I am already immortal, why should I ascend to become an immortal?

Chapter 260: Tian Jian's Ghost Army Formation; Tang Qianyan dug up the graves of the successive Qi kings (explosive update)
On the east bank of the Gu River, the Qin army had successfully crossed the river.

The army camped ten miles away from the river bank.

The rest of the journey will only take five or six days to reach Jiaoao City.

However, most of the men in the northwest were not good at water transportation, which led to 20% of the Qin army suffering from acclimatization problems after crossing the river.

In desperation, Jin Chan could only order a three-day rest and asked the doctor to dig some herbs and boil them together with beans and grains.

After a period of rest, the army continued its march eastward.

"General, Mr. Sun asked me to tell you that there seems to be something wrong with the weather."

On the third day, after nightfall.

A messenger who was in charge of taking care of Sun Bin's daily life rode a horse to Jin Chan and said.

"Something's wrong?"

Jin Chan was a little confused, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Suddenly, I felt my nasal cavity was a little dry, with a strong earthy smell, and also a hint of an indescribable strange smell.

Logically speaking, the eastern part of Qi State is not only coastal but also has many rivers. It is now summer and there is more rain, so it shouldn't be so dry.

In addition, the nights were unusually hot and stuffy, and many soldiers had contracted diarrhea to varying degrees over the past few days. Hundreds even died from the disease.

Even Zi'an, who usually has strong physical strength, has been a little listless since yesterday.

When he arrived at Sun Bin's tent, Jin Chan found that everyone was waiting for him here, even the listless Zi'an, who was sitting on a chair with dark circles under his eyes and purple lips.

Even Lu Buwei, Zhu Hai and Zhuan Zhu were here.

"General, I'm afraid the situation has changed. Although the dog days are over now, it is impossible for Donghai County to have this kind of weather."

Sun Bin wiped the sweat from his neck and said with a nervous look.

The weather tonight was exceptionally hot and dry. The soldiers took off their armor, walked out of the tents, and simply lay on the ground, hoping to rely on the night breeze to drive away the heat on their bodies.

"From what I can see, this abnormal weather is definitely not a coincidence. It may be related to King Qi."

Lü Buwei sat on a chair, and Zhuan Zhu and Zhu Hai behind him were fanning him with two palm-leaf fans.

But even so, the emerald walnut he was playing with had been soaked with sweat and had changed slightly in color.

"Nonsense, this abnormal weather is either caused by the heavens leaking saliva or that bastard Tian Jian's doing. Do you need to analyze this? Who here doesn't know?"

Although Zi'an was tired and panting, he remained steadfast in the face of Lu Buwei.

But it's interesting to say that although Zi'an is not from a famous family and has risen to his position step by step purely through military exploits, even though he has no background, he is not afraid of Lu Buwei at all.

Before joining Jin Chan's army, Zi'an often embarrassed Lu Buwei in the court.

Fortunately, Lu Buwei didn't care and never did anything excessive against him.

"Haha, General Zi'an does have some truth in what he said, but what do you think the army should do next?"

Lu Buwei chuckled, stretched out his hand to stop Zhu Hai and the other man behind him, and then asked Zi'an in return.

"Why are you asking me? I'm just a troop commander, how would I know? You are the second highest official in the Qin Dynasty, and you hold the highest position here. You should be the one to make the decision."

Although Zi'an is reckless, he has a smart mind.

In this situation, we must first put Lu Buwei in a difficult position.

As for whether you will listen to him in the end, I'm sorry, the commander-in-chief is the most important person in the army, and everything will be decided by Jin Chan.

"Okay, the army will continue to train for a few days, and then march out when the weather gets cooler. Then we will surround Jiaoao City without attacking it, and let Tian Jian come out to negotiate."

Lu Buwei blurted out without even thinking about it.

Except for Jin Chan, no one else here knew that Zhongli Jiang had sacrificed himself to save Tian Jian's life.

Cough~cough~
"It's really unreliable for a civilian to lead the army. Don't you know that the first drum beats, the second drum beats, and the third drum beats. Our army is in high spirits now. If this drags on, the Qi army's natives will turn around and kill us. Do we have to retreat again? Oh, this is not Hangu Pass now. There is nowhere to retreat to if we retreat southward!"

