The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 498 About the Northern Huns

"Zi Yu, what's the current battle situation in Yanzhou?" Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong couldn't help but step forward and ask after seeing Yang Ji finally walk out of the room.

Since receiving the news that the decisive battle in Yanzhou was about to begin, Zhuge Liang and his two companions asked someone to bring them to Yang Ji in Xiangyang. After all, if any major event happened in Yanzhou, Yang Ji would definitely be the first to know about it.

However, when they arrived in Xiangyang and found Yang Ji, Yang Ji was creating an illusion core, trying to project the split illusion core thousands of miles away, and then relying on this illusion core projected thousands of miles away to condense the essence of heaven and earth to construct an illusion clone.

Yes, that's right. The phantom clone that Yang Ji projected onto the Yanzhou battlefield was actually Yang Ji's experimental subject. However, Yang Ji himself did not expect this. He just wanted to experiment with his new technology, but as soon as he went out, he encountered the start of the Yanzhou decisive battle.

After greeting Zhuge Liang and the other two who came to visit, Yang Ji's real body fell into a deep sleep. After all, the phantom clone projected onto the battlefield in Yanzhou was only a preliminary creation. If he wanted to maintain it until the end of the war, even a person of Yang Ji's level would need to devote most of his energy and will.

This was also the main reason why Yang Ji dared to say at that time that he could suppress most of the warriors with out-of-body internal energy on the field with only a phantom clone. He had transferred his main consciousness to that phantom clone, and it also carried most of his will.

It was because Guan Yu saw this at the time that he confidently handed over the battlefield command to Yang Ji, trying to synchronize part of his own will with the will of the swordsman army in order to verify his own conjecture.

You know, on a battlefield of this level, anyone who dares to use only part of his will to verify this conjecture either has absolute confidence and ability, or has someone backing him up. At that time, even Guan Yu felt that Ju Yi was a little tricky, and if he was not careful, Guan Yu would be in trouble.

However, after the appearance of Yang Ji's phantom clone, Guan Yu confidently let go of the command of the army and only retained the monitoring of the battlefield situation. He used the rest of his energy to try to use part of his own will and his own legion talent as the core to achieve synchronization and resonance with the collective will of the school swordsmen.

Unfortunately, Guan Yu did not complete his attempt this time. He failed to resonate with the collective will of the swordsmen at the level of will.

Taking the legion's talent as the core, integrating and deriving the collective will to complete the will to distort reality, resonating and synchronizing with the commander's will and the collective will, and finally sublimating it to the extreme, are two different routes, although their purpose is to distort reality.

Deriving the will to complete the distortion of will does not seek to solidify this ability into the ability of a legion, but to fully materialize the collective will, that is, to solidify the ability of will to distort reality into a talent of the legion.

The essence of the two is the same, but the final results they pursue are completely different, so the ultimate sublimation of collective will is so difficult and the prerequisites are so extreme.

When Guan Yu realized that it was impossible for him to put all his will and beliefs into the collective will of the school swordsmen, he already understood that the school swordsmen still had a long way to go before they could fully realize the collective will.

Back to Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong, they had not expected that Yang Ji's experiment would actually involve Yang Ji's phantom clone in the decisive battle of Yanzhou.

However, being able to get first-hand information from Yang Ji makes the two days of waiting nothing.

Yang Ji glanced at the three people who were obviously not resting well, and did not do any riddle man operations. He just said simply: "We won."

Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong looked at each other. This was not the result they wanted. What they wanted was the battlefield data of the entire war, not just the nonsense "they won".

If all they wanted was a result, why would they have to run to Yang Ji and wait for two days? They could have received the official reports by staying in the Jingnan base. What he wanted was the detailed development process of the entire war!

Perhaps he saw the expressions on the trio's faces, or perhaps Yang Ji had already prepared something. Yang Ji just paused and said, "Well, actually I didn't participate in the entire war, so I can only provide what I saw."

After saying that, Yang Ji took out a magic mirror and said, "I have imported everything I have seen into this magic mirror. What you can understand from it depends on your own ability."

