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

Chapter 533 Zhang Xiu and Ma Chao

"Why is he suddenly playing the rebel game?" Liu Bei was quite curious.

"How should I know?" Chen Xi shrugged. "I guess he wants to gather a qualified army. After all, when the country is at stake, there will always be some people with good qualifications."

"In other words, he wants to collect the elites born when the Baicheng Kingdom was destroyed?" Liu Bei had a strange look on his face. Yang Ji was one of the culprits who caused the Kushans to send troops to the Baicheng Kingdom. As a result, Yang Ji was now taking advantage of the Baicheng Kingdom's life and death situation to harvest its elite talents. It was really hellish.

"After all, it is a kingdom-level force, and there are still some talented people with good qualifications." Chen Xi said with a smile.

"Forget it, let him have fun over there. Our main target right now is still the Northern Huns." Liu Bei shook his head and changed the subject.

"What do you think? Should we ask Zi Yu to send a phantom body over here? After all, the main force of the Northern Huns has 300,000 soldiers and horses." Liu Bei said worriedly.

"You can ask him to send a phantom body over to set up a Xuanxiang formation of [Temporary Residence of Life]. As for personally commanding the army, let my second brother and others do it. General Huangfu is also here." Chen Xi shook his head. The reason why Yang Ji did not participate in this battle was that he wanted Guan Yu to find his own path to becoming a military god.

"Okay." Liu Bei nodded. He also knew why Yang Ji did not participate in this war, but there was nothing to say. After all, even if Yang Ji absorbed all the experience of this war, there would be no qualitative change. Unless the rules of war were rewritten again, it would be difficult for Yang Ji to make another breakthrough in the military.

So it would be better to let Guan Yu give it a try. If he succeeds, the Han Dynasty will have another military commander who is on the path to becoming a military god.

"Speaking of which, is this [Life Temporary Retention] Xuanxiang, the great secret technique developed by Zi Yu before to preserve the lives of soldiers?" Liu Bei asked nervously.

"Yes, it's the great secret technique from before. After he transformed the great secret technique into a mysterious technique, he officially named it [Temporary Residence of Life]." Chen Xi said in admiration. He did not expect that Yang Ji could come up with a mysterious technique of this level.

"Besides him, is there anyone else who can use this Xuan Xiang?" Liu Bei continued to ask.

“No, there are not many people who can master the solidified Xuan Xiang now, let alone his super-specification Xuan Xiang. If it is broken down into a legion-level secret technique of a similar scale to the legion’s talent, it can probably be mastered by only a few people.” Chen Xi shook his head.

As for the ultimate mysterious technique of [Life Temporary Residence], or it can also be called a strategic-level great secret technique, only a military god of Yang Ji's level can master it.

Otherwise, even if a person like Huangfu Song is at the peak of his powers, if he wants to set up this ultimate Xuanxiang, he will need to arrange the secret stakes in advance, instead of just using his mental power to manually modify the cloud structure like Yang Ji did.

"A legion-level secret technique." Liu Bei shook his head. It was basically impossible to split a strategic secret technique of that level into a legion-level secret technique. This type of secret technique or Xuanxiang could only produce the corresponding effect when it reached a certain scale.

"Perhaps when the technical level is improved in the future, it can be broken down to the level of legion-level secret techniques." Chen Xi sighed. Now that the vitality of heaven and earth has only begun to recover for a few years, many technologies are just beginning to sprout, or have not even sprouted yet.

"That's going to be a long wait." Liu Bei laughed. He was aware of the current state of technological development. The R&D system was almost entirely supported by a few big guys, and even the application system hadn't been established.

The bigwigs of the R&D system also need to personally take action to apply the technologies developed in the laboratories to military or civilian fields.

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The next day, the main force led by Guan Yu passed through Jingxing and officially entered Taihang Mountains, passed Jinyang, entered Yanmen County from Loufan, and went northwest after passing Pingcheng. The army of the Northern Huns was near Shoujiang City, north of Wuyuan County.

Just as Guan Yu's army was on the way, Zhang Fei's troops in Liaodong, together with the Wuhuan Subu and Buyeo tribes, defeated the coalition forces of the Three Han and Goguryeo.

After handing over hundreds of thousands of captives to Tian Yu, the deputy governor of Youzhou, Zhang Fei led his troops straight into the heartland of Goguryeo and broke through the inner city of Goguryeo's capital. After destroying Goguryeo, Zhang Fei continued to move south to sweep the Cenmok tribe, and then completely wiped out the land of the Three Han.

At this point, the Korean Peninsula was completely incorporated into the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Fei left 40,000 single-talented soldiers to guard the Korean Peninsula, while he took his own troops and 10,000 double-talented elite cavalry, as well as four military advisors, Fa Zheng, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong, and headed west via the northern grasslands of Youzhou.

