Chapter 6828 Contestants

Chapter 6828 Contestants
Sun Ling was confused when he heard Zhang Huang's words. What does "Sharp Warrior is like this" mean? What does "Riddle Man" mean?

Zhang Huang looked at the confused Sun Ling and probably realized that Sun Ling was not clear about some basic knowledge of Rui Shi. After all, Sun Ling, a young man, had not experienced the era of Rui Shi's transformation.

"What is a vow? You've experienced it, so now you should understand what it is." Zhang Huang thought for a moment, then found a suitable entry point and asked.

"Well, the oath is a restraint on the mind and will." Sun Ling thought for a while and answered, but as soon as he said this, Sun Ling realized what Zhang Huang meant by the sharp warriors.

Rui Shi's sword cuts not only tangible objects, but also intangible constraints. What kind of constraints on the mind and will are looking down on my Rui Shi's sword that can cut through gods?
"It seems you understand." Zhang Huang sighed and said, "The willpower and mental restraint required by the oath talent are not difficult for the sharp warriors. Most sharp warriors who can reach more than fifteen cuts can actually not spend too much time to smelt the oath bondage. However, the reason for the failure of the sharp warriors is different from that of others. The reason for the failure of the sharp warriors lies in the underlying design of the sharp warriors."

I don't mean anything else. The God Slayer can cut through all invisible restraints. If you can't cut them open, it only means that there is something wrong with your mind and will, and you are not sharp enough. But if you can cut through this thing, it means that it is natural that the oath restraints are doomed. This is also the reason why Wang Mao, the eighth level, failed to smelt the oath restraints.

To put it bluntly, it is the sword in Wang Mao's soul that cannot be blocked by the oath. Even if Wang Mao tries his best to restrain himself, the spiritual shackles will sooner or later be cut by the sword.

If the other designs were to prevent Rui Shi from losing control and to kill the Demon God quickly after it appeared, this design was actually not Duan Yu's original intention. Duan Yu just wanted to save trouble. Rui Shi took the path of living towards death. Only with such a will could he use the Sword of God-Slaying to kill the Demon God who had left his body. Only with such a will could he ensure that Rui Shi himself could suppress the disabled Demon God in case of an accident.

As a result, they went too far down this dangerous road, causing the will attribute of the Rui Shi to be much higher than that of normal soldiers. Especially for the Rui Shi who had obtained the Sword of God-Slaying after fifteen kills, their mental will had turned into sword shadows.

In this case, once the oath binding is applied, the sword shadow will tear through the binding in no time, so that even if the oath binding is successful, it will be difficult for the sharp warrior to maintain it for a long time.

"After we cut through the bondage of the oath, can we make a new oath?" Sun Ling asked, touching his chin. "After all, unlike other people whose oaths still exist and cannot be repeated, ours is really gone. Can we re-melt it?"

Zhang Huang was silent for a while after hearing this, as he was a little unable to keep up with the thinking speed of this younger generation.

"It should be possible." Zhang Huang said based on his own experience.

"Then just smelt it again. The oath and bondage won't take much time, especially for those who have succeeded before. It's just a matter of swearing again." Sun Ling said with a somewhat speculative tone.

"The old oath has been broken. Do you still believe in the oath you made?" Zhang Huang said with a raised eyebrow.

"Let me change to something else. There are many people in this world who are worthy of being bound by oaths." Sun Ling said as a matter of course.

Zhang Huang smacked his lips twice and had to admit that the idea of ​​the younger generation was indeed very reasonable. Although there would be no chance if the smelting failed, on the other hand, as long as the smelting was successful, even if it was broken, it seemed that it was just a matter of changing the object. And with the experience of the first success, the difficulty of the subsequent smelting did not seem to be too high.

"It seems feasible. I decided that my next talent will be oath binding!" Sun Ling said excitedly.

"You can refine some other talents. You are only forty-five years old now. There is no need to waste your youth. You should know that after refining the bondage of the oath, the time spent on refining other talents will double." Zhang Huang stared at Sun Ling and said. It was rare to see a sharp warrior like himself, and he was at the fifth level of smelting. It was very rare and could not be wasted like this.

