This martial saint's health bar is too thick

Chapter 550: King of the West, King of the North

"I wish to inherit the blood of an emperor and seek to attain the path of nirvana of the Tathagata!"

Qin Zihong's firm voice rang out in the empty hall.

The Path to Nirvana of the Tathagata refers to the practice of the Ten Seals of the Tathagata to the highest level.

Qin Zihong's words did not just mean shaving his head and becoming a monk, but also joining Pudu Temple and becoming a core disciple!
The green lamp in front of the Buddha statue flickered, and the gentle light shone on Qin Zihong who was bowing his head.

Jinglian looked at the prince in front of her with some surprise.

I thought he was just a puppet character, but I didn't expect him to do something like this.

"Being in the imperial family and being able to participate in the fight for the throne, one is indeed no ordinary person."

Jinglian thought to herself.

He turned around and faced the Buddha statue as well:

"Amitabha, Your Highness has not yet severed his worldly ties, so it may be difficult for him to enter the Buddhist monastery."

Qin Zihong kept his head bowed: "It is said that if you put down your butcher knife, you will become a Buddha. Now I am willing to give up everything. I only ask your temple to accept me as your disciple!"

Jinglian actually had a lot more to say, but he sensed Qin Zihong's determination, so he stopped talking:

"This matter is not something I can decide. The abbot is still in seclusion. If Your Highness is interested, please wait for some time and wait for the abbot to make a decision."

Qin Zihong had expected the other party to say this, and said without hesitation:
"In that case, I will kneel here and wait for the abbot to come out!"

Jinglian sighed, "Why is your highness so aggressive?"

Qin Zihong: "If not, how can you show my devotion to Buddha?"

Jinglian remained silent, standing where he was, while a stream of true energy was transmitted through the air.

Although Jingheng was in seclusion, it was not a permanent seclusion. After all, he had to be on guard against an attack from the imperial court at any time.

If there is any important matter, Jinglian can contact the other party at any time.

After a moment, a voice sounded in the hall:
"Qin Zihong, are you really willing to join my Buddhist sect?"

The sound is not loud, but it gives people a sense of vastness, as if the Dharma of Buddhism is boundless.

Qin Zihong's body froze as he lay on the ground, and he immediately shouted:
"Disciple is willing!"

"Amitabha."

With this chanting of the Buddha's name, the green lamp in front of the Buddha statue suddenly shone brightly!

July 12, the 21th year of Hongguang.

The Buddhist holy place Pudu Temple suddenly announced a piece of news:
"The prince of the Great Blue Dynasty, Qin Zihong, was moved by Buddhism and voluntarily joined the Pudu Temple and became a Buddhist disciple!"

Not long after the news came out, Qin Zihong, who had become a Buddhist disciple, published an article:
"I am Qin Zihong, the son of the late emperor. I write this letter in blood and tears to inform the people of the world:

Alas! The great cause has collapsed, and the mountains and rivers are stained with blood. Although I am the descendant of the royal family, how can I bear to sit and watch the ancestral temple covered in dust?

Since the current emperor ascended the throne, the two great desert countries have first broken through the southern border, invaded our rivers and mountains, and killed the people!
The grassland royal court has openly declared war again, and an army of one million soldiers is approaching the eastern border!
The northern barbarians have raised an army of one million and are invading our borders again!
As a result of these things, the country is in turmoil and the country is in unrest.

It is clear that the emperor has no virtue and is unworthy of bearing the weight of the Nine Cauldrons!

The Zhenglan Palace is full of jackals and wolf-like crowns, and the steps to the Golden Throne are full of demons and ghosts with hairpins and scepters. This is not just the personal anger of one person, but the common pain of the whole world!
I look at the three realms as a burning house and feel sad about the cycle of suffering in the six realms. Only Buddhism can save all living beings.

I wish, with my royal blood and Buddhist body, to establish a Buddhist kingdom in the westernmost place on January 1st of next year!

Replace the five punishments with the five precepts, and use compassion to ease conquest.

I pray that all Buddhas will shine their light, and that Bodhisattvas will protect us, so that the Asuras can stop fighting and Jambudvīpa can find peace.

If there are those who are obsessed with helping the tyrant, the vajra will show no mercy; if there are those who can turn back and do good, the eight meritorious waters will wash away their sins.

I hereby shed tears and let heaven and earth bear witness to this!"

