Chapter 77: The Earth Sword That Comes
In the end, the battle between the Danyang soldiers and the Guangling Army was forced to suppress Sun Jian.
The vision that appeared when Sun Jian killed the Fujian warrior in Kuaiji appeared again. A gray tiger phantom with ink patterns enveloped the majestic body of the stunning general. The terrifying shocking power emitted by the "it" instantly ended the hideousness of all the soldiers nearby. A fear that seemed to anger Tianyan filled the hearts of everyone present, causing them to tremble unconsciously.
"roar--!!!"
A tiger roar that seemed to be from the soul sounded, and it rushed around like a wave of air. In an instant, the soldiers who were penetrated by the wave of air all turned white and fell to the ground one after another. Even though Zhang Huang and others, who were slightly stronger, were penetrated by the wave of air, they felt their eyes dark and coldness rose from their bones.
fear!
This is a person's inexplicable fear of powerful things!
[Drink? No, this is not...]
Zhang Huang gritted his teeth and half-kneeled on the ground, staring at the only man standing in the field from afar, Sun Jian, the tiger in Jiangdong. Since the man attacked and killed the rebel leader Xu Zhao alone, the soldiers in the army began to call this powerful man with this honorific title, because they could not think of who would be stronger than this man in the whole of Jiangdong.
[Too strong, really too strong!...What kind of power is this?]
With his trembling hands, he forcibly pressed his legs, Li Tong looked at the shadow-like mist shrouded around Sun Jian's body in the distance. From time to time, a gray tiger with ink patterns appeared from behind, his eyes were like copper bells, his mouth was like a huge basin, and a pair of tiger teeth flashed with cold light as if it was sharper than a magic weapon.
[Isn't you dreaming?]
[What is this?]
Zang Ba and Taishi Ci looked at each other. They, who are usually brave, didn't even dare to look up at the extremely fierce tiger shadow, and could only look at Yu Guang secretly.
[Is this the soul?]
Zhang Huang's heart moved slightly. He still remembered that when the mysterious cloaked man rescued Xu Zhao, Sun Jian, who had looked at this posture, said in half surprise and half admiration, saying that Sun Jian's body was surrounded by a "soul", and a very powerful "soul".
But, what exactly is the ‘soul’? Why does it have such a terrifying deterrent power, which is clearly like an illusion?
Zhang Huang really couldn't figure it out, but just because of this incredible deterrence, he decided to try every means to get a "soul" in the future, because it was simply a zero-consuming "gas" and it was much more powerful than "gas".
Half an hour later, many Guangling Army soldiers including Zhang Huang's Black Feather Crow were detained, and among the Danyang soldiers, the soldiers who were in charge of Bo Chang and above were also treated like this. The two were detained in a large mansion far apart by Sun Jian's Chili Army soldiers.
It is worth mentioning that military officers such as Wei Fang, general of Guangling Army, and An Zhang, general of Danyang Army, were also arrested and imprisoned by the Chili Army. It is not difficult to imagine how wide the scope of this armed fight is.
"This is really... I'm going to have a headache!"
When Sun Jian handled everything and went back to report to Mr. Zang Min, the old man smiled bitterly and shook his head and sighed.
You know, the old man originally wanted to promote Zhang Huang to a general, but he didn't want such an accident to happen.
Even Sun Jian couldn't help but feel a pity for Zhang Huang in his heart. You should know that the generals are not just above the first level of Du Bo. Take ordinary soldiers as an example. Even if they are brave and kill countless enemies on the battlefield, they can only be promoted to Du Bo, and they will never be promoted to Du Bo. Why? Because the general is a general-level military officer who already has the right to lead troops, and is incomparable to the status of the cannon fodder team leader on the battlefield. If they cannot be noticed by Shangguan, even if they spend their whole life, they can only die in the position of Du Bo. Since ancient times, how many powerful soldiers have spent their entire lives to sit in the position of Du Bo?
Now, although the Yangzhou Governor Zang Min intends to promote Zhang Huang, but at a critical moment, Zhang Huang triggered an armed battle among the army. Even if the matter is traced back to the root of this matter, it cannot be wrong to Zhang Huang, and Zang Min will find it difficult to promote Zhang Huang again. This is the same as "I don't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me."
