Chapter 285: The plan for Jiangyin is under control!

“Sui Maoxiang!”

After arranging the affairs of the two major protectorates of Siam, Jia Cong began to appoint his generals!
Sui Maoxiang had originally been appointed as the Grand Protector of Zhenla Protectorate, but Jia Cong lacked capable generals under his command.

That’s why he was allowed to lead a large army.

“The general is here!”

“I order you to lead the army to continue advancing to the northwest the day after tomorrow.”

“After conquering the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma, continue westwards and deploy troops on the border of India!”

“Are you sure you are waiting for my next order?”

The original army of more than 400,000 was reduced to 60,000 troops left to garrison the Siam Protectorate and the ghost army under Jia Cong was withdrawn.

There are still three hundred and fifty thousand left!
Among them, 200,000 are the regular army of Daqian, and 150,000 are in the prisoner camp!

Under Jia Cong’s instruction, the low-level generals in the prisoner camp are now the more than 70,000 rebels from the original Fujian camp.

It seems that the number of people in the prison camp has not changed much.

In fact, at least a quarter of them were added later.

Whenever there was a major war, the prisoner camp would always take the lead.

This ensured that the casualties of the Daqian regular army were always kept at an extremely low level.

After the simplified version of the Bloodthirsty Decree is popularized in the prisoner camp, it can also be used to train soldiers.

Among the 150,000 prisoners in the prison camp, at least 80,000 have entered the body-building realm through killing.

He practiced evil martial arts and got used to the life of fighting on the battlefield.

It can be said that the morale and combat effectiveness of the prisoner camp should not be underestimated.

“I am willing to issue a military order!”

“If you can’t push the battle line to the border of India before the end of the year, I will bring my head to you!”

Sui Maoxiang also did not expect that Jia Cong would be the one to command this war to annihilate the country.

Not to mention the tribes in the area between Myanmar and India that cannot even be considered a dynasty state.

The only problem is Myanmar.

But according to past practice, Sui Maoxiang does not need to worry about masters above the fourth level.

There are also many third-level masters of the Gongshu family in the army.

There are some difficulties, but they are not great.

The most important thing is that once it is accomplished, it will be the achievement of destroying a country.

Emperor Shunde was so happy that he thought that the Ningyuan Marquis’ Mansion, which had just been restored to the status of a marquisate two years ago, might even be promoted to a duke’s mansion.

“it is good!”

“After conquering Burma, it was also divided into two parts to establish the Northern and Southern Protectorates.”

“Mu Dingjun!”

“The general is here!”

Although Mu Kangwen, the head of the Dongping Marquis’s Mansion, did not follow the army south this time, he sent his eldest son Mu Dingjun, the next heir to the mansion, to serve under Jia Cong.

“After conquering Burma, you will be appointed Grand Protector of the Southern Burmese Protectorate!”

“As for the Northern Protectorate of Burma…”

“Ma Ruyue, you will be the Grand Protector.”

Jia Cong looked around and found that most of the military heroes who had first joined Jia Cong’s army had found their places.

Including several military heroes from the Qi and Lu lineage who rose to prominence when Jia Cong suppressed the rebellion in Shandong and were brought by Sui Maoxiang this time, they were all appointed deputy protectors of the protectorate in Annan and other places.

It can be said that if one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit.

The clear-cut approach of rewards and punishments has attracted countless people to join Jia Cong’s army.

But given Jia Cong’s current status, it is no longer possible for him to accept subordinates as casually as before.

“Thank you for your kindness, Marshal!”

“It’s just that I still want to be the commander of the personal soldiers beside the Marshal.”

I didn’t expect to face such tremendous power as that of a provincial governor.

Ma Ruyue knelt on one knee and refused without thinking.

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the room was suddenly surprised.

Then they all looked enlightened and cast envious glances at Ma Ruyue.

Without him!

The Grand Protector of the Northern Protectorate of Myanmar, although he held a high position and great power.

But it was no match for being the commander of Jia Cong’s personal soldiers.

Back then, Hou Jingyun was not even an acquired martial artist, but after following Jia Cong for several years, he had become an innate martial artist last year.

“In that case, you will temporarily serve as the Grand Protector, just like Hou Jingyun.”

“After the war, I will reward you based on your merits and reappoint you as the Grand Protector. You and Hou Jingyun can return to my side.”

Jia Cong nodded upon hearing this.

The two personal guards commanders were there to do chores like running errands and delivering messages, and they were quite handy.

……

“Alright, everyone go down and prepare. The army will set out the day after tomorrow morning!”

He also discussed with everyone the miscellaneous matters such as conscripting laborers to transport food and fodder.

It was not until midnight that Jia Cong let everyone go.

“Cong’er, aren’t we following the army this time?”

After everyone left, Baochai keenly noticed the difference between Jia Cong’s arrangements and his previous ones.

“We have something else to do this time.”

