Chapter 148: The Marshal's Might
The northern gate of Leigh was silently opened. A stream of iron rushed towards the rebel infantry phalanx.
"Damn, these damn cavalrymen are harassing again!" a rebel officer, who was directing the siege, scolded in a low voice.
"Shield!
Such cavalry harassment, these days, they have experienced many times. Every time, when the siege was at a critical juncture, cavalry would rush out of the city to launch a surprise attack on the besieging infantry. These cavalrymen often retreated into the city before the rebel cavalry arrived, never confronting the rebels head-on.
Lunda had to order the besieging troops to strengthen the defense, and at the same time bring in hoplites to counter the onslaught of the cavalry in the city with shields and repellent rifles. Under such circumstances, the cavalry assault on a hot day often turned into a harassing attack, and it was difficult to achieve obvious results.
However, to the officer's surprise, the cavalry that came out of the city this time did not retreat because of the tight defense of the infantry phalanx, but collided directly with the infantry phalanx.
General Ji Kai, deputy commander of the 1st Army, personally led five officers to the front. Facing the defense of the rebels, he smiled coldly and shouted in a deep voice: "Break the formation!"
Gorgeous silver light flickered, and Ji Kai and the officers beside him swung their swords at the same time and slashed towards the shield array. Several powerful fighting qi slammed into the center of the shield array, and more than a dozen rebel soldiers were directly slashed into the air, blood sprayed wildly in their mouths, and the shields in their hands also turned into fragments and scattered all over the ground. The furious Douqi attacks continued, and there was a huge gap in strength. The seemingly perfect defense of the rebels was quickly opened up under the dense and concentrated attack of several imperial officials. Behind the gap, a spear with a cold glow pointed diagonally at the cavalrymen, waiting for the horses to bring their guns.
Before the gap could be filled by other soldiers, Jikai and several officers suddenly took the reins of their horses, and their horses leaped into the air. The fierce fighting spirit fell from the sky, twisting all the handles of the horse repulsion pistols in front of the battle into pieces, and the stumps of the rebel soldiers also flew into the sky with the fighting spirit.
Ji Kai had a cruel smile on his face. In his heart, there was also a strong pleasure from killing. Since the rout of the First Army and the losses of the Second and Third Armies to varying degrees, the deputy commander of the regiment had been holding back a wave of anger in his heart, and today he finally found an opportunity to vent, and all his anger poured furiously towards the enemy through the cold blade. The people who followed him and played for the assault troops were all divisional officers of the First Legion, and everyone had the same mood as him. A few swordsman-level powerhouses. Like the tip of a bayonet, it quickly pierced into the infantry phalanx of the rebels. The cavalry that followed them, like blades, quickly cut the gap wider and deeper.
After the enemy's infantry phalanx was broken through, the cavalry did not slaughter these infantry as the enemy expected, but parryed the swords and arrows of the surrounding rebel soldiers. Rush forward with all your might. It seems that there was an intent to completely penetrate the entire infantry phalanx.
As the attack deepened, the cavalry continued to suffer casualties, but the speed was not slowed down by half a minute. After entering the enemy camp, there were constantly cavalry surrounded by rebel infantry. The rebel soldiers soon discovered that none of the cavalry would come to the aid of the cavalrymen who were in danger, and that the besieged enemy did not panic in the slightest, completely ignoring the threat of death, and fought to the death. Adopt a life-threatening style of play. When he died, he had to pull a few more people to accompany him to the funeral.
The battlefield commander quickly reported the situation to Commander Lunda.
"It seems. Marshal Yan Tian couldn't bear it anymore, and finally began to fight me head-on! He must have known that he couldn't afford to delay time. When the new siege equipment is built, the city of Burleigh will be in my hands. ”
When Lunda heard the news, she looked excited.
These days, although the army he led caused a lot of casualties to the defending troops with the help of the power of magicians, Burleigh City was like a round and hard egg for him who lacked siege equipment, and he had nowhere to speak. Therefore, he chose to compete with Marshal Yantian for patience, and he believed that Burleigh City could not afford to drag it out. And it was a good thing for him that Yan Tian sent troops to be tough, so that he could eat the living force in Yan Tian's hands, even if it was a little bigger. After these attacks from heaven and earth, he had already found that there were many recruits in the garrison of the city, and their combat effectiveness was very weak, and he had an absolute advantage in terms of strength.
"Let them in, and wipe out this cavalry for me!"
Lunda then sent two divisions of infantry to surround the cavalry regiment and concentrate a large number of archers to shoot the adventurous cavalry.
The Imperial cavalry, which was besieged by heavy troops, like a mad beast, began to rush left and right in the rebel camp, showing their teeth and claws, and the intention to break through was extremely obvious. But their efforts, the stubborn resistance of the infantry and the rain of arrows of the archers, were again and again in vain. The rebel officers and soldiers did not notice that the struggling trapped beast was slowly approaching the center of the rebel camp, intentionally or unintentionally. And there, the three magisters, under the heavy protection of the rebels, are still casting magic and attacking the emperor ** team defending the city.
