Daqin: The Greatest Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Hearing Su Xuan's straightforward words, Fei Yan felt her heart pounding and felt inexplicably happy. She asked curiously, "I wonder what wonder my husband is talking about?"

Su Xuan looked at the sky, then smiled mysteriously and said, "Madam, close your eyes for now. When I ask you to open your eyes later, you will be able to see the wonders I mentioned."

Feiyan obediently did as she was told. As her vision fell into darkness, she became even more excited.

And Su Xuan had been holding her hand tightly, which at this moment gave her a full sense of security.

Su Xuan covered Feiyan's eyes with his other hand to create more physical contact, and at the same time told her that this was to prevent her from peeking.

"Okay, you can open your eyes now." After an unknown amount of time, Su Xuan's gentle voice sounded in my ears.

Feiyan opened her eyes and what she saw was a scene that she would never forget for the rest of her life.

Thousands of meteors streaked across the sky, and the brilliant light overshadowed the starry sky. Although the glory was short-lived, it was extremely bright, like blooming fireworks or moving notes in a piece of music, bringing a visual feast to people while making people intoxicated by it unknowingly.

This is a thrilling performance! It is a rare spectacle that can only be seen once in a century!

Feiyan, who often observes the stars, has never seen such a magnificent and brilliant meteor shower.

This is a surprise that my husband specially prepared for me!

Thinking of this, her heart was shaken, and the emotions surging in her heart almost burst out of her chest.

Predicting the appearance of a meteor is not an easy task. Even she, or even Donghuang Taiyi, may not be able to do it.

But Su Xuan did it. She could hardly imagine how much he had paid and how many times he had deduced.

Su Xuan watched the meteor shower appear and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was indeed worried about a leak, because even if this thing was measured, there would still be deviations in the time.

As for why he could predict the appearance of meteor showers, it was thanks to the Institute of Gewu.

After its establishment, the Gewu Academy recruited talents from all walks of life. Among them was a remarkable man who was an astrologer and his deduction of the changes in the stars was almost accurate.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to watch the meteor shower, Su Xuan's hand unknowingly rested on Feiyan's shoulder.

Above the sky, there was a brilliant meteor shower. Below the sky, Fei Yan turned her head to look at Su Xuan, staring at him in a daze.

Su Xuan turned his head to look into Feiyan's eyes, held her hand, and said seriously, "A person's life is only seventy years long. Excluding ten years of ignorance and ten years of old age, there are only fifty years left. Excluding half of the nights, there are only twenty-five years left. If you add in eating, drinking, bathing, changing clothes, and taking care of state affairs, there is not much left. The time you can really stay with your loved ones is very little."

"Human life is as fleeting as a shooting star to the heaven and earth. We cannot live as long as the heaven and earth, so we can only do more meaningful things in our limited life, love the one we love, and express our feelings to the girl we like."

"Although I haven't been with Miss Feiyan for a long time, I have already decided on Miss Feiyan the first time I saw her. I will treat you as my future wife."

"My lady, can you feel my feelings?" He placed Feiyan's hand on his heart and looked into her eyes intently.

Feiyan's heart trembled, and her eyes were full of joy and tenderness when she looked at Su Xuan. She found that she had actually fallen in love with the person in front of her without realizing it.

The moment their eyes met, both of them understood each other's intentions. Su Xuan pulled Feiyan into his arms and lowered his head to taste her soft lips.

Unlike the cool jelly of the Moon Goddess, the feeling that Feiyan gave Su Xuan was like a freshly cooked and peeled egg, hot and yet unimaginably tender and smooth.

The two of them fell to the grass without realizing it, and rolled around. The sound of the wind obscured everything in the night.

Chapter 187 Morale

The next day, when the sky was just beginning to turn pale, Su Xuan had already put on his armor. He stood on the chariot and used a telescope to observe the mental state of the Nanyang defenders.

