dawn of dynasty

Chapter 355 The two armies confront each other, and the war is about to begin.

Destroy the warlord and the palace.

After Pei Gao regained consciousness, he thanked King Yan Zhao with "tears of gratitude" and thanked him for never giving up on him and insisting on negotiating with the Xia Nan clan, finally forcing Shen Guanye to release him.

King Yan Zhao looked at Pei Ku, who was kneeling on one knee in the hall, thanking him, and the anger in his heart disappeared.

In fact, Xia Nan Clan's constant repetition during this period made him extremely irritable. In order to replace Pei Zuo, he really spent a lot of effort, and even changed his original strategy again and again.

If he had not taken Pei Zuo and the large group of people standing behind Pei Zuo into consideration, he would have launched a large-scale attack on the Xia Nan Clan. It would have been impossible to control the scale of the war until now.

Now that the man was rescued, the anger in King Yan Zhao's heart was gone.

After all, Pei Zhu was arrested for a non-war crime. With Shen Guanye's strength, unless he was the person present at the time, anyone who replaced the warlord would have to be arrested.

"Get up quickly, why do you and I need to say thank you?"

King Yan Zhao said with a smile on his face.

Pei Zu stood up.

King Yan Zhao spoke to Pei Ku some more and asked about his situation in Xia Nan Clan and whether Shen Guanye had given him any trouble. Pei Ku answered them one by one.

Finally, King Yan Zhao suddenly had an ancient gold and silver bronze mirror with black bird patterns in his hand.

"Come, let's go through the necessary procedures."

Pei Zhang subconsciously felt nervous, but on the surface he still pretended to be calm.

This is the Inquiry of the Heart, which has the ability to identify the loyal and the traitor. It is a rare thing that has been handed down since ancient times. It has been collected by the royal families of all dynasties. King Yan Zhao did not have many other things, but he had many good things.

The collections from royal families of all dynasties are as numerous as those of the central government.

Pei Zuo was not sure whether he could hide from this question, so he could only bite the bullet and said:

"it is good."

The gold and silver bronze mirror with black bird patterns suddenly shone brightly, shrouding Pei Kuo. In the light, a black bird descended from the sky.

"Have you betrayed Warlord Po?"

Pei Zuo's heart tightened. He could feel the strong restraint coming from the bright light, especially the black bird, as if he would unleash the wrath of thunder as long as he told a lie.

"No."

But in the end, the lie blurted out and was not affected by the gold, silver and bronze medallion with the black bird pattern.

King Yan Zhao showed a look of satisfaction on his face and asked several questions one after another, and Pei Ku answered them one by one.

The black bird soars and the bright light converges.

King Yan Zhao put away his question and smiled at Pei Zuo.

"This is a necessary procedure, I hope you don't take it personally."

King Yan Zhao has a suspicious character. Although he does not believe that Pei Zuo will rebel, after all, Pei Zuo has been captured for too long. No one can say what will happen after such a long time, so even if King Yan Zhao does not think that Pei Zuo will rebel in his heart , but to be on the safe side, I still asked carefully to dispel the last bit of doubt.

Only in this way will he trust Pei Zhu again.

Shen Guanye and Pei Gao actually expected this, but there was no good way to avoid it, so they could only bite the bullet and go ahead, hoping that the emperor's personality and the power of the edict could bypass the inquiry.

Now, they got it right.

"Commander, you broke your promise on the spot this time. I'm afraid the next battle will be difficult..."

Seeing that he had passed the test of asking the heart, he understood the character of King Yan Zhao, and knew that the other party had completely put aside his doubts, so he spoke tactfully.

He wanted to find out why King Yan Zhao blatantly breached the contract and suddenly assumed a decisive battle with Shen Guanye.

In other words, where his confidence lies.

King Yan Zhao glanced at Pei Zong and said nothing.

It's not that he was suspicious of Pei Zhu, it was just his nature that he didn't tell a third party anything he knew.

Besides, the previous traitor has not been caught yet.

This incident also served as a warning to King Yan Zhao.

Therefore, even when Pei Gao asked him, King Yan Zhao did not miss a word.

Pei Zuo was shocked when King Yan Zhao looked at him, and he didn't dare to ask any more questions at the moment.

In breaking the warlord, it seems that he has a high status, but in fact it is only King Yanzhao who decides independently. Just like when the previous dynasty was still there, King Yanzhao is the master, and he is the minister and servant.

Even because of his personal character and the fact that he was a powerful man in the country, King Yan Zhao was much more willful and self-willed than the former Emperor Yongxing, and he was more majestic in front of his subordinates.

Therefore, even though his status was as high as Pei's, he did not dare to really displease King Yan Zhao.

