In the 3874th year of the Xia calendar, the Datong Army cleared all the states of the Southern Chen Dynasty and completely took over the world. The Southern Chen Dynasty became history.

Perhaps there were royal families and loyal people of the Southern Chen Dynasty hiding in the mountains, overseas, and among the people, but they could no longer reverse the situation. This is called the overall situation has been determined.

In the summer of the 74th year, the Datong Army completely took over all the borders. In the north of Datong alone, there were 3 million soldiers stationed. Together with the garrisons of various states, the Datong Army had more than 7 million soldiers.

Fortunately, the current Datong Kingdom is still the strongest country in the world today, with a population of at least 700 million or 800 million. It is impossible to accurately count because many places have just been recovered and the rule has not yet stabilized.

Most of the more than 30 states in Datong were conquered through wars, and the losses were very serious. In order to recuperate, Lin Jiang still insisted on collecting only regular taxes from most people, and also subsidized the people who served corvée in some major infrastructure projects.

But when it comes to commercial taxes, Lin Jiang is not polite, especially those related to luxury goods. Taxes have increased several times, and they can barely cope with the current situation.

After the Datong Army took over the border guards, they fought against the monsters one after another. If they were to face the monsters' vassal army, the Datong Army would not be weak at all, but against the monster tribe, the Datong Army was still slightly at a disadvantage.

"The defense line from Mizhou to Dengzhou is thousands of miles long, and it advances northward for 300 miles. According to our incomplete statistics, there are a total of more than 370 monster tribes, and each tribe ranges from 30 to 50 people to 3,000 to 5,000 people. It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 100,000 young and strong

monsters. Within the monsters, the strength of the young and strong in different tribes is different, but the weakest is also an elite acquired warrior. If more than half of the young and strong have the strength of innate warriors, then we are facing 50,000 innate warriors.

Of course, this is only theoretical, but in our Datong Kingdom, according to the latest statistics, there are more than 23,500 warriors above the innate level in our court system."

"Your Majesty, according to the reports from the spies we sent to the north, the monster leaders have also noticed that Datong has replaced the Chen Kingdom. The monsters in Qingzhou and Yuanzhou are heading south..."

"Your Majesty, according to the news from the Immortal Kingdom..."

At an internal meeting, the top leaders of the Datong Army were discussing the battle against the demons. The demons were strong because they were born strong, all the people were soldiers, and they were the best of the best.

The Datong Army had just ended the civil war and was at its weakest. There were only more than 20,000 warriors above the Xiantian level in the entire court system, and 99% of them were Xiantian warriors.

"What is the military's strategy?"

"Your Majesty, the military has several countermeasures."

"Tell me about them."

"Yes, first, the military suggests increasing the weapons and equipment of our Datong Army, such as increasing the armor rate and the proportion of bows and crossbows, especially some powerful crossbows, and some heavy equipment, similar to heavy catapults. When a huge rock weighing thousands of pounds falls, even a martial saint will not be spared.

The second point is to increase the strength of the warriors in the army. The military suggests increasing the number of martial arts masters in the army, teaching the soldiers carefully, and increasing the training of those with outstanding talents..."

The military officials said a lot, and Lin Jiang agreed to them one by one and asked people to implement them. The efficiency of the military is very high now, and there will be no such thing as making random suggestions.

"Your Majesty, the remaining part of the Immortal Kingdom, whether it is the Great Wall Corps or the Qingjiang Corps, has agreed to cooperate with us and is willing to cooperate with us in action, but the Zhou Dynasty is still unwilling to cooperate with us and has put forward strict demands"

"Do you still want territory?"

"Yes, Your Majesty"

"Wishful thinking"

Lin Jiang snorted coldly. The Zhou Dynasty and the Chen Kingdom have had hatred for hundreds of years.

The predecessor of the Zhou Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom, took advantage of the weakness of the Chen Kingdom and occupied a lot of land in the Chen Kingdom, forcing the Chen Kingdom to surrender. Later, the Chen Kingdom became strong and the Liao Kingdom became weak, and the situation was reversed. The Chen Kingdom recovered the land and forced the Liao Kingdom to surrender. Now the Zhou Dynasty has inherited most of the Liao Kingdom's legacy and regards the territories recovered by the Chen Kingdom as their own.

Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty made a strict offer to Lin Jiang for cooperation, requiring Datong to submit to them and give the previous territories to the Zhou Dynasty.

This was impossible for Lin Jiang to agree to. In his inertia of thinking, he had a strong desire for territory. Datong could expand its territory, but it was not allowed to lose any territory.

"Your Majesty, the Zhou Dynasty is now strong, like a tiger on the couch, and we must be on guard."

"I know, there is already a countermeasure. Send people to lobby the Qingjiang Corps of the Immortal Kingdom to withdraw part of the defense line, from relying on the Zhou Dynasty to relying on Datong. All losses will be doubled by Datong."

Lin Jiang said lightly. The Zhou Dynasty was so fearless because they had no direct contact with the monsters. The north of the Zhou Dynasty was a large swamp, the east was close to the sea, the south was bordered by Datong, and the west was the front of the Qingjiang Corps, so they were arrogant.

Lin Jiang decided to send someone to persuade the Qingjiang Corps to give up half of the defense line, so that Zhou Dynasty could also feel the monster's military force, and then see if they could still be arrogant.

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In the 3877th year of the Xia calendar,

the autumn wind blew in late autumn, and the land in the north of Chen State turned yellow. The winter in these states was still very cold, and there was always a period of snow over the knees.

The monsters were extremely bloodthirsty, so they raised a lot of cattle and sheep. Every autumn, the monsters would stockpile a lot of grass for the cattle and sheep to survive the winter.

This year was the same, but this year, an accident occurred. When a monster tribe went out, they saw flying ashes all over the sky, the kind of ashes that floated from a distance. Someone was setting fire to the mountains, forests and vegetation.

On a certain hilltop, a team of cavalry quietly appeared. They had only more than a hundred people, and each had at least three fast horses. They secretly watched the monsters in the distance.

"Captain, the fire has been set. There are more than a dozen fire points. There is no way to save them. We can only let them

burn out." "Okay, the arson mission has been completed. The next step is to issue these monster-killing orders. We will divide into three teams, avoid the monsters' eyes and ears, go to the human villages and towns, and try to issue the monster-killing orders ."

The leading captain said, and then he opened the revenge, which contained thousands of monster-killing orders. The notices were only a few hundred words, but the killing intent was revealed.

The first few dozen words described the monsters' brutal acts, and the latter was the content of the reward. As long as you kill a monster and take the monster-like parts to the south, you can exchange them for food, gold, silver, land, titles, martial arts skills, etc. from the Datong Army, without any upper limit.

This monster-killing order has been publicized within the Chen Kingdom, calling on the Chen folk warriors to go to the north to kill monsters, and now it must be publicized among the human race in the north.

Many human beings in the north have become servants of the monsters, but there are also many human beings who have an irreconcilable hatred with the monsters, and this can be used to incite them to rebel.

It can also alienate the relationship between the monsters and the human race in the north. Even if only one in a thousand people take action and kill a few monsters, it is enough to make the monsters no longer trust the human race and weaken the monsters' strength.

After distributing the Monster Killing Order, the lieutenant and others were divided into three teams and broke into some villages and towns where the human race gathered. The monsters were still very wary of the human villages and towns and did not allow them to openly hold weapons, so the actions of the crowd were very smooth. They broke into the villages and towns, spread a stack of Monster Killing Orders, loudly publicized the policies of the Datong Army, and left immediately.

The timid people naturally dare not touch it, but there will always be people who still have the courage to secretly hide the Monster Killing Order.

The influence of the Monster Killing Order is very great. The human race in the north has never lacked resistance. Many people stopped resisting before because they could not see hope and no one supported them. Now that the Datong Army can support them, these people have become active again.

In just one month, dozens of monsters were killed in ambush, and their revenge was extremely cruel. Unable to find the real murderer, they massacred human villages and towns, which in turn aroused the resistance of the humans. The relationship between the monsters and the humans in the north was rapidly deteriorating.