Chapter 916: The unexpected trigger
"Where is this?"
Guo Ziyi struggled to open his eyes, looked at the unfamiliar ceiling, and felt a sharp pain in his head.
"Are you awake? The internal energy will recover quickly once it leaves the body!"
Hua Tuo on the side was very happy and praised Guo Ziyi loudly.
There was no way. Guo Ziyi's existence helped him greatly improve his research on the brain.
By the way, it also allowed his craniotomy technique to break through the zero barrier, at least on the surface.
He had already experimented on death row prisoners, but had no way of making it public. This time, Guo Ziyi allowed him and Zhang Zhongjing to successfully achieve this breakthrough.
"Where is this?" Guo Ziyi was very confused. He seemed to be fighting with someone, but how come he was here when he opened his eyes?
"This is the hospital. The Prime Minister sent you here!" Zhuge Liang said on the side. His condition had improved a lot, but when he looked at Guo Ziyi, he still admired him sincerely.
This is a person who survived a craniotomy. Although it is said that the internal energy left the body, it is still too horrifying.
Opening the skull actually won’t kill anyone!
After learning that Hua Tuo was his attending physician and that he was treating his illness through craniotomy, Guo Ziyi saluted Hua Tuo solemnly.
"Thank you, doctor, for saving me!"
"You're welcome. Just don't use your brain too much recently to avoid a recurrence of the injury. Your internal energy leaving the body is really enviable!"
Hua Tuo shook his head, left some medical advice and walked out.
"Let me introduce myself. I am Zhuge Kongming. I heard from the Prime Minister about you. You were able to play chess with that guy without losing. It was rare at that time!"
When Zhuge Liang saw Hua Tuo leave and Guo Ziyi looked confused, he couldn't help but smile and said.
"Hello, I'm Guo Ziyi. Have you played chess with that guy?" After all, Guo Ziyi's internal energy has left his body. Although he doesn't know what happened, he feels that his current condition is pretty good.
When Zhuge Liang reminded him, he remembered what happened. He was fighting with someone, and then the pressure was overloaded, his talent backfired, and he fell into a coma.
"Unfortunately, I am not capable enough, otherwise I would have been able to complete the battle!" Guo Ziyi shook his head with a wry smile.
"It's okay. He is in Weiyang Palace. When you recover from your injuries, there will be plenty of opportunities!"
Zhuge Liang smiled and comforted him. He was beaten and sent to the hospital. The same experience made Zhuge Liang have a good impression of Guo Ziyi.
"That's good, I will definitely win back next time!" Guo Ziyi said fiercely with his fists clenched.
Zhuge Liang smiled without saying anything. He thought so before he was beaten, or rather, Yue Fei, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun and others thought so.
However, the current power gap is too big, they are far from being the opponent's match. So far, they have not been able to force out the opponent's true strength like Huangfu Song did.
According to Huangfu Song, Han Xin's strength, at its strongest, was basically the ceiling of the cloud system.
Once the opponent uses the strength above the system, he will be defeated.
It has nothing to do with anything else, it's just a simple difference in strength. In a war, it is obviously extremely fatal, and it also shows the huge gap between the two.
Defeating the enemy by suffering several times or even ten times the losses means that from a strategic perspective, the enemy has not been defeated at all.
With a loss ratio of ten to one, if we can no longer kill the enemy commander in the first place, as long as the enemy can make a comeback once or twice, the battle situation can only be described as a collapse.
The reason why many methods cannot be put on the table is because they are not valuable enough. If they really reach the point where every inch of land and every drop of blood is wasted, destruction will occur overnight.
Miracles cannot happen all the time, so improving your own strength is the best solution.
At the hospital, two patients were exchanging their experiences, while the government office was already arguing.
Guo Ziyi's outstanding performance gave many people new ideas.
At present, it seems that Guo Ziyi and Zhuge Liang can both serve as commanders. So is it possible to use these two people to replace Huangfu Song who is guarding Kushan?
It tells the story of Huangfu Song being liberated from the Kushan Empire and thrown directly to the Western Regions, ready to launch a full-scale attack on Parthia at any time.
Even though their potential is greater than Huangfu Song, they may be able to reach the level of military gods like Han Xin and others.
