Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

Just when Sima Yi thought he could steadily defeat the Jin Dynasty, unify the country, and conquer the world, he was in a state of chaos.

Reality played a cruel joke on him.

"Changing generals on the eve of battle is the perfect time to attack!" Du Yu ordered his troops to march south and attack Xiangyang the moment he received the news from his inside accomplice.

The Jin Dynasty had unified the country for several years, and Du Yu was deeply popular in Xiangyang.

Even though Sima Yi did his best to promote the welfare system, many people still favored Du Yu.

For this reason, Du Yu easily obtained information about personnel changes within Xiangyang City.

Du Yu, who had been preparing the armory, immediately decided to attack Xiangyang.

Just as Sima Yi deliberately transferred Du Yu away when attacking Xiangyang.

Du Yu was also quite wary of Pang Tong and Sima Yi.

However, at this moment, Pang Tong and Taishi Ci had just left, and Sima Yi and Wei Yan were attacking Bashu, in the vast city of Xiangyang.

Only Ma Liang and Shamoke remained.

Ma Liang never expected that he had just taken over Xiangyang and hadn't even become familiar with the work there when a large army was already pressing in from the outside.

This immense pressure made it difficult for Ma Liang to breathe.

Ever since Ma Liang learned of this information, he has become irritable and easily angered. Even Sha Moke could see Ma Liang's anxiety.

"Brother!" Shamoke approached Ma Liang with a bottle of fine wine.

"Come and drink!"

Shamoke was bad at comforting people, so he chose the simplest and most brutal method: to force-feed Ma Liang wine.

"With a formidable enemy at hand, how can I drink alcohol!"

Ma Liang was furious at Sha Moke's enthusiasm. He had been losing sleep all night, studying how to defend the city, and that bastard Sha Moke was even trying to force him to drink.

"Brother, look at yourself now, what a mess you look like!" Sha Moke directly took out a mirror and showed it to Ma Liang.

Ma Liang's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a demon crawling out of hell.

“They all say I’m ugly, but look at you now, you’re even more terrifying than me!” Shamoke poured a bowl of wine and handed it to Ma Liang.

"The enemy won't arrive for another three days. Looking at your current state, can you really offer any advice or strategies?"

"What are you afraid of? You and I will protect this city!"

"Let's have a good drink, then get some rest, come up with a good plan, and win this game together!"

Shamoke's words gradually calmed Ma Liang down. His initial irritability subsided as he realized that someone was sharing his burden.

"You're right!" Ma Liang breathed a sigh of relief. The immense pressure was driving him crazy. He hadn't expected to face such a dire situation on his very first stop.

Moreover, they were aware of Du Yu's abilities, which were far beyond what he could match.

These factors combined caused Ma Liang's mindset to become unbalanced.

"Don't worry, I'll personally patrol the city tonight so you can get a good night's sleep!"

"It's impossible for the enemy to suddenly appear outside the city just because you're taking a break!"

"These are medicinal wines; they'll help you recover!"

Seeing Shamoke's sincere gaze, Ma Liang finally accepted the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

Bowl after bowl, jar after jar, Ma Liang soon became drunk. His already exhausted body quickly fell into a deep sleep under the influence of alcohol.

"Someone, help the military advisor to rest!" Shamoke breathed a sigh of relief.

He then picked up his weapon and walked outside. Even though he knew the enemy would arrive in three days, he chose to patrol personally so that Ma Liang could get a good night's sleep!
However, when Shamoke went up the city wall and went on his usual patrol...

Suddenly, I noticed that there seemed to be some movement in the darkness.

"Weren't they saying the enemy wouldn't arrive for three days? Why are they here today?"

Shamok frowned, staring intently at the area where the movement was taking place.

He soon realized it wasn't a hallucination; there really were enemies approaching.

"How could I let you disturb the strategist's rest!" Sha Moke's face darkened. He had just gotten Ma Liang drunk with drugged wine so that the other party could rest properly.

As a result, the enemy attacked the city at night. If they succeeded, I'm afraid I'd have to go to a military court, and then all the Wuxi barbarians would be implicated.

"Notify the other three sections of the city wall to return to their posts and prepare for battle!"

Shamoke addressed the officers on duty, and a series of orders quietly rang out within the city. Then, a group of people quickly rushed to their respective positions with their weapons, while the supply officer of the reserve legion swiftly arranged for the reserve soldiers to prepare various supplies for the defense of the city.

