bayedsolid Chapter 377: The first to reach the city, the God of War returns to Yunzhou City!
Chapter 377: The first to reach the city, the God of War returns to Yunzhou City!
Yunzhou City is the most important town in the north and southwest.
Ever since Emperor Tianwu Xiao Yi unified the world, the land of Yunzhou seems to have never been peaceful.
Only during the reign of Emperor Tai'an Xiao Chongjing, when he employed the Lu father and son, were they able to suppress the rebellion of the border people and repel the invasion of Nan Jue. Apart from that, this city has never been truly peaceful.
But who could have imagined that Baili Luochen, the mighty Marquis of Zhenxi, and Ye Dingzhi, the son of the military god Ye Yu, would once again become the protagonists of Yunzhou City!
Eight hundred light cavalrymen, with their horses' hooves flying, stirred up a cloud of dust.
Ye Dingzhi, who was rushing in the front, left behind more than a mile of 800 cavalrymen. He rode alone like a ray of fire, and rushed straight into the first line of defense guarding the moat outside the city gate!
The oak chevaux de frise was more than half a zhang high, not to mention that behind the chevaux de frise was a moat three or four zhang wide. Even beyond the moat, there were gate-blocking knife carts densely arranged around the city gate!
It was obvious that even if the soldiers defending the city allowed the 800 cavalrymen to charge at will, it would be difficult to break through these three checkpoints.
The Yunzhou defenders were no pushovers either. Although it was still dark and most of the defenders were still asleep, the patrolling cavalry and the guards on duty at the beacon tower on the city wall had already discovered Ye Dingzhi's powerful army!
"Oh no! The enemy is invading! Beat the drum!"
On the watchtower, the guard who first discovered Ye Dingzhi's troops broke out in a cold sweat and roared at the dejected and exhausted commander behind him.
The commander was startled by his shout and went to the lookout in disbelief.
I saw a man and a horse taking the brunt of the attack, rushing towards the main gate like lightning!
"Dong dong dong dong..."
How could he dare to neglect it for even a second? He turned around, picked up a pair of drumsticks and smashed the big drum that was almost covered in dust with all his might!
"Dong dong dong dong..."
For a moment, the sound of drums rumbled like thunder, and the whole Yunzhou City seemed to be awakened.
The commander beat the drum desperately, and another thin man quickly grabbed a command flag and rushed down the tower, shouting as he ran:
"Hurry up and report to the captain of the central army in the city. Baili Luochen has arrived. They are the Pofeng Army... They are the Pofeng Army!"
The patrolling cavalry captain had already seen the invading enemy clearly before the drum sounded. At a glance, he found that Ye Dingzhi, who was rushing in the front, was not wearing a helmet, but only a black armor, but the 800 cavalrymen behind him were all wearing bronze armor and blood-stained clothes.
The cavalry captain who has been in the army for many years will not make a mistake with this outfit. Looking around the world, only the Pofeng Army under Baili Luochen has this set of bronze armor and blood-stained clothes!
He swallowed hard and subconsciously reached for the saber at his waist, but his right hand was somewhat out of control and he trembled for a long time but couldn't pull out the saber!
The cavalry captain turned back with a look of despair at his patrol of less than a hundred men. The cavalrymen behind him also looked at the captain with fear on their faces...
"What are you looking at? Why the hell are you just standing there? Pass on my order, the front team will become the rear team, retreat back to the city!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the stunned cavalry quickly turned their horses around and rushed towards the city gate.
But before the cavalry captain could run a hundred steps, a sword flashed behind him. The cavalry captain felt a chill from his left shoulder to his right ribs. He tilted his upper body back and the warhorse under his crotch was completely separated!
"What a fast sword..."
The cavalry captain's body half fell to the ground with a thud, blood and organs splattered all over the ground, but the warhorse carrying the lower half of his body continued to gallop along with the patrolling guards...
He struggled to twist half of his body on the ground, trying to see who had launched the sword, but a horse's hooves passed by behind him, leaving only the back of Ye Dingzhi as he put away his sword!
He seemed to have seen that figure somewhere before.
Memories kept coming back to him, and the cavalry captain slowly remembered that when he first joined the army, he had served in the Yunxi Divine Wing Army.
The commander of the Divine Wing Army is none other than Ye Yu, the patriarch of the Yunxi Ye family and the God of War. More than a decade ago, he was still an unknown sergeant, but later on, thanks to his military exploits, he became the head of a garrison commanding dozens of people.
