Chapter 1316: Expedition

Two months later.

Southern Wilderness, Yingtian City.

Zhao Cheng stood on a high tower, while on the open space outside the city, there were hundreds of thousands of troops.

In three years, the army under his command expanded to 600,000. This was the result of careful selection. If he wanted to take all the troops, his army would exceed 2 million.

It's not that the people of Southern Wilderness don't know the danger of war. The Yingtian Army gives people the perception that it is invincible. When the Southern Wilderness was pacified, this has been proved that the danger is not great at all. In addition, if you join the army, the benefits are too great. If one person joins the army, the whole family will benefit.

In this case, many families with many children, even if the children don't want to, the elders in the family want to squeeze their children into the army.

But now, the Yingtian Army is different from the powerful outside. Outside, they forcibly capture strong men, while the Yingtian Army is that you want to squeeze in, but if you don't have any ability, you can't squeeze in.

And these 600,000 are just regular troops. In the current system of Nanhuang, in addition to regular troops, there are also militias. Militias do not need to go to the battlefield, but are used to protect local security. Now with fertilizers, breeding has begun in the past one or two years, and the grain output is getting higher and higher, enough to support more people to work.

Of course, militias usually work and farm, but they have extra merits, more training, and one or two days a month on weekdays.

But if there is a lack of soldiers, these people who have guns and have been trained do not need more training and can be sent directly to the battlefield.

As for the number of militias, Nanhuang has now reached an astonishing two million!

You know, Nanhuang has a total population of more than 10 million, but there are nearly 3 million soldiers. Such a structure is very unreasonable.

And this is not the limit. Under the militia, ordinary people in Nanhuang now, as long as they are not old, weak or disabled, will also participate in training regularly. There are at least four or five million people who have touched guns and fired guns.

If this is not considered a strong army, then there is no strong army in this world.

On the tower, Zhao Cheng was wearing a dragon robe. The whole person gave people a jade texture, clear and pure, but such a temperament and spirit did not give people a feeling of weakness and bullying. The wide dragon robe made his figure look more majestic and tall, like a giant.

Three years ago, he obtained the Yuanshi status, and the transformation had already begun. Although it was restricted by the earth's confinement, this transformation was very slow, but it was going on all the time.

After all, he has condensed the characteristics of Daluo, and to a certain extent, broke the confinement of the earth.

And the integration of the lifelong cultivation of the five great immortals, all the wisdom, and the Yuanshi status, plus the support of the Southern Wilderness in the past three years, his own cultivation, his Taoist body, and his Taoist method have reached a state that ordinary people cannot imagine.

At this moment, standing behind Zhao Cheng were the civil and military officials in the court. Three years had passed, and some of the people behind him were still old faces, such as Lin Yi, Wei Ye, Li Tonghai..., but more of them were newcomers, talents selected in the past three years.

The Southern Wilds are mountainous and full of hermits. At the beginning, these hermits were shocked by the new country, but they also felt that it was against the common sense and would definitely be destroyed quickly.

But the subsequent changes in the Southern Wilds made a small number of ambitious people change their minds.

Apart from other things, just one point, to make all the people under the rule full, this is already an achievement that the ancient saint emperor could not accomplish.

As for the Taoists in the world, they were denounced as demons.

Any knowledgeable person knows that Taoists are ruthless and unrighteous.

The so-called demons are probably different ways.

Therefore, in the past three years, Zhao Cheng has gained a lot of talents.

These people are proficient in internal affairs, have flexible minds, and have a strong ability to accept new things. It can be said that they have solved a lot of troubles for Zhao Cheng.

On the tower, Zhao Cheng waved his hand, and the drums of war immediately beat, and the flags on the top of the city waved.

At the same time, the 600,000 troops under the city also shouted together at this moment:

"Ten thousand wins!"

"Ten thousand wins!"

"..."

...

For a moment, the shouting shook the earth, and the whole huge city seemed to be shaking with it.

And with the shouting, each soldier became more and more excited, and the morale of the army was constantly gathering.

Liu Guangzheng suspected that Zhao Cheng had used the ideological stamp, but in fact, Zhao Cheng was not wronged. He is now the master of the Southern Wilderness, and he is nourished by the energy of all living beings in the Southern Wilderness. The invisible cause and effect connection is that his demonic stain is also escaping to all living beings.

At that time, this demonic stain was filtered by him, and its effect is not likely to brainwash a person directly, but to subtly influence people, making people agree with him, his ideas, his concepts, and everything about him.

Of course, if what he did made those affected feel pain and disgust, this recognition would naturally be invalid, but if what he did made people feel that it was right and good, this subtle influence would be very terrifying.

It took only three or four years for all the people in the Southern Wilderness to return to their hearts and all the people to be united.

The only effect of the devil's stain was that it saved him a lot of time. If it didn't have this effect, it would be like cooking a small fish to govern a big country. It had to be done step by step. Three or four years was not enough.

Now, the situation in the world is unpredictable. Liu Guangzheng feels that if he continues to drag it out, Zhao Cheng will have the advantage, but Zhao Cheng knows that if he drags it out for a long time, the other party will have the advantage.

The potential limit of the Southern Wasteland is already here. After all, the population cannot be created out of thin air.

As for letting the old, weak, women and children fight to consume the enemy, he has been infected by the devil, and the devil is deeper, but he still has his own principles in his heart. He controls the devil, not the devil controls him.

The changes brought by the devil to him are just that he is more brutal when killing people, more cruel to the enemy, and likes to say a few "words of the strong".

Seemingly crazy, but not crazy.

"Pass my military order!

"All troops, go to war! "

On the tower, Zhao Cheng gave an order, and immediately, the trajectory of the swaying flags and the stirring drums changed.

At this time, the army displayed below began to surge slowly.

Behind Zhao Cheng, all the officials, civil and military, looked at the majestic figure and heard the movement, and their hearts were surging, especially the group of people who followed Zhao Cheng the earliest. From the desperate situation of having nothing, they now rule the Southern Wilderness, have millions of soldiers, and are going to conquer the world.

All the way, Daye finally saw the dawn of achievement!

As for the time of the expedition, it is two months. Most of the plank road has been built, and the remaining part can be completed in one month at most. This time point is just right for the army to go from Yingtian City to Tianjue Pass. In terms of time, it is just right. Just right.

However, half a month later, when the army was halfway through, a small part of the troops turned around and plunged into the mountains and forests.

The so-called repairing the plank road in the open and secretly crossing Chencang was actually used by the predecessors, but at that time, no one paid attention to Shu, which made it successful.

And now, the South Wilderness is being watched by countless eyes, and Tianjue Pass has been strictly guarded, with nearly a million troops stationed.

Zhao Cheng wanted to use the plank road to make the enemy careless, but it was impossible to do it.

Moreover, as early as several dynasties ago, the emperor at that time asked the Taoist to draw a perfect Lianshan feng shui map with Taoist magic, and all the details were vivid. Even if there was a geological change, it was impossible to create a passage out of thin air.