"Only the northern city wall? Looks like luck is on our side today!"

After flying around the city wall to survey the area, Shamoke discovered that the enemy had come directly from the north, clearly intending to strike quickly and catch them off guard.

"What luck!"

Shamoke drew his bow and nocked an arrow, waiting for the enemy to come within range.

The troops outside the city were extremely cautious. Dark clouds silently obscured the moon, making the light even dimmer.

If Shamoke hadn't already spotted the other party, he might not have even realized the danger.

After the moonlight disappeared, a hazy black veil covered the troops outside the city.

Similar to the Fifth Lark Legion, but unlike the Fifth Lark's light and shadow, they focus more on mastering the shadows, becoming even more secretive in the darkest places.

Shamok slowly estimated the advancing speed of these soldiers in his mind.

The moment hundreds of grappling hooks flew onto the city wall.

Shamoke immediately made everyone's eyes light up. This was Ma Liang's little design. He had considered the possibility of a night raid, so he prepared a small secret technique in advance.

This secret technique can raise a ball of light without temperature, directly illuminating the earth.

"Fire!" Without saying a word, Shamoke immediately ordered the arrows to be fired.

At the same time, he personally drew his bow and shot an arrow outwards.

The city of Xiangyang itself had a large stockpile of war supplies, all of which were valuable items left over from the time of Du Yu.

While relying on the city walls for defense, they can launch a fierce counterattack.

A dense barrage of arrows rained down on the Imperial Guards below. Some held up shields to defend themselves, some dodged, and some were hit and fell to the ground.

At this moment, the arrow is on the bowstring and must be released.

The Jin army commander beat the war drum, so the soldiers under the city wall bravely charged forward, even in the face of a barrage of arrows.

"Kill them all! Kill them all!"

Shamoke roared and personally led his personal guards to bombard Jin soldiers on the city wall.

The Jin soldiers who climbed up the grappling hooks were terrified when they saw the maces coming towards them. They didn't even have time to dodge before their heads were smashed and they fell to the ground below the city wall, turning into a bloody pulp.

"Damn it, how did we get discovered!"

The legion commander in charge of the night raid was somewhat resentful. They had been very careful along the way, but in the end, they failed at the last moment.

It was as if the other side knew they were going to raid the camp.

He never imagined that Shamok's impromptu patrol would become the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Originally, Du Yu intended to scheme against Ma Liang based on intelligence, but he did not expect that it was not Ma Liang who would take the bait, but Shamoke.

"Charge!" After a moment's deliberation, the legion commander still chose to charge forward.

After all, the intelligence they received indicated that the enemy's city defenses had not changed.

Normal duty soldiers alone are not enough to deal with them.

Attack relentlessly, attack without regard for anything else!

Once the city walls are breached and the city gates are destroyed, the subsequent siege by the main army will become much easier!
Having made up his mind, the legion commander led his personal guards and charged up the city wall.

"Die! We absolutely cannot let someone like you ruin our grand plan!"

The centurion, lurking in the shadows, decided to assassinate Shamok after witnessing his rage.

Several shadows approached Shamok without him noticing.

They blended completely into the shadows, as if they were one with the shadows, which was why Du Yu sent them.

If the sphere of light rises, they can easily climb the wall along the shadows and carry out assassinations one by one, weakening the defending soldiers to the greatest extent possible.

Then, in coordination with troops that use grappling hooks to scale the walls, they can directly capture one section of the wall.

Now, it's all over.

But where there is light, there is shadow, and they can still use the shadows to fight.

"It's now!"

With a sharp shout, several figures emerged from the shadows and launched an assassination attempt on Shamoke under the cover of clouds.

"Pfft!"

Shamoke was unable to dodge in time and suffered six serious injuries, but this was no big deal for him.

He forcefully stopped the bleeding, then looked at the shadowy assassins who had tried to kill him.

"I knew I felt like someone was watching me. Turns out it was you rats!" Shamoke swung his weapon and instantly smashed two people to pieces. The remaining men leaped backward and disappeared into the shadows.

Shamok frowned. This was not a good situation. Hidden in the shadows, no wonder he felt the city walls were falling too quickly, with fires raging everywhere.

Being attacked from behind by such an enemy is indeed difficult to defend against.

"Everyone, stand back to back! The enemy will dart out from the shadows. Watch out behind you!" Shamoke roared.

