As Li De expected, when Zhaochen's soldiers had already driven Tiancheng's people towards the lord's mansion, other territories would not be able to replicate his success in a short period of time. There are many reasons. For example, it takes time to dispatch the army. For example, because these people have already signed an agreement in Jufeng City, they have selfishness about the "ownership" of Tiancheng's various cities, so there will inevitably be some internal friction when they act.
Of course, the most important reason is that, apart from Yunyang, there is no other territory that can quickly break down the mentality of the people of Tiancheng.
Their army may also have quite good fighting power, but the fighting methods they use are still within the understanding of Tian Cheng's common people. The people of Tiancheng are still very brave when they hold a group. Maybe the troops from other territories can kill more people who stand in the way with minimal casualties. They can be consumed endlessly with more quantities.
Finally, the other territories reached a consensus.
After Yunyang became the master of Tiancheng, the negotiation meeting was reopened. If Yunyang knew the situation, he would definitely not dare to monopolize the entire Tiancheng. At that time, Yunyang will give up about two-thirds of the land, and the other families will allow Li De to keep one-third of the harvest. Of course, with Elied's character, it's impossible for him to obediently spit out what he ate, but the other territories don't care too much. Naturally, they can't beat Tian Cheng, but they think it's easy for them to beat Yunyang Relaxed.
All things generate and restrain each other, which is also a cycle.
At the same time, the people of Tiancheng also gradually completed the last section of the road and arrived at the main city of Tiancheng's territory - Anning City.
There are obviously no difficulties and obstacles in this section of the road, but they have traveled a long way.
The inner conflicts tormented them constantly, and the situation of a wolf in the front and a tiger in the back brought great psychological pressure to them. Many times they really did not dare to be an enemy of Lord Tian Cheng, so they sat down to rest like a strike. But Zhaochen's army is also ruthless, they advance at a constant speed, and once they touch someone who strikes, they never spare the long knife hanging around their waist.
Someone kept throwing stones at Zhaochen's soldiers and said loudly:
"You are trying to drive us to a dead end... you demons!"
"You just don't dare to go to the Lord's Mansion by yourself, so you let us die in front!"
"You're human too! Are you really capable of—"
In Zhaochen's army, there is a half-grown boy named Qichang. He happened to be hit on the forehead by a stone, at first he felt dazzled, and then he felt a warm liquid flowing down the sides of his nose. Qichang is only about fifteen years old this year, but perhaps because his parents have better genetics, his height is much taller than the adults around him. target.
Qichang has a good temper, even when such a situation happened, he was not angry. He could fully understand the driven Tiancheng people in front of him. The reason why they were so angry was because they didn't have enough sense of security in this turbulent era.
But then again, no matter where you are, isn't the sense of security all earned by yourself
Qi Chang wiped the blood from his forehead, and an unshaven old man beside him silently handed over an old cloth strip, signaling him to bandage it up. Qi Chang recognized this uncle. He used to be the only "unemployed vagrant" in the village who didn't have a regular job. At that time, everyone called him Brother Lazy. But in fact, the lazy brother is not really unemployed. He just had to change his way of life because he liked to gamble when he was young and lost his ancestral land. He once worked more than a dozen jobs at one go during the busy season in exchange for a minimum standard ration.
Qi Chang didn't like him because there was a severe drought in Zhaochen one year, and there were fewer and fewer people who could afford to hire him. Brother Lazy had no choice but to rely on borrowing to survive. Qichang's mother lent him three liters of rice, which saved his life. But then there was a civil strife in Zhaochen, and many rebels broke into houses to grab money and grain. Qichang's mother protected the grain bag from them, but was stabbed in the chest by a soldier with a gun. The point of the gun pierced her body, tore open the grain bag, and the gray rice was scattered all over the ground.
Brother Lazy was also there at the time, but when facing those soldiers in armor, he chose to put on a smiling face and carefully curry favor with them, instead of repaying each other with a drip of kindness as Qi Chang hoped, and angrily stepped forward to rescue them. people. Later, the village held a simple funeral for Qichang's mother, and Brother Lazy didn't come either.
It was as if he had evaporated from the world.
When Qichang saw him again, it was already when Zhaochen came under the jurisdiction of Yunyang and Yunyang began to recruit soldiers. When the two met again, Brother Lazy still smiled as before and put his arms around his shoulders, and he broke free. There was no further communication between the two parties, but the two were accidentally assigned to the same team, and their positions in the army formation were also very close.
Qi Chang looked at the people in the distance, silently thinking about their future.
One day, they will also join a certain army, and the comrades around them may be guys they don't like. In troubled times, people have no choice. The only way is to accept everything around them and let themselves continue to live. So he took the cloth strip handed over by the lazy man, tied his head, and continued to hold the spear in his hand to follow the crowd.
Qi Chang gradually felt that perhaps all of this was predestined.
Tiancheng's people had no other choice, and Zhaochen's soldiers had no choice either.
When the people of Tiancheng finally arrived at the city of Anning, they saw a city that looked like a fortress of hell amidst the smoke and fire. For a moment, the people of Tiancheng remembered the rumors they had heard since they were young, saying that Lord Tiancheng was the messenger of God and was sent down to punish their sins. Each of them has "original sin" from birth, and it takes a lifetime to atone for their sins in order to avoid endless torture after death.
And now, they are going to rebel against the messenger of God!
For them, this was something they never even dared to think about. It is as if people who believe in Buddhism from generation to generation are forced to demolish temples. It may be a very common behavior in the eyes of non-Buddhists, but it is a huge pain for them. Countless people were so frightened that they fell to their knees and kowtowed to the city of Anning, praying that the so-called "messenger of God" would forgive their sins.
Some people shouted for help, asking the lord to come out and "save them".
Zhaochen's soldiers watched coldly, as if they were watching a strange farce.
In the eyes of Yunyang people, Yunyang was not good enough until they met Zhaochen.
In the eyes of Zhaochen's people, Zhaochen had always been miserable, the kind that was unbearable, until they saw Tian Cheng.
In fact, at the moment when those Tiancheng people knelt down, many Zhaochen soldiers thought of themselves, of themselves who were humbled to survive in the chaos. Brother Lazy licked his lips unnaturally, his hand holding the gun was trembling.
It is difficult for a person to know who he wants to be.
But in the process of getting along with others, a person can easily understand what kind of person he absolutely does not want to be.
Zhaochen's soldiers saw the shadow of their past from Tiancheng's people, ignorant, cowardly, narrow-minded, unable to distinguish right from wrong, they are unwilling to admit this, but in the future life, they will subconsciously Draw a line with these types of people.
This may also be the purpose of Lide to let them come here.
A group of people knelt down in Anning City, and countless people cried and begged the lord to lower his divine power and express this anger for them.
They are willing to continue to dedicate their lives to be enslaved by Lord Tiancheng.
Amidst the massive petitions, there was finally movement in Anning City—
It was a situation that no one thought of.
A white flag waving in the wind.