Chapter 167: The Empty City
This time, the 10,000 horses brought out by Yu Sheng were all cavalry, and Sha Shaoyuan was equipped with much more equipment than before in order to cope with the battles that might arise later.
In addition to the normal war horse halberd, the saber at the waist, an additional bow and crossbow for the unknown sergeant, 100 crossbow arrows, and the simple siege equipment was dismantled and carried on the back of the horse. Each sergeant was provided with a fifteen-day ration, and all the horses were good horses.
And these 10,000 soldiers, all of whom are experienced in a hundred battles, have excellent experience in attacking cities and lands, and have excellent experience in killing and conquering, and there will be no riots in the face of any situation.
These 10,000 sergeants can be said to be the most elite 10,000 people in the Dongwangfu now, and the rest of the army and Sha Shaoyuan, needless to say, in addition to rich experience on the battlefield, the rest of his life is a martial artist cultivation, which can be defeated by thousands of people, and Sha Shaoyuan also has a martial arts level cultivation, and it is not a problem to fight a hundred people.
The ironclad hero, riding his horse, slowly entered the walls of the enclave.
This city wall is extremely high, and the passage through the city wall is also extremely long, and the rest of his life is at the forefront, and the secret order given before, the sergeants behind him slowly enter, and if there is any change, they will immediately guard the city gate.
The road is dark and long, not far ahead, you can see the bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground, and the rest of your life rides a horse, walking slowly, and the spirit is tense.
Huang Yuchen followed behind him, his whole body was swirling, and the two detached spell seals had already been carved, forming a formation hidden in the palms of his hands, if he encountered any formation fluctuations, he would crack it as soon as possible.
The road is very long, and the rest of his life is at the forefront, and it probably took a stick of incense to get out of the road and officially enter the enclave sphere of influence.
Out of the road, the moon was sprinkled, and a large tent of the military camp appeared in the distance, and the rest of his life stopped the horses, frowned slightly, and looked ahead, but saw that in the military camp in front of him, there was no light, and no figure flickered, as if it was empty.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng's heart flew forward, and he immediately turned around and looked at the city wall behind.
The city wall of the bridge is extremely high, if you want to go up the city wall, you need to pass through several layers of stairs, each layer of stairs is about more than ten zhang, turn back to each other, fifty zhang is a stage, there is generally a platform for storing weapons and sergeants to trim, and then the stairs continue, extending upwards. Generally speaking, if you go up to this hundred zhang city wall, there must be at least two buffer platforms, and in order to ensure efficiency, the platforms are staggered with each other. On the city wall, there can be ten thousand armies.
But the rest of his life was at the foot of the city wall at this moment, and when he looked up, he saw no sign of any sergeants on the city, nor did he see any bonfires.
At this moment, although it is late at night, there must be a lot of sergeants stationed on the city wall, and they will generally light a bonfire, and if they encounter an enemy situation, they will use the bonfire to light the wolf smoke, and the large battalion in the distance will immediately come forward to support. But above the walls of the enclave, it was unusually quiet and eerie.
Yu Sheng frowned, looking at Sha Shaoyuan behind him, Sha Shaoyuan's face was also sinking like water at the moment, and his brows were tightly locked.
"Herald. Yu Sheng said in a low voice: "A thousand sergeants immediately dismounted, stools on the city wall, check the situation of the city wall, if anyone has any abnormal movement, immediately kill, all the sergeants quickly pass through the road, stationed at the city wall." ”
"Yes!" Cui Chi on the side immediately responded, and quickly gave the order for the rest of his life.
The order was issued, and the sergeants behind moved significantly faster, and in a short time, 10,000 sergeants had all entered the enclave range, forming a fan-shaped formation, lined up at the gate of the Yongdao, and the 1,000 sergeants at the back dismounted, drew their long knives, and went straight to the city wall.
"What about the two enclave sergeants who opened the door just now, bring them here. Yu Sheng saw that the formation in front of him had been opened, and now he was no longer afraid of the enemy's sneak attack, so he turned his head and asked Cui Chi behind him.
When Cui Chi heard this, he looked left and right, and then whispered an order to the sergeant next to him.
After a short time, two enclave sergeants who opened the door were brought to the rest of the horses and knelt on one knee.
