The Huben army that advanced into Jiyang County had already occupied the Lingke Mountain Pass on the east side of Huangmiyuan to build a defensive fortress. At this time, they gathered a large number of troops. On the west side of Huangmiyuan, one barracks after another was quickly erected and spread out. Drive forward and occupy the northeast corner of Huangmi Plain.
After a while, a warning signal came from outside the big tent. The generals surrounded Ning Zhize and walked out of the big tent. They saw a green flowing shadow rushing towards the sky from the southwest at high speed.
Ning Zhize knew that at this time, there were many people who were unwilling to be suppressed by them. They were secretly trying to stumbling Ning's family intentionally or unintentionally. He was not allowed to deal with it carelessly. Ning Zhize didn't want to delay Jiyang any longer. The capital seems peaceful, but the undercurrents under the water are more dangerous. However, too many people in the Ning family do not want to go back in a hurry. They pay more attention to their immediate interests and are eager to divide Jiyang County.
Bandits gather refugees and wreak havoc in places. Even if there are a large number of Red Eyebrow Cult evildoers causing trouble, the rabble is just a rabble. There are no sophisticated soldiers and armors, no consistent and excellent training, and there are not a large number of people selected from the sects. Elite military attachés do not have a carefully managed base area or complete logistical supplies. They rely only on hundreds of elite members of the Red Eyebrow Sect. It may not be a problem to destroy weak local military equipment. adversary
Northeast of Qintong Mountain and north of Yanran Mountain is Jiyang, one of the counties in the northern region of Yanzhou, and also the northern Fanping of Gyeonggi.
In the headquarters of the main division of the Huben Army located in the north ridge of Huangmiyuan, dozens of generals from the Huben Army, Ning's Guardsmen, and Jiyang County Soldiers, all of whom were in the Mingqiao Realm and the Daodan Realm, were all talking. to discuss subsequent war preparations.
To this end, Ning planned to build a fort in the northeast of Julu Ridge in order to completely seal the rebels in Julu Ridge. This dragged on for a year or two, until the Ning family's tentacles extended into Jiyang County on a large scale, and after the Ning family and the descendants of the affiliated clans had completely established a foothold in Jiyang County, they invaded Jululing in one fell swoop and defeated the exhausted It would be in the best interest of the Ning family to annihilate all the rebels who joined forces.
Ning Zhize is tall, with a face like a crown jewel, and only a short thick mustache on his lips. He looks no different from an ordinary middle-aged man, and there is no trace of his old age. The azure green spirit armor he was wearing was said to be made from a succubus scale skin passed down from ancient times. He squinted his eyes and seemed to be pretending to be asleep, but in fact he listened carefully to what every general was talking about. pondering.
What happened in Yanjing City
However, this process cannot be accomplished in three to five days. Therefore, the Ning family and hundreds of thousands of tiger and wolf troops are stationed outside Julu Ridge, so they cannot rush to give the rebels the final blow.
Under the personal leadership of Ning Zhize, the leader of the Ning clan, 150,000 tiger troops and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Ning family left the capital and advanced into Jiyang. The situation in Jiyang County quickly improved.
The refugee rebels rose and fell quickly. After a large number of generals were massacred, they lost their foothold in the open plains. In order to survive, the remaining rebels withdrew into Qintong and Yanran two months ago. In the Julu Ridge between mountains.
However, it has only been a month since the Ning family implemented the "mountain closure" strategy in the northeast corner of Julu Ridge. Rebels have come out from the depths of Julu Ridge one after another and began to attack the mountains in front of the Huben Army camp in a targeted manner. Build camps and fortifications.
If they didn't want to pay unnecessary casualties, the Huben Army could have taken Jululing in one go and ended the chaos in Jiyang County ahead of time. However, the war was put down too early and hundreds of thousands of tiger and wolf troops returned to the court, and the Ning family was attacked. There is no benefit.