"Forget it, now I can only let those boys go." After thinking for a while, Zang Min shook his head regretfully. In fact, General Chen Qi had already reported to Zang Min about Zhang Huang and others' resignation, but Zang Min was reluctant to let go of these little guys who always brought him surprise and wanted to keep them by his side and train them. But now that such a big thing happened, even if Zang Min was the governor of Yangzhou, it would not be too partial to Zhang Huang and others and continue to keep them in the army.
"I'm telling me that the 26-den tent of Guangling Army, Zhang Huang, Bo Chang Li Tong, Zang Ba, Chen Dao, Taishi Ci, Shan Fu, acted recklessly and made trouble with friendly forces, causing armed battles between the Danyang soldiers and the Guangling Army at night, with more than 3,000 injured and nearly 800 dead... However, I thought that it was not the above-mentioned people who took the initiative to provoke trouble, and they were dismissed from all military positions and expelled from Guangling Army, and they would never be used! Fuchun Chief Sun Jian escorted him and expelled him from the county!"
"..." Sun Jian looked at Zang Min with a strange expression.
Although Zang Min's punishment seemed to be extremely severe, he not only took Zhang Huang and others to the end, removed all their military positions and drove them out of Guangling Army, but also drove them out of Guangling County and never used them, but in fact? Zhang Huang and others originally planned to leave Guangling County and go to Dong County. In other words, Zang Min's punishment was simply empty talk and did not have much actual punishment for Zhang Huang and others.
Of course, Zhang Huang and others obviously cannot get the rewards for military merit system. This is called using merit to compensate for the mistakes.
As for the last sentence, Sun Jian personally escorted him and drove him out of Guangling County, Sun Jian was even more amused and laughed and said that the old governor was obviously worried about the Danyang soldiers' revenge afterwards, and "please" him come forward to escort the little ghosts out of Guangling County.
However, thinking about Zhang Huang and others were indeed quite unfair about this matter, and they also had a good impression of these little kids, Sun Jian did not refuse and took over the task tacitly.
"I will obey the order!"
Following Zhang Huang's Black Feather Crow, military officers from Guangling Army, such as Wang Zhuo and Han Hu, including general Wei Fang, were also punished and all of them became big-headed soldiers. However, they still had their old positions, which inevitably made people imagine.
Only Ling Cao, who cut off his head, and Dong Xi, who was almost killed, were not punished. Zang Min waved his hand and sentenced them to "self-defense", but "overdefense" and deducted Ling Cao's merits from previous battles.
After Guangling Army, it was the Danyang soldiers' turn, but neither Yangzhou Governor Zang Min nor Danyang Prefect Xu Jie could punish the Danyang soldiers too much, even if this matter was caused by them.
Seeing Zang Min and Xu Jie hesitate about this matter, Sun Jian lowered his voice and said, "The Danyang soldiers have enjoyed a reputation for a long time and are so arrogant that they are so arrogant. Why not take this opportunity to suppress them today."
The two old men sighed when they heard this.
Don't they want to punish the Danyang soldiers? But the problem is, as Sun Jian said, the Danyang soldiers have been carrying the title of "elite" for too long, so that those people are above the top, and some even arrogantly believe that their Danyang soldiers may not be inferior to the "Big Han Northern Army" and the "Big Han Southern Army". To put it bluntly, these arrogant soldiers are used to being arrogant in daily life. They have to be offered to support them and cannot stand the slightest anger, otherwise they would not take the initiative to provoke Zhang Huang.
If the punishment is a little more powerful this time, it may have a rebound, leading to a bigger change than yesterday's armed battle. Who doesn't know that the Danyang soldiers are arrogant and even the Shangguan in the head dares to confront them?
The two old men discussed for a while and finally punished the Danyang soldiers: a three-month military salary.
Sun Jian shook his head and left with a sigh. If he hadn't known the difficulties of the two elders, Sun Jian would have been unable to accept such a ridiculous punishment. If he had to do it, he would probably not have survived the Danyang soldiers who followed Yan Fook to provoke Zhang Huang earlier.
Unfortunately, the rebels in Guangling County have not yet been quelled. Guangling County still has some places to obtain Danyang soldiers, so it is difficult to break up with the Danyang soldiers.
When these two completely different punishment orders were reported to the entire army, the entire Zhujia Town was in full bloom.
The soldiers of the Guangling Army were angry that the Danyang soldiers, who were obviously the tyrant, were only fined three months of military pay, while the Danyang soldiers were angry that Zang Min did not kill Zhang Huang, and Ling Cao, the two murderers who dared to anger their Danyang soldiers.
