In the deep night, the swords clashed and the bowstrings vibrated.
Gongsun Hong usually walks with a stooped back, but now he is extremely upright, full of energy, and his gait can be called vigorous.
His hand glowed green, and an ancient scroll that looked like a hanging scroll appeared.
That ancient scroll carries the knowledge and practice of Gongsun Hong's reading of the Spring and Autumn Period, Gongyang Zhuan, and Confucianism.
There are two ancient seal characters "Chunqiu" in the scroll.
These two words seem to correspond to the knowledge of countless scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period, converging into a kind of destiny, shining like the sun across the sky, imprinted on the city gate.
Click!
The Han army gathered together and combined with Gongsun Hong's strength, the city gate burst into pieces.
But immediately after, a leather scroll that looked like a silk book flew out from deep within the city of Yamato Royal Capital.
"If you invade our Yamato, you will be buried here and become a sacrifice to Tsukiyomi Ming Palace!"
A deep voice sounded from the depths of the royal capital, speaking the language of the island country. But with the powerful fluctuation of spiritual consciousness, Huo Qubing, Gongsun Hong and others could sense its meaning.
The leather scroll stretched out, and there seemed to be a shrine inside, with light flowing.
In the palace, there were several figures wearing armor looming, like gods and demons.
"The old prime minister took action because he sensed that this leather scroll was about to appear?"
Under the light of the shrine contained in the leather scroll, the walls of the royal capital seemed to be coated with a layer of cold silver. The entire king's capital has become like a shrine in the scroll, and its defense power is increasing.
Unfortunately, the city gate was breached by Gongsun Hong a moment earlier.
This is why he rushed to take action.
Just now, he and Huo Qubing sensed a powerful force rising deep in the capital of Yamato.
Gongsun Hong took action first, firstly to satisfy his cravings, and at the same time, he could break the city faster and reduce his own consumption.
The two words "Spring and Autumn" he sacrificed were imprinted on the leather scroll palace above.
There are only two fonts, but they carry the most fundamental power of learning Confucianism. They are so radiant that they rival those ancient scrolls.
Gongsun Hong took out another simple book from his sleeve: "Try the sage's handwriting borrowed from Old Man Dong."
He was fully prepared to join the war.
Not only did he borrow the saint's handwriting from Dong Zhongshu, he took it out and held it in his left hand. With a flick of his sleeve, he took out another scroll.
This scroll, intertwined with punishments and penalties, laws and orders, is a Legalist classic that the old man borrowed from Zhang Tang.
Gongsun Hong entrusted the treasures of both the Legalist and Confucian schools to infuse and stimulate his development through spiritual practice.
The sage's handwriting and Legalist classics blended together, turning into a beam of light that struck the leather scroll in mid-air.
"Compare your background with my big man, hey."
The fluctuations coming out of the saint's handwriting are majestic and majestic.
"The most benevolent person in the world can be the most benevolent person in the world!"
This is what Confucius said, teach people to be good.
The saint's handwriting is a masterpiece of Xuanguang, and the Legalist classics are intertwined with legal principles.
The leather scroll offered by the opponent screamed, and several figures in the shrine were rolled up. They seemed to be suppressed by the saint's handwriting, defeated by the law, and disappeared in an instant.
The leather scroll was also shrinking, retreating into the depths of the city as if escaping.
On the low hill outside the city, Huo Qubing said: "Enter the city and fight quickly."
Behind him, the Han army rushed towards the broken city gate like a tide.
"The old prime minister is well prepared and has brought many things."
Gongsun Hong looked at Huo Qubing, who was approaching on horseback, with a serious look on his face: "It seems something is not right, do you feel it?"
Huo Qubing nodded: "Dahe is just a small country, and its civilization has just emerged from ignorance. Without our country, which has been inherited from ancient times, the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the accumulated heritage, we should not be able to condense treasures that are so closely aligned with the national destiny.
The leather scroll just now was second only to an immortal weapon. If it hadn't been written in a saint's handwriting, it wouldn't have been so easy to suppress it. "
The two of them thought of the reason at the same time: "That Zongheng Half Saint has a deep arrangement here."
Huo Qubing looked into the depths of the royal capital: "By entering the royal city and capturing the King of Yamato, we should be able to reveal many secrets."
"Enter the city!"
Gongsun Hong mounted his horse and followed him.
At this time, the two armies were fighting fiercely at the city gate.
