The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 560: Hong Chengchou's Experience and Princess Changping's Magic
"Grand Governor!"

"Since the towns and cities are falling too quickly, our soldiers have all retreated back to Guiyang City!"

A figure leaped over, entered the meeting hall of the Governor's Mansion, and reported to Hong Chengchou.

The visitor was Hong Yuanfeng, the main general of the Hong family army.

Judging from his current aura, he has actually broken through to the middle stage of level six, which shows that he has had great luck.

This is indeed the case.

He was unknown in the established history, but the chain reaction caused by Li Dingguo's time travel and rebirth fundamentally changed Hong Yuanfeng's original fate.

Today, Hong Yuanfeng has become Hong Chengchou's most trusted confidant and chief general.

He was full of luck and had an adventure not long ago, where he obtained a talisman inheritance left by a mysterious powerful person.

Since there was no shortage of various spiritual materials for practice, his progress in the art of talismans was very gratifying, which could be described as rapid progress.

Now that Hong Yuanfeng has successfully integrated the experience passed down by the masters, he can already mass-produce several first-level talismans corresponding to the Qi Refining Realm spells.

After distributing these talismans to some elite soldiers and arming them, the combat effectiveness of Hong Chengchou's army was greatly increased.

With the help of a large supply of talismans, Hong Chengchou has now occupied the entire Yunnan-Guizhou region. He has appointed himself as the Grand Commander of Yunnan-Guizhou and has officially broken with the imperial court.

"Hey……"

Hong Chengchou's face was gloomy, and he said slowly, "I didn't expect that this round of the great elimination war of cultivators from all races would be so tragic just after it started!"

"Most of those demons and monsters gathered into a huge army, sweeping in all directions. We were unable to focus on one thing and lose sight of another from the beginning. We lost a million soldiers in the first wave and had to abandon all the towns except Guiyang City!"

"This is completely different from the once-in-a-century catastrophe that hits all races in the world as recorded in history!"

"At this moment, most of the human towns in the world have probably become ruins, right?"

It was not that Hong Chengchou was worrying about nothing or feeling pity for the world, but that his emotion came from the bottom of his heart.

Compared to two years ago, the Hong family army, which has now completed a large-scale regularization expansion, has as many as three million formal elite combat soldiers.

The overall strength has increased at least ten times!
However, after he successfully occupied the entire Yunnan-Guizhou region after painstaking planning, he discovered that even the current Hong family army had just suffered large-scale violent attacks from demons and monsters not long after the start of this round of catastrophe among all races in the world.

Hong Chengchou realized that if he continued like this, he would surely be defeated, so he had no choice but to withdraw all his troops to defend Guiyang Prefecture and abandon all other towns.

Fortunately, apart from the few ghosts and evil spirits, there are countless monsters and beasts that will not kill and eat ordinary people who are useless to them.

Otherwise, after this great catastrophe, only one in a hundred of the Chinese people will survive!

That kind of situation is chilling to think about.

"Grand Governor!"

Hong Yuanfeng continued to report, "I have already used up 129,600 first-class top-grade talismans to set up an everlasting five-element wheel talisman array around Guiyang City!"

"I believe that with this super-large talisman array protecting us, even if more demons and monsters come to attack, they will not be able to do anything to the city we are stationed in, and will have no choice but to retreat unwillingly in the end!"

"This endless five-element rotating talisman array is connected to the earth veins. It can use the endless power of the earth veins to maintain the operation of the talisman array. There is no such thing as energy exhaustion!"

"With the addition of your own innate divine weapon, the Azure Treasure Lotus Flag, at the center of the formation, our army will have no problem defending this city."

Hong Yuanfeng's words were full of self-confidence, and he spoke to Hong Chengchou with a solemn vow.

"That's good!"

"If people survive and land is lost, both people and land will survive!"

Hong Chengchou stood up suddenly and clapped his hands, applauding, "It's no big deal to temporarily give up all the territory in Yunnan and Guizhou except for the city of Guiyang."

"As long as our current two million elite soldiers are still there!"

"Once this great catastrophe is over, we will quickly sweep in all directions. Not only can we easily retake the Yunnan and Guizhou regions, but we may even be able to take over the Guangdong and Guangxi regions!"

"As for the bandits entrenched in Guangdong and Guangxi, led by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, if my estimation is correct, they simply cannot survive this round of catastrophe for the cultivators of all races!"

