Chapter 71

Gu Yi simply handed this Mo Dao to a personal guard beside him.

Let him test the lethality of the Mo Dao in front of Gao Shun and Han Hao.

The sharp blade instantly left a deep cut on the tree beside it.

Don't underestimate this cut.

If it were an ordinary sword, it probably wouldn't be able to cut the tree at all.

Maybe when we watch Guangtouqiang cutting trees, we think it's not that difficult?

But that's just a cartoon.

In reality, the sturdiness of a tree exceeds most armor.

Or rather, the two are not on the same level at all.

Many armor components contain small segments of wood.

Armor is just purely hard.

And a whole tree, while looking soft on the outside, has the characteristic of being hard on the inside!

Otherwise, just use a sword when cutting trees.

Why use a heavier axe and chop it one by one?

And the Mo Dao?

Its most important feature is not sharpness.

The attribute of sharpness can only be considered secondary.

More importantly, the special length and shape of the Mo Dao.

Equipping with the Mo Dao can pose a certain threat to cavalry, which is no joke.

"This sword is truly frightening."

Han Hao said with lingering fear.

He originally wanted to use armor to test the sharpness of the Mo Dao.

But now looking at it, this idea was too naive.

"Sir, if we can equip this kind of Mo Dao and combine it with the Trap Camp's training method."

"Perhaps, we can train an outstanding Mo Dao team!"

Gao Shun turned around and bowed to Gu Yi.

"Good."

"Then let's try this divine arm crossbow."

Gu Yi smiled.

This was one of the reasons he borrowed Gao Shun from Lu Bu.

The Trap Camp's training method looked ordinary in Lu Bu's eyes.

But in Gu Yi's eyes, it was really fragrant!

If more Trap Camp units could be trained.

It would play a huge role in attacking Yizhou and Hanzhong in the future, including attacking south of the Yangtze River!

Compared to the Mo Dao, the divine arm crossbow was not so amazing.

But that was only relative.

If compared to other bows and arrows of this era.

The divine arm crossbow simply transcended a dimension on the original basis.

Especially in terms of range, it was almost doubled.

If Gongsun Zan and his White Horse Yi Cong got this thing...

Oh my goodness!

I'm afraid they could make Yuan Shao, the big-headed Yuan, autistic in minutes.

Of course, that's assuming they don't encounter Qu Yi and the Vanguard Death Soldiers.

But if they really encounter them...

Hmm, White Horse Yi Cong, pray for your own blessings!

After testing the Mo Dao and the divine arm crossbow.

Both Gao Shun and Han Hao were full of expectations for this new army training.

With the addition of these two new pieces of equipment, combined with Gao Shun and Han Hao's training methods.

Even if this new army was stupid, its combat power couldn't be bad.

Of course.

In terms of archery.

The new army needed a sharpshooter as a leader.

And Gu Yi happened to have one under his command.

Just talking about the archery technology of this era.

I'm afraid the only one who could compare to Huang Zhong was Lu Bu, who shot the halberd at the gate.

Thus, Gu Yi temporarily gave Huang Zhong the position of thousand-man commander.

After he made contributions, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before he was promoted to captain and miscellaneous general.

With Huang Zhong's ability, Gu Yi naturally couldn't let him just do house-guarding work for his whole life.

If we are talking about bodyguards.

The top three bodyguards of this era should be Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Zhou Tai.

Dian Wei goes without saying.

Historically, Cao Cao "harmed three sages with one cannon" in Wancheng.

If Dian Wei hadn't guarded him to the death, Cao Cao would probably have been cold long ago.

Xu Chu?

Followed Cao Cao for more than twenty years.

Was the commander of the Tiger Guard Army after Dian Wei, and Cao Cao's exclusive second-generation bodyguard.

As for the last one, Zhou Tai.

Here we need to focus on this.

Although Zhou Tai's martial strength might not be comparable to Dian Wei and Xu Chu.

But this guy's ability to withstand damage is first-class!

Dian Wei and Xu Chu's boss is Cao Cao.

Who is Zhou Tai's boss?

That is the "Little King of Death" Sun Shiwang!

In the Battle of Hefei, if it weren't for Zhou Tai's protection.

It's hard to say whether Sun Shiwang would have died at the hands of Zhang Eight Hundred.

And according to relevant records, Zhou Tai helped Sun Shiwang withstand at least thirty-three slashes in his life!

If this were someone else, I'm afraid there wouldn't even be ashes left.

Nowadays.

Except for Dian Wei under Zhang Miao.

The remaining Xu Chu and Zhou Tai should still be ownerless.

Gu Yi decided that if there was a chance, he would send envoys to Qiaojun and Lujiang to find these two people.

If they could be found successfully.

Then the position of captain of his personal guards could have a fixed candidate.

And at the same time.

In the territory of Yizhou.

A teenager of about ten years old and a girl of seven or eight years old were crying over a corpse covered with arrows.

"Second brother..."

"Father... will he never open his eyes again?"

The girl also understood.

Her father was dead.

He would never be resurrected.

But she still hoped that all this was not true.