But at this stage, they are far less powerful than Huangfu Song. Once Huangfu Song is transferred to the Western Regions, they will have the power to compete with Parthia, and even cooperate with Rome from inside and outside, and it is not impossible to divide Parthia in two.
The ceiling of a mature commander of a large army is a huge improvement in the combat effectiveness of an army.
At this stage, Huangfu Song can increase their winning rate against Parthia by 10%.
From the perspective of the imperial battlefield, neither of the two military soul legions may be able to increase the winning rate by 10%, but Huangfu Song can do this.
A commander who has reached this level has truly redefined the value of the army.
Even if it is a double-talented legion, it can rely on its own organizational ability to offset the gap in command to a certain extent, but the gap is still a gap.
Individual differences, legion differences, and talent differences all seem insignificant in the face of the final differences in the army.
Just like Lu Bu, the strongest man in the world, if he could raise his victory rate by 1% on the battlefield of the empire, it would be considered a perversion. In most cases, Lu Bu was at most a super soldier on that battlefield, and it would be considered a success if he could kill a hundred or so soldiers.
A random command from the commander could result in the death of thousands of people. The gap between the two is directly magnified infinitely. The larger the scale of the war, the more fatal this difference will be.
"Your plan is too dangerous. We must not waste the advantage that Kong Ming has worked so hard to create. Once we start to mobilize troops on a large scale, it is very likely to attract the attention of the Parthian side. Losing the initiative will be fatal to us!"
Chen Xi shook his head and rejected the idea of a group of people wanting to transfer Huangfu Song to the Western Regions.
The timing is really not ripe. They have a lot of unresolved issues at home and the main forces of their army are not on the mainland. It is simply unreasonable for them to start a war at this time.
Although he admitted that what these people said made sense, the Northern Huns must be wiped out, otherwise no one would sleep well.
However, this eradication also requires proper methods and means. At least before the roads between the Western Regions and the Central Plains are completed, he firmly disagrees with this radical approach.
Chen Xi actually wants to fight, but he has a clear understanding of his own positioning, that is, a conservative dove. No matter what he thinks, at least the political stance he needs to show must be that of a dove.
And Guo Hao, the great general, had to be a radical hawk, and then Liu Ying took the lead in the center. Only in this way could a political balance be achieved in the court, which would also be a political legacy for future generations.
At this stage, they have to consider the impact of many things on the future.
In the end, this meeting of the Government Affairs Hall ended under Chen Xi's suppression.
However, during the discussion, a lot of sparks were generated, which is worth a try.
The first thing to do was to establish contact with Rome. Zhuge Jun and Sima Lang readily accepted the task and found Wang Yue's apprentice Qu A to be the leader of the bodyguard team.
The second is the Kushans. Although they had fought each other before, everything can be compromised in the face of the interests of the empire.
Great Britain would never side with the Han Dynasty on the issue of Parthia, because compared with the Han Dynasty, Parthia was their most natural strategic ally.
The two sides, one in the east and the other in the north, can effectively curb the expansion of Rome, and it is absolutely impossible for either of them to bow to Rome.
Then the only unstable factor left is the Kushan Empire. The previous affairs between the two sides are over, and the Kushan Empire plans to contribute to Parthia's three-point efforts, or to form an alliance with Parthia.
These are all issues that the Han Dynasty must consider.
The Han Dynasty has suffered losses from fighting on multiple fronts more than once. This time when fighting Parthia, they never want to fall into this trap again.
But things did not always go as planned. While the Government Affairs Office was still discussing how to negotiate terms with the Kushans, a naval battle had already begun in the southern waters.
Unlike before, both sides fought in the name of piracy, and each side used a fig leaf to cover up the situation.
This time, the conflict occurred between the Han Navy and the Kushan Navy. Both sides raised their flags and went to war.
"Follow me, my personal guards!" The Kushan naval commander Meng Kangbu sneered and rushed forward with his personal guards.
On the opposite side, Gan Ning also fought back fearlessly.
The encounter between the two parties was just an accident, and everyone generally maintained peace on the surface. However, when the cargo in the cabins of both parties was exposed, everything changed.
Gan Ning's fleet carried low-caste captive slaves from Kushan, while Meng Kangbu's fleet carried captive slaves from Indonesia.
After the embarrassing scene happened, some irrational soldiers started fighting.
Then it got out of control.
But at this point, there is nothing left to talk about, and neither side is willing to give in.
