Chapter 420: Execute the Prince Again, the Court Gives the Zheng Family a Big Pie
"It's over!"
When Yan Jingzhi fell to the ground with blood spitting out of his mouth, he saw that his own army formation was blown up by Li Dingguo's attack. Except for a few level five masters of the Yan family who were still alive because of the protection of their internal energy, the remaining 20,000 soldiers of the clan were wiped out. He immediately vomited blood and howled.
"Fortunately, I had already made preparations for both situations and sent away some of the core members of the clan in advance. Otherwise, the Yan family would have been exterminated this time."
Only now did he understand the hopelessness of trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm.
In fact, after the Kong family in Qufu was destroyed by Li Dingguo, he should have woken up immediately and taken the Yan family away from Qi and Lu in time to avoid this catastrophic disaster.
However, because of a momentary lapse of judgment, he thought that he could rely on his family's inherited artifact, the Hunyuan Golden Bowl, to firmly defend Jinan Prefecture and the Yan family's foundation for tens of thousands of years. Now it seems so ridiculous.
It was greed that caused the Yan family to suffer heavy losses. Even the clan's sacred artifact, the Hunyuan Golden Bowl, was forcibly taken away by Li Dingguo. It was too late to regret.
Tens of thousands of years of rich and prosperous life have made these aristocratic families forget the cruelty of living in the world.
"Die!"
"Xuan Huang Chaos Bell, go!"
Li Dingguo's mind turned, and the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, which was still powered, drew a semicircle in the air after blasting the enemy's army formation, and once again carried unparalleled power to crash into the several remaining level five powerhouses of the Yan family at the scene!
Li Dingguo didn't even say a word to this dying man and just killed him directly.
Even if there are still remnants of the Yan family, they cannot cause any trouble as they have lost the inherited artifact.
The same is true for the Yan family, the Kong family, and the ten major Shanxi merchants, most of whom have been destroyed.
This is Li Dingguo's absolute confidence: any hostile force, once surpassed by him, will never be able to counterattack and is destined to disappear in the long river of history.
"No!"……
"Oh!"
Amid the horrified and desperate cries of Yan Jingzhi, Yan Changsheng, Yan Jizu and others, the exploding Xuanhuang Chaos Bell directly blasted these dying level five masters into pieces, turning them into blood mist that spread out, and were then burned to ashes by a dazzling innate spiritual fire that emerged from the bell.
"Seven Star Bagua Formation, disperse!"
After the fleeing main force of the Yan family was eliminated, Li Dingguo sensed the battle situation in the city and found that there were no more enemies that could pose a threat to him, so he disbanded the military killing formation with a thought.
"Everyone, form a formation of 10,000 people and separate to clean up this city. Act now!"
Li Dingguo then shouted to the soldiers who appeared after the military killing formation was disbanded.
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"...
All the Qi Refining Realm generals on the scene responded in unison, and immediately formed teams very skillfully. Then they flew in all directions towards the huge city of Jinan, launching the large-scale cleanup operation that had long been routine.
This is a huge city with tens of millions of people. There are innumerable enemy warriors, and a large number of aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen gathered here. It will take a lot of time to carry out a major cleanup.
At this time, the Fuxing Army soldiers led by Wan'er and Liang Liping respectively had completely defeated the million enemy defenders gathered at the north gate and were taking advantage of the situation to pursue them.
The busiest ones are still the two level six golden eagles in the sky.
These two big guys had been forced to retreat by the Yan family's military formation and the clan's sacred artifact before, and they were very angry. Now they were venting their anger wantonly, their bodies flying up and down, specifically hunting down those enemy warriors in the Qi Refining Realm.
In just this short moment, more than a hundred Qi Refining Realm enemies died under their claws, and many aristocratic family groups that wanted to form a formation to counterattack were defeated.
After killing the Yan family team, Li Dingguo did not sit idle. Instead, he used all his speed and soon arrived at a luxurious building complex with Mo Xiaoyong, the head of the Military Intelligence Department who came to meet him.
"This Prince De Zhu Youshu really values money as his life."
When his powerful spiritual consciousness was fully activated, he just happened to see a large group of people, guarded by 20,000 warriors and soldiers, pouring out from the open gate.
They were escorting a huge convoy, which was constantly coming out of the palace and fleeing towards the south gate of the city.
In such a situation, he actually had to carry a huge amount of wealth to escape. Li Dingguo was speechless about the legendary greedy Prince De.
I've seen people who love money, but I've never seen someone so weird as to value money over his life.
"Xuan Huang Chaos Bell, go!"