She hoped her second brother would tell her that her father was just asleep and might wake up in a while.

However, her second brother was only a teenager at this moment.

He couldn't give her the answer she wanted.

Yes, these two were Sun Shiwang and Sun Shangxiang, who were still young.

Not long ago, Sun Jian took the two siblings and one hundred personal guards to another city.

But on the way, they encountered an ambush long planned by the Yizhou aristocratic group.

Led by Ji Ling, thousands of elite archers pieced together by the Yizhou aristocratic group were lying in ambush in the grass.

As soon as Sun Jian passed by.

Ji Ling gave an order.

Thousands of arrows fell like rain.

Sun Jian held his ancient ingot sword and fought hard, but was ultimately outnumbered.

In a critical moment, he hurriedly ordered two personal guards beside him to escort Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang away.

Ji Ling's goal was to kill Sun Jian.

Therefore, he didn't have much time to send people to kill these two little fish, Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang.

After sending Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang away.

These two personal guards killed their way back, and the ending was naturally death in battle.

And Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang hid in a relatively safe place for nearly two hours before daring to return.

At this moment, the backs of the corpses on the grass were covered with arrows.

Sun Jian and one hundred personal guards were all buried here.

But the person who was hit by the most arrows was Sun Jian himself.

He had almost been shot into a hedgehog sieve.

Due to Gu Yi's butterfly effect.

Sun Jian did not become an enemy of Liu Biao as in history.

And avoided the fate of being shot by Lu Gong, a general under the Jingzhou Governor Huang Zu.

But poor Sun Jian still couldn't escape this disaster.

Recently, his struggle with the Yizhou aristocracy had reached a white-hot stage.

The number of Yizhou aristocrats who died at Sun Jian's hands was already countless.

Furious, they decided to take a "decapitation action"!

Pre-judging Sun Jian's necessary path.

Ji Ling led elite archers to lie in ambush here, waiting for Sun Jian.

This decapitation action was considered a complete success for the Yizhou aristocracy.

But...

They forgot a very terrible fact!

Sun Jian was dead, but his main force still existed!

Moreover, Sun Jian's eldest son, Sun Ce.

In terms of personality, he was probably even more fierce and irritable than Sun Jian!

It can be said that the blue is better than the blue.

Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang did not dare to walk around and continued to stay where Sun Jian died.

Until night fell.

The support troops led by Huang Gai arrived here.

Through the accounts of Sun Quan and Sun Shangxiang, the truth of the matter was restored.

"Yuan Shu, you dog! Ji Ling, you dog!"

"I will kill you!"

Huang Gai cursed angrily.

But at this moment, just roaring naturally couldn't avenge him.

Huang Gai took Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang, and Sun Jian's corpse back to the city where Sun Ce was.

Except for Sun Ben and Zu Mao who had already died in battle (see Chapter 56 for details).

At this moment, even Sun Jian himself had died at the hands of the Yizhou aristocracy.

It is conceivable.

In the next period of time, under Sun Ce's leadership, the revenge of the Sun family army would undoubtedly be more fierce than before!

Yexian

This is the location of Sun Jian's title "Marquis of Ye".

After burying Sun Jian's corpse.

Sun Ce endured the grief and indignation in his heart and inherited the army left by Sun Jian.

At this moment, wearing mourning clothes, he was sitting in the council hall, holding a meeting with his civil and military officials.

"My Lord!"

"If this revenge is not avenged, we swear we will not be human!"

Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, and Han Dang were the first to stand up.

As the three generals who followed Sun Jian the longest, these three had significant influence in the army.

However, before the three finished speaking.

Zhu Zhi and Kan Ze looked at each other and then spoke together:

"The three generals, please calm down."

"Revenge must be avenged!"

"But how to avenge this revenge needs to be considered in the long run."

"Nowadays, Yuan Shu and the group of aristocrats behind him have completely lost all shame!"

"Various means can be described as unscrupulous."

"If we blindly seek revenge, I am afraid that not only will it not be effective, but it will also increase losses in vain."

Strictly speaking, the Sun Jian army did not have any figures who could be called strategists.

Basically, most of the core high-level officials were just fierce generals and did not have the overall view to think about problems.

Zhu Zhi and Kan Ze were the rare two who could offer advice.

Hearing this, Sun Ce, sitting at the head, fell into deep thought.

Although Sun Ce had an irritable personality, he was by no means a reckless man.

On the contrary, his wisdom was no lower than Sun Jian's, and even surpassed it.

After all, if he were really just a reckless man.

Historically, it would have been impossible for him to use the Imperial Jade Seal to borrow troops from Yuan Shu and conquer a large area of Jiangdong!

To put it bluntly, the founder of the Eastern Wu regime was Sun Quan, Sun Shiwang.

But the person who truly laid the foundation was Sun Ce.

At this moment, Sun Ce's heart to avenge Sun Jian was stronger than anyone else's.

But he knew in his heart.

This matter cannot be rushed!

"Our army's current strength is not dominant compared to Yuan Shu, and can even be called inferior!"

"Acting rashly will not only fail to avenge the revenge but will also waste military strength."

Sun Ce said.