Chapter 961: Catch King Lu Alive
The army of Lu Wang was defeated, and the infantry and cavalry of the Huai Army chased each other and killed the corpses of Lu Wang Wang's army flowed into a river of blood. The soldiers of Lu Wang's army who could not escape were either killed or surrendered on their knees. Only Fang Guoan and his two hundred clans ran away on horseback, and the remaining 20,000 troops were wiped out.
However, Fang Guoan didn't run far away. His way was stopped by the Huai Army cavalry. Seeing that there were blockages in front and pursuers behind, Fang Guoan had no intention of resisting, so he ordered his servants to put down his weapons and surrender to the Huai Army.
King Lu led more than a thousand personal guards of Prince Lu's mansion, and ran wildly on horseback. They thought that 20,000 people were blocking for a while, which was enough to get time for King Lu to escape back to Hangzhou. As long as they escaped back to Hangzhou, it would not be so easy for the Huai Army to attack the city. Even if Hangzhou could not defend, they could still take a boat to escape from Qiantang River to Zhoushan. Who knew that the Huai Army's 500-night retention had already bypassed the 20,000 King Lu's army and chased towards Hangzhou.
"Prince, Prince, it's not good. The pursuers are chasing me!" A guard of the royal palace chased me from behind and shouted in horror.
"Where did the pursuers come from? Why are they so fast?" King Lu was so scared that he almost fell from the horse's back.
The guard said, "Prince, if Li Niye doesn't take him, he will be a pair of horses. And he is the best Thai war horse. His speed is too fast, and our horses can't run away from them at all!"
Another guard said, "Your horse is good, please leave quickly, let's stay and stop them! We have a thousand people, and Li Ni has not chased for many cavalry."
"Okay, then I'll ask you!" After King Lu said that, he thrust the horse whip hard, drove away the war horses, and fled."
Except for more than 20 personal guards who ran away with King Lu, the rest of the royal palace guards were left to stop the Huai Army's pursuit of Ye Bus and to cover King Lu's escape.
Yebugu's captain Tiechu led Wubaiyebu to chase him tightly, but saw the guards of Prince Lu's mansion in front turned their horses, and it seemed that they were going to charge at him.
"Prepare to fight!" The hammer roared.
Yebusu and others took off the short guns loaded with ammunition from their pockets on both sides of the saddle. Each Yebusu had a pair of short guns in his hands. The hand-to-hand combat weapon was taken from his back and inserted into the pockets on the edge of the saddle. In this way, after firing the short gun bullet, they could pick up the hand-to-hand combat weapon and fight fiercely with the guards of Prince Lu's Mansion.
"Kill!" The people shouting in the guards of Prince Lu's mansion galloped and rushed towards the 500-night rushing.
"We are few and don't fight hard with them. When we are about to approach the enemy, the brothers will use their own riding skills, spread out to their wings, and greet them with short guns!" The hammer ordered.
The short guns that Ye Bucheng equipped with were actually not too short. The length is about half the length of the bird gun, with an effective range of thirty steps, the weight of the projectiles reaches five cents and the loading amount is eight cents. However, the bird guns commonly used by the Ming army at that time were only three cents and the loading amount was four cents, so the bird guns of the Ming army often could not penetrate the thick armor of the Qing army. However, if they were hit by the short guns of Ye Bucheng equipped with, no matter how thick the armor was, it could not be resisted.
The war horses of both sides were accelerating. The guards of the royal palace who rushed over were tightly clamping their cavalry spears under their arms, arranged dense formations, and launched an attack on the Huai Army Yebucheng. Just as the two sides were about to collide, more than 500 Huai Army Yebucheng suddenly turned, and the war horses pulled out two half-moon shapes, avoiding the frontal impact of the guards of the royal palace, and rushing past the wings of the guards of the royal palace.
"Bang bang bang" Ye Bubu stopped the short guns in their hands and opened fire. The flames erupted, and the white smoke rose. The distance between the two sides was only five meters, and the opponent's formation was dense, so there was no need to aim at it. The dense projectiles kept hitting the men and horses of the guards of the royal palace.
