3. The army of alliances
Because in order to compete for the Xuantan River Valley, the Linshi Kingdom and the Niuling Kingdom formed an alliance. Originally, in the historical process of getting along, these two countries also formed a lot of grievances because of the conflict of interests, but they both watched the fat of the Xuantan River Valley in front of their country being swallowed by the Cuizhu Kingdom by force, and they were very unconvinced, so for a common purpose, these two countries abandoned their previous suspicions and formed an alliance to deal with common enemies.
The king of the Linshi Kingdom was a big man, with a full beard and a rough and strange personality, and he killed people without blinking. The folk called him the King of the Beasts. The beast king is in the court of the kingdom, scolding and scolding all day long, and he doesn't like anything. If he is not in a good mood and decides to pull the courtier out and behead him for no reason, no one will be able to persuade him to come back. So the courtiers of the kingdom trembled in terror all day long. The Beast King's treatment of the concubines in the palace can be said to be extremely cruel, according to his way of amusement, if that concubine or palace maid is tortured to death by him, he will dance with joy and be very happy. This complete tyrant once declared it unashamedly. He formed an alliance with King Niuling to deal with the Cuizhu Kingdom, he not only wanted to annex the Xuantan River Valley, but also grabbed the queen of the old king of the Cuizhu Kingdom, that is, the current Queen Mother, because after he saw the Queen Mother of Cuizhu, he almost reached the point of being ecstatic. He felt that the queen mother was indeed too beautiful, with a graceful figure, a pink face, a light gait, and expressive eyebrows. Now that the Queen Mother's man is dead, the Beast King is even more obsessed. It is said that when the king of the beast missed the queen mother of Cuizhu too much, he drank a few bowls of wine, and then called a few palace maids to torture all night, and the miserable screams of the palace maids made the whole palace creepy.
The king of Niuling was a resourceful man with great ambitions and great ambitions. King Niuling is handsome and dashing, his speech and demeanor do not have the majesty of the emperor, he is always kind and pleasant, like a scholar, and is known as the scholar king. The scholar king worked hard in the kingdom and was always concerned about the future and future of the kingdom. The scholar king seems to be elegant, but in fact, the weirdness in his heart is unfathomable, and it is incomprehensible. The position of king of Niuling Country did not have the share of a scholar king. The old king of Niuling has five sons, the scholar king is the youngest, he was not born in the main palace, his mother was just an inconspicuous palace maid in the palace, and he was favored by the old king by chance and gave birth to him. The scholar king studied hard when his status was low, and his knowledge was far above that of several other princes, and he knew the cruelty of the power struggle in the court. The scholar king knew the importance of grasping the crucial minority in the struggle of many princes, and this critical minority was the old king who was still alive, and the old king was full of his word, and he decided that all princes could only obey unconditionally. Therefore, when the old king went out to fight because of the competition of interests, the scholar king always accompanied the old king, and when the old king was at a loss for war, the scholar king's suggestions and suggestions could always make the old king suddenly open up, and finally solve the problem and smile. And the other princes fought cocks all day long and walked through the streets, looking for flowers and willows, which made the old king very unhappy. When the old king was still sober, he tried his best to disagree with the public and made up his mind to let the scholar king take the throne of the crown prince. Later, the old king died, and the scholar king ascended the throne, and the other princes must have been very dissatisfied, without the deterrence of the old king, several princes born from the main palace were instigated by the henchmen and cronies of the party, and planned to promote a palace incident, but the scholar king was very clever with his own wisdom to resolve it. He used the method of borrowing a knife to kill people in advance to collude with the Beast King of the Linshi Kingdom in advance, and the Beast King invited the princes to the Linshi Kingdom as guests, and a few mindless princes went without careful consideration. The king of the beast took the princes to hunt in the mountains with enthusiasm to show the friendship of the landlord, and when he entered the place where he did not know where to go in the depths of the clouds, the king of the beasts and his entourage slipped away, and several perpetrators of the Linshi country who had planned in advance took the opportunity to put a fire on the mountain, and with the help of the wind, the whole mountain was ignited in a short time.
In order to repay the king of the beasts, the king of scholars made the decision to marry the daughter born to the queen of the original palace to the king of the beasts, based on the situation at the time, the queen mother of the Niuling Kingdom could not do anything even if there were a hundred unwilling, several of her own sons were gone, and the only daughter married a demon, the queen mother knew that marrying the king of the beasts, according to his consistent atrocities and his daughter's delicate body, sooner or later was a point of no return. Less than a month after the princess gave it, the Niuling Kingdom got the news that the princess had died suddenly in the middle of the night when she slept with the beast king. The Queen Mother was in a slump and finally died of depression.
