Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 124 The Cannon Shattered the Age of Supernatural Arts

Shi Le, who had already merged with the mother insect, also wailed in agony amidst the latter's painful cries.

At the same time, the larvae kept popping out of the mother insect, like leeches leaping up and rushing towards Yang Feng who had returned to the city wall. Although they were just fleshy buds on the mother insect, they were actually more than a meter long, with mouthparts that were big enough to swallow a human head. Countless mouthparts of such larvae were open, like countless hagfish feeding.

however……

Do you know what modern civilization is?

Yang Feng said.

The next moment, something made of six tubes tied together appeared in front of him, and then, to Shi Le's bewildered gaze, flames spewed out from the front of this thing.

The red tracer shot straight into the sky, instantly colliding with a larva that was lunging at Yang Feng. The larva was instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist, and the red tracer that pierced through it still collided with another larva, instantly turning it into a spray of blood mist. Accompanied by a strange buzzing and a whooshing sound, the red tracer swayed slightly as it faced the swarm of larvae that were falling towards it, amidst the explosions of blood mist.

The larvae that fell to the ground were thus turned into a shower of blood mist and fragments by the 12.7mm bullets.

Almost in the blink of an eye, they were all wiped out.

Not much actually.

There are only two or three hundred of them.

Moreover, because they all have the same target and are launched from the mother insect, although they are not in a straight line, they are roughly on the same route. This number of insects attacking the same target at the same time will indeed overwhelm the opponent.

But it's a different story when the opponent is a rotary machine gun with a rate of fire of thousands of rounds per minute.

Shi Le was completely dumbfounded.

He watched helplessly as his larvae vanished into the sky.

then……

The thing was aimed at him.

"Soul energy protection, is that it? Let's see if your soul energy is stronger, or my modern technology."

Yang Feng said with a ferocious expression.

The next moment, the bullet's tracer struck the mother insect, who had already collapsed from her severe injuries.

He had just cleaved open a spatial rift to enter the mother insect's body, then hacked around inside. As the insect painfully spat him out, he also left behind a barrel of highly toxic chemicals. However, this thing was extremely resilient, and even after all that, it was still not dead, but just lying on the ground, writhing in pain.

However, the shield formed by soul energy still protects it from the outside.

The moment the tracer collided with it, a faint, visible shimmering light flowed across its body.

The bullet was deflected instantly.

However, that's thousands of bullets hitting it every minute.

The trailing fire continued to strike its energy shield and bounce off. Because of its twisting body, the bounced off in different directions, like a beautiful flower exploding on its body. It twisted wildly, mobilizing the soul energy on its body, and you could even see a clear flow of it.

At this point, Shi Le panicked.

Because the mother insect is draining his energy.

He twisted in terror atop the mother insect's head, trying to pull his lower body out of its confinement, but to no avail. The mother insect had given him so much; now it was his turn to give back to the mother insect.

He struggled and howled frantically atop the mother insect's head, but her body was like a quagmire, firmly locking his lower body in place and continuously drawing away the soul energy that had been given to him. This soul energy flowed rapidly toward the point of impact, strengthening the energy shield there.

But the bullets fired from Yang Feng's machine gun seemed endless.

His ammunition is automatically replenished.

If a thousand shots don't break the energy shield, then two thousand, and if that's still not enough, then three thousand...

It's all about grinding.

It doesn't actually take too long.

In less than forty seconds, under the kinetic energy of more than three thousand 12.7 mm bullets, the soul energy shield on the mother insect suddenly turned into starlight and dissipated into the air.

The 100,000 wronged souls have finally been freed.

But Yang Feng didn't stop. His machine gun continued firing, the bullets that, while not penetrating the massive body, were rapidly tearing it apart. As it writhed in agony, the bullets, their impact points constantly shifting, splattered flesh and blood. Because of the bullets' incredible speed, they corroded its body visibly, and in the blink of an eye, a festering sore appeared. The highly toxic chemicals that had corroded the interior, along with the shattered parts Yang Feng had previously torn apart, including the detached teeth, instantly gushed out from this opening.

Still alive, it desperately tried to draw out its last bit of energy to protect the wound.

Of course, it was extracted from Shi Le.

The latter was no longer able to wail; his entire being was rapidly withering away.

He raised his hand and stretched it towards the city wall...

It's unclear who it's being extended to.

After all, there was no one on the city wall who could help him at that moment.

