Chapter 201 The missing hero (thanks to the leader Lu Zhi for deeper
At the same time, the Northern Barbarian cavalry had arrived at the gates of Linyuan City.
The gate of Linyuan City is wide open and not closed.
After all, when players usually leave the city, they mainly use the west gate. Once it is closed, transportation is inconvenient. The city gate here will only be closed when the Orderer is on an expedition or when it is determined that a large number of demons will invade that far exceed the player's strength.
"Fight in!"
The leader of the demon gave an order, and the Northern Barbarian cavalry immediately increased their speed and rushed towards the open west city gate!
In their view, although this city looks dangerous, as long as they get inside before the city gates are closed, no matter how dangerous the city is, it will only collapse on its own.
As for those Dongyi bandits, they were obviously left far behind.
"As long as we enter the city first and kill all the indigenous people, this slice will be ours!"
These Northern Barbarian cavalry were all confident, thinking that relying on the distance of their horses would be enough to get there first.
But they don't know that at this time, the group of Dongyi bandits have been completely harvested by the player's cavalry force of more than a hundred people.
The law——
The war horse with black energy in its eyes suddenly accelerated, running along the long slope outside the west city gate, and headed straight for the city gate.
However, at this moment, these demons discovered hundreds of players appearing in front of them.
These players stood in four rows, with the player in the front row squatting half-crouching, inserting the end of the spear into the ground, and moving forward at an angle;
The players in the three rows behind each held their muskets high, half squatting in the front row and standing in the back row. The match ropes were already lit, and the black muzzles of the guns were facing forward, aiming at the galloping Northern Barbarian cavalry troops.
"aim--
"Fire!"
The player in charge of the command gave the order, and the players in the front row fired their muskets!
A burst of smoke filled the air, and countless projectiles flew out from the muzzles of the guns, shooting at the oncoming Northern Barbarian cavalry. A large number of horses in the front row fell down in response.
Immediately afterwards, the players in the front row squatted down, and the musketeers in the two rows behind also shot in turn.
There was no time to dodge these monsters, and many cavalrymen fell off their horses in the dense rain of bullets.
When the cavalry rushes in front of the player, three rounds of musketry have been fired.
"kill!"
The players put away their muskets one after another and took out their weapons.
The horses of the Northern Barbarian cavalry collided with the spears of the players in the front row. Some of the horses were instantly pierced and fell to the ground, but more horses continued to move forward and galloped towards them.
The players began to show off their talents. Some took off the same type of sabers carried by Zhao Haiping on their backs to fight with the cavalry, while others stabbed them with long spears. The scene was chaotic.
However, since the number of players was relatively large, and the three rounds of musket fire had already weakened the combat power of the Northern Barbarian cavalry at the beginning, the players would naturally have the upper hand in the subsequent battles.
"Give it, give it!"
The two sides were fighting fiercely, and there was another noise in the city, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard.
A player's cavalry unit rushed out of the city and charged at the Northern Barbarian cavalry in a condescending manner!
In one charge, countless Northern Barbarian cavalry were knocked off their horses by lances.
The dark eyes of these demons were obviously full of doubts.
As promised...just a regular medium-sized historical slice?
Logically speaking, if it were an ordinary medium-sized historical slice, the aborigines inside would be nothing more than a group of stragglers.
Although the number of Northern Barbarian cavalry is not very large, against such unwary infantry, they can be completely defeated with just one charge.
What's left is a one-sided massacre.
But what is the situation now?
These infantrymen not only have a matchlock gun, but they can also form an array and shoot together in such an organized manner?
Moreover, the formation did not collapse after being hit. Instead, they all took out their melee weapons and started fighting hand-to-hand?
The most outrageous thing is that the wave of cavalry running out of the city seems to be more than their number...
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Soon, this wave of Northern Barbarian cavalry was also wiped out.
The players were cleaning the battlefield and chatting.
"It's so cool to have military achievements delivered to your door. Isn't it great? Can there be more good things like this?"