In fact, Yang Ji was reluctant to hand over the secret mirror to Zhuge Liang. After all, Zhuge Liang's talent in military affairs could not be compared with his talent in internal affairs. If Zhuge Liang devoted all his energy to internal affairs, he might see the back of Chen Xi in his lifetime.

Don’t think that seeing Chen Xi’s back is a derogation of Zhuge Liang. It’s just like the saying goes: If you don’t manage domestic affairs, you will see me as a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky; if you manage domestic affairs, you will see me as a floating particle looking at the blue sky.

Zhuge Liang's talent and aptitude in internal affairs really makes it possible for him to reach another level in internal affairs. Although this level of internal affairs is still difficult to approach Chen Xi's level, at least the huge gap can be seen.

If you can see it, you can catch it.

Zhuge Liang's qualifications in internal affairs are no joke. He is someone who can really stand beside Chen Xi in this regard. If Zhuge Liang possessed Chen Xi's knowledge and wisdom spanning thousands of years, he might really be able to reach Chen Xi's position.

Yang Ji looked at Zhuge Liang, who was somewhat happy because he got the secret mirror, with hesitation. He felt a little sorry that Zhuge Liang had to devote some of his energy to military affairs.

Although people in this era did not pay attention to the separation of civil and military affairs, a scholar who was immersed in the vast sea of ​​books all day long might suddenly pick up his sword and ride his warhorse to the battlefield, becoming a general holding a book. A warrior who was devoted to honing his martial arts might also suddenly pick up a book and become a scholar who wields swords and guns.

However, for Zhuge Liang, his talent in military affairs is really not as good as his talent in domestic affairs, although Zhuge Liang's military talent is already a dimensionality reduction attack for others.

[Forget it, let him be. It's not a bad thing to spend more energy on military affairs.] Yang Ji sighed in his heart and decided not to interfere with Zhuge Liang's choice. After all, people like Zhuge Liang have the qualifications to be willful.

"Commander-in-chief, what are Lord Xuande's and the others' next arrangements for us?" Sima Yi asked with some curiosity after putting away the secret magic mirror. He was still quite curious about what Chen Xi and the others' next plans would be after they defeated Yuan Shao in the north.

As for Chen Xi's next plan, they all had a guess in their minds. Although there would be some differences from Chen Xi's plan, the general direction was definitely correct. "Yes, didn't they say that the army would go north to fight the Huns?" Pang Tong agreed, and Zhuge Liang also nodded. Having missed the decisive battle in Yanzhou before, they didn't want to miss the battle in the northern border again.

"According to Zichuan and Lord Xuande, they plan to rest for a while before regrouping the army and marching north." Yang Ji had no intention of hiding anything and directly informed Zhuge Liang and the other three of Chen Xi and Liu Bei's plan.

"Hasn't the Northern Huns revealed their true colors yet?" Pang Tong frowned, realizing something from Yang Ji's words. The reason why Chen Xi and Liu Bei let the army rest for a while was not only to solve some important problems at home, but also because they wanted to get rid of the Hu people in the northern grasslands in one fell swoop.

It is not easy to find the Hu people scattered across the vast grassland. Now that they have the help of the Northern Huns, they must of course give the Northern Huns some time to gather together the Hu tribes with names and surnames on the grassland.

"The clues have definitely been exposed, otherwise we wouldn't be able to confirm that it was the Northern Huns." Yang Ji said slowly, "However, the Northern Huns now no longer have the majesty that they once had, so they need time to make the Hu people on the grassland remember their fear of the Northern Huns again."

"I remember that there are several kingdom-level forces with good strength in the depths of the grassland. It won't take the Northern Huns a lot of effort to deal with them, right?" Sima Yi raised his eyebrows. Every time the Han Dynasty claimed to have crushed the Northern Huns to death, it was a destruction of the Northern Huns' foundation. How many times can the Northern Huns withstand a resurgence?

At this point, how much strength the Northern Huns can still exert really depends on how many Hu people who are hostile to the Han Dynasty they can gather.

