Chapter 617: The Beginning of Goryeo’s Downfall
"Report, the north gate of the Goryeo royal city has been opened, and more than 30,000 elite troops are rushing towards our main camp!"
Yeon Gaesomun did not let Guo Hao wait for long. After confirming that there were only about 20,000 people left around Guo Hao, he rushed straight towards Guo Hao.
"Report, General..." The messenger in charge of observing the water mirror technique was speechless, with a hint of fear in his words.
"Speak!" Guo Hao ordered in confusion. The messenger in charge of the Water Mirror Technique was the elite among the five schools.
"Scouts at the front reported that there are no survivors in the city!"
"You have such a cruel heart! I will kill you today!" Guo Hao stood up angrily.
No wonder the soldiers under Yeon Gaesomun were full of blood and energy. After the evil god of blood sacrifice was killed, they used the blood sacrifice of the people to defend the secret technique.
Over the past few days, every attack by the Han Dynasty was expended with the blood and flesh of the Goryeo people as sacrifices.
"The gods said that the poison is indeed quite severe. I'm afraid Yeon Gaesomun is no longer human now!" Jia Xu sighed and silently suppressed some thoughts in his mind.
"Send orders to the east, west and south to end the battle as soon as possible. Since they are no longer human, kill them all!" Guo Hao gave the order firmly.
At the same time, Yeon Gaesomun and others looked at the sky that suddenly turned white with fear. In their eyes, Guo Hao's talent was like a shining sun.
The gods among them who control the power of the sun wished they could bury their heads in the ground.
Completely different from their petty ways of using the power of the sun, Guo Hao's simple, crude yet effective method is more like a sun.
The sun should be the most dazzling, and Guo Hao's approach is more in line with the image of the sun.
For Guo Hao, this thing not only did not cause any loss, but because of the soldiers' and enemies' admiration and recognition of the sun, it could feed back to the Three-legged Golden Crow, making his sun power even stronger.
With Guo Hao's generous move, the darkness within a hundred miles turned into day.
Yeon Gaesomun's fear reached a new level. Without the help of the Night, the effectiveness of the reinforcements from Japan might be greatly reduced.
But he has no way out. Having come to this point, he can no longer turn back.
"Rise the clouds, success or failure today depends on this one move!"
Yeon Gaesomun suppressed all his inner turmoil in his heart, and together with the many gods around him, he released his spiritual power and merged into the clouds of the army.
The cloud of the army that was originally rising slowly seemed extremely thick at this moment and rolled up in an instant.
When it was finally formed, this army of about 30,000 people was so powerful that it burst into an endless stream of iron-blooded killing intent, even more powerful than the million-strong armies of the other three sects.
"Is this the only essence of a country's strength?" Guo Hao's expression did not change at all, and even Jia Xu was the same.
Jia Xu tried to protect himself, but he really couldn't see the slightest hope of Goryeo winning.
The probability of him staying in the rear and being killed by someone hired by the royal family is higher than the probability of him staying with Guo Hao and being hacked to death by Yeon Gaesomun.
"Go, go!"
Yeon Gaesomun looked at the sky which had turned into daytime and gave a decisive order.
"Yamamoto Ritsuzo, throw out all the evil gods we prepared!"
After hearing Yeon Gaesomun's command, the leader of the Japanese ninja said bitterly.
The ninja leader sent by Japan was Hattori Yamaguchi, the younger brother of Hattori Hanzo. Like the Onmyoji Yamamoto Ryuzo, they were both thrown into Goryeo by Japan to disgust the Han Dynasty.
But now both of them are filled with bitterness in their hearts. Having come to this point, how can they not understand the gap between the two sides.
Previously, with the help of Goryeo's evil god summoning technique, combined with their shikigami summoning, they signed contracts with more than a dozen evil gods in order to disrupt the battlefield and win from the chaos.
“Click…Click”
Black, red, and gray colors represented ominous and evil auras flowing in the sky. Shadows emerged from the sky and gradually began to transform into entities.
"Thunder God, help me!"
Tang Zhou roared and raised the Nine-Section Staff. After transcending life and death, his strength increased by leaps and bounds.
He himself was extremely talented, otherwise he would not have been accepted as a disciple by Zhang Jue. Especially on that day when he took the initiative to bear the sins of the Yellow Turbans and fought to the death, he realized his true nature and was completely reborn.
The years of hiding one's identity did not fall behind, but instead took me one step further because of the responsibility I shouldered.
