Infinite War Begins with Cao Thief

Jinyong City was besieged, and Dongdu was shocked three times a day.

Fang Jue, the Guanglu Shaoqing who stayed in Dongdu, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

The previous defeat of Liu Changgong and others almost wiped out all the elite soldiers of Dongdu. Now he wanted to defend the city, but he was powerless.

Those war agents near Luoyang had no intention of defending the city, because they knew very well that Luoyang, which had lost the Hulao and Sishui barriers, was a toothless tiger and could not be defended.

After leaving a small number of people to hide in case of trouble in the future, they led most of the elite troops to retreat to Chang'an, intending to instigate the Sui army to defend Tongguan.

As long as the natural barrier of Tongguan was defended, everything could be done.

After fighting with Dayu for so long, these war agents have gradually discovered that if they want to defeat Dayu's elite, they can only use heavy armor-piercing weapons. The armor-piercing war hammers with fist-sized hammer heads and three or four feet long hammer shafts commonly used in the battlefield at this stage may not work.

This means that they not only need to rebuild a large number of axe-like and hammer-like weapons that are more suitable for breaking through the defense of Dayu's armor, but also need to select stronger warriors who can wield these weapons and wear several layers of heavy armor.

The strength here does not only refer to the body shape, but also requires the combat effectiveness of the soldiers to be at least at the peak of the third level of mythology, otherwise the internal force and the Gangqi cannot offset the bonus of Dayu's military formation, and they cannot swing these hammers and axes many times, let alone break armor.

Such requirements are somewhat difficult for the war agents at this stage.

First, the number of elites under the war agents is not enough. Most of those who can meet this requirement are only a small number of core generals above the centurion in the most elite troops. The number is very rare and precious. They are the backbone of the backbone of the war agents who can pull up strong soldiers. The loss of one of them is painful, and the war agents are reluctant to do so;

Secondly, many of the bases released by the war agents before have been occupied by the Dayu army. If they want to build these weapons and armor again, they have to rely on the industrial system of the Sui Dynasty.

It was also difficult for war agents.

The retreat of war agents made Luoyang even more panicked. Cheng Yu did not spend much effort to capture Jinyong and Luoyang, and then captured Hongnong and approached Tongguan.

At this time, Tongguan was full of the last elite soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.

Huangfu Wuyi, the general of the Right Guard, took the lead and led half of the remaining Xiaoguo Army guarding Chang'an, and the descendants of more than 40 famous ministers and generals, including Li Jiancheng, the son of Li Yuan, Yu Wenhuaji, Yu Wenchengdu, the son of Han Qinhu, Han Shigao, the son of Yang Xiong, the king of Guande, Yang Gongdao, the son of Yu Shiji, Yu Zirou, Lai Yuan, the son of Lai Hu, Pei Shuang, the son of Pei Yun, Zheng Shanzi, the son of Zheng Yan, the son of Zhou Luomian, Zhou Zhong, the son of Zhou Luomian, and other descendants and their family elites, to defend Tongguan.

Huangfu Wuyi also ruthlessly closed the gate of Tongguan and prohibited the war agents from passing through as a whole. Instead, in the name of preventing spies, they planned to reorganize them, and annexed all the elite war agents who retreated from Luoyang.

The ugly appearance of eating made the high-level forces of the war agents speechless, but those who dared to put forward opinions were chopped off by Huangfu Wuyi under the pretext of "deserters".

Regarding the suggestion of heavy weapons breaking armor, the Sui army was also clear and began to implement it.

Cheng Yu sent Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Pei Renji and other troops to attack several times, but the generals defending the city were very well prepared. Unless they attacked without considering the losses, it would be difficult to have other ways.

Coincidentally, Cheng Yu, who occupied a large area of ​​territory and needed to be digested, was not in a hurry, so he simply showed the flag of Dayu.

Almost at the same time, the women's army in the south who captured Jiangling also showed the flag of Dayu.

The configuration of the women's army is not low. The women's army has almost all the arms of Dayu, and there are also the southern barbarian arms accumulated by Dayu from the Three Kingdoms world. They are good at mountain warfare and have independent elephant soldiers and cavalry. They are invincible all the way. With the assistance of Zhou Tai, the Grand Admiral of the Navy who returned from the South China Sea, they easily took Jiangling.

If we talk about the topographic map of Blue Star, Dayu has occupied the entire third-level ladder and part of the second-level ladder.

At this time, the control area of ​​the Sui Dynasty only has Guanzhong, Longxi, Sichuan and other places, as well as the Western Regions, Lingnan, and Yunnan-Guizhou that are out of reach.

The situation of the Sui Dynasty is dangerous!

Cheng Yu and the women all showed the flag of Dayu, which is a very fatal blow to the Sui Dynasty.