Sai Weng lost his horse, how do you know it is not a blessing?
Temporarily retracting your fist is to punch out more powerfully later and knock down the enemy in one blow!
As for the previous loss of one million elite soldiers, as long as their foundation is still there, there are plenty of money, food, supplies and training resources in the current Guiyang City, and they can replenish the troops at any time.

Under the tactic of Hong Chengchou ordering the entire army to retreat to Guiyang City, the number of people who have now evacuated into the city, which covers an area of ​​hundreds of miles in radius, is as high as hundreds of millions!

Such a huge population resource is enough to easily select millions of highly qualified recruits and train them vigorously.

It would be a good idea to use the time when I am trapped in the city to train my troops with peace of mind.

Hong Chengchou was not an ordinary person. Now he was ambitious and had great confidence in his future.

Even if he loses to Li Dingguo in the future, he has left a way out for himself, and can be said to be confident.

……

Compared with Hong Chengchou who had a good plan, the city of Jinling was now in a state of panic.

"what?"

"Due to the situation, the speed of the fall of cities and towns in various places was too fast. The two major armies of Lu Xiangsheng and Qin Liangyu actually decided to abandon the cities and towns in various places at the same time and return to defend the cities of Chengdu and Xiangyang?"

Emperor Chongzhen had a gloomy look on his face and his words were filled with helplessness. He wanted to get angry but didn't know where to start.

It was because he was already very clear about how serious the situation was that had just broken out in this round of catastrophe for the cultivators of all races in the world!

Let alone anything else, just the countless groups of sea beasts surrounding the ancient capital outside the city of Jinling are enough to give him a headache.

Fortunately, this is the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is home to more than one billion people and two million elite soldiers. In addition, with the Wushen Temple, a top-level innate artifact, suppressing the city defense formation, it is able to firmly block the fierce attacks of hundreds of millions of various sea beasts.

Emperor Chongzhen might have doubted the abilities of other generals, but both Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng were extraordinary geniuses with unparalleled military talents.

Unless they were in an extremely helpless situation, they would never give up the other towns and choose to defend the Chengdu and Xiangyang cities to the death.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Cao Huachun, the governor of the East Factory, who had just returned after great difficulty riding on the national guardian beast Red Bird, said solemnly, "I maintained the great perfection of invisibility and weapon refining skills all the way back to Jinling City to report the news. I found that towns everywhere have basically been occupied by various groups of demons and monsters!" "The worst are those towns occupied by evil spirits or demons. They have become dead cities without any breath of life left."

"Fortunately, in this world, within our Chinese Nine Provinces, most of the evil demons and ghost tribes are entrenched in the area north of the Yangtze River, which now belongs to Li Dingguo's territory."

“Although I don’t know whether Li Dingguo’s Restoration Army can eliminate the attacking evil spirits and demons, I think they must be having a hard time now.”

"I saw that in a large number of Jiangnan towns that had already fallen, the various demon beast tribes that had an absolute numerical advantage slaughtered and devoured all the human cultivators in the city, but did not actively attack the ordinary people, nor did they wantonly kill them."

"This is a blessing in disguise, as it allows tens of billions of ordinary Chinese people to escape the disaster for the time being."

Unlike those civil servants, Cao Huachun was a rare eunuch who had compassion for the common people. Seeing the current tragic situation, he couldn't help but sigh.

But this is the trend of the world, which cannot be reversed by human power, and we can only sigh in vain!
"Hey!"

"The matter has come to this, what can be done?"

Emperor Chongzhen was full of ambition, but he did not expect that this catastrophe that would affect all races in the world would be on such a massive scale!

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of those large armies composed of practitioners from all races is so strong that it has exceeded the limits that various human forces can bear.

Apart from anything else, the hundreds of millions of aquatic monsters that currently surround the huge Jinling City are not something they can defeat.

Previously, Emperor Chongzhen refused to believe in evil, and personally led a military killing array composed of 500,000 elite soldiers to go out of the city to counterattack. As a result, he was besieged by a large number of monsters led by hundreds of level six dragons!
If he did not have the divine artifact Qiankuntu that he had just obtained to protect himself, even leading the soldiers to retreat back to the city would have become a luxury and would have been impossible.

After this personal verification, Emperor Chongzhen finally woke up and realized that this round of catastrophe for the cultivators of all races in the world was completely different from the once-in-a-century catastrophe that occurred in the Ming Dynasty.

