"Who are you?! Dismount immediately, and don't trespass on the Grand Duke's Castle! ”

The castle where Grand Duke Yaroslav lived was as Shu Zifeng expected, except for the addition of some guards and soldiers, everything was as usual, and only the chief knight of the guard went to the city defense garrison with a small retinue to deal with the chaos caused in Yaroslav City.

At this time, although Muscovy was at war with the Kazan Khanate for many years, it was limited to the raids and harassment of small forces, which could be regarded as a long time of peace for the towns within Muscovy.

This is also the reason why the core nobles of Muscovy will focus their attention on the struggle for power and profit in Moscow, and under the relaxed conditions of the external environment, these big men who stand at the high end of Muscovy will naturally pay attention to the internal power dumping.

This is the usual practice in any country, and the most common thing in a peaceful country is that the upper bureaucrats tilt against each other, and the combination of officials and businessmen oppresses the common people without scruples, and in times of war, the whole country is often united, and those big people who did not like each other in the past will temporarily put aside their minds and fight against foreign enemies together.

Although the Kazan Khanate, which was at war with Muscovy, was strong, they also had many enemies, and the Crimean Khanate always wanted to inherit the glory of the Golden Horde, trying to subdue the Kazan Khanate, which was the second strongest after the division of the Golden Horde, so the southern border of the Kazan Khanate was not very peaceful......

Although the gate of the castle was open, the guards guarding the gate were obviously much more elite than Yaroslav's city defense army, and after they found that Shu Zifeng continued to control the horse and gallop, the dozen pikemen at the gate of the castle quickly formed two rows of pikemen, the first row squatted and the second row stood upright!

More than a dozen pikemen suddenly blocked the gate of the castle, which was only a few meters wide, and the tips of the high-quality spears standing diagonally shone with an icy luster, pointing at Shu Zifeng who was galloping on his horse.

And after Conrad saw this scene, where did he still have the courage to follow Shu Zifeng?

In the process of trying to restrain the war horse, Conrad, who was in a hurry, was unexpectedly thrown out by the war horse with a bad temper and fell into the mud......

For Conrad's unbearable, Shu Zifeng didn't even look at it, in the face of more than a dozen spear tips flashing with cold light, not to mention Conrad's 'mounted infantry', even the war horse under his seat involuntarily began to slow down, if it weren't for Shu Zifeng's horse control skills were high enough, fiercely suppressing the instinctive fear of the war horse in the face of sharp spearheads, I am afraid that he would also step into Conrad's footsteps and be thrown out......

War horses are also creatures, and they also have the instinct to avoid evil, and they will naturally feel afraid in the face of a forest of spear weapons, which is the reason why the spear phalanx is effective for cavalry, but the iron cavalry that is really used to break the formation will blindfold the war horse before charging into battle, so that the disadvantage of the fear instinct of the war horse to see the tip of the spear can be solved.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for the heavy cavalry on the battlefield to rush into the spear formation of the troops, the cavalry spear of the heavy cavalry is not much shorter than the infantry spear, and the advantage of one to several can often be obtained when it collides, but the cost of cavalry training is much higher than that of the infantry, and the commander often only lets the heavy cavalry forcibly break the formation at the decisive moment.

However, there will always be some famous elite infantry in history, these elite infantry have the tenacity and perseverance that ordinary people cannot understand, and can fight to the death to the end against the cavalry team under their huge casualties.

Only things that cannot be done in ordinary battles will make people feel shocked, and it is the glorious achievements of these elite infantry troops in resisting cavalry charges head-on that have been widely praised that the cavalry has no choice but to take the infantry phalanx in the eyes of later generations.

As everyone knows, if the combat effectiveness and cost performance of the infantry army are really so high, why did the ancient powers desperately form cavalry units when they had the ability?

The status of cavalry in the field king of the cold weapon era is to kill rather than blow out, and the commanders of ancient times had no fools, and their choice is enough to prove many problems.

It's a pity that Shu Zifeng only has one person and one horse, and it is still very powerless for the cavalry to attack the spear array head-on without forming a scale, not to mention that the space at the gate of the castle is so narrow, Shu Zifeng doesn't even have room to ride his horse and make a detour......

However, Shu Zifeng did not give up because of the spear array of the guards in the castle, since he couldn't rush in on horseback, he 'walked in'!

In the eyes of the castle guards in the array, Shu Zifeng, who was forcibly controlling the war horse to crash into the spear, suddenly jumped up from the back of the war horse, and jumped over the head of the castle guards with a bewildered face by the potential energy inertia brought by the charge of the war horse, and under the superior bouncing force of the muscular realm.

It all happened so suddenly that the castle guards didn't have time to react!

On the other hand, Shu Zifeng, who was quick to react, landed behind the line of spear guards, and the whole person was like a precision machine, holding a long-handled battle axe with both hands and slashing at the rear of a sweeping army!

Puff puff......

The spear guard who had just stabbed the war horse to death and was about to turn around was easily cut through the iron-clad armor on his back, and there was still some distance to enter the castle, Shu Zifeng did not use too much physical strength, and the axe blade of the long-handled battle axe was under his precise control, but only cut the flesh of the spear guard without cutting into the human skeleton with great resistance.

After sweeping and knocking down several spear guards, Shu Zifeng stepped forward and rushed into the queue of spear guards, his body was at ease and rotated 360 degrees at the same time, and the sharp blade of the long-handled battle axe that was in a slashing posture suddenly set off a bloody storm in the pile of pikemen guards!

From the time Shu Zifeng landed to the time when all the spear guards fell to the ground and wailed, only ten breaths of time had passed!

Because of the avoidance of chopping the hard bones of the human body, Shu Zifeng's physical exertion was far less than it seemed on the surface.

Even if the spear guards on the ground were not dead, they basically lost their combat effectiveness, so Shu Zifeng did not waste time mending his sword, but rushed to the inside of the castle!

However, when Shu Zifeng had just rushed out of the corridor of the castle, he bumped into the musket guards who had been assembled for a long time in the hall!

A bright red smock and leather robe, covered with small barrels of similar style, a long fire rope wrapped around the neck, one of which was attached to the wrench of the arquebus, and shone red.

There were more than twenty musketeer guards, lined up in two horizontal rows, the front row half squatted in the back row, and aimed upright at Shu Zifeng, who had just rushed into the hall!

"Fire !!"

At the moment when Shu Zifeng appeared, the musketeer captain standing next to the musketeer guards suddenly roared!