Chapter 1224 Monster
"Never mind, let's charge!"
After a stalemate, Xiahou Yuan keenly noticed that the morale of the barbarians seemed to be recovering, so Xiahou Yuan made up his mind and chose to attack and force his way through the formation.
"It's finally here!" Macrinus grinned. What he had been waiting for was Xiahou Yuan's desperate gamble. Today he would let Xiahou Yuan know that he, Macrinus, was not made of clay.
If you want to kill him, call more people over.
"High-speed charge!" Xiahou Yuan didn't care about Macrinus's situation and directly led the Yue cavalry to launch the strongest attack.
The vacuum gun was originally something that was forcibly created using skill, but at this moment it was used under the operation of airflow.
Military talent is indeed a shortcut to mastering skills directly, and its power is more powerful than simple skills.
However, when Xiahou Yuan led his men to rush up, Macrinus released his legionary talent with a grin.
In an instant, the wind and clouds surged, and the bodies of the barbarian soldiers began to swell instantly. They turned into wild beasts, rapidly increasing from about 1.78 meters to about 2.56 meters.
The ferocious faces, the scales on the bodies, the horns on the foreheads, the thick muscles, and the pair of wings growing out of their backs are enough to show how much these people have changed.
"What the hell is this!"
Xiahou Yuan was stunned, looking at the monster-man who had taken several shots from the vacuum gun without any reaction. It was a little hard to believe, because that was an attack .
"Die!" He shook the hammer in his hand. Compared with the long-handled hammer that was a little uncomfortable to hold in the normal posture, it now fits very well in his hand.
Macrinus imitated the Giant Legion and the Wild Beast Legion, and combined it with the secret techniques developed through the visualization of the Kushan gods and Buddhas. The gods and Buddhas came to the world, and combined with Macrinus's legion talents, he was able to integrate these things together very well and produce powerful effects.
It was precisely because of this ability that Macrinus was able to quickly grow from an ordinary barbarian legion commander in the Roman Empire to the supreme commander of the entire barbarian army in Kushan.
As for the original citizen leaders, they had naturally been thrown to the Kushans by Macrinus and forced to participate in the Kushan evil god infection experiment. The monsters who were not afraid of death and left behind were Roman citizens.
The Giant Legion can use the metal elements deposited in the bodies of the Romans to transform into the Iron Giant. Macrinus can naturally also transform into the Beast Giant through the blood of wild beasts.
Macrinus carefully selected several gods and Buddhas, as well as world-breaking beasts that corresponded to their images, and gathered the blood of these gods and Buddhas and beasts together to fuse them, and finally obtained a kind of chaotic blood that could change the system.
Just drink it and survive the physical transformation, and you will become what you are now.
Macrinus gave this technology to the Kushans, but without the blessing of Macrinus's legionary talents, it had no significant effect and the Kushans soon abandoned the plan.
The reason is that the mortality rate is too high. It is slightly lower than the mortality rate caused by the evil god infection, but the cost is far greater than that of the evil god infection.
In the end, the Kushans had no choice but to give up this technology, but this technology really shined under Macrinus, who made a lot of progress.
These weapons and equipment were customized for them from the very beginning. Only when they enter the Beast Titan state can they face the enemy seriously.
The Yueqi Centurion, with a dark face, stabbed out nine vacuum guns that flew out of his hand. As a result, the two-meter-five-meter monster opposite had no defense at all and rushed forward with its body.
With such a tall and strong figure, he gave people a feeling that he was slow in movement, but in fact he was even more agile than before. He dodged four of the vacuum guns, blocked five, and then hit himself with a hammer.
The Yueqi Centurion watched helplessly as five vacuum guns pierced through the opponent's scales without even deflecting the opponent's movements, and then became powerless, leaving only a shallow wound that oozed a little blood.
This kind of crazy defense made the Yueqi Centurion feel like he was facing the shield guards of the infantry battalion. Only those guys holding heavy shields could ignore his vacuum guns so easily.
"Die!" The hammer smashed down with the force of wind and thunder. Although there were no fancy special effects, the sound of wind brought by the hammer was enough to make people feel depressed.
The Centurion took a deep breath and put on the atmospheric defense. Since the vacuum gun that he let go of had no effect, he would just use the vacuum gun that he charged with.
He used airflow control to increase the speed of the warhorse and charged directly towards the two-meter-and-five-meter-tall monster on the opposite side.
When he got close to the opponent, he jumped off his horse, used the horse as a footstool, and stabbed the opponent's abdomen and chest with the steel spear in his hand.
