How many people can accept the consequences of the road being cut off, and really believe that the Qianlong they support can become the last true dragon?
Many weak Fulong sects, after supporting Qianlong until the founding of the country, would stop and withdraw after receiving an edict from Master Qi Luck.
A slightly stronger sect such as Houtu Sect, which is at the top of Dingzhou, has a preset goal of supporting Lu Ding to unify the state.
Then, depending on the situation, you can choose to harvest a fortune and close the mountain gate, or continue to support Lu Ding until he becomes king, which can get more luck in return.
But when the hidden dragon becomes king, it usually reaches its peak, and its dragon elephant has probably grown into a four-clawed dragon.
If the king goes up further, he will be crowned emperor. There will be no chance of regret, and the winner will be the true king.
There are few victors in the past who can tolerate the surrender of the king to survive. The king's luck is still there and there are many variables.
Usually losers either die of illness or die suddenly. If they live for a long time, they will often be remembered in history, just because they are too rare.
In the same way, if the Fulong Sect continues to support Qianlong and compete in the True Dragon Battle, there will be absolutely no chance of regret.
Qianlong became the last true dragon, and the Fulong Sect must have received unprecedented rewards. Many Taoist canons have recorded that the Venerable Dharma-Xiang succeeded in overcoming the tribulation with the help of the true dragon's great fortune, and was finally able to ascend to the Mahayana.
The rewards are great, but once it fails, the backlash is unprecedented.
Not only would it be difficult for the monks who were deeply involved in Fulong to survive, but the entire sect would be implicated, the orthodoxy would be interrupted, and the whole sect would die. This is normal.
This is the revenge of the domineering dragon spirit. The true dragon is the only one who is supreme. In front of the founding dragon, even the gods and immortals will lower their eyebrows.
From Zhou Bai's perspective now that he has peeped into many secrets, Heavenly Court's promotion of dynasty change is to seize the great fortune of the Ancestral Dragon in the era of spiritual energy recovery in exchange for the opportunity of a Heavenly Emperor to attack the Taoist Ancestor.
Even if he has not become a Taoist ancestor by then, the fortune of the new dynasty rising in the great world will greatly replenish the Heavenly Court, and countless Heavenly Officials will benefit from this.
Zhou Bai wanted to use the system to transport the dynasty and help him achieve enlightenment, so he worked hard to avoid inheriting the virtues of a certain emperor.
The one who supported the dragon was just using his small gain to take away the benefits he deserved, but the Heavenly Court took the blame.
It is necessary to speed up the capture of Dingzhou, erect the state tripod, and gain more attention from the humane will, so that there will be a fairer environment to compete for the dragon.
In addition, after unifying Dingzhou, he can start to determine the order of yin and yang and win the support of heaven.
Zhenjun's threat made Zhou Bai's thoughts wander far away, but he was also using this to determine his direction.
"Zhenjun Shaoyuan has been stationed in Dingzhou for a long time. He protects one side, drives away evil spirits, and kills enemies outside the territory. He has made great contributions to humanity and is highly respected among the people."
"The general trend of the country's destiny and the suppression of military strength may not have much effect on such a true monarch with humane merits." Zhou Bai analyzed while flipping through the files of True Lord Shao Yuan.
This True Lord Shaoyuan is different from ordinary monks. If he is willing to consume his humane merits, even if he takes action to resist the Anbei army, he will not immediately suffer any fate backlash.
The record of human merits and virtues has a rich and colorful chapter in Hunyuan Qiyun Dao Zang.
Li Yuan frowned: "Moreover, if he really helps protect Lei Haomiao and confronts our Taoist priests..."
When the general trend of the national destiny cannot be suppressed too much, the Anbei Taoist priests group without a true monarch will be useless against a top true monarch.
There are many cases of Central Domain sects, and neither the awake nor the future Fulong monks will directly participate in the national war.
