Chapter 318: Momentum and Development
The war in the far east has reached a stalemate in full swing........
In the past few years, a large number of citizen soldiers, slave soldiers, and servant armies have been conscripted to the east, and the territory of the kingdom has become empty for a while, and many sects have taken advantage of the 'natural disasters to come to Yin' to continue to attack, completing the minimum expansion of grassroots forces.
Therefore, today, except for some latent sects that have not yet directly emerged, many 'Jedi sects' have more than a million followers and a few hundred thousand followers, and because most of those who can survive the disaster year are in the prime of life, the population they have gathered during this period is also the majority;
Moreover, in the context of the high correlation between production and faith, almost every sect has sufficient material reserves, which is in stark contrast to the terrible state of the outside world under the influence of natural disasters;
And when the military combat power and piety are further linked, the sects that already believe in God also show that the people of the right age are all soldiers, and with the supply of sufficient weapons, they can realize it.
So, when the holy angels finally sent down the will of the gods, saying that it was time to embark on a great journey, their total strength of tens of millions of troops immediately set off a thousand waves in the kingdom.
But at the same time, the angel made another important instruction......
He said, 'The gods are merciful and value civilization and life, and the gods are willing to give the followers of false gods a chance to slowly change their faith to the true God under the power of time, so that they can obtain eternal protection and spiritual salvation.' ’
Therefore, it is not said whether it can be done or not, but the purpose of this war is not to exterminate the people, but to reduce their sphere of influence to a limit, and gradually convert their faith in the following days through the combined effect of external pressure and internal missionary work.
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Of course, in this process, the vast rest of the kingdom and its dependent population will naturally become the earthly kingdom of the gods.
Therefore, under this will, the nearly forty true god sects in the kingdom took the lead in ultra-long-distance communication based on altars, and agreed on the principles that all forces should abide by together—that is, unified positions, partial alliances, and widespread warfare.....
First of all, the 'unified position' is naturally the mother needs to say more.....
The remaining power of the Laiyin Kingdom in the capital area is still extremely strong, and the power of the clans stationed in the territory of the country is scattered, but it is by no means weak, so before the covenant of the gods is officially ended, the earthly sects should avoid conflicts with each other, and should instead deal with the false god believers as a temporary common enemy of everyone.
The second term 'partial alliance' refers to the need for all sects to jointly carry out certain combat missions when necessary......
For example, in some important strategic battles with 'high intensity and few benefits', or in key areas with 'huge interests but too high intensity', everyone must dispatch appropriate troops and jointly bear the operational pressure under the arbitration of angels.
Finally, the term 'wide area of warfare' refers to......
Under the watchful eyes of the gods, and at the behest and arbitration of their respective angels, the True God Orders divided the people of the dependent tribes within the kingdom and other key areas except for the capital area and the eastern border, according to factors such as population size and geographical distance, and distributed them to different sects as 'faith resources'.
The latter need to collect the people and wealth and convert them into their own brothers and sisters of the same faith within the 'sphere' to which they are demarcated, in strict accordance with the plan of the treaty, and not to cross the border to snatch the part that should belong to the allies for the sake of profit.
Thus agreed, the sects finally decided to send their troops in unison according to the results of the plan, and then to carry out their respective tasks in the meantime, either jointly or alone;
But before the actual army could be launched, there was another divine grace that was inflicted on them......
Among the divine graces that the Orders have worked together to seek are the paths that extend outwards in all directions, as if they had been created out of thin air, and as if they had been drilled out of the ground, and they had completed their connection with each other in a relatively short time;
As a result, a transportation network known as the 'Divine Grace Road' was created in the vast territory of the Kingdom of Laiyin.....
It was a strange road that had never been seen before, and by placing special wagons in what the angels called 'rails', and then using the altars of the various sects to improve the beasts of the pack as tows, heavy supplies or brigades of sergeants could be transported to all parts of the kingdom at great speed.
And not only that, but there are also strict and solid fortresses that appear in various important hubs along the way, and they are also equipped with all kinds of 'fixed weapons' that have been blessed by angels and do not need to be replenished;
Attempts have shown that these forts, combined with the weapons they contain, can form a tight slaughter blockade with powerful and continuous attacks under the control of the true gods.....
Protected by them were well-equipped military depots, with dry underground grain depots, neat barracks, large and small weapons depots, and even the kingdom's most precious water resources, which flowed slowly from the ground where they were located, and could be accessed relatively easily.