Zi'an coughed repeatedly, but even at this time, he did not forget to mock Lu Buwei for his previous defeat in Hangu Pass and his retreat to the south.

"Okay, Zi'an, you should go and get some rest. This is not Daqin. If something goes wrong with your body, it will be troublesome."

Jin Chan pressed down his palm and interrupted Zi'an.

Actually, there was nothing wrong with what the two of them said just now.

Lu Buwei sought safety, while Zi'an sought the initiative.

"Report, something bad has happened, General."

Sudden.

A soldier from the baggage camp rushed directly into the tent. His face was pale, his lips were cracked and purple, and sweat was pouring from his whole body as if he had been soaked in water.

"what happened?"

Jin Chan frowned.

"There seems to be something wrong with the water source, Gu River. Soldiers who drank the water from Gu River have lost consciousness and their body temperatures are extremely high."

Drain poison into the river to make the Qin army lose its fighting power.

In an instant, Jin Chan thought of Queqiaotian. After all, only it could have such power.

"Could it be that Zhongli Jiang failed?"

Jin Chan suddenly stood up and his eyes became serious.

Seeing Jin Chan in such a state, the others realized that something was wrong.

"The army will remain in place. From now on, any water or food must be checked by the accompanying doctor in advance to see if it is poisonous."

Say it.

Jin Chan then called the White Dragon Colt, mounted the horse, and galloped towards Jiaoao City.

Only a cloud of dust was left, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

The white dragon horse was moving very fast, and there were four red clouds under its feet, giving it a floating feeling.

The two dragon horns on its head flashed an incandescent light in the dark night. From a distance, it looked like two meteors gliding close to the ground.

Only less than an hour had passed.

Jin Chan then completed the remaining few days of the army's journey and arrived near Jiaoao City.

"No, no."

Jin Chan's brows furrowed more and more, as if something terrible was happening in the city ahead.

"Kid, what's wrong? I rarely see you so nervous."

Bai Longju snorted, and two flames spurted out of his nostrils. Then he turned his head and asked Jin Chan.

"There is no fire in Jiaoao City. Regardless of whether Zhongli Jiang succeeded in killing Tian Jian, it shouldn't be like this. And the smell in the wind just now came from the city."

"White Hair, can't you fly? Take me to the sky above the city to see what's going on inside."

Jin Chan patted Bai Longju's head and pointed his finger to the sky.

"My strength is not enough now, fly? What are you thinking?"

Bai Longju said with disdain.

"That's weird. Didn't you fly Xiao Luoyang around in Liaocheng that day? Why can't you do that now?"

Jin Chan slapped the horse on the head.

"That's jumping, that's jumping. I can't fly yet."

Bai Longju lifted his horse's butt hard, then quickly dropped it, almost throwing the unsuspecting Jin Chan away.

And just then.

Suddenly, the gate of Jiaoao City creaked open.

A mass of figures burst out of the door and formed neatly into several square formations. The sound of horse hooves did not sound like they were stepping on the ground, but instead gave people a feeling of thousands of troops marching on a muddy swamp.

“My fellow soldiers, you are now an invincible army. I order your army to go out and annihilate all the Qin dogs on Qi land, then go south to break through Hangu Pass and take Xianyang directly. I will slaughter all the people in Qin, leaving no dog or chicken behind. I will personally chop off the head of the King of Qin and hang it high on Hangu Pass. I will make the world submit to me, and I will become the king of Central Plains. Ha, ha, ha”

From a carriage at the very end of the army came a sharp voice that was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

And this laughter was mixed with a kind of indescribable madness.

"Calling yourself the widower? Is Tian Jian still alive?"

Jin Chan drew out the fish-belly sword from his waist, intending to sneak up and find out what was going on.

But just after walking a hundred meters, Jin Chan and Bai Longju both froze in place.

