Dragon Ball, simultaneously traversing countless worlds

But after only a few dozen seconds, he found that there were no enemies in front of him.

Looking back, he realized that he had already fought his way through the enemy lines.

Ahead of him were scattered Gaotuoshan troops fleeing in all directions; behind him were his comrades, their black mechs stained crimson with blood, and mountains of corpses and seas of blood at their feet.

"Where is Gao Tuoshan? Has anyone seen or killed that bastard Gao Tuoshan?"

Wu Ying was so engrossed in the killing that he momentarily forgot about capturing and killing Gao Tuoshan, the leader.

Fortunately, among the thousand Iron Eagle Warriors, there were always some clear-headed individuals who had already released the drones mounted on their mechs to track Gao Tuoshan.

The new Halo series mechs are equipped with various terrain detection radars, energy index scales, life support systems, and drone detection devices.

Those drones, resembling golden beetles, can fly continuously for 24 hours, and their high-definition electronic eyes can clearly transmit intelligence to the mech users.

Wu Ying praised his quick-witted subordinate and immediately activated the mecha's radar to read the drone's coordinates.

Upon seeing the flashing red dot on the radar, he immediately led several of his men into the air to chase after Gao Tuoshan.

Gao Tuoshan is already a fugitive, so it doesn't take many people to hunt him down. The remaining Iron Eagles have an even more important task.

That is to capture all the troops who fled from Gaotuo Mountain to prevent them from wandering around and causing trouble in the countryside.

Each of the Iron Eagle Warriors possesses the ability to fly, and these fleeing soldiers, no matter how fast they run, can be easily caught up with.

Even if they hide, the Iron Eagles have various detection and scanning devices.

The deserters' fate was sealed long ago; they had no chance of escaping the Iron Eagle Warriors' pursuit.

It took the Western Army more than three hours to clean up the battlefield and hunt down the deserters.

During this period, not only did Wu Ying capture Gao Tuoshan alive, who had been so frightened that he lost control of his bladder, but Zhang Di and Zhang Xian's two troops were also routed by the Northern Army.

As for the Eastern Army and the Southern Army, which had not been involved in any battles, they were subsequently mobilized by Luo Yan to receive the hundreds of thousands of refugees and scattered soldiers who were crossing the river.

With the help of a powerful mech army, a large-scale battle involving 500,000 people ended in less than a day.

The gates of Daming Prefecture opened, and the people lined both sides of the street, watching the unprecedented surrender ceremony and public trial, their excitement evident on their faces.

Among the more than 400,000 people, a small number of soldiers were handcuffed and led into Daming Prefecture by ropes.

These defeated soldiers, heads bowed, were escorted by the Iron Eagle Warriors like quails, afraid of angering these ruthless killers.

Seeing tens of thousands of soldiers surrender, the people cheered, their faces beaming with pride.

War is the easiest way to eliminate internal conflicts and cultivate a sense of superiority in a city or a nation.

After Luo Yan brought a great victory to the people of Daming Prefecture, proving that his rule was sufficient to ensure the safety of everyone's lives and property, all the people no longer rejected his rule.

And when one after another, heinous rebels or ringleaders among the displaced people were sentenced to death in a public trial.

Luo Yan's fairness and impartiality finally earned him great prestige among the people.

The best officials are those who are fair and just.

In the movie "Let the Bullets Fly," Zhang Mazi takes office in Goose Town and only says three sentences, yet the people shout "Honorable Lord!" What were those three sentences that resonated with the people?

It's that timeless classic line, "I came to Goose City to do only three things: fairness, fairness, and fucking fairness."

Luo Yan was swift and decisive in redressing grievances and punishing the guilty, bringing great joy to the people.

The execution of those soldiers and displaced people who were the ringleaders also served as a deterrent to the hundreds of thousands of people who had surrendered, making them behave themselves and not dare to commit crimes in the days that followed.

A great victory was even more inspiring than the city's booming development, and Luo Yan's rule over Daming Prefecture was now unshakeable.

This great victory also propelled his fame to a new level.

Small groups of rebels from various parts of Hebei also gathered there, hoping to join Luo Yan's cause.

Most of the rebels were ordinary people who couldn't make ends meet, so Luo Yan, out of kindness, took them in.