That is to say, as long as the Orders bring all kinds of materials from the base areas to fill it, they can use this as a basis to establish excellent military garrisons everywhere;
And in the future, they can also be used as the prototype of the city to make further development.
And the order after sending troops naturally did the same.....
The sects were afraid that these 'divine graces' would be preempted by the Laiyin clans in various places, and thus form a division and encirclement of their own side in turn, so they raced against time to transport food, materials, and troops from the beginning, and then completed the occupation of the vast majority of the garrisons in a very fast time;
After this, the core orders finally breathed a sigh of relief, believing that they had not wasted the favor of the gods and angels.
But what happened afterwards was that the various sects understood their own worries, and the worries of the mundane born of the barren imagination seemed too vulgar and superfluous in the face of the power of the gods and angels......
Whether it is the 'Path of Divine Grace' or the fortresses and garrisons it protects, it is clear that everything is normal when used by the various sects, but once the enemy forces are bold enough to try, they will not be able to play any role in their hands due to reasons such as 'unable to activate weapons', 'road interrupted', 'sudden block', etc.;
Even if they choose to destroy it in desperation, the 'sturdiness characteristics' and 'renewable characteristics' of it will make the saboteurs return after spending a lot of effort.
Even, when accepting some of the forts, the garrison found the terrible bones half-sunk in the ground.....
They seem to have been trapped from the inside by the self-blockade fortress first, and in the process, they were either directly trapped or killed by some ability of the building itself, and then entered the stage of decomposition and digestion, so that the scene that the teaching garrison saw when receiving it.
Naturally, these believers did not fear the misery of the enemy, for they only saw in it the power of the 'gods', and then they became more and more pious, and then, with joy on their faces and full of emotion, they entered the fortress of 'cannibalism' and began to carry out their mission;
They will take turns to stay here to protect the grain behind them, so that their movements will be smoother.......
After that, the Order, thanking the Divine Grace, took advantage of these roads and garrisons to quickly travel through the kingdom, completing many of the preliminary arrangements in a very short time.
For example, they divided their forces and then marched eastward, and in just over a month they 'built' a huge war fortress on the eastern border, and then established contact with the 'deserters' in the buffer zone while garrisoning troops in the fortress;
The sects had intended to swallow these imaginary deserters, but later learned that they were also under the tutelage of unknown or known true gods, and had established bases in the middle of a vast country.
We don't care what will happen in the future, but now we plan to communicate with each other first, and are ready to cooperate with each other to block the best way for the main force of the Far East to return, so that even if they make up their minds to return to the territory immediately, they will not be able to complete the return journey smoothly.
And in the process, the tribes in the eastern region of the kingdom that were forcibly relocated here due to the war were also divided up by many sects in the territory.......
For them, the 'population' that provides the faith is the most important resource than anything else, and the rest of the material wealth, armaments, grain and livestock, and even the land itself are not rigid pursuits in a short period of time;
As a result, the focus of this phase of raiding was still on the 'population' itself, with hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more of the people of the vassal tribes, either forcibly or voluntarily, sent to the core shrines of the various orders to receive divine grace.
All in all, with their own efforts and the help of the lurkers, the series of offensives launched by the True God Sect can be said to have gone very smoothly.....
Among the so-called 'lurkers' in the foreword, except for some sporadic people who say that they have been "inspired by angels" and have spontaneously helped, the Earth Mother God Sect is the largest and deepest force among them.
In the ordinary world, the core authority of the sect is the 'Great Sacrifice Order', in which there are a total of thirteen high sacrifice seats, and at this time they are all full, and those who sit on these seats are the 'Great Master Mother Princess' who coincidentally corresponds to the number of them.......
At first, it was the thirteen 'princesses and mothers' on the Far Eastern Front who were inspired by God, and their dissatisfaction with their father's partiality was amplified for some reason in the process, and gradually made them convert to the belief in Mother Earth God.
Later, the angelic magic gave them a glimpse of the future, and it seemed that there was almost only one path in front of the Laiyin clan......
As the core believers of the false gods, the Laiyin tribe can only be sheltered under the new order by converting to the true god, otherwise they will usher in the real extinction of the life and death clan;
Naturally, this kind of ending was not something that the princesses were willing to face, and they even thought that they would not be able to join the rest of the sects sporadically because they had no choice but to become an inconspicuous part of it;
It would be better to concentrate all efforts on running a sect from the beginning, and in this way gain a head start and win a better future than 'survival'.
