Chapter 20: The Fall of the North
The remnants of the Righteous Front Army had returned from the desert to the hard hills where they had been stationed, with a state of unsettled emotion, and what had just happened would have been the nightmare of most of their lives. After a long journey of most of the day, the soldiers who survived were tired and listless, but their hearts were very excited. To be fortunate enough to see the power beyond this world in your lifetime is also a blessing to fight for many years in this life. Ever since they had experienced the power of the legendary Vision in the castle prison, everyone felt that since the Great General had such power, all the wars should be over soon.
When they arrived at the place where they had originally set up camp, it was already evening, and Tang An ordered everyone to set up tents in place and prepare for the night in order to let everyone rest well so that they could quickly return to Xie Ning Kingdom. It was dark that night, and from time to time there were a few crows and cuckoo-like cries. The brave warriors of the marching army lit a bonfire in the camp, and everyone gathered around the bonfire to eat the only remaining barbecue meat and sweet potatoes, and two large wooden cans containing spirits were slowly carried out by two stout men.
"Come, General, I will toast you for your bravery. Tang An's vanguard raised his glass to toast. Tang An hurriedly raised his wine glass and drank it freely, although he shouldn't be so happy that a large number of soldiers died as a general, but he really couldn't suppress the carnival in his heart. Seeing this, the other soldiers also raised their glasses and scrambled to toast, Tang An showed a serious and sad expression and said to everyone: "This glass of wine, I will first give it to those brothers buried in the desert." When the war subsides, they will be the greatest contributors. After saying this, he drank it all again, and the others hurriedly drank it heartily.
Si Rui smiled and walked over from a distance and leaned next to Tang An, the soldiers picked up a glass of wine and handed it to him, Si Rui took the wine glass and said tentatively to Tang An: "The general, with the Eye of the Blue Devil, you can rule the world." ”
Tang An hurriedly laughed, "Brother, I also rule the world for Your Majesty, but I really haven't thought about it." Hey, now that the world is living in dire straits, I can rely on this divine power to save everyone, even if I end up blind. ”
Sirui was touched by Tang An's heart for the world, and even more admired for his ability not to be bewitched by such a powerful force, he nodded and raised his glass to receive a glass of wine, "Come and do one for the general's heart to save the world." Tang An also filled up the wine, "Do it again for the brothers who died in the desert." The soldiers shouted in unison: "Dry!"
The weary generals drank in the darkness for more than three hours, and there was not a drop left of the two large jars of spirits, and as it was close to midnight, the snoring of soldiers rang out all around, and they had only ended the seemingly celebratory feast. Tang An, who was tempted by the eyes of God, was drunk in the end, and he actually lost his usual awe-inspiring and decent general appearance and fell asleep by the campfire. Si Rui was also dizzy from drinking, and after he arranged for someone to carry Tang An into the camp tent in a daze, he limped back to rest. None of them noticed that there was a pair of eyes staring at them in the darkness not far away.
At midnight, the wind blew outside, and the yellow sand mixed with the wind seemed to blow from the heart of the desert, and the howling wind passed through the gaps in the woods and rocks, as if singing a hymn to this group of mortal soldiers, but the poignant sound was more like an elegy.
Gradually, the wind stopped, the birdsong stopped, the air flowed gently, and everything was quiet. The scattered fires were still slowly tumbling, and they were all extinguished after a while. Suddenly, a black shadow came out of the darkness, and the black shadow walked quickly towards Tang An's camp, and the tired guards in front of the camp shook their eyes and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "It's General Mo, it's so late..."
Ink Di gasped and trembled a little, he gently opened the curtain with his left hand and placed the dagger on his back with his right hand. In the tent, Tang An was lying on the wooden bed on all sides, with a smell of wine in his mouth and a viscous liquid, and a large piece of vomit on the ground was clearly visible. Mo Di smiled contemptuously and sat next to Tang An, quietly looking at the drunkard, and the hands that had just shaken no longer trembled.
