The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 489
Time flies, and the impact of Hengshan's occupation of Huazhou is rapidly spreading.The situation in the Central Plains has undergone a great reversal. The Cao family, which was originally the most powerful, was defeated by the Hengshan Army in Huazhou, and its strength was greatly reduced.After the Hengshan Army took Huazhou, its strength increased sharply, and it suddenly became the most powerful force in the Central Plains.Attracting Yanming and Mingzhou to quickly abandon their previous alliances, they turned around and reached an alliance with the Cao family to fight against Hengshan.

Today's Hengshan, after occupying Huazhou, has a sphere of influence that penetrates into the Central Plains.To the east, you can reach Zhongzhou directly, and within three hundred miles, you can drive straight to the capital.If they crossed from Longjiang to the east, they could reach Jiangdong County of Mingzhou, threatening Jiangbei County, which is an important food and grass area in Mingzhou.

What worries the forces even more is that Huazhou has a population of nearly ten million. Once Hengshan stabilizes Huazhou, it will have a huge population and its war potential will be even stronger.

On the same day, Yunguo learned that Hengshan defeated three powerful enemies in a row and completely conquered Huazhou.The preparations for the battle against the Eternal Kingdom of God in the spring of next year came to an abrupt end.How could Hengshan, who had pulled out his hand, sit back and watch eternity be destroyed by Tianyun?Tianyun Chaotang has no doubts about this. Once he embarks on the road to the west, the north will bear the fierce attack of Hengshan.

Bai Yunting felt very aggrieved by this, originally thought that after several years of plowing and fighting, the world would no longer be invincible.But in that battle that year, the Hengshan Army defeated the 15 Tianyun Army. Facing the Hengshan Army, which was no less elite than the Tianyun Army, and the artillery, which was as powerful as a thunderbolt, the Tianyun Army had an overwhelming impact on Hengshan. With great vigilance and fear, Tian Yun did not dare to challenge Hengshan easily until he found a way to crack the opponent's gunpowder and artillery.

Fortunately, Hengshan foolishly sold gunpowder formulas to the princes of the Central Plains last year, which gave Tianyun secret agents an opportunity to steal gunpowder samples from the Li family in Huazhou after careful deployment.After exploration by Tianyun's top craftsmen, it was finally successfully developed.

Today, Tianyun is secretly and vigorously producing gunpowder, preparing to win the first battle when he conquers eternity in the west.But now with Hengshan's victory, although Bai Yunting really wanted to use the gunpowder in his hands to compete with Hengshan's army again, but when he thought that the opponent had a mysterious artillery, he had no choice but to continue to endure it.

As for the cannon, Tianyun has already concentrated a large number of famous craftsmen to develop it, but unfortunately, because of the iron quality and craftsmanship, the produced cannon can explode once fired, so it can't be used on the battlefield at all.As a last resort, Tianyun had to temporarily stop the development of artillery and concentrate on the research and development of iron smelting technology.

On the grasslands in the north, when the East Hu cavalry were acting recklessly in the buffer zone, they were beaten to death by Luo Feng who came suddenly, led by [-] cavalry. They suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat back to Xijing City.

Just when Huerle was about to take advantage of this opportunity to launch a large army to march west.The information from the south finally came. After learning of Hengshan's victory, they immediately gave up the idea of ​​going west.

Today, the Tianmeng Empire has just ended its conquest of the rebellion. All the rebel tribal forces have been wiped out, hundreds of thousands of tribal populations and millions of slaves have been surrendered.Not only did the empire's strength not decrease due to the war, but it suddenly rose sharply.After some reorganization, the originally less than 20 troops suddenly expanded to 40.

