Chapter 341 Cognitive Impairment (Continued 1)

After this battle, Zhao Yuan's reputation was completely resounding throughout the territory of Da Cai.

Even the thirteen riders he led were all granted the title of marquis, enjoying a salary of ten thousand households, and their military positions ranged from the rank of cavalry lieutenant to the four generals.

This was considered the greatest honor in the Da Cai court.

Since the beginning of the dynasty, there have been only more than ten people who have been able to enjoy a salary of ten thousand households due to outstanding military achievements.

Now it has doubled directly.

Led by Zhao Yuan, the thirteen of them were also called the Thirteen Riders of Yuetian.

However, the other twelve people were all given rewards, but Zhao Yuan himself did not make any moves.

Everyone also knew that Zhao Yuan was granted the title of Champion Marquis in just a few years, and his military position was also raised to the rank of General of the Cavalry, second only to the General.

The General was at the same level as the Three Dukes, and almost controlled the entire military of Da Cai.

If Zhao Yuan wanted to raise his status again, he would definitely have to be the Three Dukes.

As for the title, he was already the highest-ranking Marquis, and he could not be promoted any further.

But Zhao Yuan's contribution was already shocking.

He marched 7,000 miles north and defeated four countries.

Almost all the officials of Da Cai speculated whether Zhao Yuan would break the precedent of Da Cai and be awarded the title of King of the Opposite Sex.

The emperor was also very distressed about this.

After all, he also knew that Da Cai had never awarded any King of the Opposite Sex since its founding.

Whether he should set this precedent still needs to be considered.

Zhao Yuan's contribution was witnessed by him and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but Zhao Yuan's only flaw was that he was too inexperienced.

Moreover, he was not born in a prominent family, and the only foreign relative behind him was the Xu family, who could barely be related.

The emperor hesitated a little, because the previous dynasty perished because of the rebellion of foreign relatives.

If Zhao Yuan, who was on good terms with the Xu family, was awarded the title of King of the Opposite Sex, the entire Xu family would rise to a higher level.

After a few years, there might be trouble.

After discussing with several staff and civil officials, the emperor finally came to a conclusion.

The king of the opposite sex cannot be conferred!

Zhao Yuan's official position and title can remain unchanged, but the entire Fengxin County can be awarded to him.

But the emperor's edict has not been issued yet.

The four countries came back again, they formed alliances, and supported a million troops to crush the enemy.

In three days, they swept across the entire northern part of Da Zhou, and several military towns that were originally established were also invaded and fell into them.

Moreover, the people in these four countries are all foreigners, born barbaric, and have always eaten raw meat and drank blood.

In several military towns, more than 100,000 civilians and residents who provided logistical support were also slaughtered.

And the Yuansha people threatened that they would go south and kill wherever they went, and they would massacre wherever they went.

So, Zhao Yuan had no time to care about his own reward, and led 30,000 cavalry all the way north.

He knew that the 30,000 cavalry he led were the elite of the Da Cai army.

But it is nothing but a foolish dream to want to fight against the millions of troops of the four countries.

Although the Thirteen Riders of Yuetian are fierce, each of them was cultivated by Zhao Yuan with a lot of effort, personally teaching martial arts, and supplemented with a large amount of resources and medicine.

It is precisely because of this that they can have the powerful strength of running for 7,000 miles for a long time, being invulnerable to swords and guns, and having an inexhaustible breath.

According to Zhao Yuan's memory, the twelve people he trained have the strength of top martial arts masters.

It is extremely simple to deal with these ordinary soldiers.

But they also have shortcomings, that is, they need to fight quickly.

If they fall into the vast ocean of human wave tactics, I am afraid that even if they are exhausted, they will not be able to kill many.

When they invaded the troops of the four countries, they were galloping at night, killing people and setting a fire and leaving.

And it only took half an incense stick to complete all this.

Moreover, the time of their invasion is uncertain, sometimes several hours apart, sometimes half a month apart.

They were like a hungry wolf, biting tightly behind him, but they could pounce at any time.

But 30,000 cavalrymen were too bloated.

He could not be as light and agile as before, rushing at any time.

But if he confronted head-on, it would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Zhao Yuan also knew that with these one million lions in the lead, although the thirteen of him were extraordinary, the old tactics were no longer effective.

Even if he killed hundreds of people at a time, he could not kill all the millions.

They could ignore a few of them and continue the southern expedition.

So, he just asked the emperor to borrow 30,000 cavalrymen.

And these 30,000 people were carefully selected from the most elite army of Da Cai.

The selected targets did not need to have high talents or strong martial arts.

When Zhao Yuan selected people, there was only one condition.

That was loyalty without fear of death!

He had a martial art in his hand that could be quickly mastered and could also quickly improve the martial arts of the soldiers.