In this thought, the thirteen princesses finally chose to take refuge in a state of apprehension, and found that not only were they not punished by the Father, but they were even able to use the altar of the Father to receive almost the same blessings as before;
Therefore, the concept of 'false gods' and the news of 'trapped in the realm of the true gods' as the angel said, took root in their hearts, and they gradually became convinced of it, so they more actively launched follow-up actions.
Therefore, the princesses, under the instruction of the angels, secretly planned to establish the 'Earth Mother God Order', and offered the huge number of slaves and slaves they directly controlled, making it the basic foundation of the sect at the beginning;
It was also with this merit that they gained the favor of the gods and angels, not only mastered new powers, but also became a member of the 'Great Sacrifice Troupe' that would only have thirteen seats in the plan, and finally initially stood on the 'first opportunity' they requested.
But for some reason known only to the angels, the Order did not take advantage of this and from the very beginning to expand the faith among the rest of the Mothers, but carried out a very orderly and selective first transmission.
First, the freshly baked high priests set up miniature altars in their dwellings, and almost under the noses of the main legions of the kingdom, they preached to the slaves.
They started from the high-level slave soldiers who obeyed their words, and gradually let them have faith and new power born from faith, and then spread down to the grassroots level, until they became shallow believers in the middle and lower levels of each slave group.
Subsequently, through the ultra-long-distance means of communication given by the angels, the princesses persuaded and connected the most core relatives who stayed in the capital of the kingdom, and used them as a transit to lay out the power of the sect in the country;
As a result, not only the princesses' own slave divisions, but also the slave troops and slaves controlled by the sisters and daughters in the country, became a new force of the sect at that time, and took advantage of the missionary advantage in the rear, which was far more convenient than the front line, to build branches of the sect for cultivating faith, and successively trained more elite regiments of the sect.
After that, they focused on absorbing the core females of the side branches of the old thirteen clans, and the rest of the side branches who also controlled huge resources, not only harvesting the faith resources under their command for the sect, but also using the new converts as an important node for the extension of their power, gradually weaving a large net that indirectly affected the overall domestic political situation;
After that, the clan masters who were outside the capital area but located in key areas were immediately contacted and absorbed, and instructed them to secretly provide cover and help to the allied sects to a limited extent;
In the end, the princesses' eyes continued to spread along the net of power, and turned to the remaining clan masters........
Of course, this series of processes is not completely smooth sailing, and there are naturally those who are willing to follow, but there are even more people who are unwilling to obey and firmly believe in the Father.
For the former, it is natural to absorb them into the order, become the main priests at all levels under the core, and then establish a new branch of the order with themselves as the core, to continue to transform the qualified and quoted, to protect the qualified and unqualified compatriots, to persecute the compatriots who are overly firm in their belief in the 'false gods', and to appease the ambiguous and uninformed compatriots, and the slave soldiers controlled by the branches one after another, naturally continue to develop the belief in the Earth Mother God;
For the latter, they are accidentally returned to what the angel calls the 'wall of hypocrites', and instead they reach out to the sister or daughter who sat in their original seat, and then repeat the previous process again.
During this period, the princesses' 'risking their lives' and the 'future vision' shown by the angels naturally became the most crucial factor in transforming the beliefs of many great mothers.....
They saw the indifference of the Father in the former, whether it was out of 'captivity' or 'cowardice' due to lack of strength, and the Father's attitude of not asking about this matter can be said to have directly shaken the original faith of the main mothers;
The endless sorrow seen in the 'future', combined with the 'opportunity' vision elaborated by the princesses, gave birth to hope and self-comforting ways of 'this is for the good of the race', and thus weakened the guilt of betraying the Father, and finally most of them chose to convert to Mother Earth God.
In this way, although the slave soldiers and slaves are no longer the private wealth of the Great Master, their direct leadership is still retained through the new order planning of the 'core order' and the 'branch order', and they will not be regarded as enemies by the rest of the sects in the future due to the change of the 'camp';
Moreover, this way of spreading faith is also destined to occupy an important and even dominant position in the mortal world within the Order in the future, and the princesses' earlier plans can also be realized.
