Chapter 100: Dao Ji
Jiaxing, near Suzhou in the north, Ningbo in the south, and Hangzhou in the east, is located at the intersection of rivers, lakes and seas, choking the throat of the southern corridor of Taihu Lake, and has been a prosperous and prosperous place since ancient times, known as "the land of fish and rice" and "the house of silk". However, today's Jiaxing Mansion presents a state of depression, the city gates are closed on all sides, a team of armor soldiers in the city are tense as if facing a great enemy, every house in the city is closed, and pedestrians on the street are forbidden.
The reason why this is so is because a group of people suddenly appeared under Jiaxing City, and even tried to storm the gate of Jiaxing City.
Fortunately, there were a few veterans who had gone to the north to fight against the Warats at the city gate, and they had a lot of experience in dealing with the enemy. When they saw the group appear, they immediately closed the gates and raised an emergency alarm. Although this move left many people who were about to enter the city outside the city, and there was a great chaos in the city, it was fortunate that the enemy was stopped under the city in the end.
When Liu Xian, the prefect of Jiaxing, and Li Sheng, a thousand households of the Jiaxing Guard, hurried to the city, they saw the hundreds of bandits dressed as Japanese people in the city wantonly killing the people under the city who had not entered the city and robbing them of their belongings, their faces turned pale, but they didn't know whether it was out of anger or fear.
At this moment, the soldiers of the guard have completed the assembly, because Jiaxing is rich, and Li Sheng has a lot of ways to make money, so the intensity of sucking the blood of the soldiers is a little smaller. Although it is impossible to have 1,120 soldiers, it can reach 800. As for the armor and equipment, although they are all old, most of them can be used.
After calming down, the two adults, Yiwen and Wuwu, had already seen that the number of would-be robbers under the city was actually limited, at most three hundred, and then looked at the more than 800 men and horses who had a neat phalanx and neat armor under the city, and the courage of the two was revived in time.
Li Sheng made an impassioned look on his face, and bowed his hand to Liu Yu and said: "Lord Prefect, although these widows under the city are fierce, they only care about killing and robbing, and they know that they are a rabble at a glance. The last general is willing to lead a group of men and horses out of the city and annihilate them under the city, so as to show that our great tomorrow is magnificent and should not be offended!"
Liu Qian didn't know that this seemingly rough man was actually the most cunning officialdom old fritter because he saw that the number of would-be robbers was small and scattered, and he planned to pick up cheap and make war exploits. However, this is also beneficial to him, after all, as the head of Jiaxing, in the end, no matter how this credit is calculated, there must be his share, so he nodded very kindly and agreed, and earnestly told Li Sheng not to be careless.
Li Sheng agreed, turned around and went down the tower, took the reins from his own soldiers, flew onto the war horse, and picked up a 26-pound machete. Without saying a word, now the soldiers drove their horses back and forth several times in front of them, and the broadswords also flew up and down to slash left and right.
His identity as a thousand households was also cut out on the battlefield in the early years, and now although he has been pampered for many years, in order to strengthen his body and enjoy it for a few more years, he has not let go of his martial arts, and he can still dance this big knife that drank countless blood in his early years.
At last he flew his horse over the side of a tethered stake the thickness of a bowl, and with a push and drag of his broadsword, the half of the stake flew away with the blade, rolling to the feet of the front row of soldiers.
"Boys!" Li Sheng reined in his war horse and raised the big sword in his hand and shouted, "Lord Fang Caiben has already counted it in the city, and there are only more than a hundred Japanese robbers outside, and they are busy killing and robbing without guard at the moment. With our more than 800 men, even pressure can crush them to death. Now Lord Ben will take you to cut down those widows, and when the time comes, the boys who are lucky enough to grab the enemy's cut will remember to leave their heads, and after the battle, they will receive a reward from Lord Ben with their heads. A first-class reward of five taels of silver, and the on-site distribution will never be in arrears!"
In the end, he is a person who has been on the battlefield, and he has extremely rich experience in leading troops, first showing his personal bravery, then concealing the number of enemies, and finally offering a heavy reward to stimulate the three axes, and the morale of these more than 800 soldiers was stimulated to the extreme, and everyone shouted in unison: "I am willing to make meritorious contributions with my lord!"
The city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Li Sheng rushed out with a horse, followed by more than 800 soldiers with high morale, and after forming a formation under the city, they pushed all the way forward.
Outside the city, the sound of the horn suddenly sounded, and those who were killing and looting heard the horn, and they threw away the looted property in their hands without hesitation, and quickly gathered towards the source of the horn, and in a moment they had gathered in array.
A neighing red rabbit horse, full of red and fiery horses, galloped down a hill in the back, and the knight on the horse was covered in armor and even had a hideous metal ghost face on his face. He carried two swords diagonally behind his back, a short knife diagonally inserted into his waist, and a huge long knife with a length of seven feet hung diagonally on the saddle side of the war horse.
Seeing that the Japanese on the opposite side were able to assemble so quickly, it seemed that they were a well-trained elite, and when they rushed to the forefront of Li Sheng's heart, they made a sudden attack, and faintly had some bad premonitions, and the momentum of the charge slowed down slightly.
At this time, the knight had also driven his horse to the front of the Japanese formation, and reached out to take off the mask on his face, revealing a pretty face that was coquettish to the bone. She reached out and pulled out the giant long knife on the side of the saddle, pointed the knife in front of her and let out a crisp and tactful long laugh, and shouted delicately: "The general on the other side, dare to come forward and fight with the slave family!"
"It turned out to be a little lady!" Seeing that the person headed by the other party was actually a woman, Li Sheng was bold and strong, thinking that if those would-be robbers were really elite, how could they let a woman ride on their heads.
After thinking about it for a lifetime, he finally threw away the last trace of hesitation, and made a fuss about the identity of the other party with half-truths and half-truths, adding the last fire to the soldiers whose morale was already extremely high behind him: "Rush up, who can capture that little lady alive and offer it, Lao Tzu will reward him with fifty taels of silver!"
"Kill the enemy!" the eight hundred soldiers roared in unison, and their feet accelerated with the horses of the Thousand Households, and rushed towards the immobile Japanese who stood in a formation on the opposite side.
Seeing this scene, the woman showed a smug smile on her face, put the mask on her face again, pointed her long knife forward and rode out of her horse, and shouted coquettishly: "Assault!"
"Kill!" the three hundred Japanese warriors behind her held their swords in front of them at the same time, and their low cheers were filled with incomparably strong fighting intent and murderous aura, and they charged forward behind the leader's horse.
The two teams, which were close to three to one, approached rapidly, and Li Sheng, who was at the front, made contact with the woman first.
Li Sheng raised the big knife and slashed it fiercely at the woman who was galloping on the opposite side, without the slightest pity for the jade, showing the ruthlessness and determination of the veteran on the battlefield.
The woman's water-cut eyes exposed outside the mask revealed a trace of cold killing intention, and an equally cold word came out from under the mask and clearly entered Li Sheng's ears: "When you arrive at the underworld, you must remember that the person who killed you is the commander of the forward battalion of the 'Black Dragon Army' 'Sword Hime' Miyuki Asahara!"
The two galloping horses staggered, and the two broadswords turned into two cold rays of light and staggered in the void. Then Miyuki Asahara's blood-stained giant long knife continued to charge, and behind him, Li Sheng rode out a few steps, and the head of the person on the neck suddenly rolled to the side and fell into the dust.