But the side effects were also great.

Once practiced, the life span would only be ten years.

That is the "Panlong Jin" in Xie Que's memory!

Originally in Xie Que's memory, this was the martial arts practiced by the Dragon Guarding Camp controlled by the Great Zhou royal family.

It can quickly enable warriors to enter the Grandmaster realm.

However, this Panlong Army is not a martial arts technique, but through special means such as medicinal baths, it has a huge toxic effect on the practitioner's physique.

This toxicity will continue to erode the body of the practitioner.

Generally speaking, a warrior who practices Panlong Jin can only live for about ten years at most.

Unless...find the legendary gods and Buddhas and worship them...

In Zhao Yuan's mind, Xie Que was as afraid of worshiping gods as a tiger or a wolf.

But he didn't think so.

If it can save the lives of these warriors who will practice the Panlong Army, then why not worship God!

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The three armies marched for seven days and entered the boundary of Baishan.

There are abundant medicinal materials in Baishan, and you can find the powerful medicines needed to practice the Panlong Army.

But thirty thousand people is simply too many.

After Zhao Yuan thought about it, he left three thousand people to practice Panlong Jin, while the others practiced a joint attack martial art he created.

Able to gather momentum and shock the enemy's mind.

For the next seven days, the four countries continued to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Da Cai.

During this time, the common people had already received the news and headed south, but the tragic massacre did not happen again.

On the other hand, Zhao Yuan, who was waiting eagerly, lost his voice.

Gongsun Huan, the great Sima and general, led Cai's army of 600,000 and began to march north.

As a result, they were defeated steadily by the coalition forces of the four countries. In just half a month, they suffered 70,000 casualties.

The original idea of ​​the four countries was to go deep into Da Cai for eight hundred miles, then return with the plundered resources and force Da Cai to sign an agreement.

But I didn't expect that there were very few slaves, treasures and food plundered along the way.

After discussion, they decided to continue south.

As a general, Gongsun Huan wanted to take the lead, but he was hit by an arrow in the eye and lost one eye.

Just when he was desperate, Zhao Yuan finally returned again.

The 30,000 cavalrymen he led seemed to have been streamlined, and now there are only more than 2,000 people.

Among the three thousand people who were chosen to practice Panlong Jin, some failed because they were not suitable for the medicine.

However, the ratio of medicinal materials and methods for practicing Panlong Jin have been optimized through thousands of years of changes in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the success rate is still very high.

At this moment, Gongsun Huan, who saw Zhao Yuan, had turned into a one-eyed dragon.

He didn't like this young man.

After all, if Zhao Yuan wants to go further, he can only take away his position as general and transfer it to Zhao Yuan.

However, Gongsun Huan also knew Zhao Yuan's abilities and did not dare to be too negligent.

Instead, he was treated to delicious food and drinks on the surface, and the military situation of the four countries was described in detail.

However, during this period, Gongsun Huan concealed the most important information about the armies of the four countries.

They have shamans.

The so-called shamans are the priests of the evil gods.

Nine out of ten people in the four foreign countries are also followers of these evil gods.

As priests of gods, even if they are just evil gods, they have powerful abilities that transcend mortals.

In Gongsun Huan's mind, those wizards were as powerful as burning mountains and boiling seas.

Although there were strange people in Da Cai, he had never heard of such a powerful person.

What he had heard about was a place called Hexi Temple.

The monks among them are said to have profound magical powers.

Gongsun Huan had also seen that those monks could only drive wild animals and spit fire from their mouths, which was similar to ordinary street jugglers.

But the wizards from the four foreign countries can blow up blood rain out of thin air and corrode the armor and skin.

Just one face-to-face meeting, the terrifying scene made Gongsun Han scared to this day, and it still doesn't stop.

There is even a wizard who can control the bodies of dead soldiers, causing Da Cai's troops to fight against each other.

After several battles, Gongsun Huan had no intention of fighting anymore.

I just want to persuade the emperor to cede territory and seek peace.

I also want to see this boy Zhao Yuan fall down in front of these wizards and lose his life. It is naturally the best thing.

In this way, his position as Great General Sima can be secure.

After obtaining information about the armies of the Four Kingdoms, Zhao Yuan led more than 2,000 people in front of Yangcheng in the north of the river, preparing to fight against the Four Kingdoms.

When the four kings heard that the Thirteen Yue Tian Cavalry, which had humiliated them in the past, were attacking again, they also mobilized their full strength to march south.

The Yuancha people had the greatest hatred for Zhao Yuan. They charged forward and formed a long formation.

Prepare to surround the Yuetian Thirteen Cavalry and form a strangulation force.

After all, according to subsequent analysis, these thirteen people retreated with one blow every time, which showed that they could not sustain a long-term operation.