Ning Zhize didn't seem to hear the young general's words, but the next moment he suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils glowing with golden light, and he looked in front of the tent in confusion.
As one of the eight clans in Jingjun, the Ning family holds the position of hereditary prince. As a different surname, it is impossible to be crowned a king. Apart from gold, silver, jewels, elixirs and elixirs, there is no reward; and the Ning family will not be short of gold. Silver jewelry, elixirs and elixirs.
Faced with the rebel movement, the Ning family would not remain indifferent. They also began to gather troops on the front of Julu Ridge, at the Huangmi Plain in the northeast corner of Julu Ridge, preparing to wait for the main force of the rebels to come out of the mountain for a decisive battle.
The young general on Ning Zhize's left, although he was only at the early stage of Qiao Realm, sat directly under the coach Ning Zhize, which showed that he had an extraordinary status. He listened to the discussions among many Ning generals. It seems that they need to be more careful, but the deeper meaning is that they still hope that the war can be postponed.
Soon, more and more rebel generals came out of the Troll Ridge again, seeming to rush out to fight the Jiyang Tiger Army in a life-or-death showdown before they ran out of food and grass.
Everyone suddenly felt uneasy. If there were any official correspondence, they could be sent through Lingyan. The speed was very fast. It only took half a day for the letter to be sent from Yanjing City, which was three or four thousand miles away. Only the most urgent, If there was no room for errors in the transmission of information, or if there was any inconvenience in writing confidential information in the letter, someone would be directly arranged to come over in person on a spiritual bird to convey it to Ning Zhize.
After a heavy rain, there are still a few days before autumn begins, and Jiyang County is still extremely hot and muggy, not much cooler because of the heavy rain that just passed.
However, in the minds of the children of the Ning family, although there are still four to five million remnants of the enemy who fled into Jululing, they lack food and clothing, their armor is broken, their morale is low, and there are quite a few old, weak, women and children. No matter what kind of threat it is.
Now that the rebels are determined to go out to Jululing for a decisive battle, that would be even better. However, Ning Zhize always feels that there is something strange that he has not figured out, as if there is a heart-wrenching shadow covering his heart. , making him unable to see the future direction clearly.
After crossing Yanran Mountain, the terrain in Jiyang County is relatively easy, but it is also a half-mountain-half-land terrain, with crisscrossing rivers and majestic mountains and ridges. The rebel bandits and bandits in Jiyang and other northern counties were the most powerful. They claimed to have millions of soldiers, and their flags covered the sky and the earth. They were like swarms of locusts, destroying unprotected local armaments.
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Huangmi Plain is a valley with a radius of more than a hundred miles, surrounded by rolling mountains. It is also a key place from the northeastern foot of Julu Ridge into the hinterland of Jiyang County. It can be said to be an excellent battlefield for millions of soldiers and horses to launch the final decisive battle.
In this regard, there is nothing unimaginable at all.
Now that the rebels have left Juluyuan, Ning's natural choice is to simply eliminate hundreds of thousands of rebels.
Although there are dozens of streams and rivers that crisscross the vast grassland that is hundreds of miles in radius, these streams and rivers are very shallow and do not require boat bridges. People and horses can swim directly across the grassland without causing any separation of the terrain.
In less than a year, the Huben army suppressed the civil unrest in Jiyang and defeated the rebels steadily. In twenty-one large and small battles, nearly a million rebels and soldiers were slaughtered, and hundreds of prefectures and counties were recovered one after another.
Except for the clans with extremely strong power and foundation that were able to form strongholds and build cities to protect themselves, the vast majority of prefectures and counties fell and were destroyed.
The Red Eyebrow Sect incited the refugees to revolt. Whether it was raiding Qintong Pass or ambushing the main force of the Xiyuan Army in Leiyang Valley, it was enough to prove that the Red Eyebrow Sect members were the remnants of those who fled the Taoist Temple. Ni Ling San and other prohibitions as well as the Tiangang Thunder Prison The formation and other Taoist temples have inherited it thousands of years ago, and it is also the key point of prevention that the Jiyang Tiger Army needs to be careful about.
