Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 337 - 226: Jin Ge Iron Horse, Swallowing Thousands of Miles Like a Tiger!_4

Chapter 337: Chapter 226: Jin Ge Iron Horse, Swallowing Thousands of Miles Like a Tiger!_4

"At that time, no matter how many fertile fields, livestock, or diligent farmers there are, they will all inevitably become lost souls under the swords of the Jin soldiers.

"After a great fire, how many ruins will remain in this once prosperous world?

"You always say, ’The wealth of the world is fixed, and the laws of the ancestors must not change.’

"But if we continue to implement the laws of the ancestors in your way, where will the money and grain come from to build such a powerful army?

"Imperial Censor Wen, think about it, if you had taken over the chancellor’s position ten years ago, and ten years later the Kidnapper Cavalry came knocking, could you have persuaded them to retreat using the laws of the ancestors?"

This statement left Wen Jun utterly speechless.

If it were ten years ago, he would have never admitted that the new laws had any benefits; they were surely just means of harming the nation and the people.

But now, the harsh reality in front of him left him unable to refute.

Indeed, on the surface, this victory relied on innovative firearms, but where did these new firearms come from?

Ultimately, it was the new policies that helped accumulate the money and grain in the national treasury.

Without these resources, even if the technology existed, there would be no funds to produce firearms or equip troops on a large scale; conversely, without this technology, as long as there were funds, a powerful army could still be built to fight the Jin soldiers to the death with cold weapons.

Wen Jun always praised the laws of the ancestors, but would the Jin soldiers discuss the laws of the ancestors with you?

If Wen Jun had taken over as chancellor ten years ago, then it’s almost certain that today, ten years later, nothing would have changed.

At that time, the soldiers of the Qi Dynasty would still crumble upon contact, utterly powerless to resist.

The Jin soldiers’ iron statutes and Kidnapper Cavalry could sweep through and flatten the entire Qi Dynasty.

Then, not to mention preserving the laws of the ancestors, perhaps all the royal family and senior officials would be captured and taken to Jin Country to undergo the disgraceful Sheep-Tending Ritual, living a life of humiliation and indignation.

And the common people of the Qi Dynasty, reduced to captives of a conquered state, could only lead lives worse than that of slaves under the Jin soldiers’ swords and whips.

’The wealth of the world is fixed?’

At that time, there will be no fixed amount of wealth, because much of it will have been destroyed, leaving only ruins and corpses behind.

"Advance!"

At Li Hongyun’s command, soldiers armed with flintlock guns began to march forward in neat steps.

After several rounds of concentrated shooting, the few remaining iron statutes had been completely annihilated.

The iron statutes’ tactic was to only advance and not retreat, and their expensive armor and rigorous training meant their numbers were already very limited.

The history of flintlock guns phasing out knights played out here at an accelerated pace.

The situation for the Kidnapper Cavalry was somewhat better, as after the initial devastating losses, the rear ranks of the Kidnapper Cavalry realized something was amiss.

With even the heavily armored devastating weapon, the iron statutes, annihilated, what purpose was there for them to continue charging?

As the Kidnapper Cavalry began to retreat, the Jin soldiers at Niu Zhu Pier started to show a chain reaction, throwing away their armor and helmets and fleeing desperately northward.

And as Li Hongyun ordered, with the soldiers armed with flintlock guns moving forward slowly but methodically, Yu Jiaxuan and the heavy cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army, who had been eagerly waiting, finally launched their attack.

"Charge!"

With a furious cry, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army charged after the fleeing Jin soldiers like thunder and lightning!

At that moment, all players had a line of poetry by Yu Jiaxuan come to mind.

"Recalling the past, with lances and iron horses, swallowing miles of territory like a tiger!"

But now, he no longer needed to use poetry to remember the bravery of ancestors; he himself was leading a formidable cavalry, encapsulating the might of swallowing miles of territory like a tiger!

The cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army stormed ahead, slicing through and scattering the Jin soldiers who still contemplated desperate resistance, then mercilessly devoured them.

As horses galloped by, those Jin soldiers struggling on the ground were accurately harvested by arrows.

"Horse speeds like Lu flying swiftly, bowstrings startle like thunderclaps."

Yu Jiaxuan’s gaze turned toward the distance, that area from which the Jin soldiers had come and also the old territory he longed to reclaim.

"During Yuankang, hastily conducted, Sealing wolves’ homesteads, winning a hasty look back.

"After forty-three years, still remembered in sight, the beacon fires on the road to Yangzhou."

These lines, on the surface, are about the Yuankang northern expedition; in reality, they allude to the Longqing northern expedition.

Both were grand undertakings with hasty northern expeditions that ended in bitter failure.

And historically, prior to the Longqing northern expedition, Yu Jiaxuan had repeatedly submitted his ’Strategies for Pacifying Barbarians’ to the emperor, yet was never put in an important position.

The long-awaited northern expedition did not include him, and it ended hastily, a cause for deep regret.

And when he wrote this poem, it had been forty-three years since his fifty men raided and returned to Qi.

In the thirty years before his fifty men raided and returned to Qi, the Jin soldiers had invaded southward and captured Yangzhou, causing the emperor to flee in panic; this was the ’beacon fires on the road to Yangzhou.’

All his life, Yu Jiaxuan wanted to avenge this dishonor, but the Qi Dynasty never gave him the chance.

Now, he finally had the opportunity.

With the Flying Tiger Army that he had trained himself, he could fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers with vigorous satisfaction!

"What countless rise and fall of events through the ages?

"Leisurely, endless flows the Yangtze River."

This lyric, written by Yu Jiaxuan around the same period, can be interpreted as a resigned acceptance to let everything pass like water, or as a feeling of powerlessness facing the perennial rises and falls of dynasties.

Yes, how many helpless events have there been through historical times?

Countless virtuous individuals wanted to change the status quo, to achieve something noteworthy, but in the end, they could only let it pass like water.

But now, Yu Jiaxuan, at least at this moment, in this slice of history, no longer had to utter such sighs.

Because he had become a wave rider of history on the banks of the mighty Yangtze.

From the high camp at Niu Zhu Pier, the players who were officials watched as Yu Jiaxuan led the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army in their rampant charge, slaughtering the Jin soldiers into utter defeat.

After a long time, someone sincerely sighed.

"How wonderful."

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