Witch Wind

Chapter 127: Queen Dongyun (Part )

The Dayun Gate opened.

The confused multinational coalition forces, carrying Xing Tianqingshu's small fleet, "splashed" and broke through the Dayunmen happily like a group of ducks discovering fresh water and grass.

Especially the Saint Rose Far East Army Fleet under Renov's command. The Dayunmen defense line built by the Dongyun people is quite strong, and large-scale arsenals have been built near several towns in the east.

The Saint Ross people landed, and the anger they had been holding back for more than a month on the sea was instantly poured out on the Dongyun people on the island. Hundreds of thousands of Dongyun people in several cities were slaughtered, and the Saint Ross people seized all the guns in the arsenal that were enough to arm a million troops.

Large groups of serfs and indentureless serfs cheered and took up their swords and guns.

The mighty army broke through the Dayun Gate and went straight into the core hinterland of the Dongyun Island Union - the Dongyun Inner Ocean, a vast and extremely calm sea. There were no strong winds and waves here all year round. The cold current from the north and the warm current from the south met here. The sea surface was thousands of meters deep, turning the entire inner ocean into a very rich fishing ground.

In the vast Dongyun Inland Ocean, there are 72 large islands, including Yunxiang Island, and the total number of affiliated small islands is about 3,600.

The largest of these islands is as large as a province in the Dayu Dynasty, while the smallest one is as large as two or three counties.

Among the 3,600 affiliated islands, the largest ones have a land area as large as two or three counties in the Dayu Dynasty, while the smallest ones are comparable to towns.

These islands, with fertile land, abundant resources, a large population and prosperous trade, are the true heartland of Dongyun.

Among the nobles who rule these islands, one tenth have royal blood and are branches of the Holy Emperor's lineage, and thirty percent are members of the Beihe and Nanshan families. In the final analysis, they are also descended from the Holy Emperor's royal bloodline.

Another 30% of the nobles are local heroes in Dongyun. Some of their families’ historical origins can even be traced back to before Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others crossed the sea to Dongyun and established the Dongyun Island Alliance.

The remaining 30% of the nobles were born in the Penglai Shrine. They all had the legendary holy bloodline to a greater or lesser extent. They had a special status and possessed extremely terrifying evil power. They had various privileges in the Dongyun Island Union. Sometimes, even the royal family had to bow down in front of them.

The coalition forces poured into the Tounome Inland Ocean.

The nobles from the four forces, the royal family, Beihe, Nanshan, and Penglai Shrine, had already left their own territories, bringing with them their families, all their wealth, and their own private armies, and headed straight for Yunxiang Island.

Only the 30% of local heroes are the most entrenched local tyrants in Dongyun. For many years, their relationship with the royal family, Beihe family and Nanshan family has not been very good. There are even some local heroes whose religious beliefs are not the saints worshipped by Penglai Shrine, but some strange primitive religions.

These great nobles did not withdraw, they just sent some of their young sons to Yunxiang Island for resettlement, while the main clan members gathered the army, recruited militia, and shouted the desperate slogan of "both body and land shall be destroyed".

These guys have been operating in Dongyun for thousands of years, and their financial resources are outrageous. Even the big businessmen and landlords in Nanxun Town who have hundreds of years of assets are far inferior to these old-fashioned Dongyun nobles with the titles of duke and marquis.

They opened their own money warehouses and secret armories and took out all kinds of weapons.

They have the power to call the shots in their own territories. In the hearts of the people in their own territories, their status is far higher than that of the Holy Emperor and the Holy Lord. They are the local emperors who have the final say.

The coalition fleet had just broken through Dayun Gate and had not yet reached the nearest large island, 'Shuangyu Island', but the 'Akabane Family' and 'Lanyu Family' on the island had already expanded their original 30,000 private armies to 8 million!
Xing Tianli stood on the floating clouds above Shuangyu Island, overlooking the earth below.

This is a pass.

To the west is Shuangyu Port, which is opposite the main channel of Dayunmen. Outside Shuangyu Port, after a stretch of small hills stretching for more than ten miles, there is this pass. A small city wall no more than ten feet high was built on it with civil materials.

Breaking through this weak defense line, passing through a small valley only about three miles long, there is a plain of 800 miles in radius. The ancestral lands of the Akabane family and the Blue Feather family are on this Shuangyu Plain. The two families, one in the south and one in the north, are separated by a "DiDi River" and each built a large city. For many years, the two families have helped and supported each other.

