Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Since Zhang He regained half of Lu State, he also lost the motivation to expand.

The population is too small and the army is not enough. The long border requires a large number of troops to be stationed.

As for his 2,000 Blackwater Army, after experiencing several battles, there are only a few hundred veterans left, and the rest are all new recruits who came in later.

The combat effectiveness of such an army is naturally not as good as before.

Even the zombies within the territory have been consumed, and now there are not many left.

With Zhang He's strength already stretched to the limit, both sides of the boundary river between the Lu State and the Sui State were now densely packed with demons, migrating across the river to the Lu State.

The purpose of the demons occupying Sui and Lu was naturally to provide a better living environment here and to occupy more resources.

Although the two countries of Sui and Lu were peripheral compared to the Zhou Dynasty, they were still much better than the exiled land of the Western Wilderness.

The demon army looks very powerful on the surface, much stronger than Lu Guo.

In fact, the Exiled Land in the Western Wilderness is extremely vast. In order to invade the two countries this time, all the elites of all ethnic groups have already come out. The tall ones are selected from the short ones to organize such an army.

The Lu State and the Sui State were just small countries on the periphery of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their population base was not as large as that of the Western Wilderness.

In addition, after enjoying ten thousand years of peace, the nobles of these two small countries were all living on a pile of resources. They were tortured by demons before the war, and their vitality had long been severely damaged.

This is why the two countries appear so fragile in front of the demon army.

On both sides of the boundary river, along with these migrating demons, there is also an army of one hundred thousand. It is not as elite as the previous demon army, but it should be enough to maintain the stability of the territory and increase troops to attack the southern border of Lu State.

Zhang He got the news of the large-scale migration of demons at the first time. He knew that with his current power, it was already the limit for him to be able to hold on to this half of the Lu Kingdom.

It will not be easy to deal with the constant invasion of demons in the future.

Zhang He could only recruit 100,000 militiamen from the rear and send them to the front to participate in the battle.

Now he really can't spare any soldiers except the militiamen.

After this period of continuous fighting, all those under his command who have cultivation skills, including civil servants and caravans, have been mobilized to the front line.

After a large number of militiamen were recruited, they were sent to the war front before they had time to practice.

In such a large-scale war, in addition to the militia, a large number of civilians must be recruited to help transport supplies.

So much so that since the war began, there have been many fewer tenants farming.

Fortunately, Blackwater County is already very proficient in the use of zombie coolies and has replaced a lot of manpower.

War is not just a competition of pure force, but also related to the comprehensive strength of both sides in terms of productivity, economic foundation, population, system and other aspects.

Even in the world of cultivating immortals, the same principle applies.

Zhang He's Heishui County has a relatively weak foundation. After several years of war consumption, it will collapse.

When Zhang He mobilized all the remaining forces to guard the border, waiting for the demon army to attack, the flying cavalry army sent by the Zhou royal family had already entered the country from the north of Lu.

As the head coach of the 2000 Flying Cavalry Army, Meng Sheng came to pacify the demons in Sui and Lu. He originally thought that he could finally show off his ambitions.

Unexpectedly, His Majesty sent another civil servant this time. Even if he sent one more civil servant, he actually became his immediate boss.

The original idea that I could show off my talents and let the birds fly as high as the sky disappeared, and my heart was filled with frustration and helplessness.

Meng Sheng glanced at Feng Zhen, who was flying in the middle of the team. Although the opponent was a civil servant, he did not dare to neglect him at all.

Feng Zhen was a master in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, and could easily kill a monk like himself in the early stage of Nascent Soul.

"Master Feng, according to the news, there is Lule City a hundred miles ahead. There are ten thousand demons stationed in Lule City."

Feng Zhen sat on the back of a huge iron-winged bird and raised his hand to Meng Sheng in front of him.

"General Meng, I don't understand the matter of commanding the war, so I won't get involved. General Meng will make the decision in everything."

Feng Zhen came here not only to fight monsters, but he didn't take them seriously yet.

Before he came, he had received instructions from His Majesty to capture Lu and Sui and make them the direct territory of the royal family.

When the Zhou Dynasty was founded, the royal family had a large amount of resources and territory.

But in the history of more than ten thousand years, due to various reasons, the resources in the hands of the royal family have become less and less. On the contrary, some feudal princes have become richer and richer.

Nowadays, various princes can annex each other, and some of the stronger ones have more and more resources.

But what is very depressing is that the eyes of the world are all fixed on the royal family. What the princes can do, the royal family cannot do.

If the royal family follows the example of the princes and annexes other princes at will, it will definitely cause everyone in the world to be in danger.

In the end, the royal family may become the public enemy of all the princes in the world.

But now the situation of Lu State and Sui State is different.

In these two countries, the original rulers have been eliminated by demons, and the original aristocratic systems have all collapsed. Both countries have now fallen into the hands of demons.

In this case, the royal family sent troops to maintain the territorial security of the Zhou Dynasty and recover the lost land resources.

They did this to safeguard the overall interests of the Zhou Dynasty and fulfill the responsibilities of a royal family. No one can say anything.

Moreover, this place is remote and unnoticed, far away from the many eyes and ears in the Central Plains, which is perfect for the royal family to quietly cultivate its power here.

This is your Majesty's trust in him. Now that the royal family is in decline, if he can manage Sui and Lu well, Feng Zhen may become a famous official in the resurgence of the Zhou Dynasty in the future.

As for the details of commanding the army to fight, professional matters should be left to professionals.

He just needs to control the people leading the troops.

Feng Zhen was still riding on the back of the iron-winged bird, thinking that Meng Sheng had already arranged the task of attacking Lule City.

The Iron-Winged Bird is a large bird monster with a history of more than 10,000 years of artificial breeding. It is huge in size, ferocious in temperament, and has long-lasting endurance. Many countries use Iron-Winged Birds to form flying cavalry.

The Zhou royal family has a total of 5,000 flying cavalry, which is the backbone of the royal family. This time, in order to regain the Sui and Lu countries, 2,000 flying cavalry were dispatched at one time.

It can be seen from this that the royal family attaches great importance to this matter.

At a distance of one hundred miles, it only took two quarters of an hour for the flying cavalry to reach the outside of Lule City while maintaining their formation.

The demons stationed in Lule City faced this sudden flying cavalry army. Immediately, a Jindan demon flew into the air with more than a thousand demons. The remaining demon army in the city was also quickly gathering.

However, facing these more than a thousand demons, only a hundred-man team flew out of the flying cavalry army, riding iron-winged birds, forming a pointed cone formation and rushing towards the demons.