Meng Kangbu directly chose to strike first, and Gan Ning made the same decision almost at the same time.
"Get out of my way!"
Gan Ning and Meng Kangbu clashed with each other head-on, neither of them willing to take a step back.
Although Gan Ning was not at a disadvantage, there were problems with his subordinates.
With Meng Kangbu's simple arrangement, he accurately cut off the organizational ability of Gan Ning's soldiers. Before Gan Ning could react, the overall strength of his soldiers was torn apart by Meng Kangbu's personal guards.
“Kill him!”
Seeing the guards tear open the gap, Meng Kangbu immediately unleashed his own talent, blessing all the soldiers, and his strength suddenly rose a lot. Then he pointed his sword in the direction of Gan Ning and roared arrogantly.
The blessing of the carefully studied Acala directly covers the entire army, bringing the combat effectiveness to a higher level.
"Kill me?"
Gan Ning knew that he was no match for his opponent in terms of command level, so he immediately chose the fighting method he was best at. He threw away the long sword in his hand and directly took out the iron chain sickle.
"Die!"
Gan Ning threw the flying sickle in his hand with all his strength. Meng Kangbu sneered and wondered what was the use of such a strange weapon.
On the battlefield, the stranger the weapon, the faster you die.
He just used his eyes to knock away the oncoming sickle. Although it was extremely fast, its trajectory was too easy to predict and it had no killing power at all.
But with Gan Ning's next move, Meng Kangbu's ghost appeared.
The sickle that was originally knocked away swept over again under the traction of the chain, but this was within Meng Kangbu's expectations. He had seen strange weapons before, and even if they were a little special, they still had some similarities.
But the next moment, Montcomb's face turned into a look of defeat, and the circling flying sickle suddenly turned into three, flying towards him from three tricky angles.
Just when his soul was about to die, his personal guards rushed forward and used their flesh and blood to give Meng Kangbu a glimmer of hope.
The three flying Lians were actually real. Meng Kangbu knocked away two of them, and then dodged them with all his might to avoid the vital points.
After nailing the chain to the ground with the sword, Meng Kangbu regained his normal expression. The cold sweat on his forehead was all over his calves. Just now, Fei Yan almost sent him to see the gods and Buddhas. He was almost scared to death.
If his personal guards had not used their flesh and blood to buy him time, he would have really died just now.
The shadow of death almost made him unable to bear it, and his pulse made a heavy sound while beating.
But when the danger was over, Montcombe quickly returned to normal.
After surviving the catastrophe, Meng Kangbu's mind experienced the great terror between and was able to advance to a higher level. His visualization of Acalanatha, which had been stuck in a bottleneck, also began to loosen.
"Everyone, follow me and kill them all!"
Moncomb's body became extremely tall and straight, and he used his telepathy to spread his will over a wide area.
That kind of calm demeanor made the Kushan soldiers, who were already in an advantageous position, roar with excitement, and their momentum rose to a higher level.
"The wind is strong! Hurry!"
Seeing that his killing move failed, Gan Ning chose a strategic retreat without saying a word.
The pirates are at a huge disadvantage when fighting against the regular army.
When Gan Ning returned to the main force in a miserable state, Sun Ce was shocked. He was just going to transfer some prisoners, so why did he end up in such a mess? At least a quarter of his men were killed. This was a heavy loss.
That is to say, now that Gan Ning is in control of the Han fleet, his ability to suppress pirates is almost unprecedented.
If it were during his time as the pirate king, this defeat would have been enough to ruin all his previous efforts and return him to the time before liberation.
"The Kushan regular army has taken action. What should we do? Fight or not?"
Gan Ning asked Sun Ce with a gloomy face that he, Gan Xingba, had never suffered such a big loss before. He was chased all the way and almost got himself killed.
"The regular navy took action?" Sun Ce scratched his head. He wondered why Gan Ning was in such a miserable state. It turned out that the regular army took action.
"I want revenge, will you help me?" Seeing that Sun Ce seemed still a little confused, Gan Ning asked directly in the most straightforward language.
"Then fight!" Sun Ce's external brain was gone, and he acted entirely based on his mood and intuition.
They didn't consider the consequences of the war at all. They had already started, so there was no point in begging for mercy.
Gan Ning was a brother he recognized, and to attack Gan Ning was to attack him.
Nothing much to say, revenge!
