Daozu is Cthulhu

Chapter 202
Li Fan hid himself in the air and watched for a while. The soldiers and horses of the Xun Kingdom are indeed powerful. Not only have they been battle-hardened and well-equipped, they are also fierce and brutal. All over the field, with bloody heads and blood, there is no mercy at all.

Roughly judging from the battle situation and the nearby barbarian villages that were burned, destroyed, and slaughtered, there is a guard here, with about ten groups and more than 5000 soldiers.The original task was probably to go deep into the mountains and crusade against the barbarians.But some people intend to take this opportunity to eradicate dissidents with ruthless hands, and then push them all to the barbarians.

Those with cloth strips on their sleeves were obviously planning a surprise attack long ago. There were about six soldiers and horses surrounded on all sides, and the other four soldiers and horses were caught off guard.Those four troops were unprepared, and they were arranged to take the lead. They fought a wave with the barbarians first, and their energy was exhausted. When the formation collapsed, they were suddenly attacked by friendly troops.

Although the quality of the soldiers is excellent, and they can gather one by one to fight desperately, but they are outnumbered after all, and they are shot indiscriminately by strong bows and crossbows. up.

Li Fan frowned as he watched from the side. These princes and generals were more ruthless than monsters when it came to fighting for power.Killing all of his own people, and cutting off the heads of the corpses one by one. If passers-by break through their scandals, wouldn't they have to kill them mercilessly to cover up their conspiracy?
Li Fan is not afraid of these three thousand soldiers. After all, there are only a few Jindan generals who take the lead. Killing them will not even raise your mood. In the battle, this is to fight for the country, and the killings are endless and endless.

So Li Fan returned to the airship in stealth, asked the two boys to hide in the boat, and turned the bow of the boat around the hill to avoid the battle zone over there.In order to avoid bumping into the soldiers patrolling the mountain, he purposely searched for the rutted road on the ground, the flying boat walked along the official road, and found a town to settle down.

Originally, I thought that when I arrived in the town, those soldiers and bandits would not be so noisy, but I didn't expect that the town was not a martial fight but a literary fight.

Two groups of scholars, officials and eunuchs were arguing endlessly on the street, and they almost rolled up their sleeves to fight.As a scholar, you must express your views on such things as seizing the heir.But the officials of the county government also followed suit, and set up a ring for them without thinking too much about it.

The three elders in the same place as the county magistrate moved stools and sat on the platform, and elected representatives from both sides to debate, from the prince and the king of Lu, which is wise and which is smart, to the people from the south and the north, and the great masters who fight against ghosts and rebels. The topic, made like a grand court meeting, is full of endless disputes, and no one can convince anyone.

I really have nothing to do... But yes, there were not many entertainment activities in ancient times. Isn't this the same as celebrities forcing the masses to eat melons...

Li Fan also stopped by to listen and get a general idea.

The seizure of the heir apparent in the Xun Kingdom is really not that simple, it's not like in the case of the Li Kingdom, where the princes of the aristocratic family can choose a nephew to settle the matter after a drink.The talent and popularity of Prince Xun and King Lu are not that important. What is fighting is the political group behind them.

The four major families are on the side of the prince. These are the local gentry, the local tyrants, big trees with deep roots, connected branches with the same spirit, and they are the typical families in the south.

And behind King Lu are the gentry from the south of the Central Plains, the poor families who were selected by the exam, the generals who made meritorious service and promoted, the local tyrants who crusade against mountain ghosts, or to put it more bluntly, they are actually the upstart forces attached to the clan.

When the first prince and the second prince were still there, the two were brothers and sisters, and lived in harmony. Moreover, the first prince was benevolent and highly expected, and the two major groups were attached to him.

It's just that the first prince died early, and the second prince was disabled, so the four great powers chose the third prince, while other upstarts raised the fourth prince to sing against each other.Lord Xun didn't know what was on his mind. Although he was forced by the pressure of the four big clans to seal the third son as the prince, he also made the fourth son the king of Lu.

So the new prince sat unsteadily, trembling, and King Lu had the illusion again, thinking that just adding more strength would do.

In this regard, the two palaces were merged, and the internal and external bureaucrats, generals and ministers were divided into the whole country.

For example, there are now two groups of people in this town holding a meeting to scold and fight. The discussion is about a major event that happened in Xingye City, the capital of the Xun Kingdom. .

