Destiny is ashes

Chapter 464 Bad News (33)

Although An Qianshan only downplayed it, An Jing could tell that the tribe called "Tagu Tribe" had established the most basic and precious order for a small force.

They have taken root in this land and will continue to grow visibly.

It seems that my father was neither good at literature nor martial arts, but he was a good farmer!
If he could add a little bit of technical support from the other world, as well as the cooperation from Linjiang City, maybe... in a few years, he, An Jing, could really achieve the goal of "everyone in Dachen Chenli is my people"?
"Dad, be careful and don't expose yourself. Xiaocang, you don't have to rush back. I already know the intelligence and will pay attention to possible Tianyi Demon Cult and other forces."

After suppressing his exaggerated imagination and calming down, An Jing finally found the source of his worries.

The situation in the Northern Frontier is so complicated. It is not just a simple conflict between Chenli and Dachen. There are at least six different forces scheming against each other.

First, the Five Sects of Chenli. There are various sects and factions within the Five Sects, which can be regarded as two forces for An Jing.

On the surface, this cavalry came to attack Duanren Mountain. In addition to the Zuohuan Sect and Huangyang Sect which were destroyed by himself, the Taiming Sect must have been involved.

Among the five sects, only three have pure Yang. Taiming is the eldest, Mingjing is the second, and Hongfu is the third. Now, it should be the scenario that the eldest wants to suppress the second, and the third wants to replace the second. This iron cavalry is here to destroy or suppress this potential pure Yang god.

The Mingjing Sect naturally wants to protect itself. Apart from the caravan on the surface, Chen Yinzi's spiritual clone can call upon the power of the original body at any time.

But he couldn't show up rashly, otherwise, Dachen would be in big trouble for him. He had to wait until the enemy's super-sized force fired the first shot before he could strike back. So he'd better be as steady as a rock and make the enemy anxious.

Secondly, the Dachen Imperial Court and the Dachen Civil and Military Officials are two more powerful forces.

An Jing is not stupid. Judging from the civil and military formations, the death of King Jing, the attitude of General Longwu, and the strange chaos in the northern border, Dachen is obviously caught in the most classic script of the dynasty: 'officials versus the emperor'.

Especially now that Emperor Xuantian is a young emperor, the "personal strength" that the emperor of Huaixu Realm should have an advantage in has been lost - before the young emperor became Lingxiao, he must have been more powerful than the civil and military officials.

According to the intelligence from You Ruhui, it was the civil and military officials who killed King Jing, which is consistent with the fact that the late emperor had a good relationship with King Jing.

The situation in the northern border was obviously a deliberate act by all civil and military officials.

Their purpose is to create a vacuum for the Dachen Imperial Court here.

No matter whether it is the magic weapon or the earth vein formation, they are all directly controlled by the imperial court, and they forcibly removed these elements related to the Dachen imperial court, and used their own "civil and military formation plate" or other things to replace them, and conducted various testing experiments on dragon energy.

As for the Imperial Court, it seems that it no longer has much power to influence the situation in Chenli.

Prince De could be considered half a member of the imperial court, because in An Jing's opinion, Prince De was more of a person who wanted to protect himself than a member of the imperial court: as the Prince of the Northern Frontier, even if he didn't want to, he had been dragged into the turmoil caused by various forces.

As for the fifth faction, the Tianyi Demon Sect, they are of course happy to see that both Dachen and the Five Sects of Chenli are becoming more and more chaotic, so they are now helping the weaker side first and supporting the Tieli tribes with various technologies and resources.

But on the other hand, An Jing didn’t think that the other members of the Demon Sect didn’t know that Bai Qinghan came to help him.

At the very least, the faction that infiltrated the Imperial Court, such as the Northern Inspector and her collaborators within Dachen, would certainly exert their strength at the critical moment to make the Chenli side, which has the advantage, bleed in order to maintain the balance between the two sides.

As for the end...

"The group of demons are related to the Frost Tribulation. This time they came to Broken Blade Mountain to release the source of the demonic energy under Broken Blade Mountain. It is a great demon whose identity is unknown."

An Jing thought carefully and found that he had to deal with unexpectedly many enemies.

But he was not afraid, because he had more people on his side. Moreover, he had people in the enemy's logistics, so as long as he could guarantee the retreat route, there was no need to expose An Qianshan. An Jing had ten thousand ways to cut off the food supply for the Iron Cavalry.

Cang Linzu and others stayed with An Qianshan, waiting for further instructions.

An Jing shared the information with Xing Mofeng, who said that he would be careful about possible surprise attacks from the Tianyi Demon Cult and had already prepared special weapons against the demons.

An Jing was not worried about Xing Mofeng's hard power. After all, he was a veteran who had been fighting since the Vast Sea Demon Disaster. He must be good at dealing with the demons.

But he still felt a little worried.

Because according to the intelligence, the marching speed of the cavalry has actually increased.

They still don't have a good way to deal with landmines, but as long as they are not afraid of death and are willing to spend money, they can always solve the problem by using puppets or auxiliary troops to detect mines.

But why did the Iron Cavalry speed up their actions like this? The earth vein array of Linjiang City was still in operation. With the civil and military array and the suppression of King De, they could not capture Linjiang City like they did other cities.

Unless... An Jing thought of a possibility.

The bad news brought by Bai Qinghan proved this possibility.

"Big brother."

Bai Qinghan came to the top of the city wall, she looked somewhat helpless: "My master... the Northern Patrol Envoy just gave me some bad news."

"Yujiang City has been occupied by the True Demon Cult, and they opened the gates and surrendered."

"really."

An Jing sighed and looked towards the northeast.

There was no smoke or any news in Yujiang City, which was located on the bank of Yujiang River. This proved the authenticity of Bai Qinghan's news.

That's right. Linjiang City's Linlang Chamber of Commerce is going to cooperate with Tianmo, so how could the other two cities in the three cities of Broken Blade Mountain be exceptions?
The area around Broken Blade Mountain had been divided up long ago. I had captured one city, but the other two were beyond my reach.

And it seems that it was the True Demon Sect that helped the Iron Cavalry to supplement their vanguard battalion's detection capabilities and discover Cang Linzu and others.

The reason why the cavalry accelerated their movement was obviously not because they had traveled all the way here to fight a decisive battle with the Anjing and Wu armies when they were tired and well-rested.

They want to occupy Yujiang City and fight a protracted war with Anjing!

"What about Shady City?"

An Jing asked. He didn't mind knowing another piece of bad news, but Bai Qinghan's expression became even weirder: "Big Brother, this is the one...good news I wanted to tell you?"

"Yinbi City is now occupied by the Divine Cult, which is my master's subordinates... As you know, although the Divine Cult is called the Demon Cult in Dachen, it is actually not very close to the Heavenly Demon. It only uses it occasionally, which is similar to Dachen."

"I don't think we need to worry about them cooperating with the Iron Cavalry, but they must be somewhat interested in you, Big Brother. We must be prepared."

(End of this chapter)