Although King Qin Ran of Lie was imprisoned by the Supreme Heavenly Venerable Qin Shimin in the 44th year of Jianxing, he established himself as the Emperor of Lie, he insisted that he would retake Yongjing from the demons and then officially ascend the throne, so there was no new imperial capital and no new year number was changed.

After the fourth year of Emperor Qin Ran's reign as emperor, that is, the autumn of the 48th year of Jianxing, the clan of Yongjing, headed by Ji Yuanpeng, was also the last core force preserved by Xuanyuan's palace. Finally, he persuaded Emperor Qin Ran to establish his capital in Anze and rename it Xuanjing; at the same time, the year name of Longqing was changed, the 48th year of Jianxing, which was also the first year of Longqing.

The southern retreat forces of Emperor Qin Ran and Xuan Yuan to the palace established their capital in Xuan Jing City, which also means that Qin Ran, Ji Yuanpeng and others almost integrated the original Nanli clan clan into the category of Xuan Yuan's power.

Although the power of Yongjing and Qin royal family suffered extremely heavy losses in the demonic disaster, the lean camel was bigger than a horse. The Xuanyuan retreated southward forces, mainly the southern army, still had more than fifty heavenly true lords and four million elite combat power. It was not difficult to control Yunling, merge and annex the Nanli clans who had no leader.

Of course, all this requires Tiannan Kingdom to exert no resistance behind it.

The reason why Tiannan Kingdom did not prevent the southern retreat forces of Emperor Qin Ran and Xuanyuan from the palace from annexing Nanli was that in the autumn of the first year of Longqing, the three sects of Nanzhao were officially merged into the Cangyuan Sword Sect and became the three inheritance of the Cangyuan Sword Sect. The former Nanzhao General's Mansion and the newly established Nanzhao County and the state of Nanzhao naturally became vassal states of Tiannan Kingdom, and their troops were merged into the sequence of the northern expeditions of Tiannan Kingdom to fight against the demon army.

At the same time, the three Anxi sects such as Taiyan and others were also incorporated into Xuanhuangtian, becoming the three inheritances of Xuanhuangtian east of the Hengduan Mountains. The Anxi Counties and Kingdoms were also vassal states of the Yue Dynasty, and their troops were merged into the Yue Dynasty's Eastern Expedition to fight against the Demon Army.

In order to gain the support of Tiannan and Yue, Qin Ran and Ji Yuanpeng annexed Nanli clans into Xuanyuan's entrance hall, which may have to be made.

For Anxi and Nanzhao, relying solely on the Hengduan Mountains and the Dalou Mountains, as well as the 700,800 million displaced fleeing people, is not enough to support the subsequent war against demons. They join the Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom, and the elite troops of Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom come in to take on the main responsibility of resisting the demon disaster and suppressing Beiling, which may be their best choice at this time.

After the autumn of the 48th year of Jianxing, the demon-controlling soldiers and horses south of Wantao River were actually integrated into three branches. One was the Xuanyuan Army headed by Qin Ran and Ji Yuanpeng, one was the Tiannan Demon-Confrontation Army headed by Zheng Chan, the prince of Tiannan Kingdom, and the other was the Eastern Demon-Confrontation Army headed by Liu Fen, Zheng King of Yue Dynasty, Lu Shang, Prince of Anxi County, Zhao Xiaozhi and others.

The demons' attack was frustrated by the Beiling Army, but there was no concept of establishing a defense line. The demon soldiers and generals were curled up in Wuhou Ridge, Yinhun Ridge, Dongting Mountain and other places. Apart from this, there were gaps everywhere.

Although the Xuanyuan Army, the Tiannan Demon Army and the Yue Dynasty's Eastern Expedition Demon Army did not have the courage to directly attack Yinhun Ridge, Dongting Mountain and other places where the main force of the demon clan was occupied by the demon clan, they could still do it by penetrating through these gaps, splitting up small groups of elite combat power, and slaughtering them to the Zhongzhou and other places that were occupied by billions of demons and then turned into the demon realm. They could still penetrate the miscellaneous demons and sweep the demons to raise the demons.

During this process, both Xuanjing, Tiannan and Yue began to make large-scale casting of Tianji war equipment and join the army.

The major sects in Xingfeng Domain have extremely profound research on mechanical puppet techniques. Based on the Tianji ban and integrating mechanical puppet techniques, there is no threshold that cannot be overcome for Xuanyuan, Cangyuan Sword Sect, Xuanhuangtian, or for lower-level sect clans.

