Chapter 351: The Big Picture Has Been Decided
As an empire that has lasted for two thousand years, the last resistance of the Song Emperor seems lackluster. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Despite the loss of the outer city, in everyone's imagination, the inner imperial city should still be heavily guarded and impeccablely defended.
However, the result of the defense of the imperial city was unexpected, and in less than two days, the imperial city of the Song State was broken by the Chu State Expeditionary Army, and the soldiers pointed directly at the gate of the Lama Palace.
The long-term comfort caused the various defenses of the Song Imperial City to be demolished because they were not luxurious enough. Even the key hubs were replaced with a decorative openwork gold beam because the original girder was too ugly.
When the defensive array was activated, this golden beam of absolute artistic value was quickly broken into three pieces.
In the same way, the long-term extravagance has turned the Royal Guards into an ornament. The glamorous, mighty and handsome Royal Forest Legion, once faced with a truly brutal war, immediately exposed the essence of the straw bale.
According to the survey at the time, in the short battle, because the proportion of the Royal Guards due to blood sickness rather than combat attrition reached a staggering 20%.
The rest of the field corps with combat effectiveness have been completely disrupted because of the melee that lasted for more than a month. At the beginning of the Battle of the Imperial City, there were less than a million people guarding the Imperial City.
These remnants are the real core force in the defensive battle, but unfortunately their number is too small, and in front of hundreds of millions of opponents, they are like a small splash on the reef, which dissipates into foam in an instant.
During the whole battle, the only small bright spot was that Shi Zunren, the patriarch of the Jinshi clan who lived in seclusion in the Imperial Garden, suddenly announced his defection from the clan, and as a price for breaking away from the clan, Shi Zunren handed over his soul core, and Xiu Wei fell directly from the extreme real person to the peak of Haojie.
Even so, Shi Zunren's golden stone body, which was comparable to a mountain and extremely hard, became the strongest line of defense of the Song army. Countless elites of the Chu army retreated under the violent attack of the Shi Zun people.
Relying on the explosive seeds of the Shizun people, the defense of the imperial city was forcibly delayed for twice the time.
But no matter how strong Shi Zun is, he is only one person.
After a failed third attack, Bai Luo gave up his attempt to kill Shi Zunren with his troops, and he discharged 3,000 Katyusha rocket launchers, as well as 200 zeppelins. All shells were replaced with incendiary shells.
Each incendiary bomb can dissolve approximately a fist-sized nugget of gold. But after hundreds of waves of concentrated fire attacks, Shi Zun's soul was scattered, completely dissolved, and turned into a golden lake.
In later generations, it became a special attraction and was called the "Golden Pond".
As a banner of resistance, as soon as Shi Zunren died, the Song army's will to resist collapsed. A large number of Imperial Guards surrendered.
And the smart people among them began to actively "make meritorious service and atone for their sins", pointed out the weak links in the defense of the imperial city, led the Chu army to bypass all the traps, and soon killed the imperial palace.
Zhao Hao, the forty-third emperor of the Song State, announced his surrender, and the Song State perished.
The mortal wars of the Qingyun Plane rarely happen to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, especially if there are families with a large number of real people.
The Zhao family, the royal family of the Song family, has experienced thousands of years, and there are at least two hundred real people in the secret land of the clan. Such strength, if you don't consider the existence of the Heavenly Tribulation, is enough to wipe out the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chu State.
In fact, in the final stage of the war, some of the ancestors of the Zhao family also proposed to intervene in the mortal war. Their reasons are:
"Since the invasion of the Three Kingdoms by the corpse demon real people, it seems that the Heavenly Tribulation has failed. In other words, the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of many real people may no longer exist. ”
"As soon as a real person intervenes in a mortal war without causing a backlash, the situation of the whole war will change significantly. The war will escalate across the board, becoming more complex and volatile. ”
"The existence of the three sects, the royal family, the major families, and the scattered cultivators will change the basic model of the Three Kingdoms, and it will become a melee between the powers. ”
"The ancestor of the Zhao family, together with the vested interests among the real people of the Song Kingdom, and the three pro-Song factions that the Zhao family spent a huge amount of money to buy, will form a powerful alliance and have a great chance of maintaining the continued existence of the Song Kingdom. ”
But since Meng Yuanshan's successful ascension, this idea was quickly suppressed. The path of the immortals is still unblocked, which shows that the constraints of the immortal world on the human world still exist.
No matter how bold the Zhao family is, they don't dare to say goodbye to the immortal world.
After Zhao Song surrendered, according to the usual practice, he did not suffer the fate of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.
At the mundane level, Emperor Zhao Hao of the Song Dynasty was named the "King of Guiyi", and his fief was located in Changsha City in the south of the Chu State. Zhao Hao's seven sons, all of whom were named marquises, went to study at the Royal Academy of Chu State.
The other main clansmen of the Zhao family also received various titles and were divided into various parts of the Chu State.
The ancestors of the Zhao family moved out of the royal secret realm located in the imperial city according to the agreement, and were scattered and placed in the three second-class secret realms.
Most of the clans of the Song State obtained the title of Chu State.
