Chapter 294: Two Tigers Fight
Those incense-smelling disciples were already on a par with Liang Ruji and them, but at this moment, they were suddenly rushed over by Yu Ren and their horse team of more than a dozen people. Suddenly, a gap was opened in the circular encirclement formation. The formation also began to mess up.
But Yu Ren and the others did not wave their hands there, their horse team went on a rampage, and killed from the other side of the enemy formation, and then turned their horses and killed from the other direction.
A few rounds at once. Liu Ziming could no longer control the formation, and the incense disciples in the crowd were in chaos, pushing each other, not to mention killing the enemy, it would be difficult to even keep himself.
Seeing that Liang Ruji took the opportunity to lead the team to rush towards the already chaotic cultists. In the blink of an eye, the believers fell one by one. Liu Ziming knew that he couldn't fight anymore.
"Withdraw, withdraw!" Liu Ziming shouted.
These 1,000 people are his hard work for many years! Also equivalent to his Guards. He had intended to use these 1,000 men to lead the nearly 100,000 disciples under his rule.
Unexpectedly, in today's battle, six or seven out of ten were lost at once. This made Liu Ziming how could he not be heartbroken.
"Retreat, retreat!" Liu Ziming shouted while personally leading a reserve team of more than 100 people to rush forward, desperately resisting the attack of Liang Ruji and Yu Renma's team.
Under Liu Ziming's desperate resistance, his 1,000 guards finally escaped with three or four hundred people. And the price paid was that he was seriously injured in the left arm and was stabbed three times. There were less than twenty of the hundred men who were with him.
In the end, with the desperate rescue of his eldest disciple Huang Yudie, Liu Ziming finally fled back to Qinshan with more than ten people.
Liang Ruji didn't expect that he would actually wipe out most of Liu Ziming's elite in this battle.
And Yu Ren was even more surprised, he really realized for the first time: the power of cavalry in this era.
In today's battle, it is not so much that Liang Ruji's 100 men defeated Liu Ziming's 1,000 men, but that Yu Ren's 10-man cavalry defeated Liu Ziming's 1,000-man infantry.
At the same time, it also made Yu Ren even more worried. He is only a cavalry squad of ten people, and he can exert such power, so if you speculate above, you can imagine how powerful the 60,000 cavalry elite of the Jurchens will be!
It's no wonder that there is a saying: The Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and the world is invincible.
At this moment, Yu Ren once again felt the strength of the Jurchens. This threat is like a thorn in the back. "One day, I will see for myself the benefits and disadvantages of your Jurchens!" Yu Ren secretly swore in his heart.
"Hall Master, I didn't expect this Liu Ziming to have such strong strength. I underestimated him. If the hall master hadn't arrived in time tonight, maybe we would have been wiped out. Liang Ruji walked up and said to Yu Ren.
Yu Ren raised his eyes to look at everyone, and asked Liang Ruji, "What about Ruolan Ruomei?" ”
"We're here!" Ruomei spoke, took her sister's hand, and got out of it. At this time, they were already covered in blood. But the expression of excitement on his face was obviously because Yu Ren hadn't forgotten about them.
Yu Ren saw the two sisters, and his hanging heart was finally completely relaxed.
"I didn't expect this small branch of the Wenxiang Sect to have such a strong strength. Or before they organized the ordinary congregation, what would happen if they organized the whole congregation? I couldn't think about it. ”
"Sect Master, please rest assured. As far as I know. This Jinan branch under the jurisdiction of Liu Ziming is still the most powerful branch of the entire Wenxiang Sect. And he is the only one who has this kind of foresight, and he trained a group of thousands of guards early, but in fact, there is no altar. As far as I know, there is another key reason why his 1,000-strong Guards are so combative:
In the past two months, Liu Ziming has accepted a new disciple. This person was originally the son of the Liaodong defender, and after Yuan Yingtai's defeat, this person fled to Shandong and was taken into the account by Liu Ziming. Under the guidance of this person, his 1,000-strong team has been able to greatly improve its combat effectiveness in the past two months.
In today's battle, although we only wiped out hundreds of people in a branch of the Wenxiang Sect, the blow to the Wenxiang Sect was almost equivalent to cutting off an arm. Liang Zongyi stood up.
