Mingdu, imperial palace.
The discussion on the issue of "whether to launch retaliatory actions against the Tianhun Empire" has entered the final stage.
There is basically no need to ask about the attitude of the army. It is not really that they are ready to go to war immediately. It does not make much difference where they train.
If it is true...then we must first carry out mobilization and reserve material inspections. Although the results of the annual self-examination report are that the material reserves are intact, my family knows their own affairs, and if they don't squeeze a lot of water, the logistics accounts will definitely be chaotic. It can drive people crazy.
Some people say that the army is the most opposed to war, while others say that the army is the most supportive of war. Both sentences are correct from different perspectives. The former is because the army is the front line facing heavy casualties, and the latter is because The military opens up avenues for rapid promotion almost exclusively during times of war.
For the ministers in the Mingdu Palace, the final decision basically depends only on the final opinions of the civil servant group.
Now, this result has come to light. After all, it is difficult to find staunch anti-war factions in the Sun and Moon Empire - except for the late emperor and Caitou's father, who can be called an old friend of the people of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
From the emperor to the common people, the difference in attitude of the vast majority of people is only reflected in "fanaticism for the war - support for the war - neither support nor opposition - if you want to fight, you can, but don't spill blood on me."
In the entire hall, the one with the most determined opposition was the Chancellor of Finance, the butler who needed to wipe the mess that had been brought out.
But when he found that no one else seemed willing to stand up and oppose with him, he resigned to his fate.
The only thing that is a bit surprising is that the Hongchen Hall Master, who has always been pretending to be dead on this kind of thing in the past, rarely showed a bit of support and asked to put pressure on the Tianhun Empire to punish the Noumenon Sect - everyone knew that this was actually It's simply impossible to do.
As for the reason, everyone has heard some rumors in the past two days. Someone did a stupid thing to the wrong person in Shrek City.
"Ahem, although my words may not have any effect, I still want to remind you." The finance minister said with a tired face after he came out of the queue.
"Although we nominally want to seek an explanation for the punishment of the Tianhun Empire for the Haotian Sect's attack on Mingde Hall, I believe that you should know who the real culprit is."
"I hope you will grasp the scale and not get out of hand, and don't deceive yourself into it and find the wrong person for the attack..."
However, a sneer came from the ranks of ministers.
"Just rest assured, no matter it's the Haotian Sect or the Noumenon Sect, they belong to the Heavenly Soul Empire, right? Every wrong has its owner, so find the right person!"
"Yes, domestic dogs will run away after biting someone. We can't just enter someone else's yard and open his kennel, so we have to keep an eye on the dog owner! Tell him that if he doesn't care about his dog, the owner will pay the price. Compensation! If it is really stubborn, then consider whether to teach the owner a lesson for his dog!"
"It's over. At most, it's just an evil servant making enemies for his master. Dogs, dogs, are too much."
Seeing that the main hall was getting a little noisy, the Finance Minister couldn't help but smile bitterly because of his colleagues.
The dog owner... the rightful owner will be arrogant if he doesn't speak here. If any titled Douluo from Haotian Sect or Noumenon Sect is here, and these arrogant colleagues dare to say these words without changing their expressions, he will definitely be full of regrets. Respectfully help them arrange their funeral arrangements.
However, the matter has reached this point, and it is useless to say more.
"Ahem... um."
The old emperor coughed lightly, and the main hall, which had been turning into a vegetable market, calmed down again.
"Since your words are sincere and have no different meanings, let's proceed according to the preface."
"The Sun and Moon Royal Soul Mentor Corps still fulfills its responsibility of guarding the Mingdu. The Fire Phoenix Soul Mentor Corps will not move. There are still three of the five national guardians. Choose two of them to move. The rest of the standing army will be mobilized accordingly."
"The rest of the soul master group will choose three out of five. The location is based on the suggestions of the Qing family, close to the hometown of our country under the jurisdiction of the Sky Soul Empire. Every time I think of these remnants of our country who have been groaning under the iron heel of the Sky Soul Empire for more than four thousand years, I have been waiting for Wang Shidong. If the conquest fails, my heart will be as sharp as a knife."
Two Hand of Protector-level soul mentor groups and three numerically numbered soul mentor regiments. This is already half of the standing army of the soul mentor regiments of the Sun and Moon Empire, not to mention the corresponding proportion of ordinary army (artillery) teams (gray). ) will be mobilized accordingly - although the number of the former may be less than one percent of the latter, the combat effectiveness in the field is probably ten times greater than that of the latter.
In this era when soul masters and soul masters are at war, an army formed by ordinary people may only play a role as a military police force to maintain stability, going to the countryside to catch the chickens of fellow villagers.
Now that the decision has been made, it means that the national organs of the Sun and Moon Empire are all spinning for this action.
The location of the military exercise is located near the homeland ceded by the Sun and Moon Empire in the last continental war, which is currently under the jurisdiction of the Tianhun Empire. This is a dangerous place.
(Note: It is very confusing whether the Sun and Moon Empire has cut off any territory. The saying in "Spirit Eyes Boy 1" is that "Although the Sun and Moon Empire was defeated, it was not completely invaded." "Douluo Continent Chapter 1") It is also mentioned in "One Academy One" that the Sun and Moon Empire only survived after ceding land and paying indemnities; but in fact, there is a saying in the book that although the Sun and Moon Empire was defeated, it relied on provoking conflicts and its own strength to preserve its original land)
(What's even more awesome is that Tang San mentioned in the introduction that "the continental collision caused by the crustal changes more than four thousand years ago not only more than doubled the area of Douluo Continent", which means that the area of the Sun and Moon Empire exceeds that of the Three Kingdoms Summing up, the result in the first chapter becomes "The Sun and Moon Continent from the west is vast and rich in resources. It is slightly smaller than the Douluo Continent, but it has only one country, the Sun and Moon Empire." Even the Sun and Moon Empire The area has become a quantum superposition state)
(Based on the full text, I still tend to think that the Sun and Moon Empire ceded the land during the first war; but this led to another strange point: Dou Ling is not adjacent to the sun and the moon, and the stars and the sun and the moon are naturally formed as bright stars. The Dou Mountain Range is the dividing line, which means that all the land cut off by the Sun and Moon Empire was given to the Tianhun Empire - at the end of the Three Kingdoms war, all the land was taken away by Tianhun, who was only in the middle in terms of strength!)