As soon as he flashed in front of the messy palace, Li Dingguo summoned his natal artifact, the big bell, and launched a large-scale sonic attack without stopping.
With his current cultivation level at the middle stage of level six, the sound waves he activated from the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell had an effective killing power sufficient to cover an area of ten miles.
These people from Prince De's Palace who were fleeing in fear didn't even have a decent military formation, so how could they withstand a sonic attack of this intensity?
"Dong dong..."
Under the pervasive sound of the bell that penetrated directly into the cultivators' souls, the first to be hit were the 20,000 soldiers who first protected the large convoy that poured out of the palace.
These guys, who have always been arrogant and bullied the people, and used various means to rob and plunder for King De, have met with a devastating disaster this time.
Under the sound of the loud bells one after another, the souls in their sea of consciousness were no different from those made of paper. Their souls were instantly shattered by the sound of the bells, and like grass being mowed, they fell dead on the spot with blood gushing from all their orifices.
Without the protection of a powerful military formation or magical artifacts, they didn't even have the ability to resist Li Dingguo and were killed in a moment.
"If I continue like this, when I break through to the Spirit Refining Realm in the future, I might really be able to protect the country by myself."
As the massacre continued, Li Dingguo looked at the enemies who were quickly wiped out and understood the cruelty of the word "ants".
In the world of cultivators, facing a truly strong person, the human wave tactic is a joke.
"what……"
"I regret it so much! If I had abandoned the city and fled earlier, how could I have ended up like this?"
Prince De looked at his family members and soldiers surrounding him, who were all killed in a moment by the huge dark yellow bell floating in the sky. He was so scared that he fell to the ground with his pants wet.
He was trembling all over, his heart full of regret.
Unfortunately, there is no if. Facing Li Dingguo, whom he could not compete with at all, he had no chance to start over.
Although it was unclear why the enemy left him alone and did not kill him, the possibility of him escaping was very slim.
"Whoosh!"
Li Dingguo used his natal artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, to kill all the warriors inside and outside the palace, and then flashed in front of King De.
Although there were many warriors gathered in Prince De's Mansion who were trying to break out and escape, he slaughtered them all in less than an incense stick of time, which seemed extremely easy.
Li Dingguo looked at the pale Prince De in front of him with a blank expression. He left the other party to be killed last, not because he wanted to show mercy, but because he didn't want anyone to disturb him from devouring the other party's true dragon luck.
"Die."
"Boom!"
The Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, which was suspended above his head, had returned. A powerful sound wave was emitted, instantly enveloping Prince De Zhu Youshu who was sitting on the ground.
"hold head high!"
A phantom of a real dragon flashed out from the Baihui point above Zhu Youshu's head, and it raised its head and roared, but it was of no use. Under the attack that far exceeded its ability to withstand, it let out a wail, and its intelligence was instantly killed.
"Woooo..."
At the same time as Prince De Zhu Youshu died, a dark yellow dragon of fortune flashed out from Li Dingguo's sea of consciousness and swallowed up the phantom of the dead real dragon in one gulp. Its originally somewhat illusory body immediately became twice as solid and twice as big.
As his own dragon of luck returned to the sea of consciousness, Li Dingguo felt refreshed, as if a layer of dust was wiped off his soul again, becoming more and more clear.
The luck value on the gold finger panel also increased by one hundred points, reaching an unprecedented accumulation height.
After killing a prince of the dynasty, he once again obtained a ray of true dragon luck, which can be said to be a great harvest.
With the demise of the Yan family and Prince De's line, the city of Jinan had almost completely wiped out all the Qi Refining Realm powerhouses in it, and the remaining miscellaneous troops no longer had the ability to fight back, which made the Fuxing Army soldiers commanded by Wan'er and Liang Liping speed up the cleanup a lot.
However, the enemies that needed to be eliminated were not just the aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen. The gangs, gambling houses, brothels, etc. in the city were all within the scope of the cleanup. After a full day and night, all the battles in the city were finally over.
……
Yuegang, Fuzhou.
This huge port city is the base of the Zheng family, a powerful bandit group on the southeast coast.
The Zheng family, who had no shortage of money, spent a huge amount of money to build this huge city into an iron wall.
As the lights came on, the meeting hall in the Zheng family's main residence was brightly lit, as if it were daytime.
"Brother, the imperial court has officially sent an order to appoint you as the general of Shandong, and I will serve as the general of Denglai, and Zhibao will be the commander of the Denglai navy."
Zheng Zhihu looked at the imperial edict on the big wooden table and said to his two brothers excitedly, "The three of us brothers have finally brought honor to our family and become important officials of the province. Congratulations!"