The long square formation of the Qi army looked like human figures from a distance, but when they got closer they found that this so-called Qi army was actually made up of colorful snakes entangled with each other. Even the horses under their crotches were made of the flesh of toads with bumps on their backs.

And if you look closely, you can see that there is indeed no land under their feet, but pools of black, sticky slurry with human bones and piles of flesh in it.

Especially the carriage that was suspected to contain Tian Jian, which was made up of countless white human faces, most of which were from the Zhong family.

The face hanging in the middle of the carriage was a face that Jin Chan was familiar with.

"Zhongli Jiang!"

Jin Chan's eyes instantly turned red, and murderous aura filled the air.

My heart beat faster and faster.

He clenched his fists and all the muscles in his body twitched slightly.

"Is the person coming Jin Chan, General Jin?"

Suddenly, in the woods behind him, a figure was calling Jin Chan's name.

"Who?"

Glancing back, the man felt as if two sharp blades had pierced his chest.

"General Jin, I am Tian Ji, a general of the Qi army."

I saw a middle-aged man wearing Qi army armor, with his hands raised high, walking slowly from behind the tree, with a long sword at his feet, as if surrendering.

"General Jin, King Qi, King Qi has gone crazy. After coming out of the Paradise Palace a few days ago, King Qi ate all the members of the Tian clan and mobilized Partridge Sky. Even many nobles, who did not have time to escape from Jiaoao City, were integrated into the ghost army and became nutrients."

While Tian Ji said this, he seemed to be afraid. He did not look like a general at all, but more like a frightened child.

"Eat all the Tian clan members? Then how come you are okay?"

Jin Chan held the Fish Belly Sword in front of him, warning Tian Ji not to move forward.

"Although my last name is Tian, ​​I am not a descendant of the Tian family. Jiaoao City has become a deadly place. Twenty percent of the 600,000 soldiers died suddenly, and the rest have evacuated to the north. General Jin, Qi State, Qi State is now in name only."

His spirit was gone. Although Tian Ji still commanded hundreds of thousands of troops and was a general of the Qi army, he didn't know what he was fighting for.

If Tian Jian is allowed to do what he wants, it won't be long before the entire Central Plains will be covered by plague, with corpses everywhere.

Tian Ji had no choice but to lead the army north to seek refuge in order to preserve the bloodline of the Qi people, while he himself stayed behind and placed all his hopes on the Qin army.

"Get on the horse." Jin Chan put away the fish belly, pulled Tian Ji onto the horse's back, and then quickly returned to the Qin army camp.

As they were running, they saw that Tian Jian's ghost army was like poisonous insects ravaging the land. Wherever they passed, no grass grew and the place was filled with miasma.

Even the birds passing by in the sky fell one by one and then merged into the thick black slurry.

It turned into a pool of foul-smelling black blood.

"Notify the army to evacuate northward. Li Xin, Yang Ruihe, Bai Macuo, Zi'an, Mu Xuanzi, Zhu Hai, and Zhuan Zhu, listen to my order. Go to the army and quickly select those who can gather more than 5,000 soldiers. Stay here with me and be ready to fight at any time."

"Bow and crossbow formation, everyone who can still move should stay behind."

After feeding a meat pill to Zi'an who had a high fever, Jin Chan summoned everyone and issued a decisive military order without wasting a second.

"Subordinates take orders."

Everyone shouted in unison, without asking why.

Including Zhu Hai and Zhuan Zhu, after getting Lu Buwei's nod, they also joined Jin Chan's team.

"Luoyang, go and mobilize the baggage camp to crush the grains and fodder. I want to make antidote pills for the army."

"Luoyang, obey your orders!"

After all, Jin Chan was the commander-in-chief of hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, so in front of the army, especially on important occasions, Xiao Luoyang usually called Jin Chan "General", and only called him "Big Brother" in private or when there were few people around.

After Jin Chan's order was given, everyone divided up the work and started to get busy.

"General Jin, what happened in Jiaoao City?"

Lu Buwei, who was holding a walnut on a plate, came to Jin Chan and asked.

"Tian Jian has mobilized the partridge sky and formed a poisonous ghost army, which is heading here, and his target is Hangu and Xianyang. If we don't stop him here, not to mention that half of Qi will be killed, even the Qin land may be infected."