To conduct an exercise involving half of its standing forces in the homeland of the Sun and Moon Empire, you can imagine it from another perspective. If a large eastern country claims to use 500,000 troops and corresponding naval and air forces to conduct exercises in Hu Jian or Northeast China, then it will not only be a surprise to the friendly countries, but also the other countries will be surprised. Those who cannot sleep will become the whole world.
On the dragon chair, the old emperor closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then said again:
"With such a posture to shock the Tianhun Empire, can the direction of Xingluo be guaranteed to be safe? Can the Mingdou Mountains still withstand the pressure?"
The minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs came out to answer:
"Your Majesty, you can rest assured that there will still be two standing soul mentor groups stationed in the Mingdou Mountains. Even if Emperor Xingluo loses his mind and tries to attack by surprise, he will not be able to climb over the Mingdou Mountains."
This is true. If the Second Continental War is to be fought, it seems that there are two fighting directions - the junction of the Sun Moon Empire and the Tianhun or Star Luo Empire. However, due to the existence of the Mingdou Mountains, in fact there is only the first one. The direction is optional. It is unimaginable for any country to attack hundreds of thousands of troops across the Mingdou Mountains. This was also confirmed by the last continental war.
The Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires may be able to support the offensive operations of one or two soul master groups across the Mingdou Mountains, but they will never be able to support the logistics of more than 10,000 people. The Mingdou Mountains are a two-way barrier. As long as they don’t want to fight, they will Both sides are equally reassuring. Although there is no way to crack this kind of logistical black hole - for example, use a few level nine custom-installed soul-guided artillery shells to flatten a section of the mountain.
"In this case, I believe that the ministers will never let me down. How to implement the specific details? Military and civil affairs must be communicated carefully to avoid making people laugh."
"The Three Kingdoms and Shrek must be informed and don't let them misunderstand - but if they can't listen to good advice, then let them be."
"For the important people who are still stranded in the Three Kingdoms, you should weigh whether you should recall them...Prince!"
Although he remained calm on the face, Xu Tianran was extremely excited in his heart. He immediately clasped his fists in his wheelchair and said, "My son is here!"
"I am too old and frail to travel far, so I will let you supervise the army this time."
"My son... I am terrified. How can military and political matters exceed those of Shan Zhuo?"
After going through the routine process of making three concessions and three concessions, seeing the impatient look on his tired father's face, Xu Tianran finally agreed with ecstasy in his heart and "terror" in his heart.
This was an opportunity to nominally command half of the standing army of the Sun and Moon Empire. It was witnessed by the old emperor and all ministers. The legitimate granting of military power represented the emperor's certain "handover" attitude.
"Only names and tools, not fake people." Now Xu Tianran has both. Although he is basically just acting on behalf of his father's authority, it is actually very empty.
"After this incident, what else can my good brothers have to argue with me?"
Xu Tianran knew that this time he had to do everything as perfectly as possible, otherwise the backlash would be equally serious.
And, now that the decision has been made, some of the things he and the Holy Spirit Sect had promised must be implemented.
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Shrek Academy, outside the west gate.
Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Lin Xi and other exchange students shook hands one after another to say goodbye.
"You're just leaving, why don't you stay for a few more days? Apart from Xu Sanshi, I actually made some other friends in Shrek, but I didn't have time to introduce them to you."
"That's not necessary. I stayed at home in the library for so many extra days, which actually went beyond the original arrangement."
Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Hongchen, who still had some regrets on his face. When he thought of the way he put his arm around Xu Sanshi's shoulders and introduced, "This is Xu Sanshi, my best buddy here," he almost couldn't help but smile. Farewell expression.
It's a really outrageous development, but it doesn't feel inconsistent for the two of them to say that they are fair-weather friends. After all, Xu Sanshi is really good at playing...
"I don't know if there is something urgent at the hall master's side. He asked me to hurry up and return as soon as possible. Anyway, I have pretty much handled the arrangements and conveyed things in the past two days. I believe you will be fine."
As Huo Yuhao spoke, he recalled the instructions dictated by the special envoy from Mingdu two days ago, Jing Hongchen, asking him to "hurry up and return to Mingdu, but don't be too abnormal to make people suspicious." His intuition told him that something was wrong.
And why are you only urging me? Xiao Hongchen and Lin Xi, so many exchange students are still here, don’t care? No corresponding arrangements?
"Tsk, okay, I knew you couldn't have come to see us specially. I hope you'll spend more time next time you come to Shrek. It's best not to leave in a hurry."
Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Hongchen with a strange look on his face, with his eyes narrowed and a "you know" expression.
"Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense."
However, it was indeed time for Huo Yuhao to return to Mingdu. Shrek's research documents on soul beasts were indeed very useful. He even had preliminary ideas, just waiting for a chance to verify them.
In other words... he had to go back to Mingdu to communicate with Jing Hongchen and the others to obtain resource support for the first phase of soul research.
Xiao Hongchen, Lin Xi and others waved goodbye to Huo Yuhao who left in a hurry, but Huo Yuhao thought of Jing Hongchen's somewhat abnormal order and couldn't help but pray for them silently.
"I hope they are okay..."
(End of chapter)