This matter has something to do with Baiyue Mountain. It was probably because the Thunder Department withdrew two years ago, and the Xun Kingdom also followed Sanyuan's order and sent a large army to conquer the Kun Kingdom. Therefore, the combat power was once empty, and the front line suppressed the mountain ghost tribes. All the troops are seriously short, resulting in loopholes in the line of defense.

So Baiyue Mountain took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and almost all of them fell into the [-] camps that Xun Kingdom had placed in the surrounding mountains to conquer the mountain ghosts. The situation was once extremely critical.Luo Feng's old ghost lineage also exploded with amazing combat power. A large number of generals of the Xun Kingdom were even killed in battle, and the Xun Kingdom's army was beaten to the verge of collapse several times.

At this time of crisis, Zhang Shusi, the son of the Zhang family, and Gu Zhi, the second wife of the Gu family, led the four major families' enshrined personal guards, and the private soldiers took the lead, resisting tenaciously, fighting to the death and never retreating. The position was set, and the whole army was not broken.Afterwards, the general of the Xun Kingdom, Quan Huang, the governor, led his disciples to reorganize the army and take advantage of the opportunity to fight back. It took another hard fight to drive back the ghosts of Baiyue Mountain.

In this battle, Xun Kingdom offered rewards for meritorious deeds. Tai Chang Gu Mo presided over the court meeting, thinking that the merits of stationing the enemy are great, but the merits of retreating the enemy are small. It should be.So Zhang Shusi and Gu Zhi were promoted to Generals of Fenwu.The whole family has only been promoted to two generals.

Governor Quan Huang's cronies were also killed and wounded, and after a bloody battle, he couldn't even get a serious reward, so he was very dissatisfied, so he personally went to the scene to tear him down, accusing the Zhang and Gu families of colluding with Dian Junshi and falsely reporting military achievements .The matter became more and more agitated, and finally the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were involved, forming cliques and attacking each other.

The whole family that challenged the four major families was naturally a hard-core member of King Lu's party. Although everyone knew that this was an excuse to win over the party, but Quan Huang had witnesses and evidence in his hands, and the whole family had made great achievements for generations. The confidant and beloved general under the lord's command, Quan Huang also married the eldest princess of the Xun Kingdom, and his relatives and old relatives, confidantes and personal guards are full of various bonuses. This background is much closer to the clan than the four great clans.

This kind of fight was so intense that there was a lot of scolding in the court, and there was a lot of quarrel in the harem. All the courtiers impeached and remonstrated day and night. The defense was broken on the spot, but he refused to admit his mistake, and still yelled at the king in the court for listening to the slander and destroying the city wall himself, he is simply stupid.

There are some things you can only think about, but not talk about, so this time the four big families lost.

The two heroes of Gu and Zhang became prisoners all of a sudden, and Gu Mo was almost imprisoned. In the end, because of the face of the ancestors of the four families, the three of them were spared from prison, but they were all dismissed from office and exiled without order. back to Beijing.

So now the local county magistrates and elders gather the country gentry, and the topic to discuss is whether to treat the exiled Gu family as criminals, or to treat them as loyal ministers framed by treacherous officials in Xun Kingdom. Celebrities, how about sending envoys to welcome them, and clean up the dust?
Li Fan was stunned when he heard it, and the three of them are all cool...well, this is fun, the powder keg of Xun Kingdom is probably going to explode...

Li Fan didn't plan to stay any longer tonight, and set off on a flying boat overnight, and quickly finished this damn task, so he could get away.

Yang Sheng's injury was better and he could get out of bed. Seeing that Li Fan was uncharacteristically traveling day and night, he took the initiative to chat with Li Fan about the situation in Xun Kingdom, and after hearing what he said about Gu Mo, he agreed with him at this time. The situation in Xun Kingdom is extremely dangerous.
"The four big clans and the clan still maintained a face-saving harmony with each other. The three of them were dismissed from office and left Beijing to stay away from the place of right and wrong. But now someone broke the rules and killed them. I am afraid that the next fight will be all It's about to see blood.

