Chapter 403: The Emperor's Head
Fortunately, the third shot did not be fired by the other party for some reason, but marched with drums, and this time it hit the soft underbelly of the imperial army, especially the three thousand fire cavalry, under the leadership of Wu Li, the army under Yan Liang was slaughtered.
However, there have been many failures, and the experience of defeat has long been achieved, after Yan Liang re-erected the banner, the army trained by Li Poshan gradually stabilized its position, and finally stabilized its defeat after shooting at the position with a strong bow and a crossbow.
Although the fire-breathing gourd of the 3,000 fire cavalry is powerful, after all, the distance of the spray is limited, and the amount of fire oil stored in it is also limited, which is not comparable to a bow and crossbow, but Wu Thunderbolt is unwilling to give up, so he gave an order to lead his troops to bypass the Chinese army, directly kill through the still chaotic flanks, and after blasting the camp gate with the last fire dragon projectile, he led the troops to break into the camp.
"Burn this place to the ground!" Wu Thunderbolt roared through gritted teeth, and the three thousand fire cavalry behind him were like a happy man, very experienced in groups of threes and twos and set fire everywhere, and soon the entire camp was set on fire.
But there was also something wrong with the fire cavalry, because the soldiers in charge of patrolling and guarding the camp were unexpectedly few, and they were about to collapse at the touch of a button, and they did not find any figures after lifting a few tents, and the fire cavalry who was responsible for burning the materials in the camp also found that the fire was burning wrong, and after tearing open the grain bag, they found that it was actually filled with dirt.
Wu Perak, who knew the plan, changed his face, gritted his teeth and glanced at the camp, and was about to retreat with his troops, because he found that a large army was surrounding, and if he didn't retreat in time, he was afraid that they would also be blocked in the camp and burned alive.
But before, in order to facilitate the arson, the three thousand fire cavalry were scattered throughout the camp, and now there is either smoke or fire all around, and it is difficult to gather all the fire cavalry in a short time with the herald or shouting alone, so Wu Thunderbolt had to flee in a hurry with only the hundreds of fire cavalry that were barely retracted, and the remaining fire cavalry were all blocked and burned alive in the camp by the iron-clad soldiers who came with the troops.
From a distance, he saw that there were constantly fire cavalry attacking the camp gate, but they were mercilessly slashed to the ground by the iron-clad guests, and Wu Thunderbolt suddenly spewed out a mouthful of old blood and fainted on the horse's back.
He himself has not recovered from his injuries, and he is in a hurry at the moment, if he is not young and has a thick foundation, I am afraid that this little life will be left here.
After the two sides led the troops to fight, seeing that it was getting late, they each paid their own troops and withdrew their troops.
Yan Liang was busy collecting troops and cleaning up the battlefield, but Yan Xu left the Chinese army alone and came to the territory where the Imperial Forest Army was originally located, because he was very curious about blood sacrifices and ghosts, after all, he had only read some records in books, and it was difficult to see them on weekdays, so he wanted to satisfy some curiosity.
When Yan Xu arrived, he happened to see a group of masters desperately escorting two old men in solemn robes into the sea of fire, finding a skull from the flames, and then putting the skull into the jade box and throwing it into the sea of fire, and these people were burned to death by the flames, only the jade box fell to the ground, and was quickly put away by a group of masters and two old men who were also dressed in the same clothes.
Yan Xu also watched the excitement, but Zhang Liang, the great eunuch who also saw this scene, was different.
Many people can't recognize the identities of those old men, but Zhang Liang is different as an inner servant, as the emperor's personal inner servant, Zhang Liang has been to the royal ancestral hall, and even sent the emperor to the imperial tomb, and recognized those old men as the royal mausoleum keepers.
The royal mausoleum keeper, coupled with the skull that was desperately going to be sent, Zhang Liang felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar, if the truth was as he imagined, it was really a big event.
"Looks like you're seeing something. Yan Xu didn't know when he came to Zhang Liang's side and said in a low voice.
"The miscellaneous family would rather be blind than see this. Zhang Liang sighed and left with his hands behind his back, he was a eunuch and a slave, even if he saw it, what could he do, could he say it, he couldn't, he couldn't say it if he died.
Although Zhang Liang didn't say anything, Yan Xu was not blind, and he was not stupid, he thought it was his illusion just now, but now he has determined a few points.
"Take the emperor's head to raise ghosts and gods, Chen Guo, you can really do anything. Yan Xu shook his head with his hands behind his back, he really didn't know what to say, this ghost god obviously had been practicing for a long time, if he hadn't used the emperor's head as a container, he would have been discovered by the divine court a long time ago, and it could still be covered up until now, it can also be seen from this that Chen Guo is not so simple, obviously he has been planning something for a long time.
Because of Yan Liang's foresight, although the camp was burned, the loss was not much, because he had already transferred most of the supplies to the other side of the river, and there were not even many soldiers left in the camp to guard it, otherwise Wu Perak's fire cavalry would not have attacked the camp so easily.
Yan Liang arranged for the army that had suffered a defeat to cross the bridge by boat to the new camp, let them go to rest after a full meal, and then pull a group of people to a meeting, after all, if they fail, they must sum up their experience, and then ask the court for benefits, otherwise how to fight this battle.
This battle has been fought so far, almost 100,000 horses have died on both sides, although the support of the imperial court is endless, but the amount of grain and grass materials is only one-third of the original, and even the reinforcements have not formed into a formed army, but instead a large number of recruits who have just put down their hoes, so Yan Liang can only barely maintain the supply of battle losses now, and it is simply unrealistic to gather a large army to push the thieves.
What's more, Chen Gui, the king of the five lakes, is not a vegetarian, this time is enough for him to sort out the entire five lakes, according to the intelligence of Jinyiwei, the other party has begun to erect flags in some places to recruit troops, and at the same time open the official warehouses in various places to mobilize grain and grass, and also gather a large number of craftsmen to forge armor, I am afraid that it will not take long for Chen Gui to retrain the army of 100,000, and then there will be really no recruitment.
Before Yan Liang and the others could discuss what to do, dozens of warships quietly went down the river in the night.
A man who looks similar to Wu Thunderbolt, but a little more feminine stood at the bow of the boat with a gloomy face, when Yan Liang had just ordered someone to build a water village appeared in front of him, the other party showed a cold smile, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of warships lit torches, ignited rockets, and then arrows rained down, enveloping the entire water village, this is not the end, along the current, these dozens of warships came to the location of the camp again, and the arrow rain naturally shrouded the past.
Although the rain of arrows could not shoot the camp, it would also wake up the soldiers who had just fallen asleep, and they had just suffered a defeat during the day, and finally just slept at night and were attacked again, almost did not cause the bombing of the camp, so frightened that Yan Liang hurriedly asked people to go to appease and suppress, and it was busy in the middle of the night to finish, but the entire army was already exhausted by tossing, if it was not guarded by the river, only a charge from the anti-thief army was needed, and they would be finished.
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