Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 430
"Boom~!"

A loud bang sounded from the city gate, and the rebels who wanted to enter Jinling City were horrified to find a huge stone lion taller than a person flying towards them obliquely, and everyone turned their backs on their backs, blocking it. In the front leader, the rebels smashed blood in an instant, and their limbs were incomplete.

Even if a war horse stopped in front, it would be knocked out in an instant.

The stone lion flew a full dozen feet before barely coming to a stop, then exhausted its strength and fell into the moat outside the city.

At the same time, more than a dozen bandit soldiers were knocked out.

But under the city gate, there were screams and screams, the ground was bloody and bloody, and an unknown number of bandit soldiers were killed by the boulder.

"What's going on, what happened?"

"Quick, rush into the city and seize the city wall."

"What are you doing there in a daze, and don't continue to attack."

Seeing this, the leader of the bandit army behind him was shocked, but he still tried his best to fight, not wanting his subordinates to stop attacking.

Right now it is still on the battlefield, and the cavalry from the imperial court has already killed them. If Jinling City is not captured, the situation will become quite dangerous.

The bosses, big and small, supervised the battle one after another, but it also had some effect. The bandit army behind didn't know what happened in front, and they still yelled and rushed to kill with their weapons.

"Hoo~!"

The sound of a howling wind sounded again.

When these rebels hadn't rushed into the city gate, they saw a stone lion flying out of it again, and once again smashed the bandits who had just gathered together and rushed across the suspension bridge.

"With me, Wu Xiang, here, who would dare to take the city?"

Wu Xiang roared angrily, he took off a fine iron rod behind his back, strode forward, and knocked down the surviving bandits nearby with one blow.

The iron rod was as thick as a bowl, all made of fine steel and weighed at least a few hundred catties. Even a martial arts master like Li Xiuyuan would not dare to take a stick, let alone an ordinary bandit soldier.

The bandits either had their brains blown out or their bodies shriveled up after being knocked down with a stick, and they died without even uttering a scream.

On the other side, the thieves who were smashed and turned on their backs were stunned when they saw Wu Xiang walking out with the iron rod in hand.

Not to mention the level of martial arts, just that iron rod can make people feel frightened.

The iron rod that ordinary people can't handle is like a straw in his hand, waving in the wind.

"Wu Xiang, don't worry about those rebels, close the city gates, smash the suspension bridge, and stop the rebels from taking the city." Li Xiuyuan shouted in surprise when he saw Wu Xiang stopped the rebels by himself.

"Is it benefactor?"

Wu Xiang was stunned for a moment, and when he looked around, he saw Li Xiuyuan leading cavalry not far away, charging towards the direction of the rebels.

"Don't worry, benefactor, I'll close the city gate right now." Wu Xiang replied loudly.

After speaking, he put the iron rod on the ground and grabbed it with his hand. With two loud bangs, the heavy city gate was closed in an instant, and then he strode over, repelling hundreds of bandit soldiers. Then the suspension bridge was easily destroyed and sank into the moat.

Without the drawbridge, the ambitions of the rebels to take the city were completely wiped out.

"it is good."

Seeing this scene, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help shouting, and then he led the cavalry to smash the formation of the rebel army in an instant, and at the same time blocked the retreat of the rebel army.

"Boom~!"

Thousands of cavalry were still raging on the battlefield, and the bandit soldiers besieging the city on all sides had lost their momentum at this moment, and they were just scrambling to escape.

But Li Xiuyuan didn't stop there, but ordered several of them to lead the cavalry to capture the rebels on the battlefield, force them to surrender, and reduce the power of the rebels.

now.

In the rebel barracks far away from the battlefield.

The flag of the King of Nine Mountains hangs high here.

Under the commander-in-chief flag, Li Liangjin panicked for a moment when he saw countless deserters scrambling to leave Jinling City and run here.

"What's going on, how could you lose so well, isn't it to capture Jinling City?" Li Liangjin looked up and muttered to himself.

Although the four chiefs didn't listen to his orders to attack the city without authorization when they were in command, they were angry, but he still hoped to take Jinling City. After all, his Marquis Mansion is in Jinling City, so if he can get it, it will be considered If he can wash away the previous shame, his title as King of Nine Mountains is well deserved.

But I never thought that the situation, which was so good, suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse.

