Chapter 1113: Mortals' Challenge to the God of War
Periods of peace are always short. Winter goes and spring comes, and nearly a year passes like flowing water.
Rome's attack on Heaven was constantly obstructed. After all, Heaven was not a fool and was still prepared by Rome. Relying on the oracle as a deadly weapon and the angels and saints who kept descending, Heaven instigated uprisings throughout Rome.
However, the effect was not at all satisfactory. The barbarians these days were not so devout in their belief in the church, or it could be said that there were very few people who believed in it devoutly.
In the face of Rome's bloody suppression at light speed, almost all the Eagle Flag Legions were mobilized.
Nearly 800,000 church believers, ambitious people, and rebel forces were beheaded, and the barbarians once again succumbed to the iron fist of Rome.
Cyprian and Frederick played a very important calming role here. With them as examples, most of the barbarians were lucky enough to think that believing in the church would not lead to them being branded as unforgivable and being executed directly.
These barbarians were killed because they actively provoked the Roman Empire.
However, the Roman upper echelons knew that this was only a temporary surrender. If they could not kill that damn God, such rebellions would still happen, and the backlash of the next rebellion would be even more fierce.
During the whole process, the three citizen legions with the most brutal killings were dubbed the Demon Legion. Under Nero's guidance, they directly replaced the three Angel Legions and became the new Eagle Flag Legion.
Seventeenth Legion of Pride, Eighteenth Legion of Gluttony, Nineteenth Legion of Wrath.
The commanders of the three legions were named Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Samael respectively.
Amid this chaos, Rome continued to steadily advance its plans.
Heaven's actions were certainly somewhat unexpected, but they were ultimately just small tricks and could not achieve any effect under the iron fist of Rome.
Especially the Second Augustus gambled at the door connecting heaven to reality. Even if those archangels led the angel legions to charge several times, they still failed to break through the iron wall of the Second Augustus.
The Yuan family also grew rapidly during this period, and joined forces with Great Britain to seize a large number of church barbarians from Rome.
Under the bloody suppression of Rome, they had neither the courage nor the strength to resist and could only flee to other places.
The Yuan family and Great Britain, which were closest to them, became their first choice targets.
After enduring the hardships of land reclamation, the situation of Old Yuan's family suddenly improved.
After all, this piece of Parthia land is enough to feed an empire. Even if the most essential Mesopotamian region is not in their hands, it is still the cornerstone of a country. In addition, the Yuan family's territory also includes part of the black soil of Eastern Europe, so there is no problem with agriculture.
After all, Parthia was a nomadic people, and their farming skills were not thorough. After the Yuan family came and cultivated the land with slash-and-burn methods, they discovered that the potential for grain production in this place was no less than that of Qing and Xu states.
The abundant food allowed the Yuan family to take advantage of the opportunity to develop rapidly.
There were quite a few barbarians who fled to Rome. Although they were a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of barbarians in Rome, they were still of great help to the early development of the Yuan family.
Most of these barbarians had hatred for Rome, but they did not have the corresponding power, and Huangfu Song gave them this power.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong. Who could have thought that with such good physical fitness, they would be such a useless jerk!" Huangfu Song sighed , looking at the barbarian army whose organizational ability was rotten to the core.
These were the best-quality group among the barbarians who had escaped. After being picked up by the Yuan family, the Yuan family quickly captured their stomachs with wine and food and successfully recaptured such a large number of barbarians.
Yuan Shao excitedly sent someone to deliver these barbarians to Huangfu Song, waiting for Huangfu Song to train two imperial guards for him.
When Huangfu Song first touched the bones, he was shocked and thought that Rome might be doomed. Barbarians of this quality started to run away. Isn't this the ultimate expression of unpopularity?
Then, he took on too much responsibility and thought that it would be easy for these barbarians to train two guards?
His physical fitness was really good, and Yuan Shao was worried about wasting Huangfu Song's energy, so he specially screened the ones he sent over.
Then Huangfu Song realized that he was a mortal after all. Even though he might stand at the top of the world, he was still a mortal, and there were some things that he could not solve.
Just like this group of barbarians in front of us.
They were free and undisciplined, acting on impulse, and almost ignored rules and military orders. After Huangfu Song killed a group of them, he found that they were still useless.
He transferred Danyang's elite troops to participate in auxiliary training, but as time went by, he almost destroyed Danyang's organizational strength. Huangfu Song was so scared that he quickly stopped the training.
There was no result, and he lost two top talents. He didn't even know where to put his face.
