Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning
Chapter 222 The Battle of Bingzhou
Chapter 222 The Battle of Bingzhou
Three days later.
The camp of the Huns.
Chang Yuchun, Zhu Di and Zhang Liao appeared here with a team of elite troops.
When seeing the tragic scene here, even Chang Yuchun, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, couldn't help but fell silent.
Tens of 10 people were sacrificed here, and the strong bloody aura permeated the entire camp. There were broken corpses everywhere on the ground, as well as the corpses of many giant beasts.
"What are these?" Chang Yuchun asked.
Several biological experts transferred from Daming came forward and studied carefully behind him, and said: "This should be the corpse left after the failure of human beings to evolve into special life forms."
The biology expert approached the big guy with an instrument, and was about to speak, when suddenly the instrument began to alarm.
"What's going on?" Chang Yuchun frowned.
"Energy response, this guy has a violent energy response!"
"No, he's still alive!" The expert's face suddenly changed when he said this, and he wanted to back away.
But it was too late to retreat at this moment. The giant beast in front of him that looked like a tyrannosaurus rex suddenly opened its eyes, their eyes were blood red, and it swung its huge tail towards the expert.
This expert in biology is a pure scientific researcher. Although he is also an extraordinary person who has opened up the sea of Qi, he has not practiced any spells, let alone any combat experience. Was stupefied.
Seeing that the tail was about to sweep away the defenseless expert, suddenly a flash of light appeared in front of the scientific researcher Chang Yuchun.
At this moment, Chang Yuchun had already put on a whole body of armor at some point, and a broad sword in his hand firmly withstood the attack of the giant tail.
"Go back!" he said in a low voice.
At this moment, everyone finally realized that the many elites of the new Ming army who came with Chang Yuchun hurriedly backed up to protect the biology expert.
"boom!"
The next moment, Chang Yuchun exploded violently, turning into a ball of flames, and in a flash, he appeared again in front of Zhang Liao and others.
Zhang Liao looked at Chang Yuchun curiously, not understanding how he did it.
"Hehe, this is a new type of mecha that my Ming has just researched, which is equivalent to the combat power of a seventh-rank martial artist. There are six spell arrays engraved on it, allowing warriors like us to use the spells of immortal cultivators without interruption!" Chang Yuchun grinned and introduced.
Zhang Liao already knew the fact that Chang Yuchun and Zhu Di were from the Ming Empire.
After all, with so many novelty equipments, it is always necessary to explain where they come from.
And as Zhu Yuanzhang's position in Luoyang became more and more stable, the secrecy of the fact that they came from another world, Da Ming, was no longer so high, and it would not be a bad thing to reveal some things about Da Ming.
To be honest, Zhang Liao did not reject Daming. In his opinion, there was no difference between Ming and Han, and even the language was not much different. At best, it sounded awkward, like a local dialect.
Moreover, the two empires can be said to have the same root and origin, and their history and culture are similar.
No matter who rules the Central Plains, it doesn't matter to him. As long as he can stop the Huns from raiding Bingzhou every year, he can be loyal to him.
Obviously, Daming has done a lot better than the original big man in this regard.
At least the brothers in the Bingzhou Army no longer have to fight the Huns hungry.
"It's amazing!" Hearing Chang Yuchun's introduction, Zhang Liao said enviously.
He has gradually learned how to use firearms and even cannons in the past two days, but he obviously likes this more powerful mech more.
He wants it.
Chang Yuchun told him that if generals like them in this world want to continue to lead the army in the future, they have to go to Daming to study for three years.
After careful consideration, Zhang Liao agreed.
He will soon leave Bingzhou to study in Daming.
But now he couldn't help but secretly made up his mind that after arriving in Daming, he must also get a suit of armor like the mecha worn by Chang Yuchun.
And just as the two were talking, more and more beast corpses slowly crawled up in the camp of the Huns.
The pupils of these things have one eye, and they are irrational at first glance. After the resurrection, they all stared at Chang Yuchun and the others, obviously treating them as food.
"What should I do?" Zhang Liao asked with a serious face.
