Chapter 62: The Fire Dragon Descends
Wang Yue stood on the altar in a crown robe, looking at the camp that stretched for dozens of miles below, and was full of pride for a while.
"Old Ancestor, maybe I can be mediocre, far inferior to Duke Xuan, Duke Wu Zhao, and even inferior to Duke Wen and Duke Wu, but Yue has a heart that is not mediocre!"
Zijue looked at his heir in silence and did not speak. Everyone has the right to choose their own destiny, and Zijue did not interfere with Wang Yue's choice.
When everything was ready, Wang Yue began to worship the heavens, and this kind of sacrificial ritual has been held almost every year since he was born, and Wang Yue is already familiar with it.
Soon Wang Yue completed the sacrifice, and after everything was ready, the [Earth Rank: Heavenly Fire Card] was instantly activated, and at the same time, Wang Yue also activated the [Human Rank: Borrowing the East Wind] at the same time.
Originally, with the backlash of Bang Zhou's destiny, activating human-level props was a huge burden for Zijue's descendants, requiring five to ten years of life, and ground-level props would take twenty years to start. The Heavenly Fire Stuck in the ground level props is also the upper level, and it naturally requires more, and when the two props are used together, Wang Yue will have to pay at least thirty-five years of life.
With the completion of the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, a strong wind swept in, blowing towards the opposite side of the camp, only to see that in the camp of the Jin army, the flag was broken, the horse was overturned, and the person turned over on his back.
Immediately after, a fireball suddenly fell from the sky, and the fireball crossed an arc in the sky, and then instantly fell into the Jin army camp. Suddenly, the tent in the camp burned instantly.
The Jin soldiers in the camp were burned to death countless times at this moment, the fireballs fell to the ground, and the flames flew in all directions. Then the wind swept in, and the heavenly fires swept away towards the camp behind.
The wind swept through the sky and fire, like a fire dragon, roaring and dancing. The fire dragon swept by, and one after another the camps of the Jin Kingdom were ignited, and after a while, more than ten camps turned into a sea of fire.
The Huai army under the altar was stunned when they saw the miracle in front of them, but then they were surprised.
"God bless Huaiguo, Huaiguo for ten thousand years!"
"God bless Huaiguo, Huaiguo for ten thousand years!"
"God bless Huaiguo, Huaiguo for ten thousand years!"
The morale of Huaiguo was greatly boosted, and the generals who had been waiting for a long time immediately ordered an attack, and the Huaiguo army was dispatched, without the slightest hesitation, and rushed directly to the camp of Jin State.
Sun Shuao looked at the fire dragon raging in the distance, and he was also shocked, and muttered, "The heavenly fire and wind are helping, is the legend true?"
It is recorded in the history books of Huai that the ancestor King Wen was helped by the mandate of heaven and had the ability to summon heavenly fire, but the history books of other Fang countries only recorded that King Huai Wen was only a powerful soldier in the art of war, and he was also an ordinary person, and he was able to establish Huai State, which was completely due to the fact that Bang Zhou had been fighting for several years, and the soldiers were tired, so he did not attack.
Now it seems that the history books of Huai are very likely to be true!
After the shock, Sun Shuao quickly recovered, and then began to command the army to attack. Attack the allied forces of the princes, mainly the Jin Kingdom.
The heavenly fire was swept by the strong wind and spread rapidly, but in an instant, the tents of the princes' allied forces that stretched for more than ten miles were ignited, and the wind and heavenly fire raged for a full two quarters of an hour before disappearing.
The coalition of princes, mainly the Jin state, completely collapsed.
On the altar, Wang Yue looked at the raging heavenly fire, and his heart was relieved. Although the summoning of the heavenly fire is powerful, the scope is limited, the camp of the Jin Kingdom stretches for more than ten miles, and the camp that transports grain and grass is even farther away, and only summons the heavenly fire to burn a few camps at most.
At that time, if the Jin Kingdom is desperate for a decisive battle, it will not be safe at that time. Therefore, Wang Yue together inspired [Borrowing the East Wind] in order to expand the range of the attack.
Sure enough, the wind helped the fire, and the fire swept more than ten miles of the Jin Kingdom, completely burning down the Jin State camp.
Wang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to get up and walk down the altar, when he suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and he fell directly to the ground, and the attendants under the high platform saw Wang Yue fall to the ground, and were startled, and climbed onto the altar with both hands and feet, and carried Wang Yue down.