Dayu already has two-thirds of the world, with strong soldiers and horses, and is in an offensive posture. For the natives, this is definitely a posture of "the destiny is in Yu, and the dynasty is changing". Many natives inevitably have their own ideas.

The people of the Sui Dynasty were in panic, and there was even talk of moving the capital to Chengdu and retreating to Sichuan.

Empress Dowager Xiao, who didn't know what to do, was not too opposed to fleeing to Sichuan.

Sichuan has been a place suitable for separatism since ancient times. The terrain of Sichuan determines that even the heavy armored army of Dayu can hardly cross the mountains and enter Sichuan easily, and it is absolutely impossible to break through Jiange head-on!

The war agents also think this is a good idea, because retreating to Sichuan can also strike at foreign races to complete the task.

From Sichuan to the south, there are Nanzhao and other countries, and to the southwest and southeast, there are also a large number of foreign countries, and the foreign races in these places are often at least one level weaker than the Central Plains dynasty.

The war agents are willing to fully support this idea.

Anyway, surrendering to Dong Huang is impossible. In this case, it is better to find another way and fight to the southwest, and maybe even to Tianzhu.

As for the saying of demons and ghosts, they have hardly seen many demons and ghosts in this world, let alone powerful ones, so they don't take it seriously at all.

However, the plan of moving the capital of the Sui Dynasty was still blocked.

Qu Tutong and others explained the pros and cons, and the more knowledgeable officials also realized that if the capital was moved, it would be equivalent to giving up the entire Guanlong area, which would dig up the foundation of the Guanlong Group. At that time, I am afraid that a large part of the people in the Guanlong Group would surrender.

Anyway, for these military group members, the most important thing is to protect their own interests.

What's more, throughout history, the only one who could fight out of Sichuan was Liu Bang, and the rest all became separatist groups, and the time of separatism did not exceed one hundred years, or even more than fifty years.

The Guanlong nobles, that is, the military nobles of the Sui Dynasty, decided to fight again.

All the last resources of the Sui Dynasty were brought out, and troops were organized to establish a heavy-armored corps;

Although the war agents wanted to escape to Sichuan, most of them had made preparations for both situations, and were looking forward to the huge rewards after defeating Dayu. Therefore, although most of the war agents went to Sichuan, many elites were left in Guanlong to fight to the death.

The unity of the two sides has greatly increased the power of the Sui Dynasty. The strange abilities of the war agent generals are an excellent supplement to the military power of the Sui Dynasty.

This made Qu Tutong feel that the Sui Dynasty had the strength to fight again.

After several major battles, Qu Tutong felt that Dayu's biggest advantage was actually armor, and other aspects were not invincible.

As long as the equipment upgrade was completed, the Sui Dynasty still had the strength to fight.

Qu Tutong even planned to destroy Cheng Yu's troops in the direction of Wagang Luoyang first, so as to cut off the connection between the north and south of the Dayu army, then recover Jiangnan, and finally go north for a decisive battle.

While Qu Tutong was training troops for the future of the Sui Dynasty, new good news continued to come.

Xiang Haiming, a monk from Fufeng, claimed that Maitreya was born. Anyone who wanted to return to the Buddha would have a good dream. Therefore, people in Sanfu worshipped him.

He claimed that Yang You was the son of Buddha destined by heaven, and Empress Xiao was the reincarnation of the Mother of No Birth. He called on Buddhists to protect the son of Buddha and the Mother of No Birth and to kill the evil sect Dayu.

Those who died in the battle with Dayu could go to the Western Paradise after death. Those who helped the devil to do evil would go to the eighteen levels of hell after death.

In history, Xiang Haiming actually claimed that Maitreya was born in the past one or two years, attracted a group of ignorant people, and then rebelled in Sanfu. He called himself emperor and changed the reign to Baiwu. As a result, the Sui Dynasty, which was mainly conquering Goryeo, sent a few garrison troops from the Chang'an camp to smash him.

In this time and space, he became the defender of the Sui Dynasty.

However, he could not be blamed for this, because he was just a puppet of Maitreya Buddha!

Maitreya Buddha's power in the East is still very strong. At least those who believe in other Buddhas are not like those who believe in Maitreya Buddha. In just seven or eight years, they have rebelled three times.

In addition to Maitreya Buddha's believers, other Buddhist forces in the Sui Dynasty also took action.

Liaokong, the four great monks, etc. came forward to endorse Xiang Haiming's words, calling on Buddhists to fully support the Sui Dynasty and jointly resist Dayu.

Even Cihang Jingzhai received the Buddha's edict, asking them to give the imperial seal to Yang You and declare to the world that Yang You is the son of destiny - the imperial seal of this world was obtained by the Taoist Cihang Jingzhai left by Guanyin in the troubled times.

It's just that because of luck, the imperial seal cannot leave the Kyushu area, and Guanyin also has her own little tricks, so she has been holding the imperial seal.

