Chapter 283: The Stones of Guyuan

In the black night of Guyuan city, shouts of killing shook the sky. The Ning Dynasty border army and Jing Dynasty Tian Ce army had turned this place into a bloody battlefield, with smoke rising from the ruins like strands of souls rushing to the sky.

Chen Ji and Li Xuan followed the army. Because they were carrying captives, their speed was slower than the other Tian Ce army soldiers, and they gradually fell behind.

Chen Ji silently observed his surroundings, intentionally slowing down a bit in order to later "fall behind".

But just as he slowed down, about ten or more body lengths behind, the supervising centurion sternly said, "Those who shirk battle will be beheaded."

Chen Ji's heart suddenly tensed. Listening to the sound of iron hooves from over a hundred riders behind him, he again sped up.

Li Xuan leaned towards Chen Ji, lowering his voice to ask, "Will the border army or the Tian Ce army win?"

If the border army could win, they could take the captives and quietly hide. If the Tian Ce army won, they would likely have to risk their lives.

Chen Ji didn't answer rashly. He didn't know if Yuan Zhen still had cards up his sleeve, but he knew Bai Long had a card he hadn't played yet.

He pondered for a long time, then softly said, "Pyrrhic victory."

At this moment, the Tian Ce army moved faster and faster, like a sharp and narrow lance, stabbing towards the border army's defense line.

Arrows, like white rain, covered Yuan Zhen. The first arrow only made a hole under the earth wall, the seventh made the seventh hole... when the seventieth arrow shot through the earth wall, the earth wall suddenly collapsed.

"Kill!"

The Divine Bow Camp chose to avoid the edge of the Tiger Armor Iron Cavalry. An enemy is an enemy, but they could be trapped outside. If they fell into fierce battle, the Divine Bow Camp would be finished.

Then, armored infantry emerged successively from outside the city. These were the Elephant Armor Guards of the Yan Shi Camp.

These were all built by the Liu family with huge wealth, used to contend with the capital's eight great camps. Their whereabouts had been unknown since before the Luocheng incident, but now they appeared here.

The border army soldiers in the Divine Bow Camp stared blankly at that scene, suddenly recalling the words of a Yuan Zhen old soldier at noon who had ridiculed them: "Have the capital lords woken up yet? On the battlefield, where are there so few fancy things? Use lives to fill it!"

But Li Xuan couldn't figure out why the Tiger Armor Iron Cavalry and Elephant Armor Camp would be used by the Ning Dynasty.

The Tian Ce army rode over. The armored soldiers with horses pushed away the barrier horses, scattering Qi Yan and the horses together. The flood-like central army of the Divine Bow Camp scattered all the shield-armored soldiers who were blocking the road, stepping them into meat mud!

The heart guards became confused.

The situation in Luocheng seemed only at this moment to allow the people of the world to see the full picture.

The main force of the Divine Bow Camp's central army went all the way north, from Qiemo Street to Gumo Street, and then from Gumo Street to Shubei Lane. Their speed became slower and slower.

At this time, Li Xuan turned his horse back: "Qi Yan Lei breaks the front, the Tian Ce army opens the road, out from the west city gate!"

In that instant, the border army soldier's hair stood on end, as if something was about to pierce through his brain and open it.

Chen Ji silently watched that scene, watching the Tiger Armor Iron Cavalry that had killed its way into the city, for a moment with mixed feelings. Because he knew, he was also a link in that bureau. The other side had fed them ice flow before death, yet again knowing no what plot.

He again threw the short knife through the air to Da Man: "Da Man, save them!"

The Horse Lance Camp urged their horses forward: "Kill!"

Qi Yan was startled, then sighed heavily: "Crush over!"

"Enemy invaders! Heads! Drink blood!"

The heart guard's face changed: "Young commander, how can there be an elite cavalry here? They are all at Chongli Pass!"

Li Xuan looked at the dilapidated Qi Yan defense line, his expression arrogant as he said, "If relying on Guyuan city, on those defeated soldiers of Guyuan Yuan Zhen, where would they have the qualification to be the opponent of your Divine Bow Camp?"