Along the way, they defeated the Xianbei tribes in Liaodong and Liaoxi, and then rushed to the grasslands in the north of Bingzhou.

At the same time, Gongsun Zan also led the White Horse Volunteers to defeat the Xianbei-Wuhuan coalition in Shanggu County, and then left Shanggu County to sweep through the Wuhuan territory.

Because of Liu Bei's advance warning, Gongsun Zan did not send away all the Xianbei and Wuhuan people he met this time. Instead, he asked Chen Chi, the governor of Youzhou, to take all these foreign captives back to Youzhou and use them as slaves to participate in the construction of Youzhou.

After Gongsun Zan wiped out the Xianbei-Wuhuan coalition, he led his White Horse Volunteers to the grasslands in the north of Bingzhou.

Oh, by the way, before heading to the northern grasslands of Bingzhou, Gongsun Zan went to see Zhang Fei, left behind a group of double-talented white horse volunteers, and then went west with the military soul white horses and eight thousand double-talented white horses.

Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong used their double-talented white horses to perform the legion-level talent extension secret technique, covering all of Zhang Fei's 15,000 cavalry.

Under the leadership of the dual-talented White Horse Volunteers, the 15,000 cavalrymen of Zhang Fei's army felt a speed they had never felt before.

In Guanlong, when Xu Rong led his army passing through Chang'an, he met an envoy sent by Liu Xie. Then Xu Rong followed the envoy to meet Liu Xie, which was considered to cancel the matter of following Dong Zhuo before.

Rejecting the attempts of Liu Xie, Yang Biao, Dong Cheng and others to retain him, Xu Rong led his army forward. When passing Fufeng, he encountered Ma Teng blocking his way.

After a brief conversation, Ma Teng transferred Ma Chao and his 30,000 elite troops to Xu Rong's army. Xu Rong calmly took over and organized Ma Chao and his 30,000 elite troops into a separate army, and did not mix them with his own troops. After all, the 30,000 elite troops led by Ma Chao did not have elite talents.

However, considering that they were all cavalry, Xu Rong still accepted them. After all, the 50,000 troops he led only had 5,000 cavalry under Zhang Xiu. When facing the Northern Huns, Southern Huns and Qiang cavalry, they would inevitably have trouble maneuvering, so he decided to take them with him.

However, after meeting Zhang Xiu, Ma Chao could not help but provoke him. After all, Zhang Xiu's reputation as the Spear King of the North was earned among the Qiang people. Ma Chao, who regarded the Qiang people as his base, would of course feel unhappy when he met Zhang Xiu.

In addition, Zhang Xiu was the commander of the Western Liang Cavalry, which made Ma Chao even more unhappy with Zhang Xiu, and thus the conflict arose.

In name, Ma Chao was the commander of 30,000 cavalry, but Ma Chao did not have the ability to command 30,000 cavalry, so the cavalry under Ma Chao's command was only about 5,000, which was the number that his legion's talent could cover. The rest of the cavalry was handed over to Xu Rong for command. Zhang Xiu had only 5,000 cavalry, which was several times less than Ma Chao's.

However, many things cannot be simply explained as mathematical problems. Ma Chao has 30,000 cavalrymen under his command, but the only people he can truly command are the 5,000 people that his legion's talents can cover.

Although Ma Chao's brain was not very good, he was very clear that he was only the nominal commander of 30,000 cavalry.

Why did Ma Teng give the command of 30,000 cavalry to Xu Rong? Because the Qiang people, instigated by the Xiongnu, rebelled again.

Previously, Li Jue and his four men raided more than a dozen Qiang tribes, causing chaos among the Qiang people in Liangzhou. Ma Teng and Han Sui took the opportunity to integrate the Qiang people in Liangzhou.

Because of this achievement, Ma Teng and Han Sui were rewarded by Liu Xie. As a result, the Qiang people rebelled again, and the Northern Huns were also involved.

Of course, it was Xu Rong who told Ma Teng that the Qiang people had rebelled again under the instigation of the Northern Xiongnu. It was precisely because of this knowledge that Ma Teng allowed Ma Chao to join Xu Rong's army with 30,000 cavalry.

However, Ma Teng also explained to Xu Rong and Ma Chao that Ma Chao was only the nominal commander of the 30,000 cavalry, and the real command power was in the hands of Xu Rong. The only people Ma Chao could truly command were the 5,000 people covered by his legion's talents.

Ma Chao did not care about Ma Teng's arrangement, because he knew that his ability to command troops was limited and he could not command 30,000 cavalry. It would be better to let Xu Rong command.

However, Zhang Xiu's presence made Ma Chao very angry. After all, the 5,000 cavalry under his command were no match for the 5,000 cavalry under Zhang Xiu's command. The gap was visible to the naked eye.

No matter how stupid Ma Chao was, he could see the difference between the 5,000 cavalry under his command and the 5,000 cavalry under Zhang Xiu's command.