On top of the city, after Fu Luzhi was promoted to the level of a military strategist in the second realm of Heaven and Human, his strength increased dramatically. The Han sword in his hand was like a bolt of lightning, and only the glow of the sword could be seen but the movement of the blade could not be seen.
A Yamato guard tried to stop Fu Rikuzhi, but he was cut across with his sword, confused by his rapid and multiple changes of direction in a small area, and died instantly under the sword.
Fu Luzhi's sword became more powerful and he rushed straight into the crowd of Yamato defenders.
Zhao Chongguo on the other side was in a bitter battle and was in danger.
He was ready to use a military strategy slip given to him by Huo Qubing, who had given him guidance on his practice last time. It was also the basis for him to risk his life and charge into the city.
Zhao Chongguo mobilized his strength and was about to use the military slips when he suddenly saw a black figure jumping down from above, standing in front of him like half an iron tower.
The city wall swayed because of the figure's fall.
The figure took a breath and expanded again.
Zhao Chongguo was already very tall, but the figure standing in front of him was even bigger and stronger.
The figure roared, and the sound was like rolling thunder, sweeping across the city.
The surrounding Yamato defenders were frightened by the war cry, and when their minds were unstable, the black shadow jumped forward, punched out both fists, and hammered the chests of the two Yamato defenders who were approaching.
The two of them seemed to have been picked on by a crazed bull. Their bodies were unbalanced and they fell over ten feet high. Their chests were cracked and bleeding, and they died in an instant.
Zhao Chongguo stared blankly at the figure in front of him, stretched out his arms, hugged the three or four Yamato soldiers who rushed up, stepped forward, and actually used brute force to push them to the top of the city on the other side.
The figure also jumped down from mid-air, and reached out to pull out two bronze sledgehammers from the void. As the city fell, he continued to use the hammers, smashing the fallen Yamato soldiers' heads into pieces.
This man... is so brave. He can draw a hammer out of thin air and have magical military strategies made out of nothing!
Zhao Chongguo also jumped from the top of the city and used his strength to land on the corpse of an enemy soldier. Because of his injuries, he staggered before he could stand upright.
Xiong San held the big hammer and wiped the blood on his face with his forearm. He turned back to look at Zhao Chongguo and said disdainfully: "You are the only one who is still charging into the city, follow me."
He picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it out like two peanuts.
Zhao Chongguo followed Xiong Sanshen.
The two of them rushed forward as a team.
He didn't know how long they had been fighting, but Zhao Chongguo could only feel that there was a forest of swords and guns in front of him, so dense that almost every inch of the void was sealed.
He pushed aside the spear that was stabbing him, raised his sword, and killed a Yamato soldier. He turned around and looked at him in the middle of his busy schedule.
Xiong's three big hammers opened and closed, not far away.
The Marquis's maid is more powerful than me... Zhao Chongguo thought to himself.
Suddenly, he felt the pressure relax, but a huge military formation appeared under his feet, including them all.
The strength gushing out from the military formation strengthened the Han army's strength.
Waiting for work, helping them quickly recover their physical strength, walk at the fastest speed, and be blessed by the beauty trap.
Zhao Chongguo, who was on the verge of reaching the limit of his physical strength, suddenly felt that he was able to do it again.
He shrugged and bumped forward, making a fake movement from left to right, and suddenly bumped into an opponent's soldier.
"Fu Luzhi led his troops to advance from the left, Huben Guards were in the center, and Chen Qing's men formed an array on the right.
Each unit uses a crossbow formation to defeat the enemy, and the spearmen serve as shields and cooperate with the crossbows! "
Huo Qubing moved the General Seal of the Consciousness Sea, and everyone in the Han army covered by the military array heard his orders clearly.
As the military formations shifted and changed, the Han troops who entered the city quickly gathered and matched up with their respective formations.
At the beginning of construction of all cities, city defense, marching and other issues will be fully considered, so the main streets are very wide.
The main street of King Yamato's capital is seven or eight feet wide, allowing carriages and horses to run parallel to each other.
Under the protection of the military formation, the Han army quickly formed a formation.
After the cavalry dismounted, their swords and guns pointed forward, forming a front row of spear formations.
In the Forbidden Army, the troops behind Huo Qubing never participated in the charge.
On their bodies, they all carry a copper box that is as wide and as large as their backs.
It was an arrow box, and the inside was densely packed with short crossbow arrows issued by the Han army.
In each quiver, there are more than 500 palm-long crossbow arrows. There is a simple machine buckle at the bottom to facilitate taking out the small arrow box from the quiver.
