The ninth chapter of the night of the door (2)
Zhu Zhi announced on the spot that Xiao Ma Wang and Chu Zhi would be the commander of Yulin's right guard for the time being. He ordered Zhang Rang to be brought up. This man was taken to the case by two guards like a ball of mud. Zhu Zhi looked at him contemptuously and said, "Dangerous thief, do you know the crime."
Zhang Rang lay on the ground and had no strength to beg for mercy. He murmured: "Your Highness will circumvent your life, your Highness will spare your life."
Zhu Zhi said: "If you want me to spare your life, just tell me your conspiracy in detail."
Zhang Rang said: "When you go back to your highness, it's all Lan Yu, and it's all conspiracy made by Yang Chun and the others. There's nothing a villain can do about it."
Zhu Zhi didn't want to listen to his nonsense and said, "Speak quickly."
Zhang Rang said: "Last night, Yang Chun was recruited into the Lan Mansion. After he came back, he found me and said that the Jinyiwei falsely accused General Lan. Oh no, he falsely accused Lan Ni and held the emperor hostage. The situation was very critical and he had to raise an army to fight the king tonight. The task of the Yulin Right Guard was to divide his troops into control of Shencemen nearby, and to receive Chongqing Guards and Qingjiang Guards into the city. The other troops and horses cooperated with the vanguards of the palace and Longxiang Guards to capture the Meridian Gate."
Zhu Zhi said hatefully: "Is it the truth?"
Zhang Rang hurriedly said, "It's all the truth. A villain, a villain, how dare you deceive Your Highness?" Zhu Zhi waved his hand and asked the guards to drag him down.
Zhu Zhi gathered Tie Xuan and others to the side of the case. Everyone opened the Nanjing map and started to study it. Tie Xuan thought for a while and said, "It seems that Lan Yu's troops in the city are not much. Now he has gone to the Yulin Right Guard. He has two guards and some family generals, at most 20,000. Judging from the current situation, Da Nei is the top priority. Usually, Xuan knows one or two points of defense in Da Nei. Generally, Jinwu and Jinyi guards rotate in each battalion, with a number of about 3,000 people. We will add another 3,000 people to cooperate with the Shenji camp. It is not a big problem to guard until dawn. The other problem is that Lan Yu cannot use the Sichuan guards stationed outside the city. These are experienced veterans who have passed through the battlefield. So on the one hand, it is to relax the support of Da Nei, and on the other hand, it is to cut off the connection between the inside and outside of the Lan Party City. Xuan is not talented and is willing to lead an army to guard the north gates."
Zhu Zhi was completely trusting about Tie Xuan's arrangement and immediately said: "Okay, I will hand over the three left and right battalions to you, and immediately take over Shence, Jinchuan and Zhong Fu's three gates. No army is allowed to enter and exit without the emperor's handwriting and my token." As he said that, he took out a command arrow, and Tie Xuan took the order to activate the three left and right battalions to assist him out of the tent.
Zhu Zhi ordered again: "Little Horse King, Chu Zhi, immediately click the front, join the two battalions of troops and follow me to the palace to rescue the enemy." Little Horse King and Chu Zhi both looked firm at this time. In their opinion, this was the person who made them willing to help them with their lives. As for what happened in the palace, the two of them didn't think about it at all. As long as Zhu Zhi gave the order, he would sacrifice his head and shed blood and not frown.
Seeing the generals going down to prepare separately, the tent immediately became much cleaner, with only a few guards protecting each other, and two soldiers, holding brooms and buckets to clean the bloody left on the ground just now. Yang Chun, Ma Qing and Xu Baxian's corpses had been cleared out, but the tent was still murderous intent.
The three of them were the first victims who fell in this chaos, but they were definitely not the last one. Zhu Zhi originally felt that since he could not change this cruel killing, he might as well be outside, but at this time, he had no choice but to be pushed to the forefront of the incident. The tree wanted to be quiet, but the wind never stopped. The Ming Dynasty, since he arrived, has been in constant turmoil. Why is this prince so tired? The soldiers are in danger tonight? I still don’t know if I can live until dawn tomorrow, Zhu Zhi closed his eyes tiredly.
