Chapter 801: Wang Mang, the Traverser! (2-in-1)
The sky was overcast, and the Kunyang battlefield suddenly rained heavily, and the wind howled.
The Han army only had a few tens of thousands of people, but it was chasing and killing hundreds of thousands of new troops.
The rain soaked Chu Tian's robes, and Chu Tian led the cavalry to pursue Wang Mang in the torrential rain.
"This rainstorm is estimated to be the dust raised by meteorites that changed the weather here, and summer is the rainy season......
Chu Tian wanted to understand the cause and effect, and was inexplicably shocked by Liu Xiu's ability.
Liu Xiu has a nickname of the Great Magister.
Chu Tian thought that he was on the inferior side in the Battle of Kunyang, but now it seems that the Green Forest Army may not be the inferior side......
The Great Magister Liu Xiu is terrifying.
Wang Mang's army of 800,000 was completely out of control, and these soldiers recruited from various prefectures and counties fled to the north under the leadership of the governor and the taishou.
The northern part of Kunyang City is the flood season, coupled with the heavy rain caused by meteorites, so the water level of the water rose sharply, and the pontoon bridge erected by the original new army collapsed.
"Quickly set up a pontoon bridge to protect His Majesty to the north and return to Chang'an!"
Wang Mang's subordinates and fellow classmate Yan You protected Wang Mang as he went north, and found that the water had risen sharply and the pontoon bridge had disappeared, so he tried to lay a new pontoon bridge.
Hundreds of thousands of troops crowded into the area of the water, and the confusion was unbearable.
Wang Mang was mentally tired, and he was even more tired when he already had wrinkles.
He had been preparing for this day for a long time, with a strong army, no shortage of weapons, food and grass, and a fierce general, but he was smashed by a meteorite.
Maybe the older he gets, the more he believes in his fate, Wang Mang is a little discouraged.
If the battle of Kunyang is lost, his prestige will be destroyed, and even if he flees back to Chang'an at this time, Wang Mang no longer has the confidence to control the situation.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, peasant uprisings and heroes broke out, not only the Green Forest Army, but also the Red Eyebrow Army and other forces in the north.
Having lost the most important main force, Wang Mang could not deal with the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army at the same time.
"Yan You, when we return to Chang'an, can we really pacify the four Yi and establish an unprecedented new dynasty as before?"
Wang Mang asked his old friend Yan You in the heavy rain, and his tone was vicissitudes.
Yan You replied firmly: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, when we return to Chang'an, we will definitely be able to re-calm the world, and what you have done must be right." ”
"I hope so."
Wang Mang was already a little uneasy.
Chu Tian, Liu Xiu, and Liang Hongyu were still chasing and killing the enemy in the rear, and Wang Mang's army was huge, and it was not easy to find Wang Mang in the chaos.
"Further on, it's the water!"
Liu Xiu didn't know how many soldiers he had captured, and chased him all the way to the water in the north of Kunyang City.
If Wang Mang wanted to escape, he could only cross the water.
"The river suddenly swelled, Wang Mang may not be able to escape!"
Chu Tian's goal became to capture Wang Mang alive.
Wang Mang is the emperor of the new dynasty, and after capturing Wang Mang alive, he may be able to get a high ransom, or complete the task of this epic battle more completely.
Chutian and Liu Xiu caught up with the main force of Wang Mang's army in the water, Wang Mang came in handy in advance in some of the wooden boats prepared in the water, set up a pontoon bridge, and all the soldiers and horses crowded on the pontoon bridge to escape, and from time to time some soldiers were squeezed off the pontoon bridge by their companions and were swept away by the surging river.
"Protect Your Majesty to the north shore, and those who dare to stand in the way will be killed!"
"The Nine Tigers of the Northern Army, you command the elite soldiers of the Northern Army and block the pursuing soldiers!"
The Nine Tigers of the Northern Army recruited by Wang Mang commanded the troops of the five schools of the Northern Army, not only blocking the pursuing soldiers, but also blocking the defeated army.
Yan You protected Wang Mang to cross the river, cut down the chaotic soldiers, and fought a bloody way.