In addition, Xuanyuan was destroyed by the palace. The area that can be controlled in the future is limited to the Yunling area, which is much narrower and more barren. However, Yue Kingdom and Tiannan Kingdom control vast lands of hundreds of thousands of miles in radius. The resources of 10 to 20 billion ordinary people are much richer than Beiling, which has been tragically consumed in the demon calamity for more than 20 years. The scale of weapon refiners in the sect clan is also extremely large.

It’s okay for Xuanjing. Once the Yue Kingdom and Tiannan Kingdom decide to do their best to develop Tianji war equipment, the potential it explodes cannot be ignored.

Starting from the autumn and winter of the first year of Longyu, the Tiannan War Army and the Eastern Expedition of the Demon Army increased by hundreds of thousands of war machines, more than one day.

In particular, the small number of elite troops that penetrated into the areas controlled by the demons, from the autumn and winter of the first year of Longqing, gradually formed a combat model with heavenly mechanics and combat equipment as the core, sweeping and eliminating miscellaneous demons, and increasing the ability to fight field battles.

First, the light and heavy Tianji combat vehicles, wheeled, crawler-type baggage chariots, wind flame airships, armored warships, heavy-bore crossbows, heavy-bore crossbows, six-bore heavy-mounted crossbows, etc., which were proven to be effective by the Beiling Army, appeared on a large scale in the Tiannan Demon Army and the Eastern Expedition to Demon Army. By the autumn of the fourth year of Longqing, Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom also equipped the Qinglian Flame Cannon to form an army to fight against demons.

This kind of Green Lotus Flame Cannon is an upgraded version of the Green Lotus Flame Arrow and the Heavy Bore Cannon (Super Heavy Bore Crossbow). It is to concentrate hundreds of small explosive flame heavy-front arrows in a large-sized heavy-armed arrow, and fire with a special heavy-armed cannon, with a range of more than 120 miles.

In the past, the demon clan only had to face the powerful enemy of the Beiling Army in the northwest. However, with the Xuanyuan Army and the Tiannan Demon Army, the Tiannan Demon Army had more and more heavenly war machines incorporated into the Eastern Expedition Demon Army, and its field combat capabilities became stronger and stronger. The demon clan discovered that the south, southwest and east were under increasing pressure.

As Lingzhou, there were more and more blue whale-class iron-armored warships gathered in Danxiadu, and they were worried that the two troops might be completely cut by the Beiling army by using the Wantao River. In the winter of the fourth year of Longqing, all the demon soldiers of Wuhouling retreated to the Yinhun Ridge of Nan'an.

This actually not only means that the demons gave up their harassment of the eastern foot of Zibai Mountain, but also gave up their control over the territory of Beiting hundreds of thousands of miles.

However, since the demons deployed a large number of demon-dried bone formations in the depths of Shiwei Mountain and Dajin Mountain to raise demons, the wasteland west of Shiwei Mountain and south of Dajin Mountain, they were under the threat of large-scale attacks by demon soldiers at any time. The Beiling Army did not rely on the Xiongshan and the rivers, and it was difficult to establish a consolidation line of defense without leaks, and Chen Hai did not think about regaining all the territory of Beiting in one fell swoop.

Chen Hai finally established the Dongzhen Army on the basis of the former Fourth Front Army of the Nanzhen Army, with Fu Siyuan as the main general, and pushed the defense line to the Tianhechuan line, and included the Lingchuan wasteland, which was thousands of miles deep between Tianhechuan and the eastern foot of Zibai Mountain, into the development scope of Beiling.

Regarding Tiannan and Yue Kingdom's massive development of Tianji war equipment, Chen Hai did not feel that he was under much threat. He just seized this rare opportunity to breathe and seize the time to rest and rest.

During these three or four years, the threat of demon disasters between the Wantao River and the Nuchuan River was basically lifted. Not only were the refugees who fled north able to return to the south bank of the Nuchuan River to rebuild their homes, Chen Hai also took this opportunity to abolish all the marquis states on the south bank of the Nuchuan River, clans sealed towns, and widely established counties.

On the extra land, in addition to the large-scale enfeoffment of meritorious soldiers, some of the refugees who retreated to the west were also placed on the south bank of the Nuchuan River to restore production between the Nuchuan River and Wantao River.

At the same time, around Tianluo Valley, and to Mozhan Ridge, and from Mozhan Ridge to Pingma Mountain, the area with a depth of 20,000 to 30,000 miles has been fully developed in the past decade. The people who moved from Yanzhou and those who moved from Beiting to the west have settled on this land, and thousands of cities have been established.

