Chapter 466 Prelude to the Great War
If possible, what Lu Qing hopes most is to wait until he has seriously broken through to the level of Dongxu before fighting.
In this way, the grasp is of course the greatest.
It is precisely because of this mentality that Qin's actions that almost crossed the bottom line of the Great Yan were still tolerated. Over the years, Yan State has continuously strengthened its support for the three kingdoms of Jin, Liang and Chu. The trade in various materials has never stopped, but has been further strengthened. Even the Jinyiwei, who has continuously expanded its manpower, has sent a considerable part of the force to enter the Jin State, where the war is most intense, and directly participate in the secret front and fight against the Qin people.
However, the Qin people are still constantly strengthening the intensity of border military operations.
Moreover, through the investigation of their combat readiness within the Qin State, similar situations have been revealed, and they are almost ready to start a full-scale war.
Of course, the Yan State is similar.
Looking rationally, the battle between Yan and Qin may not have been delayed for too long.
But try to drag it back as much as possible. After all, the place used as a battlefield is not your own home.
However, this so-called "drag" also has a bottom line.
Small-scale wars are acceptable for the time being. The intensity is not high, the scale of the army is not large, and monks of Dharma or higher-level levels have not yet appeared.
Once the scale is further expanded, the Yan Kingdom will intervene.
In fact, the Yan State legions were all ready.
And this bottom line has been clearly announced by the Yan State:
1. The three kingdoms of Jin, Liang and Chu had any country and lost the territory of a state.
2. The Qin State dispatched a formal military group, or all the Qin cultivators who invaded the Three Kingdoms, more than 10,000.
3. The Qin Dynasty's Dharma prime minister appeared on the battlefield.
As long as any of these three bottom lines is touched, Yan State will directly participate in the war.
At the same time, over the past ten or twenty years, the three central countries gradually turned to Yan's attitude.
Of course there are realistic factors.
At least, Yan State has never been in the east, and it has given them any military pressure. Even if there was a war between the two sides, the Chu State, which had conflicting wars, was the same.
Even as the pressure was increasing, Yan State was still providing them with support.
Of course they knew why this was. Yan State had no good intentions, but what choice did they have? Unless they were willing to become a vassal of Qin like Shu State, they would have to bite the bullet and resist.
At the beginning, they were actually very alert to the performance, worried that Yan State would stab the sword in the east and divide them up with Qin State. But under the current situation, this worry has basically been put aside.
It’s not that I think Yan State is reliable, but that I really can’t do anything about it. The envoys of the Three Kingdoms, especially the envoys of Jin State who were directly invaded, kept moving in Yandu, hoping to mobilize Yan Emperor Lu Chaoxi and send troops directly to participate in the war as soon as possible. If he hadn’t had any way to contact Lu Qing, they would have annoyed Lu Qing to death.
However, now everyone knows that there is not much time before the war begins. Qin is stepping on the bottom line of Yan and will definitely pass by, it is only a matter of time.
But when this moment comes, it still seems very sudden.
Qin suddenly took action, and this move was a thunderous momentum!
In an instant, five masters of Dharma and Fairy were gathered together and led a troops with a number of about 7,000 or 8,000, but not many but very elite troops to enter the Jin State at high speed.
The Great Jin suffered a devastating blow within two days.
In Jin State, there were only two monks at the level of Dharma Status, and one was directly lost in this battle.
The dead man noticed something was wrong when Qin State just took action, and immediately started running away.
This is of course a very correct choice. Even if he stays, even if he relies on the army of Jin and the defense of spiritual veins, he is unlikely to resist the attacks of the five Qin Dharma princes. Instead of fighting here to die, it is better to retain a useful body.
However, even though he had run faster, he still couldn't run away. He was first entangled, then besieged and died on the spot.
At the same time, the Jin State was deployed on the front line and prepared to compete with Qin State, an army of 30,000 monks, was wiped out in this war.
This war caused Jin State to be quite a bit damaging.
They did not have the ability to resist, so they lost their ability to resist. Jin State was one of the stronger of the original nine immortal kingdoms, and in the past few years, the situation had not been very peaceful. Of course, they were also preparing for war. The war potential of the entire country has been discovered as much as possible. If the war continues, it is not a problem for them to convene a legion of cultivators of hundreds of thousands of people.
However, the number of high-level monks is still limited, and there is no way to squeeze out too much in the short term.
The loss of a Dharma image to be killed in battle is extremely huge.
What's more, the Qin State gathered so many Dharma-like cultivators to appear on the battlefield, which was an extremely dangerous signal in itself and also brought great shock to the Jin State.
After the news was sent back, Jin State urgently mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, gave up all the territory on the periphery, and withdrew to Jindu for defense if they could withdraw; if they could not retreat, they received the order to gather at the same place, find high-level spiritual veins to gather, fight as much as possible, and delay the advance of the Qin army as much as possible, gather more defensive forces for the rear to delay time.
Of course, the senior executives of Jin State also knew very well that this war would never be able to win if they rely solely on themselves.
They have never had such naive thoughts.
The diplomatic ambassador of Jin State has already started to move around the world.
Liang State and Chu State reacted very quickly.
Their real lips and teeth were cold between them and Jin State. As early as decades ago, they realized this and had signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with each other, and over the past few decades, the connection was getting closer and closer.
However, it is actually difficult for them to quickly support Jin State.
