Chapter 1000 Chaos in Eastern Xinjiang

There may never be absolute fairness in this world.

For example, the powerful Mengyuan wolf rode invincible on the grassland, but he could only sigh when he looked at a Yishui. The Black Flag Army's naval division's large ships were unshakable in their dominance over the waterways, and the tactics of building pontoon bridges learned from the Han Chinese were simply not able to be used under the crushing of the Black Flag Army's naval divisions.

The closest to success, the pontoon bridge built in advance rushed into the river under the lifting of hundreds of people, but unfortunately, because of the inaccurate estimation of the width of the Yishui, so that the pontoon bridge was so short, before the Meng Yuan people thought about how to continue, the archers of the Black Flag Army Naval Division slaughtered the soldiers carrying the pontoon bridge with feather arrows.

Later, the Mengyuan people changed their methods and forcibly captured many Han people and let them carry the pontoon bridge into the water. At this time, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army did not dare to release any more arrows, but they lowered two fireboats from the upstream and directly broke the pontoon bridge, and then the ships of the sailors began to save people. Most of the people who fell into the water were saved.

Meng Yuan people tried their best, but they couldn't get by.

"Sometimes I feel a little helpless."

Da Zizi looked at the back of Mr. Jiu leaving, and shook his head: "This world has become different because of the existence of cultivators, what does it depend on whether a country is strong or not?" A strong army? A bountiful granary? Or billions of people? Neither...... Sometimes, even as a cultivator, I want to scold......"

Meng Ge looked at him with some contempt in his eyes.

"You're a hypocrisy."

He said.

Da Zizai Ha Lu Ha smiled: "It is an individual rather than a strong army that controls a country, which is indeed a little unacceptable, especially you, Your Majesty." If there were no cultivators in this world, perhaps the war would have become fair. Now it's just Xiao Yijiu stopping here, and we can't go over. But then again, even if there are no cultivators in this world, it will not be easy for you to cross the river. The gunboats of the Black Flag Army are like a beast of the wilderness, and you don't have a dragon slayer knife in your hand. ”

He sat down and said, "How is it fair?" Is there fairness in this world? If you don't have a cultivator, you have to devote yourself to the development of weapons, just like the Black Flag Army now. After possessing firearms, the combat power of the Black Flag Army is impressive. In the past, there was an unwritten rule between countries, that is, great practitioners should not participate in wars between countries, but this rule is meaningless, what practitioner does not take action when he sees his country being violated? ”

Meng Ge said, "Can even the most powerful cultivator be able to slaughter all the people in this world?" ”

Da Zizi shook his head: "Can't"

Meng Ge said: "Therefore, it is relatively fair to have cultivators in this world. When a great cultivator is uncontrollable, he may not even be able to protect the life of the emperor. But when the weapon is out of control, the world is not protected. ”

"You are already a faithful believer in God."

Dazi smiled: "I'm happy for you. ”

Meng Ge shook his head: "Maybe, I was wrong. ”

"For what?"

Da Zi asked.

Meng Ge took a deep breath: "Although I made a decision after coming down from the Great Wheel Temple, there was always a question in my heart that I couldn't understand. What kind of development is the right one... Practitioners to decide the fate of the nation? This can't work, it's as if the Great Wheel Ming King has been suppressing my Koktaimeng family for more than a thousand years, and he can decide the life and death of the entire Golden Family at any time. Unless, a real Great Cultivator who can defeat the Great Wheel Ming King is born in the Golden Family, otherwise this fate will not change unless the Great Wheel Ming King dies. ”

"However, if there is a weapon with the ability to destroy the world in the hands of the emperor, then it is more appropriate."

Da Zi was puzzled: "Didn't you just say that it is relatively fair to have cultivators in the worldly realm? ”

Meng Ge said: "When I say fairness, I mean fairness to ordinary people. Cultivators are high, and even if they get out of control, they will only kill the nobles and royals, and will not kill innocent people. But once the weapon reaches that power, once it is used, it will be the ordinary people who will be implicated. I am not a god, but my thinking is different from that of most people. ”

"I don't understand."

Da Zizi said: "I thought you made a decision for the rise of Meng Yuan. ”

"If it is for the rise of Mengyuan, I would prefer to develop firearms like the Black Flag Army."

Meng Ge glanced at Da Zi: "For the people of the whole world, my choice is right. Only for the Golden Family and Meng Yuan, my choice was wrong. I don't know why I made such a decision, but when I saw that scene in the Great Wheel Temple, I knew that I had to stop it from happening. At that moment, I forgot that I was the Great Khan of Meng Yuan, and I forgot that I was shouldering the mission of the rise of the Golden Family. ”

Da Zizi frowned: "You...... It's really a contradiction. ”

Meng Ge looked at the other side of the river, pointed and said, "If you can't kill Xiao Yijiu within three days, and then destroy the sailor gunboats of the Black Flag Army, I will take my troops back." Now my loss is not too big, after I go back to recuperate for a while, Meng Yuan's national strength can recover. I've gradually come out of the mentality of doing things for the world, and if there are more setbacks, I will become the same person. ”

Da Zizi was silent for a while and then said, "Okay, three days later, if Mr. Nine doesn't come back, the four of us will fight to the death so that Xiao Yijiu can't stop in front of you anymore." ”

Meng Ge shook his head: "You haven't thought through one thing until now...... In this crusade, Buddhism is the main force, and I just take the wolf to cooperate. Because you Buddhas are faithful believers and slaves of God, and I am not. If I had to separate it, then at most I would be just God's helper. ”

Da Zi felt a shock in his heart, and he suddenly thought that he had neglected one thing.

