The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 181 Huihui Cannon, Tongguan is broken

Taiyuan, Marquis’ Mansion.

In the backyard, two clear children's voices echoed in the wind.

"When people are born, their nature is good, and their natures are similar..."

Huang Rong was wearing a green long skirt, her jet-black hair tied into a bun. She was holding a book and reading it word by word. Two young children were sitting obediently on small stools, reciting with their heads shaking. They were white and plump, with distinct black and white eyes, and looked innocent. The shadow of Guo Jing could be seen faintly between their brows.

After a while, Hua Zheng came in from the front door. She looked at the children studying seriously with a look of satisfaction in her eyes. She didn't walk to Huang Rong until she finished reading this paragraph. "Sisters are so knowledgeable. I can't control them usually. They are so naughty."

Huang Rong put down the book and said with a smile, "Sister, you are joking. Chengping and Chengan are both smart children, just like their father."

Hua Zheng's beautiful eyes sparkled as she shook her head slightly, "Sister Rong'er, his father is not smart. Let me tell you, when he was training with those seven masters, it took him a long time to learn martial arts. They all said he was a blockhead."

Huang Rong was slightly stunned. "No way? When he was learning martial arts from Senior Hong, he learned very quickly. I heard that he is almost perfect now. How could he be so stupid?"

Hua Zheng held her hand and said with a smile, "Oh, what I said is true. At that time, he was very stubborn and only knew how to practice hard. Those masters scolded him every day, which was terrible. It was not until later that he gradually opened up."

Huang Rong also smiled. She didn't expect Guo Jing to have such an experience. Then, she rolled her eyes and said, "By the way, I heard that Mr. Su was the first to accept my husband as his apprentice. Are you familiar with him?"

When Su Ming was mentioned, Hua Zheng's expression immediately became serious. "You have to be careful in front of Guo Jing. Teacher Su is the person he respects the most. Don't offend him easily."

"Teacher Su has been in the desert for more than ten years. He usually stays in his tent and rarely goes out. He once gave advice to my father, and my father Khan also valued him and respected him very much. Moreover, he is very skilled in martial arts and is the most powerful person I have ever seen."

A trace of pity flashed across Huang Rong's eyes, and she sighed, "What a pity. According to what you said, Teacher Su is so talented, but he has no place to use his talents. Only the Khan can invite him."

……

In the garden, Su Ming was lying under a tree reading a book, while the eagle was standing quietly beside him dozing off. He put his fingers together and held the sword, and sharp streams of energy moved in all directions in the air.

After trying for a while, he frowned, "No, it lacks flavor, and the strength of the sword finger is not enough."

After learning Ouyang Feng's poison skills, Guo Jing let him go. It would have been easy to kill him, but he was too lazy to do such a thing. Ouyang Feng went with him and suffered a great shock to his mind.

Especially when he saw that Guo Jing had reached the level of the Five Supremes at such a young age, he was extremely jealous. However, he saw clearly that in addition to the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, the Quanzhen Sect's internal strength also played an important role in Guo Jing's ability to reach this point.

It just so happens that his martial arts skills have been fixed. It is impossible for him to give up Toad Skill and learn Quanzhen Internal Skill. The Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Subduing is also incompatible with him. After careful consideration, he decided to return to the White Camel Villa in the Western Regions and never leave the house until he has created a martial art that surpasses Toad Skill!
For this reason, he also made an agreement with Huang Yaoshi that he would definitely attend the next Huashan Sword Contest. The next Huashan Sword Contest was less than three years away, but he did not expect that he would not go.

Su Ming didn't bother to care about him. As long as he didn't interfere with the overall situation, it didn't matter whether he lived or died. However, after communicating with Huang Yaoshi, he also had the idea of ​​creating his own martial arts.

Finally, he turned his attention to the Six Meridians Divine Sword of the Dali Duan family. It was easy for him to use finger force through the air. With such exquisite finger techniques as waving five strings and snapping fingers, what he had to do next was to combine finger force, sword energy and gathering energy into a blade to create a sword-fingering martial art.

However, his Six Meridians Divine Sword was different from the Duan family's Six Meridians Divine Sword. The Six Meridians Divine Sword was nominally a sword technique, but in reality it was not a real sword used against the enemy. It was just a move similar to a sword technique. Based on the One Yang Finger, the internal force contained in the six meridians in the ten fingers was shot out in the air. Unlike acupuncture from a distance, the Six Meridians Divine Sword could achieve the effect of direct killing and piercing, and its power was even stronger, a bit like sword energy.

Su Ming wanted to create his own sword-finger martial arts because he really wanted to use his fingers to shoot out sword energy to defeat the enemy. Only Duan Yu had mastered all the Six Meridians Divine Sword, and Su Ming borrowed the energy of heaven and earth for his own use. It can be said that he has infinite blue, and theoretically he can use it all the time.

