Chapter 199: Breaking the City (3)
About a hundred elite Yulin soldiers jumped onto the top of the city wall.
The Yulin soldiers, wearing heavy armor and holding long spears, whose average cultivation level was at the third level of Tuomai Realm, shouted in unison. A dim light shone on the long spears, and the Yuan Gang flowed in their bodies, emitting faint roars of ferocious beasts.
"Bengshan Suanni Jin" is the main martial art practiced by the lower-level officers and soldiers in the Dayin Yulin Army.
As the name suggests, this martial art is powerful and domineering. When practiced to a high level, it can even collapse mountains and shatter rocks.
The word "Suan Ni" further indicates that the practitioner has thick skin, strong muscles and bones, like a giant dragon bloodline. The "Suan Ni" beast is wild, brave and good at fighting.
Amidst loud roars, long spears were slashed across, and cold rays of light more than ten feet long shot out from the spear heads. There was an immediate bloody storm on the city wall, and at least three or four hundred defenders were cut in half, and a large area on the city wall was immediately cleared.
Several guards in golden armor shouted and cursed loudly, and rushed up along the horse path behind the city wall with a team of elite city defense troops, killing the Yulin Army who were climbing the city wall.
Lu Yi came roaring over on his dark cloud beast, and when he saw his subordinates climbing up the city wall, he also used all his means.
The Silver Dragon Sword was infused with Guixu Immortal Essence and rushed along the city wall along the simplest straight line. Wherever it passed, human bodies, armor, shields, and weapons were all cut in half with the sword. The sword swept across two or three miles, blood splattered everywhere, and broken limbs and arms fell like heavy rain.
He held the spear tightly in both hands and stabbed it casually. The green spear light was like a roaring dragon, whistling and rushing out hundreds of feet away.
If you are lucky, you will only get your arm or some other body parts chopped off by the Silver Dragon Sword.
However, when hit by the spear light weighing tens of thousands of pounds, the soldiers, armor, mounts, and horse armor were all shattered in one blow and blown into blood mist and countless fragments by the domineering spear light.
Lu Yi fired a dozen or so shots at random, completely clearing the more than two-mile-long city wall, and no defender dared to get close to this side.
More and more elite soldiers of the Yulin Army climbed up the city wall. They easily found a large number of ropes on the top of the city wall, and directly put them on the battlements and threw them down the city wall.
The elite soldiers of the Yulin Army, who have already expanded their meridians, can easily jump several feet high by jumping on the spot.
With the help of the ropes, they were more agile than monkeys. With just a few pulls, they easily crossed the 64-meter-high city wall.
A large number of Yulin soldiers climbed the city wall like a tide. They carried heavy shields, held up long spears, halberds and other heavy weapons, formed a neat queue like a solid wall of iron and steel, and pressed forward step by step along the city wall towards both sides.
Wherever the large group of elite Yulin troops passed, they would push away any blockers with their heavy shields, and stab with their long spears and halberds, and large numbers of the defenders would fall to the ground wailing.
Only about ten percent of the soldiers in Wuzhou City's defense force have reached the Peiyuan realm. The rest of the soldiers are just hovering on the threshold of the Peiyuan realm. Compared with ordinary people, they are just stronger, familiar with some changes in military formations, and know how to use ordinary military equipment, etc.
After all, Wuzhou is an inland prefecture of Dayin and has enjoyed peace for a long time. The city defense army system led by cultural and educational officials will not have too high requirements on soldiers, nor will it invest too many resources.
There is so much money, food and resources invested in these soldiers... Aren't they uncomfortable with just drawing a salary for nothing?
The consequences of daily laziness are now fully revealed.
Faced with these elite Yulin troops who were as fierce as wolves and tigers, the defenders on the city wall barely held out for a quarter of an hour. Someone shouted "Defeat, defeat", and then they saw countless defenders on the city walls dropping their weapons and shields, taking off their armor, and fleeing along the horse path towards the bottom of the city wall like rabbits caught in a blast.
They pushed and squeezed each other, and some people accidentally slipped and fell, and were immediately trampled by countless people.
Some were too weak and were pushed off the guardrails. They fell to the ground from a great height with a scream and were smashed into pieces.
In many places, the defending generals were shouting and cursing, and some supervisory teams were wielding swords to kill the fleeing soldiers. But they were unable to stop the fleeing soldiers.
More and more elite soldiers of the Yulin Army climbed up the city wall. They skillfully cleared the area along the wall, and some even infiltrated into the city along the horse path to chase and kill.
There were also Yulin Army generals who led their men to find the entrance to the inside of the city wall. They broke in and cleaned the corridor inside the city wall all the way.
Soon, they found the mechanism hub inside the city wall below the gate tower.
With a dull "click-click" sound, the heavy iron gate at the west gate of Wuzhou City rose inch by inch.
Outside the city, the Yulin Army and the Leopard Cavalry gave earth-shaking cheers, and a hundred thousand Yulin heavy cavalry urged their mounts and began to charge towards the west gate.
The Leopard Cavalry moved at high speed to the north and south sides, blocking the north and south gates of Wuzhou City.
There were also extremely fast light cavalry rushing towards the east gate of Wuzhou City.
The east gate of Wuzhou City was also slowly opening, and some officials, wealthy businessmen, and others in the city were fleeing in a panic with their families.
Large groups of horse-drawn convoys were crowded at the east city gate. The cavalrymen who had outflanked them whistled and shot with their bows. The heavy rain of arrows blocked the city gate. Along with countless howls, those officials and wealthy businessmen who wanted to escape were killed or injured in large numbers. The killed horses knocked down many carts, completely blocking the entire city gate.
In Wuzhou City, the defeated soldiers, abandoning their weapons and armor, fled in a panic.