"Send someone to mobilize troops! Notify the other three gates and three sides to hold their posts to the death, and absolutely not to leave their posts without authorization. Also, make them stand back to back and be careful that the enemy might sneak out from the shadows."

Shamok quickly gave his instructions and tossed his personal token to the messenger.

Although he had extremely low political acumen, he possessed an almost beast-like intuition when it came to war.

So when Han Xin was training his generals, they also took him in for some training.

Furthermore, as the barbarian king, Shamoke was open to many things, so he also learned a lot about military knowledge.

At this point, it was also determined that the other side intended to achieve a decisive victory in one battle and take them down as quickly as possible.

Shamok even suspected that reinforcements from the other side were already on their way.

He dared not be careless and quickly rallied everyone to enter a state of full preparedness.

"Now we're in trouble!"

The commander of the Shadow Assassins looked at Shamoke with a bit of a headache.

Killing a Transcendent Cultivator on the battlefield is extremely difficult.

The problem is that the other party is a commander, so killing him is not an option.

"Prepare one more time; this time we must kill him!"

Watching Shamoke wreak havoc and suppress the attacking troops, the Shadow Assassin gritted his teeth and planned to carry out another assassination.

With such monsters on the city walls, the morale of the opposing side cannot collapse; on the contrary, their morale keeps decreasing.

After all, Shamoke's methods of killing were far too bloody. One blow could turn someone into a bloody pulp on the spot. This brutal fighting style was something that even many veterans couldn't withstand.

"kill!"

Six more assassins emerged from the shadows.

"We've been waiting for you!" Shamok grinned as he was stabbed; he could feel these people staring at him.

But he couldn't crack the Shadow talent, so he simply used his body to seduce.

A 360-degree super rotation.

The spiked club spun around with the force of wind and thunder, killing five of the six shadow assassins who had launched the attack. The remaining assassin, terrified, tried to disappear into the shadows to escape.

However, before he could disappear into the shadows, a hand axe spun around and cleaved his head in two.

"Hahaha, good job!"

Shamoke loudly praised his personal guards, who had intervened at the crucial moment to stop the enemy's escape.

The commander of the Shadow Assassins was quite helpless, because their assassins were only most threatening when they made their first move.

After the first attack fails, it will look like this, which is why he didn't launch a joint attack.

Now that the situation has turned out this way, he understands that it has already been a failure.

The barbarians under Shamoke's command possessed exceptionally high combat prowess.

Although most of them lack organizational skills and might not be able to defend on flat ground, they are exceptionally skilled at small-scale battles like this.

The hand axe flew through the air with tremendous force.

Half of the Jin soldiers who attacked the city were killed by hand axes. These weapons were effective at both close and long range for the barbarians, and almost every barbarian carried three or four of them. They were particularly easy to throw at the moment.

The Jin army, having failed completely in their siege, fled in disarray, leaving behind a trail of corpses.

Shamok ordered his men to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded while continuing to patrol, in order to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack.

"Someone, clean the wound on my back!"

"These rats in the gutter actually used poison! It's terribly painful!"

Shamoke cursed under his breath, wincing in pain. The Shadow Assassin's weapon was poisoned, and highly toxic at that.

In other words, a refined physique is incredibly powerful; if someone were to break through a barrier by exchanging qi, they might be crippled.

The Jin army has indeed put a lot of effort into the research of poisons. Even a master cultivator like Sha Moke, who has broken through the realm, could not neutralize them on his own, which shows how potent they are.

"At least I can give my brothers an explanation!"

Looking at the corpses outside the city, Shamoke couldn't help but think that he had not failed his promise to Ma Liang.

Meanwhile, the Jin army, which had suffered heavy losses and retreated, reported the situation to Du Yu.

"It seems I underestimated this white-browed Ma Liang, or perhaps I shouldn't have viewed these people through a historical lens!"

Du Yu squinted. His surprise attack should have been a success, but it unexpectedly failed halfway through, as the other side was already prepared.

This gave him a clear understanding.

As for Ma Liang and the others' identities, Du Yu had already made some guesses. After all, so many people shared the same name, even if it was bizarre, there was still an explanation.

"You ghosts who have crawled out of history, let me see just how capable you really are!"

Du Yu was filled with boundless pride. He was fortunate to be able to challenge so many heroes of yesteryear. (End of Chapter)