After Yang Fu swung his sword, Jiang Wei followed suit and used his ring-handled sword to chop off the head of Dong Zhuo's statue in the hall.
The clay sculpture of a black-faced, angry head rolled to the ground, revealing a neatly woven straw frame sandwiched in the middle of the clay figure.
Jiang Wei carried the head of Dong Zhuo's statue, walked to the middle of the courtyard, raised his hand and lifted it high, and shouted: "The obscene worship has been beheaded, and now we begin to tear it down!"
A man in his forties shouted, "You are messing around. You will be punished! There will be another plague!"
The people around them became more and more excited and wanted to rush forward together. But when faced with the central cavalry drawing their swords, they instantly fell silent.
Yang Fu and Jiang Wei didn't care about these ignorant people.
If you want to appease them, send the governor of Fufeng here tomorrow and give everyone some money. The people don't understand, why bother talking to them so much?
It was not until then that Zhu Gai brought his men to the emperor.
However, Cao Rui had lost interest at this time. He waved his hand to signal Xin Pi to ask, and then returned to the camp outside Chencang City.
After dinner in the evening, Cao Rui felt a little sleepy, so he returned to his tent and went to bed early.
Perhaps it was because he was angry today and was blown by the wind by the Wei River, but he went to bed an hour earlier than usual.
I was extremely sleepy today, and I felt dizzy as I lay on the couch. Cao Rui wanted to ask someone to come in and prepare some hot water for me to drink, but as I lay there, I fell asleep.
Half asleep and half awake, Cao Rui felt the light in his eyes alternate between bright and dark several times. When he opened his eyes again, he actually saw the big flag flying outside the central army camp when he rushed to Lueyang to provide assistance.
This is Lueyang!
Cao Rui was startled, and then he realized that this was a dream.
It must be a dream! The army is now in Chencang, how can it reach Lueyang?
Cao Rui discovered that his perspective was about ten feet high, right behind a square-shaped military formation.
There were about a thousand soldiers in the army. Judging from the number and the battlefield, they should be an army that was once under Qian Zhao's command and was used to attack Wei Yan's camp.
Cao Rui looked at the battlefield curiously. This perspective was particularly novel to him, and he felt as if he was on the battlefield himself.
As the sound of golden drums rang out behind them, the large banner in front of the camp flew up together with the flagpole. After circling in the air for several times, it waved and pointed to the south.
The south is the direction of the Shu army camp.
After the big banner was settled, the whole world became a little different.
The sky gradually turned from blue to a thin layer of dark red. Above the battle formation, there was a group of creatures that looked like flies or crows. They were as dense as water and swam freely in the air as the battle formation advanced.
The yellow color of the ground became brighter and brighter, and the sand turned into powder like realgar, which was constantly blown up by the moving army, gradually filling the sky with dust.
Cao Rui had no time to worry about fear. He was just in a state of surprise and understanding. He watched the scenery with a detached manner as the battle formation moved.
The army continued to advance southward, and a dense rain of arrows was shot from the Shu army camp in the south.
When the arrows rose to their highest point in the air, they all turned into the shapes of vultures, swooping down and pecking at the heads of the Wei soldiers with their long beaks.
Cao Rui stared at a vulture, and as his attention changed, his gaze gradually moved closer and focused on the vulture.
In an instant, the vulture swooped down and pecked hard, breaking the skull of a soldier.
The fragments rolled up like bubbles in the water, and the vulture sucked out the snow-white brains of the soldiers like water. After swallowing them with satisfaction, the vulture looked at Cao Rui with a pair of eagle eyes that were slightly compassionate.
Cao Rui was startled and broke out in a cold sweat, feeling unable to move his hands and feet.
After a few moments, the perspective gradually moved forward and attached to the eyes of a soldier in the front row, and continued to run forward.
He jumped over the trench, swung his sword to knock off the deer antlers, and then thrust the pure black ring-handled sword in his hand forward, easily cutting through the wall of the Shu army like tearing paper.
The moment the wall was torn apart, it was as if the curtain on a stage was drawn open, and a three-meter-tall Shu army general with a blood-red body, an iron mask on his head and two horns jumped out.
The armored soldier swung the long spear in his hand horizontally, and the soldier in Cao Rui's perspective was tumbled and knocked away.
After a dizzying moment, the head fell to the ground, and the tip of the halberd that the Shu army general had stuck on the ground was seen.
The sound on the battlefield was like low thunder. Cao Rui could not see it, but he knew that the Shu army generals in front of him were talking.
I don't know how long the Shu general spoke, the rumbling sound almost broke my eardrums. When Cao Rui came to his senses again, he only remembered one sentence:
"You have gone against the will of heaven, and you deserve this retribution!"
The soldiers closed their eyes, and Cao Rui's vision gradually lost focus.
An unknown amount of time had passed, but when Cao Rui opened his eyes again, he saw a river on his right, with bubbles bubbling and liquid flowing in the river as thick as blood.
There are mountains on both sides.
Cao Rui suddenly realized that this was Chiting, this was the Qingni Water Valley!
There was still a battle formation in the field of vision. Just as I could see it clearly, a sharp hissing sound came from behind me.
Cao Rui turned his head and looked back. He saw a strange beast of unknown species, which was ten feet tall and filled the entire valley.