Real person, you said that you saw Xun State soldiers fighting among horses before, probably because of the lives of the three of them. After all, the backbone of the princelings were exiled to this remote area. Who doesn't know that this is a good opportunity to kill them, King Lu How could Yidang give them a chance to return to Beijing alive?
In my opinion, leaking the news to Baiyue Mountain is just a free game. Even if there is no immortal family to assassinate, as long as the garrisons in the nearby guards are in control, the life gate of the Gu and Zhang families will be captured. There is a change, as long as the guard immediately blocks the news, Jiao Zhao will be poisoned to death by giving him a glass of wine.

It stands to reason that King Xun's authority is still there, and there are still people who make such a big move in the army. I'm afraid the whole family is pushing behind their backs, both openly and secretly.It's just that Xiaosheng is dull, and he still can't think of the motive for them to end in person.

If there really was a rift because of meritorious deeds, it would be enough to expel political opponents from Beijing, but exterminating them would be beyond the bounds.With the status and prestige of the whole family in the army, no matter whether the successor is the crown prince or the King of Lu, they have to use them, and it is impossible to go further with the official rewards, so why involve too much?
I'm afraid there is something hidden behind it, maybe there are other people contributing to the flames..."

Seeing that his complexion had improved, Li Fan said, "Anyway, this time Baiyue Mountain assassinated the Gu family's son-in-law and caused disaster. I'm afraid Xun Kingdom will launch a large-scale crusade again. But I still have something to do, and I need to go to the mountain. Yang Sheng , why don't I find a safe place to let you recuperate, so as not to be implicated."

Yang Sian also nodded and said, "Really, you are too polite, thanks to your care for a few days, Xiaosheng feels more energetic than before, and his mind is faster than before, so why talk about involvement?
Although the current state of Xun Kingdom is chaotic, there should be little interference with the people. At this time, it is just a good time to see the means and capabilities of the aristocratic clan here, and to increase your experience, so let's say goodbye. "

"Okay, see you again."

So he picked a sheep herder near the post station and got off the boat, and shared some travel expenses with him, and gave him some medicinal pills for healing and spiritual fruits for invigorating Qi, which was considered a good relationship.

Li Fan didn't delay any longer, turned the flying boat, and flew straight to the boundary of Baiyue Mountain and Luofeng Mountain.

You can tell from the name of this Baiyue Mountain that it is not a mountain range. It is a general term like the Hundred Thousand Mountains. It is generally used to collectively refer to the mountainous areas where the six tribes of Baiyue Xiyi are inhabited by foreigners.Of course, there are far more than these six books. These are the barbarian tribes that Luofeng Dongtian generally refers to as his subordination plan.In fact, over the years, the clothing and living customs of the Shanyi tribe have become almost the same as those of the Central Aboriginal people.

However, Xun Kingdom and the entire Central Plains still have a broader name to refer to these aborigines.

mountain ghost.

Of course, this is not to say that those in the mountains are all ghosts who have resurrected their souls, but a derogatory term for the aborigines in the Xun country.

In the past, the residents in the Baiyue Mountains lived a life of fishing and hunting. Probably because of their growth environment and eating habits, they were slightly shorter and thinner than the Central Plains people. They also traditionally liked tattoos on their faces. At first glance, they were as scary as seeing a ghost.

Therefore, although they are of the same origin, they are probably the human branches that migrated southward in earlier ages.But these mountain ghosts do not accept kingship, do not understand ethics, and their folk customs are quite different from the people of the Central Plains. They do not worship the gods and kings of the three major schools, and have their own set of inheritance and civilization.From the era when the immortals conquered the world, the conquest of mountain ghosts in the Central Plains began.

However, Baiyue Mountain has high mountains and deep forests, complex terrain, poisonous smoke and miasma, and it is difficult to pass by people.Each tribe of the mountain ghost has its own guardian demon god and unique witchcraft techniques, and they also join forces with the monster clan to fight against the army of the immortal venerable, so the heavenly soldiers and generals of the fairy palace also lost a lot of manpower here.As a result, when the further development of Liguo was developed in the later stage, Asgard did not plan to send troops at all, and directly outsourced it to casual cultivators...

The inheritance of Luofeng Six Palaces can also be traced back to that period, strictly speaking, this lineage should be called Luofeng Immortal Palace.Because they were originally the elite soldiers under the command of the Immortal Venerable back then, the serious generals guarding the Xun Kingdom, and they were the first batch of immortal soldiers who were familiar with the Xun Kingdom and suppressed the mountain ghosts.

