My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 665: What is a brave general in front of the cliff?

In the night, the military camp was quiet.

The news that many generals in the army had arranged their armor and weapons and rushed to the parade ground alone had spread among the soldiers. At this time, many soldiers did not go into their tents, but stood outside the tents, looking in the direction of the parade ground.

"I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard that many generals of our Western Expedition Army gathered in the parade grounds without even their personal soldiers."

"I wonder what your majesty wants to do by sending these generals!"

"It's not an easy job anyway."

As the soldiers were murmuring, a general on horseback came roaring past a nearby tent.

Amidst the noise, there was also a flickering oil lamp in the general's tent. The dim light reflected the iron armor with hideous mountain patterns. The terrifying body moved, and the beast head in the middle of the huge chest of the armor seemed to come alive.

"Finally I can use you!"

Inside the tent, Li Yuanba walked past the light, took a pair of extremely heavy meteorite hammers from the weapon rack, and touched them lightly, causing several sparks to fly.

The former innocence has faded from his face, and the young man who died in depression in the courtyard has died in the memory.

After being resurrected for many years, he has become a dark and strong general who charges into battle.

The life that he had never touched before has now become the norm. He has made many good friends here, and even His Majesty wants to arrange a marriage for him.

His second brother, who loved him the most, was also by his side.

"Ha ha!"

Li Yuanba opened the tent curtain and walked out with his head lowered, carrying the pair of Wengjin drum hammers on his shoulders.

Such a life made him content. No matter what Emperor Su Chen asked him to do, he would spare no effort.

"You guys, just bluff and wait for good news!"

He shouted to the soldiers outside the tent, then walked towards the training ground majestically, carrying a large iron hammer.

Ten feet away, in Qin Qiong's tent, a black man named Yuchi Gong put armor on him, then took off the iron whip from his waist and handed it to Qin Qiong.

"I have to lead the troops, so I can't go. Shubao, take my iron whip, and let it be stained with the blood of the barbarian emperor."

"Ha ha!"

Qin Qiong laughed heartily, showing how good his mood was at the moment. He grabbed the weapon handed to him by his old brother and tied it around his waist, one on each side, along with his own meteorite mace.

Then he nodded and responded with high spirits.

"Okay, I'll just assume you're with me!"

As he spoke, Qin Shubao patted the iron whip, patted Yuchi Gong on the shoulder, and strode out of the tent. He ran into Li Yuanba who was taking the "unrelated step" and the two of them went to the training ground together.

There were more and more bonfires in the camp.

In the firelight, one general after another rode their horses from their respective camps to the central army. Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Xiang Yu, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Le Jin, Xu Huang... and a group of other generals bowed to each other and walked into the parade ground with smiles on their faces.

With flags fluttering, Su Chen stood on the stage, putting on his mountain-patterned armor made of meteorite iron, tucked his iron helmet under his armpit, and holding the head of the Dragon Sparrow Sword in his right hand. Seeing all the generals gathering together, a smile also appeared on his face.

With such a lineup, even if there are thousands of troops in front of them, no one can stop these historical heroes who have been fighting for thousands of years.

Everyone came over one after another, standing in front of the platform in order regardless of status, and all bowed and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty!"

Wu Zixun, who had been prepared, led a dozen soldiers and brought wine and ceramic bowls. After distributing them, he filled their cups one by one.

Su Chen held the ceramic bowl in both hands. As he moved, the wine rippled and some of it spilled from the edge of the bowl. His voice spread and echoed across the training ground.

"I will go with the other generals, and when the time comes, I hope to return with you all!"

"Go with His Majesty!"

The generals standing in a row, such as Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, Xu Huang, Yang Ye, Li Cunxiao, Li Yuanba, Qin Qiong, Le Jin, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei... and other generals raised their wine bowls high.

"Return with His Majesty!"

"After two years of marching west, it's time to win the final battle. Whether our Great Xia can live forever depends on this battle. May the ancestors of the Chinese nation bless us and toast to victory!"

Su Chen raised the wine bowl high, spoke in a heroic and high-pitched voice, tilted his head back and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp.

"Your Majesty is so noble!"

Zhang Fei looked at the wine in his hand and had been greedy for a long time. He laughed and said something and drank the wine impatiently.

The other people around naturally had heroic looks in their eyes. The generals who had come to this world earlier gradually developed feelings for this place. Even if there had been gaps between them, they had disappeared. Although they occasionally quarreled and argued, they were family members after all.

"Han Xin!"

After Xiang Yu finished drinking the bowl of wine, he asked Wu Zixun to fill it up again. Then he looked at the Marquis of Huaiyin who was standing on the side below the platform. Xiang Yu raised the bowl of wine and gestured with a smile.

