liu Xun.

After Sun Ce pacified Jiangdong, he not only took the post of Huiji Taishou, but also appointed Zhou Yu as the Taishou of Lujiang, Wu Jing as the Taishou of Danyang, Zhu Ye as the Taishou of Wujun, Lu Fan as the Taishou of Guiyang, Cheng Pu as the Taishou of Lingling, Sun Ben as the Taishou of Yuzhang, and Sun Fu as the Taishou of Luling, etc., and did his best to hold Yangzhou tightly in his hands. Yangzhou was the foundation of Sun Ce, how could he allow Lujiang County to exist as an independent force that was not under his control.

Moreover, Sun Ce was also fortunate enough to fuse the seeds of immortality and personally experienced the wonderful use of the sense of internal strength.

At this time, Liu Ye and other scholars were suspicious of the sense of internal strength and the strange treasures of heaven and earth, sometimes suspecting that the Absolute Holy Gate was abducted and deceived in the pit, and sometimes they felt that the Absolute Holy Gate might really have two brushes. Sun Ce did not hesitate to Liu Ye and others, he never doubted the sense of internal strength and the strange treasures of heaven and earth, and he did not dare to underestimate the threat of the Holy Gate to the foundation of Yangzhou.

The more he understood the threat of the Absolute Holy Gate, the more taboo Sun Ce became against the existence of the Absolute Holy Gate.

The kind of thief who has no real skills in Taiping Dao can still set off a catastrophe, not to mention the Absolute Holy Gate that can truly sense the will of heaven and earth? Sun Ce clearly understood that if he couldn't take advantage of the situation to suppress the Absolute Holy Gate, the Absolute Holy Gate would sooner or later swell into a big problem.

After defeating Yangzhou's assassin Yan Xiang, Sun Ce was preparing to conquer Guangling County, and when he was preparing to conquer Guangling County, he transferred part of his troops to suppress the Absolute Holy Gate.

Sun Ce had a very tough attitude and condescendingly gave two paths.

On the first road, Wei Dongsheng accepted the official position of the governor of Lujiang County, obeyed the order to reform the Absolute Holy Gate, and was sincerely loyal to Sun Ce from then on.

On the second road, Wei Dongsheng rejected Sun Ce's kindness today, and Sun Ce led tens of thousands of iron troops to level Black Rock City tomorrow.

Surrender or die, there is no second way.

This has nothing to do with Sun Ce and Wei Dongsheng's private feelings.

If Sun Ce wanted to establish a new order in Jiangdong, he had to subdue all hostile forces that did not want to submit. In the distance, the conflict between the Absolute Holy Gate and Sun Ce is essentially the core contradiction between the Jianghu system and the imperial court system in the real martial arts world. In the real version of the martial arts world, it is impossible to ignore the existence of the imperial court system. Even if Cao Cao and other warlords rule Lujiang County, as long as he is ready to actually control Lujiang County, sooner or later he will lead his troops to knock down the Absolute Holy Gate.

Is there any hope for coexistence in the future?

If the chivalrous warriors of the rivers and lakes can coerce the court officials at will, the rivers and lakes may be able to stand tall and not take the court system as a thing; If the rivers and lakes do not have the ability to puppet the imperial court, the imperial court will either gather the heroes of the rivers and lakes to establish six doors and other institutions to manage all affairs in the rivers and lakes, or treat the weak rivers and lakes as clowns who can be easily suppressed at any time.

Who is stronger in the imperial court system or the Jianghu system depends entirely on the comprehensive strength comparison between the two.

Just like the dragon and tiger struggle between Sun Ce and Liu Xun, the Absolute Holy Gate, which represents the rivers and lakes, and Sun Ce, who represents the imperial court, must fight fiercely so that the two sides can establish a new balance point in the struggle.

Back to the present reality.

When the news of Sun Ce's order to surrender immediately reached Black Rock City, Shinong and Shang Shang fell into a panic.

In just a few months, Sun Ce defeated Jiangxia Huangzu of Liu Biao's camp in Jingzhou to the west, and defeated Liu Xun and Yan Xiang of Cao Cao's camp who inherited Yuan Shu's legacy to the south. On the other hand, in addition to the well-known Eight Disciples, there are only a few hundred security militiamen who maintain order in Black Rock City, so why should they fight with Sun Ce?