The scholar king used extraordinary means to eradicate dissidents in his kingdom, eliminated all hidden dangers that posed a threat to his throne, and began to boldly promote the work of the kingdom and realize his lofty ambitions. The main task after that is to be able to compete for the greatest interests of the outside world, and to be able to weaken the power of others through mutual conquest, so as to stand out among the kingdoms and be able to dominate one side for a long time. In order to achieve this goal, the scholar king understood that he must first defeat the Cuizhu Kingdom, which is close to his own land and has more strength than his own kingdom, and the reason why the Cuizhu Kingdom is stronger than the surrounding kingdoms is mainly due to the rich Xuantan River Valley. If you want to completely defeat the Cuizhu Kingdom, you can only take the Xuantan River Valley as your own.
To compete with the Cuizhu Kingdom for the Xuantan River Valley, the scholar king knew that with the current strength of his kingdom alone, it was tantamount to snatching food from the tiger's mouth and hitting the stone with an egg. Only by uniting with the Beast King to organize an alliance to attack together can there be a chance of victory. Moreover, the scholar king knew that the Beast King, a violent person, was very easy to be used, just promising to have a beautiful woman to entertain him, he would be very excited and had to take action, not to mention, the Beast King had always had a soft spot for the Queen Mother of the Cuizhu Kingdom. The Beast King once publicly declared at a banquet with the Scholar King that if he could get the Empress Dowager of the Bamboo Kingdom, no woman would ever die under his bestiality from now on.
Although the Beast King is simple-minded and has a rough personality, his martial arts are indeed super strong. If he is a guy who is really not afraid of death, if there are enemy soldiers on the battlefield who come to call for battle, he will ignore the three-seven-twenty-one, ride his war horse as rude as her, hold his more than 100-pound broadsword and rush into the enemy camp first, rampage, as if entering no man's land, the knife cuts the head of the enemy soldier, as simple as a chef cutting radishes in the kitchen. Few of the generals of the surrounding kingdoms were his opponents. Against the Tyrant King of the Queen Mother of the Cuizhu Kingdom, in the perennial battlefield confrontation with the Cuizhu Kingdom, if there were no resourceful people like the Queen Mother and Prime Minister Miao to take extraordinary measures, he would not be able to defeat him at all. If it weren't for the unseemly request of the Beast King who publicly expressed his purpose many times to get a country in the Cuizhu Kingdom, the thinkers of the Cuizhu Kingdom would do everything possible to win him over for their own use, because their respective goals are vastly different, so the two countries have always been on opposite sides. It has created an opportunity for the scholar king to take advantage of, and they have the same goal, that is, to defeat the Cuizhu Kingdom, and each has its own interests. Therefore, the Linshi Kingdom and the Niuling Kingdom can go together to form an alliance and jointly deal with the Cuizhu Kingdom.
The two countries of Linshi and Niuling gathered the living army strength of their respective kingdoms, and on a sunny day, on the Yunmeng Mountain peak in the east of the Xuantan River Valley, the pennant fluttered, and the general platform was set high, and the blood was allied, and the alliance was formally formed to declare war on the Cuizhu country. Shang Shutian Long of the Niuling National Military Department served as the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses, and Su Claw, the champion of the Linshi National Martial Arts, was the general of the hussars. The two countries jointly decided that in the crucial battle, the kings of both countries would go to the expedition, of course, using the resourcefulness of the scholar king and the martial arts of the beast king.
Tian Long, the generalissimo of the coalition army, is the son of Tian Feng, the old minister of Niuling State, Tian Feng veteran general when the father of the scholar king was alive, in order to defend the country in the foreign war all his life, made great achievements, won the trust of the old king, Tian Lao is good at using the art of war in the mountains and forests, can skillfully use the soldiers, many times in the case of weak national strength, insufficient soldiers, the use of sound to attack the west, avoid the real and virtual, drag the enemy's army into the mountains and forests, let it turn left and right, tired of running for his life, and finally take a tragic trick to block the enemy's retreat, so that the enemy army is cornered, Grain and grass did not enter, and tens of thousands of troops finally starved to death in the mountain col. Later, the old general Tian died of cold, and the old king of Niuling Kingdom married his only daughter, Princess Yuping, to Tian Long, the son of the old general, in order to thank the old minister for his kindness. Tian Long, as the son of a veteran, won his father's true inheritance in skillfully using the art of war and leading troops to fight, and the old king found that he was a usable talent in the kingdom, and gradually let him climb to the position of the secretary of the military department and became an indispensable and important member of the kingdom.
Su Paw, the martial champion of the Linshi Kingdom, was originally an illegitimate child, Su Paw's mother was the daughter of an honest peasant, and the family was very poor. But Su Paw's mother dared to risk the world's condemnation with her youth, and colluded with others for a long time before getting married, and finally was sown the seed and gave birth to an illegitimate child. In order to minimize the loss of reputation at the best time, Su Paw's grandfather threw Su Paw outside the gate of the Cuilin Temple in the dark of night as soon as he came out of his mother's belly. Adopted by the abbot of the temple and taught him to practice martial arts, Su Claw has a certain talent in martial arts, and finally practiced the martial arts taught by the master to perfection, and even reached the point where the blue is better than the blue. Later, he won the martial champion of the Linshi Kingdom, was reused by the kingdom, and was named the hussar general in the coalition team organized this time.