Chapter 171: Expanding the Territory
The people couldn't rush up in a large area, and the Sages of the Hanging Coffin Hell came up with all sorts of ways to try and send their men and horses up the cliff.
But whether it was a single action or a joint advance of a small detachment, no one was able to break through the defense on the ground and come up from the bottom of the cliff.
For half a year, the saints of the Hanging Coffin Hell never stopped sending people to raid. At the edge of the cliff, where the passage was originally dug up, the rock wall with a radius of thousands of zhang has collapsed dozens of zhang and sunk into a huge rock pit.
Countless failures have frustrated the saints beneath the Hanging Hell. The number of attempts sent seemed very casual, but he was very annoyed and waited for reinforcements to arrive.
In the main hall of the palace, the lord of the kingdom, Yang Ning, all the sages, and all the important ministers of the 'Ning An Kingdom' were all gathered around a large desk, looking down at a newly made map in front of him that still exuded the fragrance of pen and ink.
"Seniors, everyone. Now the pursuers on the side of the Hanging Coffin Hell are basically within our control, and they can't threaten us for the time being, so we can leave a war department to monitor in shifts. It's not a long-term solution, though. The Hanging Coffin Hell has a large population, which is not much better than a Celestial Empire, and the strength of their super force must also have countless people, and they will definitely continue to send large armies to attack. ”
"The cliff floor is no harder than the rock wall of the Hanging Coffin Hell, and under their attack regardless of the dead and wounded, the gap there will definitely be widened, which will cause them to have enough place to settle and allow them to use their full strength. When that happens, we'll be in trouble. ”
"We have only 40,000 or 50,000 people in the whole country, and we can't afford to hurt these people, and if we don't have enough soldiers to increase them, in the future, our old brothers will either be forced to flee, or there may be little left. Even the homes we have worked so hard to build will be reduced to the wedding clothes of others. So, we can't just stay here and seek change. ”
"Guys, I have such an idea, do you think it is feasible? First, the battle with the hanging coffin hell is inevitable, and we have blasted a huge gap there. In that gap, we are to build a strong defensive wall along the edge of the cliff in case we can defend against the invading soldiers and horses of the Hanging Coffin Hell. ”
"The second is that the other three war departments, arranged by the ministers to allocate personnel, from the front and from the left and right, expand the territory of our country in three directions, conquer the cities along the way, integrate the effective new forces in the cities to form an army, expand the population of our country, the initial goal, in three years, the army of each ministry will advance 5 million miles, and the national strength will increase tenfold to 500,000."
"The seniors are temporarily sitting in the palace, and when the army that attacks is difficult to compete with the existence beyond their overall strength, the seniors in the town will come forward to solve it."
"I led a small detachment of about twenty people on my own. Go south along the cliff and go straight to the southern dynasty to find revenge for the guys who forced me to fall off the cliff. In addition, I also have some friends there, their talents are good, all these years have passed, I believe that with their talents, they should be able to break through the supreme. When I go back, I can contact them, recruit them all into the kingdom, and from there form a force to fight back, and cooperate with the army from the south to expand the territory from the outside in. ”
Yang Ning's analysis was very good and organized, and after some discussion, everyone felt that it could be implemented.
"Okay. Brat. Uh-he, it's time to call the lord of the country, hehe...... Your method can be implemented as you say. However, it can only be implemented as you said earlier, and we do not agree with the last idea. First of all, you are the lord of a country, you can't act alone so casually, if you have some unexpected situation, it will affect the morale of the army very much; Second, we don't have enough manpower, you know very well that we can't use troops so loosely, if you want to go out and fight, you can. You set out with the army and fight on the battlefield, not alone. ”
The plan could be carried out, but the 'Hell Flame Lion' seriously told Yang Ning the conclusion of their discussion, and in the end, it denied the possibility of Yang Ning acting alone.
Their concerns are not unreasonable, nominally, Yang Ning is the lord of the country, and he is also a symbol of a country, and there can be no accidents that are difficult to control.