The face of the strange beast was unclear, like a mess, moving irregularly like paste. First, the face of Zhang He appeared, then Cao Zhen, then Guo Huai, and then it turned into the face of Qian Zhao and Lu Xun...
After countless faces flashed by, the paste solidified and turned into a bronze mirror, reflecting Cao Rui's own face in full detail!
Without time to be surprised, Cao Rui's perspective was reset to the forward direction. The soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades and fought hard with the Shu army on the opposite side in the narrow river valley.
Sword against sword, sword against sword, halberd against halberd, spear against spear.
Blood was flying all over the sky, and blood was flowing out of the wounds of the fallen soldiers, and was directly absorbed by the rolling green mud water.
The green mud water became redder and redder, turning into a very dark red like solidified blood clot.
The green mud water, or should be green mud and blood water, condensed more and more solid, and turned into a giant hand that fanned towards the east, smashing a green feather fan into pieces.
The long feathers fluttered in all directions, and each feather turned into a flying crane, circling and wailing in unison in the air.
The bloody hand stopped in the sky again, and exploded in all directions with a bang, turning into a huge millstone, stretching across the river valley, rotating and crushing all the soldiers towards the middle.
A soldier with a childish face, half of his leg had been crushed into the millstone, and he kept shouting the word "mother".
When Cao Rui instinctively reached out to save the soldier, the millstone suddenly sped up, leaving the soldier looking at Cao Rui with an unwilling look.
There seemed to be endless resentment in his eyes.
The strange beast behind him roared again with a sharp voice that resounded through the heavens and the earth: "You killed him! You killed him!"
Cao Rui broke out in a cold sweat again, and closed his eyes as if they were weighed down by a thousand pounds.
When he opened his eyes again, the world Cao Rui saw was pure white, with black lines outlining the mountains, rivers, passes and crowds of people.
The long line seemed to have no end. The people, carrying all the belongings they could take away, walked silently along a winding and rugged mountain road, step by step, into the distance.
The whole world is silent.
The already rugged mountain road had black lines that fluctuated more and more on the pure white background, making the road appear more and more winding.
Looking up at the sky, Xihe was riding six divine dragons and pulling the scorching sun across the sky.
The river water was surging and twisting beside the road, and the mountain path turned into a plank road.
One yellow crane, two yellow cranes, three yellow cranes flew forward, but they all crashed into the cliffs on both sides.
Countless monkeys climbed forward, but could not reach the top for a long time, and finally fell down due to exhaustion.
A piercing gaze came from behind, and Cao Rui looked back instinctively, only to discover that above the dangerous pass behind him, the word "Jian Ge" was written neatly in Zhong Yao's official script.
Three statues several dozen feet tall stood outside the "Jian Pavilion", one of them held a pair of male and female swords in both hands, one held a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and one held a Zhangba Snake Spear, but none of them could be seen clearly.
Somehow, Cao Rui remembered a few lines of poetry that he couldn't remember where they came from.
"The thunderbolt of the star of Lei Que caused the hills and mountains to collapse. The stone door of the cave suddenly opened."
The sound of these lines of poetry first repeated over and over in my mind, and then continued to echo throughout the world, like an old monk chanting scriptures.
"The stone door to the cave suddenly opened. The stone door to the cave suddenly opened. The stone door to the cave suddenly opened..."
"sound of a crash!!!"
With a loud roar that resounded between heaven and earth, the Sword Pavilion in the distance and the three giants blocking the Sword Pavilion disappeared, and only the buzzing sound of tinnitus remained between heaven and earth.
The people, mountains and rivers disappeared, and the ink condensed into a brush, which was stuffed into Cao Rui's hand by someone. A large and complex map appeared in front of him.
In just a moment, the world turned into nothingness again...
……
The next morning, at the end of the Chen hour, General Cao Zhen arrived at the camp outside the city with the revised strategy.
"It is Zhonggong who is on duty today." Cao Zhen nodded at Guanqiu Jian with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, where is it? I need to report yesterday's strategy again."
Guanqiu Jian was also a little surprised when he heard this. He first turned around to look at the big tent, and then bowed towards Cao Zhen with a slight apology.
"General, His Majesty has not come out of the tent today. Perhaps he slept a little longer."
Slept a little longer?
Cao Zhen suddenly realized that something was wrong.
It was normal that Guanqiu Jian didn't know, but Cao Zhen, as the general of Wei, an important official of the Western Pavilion, and the commander-in-chief of the central army, knew the emperor's daily routine better than any other minister.
As early as when he was in Luoyang, the emperor would go to his study every day at the hour of Chen, rarely sleeping in or delaying. Even at the latest, he would arrive at the second or third quarter of the hour of Chen, and never delayed until the hour of Si.
Moreover, Cao Zhen has been with Your Majesty almost every day since the expedition began more than half a year ago. Your Majesty has never gotten up late!
Cao Zhen's expression became more serious: "Zhong Gong, go to the outside of His Majesty's tent and greet him. It's already this hour, and according to His Majesty's schedule, he shouldn't still be asleep."
Guanqiu Jian was startled when he saw Cao Zhen's expression, then he swallowed his saliva and replied seriously: "General, please wait a moment. I will go to greet Your Majesty right away!" (End of this chapter)
