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Chapter 289 Sweeping The World
The Cangming Continent is vast, and dynasties change frequently over thousands of years.
During this period, various natural forces and manpower had a great impact on the terrain and landforms, and even a war could directly wipe out a state.
Some dynasties like to use terrain as borders to divide state territories, while other dynasties deliberately include long rivers and steep mountains into state territories to prevent states from using terrain as natural dangers to separate states.
Therefore, the division of state territories in each dynasty is actually very different.
For example, during the Daqian Dynasty, the overall region had shrunk a lot compared to the previous dynasty due to various changes, but it was divided into hundreds of states.
In the Daqi Dynasty, it was divided into sixty-three states.
Previously, Northern Qi occupied a total of thirty-five states, Southern Qi occupied twenty-five states, and the remaining three states were the buffer zone stuck between the Northern and Southern Qi.
For example, most of the main areas of the Hengtian River, Chiyan Desert, Endless Gobi, and Dingzhong Mountains are located in these three states.
The remaining areas of the Three Prefectures have been completely destroyed by hundreds of years of war and have become a land abandoned by heaven, making it difficult to survive and therefore inaccessible.
However, before the general Tiance was born, Northern Qi bullied Southern Qi wantonly, and the buffer zone became a training ground for Northern Qi.
Therefore, after carefully dividing the state territories, Northern Qi actually occupied about thirty-eight states, while Southern Qi occupied twenty-five states.
If we look at the vastness of the land area alone, Northern Qi is almost twice as large as Southern Qi.
However, the pattern established by hundreds of years of endless battles was easily shattered in the face of great power.
After the National War, Li Guanting ascended the throne. He was not in a hurry to complete his achievements in one battle, but vigorously developed the domestic people's livelihood.
The Northern Qi Dynasty was in chaos.
Ten years later, the foundations of the two countries’ national strength have been completely rewritten.
At the beginning, Southern Qi only had 500,000 troops available.
Nowadays, Southern Qi has as many as one million soldiers at its disposal!
The extra 500,000 soldiers are not new recruits who are just practicing without actual combat.
At the beginning, the Northern Qi crossed the national border and attacked the Southern Qi city gates wantonly for military training.
Now the situation has reversed, and Southern Qi has been training troops at the Northern Qi city gate at will!
In the hundreds of years of war between the North and the South, Southern Qi had almost never crossed the border except when the divine generals bent their bows and pierced the demon flag.
Now they are training troops at the gate of the enemy country!
Sometimes even while fighting, I accidentally broke the city gate and attacked the city...
The gap is so big that it's not obvious.
And all of this is thanks to the current Qi Emperor.
After ascending the throne, the Tiance Army wanted to expand its army to 50,000, of which 30,000 were selected from the old legions.
The remaining 20,000 are used to recruit new people and train new soldiers.
Admiring the name of Tiance, the people of Southern Qi joined the army with unprecedented enthusiasm.
In particular, the Southern Qi moved its capital to Cangwu City in Huizhou, making the imperial city the first city on the border to represent the emperor as guarding the country's gates. The Queen was determined to destroy the Northern Qi in this life.
The intensity of joining the army was even higher than that of the ferocious Northern Qi Dynasty, and the situation was almost militaristic!
However, this was done spontaneously by the people.
In previous years, there was no compulsory recruitment and no improvement in military benefits, so no one would become a soldier. After all, being a soldier meant going to the front lines and killing ferocious demonic soldiers.
Nowadays, there are too many people joining the army, so we have no choice but to keep raising the threshold for joining the army.
He is not a brave man from a single village, and is simply not high enough.
In this way, the enthusiasm of the army and the people was barely stopped, and the military strength was barely doubled.
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With such a million-strong army and Li Guanting personally marching, how can Mo Qi stop Mo Qi, whose people are already in dire straits?
In the year 1610 of the Qi calendar, in this year alone, the Mo Qi border passes were completely destroyed, and out of the thirty-eight prefectures, only eighteen prefectures remained!
