Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1050: God of Fire Zhou Yu (Three chapters combined into one, words)
"Bump it out of my way!"

Sun Ce never liked siege methods such as ladders. In his eyes, only by using brute force to break down the city gates and then fighting the enemy head-on was the real way of fighting for a real man.

He personally led a team of soldiers, grabbed the battering ram, and rammed the city gate hard.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

The dust on the city gate fell down, and soon it was about to collapse.

"Hurry up and hold on. We must not let the enemy attack."

A general inside the pass ran around, shouting and giving orders, and finally managed to rally the army's morale, which had been in chaos.

"Swish, swish..." Crossbow arrows flew everywhere. Although these crossbow arrows seemed to be shot randomly and there was obviously no special general commanding them, and their power was not very strong, they still managed to block some of the enemy's momentum.

A general came to the pass, brandished his sword, and chopped down a Jiangdong soldier with one sword.

"Commendants, your majesty has entrusted us with an important mission. We must not lose Hangu Pass. Otherwise, how can we face your majesty and the elders in Luoyang? Today, we would rather die in glory than live in disgrace."

Under his encouragement, the soldiers guarding the pass regained their morale, picked up bows and crossbows, swords, rolling logs, and stones, and joined the battle to defend the pass.

Arrows were shot one after another, logs and rocks kept falling around, and many Jiangdong soldiers were knocked down from the city gates. One of them almost hit Sun Ce, which made Sun Ce very upset.

"Oh, damn it! How dare a nameless person like you act so arrogantly? Once I conquer the checkpoint, I will tear you into pieces."

Zhou Yu, who was not far behind him, saw the battle and muttered in his heart: "Strange, looking at this situation, it seems that the enemy army really did not expect our army to appear. Now in such a hurry, they were able to organize a resistance. As for this, the general guarding the pass is quite capable. Am I really overthinking it?"

Sun Jian, who was at the back, was very satisfied: "Not bad, not bad. Although this general guarding the pass is a nobody, he is loyal and brave. After we break through the pass, don't kill me. He is quite capable and must be familiar with the deployment of troops in various places in Luoyang. He may even be familiar with the generals guarding the city. If I can recruit him, it will be a great help."

"My lord, you have thought it through." Veteran General Cheng Pu said, "In the imperial army, people never ask about one's background, but only military achievements. I heard that Gao Shun's only son also entered Xu Huang and Qian Zhao's army as a soldier to gain experience, and relied on his achievements to reach his current position step by step. Therefore, most generals in the army are veterans who have been promoted from battles, so they naturally have some abilities."

"Ah, speaking of which, I really admire and envy the emperor."

Sun Jian sighed but didn't say anything else. However, Cheng Pu, Ding Feng and others all showed puzzled expressions on their faces. They looked back at the army behind them. Almost half of the soldiers in this army were recruited by their families. As soon as they joined the Sun family, they were already generals in the army. In addition to their personal abilities, another reason was the family's prestige. Even their sons and nephews could directly serve as officers or local officials.

"Creaky, creaky..." The Jingshen Crossbow installed on the city gate was finally activated after a series of teeth-grinding noises.

One after another, extremely powerful crossbow arrows arrived in an instant. Before the Jiangdong soldiers could react, they were shot through by the crossbow arrows. The scene was extremely tragic.

Sun Ce was furious: "You thief, I will skin you alive."

He no longer cared about whether he was a real man or not. Seeing that the city gate was blocked by a lot of baggage and it was difficult to break it open, he simply gave up the siege vehicle, tied the Overlord Spear to his waist, and climbed up the ladder with a shield on his head.

All kinds of crossbow arrows and huge rocks fell from the city gate like raindrops, but Sun Ce remained motionless. He used the shield to block all attacks and finally climbed to the key point.

"Hey, the enemy will die."

He shouted angrily, leaped onto the city gate, drew out the Overlord Spear from his waist, stabbed forward, and knocked a Han soldier to the ground.

The general guarding the pass was not afraid at all and rushed forward with his sword in hand.

Sun Ce's eyebrows slightly stern: "A bit of courage, not bad."