When Sun Shuao saw Wang Yue fainting, his face changed, and he immediately ordered someone to send Wang Yue into the camp, and then ordered that no one should enter, and at the same time declared to the outside world that the monarch was tired from the sacrifice and needed to rest, and no one should disturb him.
The news of Wang Yue's coma cannot be spread, otherwise it will be high
The morale of the Huai army, which sacrificed its life to kill the enemy, will definitely be affected.
At this time, even if Wang Yue died on the spot, the news could not be spread out a bit, and it had to wait until the end of this battle. Sun Shuao used his own prestige to forcibly suppress other nobles in the court, and commanded a large army to quickly defeat the coalition of princes led by the Jin State.
It was originally swept by the heavenly fire, the camp was burned, the Jin coalition army was demoralized and panicked, and the army could be said to be in chaos and could not resist at all. The 300,000-strong army collapsed, and even the Marquis of Jin Chong'er was unable to reorganize the army, so he had to flee in embarrassment under the protection of his henchmen.
Hundreds of thousands of troops fled on the Huaibei Plain, and there was still the Huai army chasing behind them, and the princes did not dare to stay at all, and they were routed for hundreds of miles all the way, and they stopped when they fled from the Huai border.
After Sun Shuao let the army pursue for dozens of miles, he began to send heralds to recall the army, not because he was unwilling to continue the pursuit, but because the monarch was in a coma and there was still war in the south, he could only give up the idea of letting the princes and the alliance be greatly damaged.
After the army returned, Sun Shuao left a part of the town to guard Xiapi, clear the rout, clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses, and then lead the army back to prepare to deal with the Chu-Yue coalition army in the south.
After the victory of the army, they immediately prepared to return, and at this time, Wang Yue also woke up from a coma.
"Your Majesty, you're awake!" The attendant next to him saw Wang Yue wake up, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and sent someone to invite Sun Shuao over.
Wang Yue only felt a period of weakness in his body, and his breathing was struggling, as if he had directly entered old age. Feeling the changes in his body, Wang Yue knew that this was the backlash of his use of the Heavenly Mandate Artifact, but he didn't regret it!
"Your Majesty, you're awake, the old minister is late!" Uncle Sun Ao hurried over.
"Sangkook is not too late, please take a seat!" Wang Yue waved his hand a little weakly.
"What happened to the Jin Army?"
"The Jin army was defeated, fled north in a hurry, and was defeated for thousands of miles, and it was no longer a climate, so the minister ordered the army to stop the pursuit and return." Sun Shuao said.
"Okay, well, since you have fled, then don't chase it, the Chuyue coalition army is even more important!" Wang Yue said with a smile.
"With Xiangguo commanding the army, Lone is very relieved, and this conquest will be handed over to Xiangguo!"
"The old minister will definitely live up to the king's trust!" Sun Shuao said.
Wang Yue looked at the other people in the big tent, then waved his hand and said, "You go out first, and you have something important to discuss with Xiangguo!"
"Whoa!" The crowd bowed and left.
"What is your lord's important order?" Sun Shuao asked.
"This sacrifice to the sky, although the heavens have to help break the enemy, but with the power of the heavens, how can there be no trouble? I'm afraid that my life will not be long this time, so please take care of the new monarch!"
"The monarch is in the prime of life, as long as he cultivates well, the old minister will definitely do his best to assist the monarch." Uncle Sun Ao was shocked.
"Don't panic, this is providence! Don't disobey, and ask Xiangguo to take care of the new king!" Wang Yue grabbed Sun Shuao's hand and said.
Uncle Sun nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, the old minister will definitely repay him with death!"
Hearing this, Wang Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
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In the twentieth year of King Xiang of Zhou, the Jin Dynasty allied and dominated the world, and ordered the princes to cut down Huai and fight in the north of Huaishui. On that day, Huai Gong sacrificed to the sky, the fire dragon descended, swept dozens of miles, the Jin camp was burned, Huai sent troops, the Jin army was defeated, and thousands of miles stopped. "Historical Records: Zhou Benji"
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According to historical records, the ancestors of the royal family held an altar ceremony when they were fighting with the allied forces of the Jin princes, so the heavenly fire descended, which led to the defeat of the Jin army.
The vast majority of scholars believe that this was a forgery from later generations, and some experts speculate that the royal family deliberately did it in order to add to the mystery. However, after excavating a large number of tombs from the Spring and Autumn period, many bronze inscriptions also record this event, and all indications indicate that this seems to be true.
And even some other miracles of his ancestors have been recorded, but the royal family has not responded to these things, so the truth of the historical records has not yet been determined. ——General History of China, Ancient History, Zhou