Yan Tian was in the middle of the assault force, and he was accompanied by three division commanders who were protecting him, and Hardy was one of them.
"Marshal, we are only about three hundred meters away from the location of the rebel magister. Hardy did it again by the light of magic
Then whispered in the ear of the hot day.
"Good. Order General Jikai to carry out the original plan!"
Yan Tian looked around and said in a deep voice.
"Nearly half of the five thousand people have been sacrificed, and in the last three hundred meters, I don't know how many good men of the empire will fall!"
Yan Tian sighed silently in his heart, looking up at the place where the magical light rose in the distance, with a strong killing intent in his eyes.
"I really don't know if I'm alive or dead, I'm actually coming this way!" a rebel officer couldn't help but smile contemptuously as he looked at the panicked cavalrymen and rushed towards his troops.
The task assigned to him by Rondo is to protect the safety of several military magisters, so his troops are the most elite force in the rebels, and there is no shortage of masters among the officers. Although it was found that the enemy's ground cavalry was very combative. And there are a few sword master-level masters, but he doesn't take these dying emperors in his eyes at all.
"Rest down, Lord Magus, your brilliant magic show has driven the Imperial army mad. Now, watch me send these madmen on their way with bloody means!" the officer smiled gracefully at the three magisters.
"Let's help too!" a black-robed magus sneered, casually throwing a light system illumination into the air, illuminating the battlefield hundreds of meters nearby as if it were daylight. The other two magisters also used the light of the illumination technique to release two high-level magics and struck at the two Earth Emperor ** people in the battle. Watch the two who were hit by magic turn over and fall off their horses. The bodies were dismembered by the rebels who swarmed them, and a smug smile appeared on both of their faces.
As soon as the marshal's order arrived, Ji Kai knew that the few hundred meters in front of him might be the last part of his life. In the first half of the fight, his fighting spirit has been seriously depleted. Several officers around him were not much worse off than him. But the striker's task must be completed.
"At the last moment, even if you die, you have to die and fight this way!" Ji Kai gritted his teeth. The original lightened and thinned ground suddenly vibrated brightly.
"Follow me!"
As soon as he rushed in, Ji Kai clearly felt the pressure. The quality of these soldiers in front of them is obviously higher than that of other rebels. After following Jikai into the enemy line, many soldiers and junior officers consciously met the enemy on both sides to cover the follow-up troops. Some of the high-ranking officers followed behind Jikai. Concentrate your forces on cutting into the depth of the enemy.
It was at this time that the "Iron Tower" left the large army. The enemy, who rushed to the side, met him. He was only a low-ranking officer, and he was also one of the three thousand iron horsemen who followed Yantiandi in the Battle of Yanyun. In that battle, he stuck five long arrows from the enemy in his body, and stubbornly held on with his tower-like body, killing nearly twenty enemy soldiers with the iron rod in his hand. After breaking through, he was too injured and fell off his horse, but when he landed. Relying on an iron rod stained with the blood and brains of the enemy, he stood tall. Since then, it has earned the nickname "Iron Tower".
More than a dozen rebel soldiers rushed forward. The "Iron Tower" was surrounded, and all kinds of weapons beckoned to him. "Iron Tower" roared. Swinging the iron rod in his hand vigorously, he pulled out an arc in the air and knocked several weapons flying, but the war horse under him was still stabbed by a few spears, and let out a miserable neigh. The "Iron Tower" dismounted, and a long sword flew head-on, and the iron rod stabbed straight into the throat of a rebel soldier.
After the blow was blown, a sharp pain came from his shoulder, and a steel knife slashed at him. The "Iron Tower" pulled out the iron rod and struck it on the chest of the sneak attacker behind him, and then slammed the stick on the head of the soldier who was retreating in pain. There was a muffled sound, and the soldier's head suddenly shattered, and without even making a scream, he fell on his back, red and white, splashing all over the surrounding soldiers.
Within a few breaths, six or seven rebel soldiers died tragically under the sticks of the "Iron Tower", either with broken bones or with their heads blooming. Although the tower had suffered several severe wounds and blood was pouring out, none of the rebel soldiers dared to come near him again. Under the command of an officer, several pikemen stealthily moved around the "tower". "Pop", in the crunch of broken bones, the "iron tower" fell into the air with a heavy stick, striking a soldier on the shoulder, chopping him to his knees. "Iron Tower" stuck out his tongue and licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, and just as he was about to look for his next target, seven or eight sharp spears, like the tongue of a poisonous snake, burrowed into his body. The sharp pain caused his facial muscles to contract sharply, and the warm blood flowing down the tip of the spear made his head gradually dizzy.
"Whew!" the fiercely wounded man roared, grabbed a few spears with his left hand, held the stick with one hand in his right hand, and slammed it down, killing several soldiers who had not had time to let go under the stick. As the two spears were drawn, blood spurted out from the "Iron Tower". With an iron rod stuck in front of him and a few spears on his body, the "iron tower" shaped like a hedgehog stood proudly among the rebels, staring angrily at the rebels in front of him. The stunned rebel soldier slowly moved back, fearing that he would become his next target. When the two pikemen stabbed the blood-stained spears in their hands into the body of the "Iron Tower" again under the reminder of the officer, the latter did not react at all, and they knew that the person in front of them had already died.