Everywhere there were cries of "We've lost, we've lost" and "The city has been broken".
Some were so frightened that they went insane, running along the street, crying and shouting, "We lost, we lost, we committed a serious crime, the king's army wants to massacre Wuzhou City, they want to massacre Wuzhou City!"
Along with the cries of the defeated soldiers, the cries of the people in every street in the city also rang out.
The west gate of Wuzhou City was wide open, and the heavy cavalry of the Yulin Army quickly entered the city in neat rows, galloping at high speed along the road at the city gate, and quickly caught up with the defenders who were fleeing everywhere.
The soldiers stabbed with lances and hacked with sabers, and the chaotic soldiers rolled all over the ground like blood gourds.
The military judges of the Yulin Army rode their horses at full speed, following closely the cavalrymen who were rushing into the city, for fear that they would become bloodthirsty and attack the civilians in the city as the defeated soldiers had said.
There is no need for Lu Yi to take any more action.
He rode on the Dark Cloud Beast, which stood proudly on a battlement of the city wall, roaring "ang, ang" towards the city.
The north and south gates of Wuzhou City also slowly opened, and a large group of Leopard Cavalry rushed in whistling.
Inside the city, officials waving white flags appeared and knelt on the street to welcome the army entering the city.
There were also some places that were obviously government residences, where black smoke was rising, clearly someone had set themselves on fire…
Lu Yu rubbed his chin in confusion: "What bad things have these guys done that they would rather burn their entire family to death than surrender... What on earth did they do?"
Half an hour later, a falcon carrying a message descended from the sky.
Yu Dianhu caught the hawk and took the urgent military intelligence sent from the front. He quickly glanced at the intelligence and his face suddenly changed: "My Lord... these bastards, these bastards... they slaughtered 100,000 imperial guards in Wuzhou City and piled their heads into a Jingguan... It's in the imperial guard camp in the city."
Lu Yi's face turned slightly pale.
One hundred thousand imperial guards built a Jingguan.
No wonder, no wonder, there were officials in the city who set fire to themselves and burned their entire families to death rather than dare to surrender to the invading army.
"Pass on my order. Do not touch a hair of the people in the city. Kill the rebels in the city. I want to capture those officials alive." Lu Yi said coldly, "Especially Zhuge Suiming. I want to capture his entire family alive!"
Wuzhou City is like other cities in Dayin. The roads in the city are wide and straight, and this terrain is the best battlefield for cavalry to exert their impact.
The defense forces of Wuzhou City were in disarray. They ran along the road like headless flies, sometimes to the west and sometimes to the east. No matter where they ran, there were always large groups of cavalry surrounding them from all directions. They charged and hacked at them, killing them all on the spot.
According to Dayin law, these defenders were actually "rebels".
According to the law, all rebels, whether they are commanders or soldiers, will be sentenced to death.
So there was no mercy, no staying behind, and when we encountered those defeated soldiers who had taken off their armor but were still wearing military uniforms, it was absolutely right to just hack and kill them.
The cavalry under Lu Yi's command were now running at an extremely fast speed. It would only take them less than half a quarter of an hour to gallop across the huge Wuzhou city from the east gate to the west gate and from the south gate to the north gate along the road.
After another half an hour, all the defeated soldiers on the main roads in Wuzhou City had been cleared out.
The expeditionary force began to enter the side roads and alleys to clean out the defeated soldiers.
Some punitive troops even went door to door, searching for possible hiding places of the defeated soldiers.
By the time everything was settled, it was already evening. The sun was setting, and the sunset glow covered half the sky, dyeing Wuzhou City a slightly blood-red color. Dozens of black smoke columns rose into the sky from the city, making it look particularly bleak and desolate in the blood-red light.
At the Wuzhou Mu Mansion, a small-scale but extremely fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out.
Several sons of Wuzhou Mu, several scholars, along with hundreds of guards and servants, and more than a thousand defenders, engaged in a fierce battle with the Leopard Cavalry who had arrived here first.
The battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, but it caused more than 300 casualties to the Leopard Cavalry, while the guards, servants and more than a thousand defenders were all killed in the battle, with no one surviving.
Seeing that they could do nothing, several sons of Wuzhou Mu actually drew their swords and committed suicide when their mansion was breached.
The old wife of Wuzhou Mu and his son's wives, concubines and children had already prepared firewood and kerosene. When the mansion was breached, they burned the entire family to ashes.
In comparison, Zhuge Suiming, the expeditionary commander of Wuzhou, did not have such courage.
He, his wife, children, and all his family members hid for more than two hours. Finally, they were found by the Yulin Army from the home of a wealthy merchant and brought before Lu Yi in an orderly manner.
In the Wuzhou Mu Mansion, most of the other buildings were burned down, but the front lobby remained intact.
Lu Yi sat on the big chair in Wuzhou Mu's office, looking across the desk at Zhuge Suiming, who had both of his legs broken and was forced to kneel on the ground.
"This incident makes it seem as if I am the villain who committed the heinous crime." Lu Yi said quietly, "I never thought that the sons of Wuzhou Mu would be so brave. All of them died heroically."
"But you are rebels. How can you be so...heroic?"
Lu Yi couldn't understand why Wuzhou Mu's sons and their family members could do such a thing.
Zhuge Suiming looked up at Lu Yi and suddenly burst into a strange laugh.
"Lu Yu, you know nothing!"
"The governor of Songzhou and his son all graduated from the Imperial College. They are all disciples of Baishanzhang. "
"Hehe, the whole family of Bai Shanzhang died in an unclear manner. Do you think there are many officials from the Imperial College who are still brooding over this matter and want to eat your flesh and sleep on your skin?"