……

The situation in the southwest quickly became more chaotic.

Due to various reasons, although the Xia Nan Clan, Wuqu Clan, Shiliang Clan, etc. have already declared war with the Po Warlords, the scale of the war between the two sides has actually been small.

Even the weakest Shiliang Clan, Jiyan Clan, and the small and medium-sized warlords who joined in one after another, used limited forces and were far from reaching the level of a full-scale war.

In terms of the scale of the war, it was the smallest among the four battlefields - not long ago, the Tianlong Clan's civil strife finally broke out, and the Ghost Clan took over the central government's position and responsibility.

But as soon as these families in the southwest moved, it suddenly became like a storm, and the scale of the war was probably greater than the Tianlong Clan Civil War and the Bilong Clan battlefield, becoming the second largest battlefield after the Guimen Clan battlefield.

Although it was the Xia Nan Clan who were detained by the warlords, judging from the deployment of troops and generals, the main target of this war was also the Xia Nan Clan. Logically speaking, Wuqu Clan, Jiyan Clan, Shiliang Clan, etc. could not contribute much and just sit back and wait. Break the warlord and Xia Nan clan's fight, and then enjoy the benefits of the fishermen.

After all, the Xia Nan Clan, the Wuqu Clan, the Shiliang Clan and other warlords are allies now, but in the long run they are competitors. It’s just that compared to King Yan Zhao, Shen Guanye is more principled and does what he does and what he doesn’t. .

But in fact, the warlords such as Wuqu Clan and Shiliang Clan had no intention of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers. They also mobilized their troops and generals on a large scale and did not let Xia Nan Clan face the pressure of defeating the warlords alone.

Without him, backstabbing an ally is not a good reputation!

If they clearly formed an alliance but stood aside while the enemy targeted one of them, the alliance would be gone.

In order to cut off the other warlords, the leader of the Wuqu Clan was careful. After the news spread that King Yan Zhao broke his promise and sent three dragon generals to detain Zhu Wang and others on the spot. He immediately sent someone to find Shen Guanye to reassure him, saying that he would definitely do his best to share the pressure for Shen Guanye and would never let him bear the heavy pressure of the warlord alone.

The other side sent people to Ji Yanlord and other warlords to express their position and analyze the pros and cons, thus cutting off the possibility of these warlords being careful - if they had any.

It can be said that the commander-in-chief of Wuqu Clan's profound understanding of justice and his vigorous and resolute actions helped Shen Guanye greatly.

Seeing the armies of both sides gathering, Shen Guanye also visited the battlefield in person.

Judging from the situation, this battle is already a decisive battle that determines the fate of both sides. The winning or losing of the war will almost determine the final fate of the Broken Warlord and the Xia Nan Clan.

If the Xia Nan Clan loses, then the Xia Nan Clan will be defeated like a mountain. Soon the defeated warlords will be able to go all the way down the river, directly attack Huanglong, and march to Xia Nan City, because the Xia Nan Clan is inferior in terms of population and territory. The warlords are more than defeated, and the error tolerance is much smaller. After the elite wave is destroyed, there is no chance for a comeback.

If Po Warlord loses, although Po Warlord's size will not result in a total defeat, it will be difficult to come back. Because the potential of Xia Nan Clan or Shen Guanye is obvious, the longer the delay, the more beneficial it will be for Xia Nan Clan.

Otherwise, King Yan Zhao wouldn't have to rush to launch a decisive battle, right?

Isn't it because King Yan Zhao knew in his heart that if he didn't launch it, he might no longer be qualified to launch a decisive battle in the future, because who knows when the Xia Nan Clan's comprehensive strength would catch up to or even surpass the Po Warlord?

What's more, Shen Guanye was quietly promoted to a heavenly being? !

Although it sounds like a fantasy, judging from Shen Guanye's past performance, it is not impossible.

Therefore, don't underestimate the warlord's size. It seems that it will consume the Xia Nan clan to death, but if they really lose this decisive battle, I'm afraid there will be no chance of a comeback.

However, it is not necessarily.

Both sides have national-level combat capabilities. Even if there is a winner or loser in this battle, they are afraid that they will not die. And with national-level combat power at your side, you may not have no chance of making a comeback.

……

There are hundreds of thousands of people hiding among the high mountains.

Among them, the Xia Nan Clan has one hundred thousand troops. This is almost the entire strength of the Xia Nan Clan. The Xia Nan Clan only has a total of more than two million people, of which more than one million are just swallowed. It can pull out a An army of 100,000 people is already considered very powerful.

The strength of these 100,000 troops varies greatly.

After all, you can't expect a team that has just been established for a few years to be able to compete with other teams that have been in the team for more than ten or twenty years, right?