By the moonlight, Yu Sheng carefully observed the two sergeants, and found that these two people had weak breath and insufficient qi and blood, and they were obviously wounded, so he couldn't help frowning, and he had already vaguely guessed something in his heart.
"Ask you, where are the soldiers guarding the city gate?" Yu Sheng lowered his head, looked at the two kneeling in front of him, and asked in a loud voice.
The two men bowed their heads, their mouths staggered, unable to speak.
"Don't you understand the words? My general asked where are the sergeants who defended the city?" Cui Chi rode on the war horse on the side, and when he saw that the two of them did not speak, he couldn't help but feel angry, and repeated the question of the rest of his life loudly.
When the two men heard this, they raised their heads slightly, their mouths opened, but they couldn't speak, they could only hear squeaks.
Seeing this, Cui Chi's heart was furious, and he immediately got off the horse, pulled out a long knife with a "bang", put it directly on the neck of an enclave sergeant, and shouted: "Can't you hear what I asked?"
The two men immediately looked frightened, their hands waved again and again, and they waved violently in the air, looking terrified, and their mouths were moving, but they still could not make a sound, and could only shout loudly.
"Damn!" Cui Chi frowned, and he was about to slash it with a knife.
"Rip their mouths open. Yu Sheng's heart moved and stopped Cui Chi.
Hearing this, Cui Chi withdrew his sword, stepped forward, pinched a person's chin, asked him to open his mouth, looked at it fixedly, and was taken aback.
This man had only half a tongue left in his mouth, and it was no wonder that he kept shouting, but he couldn't speak. Seeing this, Cui Chi let go of this person, pulled the other person over, and pinched his chin, this person was the same as the person just now, and there was no tongue in his mouth.
Looking at the incision on the tongue, it was obviously cut with a sharp weapon, and the wound was red, and it was obvious that the injury had not been too long.
Seeing this, Cui Chi was immediately shocked, looked up at Yu Sheng, and was about to make a statement, but saw Yu Sheng's brows tightly locked, and ordered loudly: "All soldiers obey the order!
At the sound of an order, the fan-shaped defensive formation that was originally gathered around it immediately wanted to spread out in front of it, and it advanced straight forward for a hundred zhang before stopping.
Most of these sergeants were cavalry, and most of the soldiers who came out this time were offensive weapons, and they did not bring large shields for defense. Yu Sheng saw the appearance in the mouths of the two enclave soldiers, and instantly understood, let the sergeant pull the formation apart, if there is really an enemy army, the cavalry must also charge up to be powerful.
Cui Chi dragged the enclave sergeant in his hand to the ground, and the two enclave sergeants knelt on the ground, buried their heads tightly, and cried loudly.
This terrible cry was heard far away in the quiet night.
"Okay, stop crying. Yu Sheng looked at the two enclave sergeants kneeling below, frowned, and said, "You are useless to me, even if you abandon the pawn, it is useless to cut them, you can go." ”
As soon as Yu Sheng's words fell, the two enclave sergeants received such a great favor from heaven, and immediately kowtowed like garlic, and after quickly kowtowing to Yu Sheng, they helped each other up, staggered along the city wall, and staggered away.
"Order two sergeants who are self-cultivation, and follow them, and see where they go. Yu Sheng saw the two sergeants walking away with him, and whispered an order to Cui Chi on the side.
Hearing this, Cui Chi nodded lightly and immediately ordered.
In the phalanx, two black shadows flashed, looming, following behind the two enclave sergeants, and slowly disappeared into the distance.
At this time, the thousand sergeants sent to the city wall to inspect came down one after another, and the news of the report did not surprise Yu Sheng.
The walls of this enclave guarding the bridge are actually empty, it is an empty city. If you guessed correctly, the huge area of the military camp in front of you is also empty at this moment, and there is no trace of it.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng's brows furrowed, Sha Shaoyuan stepped forward at this moment, and whispered in Yu Sheng's ear: "Yu City Lord, things are strange, the enemy has given up the dangerous place and is not defending, and all the sergeants are nowhere to be found, this must be a plan to lure the enemy into the depths, and the strategy of the people of the enclave is to let us enter their hinterland, and then slowly eat us away." ”
Hearing this, Yu Sheng nodded slightly, and replied softly: "I guessed that these sergeants should be hidden on the way to Wufeng City, just waiting for an ambush, but they will not fight with all their might, they will only harass and delay our time to Wufeng City. ”
Sha Shaoyuan frowned, his eyes were shining, the enemy's strategy was very obvious, he gave up the danger of the city wall, let the commander of the Dongwangfu drive straight in, and use the depth of the enclave to drag this army to death.