"Big brother, how can this world be saved now, everyone wants to dominate, why do you have to save a group of arrogant people? Serve you and my majesty? Is he worthy?" Tang An was so drunk that he couldn't hear a sound at all, and Mo Di then said to himself: "Besides, big brother, with the way you are now, you can still save the world? Even you can't protect yourself, I think... I don't think I'll lend me those eyes of yours and let me save the world for you. What do you think... If you don't speak or respond, brother, I'll take it as if you agreed!" Mo Di said with a greedy and shameless face, and his right hand slowly raised from behind him.
A dagger shining with silver light was plunged into Tang An's heart, and a generation of generals died in their drunken dreams. The ink flute immediately plunged a dagger into one of his eyes, and the Eye of the Blue Devil sensed that the host was dead, so it instantly merged and emitted a blue light in the two eyes, and an amber crystal-wrapped Eye of the Blue Devil floated up from Tang An's face. Mo Di trembled his lips and quickly held the Eye of the Green Devil in his hand and let out a heinous laugh, "Baby, leave this waste and follow me to rule the world!" After speaking, he put the Eye of the Blue Devil in front of his eyes, and the Eye of the Blue Devil felt the new host and melted into it at once.
When the soldiers who patrolled in shifts at night returned from the edge of the desert, they saw that the guards in front of Tang An's tent were dead on the ground, so they hurriedly shouted to the other soldiers, and everyone gathered in groups with long knives and nervous expressions. They separated and surrounded the tent, and then slowly and lightly approached the tent and lifted it together. It was hard for everyone to believe this fact when they saw the scene in front of them, Tang An's chest was still bleeding, one eye was hollowed out, and the huge eye socket was still bloody, and a shiny dagger was placed on the side of the corpse, and the ink flute next to the dagger was shaking his head and enjoying the power beyond ordinary people. The soldiers gritted their teeth and scolded angrily: "Mo Di, you bastard, you are so cruel to General Tang, we want to kill you to avenge General Tang." After saying that, the group stabbed at Modi with long knives, but as soon as they took a step, their bodies floated as if they were unconscious, and Modi raised his head with disdain to look at this group of innocent people whose life and death were uncertain.
The noisy and shouting woke up many people one after another, and everyone rubbed their sleepy eyes and walked out of the camp one after another, and saw Modi's eyes glowing blue, and a group of people floating in the air, so they all guessed a rough idea. Mo Di took Tang An's long knife and slowly moved towards the crowd surrounded by a group of people, at this time, the pupils of his eyes were bloodshot with cyan, and the few people floating in the air spun around a few times, and then were thrown heavily from the air into the distance and fell to the ground. Sirui had also woken up at this time, and everyone looked at Mo Di viciously with hatred and fear.
"Why, why did you do this?" asked Siri gritting her teeth, clutching a long silver blade.
"Why? You say why, it's God's eye, who doesn't want it. Let this drunk use it to save the world? Wouldn't it be better to give it to me and let me rule the world with this Divine Eye than to let this useless man waste it?"
"Rule the world, okay, I'll let you rule the world. After Sirui finished speaking softly, he raised the long blade at a very fast speed and threw it heavily, the long blade flashed like a flash of light in the dark night, and the long blade with incredible lightning speed suddenly stopped when it reached the front of the ink flute. "Sirui, I'll give you a chance, if you surrender to me, I won't kill you. "Dream your dreams!" Si Rui picked up the long knife on the side and struck at the ink flute, and after taking two steps, Si Rui's whole person involuntarily floated to the sky.
"Listen to me, if you are willing to fight the world with me, lay down your arms and obey me, and if you are willing to die, I can also fulfill you immediately. Mo Di coldly threatened. Soldiers, you look at me, I see you don't know what to do, a few soldiers who were extremely angry picked up their weapons and rushed over again, regardless of life or death, and then they immediately floated, and several long knives on the ground automatically rose and pierced them in the air.