After the originally defeated soldiers were killed dozens of people because of Yan You's harsh methods, they were finally not so crazy and were forced to give way to a passage, and Wang Mang came to the north bank.
On the south bank of the water, the cavalry of Chutian, Liu Xiu, and Liang Hongyu converged and stormed the new army, trying to eliminate Wang Mang's main force and not giving Wang Mang any chance to turn the tables.
Human life in troubled times is like mustard.
More than a thousand soldiers of the Forces nouvelles were driven into the river by cavalry, and thousands drowned.
The arriving cavalry and the elite soldiers of the Northern Army fought in the torrential rain, and the Nine Tigers of the Northern Army were favored by Wang Mang and fought desperately!
Ma Wu and Wang Bazhu generals led their cavalry to attack the Nine Tigers of the Northern Army!
Now the Green Forest Army and the Xia Army are in the upper hand, their morale is like a rainbow, and they are not afraid of the defeated new army, and they are chasing and fighting all the way to annihilate the last main force of the new dynasty established by Wang Mang.
Once this main force is annihilated, then Wang Mang will have no room for a turnaround.
Yingchuan County is not far from Luoyang, and the Green Forest Army can attack the Tiger Prison Pass in a few months, and the troops will come to Luoyang, and then Chang'an.
Moreover, because of the defeat, the generals around Wang Mang are no longer reliable, and when they find that Wang Mang will not bring them more benefits, they may betray Wang Mang, or even kill Wang Mang and surrender to the Green Forest Army.
In short, Wang Mang's life is in danger.
The rain flowed down Ma Wu's broadsword, and one of the Nine Tigers of the Northern Army was killed by Ma Wu and fell into a puddle.
"Where is Wang Mang!"
Ma Wu also knew that capturing Wang Mang alive would be an unprecedented and huge achievement.
Chu Tian is only a rebel army, and Liu Xiu is one of the important leaders of the Green Forest Army, and after the battle of Kunyang, he can basically become famous in one battle.
Exploits in war are very important in troubled times, so it is often seen that a certain person has been in the ascendancy since then because of his meritorious service in a certain war.
The Nine Tigers of the Northern Army recruited by Wang Mang could not compete with Ma Wu, who was the most powerful of the 28 generals in Yuntai, and was beheaded by Ma Wu in a row.
Liang Hongyu picked off an enemy general with a gun and threw him down.
Wang Mang's morale of the five colonels of the Northern Army was low, and he had no intention of fighting, thinking of escaping to the north bank and getting rid of the slaughter of the cavalry as soon as possible.
The blood stained the water red, and the number of new troops who fell into the water was even greater.
The five colonels of the Northern Army scrambled for their lives and squeezed their companions into the river.
Chu Tian watched the one-sided slaughter in the torrential rain, this was a battle without suspense.
Wang Mang's new army did not know that the sand and dust raised by the meteorite would cause a sharp change in the weather because of a vision from the sky, and thought that the sudden rainstorm was also a punishment from heaven, so they had no fighting spirit.
Morale dropped to the bottom, and even more troops would not help.
"Chutian!"
When Chu Tian was observing the battlefield in no hurry, Huo Qing arrived with a small group of cavalry, and his armor was almost soaked by the rain.
"Why did you leave Kunyang City?"
Chu Tian was a little surprised when he saw Huo Qing.
"It's good that you're okay, you know, Wang Mang's military camp was hit by a meteorite last night......"
Huo Qing talked about yesterday's events.
Only they players know how small the probability of such a thing happening.
Chu Tian listened patiently, Wang Mang had no chance of turning the tables, so Chu Tian was not in a hurry at all.
On the other side of the water, Wang Mang was also observing the situation, at least tens of thousands of people died in the water, Wang Mang couldn't help but sigh.
Yan You said: "Your Majesty, we should return to Chang'an City, otherwise, if the Green Forest Army kills along the pontoon bridge, we may not be able to get out." ”
"Alas, Yan You, at this time, even if I return to Chang'an City smoothly, do you think I will be able to stabilize the group of people in Chang'an City after my prestige declines? The world is in turmoil, rebels are everywhere, the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army are hundreds of thousands, and I have lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, can I calm down the judgment? I can't handle anything, and when I return to Chang'an City, there is only a dead end. ”
Wang Mang told his former classmates what he was worried about.