Although the imperial court ordered the closure of all temples in the country and the arrest of all Buddhist practitioners, Buddhism has a thousand-year-old history and deep roots, and it cannot be eliminated overnight.

After Qin Zihong issued this manifesto, except for Xiji Province, people in the other 22 provinces secretly distributed leaflets or spread the matter in the form of rumors.

Soon, everyone in the world knew that a new country was about to appear in the territory of the Great Blue Dynasty!

On January 1 next year, Qin Zihong will be crowned by the living Buddha himself at the Pudu Temple and become——

King of the West!
For a time, the whole world was shaken and the government and the public were in an uproar.

Li Fei had just caught up with the Northern Expedition Army when he saw the manifesto written by Qin Zihong.

He first escorted Li Lei and others to Lanling City, and handed over the captured Ruan Chen to the Military Affairs Office for interrogation.

Afterwards, he took Zhou Xuan and Bai Meng, two royal priests, to chase the Northern Expedition Army that had already set out.

Li Fei could imagine what a huge sensation Qin Zihong's manifesto would cause!

The third prince's cooperation with Buddhism is like seeking the skin of a tiger, but at least it is still a confrontation between imperial power and religious power.

Retains the hope of overcoming Buddhism in the future.

Now the eldest prince Qin Zihong has joined Buddhism and established a country as a disciple of Pudu Temple. This is to completely put the imperial power under the authority of the church!
At the beginning, the Third Prince used his royal blood and made a lot of preparations in advance. In addition, he was in the central place of Lanling City, which gave the Buddhists an opportunity to directly invade the country's destiny with the Buddhist destiny.

Now the imperial court has been prepared, Qin Zihong is far away in Pudu Mountain, and the fortune of Buddhism has been damaged, so it is impossible to reproduce the original scene.

However, Qin Zihong's move can still have a very bad impact on the Great Blue Dynasty!
Li Fei had previously asked the emperor to wait for three years and not to rush to take revenge on the Buddhists.

But now the Buddhists are supporting Qin Zihong to establish the Buddhist Kingdom, which is simply unbearable!
The imperial court must launch a powerful counterattack, otherwise the people of the world will be unstable, and Qin Ziheng’s throne will also be unstable!
Unfortunately, the Great Blue Dynasty is now faced with enemies all over the world, and wars are breaking out on three borders at the same time.

At this time, we have to start another front in our own territory. The pressure is too great!
Qin Zihong and Buddhism really picked a good time.

Because the previous emperor passed away and the country was in mourning, the coronation ceremony of the new emperor had never been held.

Qin Ziheng will wait until January 1st of next year, the first day of the first year of Yuanxing, to hold his coronation ceremony.

As a result, Qin Zihong and Buddhists also chose this day to establish the Buddhist kingdom.

Li Fei could imagine how furious the emperor would be when he learned about this!
Da Lanchao's face was literally being trampled underfoot!
He sighed and called Xuan Chen, Zhou Xuanwo, Bai Meng and the commander-in-chief of the imperial guards, Han Mu.

These four people are the ones with the highest status in this northern expedition army except for him, the general who is on the northern expedition.

"Everyone."

Li Fei's eyes swept over the four people present one by one:
"I have a plan."

Deafening gunshots roared through the jungle.

The rotten leaves were crushed by big feet wrapped in animal skins. A bronze figure tore through the rain curtain and rushed towards the gun-wielding soldiers like a vicious wolf.

This soldier was also an experienced fighter. He calmly raised the Tiger rifle in his hand, took aim, and pulled the trigger.

click!
The bullet jammed.

"Your mother!"

The soldier quickly reached for the revolver at his waist, but the northern barbarian warrior rushing towards him was less than ten meters away from him.

The rock python tattoo on the Northern Barbarian warrior's forehead glowed with blood, and the poisoned blade slashed across the soldier's hand holding the gun first.

With a scream, a hand with a revolver flew up, and then the blade pierced the soldier's heart!
At the same time, another border soldier's sword pierced into the chest of a northern barbarian warrior.

But this northern barbarian warrior with a white tooth necklace actually held the blade with one hand, his strong muscles twisting wildly at the wound, holding the sword tightly, while the other hand swung the sword to chop at the opponent!

boom!
At the critical moment, the roar of a rifle was heard from more than ten meters away. A border soldier raised his gun and shot. The 6.5mm caliber lead bullet accurately hit the temple of the northern barbarian warrior.

