Chapter XXIV: The Crisis of the Empire
Cheng Xiuyi eventually became the eldest princess of the empire to supervise state affairs, also known as the eldest princess of the country.
Just when Cheng Xiuyi was full of ambition and hoped to make the empire rich and strong again, the grassland tribal alliance far away from the Eagle Sorrow Pass established the grassland desert empire under the unification of Namurdo.
They also finally showed their scimitars and pointed them at the Empire, and the Grassland Desert Empire finally began to invade Xia Yuan.
However, this is already three years after Cheng Xiuyi became the eldest princess of the prison country, and in these three years, she and her father Cheng Mingci formulated various reform policies.
Just when these policies were about to take effect, and the empire was about to develop in a better and better direction, Namur Dozhen led a 1.5 million beast demon alliance army to break through the Eagle Sorrow Pass in one fell swoop.
And in less than a year, it almost reached Yuanju at the speed of an armed parade.
Yuanzhou is the second largest state of the Xia Yuan Empire, the governor of Yuanzhou, and one of the few veterans in the empire who has been on the battlefield.
So the two armies fought for three days in Yuanzhou, and attacked the capital of Yuanzhou, Qingyuan, which was also the Xijing of the Xia Yuan Empire, in Namur Dozhen.
When Namur Dozhen attacked Qingyuan Mansion, more than fifty alchemists in the city joined forces to activate more than fifty metal puppets to help in the battle.
Since there are no tall and powerful races among the Terrans, they are not like the Beast Demon Race, which has the Beamon Monster.
As soon as those Beamon Giant Demons launched their bloodline power, they could reach a height of more than a hundred meters, and their big hands stretched out like city gates.
And the elves also have the existence of war treemen, these war treemen are their predecessors are some powerful elves, these elves when they are about to die, all their cultivation into a seed of life, under the water of the fountain of life into war treemen, they continue to exist in this world in another form of life.
These War Treants can reach more than 160 meters at their shortest, they can shoot all kinds of powerful life magic, and they can also instantly unleash a kind of racial magic, which is the Treant Wood Bullet.
These wooden balls are all wooden balls with a diameter of about five meters, and these wooden balls are as hard as iron balls, which can be said to be the perfect physical means of attack.
In addition, these War Tree People are completely capable of competing with the Western Dragons and the Beamon Behemoths in terms of force capabilities.
Some of the Druids are able to transform into Beamon Giants or Western Dragons.
Although the average height of the dwarves in the snowy mountains can only reach about one and a half meters, there are some people in the dwarf clan who are blessed by the god of war, and they will become dwarf kings.
The height of these dwarf kings can also reach one hundred and sixty or seventy meters, but humans do not have such a powerful race, so human beings have researched and invented giant metal puppets according to the technology of Western goblins.
These metal golems are also capable of reaching a height of one hundred and forty or fifty meters, and can also fire various magic bullets, but they will not use this skill easily, because it will consume the magic crystal nucleus embedded in their body in a very short time.
Moreover, the production cost of these magic golems is very high, and the metals they use are all magic metals, and each gram of these magic metals requires 10,000 taels of star gold to buy.
But this is still priceless, not to mention the magic crystal nuclei embedded in them, which are even more valuable and very rare.
The main means of long-range attack of these metal magic golems is the use of stone projectiles on their backs.
This kind of attack is similar to the attack method of the Beamon Monster, and the most terrifying thing about them is to break through the opponent's military formation, imagine more than thirty magical metal golems that are one hundred and fifty or sixty meters tall and have a huge size.
With a giant hammer and tomahawk in hand, it is a terrifying sight to attack head-on with a huge stone projectile and then rush at you at eighty miles per hour.
However, these magical metal golems did not show their strength, because when they charged like an army of beasts, they were intercepted by five hundred Beamon trolls.
So these magic puppets became the spoils of war for the army of beasts after being beaten by the Beamon monsters.
The Governor of Yuanzhou and his defenders hid on the tall city wall of Qingyuan, and they were all dumbfounded, thinking that even if these more than thirty magic metal puppets could not break through the opponent's military formation, they would cause some trouble to the beast and demon alliance.
But when he saw that the strongest combat power in his hand was defeated by the opponent's three strikes and five divisions, he was defeated by the beast and demon coalition in one fell swoop.
The 100,000 army in the city was killed 30,000, 50,000 were captured, and all the rest ran out, and the beast and demon alliance entered the city.
The ordinary human people on the street were very panicked at first, knowing that in the past, it was light for beasts and demons to attack human cities to burn, kill and loot, and slaughtering cities was a common thing.
However, this time, the beast demon did not slaughter unusually, but opened a warehouse to release grain and maintain law and order in the city.