Just looking at the size and combat effectiveness of those demons and monsters, they are much stronger.

The reason for this change must be closely related to the great changes in the world in recent years and the rapid recovery of spiritual energy, which has led to a rapid improvement in the cultivation realm of various demons and monsters, even exceeding the growth rate of strength of major human forces.

"Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, Lu Jiude, Zhou Yuji, what do you think of the current situation in the world?"

Chongzhen thought for a moment, then raised his head and asked several trusted generals in front of him, "Tell me, among all the forces of our human race, is there anyone who can safely withstand the test of this great catastrophe of heaven and earth?"

What he was most worried about was not anything else but that all his soldiers were now trapped in a total of four large cities, which would cause great damage to his foundation.

If there are other human forces that can defend a large number of towns and survive this catastrophe, then...

Once that situation occurs, as one side gains strength while the other loses strength, by the time this round of elimination war among cultivators from all races is over, what will we have to fight against the other side?
Thinking of this, Chongzhen became more and more irritable and even his breathing began to become rapid.

"This……"

"Your Majesty, this shouldn't be possible."

"Yes! In such a severe catastrophe of all races, even Li Dingguo's revival army would not be able to survive it safely."

"Your Majesty, this situation is impossible! Our current strength is not bad. Logically speaking, the gap with Li Dingguo should not be too big. Even if we are in this situation, even if Li Dingguo has great ability, it is impossible for him to defend all the jurisdictions in the territory."

"Have you overlooked an important thing? Intelligence from all sides has confirmed that Li Dingguo is a top-notch formation master and weapon refiner!"

"There are also some unconfirmed situations that indicate that in several core towns of the Renaissance Army, teleportation arrays from the ancient Qin Dynasty have been set up!"

"Once we have a large teleportation array, we can easily dispatch reinforcements within our own territory. The situation will be completely different!"...

When hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, everyone at the scene had their own opinions and there were many different views.

But everyone without exception believed that although the strength of the Renaissance Army was still above their own, facing such a large-scale attack by monsters and demons of such strength, even Li Dingguo and the Renaissance Army would not have an easy time, even if they really had a teleportation array like the one in the ancient Qin Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the vast aquatic monster tribes surrounding our Jinling City, under the command of those level six dragons, have once again launched a violent attack on our city defense formation!"

At this time, a figure flew over. It was the fierce general He Kegang in the army.

This brave general from the Liaodong border army has become one of the core generals under Zhou Yuji and his wife and is highly valued. Now, together with Zhou Yuji, he is responsible for commanding this battle to defend the city.

"These beasts! They never stop for a moment!"

Emperor Chongzhen was already somewhat upset, and upon hearing this, he immediately flew into a rage, "Do these various dragons really think that I am afraid of them?"

"go!"

He waved his hand at the people present and ordered, "Let's all go to the city wall and see what killer weapons these arrogant aquatic monsters have!"

"Humph!"

He snorted coldly and said, "I want to see what these beasts can use to break through our Jinling City's defense formation!"

Honestly speaking, Chongzhen had no worries at all that the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty would be breached by the enemy, thanks to the city defense formation that had the dual suppression of national destiny and his own divine artifact, the Witch God Temple.

"Father!"

At this time, a childish voice sounded, and then a petite figure flashed from the back door of the hall and leaped over quickly.

This is a little Lolita, about ten years old, she looks as pretty as a piece of jade, very cute.

What’s different from her young age is that the aura emanating from this little Loli has actually reached the peak of level five!

"Mianzhuo, why are you coming here instead of playing in the Imperial Garden and practicing to break through?"

Surprisingly, Emperor Chongzhen, who was always very strict with his family, was not angry at all when he saw the little girl acting so naughty and trespassing into the council hall. Instead, he was laughing.

There was no way, perhaps because of the good fortune of the Ming Dynasty, it was thriving again after its worst situation. A year ago, the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty actually awakened her innate Taiyin body!

This is one of the three legendary goddess bodies in the universe!

Ever since Princess Changping Zhu Mianzhu awakened her innate divine body, her cultivation level has been increasing rapidly even though she has not practiced much.

In just one year, he has reached the terrifying peak level of level five!

This is a little girl who is only in her teens! If you tell others about this, it will probably scare many people.

Emperor Chongzhen even regarded Zhu Mianzhu as the hope for the future revival of the Ming Dynasty. He had great expectations for her and naturally showed her great favor.

(End of this chapter)