Chapter 576-The Earth Is White
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
"It's snowing!"
Ouyang Shuo stood under the eaves of the building, looking out at the distance.
Lianzhou Basin's four seasons were warm as spring. However, the current skies had a rare sight - snowflakes were floating down. The snowflakes transformed Shanhai City, dressing it up in silver, forming a truly enchanting scene.
The Lianzhou people had never seen snow before, so this snow was undoubtedly the most heart warming gift from the heavens during this winter season.
The entire city entered a craze because of the snow.
The streets and alleys were filled with playful children having snowball fights, and even the adults could not help but join in. At unassuming corners stood snowman after snowman, decorating Shanhai City in an exquisite manner.
It was not only the Lianzhou Basin. In fact, snow covered the entire China region.
The solemn killing intent gathered during the winter season had finally reached its peak. Before this, the red clouds that hung overhead had miraculously disappeared.
The devilish red transformed into a pure white.
From north to south, the snow grew bigger and thicker.
Gaia 2nd year, the wilderness massacre lasted for a full year, leaving behind many bloodstains and corpses. After this sudden coming of snow, they were all covered and ceased to exist.
Looking out, the heaven and the earth was left under a boundless white.
The white snow covered all the dirt and ugliness of the world.
The world looked like it had returned to a peaceful time.
At the same time, the wilderness welcomed the arrival of the new year.
Even the recently chaotic Zhongyuan Region regained a hard to come by peace.
Winter brought along an unblockable cold and had officially arrived in the north.
Under the joint assault of Chun Shenjun, Di Chen, and Wandering Magic, Chen Sheng's Zhangchu Regime finally could not hold on, and they were forced back.
Especially after the fall of the South Army, causing the entire Zhangchu to collapse.
As they say, a slight move in one part would affect the whole body.
In just one week, Zhangchu's territory was mostly lost.
During the later stages of the battle, Feng Qiuhuang could not remain a spectator any longer, and she send out her troops. She wanted to cut off a fat piece of meat from the weak Zhangchu.
No one could have expected that the regime would be so weak that it could not take one hit.
If West Chu Overlord Xiang Yu did not personally lead troops to reinforce the Chen County at the crucial moment, Chen Sheng would have failed to even keep his imperial city. He would have crashed and burned with his empire.
News spread that the moment the battle had ended, Chen Sheng fell sick.
In this cold winter, Zhangchu was on its last legs.
The four uprising armies could not avoid their fate, and they all fell under the blades of the Lords.
When Ouyang Shuo received the news, his eyes froze.
Xiang Yu did not lead his troops to assist Chen County out of pure motives.
Who knows how this West Chu Overlord would shock the world during the Gaia 3rd year.
It seemed like before one wave died down, a new wave would rise up once more.
Ouyang Shuo had a feeling that a new king was going to appear in the Zhongyuan Region.
During this battle, the losers felt desolate, while the victors also did not obtain any huge joy.
The moment the battle ended, the four armies that had worked together started to be on guard against one another.
Everything was a chase of self-interest.
After taking down the Zhongyuan Province, splitting this huge cake would involve a lot of discussion.
Logically speaking, Chun Shenjun had invested two million during this battle, so he should be the biggest winner. Unfortunately for him, Pill Sun City was just too far away from the Zhongyuan Province.
Furthermore, be it the one hundred thousand mercenaries he hired or the fifty thousand soldiers from the talisman, they had all left after this battle.
Chun Shenjun's forces did not have an advantage in terms of combat strength.
On the contrary, even though Feng Qiuhuang had not moved her troops, she became the strongest side. If it was not for Di Chen and the others working together, Feng Qiuhuang would truly become the biggest winner.
After all, Fallen Phoenix City was not far away from the Zhongyuan Province.
The four powers were destined to have another battle with one another during this cold winter. Compared to a war, this was a complicated and hard negotiation.
The four fought for population, resources, land, surrendered soldiers, and other such factors.
Especially population, which was what everyone wanted.
Be it Chun Shenjun, Di Chen, or even Wandering Magic, they were too far away from Zhongyuan Province to run this region of land.
The only way would be to shift the population of people in Zhongyuan Province.
Population would always remain the most valuable resource in the wilderness.
After all, population represented an endless supply of production power.
Before this, after Zhan Lang and Xiong Ba worked together to destroy the Huangchao Uprising Army in Wannnan Province, they had taken a three empty policy approach.
They emptied out the population, resources, and surrendered soldiers.
The huge Wannan Province became an empty region after this battle. After the alliance left, the province became a place where bandits ruled and returned to an extremely primitive state.
Everything returned to its starting point.
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The part that made them helpless was that the snow had blocked up the mountains, making it hard to travel.
The plans of Chun Shenjun and the others could only take a break and wait for the coming year.
It seems like the Lords in the Zhongyuan Region could not have a calm new year. Who knows what would happen during this winter.
It seems like the current Chun Shenjun would face the worst situation. He definitely would not have thought that this snow would come so suddenly and quickly.
In just one night, the earth had totally changed color, looking completely new.
After paying two hundred thousand gold, Chun Shenjun needed to think of a way to get back his money and even earn some interest.
In the end, Chun shenjun was still a businessman.
Such people would always chase profits.
Before setting out, the elites of the Chun Shenjun family had already calculated that even without the year end reward from Gaia, if everything went well, they could still get something out of this war.
However, the sudden snow had disrupted all their plans.
As such. Ouyang Shuo had to push back the meeting of the Shanhai Alliance to give Feng Qiuhuang time to deal with the matters of Zhongyuan Region.
Originally, Ouyang Shuo had planned for them to hold this year's alliance meeting at Fallen Phoenix City.
Helplessly, this huge snow made all the members not want to head up north. Even Feng Qiuhuang wanted to escape this damn winter.
After a discussion involving everyone, they actually chose the meeting point to be Yashan City in the end.
In the entire China region, only Yashan City currently had good weather.
No wonder it was a favored holiday destination in real life.
All the members of Shanhai Alliance wanted to enjoy a beach party during this winter.