As the northern barbarian warrior fell, the sound of bowstrings trembled in the rotten air. Several arrows tore through the rain curtain, nailing the soldier who was pulling the bolt into a twitching hedgehog.
Heavy rain, jungle, and melee.

More than fifty Northern Border Troops are fighting with hundreds of Northern Barbarian Warriors!
This is a jungle near a town in Beichuan Province, behind the northern defense line.

When the Northern Barbarian army invaded, King Cheng Qin Shixian, the governor of the northern border, gave up the three occupied Northern Barbarian territories and withdrew his troops to defend.

These three territories have no tall walls or formations to rely on. In the face of an absolute disadvantage in military strength, Qin Shixian made a decisive choice.

But even so, facing a million-strong army of the Northern Barbarians, it was impossible for a hundred thousand northern border troops to defend five major cities and twenty-one military towns and to make the northern defense line that spanned 600 miles impregnable.

In fact, with the national strength of the Great Blue Dynasty, it is not impossible to support more border troops.

However, after the Ming Xin Reform, the weapons of the border troops were updated, so a large number of border troops were laid off.

Secondly, the imperial court allocated most of its resources to the imperial camp army.

Compared with raising an army of one million, it is obviously more cost-effective to raise an imperial camp army of ten thousand people.

If the Qingshuang Army was still in the northern border, Qin Shixian would not even need to choose to defend. Even if facing an army of millions, he could divide his troops and take the initiative to attack everywhere!

But without the Qingshuang Army, the northern border troops could only stay in the city and choose to defend it to the death.

In this situation, the northern defense line naturally has "holes" everywhere, and many military towns have been breached. The Northern Barbarian Army passed through the northern defense line in the form of scattered soldiers and entered the rear!
In response to this, Qin Shixian also sent out several elite teams to "hunt down" the scattered soldiers of the Northern Barbarians in Beichuan Province.

With an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, at least in local battlefields, the Northern Frontier Army can easily defeat the enemy alone and achieve many brilliant results.

At this time, the dozens of Northern Border Troops in this jungle are a "hunter team".

However, on the battlefield, the identities of hunter and prey are constantly changing.

A complex terrain, coupled with a sudden heavy rain, sharply reduced the hunter team's weapon advantage.

The failure rate of the Tiger rifle and Falcon III revolver independently produced by the Great Blue Dynasty increased significantly in heavy rain!
Even though the Northern Barbarian warriors are just ordinary people, their physique is far superior to that of ordinary people.

Once the weapon advantage is gone, the hunter team will be in danger.

"Prepare for hand-to-hand combat!"

Lan Yu wiped the rain off his face and shouted loudly.

He is the captain of this hunter team, and also a warrior in the body-breaking stage. The hunter teams selected from the border troops are all elite, although not all of them are warriors, but the leader must at least be a martial artist in the middle stage of Qi transformation.

Lan Yu, with his cultivation level of just the Body Breaking Stage, could become the leader of a hunting team. He must have some unique qualities.

He had two Tiger rifles crossed behind him and a big knife on his back.

In each hand he held a Bertin pistol.

This gun was produced by the country of Deni in the western continent five years ago. Its accuracy, stability, rate of fire and ammunition capacity far exceed those of revolvers commonly used in the military.

In this rainy weather, the rifles and revolvers used by the hunter squad's soldiers had more or less some problems.

However, there will be no problem with the two Bertins in Lan Yu's hand.

He ordered everyone to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, but he himself had no intention of abandoning his gun.

He ran in the heavy rain and fired both guns at the same time.

The sound of gunfire continued, and almost every bullet could kill an enemy!
The dense jungle, heavy rain, and dim light did not pose any obstacle to Lan Yu.

His eyes emitted a faint light, and his gaze was calm and sharp, like a falcon stalking its prey in the dark.

Thirty steps away, a tall northern barbarian warrior was swinging an axe to cut a soldier in half when a 4.4mm caliber bullet accurately penetrated the bone gap at the back of his neck.

Amid the crisp sound of the cervical vertebrae bursting, Lan Yu slightly raised the barrel of his left hand pistol, and the second bullet passed through the gap between the branches, blasting a bloody mist into the throat of an archer behind him.
Every bullet hits its target and kills!
Both sides of the fight had martial artists at the martial arts master level, but in terms of killing efficiency, no one could compare to Lan Yu.