A small number of opportunists with ulterior motives, who wanted to get rich through rebellion, were also identified and exposed by Luo Yan using magic. Their crimes were investigated, and those who deserved to be killed were killed, and those who deserved to be punished were punished.

A few days later, the surrounding prefectures of Daming Prefecture, including Bozhou, Kaide Prefecture, Xiangzhou, Cizhou, Mingzhou, Junzhou, Xingzhou, and Enzhou, all fell under Luo Yan's rule.

He dispatched elite Iron Eagle soldiers to various places to defend and educate the people, while also launching attacks on other prefectures and counties in Hebei that were not under his control, thus strengthening his rule over Hebei Circuit.

The Song Dynasty had a total of 24 prefectures in Hebei Circuit, and set up 14 armies, including the Deqing Army, Baoshun Army, Dingyuan Army, Polu Army, Pingrong Army, Jingrong Army, and Weilu Army.

However, these armies were mostly four or five hundred kilometers away from Daming Prefecture, defending against the Liao and Jin armies north of Hejian Prefecture.

They were too far away to offer any assistance in the fall of Daming Prefecture, and the imperial court would not easily allow them to be mobilized.

The duty of these dozen or so armies is to deal with the Liao and Jin states. If they are easily mobilized back to the interior, the border defenses will be weakened, leading to the Liao and Jin people moving south. The consequences would be even more terrible than a peasant uprising.

Therefore, the imperial court preferred to mobilize the imperial guards of Kaifeng Prefecture to quell the rebellion rather than draw troops from the dozen or so armies of Hebei Circuit.

Once Luo Yan gained power and ruled over most of Hebei Province, he severed the connection between these dozen or so armies and the imperial court. With the Yellow River and other major waterways under his control, the grain and supplies for the army could no longer be transported from the imperial court.

When soldiers are not getting enough to eat, there is a risk of mutiny.

Fearing rebellion from their subordinates, the generals led their soldiers to forcibly plunder the food rations of the local people, which led to numerous conflicts between the soldiers and the people.

When the conflict reached its peak, Luo Yan dispatched his Iron Eagle Warriors to attack these dozen or so armies, achieving a complete victory in one battle, without harming the people along the way.

This greatly increased the goodwill of the people in the northern and western prefectures of Hebei Road towards Luo Yan's army.

Upon learning that Luo Yan's army would also oversee the land redistribution, the local people welcomed the royal army with open arms.

……

With Daming Prefecture as his base, Luo Yan's later military operations progressed very smoothly. In less than ten days, he had already taken over the entire Hebei Circuit, shocking the court and the whole country.

Emperor Huizong of Song hurriedly issued an imperial edict, ordering Yue Fei, Zhang Xubai, and others who had already set off to return to Kaifeng Prefecture to draft a new edict, intending to recruit Luo Yan as the Prince of Yan.

When Luo Yan was weak, the Song Dynasty naturally focused on suppressing the rebellion. However, once Luo Yan had established complete control over Hebei, the Song Dynasty no longer had the strength to deal with him.

To conquer the entire Hebei province, hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed.

However, after the two major battles in which Tong Guan led the Jin dynasty to destroy the Liao dynasty, the imperial court no longer had the financial resources to support a campaign in Hebei.

So Emperor Huizong chickened out and resorted to the magic weapon of amnesty, hoping to trick Luo Yan into accepting the amnesty and then paying homage to the court. Once Luo Yan was lured to Kaifeng, he could then capture him without lifting a finger.

Luo Yan was not fooled by such a trick. He accepted the title with a clear conscience but refused to go to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Although Luo Yan did not go to Kaifeng Prefecture, he accepted the title of Prince of Yan, which relieved the entire Song Dynasty court.

As long as Luo Yan did not declare himself emperor and was willing to accept the investiture from the Song Dynasty, Hebei would still nominally be the territory of the Zhao Song Dynasty. The officials and the emperor would not have lost their territory, and everyone could continue to enjoy peace and prosperity.

What's even more ingenious is that Hebei was the front line against the Liao and Jin dynasties, and its annual military expenditure was a bottomless pit.

Now that this hot potato has been passed on to Luo Yan, Emperor Huizong of Song even felt that he had made a profit, saving a large amount of military expenditure.

