The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 493: Unfinished business, Zhang Xianzhong’s decision

"Golden Holy Grail!"

"out!"

The white-haired Karayama Hisataka saw that the enemy had activated a large-scale military formation and transformed into a white tiger mythical beast that was eight or nine hundred feet in size, leaping towards him from the large dock in front. He was suddenly startled and with a thought, he summoned his own natal artifact: a golden cup.

Since he has not yet lifted all the seals on the heaven and earth of this divine golden cup, he is unable to fully control it and truly unleash its power.

Although Karayama Hisataka is a well-read and powerful man, he still hasn't figured out the origin of his natal artifact.

The only thing that is certain is that this golden cup artifact is an acquired artifact of the highest quality.

He estimated that he might have to lift all the seals on the golden cup artifact before he could obtain the detailed information about the artifact and learn about its origins.

When Hisataka Karayama's mind was fully activated, his own aura instantly connected with the warriors under his command who had completed the formation. A thick bloody aura spread, instantly disappearing the figures of hundreds of thousands of warriors under his command.

The killing array's magical power was immediately activated, transforming into a Yamata no Orochi that was seven or eight hundred feet in size.

The golden cup artifact, which was greatly amplified by the military formation, also expanded into a giant golden cup hundreds of feet in size.

As the golden cup suddenly turned over, a huge golden light gushed out from the mouth of the cup, completely covering the entire Yamata no Orochi, making it look golden and majestic.

With Karayama Hisataka's rich experience, when he saw the huge white tiger beast transformed by the enemy's killing array, he sensed a strong threat and of course did not dare to take it lightly.

However, above the oncoming white tiger, a large seal and a jade bottle suddenly appeared, and they also turned into several hundred feet in size!
"This……"

Kabayama Hisataka was shocked when he saw this, "The enemy commander who is attacking us actually has two divine weapons!"

"Moreover, the aura emitted by each artifact is no worse than that of my Golden Holy Grail, and may even be stronger!"

"In this vast world, when did divine weapons become so common?"

"As far as I know, in our entire Great Sun Empire, the total number of innate and acquired divine weapons will not exceed ten!"

"Who exactly is this Han Chinese commander who is attacking? He actually has such an incredible background!"

"The leader of this Renaissance Army looks like a young girl, and the aura of cultivation she exudes is even stronger than mine!"

If it weren't for the fact that Hisataka Karayama was extremely cunning and known for his calmness, he might have been unable to help but scream out loud.

This undoubtedly cast a shadow over his heart, although he was originally full of confidence.

"kill!"

Things have come to this point, and it is too late to lead the hundreds of thousands of warriors under his command to retreat.

As the strongest man in Satsuma Domain, Hisataka Kabayama naturally has his own pride. Looking at the aggressive enemy, he activated his killing array magic and transformed into the Yamata no Orochi, and faced the enemy head-on with great momentum!
"boom!"

The first thing that came into combat between the two sides was naturally the innate divine weapon that was as fast as lightning.

As Karayama Hisahi's golden cup artifact and Wan'er's Fantian Seal collided fiercely, there was a loud bang, which created a huge shock wave, causing the two artifacts to fly backwards at the same time!
However, the Fantian Seal only retreated about a hundred feet before it stabilized, while the Golden Holy Grail was knocked back about two hundred feet before it stopped.

Obviously, the Fusion Army led by Wan'er had the upper hand.

Whether in terms of the number or combat effectiveness of soldiers on both sides, the Japanese pirates are far inferior to the soldiers of the Fuxing Army.

Coupled with Wan'er's cultivation and her innate magical weapon, she also suppressed the opponent and naturally gained a great advantage.

"We are no match for them!"

"I really met a strong enemy this time. If I don't withdraw in time, I might be in danger of falling!"

The old and experienced Karayama Hisahito felt his blood boiling after the attack, and a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart.

"Come again!"

Following Wan'er's loud shout, her life-saving artifact, the Fantian Seal, which was suspended in the sky, once again shot towards the Yamata-no-Snake that had transformed into the enemy's formation!

"boom!"

After another round of explosions, although Hisataka Karayama promptly manipulated his innate artifact, the golden cup, to block the attack of the Fantian Seal again, he was at an absolute disadvantage this time. The golden cup artifact and the Yamata no Orochi were both blasted hundreds of feet away!
"Can't beat it!"

"escape!"

With a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, Hisataka Karayama made the final decision immediately in horror. He made up his mind, burned two drops of his own blood essence, and used all his strength to activate the magical power of the golden cup artifact: Golden Light Escape!
"Buzz..."