Jia Cong stood up, walked to the wall and looked at the map hanging on the wall.

Daqian and the surrounding countries all do feng shui on it.

“This time we will take Siam first and then attack Burma.”

“I thought the Westerners and the Kong family would be waiting in Siam for a decisive battle with us.”

“We have deliberately arranged for three armies to converge for this purpose.”

“Once the situation becomes unfavorable, this army will be our amulet.”

“I didn’t expect that Dacheng Prefecture would be an empty city.”

“Based on this inference, there won’t be any fifth-level masters in the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar.”

“Everyone knows that if we want to fight, we should do it sooner rather than later. If the Westerners really want to fight a decisive battle within the borders of these two countries, they won’t be so stupid as to wait until we have plundered all of Siam’s wealth before fighting.”

“Cong’er, are you saying that the Westerners and the Kong family are planning to set the battlefield in Tianzhu?”

Miaoyu took over the conversation with a puzzled look on her face.

“will not.”

Jia Cong shook his head.

“Although Western countries vigorously promote the concept of honor and the virtues of chivalry, in the final analysis, they are all a group of people who are profit-seeking and put profit above all else.”

“They haven’t had time to reap the huge profits from Siam and Burma yet, so how could they give them up so easily?”

“Besides, there are Brahmans in India who are at odds with the West. They might stab us in the back when the situation gets stalemate.”

“They are worried and dare not place the decisive battle in Tianzhu.”

“The presence of an army of more than 400,000 makes them cautious.”

“What they want to do most now is to choose a place where we must rescue as the location for the decisive battle, so as to separate us from the army…”

Jia Cong’s eyes swept across the map.

“The spirit of Daqian’s state exists in Shenjing City, Ziwei Division is full of experts, and the royal family also has a lot of background.”

“The only place is…”

“Nanjing Yingtianfu, the Tomb of Emperor Taizu!”

Before Jia Cong could finish his words.

Daiyu, Baochai and Miaoyu blurted it out at the same time!

Nanjing City is Daqian’s study companion!

It was the capital during the reign of Taizu. Later, Emperor Taizong moved the capital to Shenjing, and only then did he become a companion student.

But because of the existence of the tomb of Emperor Taizu of Daqian and the prosperity of Nanjing.

This makes its status in Daqian superior to other cities, and its importance is second only to Shenjing City.

“Yes, the elite troops from Shandong Camp, Jiangnan Camp and even the Emperor’s Seventeen Guards have been withdrawn.”

“The only elite troops left in the entire Jiangnan region are the Huangling Guards, who number more than 10,000.”

“The other party has the Kong family as an insider…” “The other party’s most likely target is Yingtian Prefecture!”

“If it works, they can separate us from the main army. If not, the huge gains after conquering Yingtian Prefecture will be enough to make their trip worthwhile.”

“Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the other side wants to paralyze us and set the location of the decisive battle in Toungoo, the capital of Myanmar!”

“It’s just unlikely!”

Jia Cong drew a winding line on the map and shook his head.

“Sister Bao, only Huici will be sent to Burma with the army this time.”

“Let’s wait for a few days in Dacheng Mansion. We should get the result in the next two days.”

……

Zhenjiang Prefecture

Jiangyin County
“May the City God bless me to kill everyone in the casino today.”

“The faithful pray sincerely, may my mother recover soon!”

“The City God protects me…”

In the south of the city, near the city gate, there stands a City God Temple covering an area of ​​several acres.

The temple is not big, nor is it particularly magnificent, but once you step into it, you can feel a sense of simplicity and majesty.

One can’t help but feel solemn and respectful.

This City God Temple was built more than a year ago.

Various legends about the miraculous powers of the City God, such as slaying ghosts and eliminating evil, curing diseases, saving filial sons, and trying corrupt officials at night, spread in Jiangyin County.

There is also a constant stream of believers coming to the City God Temple in Jiangyin County to burn incense.

The statue of the City God is placed in the center of the main hall of the City God Temple.

On the left and right sides are the civil and military judges, and the soul-catcher.

In a space invisible to ordinary people, in the City God’s office.

“Zhang Dali, from the south of Jiangyin County, is a filial man. He prayed for his seriously ill mother. His filial piety is commendable.”

“Tell the Night Wandering God to heal his mother at midnight tonight as appropriate!”

The Wen judge of Jiangyin County stood under the Jiangyin City God, holding a judge’s pen and using his iron writing and silver hook to record the requests of the believers outside from time to time.

The City God’s Mansion is responsible for rewarding the good and punishing the evil and protecting the people.

Nor will they answer all the believers’ prayers.

Those who have good intentions, are pure in merit and filial, and pray for their families will be granted permission!

Those who harbor evil thoughts, are selfish, and seek to make a fortune are not allowed!

It not only depends on who the person is, but also what they are praying for.

If a scholar comes to pray for success in the imperial examination.

