Chapter Fifty-Seven: Domineering Parties
During his lifetime, the leader of the Five Elements Sect, Dachengzi, did not carefully train a successor, and after his death, the Five Elements Sect lost its strong leader and gradually split up. Among them, the descendants of the sect are divided into two factions, one is Hu Jingyu's Purple Fire Sect, the other is Liu Fenglin's Houtu Sect, and Song Lun and Qin Gao belong to the side branches of the Five Elements Sect.
The first to emerge was the Purple Fire Sect.
After the death of Dachengzi, the deputy sect leader Peng Zong succeeded as the sect leader, and the second leader Hu Jingyu actually took charge of the power in the sect as the deputy sect leader and the elder of the army, and his subordinates included Feng Chang, Jin Yunqi, Duan Qingyan, Fu Huangzuo, Ni Yanshu, Wu Gexi, Lu Yeke and others, and the territory included Jiuhua County, Haidai County, Magic City, Huiji County, Xihai County, Houji County and other places.
Although Hu Jingyu inherited the mantle of Dachengzi, he did not inherit the prestige and means of Dachengzi, he was stubborn and self-serving, he couldn't tolerate people, others didn't obey him much, and he hated his number one subordinate - the arrogant and domineering Feng Chang.
According to the routine, the first to emerge and the most arrogant are often the first to finish.
First of all, around whether to participate in the battle of annihilation, Hu Jingyu and Peng Zong had a conflict, and left Shuntian angrily, and Wang Qiao, who was stationed in Yunlong, took the opportunity to lead troops into Shuntian to mediate the dispute between the two factions. Wang Qiao's heart turned to the Yaksha clan, forced Peng Zong to step down, summoned the unborn Yaksha King to the throne, and tried in vain to restore the Yaksha Kingdom.
Hu Jingyu saw that Peng Zong had stepped down and the restoration was unpopular, so he organized a "rebel army" in Weiyang to destroy Wang Qiao and regain power. Liu Fenglin, the deputy sect leader who sat in Yingtian, entered the Shuntian Mansion as the acting head of the sect, but Hu Jingyu had a stalemate with Liu Fenglin because of the problem of mixing things up for a day.
It turned out that after the fall of the Yaksha Kingdom, the north was inherited by Dachengzi, and the south was the world of the White Lotus Sect and the White Lotus side branch.
When the Purple Fire Sect was in power, Yao Tan of Haixi County and Guihai County, Zhou Liang of Ningzhou County, Kuang Xu of Jianghan County, Song Laizi of Wuling County, etc., did not give Hu Jingyu much face, so Hu Jingyu wanted the army to sweep them away.
Liu Fenglin's Later Tujiao was inferior to the Purple Fire Sect, and in order to contain the Purple Fire Sect's forces, he advocated unifying the Purple Fire Sect.
In the southwest, Yao Tan and others, in order to resist Hu Jingyu's military might, raised the Piao Gao Ancestor and organized an army of apologists in the demon city. Piao Gao Ancestor joined in because after Wang Qiao summoned the Yaksha King, Hu Jingyu refused to restore the public order of the White Lotus Holy Sect. Apologetics is to uphold the superficial White Lotus Dharma. Piao Gao Ancestor wants to use the power of each sect to improve the prestige of the White Lotus Holy Sect, and each sect must also use the prestige of Piao Gao Ancestor to preserve their strength.
Then the war of apologetics began, and the northern and southern sects fought a great war in Wuling County. The leader was an army of the Houtu Sect, and Qin Gao also sponsored a partial division and rushed to Wuling County.
Liu Fenglin originally disapproved of the war of various religions, and was even more dissatisfied with Hu Jingyu's letting the Houtujiao army be cannon fodder, hinting that the front-line generals would stop fighting and withdraw their troops.
The main force stopped fighting, Qin Gao's partial division was not well-informed, and he fought and left, surrounded by Song Laizi's army, Qin Gao retired from then on, and did not reappear until seven years later.
Hu Jingyu was frustrated overnight, retreated in anger, and the Purple Fire Sect and the Later Tujiao openly split.
In order to pressure Liu Fenglin to make concessions, Feng Chang connected everywhere, got the general Wang Xiao of the Houtu Sect, and gathered the envoys of the thirteen counties to gather in Weiyang for a meeting, and strongly demanded that Liu Fenglin order a crusade against the southwest. Liu Fenglin was forced to give in, and the battle of apologetics began again.