All of a sudden, the huge golden cup artifact burst out with a dazzling golden light, enveloping the Yamata no Orochi. It turned into a stream of light and shot towards the northern sky. After flashing twice in the air, it disappeared without a trace!

"Ran!"

"This old man Kabayama Hisataka actually fled without a fight?"

Wan'er couldn't have imagined that the Japanese pirates, who were always brutal and aggressive, would just run away like that?
This was the second time this had happened to her in these years.

The first time was in the Battle of Yuegang, when Zheng Chenggong used the power of his natal divine weapon to successfully lead a fleet to escape.

Now it is almost an identical copy, but the enemy is the Japanese pirates.

The fact that the opponent was able to escape right under his nose was undoubtedly due to the special magical powers activated by the enemy's innate artifact.

Whether it is Zheng Chenggong's natal artifact, the Hun Tian Ling, or Karayama Hisataka's natal artifact, the Golden Holy Grail, although they are not as good as his own natal artifact, they both have special life-saving magical powers.

If the battlefield is not blocked in time, as long as the opponent is determined to escape, it will be impossible to intercept him.

Although the Japanese pirates were fearless and brave, when they were doomed to fail, they would not stay and wait to die if they had the ability to escape.

What’s more, there is Hisataka Karayama, an old and cunning devil.

"never mind."

Wan'er was disappointed and immediately disbanded the army. She ordered the soldiers, "The enemy's main force has fled. The Japanese pirates and civilians on the island no longer have the strength to resist."

"Everyone, use your respective teams' original organization to form teams of 10,000 people and immediately start the cleansing of the Ryukyu Islands!"

"Whether they are Japanese pirates, soldiers or civilians, or powerful officials of the Ryukyu Dynasty, they will all be killed without mercy!"

"I will ride on Da Meng to patrol the sky and kill any fish that have escaped the net!"

Watching the soldiers of the Fourth Fleet quickly forming teams of tens of thousands and sweeping towards all directions of the large island, Wan'er called upon her mount, the spirit bird Da Meng, to fly high into the sky for a coordinated inspection.

Wan'er was extremely depressed because the main force of the Japanese pirates on the Ryukyu Island had escaped, as well as Karayama Hisataka, who had his life-saving divine weapon.

Originally, when she saw that the enemy commander had a powerful innate artifact, she thought she would have another big harvest.

As a result, I encountered this kind of shitty thing again, and naturally I couldn't let it go.

"Next time, when the Restoration Army attacks the Satsuma clan's stronghold on Kyushu Island, I will definitely call my big brother to kill that old devil Kabayama Hisataka!"

"It is better to let Sister Hongmei use her innate divine weapon to set up a large innate sea-covering formation to block time and space, and see how the other party can escape!" As Wan'er muttered indignantly, the soldiers of the Fusion Army set off countless bloody storms on the Ryukyu island.

Any Japanese pirates, soldiers or civilians, as well as the dignitaries of the Ryukyu royal family, were among those to be killed.

The massacre and the aftermath work lasted for a full month before it was completely over.

There is no other way. The Ryukyu main island is thousands of miles in radius and is too large. It has many mountains and rivers, as well as a large number of monster tribes. It is difficult and a huge workload to carry out a thorough cleansing and restore the post-war order and people's livelihood.

This was only possible with Wan'er and the golden eagle patrolling from high altitudes.

Otherwise, it would not be surprising that it took 300,000 Renaissance Army soldiers one or two years.

A month later, a team of 10,000 people was left behind to carry out various post-war work on this large island. Wan'er led 280,000 naval officers and soldiers and continued to board ships and head south towards Miyako Island and the Yaeyama Islands.

Although there were not many Japanese pirate warriors on these islands, there were many Japanese pirate civilians who migrated here, and the total number still amounted to millions.

It will probably take one or two months to clean them out thoroughly.

Wan'er has already asked Da Menghui to go to the northern capital to report the results of the battle, and at the same time, asked the military to send political personnel and a corps of new recruits to take over Ryukyu.

The geographical location of the Ryukyu Islands is too important. After the Restoration Army captures it, it will have to put a lot of effort into its construction and management, and it must be treated with caution.

After the incident in the Ryukyu Islands, the soldiers of the Fourth Fleet of the Restoration Army continued to move south and launched a war against the Spaniards and Dutch who were entrenched in the north and south of Taiyuan Island, and captured Taiyuan Island in one fell swoop.

However, according to the military's plan, the operation to capture Tainan Island will continue to involve the newly formed Fifth Fleet of the Navy.

This is for insurance purposes to avoid accidents.

The white Hu people entrenched on Tainan Island were much stronger than the Japanese pirates previously stationed on the Ryukyu Islands, both in terms of fleet size and combat effectiveness.

