Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6543: Huangtian → Huangtian → Locusttian
If the three families in the Persian Gulf received the news of the locust plague and fought Shi Min for a few times, they were sure that there were tens of billions of locusts about to pass through their side, and they were sure that no matter how hard they struggled, they could not resist. So they stole thirty ships of fine grain from the Kushans, harvested the rice on their own farms, the unripe sugarcane in their plantations, and the wild vegetables and weeds within a radius of dozens of miles in advance, and then gathered all the representatives of the people who were lying down in a low-consumption state in Wubao and bunkers.

Most of the noble families in Central Asia still struggled to some extent. After all, they had all been in the Central Plains before and had seen locust plagues before. This was just a little more in number. How could they just lie down and surrender?

Of course, the most important point here is that the losses will be too great if we just lie down. At this point in time, each family does not have enough food. If we just lie down, people will definitely die, and many of them. In this case, it is better to struggle and see what the effect is. At least it is better to die in resistance than to die of hunger.

At least the former is conducive to social stability, while the latter will really lead to riots.

Besides, a locust plague is just a locust plague, not a locust god, let alone a locust sky. What's more, they have all killed the real Huang Tian, ​​so who knows what kind of god this wild locust sky is? Just do it. There is nothing to be afraid of. Just do it first and talk about it later.

Guo Zhao's behavior was actually based on this idea. After all, after the fiefdom of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin was reorganized by Guo Zhao, it was just above the Zhang family of Hanoi. After the Zhang family of Hanoi was laid down, the passing locusts, not to mention attacking the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin first, at least sent out a small team to fly towards the northeast.

As for prevention, the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin actually did it. Because the Han Dynasty even had professional tutorials on preventing locusts, the three families would specially clean up locust eggs in winter every year to ensure that locust plagues would not break out in the local area.

After all, once a locust plague breaks out, there is no way for future generations to solve it. Almost all mainstream solutions to eliminate locust plagues rely on prevention before the plague, such as turning the soil in winter to freeze the locust eggs to death, and biological control in spring to kill the locust nymphs. Basically, once a locust plague really breaks out, spraying pesticides from airplanes will be useless. If it is a real super locust plague, the only way is to wait for the locusts to die, otherwise it will be completely useless.

Therefore, logically speaking, the preventive measures of the Guo, Liu and Yin families were correct, but these locusts flew over from Africa. Not to mention the three families, except for the Kushan Empire and the already defeated Parthian Empire, no other people in the world had ever considered such an outrageous possibility.

As for the special granaries and special shelters to deal with the locust plague, well, things like Wubao, bastions, and bunkers are not so easy to build. Not all families are like the Yong family, who go straight to the Doomsday Fortress and are just short of building an underground palace.

For example, as long as there is no fire in the granary on the ground, there is generally no problem. The three families of Guo Liuyin have strengthened fire prevention over the years and have been able to overcome this. As for seeing other people building bunkers and cellars, Guo Zhao also imitated them, but he did not have a very deep understanding.

In the situation of the three families of Guo Liuyin, they can only choose to save as much as possible. It is not a big deal anyway. As long as they do a good job of fire prevention and security defense, these problems are actually not a problem. After all, the wooden house is quite nice to live in.

These technicians were killed in a wave, and the progress was also delayed. It took two years for Guo Zhao to stabilize the situation. At this time, they started to repair the war fortress such as Wubao first.

The major families would basically not allow women to inherit the position of head of the family unless there was really no one left in the direct bloodline. At that time, all the adult males in these three families died in the battle, and Guo Zhao was almost appointed to the position in a critical moment.

Of course, it's not that a wealthy family like Guo Liuyin is unable to provide professionals to build bunkers and forts. The problem is that a few years ago, the backbones of the three families were massacred when their fiefdoms were breached by Parthian bandits, and the rest were women, children, the elderly and the weak. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Guo Zhao to take power.

Semi-sealed earth-and-stone structure forts, semi-submersible closed bunkers, almost completely closed war stronghold bastions, etc., all fortress-like buildings have high construction costs and require high technology. The only relatively low cost is actually the cellar, but the cellar used to store food also needs professionals to build.