"First, I will smelt the oath binding. As a guarantee, I will smelt other things later and directly cut off the oath binding. I can use the oath to sharpen my sword to slay gods." Sun Ling said excitedly. He even arranged the future path of the oath binding. Zhang Huang was quite silent after hearing this.

"I'm going to Chang'an in a while. Do you want to go?" Zhang Huang thought that the young man's thinking was too sharp and he could hardly keep up, so he changed the subject and asked.

"I don't think so. After all, we are fighting with Ardashir now, and it is impossible for us to let a large number of key personnel leave." Sun Ling said after thinking for a while.

"It will most likely pass." Zhang Huang said with a smile, "Since you don't feel sad because of the broken oath, then I won't comfort you. Guangyuan is still outside inviting me to visit Shakardala City and the brothel."

Although he had said before that he would go shopping after regaining his youth, he has been very busy since the time he regained his youth. It was not until a few days ago that Ardashir finally gave up the attack on Shakardara City, and Cao Ang's men had time to take turns to rest.

Taking advantage of this gap, Guangyuan and Bashu asked the surviving brothers to go for a walk. When they set out, there were three or four hundred rejuvenated soldiers from the Three Rivers and Five Schools, but less than two hundred are still alive. It was precisely because of this group of top veterans, half of whom came here to die on the battlefield, that Ardashir was forced to give up after attacking for a while.

Unlike other times when most of the losses were suffered by low-level soldiers, this time Ardashir suffered heavy losses in the backbone of the Parthian Army. These guards who came out of the Three Rivers and Five Schools had experienced too many fighting. Even if their command capabilities were not very strong, they basically had the ability to judge command nodes.

Originally, this ability was actually useless. Once you found a command node, it was generally difficult to break in, and even if you did, you would most likely not be able to come back. But for these rejuvenated veterans, this mission was just right. Some people were not prepared to live, and went to the battlefield just to randomly take away a few backbones of the opponent, what inheritance carriers, what miracle backbones, what promising middle-level commanders...

As long as you find it, there will be a brother next to you to help create the conditions, and rush forward with all kinds of explosive talents, such as violent talent, power collapse, boiling spirit, complete version of killing absorption, burning blood and burning soul, talent collapse, demon disintegration and so on.

To be honest, the high-level explosive talents that Huangfu Song has seen are probably not used as much as the old guy here. There is no other way. Nine out of ten of these talents are the kind that will kill you if used. Moreover, some high-explosive talents actually require a considerable amount of preconditions. Huangfu Song has only seen them in books and has no chance to see them in reality.

As a result, many of Ardashir's middle-level backbones were killed, including more than a dozen young centurions who were considered promising by Ardashir and could serve as deputies to officers in the future.

In short, these old guys are really cunning, and each of them made a lot of money when they fought desperately. Ardashir suffered a lot this time. Nearly a hundred of the most core backbones of the Holy Death Knights, and even the top backbones who followed Ardashir through the first auxiliary front, were taken away by this group of people.

Taking into account the deaths of two carriers of the Parthian Empire, there are more than a dozen people with the potential to become thousand men who will most likely serve as deputies of the legion in the future, as well as more than 10,000 main backbones. This time, half of the foundation that Ardashir had worked hard to accumulate since he took over Kabul was lost.

This was also the reason why Ardashir had to retreat. Cao Ang now gave Ardashir the impression of a madman - he didn't care about his own losses at all, nor did he care about the losses of top backbones. More than one hundred six-fold god-level backbones were buried here, but Cao Ang didn't even blink an eyelid and continued to engage in a winter scouting war with Ardashir. In the end, he killed Ardashir and forced him to give up the scouting war.

Although Bakza said that those fearless elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty were all old guys, and after killing them it could be seen that they were basically in their seventies or even older, but from Ardashir's point of view, no matter whether these people were elderly great saints or young geniuses, as long as they could go to the battlefield, there was no difference in their lethality to their side.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Whether Zhang Huang and others are old guys or not makes no difference to Ardashir's men. Young or old, they will die if they meet them.

As for saying that it is worthwhile to exchange their elite soldiers for the genius, but not for the old ones, in fact, it is meaningless to say such things when encountering them on the battlefield.

For Ardashir, the most important thing is how to restore the young old guys. If the Han Dynasty can continuously restore these old guys, then they should stop fighting and wait to die. A large number of top six-level or even stronger veterans are no match for ordinary soldiers.