"I told you cavalry players not to go too far! Every time you come to snatch the head in the middle of the fight, it's amazing how fast a horse can run!"
"It's amazing if a horse can run fast. Why don't you also take the subject two test?"
"Damn it, let's see if you can still be so arrogant after the new auxiliary profession is released!"
"Hey, that's not possible at all. You can't play with matchlocks and shoot them in line. They don't have the strength to fight against the cavalry alone."
"The characteristic of the matchlock gun is that you can't stand close together, because when you fire the matchlock, it is likely to ignite the gunpowder bags of people around you... But it doesn't matter, we are already trying to improve the flintlock gun, and maybe it will be possible soon.
There’s a flintlock for use!”
Li Hongyun watched the whole battle and finally admitted that what Cui Huowang said was indeed right. It is true that matchlock guns cannot be used to queue up and shoot.
The reloading is too slow and the positions are too sparse, which determines that this tactic cannot pose much threat to the cavalry.
A matchlock requires a match to ignite the propellant, and a lit match is easily extinguished, so many gunners will light both ends of the match to at least ensure that when one end goes out, the other can continue to ignite.
But the problem is that when the matchlock gun is fired, the gun body will vibrate violently, causing the long matchlock to fly everywhere. If it accidentally bounces on a teammate, it ignites the gunpowder package and is sent.
Take this battle as an example. Although the players used three rows of matchlock guns to cause some damage to the Northern Barbarian cavalry, it was not enough to determine the entire battle. Once they were dispersed by the cavalry, they would still have to fight hard.
Therefore, the flintlock gun must continue to be developed!
Li Hongyun and Cui Huowang once again got into the fiefdom and began to think about developing flintlock guns.
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Seven days passed by in the blink of an eye.
During this period, players either continued to make up lessons in the previous trial fantasy world, or moved bricks in the Orderer's fortress and continued construction.
After some discussion by Li Weiyi and other construction players, they finally decided to complete the next phase of construction of Linyuan City first and use the city wall to connect the three existing city walls. As for the subsequent fortress construction plans on the city wall, they were temporarily shelved.
Save up some construction value, wait for the trial illusion after clearing the level, and after the scope of the entire historical slice is further expanded, try to start transforming the terrain to prepare for the new branch city.
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10pm.
Li Hongyun entered the game on time and then directly started the trial of the new copy.
The "Reckless Heroic" dungeon failed to win the first pass before Chu Ge's team, which made him very concerned, and even his status in the dormitory dropped.
So this time, Li Hongyun also worked hard to regain his position.
For this new copy, he certainly did a lot of homework during these seven days.
Although so far, all players only know one version name and one copy name, and it seems impossible to make any targeted preparations, but for those players who understand the rules, a lot of information can be inferred from this.
For example, in the main dungeon of the previous version of "Southeast Danger", "Fenghou is not my intention", you can directly see that the goal of this dungeon is to complete the goal of the dungeon, and the main character in the dungeon is, of course, "Fenghou is not my intention".
The author of this poem is General Deng.
With such a general direction, you can quickly study the relevant historical materials in advance. After entering the game, you will not be too confused and can always find a general direction.
This copy is no exception.
However, although there is a general direction, there are still many mysteries.
The version name "How many things have happened in the rise and fall of the ages" and the copy name "If you want to talk about it, stop it", these are both words and phrases of Yu Jiaxuan, a famous poet in the Qi Dynasty.
Therefore, of course, Li Hongyun had a comprehensive understanding of the historical materials related to Yu Jiaxuan and the general historical background at that time, and did his homework.
But the problem is that the direction of these two poems is extremely unclear.
The previous key information such as "Southeast Bandits" and "The title of Marquis is not my intention" can roughly infer the target of the dungeon, but this time there is no way to infer it.
The phrase "how many things have happened in the rise and fall of the ages" itself is a kind of emotion about the rise and fall of dynasties in history.