It is impossible to suppress the mortal army, but this does not mean that extraordinary power cannot affect the situation of the war.
Detection, treatment, hindering marches, changing the environment, and even decapitation and assassination are all things that monks can do.
In Dingzhou City, there is a miniature version of the Shenjing City’s defensive formation. If the true Lord Shao Yuan were to hold it again, it would be like this.
It can even be expected that after the Shao Yuan True Lord expelled his own extraordinary power and settled down in the state city, it would be difficult for the state, city and country to capture it within a few years.
After Li Yuan expressed all his judgments and worries, Zhou Bai remained calm.
"From now on, you can communicate with Xuanyi Wei and test the attitude of True Lord Shaoyuan."
"Remember, this is not the Fulong Warlock."
"If he really wants to go against the trend, he will have to deal with it himself."
The sound of calm arrangements made Li Yuan feel confident, especially when he heard that Zhou Bai was going to deal with it personally, he seemed to realize something.
"You, are you ready to overcome the tribulation and get promoted?!"
Few people know about Zhou Bai's true cultivation level. Li Yuan, the deputy leader of the Taoist priest corps, is the only one. Even if he took action in the border town last time, many people only thought that he was in the early stage of Yin Shen.
The next day, noon.
Not a single defender could be seen in Longfeng City, and defensive weapons such as bed crossbows and honeycomb arrows were nowhere to be seen. There was only the sound of people inside and outside the city.
Ordinary people are happy because the superiors voted in after all. There is no need to fight, and there is no need to involve them.
More importantly, the person who came to receive them was the famous Anbei King Zhou Bai.
The people of Longfeng have seen the development of Ruinan next door. Pingcang Dazhi and Bei'an Dazhi are not empty words.
The most striking thing is the change in the past month.
They, Long Feng, had no extra luck and luck. In the cold winter of January, they could only stay at home and save money. The earth was still lifeless.
But if you look at Ruinan County next door, everyone is healthy, diseases have subsided, and the earth is full of vitality. You can see that the summer harvest has been brought forward, and there can be three crops a year.
Except for some powerful people who are worried about the change of power, ordinary people are only willing to join Anbei Kingdom.
The gates of Longfeng City were opened wide, the soldiers discarded their swords and armor, and the people ate pots of pulp to welcome the king's troops.
Cai Feng, the left prime minister of Dingguo, took the lead, followed by county governor Yang Ye, county lieutenant Hong Anguo and other county civil and military officials, who begged for surrender with official seals, population yellow records, and land fish scale records.
Zhou Bai happily accepted it and ordered Cai Feng to be the minister of Dali Temple, one of the nine ministers. The governor of the county, Yang Ye, and the commander of the county, Hong Anguo, both stayed in their original posts without moving.
This treatment was beyond the imagination of the three of them, and they were overjoyed that they had made the right bet.
Zhou Bai really needed the three of them as horse bones, and he told Yu Dingguo that he would never hesitate to trust and reuse those who sincerely surrendered.
Then the army entered the city to take over, collecting 30,000 old and weak soldiers and various types of ordnance.
Perhaps they were afraid that Yang Ye and the others would simply not defend. There was still enough food to feed the 300,000 people in the city for a month, but the bank was nearly empty.
There are only ten thousand taels of silver, one thousand taels of gold, and various scattered items worth five thousand taels of silver. There are no spiritual stones or treasures.
This was of course extremely rare for a county. It was not because the county officials were so bold as to intercept them all on the eve of surrender.
It was because everything was emptied out when Lei Zhen evacuated.
However, for Zhou Bai, the most precious and valuable things are land and population.
On February 18, in order to allow Li Dingguo, a handsome man, to be more integrated into Anbei Kingdom and accelerate the maturity of his life, Zhou Bai still took Li Dingguo's department as the vanguard.
Three thousand cavalry were led and coordinated by Chu Kai to cover the movements of the vanguard and prevent the Dingguo cavalry from detecting more information.