Möngke did promise the gods a crusade and acted on it, but Möngke was first and foremost a Great Khan. When he saw the power of the Black Flag Army's firearms, how could he not be moved? Once the Great Khan felt more and more that the development of firearms was the way for mankind to take, then this crusade would only be abandoned halfway.

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Chang'an City

Fang Xie walked on the street, not disguised or blocked. In fact, there are not many people in Chang'an City who really know Fang Jie, and even those people on East 23 Avenue do not all remember Fang Jie's face. Chang'an City is too big, and most of the people who have not seen Fang Xie are talented.

He walked through the streets of Xicheng, where he rarely came, so the people did not know him.

At this time, he walked on the street and looked at this big city, and his mood was different from that in Chang'an City before. In the past, when he was in Chang'an City, he looked at Chang'an with an attitude of looking up, feeling that it was too big, and even if he was in it, he had the illusion that he was far away from Chang'an.

Now, he looks at Chang'an's mood and says it is vulgar, like a rich businessman walking in the industry under his name.

To say that it is more domineering, that is...... The emperor is patrolling his realm.

These days, the situation in Chang'an City has gradually stabilized. Those damned people have already been killed, and every day a group of people will be beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market. It's like after Yiwang Yang Yin's rebellion, there will be a group of people who lose their heads every day at the entrance of the vegetable market.

The city has now reached a very delicate balance, and Fang Xie needs to rely on killing a group of people to establish his authority, so that everyone knows who is the master of Chang'an City now. And the idea of the living courtiers was to sacrifice a group of people in exchange for the acceptance of the settlement. Both sides take what they need, and the dead are just big waves.

"The Lord"

Chen Xiaoru caught up from behind Fang Xie and said in a low voice: "There is news from the Eastern Xinjiang side. ”

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Eastern Xinjiang

Phoenix Terrace

This famous border city of the Great Sui is now incomplete, the walls are full of scars, and the traces left by cannonballs are shocking. On the city wall, there are not a few battlements left, but the Great Sui Lie Red Battle Flag standing on the city wall is still fluttering with the wind, even if it is so broken.

It's been here for a long time, and a lot of people have died here.

Even though the Opru Empire's armies possess powerful firearms, there are times when the perseverance and fighting spirit of the soldiers are the key factors in determining the outcome of a war. Eastern Chu was easily wiped out, as a close neighbor of Eastern Chu, the Sui people showed a fighting spirit that made foreigners awe.

Now the people who are responsible for guarding this border city are the men and horses of the Black Flag Army Nalan Dingdong.

He left the land of foundation with an army of 100,000 troops, left his familiar hometown, and rushed thousands of miles from the southwest to the east. Then he started a fierce battle with the foreigners without stopping, and never took a step back.

Nalan Dingdong stood on the city wall and looked at the company camp of foreigners in the distance, and his mood was a little uneasy. It's been half a month, and the supplies promised by Mu Guangling haven't been sent yet. If this continues, it won't take another ten days for the army to run out of food, and this is still under the condition that the Black Flag Army has goods to support the world.

The foreigners' fleets entered the interior from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then attacked the rear roads of the Sui army respectively. Because of the slight carelessness in probing intelligence, the Zhao family army supported from Jiangdu was defeated and repelled by the foreigners' army for nearly a hundred miles in one go. As a result, the situation immediately became chaotic.

Now, the army of the Han people is foreigners in front and there are foreigners in the back. And there are Han people in front of the foreigners, and there may be people in the back. The combined number of Han armies exceeded nearly one million, but there was no unified command and dispatch, like a plate of scattered sand. The people who came wanted to keep the enemy out of the country, but no one was convinced.

At the beginning, Mu Guangling sent six teams of men and horses to help Phoenix Terrace, but five of them did not send troops at all. One of the troops who rushed to Fenghuangtai was a coalition army composed of men and horses on various green forest roads in eastern Xinjiang. As a result, such a team with outstanding combat strength but no combat experience has only held out for seven days and has already killed more than seventy percent of its men.

If it weren't for Nalan Dingdong's decision to bring the Black Flag Army over, I'm afraid that Phoenix Terrace would have been lost by this time. The reason why Phoenix Terrace is so famous is precisely because of its important strategic position. Once the Phoenix Terrace is lost, the foreigners' team will be able to drive straight in. It can be said that there is no more dangerous place in Dongjiang than the Phoenix Terrace and Shanhaiguan.

For this matter, Mu Guangling was very annoyed, and when he convened a meeting, he angrily beheaded the five leaders who did not listen to the generals, which caused contradictions.

"General, Mu Guangling sent someone to deliver a letter."

The soldiers walked quickly behind Nalan Dingdong and handed over a letter.

Nalan Dingdong unfolded the letter and looked at it, and then sneered: "Before I brought the troops here, I always thought that Mu Guangling was a real hero. But now, his energy has gradually shifted from resisting foreigners to maintaining his position. He asked me to send troops to cut off the back road of the Luling army, and then swallowed the Luling army in one gulp. At the beginning, the people of Mufu stood at the forefront and fought against foreigners, but now they are calculating how to preserve their strength. There are more and more people rushing to help Dongjiang, and Mu Guangling's selfish desires are getting heavier and heavier. ”

"So what do we do?"

The pro-soldier asked.

Nalan Dingdong handed the letter to his soldiers: "Hurry up and send it to the Luling Army, and tell him that my Black Flag Army will not do anything to harm friendly troops, and the Luling Army can move closer to my back, and the grain and grass supply of the Luling Army will be sent out of my Black Flag Army." ”

"But...... We're running out of food and grass. ”

The pro-soldier said eagerly.

"Mu Guangling thinks that holding the granary is holding the lifeblood of all the horses, so let's go and get the lifeline back ourselves."

Nalan Dingdong turned around: "Let the cavalry prepare, and go with me tonight!" ”