By occupying Hechuan Ridge, Hexi has almost controlled the fertile land on the north bank of Hechuan Lake. However, in order to completely integrate this land into Hexi, in addition to completely expelling the remnants of the Helan Sword Sect from Hechuan County, in addition to In addition to dispatching elite combat forces to guard the area and dispatching officials to govern the area, Sichuan County also recruited outstanding disciples from various counties in Hechuan County to enter the sect to practice.
After Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming surrendered, they moved their relatives to Rao Lin, the county seat of Hechuan County. At this time, Dong Liang, the mighty god of war, was personally in charge.
Although 80,000 Musashi troops on the south bank of the Qin River were repulsed by Qin Muhou, and there were 150,000 Musashi troops stationed further south in the hinterland of Meishan and did not dare to advance westward, these 2.23 million troops were by no means Musashi troops. of all strength.
Although the situation of Hechuan Ridge is not as good as that of the Helan Mountains and Taiwei Mountains, the mountains are much steeper than the branch mountains such as Yulong Mountain and Tieliu Ridge. Managing the Hechuan Ridge well will be the key to the Taiwei Sect and Hexi for thousands of years. As long as Hechuan Ridge is controlled, not only will Yulong County in the north be safe, but the fertile land along Hechuan Lake and a population of more than 20 million will be under Hexi's control.
Chen Qing said: "Many people in the Protector General's Palace are very critical of my father. Will letting Uncle Zhao serve as a military instructor cause further controversy?" She felt that since her father had no intention of intervening in secular affairs in the short term, he would not be able to do anything in the Taoist academy. For personnel appointments, it is better to let Xie Quanting and Xie Kun make the selections. Using Zhao Bing as a military instructor will cause great controversy no matter how you look at it.
In the end, these disciples will grow into a newly emerging force in Hechuan County, replacing the old sect forces, and then they will be truly integrated into Hexi.
"Me?" Zhao Shan said unexpectedly, "I have been leading horses and carrying flags in front of the Marquis all my life. I am a big boss, but I was forced to learn to read by the Marquis. How can I be qualified to teach military skills?"
It was also because of the many internal conflicts between the Helan Sword Sect and the Hexiang Army that after the Hexi Army broke through the Hechuan Ridge defense line, the two guardian elders of the Helan Sword Sect, Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming, secretly led their direct disciples to leave Helan Mountain and return to their respective sects. The two cities of Yichang and Suyun where the clan is located secretly ordered the generals of the Lian family and the Hua family in the Hexiang army to lead their troops to assemble in the two cities of Yichang and Suyun. Then they changed their banners in Yichang and Suyun and counted the Helan sword masters. Huang Qiwei had a bad track record of suppressing his fellow disciples over the years, and announced his surrender to Hexi and Taiwei Sect.
In order to prevent the Musashi Army and the remnants of the Hexiang Army from the east from suddenly entering Tsurukawa County from the east, Hexi continued to send more troops to the Shining and Lingchang lines to build a stronger defense line.
With these two points, Zhao Shan is qualified to serve as a military instructor in the Taoist Academy, and Qian Wenyi is qualified to serve as a low-level soldier beside the crown prince Dong Chou.
Although Chen Lie was determined to practice at this time, Wangxifeng was in a mess at this time and he had to stop and work with Xie Quanting, Xie Kun and others to sort out the chaotic situation first.
This was once the place where a Dao Dan Realm sect leader of the Huang family hid in cultivation. After the Wenhu Port defense line fell one after another, Chen Jun, the ancestor of the Chen family, led hundreds of disciples of the Taiwei Sect to make a surprise attack under the cover of the War Bird Camp. Here, the elder of the Huang clan ran away in a hurry before he could destroy this place.
As usual, all the clans that have surrendered to Hechuan County, all underage direct descendants and collateral descendants with the potential to practice, must be sent to the Taoist temple affiliated to Taiwei Sect for practice. In just one month, Wangxi Peak has Nearly two thousand disciples who had joined the clan were sent here to practice.
