Mu Bei, in the solemn meeting hall, high-level officials from all parties gathered together. Above the main seat, three desks stood side by side, and three men were sitting.

The person on the left has a lion's nose and a wide mouth, a tall figure, and majestic weapons. He is the golden-eyed gryphon clan Kong Lin.

The person in the middle has a fair complexion and his eyebrows are flying sideways. He is a colorful peacock flying in the clouds.

The person on the right has a swallow's jaw and a tiger's beard, a tiger's body and a wolf's waist. He is Xuanzhen of the Qingjiao clan.

"Thank you fellow Taoists for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come here to discuss this matter. You are all old friends, so I won't say too many polite words. I invite you to come this time because I have an important matter to discuss. The former, there is someone over there in Liangzhou.

We sent envoys here to make an appointment to join forces and ask us to attack Qingzhou again. What do you think?" Yunfei said straight to the point.

Zuo Konglin then said: "My clan has had this intention for a long time. You all must know that the whole Qingzhou is now in a mess. Due to the split of the Jiang family, the Xuanmen forces are divided into two factions and are killing each other. This is right.

This is a golden opportunity. Taking advantage of their internal fighting, we can march south with a large army, and we may be able to capture Qingzhou in one fell swoop."

"The alliance in Liangzhou has also made a guarantee. As long as something happens to me, they will respond immediately and mobilize a large army to attack the front line of Liangzhou to contain the main force of Xuanmen and prevent them from sending manpower to support Qingzhou."

"At that time, they will send people to contact the Tiannan allies and ask them to attack Jingzhou."

"Everyone, this opportunity must not be missed. If we do not take advantage of this opportunity to make a large-scale advance, I am afraid that we will never have such a good opportunity again in the future. If we wait until the situation in Qingzhou stabilizes before heading south, the outcome will be unpredictable."

After Kong Lin finished speaking, the elegant birds in the hall were silent, and everyone had their brows slightly furrowed or their faces expressionless.

"Fellow Tao Tao, what do you think?" Xuanzhen saw that everyone was silent and worried, so he asked a middle-aged man below.

This man is the leader of the Tianmo Sect in Annan County and belongs to the hardline faction of the Mubei Allied Forces. The Tianmo Sect was also a strong supporter of the previous move south to attack Qingzhou.

When the man named Tao saw Xuanzhen looking at him, he naturally knew his intention, which was just to gain his support.

He coughed slightly and said: "As you all know, I have always advocated attacking Qingzhou before, but since the failure of the last attack on Qingzhou, a large number of elite disciples of our sect have died, and they still have not recovered their vitality. Kong Lin and Yun

What the two fellow Taoists Fei said are unreasonable. This is indeed a golden opportunity to attack Qingzhou, but we still have to act with caution."

"As the saying goes, killing an enemy by one thousand will cause a loss of eight hundred. Although Qingzhou is in a mess now, it will never be that simple if we want to win it easily."

"I have a few concerns. First, Qingzhou now has the Netherworld Sea Organization joining the defense, and its overall strength is stronger. If we want to attack the inland, we must first break through the Netherworld Sea Organization's defense line in Qinghai. I think this may be a battle.

It’s a fierce battle, which means it’s not that easy for us to attack the interior.”

"Second, the attitude of the merchant alliance. When we attacked Qingzhou last time, both the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce and the local chamber of commerce in Qingzhou finally joined the battle group. If they also choose to advance and retreat with Xuanmen this time, it will be difficult for us to defeat them in one fell swoop.

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"Third, I am more worried about whether the Allied Forces of Liangzhou and Tiannan will launch attacks on Liangzhou and Jingzhou as promised, especially for the Allied Forces of Tiannan. Their last attack on Jingzhou was defeated by the Shangqing Sect.

They were defeated and retreated to Tiannan in embarrassment, even losing the three counties of Tiannan."