After seeing this scene, a large number of soldiers who had just escaped death had no choice but to helplessly put down their weapons and die in vain by hitting stones with eggs. Some of them looked at Mo Di with hopeless eyes, and some looked at Mo Di with a little anger, but they all avoided Mo Di's gaze. Modi looked up to the sky and laughed, and the terrifying laughter frightened away the birds in the grove not far away.
"Well, your glory and wealth will be indispensable in the future. With that, he walked over to Shri.
"What about you. "Phew!" said Shri spat at him, eager to eat the ink flute. Mo Di wiped his face lightly and said lightly: "Thinking about the old love, I won't kill you, don't say that I am impersonal." Someone came to tie him up and prepare to escort him back to Xie Ning Kingdom, I want you to see with your own eyes how the waste on the high Xuanwu Hall gave me the throne respectfully. Ink Di was not feeling pity at this time, he had just escaped from death row in the desert and thought of a more cruel way to deal with it than to let people die. The other soldiers had no choice but to reluctantly obey the order and tie up Sirui.
It was a very long night, and dawn came nearly two hours later than usual. No one could have predicted how long the misfortune would last and what it would turn out to be, and all they could do was pray that they would survive as they did in a desert death row.
A month later, Mo Di led the remaining remnants of the Righteous Advance Army over the mountains and returned to the city of Suye. This day is close to early summer, the turbid blue sky is clear, Xuanwu 16 Ye Lu and the minister of civil and military affairs received the news of the triumph of the army early, they stood in front of the city gate and prepared to ceremoniously welcome these soldiers who worked for the country. Ye Lu saw that Mo Di was leading the team, and Tang An and Si Rui were not around, so he immediately felt like sobbing, and his first reaction was that the two generals had died in Yayue City. Ye Lu didn't think much about it, what he wanted to do now was to go down immediately and invite the rest of his warriors in, and then treat everyone well. But before he could move, the soldiers around him whispered.
An Yang said to himself very suspiciously: "Why are they all so depressed, shouldn't they, isn't it good news?"
Ye Lu on the side pretended to be clever and explained: "They must be tired from many days of traveling, or mourning for General Tang's death." Don't worry too much, uncle, come down with me to meet them, today is a day of joy. After finishing speaking, he excitedly led people towards the city gate, and Anyang didn't say much so he had to follow along. After the gate of Su Ye City was opened, Ye Lu led the hundred officials to greet the warriors who he thought were returning triumphantly. Mo Di shook his body and rode forward very disrespectfully, Ye Lu drove to Mo Di, and then dismounted first and took the initiative to ask: "General Mo, are the two generals General Tang An and General Si Rui..." Mo Di immediately showed a strange smile, he lowered his head and said to Ye Lu without getting off the horse: "Your Majesty, General Tang unfortunately died in battle. But General Sirui is still there, someone is here to bring him up. A few men escorted the bound Shri up. Ye Lu opened his mouth and looked at them in confusion with the officials behind him, and the tense atmosphere began to steam like the water on the stove.
Si Rui was tied up and thrown in front of Mo Di's horse, and the weak Ye Lu still looked up and asked, "General Mo, what does this mean and why is it right?" he was just halfway through speaking, Si Rui suddenly raised his scarred head and shouted: "Your Majesty, run, Mo Di has already defected after killing General Tang." Ye Lu was so frightened that she took a few steps back, and the guards behind her immediately pulled out their knives, and the soldiers behind Mo Di also pulled out their knives.
Suddenly, Ye Lu's body flew straight in front of Mo Di's eyes, Mo Di stared at the blue eyes and laughed at Ye Lu and said, "What qualifications do you have to be the emperor, give me this throne, and let me guard the world for you." Ye Lu was immediately frightened, and his face was so pale that he couldn't speak. Ye Lu's escort soldiers stepped forward with knives to rescue them, and the completely mutinous marching soldiers also took a step forward with knives, and many escort cavalry came out one after another in Su Ye City when they saw that the situation was wrong. The two sides fought fiercely regardless of Ye Lu's life and death, and some of the people in the front army who surrendered on the surface but were actually righteous also stood up to fight against Mo Di together.
