Affairs of the Douluo Continent, Part Three
A year ago, Xue Qinghe led an army of one million to fight a decisive battle against the Star Luo Empire. Now, over the past year, he has gradually added more than three million troops, bringing the total to nearly four million.
The Heaven Dou forces currently number over two million, but their casualty ratio has long exceeded half, approaching 60%.
In fact, the casualty ratios of many units and forces are roughly the same.
On the contrary, thanks to Xue Qinghe's repeated protection, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had one of the fewest casualties and the lowest casualty ratio among those present.
The others had long been dissatisfied with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
In contrast, the people of the Spirit Hall Spirit Hall send their Soul Master Spirit Hall the front lines in every major battle, and their Soul Master can always be seen in the most dangerous places.
Soldiers and soldiers are relatively simple-minded; they don't think too much. They only know that the Spirit Hall has saved them from danger many times and is a trustworthy teammate who shares life and death with them.
The Military the Heaven Dou Empire was gradually infiltrated by the Spirit Hall without anyone noticing.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has always kept this in mind. Currently, the only school in the Heaven Dou Empire that can rival the Spirit Hall is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
There was originally a noble force led by Prince Xue Xing, and the three parties checked each other, so the power of the Heaven Dou Empire was not out of balance.
Most of the current nobles were promoted by Xue Qinghe after he ascended the throne. They are all minor nobles with little influence. They are all loyal to the Imperial Family. The Imperial Family is reluctant to step down from the power struggles between the ministers. That is why Xue Qinghe strongly supports the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and gives it various preferential treatments and privileges.
This was all in order to counter the growing power of the Spirit Hall faction. Of course, this was Ning Fengzhi's perspective.
And this is generally the view held by the outside world.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is highly regarded, so it participated in this national war as well. The Heaven Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire also had a national war during the Xue Ye period.
At that time, both the Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects remained neutral and did not intervene.
Now, with the outbreak of a national war and the Spirit Hall providing strong support to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is practically on the hot seat.
If they don't participate, can the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect live up to the various privileges and preferential treatment afforded to them by the Heaven Dou Empire?
Even if they don't participate, after this war, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will lose most of its influence in the Heaven Dou Empire. Conversely, the Spirit Hall will no longer be able to suppress them, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School's space for survival will be crushed by the Spirit Hall.
Therefore, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was truly forced into a corner and had no choice but to participate in the war.
After joining the war, Ning Fengzhi discovered the Spirit Hall's open conspiracy, but discovering it was one thing, but cracking it was too difficult.
Therefore, Ning Fengzhi had no choice but to send disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to various battlefields to compete with the Spirit Hall for the right to speak and to win over the Military forces.
However, after just one major battle, Ning Fengzhi abandoned this naive plan. The Spirit Hall was large and powerful with many Soul Master; they could afford to die, but the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could not.
After that, the Military looked down on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect even more.
That's it?
Enjoying the empire's best treatment, yet they turn out to be a bunch of cowards. Are you Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School people considered human, while our lives aren't?
Because of Xue Emperor Qinghe's favoritism, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Spirit Hall are two poles of the empire, but few people in the Military respect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; they mostly approve of the Spirit Hall.
Qian Renxue naturally saw all of this.
The best way to deal with a power is to elevate it to a high position, making it arrogant and detached from the masses, leaving it isolated and helpless. After that, it will be easy to deal with it.
Qian Renxue's initiation of this great war is not just aimed at the Star Luo Empire; the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is also among them. Furthermore, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, the Heaven Dou nobles, other duchies and kingdoms, and even the Heaven Dou Empire itself are all objects of Qian Renxue's calculations.
Regardless of victory or defeat, both Qian Renxue and the Spirit Hall are winners in this battle.
If they win, they will wipe out the Star Luo Empire in one fell swoop, but the Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will also be severely weakened. After that, the Spirit Hall's Soul Hunting Operation will be very smooth with virtually no resistance. In fact, there will be quite a few 'sentimental people' in the Imperial Military who would be happy to see the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect suffer.
There was no way around it; Qian Renxue had really elevated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect too much, granting it far too many privileges, rights, and resources. Many of these things originally belonged to the great noble families of the past, but the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had taken them over.
Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has the strength, it cannot control such a large amount of power and money.
A classic case of someone whose virtue does not match their position.
The imperial nobility have long suffered under the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Oh my, it's all my fault.
All of my authority has been taken over by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has taken away a lot of power from the imperial nobles and ministers, and now the imperial Military is angry and dissatisfied with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is now an isolated force. In the Heaven Dou Empire, the only person they can rely on is Emperor Xue Qinghe. However, they will probably never understand until their death that their Emperor is a spy planted by the Spirit Hall, specifically to harm the Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Another year has passed, and half of the Star Luo Empire's territory has fallen to the Heaven Dou Empire's allied forces. Of course, the casualties are also heavy. For every hundred soldiers lost by the Star Luo Empire, the Heaven Dou allied forces suffer between 120 and 130 casualties.
However, the strength ratio between the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Alliance was approximately 100 to 150, and as the war progressed, the gap in strength between the two sides widened.
The gap in strength between the two sides has now exceeded two to one, with the Heaven Dou Alliance at two and the Star Luo Empire at one.
The Star Luo Empire had long been unable to withstand the pressure and had repeatedly sent envoys to sue for peace in secret, but Xue Qinghe was determined to destroy the Star Luo Empire and refused to negotiate.
Heaven Dou Alliance is poised for victory, the vassal states and kingdoms naturally don't want to let this opportunity slip by.
In previous years, they had always been beaten to a pulp by the other side, paying reparations and ceding territory. But now that they were about to win and completely destroy the Star Luo Empire, these opportunists were acting like they had been injected with Blood One, each one fearless of death.
With the emperor and Military now in power in Heaven Dou, war is inevitable.
The only ones who objected were the civil officials and those in charge of logistics. In addition, there were the various sects and Soul Master families of the Heaven Dou Empire's allied forces, with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect being the leader.
The situation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is no longer just a matter of being crippled; its strength is about to fall out of the Upper Three Sects. The combat power of the higher-ups is still okay, with two Titled Douluo, Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo, but the Soul Douluo, Soul Saint, and especially the disciples below the Soul Saint level have almost been wiped out.
It would take at least thirty or forty years to recover. The situation was similar for the other sects and families that participated in the war, as they had long exceeded their limits.
It has almost destroyed the foundation of two generations...