In just a while, there were crowds of people outside the tent, and the soldiers of the Yulin Guard had already gathered. The four brothers of the Little Horse, Chu Zhi and Qu walked into the tent. They saw the Little Horse King's inner lapel, thick cowhide armor, an iron arm bow on the left, a pot of carved feather arrow on the right, a purple gold helmet, and a bright red feather on the head; Chu Zhi was wearing an iron louver armor, an iron helmet on the head, and his narrow blade slashing sword in his hand. Both of the Qu brothers were wearing armor and a heroic posture.
Fortunately, the four powerful generals, their arrival suddenly increased Zhu Zhi's courage. He stood up suddenly and said, "Let's go, four generals, we will follow me tonight." Zhu Zhi's words were originally to boost his courage, but to the sound of a few people, that was a sensational language of sharing life and death. The four people replied loudly: "I wish to follow Your Highness."
Zhu Zhi led 3,000 troops out of the camp gate, and suddenly a muffled bell sounded "Clang...Clang..." from a distance. The ancient night was very quiet. The bell sounded from afar and clearly struck everyone's hearts. Then the bells in the city also rang together, "Clang...Clang..." swept across every corner of Nanjing City and took action! Zhu Zhi looked at the sky in the distance. For whom did the earth-shaking bell sound?
Zhu Zhi grabbed the horse's belly and ran away from the strings on the Bluestone Street in the capital. There were no pedestrians on the Ergenttian Road, and the three thousand cavalry were silent, with only the horse's hooves stomping on the ground like thunder.
Turning a few streets, the shouts of killing from the inside of Dawen became louder and louder. It seemed that Lan Yu was attacking the imperial city more and more urgently. Suddenly, the street in front was full of shadows, and a loud voice shouted: "Who is coming?" Zhu Zhi suddenly strangled the war horse. Chu Zhi raised his hand, and the entire army stopped quickly.
Zhu Zhi and Wang Chuzhi exchanged glances with the little horse, and Chuzhi shouted: "We are General Yang's Yulin Right Guard."
The voice in the darkness came back: "Oh, it's General Yang. Why are you here just now? The fight ahead is in a hurry. General Lan also ordered you to reinforce quickly."
Zhu Zhi whispered: "Roar over and let the people below rush over and shout Lan Yu to rebel and follow the order to fight against rebellion." The generals received the order and conveyed the words.
Zhu Zhi pulled out the sword of Damascus steel, pulled the reins, and let the horse move forward slowly. This was the first time in his life that Zhu Zhi had been in battle, fearing that the excitement would make him feel hot all over. Zhu Zhi suddenly remembered a legend about the sword made by Damascus steel, pressing it horizontally on the saddle, and the sharp blade moved forward. When he was less than fifty meters away from the black shadow, Zhu Zhi suddenly clamped it, and the big horse spread its four hooves and rushed forward.
The shadow gradually became clear. It turned out that a team of soldiers were guarding the road, and they were busy moving some obstacles. Zhu Zhi was quick and rushed to the front of the team in an instant. The general flag who was shouting just now felt that the momentum was wrong and was about to talk. With a "puff", Zhu Zhi's sword placed horizontally had cut off his head with the horse's power. The alert rebels had already found that the situation was wrong and shouted and started to swear. However, this Damascus steel sword killing method was extremely fierce, and the second victim was even cut off with the knife and the head.
The angry horse sword was invincible, and Zhu Zhi just lay on the horse, allowing the sword to be cut all the way. I don’t know how many people’s heads were cut off by it. The pleasure of running wild made Zhu Zhi crazy.
"Lan Yu rebelled, and was ordered to fight against rebellion." The three thousand cavalrymen shouted together, rushing into the enemy formation like tigers. At first, these alert rebels thought they were their own people, and they had lost their vigilance. At this time, the cavalry attacked, and the cavalrymen raised their swords and fell, like chopping melons and vegetables. The people were rolling on the street, and the streets that were as calm as water just now suddenly turned into a bloody road to hell.
The rebels in front retreated, and the people behind were fucking the guys and rushed forward. The two sides were crowded together, and they could not organize decent resistance at all. The cavalry that was flying by was slaughtered by the cavalry. Three thousand cavalry rushed all the way, shattering the resistance of the rear guard. There was a torch in front, and the sound of killing was shook the sky. The rebels were rushing to the Great Nei Meridian Gate. Fortunately, at least for now, the rebels still failed to break into the door.