After the two sides started fighting, Mo Di glanced at Ye Lu and then threw the child, who was not yet an adult, aside. Mo Di then jumped off the horse and hugged Si Rui, who was tied to the ground, he leaned into Si Rui's ear, pinched his neck, and whispered, "Brother, see how I made these foolish puppets surrender to me. With that, he threw Sirui away, turned his back to the sky and opened his arms, his eyes flowing with blue energy. In an instant, all the people who opposed him, including Ye Lu, who was already paralyzed on the ground, were suspended, and the weapons in their hands were suspended even higher.
These angry soldiers who were floating in mid-air looked at Mo Di's chilling blue devil eyes, and they all immediately understood why Mo Di was so rampant. An Yang, the old loyal minister in the rear, kept scolding Mo Di in the air, and as soon as Mo Di raised his head, ten steel knives fell at the same time and pierced An Yang's stomach together.
The arrogant Modi shouted loudly, "I don't think I need to explain too much, and those who know each other will quickly surrender to me." You should all understand the truth that those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me perish, this country and the world will be owned by the strong sooner or later, and I am the strong. After finishing speaking, Mo Di laughed wildly, even if Xie Ning Guo poured out the strength of the whole country, there was no way to compete with the power of the Divine Eye, they could only obediently bow to the new monarch Mo Di.
Seven days later, Modi imprisoned all the generals of the Leaf Room and the unyielding warriors, and the only way he thought of punishing them was to send them to the underground castle prison deep in the desert, where they would suffer as if they were dead spirits. Mo Di sent a large number of slaves to the desert to build fortifications, and half a year later, several large barracks were erected next to the underground castle prison, which could withstand the wind and sand, in addition to being garrisoned by soldiers guarding prisoners, one of the functions was to temporarily deter the Yayue people, and not fighting with the Yayue people in a short period of time would help Modi to enter the northern interior to realize his ambitions.
In the late spring and early summer of the 125th year of the World War, the first power in the north, which had existed for thousands of years, collapsed from the inside. However, this is only a small beginning of the disaster in the north, and the ink flute, which has the power of divine vision, will never be reluctant to be in this corner of Suye City, and the flames of war will soon stretch to the north and south at an astonishing speed.
Half a year later, Mo Di officially announced the breaking of the friendly alliance with all the northern countries on behalf of Xie Ning as the king of a country. In the spring of the 126th year of the World War, the 120,000 troops in Suye City were led by Mo Di himself to the east to the coastal kingdoms of Ilyas and Pingning. Two years later, the two major coastal powers finally could not resist the evil offensive with the help of God's Eye and chose to surrender one after another. During this period, the army sent by Mo Di to conquer the steppe people on the Great Northern Border also returned victorious, and Mo Di took advantage of the victory to pull the line of battle to the vicinity of the Chaos Valley before stopping. This kind of slaughter of Modi has corrupted the hearts of many people who originally hated war, and more and more people have begun to be enthusiastic about the beauty of blood and death in the carnival of slaughter day and night. Three years later, the people of Yayue knew that there was no longer the slightest possibility of winning the country of Xie Ning, they knew that there was a god eye of creation in the country of Xie Ning, and the barrier of the desert was no longer so safe, and the people of Su Ye City had already entered the desert building fortifications, and those desert devils may have been fake all along, so with all kinds of worries, the leader of the moon came to pay tribute to Mo Di through the secret passage. Expecting that Modi would not be able to contain those who surrendered so easily, the leader of Yayue brought an extremely terrifying gift to Modi in the autumn of the 128th year of the World War.
