Supreme Golden Palace

Chapter 116 Golden Lock (Part )

At the southern foot of Jinshan Mountain, amidst the fertile plains, a military flag fluttered in the wind. The silver wolf head against the black background looked even more ferocious. The cavalrymen under their command wore sharp blades hanging from their waists, their expressions stern, and their horses' hooves dug into the ground, making a dull sound.
In contrast, the other camp used a red flag with the sun, moon and stars embroidered on it. Each infantry phalanx held a long spear with its blades shivering.

Under the red flag, Yang Lin wore a golden crown, fish-scale armor, and rode a one-horned green-maned beast. With a wave of the command flag in his hand, one infantry phalanx after another began to form up. Long spears were like a forest between the phalanxes, and the sound of footsteps was like muffled thunder.

"This Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is composed of the eight gates of Heaven, Earth, Wind, Cloud, Dragon, Tiger, Bird, and Snake."

Yang Lin pointed at the infantry formation and said, "The east is the Shengmen Gate. Starting from Shengmen Gate, there are Xiumen Gate, Kaimen Gate, Jingmen Gate, Simen Gate, Jingmen Gate, Dumen Gate, and Shangmen Gate. These eight gates are the Eight Trigrams. According to the principles of the Eight Trigrams, the combination of the real and the fake, and the ever-changing nature, are considered one of the Ten Wonders of Military Strategy."

"The so-called Ten Secrets of Military Strategy are the ten most fundamental and exquisite formations of military strategists. They are the Long Snake Formation, Two Dragons Emerging from Water Formation, Heaven and Earth Three Elements Formation, Four Gates Backstop Formation, Five Tigers and Sheep Formation, Six Dings and Six Jias Formation, Seven Stars Big Dipper Formation, Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, Nine-Character Chain Formation, and Ten-Sided Ambush Formation."

"These ten ultimate formations are all-encompassing and immensely powerful. In different hands, they can be transformed into different forms. During the Battle of Xinye during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei's general Cao Ren used the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation against Liu Bei's army, suffering a crushing defeat. The same formation, in Zhuge Kongming's hands, became the Eight Diagrams Formation, nearly trapping and killing Wu's general Lu Xun."

Yang Lin said to Lü Shang and Zuo Tiancheng beside him, "Feixiong, Tiancheng, you will both lead armies in the future. You can't just rely on your bravery. You must also study military tactics. Even a powerful king like Overlord was trapped and killed in an ambush. Even a brave man like Marquis Wen was hanged in the White Gate Tower."

"Yes," Lu Shang and Zuo Tiancheng responded with serious expressions after hearing this.

At this time, dust and smoke were rolling in the distance, and a large flag embroidered with a golden wolf was looming, with troops under the flag coming towards them with great momentum.

Seeing this, Yang Lin curled his lips into a cold smile and said, "You've come just in time, Ashina Dianjue. Today, I will have you perform the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation for me, and let Feixiong and Tiancheng see the actual use of the formation."

He sat firmly on the one-horned green-maned beast, waving the flag in his hand slightly, conveying the battle formation order to the entire army.

Ashina Dianjue is the taboo name of Datou Khan, just as Shaboluo Khan's taboo name is Ashina Shetu. The title of Datou Khan is equivalent to the reign title of the emperor of the Central Plains dynasty.

Datou Khan's wolf-head banner pierced through the smoke and dust, and a hundred thousand cavalrymen pressed down on the city like a dark cloud.

The Turkic knights wore heavy armor made of animal skins, and their war horses were connected with iron chains. When the horses' hooves stepped on the ground, there was a sound of metal clashing.

This powerful Western Turkic leader held a two-meter-long mace and stood under a wolf-head banner.

"Old Yang Lin, the Khan is here,"

Datou Khan's voice was like thunder, and his mace was pointed directly at Yang Lin in the center of the army formation.

The cavalry behind him roared in unison, and the cold light of their unsheathed scimitars formed a silver wave.

These 100,000 cavalrymen were the last assets of Dahan Khan. Although he had 600,000 soldiers, his true loyal ones were only the 100,000 cavalrymen from the Ten Arrows Tribe.

Back then, his father, Shidianmi Khan, relied on the Ten Arrows Tribe to conquer the countries in the Western Regions and establish the royal court north of Jinshan.

"It's good that you're here. I was just worried that you wouldn't dare to come."

