The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In order to avoid irritating the Ming Dynasty, it was also to leave the vortex around the imperial capital, so as not to let oneself go deep into it and be completely swallowed up.

Zhong Yu's expansion this time did not go towards the northern provinces of Daming, or the central and western provinces, but towards the six southern provinces.

The six southern provinces of Ming Dynasty are bordered by the two empires of Wei and Han. Among the six provinces, only one province is inland, and the rest are frontiers. The war has ravaged the south for a long time.

However, the six provinces have been much more peaceful in recent years. The reason is that behind the two empires of Wei and Han, there is a Tang Empire that is expanding violently. It is so powerful that no one country or one place can stop it.

In the past 30 years, in order to resist the aggression of the Tang Empire, the five neighboring countries of the Tang Empire, Han, Wei, Qi, Wu, and Dayue, formed an offensive and defensive alliance to curb the expansion of the Tang Empire.

However, although the strength of the offensive and defensive alliance is three times that of the Tang Empire, they are not in harmony with each other, and the Tang Empire keeps grasping its weaknesses and slowly nibbles away.

Especially in these years, as the power of the Tang Empire has become stronger, its attacks on neighboring countries have also become more powerful.

Han and Wei were the first to bear the brunt, and were regarded as the main targets by the Tang Empire. Over the years, they have each lost territory in two or three provinces, and their strength has suffered a lot.

Under such circumstances, they are too busy to take care of themselves. How can the two countries, Han and Wei, have the spare power to invade the seemingly unified and powerful Ming Empire in the north?

Therefore, in the past 30 years, the six southern provinces of the Ming Empire have rarely encountered wars, and the economy and people's livelihood have developed rapidly, almost catching up with the five eastern provinces.

The six southern provinces were the largest sources of money and food for the Ming Empire besides the five eastern provinces. As long as Zhong Yu took these six provinces, the strength of the Ming court would be weakened by half.

At that time, Daming would really have no choice but to deal with the Jin Empire in the seven northern provinces, and would no longer have the energy to go south to pacify Zhong Yu, the biggest traitor.

Because the Ming court had no money to organize troops to go south to suppress the rebellion, and opened two fronts at the same time.

The 400,000-strong army was divided into three directions to attack the areas bordering the six southern provinces and the five eastern provinces, trying to quickly capture the six southern provinces with the fastest speed and strongest attack strength.

The smoke of gunpowder once again ignited in the six southern provinces that had been at peace for 30 years.

This time, the six southern provinces combined only had an army of 300,000, and the army had been neglected for a long time, so I wondered if they could stop Zhong Yu's aggressive attack.

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North Jiangxi Province, as a province bordering Dongjiang Province, where Zhong Yu made his fortune, was his main target this time.

Zhong Yu personally led a main force of 200,000, preparing to wipe out northern Jiangxi Province in one fell swoop.

Things went smoothly, with three state capitals in succession along the way, until he came to a place in Jinhua Prefecture, Guobei County, where he stopped for a while.

To be honest, since Zhong Yu came to the world of Liaozhai, apart from the Huangshan demon king he met at the beginning, in the following days, he fought in all directions one after another, and his army was invincible wherever he went.

But no matter how many enemies he met and how many opponents he defeated, he never encountered a single monster unexpectedly. This gave Zhong Yu the illusion that he was not in Liaozhai, a world where monsters and monsters were rampant.

In fact, it's quite normal when you think about it. Ever since he came to this world, Zhong Yu has been leading an army to fight, surrounded by tens of thousands of troops. Even when dealing with government affairs, there are thousands of fourth-tier soldiers guarding him.

With such a strong strength, even a sixth-order powerhouse dare not say that he can win it, and he will retreat unscathed. Naturally, let's not talk about those demons with low strength in the world of Liaozhai.

Encountering such an aura of fierceness is an army, if it is a ghost, it will immediately be out of its wits when it is rushed by this evil spirit. Even monsters will be restrained to death by supernatural powers and spells, and they will be surrounded and killed by soldiers immediately.

Under such circumstances, how could there be any blind demons and ghosts who dared to stand in the way of the army, and died in front of Zhong Yu, the strong man who had beheaded the Huangshan Demon King.

So it's no wonder that Zhong Yu has such a dreamy feeling.

When the previous monsters heard about Zhong Yu's news, they either ran away from a distance, or found a hidden place to hide, and refused to show their faces.

In the face of these monsters, as long as he didn't have to come out to seek death, Zhongli, who was eager to attack the city, naturally ignored them subconsciously and didn't care about them.

After all, after the Huangshan demon king's demon army chaos in the Ming Dynasty, more than 99% of the low-level demons in the Ming Dynasty went to Dongjiang Province to follow the emperor's demon king's banner and rebelled together.

And some of the demons left in the Ming Dynasty were all powerful in their own right, with fifth or even sixth level cultivation bases, and at worst fourth level strength.

These people don't even bother to go to Huangshan Demon King to be his dog's leg, and they still understand the reason why they would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

So just stay where you are, and watch it change.

However, this also created a status quo, that is, the remaining monsters in various parts of Ming Dynasty are basically powerful, and ordinary people cannot suppress them at all, even the local state capital defenders are powerless.

Ordinary people who want to subdue demons and demons have stumbled and kicked the iron plate.

I don't know how many outstanding children from famous schools and aristocratic families lost their lives when they went to slay demons and slay demons because they wanted to show off when they were young.

And the Guobei County of Jinhua Prefecture, where Zhong Yu's army is now passing, is entrenched with a powerful demon, the tree demon grandma.

This tree demon grandma was transformed from a thousand-year-old locust tree, which has been cultivated for thousands of years. His roots and branches are endless, forming a large forest with a radius of tens of miles in Guobei County.

There is a temple in the woods called Lanruo Temple, which was a famous temple in the entire northern Jiangxi Province hundreds of years ago. The eminent monks in the temple are full of great virtues, and the Dharma is widely promoted, which is highly respected by the surrounding believers.

However, this temple, which was full of incense, was destroyed with the rise of the dryad grandma.

The eminent monks in the temple had already discovered it when the dryad's grandmother had just become a climate and had a little magic power.

However, in line with the Buddha's idea of ​​compassion, they did not directly kill demons and demons, but chanted scriptures day and night in an attempt to influence the tree demon grandmother.

Unexpectedly, a demon is a demon, and the nature of killing is difficult to change, especially when the tree demon grandma discovered that devouring human essence, blood and soul can greatly increase her mana and speed up her cultivation, she became even more rampant and wantonly devoured passers-by.

Especially when she couldn't bear it once and swallowed a little novice monk with some mana, and her strength improved for several years, the tree demon grandma even regarded the monks in the temple as fat.

Then the angry eminent monk fought with the tree demon, but unfortunately lost, all the monks in the temple fled to death, completely desolate.

And the reputation of Lanruo Temple being haunted by monsters also spread, and people in the entire Jinhua Mansion were afraid of it, and they never dared to go to the surrounding area for dozens of miles.

The tens of miles of forest transformed by the dryad's grandmother has also become a forbidden area, and the locals will change their colors when they mention it.

Only some outsiders who don't know the situation will foolishly run into the woods and be confused by the female ghosts raised by the dryad's grandmother. He lost his life in the midst of being in a daze, and his soul was swallowed by the tree demon's grandmother and turned into nourishment for his cultivation.