Chapter 216 Demon Hunting Expedition, Expanding the Border Town to the West

Author: Traveling from the South

Chapter 216 Demon Hunting Expedition, Expanding the Border Town to the West

The speed with which Zhou Bai captured Ruinan County greatly stimulated Lei Haomiao. This meant that Longfeng County, controlled by the state government, would be adjacent to the Anbei Governor's Mansion, and the territorial risks would greatly increase.

For this reason, the state government paid a certain price and on August 5, forcibly destroyed the last general ship that resisted in Dingzhou County. The result was that the general ship was killed and exploded.

Beginning on August 6, 50,000 elite state soldiers and more than 50 state Taoist priests stationed in Longfeng County one after another, and various convoys transporting heavy supplies came in an endless stream.

Obviously, this is to prevent Anbei's army from going south.

Zhou Bai was a little helpless, because at this time, Lu Ding of Dingxi was also aggressively attacking Yongquan County, which was one of the few major counties still under the direct control of the state government.

Now that Lei Haomiao has taken away the elite main force to defend Zhou Bai, Yongquan County will definitely not be able to take care of it. The most they can do is provide assistance.

This means that in the heart of this feudal official, Zhou Bai, a country boy from the border area, is more threatening than Lu Ding, a son of a family who has served as general and general for many years.

What else could Zhou Bai say? In order not to benefit Lu Ding, he could only change the direction of expansion.

Twenty thousand militiamen with battlefield experience were transferred to the Ruinan garrison on the spot, plus 20,000 surrendered troops being reorganized, combined with 10,000 elite government troops, for a total of 50,000 troops to guard Ruinan County.

With an army of 50,000, apart from Zhou Bai himself, only Zhou Yuan in the Anbei Governor's Mansion was qualified and could be completely trusted.

Therefore, Zhou Bai also appointed Zhou Yuan as a lieutenant of Ruinan County, inspecting the school, and ordered him to stay in the town and be responsible for fighting against possible threats from Longfeng County.

Generally speaking, we still focus on defense, trying our best to ensure that Ruinan does not lose any ground, and at the right time, we investigate the various arrangements of the state soldiers in Longfeng County.

Because of the inside information from the eunuch Wang Xiu, an order to seal the country would be issued in autumn at the latest. Therefore, Zhou Bai returned to Bei'an County on August 8, and took the oath to fight again on August 9.

The world's luck is limited. For people like him who are preparing to establish their own country, it is best to do it before the Daxu court imposes excessive seals, otherwise the foundation of the country's destiny may not be solid.

At present, there are only three people in Dingzhou who can claim to be the most important people in Dingzhou: Lei Haomiao, Lu Ding, and Zhou Bai.

One step comes first, each step comes first. This principle is very suitable for the law of luck flow.

When you are number one, you will definitely get more people's attention. At least the basic impression is that your country is very strong.

However, no matter how many benefits there are, they are all on a relatively fictitious level, and the key is the news from heaven.

After Zhao Qi became the Marquis of Liang and established the Liang Kingdom, Chi Qing revealed through Tiandie that he would recruit all the countries in Tianyuan Continent to fight in extraterritorial planes.

She was rather vague. She probably said that Heavenly Court, the Qingxu Alliance and a group of demi-planes and plane worlds had reached some kind of agreement, using the secular country as a pawn to play a game.

The chessboard battlefield is the many planes between Tianyuan Realm and Qingxu Realm. These plane worlds are mixed between the two giants and do not have much autonomy.

Now both worlds have announced that as long as they win the national confrontation, they can intercept the corresponding luck resources.

If you don't want to be lucky, you can still negotiate with the two "organizers" in exchange for allowing the world to develop freely without interference for a certain period of time.

The high-level leaders of these worlds communicated with the world's will and naturally agreed to this request. Competing for overall strength is like shaking a tree, but who is afraid of who is just competing for the power of secular countries?

Not to mention Qingxu, it is well known that it is on the verge of collapse and can only continue to go on expeditions to suck blood.

Heavenly Court may have greatly recovered its strength since ancient times, but its control over the mortal world of Tianyuan Continent is not as good as before.

How can a powerful country exist in a Tianyuan Continent that has fallen into division and chaos?

The immortals and gods in heaven seek personal transcendence, thus suppressing the development of humanity for a long time.

But this is not necessarily the case in other small worlds. Many small worlds seek an overall jump, an upgrading of the world, and the power of the dynasty system will always override the individual.

Most of the fortunes of the countries in Tianyuan Continent must be submitted to the Heavenly Court. As a result, even a unified central dynasty cannot be considered a top dynasty among the many vassal worlds in the ancient Heavenly Court when it was at its peak.

It may be the country of the Qingxu Realm, or it may be the "indigenous" country of the plane world, randomly dropped.

For this reason, when Chi Qing told Zhou Bai the news, she felt very heavy because even Tianting itself had no confidence in the Tianyuan Kingdoms.

But in order to raise the Gu King, and to isolate the war between the two realms from outside the territory, the Heavenly Court still had to recruit the countries of Tianyuan Continent to participate.

These include vassal states outside the existing territory of the Central Dynasty, which will also be an opportunity for them to turn over.

If you can return victorious from the next recruitment war, you may be able to get a glimpse of the Central Plains.

Going on an expedition outside the territory, using the country as a unit? The winner can take away the luck and wealth, I'm afraid it won't be more than that.

Chi Qing's news has gone beyond the scope of Zhou Bai's past life deduction. He can't even imagine what kind of magical power and law control can realize this kind of plane conquest.

And he didn't understand why the Heavenly Court would promote this agreement among the heavens when it was clear that they would be at a disadvantage in the competition between the mortal nations.