After all the border passes were broken, the state area behind was almost empty and undefended. Tiance raised his flag high and led his troops straight in. Breaking the city was like entering an uninhabited land!
Many demon armies, facing other Southern Qi armies, were fine. They saw the Tiance flag and were well-trained, not to mention resisting and not directly becoming deserters.
And what are the Moqi royal family doing now?
They were still fighting for imperial power.
The Demon Lord was seriously injured and could not recover. He had not shown up for a long time, and the royal families were all excited. They became more domineering on the grounds that the Demon Lord had hastily led his troops south and was defeated.
Just when the Southern Qi army was sweeping across the Northern Qi Prefecture, several core royal families joined forces and directly assassinated the Demon Lord who was still hiding from serious injuries!
The prestige of the royal family was already low, and now the Northern Qi Dynasty has lost even more power. As soon as the Demon Lord died, the royal family instantly broke into chaos, fighting endlessly for imperial power.
And this is the opportunity Li Guanting has been waiting for for ten years.
The struggle for imperial power has not yet come to an end, and several powerful competitors, including the Northern Qi royal family, are unwilling to use their own strength to stop the Southern Qi army.
Finally, seeing that the Southern Qi was advancing too fast, the various ethnic groups in the Northern Qi, who were afraid of being wiped out, felt a sense of crisis and each sent troops or money to form a large army.
This barely stopped the decline.
After all, the demons are ferocious in nature. Even though their courage has been broken by the Tiance Army in recent years, the power they unleashed when the country was destroyed cannot be underestimated.
The trapped beasts are still fighting, let alone the demons?
Therefore, when he was advancing all the way, Li Guanting chose to stop calmly and did not rush forward in a hurry to avoid the deadly counterattack when Mo Qi destroyed the country.
There is no need to rush for a long time.
Moreover, after conquering twenty states along the way, Southern Qi will naturally slowly take over the demon states as its own.
Territory is not just conquered, it has to be conquered slowly.
The folk customs of the Demon Clan are fierce. Even these ordinary people who have not practiced Demonic Arts are more warlike than Southern Qi. It will take a lot of hard work to completely conquer them.
At that time, the Southern Qi army was still fighting on the front line, but the rear was actually in chaos.
Various rebel armies and national salvation soldiers appear frequently. If they are not suppressed in time, the consequences cannot be underestimated.
If they try to take down the entire Northern Qi Dynasty at once, both sides will suffer losses in the end. Even if they regain their territory, I'm afraid there will be big problems in the country.
Therefore, Li Guanting was more willing to boil the frog in warm water and conquer half of Northern Qi first, trying to completely conquer it.
The first step is to completely burn all demonic powers.
Anyone who secretly hides magical powers will be killed without mercy.
As for those who voluntarily turn in magic skills, or report others' secret possession of magic skills, there will be heavy rewards.
Only by eliminating the root differences between the Northern and Southern Qi Dynasties can the people of the Northern and Southern Qi Dynasties gradually unify, no longer hate each other, and completely integrate into one nation.
As for the remaining half of Mo Qi, they were slowly suppressed and consumed.
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[In the year 1610 of the Qi calendar, you led the Southern Qi army to send troops to the Northern Expedition. Within one year, you occupied twenty states of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which shocked the world. 】
[Then, you promptly withdrew your troops, and while patrolling the twenty states of Northern Qi, you stepped up the construction of border gates and suppressed Northern Qi. 】
[In the year 1612 of Qi Li, the Royal Family of the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed. The Heavenly Demon Clan seized the throne and moved into the Demon Emperor City. However, the Demon Emperor's Seal was stolen, and the Heavenly Demon Clan was unable to convince the public. 】
[You take advantage of the fierce battle of the Imperial City to lead troops to capture the five northern states. 】
[At this point, only the thirteen states in the far north of the Northern Qi Dynasty were left in a country where the hearts of the people were scattered and the people were in dire straits. 】
[Mo Qi's situation is over, and he can only fight to the death. 】