"As far as I know, in recent years, the Shangqing Sect and Jingzhou Xuanmen have repeatedly launched attacks on the areas under their jurisdiction. They can only barely protect themselves. How can they launch an attack on Jingzhou and contain the Shangqing Sect?"

"If you can't guarantee that, I think it's better to err on the side of caution."

"Fourth, although it seems that Qingzhou is a mess now, each fighting on its own, this does not mean that after we advance, they will still fight on their own. We cannot rule out the possibility that once we advance, they will immediately put aside their disputes and start cooperation.

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"Instead of doing this, it is better to let them continue to fight each other and consume their internal strength."

"If the three fellow Taoists can solve the first three problems, I support marching to Qingzhou. If they cannot for the time being, I suggest we continue to observe."

After talking, Yunkong, Xuanzhen, and Konglin looked at each other. They originally thought that the man named Tao would support the move of sending troops because he had always been the main fighting faction in the Mubei Alliance Army and his attitude was very firm.

, I didn’t expect him to say these words, which was indeed beyond the expectations of the three of them.

Since the end of the Qinghai War, the morale of the Mubei Allied Forces has been low, and they are quite depressed. Although so many years have passed, when the topic of attacking Qingzhou again is raised, even the Yao clan has many concerns and it is difficult to unanimously agree.

Not to mention the factions that originally advocated self-protection, they also strongly opposed it.

After witnessing the civil strife in Qingzhou for thousands of years, the three of them finally agreed and convinced all the clans within the Yao clan, so they invited all the forces in Mubei to discuss the matter.

Before the discussion, the three of them expected that there would be considerable difficulties and that there would be strong opposition. However, they did not expect that the opposition would be greater than expected. Even the Tianmo Sect, the main war sect that had always been tough and determined, had so many concerns.

, timid, let alone others.

Sure enough, a slightly older voice was heard, and an old man with gray hair below said: "What Taoist Taoist fellow Tao said is very reasonable. After the last war, we suffered too many losses and have not recovered our strength until now. We should

Recuperate and recuperate. It would be unwise to attack Qingzhou at this time. There is no need to fight a battle with little chance of winning."

"Yes! Now that the Nether Sea Organization has joined Qingzhou, and the Merchant Alliance is on their side, we launch an attack rashly. The best result is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred to ourselves. Wanting to capture Qingzhou is just a dream.

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"Although Qingzhou is in chaos at the moment and each is fighting on its own, it does not mean that they will ignore our attack. And I can guarantee that once our army invades, they will definitely put aside their disputes. If we attack urgently, they will reject it with one heart and be tolerant.

They will become even more divided. If we attack at this time, not only will we not be able to take advantage of the chaos to capture Qingzhou, but we will be able to unite them."

"I support the march to Qingzhou. The conflict between us and Qingzhou is irreconcilable. Sooner or later, the outcome will be decided. But now is indeed not the time. The concerns that all fellow Taoists just said are reasonable. If we march at this time, they will most likely put aside their prejudices.

Hug into a ball."

"I think that when the internal battle in Qingzhou has a winner and its people are not attached to it, and both sides are hurt, and the troops are lost, it will be much better for us to attack their exhausted divisions with elite troops than to attack their elite divisions now.

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"Yes, what Yan Daoyou said is reasonable. I also agree to attack Qingzhou. The premise is that we must make corresponding preparations and cannot rashly gather troops to attack. Before deciding to send troops, I think we should do these few things. First, ensure that Liangzhou

The alliance with Tiannan has already launched an attack on Liangzhou and Jingzhou, so we can take action."

"Secondly, send people to contact the Netherworld Sea Organization and the Merchant Alliance to try to bring them into our camp or make them remain neutral. As far as I know, there are ongoing conflicts between the Netherworld Sea Organization and Donglai County Xuanmen. We can

Sending more people to separate the two sides may have miraculous effects."

"No matter what the final result is, once a war breaks out between the Nether Sea Organization and Xuanmen of Donglai County, it will be beneficial and harmless to our future march into Qingzhou."

