Chapter 609: Movements of the Imperial Court
Dawu country, Qingzhou, Lianyun Bay.
The sea breeze is howling, and the waves are crashing on the shore.
This is the last stronghold in the east of Qingzhou, Zheng Wenqi and Chongkai's Zuo Longwu Legion forced the only remaining 100,000 Buddhist monks in Jiangnan Buddhism from Qiupu to this corner, in this process, even if the fire monkey and Xiao Fudie joined forces to defend desperately, tried their best, unscrupulous means, it was difficult to stop Zheng Wenqi's overwhelming offensive, there were only more than 40,000 Buddhist monks left in Jiangnan Buddhism, and nearly 60,000 Buddhist monks died tragically on the battlefield.
At that time, behind them was the boundless East China Sea, and no one had ever explored where this sea leads, where it goes, and where the edge is, even if it is a mortal cultivator, there is no such huge mana to fly so far against the consumption of flying away.
It is said that there were cultivators who wanted to find out, but as soon as they flew out of the sea, they lost their way, and then continued to fly forward, flying thousands of miles away, but in the end, the wear and tear of the body caused by flying away was too serious, even if there were exercises that constantly absorbed the aura of heaven and earth, but the operation of the exercises was also depleting the body, and not everyone could absorb a huge amount of aura of heaven and earth in a moment like a wind.
Absorbing the aura of heaven and earth is like a dragon entering the sea for Yifeng, and for the vast majority of other cultivators, it is like a gossamer, and after a big battle, it takes a long time to recuperate before recovering mana and body wear.
And according to the cultivator of the open sea hunting came back, the more he flew to the open sea, the thinner the aura of heaven and earth became, which increased the load consumption of flying away, at that time he flew thousands of miles, there was nowhere to rest for a few days and nights, and the direction was not clear, it was becoming more and more difficult to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and the speed of the exercise to consume the body increased sharply, and his heart was already panicked, just when he thought that he was going to die in this inexplicable place in the deep sea, a violent wind suddenly rolled up on the sea, thunder and lightning rolled, rolling up him who was overwhelmed and extremely tired, and rolled in some direction.
He passed out in the midst of the thunder and the storm, and when he woke up again, he happened to land beside several fishing boats and was rescued by the fishermen.
They were amazed at the courage and ability of this cultivator, they never went more than a hundred miles to the sea, and placed eye-catching buoys in those places, and turned back when they saw them from afar, which was a dangerous boundary that fishermen had explored for generations.
It is also because of the fishermen's rescue of him this time that there are later stories and legends.
In any case, these things all show a problem, this is the last stronghold of the fire monkey and Jiangnan Buddhism, and they have no way to retreat.
But fortunately, just when they were desperate in the face of the endless East China Sea, they waited for the first good news of Jiangnan Buddhism in this war: the Zuo Longwu Legion led by Zheng Wenqi and Chongkai retreated!
Soon, they learned that it was because of the disadvantage of Tao Zhuo's Right Shence Legion on the battlefield in the northern Gunzhou, which made Emperor Wu and Cui Ming finally start to panic, and at least they needed to re-examine the battlefield situation and take action.
This is in addition to Chongkai's Zuo Longwu Legion, the last remaining Dawu Legion to go out, if the previous battlefield situation of the Wind Roar Army Legion in Yunzhou and the southwest and northwest states was not enough to attract the attention of Wei Yu and Cui Ming, then since the Gunzhou battlefield in the north was also defeated by the Wind Roar Army, spread out the territory of the Great Wu Kingdom, you will find that the Wind Roar Army has united the Buddhist and Taoist forces in the eight states to form a three-sided encirclement of Junzhou, and the danger is everywhere.
The northwest border, the northern ice field border and the southern border of Wanzhou do still have many troops of the Dawu Kingdom, and they are all extremely strong soldiers and horses, but they are all immobile, the border forces are more and more frequent invasions and more and more powerful offensives, and the military reports of the dangerous situation have been piled up on Wei Yu's desk, if they are mobilized, the Dawu Kingdom will be destroyed!
Although there are still a million soldiers in Junzhou, in Wei Yu's view, he has fallen into the upper hand in this battle of Buddhism and Taoism to destroy the law, which is an unprecedented threat in the history of the Great Wu Kingdom for thousands of years, and all forces must be mobilized to defend Junzhou.
The retreat of the Zuo Longwu Legion made the fire monkey and the monks of Jiangnan Buddhism and Taoism desperate and relieved, and the fire monkey also quickly learned that Yifeng and Shuli were leading the 60,000 Fengyao soldiers and horses to rush to him, and let them wait in Lianyunwan, waiting for them to converge with the more than 40,000 Buddha monks left in Jiangnan Buddhism and Dao, and complete the real encirclement of Junzhou from the east of Junzhou, and the encirclement in the airtight sense.