There are not many left, even if the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin are combined, there are not many left. After all, when the first wave of nation-building occurred, all the major families spent a huge amount of money, and it is impossible for them to leave too many people in their hometown.

Therefore, after suppressing the rebellion, Guo Zhao actively demonstrated his military power, and in other aspects he just made do with it for the time being, and then he would cross the river by trying to find the Zhang family of Henei in the south, the Wang family in the northeast, and the Cui family in the north.

However, when the locust plague broke out in East Africa, the fiefdoms of these three families suffered a fatal blow.

Even if the descendants of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin could find these professional and technical personnel carefully trained by their own families in other families, it would be impossible for them to go back. After all, everything has to be based on reason.

In this situation, of course we should just muddle along. The three kings next door are building a bastion. I heard that a bastion is a war fortress and is very meaningful for fighting against the enemy, so let's follow suit. The Cui family in the north is building an underground bunker to store grain, and our own ground granary can also store grain, but let's put it aside for now. Replacing wooden houses with brick and tile houses requires professional kiln-firing personnel, and there are no such people. Forget it, it's not that wooden houses are uninhabitable, so let's put it aside for now.

Now the question is, what else did Guo Zhao, who was appointed to the position in a time of crisis, inherit besides the family lineage, and how many resources can the family provide?
Let’s not talk about anything else, just think about how many managers and technical personnel these three companies need to maintain a family and establish a fiefdom.

Although they also considered building cellars for storage, the human resources of these three families have always been limited, and most of their employees are local Parthian people. So after considering the reality, they decided to use local materials to build thatched houses and wooden warehouses first.

If we really talk about the population size of these three families, they are not even as large as the Anding Hu family that was attached to the three kings. If we only discuss the core population of the Han Dynasty, the three families combined are not as large as a small family.

Besides, the manpower and technology required to build a bunker are much higher than those required to build a grain warehouse on the ground. Unless something goes wrong, Guo Zhao is not willing to invest too many human resources and technical personnel in this regard.

Who made the Guo, Liu, and Yin families have the least manpower? After all, there are so many families in Central Asia. From the perspective of the territory of the feudal state, they are considered a medium-to-large feudal state, but the family with a smaller population than the semi-dependent small forces is only these three.

After all, the quality of the people of Parthia, unless there are professional technicians under the rule of the seven great nobles, will never be as good as those professionals that the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin had previously reserved.

The difference between the wooden house and the brick and stone building was fully revealed at this moment. The locusts with the demon crystals could gnaw through the wooden house and the wooden granary without any problem. However, it was impossible for them to gnaw through the closed waterproof layer of the cellar and the brick and stone building. Only a collective movement of locusts that had reached the level of Qi training and internal Qi leaving the body could do it.

It’s a pity that most of these professionals were consumed when the bandits broke into the three families before. Even if they are still alive, they have already been absorbed by other families.

This idea is not wrong, but it also has some unexpected shortcomings. After all, human and material resources are limited, so we can only advance selectively.

After all these years, the three families of Guo Liuyin relied on the high-density energy crystals, a rare resource of imperial level rubbed by Guo Zhao, to exchange various necessary materials with others, as well as the deterrence of Haftan's military force, to secure their enfeoffed country without any trouble.

Among the tens of billions of locusts, there are only a few million such super locusts, but they are distributed in such a locust plague and are not super locusts that attack collectively, so they have basically no impact.

Therefore, when the three countries in the Persian Gulf were attacked by tens of billions of locusts, at most all the green on the ground was destroyed, the soil layer on the ground was thinned, and the wooden doors of the residences were eaten away. There was no cruel situation of leaving only a vast expanse of gray.

The wooden buildings of the three families of Guo Liuyin were eaten by these super demon crystal locusts. In the entire feudal country, only a few Wu castles in the central area were left, and the rest were all gone.

In fact, this was also the reason why Guo Zhao fought so hard that he almost blew himself up, because the super locust plague in East Africa was completely different from what Guo Zhao had imagined. Guo Zhao originally thought that the locusts would at most eat up the thatched huts, but it turned out that they even ate up the wooden buildings.

If the wooden building could be eaten, it meant that the granary would definitely not be able to hold on. Considering the grain stored in his own Wu Fort, Guo Zhao could only rely on the explosive and etched military formation to fight the locust plague to the death.