"Put on armor! Hold halberds! Guard the border!"

The Horse Lance Camp drew out their waist-length swords and patted their chest iron armor with the sword bodies, roaring: "Where is Guyuan Yuan Zhen?"

At this time, the main force of the central army, with the main generals all in the camp, and the supplies and infantry outside the camp were being slaughtered.

Wait until the Divine Bow Camp approached, the Yuan Zhen old soldiers together lifted their notched plain knives.

Li Xuan's face also gradually sank. War is the art of killing, and also the art of intelligence. Sometimes a lack of intelligence, perhaps, will change the direction of the war.

When the arrows poured out and were exhausted, Hu Junxian at a crossroads, like flood water, flowed apart to both sides, revealing the Tian Ce army in front of us!

One person was stabbed through the heart by a horse, and his front comrade stepped down to fill the gap.

"No retreat, only advance!"

When approaching the defense line.

He drew out the short knife at his waist to cut open the ropes under Da Man's body, again threw the short knife through the air to Chen Ji, and then himself drew out the long sword at his waist to kill into the Divine Bow Camp.

Qi Yan suddenly turned his head, just seeing the sky in the city turn orange-red, as if burning up the night curtain: "It's the camp direction, someone is attacking the camp."

Just when the distant armored infantry wanted to build a new defense line, the Hu Junxian on both sides had already finished adjusting their breath, again drawing out eight arrows from outside their quivers and holding them in their palms, shooting them out rapidly!

However, just at this time, dozens of Yuan Zhen old soldiers, covered in blood, blocked Qi Yan Lei's path downwards. Their vine armor was already full of holes, yet they propped themselves up with knives and stood blocking the road, panting like defeated dogs.

The heart guard urged his horse after and asked, "Young commander, where should we go now? If we take advantage of this to seize Guyuan city, there's a flat plain ahead, and Taiyuan Prefecture and Xianyang Prefecture are also within reach!"

However, just as Li Xuan changed direction, he saw Qi Yan Lei and the seven others of Zhou You urging their horses forward, still leading the blood-covered Yuan Zhen infantry in front.

The other side saw Li Xuan raise his head to look, and on the city wall under the white night, they hurriedly cupped their hands and bowed towards him.

And this "Horse Lance" of the Tian Ce army, trained in Yuan Zhen's hands for no less than eight years, Li Xuan said to kill through the north defense line, and they then killed through the north defense line for Qi Yan. That young man never let Li Xuan down.

When Mr. Feng bent down to bow, a white cavalry killed its way in from the just-opened north gate, with face armor, holding iron halberds, their fierce flames majestic!

"Put on armor! Hold halberds! Guard the border!"

Qi Yan Lei galloped up, and Qi Yan Lei again clamped the horse lance under his armpit.

The heart guard slowly calculated: "Your army scouts have done well, even within a seventy li radius, and after entering the city, there's still no news back... To pierce through the scout circle in such a short time, it must be a cavalry, a long-distance assault with one person and two horses, elites among elites!"

Li Xuan pretended to think: "The Horse Lance Camp dares to lead you into the city, so they certainly have a follow-up. We love to fight, so let's immediately rush out of the city!"

The war roar voice that Yuan Zhen gave themselves to boost morale still hadn't finished shouting, when it was submerged by Qi Yan Lei's iron hooves.

Qi Yan seemed to think of something: "Rush open the north gate, leave Guyuan!"

Li Xuan's heart sank. He suddenly raised his head to look, and saw on the battlement of the city gate tower, a person in green clothes standing at a low place. This person had the appearance of a scholar, calm and composed amidst the shouts of killing, like a banished immortal.

The distant Divine Bow Camp was attracted by the border army. Chen Ji took a knife to cut open the ropes under Zhang Xia's body, then helped him stand straight and placed him in front: "Sit steady!"

In the charge.

To make a horse lance, takes three years.