There are at least two hundred beasts that have been revived in the Huns camp. Although these beasts don't look as big as the ones that flew over the Yanmen Pass that I saw before, they are not small.
With so many big guys, they only came this time with 300 people, and they couldn't handle it at all.
"Let's go back!"
"Just some brainless failures!"
"Presumably those Huns who left didn't take them seriously, they just wanted to stay here to disgust us, and they are not a threat to us at all."
After Chang Yuchun finished speaking, he waved his hand and said, "Leave 20 people to block these things a little bit, to buy time for the artillery, and the rest of them will return at full speed immediately."
As soon as he gave an order, the large army quickly retreated towards Yanmen Pass protecting the scientific research personnel, while the remaining 20 people also quickly covered the armor worn by Chang Yuchun and rushed towards the giant beasts.
These new types of mechs are expensive to counterfeit, and they cannot be fully popularized among the new army of Ming Dynasty, but some elite teams have already begun to install them.
Like Chang Yuchun, there is a team of 50 people equipped with this kind of mecha.
The cultivation bases of these team members are all seventh-rank martial arts, and with the mechas on their bodies, they are not too far behind even against sixth-rank masters.
The future Ming Dynasty New Army must continue to move closer to this aspect.
Continue to reduce the number of troops and continue to implement the strategy of military elite.
After all, the individual combat capabilities of the enemies that Daming will face in the future will become stronger and stronger, and ordinary guns will become more and more difficult to face such guys, just like Lu Bu or Dian Wei that he faced before.
To defeat such a guy, a hundred seventh-rank warriors wearing this kind of mecha must be much stronger than an army composed of ten thousand ninth-rank warriors.
Soon Chang Yuchun and the others retreated back to Yanmen Pass, and the twenty soldiers responsible for blocking the enemy also used the long-distance escape technique to escape from the battlefield.
However, those ferocious beasts did not stop there, but attacked Yanmen Pass in groups.
At this moment, Zhang Liao really realized that there were nearly six hundred of these fierce beasts.
Among them are not only animal forms, but also a large number of human forms, and even bird forms.
Looking at the overwhelming beasts rushing towards this side, Zhang Liao's face turned pale.
Any one of these ferocious beasts is basically equivalent to his force, which is almost the level of a sixth-rank martial artist.
There are so many rank-[-] warriors, even if they are a group of ignorant guys, it is very difficult to deal with.
If such a group of guys raided Yanmen Pass before the new Ming army came to support them, there is no doubt that even if Yanmen Pass had 20 defenders, it would definitely collapse.
Although he had already overestimated the fighting power of the new Ming army, but with such a group of big guys, it might be a tough fight.
He couldn't help turning his head to look at Chang Yuchun, but what puzzled him was that there was no panic on Chang Yuchun's face, it was still calm.
"Wen Yuan, next I will show you how powerful my Ming's real super weapon is!"
Chang Yuchun saw the puzzlement on Zhang Liao's face, smiled and explained again, and waved his hand at the same time.
At the same time, the rocket car, which was already ready for launch, pressed the launch button behind Yanmen Pass.
Zhang Liao turned his head suddenly.
He saw in the distant sky, clusters of flames rising one after another, blasting towards those giant beasts with bright tails.
"Boom!"
Deafening roars sounded in the wilderness twenty miles away from Yanmen Pass.
Zhang Liao was dumbfounded again.
He has seen the power of the cannons of the new army of Ming Dynasty, and he even drove a tank.
But the power of tanks and cannons is nothing compared to this thing. The power of this thing fired from the back of Yanmen Pass instantly overwhelmed those five or six hundred ferocious beasts equivalent to rank six warriors.
When the smoke dissipated, there were less than thirty beasts that could escape from it.
"Don't kill them all, capture them alive as much as possible, and bring them back, we need to conduct research!" The biology expert who watched the whole battle saw that there were still alive, and suddenly said with a face full of surprise.
"It's amazing!" Zhang Liao stared blankly at the soldiers of the Ming New Army who were fully armed and wearing mechas and went down to capture those beasts alive, and couldn't help but sigh again.
Such power is really unimaginable for him.