The straight-line distance between Wangxifeng and Shining City is less than 500 miles. After Qin Muhou Dong Shou's status as the east-line coach was confirmed, Chen Lie still had to be controlled by Dongshou at Wangxifeng.
Just because Zhao Shan and Qian Wenyi had stayed with Chen Hai for a long time, the two volumes of military training records contained some essence that others could not see, but they could understand it more thoroughly.
"The sect has issued an order requiring all outer Taoist academies to add a military discipline. Zhao Shan, are you willing to serve as the Taoist military instructor?" Chen Lie stood on the south cliff of Wangxi Peak, looking at the steaming sea of clouds, and suddenly turned around and asked Zhao Shandao.
Since Chen Lie was unwilling to serve as a general to command troops in battle or to govern a county, the God of Wuwei asked him to move to Hechuan Ridge to practice cultivation and serve as the supervisor elder of Wangxifeng Taoist Temple. This was something Chen Lie could not do. Things to reject.
Before Hexi attacked Hechuan Ridge, the descendants of the Lian and Hua clans had already gathered in Yichang and Suyun cities. Until Hexi broke through the Hechuan Ridge defense line, Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming suddenly surrendered, and the two clans almost There are no direct descendants scattered around, which shows that the defection of Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming was planned long ago.
Especially on the eastern front headed by Dong Shou, there were initially only 40,000 Hexi Qin Wang troops to attack Shining. After joining forces with Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming, they also recruited the large and small clans in the eastern part of Hechuan County and Hexiang who had not yet withdrawn. The strength of the remnants of the army expanded sharply to 250,000 to 256,000 in just one month.
Zhao Shan, accompanied by the family head Chen Lie and his daughter Chen Qing, climbed to Wangxi Peak, the main peak at the east foot of Hechuan Ridge.
What really scares Hexi is not the remnants of the Hexiang Army who are bent on counterattacking to recapture Hechuan County from both wings.
The eldest son Dong Chou is not to say that Zhao Shan and Qian Wenyi really have profound insights in military skills. At least Zhao Shan and Qian Wenyi cannot compete with Sun Qian, Wu Meng, Zhou Jun and others in running the army. Although many people were compared with each other, Sun Qian, Su Yuan, Wu Meng, Zhou Jun and others all chose to stay in Liquan. Only a few people such as Zhao Shan and Qian Wenyi finally chose to return to Hexi.
The Marquis of Wuwei ordered Chen Lie to serve as the dean of the Wangxifeng Taoist Academy. He also selected seven powerful people in the Mingqiao realm, such as Feng Quanting and Xie Kun, to serve as the elders of the Dharma transmission, military training, and directors of the various academies. Xifeng Taoist Temple was developed into an important stronghold supporting the eastern defense line.
Although many of the teachings under the Dharma Master Jie Quanting are held by disciples of the Spiritual Realm, most of these disciples of the Spiritual Realm are inner disciples from Shangqifeng. Zhao Shan was originally a veteran in the army, so he He had been with Chen Lie for many years as a family slave, and was not even considered an outer disciple. Zhao Shan found it incredible when he suddenly heard that his family asked him to serve as a military instructor in the Taoist academy.
In the southeast, hundreds of thousands of Hexiang troops retreated into Meishan to join forces with the Musashi Army. At this time, they built defensive fortresses on the western slopes of Meishan in order to stabilize their positions as quickly as possible.
"The letter from the Crown Prince mentions you and Wen Yi. It was the Crown Prince who suggested that you serve as a military instructor at the Taoist Academy, and also said that Wen Yi would be transferred to him to join the army," Chen Lie said.
Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming are both only about a hundred years old. They are both in the middle stage of Dao Dan realm. It can be said that they are in their prime years and have imaginative cultivation potential in the future. It turns out that they are two people who have risen up in the Helan Sword Sect in the past hundred years. Core figures, and the Lian family and the Hua family are both major clans in Hechuan County, and a number of outstanding young people such as Hua Xicheng and Lian Shuo also emerged in the clan. These two clans suddenly defected to Hexi and challenged Hechuan. The blow to the remnants of the Xiang Army was extremely heavy.