The State of Chu is very far away; the State of Liang is relatively close, but the western border of Daliang is also bordered by Qin. If they sent too much force to support Jin, it might indeed be able to greatly alleviate the pressure on Jin. However, who can guarantee that this is not Qin's attack on the east and west?
If too much power is mobilized to support Jin State, causing its own domestic defense to fall into an empty state, and then Qin State gathers its forces again and invades a large amount, Liang State itself cannot withstand it.
In fact, at least 100,000 Qin soldiers were hoarding on the western border of Liang at this time, and they were also led by high-level Dharma Principles. Although I don’t know how many Dharma Principles were arranged by the Qin Dynasty, there were only three in Liang, so I really didn’t dare to withdraw too many.
In this situation, there is only one party that Jin can rely on: Yan State.
It is absolutely impossible for Dayan to sit idly by and watch the demise of Jin.
The location of Jin State is just west of Yan State. The two countries are separated by Beihuang Forest. What's more, the Beihuang Forest is not the barbaric place where the demon races survived in the past. After the demon races of Beihuang Forest were cleaned up, Jin and Yan State entered it and developed this area. Although, because the area of this area is too large, humans have not been able to fully develop this area for hundreds of years, the Jin and Yan State can barely be regarded as bordering.
In this case, if Jin State loses its destruction and loses its ability to resist, then the Qin army can invade the Yan State unscrupulously. At that time, Feiyunzhou, Jinzhou, Xuezhou, and Jizhou will all be exposed to the Qin army's front.
This is certainly unacceptable.
If you are invaded, it is better to take the initiative. After all, it is better to use other people's territory as a battlefield than to turn your own country into a battlefield.
However, Yan State was somewhat prepared for this matter.
Although Qin was very fast and its offensive was like thunder and fire, Dajin was a big country with a large area and was not without resistance at all. As long as it delayed a little longer, it should be able to delay until the Yan army was in place.
The first batch of Yan State Legion sent out was not too many.
After all, the number of troops attacked by the Qin people was not large. The most terrifying thing about the Qin people's attack was the five Dharma Priest monks.
This time, the support troops of Dayan directly sent four Dharma figures.
Weiyun, Lu Mingchao, Zheng Yu, and Lan Nuoxing.
Zheng Yu was the original Marquis of Xuanwu in Wei State. His attitude from the former general Xia Cang of Wei State was still a little different. Xia Cang was a loyal minister of the Great Wei royal family. After the Wei royal family was demoted to the royal family and almost lost all political power, although Xia Cang did not continue to oppose the Lu family, he was basically in a state of retreat and no longer cared about the world.
The Lu family basically let his attitude go. Although he was not instructed, he would at least not make trouble. What's more, he would occasionally solve some fragments of time left over from the ancient times, which was of some use to Lu Qing.
However, Zheng Yu, the Marquis of Xuanwu, was different. Although he had a period of confusion for a while, he was still persuaded in the end and was willing to fight for Yan State.
During this time, the four Dharma ministers led 5,000 carefully selected Yan soldiers to support the situation in the west and helped Jin support the situation. The problem should be small. After all, including the Dharma minister who still survived Jin, there were a total of five people. In terms of top combat power, the two sides were almost the same.
What's more, among the Yan army, there is a huge killing weapon - the "Condor" air fortress!
After Lu Chaoxi was at the bottom of the sea, after seeing the undersea warship created by Bo Wan, the air version that he had been thinking about was finally created.
In this case, he almost gathered the most outstanding group of formation masters and weapon refiners among the four original immortal kingdoms of Yan Qi, Wu and Wei. After spending so many years, with ready-made technology as a blueprint, he finally created an air fortress that can swim in the sky through improvement means.
This kind of air warship has very strong combat power. Six or seven Nascent Soul monks are in charge. In terms of defense, they can handle the full-strength attacks of the Dharma-Section monks; their own attack power is enough to cause serious damage to the Dharma-Section monks.
Of course, although both offense and defense can reach the level of Dharma phase, this does not mean that a sky fortress can confront a serious Dharma phase monk.
The ability of Dharma image is not simply attacking and defense. Although the attack power of the air fortress can threaten Dharma image monks, a serious Dharma image monk is unlikely to be directly hit by the attack of the air fortress without any other interference. They can handle such air warships with a more flexible posture. Even if the air warship has strong defense power and can block the full force of several Dharma image monks, it will take some more time to always be able to remove them.
Even further, they can give up the body of Dharma and find ways to enter the air warship in an ordinary manner.
It is quite laborious to demolish such an air fortress, but it is not too difficult to go in and kill all the people who control the air warships.
However, this does not mean that such air warships are useless.
The greater value of these things lies in fighting in concert with our own methods. In this way, we can truly pose a very great threat to the enemy's methods.
In addition, on a conventional battlefield where there is no expert in Dharma image, it is simply a god-like existence. Under the roar of artillery fire, the conventional clergy cannot resist at all, and it is impossible to counterattack such air warships through conventional means.
In short, Dayan’s plan seems to be relatively reliable.
With the support of this army, at least, it will be at least helpful to the Jin people and defend their capital. There will be no problem. Even if it is hard to say that a counterattack can make the Qin people drink a good pot.
It would definitely be very valuable if this invading Qin elite troops could be severely damaged. Especially if one or two Qin Dharma figures could be seized and eliminated in this battle, it would have a good positive impact on the comprehensive war between the two sides in the future.
However, it is beautiful to think about it, but danger comes quickly.
Chapter completed!