As for the Earth Mother God Sect as a whole, even if the transformation process of each clan is maintained within a limit, with the addition of the Great Master Mother headed by the Thirteen Princesses, it is equivalent to directly mastering the largest amount of faith resources, and also indirectly mastering more potential power through clan ties;
Therefore, even though this sect has always maintained a state of induction, it has become a new force that is truly the top, or even one of them, and after the outbreak of the war, it turned into a gluttony at the table, taking advantage of its many advantages and taking away a lot of resources when dividing the cake.
But all the 'angels' are concerned with is the orderly stripping of the belief in the 'false gods', and as long as this is indeed planned and is being carried out firmly, then the rest is all that can be said;
For example, the planning of the big hostesses for the 'first opportunity' belongs to this indifferent ranks of 'easy to say'.....
Therefore, after all these early developments, when the time came to this moment, not only the sects on the open side had already begun to act, but the Earth Mother God Cult lurking in the shadows was also constantly exerting their own inherent influence.....
Whether it is in the capital area or in the outer clans, the converts of the Earth Mother God who have held great power are appeasing the unknowings of the 'developable' under their command, and at the same time constantly sending the most determined 'core males of the Father God Sect' to lead the expedition;
The latter dispatched were naturally compatriots with 'same faith attributes', coupled with some slave soldiers with low transformation value and some subordinate war groups with firm inherent beliefs, forming a scene of a large army marching all the way to the road;
As a result, these armies either set out from the capital area or from the outer clans, and fought a series of battles with the legions of various sects.....
This was a completely asymmetrical battle, because the sect army had already mastered their troop allocation, marching routes, and even advance battle planning, and used the divine grace track to deploy troops and generals, forming an absolute superiority in the local area again and again;
Subsequently, the high-end combat power on the opposite side was eliminated and captured one by one in the 'prostity' of the angel's 'leaning' or 'punishment' descending;
In terms of middle-level and grass-roots battles, they rely on the numerical and equipment advantages obtained by their own side in transportation;
Therefore, in this successive battles, it is only natural that the sectarian coalition forces continue to reap the fruits of victory.
And the outcome of these battles is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the coalition forces......
After countless years and countless generations of being ruled and oppressed, the strength of the Lai Yin Seed is not only a fact of blood and a concept that has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow for the believers, and the ordinary believers who occupy the vast majority of the population of the sect are indeed afraid and extremely afraid of the Lai Yin Seed;
But now, these successive victories have gradually regained their faith, and the reason for the stark difference between them has made the 'faith in the true God' more and more deeply rooted.
When the news of these failures was spread by the deliberate permission of the sect and by the Laiyin species, who were partly misplaced in their 'identity', they were successively sent to the capital area and to the outer clans, and under the laissez-faire of the latent Earth Mother Goddess, they were completely uncontrolled and passed into the ears of almost all the Laiyin species.....
The initial anger led to more battles, and then the successive defeats left them with long-lost doubts about their abilities.
At this time, the main army that was still outside seemed to have become the last straw in their hearts, whether they really believed or had to believe, the vast majority of the Laiyin seeds, who were accustomed to standing at the peak, began to pray day and night for the day when the king returned, hoping that the king could lead them out of the predicament;
However, what they don't know is that the king himself, who has been given extremely high expectations, can never be called a 'good' word in terms of the situation at this time......
The war in the Far East has fallen into complete erosion, and the capital area of the Federation can never be shattered like a turtle shell, and the increasingly heavy pressure of grain and grass also makes the king of Laiyin feel deep regret.
In the beginning, the temporary allies on the north and south sides were able to support some, especially the southern allies who had greater concerns and goals for the far east, and almost without additional conditions, they took on most of the needs of the legion;
But when a little time passed, first of all, there was a problem with the allies in the north, and the seventeenth princess actually abandoned the war and returned home urgently with all the troops, and the part of the military supply that she 'subsidized' was naturally cut off.
Later, when the Mengmu people, who were also in drought in the country, gritted their teeth and decided to take on this part of the loss, the bad news that finally came from the far west made the mentality of the king of Yin explode on the spot......
It was his close confidant, a core male with a griffon's mount, who spent almost all of his journey in the sky except for the necessary rest, and finally reached the front line.
And what he said after arriving was not only a report on the extremely bad situation in the territory of the Great Rear Country, but also in anger, he asked the king 'why he hasn't replied for a long time'......