Yang Lin snorted coldly, and suddenly raised the flag in his hand, and the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation changed accordingly.

boom!
The three thousand heavily armored infantrymen in the front army squatted down with a bang, revealing the eight-foot-long spears that were inserted diagonally into the ground behind them.

The sun had just risen to the zenith, and the cold light reflected from the spear blades formed a curtain of light in front of the formation, which made the Turkic cavalry rein in their horses.

"The gate of life turns to death, and the gate of rest turns to fear."

Yang Lin shifted slightly, his command flag tracing the path of the Big Dipper. Suddenly, gaps appeared in the three phalanxes on the left wing. The seemingly scattered infantrymen shifted positions in a staggered, Yu-step manner, and in the blink of an eye, their formation transformed into a yin-yang, twin fish pattern.

"Datou, do you dare to break my Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation?"

Yang Lin waved his flag and thousands of troops followed suit.

"Break the formation!"

“Break the formation!” “Break the formation!”

One hundred thousand Sui soldiers shouted in unison, almost like a tsunami.

"Khan,"

Shatushe looked at the formation in front of him, gripping the iron bolt tightly, his expression solemn.

Especially when he saw Lu Shang wearing the Yanling Armor, his chest ached even more.

Shatushe was severely injured by Lu Shang's whip. If Lu Shang had not been in a hurry to kill Datou and did not whip him again, Shatushe would have died long ago.

Although his old injuries had barely healed, whenever he got emotional, his chest would ache like a knife.

Now seeing Lu Shang again, he was terrified, and the pain became more intense, as if it was going to tear his chest apart.

"Break the formation,"

Datou Khan's mace glowed dark red under the scorching sun, and the BMW under him neighed incessantly.

The roar of a hundred thousand cavalrymen shook the clouds, and the thousand war horses in the front row, wearing heavy armor, rushed straight to the gate of life.

"kill,"

Yang Lin's flag suddenly dropped, and a blinding silver light burst out in front of the formation. Three thousand heavily armored infantrymen shouted in unison, thrusting forward with their eight-foot-long spears.

boom!
The Turkic vanguard cavalry rushed to within thirty feet of the formation, and suddenly countless sharp spikes exploded from the ground. The war horses wrapped in iron chains were tripped by the spikes, and the spikes pierced the horses' bellies, and blood rained down from the sky.

The smoke and dust raised by the wolf riders' charge covered the sky, and the war horses connected by iron chains were like moving city walls.

"Eight Gates Lock the Evil Dragon,"

Under Yang Lin's banner, the troops moved in front of the battle formation.

At the same time, Datou Khan's golden wolf banner suddenly leaned forward, and the second wave of cavalry surrounded it from both wings.

"kill,"

Shatushe, the commander-in-chief, had a fierce gleam in his eyes, and the iron bolt drew a bloody arc. Ten gaps suddenly appeared in the Turkic center. Each team of cavalry dragged caltrops coated in kerosene, plowing furrows in the ground like dragons of fire.

Yang Lin's banner suddenly tilted sideways, and the spearmen in the front row retreated three steps in unison. The spearmen, previously gleaming with silver light, suddenly collapsed, revealing three thousand powerful crossbowmen in the rear. The crossbowmen stepped on the strings, pulled the trigger, and the mechanism crackled like thunder.

"put,"

Yang Lin's hair and beard danced wildly in the strong wind. Wherever the flag in his hand pointed, three thousand crossbows in front of the formation were fired, and at the same time, at an angle of forty-five degrees, the specially made three-edged armor-piercing arrows glowed with a cold blue light in the sunlight.

This three-edged armor-piercing arrow is made of thousand-year-old ironwood as the arrowhead and fine gold and silver as the arrowhead, and is specially designed to break through copper skin and iron bones.

sieve! sieve!
The clatter of crossbow strings drowned out the roar of a hundred thousand horse hooves. A hail of arrows formed a diamond-shaped iron curtain in the air, tearing the hide armor of the front row of Turkic heavy cavalry like thin paper, and both men and horses were impaled like bloody gourds. The stricken horses were dragged and tumbled by the chains, and the cavalry formation in the rear was immediately thrown into disarray.

Datou Khan's golden wolf banner suddenly pointed forward, and the third wave of cavalry actually pulled out round shields from under their saddles.

These iron-clad wooden shields were held at a unique angle, causing arrows to collide and slide away. A sharp bone flute rang out from the cavalry formation, and the ten thousand-man squadrons suddenly dispersed to the sides, revealing three hundred chariots emitting smoke from behind.

(End of this chapter)