Once upon a time, the sect Xuan Xiu stood above all living beings. When the Northwest Territory was at its peak before the Demonic Tribulation, it also established more than a hundred county-level governing places. There were thousands of cities of all sizes, but these cities were mainly places where the clans of the big surnames lived together. They were controlled by the big surnames and clans and had nothing to do with ordinary people. They even strictly prohibited ordinary people from entering.

Chen Hai implemented a new county-level relationship and official selection and appointment system in Beiling. At first, it didn't seem very impressive. It was impossible to see how helpful it would be to improve the strength of the Beiling Army. However, Chen Hai's prestige was unparalleled. The military power of the Beiling Army was in the hands of Chen Hai alone, so no one could stand up and raise objections.

However, after the new county relations were determined, the previous cities also separated from the control of the clans and became governing the localities and governing the people's counties, cities, and cities in Beiling, which further increased to more than 60,000 in the winter of the fourth year of Longqing, including more than 120 county cities, more than 2,500 prefecture cities, and more than 50,000 county cities.

Through the county system, the royal capital bypassed the traditional clan relationship and directly extended the tentacles of power to ordinary people. The most direct benefit of doing this is that the total number of students recommended to the Tianji Academy of each county to study in Beiling every year has increased to 1.8 million that could not have been imagined in the past.

Among these 1.8 million children, less than 200,000 people were actually trained as grassroots military officers.

This can already meet the supplementary needs of the Beiling Army military officers.

The more students trained by Tianji Academy still mainly meet other needs.

The most important bottleneck in the production of Tianji war machines is the number of craftsmen who can refine Tianji bans.

In the past, the number of children who could be selected from the Han civilians was extremely limited. The refining of Tianji prohibitions, including wind raft boxes, wind flame power boxes, wind flame jet boxes, arrow raft boxes, etc., mainly relies on the refining disciples from the sect valve. The annual output is limited, which directly limits the output of Tianji war equipment.

After the establishment of the new county relations, the number of ban craftsmen who are capable of refining the heavenly secret ban at all levels increased by 30,000 to 50,000 each year, which is a number that was unimaginable before.

In the past, the sects also had the so-called inheritance of mechanical puppets, but mechanical craftsmen were usually used by weapon refiners. The most commonly used place for the learning of mechanical puppets was mainly the various tombs where the dead were buried.

Only when the Tianji war machine was developed can the craftsmen of the craftsmen become an important profession that was in line with the prohibited craftsmen. The foundation for the decades of development of Tianji war machine in Yanzhou was that the new county-level relationship was promoted to the entire Beiling area, and the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of the craftsmen of

Tianji Academy also trains middle and senior craftsmen in various aspects such as city palace bridge construction, ore mining and smelting, etc. on a large scale.

From the perspective of the past, Yanzhou is a small domain with a level far lower than the Xingfeng Domain, but Yanzhou's Tianji Puppet Technique has developed comprehensively, which is thirty or forty years earlier than the Xingfeng Domain.

Chen Hai can promote the county system in Beiling on a large scale, establish Tianji Academy on a large scale, build factories on a large scale, and develop more mines on a large scale, which is also mainly due to this.

Yanzhou may not be a practice realm that can debut on a large scale in the Taoist Dan Realm and has high-end combat power in the Taoist Body Realm, let alone the powerful in the Heavenly Realm. However, in terms of manufacturing heavenly mechanics and war equipment, Yanzhou's potential cannot be measured by ordinary eyes.

After the Battle of Jingshan, Chen Hai ordered the establishment of more than 120 Tianji Academy under the jurisdiction of the Tianying Academy in Beiling County. The Tianji Academy served as a priest and the banned craftsmen and craftsmen in the institutional craftsmen were mainly transferred from Yanzhou.

In addition, more than 2,000 new workshops and mines in Beiling have been established in three or four years, and the craftsmen and skilled craftsmen in the shortage were all transferred from Yanzhou.

In fact, as of the winter of the fourth year of Longqing, Chen Hai had transferred three million elite troops from Yanzhou, in addition to the tens of millions of old and young soldiers who moved to Tianluo Valley, Beiling Camp, Mozhanling, and Dongdu Mountain to resettle, more than five million craftsmen were also transferred from Yanzhou to Yanzhou, skilled craftsmen and their families.

In addition, there were also more than 100,000 Yanzhou officials who served as official positions in the counties and counties of Beiling.

