Chapter 864: The Rabble (Part II)
Since Lu Zhen served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard a few years ago, and carried out all-round changes and drills to this Son of Heaven guard, these ordinary sergeants who could only bully others and use some extraordinary means to concoct unjust cases have gradually turned into an elite army that can fight tough battles.
What is Elite? The enemy is outnumbered but not surprised, and the sudden arrival is not chaotic, and the person who has a thunderous chest and a face like a peaceful lake is the elite. And what this Jinyi guard team has revealed now is all that a true elite can have.
Even if they were suddenly attacked on this rainy night, even if the number of ambushes far exceeded their own, one or two hundred hideous-looking soldiers had already slashed fiercely with their swords, and they did not have the slightest intention of panicking and retreating on horseback, under the cover of their hats, everyone seemed so steady, as if they were just a flock of sheep and a group of pigs, and they could not pose any threat at all.
Of course, they were not without movement, and when the rock suddenly rolled down, they had already pulled the reins, and at the same time drew their swords in their hands, and the two horses were separated by a few feet, so that they could quickly help each other, and only wait for the enemy to kill them, and then fight with them!
And before those men and horses arrived, several sharp arrows had already whistled in, although the angle of the arrows was not very good because of the wind and rain, but they still did not dare to relax in the slightest, and the knife in their hands flashed, and they quickly split away, and these arrows with greatly reduced momentum were split from the air.
Immediately, the enemy was close in front of them, and a call sounded among them: "Shoot and kill!" Don't be merciful! ”
With this order, the eyes of the best hands in these brocade guards suddenly flashed with a dangerous killing intention, and the more than ten horsemen who had been immobile suddenly rushed out like arrows from the string after a loud shout, and met the ambush soldiers who rushed in the muddy water.
The distance of three or five zhang was just enough for these horses to burst out of their speed suddenly, and the knight on the horse also followed this momentum, bent down and slashed at the enemy's vital point in front of him.
The men and horses intersected, the blood splashed suddenly, and the screams followed, and the more than 20 palace guards who rushed first didn't even have time to hand out the swords in their hands, they were broken by the other party's swords, and fell down with a scream, and then they were trampled by the horses' hooves with the thickness of the bowl, and they were directly silent.
And all this is just the beginning. If it weren't for that sentence of killing, these brocade guards might have reservations, after all, they knew who they were facing. But that order made them no longer have any worries, they only wanted to vent their resentment and killing intent, and kill all these bastards in front of them who didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
The wind was tighter, the rain was more rapid, and the sword light was particularly dazzling in the darkness, but the blood seemed to be washed away by the rain as soon as it spurted out, and it was all coming from the palace guards. More than 20 of them were killed in just one face, which made the hearts of the people who rushed behind them suddenly feel cold, and the formation that had no appearance was completely chaotic.
This royal palace guard may be considered elite in the eyes of King Zhou and others, but it is only compared to ordinary yamen officers. Once it is put on the battlefield, compared with the men and horses who have been practicing formally for several years, and all of them are the elite of the brocade guard, they are extremely vulnerable. Even if they had a big advantage in numbers, it was really a head-to-head confrontation, but it still became a one-sided slaughter in the blink of an eye.
When another group of guards rushing towards the other party were trampled under their horses and screamed incessantly, the bodies of the remaining more than 100 people began to tremble, and they almost couldn't even hold their knives. Their faces showed a look of fear, and they were wailing in their hearts, how could they meet such an opponent, these guys on horseback are still people, they are clearly evil ghosts who have escaped from hell.
The fear in their hearts made them no longer have the courage to continue to rush up, but some people were frightened, suddenly turned their heads and ran towards the same road, just wanting to stay away from these terrible creatures and save their lives. No matter how big the reward offered by the prince, he has to have the life to receive it.
What is a rabble, these palace guards show the facts in front of people. When the charge is chaotic, it is like a vicious dog robbing, and once it encounters a setback, it is scattered like a headless fly, and it is completely unable to organize a decent self-protection line, just taking care of its own life.
And the fate of such a comeback is naturally needless to say. How is it possible for a man to outrun a four-legged horse on two legs? In just a moment, dozens of people fell down screaming, some of them were caught up and overturned, some were directly knocked down and trampled to death by horses, and many were simply knocked over by their own people, and then they couldn't get up.
Zhu Ke and Zhu Yan followed behind, clearly and completely saw this scene, first disbelief, then angry, and finally they didn't even dare to be angry, but turned around and ran along. Because at this time, the dozen or so knights had already swooped down on them like evil spirits, and as long as they delayed for a while, the two of them would also become corpses under the sword.