At this time, the troops carrying arrow boxes were protected in the middle of the queue, and were pushed forward row by row in a roller formation.
That is to say, the front row completes the attack, and the back row uses the gap between the horses to move forward and continue the crossbow attack.
After that comes the third row.
Repeat this, always ensuring that there is a row of people stretched horizontally, with people on horses, condescending, and the arrows shot just pass the front row of spearmen and fall into the enemy's formation.
What they are holding in their hands is a new type of military crossbow with an arrow box on top, which can shoot arrows alternately by pulling the button of the crossbow.
Huo Qubing asked Mohist craftsmen to study mortars, something beyond their knowledge, but progress was slow.
But it is not difficult to tell the general principle and let Mo Gong make the repeating crossbow of later generations.
After a period of trying to adjust and improve the existing crossbows, the new crossbows that the Han army was using at this time emerged.
Similar to Zhuge Liannu during the Three Kingdoms period.
Pulling the buckle, the arrows placed side by side in the quiver sink, are hooked and pushed by the buckle again and again, and then they can be fired in a cycle.
Parallel in the quiver are two short arrows.
An arrow box can hold six rows of arrows from top to bottom. After shooting them all, the next row will follow.
The two rows of crossbowmen who took turns retreating took the opportunity to complete loading arrows.
Three rows of rotation can form a cycle of continuous arrow release.
The Han army's array pushed forward like a roller.
The arrows were as dense as rain, and the void was filled with the sound of trembling bowstrings, creating a concentrated fire advantage.
Yamato soldiers had never seen such a dense array of arrows.
With the cooperation of the arrow array, the entire team moved forward smoothly.
The people of the island nation charged forward with shields. As long as the Han army's spearmen in the front row moved their shields and there was a slight gap, they would be shot and people would fall to the ground.
The first burst of arrows hadn't stopped yet, the second burst, the third burst, the fourth burst came one after another...
Huo Qubing rode behind the array.
This was the first time he tried the new crossbow arrow formation. Because it was inside the city, its power was somewhat compromised.
If a sudden ambush is fought, the power of this crossbow machine's continuous fire will be even greater.
'Technological leadership' is the primary productive force.
Let the siege battle advance faster than imagined, with fewer casualties.
Ahead, the Yamato Castle is clearly visible, with its vermilion gate and a large number of nervous-looking defenders standing up and down the tower.
"Huo Hou, I don't know why, when I enter this city, I always feel frightened.
It is better for us to join forces and decide the outcome of the battle as early as possible. "
Gongsun Hong scanned the depths of the palace, wanting to determine the outcome of the battle as soon as possible.
The handwriting of Confucian saints in his hand, combined with the Legalist classics, shine together and match the strength of the Han army.
Xiong Sanyi cooperated with Fu Luzhi, Chen Qing and others to rush to the palace gate.
Huo Qubing pushed forward his troops and gathered a huge weapon in the air. It was solid as if it were made of real bronze. The military formations were coiled and flickering.
But in King Yamato's palace, a bronze sword rose correspondingly.
The sinister voice reappeared: "Those who invade Yamato will die!"
The bronze sword that appeared in the palace had a slender glow, emitting a strange dark red halo, and collided with the mingled Da Ge of the Forbidden Army.
The war is as big as the mountains, and the pressure is heavy.
Clang!
During the handover between the two sides, there was a gap in the fighting, and the military formations were broken.
Huo Qubing's eyes suddenly shone, and he suddenly thought of the reason why Gongsun Hong felt something was wrong, and why the opponent's sword was so radiant and so powerful.
He mobilized his troops again, and a new formation pattern appeared on the Changge, but it was the four-character secret pattern written in the First Emperor's handwriting, the Terracotta Warriors to Suppress Immortals and Demons.
The textures on the Changge are intertwined, and a "zhen" pattern is formed.
Clang!
The weapon and the mysterious long sword collided again.
This time, the long sword was suppressed by the light of the Zhenzi pattern, and the sword energy dropped sharply.
Chang Ge fell with the force, and thousands of troops supported him.
A section of the wall of the palace was struck by Da Ge, and the wall burst open.
In front, Gongsun Hong, Xiong San, Fu Luzhi, Chen Qing and others merged their forces, and the city gate also shattered and exploded amidst the earthquake.
"The several artifacts sacrificed by the Kingdom of Yamato have the same inner energy as those suppressed in the imperial tomb. The power passed down by Emperor Qin has a restraining effect on them." Huo Qubing said.
Gongsun Hong whispered: "There seems to be some changes in the defenders on the opposite side."
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