Even if they use human lives, they will still kill these thirteen people.

But King Yuancha thought wrongly.

What they greeted this time were two thousand heavy cavalry, fully armored and armed with a ten-foot-long weapon.

Because these cavalrymen practiced Panlong Jin, although they were too pressed for time, they did not have the strength of the martial arts master level.

But they almost have the physical strength of an innate warrior, and each of them is capable of carrying a thousand pounds.

During this heavy cavalry charge, the Yuancha people suffered heavy casualties, and the 10,000 advance troops they brought were almost wiped out.

King Yuancha couldn't believe his eyes.

I thought there were only thirteen such perverted people, but now there are another two thousand.

If there are such a number of people with such strength.

The Shikoku should not have taken a trip into this muddy water.

After all, thirteen people could kill them to a rout. Wouldn't two thousand people be able to overthrow their capital?

But King Yuan Cha was just distressed and not too panicked.

After he calmed down, he found King Jin who was also in the army.

and invited a wizard from it.

This wizard, named Thangka, is a priest who believes in the "King of Human Skin".

In order to invite this wizard, King Jin did not hesitate to find thousands of virgins in the country, peeled off their skin and presented them to Tangka.

In one month, Tangka sewed a drum with these human skins.

He only needed to tap it lightly, and the listeners would bleed from all seven orifices.

When King Jin saw it, he was immediately shocked.

Although this human skin drum did not distinguish between friend and foe, as long as cotton was stuffed into the ear, the influence of this drum could be almost ignored.

Relying on this drum, the Kingdom of Jin also devoured a large number of tribes in recent years and became a hegemon in the north.

However, King Yuansha also paid a considerable price to invite this Tangka priest.

His youngest daughter, who was only thirteen years old, was married to Tangka, who was over eighty years old.

However, Yuansha people were also very happy about this. If he became Tangka's father-in-law, then Tangka's power could also be used by himself.

After the agreement, King Yuansha asked Tangka to leave quickly.

After all, within this incense stick of time, the two thousand cavalry led by Zhao Yuan had launched three rounds of charge again.

Almost every round of charge caused more than three thousand casualties.

Some soldiers were even so frightened that they abandoned their armor and fled.

Yuan Sha Wang knew that if he dragged on, his army would be demoralized and no longer willing to fight.

Tangka stood on the high platform and saw the two thousand cavalry from afar.

After a moment, he turned around and said to Yuan Sha Wang:

"Your price is not enough..."

Yuan Sha Wang was shocked: "That's my most beloved daughter..."

Tangka still shook his head, and on his old face, his cloudy pupils shot out two eyes like a venomous snake.

Seeing that the third round of charge broke up a military formation again, the more than two thousand cavalry still looked like they had strength left.

King Yuansha knew that he could not delay any longer, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Master Priest, I am willing to marry all my three daughters to you and serve you."

Hearing this, Tangka nodded with satisfaction.

He patted his tattered animal skin coat, and wings like hawks and falcons suddenly grew behind him, but there were no wings on it, showing layers of flesh color, mixed with bloodstains, which looked extremely strange.

Tangka soared into the sky, and then flew over the army. Zhao Yuan also noticed him at this time.

Although he had not seen the existing Taoism, he had heard that there were wizards in the four countries.

He looked at Tangka with some curiosity, but Tangka took off the human skin drum on his back that was more than one person tall and held it in his arms.

With a bang, the human skin drum in Tangka's arms vibrated.

The blood in Zhao Yuan's body rose immediately, but it quickly fell back under his control.

And the thirteen riders of Yuetian who followed him were also fine like him.

More than 2,000 cavalrymen suddenly staggered, and blood oozed from their mouths, noses, and ears.

A huge sense of crisis suddenly surged into Zhao Yuan's heart.

If this wizard was allowed to stay here, these soldiers who practiced Panlong Jin would probably not survive today, let alone ten years.

And this was because these cavalrymen had relatively good physical fitness.

If ordinary people heard the drum sound, they would probably bleed from all seven orifices and die on the spot.

Zhao Yuan looked at Tangka perched high in the sky, took a deep breath, and took off the bow and arrow on his back.

He drew his bow, set the arrow, and shot at Tangka.

Unexpectedly, an invisible barrier appeared in front of Tangka, blocking his arrow outside.

With this arrow, Tangka also noticed where Zhao Yuan was.

He grinned, stretched out his withered left hand and lightly touched it.

Zhao Yuan suddenly felt a little dizzy, as if he had turned around twice in the same place.

But he recovered in an instant.

Tangka's expression suddenly became a little strange.

The next moment, just as he was about to beat the drum again, Zhao Yuan suddenly flew into the air.

His feet sank into a nearly three-foot deep hole in the ground, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of him.