Since he couldn't beat them in a fight, what else could Emperor Huizong do but abandon this fig leaf? Wouldn't that completely ruin his imperial dignity?

Chapter 217 King Engine

After conquering the entire Hebei Circuit, which comprised twenty-four prefectures, Luo Yan's task of governing these prefectures and counties became even more arduous.

After the territory expanded, the mobilization of personnel and supplies, the work of dividing the land, and the trial of wrongful convictions all increased exponentially.

This meant that Luo Yan would not be taking any major military actions for the next month.

Only after he has thoroughly sorted out the twenty-four prefectures of Hebei Road will he continue to attack Hedong and Huainan Roads.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the first-level administrative division was called "Lu" (路). There were initially fifteen Lu in the country, namely Jingdong, Jingxi, Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Huainan, Jiangnan, Jinghu South, Jinghu North, Liangzhe, Fujian, Xichuan, Xiaxi, Guangnan East, and Guangnan West Lu.

Subsequent emperors further divided and re-established the twenty-four circuits.

Hebei Road, for example, was split into Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road.

The subordinate prefecture of Hebei East Circuit was Daming Prefecture, and the subordinate prefecture of Hebei West Circuit was Zhengding Prefecture.

The geographical location of Zhen Ding Prefecture was very important militarily, but its economy was not as prosperous as that of Daming Prefecture, and its population was only a few hundred thousand, far less than the more than one million people of Daming Prefecture.

However, governing this area is no less difficult than governing Daming Prefecture.

The people of Zhen Ding Prefecture were even more fierce and unruly. If the land redistribution work failed to satisfy the people, even officials might face mortal danger.

In addition, the local tyrants and gentry, feeling that their interests had been harmed by the land being divided up, continued to sabotage Luo Yan's Iron Eagle Warriors once again became insufficient.

The expansion of the military has begun again.

This time, he simply expanded the Iron Eagles to 50,000 men in one go.

Chuanying, Yuanying, Wuying, Lengying, and several others were promoted to commanders of ten thousand men each, to help him suppress bandits, eliminate local tyrants, and protect officials in their land redistribution work.

With the army dispersed to various prefectures, Luo Yan's military operations were completely put on hold, with the war to resume only a month later.

Taking advantage of this free time, Luo Yan returned to the quantum space and met with Lu Mingfei Luo Yan, asking for his help in collecting the essence blood of the true dragon.

Lu Mingfei readily agreed, but then added, "I've recently accumulated some points and tried summoning a few dragons."

I discovered that when these summoned dragons disappear after their time is up, all the hair and blood they left behind in the world of "Dragon Raja" also disappear completely.

Unless I collect them in time before they disappear and store them in quantum space, I cannot prevent the materials from disappearing.

So you want me to help you collect the essence of a true dragon? No problem.

However, preserving the essence blood is a major problem. The essence blood stored in the quantum space will continuously lose its power. By the time you come to receive the essence blood, there will probably be very little power left, and the essence blood may simply turn into ordinary blood.

Tian Shu Luo Yan frowned and said, "I don't know any magic for refining artifacts. Otherwise, I could create a jade box that can preserve the essence blood, which would prevent the loss of the essence blood's power."

Lu Mingfei suggested, "You can send Caesar to my world. When I summon dragons, I can kill them on the spot and feed them with their blood essence. What do you think?"

After thinking it over, Tian Shu Luo Yan figured that since there wouldn't be any military operations for a while, it wouldn't be bad to leave Caesar to Lu Mingfei.

Even if there are military operations, whether Black Python Caesar intervenes or not will not affect the strength of their side.

After all, when they first subdued the Black Python Caesar, they only intended to use it as a deterrent weapon.

So after returning to the world of the Heavenly Book, Luo Yan put Caesar into his own inner world, connected with Lu Mingfei in the quantum space, and smuggled the black python Caesar into the world of the Dragon Clan.

The two agreed to exchange the black python Caesar a month later.

……

Rewind to the One-Punch Man world, Z City.

Luo Yan panicked after discovering that he had transmigrated into King, and that he was already certified as an S-class hero by the Hero Association.

At that time, he had not yet obtained the system, nor had he entered the quantum space. He was directly descended into such a dangerous world, feeling that his life was in danger every day, like walking a tightrope with an abyss below.

谷铀

However, his anxiety only lasted for an hour before his magic touch came online.