After much deliberation, Huangfu Song found another way, and Great Britain got the epic poems and ballads from there.
After all, barbarians are a specialty of Rome and Great Britain. They are completely different from the Hu people and southern barbarians of the Han Dynasty. It is very important to adapt to local conditions.
"General Huangfu Song, the envoy from Luoyang requests to see you!" When Huangfu Song was having a headache, the messenger ran in.
"The envoy from Luoyang? Come in quickly!" Huangfu Song was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed. He had mentioned the matter of epic poems and ballads to Luoyang before, but he didn't expect that Luoyang would be so helpful and send people over in just a few days.
"General Huangfu, how are you?" Cai Yong walked in with a smile.
"Cai Bojie? Why is it you?" Huangfu Song looked at Cai Yong. "Did Lu Fengxian personally send you here?"
Huangfu Song found it a little unbelievable that the person standing behind Cai Yong was none other than Lu Bu.
Lu Bu had a righteous look on his face, but Huangfu Song still saw a flattering look on his face.
Huangfu Song's CPU was almost burned out. There were very few people that Lu Bu looked up to, let alone Lu Bu in this state. Huangfu Song almost thought that Lu Bu had been possessed by someone else.
"It's your request, otherwise why would I, an old man like me, come to such a place!" Cai Yong smiled and put a zither on the table.
"What is this?" Huangfu Song was puzzled.
"I'm here to help you solve the problem. I will only stay for three months. After three months, I have to go back to teach my children!" Cai Yong said calmly.
To be honest, he was somewhat thinking of running away because he really couldn't stay in the Central Plains anymore.
He now regrets why he was so reluctant and got stuck.
Even at an old age, they still have to be pulled up to fight on the front line of education.
The door of Cai's mansion was almost broken by trampling, but he couldn't just disappear without seeing them all, and it was not easy to treat them differently, which made him exhausted. Just when he heard this epic ballad from Cai Wenji, he went straight to Chen Xi and chose to run away.
"Fuxi Qin, you should know what this thing represents!" Seeing that Huangfu Song still didn't quite understand, Cai Yong gently stroked the guqin in front of him.
"I don't know where the general picked it up. It can open up the mind through music. The epic poem you mentioned has been deciphered. If it is played with the Fuxi Qin, the effect can be doubled!"
The corner of Huangfu Song's mouth twitched. He didn't know the existence of the Fuxi Qin before.
It always feels like the older I get, the more something seems wrong with the world.
First, Guo Hao and Chen Xi shattered his three views.
Then came the Nine Cauldrons, the Xuan-Yuan Sword, the Northern Huns, miracles, and the God of War, which once again shattered the three views that he had worked so hard to build up.
He originally thought that he was very strong, but when Cai Yong said that the guqin in front of him was a Fuxi guqin, he still found it a little overwhelming. Do these magical artifacts really exist?
He finally understood why Lu Bu came to serve Cai Yong with such a flattering attitude. It turned out that he came for his own grandson.
Lu Bu, who was originally a daughter slave, loved his grandson even more after Lu Qiling gave birth to Lu Qi. When Lu Qi called him grandpa, Lu Bu went completely crazy.
In order to get a fixed place for Lu Qi in the enlightenment class, Lu Bu completely lost face. At this moment, he was no longer the best general in the world, but just a grandfather who doted on his grandson.
"Since time is pressing, let's not do those fancy things. I'll start training now, and you cooperate with me with epic poems and ballads!" Huangfu Song keenly grasped the information that time was precious, and then began to use Cai Yong's labor.
"Okay!" Cai Yong looked up at Huangfu Song and said unhappily.
I worked overtime in Zhongyuan until I died, and now I have to work overtime again after I get out, right?
However, compared to the social etiquette in the Central Plains where one cannot save face, in this broken place , if he is in a bad mood, no one can ask him to work overtime. He is here to be lazy.
“Clang, clang, clang, clang…”
After Cai Yong finished playing the song, Huangfu Song fell silent.
It's not that the effect is bad, it's just too good. The barbarian , under the effects of epic ballads and the Fuxi Qin, directly mutated into a force at the level of the Royal Guards in his hands.
Although it is not yet considered a Royal Guard unit and still needs to be deployed to the battlefield for actual combat, the foundation has been laid and it can be said that it has been accomplished.
This made Huangfu Song fall into deep self-doubt. Should he be said to be capable or incompetent?
"Isn't this a serious ballad?" Huangfu Song was silent for a while and finally asked tentatively.