But how did they customize this plan, if they didn't know about the chaos in the sky, why did they withdraw the defense and lead the Eastern Wangfu army in. If they knew, who told them what good would it do them to consume the strength of the Eastern Wangfu Army?
"General Sha. Yu Sheng looked at Sha Shaoyuan and said in a deep voice: "Leave you six thousand soldiers, can you defend this city wall?"
"Yu City Lord, what are you going to do?" Sha Shaoyuan was stunned when he heard Yu Sheng's words, and immediately asked: "Yu Cheng is going to enter the hinterland of the enclave? Knowing that there is a trap ahead, do you want to take the sergeants to death?"
Yu Sheng's eyes were cold, his eyes swept Sha Shaoyuan's eyes, and he said softly: "Let me ask you, give you six thousand soldiers, can you defend this city wall?"
In an instant, Sha Shaoyuan suddenly felt a chill all over his body, he felt a strong murderous aura in the rest of his life, he had never seen such a strong killing intent exuded from the rest of his life for so many years, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and said: "Swear to hold on!"
"Okay!" Yu Sheng responded and shouted: "One to four teams, follow me, and the rest of the men and horses will listen to General Sha's orders and stay on the city wall, and there must be no mistakes!"
With that, he stepped forward, separated the formation in front of him, and went straight into the distance.
Seeing this, Huang Yuchen immediately rode his horse to follow.
Yu Sheng's order was issued, and the 10,000 sergeants were divided into two groups, of which 4,000 men and horses followed Yu Sheng and went straight to the front camp, leaving 6,000 sergeants to stay in place and gather the formation, forming a miniature version of the cavalry phalanx.
Yu Sheng led the team forward, leaving Sha Shaoyuan and Cui Chi, the two looked at each other, Sha Shaoyuan looked helpless, and Cui Chi was stunned on the spot.
In Cui Chi's opinion, only taking 4,000 people into the hinterland of the enclave is tantamount to a mud cow entering the sea, and Yu Sheng's sudden order really startled him.
"General Sha...... This ......" Cui Chi was shocked when he saw the sand and dust raised by the cavalry galloping in the distance.
"This what, this. Sha Shaoyuan glared at Cui Chi, and ordered in a loud voice: "The five, six, and seven brigades will dismount, gather all their long-range weapons, and immediately kick on the city wall, and the rest of the men and horses will form a front and rear formation and defend on the spot!"
When the military order was issued, the phalanx immediately changed, and the 3,000 men dismounted, stepped forward quickly, unloaded the bows and crossbows on the horses of their comrades, carried them behind them, and quickly pedaled onto the city wall. The sergeants of the 8th Brigade also dismounted, gathered the 3,000 horses that had been vacated, and gathered at the place where the Yongdao was located, while the 9th and 10th Brigades immediately changed their formation, forming two rows in front and back, with halberds in front, forming a cavalry formation of letting go and preparing to attack.
The sergeants who went out this time were all experienced in a hundred battles, attacking and defending the city, running long distances, charging immediately, dismounting into formation, and being extremely skilled.
The formation changed quickly, but there was no sense of messiness, and after a while, the formation reorganization was completed, and the eighth pair of centaurs re-mounted, ranking after the ninth and tenth pairs, forming a third defensive formation. The remaining 3,000 men and horses had already stepped onto the city walls, lit bonfires, placed their bows and crossbows, and were ready to defend themselves against foreign enemies.
"Hurry up and send scouts to send the news back here, and let the little prince decide the rest!" Sha Shaoyuan gave an order to Cui Chi.
The thick black gates of the enclave walls were slowly opened again.
In a moment, he rode straight to the East Palace, and in an instant, disappeared at the end of the Black Stone Bridge.