As a result, the Danyang soldiers and Guangling Army cursed each other. In the end, they could no longer hear Zhang Huang and Ling Cao. They refuted the names of these parties involved, and they simply turned into extremely unbearable curses.
From morning to night, although the Danyang soldiers and Guangling Army no longer dared to gather together for armed battles under Zang Min's strict order, this hatred completely made both sides aggrieved. So many years later, when Chen Deng, a talented genius from Xuzhou, Chen Yuanlong became the prefect of Guangling. When Sun Jian's son Sun Ce raised an army to occupy Danyang, the Guangling Army and the Danyang soldiers had already hated each other as if they were life-and-death enemies. I remember that at that time, every time Sun Ce wanted to cross the river to seize Xuzhou, the Danyang soldiers would first attack Guangling. Unfortunately, Chen Deng was more skilled and led the Guangling Army to defeat the Danyang soldiers under Sun Ce's command, and was called the "elite" Danyang soldiers who had long been famous. In the end, he failed to conquer the territory of Guangling River Capital as he wished and was gradually forgotten by the world. Except for Tao Qian, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce's command, there were still some Danyang soldiers under his command, the Danyang soldiers had lost their former glorious elite.
As for Zhang Huang, the key figure who made the Danyang Army and the Guangling Army at first, was ridiculously forgotten by these two armies, and it evolved into a years-long battle of intentions.
However, even Zhang Huang may not be clear about these things in the future. Or, he had no time to think about whether the things he was involved in today would completely make the Danyang soldiers and Guangling Army aggrieved each other, and it would be difficult to resolve for several years or even decades, because after Zang Min issued the punishment order, they were driven away from Zhujia Town by Sun Jian.
Originally, Zhang Huang wanted to say apart to the military brothers whom Xu Kun, Chen Qi, Wang Zhuo, Han Hu and others who have met over the past few days. Unfortunately, none of the above four people have been released yet, and they are still being held in custody by Cheng Pu and the Chili Army. According to Sun Jian, Mr. Zang Min seems to be hungry for these officers for a few days, which is a hidden punishment for the military officers of the two armies.
On the grain carriage to the intersection of Guangling County and Jiujiang County, Sun Jian, holding a horse whip, carried these little ghosts slowly towards his destination. Perhaps because the rebels in Guangling County were no longer afraid, Sun Jian was not in a hurry to rush back to the army, but just spread his thoughts of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" to Zhang Huang and others on the way. It seemed that he was afraid that Zhang Huang, the future heroes, would go astray after leaving Guangling Army and become unforgivable sinners.
The Black Feather Crows naturally would not be interested in this kind of cliché. They cared more and had to count the extraordinary power that Sun Jian showed when he suppressed civil strife that day.
"General Sun, what is the 'soul'?"
On the way, Zhang Huang couldn't help asking about this doubt that had been bothering him for a long time, but unfortunately Sun Jian's response was a faint smile.
"The baby who is babbling and thinking about running before he learns to leave?"
While waving the whip, Sun Jian sneered and warned Zhang Huang and others, "'Soul', that's not what you wait for the junior to understand now. You should master the 'qi' first."
The Black Feather Crows were certainly not satisfied when they heard this answer, so they immediately pestered Sun Jian to ask. Sun Jian was entangled and had no choice but to reveal a little.
"'soul' is an external object. To be more precise, it is the spirit and soul in the world. If it can be accommodated in the body and merged with the essence and blood, it is a great opportunity for us martial artists!" After a pause, Sun Jian continued, "The 'soul' that is usually free from the sky is extremely fierce, but if you can subdue it, it can become your excellent help... In order to distinguish it from those 'soul's' that are not violent, we martial artists call the 'soul' that is hosted in our bodies... 'martial soul'!"
"Martial Soul?" The hearts of the Black Feather Crow suddenly became hot. After all, this name made people excited when they heard it.
As if he had noticed the strangeness of the black-feathered crows, Sun Jian turned around and looked at Zhang Huang and others. He warned earnestly, "In Sun's opinion, you all have excellent talents. With time, you will definitely be exposed to this matter. Therefore, there is no need to rush to lay a solid foundation for a while. Remember that the 'soul' is a foreign object given by God, but the root of the warrior is still 'qi'!"
