Chapter 302: The Brave
With his back to the enemy outside the city, Yu Ren walked towards the fifty people in front of him.
"Brothers. You are all warriors who have been paid by the prince for many years. The so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days. It is used for a while, and now Yanzhou City and the prince have reached a moment of crisis. It's time for us to die for the king. In a moment, I'll have people lower the drawbridge. I will lead you out of the city, and I will kill one of them from the enemy. Let the brothers in the city show that we are more than capable of defeating the enemy before us. Do you have any questions? ”
Fifty knights, staring at the crowd outside the city like a swarm of ants, fell silent. No one spoke.
"Do you have faith?" Yu Ren asked loudly again.
Still no one answered. Seeing this, King Lu was so embarrassed that he was about to step forward to reprimand him, when a cavalryman suddenly turned over and dismounted, knelt down to King Lu and said, "Lord, I still have an eighty-year-old mother to be raised at home. Please keep me! ”
At this time, more than a dozen people immediately rolled off their horses and knelt down to King Lu.
King Lu looked at the elite in front of him who had been carefully trained for many years, and when it came to the critical moment, he was so greedy for life and afraid of death. I couldn't help but kick down a knight in front of me.
"Grandma's. Lao Tzu spends 5,000 taels of silver every year to support you, is it just to let you eat and drink for nothing? Now it's time for you to serve, do you pretend to be grandsons for me one by one!
Okay, you don't do it, do you? Yes. Zhu Quan, drag them all out and cut them down for me! ”
After saying that, King Lu drew his sword and slashed at the head of a knight kneeling in front of him.
"Lord Wang."
King Lu's hand was held by another hand stretched out from the side.
"Forget it, now is the time to employ people. Since they don't want to go. Let's change people! Let them go to the top of the city and defend it, just like the rest of the householders. I can also exert some residual heat to some extent. ”
King Lu turned his head and saw that it was Yu Ren, so he withdrew his sword and said to the iron cavalry in front of him, "And put your heads on your heads." Wait until the anti-thieves are pacified. I'll decide what you're doing. ”
After dealing with these people, King Lu couldn't help but worry again.
"Spare them, who will go on this mission to go out of the city now?"
"Lord Wang, let's go!" Liang Zongyi, who was standing beside Yu Ren, said.
More than fifty of us can ride horses. As long as the prince can rest assured, lend us these fifty sets of iron riding equipment. I promise you can easily kill him in the middle of the enemy line. ”
When King Lu heard this, he was overjoyed.
"Good! Sure enough, it is worthy of the people brought out by General Yu, all of them are warriors. After speaking, King Lu instructed, "Come here, prepare wine." I will give the strong men a feast. ”
Immediately, a servant of the palace came up with several bowls of wine.
Yu Ren took the wine bowl first. Then, Liang Zongyi also took a wine bowl. Then the more than fifty brothers behind him also took the wine bowl one by one.
Yu Ren saw that everyone had taken the wine, so he raised the wine bowl and said loudly, "Brothers, the enemy in front of you is the sheep that has been sent to our mouths. We're going to go out of the city and eat meat. Show your wolf nature and let everyone see what it means to be a wolf in the flock. ”
Liang Zongyi followed the brother behind him to hold the wine bowl high and shouted three times, "Kill, kill, kill!" ”
Then everyone drank all the wine in one gulp, threw down their bowls, and put them on their horses.
When the soldiers defending the city saw that Yu Ren was ready, they hurriedly lowered the drawbridge. Yu Ren rushed out first. The others followed, brandishing their sabers and screaming out of the city.
The incense-smelling disciples outside the city had just arrived at the city, and were preparing to set up camp and build siege tools, when they suddenly saw Yu Ren and such a group of men and horses killing them, and they killed people when they saw them. Suddenly there was chaos, and everyone avoided one after another. Many even turned around and ran. It didn't even occur to resist.
Yu Ren's fifty horsemen first entered the enemy's formation, and sure enough, as he predicted, they were like wolves entering the flock, and they were unstoppable. Yu Ren did not stop, he led his men all the way out of the southern city, and then bypassed the western city. Prepare to fight from the north to the city again.
A group of defenders of Yanzhou City stood at the head of the city, watching the fifty cavalry led by Yu Ren shuttling through the hundreds of thousands of enemy formations. No one could stop me all the way, and I couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers. The original fear caused by the pressure on the other party's numbers was also swept away.