The annual salary of the garrison commander was only forty or fifty taels, which was enough to keep him fed and clothed, but not rich. In order to ennoble his wife and children, he secretly resold military rations and withheld money from the soldiers under his jurisdiction.
However, Ye Yu was strict in military discipline, and within two months he was caught as an example by the captain of the army.
According to military law, this man should have been beheaded, but Ye Yu was kind-hearted and took into consideration his past military achievements, so he reduced his punishment to only 100 military sticks, stripped him of his military rank, and exiled him to Yunzhou.
The one hundred military sticks were indeed very heavy and almost cost him his life in the Shenyi military camp.
After being exiled to Yunzhou, he joined Lu Tingen's border army after many twists and turns. Relying on scheming and military achievements, he finally became the captain of the front army. However, he did not expect to die at the hands of Ye Dingzhi today!
The cavalry captain opened his eyes unwillingly, and the figure of Ye Dingzhi in his pupils became more and more blurred, until he lost consciousness and could no longer make any sound.
Ye Dingzhi didn't care about the cavalry captain who had just been knocked off his horse by a sword. He slashed horizontally with the Zhenwu sword in his hand again!
"Whoosh!"
Sword energy breaks through the air!
In the cavalry that had not yet crossed the moat, more than a dozen men fell off their horses and disappeared!
Ye Dingzhi's eyes were as calm as water, without any desire to kill, but the sword in his hand did not stop. After a few more sword energies swept over, only half of the patrolling city guards were left in an instant.
At this moment, there was also movement on the city wall. The captain on duty did not care that the commander was not there. He stood on the city wall and shouted at the top of his voice:
"Archers, shoot!"
After the arrows were fired, more than a hundred archers were no longer sleepy. They all drew their bows and arrows and aimed at Ye Dingzhi who was about to rush over the chevaux de frise in the dim light from the sky!
"put!"
At the command of the military captain, arrows flew like locusts!
Ye Dingzhi's eyes swept across the city wall without slowing down. He put the Zhenwu Sword back into the scabbard with his backhand and stretched out his arms -
"Buzz!"
"Fudo Myooh!"
The true energy remained in form, and in an instant, a statue of Prajna over ten feet tall with bared teeth and angry eyes appeared from Ye Ding's body!
"Ding ding ding..."
Feathered arrows cut through the air and shot at the statue one after another, but after a sound of metal clashing, they all broke and fell to the ground.
Ye Dingzhi's face remained gloomy. He leaned over and whispered in the horse's ear, "Good horse, take a break first. Leave the rest to me!"
The warhorse was very human-like. As soon as Ye Dingzhi left the saddle, it dodged the sharp chevaux de frise in front of it and turned around to run to the other side.
After saying that, Ye Dingzhi took off the saddle with both feet, jumped on the horse's back, and leaped straight up more than ten feet!
Then he infused his arms with true energy, and the statue of Prajna glowed with golden light.
He shouted loudly and slapped the oak barricades and knife-blocking carts surrounding the city gate with his palms.
After a few roars, the city defense equipment in front of the city gate turned into a pile of rotten wood and scrap iron!
Ye Dingzhi was not reckless. Ever since he had explored the defenses of Yunzhou City last time, he had made up his mind. He would rely on his own cultivation to break through the first line of defense at the city gate, climb up the city wall and kill the defenders, then destroy the bolt and lower the iron chain that lifted the city gate, opening a passage for the subsequent cavalry!
Lu Tingen transferred most of his elite troops to besiege Xueyue City. At this moment, the defenders of Yunzhou City were less than 10,000 people, most of whom were old and weak soldiers who had participated in the bloody battle of Sanqipu.
As long as the subsequent Pofeng Army is given an opening to break in, the infantry in Yunzhou City will be lambs to be slaughtered!
Ye Dingzhi standing in the air was like a god descending to the earth. The captain guarding the city had never seen such a scene before. The golden statue of Prajna had already frightened him. He could only keep urging the archers to shoot, but no matter how many arrowheads shot at Ye Dingzhi, it was just a tickle!
Ye Dingzhi turned around and looked at the 800 cavalrymen who followed him. They had now rushed to a position less than half a mile away from the Yunzhou city gate.
Time was running out. Ye Dingzhi mobilized all his internal strength and poured it into his arms. The statue also raised its arms high and shouted angrily:
"break!"
With tremendous force, the statue's arms slammed heavily onto the city wall!
"boom!"
Suddenly, smoke and dust rose up, and the blood and bodies of Duanwu and the soldiers defending the city were splattered everywhere.