Over there, Han Xin pursed his lips and asked someone to bring him some wine. He stood about ten steps away and saluted Xiang Yu: "King Xiang, I wish you a great victory! I also wish everyone present a safe return!"

After saying that, he drank it all in one breath.

"When the world is at peace, I will come to you to learn military tactics!" Xiang Yu said with a smile, and threw the pottery bowl to the ground with a bang.

There was a sudden sound of bowls breaking all around.

Ma Chao wiped the wine stains from his mouth and smiled at Zhao Yun who was standing on the other side of Zhang Fei: "Brother-in-law, when the time comes, let's see whose spear and sword are more powerful, and who can kill more people!"

"Okay, Yun also wants to see how fast the Xiliang Ma family's swordsmanship is!"

Both of them are good at spear and sword. Zhao Yun is not only proficient in both, but also good at archery. The same is true for Ma Chao. The two of them are usually friendly, but in fact, they have some thoughts of competing with each other in private.

At the very end, Yang Ye was leaning on the purple gold sword, looking around, with a heroic look on his old face; Li Cunxiao next to him was overwhelmed with emotion, as many people here were once active in history, and to see them appear in front of him so vividly and to kill the barbarians together with the other side, he was so excited that he was speechless for a moment.

"You two, you can just follow us when the time comes!"

At this time, a chubby figure came up and spoke to Yang Ye and Li Cunxiao. After all, seeing that these two people were new arrivals and were afraid of being ignored, he stepped forward to win over the emperor.

Li Cunxiao and Yang Ye bowed politely and introduced themselves.

"Okay, okay, I'm An Lushan..."

Li and Yang's faces suddenly changed and they turned away. Having just arrived, they still kept their distance from An Lushan.

On the high platform, Su Chen talked with Jia Xu, Han Xin, and Li Jing for a while, and entrusted the military affairs to the three of them. "We have Subutai's support outside. Even if the barbarians fight with their backs to the river, the Mongolian light cavalry can come to reinforce and turn the danger into safety."

After repeated instructions, he called Hou Junji and Geshu Han.

These two men were both extremely outstanding. They followed the Tang army from the north and did not perform very well. However, the stability of the Tang army and even the Yizhou army and the Qin army's rear was all due to these two men.

"Your Majesty, go with peace of mind. The two of us will take good care of the rear camp with the one-eyed Xiahou!"

After a long and boisterous farewell, the generals also gave some instructions to the people who were taking over their troops, and then they all mounted their horses.

Su Chen walked down the platform, took the reins handed to him by Wu Zixun, and jumped up in the stirrups.

"Xu Chu stays, and Dian Wei comes with me!"

After saying this, he kicked the horse's belly and started running, shouting loudly: "Go!"

"Let's go!" The generals waved their whips and followed the emperor, rushing out of the gate together. Zhang Jue, who was waiting outside, also got on his horse, and with Li Chaofu and Li Tiangang waving goodbye, he followed this group of brave generals to the southwest.

……

Nongma City, the Imperial Palace.

In a rock palace hidden behind the castle, four stone pillars were burning with flames, illuminating the stone statue of King Arthur sitting on a huge rock throne.

Going down the stairs, strange runes form a circle, surrounding an old man wearing a sack in the middle.

Merlin made the last stroke of the cane in his hand, his forehead and exposed neck were all covered with sweat, he made the last stroke of the cane and tapped it heavily on the rune.

The next second, the surrounding runes suddenly emitted a faint red light.

On the side of the giant rock throne, King Arthur, wearing a laurel crown and a silk robe, walked over and stood in front of his own stone statue.

Merlin walked forward silently, took off the sack on Zhang Dongzhi's head, and threw it outside the talisman formation.

"It will be quick, just bear with it and it will be over!"

"Ha ha……"

Zhang Dongzhi's hair was disheveled. He didn't look at him, but stared weakly at the tall barbarian emperor on the stone steps. He replied softly, "Afraid? Haha... People who practice cultivation have the great Dao in their hearts, so how can they be afraid of death?"

The words fell.

Merlin, who was standing by, raised his staff and tapped the chains on Zhang Dongzhi's hands and feet. The special chains that bound the oriental monk broke with a bang and fell to the ground. Merlin then waved his hand and swept them out of the rune formation.

"My king, everything is ready!"

Merlin took one last look at the oriental monk, stepped outside the rune, and bowed slightly to King Arthur on the stone steps.

Arthur did not answer, but stood in front of the giant rock throne, slowly stretched out his hand towards the old man in the rune array, and grabbed him through the air.

Zhang Dongzhi was lifted into the air in an instant, and his limbs seemed to be grabbed by invisible hands and stretched to the left and right.

An indescribable powerful force swept over like a tidal wave.

……

It was dark and it was already the second half of the night.