After holding out for three days and barely transporting what food and grass they could to their own Wu Fort, and transferring the core population to several Wu Forts in the central area, there was nothing left in the entire Guo Liuyin Kingdom.

This horrific situation stunned the three kings who had been observing the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin. When Guo Zhao took out his big killer weapon and bombarded wildly, the fiery red flames illuminated the southwest sky, successfully blocking the migration of the locust army and delaying a lot of time for other families in the rear, the head of the three kings, Wang Ling, was ready to take out his own killer weapon to fight the locust plague and force the locusts back. As a result, in just three days, the fiefdoms of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin were eaten up, Guo Zhao's strategic reserves were less than one-tenth left, and many nodes of the large-scale etching and explosion of Xuanxiang were directly scrapped due to high-energy ablation.

In other words, Guo Zhao used all his resources to fight, proving that he really could not defeat this thing. The result of his desperate fight was that he wiped out hundreds of millions of locusts in three days, and then his own resources were directly destroyed by the locusts' numbers.

As for the crystals of heaven and earth essence that exploded from the locusts, not to mention that they were not picked up, but absorbed by the subsequent locusts. Even if they could be picked up, it would be a loss compared to Guo Zhao's investment. In these three days, Guo Zhao burned more than 180 high-density crystals of heaven and earth essence at the level of ostrich eggs. The price that Guo Zhao gave to Chen Xi for one of these things was 20 million yuan.

Although Guo Zhao was not very careful because he could rub them with his hands, he consumed more than 180 of them in three days. In the eyes of the three kings, this was really too outrageous. They really didn't dare to fight this battle!
He never admitted defeat in his life, and claimed that if the whole family died, the whole family would die. As long as there was one person left in the family, the Wang family would fight back sooner or later. He decisively lay down and let the hammer do whatever he wanted. Huangtian could eat whatever he wanted. No one could afford to provoke him, really no one could afford to provoke him.

At the same time, another army of locusts went north from the eastern Persian Gulf, passing by the families of Han, Bai and Shen. The heads of the three families had gone to the north for something last time, so after receiving the news, they rushed back at all costs and finally returned successfully when the locust outpost arrived.

But earlier, because the head of the family was not there, the three families had a slow emergency harvest, and a large amount of grain had not yet been harvested. Faced with such a situation, the Han, Bai and Shen families had nothing to say and had to go ahead with it.

After two days of fierce fighting, the Han family had used up all their arrows, the detonating arrows never stopped, the Bai family's 3,000-man vibration wave slash worked from morning to night, and the Shen family launched a large-scale etching Xuanxiang, frantically converting various energies to replenish the two families.

After more than a dozen people died of exhaustion, and the tribesmen in the rear desperately snatched some food from the mouth of Lord Locust, the three families decisively chose to lie down and be beaten.

We can’t defeat them, we absolutely can’t defeat them. Damn it, even if we kill millions of them, there will still be tens of millions that will swarm over us. Even if we kill tens of millions of them, there will still be hundreds of millions that will swarm over us.

There is absolutely no way we can defeat them. There are too many of them.

"Is this a locust plague?" Zheng Tai looked at the locusts that covered the sky and carried a fishy and poisonous smell. Then he weighed the super locust that was bigger than a hand and presented to him by his silly son. To be honest, Zheng Tai said that he had really opened his eyes in this life.

"Master, this is a universal antidote, but it is still not completely effective against this kind of large locusts." The researcher of the Zheng family said to Zheng Tai very cautiously.

"Can we use the etching array to absorb the essence of locusts now?" Zheng Tai sat on the chair with some fatigue, and called to his researchers. Compared with dealing with the locust plague, Zheng Tai felt that it was easier to deal with his married daughters. Even the most difficult Zheng Ling was much easier to deal with than locusts.

"Yes, it is not very useful for large locusts, but for ordinary locusts, the essence stripping array can still be used." Zheng Huan replied quickly.

Compared with other families, the Zheng family has a large number of backbone forces and can advance many processes at the same time, and the essence stripping array is one of them. This thing was originally used to kill insects and is also suitable for dealing with locusts.