By the time the Yayue people came to surrender, Modi's war in the north had basically ended. One late autumn evening, the three thousand Yayue people escorted ten large carriages across the desert to Xie Ning to claim the vassals, each carriage had a large iron cage covered with a large black cloth, and the iron cage made a "sizzling" sound from time to time. Yayue people are wearing black clothes that half cover their faces, and they look very mysterious with a half-moon scimitar around their waists. The border guards of Xie Ning Kingdom brought them to Su Ye City, and when Mo Di met them, as expected, the first thing he said to the leader of Yayue was: "We Xie Ning Kingdom and you are feuding, don't think that surrendering these feuds can be easily written off." ”
The leader of Yayue gently opened the black curtain in front of the Xuanwu Hall in Su Ye City, revealing the whole picture, his charred face and said to Mo Di with a hideous face: "I, Yayue, do have a deep hatred with you Xie Ningguo, but it is more of a misunderstanding than hatred. General Mo, your ambition should not stop there, the Western Shengya Country, the southern world and the largest island in the ocean will be your powerful opponents in the future, you and I both know that you are not the only one with the Divine Eye, and if you want to fight against other Divine Eyes, I think you still need some strong troops. Today I brought you some unique gifts from Yayue, and as a substitute for my Yayue to atone for your sins in the Ningguo for such a long time, the misunderstanding between us will be resolved by accepting these gifts. With that, he turned around and waved his hand. The Yayue people standing next to the carriage pulled down the black cloth one after another, and the terrifying side was immediately presented in front of the civil and military officials of Su Ye City. Dozens of giant pythons nearly seven meters long with black and brown bodies were wrapped around large iron cages, sticking out their tongues and glaring at everyone viciously, and the cages were scattered with some human legs and human bellies that had not yet had time to eat. The frenzied Mo Di happily leaned forward to take a closer look at these big snakes that could swallow a person in one bite, and the leader of Yayue explained: "General Mo, this is our Yayue's unique Yayue python. They are fed with human flesh and human blood deep in the mountains, and a giant python can rival a three-headed tiger, and can also eat a hundred poisons, and most importantly, they are easy to domesticate. In the future, if you march into the south, you can let this giant python give you a vanguard in the Chaos Valley, I don't know if you like this gift?" Mo Di grinned happily, he glanced at the leader of Yayue and said, "Yes, yes, how many of these big snakes do you have?" The leader of Yayue responded: "There are nearly a hundred of them fed in the deep mountains next to Yayue City. After a moment's thought, Modi said, "Okay." Take me to the secret passages of your desert, and I'm going to see these great monsters with my own eyes. The grievances between you and me will be written off, and your benefits will be indispensable in the future. The leader of Yayue nodded greedily, he thought that this great gift could strengthen the relationship with the ink flute, but the truth was very sad.
By the end of the autumn of World War 129, the entire northern world, including the former site of Xialing and Tianmang Mountain in the west, the west coastline of the world ocean in the east, the Beining Haizi Sea in the north, and the Chaos Valley in the south, had been controlled by Modi. Years of war have also caused Xie Ning's army to suffer a great loss, and Mo Di must first expand his forces if he wants to continue to expand his sphere of influence. In the winter of that year, several large ships of the Xie Ning Kingdom carrying war slaves and women sailed east from the port of Ilyas, and their destination was Tanglin Island, the world's largest island on the other side of the ocean.
All the people living on Tanglin Island are prehistoric humans, and those strong savages have also come into contact with the outside world but have always lived a primitive life. Modi wanted to fill the void in his army by exchanging slaves and women for the wildlings on Tanglin Island, and the wildling chieftains there welcomed the slave trade. Tanglin Island has the world's most primitive witch magic dark spells, the birthplace of all black magic is those towering dark forests and mountains, Tanglin Island has not changed its original state for a long time, this witch magic power is still as easy to control as the first birth, but no one on Tanglin Island can control the secrets hidden in this deep mountain forest. The evil deal with Ink Di, which the Savage Chief was keen on, eventually ruined his position as the Great Chieftain, as a ship from the Kingdom of Xie Ning to Tanglin Island was soon followed by a slave who was not only human but also had the same sorcerer blood as his father.
In just a few years from 125 to 129 years of the World War, almost the entire north was annihilated by the flames of war, and the people were miserable and had no hope of life. Many fled to the west of the Shengya River overnight, but only a few escaped the blockade along the road to reach the western border, and many more died on the road of no return. While the North is on fire, a large part of the Southern World is being turned into a living hell by another demon.