But theory is just theory after all. Over the past few days, he has also discovered the flaws in his martial arts. The Minghai Guiyuan Power utilizes the energy of heaven and earth, but the endurance of the human body's meridians is limited. If it exceeds a certain limit, the meridians will be damaged.

He created his own sword finger and found that the meridians in his hands could not withstand the sharpness of the sword energy. They were repeatedly damaged, making it impossible for him to make further progress.

Su Ming felt the swelling pain coming from his fingers and thought to himself, "It seems that I have to go to the Tantric Sect again."

In the Golden Book, when it comes to hard skills, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill is unmatched. This skill is divided into thirteen levels. Its external skills can make the palm force powerful, domineering, fierce and unstoppable. Every time you practice a level, you will increase the power of a dragon and an elephant. After practicing ten levels, you will have the strength of ten dragons and ten elephants, which is nearly a thousand pounds of force. The King of the Golden Wheel in The Legend of the Condor Heroes is slightly superior to the Five Great Masters at that time in terms of combat power. After all, he was not at a disadvantage when he was besieged by Zhou Botong and others in the Valley of Unrequited Love. This is a testament to his ability.

……

The Battle of Tongguan had been going on for a month, and the city walls were already filled with corpses. Fortunately, it was winter and the temperature was low, otherwise the rotting corpses would have been even more smelly.

More than half of the 20,000 Xixia vassal troops were killed or wounded, and thousands of the infantry established by Guo Jing were also damaged. Such a high price resulted in the Tongguan defense line being shaky, and the enemy army could no longer hold on.

Inside the tent, Guo Jing looked at the sand table in front of him with deep eyes.

Soon, a personal guard came in from outside the tent and said, "Your Excellency, General Shi and the others are all here."

"Let them in."

Then, several figures stepped into the military tent.

Guo Jing cast his gaze towards everyone, "Everyone, tomorrow the Japanese commander will launch a general attack and capture Tongguan in one battle. Do you have any objections?"

Shi Tianni was young and full of vigor, and he immediately said, "My Lord, Tongguan is obviously about to collapse. As long as we fight step by step, we will be able to take it sooner or later. If we attack by force, I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties."

He glanced at him calmly without saying anything. Shi Bingzhi, who was standing by, saw that the situation was not good and directly scolded him, "You boy, what do you know? Winter is coming in a month. In the cold winter, it is very difficult to transport food and fodder. If the Jin thieves have reinforcements, I don't know how long the stalemate will last."

Shi Tianni's face froze, and he bowed his head in shame, "I have spoken out of turn, please punish me, Lord."

Guo Jing walked forward and patted his shoulder. "In that case, you will lead the charge tomorrow. It depends on whether you can get it."

Shi Tianni was immediately overjoyed and shouted, "Thank you, Lord!"

Seeing this scene, Shi Bingzhi shook his head secretly, silly child, it is not so easy to get the credit for being the first to reach the target.

After a while, several generals left. Guo Jing looked at their departing backs with a deep gaze.

The people from Quanzhen Sect had arrived a long time ago. With their cooperation, it would not be difficult to capture Tongguan, but Guo Jing refused. In addition to taking Guanzhong, the more important thing for him in this battle was to train his troops.

The Jin people could not keep fighting him in the field. There would always be a time to attack a city. If he did not accumulate experience now, the price he would have to pay when he marched south would be even more severe than this.

Not to mention, if it comes to defending the city, it still depends on the Han people. After destroying the Jin Kingdom, he will face the Song Dynasty directly. At that time, it will be a hard bone to chew. He must prepare early and train an army with experience in siege. In comparison, the death of some soldiers is nothing.

Besides, in order to penetrate into Guanzhong, one must show some muscle. The Quanzhen Sect is willing to surrender, but he wants to take the initiative in cooperation. If he wants to rely on the Quanzhen Sect to take over Guanzhong, he will have to give up many interests at that time.

Fighting first and talking later and talking first and fighting later are two completely different things.

……

The westerly sunlight shone through the mottled city walls. Fifteen miles to the west, fierce fighting was spreading.

The huge clamor was hoarse and continued on the city wall. After a lot of effort, a soldier climbed up the wall, and another figure rushed up with a sword, but was pierced by a spear. The sounds of swords clashing, shouting, and all kinds of sounds were gathering and buzzing in people's ears.

Yongxi, holding a shield and a knife, and his personal soldiers moved in and out of the already huge chaotic formation. The flying arrows bounced off the beast-head shoulder armor. In the mixed crowd opposite, the Han army continued to pour out from the gaps.

He used a round shield to block the tip of the knife, and several personal soldiers around him thrust their spears to the left and right, forcing the Han army to retreat. Finally, they were pierced by the spears and fell to the ground.

"Boom boom boom!"