Ye Dingzhi stepped onto the city wall alone, raised his hand and punched the captain who was giving orders, knocking him away. The captain's body was like a kite with a broken string, and it was embedded in the city wall behind him. He was deader than dead!
The defenders who came to support were densely packed, and they rushed up the city wall with long spears and short swords in their hands. Seeing Ye Dingzhi, who looked like a Shura in the world, they were so scared that they huddled together and dared not move forward.
Ye Dingzhi circled around and suddenly clasped his palms together. There was a thunderclap on the city wall, and more than a hundred defenders around him were all knocked away!
He held back. This palm strike only sent the defenders flying, not killing them. However, a few unlucky ones were in less than ideal positions and fell from the tower...
However, more and more defenders continued to climb up the city wall and surrounded Ye Dingzhi. Ye Dingzhi's eyes flashed with ferocity and he shouted loudly:
"Put down your weapons, and I'll spare your lives. If you resist stubbornly, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
After the battle of Sanqipu, the defenders knew how ruthless Ye Dingzhi, the killing god, was. Coupled with the reputation of Baili Luo Chen Pofeng's army, most of them had lost the courage to fight again and surrendered one after another.
Ye Dingzhi turned around and looked again. The eight hundred light cavalry were less than three hundred steps away from the city gate. He burst out with true energy, shaking away the guards around him and leaped into the inner city. He took a few steps to the inside of the city gate.
Ye Dingzhi glanced at the gate bolt. The huge bolt had an inner diameter of three feet and was more than seventy or eighty feet long. It must be made of the same wood as the Xuanyuan cypress tree he climbed outside Yunzhou City.
It was too late to ask the soldiers to release the door bolt. Without thinking, Ye Dingzhi punched out continuously with his fists, each of which contained the power of wind and thunder and hit the door bolt!
"Crack!"
In a moment, the door bolt broke into pieces. Ye Dingzhi retracted his Acala power and drew out the Zhenwu sword, sweeping it left and right!
Sparks flew, and the two iron chains connecting the city gate, as thick as arms, were cut off.
After doing all this, Ye Dingzhi gathered his strength in his left hand and slammed his palm heavily on the two heavy city doors!
"Oh!"
The two huge city gates opened in an instant.
The moment the city gate was opened, the eight hundred cavalrymen had already arrived at the door!
"kill!"
The leading team has already broken through the city gate and headed straight for the inner city.
There should have been ambushes in the city wall, but they had already lost their fighting spirit after seeing Ye Dingzhi's divine power. Now that the Pofeng Army had broken in, they dared not act rashly and surrendered in groups, laying down their weapons.
But suddenly there was a burst of shouting and killing sounds in the city. Ye Dingzhi heard the sound and stood on the top of the city wall. He found that it was a captain in iron armor, leading more than a thousand people to kill from the city!
The captain held a lance in his hand and faced the Pofeng Army that rushed into the city without fear.
"It seems that this is the deputy general defending the city. What a pity, even if Lu Tingen comes back himself, he will be powerless to save the situation!"
Ye Dingzhi glanced at the captain and said sarcastically, then he controlled the wind with his feet and flew into the chaotic army in a few breaths.
The captain had just stabbed a soldier from the Pofeng Army who was charging towards him with his spear, when he felt a gust of wind coming towards him. Before he could retract his spear, he heard a "crack" and the spear made of fine steel in his hand broke!
"die!"
Ye Dingzhi's eyes flashed coldly, and he slashed with the sword in his hand!
Poor captain, who had experienced many battles, didn't even have time to see whose head flew high, and his blood splashed all over the Pofeng Army beside him.
There is no need to elaborate on the rest. Ye Dingzhi led 800 cavalrymen to strangle the stubborn defenders and took over the city defense.
This important town in the north and southwest was captured by Ye Ding and his men within half an hour.
After Ye Dingzhi ordered his cavalry to count the prisoners, he personally cut down the large banner embroidered with the word "Lu" on the city gate, and then hung the blood-red flag of the Pofeng Army high!
On the distant skyline, the first ray of morning light finally appeared. The sky was as red as blood, and Ye Dingzhi, who was overlooking Yunzhou from the city wall, was covered with a circle of blood!
Half an hour later, the 5,000 elite troops led by Chen Dunru finally arrived at the city.
He stared in disbelief at the blood-red military flag on the Yunzhou city wall, muttering to himself, "Heroes have always emerged from youth. Haha... Military God Ye Yu, there will be successors!"
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