He was a warrior in the Body Breaking Stage, but he managed to display the aura of a Dao Foundation Stage warrior!

His actions soon attracted the attention of the powerful Northern Barbarians.

A northern barbarian warrior who was over two meters tall and had green totems engraved all over his body strode towards Lan Yu.

As this northern barbarian warrior charged forward, his entire body was enveloped in a layer of green energy.

He was a martial artist who practiced martial arts. In order to reduce consumption, he had never used explosive power and only relied on his strong physique to kill people.

At this moment, he burst out with all his strength, like a ferocious tiger in the forest, charging forward with terrifying momentum!
The opponent's body shuttled back and forth in the woods, leaving a trail of afterimages. The rain fell on him and was bounced out like arrows.

Lan Yu sensed the murderous intent immediately and turned around and shot without even looking.

The first bullet created sparks between the eyebrows of the Northern Barbarian warrior, and was bounced away by the strong force.

Less than 0.5 seconds later, the second bullet came and hit the same position!
The protective strength of the Northern Barbarian warrior began to ripple. He sensed a hint of danger and further burst out with strength, increasing his speed.

A distance of more than thirty meters was covered in the blink of an eye.

Lan Yu had a stern expression. He held the gun in both hands and placed it on both sides of his ribs. At the same time, he exerted force on his feet and leaped backwards.

The Northern Barbarian warrior who was rushing over exerted force almost at the same time as him, leaping forward and pouncing like a tiger!

A strong gust of wind blew towards him with a strong smell of blood. Lan Yu stared at the other party's blurry figure, forcing himself not to blink. He turned his wrist and adjusted the muzzle of the gun.

Just as the Northern Barbarian warrior's calloused palm was about to grab Lan Yu's throat, the third and fourth bullets flew in, one after the other, spinning into the spot where the first two bullets had left a mark.

The third bullet completely broke the opponent's body protection, and the fourth bullet hit the opponent's forehead!
The dull sound of the bullet penetrating the skin mixed with the crisp sound of the skull shattering. The warrior's final momentum carried Lan Yu into a redwood tree behind him.

The splattering brain matter pulled out a sticky silver thread between the two of them. Lan Yu's face turned red, and he was just a little bit away from having his neck broken!
It took only a little over one second for this northern barbarian warrior to suddenly jump up and run across a distance of more than 30 meters to kill Lan Yu, which was as fast as lightning.

In just over a second, Lan Yu fired four shots in a row while the opponent was moving at high speed and his body was off balance, and each shot landed in exactly the same place!
You have to know that the person he was fighting was not an ordinary person, but a martial artist who practiced martial arts.

Such marksmanship is truly miraculous!
It is because of such marksmanship that Lan Yu was able to become the leader of this hunter team.

He also has a nickname among the Northern Frontier Army - Gun King!
With a snap, the redwood tree that Lan Yu hit, which was as thick as a bowl, broke into pieces.

He spat out a mouthful of blood and felt as if the spine in his back was broken.

If he didn't have the physique of a warrior, this impact would have cost him his life.

It took Lan Yu less than half a second to replace the magazines for his two Bertin pistols.

The two Bertin pistols he used were carefully tuned and modified by a master to enhance the continuity and accuracy of shooting.

This is the key to his survival from the hands of the martial artist.

If one of his bullets had landed a little off just now, he would have been killed!
After a near-death experience, Lan Yu remained calm, wiped the blood from his mouth, and continued to fight.
More than thirty minutes later, thanks to Lan Yu's efficient killing, the battle finally ended with the victory of the hunter team. The Northern Barbarians were defeated after leaving behind more than fifty corpses.

"Treat the wounded and make sure to fire again!"

Lan Yu shouted in the rain with a hoarse voice.

More than an hour later, more than 20 border troops took a dozen wounded soldiers to a cliff to take shelter from the rain.

"Almost half of our men are gone, and our medicine and ammunition are almost used up. We need to rest and recover. We can't continue fighting."

A bearded veteran came up to Lan Yu and spoke in a hoarse voice.

Lan Yu, who had just won a battle, looked a little gloomy. He looked at the veteran:

"Lao Zhang, ask the brothers to gather the remaining pills together and pick out the ones I can use and give them to me."

The old soldier named Lao Zhang nodded and had no objection to this.

