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Chapter 389: Zhao Yun is promoted to a famous general and supports Huang Zhong

Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci returned to Nanchang City with Lu Meng's head. At that time, Gu Rubing was directing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, bury the dead comrades, record them in a book, and take good care of them.

Gu Rubing's gaze immediately fell on the head in Zhao Yun's hand. Blood was still dripping from it, and his eyes were wide open with a ferocious expression, as if he had seen something that made him angry and frightened before it was cut off.

"Let's use his head to commemorate the soldiers who died in the battle."

Looking at the head with eyes open, Gu Rubing felt like something was dropped in his heart. After all, in history, Lu Meng was the man who killed Guan Yu. Although the current development has deviated from the torrent of history, there are still countless causes and effects. Only when Lu Meng dies can Gu Rubing feel at ease.

"promise!"

Zhao Yun clasped his fists and walked to where his comrades' bodies were piled up. He placed his still bleeding head on a spear and then slammed it to the ground. The spear was three-quarters into the ground. A human head was on the tip of the spear, with long hair fluttering in the wind.

Suddenly, Gu Rubing seemed to remember something, and looked fiercely at Zhao Yun, then opened Zhao Yun's panel. Sure enough, just as he expected, Zhao Yun had been promoted to a famous general!

[Name: Zhao Yun]

[Identity: Commander]

[General level: famous general (0/100) (legendary general points: 0/100)]

[Features: Dragon in troubled times, Dragon fighting in the wild, Dragon's rage in desperate situation, Dragon's gallbladder and spear soul, Dragon soul (human heart, dragon soul, where the heart moves, the dragon soul possesses)]

[Dragon Soul Effect: Zhao Yun becomes a famous general and is recognized by a real dragon. He can be possessed by a dragon soul. Dragon Soul Possession Effect: Any of the following characteristics, Dragon in Troubled Times, Dragon Fighting in the Wild, Dragon Fury in Despair, and Dragon Gallbladder Spear Soul, gain 300% of the original gain value. Different temporary effects are obtained based on the enhanced characteristics. The duration is half an hour, and after the end, it enters a twelve-hour cooldown. During the cooldown period, the enhanced characteristics are temporarily invalid (Dragon in Troubled Times cannot affect this judgment).]

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With such a long list of characteristic effect introductions, Gu Rubing's eyes were fixed on the 300% numerical gain of any characteristic. If Zhao Yun was in desperate situation, he would gain the 100% unit gain bonus of Desperate Dragon's Fury, and then use Dragon Soul, which would be tripled to gain a 300% unit gain bonus.

Now that Zhao Yun's Desperate Dragon Fury has been triggered, all of his basic attributes have become the most abnormal. If they were tripled, Gu Rubing couldn't even imagine how strong he would be. Would he really be able to defeat ten thousand troops alone and block a thousand enemies' way?

Not only is the Dragon's Fury in Desperate Situation, but the Dragon's Rage in Chaos is also twice as powerful. After being promoted to a famous general, the acquisition of legendary general points becomes faster, because a great chaos is imminent, and the last thing you lack is a big war.

However, the acquisition of experience points has become slower, because only when you kill very powerful generals will you get more experience points. If you just kill ordinary soldiers, you may not get any experience points even if you kill ten thousand people.

Since Zhang Fei was promoted to a famous general, the speed at which he gained experience points has widened the gap with Guan Yu, because Guan Yu can gain double the experience points, but Zhang Fei can only catch up with Guan Yu by relying on his infinite stamina to kill more enemies. Since both of them became famous generals, Zhang Fei could not catch up with Guan Yu no matter how much he killed.

If Guan Yu's experience points doubled, then what if Zhao Yun could gain six times as much experience points by doubling it? Even if there was only half an hour, as long as Zhao Yun could kill a first-class general within this half an hour, the experience points he would gain would be something that other generals would find difficult to obtain even after fighting for months.

During the last battle at Xudu, Zhang Liao's experience points will soon catch up with Zhang Fei because he single-handedly killed two top-notch generals under Cao Cao. Maybe Zhao Yun could be the first general under his command to be promoted to a legendary general. As for the first legendary strategist, it must be Zhuge Liang.

Now Zhuge Liang's legendary strategist points are close to 80 points. I believe that after the battle of Jingzhou is over, Zhuge Liang will be successfully promoted to a legendary strategist.

After Zhao Yun hung up Lu Meng's head, he returned to Gu Rubing. Gu Rubing patted Zhao Yun on the shoulder and turned to leave. He knew that Zhao Yun had always been optimistic about the deputy general named Fan Er. Fan Er was indeed very competitive. He always led the charge in every battle. He was always the first to rush into the city or capture the camp. Gu Rubing also wanted to train Fan Er to be the commander of the Bai Li soldiers, because Zhao Yun should soon have his own exclusive branch of soldiers, and he couldn't let him lead the Bai Li soldiers all the time.

