Chapter 130 Faith (2)
The vanguard corps was huge, stretching all the way along the valley. Its right wing was less than a mile away from the hill where more than ten thousand civilians were lying in ambush.
Dozens of strong and ferocious men wearing armor and holding large flags roared and charged into the loose and unguarded flank of the vanguard legion at a speed far faster than that of a horse.
A faint mist was lingering around the sturdy men, and their muscles were twisting and vibrating strangely. Terrifying Yuan Gang surged out from all parts of their bodies and turned into invisible vortices around them.
The peak of the state of opening the sutra.
All the meridians in the body are open, and Yuan Gang fills the whole body, so it can release Yuan Gang from every part of the body to attack and kill the enemy!
Wherever the strong men passed, the area within a dozen feet around them suddenly turned into a bloody slaughterhouse.
Those city defense soldiers wearing leather armor and light armor had not figured out what was going on yet when the terrifying Yuan Gang potential force attacked them from all directions. They heard continuous "bang bang" sounds, and the city defense soldiers were like being hit by a huge hammer. They turned into a mass of blurred flesh and blood on the spot, and were then blown to pieces by the impact of Yuan Gang.
The broken limbs and arms were sprayed dozens of feet away. These strong men rushed into the city defense army in a straight line. From a distance, it looked like dozens of bloody alleys were constantly spraying out broken limbs.
In just a few breaths, at least thousands of city defense soldiers were easily killed.
There was chaos on the right wing of the Vanguard Legion. Countless war horses, with perceptions far sharper than those of humans, sensed the terrible and dangerous aura from these strong men. These horses neighed wildly, and with all their might, abandoned their masters and fled in a direction away from the strong men.
Thirty to forty thousand tall, strong, and wind-running war horses were running wild. The soldiers on the right wing of the vanguard corps were beaten to a pulp, with their bones broken and their muscles ruptured, and their mouths bleed, and the place was in complete chaos.
Those tens of thousands of people.
Among them were many skinny people who were at least in their sixties or seventies.
Their running speed is as fast as that of ordinary war horses.
Lu Yi was standing not far away. He saw that the skin of these people was red, and the blood vessels under their skin were bulging high, and the movement of blood vessels was clearly visible.
They were carrying all kinds of weapons, such as wooden sticks, bamboo spears, kitchen knives, hammers and other objects, and followed closely behind the dozens of strong men, only a few dozen feet behind. Within just a few breaths of time when the strong men inflicted terrible massacres on the vanguard legion, they plunged into the vanguard legion's team.
Even greater casualties broke out.
It is obvious that these people have no martial arts skills. They are just ordinary civilians of Dayin.
But now they not only became agile and fast, but also became extremely powerful.
Lu Yi watched helplessly as a skinny old lady, probably less than seven feet tall, swung a dung shovel used to water vegetables and swept it wildly. The three city defense soldiers in front of her flew into the sky like bundles of grass.
Three "elite" soldiers of the city defense army wearing armor were easily knocked away by an old lady who was less than seven feet tall.
And judging from the twisted bodies of the three soldiers, their spines might have been shattered by the old lady's blow.
The dung shovel made of ordinary miscellaneous wood in the old lady's hand was broken into more than a dozen pieces. The old lady widened her eyes and screamed, picking up the iron spear dropped by the soldier who was knocked away by her blow.
The iron spears used by the Dayin City Defense Forces are made of fine iron and weigh at least forty or fifty kilograms. These city defense soldiers have the cultivation level of the Peiyuan Realm and have a strength of several hundred kilograms, so they can use these iron spears in battle.
And this skinny old lady, who normally couldn't even carry 50 kilograms of rice, actually held an iron spear in each hand. She roared and swung the spears with both arms, bringing up flashes of cold light, "bang bang bang", hitting the city defense soldiers in front of her who were in chaos and making them fall to the ground one after another.
An old lady in her twilight years, in just a few breaths, knocked down more than a dozen 'elite' city defense troops of Peiyuan Realm!
Lu Yi opened his eyes wide, opened his mouth, and stared blankly at this incredible scene.
Not only this old lady, but also the other people, men, women, young and old, all showed speed, strength and reaction that they absolutely should not have.
They were faster, stronger and more ferocious than the city defense soldiers in Peiyuan Realm. Led by dozens of strong men, they wiped out the right wing of the Vanguard Corps in just a cup of tea. More than 30,000 city defense soldiers fell to the ground covered in blood before they could figure out what was happening.
Of the 30,000 casualties, about 15,000 died completely, and the rest were seriously injured and collapsed on the ground unable to move.
Lu Yi said in horror: "If... the people in Anping Prefecture are all like this, I'm afraid..."
Lu Yu thought, if the people of Anping Prefecture had all become such fierce "warriors", then according to the intelligence sent back to Gaojing a few days ago, only a small part of Anping Prefecture had experienced riots. After a few days, I'm afraid that the entire Anping Prefecture could not be saved?
Moreover, this place is outside Anping Pass and does not belong to Anping Prefecture.
"In recent years, the prefectures and counties surrounding Anping Prefecture have also been severely affected." Lu Jun knew some inside details. He said in a cold voice: "The rules set by the founding emperor Taizu of Dayin set a tax quota. But in recent years, the gentlemen of culture and education have made up excuses and added at least ten times more taxes to the tax quota set by Taizu."