But there is one advantage that other warlords under his command do not have, and that is the configuration of heroic spirits.

The number of heroic spirits at Shen Guanye's hands seemed to be endless. Every once in a while, a large number of heroic spirits would be added to each team, so that the Xia Nan Clan's army had far more heroic spirits than other warlords compared to humans.

I really don’t know how many lairs Shen Guanye has under his command, and where can he get so much money to recruit these heroic spirits?

Even if Shen Guanye awakened from his mother's womb and became the Lord of Apocalypse, and had been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger for so many years, silently accumulating strength, he still wouldn't be able to get so many nests and recruit so many heroic spirits, right?

If it's really that easy, why don't we see other Apocalypse Lords hold it in for decades and get it big?

It’s impossible to think deeply about these things. Once you think about them deeply, you’ll find them very unreasonable.

So, in the end, everyone was numb.

This is a good thing for them, isn't it?

The 100,000 troops were cobbled together by the Xia Nan clan, and the remaining 200,000 naturally belonged to the defeated warlord. This is not the entire force of Po Warlord. After all, Po Warlord has enemies in several other directions who are eyeing him.

Especially the Wuqu Clan, one of the five major warlords, its total military strength is not much inferior to that of the Po Warlord. King Yan Zhao must leave a large number of troops to defend Wuqu Clan, and it is impossible to mobilize all the troops.

However, these 200,000 troops are already the elite of the warlords, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of ordinary armies.

On the hill, Shen Guanye looked at the high mountains. The Po Warlord's equipment was obviously much better than that of the Xia Nan Clan. It was equipped with a large number of heavy weapons. In comparison, the Xia Nan Clan's equipment was very "shabby".

There is no way, after all, it is too late to rise.

Shen Guanye sighed in his heart, but quickly regained his composure.

That's why he sent heroic spirits to the army for free, in order to use the heroic spirits to make up for the gap in numbers and equipment.

To Shen Guanye, heroic spirits are dead objects, and the value of dead objects can never be compared to that of living people. In the eyes of other warlords, exchanging heroic spirits for the lives of ordinary people is definitely not a good deal, and they feel very distressed.

After all, even the lowest Level 1 Heroic Spirit is worth one hundred silver dollars, and high-level Heroic Spirits are even more priceless. How much is the life of an ordinary person worth?

Human life is like a piece of grass and has no value at all!

Is it crazy to trade heroic souls for the lives of ordinary people?

Speaking of which, in the past two years, the temples of the Five Zang Gods have increased dramatically, and coupled with the acceleration of merit and money, he has accumulated a large number of Five Zang Gods under his hands.

With the help of so many five-organ gods, many Apocalypse were born in the Xia Nan Clan every day, especially those indigenous people. After years of "survival of the fittest" in the harsh environment of Nanyang Continent, their physical fitness was already better than that of Tianxia. The person is much better, and he has received a good education from the enlightened person, plus the help of the five internal organs gods.

Under the three major factors, the number of Apocalypse among the indigenous people has exploded. These newly awakened Apocalypse have contracted a large number of low-level heroic spirits, further contributing to the growth of the territory's strength - commanded and uncommanded. , the combat effectiveness of heroic spirits is at two levels.

It’s just that the time is still too short.

Shen Guanye said regretfully. If it takes a little longer, when these Apocalypse grow further, the strength of the territory will increase a lot.

But thinking about it, if he continued step by step like this, he wouldn't be able to quickly expand his territory and population.

In comparison, it would be more cost-effective for him to fight the Broken Warlord now.

Because he has the confidence to defeat the warlord.

Beside Shen Guanye were Chi Hun and Su Yuan. As for Lu Boxiang and other masters, they were leading troops in other places.

……

On another hill, King Yan Zhao and Shen Guanye faced each other from a distance.

Shen Guanye and Chi Hun have already arrived at the battlefield in person. If he doesn't come to take charge, who can stop them? I'm afraid I'll have to bring in another 200,000 troops to wear the opponent to death - and they probably won't be able to wear him to death!

King Yan Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly and looked far away in the direction of Shen Guanye. The distance between the two sides was too far, and he could not actually see Shen Guanye.

Of course, a master like him no longer relies on his eyes to see things. In King Yan Zhao's perception, the auras of Shen Guanye and Chi Hun soared majestically into the sky, and could not be clearer.

"Send the order and let the vanguard troops start the battle."

King Yan Zhao ordered calmly.

"Yes."

The men took the order and were about to leave.

At this moment, in King Yan Zhao's perception, the most powerful and thick auras on the opposite side suddenly rose into the sky and came very quickly in his direction.

"How brave!"

King Yan Zhao was shocked and angry, but there was a look of joy on his face!

(End of this chapter)