CHAPTER XXIV

Zu Chong walked into Zhao Hou's handsome tent, there were two coquettish cries in the tent, and a group of singers who were dancing in the tent startled the murderous Zu Chong, Zu Chong also saw Zhao Hou sitting in the chief center, there were two or three generals on his left and right, all of whom were not wearing armor and were drunk and smoky. There is only one person, lupine, who did not drink, and it was the Sanqing military division. A nameless fire in Zu Chong's heart rushed straight to his head, glaring at Zhao Hou fiercely. Zhao Hou was furious: "I dare to rush into the handsome tent, the military order is like a mountain, people come, pull me out and behead!" Zu Chong was not afraid: "This is a handsome account?" Why are there courtesans? Zhao Hou was even more furious: "It's the opposite! It's the other way around! People come, people come! Zu Chong was so angry that his whole body trembled, his right hand held the hilt of the sword, and the kabuki were so frightened that they screamed again, and then the guards rushed into the handsome tent, and when they saw the majestic Zu Chong, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they didn't dare to step forward. Sanqing hurriedly pressed Zu Chong, but persuaded Zhao Hou: "Hou Ye is angry, General Zu is concerned about the military situation, where is the collision with the handsome tent?" Turning his head: "General Zu!" The Huns retreated, and the army relaxed a little, but it was relaxed, you are still young, and you will understand it in the future. Zhao Hou's subordinates also persuaded one after another. Zu Rongran's eyes wept: "Military advisor! The Huns retreated to plunder our people, and how many people were going to be taken into slavery? How many people are finished in a lifetime? We have the military heart available now, why not surrender without a fight? Sanqing: "Where are we?" Back then, Gou Jian lay down and tasted the gall, and finally avenged the revenge of ten years, the Huns are tigers and wolves, we are just afraid that more people will be harmed, Hou Ye and I, last night have discussed a heavy burden to General Zu! After ****** Zuchong rushed away angrily, Zhao Hou retreated left and right: "Military marshal, why did you send him to help the prince?" He also allocated two hundred divine armor troops to him. "Humph! Reluctant to let the child can't trap the wolf, the ancestral family is a big family in the Kwantung region, although the people in the court are not as good as the four major families, but their power in the Kwantung family is definitely comparable to a country, and the people in the court are also favored by it, the emperor sent him here, there is also the intention of balancing the Huan family, and now he will be sent to the Western Regions, as long as I send a messenger to the Huns, this kid's life is not going to be lost there? "Zhao Hou's original name was Huan Wu, and he was one of the heroes of the Huan family. Zhao Hou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Sanqing's words, and rewarded Sanqing again. The next day, Zu Chong couldn't wait, ordered a thousand henchmen Iron Cavalry soldiers and Divine Armor soldiers, and rushed to the west. The ban in Dayue City has been suddenly lifted, and the legendary Huns did not come, but came in batches of turtle soldiers. Standing on the wall of the inn, Long Er saw a group of dark infantry neatly stepping into the long street in front of him. Yuli was also beside him, his expression was a little solemn: "This is the hoplite, this kind of formation is very powerful, and the bravery of individuals is like rotten bread in the face of collective force, I can't imagine that there are infantry with this kind of training here, you see, how neat their steps are." Long Er and Sima Dan really felt that the vibration on the ground was getting bigger and bigger, and it was uniform all at once, shaking their hearts. Long Er: "They are going to hold a military parade tonight, the soldiers of the Great Moon King are by no means comparable to this group of infantry, and the people of the Great Moon City will be shocked, and then the Guizi soldiers can do whatever they want." Sima Dan: "It's just that they will fight before the external danger comes?" Xiao Min said in a deep voice: "We can only wait and see, if Qiuzi really has the heart to assist in the joint defense here, we should help them, but we are not yet the time to show up." Long Er: "Sooner or later, we have to find a city to show our identity, echo with the Jingshi from afar, and wait for the world to know that the prince is still working hard for the border defense here, so as to protect Cao Lie and them." Gao Chun hurriedly walked over from the other side: "Prince, there are a few people in black who want to see you." "At this time it was almost evening, and torches were lit everywhere, but there were no pedestrians in the streets, and there were no soldiers in sight, and from time to time only a group of about twenty Guizi hoplites patrolled by, although there were not many of these Qiuzi soldiers, but the sound of the iron boots striking the ground with a uniform pace was more shocking than the sound of thousands of