Under the continuous raids by the Qin army throughout the night, the Nanyang defenders all looked tired, with their heads drooped, and were frightened at the slightest sign of trouble.

Hao Gou'er was a soldier in the Nanyang garrison. Looking at the piles of corpses on the top of the city wall that had not yet been cleaned up, his body couldn't stop shaking.

This is not a battlefield, this is hell on earth!

As a veteran soldier, he had experienced countless battles, but had never felt as desperate as he did now.

In the past, the two sides fought with real swords and guns, but today they were facing a meteorite falling from the sky! It was a natural disaster!

When hundreds of huge rocks appeared before our eyes, blocking out the sky.

Resist? How can we resist? Can we resist the meteorite with our bodies?

He clearly remembered that when the huge rocks fell on the city wall, the whole world seemed to stand still. He witnessed with his own eyes his comrades being smashed into meat paste, being pierced into hedgehogs by the broken stones, blood flowing like a river, broken arms and debris everywhere, cries of pain, howls one after another, no one wanted to guard the city wall anymore, they just wanted to escape from this dangerous place!

The soldiers' collapse actually occurred at night. Some wanted to escape, but were all killed by the elite soldiers guarding them.

Hao Gouer didn't want to die, but if he stayed, he didn't know how he could survive.

He looked at the tattered city wall under his feet, thinking that it would be great if the Qin army could just destroy it directly, so that he could take advantage of the chaos to escape to other cities. He even hoped that the Qin army could capture the city in one fell swoop and capture them. Even if they were used as labor, at least they would be alive.

Even ants try to survive, let alone humans? He did not think there was anything wrong with his idea. He was just worried that the Qin army would treat them like Bai Qi did when he buried and killed the surrendered soldiers of Zhao.

"The general has ordered that the entire army should be prepared to break out in half an hour!" A messenger passed by Hao Gou'er. Upon hearing this, Hao Gou'er breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he finally had a chance to survive.

Hao Gou'er was just a microcosm of the countless Nanyang defenders. In fact, most of them were far worse off than he was. The morale of the army was close to collapse, and this was only the first day of the Qin army's siege.

On another city wall, Wei Zhuang was wearing soft armor and holding a shark-tooth sword, his eyes were cold and ruthless. His body was covered with bright red bloodstains, all of which were left by the Qin soldiers he had killed.

He hadn't slept the entire night and his hands were almost numb from chopping, but the damage he caused personally could not affect the overall battle situation at all.

Because the Qin army killed more people than him!

"Last night, our army suffered more than 8,000 casualties, and the Qin army suffered about 2,000 casualties. Although our army's morale is low, the Qin army is outnumbered at the moment. Our army is four times the number of the Qin army, so we may still have a chance of winning. I guess this is the reason why Boss Wei chose to break out at this moment?" Tang Qi frowned and said in a deep voice.

Wei Zhuang nodded expressionlessly. At night, he discovered that the Qin soldiers attacking the city were too far away from the central army tent. It was obvious that the troops were divided into two groups.

One team was resting while the other was responsible for attacking the city. Wei Zhuang looked at the sky and thought that it would be time for the troops to be replaced soon.

His only chance was to launch a surprise attack on the Qin army that had been attacking all night before the change of troops, thereby gaining a chance of victory. Even a small victory would effectively boost morale.

He sighed a little, because he never thought that he would be forced to this point in just one day.

As for leaving some soldiers to stop the enemy and then leading the main force to withdraw, he had naturally thought about it, but it was not advisable, because without his iron-blooded deterrence, the soldiers defending the city would probably collapse in an instant, and when the Qin army caught up, they would inevitably suffer a great defeat.

On the other hand, escaping without a fight is not his style.

His idea was to win a small victory over the Qin army, disrupt its formation, and then retreat in an orderly manner.

