Chapter 62 Battle of Ye City (8)
A war is courage.
At this time, the battle situation outside Jianchun Gate was completely reversed.
The shouts of "Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will not kill them!" were shaking the sky and the earth.
The soldiers who followed Lu Yao three times to break through the formation were still twenty cavalry left. Except for the three particularly seriously injured, the rest followed Lu Yao closely. Chu Kun, who was originally responsible for raising banners at the entrance of Jianchun Gate, also brought several soldiers down. They beat the white tiger banners on all sides high, and the warriors who turned the battle with their own strength were more and more powerful.
The heroic posture of Lu Yao and others riding on the horse, fell into the eyes of the soldiers of the Qihuo Army, which made countless people feel excited. Most of the Qihuo Army were from Bingzhou, and they had a good impression of Lu Yao, a general who came from the Bingzhou Army. Not to mention that Lu Yao made great contributions in the Jinyang War and earned great faces for the people of Bingzhou. This made every Qihuo Army soldier look excited.
Ni Yi was an excited soldier of the beggar army.
Ni Yi was a native of Bashu. His family has been farming for generations. It was passed down to his generation. There was only one son in the five squads, so he was named Yi. The whole family loved him like a treasure and sent him to study for several years. Ni Yi was his name later changed. In the first year of Yongkang, Zhao Fu, the governor of Yizhou, fought with the refugee general Li Te. The Yizhou chaos was in chaos. Wherever the war reached, the original Tianfu country was covered with white bones, and it suddenly became different from the world. Ni Yi, who was only fourteen years old at that time, was carried into the army by the rioters. After many wars, he was finally completely separated from his family and went into exile in Liangzhou alone, hiding local tyrants as tenants.
Two years later, in the second year of Tai'an, Sima Yong, the King of Hejian who was guarding Guanzhong, ordered General Zhang Fang to lead a 100,000 army to attack Luoyang. As a result, Ni Yi was once again selected as a soldier and embarked on a journey. In the following years, wars between Heluo continued, and various forces were destroyed. Ni Yi relied on his courage and agility to travel to various camps and saved his life by chance. At this time, he became a leader in the Qihuo Army, under the command of Li Yun.
As the name suggests, the entire army is full of refugees struggling on the brink of death, and what they think is just begging for survival. That is why they leave their hometowns and come to the wealthy Wei County east of the Taihang Mountains. However, in the past six months since Ni Yi came to Wei County, more and more refugees gathered around Yecheng, and the food supply that the soldiers can get is getting less and less. Although the soldiers have already scattered on both sides of the Zhangshui River to farm, before the harvest this summer, many people have already started to feed wild fruits, mulberries, etc.
Ni Yi saw many weak refugees dying of hunger, but the dignitaries in Yecheng were still full of lights, wine and food, immersed in a rich and luxurious life. In the past few days, he finally began to consider: Perhaps, being a thief is the best choice. At least the thief can kill those hateful officials quickly and eat and drink happily. As for the others, how can they care about so many?
Until last night, Ji Sang Shile thieves attacked the city in large numbers. When Li Yun, Bo Sheng and others broke through the city, Ni Yi was also one of the soldiers who broke through. Along the way, he witnessed Lu Yao's strong rival Huang Guo, the most powerful general under Ji Sang, and without hesitation, killing Sima Yu, a high-ranking official of the court, opening a road for the people to leave the city. When Ji Sang's cavalry attacked, it was still the general who crossed the battlefield with dozens of cavalry to kill Ji Sang!
After several hours of experience, Ni Yi was very impressed by the brave General Lu, who was both brave and not afraid of the powerful. After all, he had been in a private school for several years. He thought about it and cheered loudly: "General Lu is mighty! A real man should be like this!"
"So, we won this battle?" a soldier asked carefully.
"Nonsense!" Ni Yi said decisively: "General Lu killed Ji Sang! He followed closely after a while, kill a few thieves to avenge Mao Hu and Hei Dog!"
Mao Hu and Hei Gou were also soldiers in Ni Yi's ten-man team, and they were killed just now when the bandit cavalry raided.
The sound of fighting in front was getting louder and louder. Between the flying dust, you could see the white tiger banners on all sides pointing in front of each other, and Lu Yao shouted at the rushing formation, invincible.
The soldiers from the front team shouted: "Okay! Kill one more! Then one more!"
Although the infantry team of the Qihuo Army lacked the command of the officers, they also fought bravely. Ni Yi and others were mixed in the team, and their pace was getting faster and faster.
A soldier indifferently reminded everyone: "It's our turn!"
The person who spoke was Ni Yi's subordinate Adu. Adu was an extremely thin and black-faced man with a dazed expression. Ni Yi was already a little shorter than ordinary people. Adu was half a shorter than Ni Yi, so he looked particularly thick in his head and bones. He was a refugee who joined the army last month. He had no name or surname, and he didn't know where he was from. Everyone gave him a nickname, Adu, and kept calling him.
As one of the humble untouchables in this chaotic era, he was afraid of death because he could die at any time. This nameless Aduo was the most fierce among Ni Yi's subordinates. In the bloody battle just now, he and Ni Yi each committed a thief army and hung their heads on their belts. Ni Yi's ten-man team originally had seven soldiers, two of whom died in battle and killed two more enemies, without making any profit or losing.