Then, he shook his spear and stabbed it straight into the opponent's chest. The general dodged the attack by turning his body to the side. At the same time, he held the sword in his right hand and stabbed it hard while his body moved to the right.

"A mere trifle." Sun Ce sneered with disdain. He suddenly exerted force with his hands, used the spear as a stick, and swept the opponent directly with the spear shaft.

"Bang..." The general guarding the pass was swept and crashed directly into the parapet on the city gate, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

Sun Ce thrust his spear in front of him and looked down at him: "I see you are a man. If you are willing to surrender, I will spare your life and ensure that you will be employed in Jiangdong."

"Puh!" The guard spat at him. Sun Ce dodged slightly, and the spit fell on the place where he had just stood. Sun Ce looked at the pool of liquid and couldn't help but feel angry.

"Ignorant of good and evil."

After saying that, he raised his spear and was about to stab, but at this moment, a long sword came over and knocked his Overlord Spear away.

Just when Sun Ce was furious and wanted to question, he looked up and saw that it was Sun Jian. He hurriedly saluted.

"This man is very rude, why did you save him?"

Sun Jian glared at him and said, "How can you accomplish anything if you only care about showing off your bravery?"

After saying this, he bent down, personally helped the guard up, and greeted him with a smile.

"The general is frightened."

The general was unmoved and turned his head away: "I am a minister of the emperor and will never surrender to a traitor like you. Don't say anything more. I just want to die quickly."

"You..." Sun Ce was so angry that he just wanted to kill this man as soon as possible, but Sun Jian glared back at him.

Sun Jian still seemed very close to the general: "I wonder what position the general holds?"

The general seemed to have not expected him to ask such a question, and said instinctively: "My name is Wu Qin, and I am a lieutenant general."

"Oh? Could it be General Wu Qin who defeated Jizhou's famous general Gao Lan in Yanmen Lucheng?"

Wu Qin looked at Sun Jian with some surprise: "Yes, I didn't expect the general to know me."

"Ah, General, you are too modest." Sun Jian was delighted. "Gao Lan was so arrogant and famous in the past, but he was defeated by a subordinate who was only the lieutenant of Lucheng County at that time. This shows your bravery. Although you were defeated at Hangu Pass today, it was also due to your carelessness. I admire you very much and hope to receive more advice from you in the future."

Wu Qin's expression quickly turned serious again: "Don't try to flatter me. I have followed Your Majesty for more than ten years, from being an ordinary citizen to where I am today. If I surrender to two masters, what difference would that make me different from an animal?"

Sun Jian smiled and said, "Haha, General, don't be anxious. My family has been blessed by the emperor for generations, how could we rebel against the court? I came to Luoyang with no other intention but to purge the emperor. As long as this is done and the court is peaceful, I will withdraw my troops immediately. If you can help me enter Luoyang, meet the Queen Mother, ask for the imperial decree, and kill the treacherous officials, I will immediately go to Hulao Pass to help the emperor repel the enemy, and then let the emperor deal with it, so as to avoid casualties in attacking the capital."

The garrison commander glanced at him and sneered, "Humph, do you think I'm a three-year-old child? How can you deceive me with such sweet words? Although I don't know that Man Chong, but Xun Shangshu, Qian Xiaowei and others are all outstanding talents of the time and loyal. You say they are traitors, but I think you are the traitor. Don't say anything more, Wu will never kneel down and surrender."

"Damn it, you don't know what's good for you." Sun Ce couldn't stand it anymore, and stepped forward and kicked the man away.

Sun Jian did not stop him at this moment, but simply said: "Imprison this man, reorganize the army, and rest inside the pass. Tomorrow morning, take this man with you and march to Luoyang together."

Sun Ce said angrily, "Father, why don't you kill this man to strengthen the army? What's the point of keeping such a stubborn man?"