Marshal Yan Tian has not made a move, and the three division commanders around him.
There were constantly imperial officers and soldiers falling, and people were constantly rushing forward. When the distance was less than fifty meters, Yan Tian saw Ji Kai, who was rushing to the front, being struck by two huge lightning bolts, and his body immediately stiffened, and then he was slashed in the neck by a rebel officer. The head flew high.
"There aren't a few left, and it looks like I don't have to do anything. I didn't expect that among these cavalrymen, there were so many masters, but fortunately I met them!"
The rebel officer who was guarding in front of the Magister couldn't help but laugh when he felt that he had picked up a great achievement for nothing.
"The one I killed and attacked just now should be a leader. A magus said smugly.
"I played too much just now, and I was a little tired. It's time for a shift change, we should take a break. The other magister said with a tired expression, as if he had consumed too much mana when he had just killed someone.
He didn't expect it. Waiting for their rest is an eternal sleep. In the last few emperors, a golden light suddenly exploded, and it flew towards the place where several people were. It was a figure wrapped in golden light, volleying over the heads of the rebel soldiers, and was coming towards them at high speed.
"It's not good, it's the Juggernaut!" the moment the golden light appeared. The officer's face turned pale. He reminded the three Magisters out loud. While drawing his long sword, he protected the three of them. It was too late, and the three magisters held up their magic shields at the same time and began to chant.
When the figure in front of him was clearly visible, a majestic, angry voice resounded throughout the battlefield.
"Suffer yourselves!"
With a wave of the golden figure long sword, a crescent-shaped golden fighting qi burst out of the air horizontally, castrating like lightning. The officer felt. This fighting spirit was the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen. It is also a brilliant blow that all samurai have longed for all their lives. Instinctively, he raised his sword to parry. Then he saw his long sword, which was split in two by that golden fighting qi. Subsequently. His head fluttered out of his body. And his eyes, which had not yet closed, actually saw in the air that the shields of the three mages were shattered, and the three of them also turned into a ball of flesh and blood, scattered all over the ground.
"Juggernaut, my Magister!" Seeing this scene, Rondo looked miserable, and he didn't want to believe that a Juggernaut would suddenly appear on the battlefield, and his three Magus were killed in this way. He walked out of the camp and came here, originally to see what kind of tragic fate this lone army of cavalry would have.
The sudden change made the battlefield a dead silence. The officers and men of the rebels stood still in place. The power of a sword deters the three armies! In the face of the supreme existence of the samurai, there is no willingness to send them to death.
"I'm Commander Rondo, kill him for me!" Rondo roared hoarsely.
Rondo's cry of grief brought the rebels back to their senses.
"He's a sword master, but he's not a god! I'm tired of him!" In Rondo's roar, the rebel soldiers rushed towards the golden figures, and a group of guards also stood in front of Rondo.
Yan Tian succeeded in a blow, and when he saw Lundo appear, he wanted to take his life directly, but seeing that Lentor had many guards in front of him, he reluctantly gave up. Facing the rebels surrounding the front, Yan Tian swept out with a sword, and dozens of soldiers were hit by the golden fighting qi and twisted into a pile of rotten meat.
"I am Imperial Marshal Yan Tian, who dares to step forward!"
An old voice with great coercion and righteousness spread throughout the battlefield, and the rebel officers and soldiers felt that they could no longer move half a minute. Most of these rebels are emperors, and Marshal Yantian has always been the highest existence in their minds. In the face of the scorching sky that had become a sword saint, many officers and soldiers even felt remorse in their hearts.
Yan Tian strode in the direction of Burleigh City, and the officers and soldiers who stood in front of him slowly retreated backwards, making way for him.
The figure of the marshal went farther and farther away, and Rondo angrily urged the officers and soldiers to attack, but no one listened to him.
"I don't dare to go, Commander, you might as well go up and try it yourself. One of the division commanders even said coldly and sarcastically. Rondo was about to have a seizure, when he suddenly found that many soldiers looked very impressed, and seemed to agree with the words of the division commander, so he had to hold back the anger in his heart.
The lonely back of the hot day finally disappeared under the city of Burleigh, and the five thousand warriors who came with him were forever buried in the wilderness outside the city of Burleigh. However, this army was like a long sword in the hand of a marshal, and with a thunderous blow, the fear was forever left in the hearts of the rebel officers and soldiers.
In the battle, Marshal Yan Tian personally led 5,000 officers and soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the rebels, killing more than 30,000 rebels. Except for Marshal Yantian, who left the rebel camp safely and returned to Burleigh City with the might of a sword, the rest of the officers and soldiers all died.
After this battle, the critical situation in Burleigh was alleviated, but the rebel army was shaken by the hearts of the people, morale was extremely low, and even deserters continued to appear.
At this time, a demon, with thousands of his men, came to Burleigh and brought a new nightmare to the rebels, causing the total collapse of the rebels.
And in the imperial capital, Liuyun, together with a genius conspirator, also began to brew an alternative war.