So after obtaining some accurate intelligence, Ardashir retreated first, completely giving up the fight with Cao Ang, preparing to regroup and wait for the opportunity.

"It seems that Ardashir has retreated completely." Cao Ang sat in the first seat, his expression becoming much calmer than before. He had fought with Ardashir for such a long time, deliberately revealing his madness, as if he was determined to die with Ardashir at all costs. Finally, some timely intelligence made Ardashir realize something and ended the war.

"We still need to be careful. If Ardashir comes back to attack us, we will be in great trouble." Barak's originally plump figure has become noticeably thinner after more than a month of fighting. His double chin has also completely disappeared, and his eyes have become extremely sharp.

This time, the city of Shakardara was defended thanks to Barak. This guy surpassed other officers under Cao Ang in both command and judgment ability, especially in his ability to mobilize troops left and right to divide the battle line, and then fought a big battle with Ardashir's reinforcements outside the eastern county of Dahsa, and took advantage of the time when Ardashir was unable to meet up with Fares and others to catch the reinforcements off guard.

Later, he destroyed part of the city wall of Dahsa County when he retreated. When Ardashir met up with Peres and others and concentrated their forces to destroy Shakardara County, Barak jumped out of the encirclement before the enemy surrounded the city, and captured Dahsa County again. He deployed his troops on the road and fought a field battle with Ardashir in the rain.

In this battle, the county town of Dehsa was captured again by Ardashir, and Barak also suffered heavy losses in the field battle in the rain. However, in order to achieve a quick victory, Ardashir's subordinates who ran back and forth also suffered heavy losses. Even though he recaptured the county town of Dehsa, Ardashir had lost the strength to attack and could only wait for the arrival of the main force from the rear.

When Ardashir's reinforcements arrived, the Han Dynasty's reinforcements also arrived. Barak changed his previous radicalism and began to take steady steps, not giving Ardashir any chance. Due to the heavy rain at that time, Ardashir delayed for a few days and had to go to disaster relief.

Barak took advantage of this time to do his best to strengthen various city defenses. When the rain stopped and the temperature dropped rapidly, Kabul quickly entered winter. After that, Ardashir's successive attacks failed to achieve results. Coupled with the complete defeat in the scout war, Barak completely completed the single blockade of battlefield intelligence, and then took advantage of the winter snow to launch a wave of attacks.

Ardashir had prepared for this wave of attack in advance based on his intuition and experience, but facing Cao Ang's forces who had put all their efforts into it, or even all of them, Ardashir could only barely hold on.

After all, after the flood, the temperature dropped rapidly and winter came quickly. Many victims in the Kabul area still don’t know how to spend the winter. Considering the situation, Tawasdes asked Ardashir to relocate local people to the east and south for unified management to ensure people’s livelihood.

Because of this current logic, Ardashir's available troops were in a dilemma of insufficient manpower for local operations, so he was successfully repelled by Barak.

Later, Ardashir regrouped and seized the opportunity to make a comeback, but he received a very unexpected insider intelligence - most of the top veterans in the Han army relied on special talents to temporarily restore their youth, and in about a year, most of them would return to their former old state.

This information surprised Ardashir. He then mobilized other intelligence networks and confirmed the authenticity of the information. After thinking for a long time, Ardashir decided to retreat first.

Although Cao Ang might be able to develop in Shakardala County after waiting for a year, it would be too difficult for Ardashir, who had few cards in hand, to face off against a group of top elite soldiers who were too elite and even needed to use their internal energy to fight under the clouds to be killed. They were also fearless and had the ability to analyze and make decisions in local battles.

In addition, the current climate in the Kabul area is indeed a bit bad. Later, Raguel, Mosul and others will take a detour to join Ardashir. The use of the secret medicine also takes time, etc. In short, there are enough reasons for Ardashir to finally give up the attack in the severe winter.

"So we still need the general to continue to hold on here." Cao Ang said gently, "I was still thinking about how to release this information to Ardashir, but I didn't expect that I would have to rely on you in the end."

Barak was silent for a while after hearing this. Although he had guessed some things before, if the information could be sent to Ardashir in this way, Barak had already guessed who the problem was. He just didn't expect that the other party would take action after such a test, which made Barak a little confused. However, Barak didn't want to delve into this matter. When the time comes, he will leave and take the other party to Herat to live out his retirement.