In order to boost the confidence of the soldiers defending the city, Yu Ren also deliberately pretended to be rare. Seeing that there was an elite force of thousands of people chasing after him behind him, he deliberately stopped and made a humiliating gesture to the opponent's main general.
The one who rushed to surround Yu Ren was Xiao Keji, the eldest disciple of Xu Hongru, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect. The 3,000 people he led were also Xu Hongru's elite. These 3,000 people are also well-trained and well-equipped, although their combat effectiveness is worse than Liu Ziming's 1,000 guards, but they have a clear advantage in numbers.
Yu Ren reined in his horse and quietly waited for the arrival of the three thousand people.
"General Yu, that's enough. Don't fight them, let's go back to the city! On the city tower, King Lu was afraid that Yu Ren would make a mistake, so he shouted at them.
But Yu Ren was unmoved. He stood quietly among hundreds of thousands of enemy formations, waiting for the most exciting battle. And the fifty iron horsemen who followed him were like a sharp sword ready to attack.
When Xiao Keji led his three thousand elites to catch up with Yu Ren, he also felt the unstoppable momentum exuded by this small team.
According to common sense, Xiao Keji brought 3,000 people, while Yu Ren only had 50 people on his side, and there were hundreds of thousands of his colleagues around. Xiao Keji should immediately disperse these 3,000 people at this time and surround Yu Ren and them.
However, Xiao Keji did not do this. He had already felt the powerful murderous aura emanating from Yu Ren's iron horse.
"Formation!" Xiao Keji gave the order in a loud voice.
The three thousand people who followed him immediately lined up in an orderly manner and quickly formed a phalanx.
In this era of cold weapons, formation battles have always been an important tactic for infantry combat. Whether or not the troops will be arranged is often an important key to distinguishing whether the other party is a professional soldier with combat effectiveness or just a straggler.
Among this group of incense-smelling disciples, it was the first time that Yu Ren had seen someone lined up.
Yu Ren quietly watched as the three thousand people in front of him quickly formed a phalanx. Before they could complete the phalanx, Yu Ren waved his hand.
"Kill!"
The fifty iron horsemen who followed him rushed towards the opposing phalanx like an arrow off the string.
Xiao Keji was the first to meet Yu Ren with his hands and swords, he must be Xu Hongru's eldest disciple, and he was still very confident in his martial arts.
Yu Ren sat on his horse, the long knife in his hand pointed at Xiao Keji. Xiao Keji's knife skills were extremely fast, and before Yu Ren's long knife arrived, his double knives had already slashed at Yu Ren's horse. However, Yu Ren's war horse was covered with a thick layer of armor, and it was unscathed at all. At this time, Yu Ren's war knife also swung to the top of Xiao Keji's head.
"Senior brother, be careful!" Two strong men wielding knives met Yu Ren's war knives from the left and right.
It's a pity that the weight difference between the knife in their hands and Yu Ren's war knife is too far. Yu Ren's knife at the same time split the two of them with knives. Xiao Keji even avoided this knife by rolling and crawling. And looking at the subordinates around him, Xiao Keji was even more shocked.
Yu Ren's iron cavalry was already like a steel knife, quickly splitting the phalanx behind him. Although these of his subordinates were the most loyal warriors of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, under the impact of Yu Ren's iron cavalry, the phalanx quickly lost its appearance. Everyone no longer helps each other, but can only fight on their own. In their eyes, Yu Ren's fifty iron horsemen were like monsters that suddenly fell from the sky, although they resisted hard, they finally couldn't escape death.
Seeing that the team that he had worked hard to train for many years was so vulnerable under the opponent's iron horse, Xiao Keji was furious. He grabbed the twin knives that had fallen to the ground and chased after Yu Ren.
Unfortunately, Yu Ren's iron cavalry went too fast, and before he could catch up with Yu Ren, their iron cavalry had already passed through the phalanx of 3,000 people and left in the direction of the north of the city. But what was left for these 3,000 people was a wound that could never be healed.
Yu Ren's team slaughtered to the north of the city, and the enemies who were originally guarding there fled one after another, and no one dared to come close to fight. And the soldiers who defended the city had already opened the gates for them and lowered the drawbridge.
Yu Ren's battle was a complete victory, although there were not many enemies destroyed, but the original tactical intention was completely realized, and the confidence of the city's defenders was greatly boosted.
When Yu Ren returned to the city, King Lu personally led the team again and greeted him at the gate of the city.
[I worked a twelve-hour shift for three weeks, and I didn't rest for a day. It's really not going to work! The little manuscript saved was basically used up. I can only change it this week. Strive to resume two more shifts next week. 】