"Let's not even talk about the locusts with Qi leaving their bodies. How many locusts have reached Qigong?" Zheng Tai sneered. "The most troublesome thing about the locust plague is actually the huge number of ordinary locusts. Without the huge number of ordinary locusts, tens of thousands of locusts with Qi leaving their bodies... wait, are there also tens of thousands of locusts with Qi leaving their bodies?"

Zheng Tai originally wanted to say that without such a huge number of locusts, a little bit of internal energy leaving the body would be nothing, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there were tens of thousands of locusts with internal energy leaving the body, which was too outrageous!
"According to the sample size we have obtained now, the third wave of locust plague should have a scale of 400 billion. Among them, the birth rate of boundary-breaking locusts is about one in 500 million to one in ten billion, which means there are about 400 to 800 locusts. The birth rate of internal energy out-of-body locusts is about one in ten million, which means there are an estimated 50,000 locusts." Zheng Huan said very tiredly.

To be honest, this probability is already very low, but the number of locusts is really too outrageous. Even a small probability multiplied by the huge scale, the total data will be very outrageous.

"In fact, considering that the second round of locust plague we are facing is affected by early rains, the average strength of individual locusts has not reached its limit. The average individual strength of the next round of locust plague is very likely to rise further." Zheng Huan looked at Zheng Tai, who had a serious expression, and said another sentence.

"That is to say, the total number of locusts above the level of internal energy leaving the body will only increase, not decrease, right?" Zheng Tai said with great exhaustion.

"Yes." Zheng Huan was also tired. This was the most abnormal locust plague he had ever seen since he was a child.

Let's put it this way, if Guo Zhao fully activated the city-state-level large-scale etching array and burned the energy crystals endlessly for three days and three nights, killing hundreds of millions of locusts, the pheromones released by the dead locusts should be enough to prevent the locust plague from avoiding this area.

After all, a normal locust plague is only on the scale of tens of billions or hundreds of billions. Destroying a state is already outrageous enough. In this case, if one-tenth of the locusts are killed within a few days, even if they are brainless, they will realize that there are natural enemies and will not go there again.

So theoretically, there is nothing wrong with Guo Zhao's idea, but he misjudged the scale.

Even if it is really a locust plague of tens of billions, after being killed by Dianpo, the number of locusts leaving Guo Liuyin's fiefdom will be greatly reduced.

However, the problem is that the size of this wave of locusts has exceeded 100 billion and is approaching 1 trillion.

Let me put it this way, the number of locusts burned by that crazy woman Guo Zhao using the Etching and Explosive Array in three days is not as many as the locusts that were eaten by their own brothers in East Africa because they had not enough food and were weak and hungry, and not as many as the locust larvae that crawled out of the soil every day.

So the death of hundreds of millions of people means nothing to this locust plague. If they die, they die. There will be many brothers to follow.

Zheng Tai and Zheng Huan looked at each other in bewilderment. It was also the first time for them to see internal energy leaving the body in the tens of thousands. The scale was really too outrageous. It gave people a feeling that even if they killed the locust army, the remaining things would not be easy to kill either.

"Forget it. We can't control those things. If the essence stripping array is effective, activate it. Don't worry about the energy consumption. Beat them hard. Kill as many as you can. Let's fight the locusts." Zheng Tai said viciously.

The Zheng family relied on the essence stripping array to directly kill 10 to 20 million locusts, but indirectly killed more than 300 million locusts. Of course, the Zheng family did not know the latter, and neither did the other families.

It's not that this Qi-stripping array is so excellent. In fact, even if it is fully activated, it can only suck to death the locusts that approach this airspace.

Being able to absorb without killing does not mean that it cannot weaken. A fully activated Essence Stripping Array, even if it only extracts a small amount of the locust's essence, is enough to make the locust weak. As omnivorous locusts, if they are weak, then you are really sorry.

The Essence Stripping Formation absorbed the essence of hundreds of millions of locusts, killing tens of millions of them. Most of the rest were eaten as dry food by the locusts traveling with them.

　I discovered that there is an illustration function, so I will add two pictures. One allows you to feel the terrifying density of the locust plague, and the other is a layout diagram of the small bastion. Actually, I originally wanted to make a picture of the locusts covering the sky and making it dark, but I don’t know why I can’t put it up. I’m scratching my head. That picture is the real essence.

　　(End of this chapter)