"Then... how many such 'souls' are there in the world? Um... or martial souls?" Taishici asked curiously.
Sun Jian shook his head and said, "How many kinds of martial souls are there? Sun doesn't know. Sun only knows that there are no martial souls that are exactly the same in the world. Each martial soul has its own name and has special abilities..."
"What is General Sun's martial soul?"
Sun Jian smiled but said nothing, shook his head for a long time and joked, "This cannot be revealed at will. Remember, if one day you are lucky enough to obtain a martial soul that belongs to you, remember not to reveal the name and special abilities of the martial soul, otherwise, someone will find a way to target you and others... The martial soul is a double-edged sword. Its special abilities are either focused on offense or defense, but what remains unchanged is that 'they' have weaknesses... Don't ask your enemies to master the weaknesses of your martial soul, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."
Seeing that Sun Jian was talking so seriously, the black-feathered crows changed slightly, so they did not dare to ask what Sun Jian's martial soul was.
Just as they were having a good time, Sun Jian suddenly frowned, because he saw a man walking down the official road in the distance, with messy hair and bare shirtless, holding the hilt of a three-meter-long giant sword in his right hand, holding the sword body against his shoulder.
He clearly appeared in Hanyang a few days ago, with the great Han sword scholar and the earth sword losing!
"Bang--!"
While Sun Jian was frowning and staring, Shue put down the giant sword on his shoulder and slammed heavily on the ground, causing the earth to tremble.
"Be good..." Li Tong grabbed the railing of the grain truck, sat firmly, stared at the Thunderbolt, who had faced the talented divine power with disbelief. You should know that when you look at the giant sword beside Thunderbolt, it was much taller than the roof of the residential houses in Guangling River Capital.
"Well!"
Sun Jian instantly grabbed the reins of the horse, frowned and stared at the man who was obviously not kind to the person, and asked in a deep voice, "Sun Jian, Sun Wentai, who is you? Why did you stop me from going there before you know each other?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Soul wave casually and said lightly, "Sun Jian? I know you, I'm not here to find you this time..."
When Sun Jian heard this, he felt relieved. He was about to speak, but when he saw Zui'er raise his hand and pointing to Zhang Huang on the food carriage, he said lightly, "Zhang Huang stays, the rest of the idle people can get out."
[Come to find me?]
Zhang Huang was stunned and looked at Lose in shock, but couldn't remember when he had seen Lose in his eyes. Suddenly, his expression changed, and what his adoptive father had warned him in his heart sounded in his heart.
[…Don’t use Taoism at will after going down the mountain, otherwise…]
[It turns out that the adoptive father is not an exaggeration...]
Zhang Huang, who had already realized something, secretly complained in his heart.
[Who is here to find this guy Zhang Huang? Could it be an old acquaintance]
Sun Jian looked back at Zhang Huang in surprise. Seeing that his expression was different, he felt even more suspicious in his heart. He frowned and asked, "Why do you want Zhang Huang to stay?"
"No, kill!" Shu Er's tone made everyone present change his expression.
"..." Sun Jian's eyes changed repeatedly, and he suddenly said with a smile, "Your strength is so strong that Sun may also feel ashamed of himself! A strong man like you, but he bullies the weak and wants to harm the younger generation. I'm afraid it's not reasonable, right?"
When he heard this, his eyes suddenly became cold. After staring at Sun Jian for a few breaths, he turned a little warm. He said coldly: "Sun Jian, I respect you, my loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and I don't want to make things difficult for you. If you retreat at this time, I will assume that nothing has happened."
"What if Sun doesn't let me?" Sun Jian asked in a deep voice as he picked up the bronze sword from the side seat.
A few strange smiles appeared on the face of the lost ears and said in a low voice, "I am not afraid of you, Sun Jian," no matter what, I must kill Zhang Huang today. If you know the truth..."
Speaking of this, the sound of the sacrificing ear suddenly stopped and suddenly pulled the giant sword next to him and blocked it in front of him.
With a sound of silence, a cyclonic slash that was hard to see invisible to the naked eye instantly cut off one side of the giant sword, and left a ravine that was more than ten feet long and ten feet deep on the ground.
"..." Walking out from behind the giant sword, I looked at the giant sword with a corner of the sword cut off, and looked up at Sun Jian. At this time, Sun Jian slowly appeared in the mist all over his body.
Chapter completed!