Now, right below Xing Tianli, on the Shuangyu Plain, the militiamen of the two families were like a surging black tide, densely spread out on the plain.

Of the eight million private armies, ninety-nine percent are militias.

Among them, there were only about 100,000 people armed with new firearms. There were only about 200,000 people who had old-fashioned muskets and matchlocks. There were only about 50 to 60 new-fashioned cannons, and about 500 old-fashioned muzzle-loading smoothbore black powder cannons.

The other millions of militiamen were all carrying swords, spears, bows and crossbows, and shields!
It can be seen that the Dongyun royal family, as well as the Beihe and Nanshan families, were successful in controlling these local tyrants. With the abundant financial resources of these local tyrants, the two big nobles combined with dozens of small nobles under them only managed to obtain 100,000 new firearms.

What made Xing Tianli collapse and speechless was that those new firearms were ok, but judging from the styles, they were at least unknown brands from three or five countries.

The long swords, spears, crossbows, and shields in the hands of the millions of militiamen were all of uniform quality. These cold weapons were well-made, extremely sturdy, and extremely sharp. Even the arrows and crossbow arrows were made of the finest iron arrowheads, iron birch arrow shafts, and genuine carved feathers!
Xing Tianli had only seen weapons of such fine craftsmanship and excellent materials in the Jiangdong Province, in the Governor's Standard Battalion of the Jiangdong Governor Jin Santan. Moreover, all the swords, spears, swords, halberds, and the like, all had the same styles as the weapons in the Standard Battalion!
Even on many of these weapons, there were still traces of the official armory logo of the Dayu Dynasty that had not been polished clean!

Xing Tianli looked up at the sky speechlessly.

In other words, the Dayu Dynasty did not have many new troops using new firearms, and they did not have many new weapons to smuggle and sell.

Take the traditional cold weapons and military equipment for example. For Shuangyu Island alone, the officials of the Dayu Dynasty smuggled enough cold weapons to arm eight million militiamen - the workmanship of these cold weapons was even better than those used by Dayu Dynasty's own officers and soldiers!
There is no need to say more nonsense like "how brave they are", because they have already done it.

What shocked Xing Tianli was that Shuangyu Island alone smuggled eight million sets of cold weapons. There were seventy-two large islands in the Dongyun Inland Ocean. Where did the officials of the Dayu Dynasty get so many weapons?

This is not just a matter of the heads and clerks of one or two armories making extra money. This is clearly a system, a mature industrial chain, and a terrifying network of interests that can accomplish such an incredible thing!

"We are close neighbors, and we should be friendly neighbors!" Xing Tianli clenched the Tongtian Magic Bamboo with his fingers, and the blue veins on the back of his hand bulged. He was full of evil anger, but he didn't know where to vent it.

The main force of the coalition forces, the newly arrived Saint Rose Fleet, landed at Shuangyu Port.

They easily broke through the lightly armed Futaba Port - as the first port facing the west of the Tounome Inland Ocean, and an island controlled by the Akabane and Aoi families, how could the Tounome Royal Family and the Hourai Shrine allow them to arm this port so extensively?

Millions of serf soldiers poured into Shuangyu Port.

These guys, who were only wearing a layer of coarse cloth and had no private property except the clothes they were wearing, were overwhelmed by the prosperity of Shuangyu Port as soon as they came ashore.

They began to loot.

They began to rape--to commit adultery.

Because of the resistance of the Dongyun people, the violence quickly developed into indiscriminate massacre.

The people of Dongyun like to build houses with wood, and the same is true for Shuangyu Port. Apart from a small castle where the port garrison officer lives, all other buildings are magnificent wooden buildings.

A small building caught fire.

A street was on fire.

A neighborhood was on fire.

The entire port was on fire.

The flames shot up into the sky, and these dry wooden buildings burned so vigorously that there was not even any black smoke.

Shuangyu Port used its own wealth and flesh and blood to successfully stop the main force of Saint Ross for a day and a night. Until the entire port was reduced to rubble, the Saint Ross farmers and soldiers, whose pockets were filled with looted money, cheered and sang rough folk songs loudly, and marched towards the Shuangyu Plain accompanied by several teams of regular troops of the Far East Legion.

The small wall at the pass was easily knocked down by large-caliber field artillery.