On February 20th, Minister Li drove south and successively captured Shibi County and Zhenhua County to ensure that there would be no worries around Longfeng.
On February 22, the defenders of Jingde County surrendered, and Li Dingguo obtained relevant information on the southern border of Longfeng.
On February 23, Gutai County, the only county under the control of Dingguo General Lei Zhen, was raided by cavalry led by Chu Kai.
The two-foot-wide moat was jumped across by the dragon horses ridden by Chu Kai and his soldiers, and the north city gate could not be closed immediately.
Then Li Dingguo arrived in time, and after a fight, he successfully captured Gutai County.
On the 25th, the Chinese army's support arrived. Li Dingguo led the Forbidden Army and Chu Kai led 3,000 cavalry to sweep the Longfeng border.
At this time, Dingguo was still in shock at the surrender of Longfeng's "Big Three", especially the defection of left prime minister Cai Feng, who was said to have made Lei Hao so angry that he vomited blood.
He never expected that the dignified left prime minister of the country would betray him as a habitual means of balancing and suppressing.
Do you really see the general trend clearly and think there is no hope for Dingguo?
There was a lot of discussion about this among the people and the court. They felt that the country was no longer a country, and the prime minister, governor and lieutenant had already surrendered, so what was the point of stubbornly clinging to it.
The morale of the people has fallen to the bottom. Originally, the destiny of the state and the country started from the core, which occupied at least three points.
Looking back now, that point has been reduced with the fall of Longfeng County, and with the overall collapse of public opinion, Dingguo County still holds at most one and a half points of Dingzhou's luck.
With no other choice, Lei Haomiao could only order Cai Feng and the other three to be declared traitors, and a bounty on their heads was placed on the viscount.
In addition, all parts of the country are prohibited from discussing them again, and they are not allowed to spread depressing and humiliating remarks about the country, otherwise they will be arrested and imprisoned.
The lighter punishment is to confiscate the home, and the worst punishment is to behead someone in public.
Suddenly, in Dingzhou City, the capital of the country, the society was clean and upright, order was restored, and people's hearts seemed to be much more stable.
At the same time, the front line suffered successive losses. Seeing that the ban was effective, the Dingguo government upgraded the ban to a ban on discussing war-related matters.
Under high pressure, the loss of Longfeng County and the prime minister's treason seemed to no longer exist, and Dingguo once again shifted its focus to the front line of defense.
Your care and support, such as food and weapons, were smoothly delivered to the front line.
But guarding the people's mouth is better than guarding the river.
No one knows when the flood will break through the banks, maybe it will only take one more failure.
Of course, for now, the high-pressure ban is effective. At least people in the rear are no longer panic-stricken, and the frontline troops can feel more at ease.
In Fumin County, the first city on the border of Dingzhou County, the northernmost part of Dingzhou, Lei Zhen was listening to military reports from all sides on the front line.
"The roads such as Wufeng, Qingyang, and Hukou have all been opened by the Anbei Army, and a large number of sentinels have sneaked into the country."
"According to hidden reports, it is suspected that the family members of Cai Feng and others were transferred to the Anbei camp."
"The five military strongholds in Linping were attacked by Li Dingguo's troops in one day, and more than 2,000 people fled back..."
The more he listened, the gloomier Lei Zhen's face became. Although the rear was temporarily stable, the battle on the front was one-sided, and there was no good news.
Longfeng County was lost too quickly, and the defenses were deployed too hastily. They did not form the layered defense pattern he proposed at all.
As Lei Haomiao's nephew, he was the most outstanding figure among the younger generations of the Lei family. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he had achieved many victories in suppressing peasant uprisings and took the position of military envoy of the state army.
The only thing that was criticized was that he was too frivolous when clearing enemies from foreign lands, causing a large number of casualties to the army.
He was so high-spirited at that time. With his powerful military power, he was invincible. He could use the strategies in his family's military books at will and achieve excellent results.