Although Ni Yi was young, he was an old soldier who had switched from Bashu to Hebei, so he was naturally not inferior to others. He nodded and clenched his spear: "General Lu has defeated the enemy. How can our beggar army fall behind? Hurry up and chop off a few heads!"
In the intertwined battles, the beggar army seemed to be surging whirlpools, launching attacks on Ji Sang's subordinates again and again. At the forefront of each offensive, Lu Yao and others rushed to kill, immediately defeating several thieves who were still fighting stubbornly. From a distance, they felt like a tiger, a horse, a dragon, and a flag and a banner rolled like clouds; the heroes under their robbery galloped and rushed into the sky!
After half an hour, except for a small number of enemies who fled far away with the cavalry, the rest were surrounded by the Qihuo Army, which was far superior in number, and they could not advance or retreat. In addition, Lu Yao and others took the surrender as the leader and held Ji Sang's head high and persuaded them to surrender everywhere, which made them feel weak and there was no desire to fight. In the end, more than half of the more than 2,000 elite thieves who followed Ji Sang to attack Qihuo Army, and more than half of the surrendered surrendered were killed. The soldiers of the Qihuo Army were killed easily, and even those who surrendered slightly and did not put down their weapons in time also chopped off many.
At this time, the Chen hour was about to pass, and the Si hour was not here. The thick smoke in Ye City covered half of the sky, so that the sunlight seemed dark. Many flying ashes slowly fell, falling on the bodies everywhere, and pooling blood, adding a layer of dark gray to the red ground. These flying ashes were sprinkled, and it was inevitable that they could inhale a little, making people's throat itchy.
When Li Yun and other charity generals drove out of Jian'an Post in a mess, Lu Yao selected more than 300 particularly talented people from the Jisangshou stroke, and the generals reorganized them and planned to enter the city to fight.
Li Yun suffered two more minor injuries in the defensive battle of Jian'anyi. At this moment, with the support of the soldiers on both sides, he barely rushed to the city gate of Jianchun Gate. Seeing this scene, he hurriedly jumped forward with one foot, pulled the reins of the battle horse Lu Yao rode, and whispered: "Daoming, these people are all evil thieves who have accumulated a year and have no morality at all. How can you use them to fight with confidence?...Daoming should not trust them easily!"
Judging from his experience in the past day, Li Yun is really not an excellent general, but he is indeed sincere and concerned about others and is a rare and loyal person.
But Lu Yao would not tell Li Yun that almost all of these 300 people were soldiers under the former Chengdu King Sima Ying's army. Because the King of Chengdu was defeated, they had to live in the role of Ji Sang's subordinates. Among them, Liu Fei, Bai Xu and others were all dead soldiers arranged by Lu Zhi early in the Ji Sang army, and Lu Yao's old acquaintance in the team... Lu Yao looked at it with a smile, and saw that Chen Pei, the former cavalry commander of the King of Chengdu, was blushing and stood uneasy.
In just a moment, Lu Yao had already broken up the 300 people and reorganized them, and then mixed them with the Jin army knights who followed him to form three teams. The first team was led by Lu Yao himself, and the other two teams were Xue Tong and Shen Jin, Chen Pei, Liu Fei, Bai Xu and others who surrendered to the public and served as deputy positions respectively. These people were powerful thieves and giant bandits who turned to the north and the south. In terms of being vicious and good at fighting, they were the elite cavalry of Ding Miao's troops in the Jinyang army, which was probably not as good as that. If they were used for themselves, they would be a powerful help.
Of course, Lu Yao did not expect these bandits who were used to being rampant to become loyal and reliable soldiers in the blink of an eye. It would definitely take a long time to completely conquer them. However, in the current situation, these cavalry do not need to be put into battle at all. As long as the bandits in the city see these people, it would be enough to collapse Shi Le, Huang Guo and others.
He leaned over and patted Li Yun's arm and said, "Don't worry!"
Lu Yao pointed to the cavalry and spoke in the loudest voice so that everyone around him could hear it, including the soldiers of the beggar army and the uneasy surrendered soldiers: "General Li doesn't need to worry too much, Lu has his own sense of responsibility. Don't you know that the situation is so chaotic and the livelihood of millions of people is difficult? I believe that many of them were once a scheming people, and they just turned to follow the thief because they didn't want to starve to death. Among them, who was born a thief? Who would be willing to be a thief for the rest of their lives?"
Lu Yao turned around, his sharp eyes swept across everyone, and said aloud: "From today, you will be subordinates of my general Lu Yao. I, Mr. Lu, will never pursue the past. I will have food for you and pay for you. As long as you obey the orders, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!"
Rather than saying this, it was for the other remaining troops of Jisang bandits, who were spread from afar, which caused a slight commotion to the surrendered sects divided into several places.
"No need to delay, distribute weapons!" Lu Yao waved his hand and immediately gave the weapons and armor to these 300 people, and equipped them with all the horses.
Half a moment later, three hundred cavalry swept across Jianchun Gate like a strong wind and rushed straight into Yecheng.
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Try to adjust your status, thank you for not leaving you. The crab pauses. Tonight, we will try to add an additional chapter to express our feelings.
Chapter completed!