Chapter 369
Ji Cheng fainted again, and when he woke up, he found that he was on the battlefield, and it was just a small soldier, and the enemy army on the opposite side had already rushed over.
"Cavalry against infantry?"
On his side was the infantry, and it was the cavalry that rushed over, and some of the soldiers around Ji Cheng trembled with their legs, very scared, but they didn't dare to retreat. Because there were archers in the rear, anyone who dared to retreat would be shot.
"Shoot the ......"
When the cavalry was about to approach, the officer gave the order to fire the arrows, and the overwhelming bows and arrows were released and fired at the cavalry.
Each of the cavalrymen had a small shield in their hands, so the first wave of arrows did not kill many cavalrymen, and by the second time the arrows were fired, the cavalry had almost rushed to this side.
The cavalry rushed to the shield side with the sacrifice of several hundred men, and finally the shield soldier did not last long before he was knocked through a gap, and the cavalry rushed into the infantry camp through this opening and began a one-sided battle.
In the era of cold weapons, cavalry was still respected, and as more and more cavalry entered, deserters appeared, and there were two of them, and finally tens of thousands of infantry were scattered by thousands of cavalry.
"Don't escape, come back quickly, kill ......"
No matter how the officer shouted, the fleeing soldiers did not stop, but more and more deserters appeared, Ji Cheng did not escape, when the cavalry rushed over, the others fled, Ji Cheng suddenly crouched down to avoid the cavalry blow, and then swept the horse's legs, so that the cavalry fell off the horse, and the soldiers who did not flee on the side immediately attacked the cavalry who fell off the horse, and the cavalry was killed in a few strokes.
Cavalry were also killed elsewhere, but they were all sacrificed to death by heaping them to death.
"Pick up the shield to defend and prepare to return fire, the enemy's cavalry has no place to buffer, the impact is definitely not so great, fight back with me......"
Maybe it's because Ji Cheng just knocked the cavalry off his horse with one blow, allowing everyone to save their lives and killing a cavalryman, all doing what Ji Cheng said. Soon seven or eight soldiers came to Ji Cheng's side with shields.
And at this time, another cavalry came, Ji Cheng let them disperse, and when the wind cavalry approached, let them lean over and resist the horses.
"Squatting against the horse, the archers shoot."
"Uh... You..."took another cavalry, the cavalry was very unwilling, and glared at Ji Cheng angrily before the time.
Next, Ji Cheng and they have the opportunity to continue to look for the target, in fact, there are already people who have seen the situation here, and several cavalry have joined forces to kill them, and they don't need Ji Cheng to look for them.
"Don't be afraid, the cavalry is not so powerful, didn't we just take one without a single person dying? Keeping the enemy in formation is not as much of a dash as I am, it is easy to block, and the archers are always ready to shoot. ”
"In the past, on top, sweep the horse's legs ......"
Next, Ji Cheng's team became larger and larger, and the number of cavalry killed was also increasing, which attracted the attention of most people, and the cavalry began to move closer to this side, and Ji Cheng let his men disperse the commotion, and attacked when he found an opportunity.
The soldiers who did not flee began to move closer to Jicheng's side, and as the number of people exceeded a certain limit, they were not so obedient, and it was easy to panic, and they had no advantage, returning to the original predicament.
Fortunately, Ji Cheng had the foresight to let the people who fought with him first by his side, plus the war horses he got before, and more than a dozen people obeyed his command, and carried out a counterattack to stabilize the situation and fight with the enemy.
However, the enemy had more cavalry than his side, and his riding skills were better, and he only held out for a while before being defeated. Ji Cheng knew that he had no power to return to the sky, so he rode away with the five of them.
Anyway, the generals have fled, and there will be no responsibility for him to flee with him, Ji Cheng is thinking about whether to return to the team.
"Do you think you should return to the team?"
"I don't want to go back, they will only let us go to death and run away by ourselves, if it weren't for the big brother, we wouldn't be able to live."
"Yes, the court is corrupt and deducts our military salaries, if it weren't for the fact that we didn't even have enough to eat because of the war, it would be better to join other rebels and fight back."
"Yes, it's the other way around. Although there is no salary on the side of the rebels, they will distribute fields every time they take a city, and divide the fields according to the size of the merits. ”
"Big brother, you have command talents, you will definitely be able to lead us to make meritorious achievements, we have no chance to follow the court, those scholars and doctors look down on us who are soldiers, they will talk about it on paper, but their rights are greater than ours, even if they make great contributions, they will take most of the credit, such a court is not worthy of our loyalty."
"The rebels are different, as long as you have merit, you can get a high position, and the leaders of the rebels never hesitate to reward their subordinates, so they have to be brave soldiers, and sooner or later they can overthrow the entire court."
"Yes, this court has been controlled by those scholars, the generals have no way out at all, they still hold a lot of fertile land in their hands, and they don't have to pay taxes, the court will increase our taxes if they don't have money, and it will have no impact on them at all, and when we people can't get by, they will buy the fields in our hands with a little grain......"
Ji Cheng thought for a while and said, "Since everyone is unwilling to follow this court, then we won't go back." But don't rush to join the rebels, let's find a hill to settle down first. ”
"Big brother, it's not that I hate occupying the mountain as the king, but where there are suitable mountains now, and the slightly better ones are occupied by bandits."
"Yes, big brother, why are so many people participating in the rebellion, it's not because they can't get by, and there is no good mountain to occupy, so they join the rebels to rebel against the court."
After listening to these people's explanations, Ji Cheng probably understood some of the situation in this world, the imperial court was controlled by scholars and doctors and did not reuse martial artists, the military generals had almost no right to speak, and they deducted military salaries, and the barracks were full of some old, weak, sick and disabled, if it weren't for the appearance of the rebels, they occupied a county, and then rebels appeared in various places one after another, and the state capitals were more or less occupied by some county seats.
Some scholars in the court panicked and asked the emperor to recruit soldiers, otherwise there would be no source of young and strong soldiers. But now the whole country has been occupied by half of the rebels, and the rebels are constantly expanding.
The imperial army was defeated again and again, and those scholars asked the emperor to Zhao'an, and some righteous soldiers who had no great ambitions agreed to Zhao'an, and they were satisfied with obtaining one or two county towns as fiefs.
He divided half of his soldiers to the imperial court, and the imperial court could barely stop the defeat.
In fact, some rebels also had to do this, there were no civilian officials to handle government affairs, there was no solid rear to take more territory, no matter how useless it was, there was always a time when the money and food stolen were exhausted.
Those rebels who had management talents to prepare sufficient money and food for the army did not have the ones who were willing to Zhao'an, take a piece of territory and rest for a year or two before continuing the war...... Take a look at the latest chapter of "Reopening Hell: The Rise of the Ten Thousand Worlds Claw Book House" to read it for free for the first time.