When Yu Ren heard this, he was relieved. He came to Liang Zongyi and helped him wipe the blood off his face with his own hands.
"It's all the work of the brothers! I would like to take this opportunity to say one more thing here today.
We are not war-loving people. Fighting and killing people is not what we want to see. Sometimes, however, we have to take up the knife in order to defend the interests of more of our brothers and sisters, to fight for a happier life for them, and for a happier life for us.
At the moment, although the court is corrupt, we can't do without him for a while. If we let the Ming Empire collapse now, the people of this world and our brothers and sisters will also lose a great protection. At that time, the Jurchens will step into the Central Plains on their horses, and use their sabers and bows and arrows to take the lives of countless of our brothers and sisters, rob them of everything they have, and take them into slavery.
Therefore, at the moment, we must help the imperial court, so that the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect this time will consume as little of the essence of the Ming Dynasty as possible.
For the people of the world, for our brothers and sisters, and for ourselves! ”
"We are willing to follow Hall Master Yu for the rest of our lives, listen to the words of Hall Master, and never swerve until we die!" Liang Zongyi was below, raising his arms and shouting.
The brothers standing behind him also shouted together, "May I follow the hall master for the rest of my life until death!" ”
Yu Ren nodded, raised his hand, and asked everyone to be quiet, and then he arranged for Liang Ruji and Huang Ji'an to lead the brothers out of this place as soon as possible and find a relatively safe place to rest. After all, this is still the confidant of the Smelling Fragrance Sect.
Three days later, a strange team suddenly came at the foot of Mount Tai. There were forty or fifty people in the group. They drove more than a dozen ox carts, loaded with truckloads of grain. The victims along the way secretly swallowed saliva in their hearts when they saw this truckload of food, but no one dared to attack their idea. Because each of them carried a weapon with him.
The group eventually stopped at a place where the victims were most concentrated, and began to cut down trees next to them to build scaffolding.
All the victims looked at this group of people curiously, and no one knew what these people were going to do.
After most of the day's hard work, they finally built three grass huts.
The next morning, the enticing aroma of porridge wafted from the three straw huts. Many of the victims in the vicinity poked their heads out.
In the past few days, the amount of soup soup given by Wenxiangjiao has obviously decreased. The original two meals a day have almost been changed to one meal a day, and the rice in the porridge is also significantly less. This has made the last few days of the disaster victims extremely difficult. Many people are starting to wonder if they are going to go home.
Yu Ren's porridge shed happened to be set up at this time, which can really be said to be timely rain. Before they could announce it, many people had already heard the news and rushed here to receive porridge.
There was a long queue.
The specific matter of soup kitchen, Yu Ren handed it over to Huang Ji'an. He and Liang Zongyi sat on an ox cart and chatted. And Liang Ruji went back after the battle that night. They originally went to Yanzhou to deliver food to Cao An, but they happened to encounter an urgent distress letter sent by Huang Ji'an. So, Liang Ruji came with his brothers in the starry night.
Now that the matter was over, he also went back, leaving only a few dozen brothers under the command of his nephew in order to protect Yu Ren's safety.
"Zongyi, why do you think this Liu Ziming suddenly reduced the soup kitchen?" Yu Ren looked at the hungry victims in front of him and asked them.
"According to my tip. After Liu Ziming fought with us that night, because of the heavy losses and the fear that we would trouble them again, he himself had left Mount Tai with the remaining guards of less than 500 men and his three disciples and went to Yanzhou. Because no one was in charge of the small leaders here, they quietly took out the grain and rice in their hands and sold them secretly. That's why there are fewer and fewer soup kitchens. Liang Zongyi said softly.
Yu Ren sighed, "It seems that this Smelling Fragrance Sect still can't escape the influence of these filthy world winds. Xu Hongru and Liu Ziming, although they have great ambitions, they are unfortunately not talented enough. As a result, not only can it not be successful, but it also harms others and oneself.
In this regard, we should also take this as a warning! We should do a good job of supervising everyone, and we should not give him all the power that should be and should not be given because we trust him. ”
The two were chatting, and the soup kitchen had already begun in front.
Liang Zongyi looked at the large number of victims in front of him and suddenly asked a question.
"Hall Master. It's okay for us to give soup like this. But how do you get them to willingly follow you to a place so far away to open up the wasteland? ”
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