Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 424: The Beginning of Military Strategy
"Further improve the way of military formation?"

"As expected of a person who is praised as the Martial Saint and respected as the ancestor of military strategists in later generations, he can indeed do things that ordinary people cannot do."

"This is the military formation he improved, which should be the prototype of the military strategy. Among the hundreds of schools of thought, the military strategy started from this."

How could Ao Bing not pay attention to such a big event happening in Beihai Country? Therefore, he turned his attention to it as soon as the incident happened and witnessed everything that happened.

Although Ao Bing had high hopes for Jiang Ziya, he still didn't expect that he would bring him such a big surprise.

As the art of formation was further perfected by Jiang Ziya, there was no suspense in this battle of the North Sea, and the North Sea demon tribe would undoubtedly be defeated.

When the gap between the two sides is not big, the art of military formation is the key to victory. The commander of the two sides who has a deeper understanding of the art of military formation will win the final victory.

Judging from the current situation, with the union of the Immortal Alliance, the human race, and the dragon race, their overall strength will be greater than that of the North Sea Demon Clan.

In this case, if the commander of the North Sea Demon Clan has a far greater control over the art of military formation than Jiang Ziya, then he may not be without a chance of winning.

But the reality is, when it comes to the understanding of the art of military formations, there is probably no one in this world who can compare to Jiang Ziya.

According to the memories that Ao Bing obtained from later generations, Jiang Ziya's further improvement of the military formation this time was not as simple as outsiders thought. He sublimated it as a whole, from a skill to a path of practice and a way to achieve enlightenment.

He is the famous military strategist in later generations!

The same applies to the battlefield, but the way of military formations is completely different from the way of military strategy.

The art of military formations is actually a branch of the art of formations. Its main content is various methods of deploying formations. It talks about how to utilize various terrains and environments to arrange the formation that is most beneficial to oneself.

And instruct the soldiers on how to cooperate to maximize the power of the military formation.

In essence, the art of military formation is not a method of cultivation, but a way of practicing the hundred arts, a means to defend the way. It is a skill, not a way.

But the way of military strategy is different. Military strategy is the way of using troops, which is a further extension and sublimation of the way of military formation. It not only covers various military formations, but also the corresponding methods of cultivation, magical powers, magic weapons, etc.

Not only can it allow the soldiers who make up the army to speed up their training with the help of the power of heaven and earth, it can also make them cooperate more tacitly, thereby making the army burst out with greater power.

Of course, the most important thing is that the military strategists have their own unique methods of practice, which can help people achieve enlightenment.

This is the most crucial point, and also the biggest difference between the way of military strategy and the way of military formation. The former is a Tao, which can help people achieve Tao.

The latter is a skill. No matter how deeply you learn it, it can only enhance the means of defending the Tao, but cannot make people achieve enlightenment. There is an essential difference between the two.

In Jiang Ziya's hands, the same cultivators, forming the same military formation, can exert several times the power of others.

This is an overwhelming advantage. Unless the opponent is much stronger than him, there is no possibility of winning against him.

The current situation is that the North Sea Monster Clan is not only much stronger than Jiang Ziya, but even weaker than him. In this case, Ao Bing naturally dared to assert that the North Sea Monster Clan would definitely lose this battle.

How can they win? Even if Kunpeng personally went down to the battlefield and served as the commander of the North Sea Monster Clan to command this war, he was still not as good as Jiang Ziya in the use of military formations.

Yes, that's right. Even if Kunpeng, one of the founders of the art of military formation, took action personally, he was not as good as Jiang Ziya in the use of military formation.

This does not mean that Jiang Ziya is wiser than Kunpeng, but rather the advantage of the version.

The version that Jiang Ziya mastered has been upgraded, but Kunpeng is still using the outdated old version to deal with him. Even if he can play with the old version in some new ways, it will be useless and cannot change the outcome of defeat.

"However, no matter how powerful Jiang Ziya's perfected military formation is, it cannot change the fact that people will die in war."

"It is God's will that the ghost path will flourish. We should take this opportunity to gather enough ghost soldiers and ghosts in the Netherworld."

Raising the Ghost Ban List, Ao Bing thought silently.

This war was destined to be extremely cruel, and countless soldiers would die in battle and be buried in a foreign land. This was unavoidable, and although it was cruel, Ao Bing had no other options.

The only thing he could do was to use the Ghost List to give those capable soldiers another choice, that is, to become ghost soldiers and fight for the future of the underworld.

In the future, when the underworld is completed and the meritorious officials are rewarded, they all have the hope of being deified, and while enjoying immortality, they will also be worshipped by all living beings.

Capable soldiers can be included in the list of sealed ghosts and convert to the way of the gods. For the incompetent soldiers, Ao Bing can only say sorry, and he will silently recite the Sutra of Salvation and try his best to protect the souls of the people so that they can be reincarnated.

As for whether they can awaken to their past and recognize their true selves after reincarnation, that depends on their respective luck. Ao Bing is also unable to bring them back one by one.

"go with!"

With a thought in mind, Ao Bing used all his strength to activate the Ghost Sealing List.