Regardless of whether the millions of male soldiers in Junzhou are sharpening their knives and eyeing each other at this moment, it cannot change the fact that the Dawu Legion has been defeated, and the next big battle will be the end of this vigorous Dawu Buddhism and Dao Annihilation War.
However, Yi Xiao and Tao Zhuo were killed, Yang Jiong rushed to the northwest border to garrison the border, Dong Han and Tie Ning were imprisoned because of the unfavorable battle, Tao Zhuo escaped because of Cui Ming's strength, his official position was dismissed, and half of the main generals of the ten major legions withered!
The people of the entire Junzhou are panicked, although the Wind Roar Army, and the Buddhist and Taoist forces that border with Junzhou in various states have released their words, this battle has nothing to do with all the people of the Dawu Kingdom, and they will not harm any of the people of the Dawu Kingdom, but the rumors of the Wind Roar Army killing the tribal people in the northern Gunzhou still spread like the wind, and the tens of millions of people in Junzhou are already panicked.
Among them, the most panicked are the more than 4 million ordinary people in Junzhou City, because it is full of a large number of family members and families of dignitaries, as well as countless wives, sons and daughters of wealthy businessmen, who usually enjoy more power and wealth than ordinary people, but they are also the most afraid of losing at the moment.
War is an abyss that can cost everyone everything, not only power and wealth, but also personality and dignity, and it is the greatest evil beast in the world, devouring everything that everyone has.
Their emotions also affect the direction of the imperial court, the imperial court is now mired in endless arguments and noise, every time the court is a unique war, constantly creating the historical events of the court deliberations of the Dawu Kingdom, so that the historians of the court have increased from two to fourteen people, the ministers and officials are spitting and flying, they are flying like a pen, vertical and horizontal, and witnessing the history of the Dawu Kingdom with pen and ink.
The direction of the debate is nothing more than two, the first is the main battle faction, Cui Ming should act as the leader of this faction, he is the commander-in-chief of this war to destroy France, and now the war has fallen into this forbidden land, making Junzhou in danger, he is duty-bound.
In addition to Chongkai, the other five newly added generals are all high-spirited and have an undying attitude.
In addition, the forces of the Holy Academy called by Zheng Wenqi, from the dignitaries and dignitaries, the princes and earls, to all the students in the school in Junzhou City, and the people who respected Confucianism, all flocked to the swarm, and the scholars who wrote books, gave speeches at the crusade conferences, and engaged in debates.
This atmosphere soon spread all over Junzhou, the people of Junzhou began to be infected by this atmosphere, the momentum of the battle is becoming more and more vigorous, represented by Cui Ming, from top to bottom, in Junzhou set off a vigorous conquest of Buddhism, kill all the Buddhist monks preaching action, the grand occasion is unprecedented.
However, their vigorous campaign did not create a one-sided situation, because there was another faction in the imperial court, the peace faction.
Their foundation is also quite solid, but the leader is a figure that everyone expected, that is, he used to be the partial tooth general of the Golden Armor Battalion of the Shence Legion, and later became the deputy general of the Left Shence Legion, and now he is a general of the main general of the Right Shenwei Legion: Shi Meng!
However, the people in Junzhou City are not fools, not only are they not fools, but they are all old treachers and cunning people with rich intrigue and intrigue, and they can see at a glance that this is just a cover for the peace faction, and the one hiding behind the cover must be His Royal Highness the Prince!
Before the start of the war to destroy France, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had been acting negatively, no matter how far the war had developed, how many state border legions and Dawu legions the Wind Roar Army had defeated, and how many soldiers and generals had been killed, in front of Wei Yu, he either expressed silence or spoke out in support of Emperor Wu, but no one had heard him express his attitude behind Emperor Wu's back even once.
Behind the disguise, there are a lot of officials and ministers who once believed in Buddhism, they had defected to Buddhism because the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism and Emperor Wu also preferred Buddhism.
There are also generals of the Shenwei Legion who are the same as Shi Meng, and some students also support the peace, and there are actually many calligrapher disciples in it, which makes Cui Ming angry and has a sense of betrayal.
The main demand of the peace faction is peace negotiations, they believe that Yifeng led the entire Great Martial Buddha Dao to fight, not to kill people and make trouble, but to be forced to helpless, now that the war has come to this situation, as long as they agree to their demands, they will definitely be able to get along.
Although these things are rare, they are not the strangest, the strangest thing is that Wei Yu, the Martial Emperor, who has always been arrogant and domineering, did not support Cui Ming's main battle faction as expected.
Cui Ming has always been good at calculating people's hearts, especially famous for speculating on the holy will, known as Emperor Wu's echo worm and the roundworm in his stomach, but Cui Ming miscalculated this time, because Emperor Wu also showed rare hesitation very strangely and fell silent.