"My lord, it's the cavalry from the imperial court. Look, my lord, there are nearly ten thousand gold armored cavalry, well equipped, and extraordinary combat power. In addition, when they attacked the city just now, they did not guard against reinforcements, so that the cavalry entered from the flanks. The road was shattered, and the troops led by Shihu retreated immediately. The cavalry rushed to the congregants of the White Lotus Sect, and those congregants also fled. Turning south to north in a circle, I'm afraid it's more ominous than ominous."

Nanshan Weng next to him said, but there was no panic in his eyes, but a smile on the contrary.

It is not what he wants to see the rebel army marching forward all the way. What he wants to see most is to collapse suddenly when the rebel army is about to become a phenomenon.

In this way, Li Liangjin was not far from death.

Li Liangjin saw more and more people being defeated, he asked in a panic: "What should the military division do now?"

Nanshan Weng said: "Jinling City can no longer be taken down, my lord should have made a plan to retreat temporarily with the troops. There are not many cavalry in the imperial court, so they should be unable to continue to pursue and kill them."

"Yes, what the military adviser said is, hurry up, get out of here, go away."

Li Liangjin said in a panic, without thinking about any preparations, he rode a horse and gathered his cronies and left here as if fleeing.

Because they fled in such a hurry, they left behind all the military supplies, money and food, and many rebels who stayed in the camp were even abandoned. They didn't even know that their commander had slipped away.

Since then, the mighty rebel army of more than [-] people has been defeated in this battle in an instant. There are many reasons for this defeat. Some leaders are unwilling to contribute, and some rebels lack weapons. , ordnance, and most of them were bandits coerced in, their fighting power was not strong, and Li Xiuyuan's cavalry was too fierce to fight, and no one could resist for a while, so this resulted in this result.

In any case, the fact that 10,000+ rebels were defeated outside Jinling City is an ironclad fact.

"Pass down the general's order, the rebels who kneel down and surrender will not be killed, and those who dare to escape will be killed without mercy." The cavalry on the battlefield continued to attack, and a new military order echoed outside Jinling City.

Li Xiuyuan felt that there were too many rebels. Even the 10,000 cavalry brought by the [-] pigs would have to be killed by one person, let alone the [-]+ people.

Now that the victory or defeat is clear, the rebels fled and scattered, and now the cavalry can be recruited to surrender.

It was not until dusk that all the fighting subsided.

Li Xiuyuan was riding a dragon colt, wearing blood-soaked armor, holding a gun body without a gun point, and led dozens of cavalry slowly pacing on the battlefield.

Corpses littered the field, blood flowed like rivers, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.

The dragon horse who sat down seemed to be adapting to the situation very quickly, and kept snorting to express dissatisfaction.

"Report, General, all the surrendered rebels have been escorted to the rebels' barracks for guard." A cavalry rushed over and reported with hands folded.

Li Xiuyuan replied: "Leave 1000 people watching, be careful, and be careful of chaos,"

"Report, General, all four walls have been taken down, and the defenders have not stopped them." Another cavalry came to report.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Very good. I will control the yamen and the civil and military officials in the city. Starting today, I will take over Jinling City. If I continue to hand it over to these corrupt officials, no matter how good the city is, it will not be able to hold it."

"Report, general, King Maitreya, one of the four leaders of the rebel army, died on the battlefield. It was not our people who killed Wang Ze. Han Meng said that it was a friend of the general who helped him."

Li Xiuyuan continued: "Oh, the king of the Maitreya Sect is dead? It seems that my strategy of dividing the troops before has worked. At least one rebel leader was intercepted and killed, but it doesn't matter who killed it. Now it's not about meritorious deeds. Time. Let’s go check again to see if Mr. Chen is dead, Hua Gu and Shi Hu of the White Lotus Sect must have escaped, so we don’t need to waste time to track it down.”

"Yes, General."

Orders came out of his mouth one after another, and any word Li Xiuyuan said at this moment could affect the life and death of countless people inside and outside Jinling City.

Who would have thought that Li Xiuyuan before was just an unpopular scholar.

"Go back to the city to rest before dark, and we'll talk about cleaning up the battlefield tomorrow," Li Xiuyuan said again.

He looked at the sunset in the distance.

Although the mountain has not yet set, there is a slight chill.

So many people died at night, fearing that something evil will happen again, we must hurry up and let the Yin soldiers and ghosts come out to take away the dead souls, so as not to affect the nearby people.

"Enter the city to repair ~!"

After the battle was completely over, he gave the last order.

The scattered cavalry on the battlefield began to gather together and walked into Jinling City one after another.

