Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2549 Suppressing the Rebels, Zhunti Makes a Empty Journey

Even without prior warning, given the tight security surrounding Wang Yu, there was virtually no chance of success.

Not to mention, the Net had already received clues beforehand.

Therefore, the failure of Wang Yu's ambush on his return journey was almost inevitable.

These people originally intended to launch a surprise attack while Wang Yu's main force was crossing the river and the army was unable to form a battle formation.

Just as they were about to begin their plan, the three thousand guards who were crossing the river were indeed unable to deploy their troops in time. However, another force suddenly appeared from behind them.

Faced with the well-organized imperial army, these so-called martial arts masters suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and even performed worse than the men gathered by the powerful families of Guanzhong.

Those members of the Kansai aristocratic families at least knew how to form formations and cooperate with each other, and did not attempt to fight the army one-on-one.

However, this was still of little use. The army's strength compared to these various groups lay not only in its discipline and unity, but also in the equipment of both sides.

Those who were able to be mobilized to suppress these people at this time were undoubtedly elite troops, with a large number of armored soldiers. Each of them could take on several of these people who had little armor protection.

People like Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng Sect, Mo Da and Yue Buqun of the Five Mountains Sword Sect, Tao Baichuang and Shang Tianliang of the Power Gang, the ten villains of the Evil Valley led by Tie Zhan and Bai Kaixin, and the brothers You Ji and You Ju of Juxian Manor, are among them many skilled martial artists, and even more innate-level martial artists.

If they were to fight one-on-one, each of them could probably take down at least a dozen imperial soldiers.

But in such a chaotic battlefield, facing swords and spears from all sides, they were completely unprotected and could not hold out for long.

Even a master-level martial artist like Feng Qingyang could only hold out for a little longer when faced with a barrage of arrows before ultimately being pierced through the heart and dying.

Clearly, the Arrow-Breaking Style of the Dugu Nine Swords is not enough to break through a volley of arrows, let alone a continuous volley of arrows.

In particular, two top masters, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, also participated in this battle.

Although Wang Yu returned to Tianjing ahead of time under the protection of Li Yuanba and Ling Donglai, the two personal guard commanders, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, remained with the main force.

If both of the two imperial guard commanders have left, how can they create the illusion that Wang Yu is here?

In this battle, Shangguan Jin Hong of the Money Gang, You Tanzhi of Juxianzhuang, the Four Heavenly Monks of Jingang Temple, and many other grandmaster-level masters either died at the hands of Xu Chu and Dian Wei, or at the hands of Fu Hongxue, Liu Jiannu, and other top-level assassins from the Luo Wang organization who participated in the battle.

The rest, such as the so-called Twelve Constellations, the Black Wind Duo, and the Ten Evils, these so-called rabble, didn't even need Dian Wei and Fu Hongxue to take action; the army could handle them directly.

The only regret is that no master of the Celestial level stepped forward during this incident, even though he had asked Zhunti to go and listen to his advice.

It's important to understand that while Zhunti's status as a master at the peak of the Heavenly Realm is not important, he is still one of the two great leaders of Mahayana Buddhism. Even Wang Yu wouldn't let him handle everything, big or small.

It was rare for him to actually lift a finger, but he ended up missing.

It was only at this point that Wang Yu realized why Tianwu Academy had launched such a half-hearted ambush; they had never expected to succeed in the first place.

It was merely to cause some trouble in the Han territory and try to slow down the Han's progress.

The Tianwu Academy's plan did have some effect.

This whole affair is far from over; it's only just beginning.

Assassinating the emperor and killing the emperor is never a matter of death absolving one of guilt. Since these people mainly came from Guandong, Guanxi, Hexi and other regions, as well as a small number of people from the Eastern Yi, the governors of several regions quickly took action and organized manpower to begin the encirclement and suppression of these rebellious forces.

Jianghu sects, led by Cihang Jingzhai, Liuhe Gang, and Longhu Mountain, cooperated with the government to surround and kill them, in order to prevent them from escaping to areas outside of the Han Dynasty.

Within just a few days, twenty-one martial arts sects, large and small, including Qingcheng Sect, Juxian Manor, Evil Valley, and Power Gang, were wiped out, with only a few still fleeing.

Forty-five prominent families, including the Mo, Li, Wang, and Cui families of Guanxi, and the Liu, Xiang, and Zheng families of Hexi, were also arrested and brought to justice by the imperial court.

The immediate family members of those involved in this incident would naturally be sentenced to beheading once the imperial court issued its order.

As for those other than their direct relatives, and even servants and slaves who were not closely related, they were either exiled, sentenced, or released, depending on the severity of their relationship.

However, Kongo-ji Temple was one of the few that slipped through the net.

But it wasn't that all the people from the Vajra Temple had actually run away. Rather, it was that the higher-ups of the Vajra Temple were all gone when the big man's men arrived. What use were the ordinary little monks left?

In fact, after the Han Dynasty court killed a few monks of some standing, it simply dispersed the other junior monks and confiscated the Vajra Temple and all its property.

Assassination of the emperor is a crime, and killing is necessary to deter such behavior. However, killing is a means, not an end, and there is no need to escalate the killing.

The key personnel involved in the incident should be executed; the rest are unnecessary and should at most receive varying degrees of punishment.

If the killings were to escalate unchecked, these martial arts sects and aristocratic families combined could easily kill tens of thousands of people without stopping the massacre.

If the killings are expanded meaninglessly, it will completely fulfill the wishes of the Heavenly Martial Academy.

Even without escalating the killings, the number of people who would be executed because of this incident was nearly two thousand.

Before the rise of Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Chanyuan, Jingang Temple, as the only top-tier Buddhist sect in the ancient Cang region, had indeed not fared well in recent years.

There's no other reason than that Vajra Temple belongs to Theravada Buddhism. In other words, among the seven great dynasties, apart from the Great Thunder Temple, the remaining temples were all Theravada Buddhist.

However, after Zhunti became the National Preceptor of the Han Dynasty, the Vajra Temple, which belonged to Theravada Buddhism, naturally had a hard time.

The two newly emerging Buddhist sects, Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Chanyuan, originally belonged to Theravada Buddhism.

However, with a word of enlightenment from Zhunti, Cihang broke through the illusion that had been with him all along, and has now even broken through to the late stage of the Celestial Realm.

These two sects naturally switched sides and joined Mahayana Buddhism.

With its forces outnumbered and outgunned, Vajra Temple actually had the idea of ​​relocating to the Great Wei.

Just as the move was almost complete, Tianwu Academy contacted them to participate in the matter, so they sent a few people to help out.

Tianwu Academy did want to persuade the old celestial monk from Jingang Temple to make a move, but the old celestial monk was not stupid.

Regardless of whether this matter succeeds or not, even if we succeed in going to places like Henan and Hebei, how can we possibly escape in the end?

Just get a few people who aren't part of the inner circle to go, just to make a token gesture; there's no need to actually risk their lives.