Chang Yuchun didn't feel much, after all, the firepower displayed now, in fact, even one-tenth of the most powerful firepower of Ming Dynasty has not been exerted yet!
Not to mention anything else, just say that if an atomic bomb is brought over, even if the number of these beasts doubles, they will die without a place to bury them.
And like Zhang Liao, Ke Bineng, who was also in shock after leaving, returned secretly.
"Changshengtian is indeed correct!"
"The power of skyfire controlled by these people is too powerful, we can't be their opponents at all!"
"These people are invincible, invincible!" Ke Bi Neng muttered to himself, and his figure flickered away quickly.
Originally, he left these guys who failed to evolve into mythical creatures in the camp because he wanted to use them to test the defenses of Yanmen Pass today. Flatten these people.
But now it seems that Changshengtian is indeed the greatest true god.
He had already anticipated the strength of these people, and chose to let himself and others avoid their edge.
Now, after seeing the terrifying abilities of these guys with his own eyes, he didn't want to stay here any longer.
He wants to escape, the farther he can escape, the better.
The war is over.
It ended with ease and without warning.
Three days after these ferocious beasts were wiped out by the missile troops of the Daming New Army, Chang Yuchun sent a large number of scout troops deep into the Cao Grassland again, and the result was that those tribes had also been slaughtered by mythical creatures.
Or a blood sacrifice.
Except for some defective mythical creatures that failed to evolve and wandered aimlessly on the grassland, and the grassland people who were fortunate enough not to be slaughtered, there were no living people left there.
The Huns are finished!
Not by the hands of the big man, but by their own hands!
To be precise, it was defeated by greedy human nature.
After all, nine out of ten of the blood sacrifices were the nobles of the Huns, and the reason why they performed such blood sacrifices was to become mythical creatures.
As for mythical creatures, after preliminary research by researchers at Yanmenguan, they concluded that these things are basically evolved by talented people through blood sacrifices, and as long as the evolution is successful, their lifespan is dozens of times that of humans, and their strength It can basically reach the level of the fifth-rank powerhouse, and even the best among them can even reach the fourth-rank, or even stronger.
This is also the reason why those Xiongnu nobles were so sad and mad, and they flocked to them.
After all, compared with tribes and land, it is obviously more important to improve one's own life level.
This result made Zhang Liao feel a little heavy.
Because he is also a gifted person, if there is such an opportunity to upgrade him to a mythical creature, so that he can live for thousands of years, to be honest, he will also be moved.
Not only him, but all the talented people in the Han Dynasty would not be tempted.
"The storm is coming!" Zhang Liao sighed.
Chang Yuchun also attached great importance to this matter. After the researcher's research report was sent to him, he asked Zhu Di to take the research report to Luoyang on the same day.
And Zhang Liao didn't stay in Yanmenguan for long, and soon went to Jizhou with the logistics staff, preparing to go to the Ming Empire through the space channel for a three-year study.
Compared with becoming a mythical creature, and through blood sacrifices, Zhang Liao still prefers to go to the Ming Empire to find opportunities.
After all, according to what Chang Yuchun said, humans in the Ming Empire also have ways to prolong their lives.
If you practice properly, extending your lifespan for hundreds of years is definitely not a problem.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei followed Zhang Liao.
During this period of time, these three people also stayed in Yanmen Pass.
Although they didn't complete what they thought was a hearty battle, the three of them witnessed the strength of the new Ming army with their own eyes.
So after Zhu Yuanzhang's consent, the three of them will go to Daming with Zhang Liao this time.
Of course, they are somewhat different from Zhang Liao.
Because they had never been to Luoyang, they didn't know from the beginning to the end that the Han family had almost changed hands to Lao Zhu.
The reason why they followed Zhang Liao to Daming was purely because they were curious about how these things were produced.
Zhu Yuanzhang is quite happy to see this.
Don't talk about Liu Bei, just talk about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They are all rare talents. It is naturally what Zhu Yuanzhang hopes to see if they can be fooled into Daming.
He has even thought about it, after taking them to Daming this time, they will never come back within ten years.