"Shut up." Sun Jian shouted, "What do you know? Wu Qin is an old general from Bingzhou. He has followed the emperor since the Yanmen Pass until now. His prestige in the army is not ordinary. I saw that his left arm was not flexible when he was fighting just now. I think it must be because of the hidden danger left by the previous injury. It is difficult for him to go through a big battle, so he was sent to Hangu Pass. If you kill this man, the thousands of surrendered soldiers in the pass will definitely riot, and when we attack Luoyang City tomorrow, the enemy army will also be united against the enemy. Isn't it asking for trouble?"

"Yes, Bofu, what the lord said is right." Zhou Yu came over and advised: "Besides, this person is still useful if we keep him."

Upon hearing him say this, Sun Jian also showed some expectation: "My dear nephew Gongjin, please tell me, what is the use of this person?"

Zhou Yu smiled slightly. "This man refused to surrender. His integrity is admirable. However, the defenders in Luoyang City don't know this. When the time comes to attack the city, the lord will tie his hands and put him on the back of a horse. The soldiers on both sides will guard him and feed him a mute drug. When he arrives in front of the two armies, the lord will deliberately announce that General Wu has surrendered and then reward him greatly. He can't move his hands or speak. In addition, he is only 200 to 300 steps away from the city wall. It will be difficult for the enemy to see clearly and they will certainly be suspicious."

"Great!" Sun Jian clapped his hands and praised: "This way, the enemy's morale will be disrupted. And who knows, someone might come and follow suit and voluntarily open the city to surrender. Then our army can capture Luoyang without bloodshed."

At this moment, Han Dang suddenly grabbed Wu Qin who was being escorted away and asked, "What kind of look did you make with that soldier just now? What kind of secret language did you say?"

Sun Jian was puzzled and hurried over: "Lord Yi, what's wrong?"

Han Dang said, "My lord, when this man was taken away, I saw him winking at a few surrendered soldiers and muttering something, but their voices were very soft and I couldn't hear clearly. I was afraid they had some conspiracy, so I tortured them."

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Sun Jian's expression turned a little unfriendly.

"General Wu, as the saying goes, a man who knows the current situation is a hero. You are now a prisoner, why are you still resisting?"

Wu Qin said coldly: "If you don't like me, you can just kill me right here, why bother saying anything more?"

Sun Jian sneered: "General, I trust your integrity and determination, so I won't ask any more questions. But..."

He turned and looked at the soldier who had just exchanged secret messages with Wu Qin: "I'll give you a chance. Tell me what you two just talked about secretly. If you obey, I will let you go immediately and will not make things difficult for you. Otherwise, I will let you see my son's methods."

When Sun Ce heard this, his eyes lit up. He clenched his fists and walked towards the soldier.

The soldier had witnessed Sun Ce's bravery and ruthlessness when he attacked the city before, and was suddenly frightened to the point of paleness and trembling all over.

"You...don't come over here, you...I'll tell you, I'll tell you..."

"You thief, how can a real man be so afraid of death?" Wu Qin was furious and was about to go forward to bite the soldier, but he was held back by the Jiangdong soldiers beside him.

Sun Jian smiled and said, "Okay, you are very good. Go ahead. I will stick to my word and will never embarrass you."

The soldier's lips trembled slightly. "A few days ago, a batch of food and military equipment was transported to Luoyang City. They said... they said they were going to be sent to the army in Liangzhou. But later, the battle at Hulao Pass became fierce, so His Majesty ordered that these supplies be temporarily kept in Guanzhong to prevent any accidents on the front line..."

Sun Jian was very surprised: "Food, fodder, and weapons? How much?" "The food is large... about 500,000 stones, and the weapons are enough to equip 30,000 soldiers and horses, including... including 3,000 sets of armor and scimitars used by the Purple Gold Dragon Cavalry..."

"Excellent! God is really helping me." Sun Jian clapped his hands and laughed, "I guess you are the one guarding the warehouse today, so General Wu winked at you and asked you to keep the secret?"

"General, you are wise...you are wise, that's exactly it..." After the soldier said all this, he looked at Sun Jian fearfully, fearing that he would go back on his word.

Sun Jian stroked his beard and said, "Okay, take me to the military warehouse. As long as I see these supplies, I will let you go immediately. Of course, if you are willing to stay in my army, I will welcome you and immediately promote you to a higher rank."