So the people slowly quieted down, the city returned to normal, and the people did not panic.
This is because this time the beast demon alliance will not enter a human city and slaughter the city once, and then steal everything and leave.
When it was decided to attack the Xia Yuan Empire, Namur Dozhen held a military meeting, at which Namur Dozhen proposed three points.
The first point is that the beast demon army is absolutely not allowed to slaughter the city, which is opposed by almost all the tribal chiefs and generals.
Because humans and beasts have a tendegrity, which stems from the hatred between races, every time the beasts attack a human city, they have to carry out a bloody slaughter.
In the same way, when humans enter the various tribes of the beast demon clan, they do the same.
But Namurdo really told his subordinates: Why did our beast demon clan attack humans many times, but in the end they all failed, that is, we didn't give humans a way to live at all, they thought that resistance is death and not resisting is death, so why don't they fight for that small chance of survival?
Think about it, do we want to be like robbers, looting and then being chased away by our masters, or do we want to be the masters of that rich country?
If the latter is the case, then resolutely abandon the bad habits of the past, because in the past we were robbers, and now we are the masters.
His words finally made these tribal chieftains and generals reluctantly accept his opinion.
The second point Namur Dozhan made was that when the army had wiped out the opposing resistance, ordinary officers and soldiers were not allowed to enter the city, except for the main generals and the designated army.
The third point is that a small number of troops will form a law enforcement team, and after entering the city, they will maintain the normal operation of the city, and resolutely do not allow the occurrence of forced sales and purchases, rape of Terran women, and looting of Terran property.
Once a few people are found to have violated the above regulations, they will be resolutely punished regardless of their status.
Namurdo's three demands cleared many obstacles for his future conquest of the northern part of the Xia Yuan Empire.
However, there are two important points, that is, the resistance of these cities is not fierce, because after two thousand years of peace, coupled with the Xia Yuan Empire's national policy of Hongwen and military suppression, many generals and soldiers are unwilling to contribute to the country.
And those hot-blooded literati went to the battlefield without hesitation, but when the blood cooled down, they found that the useless sentence of being a scholar was really very reasonable, so they retreated shamefully.
So these beast demon soldiers, without encountering fierce resistance, and under the pressure of the military law above, they barely managed to do it without committing any crimes, and there were very few humans who resisted.
Although they are not willing to be ruled by aliens, especially the aliens who were inferior to themselves in the past, except for some people who are really hot-blooded, most of the other Terran people have chosen to remain silent.
Of course, there are reasons for this, in addition to the bad habit of the beast demon clan to slaughter a city as soon as they occupy it, Namur Dozhen also abolished many taxes in the Xia Yuan Empire.
For example, poll tax, tithe, land tax, house tax, child tax, rice tax, lazy tax, and even if you want to build a toilet in the village, you need to collect taxes.
These various taxes made the ordinary people miserable, and when the beast demon clan captured these cities, except for a little resistance from the local officials, the ordinary people did not join in protecting the cities.
However, the reason why Namurdo really didn't let the soldiers rob the ordinary people, but he showed no mercy to those nobles and wealthy merchants, was that he really didn't negotiate with you.
Moreover, it was an organized and planned plunder, and all the looted goods were given to the local people except for food and iron tools.
After these people get the benefits, they will not fight against the Beast Demon Alliance, on the contrary, there are some people who take the initiative to serve as the guides of the Beast Demon Alliance.
The reason why Namur Dozhen did this was because he knew that the ordinary people of the Xia Yuan Empire were not rich, and what could be obtained by robbing them, the only little ration they had was not enough for an ordinary beast demon soldier to eat a meal.
You must know that these beast demon soldiers are all big-bellied men, and their food is very large, especially those powerful races, and a Beamon beast demon will eat a lot of meat and grain, as well as milk and eggs.
You didn't get much benefit, you ruined your reputation, and those ordinary human people still tried to attack you in every possible way, and the many failures in the past taught Namurdo a real lesson.
That is, don't underestimate the power of ordinary human people, as long as there is a little way to live, they are as docile as sheep, but once they are cornered, then they will tear you apart like wild beasts.
In that case, why provoke them? And those nobles and wealthy merchants, most of whom have some connections in Shangjing, have no benefit in their existence.
On the contrary, for their own interests, they may even steer the tide of the war against the Xia Yuan Empire, so Namurdo really only robbed them of their belongings without harming their lives.
Although many of Namurdo's orders were not accepted and understood by ordinary soldiers, most of them still firmly carried out the orders of the Great Khan.
Because they knew that the Great Khan would be able to lead them to victory.
So the beast demon alliance finally attacked outside the capital without encountering any resistance.