Before going to the fiefdom, Zhao Hao also needed to take his family and important ministers to the capital of Chu to express his submission to Xiang Yan, the emperor of Chu.
In the history books, the Song Kingdom officially declared its demise at this moment.
Of course, the resistance of the Song people did not end so quickly. When the country is in danger, there are naturally traitors, traitors, cowards, deserters, demons, and loyal generals.
In the areas that the Northern Expeditionary Army of Chu did not take into account, the forces of various places were divided and strong and strong.
Some of these rebel groups are as small as a village or a town, while others are as large as several cities and states, and they are almost independent kingdoms. They fought against the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chu State, and against the main army of the former Song State, which was incorporated into the security forces after surrender. The land of the north is full of smoke.
The most famous rebel group is the army of Shan Pengju, a native of Yongzhou. Shan Pengju was born in poverty, and before the fall of the Song Kingdom, he was only a small commander.
However, Shan Peng was a genius, relying on his 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers, constantly attacking and harassing small units of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the security army, while constantly absorbing and annexing other forces, and giving full play to the art of war.
In just half a year, Shan Pengju's army expanded to 200 million people, occupying the northern plain of the Huanglong River centered on Yongzhou, and repeatedly defeated the Chu army and the security army that came to levy it.
Shan Pengju also found a Zhao family's side disciple Zhao Gou, respected him as the new emperor, and re-established the Song Kingdom, known as the "Yongsong Dynasty" in history.
In the second year of the Yongsong Dynasty, Shan Pengju led 500 million "retro army" to fight in the monk Yuan, and defeated the 2 billion joint conscription army composed of the northern army group of Chu and the main army of the original Song State. The soldiers once approached the imperial city of the former Song Kingdom.
The world was shocked.
Shuai Bailuo, the president of the Chu State Expeditionary Northern Army, was even removed from his post for investigation.
Of course, there are also legends that Bai Luo supports the bandits and has a heart of disobedience, so he was taken by Chu Emperor Xiang Yan to take the opportunity. Next, the commander of the Northern Army Corps, Liu Yuanqing, took over the post of commander-in-chief.
In the three years after the fall of the Song State, the Chu State vigorously promoted the concept of Qingyun people in the territory of the former Song State, treating the Song people equally, lightly repaying the meager endowment, recuperating and recuperating, and the people's hearts were submissive, and the soil for resistance was gradually eroded.
The rebels have surrendered or been exterminated. Yongsong's ever-expanding pace was also forced to stop, barely maintaining the balance of power in the confrontation.
At the suggestion of Shi Wu, then deputy marshal of the Fuzhou Army, Liu Yuanqing used a counter-strategy to get Zhao Gou to get rid of the commander Shan Pengju, who "intended to support the army and stand on his own", so the soldiers were centrifuged and the military prestige did not exist. In the second year, the city of Yongzhou was broken, Zhao Gou died in battle, and Yongsong perished.
This was also the last large-scale resistance force in the territory of the former Song Kingdom.
At this point, the Song State was finally completely annexed by the Chu State.
The focus of the war to unify the continent shifted to the Yue Kingdom from the second year after the Song Dynasty was destroyed.
In one year, the southern expeditionary army of Chu State was integrated into a large number of powerful northern legions that triumphed from the battlefield of Song State, plus the elite troops mobilized from Chu State, and the strength of the army skyrocketed tenfold from the original 700 million.
At the same time, the dying and struggling Yue Guo launched a national conscription order, recruiting all Vietnamese men from the age of 14 to 75, and even nearly a quarter of the women were mobilized to join the army.
All of a sudden, the number of troops in the Yue Plain swelled to a staggering 40 billion.
Emperor Chen Haisheng knew very well that although the number of Vietnamese troops was amazing, in fact, it was a group of scumbags who were indiscriminately filling the numbers. If we really fight, the Yue country will definitely be defeated.
Therefore, he chose to open the treasury and hook up with the hundred witches of the 100,000 mountains, and at the same time promised to "return" the entire southern part of the 100,000 mountains occupied by the Yue country, as well as the Nanban Plain, to the Wu tribe.
It is equivalent to returning all the territories of the Wu clan that have been fought hard by successive emperors for 1,600 years.
Under such favorable conditions, the Wu clan finally temporarily fought with the Yue Kingdom and sent 500 million super powerful witches.
These witches are all from the depths of the 100,000 mountains, and since they were born, they have fought with all kinds of poisonous snakes, beasts, monsters, and evil things, and all of them have the combat power to be ten.
After arranging all this, Chen Haisheng relaxed a little and waited for Chu Guo to make a move.
Chu Guo made a move, and a move was a shock. The three-dimensional attack network composed of millions of Katyusha rocket launchers and more than 300,000 zeppelins is almost human-blocking and killing.
The 40 billion "powerful" Yue army and the 500 million "super fierce" witches were like papier-mâché lanterns at the first moment of engagement, which were gently punctured and defeated.
When the 7 billion army easily broke through the defense line arranged by the Yue State in the south of Nanxiu with a thunderous momentum, and penetrated deep into the Minyue Plain. Everyone knows that the demise of the Yue Kingdom has become irreversible.