His Jie people were either fighting against Yang Feng's men or the Han Chinese strongmen in the city who had defected, or they were already fleeing. No one cared about him. He just stood there with his hands raised, and the mother insect that had merged with him kept draining his energy until he became a dried-up corpse.

The queen insect made him a local overlord, but now he has to pay the price.

Of course, the mother insect died shortly afterward.

Seeing that the mother insect had been completely destroyed, Yang Feng finally stopped firing. The spent cartridges around him piled up and almost submerged the support.

"What otherworldly creatures, as long as they are still made of flesh and blood, can't beat modern technology."

He said contemptuously.

He then turned his gun around.

A wounded Jie general was jumping off the city wall to escape when the tracer of a bullet struck him, instantly interrupting this man who should also have soul energy.

Then he screamed and fell off the city wall.

The Han Chinese general who had been fighting him was so frightened that he immediately knelt down.

"Your humble servant Li Nong pays his respects to Emperor Taizu Gao."

He said it tremblingly.

"Get up. Since you have killed the barbarians, you have atoned for your sins."

Yang Feng said.

There was no need to kill Li Nong.

He was Ran Min's main helper, although the two soon became enemies. This guy was actually the leader of the Beggar Army.

After speaking, Yang Feng looked around the city.

The city is now engulfed in chaos, and the Han troops outside have also entered. They, along with the defected Han soldiers and the civilians who had previously fled the city, have all joined in the purge of the Jie people within. The two sides are easily distinguishable: the Jie people have the typical appearance of non-Han people, so just kill them if they have deep-set eyes and high noses; and since this city was the center of Shi Le's rule, the majority of the Jie people were here.

They were originally a small tribe, arguably the smallest of the Five Barbarian Tribes. They only rose to prominence because of Shi Le, but their population was not large.

"Kill them all! Slaughter all the barbarians! Issue my decree: wherever there are barbarians, whether they were forced to submit or to the puppet Jin dynasty, as long as all the barbarians are killed, they may all return to Han."

Yang Feng shouted towards the city. This opened the door for other forces to surrender to him.

There are still some such forces.

For example, in northern Shandong, Shaoxu is centered around Fuping City or Yanci.

His main rival was Cao Yi.

The latter controlled Qingzhou, but Cao Yi remained neutral and later submitted to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In fact, Yang Feng will definitely expand into their territory next.

Moreover, his order to exterminate the Hu people was actually quite flexible, since apart from the Jie people, who were clearly of Hu (non-Han) appearance, most of the remaining Five Hu peoples did not have significant differences in appearance from the Han people. The differences were more in their clothing and daily life. People like the Di and Qiang would be indistinguishable if they dressed the same, and in fact, they did dress the same way.

Therefore, there is a lot of room for maneuver.

As for those who submitted to the puppet Jin dynasty...

This requires listing some families separately.

There's no need to focus on the descendants of Sima Yi, Cao Pi, or Cao Cao. After all, Prime Minister Cao remained the King of Wei of the Han Dynasty until his death; he didn't usurp the throne—it was Cao Pi who did. The descendants of Sima Yi, on the other hand, brought chaos to the world, so they all had to be eliminated. But just those two families weren't enough; a whole host of powerful families needed to be exterminated. This requires a very long list. Ultimately, this chaotic era wasn't solely the responsibility of the Sima family; a whole host of other powerful families also bore some responsibility.

They must all be killed.

The bloody battle at Xiangguo continued into the next day. In fact, the purge of the Jie people on the outskirts of Xiangguo would continue for a long time, just like what Ran Min did in history. The Jie people were basically wiped out in this purge.

Similarly, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty could also be said to have been awe-inspiring throughout the land.

Shao then surrendered.

It cannot be said that we have surrendered.

His son, Shao Yi, was already a hostage in Xiangguo. He also joined the defection and even killed a Jie general. Therefore, his son became a Han official earlier than him. Upon learning the news, Shao Xu went to Xiangguo to pay homage to Emperor Gaozu without hesitation.

And they were reused.

This person is good at governing the people, and he is the kind of person who still retains a certain degree of humanity in this chaotic world.