"Nonsense, epic poems and ballads have all been deciphered, who would want to use folk songs like that!"
Cai Yong said unhappily that he was a great scholar and he would not be happy to play that kind of ballad , as the thing in his hand was the Fuxi Qin.
What's the difference between using this thing to fire that kind of thing and using the Yulin Army to suppress miscellaneous soldiers and bandits?
"This is an ambush from all sides, and you can't even hear that?" Cai Yong questioned Huangfu Song's artistic accomplishment.
Huangfu Song laughed awkwardly twice, and finally understood why these barbarians suddenly seemed to be cheating.
To make people have unified thinking, besides a sense of identity, the next thing left is naturally hatred.
After being ambushed from all sides, these barbarians probably directly blamed Rome for the oppression, and united their will under the common hatred of the enemy? Hatred is indeed a powerful force.
Huangfu Song felt that he might have found a shortcut to training the barbarians.
"Okay, find me a place. I need to have a good rest. You ask the Yuan family to recruit a group of people to learn piano with me!" Cai Yong patted his butt and stood up to leave.
"There's another batch, another batch. Now that they're here, let's solve the problem at once!" Huangfu Song quickly grabbed Cai Yong.
What a good tool he is! How could he run away?
Huangfu Song quickly pulled out a group of soldiers. These were retired veterans recruited by the Yuan family. They all had a good foundation, but the problem was that they were too diverse and chaotic, and almost covered the talent reserves of all the legions of the Han Dynasty.
Huangfu Song could easily clean them up, but he felt it was a pity. He wanted to use these veterans with all the talent reserves to design a completely new type of soldiers, preferably one that could be independent of the existing soldier tree.
Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun's new achievements deeply stimulated Huangfu Song, who had not achieved anything for a long time, so Huangfu Song decided to do something big.
Unfortunately, the progress has been very slow, but the appearance of Cai Yong gave him new hope.
Cai Yong glanced at the soldiers underground and his expression became a little more serious. If he didn't care much about those barbarians, these people below were all soldiers of the Han Dynasty, so he had to be more serious. After all, he was a great scholar and it was his responsibility to educate them.
"Talent is a means of manifestation, while will is the foundation. The most essential way to combine talents of different forms is to highly unify will..."
Huangfu Song squinted his eyes and stared at the soldiers, then signaled Cai Yong to start.
Adjectives such as single talent and double talent are not accurate for classification.
Many elite talents actually involve several talents, so this is how the term "two sides of a coin" comes about. However, some talents cannot be further divided, and they are the basic talents that constitute the talents.
Just like adaptability and decathlon, the decathlon talent actually includes the effect of adaptability. After breaking it down, you will find that it contains the basic talents that constitute adaptability.
After adaptability is broken down into basic talents such as endurance and adaptability, these basic talents cannot be broken down any further.
If we break it down further, it becomes specific training methods, such as long-distance running to build endurance.
The five schools of the Northern Army back then were themselves an experiment of this concept. Theoretically, the five schools of the Northern Army combined into one would be the ultimate version of the Han Dynasty's Imperial Guard, comparable to the three talents.
As long as you cut down the military soul and seize the opponent's imperial will, you can instantly become the kind of person who represents the miracle of the military soul.
But the cost-effectiveness was too low. The resources spent on more than ten years of training were transformed into sharp soldiers, and two or three Han Dynasty guards were killed.
The process is cumbersome, the cost-effectiveness is low, and the combat effectiveness is not advantageous, so this road is actually an abandoned road.
But abandoned does not mean that it cannot be walked. It is an abandoned road for most people, but for the veterans in front of Huangfu Song who have perfectly met the prerequisite requirements, it may be a suitable path.
Compared with others, Huangfu Song is more convinced of one thing, that is, the more difficult it is to achieve, the higher the final achievement will be.
Moreover, this road is actually an old road that has been passed down from generation to generation, an old road that is obviously abandoned but unobstructed.
A traversable path, which contains the expectations of generations of Han Dynasty's great army commanders. This is the path for them to challenge the god of war with their mortal bodies.
No one has ever reached the limit on this road. For various reasons, it is always interrupted by practical problems and has to take the path of pursuing cost-effectiveness like Ruishi and others.
They could not create the Yulin Army, the Wolf Riders, the Fifth Skylark and other things like those military gods, but they never gave up their own path just because the other party was a military god.
This abandoned road is the path passed down from generation to generation for them to challenge the God of War as mortals.
This is also the biggest difference between the Han Dynasty and Rome. No one, including Han Xin, believed that what he established was the golden rule.