Instead of the expected tragic and lofty ambitions, Zhao Yun simply took a pot of wine, poured it in front of Fan Er's grave, said nothing, and followed Gu Rubing's footsteps.

"My Lord, where are we going next?"

"Go and fight for the throne of the world, and restore the Han Dynasty!"

Gu Rubing said with a smile, Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci followed behind Gu Rubing, and behind them were the Bai Li soldiers, cavalry, and archers. In this battle, they lost less than 4,000 people. The original team of 64,000 people has now been reduced to 60,000 people.

Although the loss of manpower was not much, the consumption of gunpowder was extremely high. After collecting the gunpowder left on the north wall, there were only more than two thousand gunpowder left. This time they brought all the 50,000 archers from Qingzhou, and even more than half of the gunpowder, a full four thousand. More than one thousand and nearly two thousand gunpowder were used up in this battle, which was a huge consumption.

Riding on a horse, Gu Rubing was thinking about his next plan. Now, the danger to Nanchang County City has been lifted. Although the war is over, the flames of war have spread to various places in Nanchang and it is no longer suitable for people to live in. Therefore, Gu Rubing did not take back the people who were sent to the northern city of Nanchang.

The danger in Yuzhang County has been resolved, and Huang Zhong has gone to support Cangwu County. Cangwu County can still hold out for a while. There are not many troops stationed in Guiyang County and Changsha County, and they will almost fall apart at the slightest touch. There is no need to go to support them, otherwise they may drag themselves into the quagmire, which will be even more difficult to deal with.

Jiangxia County. According to the information Gu Rubing had obtained, there was only Sun Jian in Jiangxia County, and Sun Jian had divided his troops into several routes. Now that Nanchang had been resolved, the plan to take Nanchang to support Gan Ning and his men and attack Guiyang and Changsha would have fallen through. Even if Sun Jian used all his strength to attack Jiangxia County, he would definitely not be able to take it down in a short period of time.

Gu Rubing wanted to help Nanjun and Wuling counties but there was nothing he could do as he was too far away to reach them. Nanyang County was now the last piece of pure land. After much thought, it seemed that the only option Gu Rubing could support was Cangwu County. Besides, no one knew how Shi Xie had developed during the period of chaos in the Central Plains.

"Let's go to Cangwu County and support Han Sheng." Gu Rubing made a prompt decision. At this time, indecision would be absolutely fatal.

The seat of Cangwu County, Guangxin County, was where the five great governors died. Liu Qi appointed several generals that Liu Biao trusted during his lifetime as governors of several counties. Among them, the one who was appointed as the governor of Cangwu was Wei Yan, who had worked with Huang Zhong in Changsha before. This was a general that Gu Rubing was familiar with. He was evaluated by Zhuge Liang as a general with a rebellious mind, and his strength was also a top-notch general.

It’s a pity that he refused to obey the rules at the last moment and wanted to rebel during the chaos, so he was beheaded.

After Huang Zhong learned in advance that Jiaozhou was going to attack Cangwu with the strength of the entire state, he immediately notified Wei Yan and asked Wei Yan to gather all the troops of Cangwu County in Changxin County. However, there were only 20,000 soldiers in total, and more than half of them were militiamen who had not been transferred to regular troops. However, Wei Yan still stayed in Changxin County. Even though he knew that he was no match for Shi Xie, he had no intention of backing down.

When Gu Rubing suggested that Huang Zhong go to support Wei Yan, Huang Zhong agreed without much thought. Cangwu is full of mountains and Changxin County also relies on natural barriers, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. With Huang Zhong's 50,000 troops, they are not without the ability to fight.

On the eve of the attack, Huang Zhong also received a notice from Gu Rubing, in which he learned that Shi Xie would launch an attack tonight, so he asked the soldiers to rest during the day to recuperate. At the same time, he created the illusion that Cangwu County was empty and unmanned, in order to confuse Shi Xie and his men and make them believe that there were still only more than 10,000 troops stationed in Cangwu.

The infiltration of Gu Rubing's information network once again gave Huang Zhong a great shock. Gu Rubing had actually told Huang Zhong the troop ratios in Jiaozhou before Huang Zhong came, and even got hold of the specific types of troops. This meant that someone in Jiaozhou had at least reached the position of a captain of a thousand men.

Late at night, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan sat side by side on the city wall, neither of them speaking. They drank wine one sip at a time, quietly waiting for Shi Xie's attack. According to the intelligence given to them by Gu Rubing, they remained silent, quietly focused on developing their forces, and unexpectedly brought out an army of 200,000 in one go.

