Luo Chang promoted the military power he cultivated in his body, and his eyes were piercing.
In an instant, the Qianjiang River under his gaze changed.
Qian Jiang's face turned into another person, and then kept changing.
This Qian Jiang doesn't have a fixed face at all. He seems to be enveloped by a force of energy, making it impossible for people to see through his true appearance.
And there was an extra array diagram in his hand.
The ancient energy of the array diagram was steaming. The moment it was taken out, a big snake with closed eyes, a white belly and a black back suddenly rushed out of the array diagram.
Luo Chang and Qian Jiang were swept by a force of energy at the same time and fell into the picture...
The difference is that Luo Chang fell into the diagram and was strangled, while Qian Jiang was protected by the formation diagram to avoid being attacked by the surrounding Qi troops.
Who is Qian Jiang?
Don't ask, it's Feng Huan who is the number one face changer in Ye Yufu.
On the head of the big snake that broke out of the picture, stood a female general, wearing a scarlet cloak on her shoulders, with a graceful figure and a delicate but three-dimensional appearance. She was Yu Gui.
As her friendship with Zhao Huaizhong deepened, she opened a small stove behind her back and got help from Zhao Huaizhong to penetrate the qi in her body, and her spiritual practice improved by leaps and bounds.
The Sky Mending Diagram she mastered was also refined into a new stage, so the big snake derived from the Emperor Wa's Qi in the diagram was able to break out of the diagram and skyrocket.
Yu Gui stood on the snake's head, her cloak fluttering in the wind.
The elite troops of Ye Yufu who surged out from both sides, together with the Qin army under Lian Po's command, immediately charged together with the Qi army.
Viewed from the air, at the moment of the confrontation, the general died, and the Qi army that was ambushed was in chaos.
A few miles away, on another battlefield, Yan Ji was fighting with Xia Xin.
There are hundreds of elites from both sides fighting on the battlefield. In one place, sword energy is raging. The two people fighting are Jixia instructor Cao Qing, who came to the western front with Yan Ji to reinforce, and Mu, who was also born in Jixia.
Qianshui.
The two old and new sword masters of the academy swordsmanship have fantastic swordsmanship and are as sharp as stars.
Suddenly, Mu Qianshui lightly shook his long sword, and thousands of sword lights merged into one.
He pulled back and looked across.
Cao Qing has a thin figure, about forty years old, with slightly convex cheekbones, giving people a strict and stereotyped look.
"You are no match for me."
Mu Qianshui held the sword with one hand, pointing the sword's edge diagonally at the ground, looking like a swordsman, looking at ease and contentedly.
Opposite him, Cao Qing's forehead was stained with blood, and his sleeves exploded, exposing half of his shoulder.
"In the past few years, I have accompanied the Qin army in the south and north, and have experienced hundreds of battles. But you, practicing in the academy, have far less actual combat experience than me. In addition, my beauty sword has killed countless enemies, which is good for warfare, but the academy sword is
The sword of the holy way, you use it to fight, it is inconsistent with the sword's intention."
Mu Qianshui found an opportunity to speak and said in a long voice: "So you are no match for me.
Moreover, I am now in the Saint Realm. Sword Master, do you understand? You are still in the Saint Dharma Realm. With the power of the Academy Sword, you can barely rise to the Saint Realm to fight against me.
So you can't be my opponent.
Also, your talent is not as good as mine, otherwise the Academy Sword would not have chosen me instead of you. After I left, you could master the Academy Sword, right?
Therefore, you are no match for me.
In addition, the Academy Sword can be used normally. If you want to activate the Academy's aura, you can use it up to two times a day.
So, you are not me..."
"Shut up." The big tendons in Cao Qing's forehead tensed up and jumped, saying, "You are no match for me."
"Your mouth still smells so bad!" Cao Qing looked gloomy.
Mu Qianshui wasn't angry at all. After all, it wasn't the first time someone said he had bad breath. He was immune.
"You can surrender. After all, we were in the academy together... Even though I'm annoyed with you, I still don't want you to die."
"Shut up, I'm from Qi, how can I surrender to Qin?"
"This world will belong to the Qin Dynasty. There will be no distinction between people who are equal and others who are not equal. There will be no equal in the future..."