Even if he does many good deeds and has great merits, the City God cannot grant his request.

There is no other reason. The City God of Jiangyin County is just a seventh-rank priest with the strength of the early third realm.

Who has the ability to interfere with the imperial examination?

At most, when the spirit is wandering day and night, it will occasionally use its magic on the scholar to help him clear his mind.

It comes down to it.

It is not only necessary to consider whether the believers accumulate virtue and do good deeds in their daily lives, but also whether what they pray for is not for their own selfish desires.

It also depends on whether the county town god’s office has the ability to promise it.

Just like Mr. Zhang from the south city, who was a filial son, he only let the Night Wanderer heal his mother at his discretion.

This is because the night wandering god under the County God’s Mansion is only a ghost of the second realm.

limited ability.

If the disease is caused by the end of life, birth, aging, sickness and death, the night wandering spirit can do nothing about it.

……

“who!”

“How dare you spy on the important place where the City God governs!”

Just as the civil officials were recording the believers’ prayers from time to time, the City God of Jiangyin, who was sitting in the center and had done good deeds in Shandong for many years and was deified after his death, suddenly raised his head.

The surging divine power rose like a tide.

However, above the City God’s seat, a long river of majestic literary energy fell.

Under the impact of the literary energy, the divine power of the seventh-rank Jiangyin County City God was shattered like thin paper.

There was not even time to make any sound.

The entire City God’s office was destroyed by this terrifying and majestic literary energy.

Only an illusory divine position that no one could see flashed by.

After the City God’s office was destroyed, the dignified and solemn atmosphere in the City God Temple outside suddenly faded by three points.

But ordinary people would never notice these things and would continue to burn incense and pray as usual.

Only above the sky, more than ten figures appeared.

“Is this the famous Confucianism in the Far Eastern Empire?”

“Your methods are truly admirable.”

Antonio, the chief court magician of Spain, placed one hand on his chest and saluted Kong Zongren who had just made the move.

However, Kong Zongren just nodded slightly with a frown on his face.

“Three great-grandfathers!”

“Jiangyin County is just an ordinary county town in the south of the Yangtze River.”

“Apart from being next to the Jiangnan Camp, there is nothing else special about it.”

“But in such a county town, there is a third-level spiritual cultivator in the city, called the County City God, assisted by more than ten second-level cultivation methods and hundreds of Taoist soldiers.”

“He also laid the Sumeru mustard seed method.”

“In every village, river, and mountain outside the county, there are Second Realm warriors, accompanied by a few or dozens of inbound Taoist soldiers.”

“Let’s not talk about anything else. In the ten prefectures of Jiangnan alone, there are fifty-nine counties and fifty-nine third-level spirit cultivators.”

“Not only in Jiangnan, but also in Shandong, except for Yanzhou Prefecture where our Kong family is located, the other five prefectures and more than 70 counties are arranged in the same way.”

“I heard that in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jia Cong has also started to develop.”

“Totaling at least two hundred third-level spiritual soldiers, and several thousand second-level magic soldiers.”

“I heard that there are several prefectures with people at the peak of spiritual cultivation sitting above the city god of this county.”

“The background of Luo Tian Sect behind this Jia Cong kid…”

……

“Zongren, don’t try to boost others’ prestige and destroy your own ambition!”

“Luo Tianzong is Luo Tianzong, and Jia Cong is Jia Cong.”

“As long as we kill that little Jia Cong this time, our Kong family will stay away from the world for more than a hundred years, and after a few generations, people will forget about this past.”

“The Kong family is still the most holy family known throughout the world.”

“No matter how deep the Luotian Sect’s background is, would they come to Qufu to fight us to the death just for a dead person?”

An ancestor of the Kong family standing beside Kong Zongren frowned.

I was also shocked by what Kong Zongren said.

If there were only more than 200 third-level spiritual cultivators, it would not be a big deal, after all, there were no higher-level masters.

Above the third realm, the fourth realm, and the fifth realm, there is a world of difference between each realm.

The key point is that these Taoist soldiers were trained in just two provinces, Shandong and Jiangnan, in just one year.

Now, with Fujian and Guangdong, the two provinces have expanded to five provinces, and there are also several protectorates in Nanyang that were conquered by Jia Cong.

If time passes…

To what extent will the strength of these third-level Taoist soldiers grow?

No one dared to say more.

Even though the Kong family has been passed down for countless years, they have never possessed such means.

However, in the midst of a great war, no one wants to weaken their prestige.

“Brother Mo Guang, is the person we contacted earlier here now?”

After the semi-saint ancestor of the Kong family finished talking to Kong Zongren, he turned and looked at the two people wearing black Confucian robes on the other side.

It was Mo Guang from the Mohist school who had previously gone to Nan’an City to meet Jia Cong.

Beside him was Mo Ying, who had once ambushed Jia Cong with the Kong family.

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