Jin Chan stared and frowned, thinking about how to fight the enemy.

According to what we have just seen, Tian Jian's ghost army is no less than 200,000 people. Although the number is not large, it was created by Queqiao Tian after all, and must be different from ordinary armies.

So after some thought, Jin Chan let the crossbow phalanx stay as well.

"Partridge Sky!"

When Lu Buwei heard this, his face changed drastically. He exerted force with his hands and crushed the pair of emerald green and shiny walnuts into crumbs.

"Is Tian Jian crazy? Queqiaotian is so sinister, and he wants to sacrifice the fate and good deeds of his people. If he goes wrong, the entire Central Plains will be doomed."

Although it was unclear how Lu Buwei knew how to use Queqiaotian, Jin Chan did not have time to ask more questions at this time.

"I'm afraid it's not just the Tian clan. It's estimated that Tian Jian has sacrificed all those with Tian blood."

Jin Chan said with a cold face.

When Tian Ji, who was standing by, heard this, his face changed drastically.

You must know that over the hundreds of years, the Tian family has spread out and there are hundreds of thousands of people with the surname Tian who are counted, and there are many more who are not counted and have drifted to various countries in the Central Plains.

I originally thought that Tian Jian’s killing of the clansmen in Jiaoao City was cruel enough, but I didn’t expect him to be so inhumane.

One day later.

Most of the Qin army had already fled north, leaving behind only 7,000 soldiers who could muster more than 5,000 troops and 60,000 archers.

And the other side.

Golden cicada uses meat as medicine and blood as pulp, and has produced tens of thousands of detoxification pills.

Although it is still unclear whether this thing can completely resist the poison of Partridge Sky, it is much better than nothing.

Jin Chan signaled Xiao Luoyang and Lu Buwei to go north to seek refuge.

However, they were rejected by both of them.

"Everyone, Tian Jian has gone crazy. He has used the partridge sky to form a poisonous ghost army and is heading here. His goal is not just us. He wants to break through Hangu Pass, take Xianyang, and bloodbath Daqin."

Jin Chan stood in front of the army and told the army everything that happened in Jiaoao City in front of more than 67,000 people.

And let Tian Ji stand beside him.

After all, if I don’t say it, when I face the ghost army later, I will probably feel timid and fearful at the first moment.

"Line up, with the archers at the back, and divide into two or three square formations, commanded by Luoyang."

"Those who have condensed 5,000 military spirits will be given 3 detoxification pills each, with a piece of wet cloth covering their mouths and noses."

"Li Xin and Yang Ruihe will lead two thousand people."

"Zian, Mu Xuanzi, lead two thousand people."

"Baima Cuo, Zhu Hai, and Zhuan Zhu, lead three thousand men."

"At that time, I will charge ahead, and you three teams will follow me one mile away and follow my orders."

Jin Chan holds a black gun in his hand and wears the black armor that symbolizes the Qin Dynasty. He stands in front of the army with great dominance, giving everyone a feeling of invincibility.

It seems that as long as Jin Chan is there, let alone the ghost army, even if facing the entire army of the six countries, they will be invincible.

"The general is mighty, the general is mighty"

The roars were like those of a tsunami, and the sixty-seven thousand people seemed like an army of millions.

At this time, they were 500 miles away from the Qin army.

Tian Jian and his ghost army walked on the road like hundreds of poisonous ghosts.

As the poison spread, this ghost army had dyed the land behind them black. All the vegetation withered, and the rotting corpses of wild beasts and birds were everywhere.

From the carriage pulled by five war horses made of piled-up toads, there was a puffing sound like the rhythmic movement of a man and a woman performing the Zhougong rite, and it never stopped along the way.

"Haha, I am already fully grown and will soon become the king of the Central Plains. Zhongli Jiang, you bitch, try to look down on me again."

The roar in the car was getting louder and louder, but this sound was no longer human.

Three days later.

The strange smell of decay had already reached the camp where Jin Chan was.