Tang Zhou, who was in charge of the Yellow Turban Warriors Corps, was sent by Guo Hao to lead troops to guard the war equipment.
It comes from the Taoist method. After opening the third eye, it is very easy to see through the invisible.
The first batch of small ninjas who went to attack the war equipment were almost slaughtered one-sidedly by the Yellow Turban warriors.
Having lost their greatest means of survival, how could these small ninjas possibly be a match for the Yellow Turban warriors?
After all, back then, these Yellow Turban warriors were enemies that could fight against super legions like the Yulin Army and the Feixiong Army, and the small ninjas were almost suppressed to death by the Yellow Turban warriors.
With the help of the Yellow Turban Warrior's cloud energy, Tang Zhou directly attracted the thunder from the sky.
Several bolts of lightning burst out from the sky, and countless silver snakes danced wildly in the air.
The newly summoned evil god had not even had time to see the enemy on the battlefield clearly before he was surrounded by countless thunders, then annihilated and finally disappeared into thin air.
“Poof~”
The Onmyojis who signed contracts with the evil god died suddenly with blood spitting out of their mouths.
The evil god is temporarily equivalent to their natal shikigami. Now that the evil god has been destroyed by thunder, they will naturally suffer the backlash.
"Oh? Tang Zhou's move is really good!"
Guo Hao showed approval. Even though those evil gods could not become powerful, Tang Zhou's clean and efficient handling of the situation was indeed eye-opening.
"I don't deserve the praise from the general. After all, Tang Zhou has not practiced enough. His cultivation is not good enough. If the old Taoist priest presides over it, the power will be even greater."
Although Zhang Jue said this, he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.
For the people in the big tent, these were minor episodes. Goryeo's unpresentable means further demonstrated that Goryeo was at its wit's end.
"Shoot!" Zhao Yun, who was in charge of guarding the camp, gave a loud order.
Accompanied by shrieking sounds, countless arrows densely covered the army led by Yeon Gaesomun.
Within ten breaths, ten rounds of arrow rain had been released.
The rapid shooting from the Changshui Battalion of the Central Imperial Guard carried one of the highest masterpieces of the Han Dynasty, the explosive arrows, which perfectly replaced the Changshui Battalion's previous explosive design.
So under Bai Qi's correction, Changshuiying washed away the talents originally used to clean up the miscellaneous soldiers and re-planned its own talents.
The original Changshui can really be regarded as the shame of the Imperial Guards. Its position is to clear out the miscellaneous soldiers, so when they face double talents, the effect is not very good. A round of arrow rain may overturn the ground and the fragile soldiers like Ruishi.
Any soldiers that have chosen defense can ignore Changshui's attacks.
Especially the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry with double talents can bathe in the rain of arrows of Changshui.
The output of Gua Sha is in sharp contrast to that of She Shengying.
But Changshui is different now. He has become more scrappy and put all his skill points on shooting speed and range.
This is also the reason why Changshui was able to launch an attack not long after Mao Yuan and Gaisu Wen left the city.
Theoretically, they can now shoot from one end of the horizon to the other, but accuracy depends entirely on feeling, and basically it is good if they can hit one arrow out of a hundred.
But the current distance between Goryeo and the main camp is enough for them to aim.
Arrows rained down like rain, and the crackling sounds from the defensive secret techniques used by Yeon Gaesomun and the others showed exactly what kind of blow they had suffered.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Before they could relax, endless explosions began to sound.
The explosive arrows are not just talk. When the etching technology is activated, the power of these explosive arrows can even be compared to the full-strength attack of the Changshui Battalion of the Imperial Guards.
Tens of thousands of explosions directly shattered the defensive secret techniques prepared by Yeon Gaesomun and his men.
This was followed by another round of crazy explosions. In the face of such violent attacks, the Goryeo army continued to fight desperately.
Without any obstruction, they madly sped up their pace in an attempt to approach the main camp. Only by engaging in close combat with melee troops could they escape such a crazy attack.
"The effect of the new Changshui is really good. It is worthy of being a masterpiece created by Wu Anjun based on the Great Qin Arrow Formation. Its striking ability is really impressive!"
Jia Xu's face was full of amazement as he looked at the images transmitted by the water mirror technique while writing and drawing on paper.
These are all precious first-hand experimental information. Chen Xi repeatedly instructed him to record the battlefield situation in detail and provide it to the rear for further research.
"Tell Changshui Camp to stop after shooting one more pot of explosive arrows. I want to see how strong Goryeo can hold out." Guo Hao gave the order with his wealth and power.
