Chapter 466: Prologue to the Great War
If he can, what Lu Qing hopes most is, of course, to be able to wait until his breakthrough reaches the level of the void before fighting.
In this way, of course, the grasp is the greatest.
It is precisely because of this mentality that Qin Guo's actions of almost stepping on the bottom line of Dayan are still tolerated. Over the years, the Yan State has continuously strengthened its support for the three kingdoms of Jin, Liang and Chu, and the trade in various materials has never been broken, but has been further strengthened. Even, the Jinyi Guard, who was constantly expanding its manpower, also sent a considerable part of its forces into the Jin State, where the war was most fierce, and directly participated in the secret front to fight against the Qin people.
However, the Qin people continued to intensify their military operations on the border.
Moreover, through the investigation of the combat readiness of the Qin state, it was revealed that they were almost ready to start a full-scale war.
Of course, Yan Guo's side is similar.
Looking at it rationally, I am afraid that the battle of Yan Qin will not be able to drag on for too long.
But it's still as much as possible to drag it back, after all, the place that is regarded as a battlefield is not your own home.
However, this so-called 'drag', that also has a bottom line.
A small-scale war is acceptable for the time being. The intensity is not high, the size of the army is not large, and the monks of the law phase or higher level have not yet appeared.
And once the scale is further expanded, then Yan Guo will intervene.
In fact, the legions of the Yan Kingdom are all ready.
And this bottom line, Yan Guo has also made a clear announcement to the world:
First, the three kingdoms of Jin, Liang and Chu, if there is any country, the territory of a complete state is lost.
Second, the number of Qin monks dispatched by the Qin State to dispatch a formal military group, or all the Qin monks who were detected and invaded into the territory of the Three Kingdoms, exceeded 10,000.
Third, the law minister of the Qin state appeared on the battlefield.
As long as any of these three bottom lines are touched, then Yan Guo will directly participate in the war.
At the same time, in the past ten or twenty years, the three central countries have gradually fallen to Yan in terms of attitude.
There is, of course, a practical factor to this.
At the very least, the Yan State has not put any military pressure on them in the east for a long time. Even the state of Chu, where there have been wars and conflicts between the two sides, is the same.
Even, under the increasing pressure from the Qin State, the Yan State continued to provide them with support.
Of course, they knew why, and Yan Guo didn't have any good intentions, but what choice did they have? Unless they were willing to become a vassal of Qin like Shu State, otherwise, they would have to bite the bullet.
At the beginning, they were actually very wary of acting, worried that Yan Guo would stab them in the east at the same time and divide them up with Qin State. But in the current situation, this concern has basically been put aside.
It's not that I think Yan Guo is reliable, but I really can't help it. The envoys of the Three Kingdoms, especially the envoys of the Jin State, who were directly invaded, continued to be active in Yandu, hoping to move the Yan Emperor Lu Chaoxi and directly dispatch troops to participate in the war as soon as possible. If he hadn't had any way to contact Lu Qing, they would have annoyed Lu Qing to death.
However, now everyone knows that there is not much time left before the real war begins. It is only a matter of time before the Qin State steps on the bottom line of the Yan State and will inevitably step on it.
But when this moment came, it still seemed very sudden.
Qin Guo suddenly made a move, and this move was the momentum of thunder!
In an instant, five Dharma masters were gathered and led a small but very elite army of about seven or eight thousand to cut into the Jin Kingdom at high speed.
Within two days, Dajin suffered a devastating blow.
In the Jin Kingdom, there were originally only two monks at the level of the Law Phase, and in this battle, one was directly lost.
The one who died, when Qin Guo had just made a move, sensed that something was wrong, and immediately began to run away.
Of course, this is a very correct choice, even if he stays, even if he relies on the army of the Jin State and the defense of the spiritual vein, it is unlikely that he will be able to resist the attack of the five Qin State Law Ministers. Rather than fight to the death here, it is better to keep a useful body.
