Volume 5: Overlord of the Sea Chapter 548 Heavenly Master
The Qiang people's siege seemed chaotic. To put it simply, they were just charging forward and charging forward...
At the beginning, there were even cases where people ran faster than the ladders!
However, when it comes to siege, the Qiang people have one biggest advantage - they are fearless and unafraid of death.
Although there are ethnic differences among the Qiang people, what is the same is that all kinds of "Qiang girls" are basically fundamentally different from Cheng girls.
The best thing about city princesses is not that they live in the "city", but that they can draw manpower from the people to form princess-made soldiers!
In other words, the separation of the military and civilians was achieved, unlike the various foreign tribes, especially the nomadic, fishing and hunting tribes, who often directly "transferred" ordinary people into warriors...
"Everyone is a soldier" sounds scary and difficult to fight, but it has the disadvantages of lack of follow-up power, destruction by disasters, and difficulty in population growth. After all, the appetite will increase significantly after "changing jobs".
There is a lack of producers, and consumption is increasing...you can imagine the pressure of survival.
History has proven time and again that conscription and separation of the military from producers are symbols of higher productivity.
You cannot dominate forever by plundering. Whether you are plundering others or plundering nature, creation and production are the kingly way.
If we only consider the front battlefield, it is true that "everyone is a soldier" is very tiring.
Ordinary Ji-made soldiers require twenty manpower to synthesize, and if manpower is drawn normally, only 1 unit of manpower can be drawn per population per year.
However, almost everyone in these alien races can change their job...
When facing the Qiang people, it is better to hold the pass and defend. After all, the Qiang warriors mainly need to cooperate with the "war horses" to fight, and the city wall is not a place where war horses can climb up.
But the problem is that under Ma Chao's command, these Qiang people are even three times more brave than when they were under the command of their own family leader.
The Qiang people's fearless siege really brought some trouble to Zhang Wei, especially... some Qiang people who were comparable to gilded warriors, who spontaneously took the lead.
What’s even more terrible is Ma Chao himself…
After entering the "Divine Power Mode", neither the power of public opinion on the city wall nor the interference field gathered by Ji Zao's soldiers could affect the flight of the Transcendent God General.
Ma Chao jumped directly onto the tall city wall. His body of more than three meters was not only conspicuous, but also posed a great deterrent to the surrounding Tianshi army.
Ma Chao's figure flashed repeatedly at critical moments, either connecting two javelins together to form a double-headed spear for close combat, or throwing the javelins, or even... he could even call back the thrown javelins to his hands like a white light with a wave of his hand!
Especially when throwing the javelin, once it kills a Jizao soldier or general, it can also draw strength from the opponent, making its power increase instead of decrease...
Of course, this ability also has its limits, otherwise in the army, it would be necessary to break through the general formation.
At present, it seems that when Ma Chao throws the spear, the spear will turn into a ray of white light and shoot out at an extremely fast speed. Its additional effects are only effective in this state.
However, as long as it leaves the range of about 100 steps, the white light will disappear. At that time, although the remaining power of the pistol may not have disappeared, it will no longer have the effect of absorbing vitality and enhancing its own power.
Moreover, Ma Chao's style is completely different from that of Lu Bu and Sun Ce. His movements are light, agile, and unpredictable. He can shuttle among the enemy troops in the blink of an eye. Even though he is more than two meters tall, he is still impossible to catch.
Zhang Wei used the magic formula of Tianshidao, wanting to command the "ghost soldiers" to surround and kill Ma Chao and delay the time limit of Shenwei mode, but he was completely unable to do it!
This also made Ma Chao like the god of death, reaping the lives of the enemy soldiers among thousands of troops!
He is good at fighting one against many and being trapped in enemy formations, which is somewhat similar to Zhao Yun. However... Zhao Yun relies on the snake power of "Seven Probes Coiled Snake Power" to use softness to overcome hardness. Even when he is surrounded, it is difficult for ordinary attacks to break his defense. He is almost immune to long-range weapons that can easily be deflected by force.
Ma Chao, on the other hand, relied on his agility and agility to move among the thousands of soldiers and was difficult to be targeted. He also relied on his powerful "flying spear" to become the leader.
When Ma Chao conquered the Qiang people, he used this method to defeat the larger force with a smaller one.
Because of Ma Chao's distraction, the city's defense line was disrupted - it was also because of his strange body movements that he could move in and out of the army without restriction that he was able to harass most of the defense line by himself.
Otherwise, if it was Lu Bu, the lethality would certainly be stronger, but the range of impact would hardly be so large!
Under Ma Chao's harassment , the Qiang warriors behind him, who were equivalent to gilded warriors, rushed up to the city wall one after another. Then they further suppressed the rain of arrows on the wall, allowing the Qiang warriors behind them to rush up with less losses.
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At the same time, in Jinling Jiangshan Pavilion, Bai Tuxuan came to Yu Ji and was talking about some things about Tianshi Dao.
As for the strength of Tianshi Mansion, whether it is public or investigated, it is already in the hands of high-ranking generals in the front-line army. However, for many things... such as the "ghost soldiers", the generals only know their capabilities roughly and do not know the details.
“In fact, I have always suspected that Zhang Lu’s grandfather, Zhang Tianshi, was the holder of the Heavenly Book ‘Volume 8: Respecting Gods’ before my master. If we calculate the time, the year when Zhang Tianshi passed away was also the year when Zhang Lu and I became his disciples. And before we entered the sect... my eldest brother did not seem to have seen my master studying any Taoist scriptures.” Yu Ji guessed.
In Yu Ji's opinion, Zhang Lu's Taoism is not worth mentioning, but Yu Ji still respects his grandfather "Zhang Tianshi" very much.
After all, that person directly added the word "Tao" in his name.
The legend that Zhang Ling brought his disciples into Sichuan more than sixty years ago and wiped out the evil worship in Bashu has always been the glory of Taoism.
"In that case, it makes sense that the 'ghost soldiers' of the Tianshi Dao and the 'Yellow Turban Warriors' of the Yellow Turban Army would have similarities... No wonder Zhang Lu wants to find Huang Tianji!" Bai Tu's tone was serious, but he didn't seem overly worried.
At the beginning, the Nanhua Laoxian divided his understanding of "Volume Eight·Respecting Gods" into three volumes, which he passed on to Zuo Ci, Yu Ji and Zhang Jiao respectively. The "Taiping Dongji Jing" passed down by Zhang Lu's lineage from Zhang Daoling was also likely to come from "Volume Eight·Respecting Gods".
The so-called "ghost soldiers" are similar to the "Yellow Turban Warriors" in that they can only be trained by using the manpower extracted from "devout" believers as the source of soldiers .
The difference is that Tianshi Ji was transformed from an evil girl that was converted by Tianshi Zhang Daoling in Bashu. Her ability is equivalent to a low-end version of Huang Tianji. The "ghost soldiers" are just "soldiers". They are powerful and respond quickly when controlled by the priest of the sect. They have almost no threshold to become commanders, but unlike the Yellow Turban Warriors, they can additionally command or even "synthesize" the Yellow Turban Army!
"Yes, once Zhang Lu gets Huang Tianji, as long as he slightly modifies the teachings and gives some guidance, he can mass-produce Yellow Turbans, no, Heavenly Masters and Warriors. That will be quite troublesome then..."