However, Ma Chao was not the kind of person who would give up easily, so Ma Chao decided to take back the title of the Spear King of the North. After all, he, Ma Chao, was an extremely rare general in Liangzhou who could use his internal energy to leave his body. The only general Ma Chao had ever seen who could use his internal energy to leave his body was his brother Pang De.

Then Ma Chao declared war on Zhang Xiu, clamoring to take back the title of Spear King of the North.

Then Zhang Xiu accepted Ma Chao's challenge with a strange look, and as expected, Ma Chao was defeated by Zhang Xiu in thirty rounds.

No matter what, Zhang Xiu has been able to achieve the state of internal energy leaving the body for ten years, and now he has even reached the ultimate level of internal energy leaving the body.

And what about Ma Chao? He had just achieved the state of inner energy leaving the body. Although he had reached the state of perfection, compared with Zhang Xiu, a general who had been immersed in the state of inner energy leaving the body for ten years, he was just so-so.

Ma Chao was very depressed after being easily defeated by Zhang Xiu. He did not expect that he would be defeated so easily, especially by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

"Mengqi, Zhang Boyuan broke through much earlier than you, it's reasonable that you lost to him. Just win him back in the future." Pang De looked at the depressed Ma Chao and tried to persuade him.

"I know." Ma Chao said in a muffled voice: "What makes me unhappy is that the other party actually said that our strength is just so-so among the generals in the Central Plains."

"After defeating the Southern Xiongnu, I must go to Bingzhou to see how strong Lu Bu, who is known as the best general in the world, is." Ma Chao said gritting his teeth. A temporary failure would not make him lose confidence.

"Okay, I'll go with you then." A hint of fanaticism appeared on Pang De's face. As a martial arts general with internal energy, how could he not have any ideas about becoming the best in the world?

"However, before defeating Lu Fengxian, we still need to overcome the obstacle named Zhang Boyuan." Pang De looked at Zhang Xiu who was the vanguard.

"Just wait, I will defeat you with my own hands and take back the title of Northern Spear King from you." Ma Chao stretched out his hand and pointed it at the back of Zhang Xiu's head, with his open palm as if he wanted to grab Zhang Xiu.

"Haha, this guy Ma Mengqi is really energetic." Xu Rong, who disguised himself as an ordinary cavalryman and infiltrated Zhang Xiu's army, laughed. This kid Ma Chao was still too naive. He didn't even know that there was a secret technique in the world that could extend his hearing to several miles away.

"Oh, wait until he breaks through the limit of internal energy leaving the body, then we can talk about defeating me." Zhang Xiu sneered. Although Ma Chao's physique is close to that of Zhao Yun, who is of the same age, Ma Chao has not yet converted this aptitude into his own strength.

"Maybe he will have a breakthrough in this battle." Xu Rong said jokingly. Although his martial arts skills were not very good, he could still see the progress that Ma Chao made after the fight with Zhang Xiu.

"You talk as if I won't make any progress in combat." Zhang Xiu rolled his eyes. He was also a genius who achieved a breakthrough in internal energy leaving his body at the age of 20.

"Then, this time the task of fighting against the enemy's warriors with internal energy out of their bodies will be handed over to the three of you." Xu Rong said seriously.

"Hmm?" Zhang Xiu frowned and turned to look at Xu Rong. "The Northern Xiongnu has a general with internal energy that can leave his body?"

Xu Rong shook his head. "Not only from the Northern Xiongnu, but also from the Qiang and Southern Xiongnu. There are about five or six of them. Among them, only one came from the Northern Xiongnu, and the rest are basically from the Qiang and Southern Xiongnu."

"Can the Qiang people and the Southern Xiongnu alone produce five or six warriors with internal energy?" Zhang Xiu said with a hint of shock.

"The essence of heaven and earth is recovering. It is much easier to break through the internal energy leaving the body now than it was a few years ago." Xu Rong sighed. Although it is not as difficult to achieve the internal energy leaving the body as it was a few years ago, it does not mean that people with poor basics can break this shackles.

"With your strength, the opponent will probably need three people who have achieved internal energy out of their bodies to stop you." Xu Rong said to Zhang Xiu seriously. The warriors with internal energy out of their bodies in the Central Plains are inherently stronger than those in other places, not to mention Zhang Xiu, a warrior who has practiced internal energy out of his body for ten years.

Of course, except for Zhang Ren, the guy who switched to military studies.

"Three..." Zhang Xiu narrowed his eyes. He had heard from his junior fellow apprentice that Lu Bu was the kind of guy who would be beaten up as soon as he appeared on the scene. He didn't expect that he would be treated like this.

But on second thought, Zhang Xiu felt a little annoyed, because the people who surrounded and beat him up were not the generals with internal energy leaving their bodies from the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)