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#754 - Song Dynasty

The reality is just as the historical records show. Although the Song Dynasty's literati resented the military generals who treated them like cattle during the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, historical records reveal that the Song Dynasty's army actually had a high win rate in foreign wars.

The Song Dynasty's heavy infantry phalanx almost reached the peak level of ancient battlefields.

Among them, Yue Fei's Beiwei Army was the most famous, striking fear into the enemy's hearts. They used infantry formations to directly confront cavalry and maintained a very high win rate, causing the enemy to flee in disarray.

These battle records were glorious, but the results were often not ideal.

Each victory often came at the cost of greater personnel losses for the Song Dynasty, while the Liao and Jin dynasties, with their advantage in cavalry, could move like the wind.

Even when the battlefield situation was unfavorable or tactical mistakes were made, they could quickly retreat thanks to the high mobility of their cavalry, leaving the Song Dynasty's infantry unable to catch up.

They were unable to inflict effective casualties on the enemy's troops and manpower.

To maintain this advantage, the northern Liao and Jin states strictly restricted the trade of warhorses to the Song Dynasty and firmly suppressed it.

Throughout the entire historical span of the Song Dynasty, it always lacked warhorses.

Lacking the powerful mobility assistance of cavalry, they could only defend within cities most of the time, helpless against the rampages of the northern nomadic peoples outside the city walls.

Therefore, when Liang Yue presented a world map and a globe to Emperor Renzong, the officials of the court were immediately excited and thrilled.

This was not only because it broadened their horizons, allowing them to clearly see the vast territories outside the Song Dynasty, but also because there were new opportunities for the rise of the Song Dynasty on that vast land beyond their borders.

The officials of the Renzong era were still relatively upright. Faced with the suppression and humiliation from the northern foreign tribes, they mostly held a strong determination in their hearts.

They aspired to restore the rivers and mountains and reshape the world.

They were far from being as unbearable as the calligraphers of later reigns, who indulged in pastimes all day long, flattering and neglecting state affairs.

Emperor Renzong was also a famous good emperor of the entire Song Dynasty, although he had done many foolish things.

For example, the so-called "officials are not subject to punishment" originated with him.

But he still had the ambition to govern diligently and forge ahead!

At this time, the officials of the Song Dynasty still had some thoughts and hopes in their hearts, and at least their integrity had not been lost.

Therefore, in recent years, with the Song Dynasty's repeated explorations, secret sea routes, and some guidance from Liang Yue, they had indeed discovered many treasures in the distant seas.

Leaving aside other things, they had found several locations suitable for training and raising horses alone.

Now, nearly ten years have passed, and calculating the time, it is indeed enough to cultivate one or two batches of elite cavalry.

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Back in their hometown, the disciples and others brought to the stronghold world by Liang Yue and others were mostly using the spiritual energy mist that had been spreading in recent days to cultivate.

Compared to DC and Marvel, the spiritual energy environment here is indeed very good. The vast spiritual mist condenses and does not disperse, ethereal and graceful.

I dare not say about other places, but at least the area around the town has become a cultivation holy land.

However, the path of cultivation is ultimately about competing with the heavens for longevity. It is inherently an act against nature, so simply closing oneself off is certainly not enough.

Therefore, since Liang Yue returned from his experience in the EVA world, he personally went to the second floor of the underground hall and officially opened the public plane gate to the Wind and Cloud world.

That is a pure martial arts world with a strong classical atmosphere and cultural charm, and the overall environment is more suitable for everyone's experience.

Even, the young ladies around Liang Yue seemed to be discussing opening another Liuyun Sect base in the Wind and Cloud world as a branch base for their disciples to train and practice in the future.

Moreover, along the way, according to Xiaozhao's intention, the purpose of her and Teacher Jingxiang's return to the Water Margin Heroes world before was to select a group of disciples with good qualifications from the sect and bring them back to the stronghold world.

Liang Yue had no objection to this.

Anyway, since the last system permission upgrade, the number of villager places and aboriginal places in his hand has directly doubled.

After a batch was used up by the girls, there are still more than 3,000 left in his hand, which cannot be used up in a short time ~

Furthermore, the stronghold world now does need some popularity!

Soon, Liang Yue took Xiaozhao through the plane gate and came to the Water Margin Heroes world.

With a flash of brilliance, the two landed directly in the Liuyun Sect.

At this time, the Liuyun Mountain Gate has been quite large under the careful management of the girls, although it is somewhat different from the Liuyun Sect on Mount Taibai in the DC world due to the terrain.

After all, the sect residence in the current Water Margin world is just an ordinary mountain outside Bianliang City, which cannot accommodate any large sect.

In addition, there are some rules and taboos regarding the capital Bianliang ~

In short, although the current Liuyun Sect can be regarded as a large sect in this world with rapid development momentum, it still lacks some background.

It cannot compare with Shaolin, Zhengyi and other places that have been founded for a long time and have a long history.

Today, the Liuyun Sect has about a thousand disciples, but the number of related people who eat in the sect's subordinate industries is as high as tens of thousands.

Moreover, the cultivation environment in the Water Margin Heroes world is slightly better than that in DC and Marvel, so the strength of the disciples in the sect is also good.

Under the joint management of Senior Saeko and subsequent Baoyun and others, twenty or so innate masters have been born in less than ten years since the sect was founded!

Although this turquoise tree and the Naqi Lotus of the Good Fortune method are not the same in terms of operating principles, and they do not follow the same path.

However, they all involve the step of absorbing various heaven and earth vitality into the body from the void.

Therefore, the selection of the planting point coordinates is very important, which is related to the amount of vitality absorbed in the future.

After a while, under Liang Yue's attention, Xiaozhao, Teacher Jingxiang, Hinata, Nanlixiang and others, as well as a group of disciples eagerly awaited, the turquoise tree began to continuously spit out pure heaven and earth spiritual energy.

After a while, the spiritual energy gradually became rich, and then turned into spiritual mist, and began to spread continuously to the surrounding area.

"It's a pity, it would be great if we had some spirit stones, the effect of the arranged formation would be better, ordinary jade stones are not durable after all."

"That's right, such pure spiritual energy, if you can't digest it, it will eventually dissipate in vain, what a pity."

"Do you think that if this tree runs like this for a few years, will it form spirit stones underground?"

"How can it be so easy, but if you can build a pool around here, you might be able to form a pool of spiritual liquid."

"That's good too~! Then raise some fish or something~"

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