Chapter 55: The Unification of Heaven and Cloud (End of this Volume)

When the army was resting, the military war department of the Tianyun Empire was very busy, and although the war was going to continue, it had now come to an end.

If meritorious service cannot be rewarded in time, it must arouse the dissatisfaction of the officers and men, thus shaking the heart of serving the country, and morale will inevitably decline.

So now that the war has come to an end, it is necessary to reward the soldiers who have fought for the empire for more than a year, and the reward of millions of troops is not a small project.

A month and a half later, the Ministry of Armed Forces finally handled the rewards for the soldiers and distributed them to the major legions as soon as possible.

In this reward, a duke, five marquises, more than twenty counts, and a varying number of viscounts and barons were born.

And this duke is the commander of the Congyun Empire, the commander of the Blue Dragon Legion, Zhou Xiaojun, although he is only a second-class duke, but after all, he has reached the duke.

Among the five marquises, there are three first-class marquis and two second-class marquis, and these three first-class marquis are Qin Qiong, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, Luo Ji, the leader of the Vermilion Bird Legion, and Zhou Yunfeng, the leader of the Fengyun Legion.

Zhou Yunlong and the others have all increased their titles by one rank, and nearly a hundred people with titles have been added to this reward in the Fengyun Legion, but most of these people's titles are barons and a small number of viscounts.

The battle warriors who assisted the Fengyun Legion in the battle returned to Tianyun City after breaking through Congyun City, and many of them also obtained knighthoods.

Fighting side by side with the Fengyun Legion for more than half a year, these students also have a lot of feelings for the Fengyun Legion, extremely admired such an army as the Fengyun Legion, and extremely convinced and admired Zhou Yunfeng, the commander of the Legion, especially after Zhou Yunfeng broke through the Martial Emperor on the battlefield, their worship of Zhou Yunfeng can almost be said to have reached the point of fanaticism.

Before leaving, more than half of these students applied to stay in the Fengyun Legion, and after screening, Zhou Yunfeng screened more than a thousand people out of it, most of whom were sixth-grade students, but now these people have returned to the academy with the five tutors.

Although the Wind and Cloud Legion selected them, they have not yet graduated, so they need to go back to the academy to apply for graduation first, and they will rush back to the Wind Cloud Army to report immediately after graduation.

And those selected fourth- and fifth-grade students, although they can't serve in the army right away, they can already be regarded as people of the Fengyun Legion after all, even if they are in the academy, they can also get the help of the Fengyun Legion, whether it is ** or other cultivation resources.

For these students, Zhou Yunfeng attaches great importance to them, although their current strength is not strong, and most of them are martial monarchs, but their potential is immeasurable.

Li Wankong didn't let Li Mu wait for a long time, and three months after the Congyun Empire was destroyed, Li Wankong left Tianyun City alone.

Ten days later, Li Wankong appeared in Izumo City, the imperial capital of the Izumo Empire, and suppressed all those who had rebelled from Tianyun Pavilion.

Although the biggest battle of the Izumo Empire has been destroyed, but in Izumo Country, there are not many people who know about the matter, even the emperor of the Izumo Empire does not know the Dao, he only later found out that the strong martial artists enshrined in the empire suddenly disappeared, and he knew that the matter of the Mido was serious.

And on the second day after Li Wankong returned to Tianyun City, Li Can issued an order to the four major legions that had been on the border of Chen Bing for three months through the Ministry of Martial Arts, ordering the soldiers of the four major legions to attack the Izumo Empire in four ways, and the four major legions were still under the unified control of Zhou Xiaojun, the commander of the Blue Dragon Legion.

At the same time that the four major armies attacked the Izumo Empire from the south of the Izumo Empire, the White Tiger Legion, which had only been on absence, for only three months from the Izumo Empire, and the 300,000 Praetorian Guards stationed there, also attacked the Izumo Empire from the east of the Izumo Empire.

For a time, more than two million soldiers and horses of the five-way army all invaded the territory of the Izumo Empire, and the Izumo Empire was in a panic because of the disappearance of Li Mu and others, and in the face of the five-way army of the Tianyun Empire, it was already powerless to deal with it.

Although there are still strong martial venerables in the Izumo Empire, these martial venerables do not belong to the Izumo Empire royal family, but the martial venerables of those families, even if they are the martial venerables in the Izumo Imperial Family, after seeing the means of the Tianyun Empire against the Congyun Empire, they are all hiding as far as they can, and they will never die for the Izumo Empire, not to mention that Li Mu and the others are nowhere to be found now, and they will not work for the Izumo Empire.

Without the support of strong strength, the resistance of the Izumo Empire is pale and weak, although the Izumo Empire still has some strong Martial Emperors, but such strength is already very difficult to pose a threat to the Tianyun Empire.

Half a year, just half a year, the Five Roads Army would be outside Izumo Castle, and three days later, Izumo Castle was destroyed, marking the demise of the Izumo Empire after the Congyun Empire.

The demise of the Congyun Empire and the Izumo Empire also marks the reunification of the Tianyun Empire, which has been separated for decades, which is undoubtedly a major event for the Tianyun Empire.

As the emperor of the Tianyun Empire, Li Can was able to unify the Tianyun Empire during his reign, which was undoubtedly a supreme cause for him, and he had completed a great cause that his father and emperor had not completed. In order to let the subjects of the world know his exploits, Li Can ordered an amnesty to the whole world on the day when the good news of the fall of the Izumo Empire reached Tianyun City, and the whole world celebrated.