"There are many people from Beigui who want to participate in the grand martial arts performance. They fought desperately before just to end the war as soon as possible. Now that the war has come to an end..." Barak said with some eagerness. The reason why he risked his life before was not only for himself, but also because of the request of his Beigui soldiers. In the Han Dynasty's grand martial arts performance, those who rank well will be rewarded by the princess. It is impossible for the crazy people from Beigui not to work hard.

"As long as it does not affect our organizational structure, we can go to Chang'an." Cao Ang thought for a while and still felt that he should not go against human nature. In the Kushan place, human nature is the princess.

At the same time, an intelligence officer from the internal control group came in and told Cao Ang the news that Sun Ling had aged from youth to middle age. Cao Ang raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

To be honest, Cao Ang could not stop the old soldiers of Beigui, but Cao Ang was not planning to send many old soldiers from the Han Dynasty to participate. If there was no major war, Cao Ang would have planned to send more, but in the current situation, Cao Ang did not want to send any if possible.

"What happened?" Xun You asked, looking at Cao Ang's solemn expression.

"An old soldier has returned from his youth to middle age." Cao Ang thought about it and told Xun You the truth. After all, Xun You needed to find a way to cover up this matter.

"What?" Barak gasped. He was able to deal with Ardashir so quickly, in large part because he had a lot of elite veterans and the fearless Northern Noble elite. Now the oath of the most elite veterans had been broken. What if Ardashir got the news!

"Didn't they say that it would only break down gradually after a year?" Xun You's dull expression also took on a hint of solemnity. In the current situation, with less than a hundred top backbones left, if the oaths were to break down one after another, then Ardashir would make a surprise counterattack, and Cao Ang would probably vomit blood.

After all, the veterans who have survived to this day are all top backbones, basically at level six or above. They are very formidable in actual combat, and their experience is even more terrifying. Each of them has the ability to discern the situation on the battlefield, and can even lead the team to make breakthroughs. They are an important component of the forces under Cao Ang.

If this group of people collapses at this time, it will be really all over. Many tasks can be undertaken by this group of people leading a team. Without this group of people, we may have to invest double or even triple the manpower.

It's just like Duan Yu reasonably sent the Eighteen Killings Hidden God Warriors on the road. There is no other meaning. It's just that it is most reasonable to let the Eighteen Killings Hidden God Warriors to do this task. Even if they fail, the loss will be the smallest. If there are no Eighteen Killings Hidden God Warriors, more manpower will be needed, the possibility of tactics being exposed will be greater, and the possibility of being blocked will also increase significantly.

The same goes for this group of people. What's more, some teams have already been configured, and temporary substitutions now require new adjustments and reorganizations, which all take time, and time is sometimes the most lacking on the battlefield.

"The collapse has already occurred, and Sun Baifu has returned to normal." Cao Ang let out a long sigh, feeling a little disappointed.

"Leak this news out, summon all the veterans for questioning, determine the time when their oaths will collapse, and make some veterans who are about to collapse disappear first. We will start making subsequent adjustments now. After all, these veterans don't belong to us in the first place." Xun You rarely spoke a lot, "Prepare replacements in advance, so that when Ardashir receives the news, he will also consider many factors."

"That's all we can do," Barak sighed.

"General, you can convey it through the same channel as before." Xun You said to Barak, who nodded expressionlessly.

In the afternoon, a group of veterans ate and drank, and after watching a big play, they were notified to gather at the parade ground. The veterans didn't know why, but didn't ask much, so they all gathered together.

At the same time, Ardashir also received information from unknown channels that one of the old soldiers of the Han army had returned to middle age. Of course, this information also came with a possibility - the time when the oath collapsed was different for each veteran. In this case, some might collapse early, while others might not collapse even after a year. The general could seize the opportunity on his own.

Ardashir held this information of unknown origin and fell into deep thought. On the one hand, the source of this information was still unclear, and on the other hand, the value of this information was too high. If all the old soldiers of the Han Dynasty who relied on the oath to restore their youth broke their oaths, then now would be the best time to attack, because the responsibilities undertaken by these old soldiers were very important, and it would not be easy for the Han Dynasty to replace them if they suddenly resigned.