At this time, it is no longer important whether you can escape back to Chang'an, but what is more important is how to act and whether you can control the situation after returning to Chang'an City.
The 800,000-strong army was almost destroyed, and without this group of main forces, Wang Mang could not protect himself.
Yan You could probably think of the mess that Wang Mang would face when he returned to Chang'an, and still encouraged Wang Mang: "No, Your Majesty, Qinchuan is eight hundred miles away from Guanzhong, densely populated, we still have hope, I am willing to put down rebellions in various places for Your Majesty......"
"No, Yan You, we are all old, and after losing this big battle, we don't have the strength or time to suppress the rebellion again...... I want to negotiate with the Green Forest, I want to protect myself. Yan You, where to go next, whether it is to surrender to the Green Forest Army or return to Guanzhong and establish yourself as the king, you make your own choice. ”
Wang Mang is excited.
He is in his sixties, the whole country is in turmoil, and he wants to completely suppress the rebellion in various places, but he is afraid that he will not be able to do it if he dies of old age.
Yan You said again: "Then I will go to negotiate with the Green Forest Army on behalf of Your Majesty." ”
Wang Mang shook his head: "I used to belittle you in the past, but I didn't expect you to be loyal to me in the end." But this time, it will only work if I personally negotiate with the Green Forest Army. ”
"But this is also too dangerous, the group of thieves in the Green Forest Army all want Your Majesty's life."
"Not necessarily."
The torrential rain was still continuing, and Chu Tian's physical strength was exhausted, and he didn't want to fight anymore.
He had been fighting for two days, with little rest, and it was raining heavily, so his body could not bear it.
When he learned that Wang Mang had fled to the north bank and might have fled back to Chang'an, there was no need for Chutian to chase him anymore, but to return to Kunyang with Liu Xiu to rest.
If the battle of Kunyang is won, Chu Tian can achieve his goal, as for what will happen to the Green Forest Army in the future, Chu Tian doesn't care, after all, this is just a copy.
"Brother Chu, Wang Mang wants to negotiate with you."
Liu Xiu found Chu Tian with a strange expression, because it was not someone else who wanted to negotiate with Chu Tian, but Wang Mang.
"With that said, what else is there to talk about?"
Chu Tian was stunned, he had rarely heard that the dungeon boss would negotiate with the player.
"I don't know, but after all, it's Wang Mang, and I want to know what he wants to say."
Not to mention Chutian, Liu Xiu's surprise was only a lot more than Chutian.
Wang Mang first offered a big reward for Liu Xiu, and then planned to negotiate with Chutian, but Liu Xiu couldn't see Wang Mang's intentions.
"Is he coming, or am I coming?"
"Come here."
"Isn't he afraid that I will kill him? Bring him to me. ”
The more Chu Tian thought about it, the more wrong it became, and finally decided to negotiate with Wang Mang.
Anyway, Wang Mang came to negotiate, Chu Tian was not in any danger, if the negotiations broke down, Chu Tian killed Wang Mang, and then withdrew from the copy, and there was no loss.
Wang Mang was taken to Kunyang City, and all the generals of the Green Forest Army were staring at the emperor of the new dynasty.
The emperor of the new dynasty actually killed himself and took the initiative to enter Kunyang City, where the Green Forest Army was stationed.
Wang Mang named and said that he wanted to see Chutian.
Because Chu Tian had more troops and was famous in the battle of Kunyang City, before Chu Tian decided to execute Wang Mang, the generals of the Green Forest Army did not dare to act rashly.
The torrential rain caused by the meteorite continued, and when Wang Mang walked into the county office of Kunyang City, he was already drenched.
Chu Tian, Liu Xiu, Zhao Yun, and Sun Bin waited for Wang Mang's arrival in the county office.
Wang Mang and Liu Xiu, a pair of old enemies, met historically.
was escorted with Wang Mang, as well as Yan You, and as for Wang Yi, he gathered the rout on the other side of the river.