Everyone said one word after another.

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Tang Ning was sitting cross-legged in the room and was practicing meditation with his eyes closed. Suddenly, a clear ringing sound came to his ears. He opened his eyes, and in a flash, he left the room.

At that time, many monks directly under the nearby brigade had also left their residences and came to the central stone hall.

Soon, all twenty people directly under the brigade had assembled. Ma Yu came in from the outside and said: "Everyone, just now the brigade is discussing matters. We have received a notice from the legion and ordered our unit to station at "Xiao Qian Pavilion" to resist the incoming rebels.

Attack, the brigade ordered us to assemble and set off immediately."

Everyone stood up and followed him outside. After a while, they arrived at the meeting hall on the top of the mountain. Each small team arrived one after another. More than a hundred people, led by the big team, gathered in the alliance, and then left the city in a mighty manner.

On the Xuanling ship, Tangning stood in the cabin, controlling the console, and a picture appeared on it.

The seventh column came out in full force, dispatching a total of one Heavenly Spirit Ship, ten Wind Spirit Ships and one hundred Xuanling Ships. The formation was neatly arranged and stretched for dozens of miles.

Arranged with the strength of a column, these more than a hundred warships can be said to be not luxurious, but even a little shabby.

Thinking back to the Battle of Qinghai, that was when the flags truly covered the sun and the warships covered the sky.

At that time, a column was allocated three Heavenly Spirit Ships, a regiment was allocated three Wind Spirit Ships, and a brigade was allocated three Xuanling Ships.

But now there is only one Sky Spirit Ship in the entire column, one Wind Spirit Ship in each regiment, and one Xuan Spirit Ship in each brigade. Doesn’t that look shabby?

Some brigades are not even equipped with Tier 3 warships and chariots. For example, Tang Ning's brigade has only five of the ten squads equipped with Tier 3 tanks, and the remaining five squads only have a few Tier 3 tanks.

War Armor, and not all members have it.

It can be seen from this that the high-level financial resources of the Alliance Army are stretched thin, and they simply cannot afford so many spiritual stones to equip each team with complete spiritual weapons.

If you think about it carefully, it actually makes sense. You must know that during the Qinghai War, the entire Qingzhou Xuanmen and cultivating families worked together. In addition, under the command and dispatch of Taixuanzong, various Xuanmen and cultivating families almost did everything in order to prevent Mubei demons from going south.

After spending all the money, financial resources will naturally not be a problem.

In the later period, the Chamber of Commerce joined the alliance and contributed money, making the coalition's financial resources very sufficient. At all times, the team's spiritual equipment was equipped according to the highest standards.

After the Qinghai War, all forces in Qingzhou paid a lot for it, especially the Xuanmen and Cultivation families in Donglai County, which suffered the heaviest losses. After all, they were the front line facing the Mubei demon. In order to repel Mubei's demons,

The Northern Allied Forces devoted all their strength and wealth into this war.

Although hundreds of years have passed since the Qinghai War, for all major forces, there is no way to return to their previous strength in just a few hundred years, not only in terms of manpower, but also how many high-level monks were killed in the battle.

A new batch can be cultivated in a hundred years, and the same goes for financial resources.

Moreover, the civil war in Donglai County this time was just a split between the practicing families. Although Taixuanzong fell, the Xuanmen of Donglai County remained firm. Therefore, the financial resources were insufficient, and the rationing of personnel and spiritual weapons seemed a bit shabby.

It makes sense.

Many warships traveled for more than ten days and finally arrived at "Xiao Qian Pavilion".

This pavilion is located in the northwest of Longhua City. On the left front is "Xuanying Pavilion", on the right front is "Huangyan Pavilion", on the back left is "Xuexian Pavilion" and on the back right is "Libo Pavilion".

This time the coalition forces dispatched three columns of troops to set up defenses in each pavilion city on the front line. Each pavilion city was guarded by a regiment.
Chapter completed!