troops and horses. Under this kind of slaughter, he dared to come to visit, and the person who came was definitely not human. When several men dressed in black removed their hoods, one of them revealed their long brown hair and blue eyes. This tall woman was the most beautiful woman these men had ever seen in their lives, and her beauty was deep, mysterious, and wild compared to the flat silhouette of the Oriental woman, making everyone's hearts beat faster. The woman obviously knew Sima Dan's identity: "Princess Mira of the Great Moon sees the prince!" Sima Dan was taken aback: "Princess, what did you say?" "The prince of Dajin is in Dayue, and he actually lives here, but I am in charge of defense, and I still know this, prince! Forgive us for not being welcome. "Her Chinese is not bad, but her words are still a bit stiff. Sima Dan: "Since you know my identity, then save us a lot of effort, today is a private meeting, you can avoid a qiē festival." Mira was overjoyed: "I'm afraid I'll be rude!" "What must have happened when the princess visited?" Mira's brows tightened, and everyone felt gloomy, and she sighed: "The prince didn't reveal his identity, presumably because of the sudden arrival of Qiuzi!" Sima Dan was noncommittal. Mila: "From time to time, the Great Jin Dynasty has envoys and merchant travelers in and out of the Silk Road, so the news should be very well-informed, and the ambition of Apuda, the king of Qiuzi, is no less than that of the Xiongnu, and he has long wanted to establish a country like the Sassanid Dynasty in the Western Regions, control the trade here, and make a lot of gold and silver wealth. "For these latest information, only Long Er probably knows, but Xiao Min also knows a lot, because Zhuge Sheng will also get some news regularly before his death. On the contrary, Sima Dan only began to hear the detailed news of the Western Regions after he arrived in Beidaying, and Zhuge Sheng had not had time to teach him everything before. Long Er: "Apuda's sudden attack, is it because of the pressure of the Xiongnu going south?" Mira nodded: "The Xiongnu have always been a threat to us, and it is almost impossible for the countries of the Western Regions to jointly resist, so they can only pay tribute, but this time it is rumored that the grassland of Rouran has been occupied by the ghost side, and they will start from here, go straight to Persia, and turn this place into a grassland of Rouran." Therefore, the city lord accepted the mention of the joint defense of the turtles. Long Er: "Does Qiuzi dare to coax you before Rouran comes?" "Prince! This is also the biggest crisis that our Otsuki City is facing in the city right now. "Before ****** the Imperial Palace in Otsuki Castle, many houses were forcibly demolished during the day, and a large square was cleared, and a large platform about a person high was erected with a wooden frame in the field, and a row of chairs was roughly placed on the platform. Sitting in the center of the stage was the Great Moon King, a queen in her forties, very similar to Mira, dressed in a jeweled robe and wearing a crown on her head, but at this time her face was ugly, as if she was preoccupied. Beside her sat a bearded man, about thirty years old, wearing heavy armor, just holding his helmet in his hand, looking solemnly at the audience. There were a hundred Guizi hoplites in the audience, demonstrating different formations, their spears flashing under the torches, and every movement of a hundred people was neatly aligned under the command, as if it were from the same person, occasionally shouting in unison, and then the sound of stepping up, its momentum was extremely amazing, especially their huge spears and shields, which made people feel how invincible they would be when they launched a dense charge, especially those who had been on the battlefield, and could feel the infinite power brought by this organization. The bearded man was the leader of the five hundred infantry, Taji, he looked at the Dayue nobles sitting side by side and the Dayue officials who were standing, and couldn't help laughing: "City Lord, only a hundred infantry, will scare your loyal subordinates like this, if the Huns come, they can't protect you, your honorable majesty!" "So your other four hundred soldiers have been patrolling the city, which is also a kind of military parade?" "The people must know that we can protect him!" "Protection? Then why did you demolish their house? "City Lord, these are extraordinary times, and this place must be cleared, so that when there is a war, you can better understand how to command the army from here with torches, and the wood that has been dismantled must also be used to make wood." "At the beginning, I only promised you joint defense, and I didn't let you do whatever you want here!" "City lord, look, my soldiers are sweating under the stage like this, but your soldiers are incompetently shrinking in the barracks, rushing to kill like this, our soldiers can fight for a day without getting tired, and your soldiers will collapse as soon as the Huns come!" "But you will only be in the city, and the walls will still be our soldiers!" "Yes! A pack of hounds needs a whip to make