"You are Liu Xiu? I didn't expect that I prepared carefully, but I still lost to you. ”
Wang Mang probably judged which person was Liu Xiu, and couldn't help sighing.
Liu Xiu's expression was strange: "Why are you angry with me?" ”
Wang Mang rolled his eyes.
If it weren't for the defeat in the Battle of Kunyang, his rule might not have collapsed so quickly.
Chu Tian looked at the person in front of him, Wang Mang was sixty years old, and his hair showed signs of graying: "Why do you want to negotiate with me?" ”
Wang Mang stared at Chu Tian and said slowly, "You should be an alien from the Lord?" ”
Chu Tian's heart was shocked, Wang Mang immediately saw Chu Tian's origin, then there is only one possibility - Wang Mang is also a player!
In other words, for Liu Xiu, Wang Feng, Ma Wu and others in this world, Wang Mang is an out-and-out traverser!!
"You guys go down, I want to talk to Wang Mang."
Chu Tian asked Zhao Yun, Liu Xiu and others to go down, he wanted to know Wang Mang's origin.
Wang Mang is just an old man now, basically has no force, and he does not carry any weapons, Chu Tian does not believe that Wang Mang can do anything to himself.
"Yes. If the lord has any errands, then Wang Mang doesn't want to leave. ”
Before retreating, Zhao Yun warned Wang Mang.
When Wang Mang saw Zhao Yun's image, he seemed to think of something, and asked Chu Tian, "This general is Zhao Yun?" ”
"Not bad."
Chu Tian was even more convinced that Wang Mang was the player of "Lord", otherwise a person with a background in the Western Han Dynasty would know Zhao Yun at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
"Well, since you've guessed where I'm coming from, I'd like to know where you're coming from."
"I think you already know that I'm also a Lords player."
Although Chu Tian guessed something, Chu Tian was still shocked when he heard Wang Mang take the initiative to admit it.
"Why are you in the dungeon? And is it in the identity of Wang Mang? ”
"I'm a freelancer who, in Lords, accepted a hidden mission to take on the role of Wang Mang. And my reward is Wang Mang's identity, I have enjoyed decades of glory and wealth, and I have no regrets. ”
"Impossible, it's only been eleven years since 'Lord', how could you have been here for eleven years?"
"The time of the quest should not be parallel to the time of the Overworld, and you should also know that time is relative. But you go into the dungeon and the time is synchronized. ”
Wang Mang told his origin, which made Chu Tian relieved.
No wonder Wang Mang knew that Liu Xiu was his nemesis, so he vigorously rewarded Liu Xiu and wanted to put Liu Xiu to death.
And a long time ago, Wang Mang was preparing for this day.
However, there are two points that Chu Tian thinks is wrong.
"Why didn't you kill Liu Xiu before the Battle of Kunyang began? As a powerful minister of the Western Han Dynasty, or the emperor of the new dynasty, it should be easy for you to kill a Liu Xiu, right? Why did you wait until now, until Liu Xiu was full-fledged, and then managed to get rid of him? ”
"You think I don't want to kill him? Liu Xiu is protected by the system, before the battle of Kunyang begins, if Liu Xiu has three strengths and two weaknesses, the system will judge me as a failure and expel me from the dungeon, and the glory and wealth I have will become a thing of the past, and I have a family here, so I can only choose forbearance. It wasn't until the Battle of Kunyang that the system allowed me to do it, and I realized that I had become the boss of the dungeon. ”
Wang Mang was depressed.
"Didn't you think that a meteorite might fall into the army? As long as you avoid the battle of Kunyang, then you have every chance to defeat Liu Xiu. ”
"I am not familiar with the history of the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, I only know that my old enemy is Liu Xiu, and the battle of Kunyang will be a battle of life and death, but I don't know what happened in the battle of Kunyang and what happened specifically...... Unless you think that every traveler must be familiar with the situation at that time. I can rely on Wang Mang's identity to persist until now, which is not easy. ”
"It makes sense."
Chu Tian listened to Wang Mang's explanation and completely understood what had happened.
Not all travelers are familiar with the details of history, and some players enter the dungeon and don't even know that the Battle of Kunyang took place in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty.