Although this is not the situation that Chen Lie wants to see, as long as he is a disciple of Taiwei Sect, some things will be beyond his control.
With Lian and Hua in front, the large and small clans in Hechuan County who were suppressed by the Huang family and had no important figures controlled by the Huang family began to change their banners and defect to Hexi.
Only by keeping the Musashi army at bay can Hexi digest Tsurukawa County calmly.
However, in the past two hundred years, the Huang family has not had the rise of any outstanding descendants who can support the Huang family business. Huang Peiyi, the direct grandson of Huang Qiwei, the current head of the Huang clan, the Protector General of the Hexiang Army and the patrolling pastor of Hechuan County, Huang Peiyi, has been practicing for more than two hundred years and has only reached the middle stage of Dao Dan realm. He has even passed his peak years. There is not much time left before the deadline. The Huang clan has always been supported by Huang Qiwei, an ancestor of Tianbang.
After Huang Qiwei, the ancestor of the Huang family, reaches his end, the status of the Huang family in Hechuan will be shaken by other big families in Hechuan County. In recent years, not only Xie Jueyuan has been forced to leave Hechuan by him, but also many non-direct descendants of the Helan Sword Sect. Elders in the Dao Dan Realm were also excluded and suppressed, and were full of complaints.
What Hexi is really afraid of is the Musashi Army, which has risen in recent years and controls Qinchuan and Wubei counties.
Although Hexi also obtained two volumes of military training records written by Chen Hai, the information in the book was ultimately shallow.
Although the Hexiang Army has many soldiers and horses, it has been plagued by internal conflicts over the years.
Helan Mountain is extremely steep, and it is also the seat of the Helan Sword Sect. Nearly 300,000 Hexiang Army elites have withdrawn into the Helan Mountain. Together with the tens of thousands of sword cultivators from the Helan Sword Sect, the Hexi Iron Cavalry is still unable to storm in. At present, It was just that Du Yu, Dong Pu and others led the Yulong Camp with 20,000 elite yamen soldiers and a total force of 200,000 to occupy Wenchun Ridge on the west bank of Hechuan Lake, cutting off the Hexiang Army's counterattack into the hinterland of Hechuan.
After that, they led one hundred thousand troops to surrender, departed from Suyun, and marched eastward along Hechuan Lake and the north bank of Qinshui River. They joined forces with Dong Shou, the Marquis of Qin Mu who was stationed in Shining, and crossed Qinshui River to repel them. The 80,000 Musashi Army, which had previously intended to capture Shining and reinforce Tsurukawa, occupied Lingchang, an important town in the northwest of Qinchuan County, between the northern foot of Meishan Mountain and Qinshui River.
"Is Qian Wenyi qualified to serve as a soldier next to the crown prince?" Hearing this, Zhao Shan felt that Qian Wenyi was funny, but when he thought about why this was the case, he was stunned and speechless for a long time.
In the future, Hexi will set up a Taoist temple on each of the three main peaks of Hechuan Ridge. It will also be the three most important outer Taoist temples of Taiwei Sect besides the upper seven peaks. In addition to being responsible for training disciples recruited from all over Hechuan County, In addition, they also need to cooperate with the garrison to guard the place, so they also need to mobilize elite soldiers and generals from the sect.
Only then did Chen Qing figure out what was going on and asked, "Is Chen Hai's story really so important?"
In doing so, Lian Yongliang and Hua Yanming, on the one hand, put their relatives under direct surveillance in Hexi, showing that their surrender was by no means half-hearted or a scheme by the Helan Sword Sect, and on the other hand, they were prepared to prevent the Helan Sword Sect from sending out Assassins killed their kin in revenge for their treachery.
Wangxi Peak is located at the east foot of Hechuan Ridge, more than 10,000 meters high. Spiritual springs flow from its peak. Lush virgin forests cover the slopes and valleys. Birds chirp and beasts roar. It is different from the surrounding peaks that are still covered with snow even after summer. Different, Wangxi Peak is an extremely rare paradise.