In an instant, on the Sealed Ghost List, black lights flowed, directly breaking through the void, crossing the endless long distance, and coming to the corresponding netherworld pure land under the North Sea, hiding silently.

There is a list of sealed ghosts here. In the future, the souls of all creatures who died in the North Sea will be guided by it. Those who pass the list will remain on the list and become ghost soldiers. Those who fail will be sent to Fengdu City for trial by the ghost messengers, and then it will be decided whether to send them to hell or reincarnate.

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In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

This time, the North Sea Demon Tribe acted quickly. In just three days, its vanguard troops had appeared on the coast of the North Sea, directly across from North Sea City.

Beihai State is said to be a country, but in fact it only has one city, Beihai City. Half of this city is located in the sea, and half is located on land. It is extremely large, with walls thousands of feet high and a circumference of one million miles.

Beihai City was built by the Beihai demon tribe as a bridgehead for its invasion of Kyushu.

Therefore, the North Sea Demon Clan spent a lot of time and effort in building the North Sea City, and used the best materials. After the city was built, it could be called a war fortress, which was both tall and solid, and comparable to top-grade innate spiritual treasures.

In addition, there are formations on the city walls for protection. If they work together with the city, even if more than ten Golden Immortals take action, they will not be able to break through the defenses of this city.

If not for this, Wen Zhong would not have endured tens of thousands of years before he finally conquered Beihai City. In order to conquer this city, Wen Zhong really tried every possible means.

Fortunately, they had already conquered Beihai City, and now it was the turn of the Beihai demons to attack the city. The more effort they put into building the city, the greater the price they would have to pay to attack it now.

"The demon tribe's vanguard has arrived. Quickly deploy the formation and defend comprehensively while waiting for reinforcements."

As soon as the vanguard of the North Sea Monster Tribe arrived, the soldiers guarding the city wall discovered their tracks and immediately gave the alarm.

Soon, the entire Beihai City began to operate, and a large number of soldiers rushed to the city walls to build a defense line.

The remaining soldiers were not idle either. Following the orders from above, they went to the formation nodes located throughout the city. While protecting them, they also had to supply them with energy before their power was exhausted.

"Don't panic. Follow the method I taught you. Don't think or think. First, adjust your breathing to be consistent. Then follow my guidance and condense your strength into one force to form a military formation."

Jiang Ziya, who had already proven his ability to the generals, spoke at the right time and asked the soldiers in the city to arrange their troops according to his instructions.

Because the time was too short, even if the military formation perfected by Jiang Ziya was passed down, the soldiers would not have enough time to learn it.

Therefore, at this time, in order to ensure the successful formation of the army, Jiang Ziya had to use a trick.

To make the soldiers stop thinking and not thinking was actually to make them give up resistance. In this way, Jiang Ziya's divine thoughts could successfully enter their sea of ​​consciousness and control their bodies.

In this way, all the soldiers became puppets of Jiang Ziya, and they could be manipulated by him and form any formation he wanted.

Doing this may sound simple, but it is actually very difficult. First of all, it is not easy to make the soldiers give up resistance, which requires their extreme trust.

Secondly, the soldiers simply gave up resistance, not that they were incapable of resistance.

Once the external stimulation is too great, they will immediately withdraw from the state of not thinking or having any ideas, and then have all kinds of distracting thoughts.

This was the time to test Jiang Ziya's will. If he could withstand the impact of everyone's distracting thoughts and not be affected by them, then the army formation would not collapse.

On the contrary, if his will is not strong enough and he cannot withstand the impact of everyone's distracting thoughts, his mind will be overwhelmed by the distracting thoughts and he will become an idiot.

If the people become idiots, they will naturally no longer be able to maintain the military formation. The formation will immediately collapse, and then an extremely strong backlash force will be generated, acting on the people in the main formation.

Considering Jiang Ziya's level of cultivation, he was very lucky not to die on the spot if he was attacked back by the army formation.

In order to prove himself, Jiang Ziya really tried his best and risked his life to fight with the vanguard of the North Sea monster tribe who had arrived.

The Shang Dynasty has an army stationed in Beihai City, numbering more than one million. They are the elite among the elite. The weakest of them have the cultivation level of a celestial immortal. Among them, 100,000 have the cultivation level of a mysterious immortal, and 10,000 have the cultivation level of a golden immortal.

As for Jiang Ziya, he hadn't even touched the threshold of the immortal path. Logically speaking, even if everyone gave up resistance, with his little cultivation, he couldn't take over everyone's body.

But the situation is different now. Wen Zhong has given the position of commander-in-chief to Jiang Ziya and has been recognized by Emperor Xin.

In other words, Jiang Ziya is now the commander-in-chief, with the blessing of the Great Shang national destiny. Even without the blessing of the princes from all directions, the Great Shang national destiny is at the quasi-saint level.

With his blessing, Jiang Ziya's realm was immediately raised to the level of Daluo Perfection. In this way, he had enough strength to take over the bodies of these one million soldiers.

"Array up!"

After adapting a little, Jiang Ziya began to control the bodies of millions of soldiers to form the formation he wanted.

(End of this chapter)