Don't think that an army of nearly 200 people was killed by more than a dozen people and fled, in fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon in history. A few decades later, when the Japanese invaders ravaged the southeast coast, they often used only 100 people to kill thousands of Ming guards and soldiers like ducks, thus losing towns one by one and suffering heavy losses. Today, it's just a rehearsal.
However, Chao Xuan, the Wuwei general on the mountain, couldn't accept such a result. Just now, he did see that there was something wrong with the formation of the people under the mountain, it didn't seem like a panicked reaction after encountering an attack, but a faint defensive posture. But he just thought about it, and he didn't think that the other party could really turn the tide of the battle, after all, the contrast between the two sides in strength was too great.
But the reality gave him a big slap in the face, obviously he had an absolute advantage in troops, but as soon as he made a little contact, his soldiers and horses were killed and could only run away with their heads, this is really abnormal, right? In particular, the other party is only the subordinate of some merchants, and it is not even an army.
Apart from unbelief, there is only anger left.
It must be Zhu Ke's two rice buckets that led the troops wrongly to make the battle situation like this, I have to go down and turn the tide! Chao Xuan flashed this thought in his heart, so he also drew his knife in his hand and rushed forward in great strides, intending to go down to reorganize the defeated army.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly emerged from behind him, and a cold light slashed straight at the unprepared Chao Xuan. When he heard the sound of the wind behind his head, Chao Xuan immediately screamed, quickly pounced forward, and desperately dodged. Fortunately, his movements were fast enough, and this time he really dodged the vital point, but his back was still slashed by this sneak attack, and blood flowed down.
Before he could take a breath of cold air into his throat, the sneak attacker had already bullied him again, slashing at his throat, chest, and neck at a faster speed than before.
Life and death were at stake, Chao Xuan didn't dare to be careless, so he quickly swung his knife with all his strength to resist, and finally carried the three fatal knives down. But in this way, the wound on his back was completely cracked, and blood gushed out like a spring, making his physical strength quickly consume, and even his steps were a little vain.
"Who the hell are you?" Slightly widening the distance, Chao Xuancai asked hoarsely, his eyes fell on the other party's face, but unfortunately because of the sky, he couldn't see his appearance at all.
The person opposite him was naturally Yao Gan, who had been hiding in the shadows and staring at them before. The vines on the side of the mountain before would break, so that the ambush of these people would be completely exposed, and it was his handiwork. Just a sharpened stone can turn an elaborate trap into a joke.
And after discovering that the other party's men and horses had all been killed and only a few people stayed here to watch, Yao Gan no longer hid, and quickly killed, first assassinating the others while Chao Xuan was throwing all his attention into the battle below, and then suddenly touched behind him and launched a sneak attack.
Now, Chao Xuan has been seriously injured and is powerless to resist. And Yao Gan didn't mean to show mercy to his subordinates, he only smiled coldly at him, and then pounced again, and the knife flashed, stabbing the other party's heart.
Relying on the instinct to survive, Chao Xuan still gritted his teeth and endured the sharp pain on his back and raised his knife horizontally, blocking this extremely fast knife. But at the same time as the two knives intersected and made a bang, he felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and then the whole person flew sideways. It turned out that Yao Gan's knife was just to hide people's eyes, but the real move was in the foot, and he kicked the opponent out of the air in one fell swoop.
At the moment when Chao Xuan snorted and landed heavily, the sword light flashed again!
With a pop, General Wuwei's entire head had been chopped off by Yao Gan's knife, and it rolled all the way until it hit a stone that had not yet had time to be released, and then stopped. At this time, his face was still filled with deep fear and disbelief, and he could never have imagined that he would die on this rainy night.
Chao Xuan is dead, and the situation of his men and horses under the mountain is not much better.
They had no fighting spirit for a long time, and they just relied on their survival instinct to escape for their lives, and then they were cut down one by one by the brocade guards who were running back and forth, and died in the muddy water. Among them, the unlucky Zhu Ke also died because of the black light, only Zhu Ke was still mixed in the crowd, and jumped into the forest with a rolling belt, just hoping to escape with his life.
It wasn't until they saw these people disappearing into the darkness that the brocade guards stopped killing and watched them flee coldly. Presumably, after this battle, these people will no longer dare to do things like killing people and destroying their mouths.
In the car, Lu Zhen watched all this with some blankness, from beginning to end, he had no ups and downs in his expression. Although he went on a killing spree, it was the Ming army that was killed, but he didn't feel any guilt. Because he could see that these guys must have done the same thing before, so they were killed at their own expense, and they were regarded as paying off their debts.
As for completely tearing his face with Zhou Wangfu because of this, he is even more inappropriate.
"King Zhou...... It seems that your problem is not just greedy. In the gloomy gaze, Lu Zhen said such a sentence softly......