The soldier was overjoyed: "I am willing to surrender. I will take you to the military warehouse."

"Ooooooooo... Ooooooooo..." Wu Qin was so angry that veins popped out, but there was a cloth stuffed in his mouth, so he couldn't utter a word.

Sun Jian said to Sun Ce and Cheng Pu, "You two should organize the soldiers here and arrest the surrendered soldiers. Don't make any mistakes."

"Yes, sir." Cheng Pu accepted the order immediately. Sun Ce had no interest in these baggage and logistics matters, so he was naturally too lazy to go to the military warehouse.

In this way, the soldier led Sun Jian, Han Dang, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others down the city gate, then walked eastward, bypassed a large area of ​​houses, and finally came to a camp.

It is not accurate to call it a camp, it should be called a courtyard. Because outside the camp, there is not a fence, but a wall more than ten feet high, and the gate is also two very heavy doors, which are not as easy to break as ordinary gates.

If it weren't for the fact that there were many tall warehouses visible in the courtyard from the outside, Sun Jian would probably have suspected that this soldier had taken the wrong path.

"My lord, this is the place." The soldier came to the gate of the courtyard and said respectfully.

"Well, open it."

"Yes." The soldier took out a bunch of keys from his arms. There were three locks on the gate of the courtyard, top, middle and bottom, and there were nine keys in his bunch of keys.

After opening the three locks and pushing open the door, I saw two identical doors in front of me.

"So that's how it is. I guess there are two more doors behind this door, right?" Lu Su asked.

The soldier nodded and said, "That's right. Originally, the keys to the three gates were in the hands of different people. General Wu had three keys, the guard had three keys, and the military commander had three keys. But the military commander was seriously ill a few days ago, and General Wu thought that Hangu Pass was far away from the battlefield and was not a big deal. In addition, his old injury relapsed, so he rested most of the time every day, so he temporarily entrusted all the keys to me."

"Oh? Such a coincidence?" Zhou Yu stared at the soldier meaningfully.

Sun Jian laughed and said, "Great, God's will is on my side, what else can I ask for? Open the door, I want to see today how sophisticated these weapons that have frightened the princes of the world are."

The soldier opened the two doors at the back one by one and led everyone into the yard.

Suddenly, the view in front of me opened up to a very spacious courtyard with no less than thirty or forty warehouses of varying sizes. Some of them had "grain" written on them, while others had "machinery" written on them. They were all different.

Sun Jian was a little impatient and walked quickly to a warehouse marked "Equipment": "Open it quickly."

The soldier took the order and took out a bunch of different keys. He found the corresponding key according to the numbers marked on the warehouse and opened the door.

"Squeak..."

What caught everyone's eyes were pieces of brand new armor piled on wooden shelves.

Sun Jian opened his eyes wide, picked up a piece of armor, put it in front of his chest and gestured: "Good armor, good armor."

Lu Su also walked around and came to Zhou Yu with a smile on his face: "Gongjin, these armors are more than ten times better than those used by our army. No wonder the imperial army is invincible wherever it goes."

Zhou Yu frowned, "I always feel that something is fishy. The sneak attack on Luoyang seems to have gone too smoothly. The omnipotent Flying Eagle Guards did not discover our whereabouts. Hangu Pass was easily conquered, and there happened to be such a large amount of supplies stored in the pass. All the good things happened to happen to us. It's too much of a coincidence."

Hearing this, Lu Su seemed to be alert: "This...smoothness should be a good thing, but after what you said, it does seem a little abnormal. After all, our opponent is the emperor, who is known for his wisdom and intelligence, and has been in power for more than ten years without an opponent."

At this moment, Zhou Yu seemed to have discovered something. He sniffed hard and said, "Hmm? What's that smell?"

Lu Su also sniffed around and said, "There seems to be a faint strange smell coming from somewhere."

The two followed the strange smell and soon came to the wall of the warehouse. The smell here was obviously much stronger.

Zhou Yu took a deep breath, and then his face suddenly changed.

