Chapter 108: The Great War Begins

As Zhao Kuangyin expected, he arrived in Taiyuan just in time for a boom in joining the army. With his martial arts, he was naturally selected by Shun Lì and became a recruit of the Han Army. He was not in a hurry to identify himself with Liu He, but stayed in the barracks to continue to observe the combat effectiveness of the Han army, starting from the bottom, eating, living, and training with other recruits.

In the recruit competition ring three months later, Zhao Kuangyin, who thought he had made sufficient preparations, was shocking, defeated 50 opponents in just half an hour, won the first place in the competition, and was summoned by Liu He. It wasn't until he met Liu He that Zhao Kuangyin revealed the identity of You Longzi's apprentice, which really surprised Liu He. Liu Hezai verified the tokens on his body and learned about You Longzi's recent situation.

The next day, Liu He announced that in view of Zhao Kuangyin's high martial arts, he was summoned to the most elite forbidden army and promoted to a captain. The Northern Han also began to unobtrusively strengthen the mobilization of troops and grain and grass, and did not know what action to carry out.

Zhao Kuangyin also lived up to expectations, he relied on his martial arts that he had cultivated diligently for many years, and in just half a year, he defeated the invincible opponents of the forbidden army and successfully established his prestige. In the following years, the Northern Han Dynasty reorganized its armaments and began to expand its territory, the first of which was to wage war against the Later Jin, which had a large territory in Zhan, but did not want to forge ahead and was content with the status quo. The banner of Da Ming is also very simple, "drive out the Tartars and restore the Han unification".

Then Jin didn't expect that the Northern Han, who had been fighting with them and had no ambitions, would be so ruthless and be caught off guard. The so-called "upper beam is not right, lower beam is crooked" The rulers of the country are corrupt and degenerate, and the defenders of those borders are naturally lax in armament, and they have little will to fight. In just half a month's effort, a large area of land was lost, and countless prisoners were taken.

In the face of such a big victory, some voices with slightly different intentions in the Northern Han army also died down, and the whole people unanimously demanded to take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results. Liu He also announced that he would temporarily reorganize the army for two weeks, digest the results of the battle, and promote a large number of generals who were brave in battle and made great contributions, including Zhao Kuangyin.

Since there is no emperor in the Northern Han Army, the forbidden army where Zhao Kuangyin is located is just a name, in fact, it is the elite of the elite composed of the most brave and martial arts soldiers in the army, which has always been used in the most fierce places in the war, and the combat power is extremely powerful, and it can often be hit with one blow and lock the victory.

Moreover, when there is no war, the forbidden army is responsible for guarding the capital and some other important areas, so it has a lot of power, and after Zhao Kuangyin joined the forbidden army, he seems to have opened his talent as an emperor. With his strong martial arts and personality, he has attracted some subordinates and cronies. As his exploits in the Great War grew, so did his ranks.

The rule of the Later Jin Dynasty**, even the response of the army system was very slow, so it was not until nearly half of the country was lost that it reacted, and with the support of the master behind the scenes, Liao Guo, the army was organized to start a counterattack.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Later Jin Dynasty was too poor, and most of the military salaries flowed into the pockets of those corrupt officials, and the soldiers rarely ate a bite of meat a year, and even the weapons in their hands and the armor on their bodies were used as money to maintain their lives. Even so, they can't eat enough, they are skinny and have dishes. How could such a soldier be the opponent of the Northern Han Army, which had sufficient food and high morale?

The momentum of the Northern Han army was like a rainbow, and it fought from the border to the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, Kaifeng. In the face of such a bad situation, not only the court of the Later Jin Dynasty was in chaos, but even their master, the Liao State, panicked and hurriedly sent people to support. After all, the Later Jin Dynasty is a buffer between them and the countries of Middle-earth, resisting most of the pressure for them, and will also provide them with a lot of wealth, population, beauties, food, and many offerings every year, he is a very obedient dog, but he can't just be killed.

In addition to sending troops to support, the Liao State also sent many monks to accompany the army on the expedition, because the medicinal materials and refining materials that many low-level cultivators needed but did not bother to collect by themselves needed to be collected by a large number of mortals, and the Later Jin could also pay a large part of their tribute every year. If the Later Jin Dynasty is destroyed and these supplies are cut off, then many sects in the Liao Kingdom will face the situation that low-level disciples have no Qi cultivation pills to take and no primary magic weapons to use, and they will definitely suffer heavy losses, so they are very active about this dispatch.

Bringing the monks with you in battle is already an open secret between the top echelons of the cultivation realm and secular countries. After all, monks can use spells, whether it is used for attack, reconnaissance, medical treatment, guarding, etc., which has far advantages beyond the reach of ordinary people. And the secular world will also provide a lot of cultivation equipment and medicinal materials for the monks accompanying the army, and even some cultivators of the evil path and the demon path will collect essence and blood vitality and powerful ghosts and ghosts on the battlefield to practice spells and refine magic weapons.

After all, in a large-scale battle, tens of thousands of people will die, and in a war, I don't know how many hundreds of thousands will die. Even millions of people, so many essence and blood souls, even if they only charge one-tenth, they can withstand those who have been cultivating for decades, and killing people on the battlefield is within the scope permitted by the rules of the Heavenly Dao, and the sins they are contaminated with will be much less than usual, as long as they do not take the initiative to kill a large number of mortals, they will not suffer from heaven's punishment; even, if the side they support wins the final victory in the war, these monks who support them will also gain a lot of merit.

Moreover, war makes people mature, and it is also the easiest place to witness the separation of life and death, and the changes in the world, so even those righteous path sects, when they are born in war, will send their disciples to participate in the war, as a way to experience and earn merits. Therefore, the cultivation world needs the manpower and material resources of the secular world to help cultivate, and the secular world is also willing to accept the participation of cultivators to improve their own strength, and the two can be said to take what they need, which is why such a convention has been formed.

The Northern Han army also fought for a long time, and the army was tired, so it did not want to face the dying counterattack of the Later Jin Dynasty, so it retreated for a while, stationed thirty miles outside the city of Kaifeng, slowly rested, and confronted the Later Jin army.

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