Of course, Li Can, who was in a good mood, certainly would not forget the meritorious ministers who fought for him, and Li Can began to reward the meritorious ministers.

In this reward, the titles of Zhou Xiaojun and others were promoted again, Zhou Xiaojun was promoted from the previous second-class duke to the first-class duke, and Zhou Yunfeng, Luo Ji, and Qin Qiong also went further, from the first-class marquis to the second-class duke.

The Zhou family originally had Zhou Zhantian, a first-class duke, and now Zhou Xiaojun was also named a first-class duke, although Zhou Yunfeng was a little worse, but he was also a second-class duke.

This is also the first time that the Tianyun Empire has been established for hundreds of years, and there are three princes in the world, which greatly increases the status of the Zhou family in the Tianyun Empire.

In addition to the three dukes of the Zhou family, Zhou Yunlong and Zhou Yunhu are also earls, and they are also earls of jade, and the fiefs of these five people are almost the same province.

The Zhou family has four martial arts masters, and they are in control of the two major legions of Qinglong and Fengyun, and it can be said that they are the most powerful family in the Tianyun Empire except for the royal Li family, and there are more and more powerful forces in the Zhou family, but there are also many powerful forces that have begun to wary of the Zhou family, including even the royal Li family.

After the fall of the Izumo Empire, all those who were given titles returned to Tianyun City to face the saints, and Emperor Li Can personally conferred the title of nobleman.

The Five Route Army made separate arrangements, the Green Dragon Legion returned to the garrison Qinglong City, all the Praetorian Guards were all transferred back to Tianyun City, and the three major legions of Fengyun, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger rested in place.

For such an arrangement of the empire, everyone vaguely guessed that the Tianyun Empire would use troops against the three kingdoms led by the Netherworld Sect, the reason was very simple, if it were not for the Tianyun Empire wanting to use troops against the three major kingdoms, it would not let Fengyun, Vermilion Bird, and the White Tiger Legion rest in place.

If this order is only for the Fengyun Legion, then it is better to say something, because the Fengyun Legion is a newly created legion because of the great war against the Congyun Empire, and there is no station yet.

But the Vermilion Bird and the White Tiger Legion have their own station, and now that the Tianyun Empire is unified, even if they can't go back to their original station, in order to defend the Quartet, they need to return to the Tianyun Empire as the station before the separation, but they have a place to go after all.

It was precisely because of this that everyone guessed that the Tianyun Empire was going to attack the three kingdoms of Great Yan.

At the same time, the discerning people also saw some other flavors from this troop transfer, the Praetorian Guard Legion is the legion of the Imperial Capital, and it will only be mobilized when the border is in danger, and now that the Tianyun Empire has been unified, it is reasonable for the Praetorian Guard to be transferred back to Tianyun City.

But the Blue Dragon Legion is not, the Blue Dragon Legion belongs to the main battle legion of the frontier, which can also be said to be the field legion, their responsibility is not only to defend the border, but also to bear the heavy responsibility of opening up territory for the empire.

Zhou Xiaojun, as the commander of the attack on the Congyun Empire and the Izumo Empire, controlled the armies from all walks of life, which can be said to be brilliant, and the Blue Dragon Legion also played an indispensable and important role in completing the unification of the Tianyun Empire.

Attacking the three kingdoms, it stands to reason that the empire will not give up the Blue Dragon Legion, an extremely powerful legion, and it should not give up Zhou Xiaojun, but the current move to transfer troops has shown that the empire will not use the Blue Dragon Legion this time.

At the same time as the order to mobilize the armies from all walks of life, the rewards for the soldiers have been announced, and now the empire means that it does not want the Blue Dragon Legion to make meritorious contributions, and it is easy to see that the empire does not want to make meritorious contributions to Zhou Xiaojun who is in charge of the Blue Dragon Legion.

Now that Zhou Xiaojun has been knighted to a first-class duke, if he makes great contributions in attacking the three major kingdoms, then his title will probably increase to the peak of the loyal duke.

Duke Zhongyong has not appeared again for hundreds of years, except for a few who appeared when the Tianyun Empire was founded, and it is obvious that the Tianyun Empire does not want Zhou Xiaojun to become the first Duke of Zhongyong in the Tianyun Empire for hundreds of years.

Looking at the deeper level, the empire has begun to be afraid of the Zhou family, although it has not been suppressed, but it has begun to be vigilant.

It is precisely because the empire did not suppress the Zhou family that the name of the Fengyun Legion is still on the list of attacking the three kingdoms of Great Yan.

Anyway, this is a signal, a signal that the empire is beginning to alienate the Zhou family, and at the same time a signal that the Zhou family is jealous.

In fact, in terms of the strength of the Zhou family, even if the Zhou family has the two legions of Qinglong and Fengyun in their hands, it cannot make the Li family of the royal family jealous, but because of Zhou Yunfeng's relationship, these are different.

Because Zhou Yunfeng had a martial saint-level master, although they were afraid of Hong Xiao and did not dare to attack Zhou Yunfeng, but because of Hong Xiao, they began to be afraid of Zhou Yunfeng and the Zhou family.

The Zhou family has made great contributions to the empire, and the Li family is extremely fond of the Zhou family, but because of Hong Xiao, the Li family has to be afraid and wary of the Zhou family.

It can be said that the Li family now loves and hates the Zhou family!