Chapter 67 Counterattack + Secret Weapon (Four Thousand Words)

In the history of his previous life, there was a considerable period of time when Western sects were blocked by Central Plains religions outside the Western Regions. Why did the Ming Cult set its headquarters in Kunlun in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" by Jin Dada? It was not because it was to make a mystery, nor because the Kunlun Mountains were high and dangerous, and it was difficult for others to attack. The main reason was that the Central Plains had been occupied by major sects, and they could not move eastward, so they could only stay in Kunlun Mountains. It was not until later that the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by war and entered the Central Plains. Unfortunately, the country they had built up with blood and tears was plotted by Zhu Yuanzhang, kicking them away, and exaggerating them, becoming the so-called Demon Sect.

Moreover, although foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures, they are also very resistant to foreign monks in the Central Plains. After all, no one lets anyone else, and who knows what their background is? For example, Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, but in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty and the wars of the Three Kingdoms for nearly three hundred years, Buddhism has not been destroyed, but it has not improved at all. It can only be said that it has established itself in the Central Plains, let alone any development.

When was the true rise of Buddhism? During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Five Barbarians invaded China almost destroyed the culture of the Han people in the north, and Taoism was naturally also included. Buddhism also took advantage of the momentum and entered the eyes of rulers. After decades of development, it formed a grand scene of "480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers in the mist and rain."

The same is true for foreign sects such as Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. Even if they enter the Tang Dynasty, without the support of the upper class of the Tang Dynasty, how long does it take to rely on their own mission to gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty and how long does it take to become the mainstream sect of the Tang Dynasty?

I'm afraid it won't work without three to five hundred years - the Ming Cult is the best example. They have been introduced to the Central Plains since the Tang Dynasty, but they did not make their own voice until the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Then they were implicated by Zhu Yuanzhang and suppressed it into the White Lotus Sect.

But for today's religious sacrificial scholars, how could they be willing to develop so honestly for three or five hundred years? The future is unpredictable. Who knows what the world will look like in three or five hundred years?

Therefore, the current Western sects are in a dilemma. The Tang Dynasty is the most powerful country in the world today. They really want to enter here and turn it into their holy land, but they are resisted by local religions and the government and the people, making them almost unable to gain a foothold.

Now Li Zhen expressed his willingness to help them, which is a huge good news for them. So what if you change a little doctrine?

In a way, doctrine is indeed the foundation of a religion, but compared with the development of the sect, it is nothing.

As long as you can get Li Zhen’s help, let alone change the doctrine, it will be fine to deify Li Zhen and render him into the wisdom incarnation of their Lord God Ahura Mazda (the God of Wisdom, the Supreme Lord of Zoroastrianism).

Of course, Li Zhen respects this. You say that he is a prince of the Tang Dynasty, what kind of god is the god of a foreign race? He should be a local god as well. But in the Tang Dynasty, because of the descendant of the Zhenyuan Immortal, his reputation is similar to that of a god. It is said that some folk people have already set up tablets for Li Zhen and worship every morning and evening...

Although he rejected the good intentions of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, Li Zhen still supported their missionary work in the Tang Dynasty and helped them establish some temples. However, the influence of Taoism and Buddhism has increased significantly in the past two years, especially Buddhism. Tianzhu Buddhism and local Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty have shown a trend of gradually integrating, and the Buddhist power has increased almost exponentially. If Taoism had not implemented the strategy of going global and responded to the country from abroad, it would have been impossible to have done Buddhism.

When facing the invasion of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, Buddhism also showed strong combat power. Despite Li Zhen's secret support, Buddhism had long regarded the Tang Dynasty as their private place and gave a head-on blow to the two invaders.