But since the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has never had it wrong. From the first battle with Ruinan when he was forced to retreat, to the massive defeat in a foreign land, he finally faced the dilemma of giving in step by step.
He is the future of the Lei family. Lei Haomiao has hinted to him more than once that as long as he has made great contributions to the family and the country, he can inherit the country.
Why, it’s not because the generals are incompetent, but because the soldiers are too useless!
Lei Zhen completely forgot that in the decisive battle in the recruitment plane, it was his command error that led to the overall defeat.
The deputy general who reported the military situation did not notice Lei Zhen's aggrieved look. He picked up the latest battle report and read: "The Seventh Battalion of the Fifth Army has abandoned its defense in the floodplains. What should I do, General?"
"All officers above the head will be beheaded, and the remaining deserters will be branded as criminals and incorporated into the former army's death camp. Only one Anbei soldier will be killed to avoid death penalty." Lei Zhen replied angrily.
The lieutenant general swallowed, thinking that this might lead to the defeated army surrendering directly in the future, but after thinking about it, he still dared not persuade him. Strict military discipline is also good?
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On February 27th, the entire Longfeng County was peaceful. The forward troops had pushed into Dingzhou County and now occupied a certain number of military strongholds.
Not only did the vanguard composed of Li Dingguo and Chu Kai attack, but the Chinese army led by Lou Jinpeng and a group of generals also came as follow-up support.
But the core of this southern expedition, Zhou Bai, temporarily stayed in Longfeng City for a few days. His military order to Lou Jinpeng was not to engage in a decisive battle for the time being.
One county, seven counties, tens of thousands of hectares of land, and 700,000 inhabitants were all merged into the Anbei Kingdom.
The first thing that was triggered was not the Dragon Elephant's Transformation into Jiao Pass, but Zhou Bai's Yang Shen Heavenly Tribulation.
The National Fortune's feedback was too abundant. Even if he stopped the operation of Hunyuan Qi Luck Daozang, the barrier of Yangshen Realm would naturally be broken.
Although Zhou Bai was confident that the natural disaster would not harm the city, he still survived the disaster in the wilderness outside the city.
He did not prepare to rely on the power of the people, nor did he prepare any formations or magic weapons. He was just looking at the sky alone.
Longfeng caused such a sensation that both ordinary people and powerful gentry could watch this scene of overcoming the tribulation from a distance.
Of course, they didn't know that it was Zhou Bai who was overcoming the tribulation.
The Taoist priest responsible for sealing off the surrounding areas loudly announced that this was the tribulation of the Taoist group leader of the Anbei Kingdom to cross the tribulation of the Yang God, and he specially invited everyone to observe the ceremony.
With the monarch's decree and the blessing of Anbei's luck, the disaster will surely be over.
Longfeng Loose Cultivator and the hidden sect in Longfeng County were in an uproar, thinking that the Taoist priests were just looking for a good show when they made such nonsense.
Even though the Yangshen Heavenly Tribulation was only the first heavenly tribulation in the path of cultivating the Tao, and its power was not very powerful, there were countless real Daxiu cultivators who were wiped out in ashes by the thunder of tribulation.
If it is true as the Anbei Kingdom preaches, then they must be crying and begging for a formation of the Anbei Taoist Regiment.
After being merged into Anbei Kingdom, the great fortune accumulated was quickly spread across the land of Longfeng, and vitality recovered rapidly.
The warm spring sun shines on the increasingly green earth. Zhou Bai sits cross-legged on the bluestone alone. Dark clouds gather and the air pressure is deep.
Regardless of his mana or soul, he has already met the requirements of the Yang God. The next step is to let the tribulation thunder come and wash away the negative energy in his soul.
Those who are pure yin without yang are ghosts, those who are mixed with yin and yang are yin gods, and those who are pure yang without yin are yang gods!
(End of chapter)