But today, it is obviously not the time to hide it.

With such strong support from the Buddhist community and the temptation of the imperial seal, Empress Dowager Xiao and others finally recognized the request to make Buddhism the state religion of the Sui Dynasty, and announced that they would wait until the Buddha's birthday to officially canonize Buddhism as the state religion.

However, there was a huge conflict among Buddhists on the issue of who would be the Dharma Protector and the First True Buddha.

Xiang Haiming was considered a quasi-incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, so he naturally wanted Maitreya Buddha to become the main Buddha worshipped by the Sui Dynasty. In this way, Maitreya Buddha's luck would be connected with the Sui Dynasty, and Maitreya Buddha's strength and status would also rise, and he could even be blessed by the luck of the Sui Dynasty!

If one day, the Sui Dynasty reunified the Nine Provinces, Maitreya Buddha's strength would definitely surpass that of the Buddha, and then Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha, would become the new Buddha.

The people who confronted Maitreya Buddha were Cihang Jingzhai and Guanyin behind him.

Cihang Jingzhai was very powerful, practicing both Buddhism and Taoism, and was not affected by the two anti-Buddhist campaigns. Guanyin also had a strong control over Cihang Jingzhai. The head of the sect, Fan Qinghui, was powerful and had the imperial seal in hand, so he was very competitive.

They worked hard to promote Guanyin to become the main god worshipped by the Sui Dynasty.

Liaokong, the four great monks, etc., were more inclined to the Buddha, but they had fewer people and did not have much status.

So, on a rainy night, they all sat and became beautiful relics.

Now, Buddhism has become a situation of two strong contenders.

However, considering that the enemy was at hand, the two sides could no longer fight internally, so they finally decided to take a step back and let the Sui Dynasty worship Maitreya and Guanyin together, and let Xiang Haiming become the national teacher.

Because Maitreya is a Buddha, Guanyin is just a Bodhisattva, and the status of the Bodhisattva is often inherently weaker when worshipped, and Xiang Haiming also became the national teacher, so as compensation, Fan Qinghui became the deputy national teacher, and Fan Qinghui's beautiful apprentice Shi Feixuan became the queen of Emperor Yang You of the Sui Dynasty.

However, Yang You was only seven or eight years old at this time, and he was useless even if he was given a chance, so there was no need to worry about what he could do to Shi Feixuan.

But this had already made Shi Feixuan extremely dissatisfied.

Shi Feixuan had been trained as a righteous heir before, and she only accepted spiritual love in love, not to mention marriage. What's more, she not only had to marry a child as a child bride, but also had to give birth to a child!

I can't stand it!

"Master~"

Shi Feixuan couldn't help but protest to the master.

"This is all for the people of the world!"

At this moment, Fan Qinghui was compassionate, and a holy light flashed in his eyes.

For the sake of the people of the world, sacrificing the self and completing redemption, what a great sentiment.

Shi Feixuan was flashed by the holy light, and her eyes also showed a sacred light: "For the sake of the people of the world, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell!"

Shi Feixuan had already decided to marry the little emperor and became the little emperor's child bride.

The wedding was extremely grand. Shi Feixuan disguised herself as a fairy from the sky, holding the jade seal and falling from the sky. The Buddhist sect also performed various magic tricks to create a scene in Chang'an where a goddess descended to earth and the emperor's power was granted by the Buddha.

The common people in Chang'an, and even many dignitaries, could not help but kneel down devoutly after seeing this scene.

To be honest, the Buddhist power of the Sui Dynasty was actually just like that. Even with Cihang Jingzhai, it could not gather 50,000 elite soldiers. However, the scenes of the imperial jade seal and the fairy descending to earth brought about the orthodoxy bonus and the effect of fooling the people, which greatly saved the morale of the Sui Dynasty.

Yuwen Chengdu, who was fortunate enough to return from the front line, saw this scene and secretly vowed that if he could get this woman, he would not let his men line up.

Li Erfeng, who had never left the front line and was 13 or 14 years old and was just beginning to fall in love, finally had a new object of admiration after his admiration for his sister-in-law.

[He can replace it! 】

Li Shimin looked at the ignorant Yang You and couldn't help thinking.

At this moment, in addition to those pious fools, the ambitious and knowledgeable people couldn't help but have their own ideas.

"Evil spirits enter the nine states, lead wolves into the house, forget their ancestors, and will destroy themselves!"

In the Imperial Observatory, an official with a fairy-like appearance took off his official robe, touched the head of the little Taoist boy, and said, "Chunfeng, let's go!"

"Master, where are we going?"

Li Chunfeng looked at his teacher curiously.

His teacher's name is Yuan Tiangang, a scholarly and extraordinary person.

"Go find the emperor, drive out the Tartars, and restore China!"

Yuan Tiangang took Li Chunfeng's hand, and after a few steps, he disappeared.