In addition, the fire broke out in the backyard of the two major religions (the foundation of the two major religions was in Persia, but Persia had been destroyed by the Great Food, and Islam began to exert force in the local area and gradually suppressed the two religions, which almost could not gain a foothold in the local area), so the level of combat was greatly reduced, so that under the dual attack of Buddhism's suppression and Taoism's detrimental attack, although it could barely gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty, it was very difficult to develop further - unless Li Zhen ascended the throne and wiped out the former land of Persia, the two major sects could develop.

It was just that the two major sects were attacked. Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism were obviously unwilling to give up. However, those two sects were indeed powerful, and they could not find any loopholes for a while, so they simply slandered the Buddhist and Taoist sects from practical actions. So Manichaeism established the Buddha Pirate Group, while Zoroastrianism established the Tianzun Mercenary Group...

"In other words, both Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism were supported by His Royal Highness?"

Although he is a Taoist elite, Li Daoyun has been in the navy for many years and rarely contacts Taoism, so he does not know the secret. After hearing Cheng Chuliang's explanation, Li Daoyun also knew the secret: "Since that's the case, why did they participate in the assassination of the prince? You see, it's not just the Buddha's pirate group, but the people with the Bagua diagram are the people of the Heavenly Lord? In theory, why did the Prince's prince still participate in such an action?"

"This is a lack of heart and a snake swallows the elephant." Cheng Chuliang curled a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "Just like the Royal Merchant, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism are also divided into several forces. But His Highness, seeing that these two religions are just A Dou, his investment in them gradually decreases... This undoubtedly annoyed some of them. Although their elders were watching, they dared not act rashly on the surface, but the small movements in secret have never stopped. Now they dare to appear blatantly, intending to assassinate the prince on the sea. What did the mastermind behind the scenes promise that these unconscioned people changed their camps? You must know that although they have no moral integrity, they are still very smart. You should not know what the consequences of the assassination failed, right?"

"This is the so-called "Super Mi En" to fight against Mi Revenge, right?" Li Daoyun also frowned slightly after hearing this: "It seems that our Taoist sect's reaction is right. These alien sects are indeed not good things. They are not greedy and ungrateful. When they are beneficial to them, you are their uncle. Once they feel that you can no longer give them benefits, they will immediately turn against others and even bite you... How can such a religion enter the Tang Dynasty? Keeping them outside the Tang Dynasty is the most correct response... Although I don't think much of Buddhism, I have to say that they did it beautifully this time."

Cheng Chuliang glanced at Li Daoyun strangely. Although he understood his little thoughts, he did not say it out loud. Instead, he nodded and agreed: "These ungrateful dogs are simply a group of ungrateful wolves who are not well-raised. Why was Your Highness blind at that time and favored them? You see, what are the things that have been brought in? If I had known it, I would definitely object - no, it is not too late now. When this level is over, I will advise the prince."

"No need for this. I think your highness will regret it at this time. After this matter, you will settle the score later." Li Daoyun said, but he was very happy. These people are really a group of pig rivals. He didn't do anything at all. They just jumped out like this - it was indeed a barbarian who had milk. The prince just paid less attention to you, and you were actually dissatisfied with it. Others just made a little promise and completely betrayed the prince... Now I want to see what fate will you face after the prince escapes this disaster?

"Now let's not talk about the matter of settlement in the autumn. Let's find a way to solve the difficulties in front of us." Cheng Chuliang pointed to the enemy ship that was burning: "The enemy is not too stupid. He didn't send himself to our muzzle in one breath, otherwise his highness would take action, and I could burn them all to death with the cannon alone."

"This is common sense, right? If it were me, I would do this." Li Daoyun rolled his eyes and said angrily.

It turned out that the burning enemy ships were just the group in front, or the vanguard ships, and the rest of the ships were hung far behind, and they would disperse immediately if they were not careful. After all, things went too smoothly today, and they didn't look like Li Zhen's method at all, so it's okay to be cautious.

Now that I saw that the Tang Dynasty warship was indeed unwilling to surrender and used such a terrible weapon, it immediately dispersed like a frightened flock of sheep. At the same time, it adjusted the cannon again and aimed at the Tang Dynasty warship, which was about to fire.