A loud drumbeat sounded, and the Han army on the city wall retreated like a tide.

Yongxi leaned on the city wall, his armor covered in blood. He looked at the gray sky in the distance with a dazed look. Today, when the war started, the offensive of the Han army became extremely fierce. Several times, the defense line was broken through by him. It was only when he personally led his personal soldiers that the gap was blocked.

The 30,000 soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties, with more than half of them dead and the rest injured. He had a premonition that Tongguan might not be able to be defended.

In the Han army camp, Guo Jing looked at the tall trebuchet in front of him, with a flash of surprise in his eyes, "Is this the new trebuchet you made?"

In the camp, several huge catapults sat on the ground. Compared with the previous catapults, the ones in front of them were taller and bigger, and they were also weighed down by stones. They were obviously weapons of war.

Although Guo Jing did not understand, he nodded continuously, "Let's try it out on the battlefield tomorrow. If we can succeed, all the craftsmen who participated in improving the equipment will be rewarded handsomely."

He naturally didn't understand that this thing was the Huihui Cannon that shocked Europe and Asia with the Mongolian army. In the original book, Xiangyang, which he had defended for more than ten years, fell under the Huihui Cannon. The appearance of this thing directly accelerated the progress of history.

The next morning.

"Oh!"

A loud noise broke the silence. The Jin army guarding the city felt that the city walls under their feet were shaking. They looked up and saw huge rocks whistling in the sky and hitting the city walls heavily. The city walls, which had already been devastated, were shaken and collapsed with a dull sound.

"Run away!"

At this moment, the first reaction of the Jin army was not to fight back but to run. The power of the falling stones was too great. Although only a few soldiers were killed by them, the blow to morale was too great.

Guo Jing stood on the high platform and looked at Tongguan in the distance, a smile appeared in his eyes, "Okay, come on, pass the order down, increase the intensity of the attack, we must take Tongguan today!"

"As ordered!"

In the camp, Qiu Chuji and Wang Chuyi looked at the catapult in the distance and couldn't help but reveal a hint of fear in their eyes. With such a powerful siege weapon in hand, what city in the world can stop him?

After a saturation attack, stone bullets fell all over the top of the city. Yongxi, who was guarded by his personal soldiers, looked at the catapults under the city wall. His face was pale and he could not speak. It took him a long time to recover and he managed to say, "Could the enemy army have the help of gods?"

It was not like they had not been hit by catapults before, but their power was not great and few of them could hit the top of the city walls, because in order to throw the stones up they had to get close, and once they got close they would be destroyed by the catapults.

But today, everything is different.

"Boom!"

The Han army launched a charge with the sound of drums and trumpets. This time, they did not encounter strong resistance. The morale of the Jin army had long been shattered, and Yongxi's desperate resistance was futile.

Gradually, the sound of fighting on the city wall became quieter, the number of people around him became fewer and fewer, the knife in his hand became heavier, and it seemed that the enemies were endless.

Finally, he was out of strength. Looking at the enemy in front of him, he smiled bitterly and used his last bit of strength to put the knife across his neck. As blood gushed out, Tongguan was captured.

The gate of Tongguan was opened, and Guo Jing led the cavalry into the city first. After occupying the important road, he immediately arranged for his soldiers to take turns to rest. After fighting for more than a month, it was time to relax.

The gate to Tongguan was wide open, and it was only a matter of time for him to take over Guanzhong.

……

Late at night, in the military camp, Guo Jing hosted a banquet for Qiu Chuji and Wang Chuyi.

"Master Qiu, Master Wang, thank you for your help. I am grateful."

Qiu Chuji and Wang Chuyi looked at each other with slightly bitter eyes. The battle during the day was undoubtedly a show of muscle. With such siege equipment, how many cities in the world could withstand the attack?

Wang Chuyi coughed and said in a deep voice, "My Lord, you are too serious. We did not contribute much in this battle. If there is any need for our Quanzhen Sect to help, we will definitely do our best to help."

Guo Jing laughed loudly and said in a generous tone, "Well, Master Wang, you are so straightforward. I will not be polite. If Tongguan is taken, Guanzhong will surely be shocked. You have also seen the siege equipment used in this battle, so I will not say more."

"Guanzhong is the ancient land of the Han Dynasty. I do not wish to cause more bloodshed. I ask the Quanzhen Sect to help me with all of my strength and contact the local wealthy families to drive out the Jin people, rectify the past, and restore the Han Dynasty's image."

Qiu Chuji agreed without hesitation, "Don't worry, Marshal. My Quanzhen Sect will do its best." The Quanzhen Sect really has the ability to connect with the wealthy and powerful families in Guanzhong. If the sect wants to develop, it cannot do without the support of the government and the wealthy and powerful families.

He didn't dare to make any guarantees before, but now, everything is no problem.

(End of this chapter)