And when they come back here again, the Han Dynasty may no longer exist.
(End of this chapter)
Three days later.
The camp of the Huns.
Chang Yuchun, Zhu Di and Zhang Liao appeared here with a team of elite troops.
When seeing the tragic scene here, even Chang Yuchun, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, couldn't help but fell silent.
Tens of 10 people were sacrificed here, and the strong bloody aura permeated the entire camp. There were broken corpses everywhere on the ground, as well as the corpses of many giant beasts.
"What are these?" Chang Yuchun asked.
Several biological experts transferred from Daming came forward and studied carefully behind him, and said: "This should be the corpse left after the failure of human beings to evolve into special life forms."
The biology expert approached the big guy with an instrument, and was about to speak, when suddenly the instrument began to alarm.
"What's going on?" Chang Yuchun frowned.
"Energy response, this guy has a violent energy response!"
"No, he's still alive!" The expert's face suddenly changed when he said this, and he wanted to back away.
But it was too late to retreat at this moment. The giant beast in front of him that looked like a tyrannosaurus rex suddenly opened its eyes, their eyes were blood red, and it swung its huge tail towards the expert.
This expert in biology is a pure scientific researcher. Although he is also an extraordinary person who has opened up the sea of Qi, he has not practiced any spells, let alone any combat experience. Was stupefied.
Seeing that the tail was about to sweep away the defenseless expert, suddenly a flash of light appeared in front of the scientific researcher Chang Yuchun.
At this moment, Chang Yuchun had already put on a whole body of armor at some point, and a broad sword in his hand firmly withstood the attack of the giant tail.
"Go back!" he said in a low voice.
At this moment, everyone finally realized that the many elites of the new Ming army who came with Chang Yuchun hurriedly backed up to protect the biology expert.
"boom!"
The next moment, Chang Yuchun exploded violently, turning into a ball of flames, and in a flash, he appeared again in front of Zhang Liao and others.
Zhang Liao looked at Chang Yuchun curiously, not understanding how he did it.
"Hehe, this is a new type of mecha that my Ming has just researched, which is equivalent to the combat power of a seventh-rank martial artist. There are six spell arrays engraved on it, allowing warriors like us to use the spells of immortal cultivators without interruption!" Chang Yuchun grinned and introduced.
Zhang Liao already knew the fact that Chang Yuchun and Zhu Di were from the Ming Empire.
After all, with so many novelty equipments, it is always necessary to explain where they come from.
And as Zhu Yuanzhang's position in Luoyang became more and more stable, the secrecy of the fact that they came from another world, Da Ming, was no longer so high, and it would not be a bad thing to reveal some things about Da Ming.
To be honest, Zhang Liao did not reject Daming. In his opinion, there was no difference between Ming and Han, and even the language was not much different. At best, it sounded awkward, like a local dialect.
Moreover, the two empires can be said to have the same root and origin, and their history and culture are similar.
No matter who rules the Central Plains, it doesn't matter to him. As long as he can stop the Huns from raiding Bingzhou every year, he can be loyal to him.
Obviously, Daming has done a lot better than the original big man in this regard.
At least the brothers in the Bingzhou Army no longer have to fight the Huns hungry.
"It's amazing!" Hearing Chang Yuchun's introduction, Zhang Liao said enviously.
He has gradually learned how to use firearms and even cannons in the past two days, but he obviously likes this more powerful mech more.
He wants it.
Chang Yuchun told him that if generals like them in this world want to continue to lead the army in the future, they have to go to Daming to study for three years.
After careful consideration, Zhang Liao agreed.
He will soon leave Bingzhou to study in Daming.
But now he couldn't help but secretly made up his mind that after arriving in Daming, he must also get a suit of armor like the mecha worn by Chang Yuchun.
And just as the two were talking, more and more beast corpses slowly crawled up in the camp of the Huns.
The pupils of these things have one eye, and they are irrational at first glance. After the resurrection, they all stared at Chang Yuchun and the others, obviously treating them as food.
"What should I do?" Zhang Liao asked with a serious face.
There are at least two hundred beasts that have been revived in the Huns camp. Although these beasts don't look as big as the ones that flew over the Yanmen Pass that I saw before, they are not small.