The hundreds of Dongyun soldiers stationed here did not offer any resistance. As soon as the artillery fire sounded, they turned around and fled.

However, the dwarf Dongyun's legs were too short. No matter how fast they ran, they were easily caught up by the tall and strong Saint Ross people, and their heads were chopped off by the sharp sabers.

Over one million Saint Ross serfs and eight million Shuangyu Island militiamen collided head-on on the 800-mile-long and 800-mile-wide Shuangyu Plain. The two armies, armed with hot weapons, fought on this narrow plain with the momentum of a large square formation confrontation in the cold weapon era.

The armies on both sides lined up in neat formations, charging towards the enemy with their heads held high. There were sounds of gunfire and artillery fire.

Don't worry about firing a blank shot. As long as the gun is fired, an enemy will fall.

As long as the cannon fires, it will definitely blow up a large area.

The sound of low war drums, high-pitched trumpets, and hysterical curses mixed together into the roaring and howling of endless evil spirits in the eighteen levels of hell, mixed with the stench of blood and internal organs and feces, all rushed up to the sky and almost shattered Xing Tianli's cloud.

The fight between Futabashima and others was brutal.

The armies of Farus, Idoli, the North Sea Alliance, and many affiliated small countries rushed to several nearby islands in a mighty force.

The fight was brutal as well.

Both sides used extremely advanced firearms to fight the most primitive battle.

The Tongtian Yuling Banner hung high in the sky. In just one day, it swallowed up more than one million souls.

Sophie and Marceau happily told Xing Tianli that the contributions they had accumulated through the altar sacrifices in just a few days were enough for Xing Tianli to exchange for several branches of the innate spiritual wood he had obtained last time from a certain "master".

Half a month later, the Futaba Island was defeated, and the main members of the Akabane family and the Aoi family fled into the mountains and forests on the island with their defeated private army guards.

On several other large islands, local heroes who gathered militias to fight desperately could not withstand the coalition forces' advantage in firearms. After a small group of elite troops were killed or wounded, most of the militia they gathered were slaughtered, and they could only flee with their remnants.

Three powerful families on one of the big islands made a wrong choice. They wanted to go to the port and take a boat to escape to Yunxiang Island. However, they were bombarded by a Falusi battleship that was waiting for them and were all smashed to pieces.

The sixteenth day after conquering Futaba Island.

Renov went ashore with a large group of Judgment Paladins. On the shore, the Saint Ross army summoned a large group of "local gentry" and waved the hastily made Saint Ross flags to "joyfully" welcome Renov's arrival.

After he landed, several captured small nobles of Dongyun tremblingly offered wine and surrender to Renov. In full view of everyone, Renov picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and then spit it all out.

"The wine is poisonous, and the Dongyun people have evil ambitions. They deserve to die." Renov smashed the wine glass and the head of the Dongyun noble who offered the wine. "It's a waste of food to keep these Dongyun people. This island should belong to the glorious and great people of Saint Ross. We don't lack slaves, we only lack land, so... massacre the island!"

Renov brazenly issued an order for the massacre.

The Saint Ross army, which had long been dizzy with the bloody battle, carried out Renov's orders without hesitation and with great determination.

Fire shot into the sky.

The blood shot into the sky.

Renov looked indifferently at the Dongyun people who were crying and running in all directions, but they could not get far and were chopped into pieces by the crazy Saint Ross soldiers.

Beside him, four judges of the Holy Father Church carried an altar, on which stood the golden statue. The rolling ghosts and blood, as well as the various negative auras emitted by the Dongyun people when they were slaughtered, were constantly swallowed by the statue, and wisps of black light continued to spew out from the statue's eyes.

The black light was like a knife, as if it wanted to cut a crack in the sky.

The Tongtian Yuling Banner vibrated gently in Xing Tianli's hand. This small banner, which had regained some of its immortal aura, was actually no match for the statue next to Renov when it came to extracting those ghosts!
Ghosts were rolling all over the sky, and the Tongtian Yuling Banner could only extract 30% of them. The remaining 70% was swallowed up by the holy statue.

Even Xing Tianli could clearly feel that a ray of tangible malice had already coiled around the statue like a poisonous snake, approaching him little by little!

Xing Tianli snorted coldly, and a stream of pure and domineering magic power surged into the Tongtian Yuling Banner.