"But that's the case, we will not be able to hold on." Looking at the warships scattered from afar, Cheng Chuliang smiled bitterly. The fire just now only destroyed less than 30 enemies' ships, which means that the enemy still had at least 150 ships, and the artillery artillery was already his most powerful weapon at present, but it could only be a decoration because of insufficient range. In addition, because of the enemy's encirclement just now and the crowded wreckage of the enemy ships at this time, the Quanzhou Fleet Detachment had formed a circular formation again and was completely surrounded and could not move. At this time, they were just a group of live targets that could not move, and could only let the enemy bombard them.

"There is no other way, prepare to fight to the death." Facing the enemy's posture, Li Daoyun had no other way, so he could only say this.

"Okay, since they want my life, let me tell them that my life is not that easy to take." Cheng Chuliang waved his fist and said decisively.

"Governor, Your Highness sent someone an order to let all the ships spread as much as possible." Just as Cheng Chuliang and Li Daoyun were about to fight to the death, he finally got the order he had been looking forward to.

"Yes, Your Highness is wise." Cheng Chuliang smiled. He just wanted to shout long live Your Highness now. This was so thrilling and exciting.

As for the ways to get out of trouble, although the enemy's encirclement is still there, they have already retreated a mile away because they are afraid of the power of the artillery. As for the ships blocking the road, it is even simpler to deal with... Although hook-rejection is no longer used for jumping gang wars in the artillery era, it does not mean that there is no such thing on the ship. After all, when the ships dock, they need this thing to connect the ship and the dock.

Hook is actually what we call springboard. This thing is needed to be used on and off the ship. Hook is developed further on it. It can not only be used on and off the ship, but also in naval battles. When the enemy is at a disadvantage, "hook" can hook the enemy's ships and prevent it from escaping. When the enemy is at an advantage, "reject" can withstand the enemy's ships and prevent it from chasing. Or when the enemy uses fire ships to attack, it can also use Reject to block or drag the fire ships away to prevent the fire ships from relying on their own warships. Here we explain, what we are talking about here is not the kind of hook and refusing of weapons. There are two types of hook and refusing, one is the combination of weapons, similar to the combination of spears or halberds, and the other is the equipment on the ship, but the functions are similar. However, weapon hook and refusing can only be used on small boats, and large hook and refusing can even hook or push away large warships such as enemy tower ships.

Although the enemy's fire ship was not attacking oneself, there was indeed a fire ship approaching its warship and even blocking its warship's route. Therefore, Cheng Chuliang immediately sent a hook and easily dragged the wreckage of the enemy ship that was still burning with raging flames to the side.

What's more fortunate is that it was the Tang Dynasty's actions that confused the other party at this time, or there was a conflict within the other party, or they felt that they were sure to win, and planned to tease themselves first and then give themselves a thunderous blow... No matter what the reason was, the enemy did not attack during this period, which made Cheng Chuliang exclaimed for luck - although he was not afraid, there were still many shells, but it would be better not to kill anyone after all.

"Hurry, hurry up, disperse quickly." The ship was pushed away, and the fleet finally had room to move. Cheng Chuliang immediately commanded the fleet to disperse. Even if Li Zhen's killer move did not work, it would always be good to reduce casualties.

"What is this?" Li Daoyun asked in surprise just after the fleet dispersed.

"What?" Cheng Chuliang looked at Li Daoyun. What surprised him was a small boat - not a destroyer, but dozens of small boats smaller than a destroyer. I am afraid that it is not only a few dozen tons of displacement, but the size of the boat doesn't matter. But what surprised Li Daoyun was the number of such boats. He has always followed the fleet and is also the steward of the fleet (the chief of staff is not there). He is very clear about how many ships there are in the fleet, but he has never seen such a ship before, let alone so many. Where did this ship come from?
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