How much silver and weapons would a sect like this have after it was confiscated!
How can such a grassroots martial arts sect possess so much wealth and produce such powerful weapons
Such a sect poses too great a threat to the imperial court and must be eliminated as soon as possible.
What is most infuriating is that they actually harbored the remnants of criminals. It is perfect to use this excuse to eliminate them.
In the eyes of the emperor, Prince Yuan is his most trusted uncle, because his uncle has always shown no interest in the throne.
The Emperor's uncle always made it very clear that he felt being an emperor was no fun at all and that he only enjoyed going into battle and killing enemies.
I just like to gallop and fight on the battlefield.
The emperor was very willing to give some benefits to such an uncle, so that he could restrain the powerful Shen Guoxun and form a relationship of mutual opposition and checks and balances between them.
In this way, his throne will be more secure.
Let’s get back to the topic.
The second letter requested the Huaishan Sect to marry their daughter into the palace as a concubine, meaning that the leader's daughter would be given the supreme status, which would be considered a tribute to the Huaishan Sect.
This is the emperor's intention, and Prince Yuan just wrote it for him.
The emperor felt that since he was not sure about annihilating the Huaishan faction, it would be a good idea to control the leader's daughter in his own hands first.
However, only a fool would agree to such a request! Obviously, if the leader's daughter was really sent to the palace, the entire Huaishan Sect would be in the hands of the royal family.
Mei Mantian wrote back another letter, saying that her daughter was already married and it was not appropriate for her to enter the palace, so please forgive her.
The third letter asked the Huaishan Sect to borrow two million taels of silver, saying that the national treasury was empty and the silver was needed to fight a war with the Dali Kingdom in the north.
I hope the leader can help a little.
Mei Mantian's reply was even more infuriating, saying that the Huaishan Sect was now having problems with food and clothing, and asked if they could borrow some food from the imperial court.
What a joke! How could the imperial court actually lend out grain? Now, because so many people have died and there are too few people growing grain, the imperial court is even short of military rations.
Prince Yuan rode a tall horse along the rugged mountain road. All the way he was thinking about how much gold, silver, food and weapons he could confiscate from the Huaishan Sect.
Also joining the battle was Eunuch Qin, who was very skilled in martial arts. King Yuan had sparred with him before, and the two men were equally powerful.
In addition, there are two generals with excellent martial arts skills, General Su and General Meng. These two people can also be considered martial arts masters.
There are also some middle-level generals who have worked in martial arts sects and have good martial arts skills.
With such a lineup and an additional army of over 100,000, King Yuan still felt that his chances of winning were slim.
Therefore, he also issued instructions to the spies, requiring them to weaken their strength and reduce our casualties before the officers and soldiers could perform their tasks.
At noon today, Prince Yuan suddenly received a letter from a spy via carrier pigeon, saying that an important figure in Huaishan had been poisoned.
After receiving this news, he finally felt relieved.
After entering the gloomy canyon, King Yuan felt a little uneasy. If he was ambushed here, the consequences would be very terrible.
Looking at the path leading to the top of Liufeng Peak, King Yuan gestured to a general.
The general understood the meaning and arranged for some soldiers to climb the mountain first.
But what you fear is what will come to you.
When some soldiers had only climbed a few dozen meters, a rain of steel needles began to fall across the entire canyon.
Countless sharp steel needles shot down from the trees in the canyon with such great force that they easily penetrated the soldiers' armor and sank into their flesh.
In just a few breaths, the canyon was filled with wailing sounds.
Many soldiers fell to the ground and died, and some soldiers were injured to varying degrees.
"Set up the shields, quickly." A general shouted.
But when they used their shields to block the flying steel needles, everything seemed to calm down again.
In just a few breaths, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, perhaps one-third of them were unable to get up again.
King Yuan looked at the corpse lying on the ground and had a bad feeling in his heart.
It seems that this encirclement and suppression operation will not be so easy to succeed.
Prince Yuan took a deep breath and comforted himself, thinking that it was possible that it was dark and someone had triggered the mechanism, not that the Huaishan Sect had discovered them.
"Hurry up and prepare for the attack on Gongshan." one of the generals ordered.
As soon as the large army received the order, they all climbed up like crazy. With only one small path, many soldiers were ordered to climb thorns and rock walls, trying to get up the mountain as quickly as possible to avoid any further accidents.
Unfortunately, they only climbed a few hundred meters and fell into despair again.
Because they felt the danger coming again.
Waves of rumbling sounds of rolling stones echoed through the valley, and densely packed boulders rolled down the mountain violently.
The most terrifying thing is that many huge rocks fell from the straight cliff of the main peak.
The huge rock fell and formed a huge deep pit, crushing the soldiers who could not be evacuated into meat patties.
There was even a huge pile of rocks falling on King Yuan's head.
Prince Yuan's pupils contracted violently and he leaped up from his horse's back, but his horse suffered the consequences and was crushed into a meat patty by the stones.
The soldiers who didn't know how to perform Qinggong could only wait for death. They watched the huge rocks falling towards them with nowhere to hide. They could only watch helplessly as they were smashed into pieces.
"Retreat, retreat quickly, retreat quickly."
"General, the canyon exit has been blocked by huge rocks. We can't get out."
"What should we do, General?"
The boulder rolled for a long time before it stopped. The number of soldiers in the canyon decreased sharply. Those who survived were those who had some martial arts skills. Those who were quicker flew up and climbed up the trees, thus escaping the disaster.
Or, crawl on the ground, lie down quickly in a pit, and luckily save your life temporarily.
What made them despair was that the dozen or so crossbows they brought, which required several people to carry, had all been smashed to pieces by huge rocks.
In this situation, should we continue to work on the mountain? If we make a mistake, the whole army may be wiped out.
Several generals looked at each other, at a loss, and stared at King Yuan with frightened eyes, asking him to make a decision.
Prince Yuan rubbed his face vigorously, showing a look of pain, and said in a deep voice: "This prince has received news that most of the Huaishan Sect members have been poisoned, but they don't know it yet.
When they use their internal strength, they will find that they will not be able to exert their full strength.
So, we still have a chance of winning.”
Several generals nodded their heads. The only option now was to bite the bullet and fight on.
The defeated general will be in a miserable state. If he just goes back, he will definitely suffer a lot. If he fights again, there is still hope.
If we can bring back Mei Mantian's head, we can make up for our mistake.
King Yuan's heart was burning with rage. He had thought of many possible openings, but he had never expected that the battle would start with such a scenario.
The few remaining soldiers once again continued to climb up in silence.
Their military morale has actually collapsed.
It was just instinctively following orders and continuing to climb.
However, after they crawled for a while with their bodies huddled up, they realized something was wrong.
Waves of shouting and killing came from all directions, as if thousands of troops were rushing towards them.
The soldiers became even more frightened. As they climbed the mountain, their legs trembled and their teeth chattered.
King Yuan had a murderous look on his face. He took out his weapon and waited in full force.