In this case, no matter how powerful the martial arts of the guards of the royal palace are, they are useless. The attack of a firearm, a small projectile, can turn a master who has been practicing hard for more than ten years into a corpse.
After Ye Busu rushed over from the flanks of the guards of the royal palace, everyone finished shooting two bullets in the short gun. Then they inserted the short gun into the pockets on both sides of the saddle, pulled out the melee weapon inserted in the pockets. Ye Busu's formation drew an arc and came from the back of the guards of the royal palace.
After being shot by a short gun, at least more than 200 guards of the royal palace were caught, and more than 100 war horses were shot, and they fell down with their horses. At this time, the strength of the two sides was six to five, and there were still a lot more guards of the royal palace.
Next, the two sides met again, but Ye Bushang did not rush up to fight directly, but flew out heavy throwing weapons such as flying axes, javelins, meteor hammers, and knocked down a group of guards of the royal palace again.
Compared with short guns, heavy throwing weapons are not as operable as short guns. Using short guns is obviously much more labor-saving, and the range is much further than heavy throwing weapons. However, heavy throwing weapons have high accuracy and are thrown one-on-one at close range. Ye Busu, who almost throw every heavy throwing weapon, can knock down a guard of the royal palace.
After throwing out the throwing weapons, Ye Busuo took turns to kill the guards of the royal palace with heavy weapons such as long hammers, iron rods, nail hammers, maces, and page hammers. These heavy weapons completely ignored the defense of the armor and hit the mansion with the help of the rushing horses. The armor was sunken, the brain burst, the ribs were broken, and the guards of the royal palace who had been hit by heavy weapons were all dismounted.
The attack formation of the cavalry spears of the guards of the royal palace was first bombarded by a short gun, and then beaten by a heavy throwing weapon. Their cavalry spears had become evacuated. Ye Bushang and others easily avoided the attack of the cavalry spears with their superb riding skills, and then turned around and knocked their opponents off the horse with heavy weapons.
Another round of hedging between the two sides passed, with more than 600 guards in the royal palace left, and only more than 20 people were left without taking over 500 nights.
"Prepare for the last round of impact!" shouted Hammer.
The cavalry of both sides launched a hedge again. Ye Bushang threw all the thrown weapons before they were about to hit the opponent, and then used heavy weapons to meet the enemy. After the two sides fought, the entire royal guards were wiped out.
"Quick, Prince, leave!" More than twenty personal guards protected King Lu, desperately beating the war horses, squeezed out all the potential of their horses, and ran wildly.
"Bang bang bang" A row of guns sounded from the grass in front of them, and white smoke filled the air, and more than a dozen guards of the royal palace were dismissed.
"There is an ambush in front!" King Lu was so scared that his face was pale.
More than twenty colorful figures suddenly jumped out of the grass, each of which was holding a war horse that had just stood up, and the horse was covered with colorful cloth. No wonder the guards of King Lu could not find them.
These are the scattered soldiers of the Huai Army. After more than 20 scattered soldiers shot in one round, seventeen guards of the royal palace were dismissed. At this time, only five people were still protecting King Lu.
"Kill!" The scattered soldiers raked their horses and killed King Lu and his five guards.
"Don't kill King Lu, try to catch the alive!" shouted the captain of the straggler.
Each scattered soldier carried the rifled rifle on his back, holding two short guns in their hands, and a heavy weapon was placed in the pockets on both sides of the saddle. These scattered soldiers had very strong hand-to-hand combat capabilities, but under normal circumstances, they would not let the enemy approach. If they could be solved with firearms, try to use firearms.
After more than twenty scattered soldiers approached their opponents, the short guns in their hands made a deafening roar, and the last five guards of the royal palace were all beaten into horse-peak nests and fell from the horses.
King Lu turned around and took a small path to escape, and more than 20 scattered soldiers chased each other. After a while, King Lu was caught up.
"Down!" A scattered soldier raised his hand and a rope was very high. The rope cover on the head of the rope just covered King Lu's neck. The scattered soldier pulled him back and pulled King Lu off the war horse.
"I am a vassal king, you can't treat me like this!" Lu struggled to stand up.
"I have something to say to Nanjing and go and tell the Queen Mother!" the straitor captain shouted, "Take it away!"
Chapter completed!