With so many big guys, they only came this time with 300 people, and they couldn't handle it at all.
"Let's go back!"
"Just some brainless failures!"
"Presumably those Huns who left didn't take them seriously, they just wanted to stay here to disgust us, and they are not a threat to us at all."
After Chang Yuchun finished speaking, he waved his hand and said, "Leave 20 people to block these things a little bit, to buy time for the artillery, and the rest of them will return at full speed immediately."
As soon as he gave an order, the large army quickly retreated towards Yanmen Pass protecting the scientific research personnel, while the remaining 20 people also quickly covered the armor worn by Chang Yuchun and rushed towards the giant beasts.
These new types of mechs are expensive to counterfeit, and they cannot be fully popularized among the new army of Ming Dynasty, but some elite teams have already begun to install them.
Like Chang Yuchun, there is a team of 50 people equipped with this kind of mecha.
The cultivation bases of these team members are all seventh-rank martial arts, and with the mechas on their bodies, they are not too far behind even against sixth-rank masters.
The future Ming Dynasty New Army must continue to move closer to this aspect.
Continue to reduce the number of troops and continue to implement the strategy of military elite.
After all, the individual combat capabilities of the enemies that Daming will face in the future will become stronger and stronger, and ordinary guns will become more and more difficult to face such guys, just like Lu Bu or Dian Wei that he faced before.
To defeat such a guy, a hundred seventh-rank warriors wearing this kind of mecha must be much stronger than an army composed of ten thousand ninth-rank warriors.
Soon Chang Yuchun and the others retreated back to Yanmen Pass, and the twenty soldiers responsible for blocking the enemy also used the long-distance escape technique to escape from the battlefield.
However, those ferocious beasts did not stop there, but attacked Yanmen Pass in groups.
At this moment, Zhang Liao really realized that there were nearly six hundred of these fierce beasts.
Among them are not only animal forms, but also a large number of human forms, and even bird forms.
Looking at the overwhelming beasts rushing towards this side, Zhang Liao's face turned pale.
Any one of these ferocious beasts is basically equivalent to his force, which is almost the level of a sixth-rank martial artist.
There are so many rank-[-] warriors, even if they are a group of ignorant guys, it is very difficult to deal with.
If such a group of guys raided Yanmen Pass before the new Ming army came to support them, there is no doubt that even if Yanmen Pass had 20 defenders, it would definitely collapse.
Although he had already overestimated the fighting power of the new Ming army, but with such a group of big guys, it might be a tough fight.
He couldn't help turning his head to look at Chang Yuchun, but what puzzled him was that there was no panic on Chang Yuchun's face, it was still calm.
"Wen Yuan, next I will show you how powerful my Ming's real super weapon is!"
Chang Yuchun saw the puzzlement on Zhang Liao's face, smiled and explained again, and waved his hand at the same time.
At the same time, the rocket car, which was already ready for launch, pressed the launch button behind Yanmen Pass.
Zhang Liao turned his head suddenly.
He saw in the distant sky, clusters of flames rising one after another, blasting towards those giant beasts with bright tails.
"Boom!"
Deafening roars sounded in the wilderness twenty miles away from Yanmen Pass.
Zhang Liao was dumbfounded again.
He has seen the power of the cannons of the new army of Ming Dynasty, and he even drove a tank.
But the power of tanks and cannons is nothing compared to this thing. The power of this thing fired from the back of Yanmen Pass instantly overwhelmed those five or six hundred ferocious beasts equivalent to rank six warriors.
When the smoke dissipated, there were less than thirty beasts that could escape from it.
"Don't kill them all, capture them alive as much as possible, and bring them back, we need to conduct research!" The biology expert who watched the whole battle saw that there were still alive, and suddenly said with a face full of surprise.
"It's amazing!" Zhang Liao stared blankly at the soldiers of the Ming New Army who were fully armed and wearing mechas and went down to capture those beasts alive, and couldn't help but sigh again.
Such power is really unimaginable for him.