The little horse king and Chu Zhi followed Zhu Zhi, fearing that Zhu Zhi would be in trouble. Seeing that they had already rushed across the street, they hurried forward to hold Zhu Zhi in. The little horse king shouted: "Your Highness, you have rushed over, stop."
It was not until this time that Zhu Zhi woke up from the excitement just now, and the scenes of swords and blood spraying just now floated past his eyes again. Zhu Zhi's heart was pounding, and as he looked at the sword in his hand, a drop of blood was dripping from the tip of the sword.
Killing... Zhu Zhi subconsciously wiped his blood-stained hands on the battle robe, but he knew clearly that after defilement, his hands would never be clean again. He couldn't believe it. Just now, Zhu Zhi, no, to be precise, was Tang Zi, who had turned into a murder machine.
This long street is the only way to the palace's Meridian Gate. Lan Yu left 500 vanguards in the palace to defend here. He thought that with the combat effectiveness of the vanguards in the palace, there would be no problem to persist for a while. But unexpectedly, the Yulin Right Guard had become the enemy and the defender's defense line was broken through.
After passing the long street, there was an open land. From a distance, I saw the tall walls of Nanjing Palace City, which were illuminated red by torches. Several ladders had been put on the city. The rebels led by Lan Yu were in a hurry to attack the city.
Not only here, the entire Nanjing city was already in chaos. The thrilling death knell just now had turned into a series of shouts of killing. Looking around, there were fires everywhere, and the wind blew on Zhu Zhi's face, even a little burning. Obviously, the rebels had already taken action in various places. Zhu Zhi knew that he had to seize the thief and capture the king first, and take down Lan Yu, and the rebellion naturally collapsed.
Zhu Zhi was about to continue rushing to the city, and a bunch of soldiers was moving towards this side. In the darkness, swords and guns were shining, gathering into a formation three hundred steps away.
When Chu Zhi and the Little Pony King saw this formation, they quickly sorted out the team. Chu Zhi ordered loudly: "The knife is sheathed, the arrow is ready, two hundred steps to rotate rightward, and shoot freely."
Zhu Zhi didn't know what the situation was ahead, and he felt a little anxious. Seeing that the team had already formed, he shouted with a sword: "I'll arrive at the palace with the last journey left. Brothers, come with me."
Lan Yu rode his snow-treading black horse, standing outside the Meridian Gate of the Palace, and was supervising the battle. Behind him were Cheng Shimei, Cao Zhen, and the governor Huang Ke, Zhuang Cheng, Wang Cheng, Wang Xin and other confidant generals.
In a hurry, Lan Yu only brought out the troops of the vanguard and the Longxiang Guards and thousands of family members from each government. But he believed that more than 20,000 people were enough to capture the palace. While he divided his troops to defend the other four city gates, he urged the main force of the Longxiang Guards of the Dui army to attack the imperial city with all his strength.
Lan Yu has attacked many cities in his life, but none of them are as small as before him, but not as important as before him. The fate of these people in front of him is in this city. The person who was on the dragon bed, high above and had him worshipped, whether he was dead or alive, would have mastered everything.
More than a dozen cloud ladders attached to the city wall, and two thousand households of Longxiang Guard were leading their troops to climb up. Two thousand archers under the city suppressed the bows and arrows at the top of the city with all their might. Just like many times before, they piled up the opponent bit by bit until the opponent was crushed by pliers like walnuts. The difference this time is that Lan Yu is racing against time and hastily raised his troops and must take it before dawn.
Some people kept falling down from the ladder, and the wailings before death came from the city. After several rounds of shooting, the rain of arrows against the city had become sparse. Lan Yu knew that the defense on the city tower had already appeared, and immediately ordered a thousand households to lead their troops to attack. In the use of the reserve team, he was deeply educated by his brother-in-law. In his opinion, as long as he tried his best, the Meridian Gate would be broken.
At this moment, a messenger quickly ran to the front of the horse and reported: "Report to the general, a group of people are rushing into Huaxi Street, and Zheng Qianhu requested support."
