Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 199 Send Troops
The regular army is a reflection of national strength, so they don't need to run around collecting resources like ordinary monks. All their needs for practice are provided by the country.

But the country's resources are limited. When the country is strong, it can naturally support more soldiers. On the contrary, when the country is weak, it needs to reduce the number of regular troops.

At the beginning of its founding, Da Shang had abundant resources and could even support a million celestial immortals, but now, it can only support a hundred thousand refining immortals.

Such a huge gap is certainly due to the weakening of the Shang Dynasty, but this is not the main reason.

The main reason is that after millions of years of reproduction and development, the aristocratic group of the Shang Dynasty has become increasingly larger than in the early days of the founding of the country, and the number of princes enfeoffed has also increased.

Resources are limited, and there are more and more nobles to support. When the income is not enough to make ends meet, the only option is to cut the country's flesh to subsidize the nobles.

What else? Can we cut off the nobles' flesh to subsidize the country?
There is no such thing in the world!
All the resources were given to the nobles, so naturally there were fewer resources to train regular troops. Therefore, the Shang Dynasty had to continuously reduce the number of regular troops.

The number was reduced generation after generation, and by the time of Emperor Xin, there were only 100,000 refining masters left.

Of course, 100,000 is indeed less, but this is the army of the country, not including the private armies of the Human King and the nobles. If they are included, there will be tens of millions of Refined Voids.

If the background of these nobles is taken into account, there could even be hundreds of thousands of celestial beings gathered together.

It can only be said that the Shang Dynasty was not weak, but unfortunately, the domestic nobles had their own ideas and were not necessarily in agreement with Emperor Xin, which led to the Shang Dynasty becoming worse day by day.

This is also outrageous. They clearly have the resources to support tens of millions of Refined Void Masters, but they only support 100,000 of them. Such a country does not seem to be able to last long.

"Alas, it's hard to reverse the situation."

After Huang Feihu left, Ao Bing couldn't help but sigh.

Given the current situation of the Shang Dynasty, reviving it would be even more difficult than establishing a new dynasty. If the entanglements were not too deep, Ao Bing would have wanted to rebel.

"There is only one way to save the Great Shang now, and that is to destroy it and then rebuild it. The Zhou Kingdom still has to rebel. If we can use the excuse of suppressing the rebellion to kill the nobles in the country on the battlefield, then the Great Shang can still be saved."

"If not..."

To ease domestic conflicts through foreign wars is, to put it bluntly, a gamble on the fate of the country. If it succeeds, it will succeed; if it fails, it will perish. It is very extreme.

But for Da Shang, this is the only way. Otherwise, it will not be enough to break down and then rebuild!
……

With the previous preparation, Huang Feihu's troop deployment this time was undoubtedly much faster. In just over a month, he had gathered 60,000 refining-level soldiers.

However, compared to the 40,000 Lianxu soldiers before, these 60,000 were all private soldiers of the nobles. Therefore, they only had their own nobles to whom they were loyal, not Ao Bing, and they only listened to orders but not announcements.

"Why don't you look for the old man from the Xuanniao Guard, but instead look for the private soldiers of these nobles?" After taking a look at these soldiers, Ao Bing asked Huang Feihu curiously.

The life span of a cultivator in the Void Refining Stage starts at a thousand years, with no upper limit, so they will not become old and weak like ordinary people.

In theory, they can serve forever. But in reality, the Xuanniao Guards are assessed every hundred years, and if they fail three times, they are forced to retire and be replaced by newcomers.

Therefore, even though the Xuanniao Guards only have 100,000 people, there are many retired veterans, and quite a few of them have made breakthroughs in their cultivation and become celestial immortals.

However, after becoming immortals, they became the foundation of the Shang Dynasty. They always focused on the outside world but not the inside, and would only go out to attack foreign tribes. For example, the army that attacked the North Sea was composed of immortals.

Ao Bing originally thought that Huang Feihu would select men from the retired Xuanniao Guards when he mobilized the troops, but he did not expect that he would directly recruit the private army of the nobles.

"Don't worry, Uncle Long. They will never dare to disobey your orders. If they do not obey, they will be punished by military law!" Huang Feihu assured him, knowing what Ao Bing was worried about.

The private armies of the nobles only obeyed the orders of the nobles. Therefore, there were many cases where they disobeyed the orders of the commander in battle and acted on their own, thus leading to the defeat of the army.

It was normal for Ao Bing to have doubts when facing this group of noble private soldiers.

"Let me be frank. If they act on their own and ruin my plans, I will show no mercy."

"I am not a king, and I have to consider the feelings of the nobles in my country. Even if they are ministers, if they dare to disrupt my plans, I dare to kill them."

Ao Bing thought about it and felt that using these private soldiers might not be a bad thing. If he could find a reason to kill the nobles behind them, it would somewhat strengthen the strength of Da Shang.

Thinking of this, he said a harsh word in advance, and no longer cared about the origins of these soldiers, but instead used his magical powers to summon the dragon boats.

"Don't worry, Uncle Long. They know the seriousness of the matter and will never embarrass you."

Huang Feihu replied in a serious tone. He knew Ao Bing was not joking and really dared to kill someone.

If the ministers were guilty, Emperor Xin might not dare to kill them considering the consequences. But Ao Bing was different. As long as he was right, he would kill them. Who would dare to cause trouble for him?
"hope so!"

Ao Bing answered casually, and at this moment, a dragon boat sailed out from the void and stopped above the army.

"Let the army board the ship. We will go through the void, bypass the defense line of the Su country, and go straight to Su City."

After removing the restrictions on the dragon boat, Ao Bing asked Huang Feihu to organize an army to board the boat.

"Every time I see Long Bo's magic weapon, I am shocked from the bottom of my heart."

Staring at the dragon boat, Huang Feihu said with shock on his face that he had previously felt that the dragon boat was indeed a weapon of war.

And now, Ao Bing's actions clearly told him that he was right, dragon boats were born for war.

Su City is the center of the Su State. On its periphery, the Su State has deployed countless defense lines. It is extremely difficult to break through.

But the result was that Ao Bing only needed to summon the dragon boat to pass through the void and directly kill his way to Su City, making the defense line that Su State had painstakingly set up useless.

While sighing, Huang Feihu also secretly became alert. As the void was divided, the mode of battle also changed. Not only did he have to guard against enemies on the ground, but he also had to guard against enemies from the void.

Otherwise, just like Ao Bing did today, he rushed out from the void and anyone would be killed by surprise.

They were all cultivators and had the ability to fly. At Ao Bing's command, they all used their magical powers to leap onto the dragon boat.

After all the 100,000 Void Refining Army soldiers jumped onto the dragon boat, there was a loud bang, and a brilliant divine light suddenly burst out from the dragon boat, piercing through layers of the void.

The next moment, the dragon boat plunged into the depths of the void like an arrow and disappeared.

Ang~~

In the void, the sound of dragon roars continued, and the speed of the dragon boat became faster and faster. In an instant, it broke into the thirty-sixth layer of the void.

(End of this chapter)