The stars and the moon gradually disappeared behind the clouds. The mountains on the left side of Nongma City became pitch black. At an outpost of the Nongma Legion on the top of the mountain, the sound of several broken bones could be heard in the darkness.

The soldiers sitting around the fire heard some noise, but before they could get up to check, several arrows flew from the darkness almost at the same time and killed four soldiers beside the fire.

After a while, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Lu Bu, and Yang Ye walked out of the darkness. Then, Su Chen and Guan Yu, Xiang Yu, Zhang Fei, Li Yuanba and others also came over. After checking the place and making sure that no one had slipped through the net, Ma Chao whistled towards the forest below.

The crowd then passed this place, rustling through the woods, and came to the cliff facing Nongma City.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the second group of generals including An Lushan, Li Cunxiao, Xu Huang, and Le Jin came around from the middle of the mountain. They also eliminated the secret sentries of Nongma City hiding in the mountains.

"It's so high... I'll be killed if I jump down!" Although An Lushan had some martial arts skills, he was not as skilled as generals like Lu Bu and others. He squatted on the edge of the cliff and looked down, and his legs suddenly felt weak.

"Follow us!"

Li Cunxiao glanced at him and repeated to him exactly what he had said on the training ground.

Here, Su Chen, Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, Guan Yu and others were also discussing how to launch the attack.

"Xiang has an idea!"

Xiang Yu raised his eyes and looked towards Nongma City outside the cliff. From here, although the streets in the city were small, for someone with their level of martial arts, they could see them clearly.

He pointed at the cliff, then raised his hand and pointed to the distance, where the outline of a castle could be vaguely seen.

"Jump down directly under the cover of night, and then rush through these streets as fast as possible to hit Huanglong!"

"What if we encounter barbarian soldiers on the way?" Zhao Yun frowned, "Wouldn't that alert the enemy?"

"Just kill him directly, then no one will see it, right?" Xiang Yu laughed grimly.

"Good idea!" Lu Bu nodded seriously, "King Xiang's intention is just as I thought."

The two men seemed to be joking, but the rest of the people around them could not laugh. They were so far away from each other, and it was just as Xiang Yu said, they descended down and headed straight for the palace.

Seeing that no one was talking, Su Chen simply made the final decision: "Let's do it this way. The faster the better."

As he spoke, Su Chen referred to the layout of the streets in the city, raised his fingers, and carved two routes on the hard rock.

Just as a group of people were forming teams and discussing how to quickly march to the Barbarian Palace, the sounds of war drums and horns were heard in the fields east of Nongma City.

Han Xin, Li Jing and others began to act according to the plan.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the war drums and horns sounded, the alarm bells were sounded on the eastern wall of Nongma City.

Boom!
Boom!
The sound of bronze bells echoed in the darkness of the early morning, and the quiet city was thrown into chaos in a moment. Su Chen and others who were hiding on the cliffs could clearly feel the tense atmosphere in the city.

Groups of barbarian soldiers with torches weaved through the streets and quickly headed for the city walls to provide support, while some on horseback were frantically delivering messages.

The military force in Nongma City was actually insufficient, and at this point, soldiers from the palace had already been drawn to the city.

Officials from the administrative offices held torches and knocked on the houses where people were still living, calling out the men, women, and children inside to go to the top of the city walls to help defend the city.

Most of those who refused to go were hacked to death, and then the rest were frightened and obeyed orders to go out.

Just as the city was in chaos and a large number of people and soldiers rushed to the east city wall, Su Chen and others who were waiting for the opportunity were ready to go down the cliff.

"Someone comes first!"

In the dark early morning, Lu Bu stood on the edge of the cliff, facing the mountain wind, and jumped straight into the clouds covering the mountainside. The next moment, he swung his halberd back and stabbed it into the cliff. While slowing down, he kicked the mountain wall with his foot to relieve the force of falling, and turned around in mid-air to pounce on the ground.

He landed on the ground with a thud, and both of his feet left a half-foot deep hole in the ground.

As soon as he landed, the sound of a heavy object falling was heard not far away. It was Xiang Yu who jumped down safely for the second time.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Chao, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Xu Huang and Qin Qiong followed closely.

"me……"

When it was An Lushan's turn, he was shivering due to fear of heights. Before he could finish his words, someone kicked him on his fat butt and sent him flying off the cliff.

Li Xuanba snorted: "Dawdle!"

He leaped down, first throwing the hammer in his hand, and then reaching out with his free hand to grab An Lushan, who was waving his arms and legs in the air.

boom!
As the hammer fell to the ground, Li Yuanba also half-knelt down, with An Lushan hanging in the air on his raised right hand, his eyes rolled back and foam coming out of his mouth, before he finished his last words on the cliff:

"Too...too high..."

In mid-air, Zhang Jiao floated down, flicked his whisk, and nodded to Su Chen.

"There is no time to lose, hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)