Before Mu Qianshui could even finish his voice, sword light came towards him, and Cao Qing completely exploded. A sword wave tens of feet long hung out from the Academy Sword in his hand and struck towards him.
"I told you that you are no match for me, but you still don't believe me..."
The sword gleam in Mu Qianshui's hand was like a piece of steel, like a long river, rolling in the air and immediately surrounding the sword gleam of the Academy Sword.
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During the confrontation with Xia Xin, Yan Ji discovered that Cao Qing, who was not far away, had been defeated. He was struck in the face by Mu Qianshui's horizontal sword. His vision went dark and he fell down out of thin air.
Before Mu Qianshui and other Qin troops came forward, Yan Ji took Xia Xin's blow and chose to retreat.
What he didn't expect was that after breaking away from the battle, on the way back, he saw that the Qi army that Luo Chang had brought out and was ambushed was defeated, and the Qin army was taking advantage of the situation to attack Yicheng.
Yan Ji saw from a distance a female general wearing a large cloak, who had climbed to the top of Yicheng.
Yicheng was leaderless and its troops were in chaos.
Yan Ji was stunned.
He went out to fight with the Qin army's scouts all afternoon. When he came back, Yicheng was about to be captured by the Qin army?!
The change was so big and so fast that he was caught off guard.
"Let's go!"
At the rear, the Qin army was pursuing them, but Yan Ji had no choice but to lead his troops and flee deeper into the Qi territory.
Late December.
On the western front of the Qin army, Lian Po and Yu Gui led their troops to defeat Yicheng, and then sent troops to attack Pingyi, which was at the horns of Yicheng.
Two days later, Pingyi city was destroyed.
The defense line on the west side was attacked and the enemy was declared lost.
From late December to January, Qi's nearly 100,000 defenders on the western front were defeated by the Qin army, with more than half of them killed or injured.
Yan Ji and other Qi generals led the remaining troops and retreated to the Wu'an area.
By this time, the western and southern fronts of Qi were suppressed by Lian Po and Wang Jian respectively, and were defeated, with a total loss of nearly 80,000 soldiers.
Linzi.
Tian Dan was checking the news on the northern line of Qijing and Li Mu's route.
Currently, only one of Da Qin's war bronze figures is accompanying the army to fight, and it's on Li Mu's side.
Relying on the invincible front of the Tongren and the Dragon-armored Forbidden Army, the northern front has also lost several cities in a row, and its speed is only faster than Lian Po.
"Where is the other bronze statue of the Qin Army?"
In Tian Dan's study, there were several Qi ministers discussing how to deal with the Qin army.
"The Qin people deliberately released only one bronze figure and hid the other bronze figure. The trace cannot be determined. We, the Qi army, dare not relax our vigilance on any front."
"Using the immortal jade amber should be able to offset the power of the current bronze figure.
I'm just afraid that the Qin people have destroyed five countries in the past few years and gained a lot of money. If there are more than two bronze figures, it will be difficult for us, Qi, to deal with it..."
Several people were discussing, when an attendant came in and announced: "The king has summoned Prime Minister Tian to the palace to discuss matters."
Tian Dan's eyebrows wrinkled slightly.
He had just received the news half an hour ago that Hou Sheng had entered the palace in advance.
It goes without saying that King Jian of Qi summoned him to the palace because the war situation was unfavorable. After winning the battle, he entered the palace to discuss peace with Qin again.
The people of Qin are pressing hard from outside, and the victors from behind are blocking it from inside.
Tian Dan was exhausted both mentally and physically. So far, he still had a strategy hidden but not used. If successful, it might be able to turn the tide of the battle, but... hiding it but not using it contained considerable risks.
If it is not necessary, Tian Dan does not want to use it.
The confrontation with Qin was very different from his original idea. The main reason was that the three generals of the Qin army were all famous generals in the world and had rich battlefield experience.
During the battle, Tian Dan set up ambushes several times, hoping to turn the defensive into an offensive. For example, he secretly sent troops to the southern front, hoping to merge with the 60,000 Qi troops retreating from the Chu territory, luring Wang Jian to go deep, and then send troops to ambush.
It's a pity that Wang Jian was not fooled at all. He obviously saw through Qi Ren's plan.