Fifty thousand cavalry, thirty thousand heavy armored soldiers, and one hundred and twenty thousand infantry. Based on this ratio, if Jiaozhou had a small population, it would not be a problem for Shi Xie to raise three hundred thousand or five hundred thousand men. After all, the things he had done were heard of by several nearby states.

At midnight, the quiet night was broken by a roar. The people who had been lying in ambush on the city wall looked up and saw a large group of people from the other side slowly approaching Changxin County. Wei Yan's deputy general, the commander of the Changxin garrison, stood on the city wall and roared.

"Enemy attack! Shoot!"

Hundreds of soldiers poked their heads out from the battlements and shot arrows sparsely downwards, but the arrows were bounced away when they hit the enemy's thick armor and had no chance of breaking through their heavy armor.

Shi Xie sat on a flat hill, quietly watching the heavy armor that was attacking the city in front of him. This 50,000 heavy armor had cost him a lot of effort. When he just entered the game, the soldiers in Jiaozhou were all wearing a kind of rattan armor that had been soaked in tung oil and then dried. It could not be penetrated by knives, pierced by guns, or shot by arrows. It was of good quality and low price.

But Shi Xie immediately discovered the problem. Wouldn't this kind of armor covered in oil become a mobile source of fire if it encountered fire?
So after Shi Xie became rich, he immediately carried out reforms and threw away all the rattan armor. You have to know that he was not the only one who traveled through time. Shi Xie was very clear about the consequences if others knew what the rattan armor was made of. He replaced the rattan armor with heavy armor, which was several times thicker than ordinary armor, but the defense increased exponentially.

For this purpose, Shi Xie specially selected 30,000 strong men and trained them into heavy armored soldiers. These were the soldiers in front of him who were attacking the city. Seeing the arrows hitting the heavy armored soldiers without even leaving any marks, Shi Xie couldn't help but laugh out loud.

In his opinion, strong economic strength is the most important guarantee to support him in his pursuit of the world. With money, he can have everything. Therefore, after entering the game, he chose a track that no one else had ever thought of, that is, smuggling.

The exquisite artifacts of the Han Dynasty were transported to the South China Sea and sold to the indigenous people in exchange for their rich gold resources. The indigenous people there were captured and sold as slaves to the nobles of Jiaozhou for them to enslave and drive. The pretty maids were sold to brothels. Later, Shi Xie simply asked his cousin to open a brothel in Jiaozhou, which put a stop to all other brothels.

It can be said that Shi Xie did everything that he would not dare to do in the real world, and he enjoyed this feeling very much. In reality, he was an unknown chemistry teacher, a model of a gentleman, but now he is doing all kinds of evil here.

"I was unknown before, but when I dominate the world, everyone will know my name."

There was a gleam in Shi Xie's eyes, and he looked at the heavy armor gradually approaching Changxin County with satisfaction and intoxication. His first step to dominance started from here.

The heavy armor was getting closer and closer, until they were only a hundred meters away from the city wall. Suddenly, a figure appeared on the wall. He pulled the bow like a full moon, and an arrow spiraled into the sky and then fell straight into the heavy armored soldiers. An explosion was heard, and Shi Xie on the top of the mountain heard it clearly.

He heard from Shi Yi that Sun Ce told them that the other side had large-scale weapons, but he never expected that it was gunpowder! As a chemistry teacher, he naturally knew the most basic proportions of gunpowder, one sulfur, two nitrates and three charcoal. He also tried to make it when he first came, but it was not controllable. He couldn't understand how Liu Bei made controllable gunpowder under such circumstances, and could also use bows and arrows to fire it.

However, those heavy-armored soldiers on the periphery were merely blown away, and no substantial casualties were caused. Only some soldiers near the gunpowder explosion were killed. Huang Zhong felt helpless when he saw this scene. This gunpowder was almost the most lethal he had ever seen, and it couldn't cause large-scale casualties to the heavy armor. Then this battle was destined to be difficult.

"Bun-san, I'll go first in this battle."

Huang Zhong said this seriously, implying that I will die first. When Huang Zhong was about to ask Wei Yan to take good care of his son, Wei Yan waved his hand impatiently.

"Don't say it. I don't want to hear it. Ladies, if you want me to take care of your son, don't say it as soon as possible. I'm an old man. How can I take care of a child? You have the ability to stay alive and take care of it yourself."

Wei Yan stopped talking to Huang Zhong, stood up and shouted loudly to the people below.

"Grandsons of Jiaozhou, your grandfather Wei Yan is right here. Attack us if you have the guts. Grandpa Wei will accompany you to the end!"

Seeing that the other side did not fire any more gunpowder, Shi Xie finally felt relieved. As long as it was not a large amount of gunpowder, the impact would not be significant.

(End of this chapter)