It can be said that Luofeng Immortal Palace is to Xun Country what Nangong Immortal Palace is to Li Country. It is an Immortal Palace border army with the same nature of guarding the border.

It's just that in the long process of sweeping away all the tribes of mountain ghosts, demons, goblins, and evil gods, and suppressing the seal, the former Luo Fengxian army suffered heavy casualties, and in the end it was sparsely populated, which helped to gradually evolve from a military organization to a sect management model , now only retains the title of Liugong.

And now the six barbarians under Luo Fengshan's command are actually subordinates who have been incorporated under Luo Feng's Six Palaces.Of course, there are still quite a few wild ghost tribes in the mountains so far, but they can no longer be achieved. Many demon god seals are still being suppressed by Luofeng Immortal Palace.

But as we all know, what Asgard likes most is internal fighting.

The former descendants of the Immortal King in Luofeng Immortal Palace also got into the wrong team, lost power, and lost their heads because they got involved in a certain internal fight in Sanyuan, so all the direct descendants were beheaded by Sanyuan.Even the side branch clans that ruled the country in Xun Kingdom were in bad luck, and they were also exterminated. With the support of Sanyuan, the general who once served under his command snatched the jade seal to usurp the throne.

And with the official certification of Xiangong, the local rich and powerful families of course have no psychological pressure to surrender.The four major families also received favors from others in the previous dynasty, but they turned their faces and refused to recognize people, or how can you say that traitors are the most hateful.

From then on, with the strong support of Sanyuan, Xin Xun Kingdom also coordinated with the elite soldiers of the Lei Department sent down to fight against these leaderless remnants of the former dynasty.

As a result, overnight, it became a traitor demon army that everyone in the clan shouted and beat.

A ghost with hair and tattoos is actually much more upright and trustworthy than a high-sounding scholar-bureaucrat, can you believe it?Uh, it seems quite normal cough cough!
In short, Leibu once caught a ghost king and asked them why they cooperated with the rebels to rebel.But the ghost king said, since he agreed to submit to Luo Feng's army, how could he betray the alliance and break his oath?We have sworn in the names of our ancestors!If you say you are loyal to Luo Feng, you are loyal to Luo Feng!No matter what Sanyuan Immortal Palace, the four major families, the Immortal Venerable will not recognize you when he comes!
This made the four big families feel ashamed, so they quickly lit a sky lantern for him.Of course, face is nothing, and it can't be eaten as a meal. These days, those who stick to their loyalty and trustworthiness die first...

So the Xun Kingdom continued to use the banner of harboring the rebellious party of the previous dynasty to plunder the mountain ghost tribe, burn, kill and rob, and plunder the wealth and population of the foreign people.The mountain ghosts who were brutally oppressed were forced to turn back again.

In this way, under the cover of the mountain ghosts, the remnants of the old part of Luofeng Liugong revived again against the encirclement and suppression of Xun Kingdom and Leibu, and led the six tribes of mountain ghosts to revolt and rebuild the Liugong. heartache.

The former people of Luo Feng Xianjun fell into the devil way from the fairy palace like this, and became the new ghosts of Baiyue Mountain.

To be honest, if it weren't for the remnants of Luo Feng Liugong jumping around and jumping back and forth under Sanyuan's nose repeatedly, restraining the elite of Leibu and Sanyuan's energy.The Nangong family probably didn't have such a good life, they all jumped out and planted flags to rebel, and finally surrendered and punished the chief culprit, but they were easily dismissed.

After all, a single Luo Feng has caused disturbances in the Xun Kingdom for so many years, and Sanyuan also has lingering fears.It can only be said that this group of scourges in the Nangong family is really lucky...

So to put it bluntly, now, Baiyue Mountain is also the barrier of Mozhu Mountain.

In any case, Baiyue Mountain cannot be toppled, or the Immortal Palace will wipe out Xun Kingdom, and the next local power that is stubborn and disobedient to Wang Hua will be Liguo Mozhu Mountain.

Of course, with the current situation, if there is another accident in the battle between the Kun Kingdom and the Divine Sect, it may not be the Sixth Palace of Luofeng, but the Immortal Palace and the Xun Kingdom that will not be able to hold on first.

(End of this chapter)