them brave, and only the best whip can make your soldiers dare to protect their people with blood!" At this moment, there was a sudden thunderous sound of horses' hooves from the side of the square, and about three hundred Otsuki warriors poured out. The Great Moon King's side and behind him all cheered. Taji stood up excitedly, raised a torch and shouted, "Great! Finally someone is willing to come out and show us strength! Four hundred infantry outside the square continue to patrol, a squad! Array! The hundred soldiers in the square immediately turned into a dense phalanx, spears like a forest, aimed at the Great Moon Cavalry, who were also assembling. The Great Moon Cavalry was also wearing heavy armor, a red cloth was hung on the tip of their spears, and there were also carvings of Great Moon City on their shields, which gradually gathered at this time, and were also quite imposing, forming a mountain-like cone formation at the other end of the square, compared to the horse formation, the infantry formation seemed a little thin, but Taji excitedly commanded with torches, and the infantry also seemed to be completely unafraid of horse charges, only staring at the Great Moon Cavalry coldly. "It's the prince!" A large moon nobleman raised his arms and shouted: "This is our most powerful cavalry team!" Big Moon wins! "The most elite guards in Dayue City, and the only hope now, was originally used as the ultimate weapon to break out of the encirclement of the Huns when the city was broken, but it was suddenly forced to use it early. The Great Moon Cavalry began to charge, the square was not large, but their riding skills were very good, and in the blink of an eye, the speed of their horses increased, and at this time, another group of Great Moon infantry suddenly appeared on the other side of the square, and shot at the Qiuzi infantry with their bows. Taji sneered. The huge shields and iron armor of the Qiuzi infantry made them ignore the rain of arrows, and at this moment, a command erupted from the centurion's mouth, and the soldiers in the first two rows crouched down and pointed their spears diagonally to the sky and leaned on the ground to form an angle with the giant shield, and the soldiers in the back row also leaned their spears to the front row and threw their javelins with their free hands, just as the cavalry had rushed in front of them.

The sound of metal clashing and the screams of men and horses rose into the sky. A neat row of throwing spears was extremely concentrated at the front end of the cone-shaped array, when the wooden shield of the first few horses was pierced through several pieces, the worst thing was that the armor on the body of the rapidly approaching war horse was completely useless, and the war horse neighed and rolled backwards, so that the subsequent war horse also became a rolling gourd, and the cavalry was thrown into the air. The cavalry on both wings rushed to the spear array, and the long iron spear rattled to bear the strong momentum, when the infantry threw the javelin and quickly held the spear to fix its angle, the strong momentum made the infantry be shaken away, but the long shield behind them became their help, they did not fall, and held the huge shield with all their strength. The cavalry on both flanks was far less thick than in the center, and when the cavalry rushed into the spear formation, the men and horses were pierced, and when the second row rushed in, they immediately rolled to the ground because of the men and horses in the front row, and this flesh and blood impact only opened the front two rows of the infantry, and the spears of the rear row of the infantry did not suffer much pressure. The cavalry's charge had been stopped, the infantry shouted, the spear array pressed forward, and immediately stabbed to death the cavalry who fell to the ground, and the later cavalry had already stopped their horses, but when the infantry came forward, they first stabbed the horses, and they also dismounted one after another, becoming the souls of the spears, and the cavalry hurriedly retreated, leaving behind more than a hundred corpses in a blink of an eye. The infantry did not pursue. On the stage, it was clear that the first and second platoons of the infantry phalanx stood up again and retreated to the end, but the cavalry who remained in the horse pile or the cavalry who were not injured could not escape the spears, and in an instant even the war horses were slaughtered, and the square was flooded with a lake of blood with the horse pile as the center. The infantry silently lined up in the middle of the lake of blood. "That's it!" King Dayue couldn't hold back, she couldn't find the figure of the prince: "Don't coax inside, it's never worth sacrificing now, what we have to fight is the Huns!" Taji nodded: "We both died, both of them were crushed by horses!" Leave your brave warriors to the Huns! Queen! At this time, after the Great Moon Infantry on the other side of the square fired their bows and arrows, they had rushed to the center of the square for another infantry team that suddenly appeared, and many people were so frightened that they put down their weapons and did not dare to move.