"All troops are on standby, and all officers are responsible for their duties. Tian Jian should be arriving soon."

Jin Chan stood up and gave instructions to everyone in the tent.

"As ordered!"

And just after the Qin army finished deploying its troops.

In the sky, dozens of black shadows slammed down with a bang, bang, bang, a hundred meters away from the army.

The generals drew their swords and stared ahead with eager eyes.

Xiao Luoyang had also raised his right hand, signaling the archers in the first row to pull the crossbow strings.

"Don't do it, I am Tangqianyan, Swallow!"

In the dust, a familiar figure was seen, covering his mouth with one hand and shouting loudly, while in the other hand he was holding an iron chain as thick as an adult's calf, dragging something behind him and walking slowly towards them.

The dust gradually dissipated.

All I saw were stone coffins of different shapes, strung together from head to tail with a black iron chain.

Tang Qianyan was holding the front of the chain with both hands and walking towards the army with difficulty.

"I'm so tired, this thing is really heavy!"

Coming in front of Jin Chan, Tang Qianyan threw the chain away and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"What is this?"

After taking a look at the forty-three coffins, Jin Chan asked Tang Qianyan in confusion.

"This one is Tian Jian's father, that one is his grandfather, and the fourth one is his great-grandfather. In addition to the Tian family, there are also the previous Qi kings of the Jiang family."

Tang Qianyan pointed at the coffins and kicked open the lid of the first coffin while explaining to Jin Chan.

"This empty one is for Tian Jian. I'll trouble you to put him in later, Brother Jin. By the way, the body doesn't need to be complete. Even if it's just a pile of minced meat, just put it in."

Tang Qianyan put one hand on his waist and fanned himself with the other hand. He also took Zi'an's water bag to quench his thirst.

"Brother Jin, you don't know that the tombs of the kings of Qi are really difficult to dig. My hardworking hands are almost broken from digging these days."

Everyone felt ashamed when they heard this. They had not expected that Tang Qianyan had really dug up someone else's ancestral grave these days and even stole the coffin from the royal tomb.

"What are you going to do?"

Jin Chan pulled Tang Qianyan to a deserted place and asked.

"Brother Jin, the kings of Qi throughout the generations were the ones who had the most national fortune in their lifetimes. Even that idiot Tian Jian was the same."

"After Qin unifies the world, I will use their corpses. Then I will bring the Seven Kingdoms' Jade Seals back to the Jiufang Palace and kill those disgusting dogs."

Tangqianyan said it lightly, but the content of his words was unprecedented.

"Okay, but don't even think about the body of my Qin ancestor."

"The bodies of your ancestors were destroyed by your father, Ying Chu, a long time ago. I can't use them even if I want to!"

Tang Qianyan waved his hand and said indifferently.

This also shows that he already knows the relationship between Jin Chan and Ying Lou.

"How much do you know about the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum?"

Back then in the underground palace of the Qin King's Mausoleum, Ying Chu borrowed the national fortune of successive Qin kings to make donations to Jin Chan and Ying Lou, and then he died.

But how did Tang Qianyan know about this?
"Brother Jin, before you were born, your father consulted me about the fate of the country, including the underground palace. We found it together."

Just when Tang Qianyan was about to continue explaining in detail.

In the distance, Tian Jian and his ghost army formation had already arrived ten miles away.

"We'll talk about this later!"

After saying that, Jin Chan grabbed Tang Qianyan's clothes and dragged him back to the front of the army, and also gave him a war horse.

"Brother Jin, I don't know how to fight. Besides, it's just a small fry like Tian Jian. Can't you easily handle it by yourself?"

Tang Qianyan spread his hands and said innocently.

"Queqitian, Tian Jian sacrificed all the blood of the Tian family."

"Damn, this eunuch is really cruel!"

Tang Qianyan put his hands on his eyebrows, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance.

Behind the 200,000 ghost soldiers was an endless black land of death.

Under the sunlight, they became even more terrifying and creepy.

Especially when everyone saw that the so-called ghost army was actually made up of poisonous snakes entangled with each other and the war horses were made of piles of toads, everyone gasped.

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