With a dull thud, the monster on the opposite side staggered, and the high-speed charge of the warhorse only caused it to shake slightly.
"Bang!" The warhorse was hit by the hammer and its head was directly blown up.
The centurion of the Yue cavalry stabbed the monster's abdomen and chest with a spear.
"puff!"
A bullet pierced through the opponent's abdomen, but before the centurion could catch his breath, he saw the monster that he had stabbed directly grabbed the spear and grinned.
Then he used his other free hand to smash the centurion hard. With just one hit, the centurion flew backwards as if he was hit by a horse.
Fortunately, the atmospheric defense provided by his comrades behind him weakened the force, otherwise the Centurion would have been completely killed by just one punch.
"How is this possible!" Xiahou Yuan's face darkened as he watched a charge that not only failed to gain any advantage, but was completely blocked by the opponent.
"Speaking of iron plate, how did Cao Ren and his men defeat these guys directly?"
Such a thought flashed through Xiahou Yuan's mind, but he quickly suppressed it. He found that although the charge of the Yue cavalry was stopped, the Yue cavalry soldiers who had abandoned their horses actually gained the upper hand in the chaos.
"The power gained by sacrificing sanity?" Xiahou Yuan seemed to be thinking about something. Looking at the monster that had gone mad after being severely injured and was indiscriminately attacking without distinguishing friend or foe, he vaguely understood the drawbacks of this power.
"So that's how it is. Is this a shortcut to pursue power?" Xiahou Yuan sneered and mocked Macrinus.
"I thought you were a tough guy like the Eighth Eagle of Rome, but I didn't expect you to be just a poor imitator!"
Xiahou Yuan's ridicule hurt Macrinus' heart. He hated being called an imitator of the eagle flag, let alone a poor imitator.
"You will pay for your words!" Macrinus narrowed his eyes.
"I didn't want to show it, you asked for it!"
Macrinus roared and beat the tambourine in his hand. Under the effect of the tambourine, the monsters that had already fallen into frenzy stopped attacking indiscriminately, and all looked at Xiahou Yuan, and then launched an attack towards Xiahou Yuan.
"What is that?" Xiahou Yuan noticed this factor. He actually controlled the monsters through music and made them obey his commands?
Xiahou Yuan knew this Chinese style. Huangfu Song had used the Fuxi Qin during his training before. Xiahou Yuan still remembered the ability of music to stir up emotions.
"Oh no!" Xiahou Yuan looked at the formation that was directly broken up by the monster, and a bad feeling flashed across his mind.
The enemy's number of people was originally greater than his, and the cloud energy also suppressed their side more, which resulted in Yueqi being unable to fight against this group of monsters.
After all, Yueqi is actually more like an assassin, and is better at cutting from behind. These monsters are extremely powerful and have thick skin and flesh. Yueqi's best vacuum gun cannot cause any substantial threat, which leads to him being completely disadvantaged in the battle.
"Super fast!" Xiahou Yuan raised his legion's talent to the limit, then glanced at the barbarian troops that were surrounding him and directly chose to attack the weakest point.
In fact, he could have just turned around and left, but Xiahou Yuan was unwilling to leave like that. His advantage lies in his high mobility. Since he couldn't kill these monsters, he would go and cause trouble for the other barbarians.
The original plan to rush into the opponent was decisively abandoned.
At this time, it is time to use Professor Han Xin's military tactics, give up on opponents that you cannot defeat, rely on mobility to kill those weaklings, and then concentrate your superior forces to engage in a head-on decisive battle with the opponent's strongest point.
Thanks again to Professor Huaiyin Hou for his skills. Although most of them are difficult to learn, they are all good tricks to survive. Especially when encountering a monster that is obviously tough, you should never fight to the death. After all, even Huaiyin Hou had a record of changing battles in the early days.
Therefore, Xiahou Yuan quickly returned to the front line. The high mobility brought by his speed was even enough for Xiahou Yuan to turn his infantry into cavalry. Now with the cavalry, the mobility was naturally improved.
If there were no white horses in this world, perhaps Xiahou Yuan's cavalry would be the fastest force. Even the royal rangers of the Kushans who could break free from the shackles of the earth would be inferior to them.
But unfortunately, there are white horses in this world, and not only nimble white horses, but also Gongsun Zan's super-fast white horses. That kind of speed is no longer something that normal troops can achieve.