If you are not careful, you may fail at the last hurdle.

……

Yongzhou City, a large wharf on the Xiang River.

Zhang Xianzhong's face was gloomy, and his eyes kept flashing as he looked at the more than a hundred treasure ships conducting infiltration training on the river.

"Father."

Zhang Kewang's face was very ugly, and he said to Zhang Xianzhong, "That Zuo Liangyu is such a jerk!"

"Our army has been retreating southwards and doesn't want to engage in a battle with him, but this bastard is closing in on us!"

"He wants to take over Huguang. His ambition is too big!"

Having said that, Zhang Kewang felt very helpless besides being angry.

There is no way. I don’t know what kind of luck this guy Zuo Liangyu has got. His development speed has been getting faster and faster in the past one or two years.

The various rebel forces that had long since split up and were each pursuing their own paths after moving south were defeated repeatedly in the face of Zuo Liangyu's aggressive army and had to retreat again and again.

Now Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's troops have retreated to the eastern part of Guizhou.

Luo Rucai's troops retreated to the Shaoguan area.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops retreated to the Yongzhou area.

Faced with Zuo Liangyu's army that was still pursuing him, Zhang Xianzhong was helpless.

After these rebel armies moved south to Huguang, the situation they faced was completely different from that in Jiangbei.

The weather in Huguang is relatively good, without the continuous natural disasters like in the north.

In addition, with developed commerce and sufficient food, local officials and aristocratic families were deeply rooted. Although the lives of the general public were still hard, they could still barely survive by gritting their teeth.

This resulted in the various rebel armies growing very slowly due to the joint blockade by Zuo Liangyu and the officials and gentry.

But Zuo Liangyu was different.

Under the banner of the imperial court and in charge of the military power of Huguang, he could easily obtain vast amounts of supplies, select and train a large number of new warriors, and grow stronger and stronger at an increasingly rapid pace!

As one side gained strength while the other lost strength, one can easily imagine how difficult the situation was for traitors like Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong.

You can say that Zuo Liangyu was a self-reliant soldier or that he was nurturing bandits to cause trouble, but in any case, this guy Zuo Liangyu used the excuse of constantly compressing and expelling various rebel forces to steadily and orderly expand his sphere of influence and make a huge amount of money, food and supplies.

Zuo Liangyu now has more than four million warriors and soldiers under his command. In fact, he has become the largest vassal state in the Ming Dynasty, without a doubt.

He verbally submitted to the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he neither listened to orders nor decrees, and happily acted as a local emperor.

Under Zuo Liangyu's heavy suppression, the various rebel armies that wanted to grow and develop in the Huguang land had neither time nor sufficient resources. How could they develop?
"For now, our best way out is to cross Guangxi and head south to South Vietnam!"

Zhang Xianzhong had obviously thought of a way out for his family. "We have now pieced together a million-strong army."

"Among them, there are 300,000 elite soldiers."

“Although he is far inferior to Zuo Liangyu, is he still inferior to those South Vietnamese monkeys?”

"I have already found out through various channels that there are at least tens of millions of Han Chinese in South Vietnam."

"It is impossible to chase Zuo Liangyu out of Guangxi. Occupying Huguang is already his limit."

Zhang Xianzhong's eyes flashed with coldness, and he had obviously made a plan. "Once we pass through Guangxi and reach Nanyue, we will kill those monkeys and completely replace them and establish a dynasty!"

"This way, we can not only avoid Zuo Liangyu and the Southern Ming court, but also avoid encountering the Fuxing Army in the future."

Zhang Xianzhong had extremely complicated feelings about Li Dingguo's Fusion Army.

Among the nine provinces of China today, if there is any army that can finally unify the world, it must be the Fuxing Army.

According to the latest news, the Fuxing Army has not only occupied the entire north of the Yangtze River, but has also captured Liaodong.

If Li Dingguo is given a few more years to develop and grow, there will be no doubt that he will unify the nine provinces of China.

Therefore, after repeated consideration, Zhang Xianzhong decided to lead his troops to the Kingdom of Nanyue and replace it, which was undoubtedly the best choice.

The navy that was training hard on the Xiangjiang River was the hope that Zhang Xianzhong had managed to raise by all means.

Traveling by land across Guangxi, which is like a wild area, is naturally extremely dangerous, time-consuming and laborious.

But if you take a treasure ship by water, it will be very convenient and fast.

If all goes well, within three months they will be able to reach the northern coastal port of South Vietnam, thereby establishing a base of their own and beginning steady development without having to worry about pursuit and encirclement by various enemies.

(End of this chapter)