"Oh no, it's kerosene, we've fallen into a trap!"

He turned around and shouted to Sun Jian: "My lord, run away..."

However, before he could finish his words, the soldier who had been timid before slipped away from Sun Jian, and then took two steps at a time and escaped out of the warehouse door.

"Haha, you are a bunch of idiots. Prepare to die."

He was very proud and was about to close the door.

Han Dang was the first to react. He raised the halberd in his hand and threw it out with all his might, piercing the soldier through.

But before I could rejoice, I heard a series of noisy footsteps outside.

"Quick, archers, prepare your rockets, heavy shield soldiers and spearmen, surround this place, and don't let them escape."

After hearing this sound, how could Sun Jian and others not understand that they had fallen into a trap?

Several people rushed out and saw teams of Han soldiers running towards them.

They were accompanied by only a few hundred personal guards. It would be like hitting a rock with an egg if they wanted to fight against the well-prepared ambush.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Sun Jian's face turned pale.

But he also understood that if he lost confidence now, there would be no hope for this group of people to escape.

Sun Jian drew out his ancient ingot sword and shouted, "Soldiers, follow me and charge out. Once we get out of here, Bofu and his men will surely find us and lead their troops to support us!"

After hearing this, the morale of the accompanying guards suddenly increased, and they all prepared to break out towards the gate.

At this time, a voice came: "Release the arrows."

Thousands of rockets took off instantly and then fell down in unison.

Many warehouses around were covered with kerosene, and when the rocket fell, a sea of ​​fire formed instantly.

With just one wave of rockets, forty or fifty guards were killed. In addition, the surrounding area was on fire, making it extremely difficult to break out. This made everyone feel a little desperate.

Zhou Yu vaguely saw a young man in a white robe holding a feather fan behind the Han army, but the situation before him did not allow him to see the other party's face clearly.

He forced himself to calm down and not be distracted by the sounds of fighting around him.

"What should I do... Is there really no hope? No way..."

He looked around and paused for a moment at the gate, which had already been closed again. Then he looked in other directions and finally his eyes stopped on a road that was obviously trampled by someone.

"Got it!" Zhou Yu almost cheered out loud.

"System prompt: Zhou Yu activates special skill - God of Fire: When performing fire attack, his own command and intelligence increase by 2 points, and the enemy's generals' military strength decreases by 1 point. When facing the enemy's fire attack, increase intelligence by 4 points, increase the military strength of all your generals by 1 point, and decrease the enemy's commander and all counselors' intelligence by 1 point."

"Zhou Yu is currently facing the enemy's fire attack, so increase his intelligence by 4 points, increase the military strength of Sun Ce, Han Dang and other Jiangdong generals by 1 point each, and reduce the intelligence of our commander Wu Qin and our strategist Zhuge Liang by 1 point each."

"Zhou Yu's basic intelligence is 97 points, Zhuge Liang's basic intelligence is 96 points. Affected by the special skills, Zhou Yu's comprehensive intelligence is 101 points, and Zhuge Liang's comprehensive intelligence is 95 points."

Zhou Yu grabbed Sun Jian and said, "My lord, come this way."

"Gongjin, you are..." Sun Jian was a little confused, Lu Su advised: "My lord, Gongjin must have discovered something, let's go."

Sun Jian gritted his teeth, without any further hesitation, hurriedly called out, and turned around to run after Zhou Yu.

Because the ground in the yard was not coated with kerosene, although many warehouses on all sides were set on fire and the warehouses were very close to each other, there were still some narrow distances that did not catch fire. It was just that the fire in the warehouses was often blown by the wind and would spread everywhere. But even so, it was better than facing the fire head-on.

Zhou Yu led everyone and ran along a winding "small road".

Zhuge Liang frowned: "Hmm? There is a master..."

He waved his hand and said, "Quickly go around to the back door and block the way with heavy objects. When the enemy arrives, use bows and crossbows to force them back into the fire. Don't let them escape."

"Yes, sir." A general took the order and quickly led his troops to run in another direction.

(End of this chapter)