The large army advanced deeper and deeper, getting closer and closer to the heart of Huaishan. Later, even voices could be heard.
It sounded like everyone was laughing and talking happily, with no awareness of the approaching danger.
Later, the large army entered a canyon, which was actually the base of a main peak and six secondary peaks.
What is rare is that this canyon is very flat, with the main peak in the middle and six secondary peaks around it, forming a plum blossom shape.
The canyon is a bit humid due to the lack of sunlight all year round, and a fast-flowing river winds around several high mountains.
The roads at the bottom of the peak are built along the edge of the mountain.
Therefore, if they were discovered by the people on the mountain and rocks rolled down, they would have nowhere to hide.
There was moonlight tonight, but it was very dark in the canyon.
One hundred thousand people gathered in the canyon, making it extremely crowded, with people almost touching each other.
The main peak has a very peculiar shape, with cliffs on three sides. The spectacular cliffs glow white in the night and reach straight into the sky. Some soldiers, out of curiosity, raised their heads high to see the top of the peak.
Unfortunately, they had tilted their hats off, and all they could see was darkness.
There are six secondary peaks, and each of them has a path leading directly to the top, but the road is very narrow and steep, making it very inconvenient to walk.
The top of the mountain was filled with noise and laughter, and they seemed unaware that they were surrounded by 100,000 soldiers.
The commander-in-chief of this encirclement and suppression operation was Prince Yuan, who sent a pigeon message to the Huaishan Sect.
He is also a martial arts master. In the past few years, he sent three more letters to Huaishan.
The first letter asked the Huaishan Sect to produce weapons for the court, hoping that the Huaishan Sect could make some contribution to the country.
Mei Mantian refused very tactfully, but her words were very firm.
They said that the Huaishan Sect did not have the technology to produce weapons, so how could they have the courage to produce them for the imperial court
This request is really unreasonable, please let it go.
Although this incident made Prince Yuan so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, he still endured it.
The Huaishan Sect's weapons production and sales are all done in secret, and they have no conclusive evidence to prove that the Huaishan Sect is producing them.
Although the spies in the Huaishan Sect had already sent information to the court, saying that the Huaishan Sect was secretly producing weapons, they did not say how large the scale was or how much destructive power it had.
Therefore, he didn't care so much at the beginning. As for producing weapons, most of the sects in the martial arts world would produce them by themselves, and it was a tacit knowledge among everyone.
The weapons on the market are very expensive. A similar sword can cost hundreds of taels of silver.
Ordinary martial artists don’t have that much money to buy it.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of weapons, most sects would find a few blacksmiths to produce them themselves, even if it was just to practice some moves.
When they become masters and go out into the world and make money, they will buy better things.
Therefore, most weapons produced by sects are unqualified and not professional at all.
But one day later, Wang Yuan's indifferent thoughts were replaced by shock.
Because by chance, he saw a very novel hidden weapon in the hands of his staff.
He felt that the hidden weapon was convenient and easy to use, and had great lethality.
He began to inquire where the hidden weapon came from.
After making inquiries from many sources, he was told that this hidden weapon came from the Huaishan School.
The Huaishan School can not only produce weapons of such enormous destructive power, but also has the most powerful martial arts secrets.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Mei Mantian is an invulnerable god by some people.
What's more, the news released by the spies revealed that the disciples of the Huaishan School were spread all over the country, and their business was booming. They could be described as rich enough to rival a country.
In addition, Mei Mantian is the leader of the martial arts world and the local tyrant of the martial arts world. Such power can only be developed further.
He knew that he could no longer allow the Huaishan School to develop, and it was finally time to slaughter the pig and eat the meat.
As long as he could defeat the Huaishan Sect, he felt that he would be close to the throne.
If he could get Huaishan's sacred power of returning to oneness and his huge wealth, he didn't believe that he would not be able to defeat his incompetent nephew.
The imperial court seemed incompetent, but they took great pains to deal with the Jianghu Lin Wu who posed a threat to them.
Over the past few decades, they have trained a large number of child spies to mingle among the beggars.
The imperial court has already fully understood the ways in which martial arts sects recruit disciples.
They like to recruit orphans or beggars who have no worries and train them, and then claim that they are the children's saviors.
From then on, the children became the most loyal disciples in the sect.
Due to the incompetence of the imperial court, the people were living in poverty and the number of orphans was greater than that of children with parents.
The martial arts sects recruited some orphans, which was considered to be giving them a way to survive and was also considered to be doing a good deed.
How could the various martial arts sects know that there would be spies among the beggars? Of course they would take the spy children who looked like they had good aptitude back to the sect for intensive training.
Then, all the major events that happened in the sect were reported to the imperial court by that child.
The Huaishan School was very unfortunate to have brought back such a child.
Therefore, after 20 years of development, Huaishan Sect has not only escaped poverty and become rich, but also become extremely rich.
Another plus is that it can produce a large number of amazing weapons.
Every piece of information was transmitted to the court accurately.
These few things added up to the reason that the imperial court had to wipe out the Huaishan faction.
King Yuan, just seize these reasons and make a big fuss about it.
In fact, Prince Yuan did not have much military power, but in order to ensure a complete victory in this encirclement and suppression operation, the emperor allocated an additional 100,000 troops for him to command.
If he can successfully wipe out the Huaishan faction, his power will surpass that of the most popular figure around the emperor, who is considered a traitor by many people, Prime Minister Shen Guoxun.
Let me ask, why did the emperor have to send Prince Yuan to wipe out the Huaishan Sect
That was because Prince Yuan claimed that he was an expert in martial arts, and he swore solemnly that he would bring Mei Mantian's head to him.
If other generals were sent, they might not be as capable.
Of course, the emperor believed Prince Yuan's words. Even though Shen Guoxun kept obstructing the action, he still couldn't shake the emperor's determination to uproot the martial arts sects.
The Dali Kingdom in the north has become more and more arrogant. In the past few years, they have constantly threatened the Dafeng Kingdom and continuously eroded the territory in the north.
The Great Feng Kingdom, which claimed to have an army of one million, was afraid of their mere tens of thousands of troops. Why was this
That’s because the nomadic people in the north are extremely tough and can fight ten people at once.
Besides, there is no money left in the treasury, and even military salaries have not been paid for a year.
The generals guarding the border cried every day for military pay and winter cotton clothes.
However, the military pay and cotton clothes have not been received yet, and the cold winter is still three months away. If the soldiers do not have winter clothes, who knows how many will freeze to death in the ice and snow.
When the entire court was worrying about money, the emperor's uncle proposed to him the idea of encircling and suppressing the martial arts sects and submitted an investigation report.
The emperor and his ministers were all shocked by the investigation report. Since the beginning of history, no martial arts sect had achieved such great achievements.