Another example is to travel to Emperor Chongzhen, who knows what will happen in which year? I don't know how a battle took place.
Unless you have a strong memory and are particularly familiar with a certain period of history, it is possible to do everything.
Not all of them are historians, and not every piece of history is familiar to historians.
Wang Mang just didn't know what happened in the Battle of Kunyang, and he didn't know that there would be a meteorite falling into the battlefield.
Without knowing what was going on, Wang Mang could only try to increase his strength, but he still failed.
"And what is the purpose of your coming to me?"
"I've failed in this copy. The battle of Kunyang failed, I lost all my prestige, even if I returned to Chang'an City, I could not stabilize the situation again, there was only a dead end, and I don't know if the copy will disappear from now on. So I want to use your power to return to the Overworld. My wife has died, but I want to take my children with me. ”
Wang Mang explained his intentions.
Specifically, Wang Mang, as a player, wanted to quit the dungeon after the dungeon world collapsed.
"As a player, I can help, but what benefits can I get from it?"
Chu Tian learned of Wang Mang's identity as a player and wanted to pull Wang Mang a hand, as long as Wang Mang could afford the ticket.
"Of course, I have sent my sons and daughters from Chang'an, and at the same time brought a lot of gold and silver treasures, just stay on the north shore, as long as you can take me out and give us a house in the main world, I can give you all these gold and silver treasures."
"Deal."
Chu Tian was very happy.
Since Wang Mang happily took out gold and silver to buy his life, Chu Tian didn't mind being a good person once.
Save Wang Mang, you can get a large sum of gold and silver without much effort, why not?
The Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army are eyeing each other, and their subordinates have two hearts, Wang Mang staying in this world is really a dead end, and he cannot be spared.
Chu Tian is still very tolerant of players.
Wang Mang couldn't help but be overjoyed, he met his old acquaintance in another country, and burst into tears: "I didn't expect to see players again, I thought I would spend my life in this dungeon." The Yellow Turban Rebellion had just ended when I accepted the system quest to enter this dungeon, so what happened to the Overworld now? ”
"The division of the heroes has come to an end, and there are only a few princes left in the world, and I will divide the land of the seven states."
"That's terrible!"
Wang Mang exclaimed, of course he knew what it meant to divide the land of the seven states, and there was a high probability of unifying the thirteen states.
"You have also lived a very prosperous life in this copy, you have been an emperor for at least fifteen years, and you were a powerful minister before."
Chu Tian thought that Wang Mang was a free player, but he entered the dungeon and became a boss.
According to him, the time of this copy was originally faster than the time of the main world, and it was not until Chu Tian came in that the time of the two worlds was the same.
So Wang Mang has been moisturized in the copy for decades.
Wang Mang complained to Chu Tian: "Ma, the traverser is not as comfortable as he imagined when he is the emperor, those bullshit ministers don't understand my good intentions at all, but I proposed the Wang Tian system, prohibiting the buying and selling of slaves and maids, changing the currency system and the official system, stipulating that the salt and iron official camps, the mountains and rivers should be nationalized, and the "Chinese Dictionary" and "Medical Dictionary" were compiled, and the Quartet was also conquest, and the Xiongnu, Goguryeo, and the Western Regions were demoted from the original kings to marquis. And I have to pretend, in line with the image of a sage in the eyes of the minister, those mud legs and the Liu clan relatives, but also against me......"
“……”
Chu Tian listened to what Wang Mang did, and didn't know what to say, although the system did not force Wang Mang to do these things, but after Wang Mang became the emperor, with the player's thinking, he naturally wanted to do something big, and the result was a large-scale rebellion.
There is a saying that Wang Mang and Liu Xiu are a duel between the traverser and the son of the plane, and now it seems that it is really true. And Liu Xiu, the son of luck, has received the support of the system, and Wang Mang still can't compete with it.
"You saved me, maybe I can marry you a daughter."
Wang Mang thought that Chutian had seven states in the main world, and he couldn't help but have the idea of marriage.
"Don't ......"
Chu Tian already had enough headaches, and he still had Huo Qing to deal with. Wang Mang left this copy, and it is estimated that there will be little use value.