With these 40 cavalry in hand, Huerle felt that there was no one who could stop him from going south to the Central Plains.However, when he learned about Hengshan's victory, he was shocked.With only tens of thousands of troops, the Hengshan Army swept across Huazhou all the way. The total number of troops added up to nearly one million, and they were completely defeated in this way, and they were defeated so quickly.Thinking about myself, if he were to command forty cavalry to go south to completely occupy a state, it would not take a year, I'm afraid it would not be enough.It took less than half a year for the Hengshan Army to securely take down Huazhou.If he fought with the Hengshan Army, who would be the winner?
Swallowing hard, Kuerle suddenly felt that Donghu's crisis was approaching.He suddenly remembered that before the Hengshan Army went south, tens of thousands of troops gathered in Tongwan City to change their uniforms.But if he suddenly went north and was unprepared, wouldn't he be beaten directly to Sirius City by him?In other words, the Hengshan army gathered in Tongwan City at that time, but they were actually preparing to attack the grassland under the guise of refitting?
Thinking of this, Huerle shuddered immediately, feeling that his heart was colder than the cold wind.Immediately ordered someone to summon Fan Qi to discuss matters.

When Fan Qi arrived, Huerle immediately showed him the information from the South.

After reading it, Fan Qi's expression also changed drastically, and he looked at Huerle in horror and said, "Your Majesty, this, this Hengshan Army is so powerful?"

"That's right, Fan Aiqing, our confidant is carrying a sharp saber." Huerle sighed, "Hengshan is so powerful, I never believe that he has no intentions towards me, Tianmeng. Even, I think, If there were no incidents in Huazhou, this year's grassland would have already been stained red with blood."

"Hiss!" Fan Qi took a deep breath and lost his voice: "Is this impossible? Since ancient times, the Central Plains has always focused on defense against the grasslands, and has rarely been interested in the grasslands. Hengshan's focus should not be on the Central Plains. on it?"

"Fan Aiqing, how can Hengshan use common sense to judge?" Huerle said with a wry smile, "Before, Hengshan went west to conquer the Western Regions, gradually controlled and occupied the grasslands to the north, and raised the remnant of the Golden Wolf as puppets, but he never went south. At that time, we should have known that the focus of Hengshan should be to weaken the strength of the surrounding alien races first, and then go south with all our strength. We were all wrong. Before Hengshan defeated us, he would never participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. "

"But he has already participated." Fan Qi pointed to the information, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, after Hengshan took down Huazhou, he turned against the princes from all walks of life. Even if he has no intention of meddling in the Central Plains again, who would believe it?" ?Before, the Cao family was the strongest, so the four sides united against each other. Now that Huazhou has been destroyed, Hengshan’s strength has risen sharply. Next, the Cao family and Yan Ming will form an alliance to resist Hengshan. Then, how can Hengshan still have the strength to deal with it? My god?"

"What Aiqing said is reasonable." Fan Qi's words finally made Huerle's tense heart go back down, and Chang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said, "Then, Fan Aiqing, what do you think I, Tianmeng, will do next? Take this opportunity?"

Fan Qi pondered for a moment before solemnly answering: "Your Majesty, the civil strife in our country is peaceful now, and there are countless surrenders. These surrenders are still dissatisfied with His Majesty, and their hearts are in turmoil. According to the law of the grassland, His Majesty urgently needs to establish his prestige. , to make them surrender. The quickest way to restore the hearts of the people is to launch a war. Use victories and inexhaustible wealth to win the loyalty of the subjects."

Huerle's eyes lit up slightly, "Oh, Fan Aiqing, you mean Nan Zheng?"

"That's right, Nan Zheng." Fan Qi's eyes were deep, with a flash of complex color.

"But Hengshan..." Huerle frowned slightly, worried.

"Your Majesty, Hengshan is doing all it can to consolidate Huazhou, and there is no time to go north." Fan Qi explained, "Yanming and Mingzhou have turned against Hengshan. If we attack one of the states, Hengshan will definitely not help. Without Hengshan's obstruction , Who else in the Central Plains can stop His Majesty's hundreds of thousands of cavalry?"

"Okay, Fan Aiqing is worthy of being the minister of the Tianmeng Empire." Huerle looked at Fan Qi excitedly, nodded with satisfaction, "If this Southern Expedition wins, I will remember your contribution to the plan. "

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fan Qi hurriedly bowed and kowtowed, shouting loudly.

(End of this chapter)