As for the other strong men, they are either hiding in the deep mountains and forests to seek the ultimate in swordsmanship, or they are traveling around the world, constantly looking for strong men to challenge them and hone their strong hearts.
Or he simply shrank his head, ignored the war that was engulfing nearly ten countries, and lived a carefree life isolated from the city.
As for forcing those strong men to come and serve, I can only think about it in my heart.
Every strong person has his own dignity, so how can he allow others to insult him? What's more, the encirclement and suppression by the army are basically ineffective for these strong people.
The situation at the dojo is not much better. After all, the rise time is too short, and some of the trustworthy strong men of my own have no time to cultivate.
Although the techniques given are all magic techniques with great disadvantages, they can be achieved quickly with strength.
But there are only a small number of people with such opportunities and talents.
Among the 20,000 disciples of the dojo, although there are a large number of disciples who are masters of art, the number of people who can achieve the fourth level of cultivation can only be compared to a hundred people.
There are only 103 disciples, which is too small.
But what is gratifying is that after unifying the Three Kingdoms, Zhong Yu launched a campaign to wipe out the cultivators and integrate them.
A large number of mountain temples and famous dojos were breached. Many famous wandering warriors and strong men living in seclusion in the mountains were all surrounded and forced to surrender by countless elites led by strong men from the dojos.
These powerful men are a complete hidden danger to Zhong Yu.
They are very famous and have a very deep mass base in various places. If they decide to rebel, they are likely to gather a large number of people based on the gathering of people.
What's more, people with high-strength force are themselves a great threat to a stable regime. It is unwise to abandon them outside the system.
If these powerful men are persuaded by those hostile forces, whether they assassinate the senior leaders of the dojo or simply start a rebellion, they will be a threat that cannot be ignored.
Therefore, after deciding to attack them, Zhong Yu directly ordered those who surrendered to live and those who resisted to die. There was no other way.
Once this order was given and executed thoroughly, it could be said that one stone stirred up a thousand waves and set off countless twists and turns.
Those who can reach the fourth level are all strong men with a strong sense of honor. They are all used to being undisciplined. How can they obey the orders of a secular government and let them drive around like slaves.
Therefore, the chaos and arrogance in the dojo really aroused the anger of those strong people. They were forced into desperate situations and stood up to resist.
However, for a well-prepared dojo, these resistances are just a drop in the bucket and cannot cause much turmoil at all.
Many strong men perished in this catastrophe, and the remaining few who received the news and fled in advance, or simply relied on their own strong strength to break through, also continued to create turmoil within the territory of the dojo.
However, these turmoils soon disappeared completely as they were encircled and suppressed by more numerous and more powerful pursuers.
In order to eliminate these powerful men, it can be said that the dojo paid a high price, but the gains were also huge.
Continuously and thoroughly clarified the Shinto belief forces in the Three Kingdoms, and either incorporated or uprooted them. Although many believers rose up to protest during the process, they were directly suppressed.
There are also countless strong men who have lowered their proud heads under the threat of death and become dogs under the dojo who are constantly running for their lives.
Although these dogs are only a small part of those strong ones, their numbers are already considerable.
The total number of original fourth-level masters in the Three Kingdoms was about 150, and most of them were suppressed due to resistance. There are many others who chose to seek refuge in order to survive, and the number is estimated to be more than 60 people.
These people, plus some preparations in the dojo, already have more than 160 fourth-level masters.
This amount of master reserves is no longer so different from the coalition forces planning to resist the dojo, and it is possible to fight head-on.
This time, there are a total of 20 world masters following Tomita Yoshinari.
Coupled with Tomita Yoshimoto's own fifth-level strength, he was no longer at a disadvantage against the opposing coalition forces in the confrontation with high-level forces.
Therefore, after the battle of the past few days, although the soldiers at the bottom were seriously injured, the high-level strength of both sides was not much different, so the losses were not very large.
The number of soldiers at the bottom dropped sharply due to the wanton massacre by the extraordinary powers of both sides.
Needless to say, the coalition forces' side, the 8,000 cannon fodder who had not even entered the first level were all killed or wounded, and only about 2,000 of the 8,000 first-level elites were left.
The more than two thousand warriors were not spared, and in the end only a thousand or so remnants remained.
When the war reached this level, the coalition forces were no longer able to support them and were completely defeated.
The remaining more than 3,000 remnant soldiers fled all the way south and evacuated all the way to Shimazu Castle in the Kawanakajima area where the Murakami family lived, and then stopped.
As for the local Takanashi family and other small wealthy families, they were completely and ruthlessly abandoned. Even some of the northern territories of the Murakami family lost several cities.
After arriving at Shimazu Castle, the coalition forces bought enough time by relying on the vast territory they gave up. They also raised 20,000 reinforcements from the rear and rushed to Shimazu Castle, intending to use this place as a second line of defense to block the dojo's attack.
As for the attacking party, although the army under the dojo was relatively elite and its losses were not as great as those of the coalition forces, it still lost a considerable part of its strength.
The bones of a full 10,000 soldiers were buried in Iiyama Castle, but the remaining soldiers had all advanced to the first level, and there were many who made breakthroughs between life and death.
Because of the techniques practiced in the dojo, many people were able to absorb the life force of their enemies, condense their inner strength, and successfully advance to the second level.
So now the dojo has about 6,000 second-level soldiers, and there are about 9,000 first-level soldiers, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
The dojo army pursued all the way along the retreat route of the Shinano power, and soon captured some small cities along the way that were not very powerful.
However, due to the policy of the dojo, there was naturally a lot of massacres along the way, and the wealthy family that had been passed down for hundreds of years and decades was wiped out.
Faced with persecution between life and death, it was natural for people to rise up and resist, which delayed a lot of time.
However, ten days later, the dojo army solved all the troubles and once again advanced the battle line to Shimazu Castle.
Opposite it, the reorganized Shinano Allied Forces have more than 20,000 troops. Although most of them are ragtag groups, they are not so easy to defeat.
In the unknown darkness, an extremely powerful force is gathering faintly, and his target is clearly pointed at the high-spirited dojo army that is destroying the city along the way.
(End of chapter)