The damage was so great in the first battle, mostly because of the weapons. Now he had the captured Qin army weapons in his hands, so it was not difficult to make them. As for the giant stone cannon, he could also ask the Mohists, who advocated the concept of universal love and non-aggression, for help. As long as the weapons were not advantageous, they could delay enough time to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

"Boss Wei, aren't you afraid that the Blood-Robed Marquis will surrender to the enemy and betray the country? The White-Armored Soldiers make up as much as half of our total strength." Tang Qi said worriedly.

"He won't do that for now." Wei Zhuang said firmly.

He knew Bai Yifei. He was an extremely ambitious man. Now that South Korea was weak, he was in a high position and controlled half of South Korea's military power. He could almost be said to be omnipotent in South Korea. Even Han Fei had to consider his feelings.

But if he surrendered to Qin, with Qin's powerful strength, it would naturally not need to rely on him, and his status would plummet. How could the arrogant Bai Yifei accept it so easily?

Unless South Korea is already doomed to fail and has no power to resist.

This was something that both of them knew tacitly, and this was also the reason why Wei Zhuang did not take the initiative to deal with Bai Yifei even though he knew the secret letter.

Because the two of them have not yet reached the point of fighting each other.

Tang Qi opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopped himself.

He wondered if Su Xuan's deployment of troops like this was a deliberate attempt to expose flaws in order to encourage the Nanyang defenders to take the initiative in attacking?

He glanced at Wei Zhuang and sighed secretly. How could Boss Wei not think of what he could think of?

Because the current decision is the best choice for our army.

If we drag it on any longer, the army's morale will collapse and we will be doomed.

Boom boom boom!

As the war drums sounded, the Korean soldiers defending the city launched their first attack. However, what they didn't know was that their actions had already been clearly seen by the scouts holding telescopes.

Su Xuan stood on the chariot and saw the Korean soldiers taking the initiative to attack, with a smile on his face.

Brother Wei Zhuang is indeed courageous!

But he would tell Wei Zhuang one thing, that is, under the absolute gap in strength, any resistance would be futile!

shhhhhh!

The two sides fought for the first time and both shot crossbows at each other. The Qin army's crossbows had a longer range and shot down large numbers of the Han army before they got close.

After the defeat in the first battle, the Han army was in disarray and almost on the verge of collapse. One can imagine how low the morale of the Han army was at this moment, and how much they feared the Qin army.

At the critical moment, the elite White Armor Army took over the situation and led the charge. Some threw javelins, some shot crossbows, and some drove chariots recklessly.

For a moment, the Qin army was suppressed.

But these were only 10,000 Qin infantrymen, with another 10,000 golden fire cavalrymen raiding the nearby positions.

When Meng Tian saw the confused Korean soldiers, a sneer appeared on his face.

Today is the day when the Golden Fire Cavalry will become famous!

Wei Zhuang frowned when he saw that the Qin army's 10,000 cavalry vanguard horses were all wearing iron armor.

Is this another new weapon? He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Xiao Zhuang, your opponent today is me." However, before he could think about it, a familiar figure in white blocked his way.

The person who came was his senior brother, Gai Nie.

Chapter 188: The Battle of Vertical and Horizontal

Gai Nie walked out of the battle formation and stood in front of Wei Zhuang.

Wei Zhuang's expression remained stern. He held the Shark Tooth in his hand, and a layer of blood-red light appeared on the sword. He said coldly, "Anyone who stands in my way will have only one ending."

He pointed the shark-tooth sword at Gai Nie, "Brother, even you will not be an exception!"

Gai Nie's eyes were slightly stern, and his expression became serious, "Let's do it."

hum!

As the sounds of two swords rang out, the two men each activated their inner energy. The shark-tooth sword in Wei Zhuang's hand was filled with blood, while the Qingshuang sword in Gai Nie's hand flashed a captivating cold light.

In their first confrontation, both of them saw the look of determination not to give in in each other's eyes.

Gai Nie stopped Wei Zhuang because he wanted to realize the ultimate ideal of universal peace.