The battle of the Absolute Holy Gate will be lost, and the peace negotiators will have a glimmer of life, this is the consensus of the people of Blackstone City.

It is also the consensus of Liu Ye and other old bureaucrats.

It is the consensus of the disciples and disciples of the Holy Gate.

Even those immortal disciples who were able to fly the eaves and walk the wall did not have the confidence to defeat Sun Ce's iron army head-on.

Wei Dongsheng has always sought truth from facts, and he can do as much as he can. Since the Millennium Killing World had the Immortal Seed as the core mechanism, Wei Dongsheng devoted most of his energy to patiently studying the various characteristics attached to the Immortal Seed; Since the level 3 immortals were not strong enough to destroy the country alone, Wei Dongsheng took advantage of the power of the masses to subdue those unruly people who resembled three feet of a sword. The Absolute Holy Gate places great emphasis on teamwork, both for the future-oriented Immortals and for the non-Immortals based on the current situation.

Lu Xun, as Wei Dongsheng's only personal disciple, had already advanced to the second level of immortality, and had the strength of the early Linghu Chong level. It must be known that even if there are many masters in the martial arts world at the level of Xiaoao Jianghu who are more powerful than Level 3 Immortals, in the early days, Ling Hu Chong was obviously able to walk the rivers and lakes in a chic manner, and occasionally became famous for his chivalry. In the thousand-year-old killing world where the total number of immortal seeds was only 21, Lu Xun's martial arts advantage was even more obvious, and it was difficult for Sun Ce's historical fierce generals to win him one-on-one.

However, Lu Xun did not have the slightest arrogance, and he did not dare to underestimate the people of the world.

Because, the non-immortal team trained by the Demon Hall of the Absolute Holy Gate Town, under the leadership of the leader of the immortals, can often easily hunt down other immortals; Even if the leader of the Immortals is temporarily lost, a non-Elder team can seriously threaten the lives of other Immortals. The non-immortal team under the Demon Suppression Hall can all threaten Lu Xun, how can Sun Ce, who has more soldiers under his command, be a weak junior?

Except for Wei Dongsheng, the only Level 3 Immortal, there are only 2 Level 2 Immortals in the Absolute Holy Gate now, Lu Xun is one of them, and Tang Xueguang, the North Helm Lord of the Ping Demon Hall, is the second. Wei Dongsheng didn't have the ability to defeat Sun Ce head-on, Lu Xun and Tang Xueguang didn't have the ability to repel Sun Ce head-on, not to mention the other immortals and non-immortals of the Absolute Holy Gate.

What to do?

Thinking about it, the disciples of the Absolute Holy Gate could only think of the old method of "capturing the thief and capturing the king first".

Tang Xueguang took the initiative to ask for help: "I led the Thunderbolt death squad to blow up Sun Ce, and the rest of the people will be leaderless, so there must be nothing to worry about." ”

There are no restrictions such as prohibiting the dissemination of natural and social sciences in the thousand-year-old killing world, and Wei Dongsheng sacrificed black powder and other improvised military science and technology to arm the Holy Gate early. Tang Xueguang's so-called Thunderbolt Death Squad is a special combat force based on black powder weapons, and the sword of the Rank 2 Immortal who was full of evil before, was actually in the hands of the Thunderbolt Death Squad. With the black powder weapon and Linghu Chong's mobile combat ability, Tang Xueguang was confident that he would successfully assassinate Sun Ce.

Of course, Wei Dongsheng had other ways to avoid the crisis.

However, assassinating Sun Ce may be the simplest and most feasible strategy.

In the real world, Sun Ce was dressed as a white dragon fish and died in embarrassment by the assassination of Xu Gongmen. The disciples of the immortals trained by the Absolute Holy Gate also have the lowest internal strength bonus of the Qingcheng Four Shows level, which is far several times better than that of Xu Gongmen. Tang Xueguang ambushed with a black powder weapon, and the result was bound to be more optimistic. If Sun Ce insisted on leading his army to conquer Black Rock City, Wei Dongsheng would not mind using him to test the game between the Jianghu system and the imperial court system.