It wasn't until Huangdi's envoy and Qingyi, who had helped him not long ago, contacted him that Zhou Bai combined the information from the three parties and finally figured it out.

It turned out that the third invasion of the Qingxu Realm suffered a lot of losses and was basically deemed a failure. The Qingxu people clearly realized that even if the Dao Ancestor did not show up, the strength of the Tianyuan Realm was still extremely top-notch.

Therefore, the senior officials of the Qingxu Alliance decided to change their thinking and no longer blindly pursue radicalism and speed. Instead, they chose to first attack the outer planes of Tianyuan Realm and other world planes between the two realms.

The first is to plunder easily plundered resources to replenish them, and the second is to firmly lock the Tianyuan Realm, and then rely on many surrounding plane strongholds to launch an all-round attack.

Losing half a plane would put additional pressure on the local defense, not to mention being enemies with many complete worlds.

However, the Heavenly Court has not set out on an expedition to the outside world for a long time, and the expedition fleet is still in the process of being formed, so it is agreed that the Qingxu Realm and other interested worlds will engage in a "gamble war".

Now that an agreement has been reached, the most basic purpose of Heavenly Court has actually been achieved, which is to delay time.

It would be good if the Tianyuan countries could win more, but if they couldn't, it wouldn't affect the larger situation.

The most ambitious plan, the demon hunting expedition!

Repeat the glory of Tianyuan, open up the blueprint of the star sea, and fight back to hunt the invaders from the Qingxu Realm!

Only the Tianyuan Realm has ever fought against other worlds. How has it ever been blocked at the door by an expedition fleet?

When Qingyi revealed this plan, Zhou Bai almost didn't dare to listen. Such secrets are probably not known to the ordinary middle and lower heavenly organs.

For this reason, he even took the initiative to swear by his inner demons not to let anyone know about it, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, it was precisely because of this that Qingyi became a little bit behind the scenes and became more strict with her mouth, quite aware that this was a secret.

Zhou Bai therefore kept a close eye on him, confused?

I'm afraid this female fairy's status is not low, so she needs to maintain her relationship well.

Of course, Qingyi still solemnly told Zhou Bai that if he wanted to reach the last step, he must obtain tickets for Jianguo in advance and strive to win.

As for the Huangdi envoy, like Qingyi, he didn't know where to get the authority and contacted Zhou Bai from Tiandie.

However, this person was quite tame and was just testing Zhou Bai to see if he had the idea of ​​inheriting the destiny of earth and virtue.

Zhou Bai's reply was very cautious, just vague and perfunctory, saying that he had not yet made a decision, and there was no further explanation.

After all, apart from Zhou Bai's status as a heavenly being, the power of the Anbei Governor's Mansion is nothing. The land of the two counties is not worthy of people's overzealousness.

Someone from above reminded him that Zhou Bai must seize the time and strive to capture the border counties and then establish the country.

Otherwise, we can only be like Jiang Yuanlong of Xishu, who established his country with two counties. However, Xishu is far more densely populated than border states such as Dingzhou. With the population base there, a strong establishment will not leave too many people behind.

Many hidden dangers.

Under Zhou Bai's rule, the population of Bei'an County reached a maximum of 1.1 million. This was due to the recent absorption of some refugees from other states and the naturalization of mountain people from various places.

Looking at Ruinan County, there are only 800,000 people, which does not meet the requirements of the ancient system of humane luck. Only one million people can establish a county.

Even in today's troubled times, the impact of such regulations will not be too great, but if the country is forcibly established when the population is insufficient, there may be problems with luck.

Therefore, Zhou Bai must capture Border City County to make up for the lack of population base.

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On August 9, Anbei Army vowed to march westward.

Although Zhou Yuan was not present, he was accompanied by Gao Hu, Lou Jinpeng, Jiao Tu, Xu Yun, Yan Cheng and other generals.

Among them, Lou Jinpeng and Jiao Tu can both assume commanding responsibilities.

The number of troops of the Western Expedition Army was far less than the main force attacking Ruinan County. There were only 10,000 government troops, 3,000 demon-subduing troops, and 2,000 cavalry, for a total of 15,000 people.

However, the main force was only 15,000, and there were many auxiliary (civilian) soldiers accompanying the army, a total of 10,000.

In addition, nearly 20,000 civilians were responsible for escorting the baggage, and there were also reserve officials selected to accompany the baggage team.

It is difficult to accumulate wealth, but it is very easy to squander it.

Just like Zhou Bai opened the door to seek talents, but just filling the vacancies in Ruinan County and Border City County has already exhausted the talent reserve.

Most people who go to Ruinan County to become officials are promoted. Bei'an Township officials become Ruinan County officials, and county officials become county officials.

Those who went to Biancheng County and observed carefully found that many officials had been in office for less than half a year and had barely passed an evaluation period.

If he attacks the fourth county again, just digestion will be a problem, so Zhou Bai thinks of the first major event after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is to open a subject to obtain scholars.

At that time, there would be enough luck to grant these imperial examination talents...

Just thinking about it on the march made me feel more and more the importance of this recruitment opportunity.

Only by winning and seizing enough national destiny can the country develop rapidly.

On August 10th, Zhou Bai had already appeared in Baisha Town on Jiejing. This place was only three hundred miles deep into Baishazhou, but it was still more than two thousand miles away from Shazhou City, the next stronghold established by Border City County.

Even the elites of the government army who have practiced martial arts can only march two hundred miles in a day. If they don't save their energy and force the march, it can only be three hundred miles at most.

In this way, it would normally take more than ten days to reach Shazhou City, not to mention whether supplies can be obtained in Shazhou City and Border City County.

Because according to the previous strategic plan, Biancheng County was a place that all government agencies, including Xuanyi Guards, ignored. They only knew that it was poorer than Cangbei County.
To be continued...