Ning Zhize couldn't control the will of everyone. Thinking that Yanjing City really had some advantages and disadvantages, it was not a bad choice for the Ning family to gain a foothold in Jiyang first.
Ning Zhize, who is over 100 years old, is the commander of the Tiger Army heading north. He is a peerless expert who has half-stepped into the realm of Dao Fei. This is also the most prosperous stage of his life. Even if he is not able to achieve Dao Fei in the final step, Ning Zhize still has one or two hundred years of life left to control the world.
Furthermore, no matter how many war merit rewards the court has, they will not be very generous if they are spread among the tens of thousands of Ning clan and its affiliated clans’ children; not to mention that the treasury has been empty in the past few years, and it has not been able to produce much war merit. reward.
The young general became impatient and wanted to know what Ning Zhize's opinion was.
Soon, the direct bodyguards around Ning Zhize reunited with the cyan Liuying and flew directly to the coach's tent. At this time, everyone could guess that it was someone from Yanjing.
In addition to the 150,000 tiger soldiers and more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Ning clan, Ning Zhize also transferred hundreds of thousands of local weapons from Jiyang County to fill Huangmiyuan-Jiyang County's local weapons had been destroyed by the rebels long ago, but After Ning Zhize entered Jiyang, he recruited elite warriors from local clans and reorganized local military equipment under the county captain. The combat power was even better than before.
The green-beaked goose with giant wings spread out three to four meters wide flew over. Everyone saw clearly that standing on the back of the green-beaked goose was Ning Chengzhi, another late-stage Dao Dan realm powerhouse from the Ning clan who was stationed in Yanjing, and they felt even more excited. perturbed.
At the northern foot of Qintong Mountain, the Xiyuan Army also besieged but refused to attack the rebels. Most of the generals in the court believed that the clan behind the Xiyuan Army was deliberately delaying it. Even if they secretly resented it, They could only watch helplessly as the clans that had good relations with King Yingshu had more time to extend their tentacles to every corner of Qintong Mountain.
In a sense, the sect does not hate the Red Eyebrow Sect's frequent civil unrest in various places. As long as their foundation is not touched, this may not be a good opportunity to expand their power and attack dissidents.
The Ning family has assisted the prince in governing the country for more than ten years, and has offended too many people. Ning Zhize never thought that Emperor Yi Tian would one day cultivate Dao Dan again and regain some of his cultivation. Moreover, they were not aware of it beforehand. This muddied the waters in Yanjing City.
"Ning Shuai..."
I don't know if the person coming is an enemy or a friend, but there are also dozens of direct guards on the camp's side, flying into the air on the spirit birds, intercepting the cyan flowing shadow that is rushing towards the distance.
Ning Chengzhi flew into the green-beaked wild goose with a gloomy expression. It looked like he had communicated something with the coach Ning Zhize through spiritual thoughts. Everyone was anxiously thinking, what bad news is there that requires Ning Chengzhi to go there personally
None of the generals knew what happened to make Ning Zhize react so vigilantly.
Then delay the war as much as possible. When the Ning family leads the tiger and wolf army to sweep across Jiyang County, and while Jiyang County is reorganizing the local order, arrange as many children as possible from the Ning family and the vassal clans to infiltrate and serve as officials and generals. Seizing those aura-rich mountains, wild lakes and turning Jiyang County into Ning's Jiyang is the greatest benefit of the Ning clan, and such benefits are far more generous than the rewards of the Eight Classics in the court.
Due to the dangerous terrain of Jululing, it was not conducive to the deployment of large forces, and there was still a small elite group of refugee rebels that had not yet been eliminated. Only then did the elite Tiger Army led by Ning Zhize have to slow down their campaign. .