Lan Yu raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "I haven't figured out the number of people, so I'll look for it again." He turned his horse's head and stared at the shadowy East. Could it be that he is here? Lan Yu has never had any news about the right guard of Yulin, and has become a sharp sword that has been hanging in his heart.
"Cao Zhen?" Lan Yu said.
"The last one will be there."
"You can take the right battalion of the vanguard to reinforce, and even if you die, you will drag the visitor to me." Lan Yu ordered. Cao Zhen led his troops there. At this time, Lan Yu knew that it had reached a critical moment and turned to Zhuang Cheng: "You go up, take the afternoon gate as fast as possible. Lan personally beat the drum for you."
Zhuang Cheng pulled the clothes on his body, revealing the scarred muscles, and pointed the long knife in his hand forward: "Brothers, follow me!" As he said that, he went forward and dozens of personal soldiers followed Zhuang Cheng roared up.
Lan Yu got off the horse and walked to the cowhide drum and beat the drum himself. The drum beats went from slow to fast, urging people's killing little by little. Thousands of soldiers and generals saw General Lan beat the drum himself, and even more desperately attacked the city. The Great Neiwu Gate was in danger.
Cao Zhen led the front battalion to set up a formation behind Lan Yu Central Army, with spearmen in front, card swords in the middle, and archers in three rows behind. He looked up and saw shadows in the darkness, and the sound of horse hooves rumbling, as if thousands of troops rushed over. The thousand-armed houses shouted: "Three hundred steps... let the arrows." A row of arrows shot out like locusts, "Swish, swish, swish". The light in front was unclear, and it was impossible to see what effect it had.
Among Zhu Zhi, Chu Zhi and the Little Horse King were lined up and three thousand Yulinlang behind him. A rain of arrows shot in front of him. Fortunately, the cavalry team was hidden in the darkness and the hit rate was not high. Only a few people were caught and fell off the horse. Seeing that they were still 200 steps away from the enemy formation, the team rotated to the right, and Yulinlang began to shoot freely.
Seeing that he had avoided the front, Chu Zhi immediately ordered: "Talk assault formation, draw his sword to cut over." The well-trained Yulin Lang ran and changed the team shape. Under the leadership of Zhu Zhi and three others, he entered the enemy formation diagonally.
Cao Zhen, who was waiting for the cavalry to rush forward, had not waited for the enemy cavalry, but had a rain of arrows, and a piece of land fell immediately in the formation. Cao Zhen was also a veteran on the battlefield. He found that the opponent was very smart and did not recklessly rush directly to the prepared infantry formation. Instead, he exerted the high mobility of the cavalry, avoided his front, and rushed over obliquely. Cao Zhen quickly ordered the formation to move, hoping to turn the spear against the cavalry again, but it was too late.
The cone-shaped assault cavalry cut into the infantry formation diagonally. Zhu Zhi used the move just now again, and tried his best to crawl on the horse. The Damascus sword was horizontally on the saddle and used horsepower to cut it. Chu Zhi cut the sword on both sides, and the Little Magnificent King spear. Three people were like three tigers, leading three thousand evil wolves to cut the infantry formation of the right battalion of the palace army's vanguard.
The body of a small school in front of him was divided into two sections with the sword, and blood spurted on Zhu Zhi's face. "Kill, kill them!" Perhaps this bloody smell aroused the beastly nature buried deep in the human body. Zhu Zhi shouted while slashing and killing all living things that entered his sight. A beastly hope completely expresses the anger and fear that had been suppressed in his heart for more than a month. People are brave with their swords, and the sword follows the power of life. Whether it is weapons or physical bodies, they are broken into two pieces.
Zhu Zhi's ferocity also inspired the bloodiness of his soldiers. The infantry, who had been confused by his opponent's flexible and changeable tactics, were gradually overwhelmed by these beastly opponents. Seeing that the enemy's formation had loosened, the Little Pony King shouted: "The surrendered will live, and the rebels will die." Some mentally collapsed rebels began to throw down their weapons and kneel down to surrender.
Cao Zhen still led more than 100 generals to support him. When he heard such a sound from the enemy formation, his face turned pale. At this time, the morale of the army was in chaos, and the formation might collapse. He slashed a soldier who wanted to escape and shouted: "We are rebelling, and if we surrender, we will die. It's better to go out and fight." The generals around him cut down a few more deserters before finally stabilizing the situation.
