The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Chapter 391: The aftermath of the war

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As the war in Guidefu City came to an end, January had passed, and the impact of the war was slowly spreading.

First of all, with the fall of Qin Ming, the governor of Dongjiang Province, the entire Guide Mansion took away all the elites of Dongjiang Province, and half of the city was destroyed, completely losing any resistance, especially at the moment when he blew himself up at the end. .

Immediately afterwards, the Demon King of Huangshan, who was recovering from his injuries, used the fame of this war to issue a call to the demons throughout the Ming Dynasty, asking them to gather under his command and accomplish great things.

Within half a month, all the demons in Dongjiang Province gathered in Guide Mansion, and even the demons from several neighboring provinces of Dongjiang Province also came over.

These demons were all trained by the Demon King of Huangshan and formed an army of tens of thousands, which was practiced nearby Guide Mansion.

This time the army is quite strong, with levels above level 3, including quite a few level 4, which is much stronger than the previous army of the Huangshan Demon King.

After all, it is a demon that can wreak havoc in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It can survive the army's encirclement and suppression by experts from various sects to subjugate demons and eliminate demons. Naturally, it has some strength, which is not comparable to those earth demons with little knowledge in the mountains.

By the way, the training of this group of demons also included conquering the remaining counties of Guide Prefecture, including the dilapidated Guide Prefecture and two or three surviving counties in the rear.

Fortunately, Hecheng County, which was at the rear and in the most dangerous situation, once again avoided the catastrophe and was ignored by those monsters.

It's probably because the rabbits don't want to eat the grass around their nests, so they plan to leave this small county town behind for them to enjoy later.

In just ten days, the newly trained troops under the Demon King of Huangshan swept through the entire Guide Prefecture except Hecheng County, and directed their troops towards several other surrounding state capitals.

Although the strength of other state capitals is relatively well-preserved, they can't stop the army of Huangshan Demon King himself, not to mention that he is surrounded by Lord Black Wind who saved his life.

This Black Wind Lord is a black tiger who attained Taoism. After practicing for 500 years, he reached the realm of Demon King. His strength is considered to be the strongest among all the Demon Kings, much more powerful than the Huangshan Demon King.

This time, the Huangshan Demon King's big move not only attracted the attention of the entire human world, but also caused a stir in the demon world. Lord Heifeng followed, ready to check.

While watching the battle, he saw the Huangshan Demon King in dire straits, so he took action to save him.

But after all, it was the self-destruction of a sixth-level powerhouse. Even if they escaped in time, they were still injured a lot by the aftermath. Everyone had some serious injuries and needed some time to recover.

In this way, under the leadership of two sixth-level demon kings, tens of thousands of demon soldiers passed through everywhere and were invincible. All the cities along the way were destroyed, and countless people died at the hands of these demons.

The situation was urgent. In addition to the fall of Guide Prefecture in Dongjiang Province, four more state capitals fell into war. Most of the area was captured. More than 2/3 of the area was lost in the blink of an eye. Only two state capitals in the province survived. Difficult, but also in danger.

The remaining chief official of Dongjiang Province, Governor Zhang An, urgently asked for help from the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would send reinforcements to rescue the situation.

But the result was that he felt desperate.

A big country located to the north of the Ming Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty sent 300,000 troops to invade the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. Now there are already two or three border provinces in the war, and a lot of territory has been lost. Now the army of the imperial court is sent there to deal with the war. , unable to mobilize support at all.

However, the situation in Dongjiang Province has also attracted the attention of the imperial court. Although it is said that the troops and horses can no longer be sent out, the masters have all gone to guard against the Jin Dynasty, and the remaining ones have to stay in the capital and guard against the prying eyes of other countries.

But the three provinces surrounding Dongjiang Province still have enough strength.

The Ming Dynasty had 17 provinces. Since the daimyo was surrounded by three major powers, there were many border provinces, including 11.

However, including Dongjiang Province, these six provinces are inland and have no other worries about foreign invasion.

Each of these six inland provinces has a sixth-level governor in charge, and there are enough troops stationed in the province, including three that are close to Dongjiang Province.

Today's demons seem to be powerful, and as time goes by, demons from the Ming Dynasty continue to rush to join them, making the demon soldiers under the Huangshan Demon King grow stronger.

Now, in just one month, more than half of the demons in the Ming Dynasty have rushed to join together, and the army under the Demon King of Huangshan has once again expanded to 30,000, with a huge momentum.

But such strength really made the Ming Dynasty become serious, but it was not enough.

The imperial court's order came down, and half of the garrison troops from the three inland provinces surrounding Dongjiang Province were allocated to form a third-level army of about 60,000 people, stationed in the three state capitals adjacent to Dongjiang Province and the three provinces.

Those demons were firmly trapped within the scope of Dongjiang Province and could not expand to other provinces.

The three sixth-level governors of the three provinces also rushed to the three state capitals to take charge of the situation to intimidate the two sixth-level demon kings so that they did not dare to act rashly.

Next, the demon soldiers under the demon king and the Ming army fought against each other.

At a time when high-level combat forces are constrained by each other and do not dare to act rashly, the outcome of the battle at the bottom becomes particularly important.

The outcome of the battle of these lower-level armies will determine the ownership of the entire Dongjiang Province and cannot be ignored.

Under this situation, the Demon King of Huangshan summoned the demons in the Ming Dynasty even more urgently. Within two months, more than 90% of the demons in the Ming Dynasty who could not bear it rushed to Dongjiang Province to participate in such a event. A feast.

These demons, including the previous batch, number about 70,000 in number, and the demons' wisdom is much nobler and more powerful than those brought out by the Huangshan Demon King from the mountains and forests.

Facing the 60,000 regular troops of the opposite court, they were not at a disadvantage. They fought back and forth, vigorously and vigorously.

In this way, a human-monster war that affected the hearts of the entire Ming Dynasty, and even interested people all over the world, began.

After March, the war in Dongjiang Province is still going on, but compared to the beginning, both in scale and intensity, it is much smaller.

Mainly because the losses on both sides were too great. The imperial court only had about 20,000 troops left, and the demon side also had 30,000 troops. Both sides could barely hold on to their respective territories. Any big battle would be a joke.

At this point, the two parties were already struggling. Both the imperial court and the demons have a tendency to negotiate for peace.

Even the peace negotiation teams of both sides are ready and have begun preliminary negotiations.

The rough agreement is to divide the areas currently controlled by each. The state courts controlled by the four Huangshan Demon Kings in the east of Dongjiang Province recognize their right to rule. The remaining three Huangshan Demon Kings are not allowed to infringe, and each draws their own land as the boundary. Make a peace treaty.

This agreement was carried out very quickly, especially when the Ming Dynasty was at a disadvantage in the northern war and was preparing to mobilize inland troops to support it.

On the demon side, after all the demons that could be controlled by the entire Ming Dynasty were transferred to Dongjiang Province, most of them were consumed by the war. Even if they knew that now was a good opportunity to capture a larger territory, they could only agree to this when they did not have enough strength. contract.

As a result, a contract that was quite humiliating for the human race was born. To commemorate this contract, it was named after the Guide Mansion, the outbreak point of the war, and it was called "The Guide Contract between Humans and Monsters".

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