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In late December, the battle between Qin and Qi took an obvious turn.
Successful reports came frequently from all three fronts and were sent back to Xianyang.
In early January, the Qi army was forced to retreat for the second time, abandoning some undefeable or relatively unimportant cities, further shrinking its defense lines, concentrating superior forces, and preparing to start a war of attrition against Qin.
It is not a secret that the Qin people have been fighting for many years and do not have enough money and food.
The people of Qi turned to take an all-out defensive stance, preparing to fight Qin to exhaustion.
If the food and grass are exhausted, the Qin army will have no choice but to retreat.
News related to the battle situation were sent back to Xianyang at the same time. Zhao Huaizhong was in his study looking at the progress of the three-pronged attack on the Qi army.
"The Qi people have been defeated for the first time and have reduced their defense lines for the second time. If they are defeated again and have no way to retreat, they will probably start to use methods other than the battlefield."
Lu Buwei was also in the hall and said with a smile: "The Qi people were quite powerful in their early years, so they must have some foundation. Next, we may have to compare our foundation outside the battlefield..."
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It was January.
Qi Di, Southern Line.
Wang Jian led his army to besiege Xuzhou.
Xuzhou is the hub of Qi people's southern route and is one of the few fortified cities in the world.
Large siege equipment trembled inside and outside the city wall, and defensive formations were densely covered on the city wall.
The battle between the two armies reached a fierce point, with shouts of killing occurring one after another.
Wang Jian has already personally stepped forward to suppress the governor.
In this battle, Qin used new secret weapons.
A solid iron pillar more than ten feet long, made of iron inside and covered with bronze.
This thing requires several people to embrace it. It is like a giant siege tree. The pillars are densely packed with new secret scripts with the word "heavy" engraved on them.
The secret text of the origin of heavy characters can be superimposed to increase the weight of the artifact.
The blessing ceremony was engraved with the secret text of origin, making this huge copper pillar unimaginably heavy.
This thing is not for human use, but for bronze men to use to attack cities.
When the bronze man picked up the bronze pillar like a siege log and hit the city wall and gate, the secret text on it flashed.
Boom!
With muffled thunderous sounds one after another, the Xuzhou city gate was torn apart, and even the city walls were covered with cracks and collapsed in pieces.
In mid-January, the Qin army attacked Qi, and its advantage became more and more obvious.
Wang Jian's troops first defeated Xuzhou, then moved northward, approaching Qufu in Qi (the hometown of Confucius and the former capital of the Yin and Shang Dynasties).
When we arrived in Qufu, we were already in the hinterland of Qi people.
On the western front, the Qin army led by Lian Po was forced to the outside of Wuyan City. Li Mu also went south at the same time, plundering hundreds of miles of land.
The three routes approached Qi Ren's heart at the same time.
News of the war spread, and the Qi clan was horrified.
By now, it had been three months since the war started, and the Qin army had officially established a huge advantage on the battlefield.
Tian Dan changed his formation several times and retracted his defense line, but was still defeated by the Qin army. It was impossible to defeat the Qin army in terms of military strength.
Evening, Linzi.
In the palace, Tian Dan said to Qi Wang Jianda: "Your Majesty, please order me to use the immortal gift to open the ancient altar and activate the power of heaven and earth to reverse the war situation that is unfavorable to us, Da Qi."
Qi Wangjian was silent for a moment and asked: "How sure is Prime Minister Tian?"
"I'm not sure, but there is no other way to turn defeat into victory."
Qi Wangjian said flatly: "It's fine. I also want to see what will happen if the power of the ancient altar is unleashed. Just follow what Prime Minister Tian said."
That night, several royal orders were sent from Linzi to various places in Qi.
In the cities all over the country, the Qi army stayed behind closed doors.
Late at night, inside the Qi Palace, a pillar of light slowly rose.
The light pillar was weak at first, but after it appeared, it quickly became powerful.
There was a broken stone pillar in the light, and it rose into the sky. Countless mantras flashed on it, and the power released shone with the stars, the sun and the moon.
At the same moment, thousands of miles away in Daqin, in the stone hall of the ancestral temple, the Immortal Pillar was also shaking slightly.
In the bedroom of Xiangying Palace, Zhao Huaizhong suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and sat up.