What Wei Zhuang wanted was "the way of the king and the hegemon, where one's anger makes all the princes afraid, and when he lives in peace the world is at peace. The common people are all like ants. He wants to grasp the general trend of the world, defeat the strongest with the weakest, and accomplish what seems impossible to everyone. This is what he wants to do!

The young Wei Zhuang was full of arrogance and tyranny. In his opinion, this world should be controlled by him, a disciple of the Guiguzi School!

"Xiao Zhuang, you have become stronger." Gai Nie's slightly cold voice sounded at this moment.

When Wei Zhuang heard this, the scene of the two of them fighting when they were studying in Guigu in the past suddenly emerged in his mind.

"Brother, you have become weaker!" He snorted coldly, and the strength of his hands holding the shark tooth increased by several points. "Controlling the situation in the world is what we, the disciples of Guigu Sect, should do!"

Gai Nie's expression remained unchanged. "To attack with a horizontal sword, in order to seek its advantage, is called 'P'. To attack with a vertical sword, in order to seek its reality, is called 'He'."

"Hundreds of years of war have ended, the world has been unified, and the people are living in peace. This is the general trend of the world!"

Gai Nie refused to give in. The sword energy from both of them collided with each other, forming a sword energy gale that enveloped the two of them. Anyone who approached within a few meters would be ruthlessly killed by the sword energy gale.

The two men fought for several moves and were evenly matched.

"Brother, do you still remember what Master once said?" Wei Zhuang looked at Gai Nie, "Among the two of us, only one can represent Guigu and change the world."

"Today, let us complete this fateful duel!"

Wei Zhuang raised his sword and attacked with powerful and domineering force, as fast as lightning, and every move was fatal. He did not give Gai Nie any chance to breathe, striving to end the battle quickly.

Gai Nie turned around and counterattacked, using the sword technique to overcome the hard with the soft, and blocked all of Wei Zhuang's attacks.

Although they were clearly on the battlefield, the two men seemed to be in an empty space. No one could get within a few meters of them. The sword energy they swung at will, as long as it fell on the soldiers, would result in death.

After several confrontations, Wei Zhuang seized the opportunity, gathered his strength and struck out with such force that Gai Nie flew several meters away.

Immediately afterwards, the two men faced off again. In a flash, the winner was decided, and several drops of blood fell from Wei Zhuang's body.

In the first round, Gai Nie had a slight advantage.

"Very good!" Wei Zhuang took off the soft armor that was in the way and looked at Gai Nie with a squinting look. "Brother, let me see your true strength!"

Even though he was injured in the confrontation, Wei Zhuang was still extremely brave and attacked vigorously, using the horizontal sword technique - wild slashing, sweeping through the enemy. In just a few seconds, he slashed out fifteen times with the sword, forcing Gai Nie to passively defend. Judging from the momentum alone, it seemed like he had the upper hand.

Facing Wei Zhuang's continuous fierce attacks, Gai Nie remained neither arrogant nor impatient. When Wei Zhuang's momentum weakened, he used Changhong Guanri, Damang turned over and chopped with the sword, and chopped five swords in one breath. In the blink of an eye, he reversed the situation and turned from defense to offense, forcing Wei Zhuang to passively resist and retreat several steps.

On the high platform of the central army tent, Su Xuan, Feiyan and Yueshen stood side by side, observing the entire battle situation.

"The disciples of Guiguzi are indeed worthy of their reputation." Yue Shen looked at the fierce confrontation between Zongheng and the other man and couldn't help but sigh. She thought that if she fought with one of them, the chances of winning or losing would probably be fifty-fifty.

In addition to Wei Zhuang, Bai Yifei also caused considerable trouble to the Qin army. He launched large-scale AOE attacks, and dozens of Qin soldiers died every time he attacked.

"Lord Prime Minister, do you need us to take action?" The Moon Goddess couldn't help but ask.