Under Xiahou Yuan's command, the Yue cavalry quickly slid to both sides. After they no longer had to face those thick-skinned and indestructible monsters, the true strength of the Yue cavalry was revealed.
For the monster army of Macrinus' headquarters, the vacuum gun that relies on muscles and scales to directly connect is a fatal attack to ordinary barbarian troops.
Even those double-talented heavy infantrymen holding shields could only suffer in vain under the blast of the vacuum gun.
With a sweep of the spear, several vacuum guns flew out of his hand, and the killing speed was comparable to that of a white horse. The barbarian troops were killed directly and had no ability to resist. They could only flee instinctively.
Macrinus had a dark face as he looked at the Yue cavalry who were not entangled with the monster army at all, and then looked at the barbarians who were being killed at high speed. He could only gather the barbarians with a helpless look on his face, and then let the monster soldiers split up to protect these barbarians.
These were all his team members. Although he would not feel sad if they died, if too many of them died, it would eventually affect his position in Kushan.
Macrinus knew very well that everything he had now was not only based on his own abilities, but also on the million-strong army of barbarians under his control.
Although it is said that there are a million barbarian troops, in fact there are only about 700,000 left in Kushan. The rest of the barbarians have been sent back to their hometowns by Macrinus, who has lured the barbarians to migrate to Kushan.
He knew very well that if he wanted to gain a long-term position in Kushan, he had to establish a system, a system that could attract the barbarians to join Kushan.
So Macrinus deliberately repatriated nearly 300,000 barbarians and asked them to return to their hometowns to recruit soldiers.
Although the Kushan Empire was not that good, it was worse than the Roman Empire.
The barbarians would naturally prefer to join an empire that treats them as human beings rather than an empire that treats them as dogs.
What's more, the soldiers sent back by Macrinus were all like returning home in glory. After hearing their examples, many barbarians set out for Kushan with their families.
Although Rome also discovered this, it adopted a tacit attitude. In Rome's view, this was also a good way to consume the barbarians.
They didn't care about the Kushans' poaching actions, and as long as there was no migration of tens of millions of barbarians, most of them would turn a blind eye.
After all, they can also extort a fortune from the Kushan officials in this way, which is more valuable than directly sending these barbarians to the battlefield.
The most important thing is that the departure of these barbarians caused the density of the barbarians to begin to decrease, and the limited resources became abundant. To a certain extent, the Kushans' move was not poaching, but actually adding bricks and tiles to Rome.
This was a win-win situation, and Rome and Kushan were naturally aware of it, and neither of them pointed it out openly, but everyone knew that it was an intentional arrangement by both parties.
However, before Xiahou Yuan could kill enough, support from the Kushan side arrived. Atelene, who had already seen Macrinus fail, arranged men to support Macrinus.
After discovering that the rain of arrows from the reinforcements could directly break through the atmospheric defense, Xiahou Yuan chose to retreat without hesitation.
This time, we killed nearly four to five thousand barbarians, with a loss of only more than five hundred. This achievement can be considered a great victory, and there is no need to continue chasing and killing them.
"So strong! Is the Han army so strong? They can actually beat these monsters?" Fars looked at Xiahou Yuan who was going away, then looked at Macrinus who was gathering the defeated soldiers and said with some surprise.
The Northern Gui are different from the Southern Gui. So far they have not suffered a crushing defeat, the kind that would have resulted in the sacrifice of even Rahul. Therefore, their memory of the Han Dynasty is strong, but they can be evenly matched with the Han Dynasty.
However, after seeing the miserable condition of Macrinus, Fars was somewhat puzzled. Could it be that the Han army, which had been easily forced to retreat by them before, was so strong?
The power emanating from Macrinus's main force was no less than that of the three gifted legions, yet they were still slaughtered by the enemy legion.
"It should be the difference in mobility. Anyway, the enemy can't use cavalry when attacking the city, so it's no big deal!" Barak shook his head and did not tell the truth. Instead, he made up an excuse to prevaricate.
Fars had no doubt that in his memory, cavalry was nobler than infantry. Although Macrinus was strong, the opponent was cavalry after all, and the cavalry of the Han Dynasty had always been guaranteed.
"Let's go. It's better for us not to go into battle rashly. We should try our best to find out the bottom line of the Han Dynasty. We should also transfer people from Nangui!" Barak said, shaking his head.
In his eyes, the Beigui Pass was impregnable. As long as the imperial scepter remained, the Han Dynasty could not invade. In comparison, the South, which had been repeatedly defeated, was more worrying.