After hearing this, Jia Xu's heart couldn't help but twitch. That pot of explosive arrows was very expensive.
During this short period of time, the explosive arrows fired by Changshui Camp were enough to almost wipe out the annual income of the old Han Dynasty.
But for Guo Hao, this is nothing.
Although this arrow is expensive, it is much easier to use it than to bombard the ground with artillery fire.
This is a life-saving blessing for Guo Hao, who suffers from a fear of insufficient firepower.
Listening to the endless explosions, he was even a little intoxicated.
He secretly decided to increase the funding for the department researching explosive arrows by 30% when he got back.
It would be great if we could develop arrows that can level nuclear weapons.
Although it is of little use to a super-powerful general like Lu Bu, it is a pure super-powerful blow to ordinary soldiers.
However, as a commander who was beaten badly by three military gods and grew rapidly, Guo Hao quickly realized that something was wrong with Goryeo from the explosions all over the sky.
Their armor was pierced and their comrades were blown to pieces, but none of these affected the mentality of these soldiers.
Because they had long lost all emotions that could be called human, the insane Yeon Gaesomun had abandoned everything that made him a human the moment he became a god.
This is also the reason why Yeon Gaesomun, who was determined to develop Goryeo, began to slaughter the people of Goryeo in order to gain power.
They can no longer be called human beings.
"kill!"
Yeon Gaesomun swung the long spear, and his own power was like opening a valve, and it was released along with his roar. The fierce force even swept away all the shield guards of the infantry battalion in front of him in an instant.
At the same time, at the moment when the two sides engaged in battle, the continuous bombing attacks by the Han Dynasty finally stopped.
However, they were facing the more difficult to deal with infantry battalion shield guards, royal guards-level shield guards, wearing super armor and holding large shields that had been maintained to the extreme.
It was like a natural chasm blocking the way for the Goryeo army, and it was obvious that the Goryeo army had no way to deal with these iron lumps.
Even if several gods acted as the vanguard, it was difficult to break the defense line of the infantry battalion shield guards.
"As expected, Goryeo is terribly weak and has betrayed its own country. How can you use this imperial will?"
Guo Hao shook his head. Yeon Gaesomun's behavior of completely abandoning humanity and devoting himself to being a god was the worst of the worst.
Now, this group of people still wants to use gods to drive the imperial will. No wonder this weird and weird prototype of the imperial will came into being.
On the surface, this imperial will was strengthening the Goryeo army, but in reality it was strengthening the humanity of the soldiers. The two forces were fighting inside the body, so how could the Goryeo army possibly burst out with such impressive strength?
“But this is also an opportunity!”
Guo Hao took over the command of the infantry battalion with a smile, and directly mobilized the shield guards to make several cuts, intending to let Yeon Gaesomun's headquarters and those gods who served as the vanguard in.
As expected, when Yeon Gaesomun and others saw the crack, they had no time to think and rushed into the formation without even looking back.
Because the formation was disorganized, many Goryeo soldiers even followed the vanguard and broke through the defense line.
For a moment, the front line of defense seemed to be in danger, and more and more Goryeo soldiers were about to break through the line of defense.
The defense lines that were originally lined up in a row have now become like several V-shaped lines in parallel.
Afterwards, Guo Hao seemed to be anxious to make up for the defense line. He also transferred the Huben Battalion and Zhonglei Battalion around him to assist the front line, and relied on his own strength to force a wave of suppression.
However, gods such as Yeon Gaesomun seemed to have really seen hope, and fought even harder, because they all knew that the surplus could not last long, and once this wave of forced suppression was over, they even had hope of completely tearing apart the Han army formation in front of them.
What happened next was just as Yeon Gaesomun and the others had expected. They waited for their chance, and with a burst of energy they broke through the obstacles in front of them and rushed straight towards Guo Hao.
However, all these were within Guo Hao's expectations after a brief period of confusion.
The Changshui Battalion attacked again, firing an explosive rain of arrows directly at the location where the infantry battalion's shield guards were located.
Afterwards, Guo Hao commanded Zhao Yun to lead the Red Blood Cavalry to cut in from the flank, completely separating Yeon Gaesomun and his weak vanguard from the large force behind them.
The infantry battalion shield guards in the rear also took advantage of the explosion in Changshui Camp to coordinate with the rest of the legions, not only to stabilize the formation again, but also to cut the Goryeo army into small pieces.
The Goryeo soldiers, who had lost their organization, became pieces of meat on the chopping board.