Cao Zhen saw Zhu Zhi who was killing in the formation like a mad tiger. "Kill Zhu Zhi, General Lan will reward 100,000-household marquis." He shouted while urging his horse to kill Zhu Zhi. The general who followed his family also had no way out and howled and besieged him.
Zhu Zhi was already fast, but he rushed forward almost madly, gradually leaving the large army, leaving only Chu Zhi, the little horse king and dozens of cavalry guards. The dozens of cavalry who were alone were surrounded by Cao Zhen, who was counterattacking. When Cao Zhen saw this, he even sieged up crazily. Zhu Zhi rushed left and right, almost like Huansheng.
He slashed over from the left, Chu Zhi blocked him, and turned his hand to slash the sneak attacker down the horse; he stabbed him with a gun on the right, and was caught by the little horse king, fighting in a group. He protected Zhu Zhi around him to block the wind and rain, but after all, there were many heroes who could not stand up.
Cao Zhen slapped the horse and took Zhu Zhi straight, and he was facing him with a move "strike Huashan alone". When he cut down at Zhu Zhi, Zhu Zhi tried hard to raise his sword to meet him. With a clang, Zhu Zhi shook Zhu Zhi's mouth numb. The big sword was wide and thick, and it was not a sword that could be cut off. Cao Zhen's wrist changed horizontally and swept over again... Zhu Zhi's first battle was the first time he was on the battlefield. He just relied on the horse's fast sword. When talking about his combat experience, Cao Zhen, who had experienced many battles, had no rich experience in fighting. The two fought in a group, and only met two or three times. Zhu Zhi had only the ability to resist but no fight back. Chu Zhi and Xiao Ma Wang were entangled by several generals, and he couldn't take off his hands to help for a while.
Seeing that Zhu Zhi's tricks were scattered, the opportunity came. He grinned, and a knife was as tight as a knife, and he became more and more capable of killing. Another "clang" sounded, Zhu Zhi's sword was swept open, and the gate of the middle road was wide open, Cao Zhen turned the sword and slashed in half. Zhu Zhi had already woken up from the madness just now, and the cold light shone on his face. No, the time travel career is about to end! Zhu Zhi could not resist, so he had to close his eyes and wait for death.
But the knife didn't hit the body. Zhu Zhi opened his eyes and saw that Cao Zhen had fallen off his horse, with his head and head differently. In front of him, a bearded man was riding on the horse, with a long sword in his hand and blood was flowing on his blade.
Zhu Zhi was unable to adapt to this incident for a while and widened his eyes and said, "You..."
The bearded man said, "This is not a place to speak, your highness rushes out with me." After that, he rushed to the rebels and shouted, "The rebel Cao Zhen is dead, and the surrenders are spared from death." The shouts were like thunderbolts. The rebels surrounded him were stunned, and the bearded man's long sword had already slashed the two.
Zhu Zhi returned from the Ghost Gate, sweating profusely, and calmed down. He exchanged glances with Chu Zhi and the Little Horse King, and urged the horse to rush over with the bearded man. dozens of people below Zhu Zhi also shouted, "The thief Cao Zhen is dead, and the surrenderers are exempted from death." This shout was quite heavy on the morale of the rebels, and the rebels surrounding the front dodge one after another. The bearded man had already slashed out a bloody path, and Zhu Zhi and the others followed him back to the Yulin Guard Brigade.
Chu Zhi and Xiao Mawang pulled a deputy Qianhu and ordered him to lead five hundred troops to watch Zhu Zhi tightly. Xiao Mawang said: "Your Highness, don't take any more risks. If you have too big goals in front of you, we will shrink our hands and feet instead."
After saying that, the two turned their horses and led the cavalry to attack the rebel formation again. As soon as Cao Zhen died, the morale of the right camp of the vanguard had begun to disintegrate, and was rushed by the cavalry. Finally, the formation collapsed, some kneeled down and some turned around and ran away. Chu Zhi and Xiao Ma Wang led the army to chase from behind, and Lan Yu's flag was flying not far away.
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Two updates per day, five thousand-six thousand words updated. Even though everyone threw the tickets away, the cavalry was still working hard.
Chapter completed!