Therefore, if he took action at this time, Ardashir would definitely catch the Han Dynasty off guard.

But if this intelligence only revealed an unexpected phenomenon, or even a trap, then Ardashir's rush over would only lead to a new round of war of attrition.

"Tavasdes, activate a small number of insiders to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence." Ardashir handed the secret report to Tavasdes and said.

"Whether it's true or false, now is not the time to do this." Tavasdes took a look at the contents of the secret letter, put it away and advised.

"I know, I just want to confirm whether we have a mysterious insider hidden in the upper echelons of the Han Dynasty." Ardashir said expressionlessly.

After Tavasdes left, Ardashir half leaned back in his chair. To be honest, if Tavasdes was not around, he really wanted to withdraw all the backbones and reserves of the Holy Death Knights distributed among all the elite legions and have a fierce fight with Cao Ang. However, if he did so, even if he won, he would have no future.

To put it bluntly, if this were really done, even if he won the battle, Ardashir would have to be assimilated by the Kushans. The most important point that he has not been assimilated now is that the middle-level backbones under Ardashir's rule are still basically controlled by Ardashir.

If all these people were pulled out and their guards were reorganized, the Holy Death Knights would certainly be able to recover to their peak strength. Cao Ang was no pushover, not to mention the degree of madness Cao Ang had shown before. He really dared to lead the team into the meat grinder. If all the backbones were really pulled out and Cao Ang fought to the death, unless he could kill Cao Ang quickly on the spot, the Holy Death Knights would also be crippled.

Although the Miracle Legion is very strong, it is nonsense to think that they can destroy Cao's main force when Cao Ang is so fearless and courageous.

"We must think of another way. The northwest entrance has been lost. Although the Kushans have no intention of punishing us, and Oswin even ordered people to send us food and supplies, but..." Ardashir's expression was complicated. Oswin's sincere behavior made Ardashir want to do something treacherous. "Alas, we can only stabilize the situation first and then plan for the future."

On the other side of the parade ground, Cao Ang personally entertained these veterans. The titles and rewards had already been given out, and now he was doing more of a humanitarian concern, and some people just fell for it.

"You all played an indispensable role in Ardashir's retreat this time. I will personally check and distribute the posthumous pensions to the brothers who died in the battle. If there are any omissions, please report to me directly." After Cao Ang ordered people to serve the meat and dishes, he stood up and thanked the veterans present.

"General Cao is open-minded!" Many veterans picked up their wine bowls and drank them all. They needed this way of talking about things. Moreover, those who have made contributions should be rewarded, and those who died in battle should be compensated. Instead of handing it over to the people below, the top leaders should handle it one by one and keep an eye on the payment of pensions, which is the best way to solve the problem.

"Okay, there's nothing else to do. Everyone, eat and drink your fill." Cao Ang bowed, then moved in and picked up his chopsticks. The old soldiers on the field were all polite when they saw this. They had been strolling around for a whole day, listened to an opera in the afternoon, and hadn't had dinner yet. How could they be polite when they had such good food and wine?

They ate meat with big mouthfuls and drank wine in big bowls, and soon the atmosphere became lively. Cao Ang also took off his coat and behaved unrestrainedly. The old soldiers were also less taboo and had a higher opinion of Cao Ang. Although for these old soldiers of the previous generation, as long as the superiors were not too harsh and the money, food and salary were in place, there was no pressure for them to work for the other party.

But they would be more willing to put in more effort for a superior like Cao Ang who provided them with sufficient money, food and salary and could get along well with them and share the same pot of meat.

"Speaking of which, how long can your oath last?" Cao Ang asked Shi Gai who was standing beside him while eating and drinking and cutting steaks.

"It depends on the person. I estimate it will take more than two years. Bashu and Huang Xiu will probably take three years, but the shortest will only be a few months." Shi Gai had no doubts and explained to a few people with names. Cao Ang's mind turned when he heard this and he was sure that the situation was still under control.

"In this case, since we don't have anything to do recently, we can ask some veterans to go to Chang'an for a visit. If there is a large military performance, we will also have to participate." Cao Ang muttered.

Lying down, I finally got up on time this time, it's amazing