Chapter 1236

With the threat of external enemies, those great aristocratic families, not to say completely united, but at least can gather strength. In this way, the Liu Han Imperial Court received the support of these aristocratic families, and it was different.

In itself, around the Divine Capital, there are millions of imperial guards; although these imperial guards have been peaceful for a long time, they are definitely inferior to the elite official army on the border.

But after being tempered by blood and fire, they can naturally improve their combat power.

If the Taiping Dao sits on the twelve armies of the world, three million strong troops, ranking first in the world, then the Liu Han Imperial Court is second.

In itself, the Luoyang Sili region is also the most core and rich region of the Jiuzhou, with a very large population.

With millions of imperial guards, as long as there is support from aristocratic families in various places, the Liu Han Imperial Court's power is also rising rapidly.

In addition, the Liu Han royal family has several Earth Immortal realm powerhouses who guard the country, cooperating with the top powerhouses of other great families.

If it weren't for the Taiping Dao's Daoist Zhang Jiao, who is comparable to the number one person in the Jiuzhou today, in fact, the imperial court would be the strongest.

However, the two sides have had many fights recently, and the two major forces have deployed millions of troops to confront each other on the border.

In several great battles, the imperial court was more at a disadvantage.

After all, the Taiping Dao's artillery is too powerful.

Although nowadays, warlords in various places have also begun to imitate, there is still a gap compared to the Taiping Dao.

The Taiping Dao's guns and cannons are hard to hide, and as for the technology, it is even harder.

But gun and cannon technology is hard to hide; other warlords can imitate, but without industrialization, relying only on manual manufacturing, how can they compare to the Taiping Dao?

Warlords in various places do have cultivators, and the artillery built by cultivators is indeed not bad, but the artillery shells, if cultivators go to refine them, require a lot of people.

Most of the transcendents of the warlords in various places are martial artists, not Daoists or Mohists; martial artists go to build artillery, and the efficiency and so on are not much better than ordinary people.

At most, they are just a bit more energetic.

So although warlords in various places have also begun to build guns and cannons, compared to the Taiping Dao, the gap is still very large.

Guns and cannons are not a great threat to the troops of transcendents, but for ordinary armies, it is different.

And the Taiping Dao's gun and cannon troops are mostly ordinary people, but it does not mean that the Taiping Dao has no troops of transcendents.

Nowadays, the calamity is here, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is active; for the army, the promotion is an opportunity; ordinary mortals have a greater chance of entering transcendence; previously, with enough resources, to enter the Divine Strength realm, it might take five or ten years of hard training.

Now it might only take three years.

Divine Strength, Internal Strengthening, these are already entering transcendence; facing extreme strength, they also have some resistance; after all, wearing steel armor, the defense is greatly increased.

The steel armor worn by ordinary people is definitely different from the steel armor worn by martial artists in the Divine Strength and Internal Strengthening realms.

Because the two have different load-bearing capacities; ordinary adult strong men can carry 30 catties of steel armor, while those in the Divine Strength and Internal Strengthening realms can carry more than 100 catties of steel armor; the defense of the two is different.

The front steel armor, even if the Taiping Dao's machine guns can break it now, will not have much effect on the bodies of those martial artists.

Not to mention the guns and cannons of other warlords.

Of course, the threat of artillery is still very great, but without the Taiping Dao's thousands or tens of thousands of artillery pieces firing together, there is not much threat to the army composed of transcendents.

Because of sufficient nutrition, the soldiers in the Taiping Dao army who enter low-level martial artists are as numerous as yaks.

Among ten people, almost one or two can impact to become martial artists.

Just this one piece is enough to crown other warlords.

Whether it is gun and cannon technology or the construction of transcendent armies, the Taiping Dao is leading, so fighting a great battle with the Taiping Dao, even the imperial court, has suffered losses many times, so it can only gradually defend passively.

The warlords of the world, the north and the Central Plains are occupied by the Sili region, occupying 70% of the power; although the south has a large territory, after all, it has not been developed for long; the Central Plains and the north were developed for countless years by various countries in the pre-Qin period.

The south has always been sparsely populated; even the Great Qin, although it also sent people to develop it, after all, there were not many.

Because there are many mountains and forests in the south, and there are many miasma and monster beasts in the forest.

As for the later Red Emperor, he developed in the south for a period of time, with the help of the Nanyue alien tribes, but this was just a drop in the bucket.

At least for the vast south, it is still sparsely populated.

The land of the two rivers, although there are rich areas in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, compared to the north, the potential is still insufficient; in terms of population, the area of the north and south is about the same, but the population is almost a 3-7 split.

There are many warlords in the south; in one province, there are several.

But the truly large warlords, except for the three Liu Han royal families, the rest have no very powerful power.

Of course, the largest force in the south is also the force led by Chen Wang, one of the kings of different surnames who followed the Liu family's Taizu to fight the world.

He has always been in the south; compared to the Yuan Prince of the north, the fief and strength of Chen Wang in the south are far inferior to the former.

However, Chen Wang's only advantage is that the Chen aristocratic families in the world are not small; the Chen family in Xuzhou ranks among the top aristocratic families in the world, and there are also several Chen families in the south.

Regardless, they all have a certain connection, and the family where Chen Wang is located and the Chen family in Xuzhou had an ancestor back then.

The Chen Wang Mansion is a branch of the Chen family.

He rose up, naturally there are a group of aristocratic families following, plus the secret support of the Chen family in Xuzhou behind the scenes, in this way, the Chen Wang Mansion has also been constantly growing over the years, faintly sitting on four provinces, even better than that Imperial Uncle Liu who sits in Jingzhou.

Imperial Uncle Liu in Jingzhou in the south is naturally that straw-sandal emperor.

Of course, Liu Bei in this era has grown rapidly since the beginning of the Peach Garden Oath.

And his own strength is not bad; even if he can't compare to his two brothers, he reached the Refining Spirit realm very early.

Plus his Liu family bloodline, so the imperial court quickly promoted him; from the original Nanyang Prefect, he rose in the warlords, and he was also sent to Jingzhou to sit in Jingzhou, and because of his personality charm,

With a group of aristocratic disciples embracing him, he now also sits on Jingzhou, Heng Zhou, and half of Yangzhou.

His strength in the south ranks second.

His two brothers under his command are even more peerless fierce generals in the Earth Immortal realm, and even if they fight with the Chen Wang Mansion, they have never fallen into a disadvantage.

And he occupies righteousness; his strength in the south is also constantly rising, plus the aristocratic families slowly defecting to him, his power will only become stronger and stronger.

In this point, he has an advantage over the Chen Wang Mansion.

Regardless, the Chen Wang Mansion is ultimately a rebel and does not occupy righteousness.

Even if the Liu Han Imperial Court had long lost the hearts of the people, that heart of the people is only the bottom-level common people.

In fact, in terms of aristocratic families, some still recognize Liu Han.