In Chen Hai's view, as long as the production relations are straightened out and more people can realize their potential, Beiling's strength will inevitably be improved step by step.

In the past, Lingshan and rivers were monopolized in the hands of the clan clan clans. Even though there were countless ore veins hidden deep in these Lingshan and rivers, due to the lack of demand from the clan clan clans, the development of these ore veins has been at a very low level for a long time.

After the new system was gradually formed, there were new mines in almost every county every month, the mine veins were developed, new smelting sites and factories were built.

By the winter of the fourth year of Longqing, the Xuanyang Iron from Yanzhou was added to the Beiling territory, and the scale of the annual refining of gold quenching iron exceeded 100 billion jin, which was ten times the sum of the two places in the Northwest Territory and the Northern Court before the outbreak of the Demon Tribulation.

The annual output of extremely precious metals such as Wuyin, Jingxuanjin and Xingxuaniride in Beiling has also crossed to a new level from tens of thousands of kilograms before the demon disaster, with the total output reaching more than one million kilograms - with the subsequent development, the output may continue to expand.

The Beiling Army casts Tianji war equipment, including tanks, warships, wind flame airships, crossbows, etc., mainly in the Jilingzhou, Tianying City, Beiling City, Yanjing, Juquanling, Jiujun Island, Wanghai City and other places in Yanzhou. The scale has not continued to expand. The total amount of Xuanyang essence iron and gold quenching iron consumed every year does not exceed 20 billion jin.

This is mainly because after the end of the Jingshan Battle, the Beiling Army suffered a significant reduction in combat tasks, and the consumption of combat equipment became limited.

This has led to a large number of mineral resources and various factories established in subsequent counties, mainly producing machinery and machinery used in water conservancy, reclamation, fishing, transportation, ore mining, crushing, smelting, etc.

Guo Hong, Zhao Ruhui, Xue Cun, Ji Yuanren and others have not deduced the new Tianji ban in the past thirty or forty years, but in the past thirty or forty years, Yanzhou has first and forty years, to resist the demon soldiers and generals who have emerged from the Blood Cloud Wasteland. After the passage between Yanzhou and Tianluo Valley was opened, Yanzhou has to do its best to reinforce the Beiling Army, so that all combat equipment research and development and manufacturing that have nothing to do with directly improving the combat effectiveness of the army have been temporarily put on hold.

After the Jingshan Battle, the situation of anti-demons was not as bad as before. Chen Hai was more focused on resting in Beiling. The seven or eight kinds of heavenly secret bans that Guo Hongzong and others deduced over the past 30 to 40 years can naturally be taken out and given enough attention.

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Although the capital of Beiling Kingdom is located in Beiling City north of Mozhanling Ridge, Lingzhou is the most important military base to resist the demons, both before and after the Battle of Jingshan.

Since Chen Hai has been in Lingzhou all year round, almost all the new policies that have been carried out in Beiling counties in recent years have been released from Lingzhou, which has made Lingzhou stand out from the southern cities of Beiling, and its importance is not even below Beiling City.

Inside the Northern Ling, Lingzhou is also called the Southern Courtyard.

Tianji Academy was set up in cities across the county, and Tianying Academy was set up before Tianji Academy to govern it.

In addition to Yanjing and Juquanling in Yanzhou, Lingzhou is the second city in Beiling with Tianying Academy except for the royal capital Beiling City.

Tianying Xueying in Lingzhou built the Zhuque Ridge on the southern foot of the Zibai Mountains.

In addition to the necessary military and political affairs, Chen Hai also usually practices or studies Tianji Puppet Arts and Tianji War Machinery in Yanque Ridge.

In the winter of the fourth year of Longqing, Ji Jiangye learned about the Eastern Expedition of Yue Kingdom in Lingzhou City. He used the Qinglian Flame Cannon for the first time to use the Qinglian Flame Cannon to control the demons. He used ten Qinglian Flame Cannons to destroy the demon-raising ground built by the demon clan in the foundation of the old city of Chimelong, and annihilated all the more than a thousand demon guards, demon schools, and demon generals in the demon-raising ground. Then, with Chang Teng, Jiang He and others rushed to Chen Hai's courtyard on the main peak of Zhuqueling to present the matter.

"This is the information we sent back from the scouts in the Eastern Expedition to the Demon Army." In a small courtyard where there was no special thing, Ji Jiangye reported the latest developments of the Demon Clan, Yue Ting, Tiannan Kingdom and Xuanyuan Army to Chen Hai, "I didn't expect that they would also think that the riot flame ban could be used like this..."