Historically, a major reason for his defeat was that during Shi Hu's siege of Yanci, the city was massacred of captured civilians. Unable to bear seeing the people die because he refused to surrender, he led his troops out of the city to fight, ultimately suffering defeat and capture. Yang Feng now lacks someone capable of quickly restoring order and organizing production, and Shao Xu is clearly suitable for this role. Meanwhile, the new Han Dynasty was established in Xiangguo, still employing the Three Departments and Six Ministries system, and directly adopting the Fubing system—a comprehensive Fubing system, or in other words, universal conscription.

This system is best suited for times of chaos.

But the new army no longer used cold weapons; they went straight for flintlock muskets.

It doesn't matter if we can't build it.

Emperor Taizu Gao had plenty.

Besides, he understands the technology; he just needs to train craftsmen. Training can be done slowly, but the equipment can be produced directly.

flintlock muskets, bronze field guns, even breech-loading cannons...

The breech-loading machine was extremely effective in that era!

After all, due to the all-out war, the armor coverage of most forces was limited, and the rate of fire of the breech-loading ...

Luoyang.

During the battle between the armies of the two Han dynasties.

It was indeed the army of the two Han dynasties, after all, Liu Cong still did not change the name of the state.

Although Luoyang had been destroyed and effectively abandoned by him, Liu Cong realized that he could not watch Shi Le fall after Yang Feng went to scare him. So he not only returned to Pingyang to personally command the preparations for the northward attack on Jinyang, but also sent his younger brother Liu Yi to garrison Luoyang as Shi Le's support.

In theory, Shi Le was still his minister, and the King of Shangdang controlled eastern Shaanxi.

But Liu Yi didn't care whether Shi Le lived or died.

He merely repaired the city's defenses in Luoyang and then watched Shi Le be destroyed.

Then it was his turn.

"Cannons shattered the age of supernatural arts! This is the clash between barbarism and civilization, but unfortunately, this time barbarism couldn't overcome civilization!"

Emperor Gaozu of Han, sitting on his imperial carriage, held a teacup and remarked with emotion.

He didn't take action.

Instead of him, twelve field guns and twenty-four large breech-loading cannons were deployed, along with a musket line of three thousand musketeers. Their opponents were three hundred charging Xiongnu warriors, escorted by a thousand cavalry. These Xiongnu warriors, strengthened by blood sacrifice, charged towards the cannons they couldn't understand, each carrying a saber and a large shield.

then……

They were blown to pieces.

The twelve field guns, each carrying a six-pound shell, were the first to fire.

Although only two shells hit, they whistled through the air, sending limbs flying among the enhanced Hun warriors. The latter actually blocked them with their large shields, but it was all in vain, even though their shields were made of wooden planks inlaid with steel plates, supposedly capable of stopping large crossbow bolts.

But what they are meant to block are artillery shells.

Two hit cannonballs shattered the shields blocking their path, then turned the Hun warriors behind them into a bloody mist, continuing forward and severing the limbs of more Hun warriors. The enhanced strength after the blood sacrifice was completely useless against the kinetic energy of the cannonballs. One valiant Hun warrior even tried to slash at a cannonball that bounced off the ground with his saber, only to have his body instantly pierced by the seemingly harmless lead ball. He knelt amidst the severed limbs, leaning on his saber, staring blankly at the enormous hole in his chest, and then collapsed, lost in thought.

He died without understanding why he was killed by that sphere.

It's just a small sphere.

It's just that their fists are bigger.

The remaining Hun warriors beside him continued their charge.

It wasn't that they were brave enough, but that they genuinely didn't understand why things were this way. They simply believed that as long as they were brave enough as before, they would still be the victors.

Then the shells came whistling in again.

The fierce shells, carrying immense kinetic energy, pierced straight through their formation.

Only three hundred Xiongnu warriors.

This level of shell can easily penetrate more than ten layers.

The remaining Xiongnu warriors stopped, standing there blankly, looking at the Han soldiers opposite them who were clearly just ordinary soldiers. In the past, one of them could defeat dozens of these Xiongnu warriors, and three hundred Xiongnu warriors after the blood sacrifice could win a great battle. But now these soldiers were calmly aiming at them from two hundred paces away, and then smashing them into a pile of limbs without taking a single hit.

They don't understand what's wrong with the world.

How come their supposedly divinely bestowed power, which enabled them to run rampant, suddenly stopped working?

At that moment, the flame-spitting objects spewed flames again.

And there are even more.

The same whistling sound continued to ring out the next moment.

At the same time, they were still shattered by the ferocious impact of that sphere...

(End of this chapter)