"That's not the case. No matter how poor the Northern Huns are, they have inherited some of the Huns' heritage. It's just a matter of fighting one or two kingdom-level forces. For them, it's not a difficult task." Yang Ji shook his head and said.

The current military strength of the Northern Huns is indeed at the imperial level. Although the imperial military strength of the Northern Huns is very weak, it is still an imperial military strength after all. If they want to forcibly suppress kingdom-level forces such as the Dingling, there will be no problem.

Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong looked at each other in surprise. They did not expect that Yang Ji would have such an evaluation of the current Northern Huns. You know, the last time the Han Dynasty suppressed the fire of the Northern Huns was only thirty years ago.

In thirty years, even if the Northern Huns could rely on annexing other grassland tribes to restore their strength, it would be impossible for them to madly annex other tribes. After all, if the Northern Huns did not want their foundation to be picked up by other forces, they had to control the ratio of the Huns' native population to the foreign population.

You know, not every nation in the world is as tolerant as the people living in the Central Plains.

If the Northern Huns were not careful and absorbed too many foreign people, it would not be the foreigners who would be assimilated, but the Northern Huns.

Not to mention that the Northern Huns had never encountered such a thing. The Northern Huns, who were able to roam around the Eurasian continent, had definitely encountered such a situation. At least the Parthian Empire and the Roman Empire must have thought about incorporating the Northern Huns.

"How could the Northern Huns recover so quickly? I remember that their native population was not large?" Zhuge Liang asked curiously. It was impossible for the Northern Huns, who had been annihilated several times by the Han Dynasty, to recover such a large population in such a short time.

"To be precise, the current native population of the Northern Huns is roughly around 700,000." Yang Ji thought about it and took out a more accurate number from his memory.

Of course, whether the population of the Northern Huns at this time in history was exactly this number was not something Yang Ji could know. He only knew that the population of the Northern Huns in this mythological world was indeed this number.

“As for why the Northern Huns were able to quickly recover their combat effectiveness every time we annihilated most of them, it has to do with their inherited military spirit, the Huns’ Royal Guards.” Yang Ji stated a fact that several people present definitely knew.

"Military soul?" Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong looked at Yang Ji in horror. They did not expect that Yang Ji would reveal the secret of why the Northern Huns could do sit-ups repeatedly. This was a secret that the Han Dynasty had not discovered for more than three hundred years.

If the predecessors knew about this, they would definitely risk their lives to completely wipe out the Xiongnu guards and at the same time uphold the imperial will of the Xiongnu Empire.

Don't say that those predecessors can't do this. Huangfu Song can promote Huang Tian's will. Those predecessors who can annihilate the Northern Huns will only do it more handily than Huangfu Song.

"The Northern Huns did so many sit-ups over and over again, have you ever wondered why they were able to recover their strength so quickly?" Yang Ji looked at the trio with interest.

"Think about the effects of the military spirit that you know." Yang Ji reminded them.

"The ability of the military soul to influence the lower-level legions?" Pang Tong was the first to realize what Yang Ji meant.

"In this case, it makes sense why the Northern Huns were able to restore their military strength in such a short period of time." Sima Yi also reacted.

"The military spirit ability possessed by the Northern Xiongnu Khan's guards should be of the inherited type, right?" Zhuge Liang roughly guessed the military spirit ability of the Xiongnu guards.

"What you guys said is correct." Yang Ji nodded. The existence of the Xiongnu guards was indeed the key to the Northern Xiongnu's ability to rise again and again. If it weren't for the Xiongnu guards, the Northern Xiongnu would have been annexed by the various tribes on the grassland long ago, and it would have been possible for them to revive several times.

"Do Lord Chen and the others know about the Northern Xiongnu Chanyu's imperial guards?" Zhuge Liang asked suddenly, because he thought of Yang Ji's usual character.

"He probably doesn't know." Yang Ji looked up at the sky. It seemed that he had not told Chen Xi and the others about the military strength of the Northern Huns.

"..." The three looked at Yang Ji speechlessly. What kind of mentality did this guy have towards the Northern Huns? He didn't even tell them such important information.

(End of this chapter)