Even if the following two sentences are added, "Long and long, the Yangtze River is rolling", or other content in the whole article is added, it is nothing more than using the past to satirize the present, giving rise to a sense of melancholy.
As for "If you want to say it, don't give it up" is even broader.
If we look at the content of the whole poem, the upper and lower columns respectively write about the life sentiments in youth and middle age: when I was a teenager, it was "Young people don't know the feeling of sorrow, so they forcefully talk about sorrow in order to compose new words", but in middle age it is "Now
I know the feeling of sorrow, but I still want to say it."
This certainly shows the author's emotion about wasted life, but if we use this to speculate on the goal of the copy, what should it be?
Is it possible that he simply wasted his life like Yu Jiaxuan, a talented poet? In the end, he woke up from his sleep, shouted "Kill the thief" and died?
Then this copy... is a bit too baffling.
Of course, there were highlights in Yu Jiaxuan's magnificent life, but after thinking about it for a long time, Li Hongyun never felt that his life was enough to support a large-scale copy.
After all, he is different from General Han Fuyue. Although General Han Fuyue failed in the Northern Expedition, he fought and won consecutive battles and achieved very fruitful results. Yu Jiaxuan, on the other hand, suffered a lot. Although he was indeed very talented in military affairs, he never had the ability to do so.
He was given special priority, and his main duties were counter-insurgency and military training.
In other words, he was more inclined to be a firefighter and failed to really do big things. No wonder he died shouting "kill the thief" in his dream.
Li Hongyun thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any clues. He could only enter the dungeon and read it again.
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In the sequencer space, Li Hongyun saw the scene that Meng Yuan had seen before.
After passing through the "reckless and heroic" dungeon, the orderers were able to continue moving towards the upper reaches of the long river of history. After passing through a dark period of "Shenzhou Lu Shen" ruled by the Northern Barbarians, they finally arrived at the location of the Qi Dynasty
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Li Hongyun stepped into the historical slice called "It's time to stop talking".
The images around him began to change and finally became fixed.
The initial scene of the dungeon this time was actually at a ferry by the river.
The river in front of us is very wide. Judging from the lush vegetation all around, it is probably a ferry of the Yangtze River. At this time, soldiers wearing Qi army uniforms can be seen busy around, and there are also many Qi Dynasty warships on the river.
And unlike the previous dungeon, this time there was no optional identity card or talent skill card directly appearing in front of Li Hongyun, but a line of prompt information.
[This historical slice has been seriously distorted, and may be significantly different from historical records, and key figures may have completely disappeared. Players are advised to screen wisely and make their own judgments! 】
[Correspondingly, the player's degree of freedom in historical slicing will also be improved. As long as the final goal is achieved, there is no need to be too demanding on the process and details. 】
Li Hongyun's expression couldn't help but become a little serious.
The difficulty of the game continues to increase!
Of course, previous dungeons were also distorted, especially many heroes who were distorted into cowards, which requires players to identify and judge by themselves.
For example, Yang Xinyan, Wang Zongchang and others were tampered with by demons in different ways, which caused great obstacles to players' clearance.
But this time, there will be cases where key figures completely disappear?
This difficulty is obviously higher.
In the past, when players encountered a distorted character, they could directly play the character, correct it, and then successfully pass the level.
But now, the key role has simply disappeared?
What to do?
Obviously, players have to use other characters, even an ordinary soldier, to plug this gap.
This is obviously more difficult, because the key figures are not comparable to ordinary people in terms of physical fitness or reputation among friendly forces.
But on the other hand, players have a higher degree of freedom, and it doesn't matter if many places don't follow historical records.
From the gameplay point of view, increasing the difficulty and freedom will obviously enhance the fun of the game. And from the plot point of the game, as the Orderers enter the upper reaches of history, they will inevitably encounter more and more serious distortions and distortions.
Tampering, the fight against demons will also become more diverse, which makes perfect sense.
Li Hongyun was ready and tapped the OK button on the prompt.
The next second, he found himself at the ferry.