This time, there were many allied soldiers and horses of the Five Elements Sect, and even Song Lun's troops joined in, and the southern feudal towns could not bear it, and most of Wuling County was occupied by the Five Elements Sect army.
In the war, the martial spirit of the Houtu Sect was like a killing god descending to earth, attacking everything, and it was the fiercest way in this battle, but Hu Jingyu appointed Shangguan Hu of the Purple Fire Sect as the overseer of Wuling County, and the generals of the Houtu Sect were extremely dissatisfied, and openly boycotted the army against the war, and signed a truce with the south.
There is a problem that needs to be clarified here: the Purple Fire Sect is a relatively loose sect, Hu Jingyu is the leader of the Purple Fire Sect, but he has been working in Shuntian for a long time, and he has no lineage army, and his old subordinates have become a powerful party, although he still regards Hu Jingyu as the boss, but whether he can really listen to him has to be a question mark.
When Wang Qiao summoned the Yaksha King, why did Hu Jingyu organize a rebel army instead of directly ordering his subordinates? Because he has no direct prestige, and it takes time for prestige to be transformed into military power. Similarly, during the war of apologetics, why did Hu Jingyu let the Houtu Sect go? Or because he does not have a ready-made army under his command.
A year later, the Purple Fire Sect mainly did three major things, one was to lead the Song Lun forces of the Black Water Sect into the game, stand up for the Purple Fire Sect, and oppress the Later Tu Sect to use troops against the south, and implement the chaos for a day. The second is to manipulate the elders of the sect, remove Liu Fenglin from power, and let Zhao Sanyuan become the leader of the Five Elements Sect Alliance. The third is to use the pretext of participating in the war of annihilation as an excuse, relying on the witch and ghost dao of Yamatai to organize a descendant army to participate in the war, and Feng Chang briefly recovered Khalkha, relying on this army.
This was the highlight moment of the Purple Fire Sect.
However, the good times didn't last long, Feng Chang and Song Lun broke up, and the Houtu Sect took the opportunity to catch up with Song Lun, and the two sides engaged in a seven-county alliance, pointing at the Purple Fire Sect. The seven counties are Hengshan County, Guangling County, Luling County, Jiangxia County of the Later Tujiao and Hailong County, Canghai County and Fuyu County of the Heishui Sect.
At the end of the year, Liu Fenglin died of illness, Wang Xiao took over the banner of Houtujiao, and the contradictions between Zhiwan and Anhui continued to escalate, and finally moved towards the sword and soldier. In the past few years, the armies of the Later Earth Sect and the Purple Fire Sect gathered near Shuntian, and the war broke out, and the soldiers of the Black Water Sect pressed the territory to suppress the formation for the Hou Tu Sect.
Two to one, the Purple Fire Sect had no chance of winning, and after five days of fierce fighting, the Purple Fire Sect was defeated, Hu Jingyu was forced to retreat, and the Purple Fire Sect cadres either fled one after another, or switched to the Houtu Sect.
Since comparison, the Tujiao has become the most powerful faction in the Five Elements Sect Alliance, while the Heishui Sect is slightly inferior. After the Purple Fire Sect was out, the Houtu Sect and the Black Water Sect became the two major forces in the Five Elements Sect Alliance, and the autumn colors were equally divided.
At the beginning, it was very good, the two sides got along relatively happily, Wang Xiao even formed a brother with Song Lun, and then became a family. One sits in Qingyuan, the other sits in Hailong County, remote control Shuntian. When encountering a major event, the two discussed it.
Compared with Wang Xiao, Song Lun has a stronger personality and is ambitious, so the results of the discussion are often based on Song Lun's opinions, and Wang Xiao constantly compromises and retreats.
Wang Xiao couldn't compete with Song Lun, but Wu Lingzhen, the rising star of the Houtu Sect, wanted to try.
In the Five Elements Sect, Wu Ling's real qualifications are shallow, and he is slowly mixed up, but he belongs to a thick and thin hairstyle character, can be good at fighting, and can be called the first fierce general and soul figure of the Houtu Sect, even Wang Xiao said: Wu Ling is my biggest capital. Under the trust and support of Wang Xiao, Wu Ling Zhenren became the second leader in the Houtu Sect after Wang Xiao, standing in the capital of the gods and looking at all sides.