Fang Ning continued to look down and saw a group of Taoist priests holding steel knives appearing below, numbering about several hundred people.
This is really putting down the whisk and picking up the butcher's knife.
Fang Ning sighed and did not intervene for the time being.
I saw those steel-sword Taoist priests dividing into several small teams to clear out the gangsters, or in other words, rioters who were robbing the Taoist palace one by one.
Similar to what we saw before, although they lost their mana, their powerful tempered bodies were still there, which was equivalent to their own steel armor.
Some brave rioters dared to pick up the sticks, knives and guns they carried with them and fight with them. However, without breaking the defense at all, they could only be chopped down to the ground one by one.
There were two types of weapons that were strictly prohibited in ancient times, one was the crossbow and the other was armor. It's because there are two levels of combat power, with armor and without armor.
With armor, it can block most damage and can concentrate its full output. It has always been one of the standards for elites. Without armor, it is one of the symbols of cannon fodder.
Therefore, these insurgents were no match for them at all. After the most courageous group were hacked to death, the rest could only put down their loot one by one and flee in confusion.
Looking from the sky, we can see that the general flow of these escapees is towards several exits of the palace.
Of course, most of them couldn't outrun those steel-sword Taoist priests, and some of them got lost, which led to a real dead end.
And those Taoist priests with steel swords seemed to be venting their anger. Even if someone couldn't run anymore and knelt down to beg for mercy, they would go up and chop off the person's head, causing blood to spurt out like a fountain.
Just when Fang Ning couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to intervene to stop it, the situation changed again, and it was a change that stunned him.
At the exit of the palace, the few rioters who ran out first were still followed by several teams of steel sword Taoist priests who were chasing after them.
Obviously these Taoist priests hated the rebellious people and wanted to drive them all away.
And when these faster-footed rioters ran to a green forest outside the palace, they suddenly stopped and ran to both sides, as if they were scolded.
Fang Ning could clearly see from the sky that there were shadows in the green forest, and there was a large group of people lying in wait. It seemed that they were what the Taoist priests called the imperial army.
But the steel sword Taoist priests who were chasing after him naturally didn't have this look in their eyes. Moreover, they had lost their spells and could not sense any crisis in advance.
When they followed the rioters and ran near Cuilin, they just realized something was wrong and stopped one after another, when they were hit in the head.
"Bang! Bang!"
Bursts of gunpowder smoke rose from the dense forest, and a pellet shot towards the steel sword Taoist priest like splashing water.
"Holy shit, it's actually a musket?" Fang Ning's eyes were keen. After taking a closer look, he was immediately shocked. "Did there also appear to be time travelers in the upper world? The magic didn't work, so they started playing with gunpowder weapons?"
"Insufficient information makes it impossible to judge." The system incarnation obviously did not have the consciousness of flattery like the uncle, and answered truthfully.
If the old man were here, he would definitely say: "Aren't you the time traveler?"
Fang Ning had no intention of arguing with the system avatar, after all, the other person was an intelligent machine.
He was just wondering what impact these changes would have on the upper world.
The invention of the musket meant a major change in the human world. With the help of muskets, the barbarians were gradually wiped out. The so-called civilized people began to rule more land and seize more resources, thus accumulating the necessary resources for the industrial revolution. of resources.
The emergence of muskets means that steel armor is completely ineffective, and the gap between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers is greatly narrowed. Modern soldiers are consumables on the assembly line.
It wasn't until the emergence of tanks and armored vehicles that armor reappeared on the battlefield in another form.
And now, it's the same.
The powerful body that the Taoist priests have tempered for hundreds of years is also vulnerable to a gun!
Those groups of Taoist priests totaled thirty or forty people, and most of them fell to the ground, bleeding like rivers.
Only a handful of Taoist priests could still stand, but they were hit by the projectiles and took a few steps back, looking down at their chests in disbelief.
Then they looked up at the musketeers in front, and instead of pounced directly on them, they turned around and ran away.
"It's really strange. As long as ten of them rush into the musketeer team, they can kill them. Why do they have to run away?" the system avatar suddenly asked.
"Well, if I were here, I wouldn't raise this issue," Fang Ning said speechlessly, "After all, they are humans, not machines. They only dare to go to the battlefield and fight with their strength because of their powerful bodies and the advantage of crushing them. Now, After seeing their companions being knocked down by a single shot, who would be willing to fight for the chance of not being killed? After all, they don't know the true power of muskets."
"Oh, that's it, they are scared because of the unknown." The system avatar understood.
"That's it." Fang Ning understood very well that it was normal for these Taoist priests to collapse. It would be surprising if they did not collapse.
After all, Taoist priests have been practicing for hundreds of years, not to serve as cannon fodder on the battlefield, and they are not bound by military law and supervising teams. In the situation just now, it is normal to run backwards and to both sides.
At this moment, after repelling the first group of Taoist priests, Fang Ning heard cheers coming from the dense forest.
"Ah, it really works. The Kingdom of Heaven and Humanity is so powerful. The heavenly fire artifact passed down here can really kill demons!"
The soldiers below were obviously overly excited and started making a noise.
But then there were bursts of yelling, and the noise quickly disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, orders appeared one after another, and the musketeers came out of the forest one after another and began to roll back towards the Dao Palace.
So the scene just now happened again, but this time, the ones who were massacred were the steel-sword Taoist priests.
Of course it’s the Taoist priests who saw muskets for the first time, or the Taoist priests who retreated after hearing about previous defeats, but don’t believe in evil...
As for the other believers and those who had been taught the lesson, they all walked as fast as flying, climbed over the walls, and quickly escaped from the Debut Palace.
"If these guys have a strong will to fight and organize twenty or thirty people, they can break up this new musketeer team with only bows and arrows, no, with their powerful bodies, just with bricks and stones. Unfortunately, they are not an army. I just can't do this." Fang Ning sighed.
He is condescending and can clearly see the pros and cons of both sides.
In fact, even at the last moment, the Taoist priests still have a chance to turn defeat into victory on the battlefield, after all, the rate of fire of the muskets is there.
But when they discovered that their invulnerable bodies were ruthlessly destroyed in front of the guns, they were obviously panicked. Even the leader fled first. After losing their organizational power, everything was irreversible.
Of course, strategically speaking, these Taoist priests had no problem running away, because even if they defeated this one, the imperial army could continue to organize more musketry teams to kill them.
"But why did the mortal court want to hang these Taoist priests?" Fang Ning asked in surprise, "Could it be that they were too oppressed before and now they are beginning to awaken their sense of resistance?"
"Oh, it should be for those immortality pills." The system incarnation gave the answer directly.
Fang Ning took a closer look and saw that soldiers began to be sent out and entered places similar to alchemy rooms, and then he understood.
There is no such thing as resisting oppression and venting grievances. If the rioters may still have this nature just now, these imperial troops who use the rioters as bait and testers have no such idea at all.
They came here to compete with the Taoist priests for the last batch of longevity medicine for the sake of the longevity of the imperial dignitaries!
In the context of dissipating vitality, this contradiction cannot be adjusted. No wonder they have to fight each other in the end.
Since the Taoist priests have lost their strength and cannot continue to refine elixirs, they still have a batch of elixirs hidden in their homes. Isn't that the crime of harboring a jade
Of course, the imperial army will not do too much, and at least a few Taoist priest seeds will be retained, but most of the Taoist priests will be killed to avoid competing with them for the last bit of cultivation resources.
"Huh, luckily I didn't interfere. Neither side is doing it for justice..." Fang Ning shook his head.