Before becoming a martial arts master, a warrior cannot absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth directly from the outside world, and can only replenish energy by eating and taking pills.

Eating is too inefficient, so pills that replenish energy for implants are essential supplies on the battlefield.

Lan Yu and his companions had been in Beichuan Province for five days. They had been fighting for five consecutive days and had fought more than a dozen battles, big and small. The pills they carried with them were almost exhausted.

Although there are martial artists in the Qi Transformation stage in the team, everyone knows that giving the elixir to Lan Yu so that he can continue to display his extraordinary abilities is the option with the greatest benefit.

Lan Yu has two extraordinary abilities, one is that he can enhance dynamic vision and nerve reaction speed, and the other is that he can sense danger.

Precisely because of this extraordinary ability, he chose to practice his marksmanship hard and eventually became the gun king of the Northern Frontier Army.

"These are the only pills you can use."

Lao Zhang came back soon and handed Lan Yu three bottles of pills.

"Damn, this is too useless."

Lan Yu cursed as he opened a bottle of pills and poured them into his mouth:
"How many pills do you think the entire North will consume in a day once this war starts?"

Lao Zhang shook his head: "Only a ghost knows. Fighting a war is a waste of money! Fortunately, the Northern Barbarians are much poorer than us. Even if they have more people, they will definitely not be able to outlast us in the end."

Although half of his brothers were killed or injured, Lao Zhang's face was still full of confidence in victory!
"Yes, the northern barbarians are poor and have bad waters. There is no money at all."

Lan Yu also nodded in agreement.

In war, the top level is a competition between the strongest people on both sides.

Lan Yu and others don’t know much about this.

But this time, the Northern Barbarians raised an army of one million, but they were completely dispersed and attacked on multiple fronts.

Just like there are a million ants scattered in a city, even if a top-level expert can kill a large group of ants with one foot, can he kill all the one million ants in the city? (Note 1)

But if we don't stop these ants, the foundation of our city will slowly be corroded by these ants, causing heavy losses.

We can only rely on ants to fight ants.

This requires the combat effectiveness of grassroots soldiers.

Logistics is undoubtedly the top priority.

The hunter team that Lan Yu and others belong to rarely has strong Dao Foundation Stage experts in command.

It’s not that the Northern Border Army cannot provide so many Daoji-stage warriors, but that Daoji-stage warriors require more elixirs and have higher requirements for logistical supplies. They are more suitable for siege battles or city defense battles, but not for long-term guerrilla warfare.

If during the fight, the implant ran out of energy, and a powerful Dao Foundation Stage warrior was surrounded and killed by a group of ordinary soldiers, that would be such a loss!

By the same token, although martial arts masters can absorb the vitality of heaven and earth, if they fight for a long time, even if they have special magical powers for recovery, they will not be able to hold on and need high-quality elixirs to replenish their energy.

Therefore, in this large-scale guerrilla warfare, neither the Northern Barbarians nor the Great Blue Dynasty deployed mid- to high-level strongmen.

A sharpshooter like Lan Yu can actually play a big role in this kind of guerrilla warfare.

"I heard that the Western Land Mission brought a new weapon that allows rifles to fire continuously like machine guns. It is lightweight, highly accurate, and has a high rate of fire."

Lan Yu suddenly talked about this, his face full of envy:

"Damn it, if you give me a gun like this, I can kill even those in the Dao Foundation Stage!"

Lao Zhang at the side did not think that Lan Yu was bragging, but nodded:

"Indeed, if each of us had a weapon like this, how could so many people die in today's battle?"

Lan Yu suddenly thought of something: "Old Zhang, do you think those countries in the Western Continent will sell their weapons to the Northern Barbarians, to the grasslands, and to the two desert countries?"

Lao Zhang was startled, and his expression changed immediately:

"Probably, no?"

"Damn it!"

Lan Yu couldn't help but curse.

He knew that if this guess was true, he and his brothers might all die in this war!
The Northern Gun King leaned against the wet rock wall, looked up at the sky, and was lost in thought.

The heavy rain is still falling, and billions of raindrops are falling on the ground with unstoppable force.

And the war will not stop because of the death of a group of ants.

Note 1: In fact, before writing this book, I often saw some readers complaining that a world where great power belongs to oneself does not need ordinary soldiers at all.

In addition to the "snowball tactics", I think this book also writes about another use of ordinary soldiers, which is skirmish warfare~
(End of this chapter)