The three brothers really could not have imagined that the arrival of the angel from the court this morning would bring such a big surprise!
Before today, although the Zheng family had become the dominant maritime force on the southeast coast, Zheng Zhilong, the head of the Zheng family, was just a guerrilla general, and it was not an exaggeration to call him an ant in the officialdom.
However, no one knew what was wrong with the imperial court. This morning an angel arrived and directly handed over the military power of the entire province to the Zheng family.
There was only one order, which was that I had to arrive in Shandong to take up my post as scheduled within two months.
"Second brother, this is both a good thing and a bad thing!"
Zheng Zhilong's expression was very solemn. He said, "You and my third brother know that Li Dingguo, who is stirring up trouble in the north of the Ming Dynasty, is leading his army to attack the Qi and Lu regions with an unstoppable force!"
"Because Shandong is too far away, the intelligence we received today is still about the movements of the Fusion Army a month ago."
"A month ago, the Fuxing Army, which had already captured Deng and Lai states, launched another attack on Qingzhou Prefecture. In just one month, they had almost captured the entire Qingzhou Prefecture."
"The remaining Yanzhou, Jinan Prefecture, and Dongchang Prefecture are probably unable to withstand the attack of the Fuxing Army."
"Under such circumstances, the imperial court has handed over the entire Shandong military to us. The intention should not be too obvious."
"That means we, the Zheng family army, will fight the Fuxing Army for the land of Qi and Lu!"
“Although the pie allocated to us by the imperial court is big and delicious, it is only ours when we eat it.”
"The question now is, can our Zheng family army defeat Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army? And thus take control of the entire Qilu land?"
Zheng Zhilong was able to defeat all his competitors and dominate the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty, and his reputation was not earned in vain.
Although he saw through the imperial court's calculations at a glance, the big pie offered by the other party was really tempting!
As long as they defeat the Restoration Army, the vast and prosperous land of Qi and Lu with a population of two to three billion will be the foundation for their Zheng family to be recognized by the imperial court. It is no exaggeration to say that they will reach the sky in one step.
The prerequisite is to first defeat the Fuxing Army entrenched in the land of Qi and Lu, so that you can truly eat this delicious pie.
"Humph!"
Zheng Zhibao, who was hot-tempered, said disdainfully, "No matter how powerful the rumored Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army are, they are nothing more than a newborn calf."
"It has only been three years since they founded the Renaissance Army on Lingshan Island. How can their foundation catch up with ours?"
"What's more, our Zheng family army has a large number of soldiers and generals. The total number of large treasure ships of all levels exceeds a thousand, and there are more than a million warriors and combat soldiers. They are all elites who have been trained through numerous naval battles!"
"Qilu is a famously rich land. Once it falls into our hands, it will only take three years at most for our Zheng family's power to increase tenfold!"
"At that time, it is not impossible for you to be crowned king directly."
"We can even create a super family and dynasty that can be passed down for ten thousand years. By then, it will not only be about bringing glory to our ancestors."
Indeed, the pie offered by the imperial court was so fragrant and so big that even though it was difficult to put into their mouths, they really could not resist the temptation.
"Brother, Third Brother is right."
Zheng Zhihu said ambitiously, "Today, along with the angel, there are also envoys from the Duke of Wei's Mansion in Jinling City. They said that as long as our Zheng family goes north to fight the Fuxing Army as scheduled, these great families in Jiangnan will spare no effort to provide us with all kinds of support, including a large amount of money, food, supplies, and spiritual soldiers."
"No matter how powerful the Fuxing Army is, can it be compared to the concerted efforts of the officials and gentry of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River?"
"With the power of our Zheng family, what can Li Dingguo use to fight us?"
"In the past few years, the three of us brothers have made rapid progress in our cultivation. Last year, we all successfully broke through to the peak of level five. Big brother, you even have a better sense of Qi."
"When you, big brother, start your retreat these few days and break through to become a level six expert, will our Zheng family still have to worry about not being able to defeat Li Dingguo?"
The three brothers are all geniuses with great luck. They are also the monsters who have awakened their own star destiny. They even had an amazing adventure many years ago. They are not without confidence.
With the full support of the aristocratic families in the five provinces of Jiangnan, there is no need to be afraid of Li Dingguo.
As the Zheng family army has continued to grow and develop over the years, they are very aware of how terrifying the foundations of these aristocratic families are.
Most of the Ming Dynasty's wealth is in the Jiangnan region. Once these forces fully support the Zheng family's Northern Expedition, the energy that will be unleashed will be enough to turn the world upside down.
(End of this chapter)