"Except for Zhao Xiaozhi's enlistment with the Lü family, Xuanhuangtian's weapon refining masters have dozens of them. Once they really pay attention to the puppet technique of Tianji, it is normal to think of this." Chen Hai smiled and asked Ji Jiangye, Heng Wen, Jiang He and others to sit down and talk in a pavilion outside the yard. They did not think that Yue Guo made the Qinglian Flame Cannon to create a fussy thing.

"The green lotus gathers flame cannons for use in the army, and it will become increasingly difficult for the demons to gain a foothold in Yinhun Ridge," said Ji Jiangye. "In the past two or three years, the demons have built and raised demons in Dayan Mountain, Shiwei Mountain, Gulan Mountain and the eastern section of Dajin Mountain, and deployed many large arrays of 10,000 demons with bones. If as expected, the demons may further shrink their troops to Dayan Mountain. At that time, the situation facing Beiling will be much more complicated than now..."

Tiannan Kingdom, Yue Kingdom and Xuanyuan Army all incorporated Tianji war equipment on a large scale, and their field combat capabilities were greatly improved. The strength comparison of the human and demon tribes was further reversed.

If the two demons Gui Xi and Black Flame do not want to retreat their troops to Dayan Mountain, their connection with the demon-raising land will be cut off sooner or later; and as the miscellaneous demons are constantly being wiped out, the demons cannot get enough military strength to replenish them, and will only be defeated and weaker, until they are finally destroyed.

Currently, according to the information discovered in Beiling, the Lie Emperor Qin Ran and Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom have secretly agreed that as long as the demons withdraw from the Zhongzhou Plain, the Xuanyuan Army will be responsible for regaining the area east of Yongjing, while the areas west of Nanli and the areas west of Yongjing will be divided by Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom.

If Beiling wants to recover Beiting, then its territory will border the Demon Clan, Xuanyuan Army, Tiannan Anti-Demon Army and Yue Kingdom.

Especially starting from the northeast foot of the Dayan Mountains, Wantao River will go 150,000 miles westward, and they will be directly threatened by the Xuanyuan Army, the Tiannan Demon Army, and the Yue Kingdom's Eastern Expedition to Demon Army.

Even though these three companies may not dare to attack Beiling immediately, Beiling's defense pressure on this line will definitely not be less.

If Beiling did not take advantage of the opportunity to recover the lost territory of the Northern Court, Qin Ran would have the opportunity to arrange troops to enter in advance. Beiling would want this land in the future and lead the army to Wuming.

"Even if the three troops of Tiannan, Yue Kingdom and Lie Emperor unite together, they still need to fight a battle with the demons before they have the confidence to turn around and threaten our Beiling Army," Chen Hai said. "It depends now on when they will make up their minds to fight a battle with the demons!"

"Did the lord think that when the demons withdraw from Yinhun Ridge, the three families will join forces to fight with the demons?" Jiang He asked.

At present, the main forces of the demon clan are mainly concentrated in Yinhun Ridge and Dongting Mountain. There are almost 70,000 million elite demon soldiers. The two places are more than 80,000 miles apart, and it is difficult to take care of each other. The Xuanyuan Army, Tiannan Demon Army, and Yue's Eastern Expedition Demon Army, or the secretly reserved enough Qinglian Gathering Flame Bombs, can fight a battle.

As long as the three armies unite and defeat the demon soldiers, it is extremely critical in terms of their own confidence, the support of the people, and the morale of the army.

Before that, if you want to threaten the Beiling Army, you don’t even think about dreaming.

Even if there are many clans in Beiling who are dissatisfied with Chen Hai, they will not be ready to move in the face of the other three companies showing their strong enough strength.

The demonic tribulation lasted for nearly twenty years, and at least the clans in Beiling knew very well that some forces seemed huge, but the combat power they could truly condense was really different.

After the large-scale use of the Tianji War Chariot, the Zongjia clans could still comfort themselves, believing that high-end combat power could still have a mainstay on the battlefield and a decisive effect. However, after the emergence of the Qinglian Flame Cannon, the self-comfort of the Zongjia clans was completely destroyed.

Under the new war model, even they themselves cannot have the confidence to compete with the Beiling Army, which created the new model, before the Yue Kingdom, Tiannan Kingdom or Xuanyuan Army showed enough strength.

"They may be far away from us and go to the southern line to choose a place to fight the demons." Chen Hai said.
To be continued...