Hearing the words of the 'Hell Flame Lion', Yang Ning was silent, this was where their overall view lies, and what they said was also the truth. Yang Ning himself was selfish in the solo action proposed this time, not only wanting to go to Jia Wuyin for revenge, but also wanting to go back to find out the life and death of Yang An and Ping'ansheng.
"Good. I listened to my predecessors, so I set out with the army going south. However, I have a suggestion, which I think would be more appropriate to concentrate all our efforts on the defensive walls on the edge of the cliff before the armies of all stripes are sent out. ”
Yang Ning knew that his arms couldn't twist his thighs, he wanted to act alone, the 'Hell Flame Lion' would definitely not let him do this, since he was not forcibly grounded in the palace, then he would follow the army of the Southern Expedition to act together.
"This one does."
For most of Yang Ning's suggestions, the 'Hell Flame Lion' still agrees with them.
The more help the sooner done. More than 40,000 Venerable Beings worked together to erect a barrier wall on the edge of the cliff that was ten zhang wide and nearly ten zhang high, and ten thousand miles long.
The stones used are all made of local materials from the nearby mountains, each with three zhang cubes, and these bricked stones, the sages have tried, and their strength can withstand the ordinary blows of the first-level sages.
The saints at the bottom of the coffin hell were depressed at this time, and the army was withdrawn to camp ten miles away, away from the path to climb. They all gathered together worriedly, looking up to the sky from time to time to drink stuffy wine, and even the best among them wanted to scold their mothers.
Those grandsons on the cliff floor are really bad! It's okay if you guard the end of the passage and don't let you go up, at most everyone relies on means to determine the winner and loser, but you throw some rocks and giant trees from it from time to time, night and day, and even some rotten pots and broken tiles, and some broken things such as gnawing on leftover spirit animal bones. How dare you throw anything!
If these broken things were smashed face-to-face at their group of powerhouses at least the honor level, they would be nothing at all. But now it is falling from a million feet in the air, even if it is only the size of a finger after being consumed by the violent friction of the air, it is also with a strong impact! If you accidentally hit it, you will have to break your head and bleed. Older ones may even be life-threatening.
What's even more hateful is that at the beginning, tens of thousands of horses and horses gathered next to the path, and there was not enough space for them to avoid these high-altitude falling objects like grenades, and many Venerables were smashed and injured because of this, and some individual unlucky people were even hit in the head, and their heads bloomed.
In the last three months, this kind of operation has become more frequent, and now they don't dare to climb again and try to attack the ground, even if they get close to the path, God knows when there will be a sudden and relentless 'thunderstorm'.
More than a dozen Sages were depressed with infinite annoyance. The army they led could lay down a huge holy dynasty on the ground of the Destroying Star Heaven Domain, and it was available for more than half a year, but they couldn't even rush to the ground, and they were all blamed by the sect.
All right! If you can't attack it, you have to figure out the enemy's situation, get back some useful information and feed it back to the adults of the sect.
Under their strong orders, one after another, Venerable Ones risked being smashed into high-altitude meteorites, desperately climbed the cliff, and finally at the cost of more than 200 Venerable Beings, they could barely see clearly a huge and stretching city wall towering majestically on the edge of the cliff, as if there was another moat.
"Bastard! Send men to the forces we have subdued, recruit men from among them, and form an army to attack them! Then ask the sect for assistance, and ask them to send men and horses and some formation mages to come and make defense formation support. Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he can't attack it, even if he uses human life to fill it, I will blast it out of a gap! ”
The two fifth-level saints were in a hurry, and they were frantically preparing to attack desperately.
Actually, I don't know if this order is because you can go up to the sunny ground through here? Or because of the frustration of their face, they gave this sick order.
The soldiers of 'Ning Anguo' did not know about this situation. Of course, even if they knew, they wouldn't care. It's coming, and it's just a war.