The Tongtian Yuling Banner seemed to have been injected with chicken blood and suddenly expanded to a height of several feet. Thick clouds rolled in the sky, and cold winds blew. The cold air whistled across the plain, making the frost on the ground even thicker.

Of the ghosts that were rolling in the sky, 70% were immediately rolled up by the Tongtian Yuling Banner, leaving only 30%. No matter how Xing Tianli urged it, he could not snatch it from the mouth of the statue.

And that malicious intent, like that of a poisonous snake, had already truly locked onto Xing Tianli.

It seemed as if there was a pair, no, countless pairs of evil and stern eyes, separated by the infinite void, across numerous dimensions, like the eyes of a rotting zombie in a coffin, standing in front of Xing Tianli, staring at him straight, as if to turn his appearance into a branding iron, deeply branding it on the rotten, smelly coffin lid!
“It’s so frustrating!”

Xing Tianli snorted coldly, formed seals with his hands, and was about to blast the statue with a thunder spell.

But when he saw Renov, who was wearing a scarlet red cloak, holding a marshal's baton, and surrounded by many Saint Ross officers and soldiers, Xing Tianli pondered for a moment and dispersed his hand seal.

He couldn't do such a thing as massacring the civilians of Dongyun.

Renov took the initiative to slaughter the civilians of Dongyun, and Xing Tianli followed behind to pick up the spoils. This is totally fine. But if you want Renov to be a qualified butcher knife, you should at least give him some benefits, right?

According to the intelligence from the East Country Investigation Office of the Kingdom of Yingjishi, although Renov is cruel and tyrannical, he does not often massacre civilians... He inexplicably issued a massacre order on Shuangyu Island, which must be the "credit" of the statue next to him.

So...Xing Tianli gave up the idea of ​​attacking the statue.

"Poor Taoist, why do you sound a little teary? You seem to be both a dictator and a hypocrite!" Xing Tianli sighed softly, looking down at the people of Dongyun who were fleeing frantically on the land with a stern gaze.

However, Xing Tianli did not do it himself after all.

Renov's massacre order was responded to by generals from other countries - they had suffered heavy casualties in Dayunmen and had dozens of large warships sunk, and these generals were worrying about how to explain to their homeland.

Renov ordered a massacre, and the generals of various countries were happy to let the officers and soldiers vent their anger and collect some wealth at the same time.

The islands of the Dongyun Inland Ocean have a large population, and each family has a little scattered silver. Even if each household can only collect a few taels of silver, adding up the hundreds of millions of people, this is a huge sum of money.

Not to mention, there are so many nobles waiting for them to plunder?

Large islands were shrouded in flames and thick smoke, and blood was sprayed on the ground in the cold winter. When the wind blew, the ground was covered with a thick layer of blood ice.

The rolling ghosts cried and were constantly shared by the Tongtian Yuling Banner and the statue of the Holy Father.

The surging blood and essence were also shared by Sophie, Marceau's altars, and the statue.

The overwhelming evil, murderous, deathly, and malicious energy, all the negative auras emitted by the people of Dongyun before they died, were constantly being swallowed up by the giant altar set up by the Penglai Shrine on several large islands far away, as well as the statue of the Holy Father.

There were fast ships of the Dongyun Island Alliance cruising in the nearby waters, and they witnessed the whole process of the multinational coalition's wanton behavior. However, these Dongyun ships did not come forward to stop it, they just watched calmly from the sidelines, and even the Dongyun sailors on the ship had indifferent expressions, as if the people being killed had nothing to do with them.

However, what happened on these large islands was also relayed back to Yunxiang Island, Black Dragon City, and Black Dragon Platform by these Dongyun ships, one stop at a time.

The hall is magnificent and has a strong flavor of the ancient Qin and Han dynasties, but it is dark, gloomy and extremely depressing. In it, the contemporary Holy Emperor of Dongyun, Ying Zhe, is signing a contract with the Amy Federation with a group of Dongyun's top and most core princes and ministers.

The fleet aided by the Amy Federation has docked at the military port of Yunxiang Island.

The Dongyun sailors have been training on the warship for nearly a month and have basically formed combat effectiveness.

According to the request of Aimee Federation's special envoy Oli, the Dongyun Island Federation officially signed an 'alliance' with the Aimee Federation. The Dongyun Island Federation completely opened its doors and spread its legs to welcome the 'favor' of the Aimee Federation!
(End of this chapter)