Chang Yuchun didn't feel much, after all, the firepower displayed now, in fact, even one-tenth of the most powerful firepower of Ming Dynasty has not been exerted yet!
Not to mention anything else, just say that if an atomic bomb is brought over, even if the number of these beasts doubles, they will die without a place to bury them.
And like Zhang Liao, Ke Bineng, who was also in shock after leaving, returned secretly.
"Changshengtian is indeed correct!"
"The power of skyfire controlled by these people is too powerful, we can't be their opponents at all!"
"These people are invincible, invincible!" Ke Bi Neng muttered to himself, and his figure flickered away quickly.
Originally, he left these guys who failed to evolve into mythical creatures in the camp because he wanted to use them to test the defenses of Yanmen Pass today. Flatten these people.
But now it seems that Changshengtian is indeed the greatest true god.
He had already anticipated the strength of these people, and chose to let himself and others avoid their edge.
Now, after seeing the terrifying abilities of these guys with his own eyes, he didn't want to stay here any longer.
He wants to escape, the farther he can escape, the better.
The war is over.
It ended with ease and without warning.
Three days after these ferocious beasts were wiped out by the missile troops of the Daming New Army, Chang Yuchun sent a large number of scout troops deep into the Cao Grassland again, and the result was that those tribes had also been slaughtered by mythical creatures.
Or a blood sacrifice.
Except for some defective mythical creatures that failed to evolve and wandered aimlessly on the grassland, and the grassland people who were fortunate enough not to be slaughtered, there were no living people left there.
The Huns are finished!
Not by the hands of the big man, but by their own hands!
To be precise, it was defeated by greedy human nature.
After all, nine out of ten of the blood sacrifices were the nobles of the Huns, and the reason why they performed such blood sacrifices was to become mythical creatures.
As for mythical creatures, after preliminary research by researchers at Yanmenguan, they concluded that these things are basically evolved by talented people through blood sacrifices, and as long as the evolution is successful, their lifespan is dozens of times that of humans, and their strength It can basically reach the level of the fifth-rank powerhouse, and even the best among them can even reach the fourth-rank, or even stronger.
This is also the reason why those Xiongnu nobles were so sad and mad, and they flocked to them.
After all, compared with tribes and land, it is obviously more important to improve one's own life level.
This result made Zhang Liao feel a little heavy.
Because he is also a gifted person, if there is such an opportunity to upgrade him to a mythical creature, so that he can live for thousands of years, to be honest, he will also be moved.
Not only him, but all the talented people in the Han Dynasty would not be tempted.
"The storm is coming!" Zhang Liao sighed.
Chang Yuchun also attached great importance to this matter. After the researcher's research report was sent to him, he asked Zhu Di to take the research report to Luoyang on the same day.
And Zhang Liao didn't stay in Yanmenguan for long, and soon went to Jizhou with the logistics staff, preparing to go to the Ming Empire through the space channel for a three-year study.
Compared with becoming a mythical creature, and through blood sacrifices, Zhang Liao still prefers to go to the Ming Empire to find opportunities.
After all, according to what Chang Yuchun said, humans in the Ming Empire also have ways to prolong their lives.
If you practice properly, extending your lifespan for hundreds of years is definitely not a problem.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei followed Zhang Liao.
During this period of time, these three people also stayed in Yanmen Pass.
Although they didn't complete what they thought was a hearty battle, the three of them witnessed the strength of the new Ming army with their own eyes.
So after Zhu Yuanzhang's consent, the three of them will go to Daming with Zhang Liao this time.
Of course, they are somewhat different from Zhang Liao.
Because they had never been to Luoyang, they didn't know from the beginning to the end that the Han family had almost changed hands to Lao Zhu.
The reason why they followed Zhang Liao to Daming was purely because they were curious about how these things were produced.
Zhu Yuanzhang is quite happy to see this.
Don't talk about Liu Bei, just talk about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They are all rare talents. It is naturally what Zhu Yuanzhang hopes to see if they can be fooled into Daming.
He has even thought about it, after taking them to Daming this time, they will never come back within ten years.
And when they come back here again, the Han Dynasty may no longer exist.
(End of this chapter)
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