Two line officers suddenly killed their way out from the chaotic array, actually causing the flood of the Divine Bow Camp to stagnate for an instant. The Horse Lance Camp keenly perceived this, immediately raised their heads to look, clearly seeing a border army soldier, one person with one sword, killing their way all the way towards Qi Yan's side!

Craftsmen weave bamboo strips to wrap a wooden pole, then soak it in tung oil, coat it with raw lacquer, wrap it with kudzu cloth, soak it for a year and a half, and air dry it for a year and a half.

The heart guard doubted: "Is it King Jing's Thousand Year Army?"

"Enemy invaders! Heads..."

But to raise an elite cavalry requires spending huge wealth, as well as years of time, energy, and effort. How did the Ning Dynasty conjure a cavalry out of thin air?

Yuan Zhen had been starving for eight days, fighting from noon until the Hai hour, exhausted. The main force of the Divine Bow Camp's central army was full of energy and sharp, their lance tips and armor tough. The two sides were like an unequal slaughter. The Divine Bow Camp basically gave Qi Yan no opportunity to react; just one charge and they pierced through the defense line, galloping towards the north city gate.

We are like the famous multitude of beings.

History here turns a page, once leaving a trace of words for us.

Enemy invaders... Heads... Drink blood...

The Yuan Zhen infantry all stood straight: "Here!"

Hand will soldiers out, Hu ten, their steps. Attach heart and envy seven, to take near hand line branch.

Another person was stabbed through the shoulder, but that Yuan Zhen infantryman topped it with a horse lance, letting the long pole pass through the blood hole in his shoulder, trying hard to take a few steps back to swing his knife and chop at the horse. But the horse lance was too long, and he couldn't chop it yet.

King Jing's death turned into a long echo, first burying the Liu family and taking back Yuzhou; then exterminating the Divine Bow Camp, striving for seven years of breathing opportunity for the Ning Dynasty.

Li Xuan looked from afar, suddenly and gradually putting away his arrogant expression, sighing: "Guyuan Yuan Zhen is really a smelly and hard stone, making people hate it... crush over."

The heart guard responded: "Yes... Young commander, there's no firelight in the city!"

Qi Yan Lei whipped his horse slowly towards the north gate, but just as they could see the north city gate in the distance, they actually discovered dozens of Yuan Zhen infantry were exerting themselves to push open the city gate!

If you want to make a horse lance, you first need to select a wooden pole, with Zhe wood being the best.

Behind them, another group of Yuan Zhen old soldiers, covered in injuries, rose up, blocking the road, and were then mercilessly submerged again.

Li Xuan frowned: "No, the Thousand Year Army is still in Luocheng, not leaving an inch!"

Chen Ji seized the horse lance and swept left and right. A long lance actually killed people and felled horses from the surrounding Divine Bow Camp.

The Yuan Zhen old soldiers looked at the surging flood of cavalry, lifted their plain knives, rushed forward from all directions, fearlessly colliding with Qi Yan Lei.

As he spoke, a horse lance stabbed towards Chen Ji's face, but he gripped it tightly in his hand. He shook with both hands, and a huge force bent the long pole of the horse lance, transferring to the Divine Bow Camp soldier holding it below, forcing the other side to loosen their grip.

The Tian Ce army armored soldiers clamped the long horse lances of two people under their left arms, and then used their right hands to draw out the short knives at their waists and stab them into the buttocks of the war horses, making the war horses gallop even more frantically.

But it didn't matter. With fewer dead people, the horses would break down sooner or later, and the Divine Bow Camp's speed would be faster sooner or later.

A lance one zhang eight chi long is called a lance.

Mr. Feng.

The Yuan Zhen infantry's expressions were exhausted, their bodies broken.

The border army soldier suddenly took off his helmet, turned his head towards Chen Ji: "Act!"

Li Xuan saw the face under the cavalry's armor, and finally moved: "It's the Liu family's Tiger Armor Iron Cavalry! We can actually use the Liu family's eight thousand Tiger Armor Iron Cavalry for ourselves!"

At that time, the earth houses that Yuan Zhen relied on for cover were all shot down.