But when Li Xiuyuan rode the dragon horse all the way, he found that besides the corpses of the rebels, he also saw the corpses of some common people.

He saw a young man hugging a young girl and fell into the muddy water. His body had been trampled by the army, and his body was full of arrows.

I also saw a rather young looking lady just hugging her own child, bloody and bloody, and the baby in the swaddle had also died for a long time, with a black and blue color.

He even saw the corpses of hundreds of common people piled up under the city gate, while above the city gate there were many bloody cuts that were scratched out by blood.

It seems that before dying, they all hope to open the city gate.

"The rebel army's siege of the city is not a short-term job. They have already attacked Jinling City three times. Why are there still corpses of the people outside the city?" Li Xiuyuan was silent for a long time, and asked in a cold voice.

"Your subordinate will inquire now." A cavalryman responded and rushed into the city ahead of time.

After a while the cavalry came back, and he said: "Return to the general, these people went out of the city to pick up weapons and military supplies, and they are refugees in the city. The guard officer in the city, Lord Yang, ordered the refugees to go out of the city to pick up military supplies in exchange for food and drink. "

"Master Yang? Which Master Yang?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

"It's the envoy Yang from the capital."

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "I recognize him, he was the one who left the city and surrendered before, very good, is this person still in the city?"

"It has been taken as a rebel and detained in the rebel barracks outside the city." The cavalry said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Bring this Envoy Yang into the city, and by the way, bring all the civil and military officials who surrendered before leaving the city. I will personally kill them."

The cavalryman froze for a moment, then immediately cupped his fists and said, "Yes, General."

Immediately, a group of people left the large army and ran towards the direction of the rebel barracks.

"Dismount after entering the city." Li Xiuyuan said again: "Everyone go to the Marquis' Mansion in the city to rest first. Li Liangjin rebelled, and his mansion was taken over by General Ben. I will let you rest temporarily and celebrate your achievements later. Let's recharge your spirits first. "

There are many large houses in the Hou Mansion, not to mention the thousands of horses, even another 2 horses can fit in it.

Moreover, the Hou's Mansion was only sealed up, and the house was not ransacked. It was much more comfortable to live in than a military tent.

After fighting for a day, the people under him also worked hard, so he would not be stingy.

"Thank you, General." The people behind cheered up and shouted in unison.

"Are those under the city wall refugees? Who is in charge of management." Li Xiuyuan suddenly pointed at the refugees under the city wall.

These refugees shivered in ragged clothes and huddled under the city wall, bruised and purple from the cold. There were also some children who were left unattended, crying loudly, calling for their parents and grandpa.

"General, general, these are the refugees who flooded into Jinling City nearby, and the small ones are the city's clerks, who are in charge of managing these refugees."

When a small official saw the army coming in, he rushed up to greet him, then knelt down facing Li Xiuyuan, his head firmly stuck to the ground, trembling all over his body.

"Stand up, if I kill you, it's useless for you to kneel, if I don't kill you, you don't need to kneel either." Li Xiuyuan shouted.

"Yes, General." The little official stood up tremblingly with a pale face, not daring to look at Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan said: "As a refugee, why don't you take care of one or two, but let the refugees fend for themselves here?"

"This, this matter is in the hands of the grown-ups, and the little ones don't know much about it." The little official replied cautiously.

"I'll give you an errand. If you do it well, you won't be rewarded, but you can survive. If you don't do it well, I will send someone to take your head off." Li Xiuyuan said.

"General please order." The little official knelt down again with a frightened plop.

Li Xiuyuan said: "There must be official residences in Jinling City. The residences of the civil and military officials who went out of the city before were all used to house refugees. Anyone who dares to stop them will be beheaded." After speaking, he looked at a group of defenders by the roadside.

"You defenders come here and follow this little official to resettle the refugees. Food and clothing must also be prepared. The money will be taken from the houses of their respective civil and military officials. If you do this well, you will be rewarded. If you don't do well, you will also move your head. Be sure, I just want the result."

"Yes, General."

The dozen or so defenders were overjoyed when they heard the words, and hurriedly clasped their fists in response.

This thing is so easy, how could it not be done well.

Many of the nearby refugees heard Li Xiuyuan's arrangement, and they all raised their heads to look at Li Xiuyuan, with hope in their eyes.

This is the hope of survival.

He didn't look into the eyes of these refugees because he was ashamed.

I just poured a spoonful of water when a pile of weeds was about to die.

It's nothing at all.

(End of this chapter)