However, even though he was already relatively fast, he still couldn't run away. First they were entangled, then they were besieged, and they were killed on the spot.
At the same time, an army of 30,000 monks arranged by the Jin State on the front line to prepare to compete with the Qin State was also annihilated in this war.
This war made the Jin Kingdom quite painful.
They weren't there yet, so they lost the ability to resist. The Jin Kingdom is more or less one of the strongest of the original Nine Immortal Kingdoms, and in the past few years, the situation has not been very peaceful, of course, they are also preparing for war, and the war potential of the entire country has been explored as much as possible. As the war continued, it was not a problem for them to assemble an army of monks of hundreds of thousands of men.
However, the number of high-ranking monks is always limited, and there is no way to squeeze too many in a short period of time.
The loss of a Dharma minister killed in battle is extremely huge.
What's more, the fact that so many Dharma Xiang cultivators from the Qin State appeared on the battlefield was in itself an extremely dangerous signal, and it also brought a huge shock to the Jin State.
After the news came back, the Jin State urgently mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, gave up all the territories on the periphery, and those that could be withdrawn withdrew to the Jin capital for defense; those who could not be withdrawn received the order to find high-level spiritual veins to gather in the same place, fight as much as possible, delay the advance of the Qin army as much as possible, and gather more defensive forces for the rear to delay time.
Of course, the top leaders of the Jin State also knew very well that this war, if they only relied on themselves, would never be able to win.
They have never had such naïve thoughts.
The diplomatic ambassadors of the Jin Kingdom have been doing their best everywhere.
The reactions of Liang and Chu were also very fast.
Between them and the Jin Kingdom, it was a real cold mouth. They realized this decades ago, and have signed an offensive and defensive alliance with each other, and in the past few decades, they have become more and more connected.
However, it is actually difficult for them to quickly support the Jin Kingdom.
The state of Chu was far away, and the state of Liang was relatively close, however, the western border of the Great Liang was also bordered by the state of Qin. If they sent too many forces to support the Jin State, it might indeed be able to greatly relieve the pressure on the Jin State, however, who would dare to guarantee that this was not the Qin State attacking the west?
In case, too many forces were mobilized to support the Jin State, causing their own domestic defenses to fall into a state of emptiness, and then the Qin State gathered forces again and invaded on a large scale, then the Liang State itself would not be able to bear it.
In fact, at least 100,000 soldiers of the Qin State were hoarding on the western border of the Liang State at this time, and they were also led by high-level Faxiang monks. Although I don't know how many Dharma Ministers Daqin has arranged, however, there are only three in the Liang Kingdom, and I really don't dare to withdraw too much.
In this case, there is obviously only one party that the Jin State can rely on: the Yan State.
It is absolutely impossible for Dayan to sit idly by and watch the Jin Kingdom perish.
The location of the Jin Kingdom is just to the west of the Yan Kingdom. Between the two countries, there is a North Wilderness. What's more, the current Northern Wilderness Forest is not the barbaric place where the demon clan lived in the past, after the demon clan of the Northern Wilderness Forest was swept away, the Jin Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom all entered it in a big way to develop this area. Although, because the area of this area is so large, that it has taken hundreds of years for human beings to completely develop this area, but between the Jin Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom, it can barely be regarded as a border.
In this case, if the Jin State is lost and loses the ability to resist, then the army of the Qin State can invade the Yan State with impunity. At that time, Feiyun Prefecture, Jinzhou, Selangor, and Jizhou will all be exposed to the front of Daqin's troops.
This is certainly unacceptable.
If you are invaded, it is better to take the initiative. After all, it is much better to use someone else's land as a battlefield than to turn your own country into a battlefield.
However, Yan Guo is still somewhat prepared for this matter.
Although the Qin State moved very quickly and the offensive was like thunder, after all, the Great Jin was a big country with a large area, and it was not without the slightest ability to resist. As long as you delay a little longer, you should be able to delay until the support of the Yan army is in place.