There is no choice of identity or talent or skills.
"Is this going to start? I'm not ready yet!"
Li Hongyun looked down and found that he was also wearing the uniform of the Qi Army, and he looked like he was just an ordinary soldier.
At this moment, a huge rock roared past in the sky.
"Bang!"
With a loud noise, the boulder hit the shore directly and rolled several times. Unfortunately, several soldiers of the Qi army were affected and their flesh and blood were bruised by the smash.
In the distance, there are almost hundreds of warships heading this way.
The flags on these warships are flying with the word "gold" written in big letters.
Li Hongyun instantly felt that something was wrong with the situation, because it could not be said to be completely different from what he had prepared before, it could only be said that it had nothing to do with it.
He quickly grabbed a pawn next to him who looked flustered and looked like he wanted to escape on the spot: "Where is this!"
The pawn looked at him like an idiot.
Li Hongyun twitched the corner of his mouth and slapped the pawn twice: "Say quickly! Where is this!"
His body was quite strong, much more powerful than this thin little pawn. With two slaps, the little pawn was a little dazed, and he had no idea why a mentally ill person suddenly appeared.
But under the other party's power, the pawn still said in confusion: "This is... Niuzhuji..."
Li Hongyun couldn't help but frown, and a bad premonition came into his heart.
He grabbed the soldier again and asked, "Where is Zhao Binfu?"
The pawn was even more confused: "Who is that?"
Li Hongyun was stunned for a moment: "Zhao Binfu, you don't know? He is from Zhongshushe! He came to Niuzhu to reward the army!"
The soldier's face almost turned into a bitter gourd: "Don't use me for entertainment! When will the imperial court send people to reward the army? We escaped all the way and didn't even see a supporting army, let alone the people from Zhongshushe, what?
Reward the troops?"
Obviously, in his opinion, Li Hongyun is a complete psychopath.
Everyone obviously escaped together like a lost dog, so why are you asking these questions again inexplicably...
Li Hongyun pushed the pawn aside, and he was a little confused.
His brain is working quickly, processing massive amounts of information.
If it is other players, they may be confused at this time and have no idea what they are going to do.
But when Li Hongyun heard the three words "Niuzhuji", he immediately thought of which war this was.
In the middle of the Qi Dynasty, the benefactor Wanyan Hailing took advantage of the peace that the two countries had maintained for twenty years and the Qi Dynasty's neglected defenses to launch a large-scale invasion. He raised 600,000 soldiers from all over the country to destroy Qi in one fell swoop and unify the world.
At that time, Niuzhuji was the only way for him to cross the river, and there was only a Qi army of less than 20,000 people.
Moreover, before the fighting started, they had already been defeated again and again, fleeing in the hope of the wind, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting.
But at this moment, a heavenly warrior named Zhao Binfu appeared.
He was originally just an ordinary member of the Zhongshu family, a civil servant with no real power. He was ordered to bring silver coins, wine and meat to reward the troops. However, when he arrived, he found that the soldiers were in groups, wandering around, not even wearing armor.
Taking weapons, they had no intention of fighting and were waiting to die. However, the Jin army was already planning to cross the river.
Therefore, Zhao Binfu immediately reported that he would stay and lead the troops to resist desperately. The imperial court was also in a state of distress, so when he saw this, he immediately got off the road and asked him to serve as the frontline command.
This was originally a battle that was impossible to win, but Zhao Binfu managed to win, so he was praised as "a man of the ages."
So after Li Hongyun learned that this was Niuzhuji, he immediately asked where Zhao Binfu was.
Because he knew that in real history, Zhao Binfu could lead people to win this battle, and finding Zhao Binfu would be equivalent to having him in his lap.
It turned out that there was no such person here!
I don’t know if he didn’t come at all? Or because this slice of history was severely distorted by demons, so the whole person no longer exists?
Li Hongyun looked at the Jin army that was already landing, and realized that this copy seemed to be so different from what he imagined...