"To the people below, collect more taxes; to the people above, persuade the emperor not to compete with the people for profits, but to reduce taxes to support the people."
Lu Jun sneered sarcastically: "So, in recent years, the Taifu was originally responsible for collecting taxes and grain from all over the country, but now there are almost rats running out of the Taifu's warehouse."
"So, not only Anping Prefecture, but also the prefectures and counties near Anping Prefecture will also be in trouble?"
Lu Yu understood what Lu Jun said.
If the people around Anping Prefecture could become as brave and good at fighting as these people in front of him, then... Lu Yi felt sad for the upcoming army of the Ministry of War to quell the rebellion.
The killing continued in the distance.
'Red Lotus appears, enjoy peace'!
'Clear the emperor's side and kill the traitors'!
Various slogans came one after another.
And those dozens of strong men holding the red lotus flag and charging at the front had completely torn apart the right wing of the vanguard corps and plunged into the central army where Zhuge Li was supposed to be.
However, Zhuge Li had already left the central army with his officers and went to Anping Pass to rest in advance.
At this moment, the center of the vanguard corps only had an elite heavy cavalry to guard the center, as well as ceremonial flags representing Zhuge Li.
Dozens of big men collided heavily with the 50,000-strong heavy cavalry.
The invisible Yuan Gang was raging in the air. One heavy cavalryman after another was spitting out blood, their armor was twisted, and both the man and his horse were knocked to the ground by the Yuan Gang.
However, the total weight of these heavy cavalry, including the men and horses, is about several thousand pounds. When they urge their horses to charge and kill, their lethality is extremely terrifying.
Especially among this heavy cavalry, ordinary officers have the cultivation level of Tuomai Realm, and a few officers who stayed behind to supervise the army have the strength of Half-Step Kaijing Realm.
With such skills, wearing finely crafted heavy armor and charging on horseback, dozens of strong men holding the red lotus flags also felt pressured.
A huge force of heavy cavalry came roaring in, and their specially made lances tore through the air, making sharp sounds of breaking through the air.
One by one, the horse lances were twisted and broken by the invisible Yuan Gang, and the owners of the horse lances were also thrown off the horse's back by the terrible force. But more horse lances stabbed down, in all directions, reaching everywhere.
This is the power of the military.
Most of the strong men were stabbed by the horse spears, and there were dull sounds of impact. The strong men were pushed back one by one by the horse spears, and they kept making dull roars. However, only a small number of the strong men had their skin and flesh torn by the sharp edge of the horse spears, while the rest of the strong men were not hurt at all by the piercing of the horse spears.
The pinnacle of the Kaijing realm, with unparalleled Henglian kung fu!
This was the standard configuration for those nobles with military merits when Dayin was founded!
Yuan Gang is released to kill the enemy, while Heng Lian protects oneself.
Just like the founding Duke Lai of the Jingyang Lu family, from whom Lu Yi was born, he dominated the battlefield with his Canghai Jin and Jieshi Gong, killing tens of thousands of people in every battle. He was completely a human meat grinder on the battlefield.
To this day, military honors with such standard strength are almost extinct in the court of Dayin.
On the contrary, among the chaotic army related to Anping Prefecture, dozens of such strong men suddenly appeared.
Lu Yi understood in his heart that this was the gap between an immortal sect like the Great Vajra Temple and a secular dynasty.
The momentum of the strong men's charge was curbed, but tens of thousands of almost crazy people behind them had already rushed up shouting slogans.
Naturally, it is not just the heavy cavalry that guards the central army.
Just as these civilians rushed to the vicinity of the central army, they heard dense gong sounds. Countless archers and crossbowmen drew their bows and shot arrows at the same time. The dense arrows were like the night sky, covering the tens of thousands of civilians who were crowded together and charging randomly without any formation.
The sound of 'puff' was heard continuously.
More than 3,000 of the tens of thousands of civilians fell on the spot.
Then wave after wave of arrows continued to fall, and densely packed civilians fell down one after another, covered in blood.
The strong men who led the charge saw that it was impossible to break into the central army, so they whistled and turned away without wanting to fight.
They avoided the heavy cavalry in the center and rushed into the archers on both wings.
Yuan Gang released his full strength, and the invisible potential force stirred in all directions.
How could these archers who had no heavy armor and only wore half leather armor withstand the Yuan Gang strangulation of the peak masters of the Kaijing realm?
The formations of the archers on both wings were in chaos. Countless archers were covered in blood, with broken bones piercing their flesh. Yuan Gang easily threw their broken bodies dozens of feet away, and the archers' ranks were in chaos.
"Retreat!" Only a dozen people suffered minor injuries, and the other strong men who were unharmed rushed into the crowd. Yuan Gang turned into an invisible protective shield and wrapped around these people. The group of people were as fast as galloping horses, whistling and rushing towards the small hill where they had just ambushed.
Among the accompanying imperial guards, a commander in golden armor clasped his fists and asked Lu Yi for instructions: "Lord Tianyang, if we cut across at this moment, we will hopefully be able to stop all these rioters."
Lu Yi turned around, glanced at him, and waved his hand gently: "We are military supervisors... Do you know what military supervisors mean?"
The commander of the imperial guards retreated with red face.
Lu Yi squinted his eyes and looked at the messy vanguard army. He shook his head and said, "Send someone to summon Zhuge Li and ask him to give me an explanation... In this battle, his subordinates suffered heavy losses. How did he lead the army to fight?"