The first batch of Yan Legions that were sent out was not too many.
After all, the number of troops raided by the Qin people was also not large. The most terrifying part of the Qin people's attack was still the five Faxiang cultivators.
And this time, Dayan's support troops also directly sent four law ministers.
Weiyun, Lu Mingchao, Zheng Yu, Lan Nuoxing.
Zheng Yu was the Marquis of Xuanwu of the original Wei State. His attitude is still a little different from that of Xia Cang, the former general of Wei. Xia Cang was a loyal courtier of the Great Wei royal family, after the Wei royal family was demoted to a royal family and almost lost all political power, although Xia Cang did not continue to oppose the Lu family, he was basically in a state of retreat and did not care about the world.
His attitude, the Lu family basically let it go. Although he did not move, at least he did not make trouble. What's more, if he has nothing to do, he will occasionally solve some fragments of time left over from the primeval period, which is still somewhat useful to Lu Qing.
However, Xuanwu Marquis Zheng Yu is different. Although he also had a period of entanglement, he was finally persuaded and was willing to fight for the Yan Kingdom.
This time, the four ministers led 5,000 carefully selected soldiers of the Yan State to support the west and help the Jin State support the situation, and it should not be a big problem. After all, counting the law minister who is still alive in the Jin Kingdom itself, there are a total of five people, and in terms of top combat power, the two sides are already almost the same.
What's more, in the army of Yan Kingdom, there is also the existence of a big killing weapon - the 'Divine Eagle' Flying Fortress!
Lu Chaoxi was at the bottom of the sea, and after seeing the submarine battleship that Bo Wan had made, the air version that he had been thinking about was finally made.
This time, he almost gathered Yan Qi and Wu Wei, the most outstanding group of formation mages and refiners among the original four immortal kingdoms, and spent so many years, with ready-made technology as a blueprint, through improved means, finally created an aerial fortress that could travel in the sky.
This kind of air warship is very powerful in combat. Six or seven Yuanying monks, sitting in it, can hard-resist the full attack of the Faxiang monk in terms of defensive power, and their own attack power is enough to cause serious damage to the Faxiang monk.
Of course, although it can reach the level of the Faxiang at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, this does not mean that an air fortress can confront a Faxiang monk who is a serious monk.
The ability of the law phase is not simply attack and defend. Although the attack power of the Flying Fortress can threaten the Faxiang Monk, it is unlikely that a serious Faxiang Monk will be directly hit by the attack of the Flying Fortress without other interference. They could, with a more agile attitude, deal with such air warships. Even if the defense of the air battleship is very strong and can block several full attacks from the Faxiang Cultivator, it can always be dismantled with a little more time.
Even further, they could give up their bodies and find a way to enter the interior of the air warship as ordinary people.
It takes a lot of effort to dismantle this kind of air fortress, but it is not too difficult to go in and kill all the people who control the air warship.
However, this does not mean that such air warships are useless.
The greater value of these things lies in the fact that they can fight in concert with their own laws, so that they can effectively deal with the enemy's methods and pose a very big threat.
In addition, on the regular battlefield where there is no law master, it is simply a god-like existence. Under the roar of artillery, the regular monk legion could not resist it at all, and it was not possible to counterattack and conquer this kind of air warship through conventional means.
In short, Dayan's plan seems to be relatively reliable.
With the support of this army, at the very least, there will be no problem in assisting the Jin people and holding their capital. Even, if you can't say it, a wave of counterattacks can still make the people of Qin have a good drink.
If you can inflict heavy losses on this invading elite army of the Qin State, it will definitely be very valuable. In particular, if one or two Qin ministers can be captured and eliminated in this battle, it will have a very good positive impact on the future all-out war between the two sides.
However, it is beautiful to think about, but danger comes quickly.
The entire support force had just left the North Wilderness and traveled westward for a short time when it was ambushed.